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THE AMERICAN LEGION JULY. 1945

VOLUME 39 NO. 1 MAGAZINE

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Editor's CONTENTS The Corner COVER DESIGN FRANK BENSING'S cover design of the By Frank Bensing Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was LESS THAN HALF WON 6 painted some weeks before V-Day, May By Edward N. Scheiberling, National 8th, when the floodlights which appear in Commander the picture were turned on for the first time in three years. The Lady with the WHY I JOINED THE LEGION 9 By Bobby Jones Lamp has welcomed immigrants for 58 years, and the American service men and GO NORTHWEST. SOLDIER! 10 women coming back from operations in By Robert Ormond Case Europe will get the same thrill in seeing Illustrated by Homer Hill her that Legionnaires of the First World SAILORS THE War had on their return from the earlier OVER RHINE 12 By W. \V. Chaplin defeat of Germany. A few incandescent {Continued on page 4) WANT TO BE A SALESMAN? 14 EXPERIEIVCE By Burton Bigelow

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4 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine THE EDITOR'S CORNER

{Contijiued from page 2) lamps were kept burning in the torch to serve as a guide for airmen, every night during the brownout, but when the Hghts went on the night of May 8th the torch of Liberty EnHghtening the World shone with 26,000 watts, twice its pre-war bril- liancy.

WE ARE PROUD to carry the statement (on page 9) by Bobby Jones, member of Fulton County Post, Atlanta, Ga., on why he joined The American Legion. Bobby

(Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.) is, we believe, the only man who has won in a single year the four great golf tournaments the U. S. Amateur and Open, the British Amateur and Open. This was in 1930, when Bobby was 28 years of age. Throughout his amazing career as a golfer', which began with his winning a junior tournament in Atlanta at the age of nine, Bobby was at all times a modest, unassuming sportsman, generous in victory and unembittered in defeat. The picture carried on page 9 shows him talking with Col. Arthur G. Salisbury, commanding officer of the 57th Fighter Group, AAF, which supported the Eighth British Army all the way across Africa and made a grand record in Sicily and later over the Continent. Traditionally, Col. Salis-

bury as Bobby's commanding officer is "the Old Man" to Lieut. Col. Jones, even though

the colonel is fifteen years younger than the Atlantan. As you see the two on page 9 they are talking over the Red Cross cam- paign which was in progress at the time of the colonel's visit, Bobby having been one of three general chairmen of the funds campaign. Said the "Old Man," as 0. B. Keeler, Bobby's longtime friend and sports

writer, told it to the readers of the Atlanta Journal: "We fellows who were mixed up in that African campaign will never forget what the Red Cross did for us, all the way. Boy—you get homesick! And sort of lone- some. It's hard to describe it, but the little things you used to get, at home—actually, ice cream once in a while. And cookies— no kidding. And always the firm knowledge that the boys were being looked after, and

taken care of when they needed it. The Red Cross—there's nothing too good for the Red Cross, and not many things you can say that are near good enough." Alexander Gardiner

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h^ EDWARD N. SCHEIBERLING

Notional Qommandet, The KmztXcan Legion

President Truman, Legiormahe, greets National Cotmrumder Scheibtrling

IN HIS MESSAGE proclaimmg the end of fight- orama of a nation untouched by the physical scars ing in Europ>e, President Truman reminded the of war was unfolded before my eyes. We have some-

United States that "our Victory is but half won!' thing for our veterans to come back to. We must

It might be said that Victory is less than half keep it that way.

won because when the last Japanese surrenders the It has occurred to me that perhaps one of the

last gun and the forces of evil and destruction have reasons the epoch-making world conference was held

been overwhehningly defeated we must still be on the West Coast, was so that the delegates firom vigilant. war-ravaged Europe might see the fruits of our Final Victory will be ours only when we have social, religious and economic pattern. It could not placed the keystone in a world structure for per- help but give them a new respect for the United States. manent peace. Military victories, surrenders and con- During the remaining days of my term as Nat-

ferences between world powers are but steps in ional Commander, I intend to make the Legion's

building this framework for peace, lb complete the support for lasting peace my major activity. I left structure will require the highest degree of deter- San Francisco with new hope that we can achieve mination, understanding and co-operation on the final Victory. Solidarity of purpose on the part of

part of all people. If we fail again we concede that the two million men and women in the Legion can wars are inevitable. help bring to the United States our finest hour. It

As I write this message from San Francisco is our greatest challenge in behalf of the veterans of where in representing The American Legion I have World War II who are coming home. attained the highest honor of my lifetime—there Honored care for the dead; adequate rehabilita-

rings in my memory an old phrase. It is: tion for the disabled; readjustment into civilian life "There never was a good war or a bad peacel* for able veterans with all opportunities we pledged;

It should remind us all that in building an inter- vigilant action to see that our country maintains the national organization to maintain world peace, we same role in building peace that we had in waging

must keep in mind that even if there seem to be in- war; and safeguards for the protection of our coun-

justices; even if some power gains a slight advan- try so that there will never ^gain be another Pearl

tage over another; even if there are slight sacrifices Harbor—these are my aims for The American Legion. of national pride, they are naught as compared to To achieve them will mean that the Legion has

the horror and suffering of war. kept faith with its founders and met the challenge En route to San Francisco by plane, I saw our of the times. We will truly be serving God and

country anew. In a brief twenty-four hours the pan- Country. We must not fail.

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Why I Joined the Legion By Bobby Jones

I joined the American Legion immediately upon the assurance for all time of constitutional govern- my return from France: ment in this country, and the maintenance of an

1. Because it is a powerful, seasoned organiza- America always strong enough to prosecute, in tion of veterans conceived in a fierce determina- the world community, a foreign policy conceived tion to preserve freedom dearly won in foreign in our best national interests.

wars; the same determination that will burn in 3. Because the achievement of these ideals

the breasts of returning veterans of World War II. demands a close unity between the soldiers of

2. Because it is dedicated to at least two ideals this war and the last. transcendent in importance to this nation today:

His former commanding officer in the ETO visits the famous golfer in Atlanta. For details, see page 4 — Northwest, Soldier!

By ROBERT ORMOND CASE

Here's a section that's headed for a tre- mendous postwar development, with cross-

Pacific lands bidding for the goods of all

America that will flow through its ports.

