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MANN'S BEST FRIEND (fiction) by Walter C. Brown 11 THE ROOKIE COP UNDERSTOOD DOG PSYCHOLOGY.

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THE GM STORY by Norman Beasley 22 CONCERNING THE BIGGEST BUSINESS IN THE WORLD.

IT'S TIME FOR TACKLE TINKERING by Erwin A. Bauer 24 PREPARE NOW FOR THE START OF THE FISHING SEASON.

WILL YOU BE BURNED OUT? by Angela Calomiris 26 WAYS AND IMEANS OF PREVENTING FIRES.

NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 33

^land up Features SOUND OFF! 4 PRODUCTS PARADE .. 8 NEWSLETTER 31

EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB .28 PARTING SHOTS 64

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COULDN'T RESTRAIN HIMSELF sticks to your fingers, and it all comes out of the rent you charge the suckers Sir: It h;is been (]uitc a task for nie who li\e in the houses you've built to restrain m\ sclf from tiic desire to w ith go\ ernment money. These things, Sound OjJ! 1 iust can't do it any long- I know, are sometimes investigated, er. You keep liarping on Ed iMurrow but nothing e\ er comes of the investi- and his big saiar\-. So what? Is this gations so I'd like to get on the gra\ > the business of an>one except Ed train. How do I start? Murrow and the Cokuiibia Broadcast- Name Withheld ing System? I tiiink Ed Murrow is one New York City of the best new scasters in the country

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and they look as if they need ten I should like to have your recom- cents for a CLip of coffee. I wish the)' mendations for the investment of THOSE PANTS! would stop dragging I hc American Legion down. If thc>' insist on ap- $ My objective is Sir: I am a g\l)s\' wiio was in the pearing in public like sloppy joes let Navy and it was awful. So much Safety of capital, or them hide their Legion caps so the water and I liate it. But w hat I hated Dividends of 5%-6%, or most was the silK pants. The pants organization will not have to suffer for their appearance in public. Increase in value were no good. Vou can t bend dow n John Jakubs without hurting. All the clothes I Name had are no good. \\'h\' w aste the Ci-'ica^o money? How about selling our clothes Address to new' recruits at half price? 1 got AMERICANS WISING UP? $500 worth and will sell for S50. Who City & State sailor wants pants cheap? Sir: I w as delighted to read about the David .Stanley Just fill in and mail to o\ ation Madame Chiang Kai-shek re- Providence, R. I. ceived ycstcrda>' at 1 he American Walter A. Scholi Legion's conxention in W ashington. Department Slowly bur surch' the American people l-LG ANY SUGGESTIONS? are beginning to realize the great in-

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GIT ALONG, LITTLE "LIBERALS" 11 PROI5A13LY proves wc are hope- lessly chauvinistic and can't be properly educated a la Sarah Lawrence, Jeffer- son School, \'assar, etc., but wc don't understand the sort of stuff being peddled in so many "liberal" quarters as to our HERE'S SOMETHING NEW free enterprise system and the "fact" that it is outmoded and needs to be hopped AND DIFFERENT FOR CHRISTMAS up with various accessories. hi effect, what the mental hucksters propose is that we make a few minor changes. Now get this straight — these Give an extension telephone people arc not communists. They liatc communists! They hate them almost as much as they hate anti-communists! But

certainly, they point out, it is obvious to to someone you love cverj onc that our capitalistic system is no good. The \\ orst thing should happen

to Russia, tiiey say, it shoukl ha\ c such a system. ria\ c you Ix'Lii searching for something So what we're needing in capitalistic- new in a Christmas gift? Somethhig type system is maj be dual carburetors, that is distinctive, yet practical, and twin manifolds and high compression will last the whole year through? iicads. Ahi>be then it could go maybe You couldn't do better than an ex- as fast as fine socialistic liot-rods they got tension telephone for Mother or Dad, in people's democracies. son or daughter, or Grandma and Nyuts! Such people sliould not be riding around in Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chrys- Grandpa. For 365 days and nights it ler hnperials, but hot-rodding in Soviet- will sa\c steps, time and effort. And it's model droslikies with jackasses in front mighty handy, too, in an emergency. yet. If you'll order in time we'll do our LETTERHEADERS best to install the extension telephone r IS SOAIETLMES amusing to see before Christmas. I the American \'eterans" Committee If that isn't possible, we'll deliver the ijuoted in the newspapers as though it telephone, attractively wrapped, so you were something more than a letterhead

can put it under the tree with the organization. At the same time it is re- other gifts. Then we'll come around grettable that the American public, not

after Christmas and install it in bed- to mention the press, is hoodw inked into room, living room, or kitchen, or whcr- accepting publicit) statements from this ieft-w outfit as bona fide expressions c\er you wish. ing of .America's veterans. The cost is small— just pennies a day If you'd like to get the low dt)W n on the for each extension telephone. Just call AV'C, we refer you to the report of the the business office of your local Bell House Un-American Activities Commit- telephone company. tee entitled Investigation of Connminist Activities in the State of California— Part S. This report bears tiie date April 21, BKLL TELEPHONE SYSTEM 1954 and your Congressman can probably obtain one for >'ou. The testimon\' of Lloyd Hamlin, from pages 4867 to 4888 is

^ • TME A\n UK AN LEdlON MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. I')54 most enlightening. Hamlin, a Naval In- telligence agent assigned to work within the Communist Party, told how the com- mies decided that "the American \'eterans' Committee was the logical veterans'

."' organization for us to go into. . . Later he told that the American Veterans' Committee was to be used "as a spring- board to affect public opinion in the veterans circles." But most significant of all his testimony is the following on page 4886: ". . . our influence as a veterans' organization, may I state, far outweighed either the membership or the actual accomplishments we made." Admittedly the complexion of the A\'C isn't quite as ruddy now as it was when Hamlin was active in it. But what he said about the A\'C's skimpy membership and its even skimpier accomplishments is as true today as it ever was.

GIVE PATRIOTISM WITH CHRISTMAS in the offing you are probably starting to think about your gift list. Have you ever thought of trying to mix a little patriotism with the pleasure you hope your gift will bring? There's an excellent way of doing this, through books, and some

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^ From the rooftop I could look down into Pagoda Street.

By WALTER G. BROWN

WHEN I FINISH reading the fancy write-up the newspapers give Steve Mann over that Chiin

Sing case down in Chinatown, I am ready to blow a fuse. And \\ hy not? The way the papers

tell it, it is nothing but Steve Alann from start

to finish. Me—ail I draw is a one-line mention as among those present. They print Alann's picture,

too, and it says underneath: ROOKIE policeman's BRILLIANT WORK SMASHES CHINATOWN SMUGGLING RING Brilliant work! What a laugh! I don't know if

the Greeks had a word for it, but I have, sure enough—"Lucky!" The guy was born with a solid gold horseshoe in one hand and a bouquet of four- leaf clovers in the other. So now I am going to spill the real inside story of Steve Mann's part in the Chim Sing business. Me — Michael Patrick Burke, Badge 1062, 12th Precinct, Chinatown Squad. I was there — I can tell you a lot of things those newspaper guys missed. First let me tell you a little about this Steve Mann, who comes to us straight from the police rookie school. Understand, I got nothing against

11 MANN'S BEST FRIEND

him on that account, even if I spend twelve years pounding pavements before I make the Squad, while Alann gets in just by sitting at a desk answering a lot of fool questions. "This Steve Mann must be a pretty smart fellow," Sergeant O'Hara remarks when the appointment comes through. "I hear he rolled up the highest score on record in his final exams."

"So v\ hat?" I answer. "Are we running a quiz show?

I always thought cops were supposed to ask questions, not answer 'em." "You've got old-fashioned ideas, Burke," O'Hara tells me.

"/Maybe so," I answer. "But this four-star rookie sounds like the kind of guy thinks he knows all about Chinatown because he once had a meal in a chop suey joint." "Well, I'm going to put him under your wing for a \\ hile," says O'Hara. "Show him the ropes. And no rough stuff. Burke— I want you to give the kid a break." That last remark turns out to be the biggest laugh of all. I should give Steve Alann a break! That guy needs a break like Rocky Marciano needs somebody to show him how to throw a haymaker. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not sa>'ing Steve Alann hasn't the makings of a good enough copper.

He's got some points in his favor, even if he does look more like a Hollywood hero, with his wavy brown hair, blue eyes, and big, wide smile.

But the point I'm making is that this fancy rookie knows nothing whatever about Chinatown. As the yellow boys say: "He no can tell yang from yin." So what happens? He hits a lucky streak a mile wide on his very first case, and I am left holding the bag—me, with my fifteen long years on the Squad. And then he gets sore when I call him "Lucky" Alann. That burns him up. \\'eil, so much for Steve Alann. Now let's have a look at the Chim Sing setup. One day Sergeant To add to I lie O'Hara calls me into his office. Steve Alann is in there, too, smoking one of O'Hara 's cigars, which is something only happens to me at Christmastime or when there is a new arrival in the O'Hara cradle. time we've got to get results. For three > cars now you've "Look here. Burke," says O Hara, slapping a paper on his been trying to pin a bill of goods on Chim Sing. What's he desk. "Those blasted pinheads dow n at Customs have let got, that you can never hang the rap on him?" another load of stuff slip past them, and now they dump "Sarge," I say, "Chim Sing is the smartest operator in the baby in my lap. . . . Anyway, we've got to find it, and Chinatown. He's as slippery as a cake of wet soap." find it quick!" "Well, no more fumbles," O'Hara growls. "It's a wallopin' Now the word "stuff" means only one thing to a cop on big lot of stuff got through this time. And listen. Burke, I'm

the Ciiinatow n Squad—opium. putting Ste\ e here to work on this job, too, but I w ant him

"Yes, sir," I say to O'Hara, but Alann pipes up w ith one to handle his end of it independent. He's got a fresh point

of his usual wisecracks. "If we don't w ork fast, the evidence of view , and it's possible he might spot something you've

w ill go up in smoke— eh, Sarge?" been overlooking."

\\'ell, I don't think this is such a hilarious crack, but "Yes, sir," 1 tell O'Hara, but I give Steve Alann the stony

O'Hara throws back his head and laughs loud and hearty. eye. Fresh point of view, is it? I'd been out pounding a beat "That's a good one, Steve," he says. w hen this kid was still wearing three-cornered pants. Ale— I'm still "Burke" to him after fifteen years, but this But orders are orders, especially w hen O'Hara gives 'cm,

guy Alann is "Steve" almost from the day he checks in. so I take Mann around to Pagoda Street and point out Chim

O'Hara turns to me, then. "What's your slant on it. Burke?" Sing's little "art sliop." The windows and the shelves inside

"Well, Sarge," I say, "there's no use wasting time and are filled w itli Oriental goods, all kept very neat and dusted shoe-leather trying to trace the stuff from the Customs end. off ever\' morning, but these tourist goods are only a front It'll turn up in Chinatown, and in Chim Sing's hands, as for Chim Sing's real racket.

usual." It so happens that Chim Sing is standing there in his door-

"That's how I figure it," O'Hara sa> s. "Okay— we'll take WAV, sucking aw a>' on an old-fashioned bamboo pipe that

the short cut to Chim Sing. But 1 warn you, Burke, this ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT MOORE

12 pooch. What's all the excitement? Don't you hke dogs?" "I do not," I tell him, "and most especially this red-haired so-and-so. He's nipped my pants tw ice, but that damn laundryman over there knows more law than a shyster. There's a city ordinance says a dog's got to bite three times before

he can be put away legally. . . . Well, one more bite and he's a dead chow!" But this yapping hound is smart enough to keep just out of my reach, but barking his head off at me all the while, with the shaggy red hair on him standing up stiff and straight. "Oh, he's all right," Mann says, snapping his fingers to the beast. "You don't know how to handle dogs, that's all."

"I know how to handle this one, if he comes closer," I growl. And of course, this is Mann's cue to put on a big show about how much he likes dogs. "Here, boy—here!" he calls, making a clucking noise, and be damned if the chow doesn't quit barking and let A4ann rub his ears. "What's his name?" Mann asks, and Chim Sing sa\'s, "Not know. He belong Johnny Lum. Not good for touchee him— he bite maybe." "Aw, you wouldn't bite me, would you, boy?" Mann sa> s, scratching the chow's whiskers and smiling at him. Then Johnny Lum the laundryman pokes his head out across the street and hollers to the dog to come back. The chow gives me a final broadside of yapping before he trots back to his master, and Lum gives mc one of those crooked Chinese grins.

"That animal's a public nuisance," I tell Mann. "Night or day, you can't set foot in this street without having that

damn chow yapping at your heels. . . . Sa>\ that's an idea— maybe they've got him trained to start barking whenever he sees a cop coming—" "Sort of a Chinese burglar alarm, eh?" Mann grins. "Listen, Burke, all that Fu Manchu stuff is out of date."

"Okay," I tell him, "have it your way. I've taken you over the ground— you've met Chim Sing and had a gander at his joint. From here on you're working on your own." "Right!" says Mann cheerfully. "Well, good luck to you!"

"You're the one'll need it," I tell him. "Wait'U you find out what you're up against. Chinatown looks like a push- over—till you start pushing." "I'll make out all right," Mann says. "I have my own all over in the debris and growling deep in his throat. system. I work things out by psycholog>'."

"That's just dandy," I tell him. "The only trouble is, these pagans never heard of that word." "No?" says Mann. "Then that'll make it work out even makes a hissing noise like a snake. "Ala u-abT he says to better." me, polite and smiling as always, the old slant-eyed devil. A smooth talker, this Steve Mann. No matter what you "Long time no see." tell him, he always comes back at >'ou with a topper. Well,

"Maybe that can be fixed," I tell him. "Chim, this is an>'way, Mann the wise gu>' goes his way and I go mine,

Officer Alann. He's new on the Squad, so I'm showing him but I am all set to bust Chim Sing's little caper right dow n around." the middle and show this smart-aleck rookie a thing or two "/l/iT mT/i.'" says Chim Sing, but Steve Mann draws a about Chinatown technique. Number One bow to go with it, instead of the Number Now one of the toughest jobs in Chinatown is to make a

Two bend which is all I ever get. So we stand there for a good stake-out—which is cop slang for a hiding place from few minutes talking about one thing and another, but not which you keep watch on a suspected spot. These slant- a word said about the sncaked-in opium, naturally—even eyed Sons of Han all stick together, and once you're spotted

Mann has that much brains in his head. mousing around, word is sent along the grapevine, and iiuick.

Then I swing around quick when I hear a sudden growling But I'd figured out a smart way to make a stake-out on and snarling behind me, and there is this big, red-haired Chim Sing's place, and be damned to all Chinatown. Back chow dog that belongs to John Lum the laundryman. The of Pagoda Street lies Lantern Court, and from the rooftop dog is racing at me from across the street, with his eyes of a certain empty house in the Court it was possible to look nailed on my pantslegs. down into Pagoda Street and watch Chim Sing's doorway. We are old enemies, this dog and me, so I get set for a The only catch to this plan is that I have to turn out of drop-kick that will send the tough pooch clean across the hay before daw n, so nobody in Lantern Court will spot

Pagoda Street. "Come on, you heathen mutt!" I tell him. me going into that empty house.

"Come right ahead and get the teeth kicked down your Well, I make the house and reach the rooftop all right,

throat!" prepared for a long day's work. I have some sandwiches, a "Hey, Burke, take it easy," Mann laughs. "It's only a thermos bottle of coffee, and a (Conthnted on page 4S} 13 How we served as PARTNERS m a Purge

Who issued (lie orders that went beyond the terms of the Yaha Agreement in hanthng DP's over to red executioners?

For Americans with a conscience the answers to such questions are deeply distressing. Yet they must be faced. Whether crime or blunder or both, we can cleanse the na- By JULIUS EPSTEIN tional record on this score only b>' acknowledging the un- pleasant facts.

THE SCENE I have described took place on February 24, DURING iHE NIGHT bcfore thcv were packed 1946 in an American camp for Soviet war prisoners at Platt- into army trucks and carted off to Stalin's ling, Germany. The bloody job of "forced repatriation" was slaughterhouses, the 4,000 prisoners of war carried out by U. S. troops. The victims were veterans of slept peacefully. They had again been reassured General Andrei Vlasov's "Russian Army of Liberation," officially that there was no intention to deliver w hich had fought under German auspices in the desperate them against their will to a red vengeance. hope of overthrowing the Red despotism in their homeland. The reassurance was a cruel trick. Before dawn that Know ing that torture and death aw aited them in the Soviet Sunda>' morning their camp was surrounded 1)\' armed Union, they had surrendered to the American \'icrors, in tioops under command of grim-faced officers. Though the the naive belief that the\" w ould be accorded political as\'lum. war had ended more than nine months before, all was in Plattling was a typical episode in what one American readiness for one of its bloodier — and morally most shock- writer has called "the hush-hush bargain at Yalta under ing — operations. w hich Allied bayonets and machine-guns were enlisted in At about six, the prisoners, awakened by searchlights sud- the noble task of driving Soviet citizens back into their denly flooding the entire camp, were hustled out of their prison land." No less gory dramas of violence were being i)arracks. They were frisked for weapons — not weapons of played out at dozens of detention points for displaced Soviet assault but of suicide. Those who resisted were beaten up; citizens in Germany, Austria, Italy, France, England, and skulls were cracked and ribs smashed. Despite careful plan- even the United States. ning of the macabre business, many of the victims succeeded Nor was the brutality unleashed only against those who, in slashing tlieir wrists and throats with concealed razor like the Vlasov men, had donned German uniforms. It was blades and jagged glass. Quickly the air was filled with directed also against the vast number of Red Army war cursing, wailing and the agonized moans of the wounded. prisoners liberated from German camps; against millions in batches the men were driven onto the waiting trucks, of civilians, including women and children; in short, against each guarded by soldiers flaunting rubber clubs and ma- all Soviet nationals w ho at the w-ar's end, though they loved ciiinc pistols. Hour after hour, the trucks hauled awa>' their their native land, refused to return to the Kremlin yoke. freight of betrayed prisoners, some of them bleeding and One must pause to savor these extraordinary facts. The d\'ing, to the communist fate they dreaded far more than democratic governments in their hour of victory used force death. — ranging from deceitful persuasion and threats to raw vio- I*~ven in this age of mass violence, this scene has a night- lence — to return men and women against their will to marish quality. Who were the unfortunate prisoners? What Stalin's mercies! was their crime? Who were their captors, so intent upon Tiie British and the French, too, shared in this ugly enter- prox iding targets for Stalin's firing sijuads? prise, but the main job, alas, was done by the Americans.

14 by force." In this address he marshaled arguments in ethics and in international law. Analyzing the Geneva Con- vention of 1949, Mr. Acheson show ed that it contained nothing "which w ould lead one to believe that a prisoner of war must be forced at the end of a bayonet, fighting, perhaps dying, to go back where he does not want to Forty years of international practice, he demonstrated, left no margin for doubt on the basic principle, namely: "If a prisoner believed that it w as dangerous for him, that he might die if he were sent home, and if he claimed asylum, and if the detaining State thought that it w as an honest, bona fide claim, the detaining State could grant asylum."

The bitter irony of the speech, tliougli few noted it, was that its every argument, its ever\- appeal to the law of God and the law of man, applied also to the forcible

repatriation of Soviet nationals after \A'orld War 11. That, too, had been a crime against hunianit\- b>' our own definition and standards. It had been, in A'Ir. Acheson's words,

Oj)erali<)n Keelhaul, a death niairh loi hiiiidicds of tliousands. "wrong, improper, illegal and unnecessary to return prisoners by force." The impropriety and illegality, indeed, had been compounded b>' the fact that the victims in- In all, according to the best estimates, about two million wiio wanted to remain on the freedom side of what would soon be called the Iron Curtain were forcibly repatriated. In his book Our Secret Allies, Eugene Lyons calls it "a moral obscenity." Another book, Soviet Opposition to Stalin by

George Fischer, calls it "an indelible blot on the West's tradi- tion of read>' as>'lum for political exiles." In the minds oi anti-communist Russians, w hether inside or outside the Soviet

Union, it is an inexpungeable memory of betrayal by the free world. How did the enormity come to be? Who was responsible, and why? Even at this late date the affair remains shroudctl in secrecy and embarrassed silences. By dint of long researcii

I have uncovered some of the pertinent documents. But mucli must still be exposed and explained. It is primarily in the hope of stimulating a Congressional inquiry of the whole subject that I have w ritren this article.

.soMK YEARS after it had carried out forced repatriation on a huge scale, the United States was destined to take a gallant, principled stand against that vicious practice. Again the occasion was an effort by communists to get their claws on men who had chosen freedom. This time our government, backed by all the fifteen nations taking part in the Korean war, stood firm. It rejected the communist demand, which had become the stumbling-block in the Korean truce negotiations. Our officials, press, radio and pulpit were unanimous in denouncing the Moscow-Peiping insistence on the coerced surrender of jVIanv took their own lives lather than retiii ii to Riis.sia. war prisoners as illegal, immoral, barbarous. We held unsw ervingh' to the view that to repatriate a single prisoner against his w ill would be a crime against humanit)'. eluded hordes of civ ilian fugitives, among them women On October 24, 1952 Secretary of State Dean Achcson de- and children. fended this view before a committee of the United Nations The courageous American position with respect to

Assembly, with Comrade \'^ishinsk\' in the audience, and drew anti-communist prisoners in Korea is an implicit admis- the applause of the whole civilized world. sion of our guilt from 1945 forward. If the crime is to be

"It was quite unthinkable to the United Nations Command," atoned, if the political blunder is to be repaired, the ad- he declared, "that it should use force to drive into the hands mission must be made explicit. The evil was too great, of the communists, people who would be resisting that effort {Continued on page 43)

15 .

THE XmRD MAX in the

The inside story of the man who is boss inside the ropes.

AMERICAN BOXING FANS are iiioculated By WILLIAM L. VALLES Muldoon. Willingly might be a ques- in the cradle with the firm belief tionable adverb, since John L. feared

that the referee is always wrong, a no man (it showed). total stranger to the ruiebook, possibly I saw too man\' kids getting hurt. 1 lo\ e After six months of good behavior, with Sullivan was finally ready, and left for corruptible, definitely blind as a bat. . . the fight game—wanted to do away Since the third man in the ring doesn't such things as busted ej'es." I watched New Orleans, where the fight was not wear a halo with his regulation gray Johnny work at St. Nick's, saw him going to be held (officials had promised uniform, he can be wrong at times, even stop a fight before a bo>' could be pum- instant reprisals if it were). Both prin- cipals, off as you and I (at least 1). But ho really iiieled into a stupor. The crowd ap- and their entourages, took on does know the rules by heart, is not to plauded the decision. a special train to nowhere—the fighters be bought, and his eyesight has been If \ f)u're an old-timer, > ou'll remem- in special cars, limbering up in empty ber Prof. John Duffy, Tim Hurst, Hon- mail cars. Richburg, Mississippi, was est John Kelly, George Siler, Malachy the train's destination, where everything Hogan, and Jack Welch, to mention was in readiness, not even to be stopped but a few. Before the two judges- by a sheriff who rode up to announce referee era, these men were often that this was against the law, all per- in danger, physically, because of sons being summarily ordered to help the heavy gambling on the prevent fisticuffs. He was laughed off fights. Charley \\'hite, say, the premises, and the fight began at might never reach home after noon, under a lethal sun. a bout — a fact that never in- Sullivan missed a hard left to Kilrain's

Around tlie turn of the century, the ])oliceman trying to prevent a fight was often the third man in the ring. checked within a six-month period. When was your last checkup?

Today's ref is an important man during a fight, though this wasn't always the case. 1954's referee may even be a gent such as Harry Kessler, of St. Louis.

Kessler is head of an outfit that has Referee Dave Barry will al- The Dempsev-Firpo fight in 1923 was a tough Firpo who 56 steel-making concerns as clients — ways be remembered lor one for the releree. In two rounds, the "long coinit" in the sec- was Hoored nine times knocked Dempse) out he's a recognized metallurgist, and a ond Dempsey-Tininey bout. ol the ring (above) before losing the bout. reputed millionaire. To referee a few preliminary bouts in New York, Harry will lay out $300 for plane and hotel, fluenced his honest}' or his decisions. jaw. Kilrain back-heeled Sullivan, won in exchange for a $50 fee, which he It was no law n party for the old pugi- a clean fall — was awarded this first turns over to charity. lists, either. Boxers often died because round. The next 45 rounds (every At that, he's no better than the ref- of lack of medical exams, few rules, knockdown was a round in those days) erees without millions. Johnny Green, bare-knuckle fights to a finish. It was were nearly even, though Sullivan was song plugger and part-owner of the back in 1889 when John L. Sullivan sick to his stomach, at one point, and Holiday Music Co., has been refereeing and Jake Kilrain staged the final bare- Kilrain offered him a chance to give up. for five years now. He's number 56 on knuckle fight (it was killing, but no one Sullivan replied with a terrific blow the N. Y. list, generally works once a died). Richard Fox, the famous Folice that felled Kilrain, then stamped on the month for around $40 (less without Gazette man, had enraged John L. by prostrate fighter. Referee John Fitz- TV). Before that, Johnny varied his proclaiming Kilrain the World's pa trick (late mayor of New Orleans) song job by fighting as a bantamweight Champion. Sullivan was so upset by this casually ignored this. (third-best in his division in 1927) — nonsense, that he gave up a boozing Kilrain, for some reason, weakened boxed 11 years. bat that had been going on for months, after 75 rounds, and a second threw in "I became a referee," he says, "after and willingly trained under William the sponge. Typical of the day, another 16 in a row el (they can ask the referee to halt it, but the request must conic between rounds). The attending physician may recommend ending the fight, but he must be summoned b\' the ref, or deputy commissioner—such advice is invariably accepted without

question. The referee never had it so good, as they say down at the clubhouse.

Before World War I, the referee's status was such that newspapermen, covering a fight, were sometimes pressed into service as deciding judges. Today, the scribes arc encouraged to be working press—and nothing more. Of course The Fanc>', i.e., the elegant sporting crowd, has always felt superior to any official. New York State gave the poor ref a hand-up as a result of the Alickey AA'alker-Dave Shade fight in 1921. Walker got the decision, but there w as such an uproar that the commission decided, in future, to score by rounds, instead of by simple, overall impression. From then on the fighter with the greater number of rounds to his credit—aside from a knockout—became the winnah. One gadget-minded referee worked holding a mechanical counter in each hand, adding up points for Joe, then for Tom. He onh' tried it once before retiring for a long-

rest. Gjloncl Eddie Egan refined tliis point system,

basing it on four elements. The Dempscy-Firpo go caused a change in the rules, as you doubtless know. Dempsey was allowed to linger over the prostrate Firpo, with results that sent all fighters to a neutral corner before counting

over a kayoed fighter could begin. This is blamed for the notorious Dempsey-Tunney long count. Willie Pej) and Sandy Saddler, who know all the tricks ol the trade, can Dempsey was unwilling to leave his friend Gene make life tough even for an experienced referee like Ruby Goldstein. for a second, even when Gene la\' stretched out on the canvas—with a resultant loss of counting-seconds. "Three seconds," says a ref, "mean an awful lot to a fighter w ho's tired

i but still in good, snap-back condition." Today's ringmaster enjoys certain advantages, due to these changes. Though two referees, w ho can't be

The heat bothers refs, too. Here Ruby Goldstein Referee Tommy Rawson was criti- leaves the ring suffering from heat exhaustion cized when he let Jimmy Carter knock during the Maxim-Ray Robinson 1952 title bout. Tomm) Collins down ten times.

second had just ofi^ered Kilrain's im- never got up from light punches mediate resignation in exchange for a thrown by Primo Camera in the 13th "little present" ($2,000), a proposition round. Some months previous, Schaaf which Sullivan accepted. But the had been pounded unmercifully by Max Doctors, like New York's Vincent sponge's landing preceded the closing Baer — probably proving Dr. Vincent Nardiello, right, are available to help of the opcnh -discussed deal, so there Nardiello's thet)r\': "Ninety percent of the referee decide when to stop a fight. was no present for Jake. Both boys w ere boxing deaths are caused by aggrava- well-cooked by the boiling sun, but tion of previous injuries." quoted, insist that the third man in the w hat escaped most observers was the In sharp contrast, there hasn't been a ring has always had them, mcreh- failed fact that the Great John L.'s punch was death, or major injury, in the New York to take advantage. now minus its former, chloroform-like State ring since Robert K. Christen- Ruby Goldstein is a worthy example quality. Anyway, it was the last bare- berry's advent as commissioner in 1951. of a modern ref, who doesn't have to

knuckle fight. . . . In New York, the referee has sole au- fear for his life because of his work. "I

Boxing's dangers w eren't confined to thority to stop a fight. Handlers may no do w hat I think is right, and I let it go 1889. As recently as 1933, Ernie Schaaf longer interrupt—stop a fight by tossing {Continued oji pa^e 62) 17 Most people want to work for someone

else, but there are rewards for the fellow

who wants to ha\ e a business of his o>\ n.