WITHIN EIGHT airline miles of down- in the next one hundred and twenty days. town Portland, Oregon, are the three Kaiser But that wasn't the problem. Given suffi- shipyards—Swan Island, Oregonship and cient men and materials, Kaiser company Vancouver—which have fabricated more will agree to build anything, in any quan- ships, faster, than any others on the globe. tity, as fast as necessary. The materials They employ 90,000-odd men. Since Pearl were available for this job. The joker was Harbor they have turned out 8,000,000 manpower. tons of war shipping. In those grim days This was August of '44, remember. Our when the survival of the world's democra- troops were rampaging across Normandy, cies depended on cargo carriers, Oregonship and all our top-flight experts were predict- alone was sending a 10,500-ton Liberty ing the end of the war by Christmas. The down the ways every thirty hours. result was that half of Kaiser's workers Late in August, 1944, Kaiser company those recruited from the Middle West, the executives faced their toughest problem. East and the Deep South—were saying to Some four months before, the Maritime themselves: "If the war's over by Christ- Commission had asked the Portland yards mas, the shipyards will close down. After for 62 of the new AP-5S—fast attack trans- the Japs are licked, what then? The brass ports, bigger than Libertys—to be used in hats say there'll be prosperity after the the Orient. Starting from scratch on a new war, but suppose there's one gosh-awful design, they had built 12 of them. Now, depression? Hadn't I better pull out with like a bolt from the blue,, the Commission my family—now—and get ready to ride out wanted delivery on the remaining fifty the storm in my home locahtx .^ —

JULY, 1945 II

And they were doing so—at the rate of , . . Yes, the AP-5S were built on sched- Decoration by HOMER HILL 4,000 a week. The problem was: How halt ule. The deadline was December 25, 1944. this stampede? The 62d of those beautiful, deadly attack near the top in the nation in per capita It was decided there was only one way: transports slid down the ways on Decem- wealth and at the top in potential wealth. Strike direct at the fear behind it. It was, ber 22d. It could support five times its present oddly enough, a fear of early victory, a What was the Northwest inventory? It population with ease—and it would be no fear of peace. Kaiser's "foreign" workers promised no immediate postwar employ- mere marginal existence. Permanent resi- knew little about the Northwest. Frankly, ment. Edgar Kaiser—the quiet but indomi- dents of the two States have attained the local residents hadn't taken -the trouble to table son of the fabulous Henry—made upper level of the world's highest living tell them. Therefore, give them the facts. that point clear in his address to the work- standard. The area leads the nation in na- Show them, from the record, that their ers: the Kaiser Company could guarantee tional parks and playgrounds, in percent- peacetime chances were better where they nothing beyond their present contracts. age of home owners, in per capita farm were, that to be "marooned" in the North- This obviously applied to all strictly war incomes and in student enrolhnent in insti- west should not be regarded as an alarming industries. The promise lay in the future tutions of higher learning. Northwestemers but fortunate circumstance. beyond and independent of any post-war do more hunting and fishing per capita, The program was undertaken at once. adjustment. play more golf and have more golf courses

The core of it was a series of ten articles The inventory can be given here only on which to play than elsewhere in the na- published weekly in the Kaiser house organ, in capsule form, but in the minds of many tion. There are no slums in the Northwest. the Bosn's Whistle, circulation 96,000. They a returning veteran the facts may germi- There are more electric kitchen ranges in were entitled "Know Your Northwest." It nate and take root, just as they encour- use in Portland (pre-war population, 305,- was a mere inventory of Northwest re- aged Kaiser workers haunted by the most 000) than in New York City, and more sources, nothing more. poignant of all peace-time questions: passenger automobiles (1939) than in all The results were spectacular. The cold "Where do we go from here?" of Soviet Russia. facts seemed to fall like seeds on hungry (i) In the Pacific Northwest—the States (2) Half the nation's standing timber is ground. By the third week the stampede of Oregon and Washington—there is plenty in Oregon and Washington—800 billion was wavering. By the sixth week the tide of room. With an area greater than that board feet of it. In normal times 10 bil- had turned. At the close of the 120 days covered by Maine, Maryland, New Hamp- lion feet are harvested each year. This is the three yards had gained employes over shire, New Jersey, New York and Ohio, one-third of the nation's cut. It is enough the whole period—the only major yards in their population (1940) was 2,828,875, or lumber tq build an 8-foot sidewalk from ^tiie nation to report such a phenomenon. less than that of the city of Chicago. This the earth to the moon. The logging, mill- vast area is the most healthful on the con- ing, transportation and marketing of this tinent, the most economically stable, ranks lumber underwrites the permanent economic security of 450,000 people. It is permanent because timber repro- duces itself faster in the Northwest than anywhere else on the globe, and sustained yield programs known as "Tree Farms" are {Cotitinued on page 28) Lined up for drill near the Meuse River in Belgium, these The 32-ton Sherman tank, routine cargo for the 26-ton ICM bluejackets made history as the first U. S. Navy contingent {Landing Craft Mechanized), lumbers down the ramp during to cross a European river the rehearsal

By W. W. CHAPLIN gether during all the months of training in Belgium, which began last October. But They doffed their Navy blues for a the sailors never did change inside their good many weeks, they ate Army soldier clothing. They still called a toilet chow and took orders from Army a "head" and a floor a "deck," And they never did get over referring to General officers, but in the end they reverted George S. Patton, Jr., as "the Admiral." to type and in the Kipling phrase did But aside from that these sailors for the their work on water time being had the status of soldiers. There were three great Navy units, attached re- By cable from Paris spectively to the First, Third and Ninth ONE OF THE strangest sea engagements Armies. And they took their orders from ever fought was the American Navy's part the Army. They were temporarily turned in the battle of the Rhine that opened into soldiers who just happened to know inner Germany to our Armies. how to run small boats. When the High Command first began The Naval units were under general planning for the crossing of the Rhine, long command of Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk, before we were in Germany at all, it be- who is head man of all sailors in this Thea-

came immediately apparent that tradition ter, and Commander William J. Whiteside was out. This would have to be an opera- was task commander for the operation. But tion such as never was. A plan was drawn Navy command consisted largely in 'disci- by which for the first time in its history phnary and administrative matters. Ac- our Afmy asked our Navy to help it cross tually the sailors were amalgamated with an inland river. For the first time in its the Army combat engineers and took orders history our Navy took on the job of par- from Army officers. ticipating in an amphibious job 200 miles Incidentally, every sailor assigned to this from the nearest ocean. task had already been through at least one One immediate obstacle arose—the Navy amphibious operation, and each naval unit uniform. If the Germans realized that we had with it Seabee officers and men. were packing Navy personnel far inland, The training period became so extended they might als« realize what for and build that one Navy unit completed its basic defenses accordingly. So off came the training in crossing undefended Belgian An LCVP is hoisted aboard an army truck blues, the grays, and all those sailors went rivers four times. After that, training was for its journey from the Meuse, as Belgian olive drab. completed, so the immediate job youngsters v/atch. The Germans had no into the Army's considered idea what was cooking The soldiers and the sailors who were was just to keep the men occupied. So sail- masquerading as soldiers got along well to- ors began painting road signs for the Army, You'd have some difficuify in picking out which of these are The temporary soldiers check their gear with Lieut, (j. g.) Eby: soldiers and which sailors as the LCVP (Landing Craft, Ve- Left to right, Francis Dugan, S 2cl, John Matterfis, S 2cl, hicle. Personnel] started across the Rhine Chester Kolacz, S Id, John F. Kalinka, BM 2cl

doing all sorts of odd jobs entirely foreign Rhine in' the interval between landing of from the Germans on the opposite shore. to shipboard life—and actually built roads our assault infantry in fast little Army The artillery started at i A.M on March with pick and shovel. storm boats, which carry very few men, 24th. The airborne began to drop behind But at last of course the day, D-day on and the completion of bridges by the Army the German river line. The assault boats the Rhine, did come. engineers. started over. And then the moment came I am not even yet permitted to tell how Perhaps the best way for you to visualize for the Navy to swing into action. many sailors took part in that great oper- what happened is through the eyes of a It was anything but a simple operation. ation. Nor how many Navy craft were Navy man who was there and whose par- The dykes had afforded protection from used. But I can give you an idea. ticular job it was to observe and record. small arms fire, but only that. Shells and The boats used were almost entirely ply- He's Chief Photographer Robert Parrish, mortars were coming in and Chief Parrish wood LCVPs, which can carry 50 armed whose wife is now living at 1900 Vallejo saw one landing craft smashed by a direct soldiers at a time, and steel LCMs, which Street, San Francisco. Chief Parrish and hit while still on its loader. But there were can carry a medium tank or a tremendous Chief Bob Moreno of Los Angeles had a many others. load of artillery and ammunition. An in- roving commission to take pictures of the Bulldozers were on hand in droves and dication of the magnitude of the job done operation, for use in training for possible {Contimied on page 32) is the permitted fact that one group of 24 future operations. LCMs could put more than 300 Sherman They began taking their pictures back tanks on the Rhine's far shore in less than in Belgium; the training, the transport of half a day. the big Navy landing craft. These were Of course when the plans were made brought overland on great trucks and in there was no reason to hope the Remagen case you are under the impression that bridge would stand even for the first few these Navy so-called "small boats" are days of the operation. There was no reason really small, I'll give you a couple of fig- to hope that any bridge would be left stand- ures. An LCM with its carrier when mov- ing. Nor was it possible to plan on bridge ing overland is 77 feet long, the height of building that would be fast enough. Where an ordinary seven-story building. It's 14 it was planned to make those bridegheads, feet wide and nearly 20 feet high. the Rhine is between 1,000 and 1,200 feet Our two chief photographers went to the wide and the currents vary from speeds of Rhine on March 23d, the eve of D-day, five to nine miles. We had to be faster than to record the last preparations. The Navy any conceivable miracle of bridge building craft were moving up on trucks from 200 could permit. That's why the Navy was miles away. They came not in columns Commander William J. Whiteside, USN, in called in. but in threes, to escape any mass destruc- charge of all naval task units on this historic The Navy job was precisely this. The tion if discovered. And when they got to operation, gets a report from Lieut. M. L LCMs and LCVPs were to keep a steady the Rhine they were still parked on their White, USN, an engineering officer stream of men and materials crossing the trailers, behind a high bank that hid them !

Want To Be a Salesman?

Gregory J. Joyce, WW2 Legionnaire and paper cup salesman, makes his point and a sale to Raymond C. Doyle, luncheonette proprietor

BY BURTON BIGELOW Head of Burfon Bigelow organi- chanics in our service department. I can I am going to set down the attributes of zation, consulfanf fhrougb large guarantee you'll get a break from him." a successful salesman as outlined by an A few weeks later Mr. Wilson received authority whose business it is to test the companies in hiring, training and Carl Lang, civilian, honorably discharged aptitudes of salesmen and find out what managing salesmen in many lines from the Army, 26 years old, eager to earn makes the successful men tick, and the

a dollar, ambitious to go places doing it. failures fail. "WANT A LIFT, soldier?" He was given a job as service man on Before I do this, I want to point out Those words, spoken by a passing driver Boston Wire Stitchers and Bostitch Stap- the nine basic SATISFACTIONS which to Carl Lang, hitch-hiking his way to Fort lers and in two weeks had proved him- selling as a profession is likely to give any Meade, were an invitation to more than self to be a wide-awake chap, capable, man who is really equipped to make a suc- a ride towards Washington, D. C. analytical-minded, geared-in-high, and jam- cess of it. First: He eagerly stepped into a car filled with full of initiative. Manager Wilson offered Selling gives you action—fast moving action other soldiers and sailors picked up on the him the sales territory covering western Second: Selling of most types gives you a road by the salesman Virginia, gave him weekly guarantee, who never passed up a a good proportion of outdoor activity. a man in uniform if he had an empty seat generous earning arrangement, and told Third: Selling (save for inside-the-store re- in his road-weary sedan. him to go out and sell Bostitch Products. tail selling), doesn't fence you in. It gives you freedom from that One by one the boys dropped out, and In less than three months' time, Carl close "looking-over- at last Lang, Carl rode alone with the driver who had never dreamed he possessed your-shoulder" type and they began to talk. the abilities necessary to a successful sales- of supervision which "Where you going, Bud?" man, has shown a profit to his company is given to the fac- tory worker, for ex- "Fort Meade, sir, to be mustered out of over and above his salary and expenses, ample. the Army and back into civilian life." which means that he is earning more than Fourth: Selling "Good! Got any plans?" his guarantee, or "grocery-money." gives you a chance "That's just it, I haven't, and I need a Carl is definitely going places in the sales to use your initia- tive and imagina- job, but bad! I've no idea what I'm going field! tion. American ser- to get into; don't even know where to start vice men have had looking!" SO YOUR NAME isn't Carl. And you to fast-think them- "What have you been doing?" may not be lucky enough to get a personal selves (and often "Working as a mechanic." recommendation to a sales manager. But

"Tell you what, soldier, if you don't line you still may possess what it takes to make up something, come down and see my boss, selling your life's work. Charles Wilson, Baltimore Branch Man- In fact, in order to help you decide for ager of the Bostitch Company. We need yourself whether or not you do have that alert, ambitious men with a flair for me- essential know-how to succeed in selling. is Legionnaire Stanley Liszcz' story, and The pipe's a buy, but Lawrence Creighton, 4'/2 years in service life insurance • and now a specialty salesman, sold a gadget as well William J. Naylor, fellow veteran, is willing to listen

Legionnaire Richmond W. Ross shows fellow veteran

Edward L. Murray what he means when he says that the electric-writing machine is the tops i6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine r

The two younger boys had their guns trained squarely on the bunched-up riders Ruckus at Rockingchair