By CARL RIESER

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES foT SUCCCSS if abilities and business judgment. But \ ou you go into business for yourself simply can't ignore the larger picture EfciKi today? How do they compare of the country's economic condition %\ ith 20 or 30 years ago, in your father's and future— particularly if >'ou have a time? Worse? Or better? family that depends on you to bring

This question is bound to worry > ou home a paycheck every week. if you have given an\' thought to Is this a good era to go into business? branching out on your own. You may You probably have some pretty clear have considerable faith in \our own thoughts on this, built up from what

N ou've read in the new spapcrs at various times, from what friends have told you, and from \'our ow n direct obser- These embryonic Texaco dealers arc getting vations. Your view may very well go exi)crt advice Irom a "main oflue" speaker something like this: Take Big Business. It seems to be get- ring bigger and bigger all the time. W"\\\ training to face an economic world that It swallow up the little man? has grow n infiniteh' more complex. How about Big Co\'ernmcnt, w ith its Finally, how about that black cloud welter of red tape, burcaucrac\', and of Depression, or Recession, or w hat- business regulations? ever you want to call it? It wouldn't Taxes? Everyone saj s that taxes to- take much of a dow nturn in the busi- day tend to strangle private initiative. ness graphs to wreck a lot of sinall Capital? Things aren't the way they businesses with toda>"'s low profit mar- were when Dad was a young man and gins, increasingly tough competition. people could get into business on a All these considerations may bother shoestring. Now you need more money you, just as the\' bothered the majority

Tlie problems are greater but it than >'ou did 30 years ago, just as \ ou of the 4,660 \ ()ung men w ho w ere re- is much easier to get the answers. need more experience, knowledge, and cently polled by the Youth Research 18 Institute concerning their future. About PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO there have been in the neighborhood 65 percent of these higli school and into business for themselves — an en- of 3.4-milIion firms started up, while college seniors, young veterans just out couraging note in view of the oft-re- 2»4-'nilhon have been discontinued. of the armed forces, and men who have peated criticism that this generation has There was a net gain of around 600,000. left school within five years said they no gumption. Says H. B. McCoy, Di- The magnitude of all this shifting can didn't want to go into business for rector of the Office of Distribution of be grasped when you realize that those themselves. the U. S. Department of Commerce: 3.4-million new businesses begun since Their reasons? Thirt\- percent cite "It's a healthy percentage. If it ever the war very nearly total the number fell as low as, say, 2 percent the situ- of businesses in existence back in 1946.

ation would be dangerous." Another important point: It is no Perhaps you find >'oursclf in the sec- longer as easy to get into business and

ond camp. If so, which of you is in the stay there as it was just after the war. right? As one government advisor to small

Add up all the arguments on both business puts it, "You no longer have sides of the fence, and the answer seems the same opportunity to sell while you to be this: For every argument against learned which you had when goods were going into biJsiness there is at least one in shorter supply and everyone wanted

good argument for it. In fact, the con- them." That is particularly true of some

clusion that seems to emerge is that a of the now-overcrowded fields, sucli young man today has just as much right as appliance retailing, which had a big to expect success in the business world rush of newcomers during the days on his own as his father had twenty when appliances sold without effort. oi' thirt>' >'ears ago. Now appliance stores have a fairl>' higli This may surprise some people, w Iio failure rate. They're not a good gamble.

Some salKiii leaimts ol the income tax- law give a break to small businessmen.

"risky gamble" and "not enough security." Some 15 percent think they lack the necessary capital, 13 percent figure they haven't enough training, and 12 percent just plain don't like "self-sacri- fice, long hours, problems"— things that

have alw ays gone \\ ith being an aspiring entrepreneur. It's a gamble, all right. You have to

Another way of helping the new businessman is by advising him on methods.

have not as yet revised their ideas If you are planning to go into busi- to meet the conditions of the mid- ness, take a careful look at the odds 1950's. on each line of business. You may be Few people two decades ago able to take some of the risk out by would have dared be so optimistic. shying away from the ones that look In those days, during the Great shaky. Depression, it was taken for Government economists rank these granted that the little man was on industries in order of their sensitivity his way out. to economic conditions, beginning with All right, you'll say, but how- the most risky: manufacturing; contract does this apply to me? A fair construction; wholesale trade; finance, The shoe dealer wlio leatincs a certain line question. Let's take a careful look insurance, and real estate; retail trade; can count on help from that manufacturer. and see what we find. service trade. What are your over-all odds on Alanufacturing and wholesaling pro- forego some of the guarantees that gen- success? duced a net loss in firms last year—more erally go with a corporation job—secu- Remember one important fact: The were discontinued than started. Con- rity, pensions, salar>', steady advance- turnover in business is terrific. It always tract construction came out w ith more ment. has been, probably always will be. firms than it went in with, but never- Of course, you can't very well argue In any one v'ear a staggering number theless the turnover was very, very with a man who simply doesn't want to of firms go in and out of business. Last high. go into business for himself, or who year there were about 340,000 new- busi- Here's one piece of advice to bear doesn't think he has the right qualities nesses started. At the same time another in mind when you are looking around for success. But you can argue over the 331,000 firms were discontinued for one for a business to get into: Check the amount of risk involved. reason or another. On top of all this, most recent Dun & Bradstreet list of

A quarter of the > oung men polled no less than 357,000 firms changed failure rates. by the Institute take a different view. owners. Here are the businesses that had the Four out of five say they want to go In all, during the postwar period, (Continued on page 56) 19 ^[Everybody's talking about do-it-yourself and a great many

people are doing something about it, especially since power tools now make the doing easy. If you haven't got to the power tool stage or if you have and want to add to your present line, here are some suggestions. Represented are most of the major manufacturers and you'll find several recent innovations. This radial-arm power shop made by DeWalt. Inc., of Home workshop experts agree that the basic unit for the Lancaster, Pa., is lavored by many home craftsmen because of its versatility. TJiis unit sells for $229.00. home craftsman is the bench saw since most woodworking operations first require that lumber be cut to size. From that point, what you should get depends on the kind of work you plan to do. Just remember that it's a good idea to get the best the first time. And, as long as the little woman or the family may be buying you one of these tools for Christmas—why not?

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You can sand ten times as fast with For wood turning, here is a 12-inch Standby of do-it-yourselfers Another useful tool is a this lightweight Black 8c Decker gap bed lathe at $49.50 less motor. is a i/^-inch drill like this j)ortable saw, and this 6- No. 44 Sander which sells lor $49.95. iNIade by Toro Mfg. Co., Minneapolis. Thor, by Speedway, at $25.00. inch model by Skil is $49.50.

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By NORMAN BEASLEY By 1912, when Woodrow AMlson was elected President of the United States, farmers, more than 150,000 of Ts A coRPORAiiON of whicli it has them, were riding to market in auto- ITbeen said, "it is so big that no man mobiles and w ere not aw are they sym-

can possibly see it all or study all bolized the "arrogance of wealth." And, its operations with his own eyes." Its instead of spreading socialism, the auto- operations cover the free world. Its mobile w as gi\"ing tremendous impetus principal field is transportation. It is to the building of a nation. General Motors. William C. Harlowe H. It is easy, now, to be amused over the From receipts of §10,1 16,572, 529 in Durant Curtice doubt of a college president—but, even 1953, it paid out more than $5,327,000,- Started GM in '08. With it since 14. today, not enough Americans under- 000 for supplies, services, etc.; more stand that in a competitive economy than $2,776,000,000 in wages to more will be selling more than one million w hat yesterday was scarce w ill, if it is than 550,000 cniplo\ces, and more than automobiles a \ ear." worth an\ thing, be plentiful tomorrow. $362,0()O,()()O to nearly 500,000 stock- In 1906, Woodrow Wilson w as Presi- To illustrate, here are a few quick holders-and more than $1,235,(K)0,0()0 dent of Princeton University, and was figures: in taxes to federal, state and local gov- sa\'ing, "Nothing has spread socialistic In 1910, on the farms in tiie United ernments. feeling in this country more than the States, tiiere were 1,000 tractors and

Behind these figures is the stor>' of a automobile; to the countryman, they 50,000 automobiles; in 1915, there were corporation that had its beginnings in are a picture of the arrogance of 25,000 tractors, 472,000 automobiles and the vision of a salesman \\ iio saw a na- wealth." 25,000 motor trucks; in 1925, on the tion's future more clearly than did a In 1908, Durant ventured ever>- dol- farms in the United States, there were university president. The salesman was lar he had, and every dollar he coidd 549,000 tractors, 3,283,000 automobiles AVilliam C. Durant. The university persuade his friends and the public to and 459,000 motor trucks. president \\ as W'oodrow Wilson. invest, in a new corporation he called Because of our genius in producing In 1905, when automobile sales to- General Motors. Tiie capitalization w as goods and services, our American econ- taled about 30,000, Durant was "one of a $10,000,000. The first units were the om\- is one that decrees every new lot of names in the motorcar industry Buick and Oldsmobile companies and product creates greater wealth than it and he was being laughed at for saying, they were followed, in 1909, tiie destro\ s. As a result, ours is an econ- "Some da\', in the United States, we Oakland and Cadillac companies. omy that operates on the fertile princi- 22 )

duces, and the desire of the customer opened the locks of the inner doors of to pay the lowest possible price for physical science and have found hun-

\\ hat he buys. dreds of better ways for making better In the operation of this principle is products, and scores of wa>'s to make

\\ rittcn the real history of the building new products— it is research that is in- of a nation, and the explanation for tlic struction against the need for povert>' growth of a corporation that "is so big not onh' in this countr\', but anywhere that no man can possibly see it all, or in the world. study all its operations with his own Of course, in General Motors re- eyes." search, as in all organized research, the

In fact, it is only in the operation of day of the individual inventor is gone.

this principle that it is possible to realh The areas that can be explored with get a good look at General Motors. the simple tools of the individual inventor have been raked over, time and IX ns ANNUAL report for the \'ear time again. The scientific frontiers now ending July 31, 1911, General Motors being explored require tools and facili- spoke of the beginnings of its present ties equalh' scientific, if the secrets of the physical universe are to be known, and the law s that govern tliem to be understood. From this study of high- Likewise, it is in the velocity water will tome research laboratories of improved car transmissions. industry that the scien- tist is in his true position. Here he has but a pic of multiplication— single interest.

and not on the swin- That interest is to find

dling communist the- out what the law is. The or\' of subtraction, nor decisions as to how the on the sterile socialist findings are used are left, theor\' of division. as properly they should No matter what be left, to others. Getting anyone says, most of into fields other than us know there is not their ow n, scientists have enough wealth, and not enough income, in this (or any!) country to go around, no If it's transportation, GM probably has it. Here an matter how it is sub- sembly line turns out a steady stream ot diesel lotoniotiv tracted, or divided — and that the only w ay in w hich there ever can be enough to extensive program of research into the

go around is through tiic fertile prin- progress of tomorrow. ciple of multiplication. Announced in this report was the ap- Look about. What >'ou sec in the w ay pointment of a Director of Production, of industrial improvement, and what a staff of engineers, and a laboratory for you see in the way of social progress, the testing of all materials used in "the has come almost completeh' because construction of tlic autoniobiics turned

there is multiplication in goods and in out b\' oin- factories." services. Toda>-, research in General .Motors

It is in this principle that was found is in seeking better ways for making the answer to the ancient problem of better products, and in probing the the desire of the workingman to get the hidden places of natural law for the highest possible wage for w hat he pro- secrets that will bring new products. Being ke\ ed to the proposition of doing

the w ork that has to be done, creati\ e Tliis .'{7-ton matliine in a tlievrolet minds in the research laboratories ha\"e phmt automaliialh cuts gear teeth.

The best o]>i)ortunity ol all made some horrible bkmdcrs, as histor>- is an automobile franchise. will attest.

Speaking broadl\ , the popularity of the automobile destro>'ed whatever opportunities might have remained in the industry for the individual inventor. Charles Franklin Kettering was an individual inventor in Dayton, Ohio, where he put together an electric self- starter. He took his invention to De-

( Covtimied on page 51 23 Its timeJbr

Some lioniew oilv thai \\\\\ liclp

\ on land sonic onc^s iirxl spring.

By ERWIN A. BAUER

SOMiniMES IT SF.FMs ni\' fishing neighbor, Dwight Gardner, enjoys his hobb\ mere during the olT season than dining the open season. He's an in\'eterate tackle tinkerer and perhaps because of it, a more successful angler when days are w arm and fisii arc striking. Broken lines, balky reels and failing outboard motors ne\ er happen to him. General])', his big ones don't get away.

Attention to tackle in \\ inter is inexpensive insurance on the season ahead. It's fascinating business, too; a perfect pastime for raw winter evenings. Fact is it's possible to prolong the life Essentials lor reel tare are a cleaning fluid, a small of all \ ()ur gear w ith a little maintenance w hen there isn't much brush, oil, grease, strew driver and vvrenth. Scrub out else to do an>'w a)'. the reel's interior working parts with cleaning fluid. Vour reels should come first. Of all > our investment in tackle the\' have the most moving parts, take the most beating, and re(]uire tiic most care for good performance. Generalh' speaking, if a reel needs repair, send it back to the factory. The makers w ill recondition it quickh' and inexpensively. It will be ixturned like new. But cleaning and lubrication alone can be handled w hile \'ou w atch at home.

First dismantle the reel, but remember how >()u did it. Scrub the interior and tiioroughh' clean all gears and moving parts with a toothbrush dipped in lighter fluid or gasoline. See that all sand, grit and old grease are remo\ed. Next add

light, new grease sparingh' or, better still, tr\' the silicone type lubricants that arc now available for the pLupose. Lubricate the spool spindles and le\'el-wind mechanism—and reassemble. All gears should have a t<)U(h of geai grease. The han- the \Mien cleaning, check especially the level-wind pawl on dle shoukl not l)e rcin()\e(l. Plate a dro]) of oil in hole of (he crank shaft where (onsiant frittion octurs. casting reels and the roller or bar o\ er which line passes w hen

l ew inding on spinning reels. Both of these w ear out easilv' and lia\ c to be replaced at intervals.

Sportsmen occasionally test a casting reel l)\ spinning the handles; the longer the free spin, the better the reel. But it's

just not sol A long spin is caused b>' a heavy spool and eventually leads to backlashes. Similarly, a spool full of heavy line w ill ha\'e a tendenc>' to backlash. So w h\- not fill most of the spool w ith a cork arborr Select a large bottle cork and drill a hole large enough for the reel shaft. Cut the cork in half and replace it with glue on the shaft. Now, holding the point of a sharp pocket knife against the cork, wind the reel as a lathe and even off the cork's The spool ta])s on head plate and tail plate should be sin-face. removed and a drop of oil platetl on tlie spindle. The In this age of glass and plastics, rod repair is narrow ed dow n level-wind strcM- should be Irecjuently oiled all season. 24 to do is to replacing guides and w ind- when it's over. First thing Cementing rubber jar rings are vir- wash it with strong laundry soap to ings. The glass rods to the bottom ol your remove any slime and odor. Next, re- tually indestructible other- tackle box will eliminate place any holes or broken sections of wise. Check all the guides noise that. scares lish. carefully for wear and re- netting. There's no reason to be espe- place any that are grooved. cially neat or professional about this— just the repair with simple square It's a good idea to replace any tackle-tinkering schedule. make agate guides with rust-resist- The average tackle box is a knots. Now soak the netting in hot lin- ant metal guides, grooved or catch-all for hooks, plugs, seed oil for a good waterproofing treat- rust, that will last another year. Var- not. swivels, bug dope and . . . ment Here's how to rewind a guide in chipped paint and sand. Keep the essen- nish the handle if it's necessary. pleas- place. Rub the legs of the guide against tials, but get rid of the rest— fast. Scour Many fishcinicn get the most a whetstone until they are in perfect the insides thoroughly. When dry, sand ure from making new lures during the for a plane. Fasten it in place on the rod with ofl^ season. It's natural enough, a piece of scotch or adhesive tape over trophy catch on a homemade fly or one leg. Now run the thread (use n>'lon plug gives twice the satisfaction. It al- a better story later on, too. il possible) from the spool through a ways makes closed book to give even tension. Hold Both fly-tying and plug-building are too the rod in both hands, one on each side involved for detailed discussion here; of the guide, and wind cither toward complete instructions are length)- and you or away from you—whichever is are always furnished with kits prepared easier. Turn slowly so that the windings for the purpose. Obtain one of them fall evenly and neatly in place, ending and you'll have a \\ hale of a time creat- up with a whip finish. Apply" several ing new lures. coats of rod varnish. Bur never neglect the lures you have. Loose ferrules can be re-cemented Rehabilitate your bedraggled flies by and wound in place b\' the same holding them— with forceps or pliers— method. You can buy unpainted in a small jet of steam from a kettle. If you're still using steel rods, they plugs and color them The feathers will fluff out naturally and can be repaired in much the same way youisell. See your sporting like new. After that, if they're dry or as the glass rods. There's the matter of goods dealer about this subject. rust, though. If spots appear through the surface finish, remove the rust with or scrape it inside and out. If it's not fine steel wool and then touch up with already waterproof, make it that way rod varnish. by soldering or attaching strips of Any bamboo rods still in use require waterproof adhesive tape along inside more care. It's wise to refinish them seams. Next give two complete coats entirel)' once a year. Remove the old of paint or spar varnish. Remember finish with varnish remover. Scraping that dark colors absorb heat and light of any kind is dangerous for it's too colors reflect it. So use white or alumi- easy to sever the outside fibers. Replace num paint. If the box is already in good any loose guides or ferrules and apply shape, a single coat of spar varnish will several thin coats of rod varnish. Use not hurt. your fingers, for they do a smoother, For something realh' deluxe in tackle more even job than is possible with a boxes, here are a couple of useful im- brush. provements. With waterproof glue and Repair torn rubber boots Last winter, with no rods needing from thin sheets of cork, line the bot- with inner tube ))atches. serious repair, Gardner built several toms of all the trays. It eliminates noise new rods instead. A frequent traveler and clatter and keeps hooks and swivels floating flics, dip them in dry-fly solu- by air, he made one four-piece spinning from getting lodged in the seams. On tion before storing them away and outfit to fit his luggage. Complete rod the bottom outside, glue two or three they'll be ready again in the spring. kits or sections of glass stock for any rubber mason jar rings. They'll keep A word to wise fly fishermen: moths of type rod are now available from the box from slipping, sliding and have a special affinity for flies. Store many well-known manufacturers. scraping on the floor of the boat. them accordingly — with paradichlor- They're very easy to assemble and the A net that's used very maich during benzene crystals. finished products are worth a place on the season can be in pretty bad shape You'll often hear that plugs are finished to attract fishermen rather than fish. Perhaps so. But cracked or broken finishes expose the body (especially wood or metal) underneath to rotting or rusting. It's a simple matter to touch up chipped spots or to experiment with new finishes altogether. You might hit on a killer combination. Shine and polish ail your tarnished spoons and spinners. Their attractive-

ness depends on it. Apply a thin coat of lacquer to preserve the luster. never wrong sharpening Rod re])air in these days of glass rods gets down to rej)lacing guides and You can go windings. Rub guide legs on a whetstone lor leveling. When replacing your hooks—all of them. Dull hooks windings, best way is to pull thread through a closed book tor even tension. (Coiitimied ov page 60) 25 WILL YOU BE Burned Out? 3-

Some simple do's and don'ts that may save yom* home.

SOME OF THE pictures on these pages look disturb- IFingly familiar, you are probably guilty of risking your life and that of your family. Last year fire killed 11,000 persons and caused $864,- 863,000 in property damage. The tragedy behind these grim statistics compiled by the National Board of Fire Underwriters is that most home fires are caused by carelessness. Nearly 50 percent of all fires stem from three causes —matches and smoking, misuse of electricity, and petro- leum and its products. A little common sense applied to the use of the "big three" would make the average home a far safer place. Illustrated below are some of the simple precautions you can take to protect your family and your home. Should fire strike, however, do these two things immediately: One of the 800 homes struck by fire eacli day. 1. Get everybody out of the house. 2. Call the fire department.

Learn tlie lot.Kion ol the .Small fires can be conirolled Aviih a Iiaiitl A good txiinguislier lor liie home is a nearest fire alarm box and extinguisher such as this Fyr-Fyter car- carbon dioxide tyi)e which is ajjproved keep the fire department hon tetrachloride unit suitable for use for use on all chisses of fires. CO2 has the phone number handy. on flammable liquid and electrical fires. further advantage of leaving no residue. 26 WARNING: THESE ARE DANGEROUS!

The oiilv thing that can be This basement, loaded with household rubbish, said about smoking in bed is paints, shellac and oily rags, makes a j)erlect —don't! Smoking and matches PHOTOS BY ])lace to start a fire. Cleaned of such debris, the top the list ol causes oi fire. ANGELA CALOMIRIS average home basement is iairl) fire safe.

jSine ounces ol borax, four If vou must save old oil) rags Afinor kitchen grease fires can be i>ut out ounces ol boric acid thoroughly or cloths they should be kept in quickly with ordinary table salt or bak- dissolved in a gallon of water closed metal containers. Never ing soda. You can use a large flat cover or will flameproof washable fabrics. put them in closets or cupboards. wet towel to smother a small pan fire. 27 LEGION CLUB

Along about this time members of the By JACK DENTON SCOTT Questions have arisen from readers ask- shake and shiver brigade, tlic ice fisliermeii, ing why so many deer fawns die when The following 16 mm free movies on out- are getting ready to take over. If you're winter sets in. Deer become prett\' ungal- door subjects are a\ ailablc for show ing at a member of the clan, take heed of a few lant when they arc hungr\', will fight over Legion Post meetings. A\'rite on Post sta- rules before you slide your pint-sized man- who gets to eat first. As a rule, the bucks tionery about four weeks in advance of sion onto the slippery stuff. iMost States are most aggressive and try to keep the date you want the film. Mail the films out request that the o\\ ner attach his name and does and fawns away from available food. promptly w herever instructed, upon com- address in legible letters at least two inches Does, in turn, usually will drive off fawns pletion of your showing. high on the outside of his fisli shant>'. who must take what's left or starve. A\'ho Your M'hidoiv in the Sea and Uiider- said, "Gentle Nature"? ivater Adventures. Shots of porpoises, tiger sharks and other exotic fish taken through the portholes of the famous tanks of the Oceanarium at Alarineland, Florida. These are black-and-white films. Sound; 14 and

12 minutes respectivch . AVrite: Marine- land, St. Augustine, Fla. Happy Valley and Battling Bliiefins. I'ilms of Evangeline's beautiful country. Also game fishing in the North Atlantic. Tlie name and address must not be Produced by Province of Nova Scotia. w ritten on paper or any other water-sol- Beautiful and exciting. Sound and color; And, speaking of ducks, John C. Chil- uble material. It must be of a permanent 15 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. ton, 7793 Rolland Street, Castro Valley, quality, such as paint on wood or metal. \A'rite to: Travel Bureau, Halifax, Province California, has a word: "AA^hen cleaning I'ishernien are also requested to keep junk of Nova Scotia. w ild duck," he says, "I remove the pin and clutter away from the shanty, and to Shooting Safety. About proper handling feathers w ithout use of the old hot water remember to remove the structures from of firearms. Good for Posts that w ant to bath or the w ax treatment. I remove the lakes and ponds before the ice melts — to start shooting clubs. Color; 30 minutes. large feathers by plucking by hand. Then prevent shorelines from becoming littered Address: Sportsmen's Service Bureau, 250 I use an art gum eraser, and, moving over with tlebris. For complete set of rules re- E. 43rd Street, New York 17, N. Y. the skin from rear toward the neck, sim- garding ice fishing, creel limits and equip- ply rub those stubborn pin feathers right ment, consult the regulation booklet >ou off. Be careful to make the erasing move- get with j'our license, or \\ rite \ ()ur State ment brisk, but don't force the rubber into Conservation Commission at \()ur State the skin too hard or you'll tear it." R E D w o R M capital. The Berlin, New Hampshire, Legion riie beagle leaiis all breeds m registra- Rod and Gun Club, affiliated with Ryan- tion on the American Kennel Club's list. You can raise your ow n worms if \ t)U Scammon Post, is sponsoring and coaching Its popularitN' has grow n steadily owing to know how, whether for \ our own fishing three high school rifle teams in that city. its happ\-, even disposition. The beagle is or to sell. There's a big demand for w ornis Joe Aleans is manager, assisted by three cock\- and able, w itiiout being unduly as bait in sections near good fishing neigh- coaches. These teams were organized in aggressive and belligerent. Some fanciers borhoods. The Luck>' Worm Ranch of the three local high schools because Joe call it a miniature foxhound due to its W hite Bluff, Tennessee put out a booklet Aleans' courses in the safe handling of fire- similar conformation, coloring and habits. on raising redworms that sells for a dollar, arms had attracted so much interest among The beagle is a top rabbit hunter and can telling all about the subject. It gives the the bo\s. Last year 193 boys passed the easily be trained to trail any ground ani- dope on the latest methods. The booklet course. The teams use the Legion Rifle mal. He's a good gun dog in any sort of is illustrated and covers such subiects as Range, and contests are being held to sec rougii-and-tumble hunting. Beagle fanciers worm bed construction, worm bed filler, who can bring in the largest number of should read The BclV^Ic Joiirjml, publislied feed and feeding, breeding habits, pests and rabbits and partridge. A SlOO prize goes to monthly by Dave Fisher at Tow anda, harvesting, packaging and selling. The the bo\- who brings in the heaviest deer. PennsN h ania. The Joiiriml carries informa- booklet is 24 pages and cover, 5':" x 8'j". New Hampshire is the first State to pass tion on beagle field trials, show s and hunt- Lucky AVorm Ranch sells breeding stock, a law providing for permissive courses in ing. too. at %5.()0 per 100 worms. If \ou are the safe handling of firearms to be taught

interested, write them at \\'hite Bluff, in the schools. The program is Legion- Tim Schwenek of 7512 Union A\enue, Tenn. sponsored. Cle\elanii, Ohio, says that w ith duclc season extending into December in many "Scratches disappear from gun stocks If vou have a helpful idea thai perCaiiis

States this suggestion is timely: "Ducks w hen the>- are colored with l)urnt umber,'' to huntiiiir or fisliiiii;, seiul it along. If are like airplanes. The>- iisuall\' come into sa\ s Mrs. A I. Sulaz, of 3684 E. 63rd Street, tan use it, we'll reivard you \vitli a hiiiuing the decoys, heading into the wind. Keep Cle\ eland, Ohio. "Let the color set for five or lisliing accessory. Address: Ol'TDOOK the w ind at your back and decoys in front minutes, then wipe and polish with a clean, EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The linrii and the birds are more apt to come in soft rag. Finish the job with a touch-up can Legion Maga'Jne. 720 Fifth Avenue, toward you, not sneak in behind vou." of varnish, sand it smooth, then wax." New York 19, New York.