PAP veteran of the First ANDREWS, By William Welts Drawing by LORIN F. WILFORD World War, was a man who wore his hair and moustache long—and did everything daughter—were chips off the old block. And When John got out of the Army he had with emphasis. As captain of a company of they all knew horses and could ride. Having sold out his eastern holdings and settled infantry, even before he sailed for France consulted his government map. Pap one down permanently on the Rockingchair. he had won local fame as "the Swearing day decided that he had reached just the During the summer his nephew Bobby, Master of the Great Smokies." His original right place. Beyond lay a range of high son of a younger brother, usually came out phrases of profanity had been imitated from hills, and that, he decided, was a good rea- to John's place, to learn to handle cattle, Tennessee to Texas, but never equaled. son for locating here—it would be a re- and keep in trim for the football team at There was a day in France when his com- minder of home, for which he still kept a school. Bobby was a regular kind of a kid, pany had surrounded a group of Germans. sneaking fondness. But he didn't realize he though ordinarily not very forceful, and he His swearing, though not understood, had was reading the map wrong, that he was gave you the impression he'd rather be a been so powerful in tone that the heinies in fact trespassing on the famous Rock- cowhand than an eastern dude. had given up pronto. ingchair spread owned by John "Lucifer" To keep the young fellow busy, John had A born horse breeder. Pap's great mis- Deacon, hard-bitten cattle king. given him Meadow Creek, a choice section sion in life was crossing Kentucky stock John was pretty tough. He'd refused to of the Rockingchair range. It was a large with broncs. As year crowded on year, life try for a commission in 1917, despite his valley, all good grass, with plenty of water, in the East became too confining, and Harvard background, and had wound up and with groves of cottonwood trees along finally he had pulled up stakes and come as a top kick in an artillery outfit. The the creek. Riding it was an easy job, for to the range country, his family and stock Rockingchair was a legacy; his father had there were no swamps to pull bogged cows and household goods forming a sort of bought it in the nineties as a vacation out of, and few coyotes. gypsy caravan that drew plenty of attention sanctuary far enough from New York to After awhile it got rather lonesome for as it traveled toward the setting sun. allow him freedom from cares of shepherd- Bobby, so one day when he came down the All of his children—three sons and a ing railroad stocks down in the Street. (Co7itmiied on page 49) — ^

Today there's a significant double meaning to the familiar saying, "You can never tell where lightning Signal Corps photo and drawings show how twt, GMC will strike next." Thanks to the amphibious ability of the '* Ducks,"fastened together with steel bars and cables, GMC ''Duck," fast-flying Lightning or P-38 fighter planes transport a P-38 fighter plane. The plane is carried backward to provide proper weight distribution and can be transported directly from ship to shore to inland flying buoyancy. Main landing wheels of the plane fit into steel troughs attached to the side of each "Duck." field . . . completely assembled and ail set for a take-off that will take the enemy by surprise. In addition to being one of the largest pro- ducers of military vehicles, GMC builds many In fact, wherever Allied fighting forces need a multiple-ton commercial trucks for essential users. Civilian transport vehicle that can travel by water as well as by land, GMCs are powered by engines of the same there you'll usually find GMC's sensational seagoing truck basic design as the famous "270" used in more than 475,000 GMC "six-by-sixes" . . . the basic "Duck". This amazing amphibian, like the Army's often called the "Workhorse of the Army." 2V2-ton, six-wheel drive transport truck, is a development of

GMC Truck 8C Coach Division of General Motors . . . producer INVEST »N VICTORY . of well over a half a million military vehicles. BUY MORE WAR BONDS GMC TRUCK &i COACH DIVISION GENERAL MOTORS — xi^ HOME OF COMMERCIAL GMC TRUCKS AND GM COACHES ... VOLUME PRODUCER OF GMC ARMY TRUCKS AND AMPHIBIAN "DUCKS" AMERICAN CENTRAl MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, CONNERSVIllE, INDIANA • Builder of Jeep Bodies for Ford and Willys JULY, I94S 19

COMMUNITY ADVISORY SERVICE CENTER

Up these steps go the dischar- gees—to sure and friendly help

Ex-Marine W. E. SCATTERED AROUND this war-frenzied globe are Lentsch gets his some 28,000 service men and women who will be physical from Dr. E. especially interested in this story, because it concerns F. McGovern, full their home town area of Bridgeport and Fairfield County. time VA physician Connecticut. And all the rest of Uncle Sam's fourteen and active Legionnaire and a half million fighting nephews and nieces, if they could know about it, might well say: "Gosh! That's an idea! Wish folks in my town would take a look at Bridgeport—then go home and do likewise!' Meanwhile, suppose you mothers, fathers, wives, and friends come along for a brief visit to 258 Golden Hill Street, in the city of Bridgeport. The sign above the veranda of this large, three -story, friendly -looking house reads: "Community Advisory Service Center!' By

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The Center helped John T. McCarthy, An- zio veteran with a permanent disability, get his postal clerk job under PL 16

Alley Zero, 27 Occupational Adviser Sarkin shows Richard T. months in an AA Murray, Purple Heart infantryman, how his Army outfit, and sales- experience will help him land in the right job man for a machine tool manufacturer, way of partial explanation, the five smaller signs shows a customer on the porch pillars state that this is District his line. Zero's Headquarters for Selective Service; that the joined the Legion building houses the offices of Connecticut's Re- Employment Commission, the Veterans Admin- istration, the Bureau of Rehabilitation Service, and the Veterans' Financial Advisory Service. Quite a concentration of assistance organizations for the lads coming back from the wars—but wait

and see, that's not the half of it. If there is any form of constructive advice or assistance that the Center isn't equipped to offer the returning soldier, sailor or marine in solving readjustment problems, it hasn't yet been dis- covered. As Dr. Randall B. Hamrick, its Execu- Left, Charles Sokulich, tive Director, will tell you, the broad facilities ex-infantryman, at of the Center enable its personnel to counsel bench lathe in war -on everything from jobs, insurance, and GI plant, under Public law 16

Right, Prof. Holsey of Junior College at Brid^ port gives anatomical instruction to Robert M Ward, 22 months with an AA outfit JULY, 104 5

David Marcus, three years in the Army Air Forces, gets the lowdown on Gi Bill provisions from Legionnaire Dorman, VA Representative loans to medical care, compensation claims, and additional education, not to mention special in- terests and aptitudes, and the field of domestic relations. To gather all these factors under one roof for the convenience of those who may need them was a terrific task of organization which, to quote Dr. Hamrick, "would have been im- possible without help from men of the Legion!' Illustrative of the variation of services is the case of the sailor discharged after three years of South Pacific combat duty because of chronic arthritis. When this lad came home, he suffered unnecessarily from a "guilt complex" and wor- ried about what people would think of him. He Former Seaman 2 CI David Stocker talks over purchase of felt he had let his country down, and it didn't o chicken farm with Major Griggs, two-war veteran who is help any to have to be dependent, even tem- Financial Adviser at the Center porarily, on his in-laws for a place to live. In addition, his health {Continued on page 57)

Former Cavalryman Leo C.

O'Loughlin, Jr., who is studying business administration under

GI Bill educational provisions Mrs. Helen McHugh, Vocational Test Adviser, times Leo Deutsch, ex-ar- tilieryman and Legionnaire, in 22 Jhi AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne

TAKE ONE PART Ernie Pyle and two parts Connie Mack, stir well, pour out on a flat-top—and you've got a reasonable facsimile of Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mit- scher, commander of famous Task Force 58. From news pictures the Admiral is known as a leather-faced sea dog in a baseball cap.

"Pete" Mitscher is also the short, skinny, whisper-voiced guy who climbed aboard his new flagship early in 1944 with his shirt open at the collar, carrying a mystery thriller entitled Send Ajtother Coffin. His boys in Task Force 58 took the title of that book so much to heart that in their first 13 months they rolled up a score of 6650 Jap planes and 795 ships destroyed or dam- aged, plus incalculable destruction to shore installations. As quarterback of the fastest, hardest- hitting fighting team in history, Vice-Admi- ral Mitscher has revolutionized carrier war- fare. Accepted with misgivings by many naval authorities, the carrier was originally considered a hit-and-run weapon. Mitscher

Mitscher's. a Quiet Cuy

By Paul W. Kearney He speaks scarcely above a whisper, the boss of Task Force 58. But his hit-'em-and-stay technique of and Blake Clark throwing continuous Sunday punches at the Jap revolutionized sea warfare, gives Nippon the jitters reversed the technique. "Hit 'em—and on the end of his nose, placidly eating ice Marine flyers' pastime of dropping empty stay," he reasoned. "Hit 'efn again tomor- cream while all hell is breaking loose around beer bottles from reconnaissance planes on row. After the boys have seen the target him, Mitscher listens to staff reports with Jap outposts. and the conditions, they can really polish the calm of a high school principal enjoy- During another engagement Mitscher's it off." ing a Sunday afternoon boat ride. He speaks chief of staff, Commander Burke, took off Thus his Task Force 58's isoo planes so softly that you have to pay close atten- in a plane to have a look-see. When he re- struck Tokyo last February 16, gave an tion to hear him. Through all the ear-split- turned, Mitscher notified the force: "Burke encore on the 17th—and a return engage- ting turmoil, the frightful strain of his has returned from the target with this mes- ment nine days later when the Japs were responsibilities never dulls his sprightly sage—Quote: The airplane is here to stay!" confident he was a thousand miles away, humor. Informed that TF 58 had been "sunk" reprovisioning. Three weeks later, in the In a battle off Guam last year, Pete's three different times by Tokyo Rose in her most audacious move of the naval war up boys knocked down 402 Jap planes. One radio reports, Mitscher said, "Tell her I'm to that time, 58 was back for a three-day, observer counted 15 blazing enemy planes getting sick of swimming around in the 1400-plane attack on Kobe and points in the air at one time. At the peak of this Pacific." south, sailing to within 60 miles of the Jap melee a flaming Jap dive-bomber skimmed The father of these whimsies is one of the coast. On this strike, TF 58 destroyed more over Mitscher's flagship so low that men most rabid Jap-haters in the fleet. He won't than looo Jap planes, crippled 17 ships, on deck threw themselves flat to escape the talk to Jap prisoners brought aboard; won't and wound up by supporting our landings withering heat. The Admiral was still cran- even look at them. He can't forget what on Okinawa. ing his neck to watch the outcome when a happened to some of "Jimmy" Doolittle's The directing genius of all this fury is pair of bombs bracketed the ship in a hair- boys who took off from the deck of his the antithesis of Hollywood's swashbuckling breadth near-miss. Whereupon he sent this old carrier, the Hornet, on that first strike commander. Relaxed in the corner of a message to Admiral Lee, on a near-by flat- at Tokyo—or to many other American cap- leather divan in his compartment on the top: "Somebody just threw a beer bottle tives. As Doolittle's planes were being bridge, baseball cap shoved back, glasses at me!"—a wisecrack which refers to the {Continued on page 28) JULY, 1945 2J

" •* • The an+i-aircraft batteries -r -J-*" ^ jgC' were getting in their licks as the planes swooped over the target

i?o/77i^ Hong Kong

By Boyd B. Stutter

With the jth Air Force, L^izon American Legion War Correspondent Drawing by GRAY DAWN was breaking over the air- CAPTAIN RAYMOND CREEKMORE. AAF a roar we headed out over the South China strip. Eighteen big four-motored Liberators Sea for the China coast, where our mission taken from three squadrons of the 43d and the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clus- was to strike at shore and dock installa- Bombardment Group's heavy bombers had ters and has but a few missions to go to tions and at shipping in Hong Kong harbor. been taxied up to the Hne. obtain home leave. I had flown observation missions with the Skilled mechanics tuned the engines and such things flight Army Air Force, had long-range bombing As go, the from the made the last round of inspection. In a airstrip the neighborhood of the and observation missions with the Navy to target small group the flying officers, bombardiers was as uneventful and as unexciting as Fleet Air Wing from French Indo-China to a and some crew members were getting last flight from New York to Chicago. But busi- Shanghai, and I had dive-bombed with the minute instructions and information. ness picked as the coast. Com- hell-roaring Marine Air Group, but this up we neared China plete briefing had been given at the head- was something new in aerial experience. Calling in code, Col. Staley set his at- quarters an hour earlier — when the target Squeezed in between Col. Staley, com- tack group in order "Jellybean to King- had been well defined- and flyers the told mand pilot, and Capt. Morris E. Petty, fish, ready to support," "Jellybean to Horse- what to expect in antiaircraft is position?'' all in the way of pilot, I had a grandstand seat and plenty fly, what your — a conver- talking defense and weather conditions. of time to observe. As the heavy ship with sational tone as if over an inter- "All communicating office system. Overhead a set!" called Lt. Col. Harry A. its crew of thirteen and myself as super- Staley, Geneseo, N. Y., deputy commander cargo moved along smoothly over miles and top cover of P-38 Lightnings—twin-tailed of the group, flying the lead plane as flight miles of nothing but water there was time for angels—were scooting about looking for any commander. talk above the roar of the four giant motors. possible Japanese air interception. Forming in line of squadrons for the Five minutes later we were in the air, Capt. Petty, I found, is a son of Herschel with the other seventeen Liberators trail- Petty, Longview, Wash., a Past Com- attack, Col. Staley led in a long sweep over ing behind as they took off at intervals of mander of Longview Legion Post and a the mainland in order to come into the city seconds. An hour later at the rendezvous Past District Commander. Now making his from the west, then peeled off and headed the lead planes circled a small island while home at Odessa, Texas, the young airman in toward the target. From my position

the flight formed into squadrons. Then with has won the Distinguished Flying Cross (Continued on page J2 \ The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

Pitiless publicity for the activities of those who hate the American way of life has been the Committee's most effective weapon Upstandingfy American