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ALL PRICES INCLUDE FEDERAL EXCISE TAX Current Membership Card Serial Number.. Office, Chief of INSURANCE DIVIDENDS FOR 1955: certificate approved by Dep't Adj't , to: Dividends on WWl and WW2 service life insurance Ordnance, Department of the Army, Washington 25, D. C.

. . . certification released to members for 1955 will probably be about the same as in 1954 . . . . Copy of form for was

Such dividends would be paid on permanent plan USGLI of American Legion Press Ass'n on Oct. 15 . . . Non-ALPA Adj't for form. policies and all participating NSLI policies. . . . The funds subscribers inquire of Dep't

of both the USGLI and the NSLI are in good shape , but * * * * contain no surplus that would warrant a special dividend.

. . . These conclusions are the result of a study of both funds VA REQUIRES BUILDER TO WARRANTY NEW by the VA's Actuarial Advisory Committee, comprised of HOMES;

topflight actuaries from commercial companies. . . . Actuaries Since Nov. 1, VA guaranteed or insured loans for new met with VA insurance chief Charles G. Beck and members housing have been contingent on builder giving a one-year is built in "substantial conformity" of his staff on Oct. 18. . . . After the meeting Beck told warranty that home

Newsletter he expected to recommend to VA Administrator with VA approved plans and specifications. . . . Same applies

Harvey V. Higley that 1955 dividends be declared in the to FHA loans on new housing. . . . No loan on new housing approximate amounts paid under the 1954 annual dividend is guaranteed or insured until a copy of the warranty, on

. which lender has acknowledged receipt, is in hands of VA declaration. . . Dividend plans had not been made official at presstime. or FHA. . . . Effect is to compel buyer to get warranty from

* * * builder. . . . VA will not enforce rights of owner under the warranty; that is up to the buyer. MANY DISCHARGEES NARROWLY MISSING INSURANCE DEADLINE: VA has advised Legion that a 5 -month check shows KOREA POW BENEFITS: "alarming number" of Forces dischargees filing an Armed The same special awards allowed certain U.S. servicemen for NSLI term insurance but getting their applications in who were prisoners of war in WW2 were extended to certain one or two days late. . . . Check-up showed about 7,000 U.S. Korea POWs in Public Law 615, 83rd Congress, which applications denied , nearly all of them because applicant was approved last August 21. . . . An ex-POW of the Korean missed the deadline by a few days. . . . insurance chief VA conflict may claim $1.00 a day for each day of his imprison- Beck guesses that the new vets are interpreting their 120-day ment that the enemy failed to furnish him the quantity or time limit as being the same as four months . ... Of 12 quality of food prescribed for POWs under the Geneva different four-month periods in the year, all but three are Convention. . . . He may claim $1.50 a day for each day of more than 120 days . . . . Today's servicemen get $10,000 his imprisonment during which the enemy treated him in a free indemnity coverage while in service, instead of a policy manner contrary to the conditions relating to forced labor they pay for themselves. . . . They have 120 days after and inhumane treatment prescribed by the Geneva Con- discharge in which to exchange it for NSLI term insurance, vention. ... If such claims can be established for a POW and it is applications for such exchange which are being who is dead, the benefits are payable to widow, dependent

missed by a few days in large numbers. . . . cannot give VA husband, child or children, or parents of such POW, in a late applicants a break because 120-day period is fixed by law. definite order prescribed by law. . . . Benefits are also payable for civilian U.S. citizens who were held prisoner by the * * * * enemy in Korea, or who went into hiding to avoid capture.

SOME ARMY RIFLES, REAL AND WOODEN, . . . No such claims are payable to one who voluntarily AGAIN AVAILABLE: aided the enemy.

Army advises that a limited quantity of the following Deadline for filing for Korea POW benefits is the is again available to American Legion Posts: (1) M-1903 latest of these three dates: (1) August 21, 1955, or (2) One rifles, suitable for blank ammo only, and for Post ceremonial year after the POW was returned to the jurisdiction of the use only, (2) Wooden Victory Trainer rifles (replicas of U.S. Armed Forces, or (3) In the case of a POW who has

M-1903) for drill purposes . . . . Real rifles are available up not returned to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Armed Forces,

to a limit of ten per Post , for Posts that have never gotten one year after the Defense Department determines that the

any from the Army before. . . . Wooden rifles are available POW is dead or is presumed dead.

in any number while they last . Cost for either is $1.00 apiece, POW compensation claims are to be handled by a new plus expressage collect from Tooele, Utah. commission. The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of Posts should submit a postal money order or certified the U.S. (which has succeeded the War Claims Commission).

check, payable to Treasurer of the U. S., with a signed . . . The FCSC will receive claims, judge their validity and 31 authorize awards in line with its findings. . . . The Com- usually represent veterans in court , has recently been

mission advised in October that it was drafting regulations authorized by Nat'l Executive Committee and Nat'l Con- and preparing new forms for POW claims. ... At present, vention to appear as Amicus Curiae in an important Veterans funds are not available to make awards, and this must Preference test case. await appropriations by the next Congress which convenes

January 5, 1955. . . . Applicants are advised not to be INVESTIGATION OF BENEFITS OF VETS' slow in filing claims because of appropriations delays. . . . SURVIVORS BEGINS: Regardless of when the money is allocated it can only be Legion Legislative Commission advises that a special paid to those who have filed within the deadline periods committee of the House of Representatives began in mid- listed above. . . . Ex-POWs or their proper survivors should November to make a new study of Federal Benefits for the apply for forms to: Foreign Claims Settlement Commission,

survivors of deceased veterans. . . . Committee is called the Tariff Building, Washington, D. C. . . . Some delay may is of William H. Bates (Mass.), follow request, as forms were not ready at presstime. Bates Committee, composed Chmn; Bernard W. Kearney (N. Y.); Robert W. Kean

* :i: * ^ (N. J.); Olin E. Teague (Tex.), and Porter Hardy, Jr. (Va.).

. . . Committee was created by House Res. 549, which charges

SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR SOME it to conduct "a full and complete investigation and study VETERANS' SURVIVORS WHO DID NOT OUAUFY of benefits under Federal law for surviving dependents of BEFORE: deceased members and former members of the Armed Forces One of the recent amendments to the Social Security and on the basis of such an investigation to make recom- laws makes it possible for some survivors of veterans who mendations and prepare legislation to carry out such recom- died between 1940 and Sept. 1950 to get Social Security

mendations." . . . Committee will hold public hearings and

benefits for which they were not eligible before. . . . Only has invited American Legion to testify. . . . Legion Legisla- way to ascertain is for widows, minor children or dependent tive Director Miles D. Kennedy has advised Newsletter that: parents of such veterans to check with Social Security office. "We will keep in close touch with the situation and be

. . . Recent law reduced the time a wage-earner, who died prepared to testify thereon." during the period mentioned, had to be covered by Social

Security in order to qualify his dependents for benefits. . . . Six calendar quarters are now enough Some veterans who VA TRYING TO ACTIVATE MORE BEDS:

died during the time mentioned did not have enough credits VA Dep't of Medicine & Surgery has told Legion it is

before, but have now qualified partially or solely by the doing level best to activate more beds in VA hospitals as it

wage credits granted for military service . . . . Social Security closes down beds it has rented in non-VA hospitals. . . . VA

offices are not checking to see who has become newly eligible announced on Aug. 25 that it was reducing its use of con- for benefits by virtue of this amendment, but will go over tract beds in non-VA hospitals, and American Legion im-

records with survivors who personally inquire. . . . Location mediately urged (NEC Res. #49, Oct. 7) that VA use funds of Social Security representatives may be secured from thus saved to reactivate more of VA's own beds. . . . VA says

any U.S. Post Office . . . . Amendment does not increase first step in this direction is to increase number of NP beds of benefits those already eligible , but does qualify some for in use at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. and Pittsburgh, Pa. benefits who were found ineligible for any benefits before. * * * * OH, THAT BUDGET! Last session of Congress, in preparing VA budget, ROTH CASE MAY STRENGTHEN VETERANS added up expected usual and necessary expenses, then lopped

PREFERENCE: off a neat sum and told VA to make remainder stretch. . . . Legion Economic Commission experts believe case Champions of veterans yelled at the time, but VA chief of Leo A. Roth may be legal bulwark against arbitrary Higley promised he would do his very utmost to do the fiddling with Veterans in . . . Preference . U.S. Civil Service. job somehow with the reduced funds . . . Now there are Roth, a Justice Dep't attorney, was summarily separated some other little problems that have come up. . . . Same from Gov't service. ... He challenged dismissal in court session of Congress authorized a large number of new bene- and said it in was violation of Lloyd LaFollette Act of 1912 . fits for Federal employees, many of whom work for VA, but

. . . Appellate Court said Roth was right and ordered his appropriated nothing in the way of ,$$$ to provide the new reinstatement. . . . Gov't took case to Supreme Court, which benefits. . . . Look 'em over: in effect upheld Appellate Court by refusing to hear case . . . . (1) Public Law 598 provides a group life insurance Roth is not a veteran, and his case did not deal directly program for employees. VA has 172,000 employees to be with Veterans Preference. . . . But decision lends strength covered, which will cost VA about $1,400,000 out of its to thesis often played fast loose and with in Veterans Prefer- veterans' service budget in 1955. . . . (2) Wage raises and ence, ie: that Acts of Congress regarding Federal employ- fringe benefits, including free uniforms, apply to 38,000 gov't ment mean what they say . . . . Basis for dismissing Roth employees in certain type jobs, of whom about 90% are in VA. was an Executive Order in 1947 that excepted attorneys from Estimate is these new benefits will amount to between competitive service. Roth had competitive service dating $5 million and $6 million a year. from 1943 . but Gov't claimed 1947 order wiped out his Budget Bureau said, on Oct. 22, that no increases in status. . . . Sense of court finding was that new orders the regular budget for 1955 or 1956 will be permitted to couldn't wipe out previous competitively earned status . meet these costs. . . . American Legion concern is that such ... A similar pattern of trying to wipe out previously earned increase in costs without compensating appropriations will

Veterans Preference by virtue of new orders is a familiar be met by reducing the quality and quantity of VA's bureaucratic gadget. . . . American Legion, which doesn't regular services. 32 NEWS ofThe A.merican Legion

and Veterans' Affairs DECEMBER 1954

The American Legion Dep't of the Nat'l Exec Committee Meets; Philippines, authorized appointment of a committee to give the matter more study. Las Cruces, N.M., Hails Collins Authorized appointment of a special committee to plan a Hawaiian tour im-

Between Oct. 5 & 9, two major annual (Ark.) as president of the foundation. mediately after the 1956 Los Angeles Nat'l Convention. nat'l American Legion events occurred. > Established priorities for 1955 for the Of all the above matters — and othei s They were: many legislative mandates to be handled in the resolutions sum- 1) The regular fall meeting of The by the Nat'l Legislative Commission, embodied many marized below — two stirred up excej)- American Legion's Nat'l Executive with UMT first on the list and 17 other tionally lively interest, discussion and Committee, Oct. 5, 6 & 7 at Nat'l Hq major mandates grouped for second spot. in Indianapolis, Ind., and debate. They were: (1) The invitation j> Confirmed the dates of Oct. 10-13 as to seat a representative on the Nat'l 2) The Nat'l Commander's Home- the time for the 1955 Nat'l Convention Commission for UNESCO and (2) the coming, celebrated in honor of newly in Miami, and Sept. 3-6 as the time for report of Past Nat'l Cmdr Colmery on elected Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins the 1956 Nat'l Convention in Los the difficulties of the Philippine Dep't. in his home town of Las Cmces, in the Angeles. sunny Rio Grande Valley of south cen- i> Declined to act on an invitation to UNESCO Debate miles north of tral New Mexico, 40 provide nat'l American Legion sponsor- The NEC had before it an invitation El Paso, Tex. ship for the Cavalcade of Progress, a to seat a representative of The American Nat'l Exec Committee proposed, privately promoted, traveling Legion on the Nat'l Commission for exhibit of American industrial products. UNESCO. That commission is a semi- The 3-day meeting of the Nat l Exec- ]> Heard a report submitted by E. Ro\ for utive Committee (NEC) was one of the official body, authorized Ijy Congress, Stone, Jr. (S.C.) on a special committee giving the Federal quietest in years, sparked only infre- the stated purpose of study for a nat'l life membership plan, sugges- quently with agenda items that brought government civilian views and voted to continue the study. tions regarding UNESCO. lively debate. Business moved rapidly, Declined an invitation to seat a rep- special Legion committee to study got ahead of schedule on opening morn- A resentative of The American Legion on the under Past Nat'l Cmdr Ray ing and stayed ahead. UN, the National Commission for UNESCO. Murphy (Iowa), urged that the Legion {The NEC is the betwcen-conven- ]) Heard a report from Past Nat'l Cmdr seriously consider the invitation. A tions administrative body of The Ameri- Harry Colmery (Kans.) of his personal resolution prepared by the Nat'l Amer- can Legion. It is made up of the Natl investigation of internal difficulties in icanism Commission urged that the Le- Commander, tJie five Nat'l Vice Com- manders, the Nat'l Chaplain, a memher HOMECOMING IN LAS ClU CES and an alternate from each of the 58 Legion Dep'ts, plus all living Past Nat'l Commanders. Names of all members appear on page 37, in a roster of top nat'l and Dep't officers for 1955.) The NEC members arrived in Indian- apolis in sweltering Indian summer, departed days later in brisk, topcoat weather. In between, they attended to

. a host of matters, heard reports from the heads of the nat'l American Legion commissions, considered more than 55 resolutions and passed most of them, heard an off-the-cuff talk on the practice of U.S. diplomacy in India by George V. Allen, U. S. Ambassador to India. They also:

]l Approved a nat'l budget of $5,559,- 526 for 1955. Reappointed Robert T. Fairey (S.C.) in the office of Nat'l Historian for 1955.

]i Approved appointment of more than 7,000 Legionnaires to serve on various nat'l commissions and committees for 1955. (Chairmen listed on page 37.)

]) Approved a board of trustees for 1955 for the newly formed American Legion

Child Welfare Foundation. Members Start of hour-long parade, Oct. 9, in Las Cruces, N. Mex., as that city tendered

named Dr. Garland D. Murphy, Jr. Homecoming celebration to Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins. (Story on j>. 35)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1954 • 33 .

gion decline the invitation. Debate at resolutions passed by the NEC included: saved to an equivalent expansion of the use of beds, as the tlie NEC revolved around the question Opposes amnesty for 12,500 persons VA 1955 VA budget permits it to do. as to whether or not a seat on the Com- convicted of \iolating tlie Selective Service Act of 1950. Points out that amnesty appeals #50. Seeks an increase of $12.60 monthly mission would most likely ( permit 1 ) refer to these persons as "conscientious ob- in ordinary Part III pensions after recipient the Legion to contribute constructive jectors," which is a bona fide legal status, ( a ) has been in receipt of pension 10 years evaluations of UNESCO or (2) permit while the 12.500 ha\e been convicted of or ( b ) reaches age 65. tlie Legion to be used as a minority on violation of the laws under which others were inducted into service. Publications the Commission to lend support to views #2. Uni- Reaffirms Legion espousal of The report of the Publications Com- and activities to which it might be op- versal Military Training. mission was given Stella posed. #3. Demands release of 944 Americans by Chmn John still belie\ed held by North Korean and (111.) . Stelle reported that The American Joe Jenkins, Jr., Dep't Cmdr of Flori- Chinese communists in violation of Korea Legion Magazine would increase edi- da and a member of the Nat'l American- truce. torial emphasis on positive Americanism. ism Commission, offered documentation One Publications resolution was passed to indicate that the Nat'l Commission for Rehabilitation by the NEC: UNESCO had wandered from its stated #7. Renews contract for printing Tlie purpose of advising the government on The report of the Nat'l Rehabilitation American Legion Magazine in Braille. UNESCO, was indulging in pro- Commission was given by Chmn Robert UNESCO and pro-one-world propa- M. McCurdy (Calif.). Rehab resolutions Americanism ganda and seeking to influence the passed by the NEC included: The report of the Americanism Com- #4. Seeks increase in VA capacity to care schools to develop philosophies destruc- mission was given by Chmn J. Addington for chronically disabled veterans. tive of national unity. Jenkins produced Wagner (Mich.) Americanism resolu- #5. Commends Hon. Frank J. Becker a long list of persons with lengthy red ( N.Y. ) for his part in securing tax-exemp- tions passed by the NEC included: front affiliations who, he said, were past tion on gift cigarettes for veterans in state #18. Expresses condolences in the death and present members of the Commission. hospitals. of Senator Pat McCarran ( Nev. ) #8. Seeks to restore WW2 GI education #19. Asks States to clamp down harder In the absence of Past Cmdr Murphy, rights to those who lost entitlement because on avenues for securing false birth certifi- William McKinley (N.J.) - another their time limit expired while on involun- cates. member of the special Legion committee tary military duty. #20. Asks that those pleading the 5th #9. Seeks to liberalize definition of a Amendment when asked to testify before on the UN — spoke in favor of seating veteran's widow for pension purposes. Congressional committees be barred from the Legion on the its Commission, where #10. Seeks higher retirement rank, and Federal employment. views could be heard. Nat'l Vice Cmdr consequent higher retirement pay, for cer- #21. Asks that Social Security benefits Carl Rees (Del.) supported that view. tain military personnel who had qualified be denied persons identified as subversives in all with refund of He said that the invitation to seat The for promotion ways except physically, in certain positive ways, and thus were retired without it. their Social Security taxes. American Legion was part of a program #11. Seeks more leeway for VA to pay #22. Approves nationwide billboard cam- to make the Nat'l Commission for adequate compensation for service-connect- paign, with Legion identification, in support UNESCO a more representative body ed disabilities in certain cases where the of U.S. Constitution. degree of disability cannot be fairly com- #23. Asks that Federal and State funds of lay opinion. However, the NEC fa- pensated under existing law. be withheld from schools that continue to vored Jenkins' belief that the climate of #12. Asks that VA pay for transportation employ teachers who (a) are active in or- the Commission is incompatible with its to burial of bodies of vets who die in state ganizations officially designated as subver- purpose and declined the invitation on Iiospitals, as is now done for vets who die sive, or ( b ) refuse to testify in official hear- in hospitals. regarding loyalty to U. S. a vote — 51 to 6. VA ings #13. Seeks to establish provision for re- #24. Seeks an amendment to McCarran- view of certain military discharges for dis- Immigration Act in one section Phili ppiiie Confusion Walter ability where retirement pay is not au- where the language of the act did not ex- Past Nat'l Cmdr Colmery gave a tliorized. press the intent. Section allows for granting #14. An omnibus insurance resolution, citizenship to certain peacetime veterans, lengthy report of his investigation of in- containing numerous recommendations for and certain wartime veterans in allied ar- ternal difficulties in The American Le- changes in ser\ ice insurance and indemnity. mies, but not wartime veterans of U. S. gion L)ep't of the Philippines, which he #15. Asks interpretation of phrase "reg- armed forces. had conducted last summer at the re- ular aid and attendance" when used as a #25. Commends all who helped add cj[uest of condition for determining compensation "Under God" to Pledge of Allegiance, spe- then Nat'l Cmdr Arthur J. awards. cifically cites Hearst publications. Council (Conn.). So complex was the #16. Asks that certain veterans denied #26. Authorizes Legion citation of Merit situation Colmery reported that the honorable discharge because of nationality for Richard Arens, Senate Judiciary Com- NEC had no choice but to authorize a be awarded honorable discharges if they are mittee staff member. now U.S. citizens or were U.S. citizens #27. Protests award of damages to special committee study of affairs in the when UN they died. eleven American UN employes who had Philippine Dep't. Attempts to debate the #17. Establishes latitude for American been dismissed by the UN after failing to situation and arrive at a simple solution Legion Area and Nat'l Rehab officials in be responsive to proper questioning by the on the floor of the NEC bogged down in setting time and place of Area Rehab con- U. S. Senate Internal Security Sub- ferences. utter confusion. E.xtreme internal fac- committee. #45. Asks tliat new VA hospital in Clii- #28. Seeks to keep U. S. citizens of tionalism, coupled with business prac- cago he named the A. A. Sprague Memorial questionable loyalty out of UN jobs. tices apparently at odds with the Dep't Hospital. #29. Reaffirms The American Legion's Constitution, were the chief factors that #46. Sets dates for certain American Le- belief in the American form of government. gion meetings in had produced an intricate and unhealthy Rehab Washington, D.C.. #30. Urges schools teach a deeper ap- as follows: Annual Rehabilitation Con- preciation of the American way of life. state of affairs in the Philippine Dep't. ference, March 1-4, 1955; full Nat'l Re- #31. Opposes participation of Red China Some other actions of the NEC are habilitation Commission pre - conference in 1956 Olympics. listed below, in relation to the Nat'l meeting, Feb. 28, 1955, regular annual #32. Asks Dep't of the Army to publish meeting March Commissions concerned. 4, 1955; Insurance Advisory the facts concerning the commissioning, Board meeting. Feb. 26 & 27, 1955. Au- promotion and honorable discharge of thorizes full Nat'l Rcliab Commission, In- Ir\ ing Percss. Nat'l Security surance Advisory Board and Medical Ad- #33. Declines invitation to seat a Legion The report of the Nat'l Security Com- visory Board to attend Rehab Conference. representati\e on the Nat'l Commission for #49. Insists that VA, in carrying mission was given by Vice Chmn Bruce out re- UNESCO. duction of its use of beds in non-VA hos- #34. Supports Crusade for Freedom, and P. Hender.son (Ohio). Nat'l Security pitals on a contract basis, aj^ply funds so specifically its drive, Feb. 12 to 22, 1955,

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\\ hich has been designated Freedom Week. duced, and that no featured speaker appear parade with the main street crowded #35. Protests use of U.S. flags in com- on the closing day of a Nat'l Convention. for more than a mile on each side with niereial pet eenieteries. One resolution was passed that came Autliorizes publication of an Amer- spectators. Joe Quesenberry Post 10, #36. from the Nat'l Public Relations Commis- ican Legion Junior Baseball promotional Cmdr Collins' own Post, held open sion, whose report was given by Chmn pamphlet. house all day, the Chamber of Com- #37. Urges Congress continue investi- Thomas E. Paradine (N.Y.): merce set up a central office to assist gating sub\ersi\e activities in and around #52. Expresses appreciation of past serv- visitors. Yellow Springs, Ohio. ices of Edward F. McCinnis, retiring Di- American Legion units in the #38. Urgivs continued drive against red rector of Public Relations. parade were joined by musical outfits elements in entertainment world, commends The NEC adopted a report of a spe- from Fort Bliss, Holloman AF Base, major Hollywood studios for their anti- cial NEC Subcommittee, submitted by New Mexico A & College and Las communist work. M Chmn Walter Alessandroni (Pa.) , estab- Cruces High School. Civic groups en- Conventions lishing priorities for Legislation for 1955. tered floats. Display contingents from Tiie report of tlie Nat'l Convention UMT was placed first, and the following Fort Bliss, Biggs Field, White Sands Commission was gi\ en by Chmn Harry were placed on a par as the mandates to Proving Cround and Holloman AF Base L. Foster (Calif.). He reported that receive major emphasis: Seven Rehab paraded revolutionary military equip- the recent Nat'l Convention in Wash- mandates, two Americanism mandates, ment, guided missiles, rockets, and anti- ington, D. C, had been a financial three Economic mandates, three Foreign aircraft artillery. success for both the Convention Cor- Relations mandates and two Nat'l Secu- Other paraders included the El Paso poration and the nat'l American Legion, rity mandates. Sports Car Club, the VFW, the DAR, with the convention operation emerging The following Nat'l Commission the DAV and, on horseback, full-blood- somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,- Chairmen submitted reports, but no ed Indians in traditional headdress, all 000 to $15,000 in the black. The Wash- resolutions: Legislative, Jerome F. Dug- members of Mescalero (N. Mex.) Post ington police had commended The gan (Mo.); Cliild Welfare, George 48, American Legion. American Legion for the orderliness of Ehinger (Del.); Economic, W. C. "Dan" After the parade, Cmdr Collins enter- the convention, said Foster. He added Daniel (Va.); Internal Affairs, Charles tained \isitors at his home. Then the that there had been no arrests of Le- N. Larson (Wis.); Foreign Relations, celebration shifted to New Mexico A&M gionnaires nor any reports of damage Rogers Kelley ( Tex. ) College stadium, where 1,000 persons in any hotels. Las Cruces' Day enjoyed a barbecue in the stands, heard NEC actions regarding conventions Oct. 9 was a big day for Las Cruces, & saw a program of speeches & enter- included the following resolutions: N. Mex., and Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. tainment until midnight. Program in- #41. Pro\ ides for a single parade at fu- Collins. It cluded ( 1 ) a feature talk on nat'l securi- ture conventions, with the 40&8 a division was Homecoming Day for ty (broadcast on Mutual network) by of the single parade. Cmdr Collins, and Las Cruces is his of Convair #42. Sets dates of Sept. 3-6, inclusixe, home town. Las Cruces draped itself in Col Thomas G. Lanphier, vp for 1956 convention in Los Angeles. bunting and put on a show to celebrate and President of the Nat'l Aeronautics #43. Authorizes Natl Commander to Lion's Collins' election to The American Ass'n, (2) Las Cruces Club name a committee to plan a Hawaiian tour award of its highest honor to Cmdr following tlie 1956 Nat'l Con\ention in Legion's highest office. Legionnaires entertainment Los Angeles. poured in, not only from the neighbor- Collins, (3) emceed by #44. Approves rules for contests at the ing states of Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Morton Downey, that oftered Coca-Cola 1955 Conv ention as submitted by the Con- and Oklahoma, but from Virginia, radio & TV artists and Hollywood per- tests Superx'isory Committee. New York, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Cali- sonalities. Entertainers included Keenan Finance fornia, Indiana, France, D. C, Pennsyl- Wynn, Carolina Cotton, Gloria Winter, The report of the Nat'l Finance Com- vania, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. pianist Ludwig Drefus, Randy Brown mittee was given by William |. Dwver Las Cruces produced an hour-long and Howard and Wanda Bell. (N.Y.). The NEC passed the following resolutions dealing with finance: #47. Outlines procedure for Nat'l Em- COMMUNITY SERVICE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. blem Di\ ision to contract, for purchase of merchandise. #48. Prov ides tliat 75% of the profit from

Nat l Emblem sales at Nat'l Conventions shall accrue to Tlie American Legion and 25* to the Convention Corporation, and that no commissions sliall be paid to De- partments. #53. Requires approval of the Nat'l I'inaiice Conuiiission for expenditure or encumbrance of national funds in excess of budget. #.54. Amends Trust Agreement for ad- ministering American Legion Retirement Fund to prov ide needed authority for Trus- tee to iiiv est funds. #•55. Approves articles of incorporation of Tlie American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, and approves Trust Agreement between the foundation and The American Legion. Other Kesolutions The NEC also passed three other numbered resolutions. Two came from the Conference of Dep't Commanders & Adjutants: #39. Fav ors holding two sessions of The American Legion College in 1955. #40. Requests that the number of fea- Monroe County (N.Y.) Legionnaires give an iron lung to Highland Hospital in tured speakers at Nat'l Conv entions be re- Rochester. Annual track meet and drum majorette contest proceeds paid lor lung.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • 35 WHEN THE JUNIOR BASEBALL CHAMPS VISITED NEW YORK CITY

\Vinners of the 1954 American Legion Junior Baseball Finals, just before the ojiening game of the AVorld Series. The team, the team of Post 492, San Diego, Calif., pose for a team pic- acconn)anied by Fulton Vickery, coach, left, and Albert ture with their Chamjjionship Pennant at the Polo Grounds, AVright, manager, right, saw the first two games of the series.