THE UNITED STATES Congress has pro- democracy. Had they been successful, Teu- vided the same protection for the home By Hay Tucker tonic emissaries might now be dictating front in the still-uncharted postwar era that peace terms in London or Washington. global war and even after we ourselves were maintenance of a powerful Army, Navy The Dies Committee performed another involved in it. and Air Force will give the Western Hemi- valuable and practical service. It made a Despite widespread and justified criticism sphere against foreign enemies. In the crea- generous and thoughtless people aware of of the Dies Committee because of its some- tion of a permanent Committee to Investi- the detailed and subtle intrigues, tactics and times unwise, unfair and arbitrary proce- gate Un-American Activities, a domestic methods practiced by saboteurs, spies and dure, which on occasion wronged innocent safeguard long sought by The American propagandists trained in the Hitler-Goeb- persons, that investigation did reveal hid- Legion, the legislators have established an bels school. Many prominent and patriotic den dangers to which the United States, all agency designed to prevent the United Americans, deluded by the "Christian" and unwittingly, had been exposed by our easy States from falling prey to fifth columnists "American" pretensions of these false-front tolerance of foes within the gates. of the kind who helped to destroy Poland, organizations, gave them moral, oratorical It disclosed that scores of organizations, France, Norway and Holland. and financial support, thus increasing their masquerading their true nature and designs This new Standing Congressional Com- sphere of alien influence and infiltration. behind such noble nomenclature as "Chris- mittee, which enjoys unprecedented power These unsuspecting contributors to anti- tian," "American," "International," "Demo- in that it has the right to hold hearings American movements, including some high cratic" and "Peaceful," tried to prevent us anywhere, to issue subpoenas for persons officials at Washington, resigned from and from giving aid to those nations fighting for or papers, to offer legislation and to insti- repudiated these groups onb/ after they tute impeachment proceedings against of- Though Martin Dies is no longer in were made acquainted with the facts by fending or recalcitrant officials, is Dies investigators. the suc- Congress, the Committee of which cessor to the stormy Dies Committee. In- The 1 93 7-1 944 Congressional inquiry also he was chairman continues in un- deed, it owes its life to the Dies exposure disclosed that most of these apparently of Nazi, Fascist and Communist attempts abated vigor, and with more au- friendly forces were financed by funds from to poison American thought under false thority than before to root out and Berlin, Rome or Tokyo, distributed from masks, both before the outbreak of the expose our domestic enemies (Contmned on page 46) JULY, 1945 25

Three men of the 87th Infantry Division of the Third Army ad- vance cautiously against a suspected sniper's-nest

You ShouM See Coblenz /

FORTY SECONDS more, three miles more, of flight, and we should By FREDERICK PALMER be over Coblenz and the Rhine. It was at the turn of the 39th second that the veteran pilot of this C-47, Edward J. Kaminski of St. Louis, Argonne dugout just before the signing of the Armistice. said, "No farther. Better luck tomorrow if it is a clear day." In 1 91 8 we marched into a Germany untouched by war's If we had gone on, even the tall castle of Ehrenbreitstein, familiar destruction. In place of billets in ruins and dugouts we had landmark to all of us who had been with the American Army of Occu- billets in intact houses. Treves and smaller German towns and pation at the end of World War One, would have been sunk deep in villages were as unharmed as those at home. We had rest on soup at the height we were then flying. {Continued on page 2g) But I was to have the best of luck in a look on old scenes tomor- row. Also it turned out to be good luck today that Kaminski had shifted As the 28th Infantry's vanguard entered Coblenz his direct course to escape thickening weather in returning to base. for the Occupation, after the lost war. The last of On this particular flight Kaminski was carrying gas to Patton's tanks, our troops came out of Coblenz in January, 1923 then two hundred miles deep in Germany. In his swing south Kaminski struck a belt of clearer weather close to the earth in place of-the haze we had been flying through.

There we were over Trier, so low it seemed only a short jump to the church steeple. Trier, or Treves, was a big town we passed through on the way to the Rhine after the Armistice in 191 8. Who of us will forget the scenes of devastation in France we left behind us that time? Or the foxholes, or the shell craters and sloughs of mud around the dugouts of the Meuse-Argonne battlefield? I'll say there was nothing worse in this war or any war than that. I hold in frigid memory the last filthy, bitter cold night I spent in a Meuse-

You'd have difficulty picking out familiar places in the rubble that is Coblenz, says the dean of Annerican war correspondents, back after 27 years, and retaining vivid recollections of the city that was BY JULIUS HIRSCH light of the reparations fiasco after the last Illustration by F. R. GRUGER war. The Allies demanded cash then. They itself is rule that the factories which greatly AS OLD as war the didn't want German goods because there man augmented her for another war. vanquished shall pay the victor. And never was a labor surplus in Allied countries. ability to rearm in history justice solidly behind Always practical people, the Russians was more Then as now, Germany had little gold with a this it is today. delib- well this lesson from World I. rule than The Nazis which to pay. Paper marks were worthless read War If can't to pay in cash erately planned a war for world domination. unless they could be used to buy German Germany be made life wantonly and or goods, then can she be mad& to They destroyed human goods. It was only through private loans how meaninglessly on a scale unheard of before. pay? The only other way is in manpower. from the United States that it was possible destruction of homes, facto- first to advance the proposal of repara- Their savage for Germany to maintain for a time the The ries, transport all other forms of wealth tions in was Professor Eugene and fiction of payments. These loans totaled manpower three continents seven seas is beyond Varga, head of the World Economic Insti- on and about $5,000,000,000, approximately the sum September, he computation. of German payments which were originally tute in Moscow. In 1943, There isn't the slightest prospect of being suggested that a defeated Germany contrib- scheduled at 33 billion dollars. Germany to make restitution the Allies for able to compel That $5,000,000,000 of American money ute 10 million laborers to physical damage. The total far even for the did more than permit Germany to make 10 years. all German property commodities exceeds the value of token payments on her debt. It built Ger- Reparations in the form of before the bombers and tanks got there. are by po means ruled out, especially by But the Allies appear to believe that half the Russians. However, in countries where a loaf is better than none. And certainly there may be a threat of unemployment, Raymond Moley, the distin- there is no one outside Germany or Japan both labor and management object. What guished American publicist, to who questions the desirability of keeping profit to this country, if it should receive this piece for his alive in the world the idea that crime doesn't whom we sent huge shipments of goods from Germany at Dr. pay. Anything which will contribute con- comment, writes us: "When the expense of putting large numbers of the author of this vincingly to that idea is worth more than Julius Hirsch, workers on the dole? But Russia's situation splendid article, was exiled from gold. is different. The Russian economy is state- Den- The Allied triumvirate which met at Yalta Germany and later from controlled to a degree not known in the discussed the nature of reparations to be mark, his homeland lost, the other Allied countries. Production and avail- valu- exacted this time on a defeated Germany. United States gained a most able manpower are its economic units. Rus- econo- It is to be "reparations in kind." Why in able citizen. There are few sia will be faced with an acute labor short- kind? Why not in cash, in good American mists in the world who combine age after the war. She will have an enormous dollars, for instance? such profound knowledge of eco- task of reconstruction, and a man shortage. ex- There is no better answer than that nomic literature with long While no one objects in principle to exact- Germany hasn't got that much cash, or any- perience in public service. This ing reparations in goods and services, many thing like it. Nor is there any prospect that article brings to the attention of in this country and elsewhere have been she will have. Shortly before V-E Day Americans a post-war situation of alarmed by the Russian proposal to con- General Patton's men took over the gold of great international importance. It {Contmiied on page 30) the German Reichsbank—no more than $200 would not have been brought out million found cached in a salt mine, or except for Dr. Hirsch's keen ob- job of rebuilding the Germans will about half what this country spends in a servation of international affairs One is that of the lOO-million-dollar dam day for the war the Germans and the Japs and his extensive personal knowl- do over the Dnieper which the Russians forced upon it. edge of Europe." blew up in 1941 just in time The decision at Yalta was made in the

The AMERICAN LEGION Masazinr 28 GO NORTHWEST. SOLDIER! trial future is almost half the nation's po- tential hydro-electrical power. When all its (Contimied from page ii) gions. All world's records for milk and installations are complete, Grand Coulee constantly reducing the spread between new butterfat production in the Jersey breed alone will produce more electrical energy growth and depletion. When the two curves are either held or have been held by dairy- than the present output of all the dams produc- meet—and experts say it will not be long men of the two States. Butterfat and steam plants of the Tennessee Valley after the war—Northwest forests will con- tion per cow over the entire area is 247 Authority. The cost is the cheapest in the tinue to produce new wealth as long as the pounds annually, compared to a national nation. Oregon and Washington housewives seasons roll and men use wood. average of 182.8 pounds. pay an average of iM cents per kilowatt The promise of the future does not lie The enormous per acre productivity stems hour compared to a national average of 3 in an increased cut but in ever-expanding from good soil, ample water and a mild cents. Power is available to industries at new uses for forest products. An example climate. The last factor—climate—is re- two mills per kilowatt hour. globe's is Douglas Fir plywood, whose output has sponsible for the region's health, the What this vast reservoir of power will increased 600 percent during the past two heaviest stand of timber and a year-around mean in the post-war picture can only be decades. Industrial chemists agree that the industrial activity. It also bears on a less surmised. It is being utilized in war; it distillation of alcohol and other by-products tangible but important factor called "pleas- will be available in peace. This much is from wood waste, already under way, will ant living." In Western Oregon and Wash- certain from the record. Wherever cheap usher in a whole new constellation of in- ington roses bloom at Christmas, and gen- power and raw materials are available side dustries in the post-war era. eral crop failures, tornadoes or extremes by side, at tidewater, industrial expansion of heat or cold are alike unknown. In nor- follows inevitably. (3) Agriculture is the Northwest's sec- ond great source of perpetual wealth, With- mal times more than 1,000,000 motor tour- Thus, in pin-point summary, the North- in the borders of Oregon and Washington ists—half of them from California—spend west's three great primal assets—timber, can be raised, and is being raised, every their vacations in the Pacific Northwest. agriculture, and power—loom like giants vegetable, field and fruit crop native to There will be immediate post-war oppor- against the post-war horizon. The average the temperate zone. The area produces a tunities in agricuhure. The Willamette Val- veteran is looking far beyond any tempo- marketable surplus of from three to fifteen ley alone (3,000,000 acres) could support rary readjustment. What he asks for, has its population. Already blue- fought for and is entitled to is the chance times its own requirements in such food double present when hostili- his niche of staples as grain, livestock and dairy prod- printed, awaiting development to earn and maintain own irrigation projects in security, in American way, in the na- ucts, canned fruit and vegetables. These ties cease, are new the and including colossal tion's permanent economy. In the North- are items which population centers must both States, up to have, good times or bad. Grand Coulee (1,200,000 acres). west, the paths toward that goal are broad Underwriting the Northwest's indus- and plainly marked. It is one of the nation's finest dairy re- (4) MITSCHERS A QUIET GUY

(Continued from page 22) even the lurid propaganda claims of Radio replacement planes and pilots, mail, and readied for that epochal mission, the Ad- Tokyo. And it is relentless, because it even a floating hospital. Meeting TF 58 at miral brought down the decorations that never has to go home. "When you go to a secret rendezvous, this train reprovisions had been awarded him by the Japanese sea with Mitscher, by God, you stay at the force completely. Protected by its own technique has carriers, cruisers and destroyers, the "train's" Government in prewar years, and had them sea!" Mitscher's hit-and-stay — Their arro- kind of wired on the bombs for return "special flabbergasted the Jap admirals. usefulness hinges on the sharpest start of this war organizational timing. delivery." gant confidence at the This 58-year-old flying sailor piloted his was based on the fact that our nearest Thus fortified, TF 58 shapes up much decent base, Hawaii, was nearly 4000 miles like a crack varsity football team. Battle- first bamboo-and-wire crate back in 1913. As squadron commander of "flying cof- away from the Japanese mainland. ships, cruisers and destroyers screen the secret of Mitscher's staying power play and run interference. Flat-tops carry fins" left over from the last war, he won The on is the Navy's fabulous Pacific "supply train" the ball and pack the scoring wallop. Call- the Navy Cross for piloting the NC-4 hundreds of ships carrying food, fuel, ing the signals for this two-billion-dollar the Navy's first trans-Atlantic flight in 1919, — carrier ammunition, spare- parts, repair facilities. aggregation is "Pete" Mitscher, who hasn't and landed the first plane on the missed a, trick yet. The squinting, twinkling Saratoga in 1928. He pioneered in torpedo bombing, reasoning that "nothing but a blue eyes, under shaggy brows, belie the punch he packs. His short, wiry stature, torpedo will blow up a ship." longish neck and reddish hair suggest a His flying experience made him a natu- bantam cock, but -his retiring manner and ral for the leadership of Task Force 58. soft laugh flatly contradict that impression. His insatiable appetite for a fight, his quiet is the epitome of calm -poise in action daring, his uncanny ability for outguessing He and the hotter the action the more glee- the Jap, have crystallized that leadership — ful his grin. into glittering successes and written a new In a score of strikes and in supporting page in naval annals. dozen landings. Admiral Mitscher has For TF 58 is really something new under a gold stars to his Distinguished the sun. Totaling over one and a half mil- added two but a single gray hair lion square feet of floating runways, it is Service Medal— not his For when he tells you he en- so big that one captured Jap pilot said he to head. joys fight, he really means it. The only knew they'd lost the war when he got his a thing ever worries about is the fact that first bird's-eye view of its hundreds of he his probably worrying about him. ships, from destroyers to 45,000-ton battle- wife is wagons, spread over 40 square miles of His flyers idolize him because he gives every possible break. is extremely ocean. It is so fast that no pre-Pearl Har- them He to send his flyers up in bad bor battleship could keep pace with it. It reluctant weather. "If we're going to kill pilots," he is so deadly that its verified score shames 81 -