Lou Brissic, Commissioner of American Legion Junior Base- ^ViIIiam Capps, San Diego shortstop who won the Hall of ball, and San Diego team members, check on pre-game dope Fame Award at the Yakima. Wash., finals, discusses batting at breakfast. The team stayed at the Hotel Lexington. techniques with A! Rosen, Cleveland Indians' 3rd baseman.

Frank Lane, (.( lural Manager ol the C:hi

While S()\ (above), and |. (;. Tavlor Spink, s|)ots, the Chamjjs picked as number and Radio City IVfusic Hall were l)ul)lisher of the Sfwrting Neivs, spoke to team. one on their list the Statue of Liberty. also on the visitors' list of attractions.

3^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 .

B. Talcott, DIRECTORY 1955: Waukegan, 111.; Membership & to officers is as follows: (C) Dep't Com- Post Activities, Truman C. Wold, Fargo, mander; (NEC) Dep't Nat'l Executive Nat l Officers N. Dak.; Pilgrimage, Dean Alathis, Wash- Committeeman; (Alt) Dep't Alternate National officers ington, D.C.; Resolut ions Assignment, of The American Nat'l Executive Committeeman; (Adj.) Charles W. Griffith, Alanning, S.C.; Tro- Legion for 1955 are: Dep't Adjutant. phies, Axvards & Ceremonials, Donald E. Nat'l Coiiriiiaiidcr, Seaborn P. Collins, Alabama: (C) Fred C. Walters, Grove Hill; Johnson, \\'cst Branch, Iowa. Las Cruces, N. Alex.; Natl Vice Coiinimiid- (NEC) Hugh Overton, Wadiey; (Alt) Legislative Connnission: Jerome F. Duggan, ers: Leonard L. Jackson, Clarks, La.; Pat- James N. Harbuck, Ensley; (Adj) St. Louis, AIo. Jr., rick H. iMangan, Jr., Rutland, \'t.; How ard Joseph AT Dickcrson, Box 1069, Alont- Pnblications Commission: [ohn Stclle, C. Kingdom, Conncaut, Ohio; Dr. Carl J. gomery. Brazil, Ind. Recs, Newark, Del.; and Robert L. SIielb\', " Alaska: (C) Forbes L. Baker, Fairbanks; Public Relations Connnission: W. C. "Dan Salt Lake Cit\-, Utah; Natl Chaplaii?, Rev. (NEC) Perry S. AlcLain, Anchorage; Daniel, Danville, \'a. Albert J. Hoffmann, Dubuque, Iowa. (Alt) John Van Horn, Sitka; (Adj) Wal- Rehabilitation Connnission: Robert AI. The above officers are all elective. ter W. Smith, Box 2561, Juneau. AlcCurdy, Pasadena, Calif.; Insurance Ad- Nat'l appointive officers are: Arizona: (C) Calvin R. Sanders, Phoenix; visory Board, Alilo J. \Varner, Toledo, (NEC) John R. Stilic, Tucson; (Alt) R. Natl Historian, Robert T. I'airey, Co- Ohio; Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Win- C. Waters, Kingman; (Adj) Clayton B. Orth, lumbia, S. C; Natl Treasurer, Neal Grider, fred Overholser, Washington, D.C. 723 West Polk St., Phoenix.' Indianapolis, Ind.; Natl JiiJi^e Advocate, National Security Commission: Bruce P. Arkansas: (C) Abe Davidson, Alarvell; Ralph B. Gregg, Indianapolis, Ind., and Henderson, ^^'arren, Ohio; Aeronautics, J. Natl Adjutant, Henr>' Dudle>', In- (NEC) Sam Rorex, Little Rock; (Alt) Dr. H. Joseph J. Foss, Sioux Falls, S. l^ak.; Civil G. D. Murphy, Jr., El Dorado; (Adj) John dianapolis, Ind. Defense, Niel R. Allen, Grants Pass, Ore.; L. Vance, Box 270, Little Rock. Merchant Marine, Henry C. Parke, Brook- California: (C) A'lalcolm AI. Champlin, San Nat'l Commissions lyn, N.Y.; Military Affairs, \Villiam C. Francisco; (NEC) William R. Burke, Los Approximately 7,000 Legionnaires Doyle, Burlington, N.J.; Naval Affairs, Emmett G. Lcnihan, Angeles; (Alt) Ardcn "Pony" Powers, were appointed to serve on American Seattle, AA'ash.; Law Order, Col. Alodesto; (Adj) Gordon A. Lyons, 117 Legion George A I ingle, Columbus, Nat'l Commissions, committees, Alemorial Bldg., San Francisco. Ohio; National Security Training, Gran- War boards, trusts and corporations at the Canada: ville S. Ridley, Alurfreesboro, Tenn. (C) Frank S. Kaszas, Ottawa, On- NEC meetings, Oct. 7. tario; (NEC) John B. Finucane, Alontreal;

Below are listed the cliairrnen of the Dep't Officers for 1955 (Alt) Paul J. Wendt, Toronto; (Ad)) L. O. LaPlante, 320 Unixersitv Tower Bldg., national commissions and committees of Below are listed the top four officers of Alontreal, P.Q. The American Legion for 1955. Major each Department of The American Le- Colorado: (C) John Barnard, Jr., Granb>'; commissions appear in capital letters. gion for 1955. Complete address is given (NEC) William R. Egan, Denver; (Alt) Committees, in Holies, are subdivisions for the Adjutant of each Dep't, to whom W. W. Walsh, Red Cliff; (Adj) AI. L. of the commissions under which they normal correspondence relating to Dep't Lyckholm, 116 State OfHcc Bldg., Denver. appear. business should be addressed. Home Connecticut: (C) George Baron, Bethan>-; Americanism Commission: James F. Daniel, towns of other officials are given. Key (NEC) Joseph G. Leonard, Stamforti; Greenville. S.C.; Accident Prevention, Sam- uel Rubin, Monroe, La.; Boys' State, Harry M. Gambrci, Kansas City, Mo.; Counter IT IT Subversive Activities, SMELLS GRAND PACKS RIGHT Dr. J. E. Alartie, Reno, Nev.; Marksniansbifi, Ben T. Wat- kins, Alacon, Ga.; Reunions En/phasis, Re\

Albeit J. Hoffmann (Nat'l Chaplain), Du- buque, Iow a; Sons ofTheA/nericaiiLeaioj!, Dorian E. Clark, Nashville, Tcnn. Child Welfare Commission: George Ehing- er, Dover, Del.; Education and Scholar- ships, Henry "Ray" Sherritt, Albuquerque, N. Alex.

Convention Connnission: Joe Adams, Alia- mi, Fla.; Contest Supervisory, Norton R. Ganger, Aliami, Fla.; Distinguished Guests,

A. L. Starsliak, Chicago, 111.; Transporta- tion, W. N. Pippin, Wilmington, Del. Economic Commission: Norman \. (olm- here's the season's , son, Jr., Philadelphia, Miss.; Agricultural fragrance hit! Of FUN IN LOADING- IT! and Conservation, Elbert S. Rawls, Lew is- ton, Idaho; Eniployvient, Joseph S. Alc- Cracken, Kingston, Pa.; Housing, Thomas IT SMOKES SWEET IT CANT aire I Moses, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Labor Relations, Alfred P. Chamie, Los Angeles, Calif.; Veterans Preference, Raymond R.AIcEvo)-, Stoughton, Alass. Finance Commission: \\ illiani J. Dw > er, Cordand, N.Y.; Emblem, Julius Levy, Uniontown, Pa.; investments Policy, A. E. McCormick, Alountain Lakes, N.J.; Over- seas Graves Decoration Trust, Seaborn P. Collins (Nat'l Cmdr), Las Cruces, N. Alex. Foreign Relations Commission: Rogers Kel- ley, Edinburg, Tex.; Inter-Ainerican, War- SIR WALTER RALE/Gh's BLEND OF ren H. Atherton, Stockton, Calif. CHOICB KENTUCKY SURLEYS IS Internal Affairs Commission: George T. EXTRA-AGED TO GUARD AGAINST Lewis, Alemphis, Tcnn.; Constitution c> AND MAN -WHAT PLEASURE TONGUE BITE. XMA2 WRAPPED By-Laws, Halsey Stickel, Newark, N.J.; WHEN IT'S LIT/ ...IT MAKES A PERFECT GIFT. Graves Registration Memorial, Alancel

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(\h) Howard I. lacohs, Willimantic; Roslindale; (Alt) Dep't Cmdr Collatos; tain Lakes; (.\dj) Alorris W. Kuzbvt, Ale- (Adj) Charles L. Parker, Stare Office Bldg., (Ad)) A. Leo Anderson, 159 State House, morial Bldg., Stacv- Park, Trenton. Hartford. Boston 23. New Mexico: (C) H. Ray Sherritt, Albu- Delaware: (C) Harr>- S. Zerbv, George- Mexico: (C) Burton E. Grossman, Tam- querque; (NEC) Reed Alulkey, Roswcll;

town; (NEC) William J. B. Regan, Wil- pico. Tamps.; (NEC) Andres J. duBouchet, (Alt) Ora R. Hall, Jr., Santa' Fe; (Adj) mington; (Alt) Charles A. Burrous, Jr., Ir., Alexico, D.F.; (Alt) \^'illiam J. Siebert, G. Y. Failes, 3205 Central Ave., N.E., Smyrna; (Adj) Thomas B. Egan, P. O. Box Alexico, D.F.; (Adj) All's. Sarah B. Seibert, Albuquerque.

1186, Dravo Bldg., \\'ilmington. Alelchor Portocarrero #160, Alexico 10, New York: (C) John B. R\ an, Jr., .\lbany; District of Columbia: (C) Byron E. Dunn. D.F. (NEC) Leo V. Lanning', Albany; (.\lt) Michigan: Alcno- W'asiiington; (NEC) AV'illiam J. Holliman, (C) Kent T. Lundgren, Dep't Cmdr Ryan; (Adj ) Alaurice Steniber, Arlington, \'a.; (Alt) Robert A. Bunch, niincc; (NEC) Arthur H. Clarke, South 31 Chambers Street, New York 7. Alathieson, Washington; (Ad)) James J. iMiirphy, 433 Ha\cn; (Alt) Robert G. De- North Carolina: (C) Rev. Alilton B. Faust, ird St. N."\\'., Washington. troit; (Adj) Lisle H. Alexander, 151 Salisbury; (NEC) R. C. Godwin, Raleigh; Florida: (C) Joe C. Jenkins, Gainesville; Jefferson, 422 Veterans Alem. Bldg., Detroit. (Alt) W. A. Gresham, Albemarle; (Adj)

(NEC) E. Meade \Vilson, iMiilherry; (Alt) Minnesota: (C) L. J. Willett, Jackson; Nash D. AIcKee, Box 2509, Raleigh.

Arthur R. Boring, Plant Cit>-; ( Ad'i) Ernest (NEC) Carl L. Lundgren, Alinneapolis; North Dakota: (C) Earl F. Boyd, Bismarck; A. Rowton, P.O. Box 726, Tallahassee. (Alt) Alilton G. Boock, Lake City; (Adj) (NEC) ^^'illiam Stern, Fargo; (Alt) John France: (C) Leo E. Tolin, Paris; (NEC) Carl Granning, 600 Shubert Bldg., St. Paul. K. Kennelly, Fargo; (Adj) Jack Williams, Scdley Peck, Azusa, Calif.; (Alt) Nelson Mississippi: (C) T. W. Carr, Aloorhead; Box 1748, Fargo. Morris, Chicago; (Adj) Karl S. Batter, Jr., (NEC) R. D. Alorrow, Brandon; (Alt) Ohio: (C) James \^'agonsellcr, Lancaster; Rue Pierre Charron, Paris 8e. Ralph Al. Godwin, Jackson; (Adj) Frank (NEC) Clarence \A'hitemycr, Louis- Georgia: (C) Jack Langford, Griffin; W. Chambers, Box 688, War Alemorial ville; (Alt) W. O. AlcClcllan, Elyria; (Adj)

(NEC) James E. Powers, Macon; (Alt) Bldg., Jackson. (oscph S. Dcutschlc, 1 373 E. Broad St., Herman Holland, Gainesville; (Ad)) Rob- Missouri: (C) Elmer W. Kuhlmann, St. P.O. Box 57, Sta. E., Columbus. ert iM. Joiner, 1428 Ponce de Leon A\c., Louis; (NEC) James B. Kerrigan, Kansas Oklahoma: (C) Raymond A. Trapp, Black- N.E., Atlanta. City; (Alt) Erman W. Taylor, Blackburn; well; (NEC) Ike 'Crawford, Enid; (Alt) Hawaii: (Adj) James S. Whitfield, 314 Aladison (C) Toma Tasaki, Honolulu; Preston J. Aloore, Stillwater; (Adj) Elmer (NEC) Philip Al. Corboy, Honolulu; (Alt) Street, Jefferson Citw L. Fraker, Box 3037, State Capitol, Okla- Orvel T. Shonk, Honolulu; (Ad)) Harold Montana: (C) [ack S. Wulf. |r.. Butte; homa City 5. C. Hill, 612 McCullev St., Honolulu. (NEC) Walter Bernard, Butte; (Alt) Oregon: (C) Carl R. Aloser, Portland, Idaho: (C) Alartin E. Hill, Idaho Falls; Gro\er C. Schmidt, Jr., Fort Benton; (Adj (NEC) Hollis C. Hull, Albany; (Alt) (NEC) Harry R. Ham, Dubois; (Alt) Lou Babb, Box 82, Capital Station, Helena. Clyde R. Dickey, Portland; (Adj) Joseph Andrew F. James, Gooding; (Adj) Samuel Nebraska: (C) George B. Hastings, Grant; P. AlcDonald, Rni. 702, George W'hixc

E. \'ance, Jr., 204': N. Capitol Blvd., Boise. (NEC) John E. Curtiss, Lincoln; (Alt) Bldg.. Portland 4. Illinois: (C) Irving Breakstone, Chicago; L>-man Stuckey, Lexington; (Adj) R. C. Panama, C. Z.: (C) Claude E. Campbell, (NEC) Perce F. Brautigam, Chicago; (Alt) Patterson, State Capitol, Lincoln. Balboa, C.Z.; (NEC) Nelson W. Alagner, S. ^^'illiam Ash, Canton; (Adj) James S. Nevada: (C) L. A. Robertson, Babbitt; Alargarita, C.Z.; (Alt) John L. AIcDcrmott. Gwaltne)-, AlcBarncs Bldg., Blooniington. (NEC) Thomas W. Aliller, Reno; (Alt) Gatun, C.Z.; (Adj) Joseph T. Davis, Box Indiana: (C) Ira E. Lyon, Indianapolis, North ^V. Wagner, Boulder City; (Adj) 65, Balboa, C.Z. (NEC) John C. Wilson, Blooniington; John AL Lindsay, P.O. Box 1786, Reno. Penn.sylvania: (C) Sherman Aiason, Jean- (Alt) Dr. Fred N. Daugherty, Crawfords- New Hampshire: (C) Laurence R. Spauld- nette; (NEC) Walter E. Alcssandroni, Phil- ville; (Adj) Frank J. Myers, 777 North ing. New London; (NEC) James W. Doon, adelphia; (Alt) lames M. Donohue, Coal- Meridian St., Indianapolis. Hcnniker; (Alt) Eli A. Alarcoux, Concord; dale; (Adj) Daniel Shaub, 1825 N. Iowa: (C) C. Glenn Hamm, Glenwood; (Adj) Frank N. Sawyer, 407 State Office FVont St., Harrisburg. (NEC) Theodoi-e E. Alurphy, Ida Grove; Bldg., Concord. Philippine Is.: (C) William H. Quasha, (Alt) Jack Bounia, Pocahontas; (Adj) R.J. New Jersey: (C) Arthur Ala/.ow iecki, Clif- Manila; (NEC) Jose J. DeGuzman. Ma- Laird, Argonnc-Armory, Dcs iMoines 9. ton; (NEC) William G. AIcKinley, Jersey nila; (Alt) Leslie H. Brown, Alanila; (Adj) Italy: (C) John J. Fornacca, Rome, (NEC) Cit>-; (Alt) Albert E. AlcCormick, Aloun- Alelencio Orbase, 317-320 Calvo Bldg., H. Armand de Alasi, New York City; (Alt) Sexson E. Hum|)hre\s, Indianapolis, Ind.; (Ad)j Carmine Casolini, A'ia Sistina 30, BIG LEGION FAMILY, COLO. Rome. Kansas: (C) X'crnon F. Coss, Alciiicinc Lodge; (NEC) Dale Duncan, Alanhattan; (Alt) Howard Lawrence, Olathe; (Adj) Irvin L. Cow gcr, Alemorial Bldg., Topcka. Kentucky: (C) Rodney F. Brown, Owens- boro; (NEC) Charles AL Blackl)urn, \'er- sailles; (Alt) H. H. Hansbrough, In, Louisville; (Ad)) T. H. Flayden, \Var Alemorial Bldg., Louisville. Louisiana: (C) Robert Charles Smith, Springhill; (NEC) Dr. A. R. Choppin,

Baton Rouge; (Alt) J. Elliott Cade, Abbe- ville; (Adj) Matt Alonaghan, 720 Union St., New Orleans. Maine: (C) Anthony J. Rumo, So. Port- land; (NEC) James \'. Day, Kcnnebunk; (Alt) Ralph AL Merrow, Newport; (Adj) James L. Boyle, 104 Alain St., Waterville. Maryland: (C) Benjamin B. Buckner, Balti- more; (NEC) J. Edward Walter, Cam- bridge; (Alt) Raymond A. Burke, Wash- ington, D.C.; (Ad)) Daniel H. Burkhardt,

War Alemorial, Baltimore. Seven of •) sons of iNfr. & Mrs. Sam Lacovelta served in U.S. Armed Forces and Massachu.setts: (C) Charles N. Collatos, belong lo Post 18!>, \'ani|)a, (lolo. Brothers (standing) are Ravniond, Sam, .Vngelo, Arlington; (NEC) Frederick L. Alellin, Harold and (kneeling) C:iyde, Victor, Claude. Father came from Italy in 1910.

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Escolta, Manila. (P.O. Box 556) Advertigement Puerto Rico: (C) Vicente Reyes Fitz- patrick, San Juan; (NEC) Ramon R. Guas, San Juan; (Alt) Juan A. Diaz Alarchand, Utuado; (Adj) Rafael Rojas Lozano, P.O. Box 1889, San Juan 9. Rhode Island: (C) Joseph H. Hackett, From where I sit Providence; (NEC) John A. Ryer, East

Providence; (Alt) Robert J. Bergeon, Providence; (Adj) F. Vincent McConnell, Joe Marsh Rm. 520, 87 Weybosset St., Providence. South Carolina: (C) Rev. Feltham S. James, Gaffney; (NEC) E. Roy Stone, Jr., Green- ville; (Alt) O. D. Freeman, Loris; (Adj) Hampton St., Box 355, J. J. BuUard, 1705 Columbia. South Dakota: (C) G. L. Clifton, Sioux Falls; (NEC) Claude A. Hamilton, Sioux FaUs; (Alt) H. A. Krug, Beresford; (Adj) Walter Travis, Box 76, Watertown. Tennessee: (C) Whit LaFon, Jackson; (NEC) Rev. William H. Moss, Winches- Smitty's ter; (Alt) Granville S. Ridley, Murfrees- boro; (Adj) W. R. Looney, 523 7th Ave., N., Nashville. Not-So-Silent Partner Texas: (C) Eugene L. Jackson, Cisco; (NEC) Albert D. Brown, Jr., Austin; (Alt) Milton A. Stewart, Cleburne; (Adj) G. Ward iVloody, Box 2206, Austin. Dropped into Smitty's gas station Utah: (C) Clark Cheney, Kaysville;

(NEC) Victor J. Bott, Brigham City; last week and met his new partner (Alt) Doran T. Dueslcr, Ogden; (Adj) who turned out to be a real talker. J. Lloyd Wignall, 115 State Capitol, Sah Lake City. it be?'' St. Al- "Whafll asked Smitty. Be- Vermont: (C) J. Raymond McGinn, bans; (NEC) H. Nelson Jackson, Burling- fore I had a chance to answer I heard ton; (Alt) Clarence S. Campbell, Barre; (Adj) Emilio S. Iglesias, Box 396, Mont- a strange voice . . ."Fill 'er up! Fill 'er pelier. up!" And there was Smitty's partner Virginia: (C) I. Eldon James, Hampton; (NEC) Lemuel W. Houston, Fredericks- —one of those parakeets perched next burg; (Alt) John J. Gicson, Radford; (Adj) Charles L. Kessler, Broad-Grace to the gas pump. Arcade, Richmond 19. Washington: (C) Dr. Harry H. Kretzler, "Took me a month," Smitty said, Edmonds; (NEC) Frank O. Sether, Olym- "but I finally taught him to say those pia; (Alt) N. P. Peterson, Bremerton; (Adj) Fred M. Fuecker, 2nd Fl., 620 Uni- three magic words. It's sure paid off versity St.. Seattle 1 in new business —he's had a good in- West Vhginia: (C) L. O. Bickel, Fairmont; (NEC) Dr. P. E. Kercheval, Kingwood; fluence on my customers." (Alt) Leeds Riely, Charles Town; (Adj) Tommy E. Jones, Box 3191, Kanawha From where I sit, Smitty's bird may County Court House, Charleston. be good for business—and may get him Wisconsin: (C) James A. Martineau, Oconto; (NEC) Gordon W. Roseleip, a few laughs. But when people act like Darlington; (Alt) Harold A. Kuehl, Reese- they're ville; (Adj) Robert G. Wilke, 812 E. parakeets, not so funny. For State St., Milwaukee. instance, those who keep insisting over Wyoming: (C) Dana Davis, Laramie;

(NEC) E. J. Goppert, Cody; (Alt) W. T. and over again that their neighbors Nightingale, Rock Springs; (Adj) W. W. shouldn't have a glass of temperate Hale, Jr., Box 555, Cheyenne. beer with their supper now and then. CORRECTION: They're simply repeating their own Story in last October's issue of this ideas, without any regard for the rights magazine said that in winning the Nat'I American Legion Junior Baseball title of others. this year, Post 492 of San Diego, Calif., had brought the title to San Diego for the 3rd time, the previous two San Diego titles having been won by Post 13. Story erred. San Diego Post 6, not Post 13, won the two earlier titles (in 1938 and again in 1941). Cahfornia's Post 13 is in Pasadena. Copyright 1954, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • 39 :

LEGION NEWSPAPERS: ]> Post 269, Cumberland, Va., is off to was given a boost by one of the Mc- a good start. Within a week after having Guire Sisters of radio and TV' fame. New Listing Due been organized last March, Post leased Miss Christine McGuire donated her A new directory of American Legion a building for its Post home. Post, which time to the event, sold hot dogs and newspapers and other periodicals will has a membership of 81, also: (1) spon- soda, and judged the pie eating contest. he sent to press shortly before New sored an American Legion Junior Base- Party was a huge success, attracted Year's Day by The American Legion ball team; (2) presented an award to largest crowd in its histor\'.

Press Ass'n. the outstanding graduate of the local ]t When fire gutted the Union Congre- The last annual directory listed some high school; (3) sent one boy to Boys' gational Church in Palm Beach, Fla., TOO Post, County, District or Dep't State and secured a sponsor for another Post 12 made its Legion Home available papers. Many others exist but have not boy; (4) held a party for students of as the site for Sunday School and church been reported to the Press Ass'n. local high school; (5) is organizing a services.

To make sure that the new listing is Teen-age Club among the youth of the ]) Post 330, Calumet City, 111., pre- up to date, everij Post, County, District county; (6) holds weekly public dances. sented a $9,000 mobile street sweeper or Dep't which publishes a news peri- ]> Post 246, Moline, 111., which enrolled to the city. odical (including those previously a record 1,346 members in 1954, held ]> As part of its safety program. Post 35, listed) should send the following info a grand opening of its new $200,000 Jeffersonville, Ind., presented to the city to Jack R. C. Cann, Secretary, American building Nov. 11-13. police department an electrically oper-

Legion Press Ass'n., P. O. Box 1055, ]> Post 323, Worcester, Mass., reports ated device for teaching traffic safety. hidianapolis, Ind.: that, with the cooj^eration of its Auxili- Device had been purchased at a cost of

(a) Name of publication, (b) name ary, it has within the past year: (1) $365. and address of editor, (c) frequency of sponsored an American Legion Junior ]t Post 1363, Eldred, N. Y., has pur- publication and (d) whether or not Baseball team; (2) sponsored a Little chased a new ambulance in order to im- space is sold for advertising. League basketball team; (3) sponsored prove the free ambulance service which Annual directory goes to members of Sea Scout Ship 39; (4) conducted a the Post has provided for the people of American Legion Press Ass'n who re- model airplane club; (5) held a Christ- Highland, Lumberland and Shohola quest copies, many of whom use list to mas party for 500 children; (6) given since 1948. The new vehicle has a built- arrange exchanges and compare ideas, a Halloween Party for 350 children; (7) in oxygen unit. formats, etc. dedicated three municipal intersections BRIEFLY NOTED: in memory of neighborhood veterans; POST HISTORY CONTEST: ]t A new and shorter method of address- (8) presented an American Flag to St. The 1954 Nat'l Post History Contest ing mail to troops overseas has been Vincent Hospital in Worcester. adopted by the Army and Air Force. was won by J. Vincent Gray for his his- ]> Post 318, Forestville, Ohio, purchased tory of Elmhurst-Jackson Heights Post Purpose is to speed up distribution of a three acre tract to be the site of its such mail. New method drops the 298 ( N. Y. ) . Second prize was taken by new Legion Hall and Veterans Memorial histor\' phrase "c/b Postmaster", and requires Mrs. Harry J. Glenn, Jr., for her .step building pro- Building. First in the only three fines. Proper way to address of Joseph N. Neel, Jr., Post 3, Macon, entire membership gram called for the is in this sample: Gil'. APO mail shown to turn out to do the work of construct- Pvt. Roe, 000 Both prize-winners were in Type 1 Willard J. RA 32 000 ing a roadway into the property. (Posts chartered before 1944). No en- Companv F, 167th Infantry ]> Post 984, Chicago, III., won the Dep't York, Y. tries for Posts chartered since 1944 were APO 801, New N. of Illinois plaque for leading the De- to American Legion received. ]> Subscription partment for three consecutive years in can interrupted late Only 1 point separated the top two Magazine be by the "Gifts to Yanks Who Gave" Drive. prize winners. Results were released payment of dues. Dues for 1955 now Post contributed $1,600 in both 1951 Oct. 8 by Nat'l Historian Robert T. being received by Posts. and 1952, and $2,000 in 1953 to fund Adjutants are also advised to for- Fairey (S. C). A board of 3 judges re- ]> Post to buy presents for the 15,000 hospital- newly-paid viewed and scored the entries. ward subscription stub.s on ized vets in Illinois. to Nat'l promptly. Every year Nat'l Post History Contest is held dues Hq Faculty members of Florence Night- annually, with individual prizes ranging ]) some subscriptions of paid-up members ingale Junior High School, Los Angeles, from $150 down. Entries become part are interrupted because paid-up sub- Calif., give considerable credit to Post held at Post level. of nat'l archives of The American scriptions are up 575 of that city for positive programs ruled that if Legion. Rules of Contest and a bulletin ]> Nat'l Judge Advocate has that have helped school morale in an military serv- outlining methods of preparing Post his- Legion members with no area once plagued by teen-age gang truce tories can be had from ice before July 27, 1953 (Korea warfare. Office of the Nat'l Historian, The date) become ineligible, membership ]i Post and Unit 233, Minneapohs, expiration of present American Legion, P. O. Box 1055, In- will continue until Minn., have two man-and-wife teams dianapolis, Ind. paid-up card. 1954 Nat'l Convention as top officers. Earl D. Hanson is Post asked Congress to make July 27, 1953 RECENT POST DOINGS: Commander and his wife, Thelma, is the cut-off date for Korea-period mili- ]i The emergency March of Dimes Unit President. Russell Nordgren is the tary service that would provide Legion gained $600 as a result of a logging Post 1st Vice Commander and his wife, eligibility. Congress is expected to ap- project run by Post 224, Denning, Wash. Pearl, is the Unit 1st Vice President. prove.

]) Post 106, Sharon, Mass., has 36 men ]\ Post 278, Detroit, Mich., observed the ]> Nov. 15 Firing Line, publication of in its Civil Defense rescue organization Nat'l Day of Prayer (proclaimed by Nat'l Americanism Division, is devoted —divided into three 12-man scjuads. Pres. Eisenhower) by sponsoring an all- entirely to subject of UNESCO. Firing Post, located in a town of less than day prayer service. Line, published every other week, can 8,000, purchased a rescue truck last Feb. Post 56, Troy, N. H., has raised funds be had for $3 a year from American Le-

]i Post 311, Birmingham, Ala., presented for some years by the sale of food and gion Nat'l Hq., Box 1055, Indianapolis, a Flag to Birmingham's Center Street by holding such games as bingo at its Ind.

Elementary School. annual lawn party. This year the party \i First and Fifth Marine Division Ass'ns

40 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 have established scholarships for chil- Nicholas Lynch, Jr., Glens Falls, COMRADES dren of men who died in line of duty N. Y., apjDointed Director of The Ameri- while serving with these divisions. Ap- can Legion Nat'l Field Sei"vice, replac- IN DISTRESS plications or requests for information ing Jack Oakey, deceased. should be addressed to: 1st Marine Div. Robert M. Marr, resigned as Adj't of Space does not peiniit notices to contact persons for any purpose except to assist in Ass'n, Box 84, Alexandria, Va.; or Sec- Dep't of New Mexico, effective Dec. 1. establishing a claim lor a veteran or his de- Treas, 5th Marine Div, Marine Corps G. Y. Fades appointed to succeed Marr. pendents. Statement to that elfect should Hq, Washington 25, D.C. Tom Keanc, retired from position of accompany notice.

]> Among 72 American leaders who re- Nat'l Director of Civic Relations of Boy turned to the U.S., Oct. 29, after a 9- Scouts of America. Keane handled nat'l Army

day inspection tour of overseas Radio liaison between Scouts and Legion. 98th Div., 389(h Inf., Co. M (WW2) - While serving with this outlit at: Camp Breckinridge, Ky.; Free Europe facilities, were Nat l Adj't George Myers succeeds him. Scouts Camp Rucker, Ala.; Oahu, Territory of Ha- Henry H. Dudley; Mrs. Percy Lainson, have moved Nat'l Hq from 2 Park Ave, waii; and on occupation duty in Japan, Diirrell H. Johnson had loot trouble. His widow, who Nat'l President of The American Legion N.Y.C. to New Brunswick, N.J. has five small children, would appreciate hear- Auxiliary; Don Johnson, Past Dep't ing from anyone who served with her late Died husband, especially from Capt. George Parker Cmdr of Iowa and State Chmn of the and from an ofiiccr named Lyman Hutchins. }ohn M. (Jack) Oakcy, Past Dep't Claim pending. Write Mrs. Arline M. Johnson. Crusade for Freedom, and 10 other 259 Main St., Oxford, Mass. Cmdr of Colorado (1935-36), after a Legionnaires. POW's held hy Japanese — Ward Benjamin (Ben) long illness, in Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Meelt suffers from a brain tumor which is Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins has believed to be the result of a beating he re- Oakey was Director of The American pledged support of The American ceived from a member of the Japanese mer- Legion Nat'l Field Service, to which chant marine. The beating occurred aboard Legion to the nationwide clean-up pro- ship in Oct. or Nov., 1942, after the prisoners office he had been appointed in 1943. were taken from Cabanatuan, P. I., to Manila gram of Keep America Beautiful, Inc. thence to Japan and to the Tanagawa sub- Ben S. Fisher, Past Dep't Cmdr of camp near Osaka. In order to establish claim, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Oregon (1928-29), of cancer, in Wash- need to contact anyone who remembers the incident. Write Mrs. Ward Benjamin Meek, W. Eail Hall, Past Dep't Cmdr of ington, D. C. 6400 West Sixth Ave., Denver 15, Colo. Artillery, Battery B Iowa (1932-33) won the 1954 $10,000 John F. Greene, Past Dep't Cmdr of Fort Sill, Okla., 780th Field (1950-51)— Need to contact anyone, especially Mutual of Omaha Criss Awai d and Gold Colorado (1939-40), in Monte Vista, Capt Walter Jarrett, and 1st Sgt Kimes, wno remembers the accident I had on the infiltra- Medal, for his outstanding contributions C;olo. tion course. Write Edward M. Beebe, l.<()6 Wichita Falls, Tex. Claim pending. to health and safety. Joseph P. PieciriUo, N. Y. Dep't Re- HoUiday, Caniii Maxev, Tex., 97th Inf Tng Bn, Co D (iVIay- Edward F. McGinnis, Director .;f The habilitation Chairman and First Deputy .Sept., 1945) - In Aug., Pvt Grady P. Hill took in a hike which began about two o'clock American Legion Nat'l Public Relations Welfare Commissioner of the City of part in the morning and ended at about two the Division, resigned Oct. 15 to return to New York. Mr. Piccirillo was Welfare next morning. Just as the hike ended. Hill fell out. Present at the time were; Paul Mooney, private business. Director of the Kings County (N. Y.) St. Louis, Mo.; Larence E. Hawkins, Flat Rock, Ala.; Alvin L. White, formerly of Cum- George F. Kelly, Arlington, Va., ap- American Legion for 19 >'ears. berland, Miss., now of West Point, Miss.; 1st Lt pointed Director of The American Herb Kibler, former Adj't of Dep't of Tuci. thought to be from New York; and S Sgt Deerneck. from Pa. Need to contact Legion Nat'l Pul)lic Relations Division. Montana, at Helena on No\'. 1. these men or anyone who remembers Hill.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • Write Henry Griffin, Post 138, The American from the British Collier Towergate in Punta Columbia American Red Cross (not far from Legion, P. O. Box 158, Philadelphia, Miss. Arenas, Chile, while making the trip around the Enlisted Women's Barracks at Upper Fort Kamehameha. Honolulu. 10th CAC, Battery the world with the U.S. White Fleet. I was in Barkley) was hit by a V-1 robot bomb, Pfc C— Need to hear from anyone who remembers the 1st Division, Deck Force. Write me, Naomi Maxine Blakeley suffered a back in- me at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, or who Theodore E. (Buck) Buchanan, 1444 Peter jury. Need to locate someone who recalls the remembers me during the three following Buck St., Honolulu, T. H. incident, especially: Pfc Gertrude G. Furrows; years wlien I was stationed in this area. I USS Rundles — On July 10. 1944, while passing Pfc Emma L. Powers; and Grace Armstrong, entertained with a string band, played the ammunition forward during gunnery practice. whose home town was Binghamton, N. Y. Also guitar and sang. Write me, Sigmond L. I (then a Seaman 2c) strained my back. Injury need to locate former members of the 1408th Weathers, Route 1, Rogersville, Ala. Claim required massage and confined me to bed. AAF Base llnit, European Div, ATC, Paris, pending. Need to hear frorni someone who remembers France (Lt. Anna Davant was Co Commander 22nd Inf, Co M {1923-24)-Need to contact Oliver the incident, especially from: Lt Crosby, of of Enlisted Women at Orly Field), with Moon who was with mc when I was injured Mobile, Ala.: Chief Cannon; Coxswain Wat- whom she served as a Sgt. During this time as a result ot having been thrown from a son, of Miss.; Storekeeper Ic Mills. Write me, she was hospitalized at the 365th Station horse while traveling between Marietta and William Radcliffe. 101 Gale St.. Jacksonville, Hospital because of hepatitis. Especially need Fort McPher.son, Ga. Write me, Henry C. Ala. Claim |iending. to locate Cpl Minnie L. Okseniak who was StriuKfellow, 308 Headland Ave., Dothan, hospitalized at same time, and Cpl Helen M. Ala. Claim pending. Air Kadar. Help needed to establish claim. Write 29th Div, 115th Inf, Co B - On the afternoon of Mrs. Naomi Maxine Blakeley Buxton, 611 Oct. 17, 1918. Cpl Smith and 1 were in a deep 27th Air Depot Group—Need to hear from anyone West 9th St.. East Liverpool, Ohio. canyon when two shells knocked out our loca- who served with the late Sgt Alfred Abramo- 306th Signal Co, Air Wing— In order to establish tion. Smith died in a few minutes. My spine witz during the period 1942-45. Write his claim, need to contact 1st Lt J. M. Whalen was injured. I was x-rayed at Base Hospital widow, .Mrs. Zelda Abramowilz, 111 Clifton who served in this outfit with James D. King #57, but no record can now be found. Need Ave.. Lakewood, N. J. Claim pending. in the Panama Canal Zone in 1942. Write to contact someone who remembers the shell- 32Sth Training Sqdn, Garden Field, Garden Cit.v, Harry I. Schmitt, Veterans Service Officer, ing or the x-ravs. Write me. Jack Henslev, R. Calif.— Need to hear from anyone who saw or P. O. Box 764, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 2. Box 363. Westville, Okla. Claim pending. who remembers the accident that Frank Kou- 706th E.H.D. Co—Need to contact members of this delka had on Mar, 25, 1942. Need info to outht who served with me in Burma in 1943. establish claim. Write Cliff Sidenblad, Service and who know of my right hand having been Officer, Post 560, Ihe American Legion, 1909 MISSING injured while unloading gas line pipe Irom a DuBerry, Houston 18, Tex. boxcar. Write me, Leonard J. Quillin, U.S. 1865th Engineers, Co A — In order to establish Soldiers Home. Washington 25, D.C. Claim claim, I need to hear from men who served in IN KOREA pending. this outfit (Capt Lynn was Co Commander; IMP Unit, Wilmington, N.C. — During the period 1st Sgt was Charles Walker) at: Avon Park, Name, rank, and coni|>lete unit should be Fla.: Drew Field, Fla.; Stoneman. Mar. 27, 1944 to Oct. 3, 1945, I served with Camp clearly .spelled out — no abbreviations. Re- an MP outfit in this area. I now need to con- Calif.; or Luzon, P.I. Write me. Thomas J. tact someone who served with me and who Fields, 625 Charles St., Riviera Beach, Fla. plies to these notices which ask for money reinembers the head injury I received during MP's at Robins Field. Macon. Ga., and Bush .should be reported to the editors. a riot at Wilmington. Write me, Andrew J, Field, Augusta, Ga.-In 1943. William Toma- 555th Field Artillery Bn, Battery B-Pfc Glenn R. Browning, c/o Veterans Service Office, Lilling- setfi, Jr. (originally from Pittsburgh, Pa.) Mackley reported missing June 7, 1953. Any- ton, N. C. served at Robins Field; he later served at one who has any information about him please 339th Inf, Co M - At Augusta, Ga., on July 31, Bush Field. Anyone who knows him or who write his parents, Mr. Mrs. James Mackley, 1918, Orville H. Thrasher married Beulah can provide info about him write A, V. Akin, & 204 N. Kankakee St., Wilmington, III. Baker of Battle Creek, Mich. Need to locale Jr., Veterans Service Office, Box 534, Tifton, 38th Inf Rcgt, Co B—Cpl Erwin A. Havranek miss- her. Claim pending. Write Chas. W. Lindell, Ga. Claim pending. ing May 18, 1951. was later declared dead. 9225 Cypress St.. Fontana, Calif. 317th Air Service Sqdn—Need to hear from any- His body was not recovered; he was not 348th Engineer Combat Bn. Co C - From Sept., one who has info about Richard William listed as a POW. Anyone who served with 1943, until the fall of 1944 Willard W. Rehrig Flowers having been hospitalized for malaria him at the time that he becaine missing please served in this outfit with Capt Garland G. in Marrakech, French Morocco. Also need to write Harold Hug, 2307 F St., Omaha 7, Nebr. Jackson (Co Commander), 1st Sgt Robert hear from anyone who knows the addresses 19th Inf Regt, Co K-Pfc Gary R. Wilson missing Kaufman, and Cpl Brown (Mail Clerk). of Joseph Giobergia and Louis J. Thiboutot Apr. 23. 1951, near Chi-po-ri. Anyone who Rehrig now needs to contact them in order who are thought to have been hospitalized has anv inlormation about him please write to verify combat injuries he suffered in Ger- with Flowers. Write Mrs. Richard Flowers, his mother, Mrs. Viola W. Hallinan, 1297 many in 1944. Write Willard W. Rehrig, 1259 136 North Stanley St.. Bellefontaine, Ohio. Longview Rd., Rock Hill, S. C. Randolph Road, Bethlehem, Pa. Claim pend- Claim pending. 1st Cav Div, 5th Cav Regt, - Lt Robert ing. 1400th AAF Base Unit. Hq European Div ATC, Co F 2d B. Miller missing July 1950, at Yongdong. London, England — When the annex of the 25. Army claims that he died as a POW near Navy Pyongyang in Oct.. 1950. but lour men claim he was alive at Compound 5 a month or two Former POW's in the Far East — Gordon Wilson later. Anyone who has any information about Lehman, MIVI 2c was hospitalized in Manila; THE AMERICAN LEGION him please write his wife, Mrs. Genevieve A. was removed to Corregidor; moved from Cor- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Miller, 1154 Loma Vista Drive, Long Beach regidor to Japan from which he did not re- 13, Calif. turn. In order to establish claim, need to SEPTEMBER 30, 1954 hear from someone who knew him during the period just before the Japanese took Corregi- ASSETS dor, Write H. D. Lohman, 16 S. Second St., OUTFIT Fernandina, Fla. Cash on hfind and on deposit. . . .$ 215,544.32 US.S P.C. 1079 (Aleutian Lslands, 1943)-Need to Receivables 363,667.32 locate Capt Allen, Medical Corpsman Robert 442,213.34 REUNIONS A. Sack (who is thought to have been from 860,771,22 Okla. or Nebr. cr some Slate in the northern Permanent Trusts: Notices restricted to those yvhich give: Middle West, and who lived for a time in Overseas Gr-aves Decoration of outfit; date; city; meeting place of Los Angeles, Calif.) or any other crew mem- Name ber who remembers deafness of Chester M. Employees" Retirement reunion; name and address of .secretary. Richard. Shiplitter Ic. Richard who left ship Trust Fund .... 1 ,B4B,fi:i4,58 1,903,411.91 to enter hospital at Pearl Harbor in Jan.. 1944, Real Estate 973.972.65 Army Write Chester iM. Richard. 6311 Hancock Furniture and Fixtures, Ave., annual convention, Si. Louis 9. Mo. less depreciation 244,152.74 4th Armored Div Ass'n—9th 23-25; Hotel Statler. For LI.SNAAF Radio Outfit, Corinto, Nicaragua (1944- Deferred Charges 63,323.11 Boston, Mass.; June 45) — Need to hear from anyone, especiallv info contact Anthony J. Passanante, P. O. medical personnel. Chief Pharmacist, or Doc- .$.5,0B7,0.5(i.ril Box 42, Arlington, N. J. tor (Lt Cmdr), who remembers Tully R. 5th Armored Div—9th annual reunion, St. Louis, Burch, Fireman Ic, having been treated at the LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE Mo.; Aug. 4-6; Hotel Jefferson. Info from base hospital in Corinto tor a back injurv he AND NET WORTH Mrs. Roy S. Watrous, 8549 Lowell St., St. received when he was thrown from a Navy Louis 15. Mo. truck. Especially need to hear from: Halli- Current Liabilities j, 329,023.04 75th Div Vets Ass'n— Annual convention. New man, Cypress Gardens, Fla.; Pfuhler, Irom Funds restricte

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 .

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tlie political consequences have been too harmful, to justify continued silence on the issue.

FORCED REPATRIATION, it has been generally assumed, was agreed upon at Yalta by Roosevelt and Churchill under the spell of the wily Stalin. The truth

is even more damning. Perhaps there was an off-record verbal understanding that the democracies would, if need be, drive his reluctant subjects back into Stalin's prison-house w ith ba\ onets and rubber truncheons. But so far as the written commitments go, including the secret portions, we phn ed the cruel game with far more zeal than was called for even by the Yalta Agreement on the subject. That agreement, made public thir- "Here's the new greaseless way teen months later, provided for repatri- to keep your hair neat all day," ation of "prisoners of \\ ar and civilians" of any of the Allies liberated by another says Arthur Godfrey ally. It glossed over the real problem: Even Ml. G."s tousled cowlicks stay put dryness—maintains hair's natural moisture what to do about prisoners and civilians alter he uses new Vitalis Hair Tonic with balance better than any other leading tonic. V-7. "It works for me even after a sham- who refused to go home. It contained Try new Vitalis yourself! And don't miss poo." he says. "That means it'll work for no reference, open or implied, to the the new "Arthur Godfrey Digest." CBS anybody." Radio Network, Fridays. 8:30 PM, EST. emplo\'ment of force. That, for reasons V-7. Vitalis' new greaseless grooming in- beyond normal understanding, \\ as an gredient, makes even dry. unruly hair easy New VITALIS® extra, a bonus tossed in by American to manage. Yet it never gives an over-slick, Hair Tonic with V-7 officials strangely eager to help herd plastered-down look. And Vitalis prevents PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS Russians into Soviet torture chambers and concentration camps. persistent The secret Yalta agreement on re- REWARD patriation was signed on February 11, 1945, by A4ajor General John R. Deane If you would like to be a success in life, for the USA, Major General A. A. Marsenesi remember that success is not a gift, but Gryzlov for the USSR. Article 1 simply a reward! If you would like more stipulated that each of these nations would gather liberated nationals of the money, happiness in marriage, ad- other "in camps or points of concen- vancement in your work, an improved tration until they have been handed personality . . . study Napoleon Hill's over to the Soviet t)r United States ... is one of the seven common- Success." Write Dept. AL authorities." est danger signals that may "Science Of Article 2 provided that Soviet and mean cancer... but should al- for free, "Personal Analysis Question- U. S. repatriation officers "will have ivays mean a visit to your doctor. naire," which will show how you rate the right of immediate access into the on the 17 Success Principles. NAPO- camps and points of concentration The other six danger signals are where their citizens are located," as w ell —Any sore that does not heal LEON HILL INSTITUTE (A Divi- as "the right to appoint the internal ad- ... A lump or thickening in the sion of the W. Clement Stone Organi-

ministration and set up the internal dis- breast or elsewhere. . .Unusual zation), 5316 Sheridan Road, Chicago cipline and management in accordance bleeding or discharge .. .Any Illinois. w ith the military procedure and law s of 40, change in a wart or mole . . their country." Persistent indigestion or diffi- The Soviets immediately violated culty in swallowing . . . Any GENUINE HARCO these terms. As recorded in his book on change in normal bowel habits. JACKET The Yalta Conference by Edward R. HIDE Reduced to^ Stettinius, Jr., "The Soviet Union after For other facts about cancer fhis genuine Harct) Hide Jacket is stronger tlian most Yalta would not allow a United States that may some day save your le.ithers and will take rugged and long wear. Save dollars on mission to function behind the Soviet life, phone the American Cancer this value. Heavy fleece lining, raglan sleeves, knitted bottom lines." Soviet missions, b)' contrast, not Society office nearest you, or and cuffs, zijiper front anti breast pocket. 2 slash iiockels onl>' enjoyed free entry to American write to "Cancer" — in care of water rei)ellent treated. Sizes

S. M. L. XL. (In Brown only ) camps holding their citizens but were your local Post Office. Boys sizes 10-18 only $7. '18 I | allowed to propagandize and often to Send no money, pay postman "'"^ "^'^ COD or send Money 31STRAGOKHUU MFGiviri». to.CO terrorize the inmates into accepting Order for total and we pay post- "'^y money back guar- American Cancer Society uept.l-ripnt r-nJJ.^ii?11-7thAve N Y repatriation. """"'^•"''•antee.Exchangeable after Xmas.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • 43 On March 8, 1946, in releasing the This document proves to the hilt that agreement to the press, the State De- not only SHAEF but the Joint Chiefs partment also issued a statement on the of Staff in Washington deliberately "implementation" of that document. It chose to use force to drive Soviet na- declared that the United States "is fa- tionals to their doom — not because they WITH cilitating the repatriation to the Soviet had to but because they ivanted to. On Union of only those persons who were page 64 we read: citizens of and actually domiciled with- "The principle of forcible repatria-

in the Soviet Union on September 1, tion of Soviet citizens was recog-

1939," which is to say at the start of the nized in Supreme Headquarters in war. It went on to specify that "repatri- April 1945. Although the Yalta

ation of Soviet citizens is not facilitated Agreement did not contain any unless they so desire," except in the categorical statement that Soviet cases of members of Soviet armed citizens should be repatriated re- forces and those who had voluntarih' gardless of their personal wishes, it collaborated w ith the eneni)". was so interpreted by the Joint

That "implementation" thus \\ ent far Chiefs of Staff. On instructions bc\'ond the letter of the agreement. In from the latter. Theater headquar-

effect it undertook to send back vast ters ordered repatriation regardless categories of men and women even if of the individual's desire with only they did not "so desire." In practice, two exceptions, namely, Soviet citi- moreover, our military authorities, and zens captured while serving with also UNRRA, violated the State De- the Cierman armed forces and un- partment's own rules. w illing to resign their stattis as pris- For instance, citizens of the three oners of war, and Soviet citizens KEEPS JACK FROST Baltic republics certainly had not been known or suspected to be war OUT OF YOUR GAS TANK "domiciled within the Soviet Union on criminals." September 1, 1939." Yet we turned over This statement bristles witli puzzles Be sure of quick, easy starting this winter! hundreds of thousands of Estonians, that only Congress can solve. Fortunate- Bowes Combustion Aid absorbs the water Latvians, Lithuanians — and even Poles ly" two members of the Joint Chiefs of

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44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1954 Chiefs decided to invoke force against wc purge ourselves of the guilt of FOLDING Soviet soldiers and civilians despite the forced repatriation? VHOrtA^ anxiety to butter BANQUET TABLES fact that the Yalta Agreement did not Perhaps it was up make this obligatory. Who ivas so the Politburo which led our top-shelf anxious to rid the world of anti-com- officials to commit that atrocity. Per- 7/mnist Russians, and why? What we haps the policy was foisted on them have learned in recent years about the by the machinations of Alger Hisses infiltration of our government agencies and Harry Dexter Whites at control and the \^'hite House itself by Soviet points in the government. Whatever agents makes a clear solution of the the motivations, it is a story com- mystery urgent and inescapable. pounded of moral callousness made The same document reveals another worse by sheer confusion and inepti- telltale detail. On August 25, 1945, the tude. Seventh Army, under General Patch, W^hat, for example, went on in the requested from Theater headquarters addled heads of officials who in April specific instructions on the use of troops 1945 decided to drop leaflets urging If you are on the board of your church, school, lodge, to turn over unwilling repatriates to Soviet nationals to surrender to Ameri- club,' P. T. A., etc., you will be delighted with our new MONROE Tables. NOW, at no extra cost, offered the Soviets. Despite its decision in favor cans for "speedy return to their Rus- with completely finished tops, highly resistant to most serving hazards. May be used with or without of force in April, SHAEF referred the sian fatherland." Speedy return, as any table cloths, as desired. Send for the complete, new Monroe catalog with direct factory prices and money- inquiry to Washington. Meanwhile tyro in the business should have known, saving discounts to institutions. 69 General Patch, presumably because, like meant speedy Hquidation by firing MONROE CO.. Church Street, Colfax, Iowa most field commanders, he hated the squads. Meanwhile other leaflets and broadcasts brutal chore, suspended the use of force. addressed to Russian enemies ^Cash In On EVERY Occasion Washington took four months to an- of the Kremlin promised that they k with MIDWEST Greeting Cards swer. In their reply on would never be sent back; many of ^kTVImH^^^^'— MakehiKKerprofitsALLYEAR.Show December 20, ^M^^^^l |J C C friendsfast-9ellineValentines. Easter, ^^^^vV\»llt.O Mother's, Father's Day Cards, 1945 the Joint Chiefs of Staff set forth those who believed that promise would plus . • best Birthday, Get-Well assortments, / etc. 6 new Valentine packs. Secret Pal the policy unstinting soon pay for it with their freedom or of force in re- . Cards, unusual new ideas, exceptional bargains in patriation their lives. Cards, Notes, Gifts, Gadgets. that was to remain in effect ^'Personalized Stationery. Profits to 100% on big line. Samples on approval. Write. deep into 1947. It was a policy in no- Our Psychological Warfare Division, Midwest Card Co., 1113 WashlnEtonAve.. Dept. M 60,St. Louis 1 , Mo. wise dictated by the Yalta Agreement headed by General Robert A. McClure, (which the Soviet authorities were vio- with C. D. Jackson as his deputy, can- Nasal Congestion Associated With Mead lating right and left in any case) and not slough off its share of responsibility Colds May Cause Symptoms Of even more outrageous in its cruelty than for confusions and deceits of this char- the State Department's statement on acter. The pattern, however, was set implementation. The order was signed: at much higher levels. It was a pattern SINUS "By command of General McNarney: such as Moscow itself might have pre- ASTHMA. HAY FEVER. Amazing New Treatment FREE TRIAL L. S. Ostrander, scribed. For its effects — Brigadier General, were (1) to turn Ttiousands have received amazing, fast relief USA Adjutant General." But the au- the Soviet peoples, in particular the with this sensational, new treatment, from symptoms of hay fever, asthma, sinjs headaches, thority derived from the Chiefs of Staff. enemies of the regime, against the de- Cressure In forehead, soreness In eyes, cheek ones, top of head, back of head and down And it is unlikely that a decision in- mocracies; (2) to convince the Krem- neck, when caused by nasal congestion. Write for 7 DAY FREE TRIAL, POSTPAID, no cost or volving the lives of millions was made lin's internal foes that it was futile to obligation to try it except; It Is agreed you will without consulting the Commander-in- count on the understanding and help of mail it back, postpaid at end of trial period if not amazed with results. Chief. the West; and (3) to strengthen Stalin's National Laboratories, Dept. 52, Gait, Calif. Offer not good in California. Another highly revealing document- liand as against the population in his still classified— is now in the custody of difficult postwar period of readjustment. the Historical Records Section of the It was a pattern ethically unclean and BECOME AN EXPERT IN Army in Alexandria, Va. It bears the. file politically obtuse. Those who carried number 383.7-14.1 and is titled: "For- out the policy in the face of the fugi- cible Repatriation of Displaced Soviet tives' protests, desperation and self- TrafficiRAnicmen earn $4,000 to $10,000 and op. Thousands of firms need Citizens— Operation Keelhaul." destruction can claim that they were perts on rates, tariffs, regulations. We train you thoroly in spare time at home"for ex- utive traffic jobs. Personal training under traffic This document, issued on September merely obe>'ing the orders of superiors authorities t coansel and help. Write for free 48-page book "Traffic Ml — the Past Growing Profession." 1, 1948, probably holds the clues to the —except that this alibi was ruled out at LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. A Correspondence Institution. Dept. 12361T. Chi. 5, III. ghastly secret which took a toll of hun- the war criminals trials in Nuremberg dreds of thousands of Russian lives— the and Japan. secret which has muddied and bloodied The forced repatriation undertaken AUTO MECHANICS our relations with the peoples, as dis- after V-E Day continued for more than WANT TO KNOW tinct from their hated communist mas- two years. It was extended also against This Dig Practic.ll Book gives full infor- ters, behind the Iron Curtain. the thousands of red soldiers officers mation with working di.agrams covering Along and the principles, construction, igni- with all other classified in the Soviet occupation tion, service and repair of modern materials on zones who de- cars, trucks and buses. repatriation resting in Alexandria, serted and sought asylum on our side; Diesel Engines, Hydramatic Kan- & Fluid Drives Fully Explained. sas City, Mo., and other military re- these were summarily handed back to A complete Guide of 1800 pages, with over 1500 illustrations show- positories, it should be opened to the the red commands for execution. ing Inside views of working parts, with instructions for service )obs. daylight of public knowledge. I do not have the space here for a IT PAYS TO KNOW As a vital aspect of the cold war, we detailed inventory of the piled-up hor- jm COMPLETE • PAY $1 A MO. fU TO GET THIS ASSISTANCE FOR are today addressing the Kremlin's sub- rors. A few samplings must suffice. wmi YOURSELF SIMPLY FILL IN AND m IVIAIL COUPON TODAY. jects through the Voice of America, Once, more than a thousand whom AUDEL. Publishers. 49 West 23rd St.. New York 10, N. Y. Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberation we were transporting to Linz, a Soviet Mail AUDELS AUTO rVIECHANICS GUIDE ($4 lor free examina- tion. II O. K.. I will semi >ou Jl in 7 days: then remit %1 monthly until $4 is paid. Otherwise, I will return book promptly. and various unpublicized channels. How- detention center, jumped out of the Name can we expect them to believe in our windows of the train as it passed over a Address friendship, our assurances that we con- bridge near the Austrian frontier. They Occupation. _ sider them potentially our allies, until perished. As the train approached Linz, Employed by .

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hundreds more of the doomed prisoners force was used— not outright violence by "impending repatriation." It told jumped into the Drava River. now but propaganda, threats, lies, pres- how Russians "in a frenzy of terror" This story repeated itself at other sures—to make them go home. Eugene committed suicide: ten died, twenty- concentration points, such as Dachau, Lyons writes: one were hospitalized, and "many suf- Passau, Kempten, Platthng, Bad Eihhng, "The role of UNRRA in riding fered cracked heads from the night- St. Veit, Marburg. Operation Keelhaul herd on Stalin's enemies, both un- sticks wielded by 500 American and became Operation Suicide. When So- der Herbert Lehman and Fiorello Polish guards." The dispatch added: viet officials came to take them t)ver LaGuardia, was hardly one to "Even though threatened with rifles from American custody, prisoners in make Americans pi'oud of their and carbines, they refused to leave the some cases locked themselves in statesmen. LaCIuardia in particular shelter, begging GI guards to shoot churches or their barracks, to which showed himself insensitive to the them rather than carry out the extradi- they then set fire. Our (J Is stood guard fears and grievances of the Krem- tion order." while Stalin's agents dragged out their lin's runaway subjects. Since But no official voices were raised in "liberated" nationals, clubbed them UNRRA was widely infiltrated by protest against the staggering indecency. without mercy and carted them off to communists and fellow travelers in Worse: the military and UNRRA per- the red limbo. W'e shall never know any case, the plight of would-be sonnel in the field, like the public, were how many cheated the Soviet execu- non-returners was far from envi- allowed to believe that in applying tioners by taking their own lives, or able." moral and physical force without stint were carr> ing out a Yalta agree- how many died in transit before they Senator Lehman in a letter to me we ment. reveal that the responsibility reached the Soviet borders. shows that, as first Director General of To la>' less in Yalta than in the inhuman and The British role, though secondary, UNRRA, he did not know what his pro-Soviet interpretations of the agree- was no sweeter. Thousands of Soviet subordinates were doing. At meetings ment arbitrarily made by Washington prisoners taken to Britain were then of the UNRRA Council in A-lontreal w ould have given the nightmare an ad- forced to board British vessels to be in 1944 and in London in August 1945, ditional dimension of horror. sent to Odessa. Suicides abounded. he writes, "Russia tried to insist on the this officialdom on all levels iMany jumped overboard and drowned. forced repatriation of Soviet citizens" To day has maintained a stubborn silence. In one case it took three da>'s in Odessa but the non-communist members voted Probabh' only Congress can break for Soviet police to drag the prisoners against such a policy. through it. The evil and the stupidity ashore. Nevertheless, hordes of DPs in cannot, of course, be undone. But it can A small part of the tragedy unfolded American hands were cajoled and be faced, apologized for; its lessons can even on American soil. Aian\' liberated frightened into going behind the Iron be learned. Soviet soldiers \\ere brouglit to the Curtain. Under Lehman's successor, respected German journalist, Jur- United States, chiefl>' to camps in Idaho. LaGuardia, came the notorious secret A gen Thorwald, has written a book in- Virtually without exception, after the "Order No. 199." This, to quote L>'ons dicting his ow n country for its failure war, they begged for political asylum. again, "not only instructed DP camp to make allies of the peoples in the So- But they were forced to board Soviet officials to effect 'speedy return' of So- viet Union against the Soviet regime. ships in Seattle and Portland. Over a viet nationals to their homeland in ac- He relates a conversation between hundred who resisted successfully were cordance with the Yalta agreement, but General von Koestring, as a prisoner, brought to a New Jersey camp. In the outlined pressures and hinted at punish- and an American colonel who was in- end these, too, were surrendered to ments toward that end." terrogating him. Von Koestring had Stalin, though we had to use tear gas Between 1945 and 1947 the American opposed Hitler's mistreatment of the to dislodge them from the barracks. press from time to time published re- population. in defeat he Hundreds of thousands of Soviet ports on gory episodes of forced repa- So\iet Now tried to warn America. He .said: fugitives who evaded repatriation by triation. A dispatch in The New York "W'e Ciermans surely have — our military monitors ended up in DP T'niies of January 20, 1946, for example, through stupidit) inefficienc)' and camps under UNRRA control. Again described a riot in Dachau precipitated , ignorance — destroyed the greatest capital which has ever existed in the world in the fight against Bol-

shevism. . . . You will not under-

stand me now, when I tell > ou that you have destroyed this capital for

a second time. ... It may w ell be

that >'ou w ill desperately call in the very near future for w hat you have now destroyed." The "capital " he iiad in mind was the friendship and help of the Russian people in the struggle against commu-

nism. Wi: w ere squandering it b\' sur- rendering Russian patriots to the So- viets. Toda>% as von Koestring foresaw we are seeking to regain the good will we then sacrificed. An indispensable

first step is to purge ourselves of what we have ourselves identified, in the Korean context, as a crime against humanit>". Onl>' then will the road be open to an understanding with our "secret allies" behind the Iron Curtain. THE END

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 '

(Continued p-oiii pa^^e 4) ways be Biggar. (What's that about conquest of the Chinese people. Gen- corn?) Bart West eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his dc- Vero Beach, Fla. BE YOUR OWN BOSS \ otcd wife w ere ahiiost daily maligned and smeared by the same American If you have $3,000 to $3,500 and would l communists, fellow travelers and WANTS MORE like to be In business for yourself, write, "liberals" who now wire or call Tastee-Freez. OVER II GO SUC- smear, oppose and Sir: I think Rudy Hall's comment on CESSFUL STORES now in operation. ; distort all our anti-communist legisla- \ our August article. Money Talks, is tion and EARNINGS LARGE. legislative investigations of a result of insufficient deliberation. Be- communism. The same mob also used sides that, it stinks of communism. Such their smear brushes against the King articles sound like capitalistic gibberish and Queen of Greece and Syngman to radicals, wasters and communists Rhec, the President of Korea, while w ho live in our wonderful country tlie communists and their dupes were chiefly because they can pop off in TASTEE-FREEZ IS A REG. TRADE MARK at their throats. such a manner without fear of being TASTEE-FREEZ CORP. of AMERICA 2518 W. Montrose, Dept. M, Chicago 18,111. Nathan D. Shapiro hustled off to the local pokey. There Brooklyn are literally hundreds of widows, many of them war widows, and old ANTI-COMRADE people w ho have invested their entire sa\ ings in such companies as General Sir: For a long time, ever since I have Alotors, General Electric, S. Steel, trained men win posi- U. CTIinV ftT UniUir I-eKally higher been a member of the Auxiliary of OIUUl HI nUlTiC tions and bigger .success in business etc., and depend upon the profitable life. oi>port unities now than ever before. The American Legion, something has and public Greater success of these companies, via di\'i- More Ability: More Prestige: More Money ^"itp. Voa been bothering me. We preacii and can train at home (Jurine spare time. Detrree of LL.B. We furnish all dend returns, for their very livelihood. text material, including H-volume Ijiw I.ihrary. Low cost, easy preach against communism. So why is terms. Get our valuable 48-paKe "Law Trainin^r for Leadershii," Thousands of very low -salaried people and "Evidence" hoi.ks VRKK. Send NOW. it the men call each other Comrade? LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY. 41 7 South Dearborn Street are buying stocks in such companies A Corrcspondonce Institution, Dept. 12361L, Chi. 5, III. To my way of thinking this is a com- on a time payment basis in order to mie word from the letter go. So let's secure their future. Not only are they get on tlie ball, fellow s, and see if this allowed these priv ileges but their in- can't be dropped. 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He was L3 years How unfortunate it is when any or- business, averaged $100 of age and onl\- one year out of Little ganization pays lip service to such a a day during first year. League. high principle and then expects prefer- Many have succeeded. For example, George Vince M. Genua, ential treatment from law enforcement Coath Held grossed $350 in a week. » Stcvens-Cl.vite Post #4 agencies in order that a patriotic organ- • How much you earn depends largely on Bend, Ore. ization might commit a crime "for a you. No special skill required. Can start spare good cause." Is this not what many time until full time justified. Sir: We believe we had a small regu- Legion Posts all over the country are No shop necessary. Operate from home. lar player. His name is Terry Sheahan doing when they conduct gambling Clean upholstered furniture on customers' and he was only 4 feet 10 inches tall premises— homes, hotels, motels, etc. Auto enterprises in order to support their and weighed but 82 pounds. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAG.^ZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • MANN'S BEST FRIEND — (Continued from pa^e JJj — pair of field glasses. And while Steve ing into Chim Sing's place. He stays in "Horsefeathers! " I broke out in dis-

Mann is still sleeping 1 am settled down there seven minutes and thirty-five sec- gust. "You can't tell anything from a behind a tin cornice, watching Chini onds b>" m\' watch, and w hen he comes Chinaman's face! 1 ought to know— I've

Sing's door. out he is eating leechee nuts, one of been looking at "em every day for fif-

The first visitor Chim Sing has that \\ hich he tosses to the chow dog. teen years!" morning is a pock-faced character So 1 mark Steve Alann down on m>- "You're wrong about that," he argues, named Wing Wei. I mark him down in list and as soon as it is dark I climb real serious. "A Chinaman's face is just my notebook and wait. There are three down through the empty house and like anybod\" else's face. It has the same or four other callers in the course of get away. 1 hunt up a bottle of witch bones, same muscles, same nerves. the morning. I write down their names, hazel for the back of m\- neck, which Spring an unexpected question on him and also how long they stayed in the is burned a raw tomato red, and take and \'ou'll get the same kind of auto- shop. a batch of aspirins for a splitting head- matic reaction— if you know w here to By the middle of the afternoon it is ache from squinting all da\' against the look for it." no picnic to be up there on that roof, sun. "Well, well," I say. "Tell me more for the sun is like a blowtorch, the tin "How'd >'ou make out with Chim about this. Professor." cornice gets so hot you could fry an Sing today?" I ask Alann, casual-like, "Oh, it's quite simple," says Alann. egg on it, and the hard roof-gravel w hen we meet in the Squad Room at "Just keep your eyes fixed on his nos- begins to feel like broken glass. the Precinct. trils. If you've got him hooked, the

But I stick it out, and the thing be- "How'd you know I was there?" he fianges of his nose w ill sort of flare out gins to shape up a little. Wing Wei, the asks back, surprised no little. a little, from the change in the rhythm first caller of the day, comes back twice "A bird told me," I answer, "and it of his breathing. It's absolutely scien- more in the afternoon, but he never wasn't a stool-pigeon, either. You tific. Burke—really the same principle stays long in China's shop— just a minute bouglit ten cents' worth of leechee as the lie-detector." or two, then out and away like he had nuts—" "Science sure is wonderful," 1 tell a date with a mandarin's daughter. "Not bad, not bad," Alann grins. him. "And > ou know the stuff isn't in This looks like the makings of a "Can you give me the date on the Chim's place because he didn't wiggle prett\' good lead to me, because this dime?" his nose, eh?"

Wing Wei's reputation is neither as "Don't be funn>'," I say. "All 1 asked "Exactly!" says Alann with a straight white as the lily no]' as fragrant as the w as a civil ciucstion." face, and I take a stroll dow n the hall rose. In fact, he is a small-time tongster "Well," he replies, "the Sargc told so he w t)n't see me laugiiing. and a hanger-on at fantan games and me to w ork this out on m\' ow n, but I Comes 5 A.M. again, and I am back such. can tell >()u this much. Burke—Chim on that Lantern Court roof, watching

And I have caught on to another Sing hasn't got the stuff hidden an>'- and taking notes. And this \A'ing Wei smart pcjint— this Wing \\ c\ must be a w here in his shop." fellow is now leading the field of sus- pretty regular visitor in Pagoda Street, "Oh, >eah?" 1 come back at him. pects by a wide margin, for he pays for Johnn>- Lum's chow dog is friendK' "You were in that shop seven and a half two more visits to Chim Sing's shop to him, gets up and w ags his tail every minutes. Don't tell me \ ou managed to in the morning, and another in the after- time he sees Wing Wei, and even fol- search the joint in that time?" noon. lows him into Chim's shop. "No," he says, "I didn't have to make The sun does not bother me so much But the real surprise of the day is a search. I just asked Chim Sing about on this second day, but late in the after- along about sundown, when 1 see no- it—pointblank—and I could tell by his noon dark clouds begin to pile up, and body else but Steve iMann himself head- face that the stuff wasn't there." then the rain comes on so sudden that

I am soaked to the skin before I can climb dow n off that damn roof.

I get back to the Precinct looking like a bundle of wet w ash, and the scientific Air. Steve iMann is sitting in the Squad ofiice with his feet on the desk, reading old files and eating leechee nuts.

"What's the big idea?" 1 snap. "Is O'Hara giving out rain-checks on this Chim Sing job?" "Oil, I've been plent\' bus\-," Alann replies. "I'xe gone through all these old reports on Chim Sing. Seems to be

a pretty slippery old bird. Burke, 1 figure we need a w hole new angle of ap- proach. No use going after him again with the old strong-arm stuff— he's got that method licked. You've turned his joint inside out a dozen times, and no dice."

"Okay," I tell him. "Sit there and fig-

ure out your new angle—at least till it stops raining."

"I've i^ivcn your inotlier .six inonllis witli you on litis child psychology stuff But this piece of sarcasm goes right hfi's. — U'H/IjU.'" of Just two uioic weeks to go, and then over his head, so I climb into dry AMERICAN M-:(;r()N MA<;AZINt: clothes and go out to pick up Wing

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 VVci at his lodgings. Sure enough, I parked in cold storage. Also to shell out catch Wing W ei with a sample shot of w ith the stuff, or else— BORROmyMAlU the stuff hidden in his room, put up "Chim Sing know nothing," the old *C#I -^iKIMI C O M P L E T E LY in a little capsule that looks like a lip- monkey grins at me, stepping back and 9UtO OVV CONFIDENTIAL! stick container, except that it is painted tucking his hands into his sleeves. look- It's fast! It's entirely private! Yes, a reddish-brown color. "Chim Sing no got opium. You retfardless of where you live, if you are steadily employed you can get a "Where'd you get this?" I bark at see, you find nothing." quick cash loan from Postal Finance Wing Wei, grabbing him by the front "Okay, Chim, you're asking for it," Company entirely by mail. No Agents will call on you. No endorsers required. the of his siiirt and backing him against I say, peeling off my coat. I start Repay in small monthly payments to the wall. ball rolling by fanning Chim Sing him- fit your income. Your employer, rela- tives, tradespeople and friends will "No catchee Aielican talk," says self, but all I find on him are some loose not know you are applying for a loan. RUSH COUPON tor information nud W^ing Wei. I know this is a lie, but I coins, a pair of Chinese dice, and a jade Money Request Form ?ont to you free in

plain ernc-lope No .ililiu'.Tt ion . A.-t to.lay. waste no more time on him, for I have luck piece. ~ fPOSTAL TTnA NC EC oT. Dep7. TlT "I my list of his visits to Chim Sing's shop, So w e gi\ e the stock a good going I 200 Keeline BIdg., Omaha, Nebraska | Please rush information and Money Request Form. and 1 have this sample as evidence that over, and then the shelves and the FKEE I | NAME - the stuff is cached somewhere in Chim's counters. . . . Nothing. . . . We move I I I ADDtiKSS - - --- ' place, if the old monkey's nose into Chim's private room behind the even I I TOWN -- STATB--- to Mann's shop— a bare little hole with an iron --- don't wiggle according Steve OCCUPATION I I system. cot, a statue of Kwan Yin, and a gaud\' AGE AMOUNT YOU WANT TO BORROW $ I J But when I tell O'Hara I \\ant a Chinese fortimetelling chart on the w all. search warrant for Chim's shop he . . . Still nothing. LAW FREE BOOK' frowns and rubs his chin. "Are you "I told you so," Mann says. "When Writi- Iniiy for FREE book, "THE LAW.TRAINED sure you've got the goods on him, > ou're up against a smart gimmick, the MAN." wliich shows how to learn law in spaie time throuuli tile famous lilaekstone home-study course in business Burke?" he asks. "Steve seems to think bulldozer stuff won't work. It takes and professional law. All instruotion material furnished in- chnlin.!; Iii^' lll-voliinie law library. Banhclor of Laws (I.L.B.) that-" brains, not muscle." de;;reo awarded. .Mi>derate cost: easy tiTnis. Wrih' to. lay.

"Listen, Sarge," I break in, "the stuff "Wait! This is only the warm-up," Blackstone School of Law, 225 North Michigan Ave.

Fitiinded 1H90 Dept. 99, Chicago 1, III. is there— 1 know it's there. And I'll find I tell him. "You don't think Chim's it if I have to take the joint apart, board dumb enough to keep the stuff out in by board." the open, do you?" HAIRS'TABLES -f— "Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of," So I start tapping the w alls and w ood- IMMtDIATl DftlVfRY ' ^« 138 STYLES • STEEL • O'Hara says. "You've got a heavy hand, work and baseboards. I turn two closets WOOD FOLDING • NON-FOLDING Burke. Last time you gave Chim Sing's inside out and then I get down on ClUB, CHURCH, LODGE, SCHOOL joint a fanning he turned in a husk>' hands and knees and give the floor- Wnio lo' fUlt Cafalog Indicale Needi bill for damages to stock and fixtures, boards the third degree. Wherever I 1140 BROADWAY, Dept.G, N.Y., N. Y. (nr. 27 St.)/ and I caught hell from Headquarters." find a loose nail or a suspicious-looking "I know what I'm doing," I put in. crack, I stick in the pinchbar and give MAI^NEVwIthpijJSXICS "Two and two still make four, don't it the hea\ c-ho, until pretty soon there TAljJha Amnzi.ic new PLASTICS HOME they?" is more open space than flooring. WfTSTTT?!! craft course for men and ^^JM*^^ WOMEN tells and shows how to "Weil, okay," O'Hara sa>s. "But re- And still I have not found out w here make hundreds of fast selling Plastics products. All plastics and materials for 23 PROJECTS come member this— if you bust anything, Chim Sing hides the stuff. The old slant- with course. No special tools needed. Course pays yo/rre pa\ing the bill. Who are you eyed devil sits watching us from the for itself. Write f.ir FREE booklet todayl taking along?" sidelines, smoking his bamboo and pipe INTERSTATE TRAINING SERVICE PoT.Icn'd n.^re. "I'd like to take Steve Alann," I tell w riting dow n his heathen pothooks on him. "A little practical experience w on't a strip of red paper w henc\ cr I happen IN YOUR SPARE TIME hurt him any." to bust anything. UP TO $40 A DAY IN YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Start repeal cash business at home with So I pick out a fireman's ax and a "/7ir/7 Thlee dollah, fiftee cent New BELSAW . . . sharpening and seltinB ^ circular saws, grinding planer and loinler couple of big pinchbars from the tool mo'!" he cackles as I happen to knock tS^^^ knives, tow Cost. $15 down. ..Start work Z^TT chest and Steve Mann and I head for over a little dragon- jar, but I am able day BELSAW arrives. No experience needed. Send for Free 6ool(, ' Liletime Security". &« Pagoda Street. to tell him what I think of him in his BELSAW MACHINERY CO »V FREE BOOK 3064 Field BIdg., Kansas City 11. tVlo. / "I still think you're on the wrong native Cantonese, for I have not wasted TELLS HOW track," he tells me on the way over. ni>' fifteen \'cars in Chinatown.

"You've pulled this strong-arm act on It is a hot da>', and pretty soon I am

Chim Sing it before and got you no- sweating and puffing, for I do all the FREE where. Doii't forget the Sarge '11 be heavy work myself. This is my show, For over .51) years suffer- plentN' sore if you mess up the play and I am taking no chances that Steve ers have found quick, temporary relief by again." Alann w ill turn up the cache and maybe smoking- PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleasant, inexpensive. At I give him a sour look. "Afraid of a claim it was in a spot w hich I had drugstores. Send for fi'ee samples. Consolidated Chemical Co. SH.-) Cherry, Grand Rapids G, Mich. little work?" I ask him. passed by. "Not at all," he says, very polite. "But I keep working, getting madder and RETIRE ON I like to use my head as well as my madder, and talking to m\self under hands." my breath. But when I finally get a $90 A MONTH "All right," I say, "use it now to but- finger caught under the pinchbar, I cut ton up your lip, and maybe we can loose with some really hot wordage. or less in a lake paradise, 365 days of sun a year, dry temp. 65-85*'. Or maintain luxurious villa, sneak into Pagoda Street just once \\ ith- Now get this part. Steve A4ann starts servants, & ALL expenses SI 50-2 50 a mo. Am.- Eng. colony on lake 60 mi. long. 30 mi. to city of out that damn chow dog turning in a laughing at me hopping around with 1/2 million, medical center. Schools, arts, sports. Few hours by air. Bus, train. PAVED ROADS all general alarm that the cops are com- this mashed digit, and he laughs so hard the way. Servants S6 to SI 5 a mo., filet mignon ing." he puts his foot into one of the open 35c lb., gas 12c gal. Gin, rum, brandy 65c-85c fth. Houses SIO mo up. No fog, smog, confusion Well, we make it all right, and once spaces in the floor, staggers, and knocks or jitters. Serene living among world's most con- siderate people. 'WHY NOT START LIVING we're inside Chim Sing's shop I spring over a long floorboard is that standing TODAY.' Airmail S2.00 for ONE HUNDRED my search paper on him, and tell him upright against the wall. FIFTEEN Pages current info, from American view- point (Personal Chk. OK) to Peter Arnold, Box about his friend Wing Wei being This board starts to slide, and finally 10-B, Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.

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the end of it hits a round brass gong deep in poppy-dreams for six months. happen to this one— he's Exhibit A in hanging on the wall, and the gong sure And so help me, that's how it all hap- this case." gives out w ith a lot of shiver\' noise for pened. I mash m>- finger, Steve Mann "Then just take the collar off him," its size, which is not much larger than laughs till he knocks a board against a I say. "That's all the proof you need. a pie-plate. gong, the dog comes running in and Just take the collar—and leave the dog

And to add to all the racket, I hear a grabs my pants, Mann grabs the dog, to me." sudden woof-woof, and in races this and the w hole Chim Sing case drops Well, he won't do it that way, and galloping red-haired chow dog, pushing into his lap like a ripe apple drops off first thing > ou know we are tugging and the door open with his nose and jump- a tree. hauling at that blasted dog—Mann holding all around in the debris, growling Now I ask you, what's the use of ing fast to his front end, while I pull deep in his throat when he catches sight having brains and experience when at the rear, until iMann puts his foot of me. you're up against a guy w ith that kind into another open space in the floor

Then he makes a sudden dash for m\' of luck? But like I said before, the guy and goes flat on his back. pantsleg, and I hear the cloth go rip-rip gets sore whenever I call him "Lucky" And just at that moment Sergeant as he grabs it between his teeth. Sixty- Mann. O'Hara w alks in. He has come over to t\\()-hfty that outht cost me, and only He pitches me a yarn that he is see how we are making out with the one pair of pants with it. watching Chim Sing's face all the time Chim Sing business, and the Sarge gets

Well, by this time I am too mad to the idea that I have tagged Mann on waste breath on words. I make a grab the whiskers and knocked him down, for the pinchbar, and I guess there is because he has overheard some of the murder in my eyes, because old Chim arguing as he enters. Sing yells to the chow in Cantonese to "What's all this. Burke?" O'Hara get the hell out of there, while Steve snaps at me. "Assaulting a brother Mann makes a quick dive and gets hold officer, eh? Well, that'll be thirty days' of the hound by the collar. suspension—without pa\ ! And if you

"Stand back!" I yell at Mann. "Let want to argue— I'll make it sixty!" me get just one good crack at that \^'ell, I am so flabbergasted at this mutt! He's had his three bites—now it's insult piled on injury that my tongue my turn!" gets stuck behind my teeth, and I can

"No! No! Wait, Burke! Lay off!" only make strangled noises. But I will Mann calls out, all excited, and still sa\' this much for Alann— at least he holding the chow by the collar. "Boy, didn't leave me stuck with this phony oh boy! Take a look at this, will you!" rap. His hands are tugging at the chow's "We weren't slugging it out, Sarge, collar, like he is trying to pull it off, no matter what it looked like," he tells and then he holds up his open palm, O'Hara, and explains how it w as about and I see the same kind of opium cap- the chow dog, and how he discovered sule Fd found hidden in Wing Wei's the opium capsule. room. Only Steve Mann tells the story bis

"That's what we're after!" I yell, for- way—that it was Chim Sing's twitch\- getting all about the dog in my excite- "The Post Offices took awfiilfy fjare without nose and not the damn dog tearing at ment. "Where'd you find it? your picture." my pants that drops the solution into AIMKIIKAX I.KGION MAfiAZlNi: "It was fastened under the dog's col- his lap. But I know it is no use opening lar!" Mann says. "There's a sort of cloth my mouth about it, for O'Hara will loop that holds it, just like a bullet in I am digging around, and that Chim's onh' put it down to sour grapes o\ er a a cartridge belt! . . . Burke! There goes nose doesn't twitch till the gong sounds rookie showing me up like that. Chim Sing! Grab him!" off, and the dog comes galloping in. "Okay, Burke, you're in the clear,"

I look around just in time to see the Mann tries to tell me he tumbled to O'Hara says. "But I ought to hand you old devil streaking for the door, and the answer right then, because he'd thirty days an\'way for attempted

I make a fl\'ing tackle that flattens him been wondering all along w hy the opi- cruelt\- to animals. I'm surprised at \ ou, like a rug. um had been packed into a lipstick tr> ing to beat up a poor, dumb beast. "Catch on to their trick. Burke?" capsule instead of the usual round tin, Don't you know that a dog is man's Mann sa\ s, jumping up. "That gong on and why the capsule had been smeared best friend?" the wall is a signal! The opium cus- with reddish-brown paint. He tries to Then O'Hara stops short and breaks tomers come Iktc to Chim Sing, he hits tell me the damn dog making a wreck out laughing. "Say, that's pretty good!" that gong a w hack, and the laundry- of my sixty-two-fifty uniform had he chuckles, and gi\ cs Steve .Mann a big man's dog is trained to come trotting nothing to do with it. Simply a matter slap on the back. Then he turns to me. in from across the street, bringing the of scientific deduction, says he. "Don't you get it. Burke? A dog is stuff inside his collar. Pretty smart trick, "Deduction— in a pig's eye!" I tell Mann's best friend! Mann, with a eh^" him. "I guess I know hoi,-.eshoe luck doublc-n!" ," "HoKl on now sa\'s 1. "This means w hen I see it." So out tiiey go, and there I am, stuck the bulk of the stuff must be hidden So we are passing words back and w ith the job of nailing down all those in Johnny Lum's laundry! Keep > our fftrth while we put the cuffs on Chim floor-boards I pried up. I'm telling > ou, ev e on Chim Sing while I check up on Sing and Johnny Lum, and then I start the Force isn't like it used to be. There's that!" looking around for a piece of rope for getting to be entireh' too man\' wise So I dash across the street to Johnny the chow ciog. guys around, like this Steve Mann, who

Lum's laundry, which is directly oppo- "You take care of these two," I tell passed their exams with a fountain pen -sitc Chim's shop. Lum tries to make a Mann, "and Lll bring the dog." instead of a nightstick. Why, with that get-away w hen he sees the game is up, "Nothing doing," ALinn tells me. "I guy's luck, he'll be sporting a Captain's but I block him off and uncover enough can't trust him to you. Burke. You don't gold shield before I ever get my Ser- of the stuff to keep all of Chinatown like dogs, and I don't want anything to geant's stripes. the end

5Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 THE GM STORY ( Coiiliiitied from page 23 ) • ASK troit and to Henry M. Leland, President "The most important single asset of YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT women of the Cadillac company. Inviting Ket- General Alotors is the men and ASTHMADOR tering to install his starter on a Cadillac who make up its organization. And in Ask any druggist in the U.S. or Canada. organization could car, Leland called together a group of my judgment this He'll tell you that Dr. R. Schiffmann's technicians, and explained the purpose have developed to the state of effective- ASTHMADOR is always his best seller for relieving the agonizing symptoms of of the meeting. ness demonstrated by its truly remark- bronchial asthma. He'll show you how handy ASTHMADOR is to use— in The technicians were amused. They able accomplishments both in peace and powder, cigarette or pipe mixture form. Buy it from him today and experience said it was not possible for "the gadget" in war only through our decentralized Îcome relief by inhaling At to develop enough power to turn over scheme of management." DOR'S soothing, aromat fumes. the motor against the compression of This policy of utilizing the ability, the cylinders. Observing that the best experience and initiative of its people way to find out was to try, Kettering has been emphasized in General Motors turned a switch. The motor started. for a long time. It is a policy that is in The electric self-starter proved itself, line with the confidence Durant had 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT and was installed as standard equipment in the future of the United States. OIL LEASES-$100 You do no drilling, pay no taxes, may realize a 1912 Cadillac. In 1944, A-lr. Sloan identified on the when king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write Kettering did not remain an indi- the "most important single asset in for free mop and literature. vidual inventor. A few years later he General Motors," the nation was deep American Oil Scouts, Dept. L, 7321 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles 36, Calif. was Vice President of General Motors in war, but there was no doubt in the and General Manager of the Research mind of the Chairman of the corpora- Laboratories. Here he was able to pool tion as to the outcome. In addressing OLD LEG TROUBLE his own curiosity with the knowledge the Executive Group, he spoke of the Kasy to use Viscose Applications heal many old leg sores due and the curiosity of other scientific war, spoke of peace after the war, and may to venous congestion of varicose minds so that Alotors, of the responsibihties General using of General veins, leg swelling or injuries. research as one important factor, began Motors in meeting the problems of Send today for a FREE BOOK and NO - COST - FOR -TRIAL - plan. assuming a position of leadership in a peace. L. E. VISCOSE COMPANY highly competitive field; and proving, Believing that among the responsibil- 140 North Dearborn Street, Chicago 2, Illinois as often said by Howard E. Fritz, for ities is the duty of making it possible for DRAINS cellors, cisterns, wash tubs; many years Director of the research men and women to have jobs, AÎr. Sloan IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS laboratories of the B. F. Goodrich announced plans for an expenditure of (>rigin;(l "Tvpe P" Putnp has 24iji> GPH C.Tpacllv. 360 GPH Tn' high: or 1500 GPH rrom 25' well. Use 1/6 to Company: $500,000,000 involving "all factors lead- 3/4 HP motor. Motor coupling 1n- luded. Stainless shaft. 1" Inlet; S'x" "Research is the greatest construc- ing to the creation of jobs [because] utlot. DOES NOT CLOG OR RUST! Postpaid if cash with order. (West of Miss, add 50c) MONEY BACK GUAR- tive and destructive power that man- jobs are unquestionably a social, eco- ANTEE. Ccntrifu.ral Pumps and Gear mp In .111 kind possesses and controls, bar nothing. nomic and political 'must' of the post- LABAWCO PUMPS Belle Mead 56, N. J. No fire, no panic, no bank failure and war period." no war can so completely and irrevo- Almost ten years afterwards, Harlow cably destroy a business as a new and H. Curtice, President of General INVENTORS better product in the hands of a com- Alotors, again was speaking of the re- If you believe that you have an Invention, you should flnd petitor." sponsibilities of the corporation — and out how to protect It. Wg are reffl-'stered Patent Attorneys, Send Tor copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect ' In research laboratory, and elsewhere, again was stressing Your Invention, ' and an "Invention Record" form. No the policy of con- oblleatton. They are yours for tlie asklnjj. it is in the testimony of corporation fidence in the future of the United McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON lleKlstered Patent Attorneys policy that "the most important single States by announcing a billion-dollar 146*B Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. asset of General Motors is the men and expansion program in the years of 1954 women who make up its organization." and 1955. This was an expansion pro- OWN a Business The quotation is from a talk by gram that was put on top of capital If employed, start pan, time. Alort Alfred P. Sloan, liealcMs can Bioy.s $5 lioiirly piolit on Jr., Chairman, at an expenditures of two billion dollars in own service plus $3 on EACH service- Executive man. Clean, revive, mothproof nigs & Group dinner held in Detroit the years of 1946 to 1953. upholstery on location. No shop needed. Nationally advertised world-wide serv- on August I, 1944. In this talk AÎr. Sloan Having these expenditures in mind, ice. We locally train and assist you. identified policy, Quicklv established. Easy terms. Send what in his opinion, I assumed that Air. Curtice had no mis- todav for FREE boolilet. No oblisation. "contributed most to General Motors' givings over the long future of our DURACLEAN CO., 4.I9D Duraclean BIdg., Deerfield, III. progress." country, and especially did he have no "I believe," he said, "it was our de- misgivings over its immediate future. centralized scheme of management — "None at all," was the immediate the conviction that we should divide reply to the question. our great responsibilities into the maxi- "Why?" mum logical number of component "For many reasons. At no time in parts. Thus we bring to bear a more our history has technological progress complete utilization of the ability, ex- in engineering and research made more perience and initiative that exist among rapid strides. The pace is accelerating, us. We intensify and encourage effort and every single advance begets several ey back I NOW you can sayeupioSO% by direcl purchase Irom A metica:s leading by expanding opportunity for a greater others. This means new and improved d.slribulot o( lamous aenuine ITALIAN ACCORDIONS TRADE INS ACCEP.TED number. Thus we develop people. products, and better ways for making ' MAIL COUPON TODAY •World's loroei) Seleclisn "So often I have pointed out that most them. Our population has increased al- businesses are alike except as to people. most twenty percent since 1940; and Buildings, machinery, tooling and mar- by 1975 it may total two hundred and kets are largely common instrumentali- twenty million. ties available to many. But people—there "Here, in a growing population and ACCORDION MANUFACTURERS & WHOLESALERS OUTLET is the difference.' in a highly active technology, we have 3003 West Chicago Ave. Dept. QSS Chicago i7. III.

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a comhination tliat means a trcincndoiis tions have grow n considerabh . To il- "Because the demand for trained per- and mounting production potential, bal- lustrate: after the war we began manu- sonnel is always greater than the supph', anced by a high level of demand for facturing the Holden car in Australia. w e who are in positions of top manage- goods. This is the right climate for de- It is the first all-Australian automobile. ment believe that one of our most im-

\ eloping opportunities." There are opportunities here, just as portant responsibilities is the seeking "What about opportunities in Gen- there are opportunities in all our for- out of young men who have the capac- eral Motors?" eign operations for those w ith the req- it\' to develop themselves for positions

"They have never been better be- uisite training." of responsibility. It is a responsibility cause, in all our history, opportunities "G' are in the go. My own experience illustrates that. perience in both small and large busi- shop. They are in the dealerships. They I started as a bookkeeper at AC Spark nesses can be good preparation for are in our overseas operations. The Plug in Flint, and I got the job b>' an- striking out on one's own — provided need for qualified and trained manage- swering a blind ad." the young man knows what kind of ment personnel is very great, m ith the "Yes, but the corporation is a lot experience he wants and sets out to get demand always being greater than the larger than it was when you got your it." supply. Because of advancing tech- first job w ith it back in 1914. You now "Which means, I suppose, that the nology, more and more highly skilled have more than half a million people corporation policy of decentralization sLipervisory and teclinical personnel is on the payroll. How do you pick men provides ( 1 ) training in small business; needed. for promotion?" ( 2 ) training in large business; and ( 3 "As for tiealerships, Mr. Sloan was "The answer is we don't pick them. advancement in both?" recently asked what he considered to 1 he men pick themselves by their atti- "That's right. Briefly, decentraliza- be the best special business opportunity tude toward their work. They disclose tion merely means giving a man a job for a > oung man. His answ er w as that this attitude by thinking ahead of their and letting him do it. Being a policy a v'oung man with a flair for selling, a jobs. By thinking ahead of their jobs, that puts the emphasis on people, it reasonable amount of executive ability they do the immediate job better than broadens opportunities and promotes to run a business, and w ho is ambitious it needs to be done; and, by doing it initiative. It does these things because and w illing to work hard, would find better each time they do it, they do it it recognizes that of all the factors a the franchise of a good automobile an better than anyone else can do it. I business needs for success, people are opportunity hard to beat. 1 agree with know all this sounds old-fashioned. the most important factor, by far."

Mr. Sloan, 100 percent. And it is. But it is a w ay of work that "Is it your view that decentraliza- "Since the war our overseas opera- has built the w orld. tion is the most important polic\' in the growth of General A'lotors?" "Without question."

"In other w ords, it is this policy that has contributed most to the present sh.i of General Motors?" "Yes."

"Do you think General Motors is too big?" "No. In a free, competitive economy the decision as to how big a company

shall grow is the customer's, and the customer's alone. No company can compel a customer to buy its products. The customer decides what he w ants to buy. He evaluates the offerings, and makes his own choice on the basis of his own judgment as to what represents the best value. "I hope the time never comes when a customer will look upon General Motors with any measure of doubt as to what represents the best value. "We have a wonderful franchise for constructive accomplishment. We will lose that franchise—and we would de- serve to lose it— if ever we fail to measure up to our obligations to our customers."

52 • THE AMbRICAN LEGION MAUAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 "Which means, I assume, it is your that was mentioned earlier, that being hope that General iMotors will continue our billion-dollar expansion program Madel to grow?" for 1954 and 1955. A share of this I made about $900 last $900 year with niy Foley "It means exactly that—but only, as I money is being used to accelerate tech- e(iiiipinent. sharpeninK 950 in niy spare saws | IN SPARE TIME said, if it deserves to grow." nological progress. When completed, time." Leo H. Mix "At the risk of becoming a monop- our new General Motors Technical Make up to $3 or $5 an hour oly?" Center, outside Detroit, will be the fin- With a Foley Autonialie Saw Filer yoi! can ille liiiiid. Hand aiui <*ireula "There is no danger of monopoly. I est facility^ of its kind in the world, and tliey ciif Miiootlier and I'aste think you will agree that the automobile will house the activities of our research and hiin;- you repeat easli Imsiih'ss. No cau- industry presents, today, a picture of scientists, product and process devel- viisîn- no expe- active and lively competition. That opment engineers and stylists. It will FREE BOOK - jMoney Making Faef.s" shows must be apparent even to a casual ob- be the nerve center of all our endeavors liow to stait at home in spare time. Write server. This being true, the question to work for future progress." ti>day — no salesman of monopoly does not exist." FOLEY MFG. CO. 1239-4 Foley BIdg., Minneapolis 18, Minn. "Nevertheless, there are but a hand- MK. cx'RTici; turned to another page ful of companies in an industry that, in in General Motors' responsibilities: "In little more than fifty years, has offered one way or another our operations STOPS Ô&GV WINDSHIELDS some two thousand different makes of affect ever\' community in the United NEW Chemical Mitt automobiles." States; and in fifty-four communities Amazing Discovery! Autoists wiUl over new FOG-STOl' Windshielii "Yes, but this is a situation that has one hundred and twelve General Wii ICIi-aner. Simply glide over windshield chemically-treatt*d Mitt — at once glass sparkles come because many manufacturers have crystal clear. Blurry niist. frost, sleet, snow dis- iMotors plants are a source of employ- appear like matfic. Stops fogging. Sells like wild/ had different ideas as to what would ment. It is important to us that we are SAMPLES FOR AGENTS êl&f/tra'iT'X send name at unce. Huriy. FosU-ard willdo. SEND NO MONEY-ji/sf best please the public. Some were looked upon in all these communities your namr. KRISTEE CO.. Dept. 14S7. AKRON 8. OHIO wrong too often. None has been right as good citizens. all the time. But some have been right "This policy was contained in a reso- more often than others. This has had Chronic Ailments a great deal to do with the fact that FREE BOOK — Gives Facts DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND some companies in the industry enjoy a better position in the market than ^vho oiiglit to have a subscription to the Legion Magazine? If yon send $1.50 to- others. Avoid gether with his name and address to — "Despite casualties, our industry, as ^Dangers The American Legion Magazine |of Delay well as American industr\' generally, Circidation Department has thrived on competition. A competi- 700 North Pennsylvania tive econonn' is not, as misinformed Indianapolis 6, Indiana Why neglect health? Write today I'ur large which tells about the minds often say, 'an economy of dog- it will bring him a year's sidjstription. 140-page I'REE BOOK causes, effects and latest institutional methods cat-dog.' A competitive econom\' is a for these ailments. McCleary Clinic and Hos- striving together, a seeking to- pital. C12(;(; Elms Klvd.. Excelsior Springs. Mo. and lution adopted by the Operations gether, for the best. As a result, the Policy Committee on January 27, 1947. STOP THE COLD! DUCK-ITonii beneficiary. customer is the direct That '. It reads: . . apart from any personal Real comfort in cold $198 is as it should be." |'. responsibility as a citizen of the com- climotcs for sportsmen. txcellent camouflage "But, somewhere along the line, you munity' in which he resides, every cor- for stalking ducks, deer, etc. do have a responsibility to your com- Keeps foce, neck, and ears poration and divisional executive has an warm during long exposure. chin. petitors. You agree with that, I am Worn over face or under obligation to help maintain the position Heavy, durable yet soft and sure." Fits oil head sizes of General as a flexible. Motors good respon- 100% wool. Send $1.98 to "\Ve have a responsibilit\' to our .' WOOLWEAR COMPANY sible citizen of the community . . Alhambra, Calif. competitors not 'somewhere along the Box C 22 > "Dealing, as we do, with more than Hne," but all along the line. That respon- tw elve thousand suppliers, seventy-five sibilitN' is to compete fairh— all along 03 WHOLESALE! percent of w hom employ less than five Start a Buying Service at HomeT the line. I shall stand on our record in hundred people, it is a matter of great SPAiiniMfc. GEI eiO WAMt WCBtWaMDlSF FOR* SE'.P AND CUENTS UP TO 40% LE^S THAN BEG this regard." Pftia SftLE^; EA^Y.AS IQU CAN t ivt SlItAftlE/ COEEIrr^*-_ concern to us that these small com- S.ITitl M6KE TAT COf^MiSSiONS. / "And, of course, the corporation has panies ha\ e easy access to our purchas- other responsibilities." ing department. To help them and, of AVE., BUFFALO 16, N. Y. "A good many. Our main responsibil- course, to help ourselves, our manufac- 631-AL LINDEN ity is to continue to build the American turing divisions maintain headquarters I'll You This Handsome economy. To do so, we must, in time in twenty cities in the United States. Send of need, make our resources and talents Each division headquarters has its ow n SAMPLE CASE -FREE available to the nation, unstintingly. purchasing department. and Show You How to Make This we have done, in two world wars "In one of our booklets to suppliers, Up to $30.00 in a Day Hail coupon for this FreeTailorinK and again in the present emergenc>'. we speak of this distribution of pur- SampleCasepackedwith ISObeau- tifuL bi^r-value suit and overcoat Coupled w ith that rcsponsibilit}- to our fabrics. Take orders from friends, chasing departments, point out that the fellow - workers, others, for fine made-to-measure clothes. countr\', is second responsibilitj' quality, our to challenge facing American industry Pocket bit? cash prolits in advance. Because wearing our suits and over- contribute our share tow ard our coun- coats brings more orders, we make it easy today is 'production, more production your own clothes without Ic cost. No for yon to get GUARANTEED. try's growth, to experience is needed. SATISFACTION and the progress of and still more production,' and invite SEND NO MONEY. Just fill out and mail coupon - today I PIONEER TAILORING COMPANY. Dept.U-IOOS our people tow ard a higher living stand- all suppliers to join with us in meeting CONGRESS & THROOP STREETS CHICAGO 7, ILLINOIS ard. the challenge. Production is a team job. PIONEER TAILORING CO., Dept. U -tOOS Congress & Ttiroop Sts., Chicago 7, Ml. "This means (a) to aggressively pur- "It is my sincere and confident belief Dear Sir: I WANT A MADE-TO-MEASURE SUIT TO WEAR AND SHOW, without payinir Ic for it. Rush details and Sample sue research and engineering develop- that in our native spirit of enterprise Kit o( actual fabrics. ABSOLUTELY FREE. ment; and (b) to invest in the improve- we, as Americans, possess everything ment and expansion of our facilities to that is needed to overcome every ob- I meet the needs of expanding markets. stacle. The great privilege of General I CITY STATE "And this takes us back to something Motors is to be able to help." the enh I -J THE .AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1954 53 )

A NEW GENERATION

DEADLY, TRIPLE THREAT F7U-3 Cutlass is latest in long line of Chance Vought's Navy aircraft. Two Weslinghouse J-46 jets and afterburners power this 12-ton fighter. Cannons, rockets or guided missiles are its weapons.

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SHARP-NOSED DEMON, McDonnell Aircraft's F.SH, gives the Navy another high- SLEEK F9F-8 COUGARS arc swepl-uiiig, TOO.in.p.li. \.-rMniis of Itie Panther, performance fighter for service aboard carric-rs. The swept-«ing fighter will be Grumman Aircraft's famed Korea veteran. The new lighters are powered by powered by one 9500-pound thrust Allison J-71 jet engine. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's 7250-pound thrust J-48 jet engines. OF NAVY FIGHTERS Another example of continuing progress in rebuilding American Air Power

to On land or sea, Air Power is the vital page. They are second to none in quality while production must be high enough element of national security. Every citizen and in performance. These and other air- keep your Navy and Air Force supplied should know vi^here the nation stands craft are being produced today at more with tlie most modern and most effective today in rebuilding its air strength, and than four times the rate when war broke combat planes. what must be done to maintain such out in Korea in June, 1950. Such a program has been given a strength once it has been achieved. Despite this progress, a vast amount of vigorous start. If carried forward on the Through the combined efforts of your work remains to be done. To meet the basis of a long-range plan, without costly armed forces and tiie aviation industry, continuing challenge from behind the stop-and-go interruptions, it can achieve improved airplanes of every category are Iron Curtain, research and development and maintain—at the lowest cost to tax- rolling from production lines. Typical are for new generations of U. S. fighting payers— the kind of air strength undei the Navy fighters shown on the opposite planes must be continuous year to year, which lasting peace may one day beattaincd

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DOES THE SMALL BUSINESSMAN HAVE A CHANCE? (Coiilinurd from /«(!>< IV) sharpest jump in failure rates during the at the expense of other big businesses in these fields or doesn't want to bother first half of 1954: women and children's or of medium-sized businesses rather with them. The government recently clothing manufacturing, furniture mak- than of small businesses. When Gen- published a list of some 25 industries in ing; furniture, appliance, hardware, eral Motors and Ford fight it out for which plants employing 50 people or jewelry retailing. leadership in the car industry, it is less predominate. Many of these indus- How can you protect yourself? Chrysler and the so-called "independ- tries are in the food, garment, and There are no general rules. In the words ent" car makers that get hurt — and building materials manufacturing fields. of an official of the Small Business Ad- they are big businesses by any >'ard- There's another consoling point to ministration: stick. remember. The small businessman is a political in this country, "It all depends on the community. This holds worries for the Justice potent force Let's say that the nation as a whole has Department and its antitrust lawyers, just as are labor and the farmer. No ad- too many appliance stores. But maybe but for the most part little business is ministration can afford to let him sink. Town B doesn't have enough. So despite not concerned. Of course, there are Depression—ii-hat about it? You are justified in worrying about a everything, a young man \\ ill start an cases in which little business has been It terrible— if it appliance store in Town B and make squeezed by bigger business. The jew- depression. would be happened. a success of it." elry and plastics manufacturing indus- Are things ivorse or better for the tries are good examples. Recent gov- The recent recession, though com- parati\ch' slight, sent the failure rate siiiaJl firm? ernment figures show that there has spurting sharply. The Dun & Bradstreet There is some comfort in cold, over- been a drop in the share that small index for failures during the earlier part all figures. businesses used to have of the nation's of 1954 was running at per 10,000 In 1929 there w ere slighth' more than cver-all production in these lines ( 1 44 enterprises. rate last year at the three million business enterprises all percent less betw een 1947 and 1952). The a lot same time was 33 per 10,000. told in the U. S. Today the number is But remember: There are more But the rate has improving late- even greater—something around 4.2 mil- plastics produced in this country than been is a bigger ly, another sign that w e are unlikely to lion businesses of all kinds. there were in 1947. So there get into serious trouble. This growth means that the number pie to cut up. economic are of firms has kept pace with the increase Certainly you have to be careful to There many reasons why economists now feel fairly certain the im- in the population of the country. In a select the right line. There are a num- provement will continue and that a seri- book just published by the Brookings ber of industries that are no longer pos- ous setback is virtually impossible. Institute, Big Enterprise in a Competi- sible to get into without a grubstake. One important factor is that military tive Society, economist A. D. H. Kaplan For example, at one time the so-called spend- ing, though cut back somewhat, will figures that there were 25 firms per mom-'n'-pop stores dominated the gro- continue to remain high. Besides this, thousand population in 1929 and 26 per cery retail field, but that was in the day there are man\' safeguards built into thousand in 1949. before the giant supermarkets, which the economy in recent years to retard Most revealing is the estimate that as cost huge sums to start compared with a downturn. many as 75 percent of today's firms the old corner grocery. Today there One other question, however, does employ three people or less. Another are many fewer food .stores doing a lot exist—namel>% is the economy going to 20 percent employ from four to 19 more business. push to heights? people. You would want to be careful about on new Or is it going to stay on the present plateau? In other words, the overwhelming other businesses that are shrinking— There are cases in which the answer to this majority of U. S. concerns fit into cigar stores, for example, or shoe repair could determine w hether a should the category of small business, no mat- stores. man go into business or not. ter how you choose to define that term. But no matter what happens, there Wl:at about your future chances? will always be industries that are domi- How safe can you be? Many people feel today that when- nated by small firms, either because There is no such thing as perfect ever Big Business grows it will do so Big Business can't make an\' headway protection in the business world under a free enterprise system. Nothing guar- WALLY antees your success. Note this: In March of last year, 5ANfA CLAU5' when the U. S. economy was boiling along at a furious pace, there were fail- OLD TOY5 ures in business. Dun & Bradstreet tal- lied them up, ascribed 97 percent of them to management causes. And here's the w a\' it broke that percentage down according to specific cause: Incompetence 55.5% "Unbalanced" experience 14.7 Lack of management experience 9.0 Lack of experience in the particular business line 9.8 Neglect 4.2 Fraud 3.8

This raises a very important question that ought to be faced very early in the game: Are you the right man to go (From Di-remlii-r. ItJl A.L.M.) into business in the first place?

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A government ni;\n w ho spends his practically no money into something to Become an time counseling people who want to w rite home about. go into business says, "One of our big- But on the whole, yes, it takes more nciouniHiiT- gest jobs is keeping people out of busi- money to launch a small business than ness." it once did. Expert Bookkeeper— C. P. A. it to In the end it's a question that every On the whole takes money make The demand for skilled accountants men who really man has to answer for himself. But you money. A representative of a big shoe know their business— is increasing. National and state legislation is requiring of business much more in the can get some competent help on decid- company w hose job in part is to get way of Auditing, Cost Accounting, Business Law, Organization, Management, Finance. Men who prove ing this question— as well as a lot of retailers to carry his company's line- their qualifications in this important field are promoted to responsible executive positions. other important questions— if you go he even encourages new ventures when FREE to the right places. necessary— uses this rule of thumb in SAMPLE LESSON Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train you Where can you go for help? advising would-be retailers: It takes a from ground up, or according to your individual needs. Low cost: easy terms. The amount of aid offered the aspir- volume of $30,000 a year to support a Send name and address on the lines below for free ing or struggling businessman today is family shoe store. A store of that size Sample Lesson and 48-page book describing the LaSalle accountancy training and the opportunities nothing short of staggering. In fact, requires a capital outlay of at least in this highly profitable field. perhaps his biggest problem is know ing $12,000 for stock, fixtures, and so forth. lA^AIIF EXTENSION UNIVERSITY just exactly where to go for exactly the information he needs and not to 417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 12361HChicago5, III. waste his time w ith reams of material Name that won't help him.

Address . . ; At no time in history have so many City Zone, . . . Stale people joined hands to help others to get into business—and stay there. LEARN The list on page 58 will serve to show MEAT CUTTING the kind of things you can expect to Train quickly In 8 short weeks at To- find. But it only suggests ledo for a bright future with security the possibili- In the vital meat business. Big pay, full-time jobs — HAVE A PROFITABLI. ties. Look about you and you w ill dis- MARKET OF YOUR OWN I Pay after trrafluatlon. Diploma given. Job help. cover others. ^ Thousands cf successful graduates, nd now for big. new Illustrated FREK No obligation. G.I. Apnrovcd. Remember to make use of your local g. educational institutions. Like the Uni- versity of Houston and New York FOLDINGCHAIRS University they may very well offer a . IN Stee£ OR Wixxl variety of courses on practicalh" an\- POLDING BANQUET TABLES business subject that an\ one can dream WRITE FOR CATALOGUE up. AND kOW DIRECT PRICES 1 Don't forget to make use of the gov- J. R REDINCTON&CO. DEPT. 187 SCRANTON 2, PA ernment. Take these two examples of the kind of publication you can get from the Department of Commerce: Shrinks Hemorrhoids Establishing and Operating Your Own Business, a basic New Way Without Surgery primer that tells "If it really is liis motliei', 1 s^iiess tlicrt's Science Finds Healing Substance That you how to go about it, w here to get nothing we can do about it." Relieves Pain — Shrinks Hemorrhoids more data. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE For the first time science has found a A series of bulletins on the initial new healing substance with the astonishing ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to capital requirements needed in various stop Where do >'ou get this money? bleeding — without surgery. businesses. Included are In practical, appK'. case after case, pain was relieved The old rules still prctt\' much promptly. dow n-to-earth worksheets. \Vith pencil And, while gently relieving pain, You have it. You borrow it from your actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. and eraser you can figure just what — family. You take in a partner who has Most amazing of all results were so you'll need to go into, say, the retailing thorough that sufferers made astonishing the cash. Bankers like an honest face statements like "Piles have ceased to a of men's clothing. be and a good business idea—but generally problem! Difficult? Complicated? \Vell, yes. The secret is a new healing substance speaking they want more security than ) ( Bio-Dyne® —discovery of a But remember: You have undoubtedly world-famous that before they lend money. research institute. had a better, more thorough education Now this new healing substance is offered are financial resources open Yet there in ointment form under the name of than your father had. That is the aver- to you that weren't even dreamed of b\' Preparation H* Ask for it at all drug stores age experience of Americans, more of —money back guarantee. your father in his youth. *Trail(> yt-.irk whom in this generation have gone to Let's be realistic about it. Not all TV NOISES high school and college than ever be- CTAD RADIO & tliese lenders want to pony up mone)' to fore. ^Ur INSTANTLY get you started. But they are there NEW PATENTED ELECTRONIC IN- In general, Americans arc better VENTION -CLEAR TONE" filter eli- ready to lend a helping hand—and inin.ites noisy interferences caused by all equipped today to cope w ith the grow - notor aiMilianccs. autos. oil burners, checkbook— at that difficult stage early L'tc. Siniijly plug radio or TV cord into ing complexity of business. tiller and filter into wall socket. Enjoy in the business w hen \'ou are in opera- •CLEAR TONE" rccciition. Try 5 GUARANTEE. Where can you get the capital? days— MONEY BACK tion and are short of funds. SEND lOc for iJoslage handling, N. Y. ehold Prod., Dept. D16 . Scorsdole, Of course, there's alw a>'s that prob- 11^/7/ the government help? lem of money. The Veterans Administration is the It's true that it costs more to go into helping hand you're most familiar w ith. BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY business than it once did. But you can Under the G.I. Bill it can guarantee NOW there is a new modern Non-Surftical treatment find plenty of examples of people who business loans, a fact that results in that permanently corrects rupture. These Non-Sur- somehow gical treatments are so certain, that a Lifetime Certi- got into business on a shoe- banks making loans they might other- licate of Assurance is given. Write today for our New P'REE Book that gives facts that may save you pain- string in recent years. That's one rea- wise refuse. The guarantee on business ful and expensive surgery, and tells how non-surftl- son w hy the mail-order business is so loans is $2,000, or 50 percent of total. cally you may again work, live, play and love and enjoy life in the manner you desire. There is noobligation. popular. You can frequently parlay The Small Business Administration Excelsior Hernia Clinic Dept. 7205 Excelsior Sprin;£s, Mo.

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is another go\ ernment source for finan- can get through the banks. The manu- kinds of help with bookkeeping, ac- cial aid to small businesses. facturers want their dealers to carry counting, advertising, and other prob- One of the agency's functions, in- adequate stocks, so they lend money lems. herited from the defunct Reconstruc- through their own finance companies, The mail-order companies have ac-

tion Finance Corporation, is to make adapting a method used by General tive programs whereby they aid small direct loans either by itself or in con- Motors for some years. businesses. In part this interest stems

junction with banks. But it puts more If you're planning to go into manu- from a desire to decentralize their re- stress on the small business angle than facturing, here's something else you sources and so cut freight rates. One did RFC. There's a lower ceiling on may want to explore. The leasing of of the giant mail-order houses recently

loans ($150,000 now ) and besides it can equipment has become a major factor financed the beginnings of several small lend to retailers and wholesalers, which in the business world in the past few garment firms in the Southwest. An- its predecessor couldn't do. years. Today you can rent anything other company recently helped three Though its funds are limited, SBA from textile machines and machine tools small jewelry firms get going in Cali- is a friend to small business. Its latest to trucks and other equipment. A lease fornia. list of loans granted, totaling 32, in- arrangement—with option to buy— could Many oil companies are anxious to cluded 16 to firms of 10 employees or greatly ease the need for capital at the help set up in business young men who less. One was for $4,000, another for start. want to get into the service station 15,000. Rod's General Store in Fort What other kind of aid is there? business. Lyon, Colorado—only store in the com- Big business has opened up for the There's an interesting implication to munity-got a $10,000 loan. smart young man broad vistas that these instances. And it poses a question

Another SBA function is to see that didn't exist a few years ago. Its aid to for you as you think about going into government procurement money—par- small business ranges broadly across a business. How free an agent do you ticularly that spent on defense orders- wide spectrum that includes everything want to be? is shelled out to small as well as big from advice to money. Today, the man who goes into busi- business. For example: ness for himself is more apt than he was SBA acts in effect as the small man's A major shoe manufacturer has set 30 years ago to be a franchised dealer advocate, seeing to it that the Depart- up a program to help finance dealers for one appliance company, or for an ment of Defense and other government who will stock his brand. oil company, say, rather than a free- agencies and departments set aside what Wholesalers—particularly in the food wheeling independent businessman with orders they can for small business. In business — have made aid to their cus- no ties. In a sense he trades some free-

its first 10 months, SBA saw to it that tomers a major tenet of their business. dom of action for the security, assist-

$252 million was earmarked for small A good wholesaler today will offer all ( Continued on page 60 firms. Here's a good example: The Quarter- WHERE TO GO FOR HELP master is buying six million >'ards of that new green cloth for the new Army If you are plamiing to go into business for yourself, check these sources of advice and assistance: uniforms, the ones that are finally replacing the familiar OD's. The QM Federal Government. Go to the Depart- Competitors. An advisor of small business ment of Commerce and the Small Business says, "P.eally a smart thing to do is to go must buy 40 percent of this from small Administration. They offer a wide assort- to someone you respect in your chosen firms—which incidentally doesn't block ment of printed material—pamphlets on business. It's interesting how much a com- any small firm from going in and bid- how to go into business, bibliographies, petitor or potential competitor will tell you ding low on as much of the remaining management aids, operating ratios, etc. about his business." 60 percent as it wants to. The)' answer inquiries. \Vrite or call either Local Libraries. Free public libraries in How about private business—any help Washington hcadcjuarters or district offices. many sizable cities have business sections. there!' Veterans Administration centers will also Librarians' biggest complaint is that busi- help you if vou are eligible for assistance Government officials are the first to nessmen don't use them. under the G.'l. Bill. say that small business shouldn't be- Universities. .Many universities— particularly come dependent on government. For- State Governments. Alany States have active State and regional ones which feel an obli- tunately, business bureaus for itself is w illing to help the encouragement of business. gation to their communities— have devel- out is the small entrepreneur. A good example the New York Depart- oped very active business research bureaus. ment of Commerce, which compiles \ aki- Banks have actually loosened up They often have a thorough knowledge of able statistics and produces helpful publi- credit in recent years. For example, they local economic conditions, through polls, cations on a w ide range of topics. have gone in more widely for such surveys, studies. Thej' also offer courses Trade Associations. on business subjects. things as "floor plan" financing—a form These can give varying of helping dealers finance inventory— degrees of help in almost any industry or YMCA's. They frequently have business trade you can think of. Examples: Ameri- and for consumer credit, which indi- guidance counseling courses. rectly can Retail Federation, National Retail Dry helps merchants to build busi- Suppliers. lot of companies Goods Association. A figure that ness. There are also private groups that the> can help themselves by helping cus- have National Organizations. There are various tomers. been set up in recent > ears with Outstanding examples: National large organizations interested in the specific purpose of finding ways to economic Cash Register, which publishes all kinds of and business development; Committee for pamphlets to help retailers and other invest risk capital. It's not easy to con- busi- Economic Development, American Alan- nessmen; Eli Lilly & Co., which makes im- vince the hardhcaded people who run agement Association, National Association portant drug retailing studies. Other these groups that your idea is worth of Alanufacturers, National Industrial Con- sources: wholesalers; your own potential putting money into-but it's been done. ference Board, U. S. Chamber of Com- suppliers. There is another significant develop- merce. If they can't help you, tiiey'll steer Trade Magazines. They can help with arti- ment in private financing. In the past >"ou to the rigiit places. cles, statistics, advice. few years, VVestinghouse and other Local Chambers of Connnerce. The\' know Books. manufacturers, There are thousands in print on including the farm im- the local ropes, can Iielp > c)u line up eco- every conceivable facet of business. One plement companies, have found it nomic and business data for their area. helpful new publication, just out, is Hoiv necessary to extend more credit to their Local Bankers. The\- can offer a good deal to Make Money from Your Ideas, by Ray dealers than many of these same dealers of wise advice. Josephs (Doubleday).

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I CoiitiintcJ from piT'e 58 big business. Anyone with a 1 100,000- cificall) exempts the first $60,000 re- nncc, nnd market power of a brand plus tax liability must estimate his cur- tained—a decided help in building up name. rent year's profits and pa>" on them as \ oung companies. Not, of course, that the businessman they are earned. But under that you Liberalized rules for claiming re- of today is a free agent in a lot of other don't have to do it, the theory being search and development were also writ- areas. Note a Department of Commerce ten in. Hitherto Big Business got all the pubHcation: breaks, because it could set up formal "No matter \\ liar business you choose research programs and write them off —whether a manufacturing, wholesal- as business expense. Now the same thing ing, retailing", or service business— you is being made easier for small business must satisfy your customers. Your to do, w hich will help it immenseh' in creditors and your competitors w ill dic- a competitive sense. tate to >'ou. Health authorities and in- These aids do not, of course, help all surance people will see to it that you aspiring young businessmen. But in gen- follow certain rules and regulations. eral they promote a better climate for

You will have to abide by wage and all small business, and so help it to com- hour laws and keep records in accord- pete better for the market. ance with the requirements of the tax One further point ought to be made system." about taxes. Are taxes crushing small business? If you are going to make money, the

It is fitting to save to the last the M ay to make it is in business for your- thing that businessmen dislike perhaps self. Take as an illustration two young more than anything else— taxes. men of equal ability, who have had In their \'ehemence, however, thc\' roughly the same start in life. Financial- may have misled a lot of people on a ly speaking, the one who goes into busi- very important point about taxes. ness for himself is the one w ho is going Granted that no one likes them and to do better. The reason to a large de- granted also that any tax at all takes gree is taxes. No matter how the other away tliat much from what a man sinks man rises in corporate channels, he is into his business, the fact still remains unlikch' to find opportunities equal to "Honestly, dear, when you asked me il you tliat taxes are written b\' to his Congress could retire a couple of weeks ago, I thought those that the tax laws open up for give a break to the small businessman you meant just lor the night!" free-w heeling counterpart. as opposed to big business. As a man w ho follows taxes closely AMKIIHAX LEIilON AIA<;A7.IN'|;

The tax rate is an example. There is l emarked reccnth', "The tax laws tend only one rate up to $25,000 taxable in- to fa\<)r an>one who can run up an come, which means that a very large that it would be \cr\' difficult for most expense." percentage of small business gets in un- small tjusinesses. There's one further advantage to be- der the lowest rate. The tax on imdistributed earnings has ing in business that may not interest you At its last session. Congress w rote in been liberalized. Formerly, if the gov- now, but will someday. When you get some nice breaks for small business ernment decided that the profits re- along in years and decide that you want when it revised the tax laws. Here are tained in a business were "unreason- to retire, you can sell your business. the chief breaks: able," it could nick the offender for a And you only pay a capital gains tax Pay-as-you-go taxation affects only 28 percent penalty. Now the law spe- on the profits. the end

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(Coiiliinittl lioiii l)'ou in loose coils to dr>'. Now heat a small six and to four—with perhaps a light such an unhappy experience. amount of fly line dressing (the sili- end (called a tippet) that tests no more More hooked fish are lost w hen defec- cones are good) and with your thumb than a pound or two. The sections are tive lines suddenly snap than from an\' and forefinger, rub a thin coat along tied together with barrel knots; no other cause. But it rarely happens if the entire exterior. Remove the excess other is quite suitable. lines are given a good inspection and with a soft cloth. Store it for the rest But Ciardner has a new wrinkle in proper maintenance when \'ou have of the winter in loose coils; it's not a leaders that he swears is far more effec- the time to do it. Braided nylon good polic\' to store it on the fl>' reel. tive. Camouflage! He fills a coffee cup casting lines and either braided or If you have a small shop in your one-third full of warm brown d>e and monofilament spinning lines need little home, builii a wooden reel of about a second cup about one-third full of care. Just check them carefully for 10" to 12" in diameter ft)r storing line. blue dye. He winds the leader in a worn or frayed places and then dis- Or easier still, moimt a wooden nail coil about 4" in diameter, runs a pencil card any that show signs of not sur- keg or cheese box on a shaft, add a through the center and allows about viving another season. It's false econ- handle for winding, and your storage one-third of the coil to hang in the d\ e omy to squeeze a damaged line through reel is ready for use. Even a cylindrical, b\" placing the pencil across the mouth one more >'car. cardboard oatmeal box w ill do the job. of one cuf5 of dye. After half an hour, Sillv and linen lines need more atten- In a summer's time, m\' neighbor fishes he rotates the coil so that another third tion. If \()u've used them in the salt, many miles of trout streams — and is allowed to soak in the second cup wash them in fresh w ater and hang in through a good supply of tapered lead- for thirty minutes. Then the leader is loose coils to dr> before storing on ers. But no matter, for he needs only rinsed in cold water to fix the dye and the reel again, (^hcck them carcfulh- for one February evening to accumulate it's permitted to dry. The finished frayed places. the suppK . Tapered leaders are made product, alternating in strips of brown, I'l\' lines need the most attention of b>' tN'ing together pieces of nylon of blue and mist color, is calculated to be

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • .

THE THIRD MAN IN THE RING ((.oiitinitrtl lioni //)

;u that," he says. On the day of a fight, in seven States—which is a very neat New Jersey, the referee is the sole ar-

he tells \\ his wife here he'll be, in case trick in itself. . . . biter, as of the moment. the phone rings during the afternoon Rulings var\' from State to State, but Aggressiveness counts for a boxer.

in the commission's tap-day fashion. the ring's third occupant is boss in all One school rates it over finesse, the

Referees are not notified until late in of them (who else is in there?) And other doing just the opposite. "Put Jack the da>'— to avoid briber)'. though he abides by the rules, a referee Dempsey on one side of the ring," some- Once tapped, Rub\' eats a light meal can run afoul of the spectators, or the one once said, "and Cjcne Tunney as the (lamb chops, tea, and toast), goes quiet- TV audience these enlightened days. other judge, and you'd find Jack giving ly to the arena, may even wear a hat In Boston, Referee Tomm\' Raw son got points for aggressiveness. Gene for pure to change his appearance and avoid in bad with the TV viewers when he skill — naturally." detection. He handles the fight, then allowed Tommy Collins to sta>' on A referee who's above aggressive/ goes quietly home, where his wife has through 10 knockdowns via Johnny finesse quibbles is Arthur Donovan, son supper waiting for him. For a top- Carter — the fight ending through a of Prof. Mike. Called one of the two

drawer match, Rub\ "s fee is somcw here handler's efforts. Quite naturally, Du- best refs in the world (George Blake around $250. mont-TV's Chris Schenkel feels that being the other), and almost Joe Louis'

A referee (not Ruby), who has been this was bad business, in view of the personal referee, Donovan is famed for called many names but prefers to re- fact that fisticufi^s are now a famih' his ability to spot phonies. "He don't main anonymous, has a legitimate beef sport, available to an\' child parked in miss nothin'," said a non-admiring pug. about that $250. "Let's say," he said, front of a TV screen. There's a yarn about the 1935 Louis- '"that the gate is half a million bucks. To list, analyze, contrast the rulings iMaxie Baer fight. Wall Street was abuzz The fighters certainl}' get more than of all 48 States would be as complex as with rumors that Baer was fixed to win,

$250 each, but no one seems to object it would be boring, but a few samples the smart money was piling up on Max. to the insinuation that that's all the might interest you. One thing is prac- But when Donovan climbed into the

third man in the ring is worth! tical!)' national—three knockdow ns and ring, the rumors died fast— it was go- "Vou know," he went on, "the ref out, plus the ruling that a fighter must ing to be an honest fight (Louis won). could have stopped the fight because take a full eight-count on a knockdow n There was some new spaper criticism of of the cut over Marciano's e> e first (both are waived for title bouts). New- Donovan, later. he actually said: | Had

Alarciano-Charles . Sure, York, however, is considering ab- up, to | he'd have now "Get you bum!" Max, down on been shot, but it w as \\ ithin his power olition of the three-knockdown rule. one knee in the fourth? Whatever he — thc\''ve been called off for less. Per- Now — Toledo reckons by the so- may have thought, Arthur had actually^ sonalh', 1 don't think $5,000 is too much called Illinois Ten-Point Split. Cleve- said: "Five—get up, Max; six—get up, ." for handling a championship fight!" land prefers round-b>'-round. Connec- Max; seven—get up. Max. . . To Referees gripe about a lot of things, ticut and Cincinnati are for a Five-Point w hich iVlax had only shaken his head, agree on one fundamental law, to n-it: Must (winner gets five; loser wins he'd had enough. "I was doing my best

You can't please ever\'one when you 4, 3, 2, 1, or 0). Nevada, Colorado, to make iMax fight," says Arthur. "I have two men fighting for a single de- Point Alust (winner gets five; loser thought the customers deserved to see cision. In spite of which, try and pr>- w ins 4, 3, 2, 1, or 0). Nevada, Colorado, a good fight." one of these gents loose from the low - Washington, and California vote for The man whom e\'en chisclers repa\ ing, thankless ring-iob. As the rich the Austrialian 11 -point s\'stem. Difi^er- spect is the big cheese at the New York Kcssler says: "Some like to drink, ent from the Illinois Ten-Point Split is Athletic Club, where he oversees the others have fun making things with a the Ten-Straight system favored by boxing of such promising amateurs as

jigsaw. 1 like to referee fights." And to others. Some States prefer no points, Bernard Gimbel, et al. The rich pugs do just that, Harry has w angled licenses stick' to round-l)\'-round taiiulations. In love Arthur, who never has to worry about these boxers laying down for a

$25 bribe. . . Referees get slugged in .some bouts, land on the mat along w ith the fighters, get in bad w ith the crow d or the commissioner. But the best referees are men

you never .see. The fussy hen who's always prying the men apart to break them is a poor referee. If the fighters

respect him, a word is sufficient to part the boys. Gene Ward— in this magazine-covered the Graham-Giardcllo-Christen- berry rhubarb (the commissioner reversed the officials' decision, then the State Supreme Court reversed the commissioner), so let's look at the referee in action in another fracas—the Charles- Walcott second fight, in Philadelphia. Most observers agree that Referee Zack Clayton was just a bit too encouraging

when it came to Walcott, the lad from nearby^ Camden. They may be biased, but people w ho distinctly heard Clay^- ton say, "Come on, baby!" to Walcott,

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1954 . « —

felt that preference was being hinted at. DOLL The heat was on when Sugar Ray SUSIE WALKER Robinson boxed Joey Maxim in New- With Long, Silky, Washable SARAN Hair So Lifelike you'll think she's a real girl York in 1953. The heat at ringside was SUSIE DOES walking with her little mother. Susie 104, or 103 (they were too hot to be EVERYTHING Walker is beautifully formed, even to the small details of finger nails, dimples and. certain), and at the • ck uu It 14th round, Robin- Z. c. 7" 'creases in her chubby arms and legs. She assumes and will hold (no flopping) all son was unable to move out of his cor- -T J lifelike positions. Susie can be washed, a/cI»She As dressed and undressed in standard 20" ner—though the fight had been accorded Walks doll costumes. Her hair can be washed ancl She's him most of the way. Referee Ruby • She Cries combed ; her pigtails braided and set in Unbreakable She Sleeps any fashion desired. Nothing can Goldstein was an even earlier casualt>', • "Magic go wrong with her working parjs and she is Action" folding in the ninth round, with molded of the new shockproof plastic that Ray Legs assures years and years of loving play. • Completely Aiiller replacing. First time a ref was Susie Walker is the answer to every girl's Washablevvosnaoie prayers. Comme^ided by Parents Maga- ever replaced during a championship • Unbreakable Union-Made in U.S.A. by skilled Construction match. American workers. Satisfaction Uncondi- • Guaranteed tionally Guaranteed! Walking In the first Saddler-Pep engagement SUSIE WATLKER is ALSO AVAILABLE Mechanism IN THE LARGEST SIZE 23" at the Yankee Stadium, the boys wres- • MADE— BIG TALL. Nationally advertised 20" TALI at $75.95. tled all over the canvas—Referee Ray OUR PRICE—S5.95 plus 50c shipping or CCD. plus postage. Miller even getting into the tango, inad- Nationally Advertised SMALLER SIZE SUSIE WALKER: All above features but No Voice 14" TALL. vertently, and all three tumbled to the .98~ — $9.95 : *5-95. OUR PRICE $2.98 plus 50c At arcsseu ^^S- mat, once. Pep lost fight number one, SENSATIONAL VALUE — ONLY 3 shipping or C.O.D. plus postage. but took the second with an exhibition plus 50c shipping or CO D. plus postage of all the mean boxing tactics from A NOW YOU CAN DRESS SUSIE, TOO— to Z. SAVE MORE THAN 50% ON HER CLOTHING

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For certain, TV has finished oflP More than 1 4,500 Remember, Council nearly all the small fight clubs in New- Legion naire-ov/ned membership costs York City. In 1920 New York could AMERICAN lay claim to 17 small clubs; now there Stores ore display- you nothing and en- remain only three to share the billings ing the colorful em- titles you to the with St. Nick's and Aladison Square blem of The Retail Council emblem, Garden. "Where are the new fighters going to come from?" asks Pat Calla- Advisory Council. If informative news- han. TV long ago killed off" winter you are a member letters written espe- stock companies throughout the U. S., of busi- so the acting profession is beginning to The American cially for your wonder about the same thing. New Legion and own and ness and the bene- talent rarely gets its start in the Broad- operate your ov/n retail fits of national promotion. way legit houses-and the supply will eventually run out. It's a real problem. business you too, are eligi- All you need do is fill out As for T\^ and the referee— there's ble for free membership. and return the application. only one ruling that concerns the ref- Keep Out Of The Camera's Way! The American Legion Magazine, Retail Advisory Council, Ray Miller was refereeing a bout at the Polo Grounds, a few years ago, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, New York between Elkins Brothers and Aaron I am the owner and operator of the store listed below. Please sign me up Wilson. Wilson was winning, doing for free membership in the Retail Advisory Council. Send me Decal Emblem, much damage to Brothers' temples. and Newsletter. Concerned over his condition. Referee Aliller asked his standard question - a query designed to show the fighter's Name _Store Name mental shape. "Where are you?" Miller asked, looking deep into Brothers' eyes. Store Address. .City. .State. Brothers lifted his head, and answered: "I'm at the Polo Grounds, and I'm Type of Store. catching!" True, and the referee's on first. . . . Legion Card Number. .Legion Post Number. THE END

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1954 • Ili'aiitifiil Kill lliinib so sure there even was a double track?" "Well," replied the w itness, "occasional- The showgirl never went to school ly a train, which I could see through the Or even learned to act windows across the aisle to my left, would She coiildn^t write or even add speed by going in the opposite direction Bin boy— could she distract! (Sum from us. So I figured it was a better bet — J'RANK W. HANFORD that there was a track under those trains than that the engineers were lost." l< ^tiiriix ill tli<> —CARL ELI.STAM

I he children were in the midst of a free-for-all when father unexpectedly en- It Fi{

another cur\ e came upon a second ele- this city broke. I asked you for ten dollars

phant cross-wise on the road. and you gave it to me, saying that you "Get out of my way!" yelled the hunter. never turned down a request to start a "I w ill not," answered the elephant. man out on the road to success." "Good grief," groaned the hunter, "I remember," said the businessman, "what a day this has been, iMy wife is ill interested. "Go on."

and I am trying to get to her and about a "AVell, " said the stranger, "are you still mile back another elephant w as standing game?" —dan bennett

in my way. I lost valuable time pleading w ith him to move." Kare-Faeeil Triilli "Did he?" questioned the elephant. Those restamant booths with walls of mir- "Yes, after I explained to him." ror "Oh heck," wailed the elephant, stanip- Too blinitly bring my defects nearer. ing his foot, "and we were playing book- 1 think I'm looking into spate — ends." —RUTH MEKI.E YOUNG Instead, I'm staring at my face, Which makes me flinch, for honestly Di*i|»-Teiii4e I hate to sit so clo.sc to mc. I'oio eyes are red. mascara streaks —BETTY ISEER Your cheeks, your make up's all aivry, Your nose ruus loo. hiil, ou sec an extra track? tliar room you're advertising for rent!"

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.\ hunter in the African jungle was siieeding in his jeep to reach the coast hospital where his wife was ill. As he rounded a curve in the jungle road, he almost ran into a huge elephant who was blocking the wa>'.

"Will \ ou please niox e?" asked the hunter.

"No, I w ill not," answered the elephant. "Please," begged the hunter, "my wife is in the hosiiifal and I must gel there at once."

"Weil, oka\-, if it's an emcrgenc\%" VlOtFE sighetl the elephant. So the hunter hurried on and rounding ".Madame has nnich better \olnme today!''

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