JULY. 1945 29 says, "it'll be in fighting." He goes to picture snapped with one of his ace pilots— A stranger to exercise, he seems to re- rescue downed flyers; once he even sent "just for my own personal scrapbook, un- coup his energies through his ability to a destroyer to pick up a pilot shot down derstand." Hating sham, he wouldn't [)ut relax. Yet even when relaxed physically his

in Tokyo Bay. on a steel helmet for another photographer. mind is eternally busy : he often sits si- Never was love of his boys so well dem- "Hell, I seldom wear the damned thing; lently for an hour or more, thinking out onstrated as on the night of June 20, 1944, why should I be photographed in it?" His tactics. when, peering into the darkness from the long-peaked baseball cap is no affectation: The fruits of these lone cogitations are bridge, he waited for them to return from "It keeps the sun out of my eyes." so successful that Mitscher, who barely the first Battle of the Philippines and heard The Admiral's fighting day begins around scraped through AnnapoHs in 19 10, is today many passing over, unable to locate their 3 A.M., when he is awakened and handed recognized as the greatest carrier tactician carriers. To turn on the searchlights would the night's dispatches. By five he is launch- in the world. invite disaster—a Jap plane had already ing the first strike. A deck full of bomb- But the rank and file of Task Force 58 been spotted overhead. "But he can dam- loaded planes makes this a tense hour. think of Pete Mitscher as anything but a age only one ship, and may miss that," Mitscher never relaxes enough to have dry tactician. He is a very human guy who Mitscher said. "My boys have done a good breakfast until the planes are off. Two drinks chocolate milk (which he hates) job and I'll be damned if I don't do every- hours later, the second flight is off and he because it's probably good for him, who thing to get 'em back. Lights on!" From is questioning the first returning pilots. By is proud of the fact that he has been in each carrier group a great column of white noon he is examining, with a magnifying love with the same wife for 32 years, who light, visible to any Jap sub lurking within glass, the films of the first pictures. With can fight a cigarette with a single match 30 miles, shot into the sky and guided in planes taking off and returning from sun in any gale, and who once jocularly saluted the pilots. up to sun down, his day is interrupted his staff with a thumb suspiciously close

Mitscher is so unassuming that he was only by a glass of iced tea at ten and to his nose. once overheard asking a photographer if another at four. He eats supper alone and In short, "a three-star Adm.iral and a "it would be all right" for him to have his is in bed by nine. five-star guy."

YOU SHOULD SEE COBLENZ!

(Continued from page 25) continued, to cover the drive into the ruins hit and hit it with bull's-eye accuracy, dry floors—if not dry beds—and the next by the doughboys, who had to mop up along with shots that blas<^ed the outer day moved on over hard instead of shell- any points of die-hard resistance. Then target rings. It was a terrific example of torn roads. bombers and guns had to silence any gun- modern warpower and American accuracy But now I saw Treves and towns that fire from Ehrenbreitstein on the opposite in employing it. had been blasted aplenty, and villages which bank. Where in 191 8 the people curiously In some instances, very clearly defined had been completely flattened out. Torn watched from windows and street corners in the bright sunlight, the steel roof beams roads .were being repaired for our supply the march of the Americans into their un- and girders of buildings, particularly facto- columns of trucks. Skimming the tops of harmed city, this time some peered out ries, still stood in naked outline. It was as the trees of the forests we had passed in though they were skeletons stripped of their

1 918 I saw how portions had been felled flesh. Industrial Coblenz. its factories, its and splintered by fire as were those in the stores, its producing centers, was generally Argonne and Belleau Wood. I saw how we in ruins, its radiating urban arteries of life had built bridges over the winding Meuse cut. River to replace those which the Germans But there was an outer suburban fringe had destroyed to prevent our crossing. of houses little damaged or not damaged All this over our line of march to the at all, and some inner sections which had Rhine was introductory to the second day's missed the general demolition. From the air trip. In crystal clear memory of the Co- I could see that the hotel where I once had blenz that was in 191 8, I was flown back been billeted was no longer habitable. A and forth over and around Coblenz as it new hotel would have to be built before is now. Below us. Old Glor>' floated again anybody was billeted there again. over a battered Ehrenbreitstein which this On the ground within the city itself any time had been taken by force of our arms. doubt that the main section would have But what had been done to the ancient to be rebuilt disappeared, if you had any fortress was incidental to what had been from an air view. Before it is rebuilt the done to Coblenz and its suburbs and to rubble will have to be cleared away. Co- towns and villages generally which we knew blenz has the same role before her in re- along the Rhine. You who saw it in 191 construction as cities in the devastated should see Coblenz in this summer of 1945 regions of France had after World War One. "Well! It's Johnson home on fur- The most noticeable thing from the air Major In detail the ground view of Coblenz is was the way those bridges we crossed in lough from the tank corps!" the same as that with which pictures and of ruins of 1 91 8 had now become lifeless, broken spans. descriptions the other German That was the Germans' share of the devas- from cellar dugouts under white flags as we cities have familiarized us. You pick your tation, systematically carried out to delay passed in battle array through the ruins. way among debris, except where a way has the pursuit by our forces. But the rest was During our occupation in 1918 I had been cleared for army traffic. In the wreck- ours, the work of our bombers and our something like an air view in looking down age of a factory building you may note a guns. We didn't destroy for destruction's on the city from Ehrenbreitstein. But that machine which possibly can be salvaged sake. But Coblenz was a vital German was not as close as it was yesterday look- by repair. transportation center. So we went to work ing down from the C-47. It was not a case Coblenz had become a ghost city occu- on it. of flying over rooftops, but where rooftops pied by a few ghosts. The ghosts gazed up Our heavy bombers concentrated on it had been. The air view provided a sense at Ehrenbreitstein and at the broken first. Bombing did not cease when it was of the pattern and plan of bomb and shell bridges. Their movements were concerned in range of our guns. Bombing and gunfire destruction. We knew what we wanted to with food and shelter and seeing where the 30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine most damage was done. It was estimated that not more than 3,000 persons were in the city three weeks after its capture. Gradually a few more were straggling in from the country where they had taken refuge during the bombardment. And Co- blenz had a pre-war population of 65.000. A Legionnaire might locate his old billet little damaged or the spot among the ruins where it had been. If he sought beer it would not not be forthcoming. Small loss, though. Hitler beer was not as good at its best as Kaiser beer at its worst. But if he started a conversation with a native he would be reminded by an M. P. that fraternizing is forbidden. This is to impress the lesson which General Omar Bradley emphasized when he said, upon raising the Stars and Stripes over Ehren- breitstein, that this time Germany must know she is beaten. HEINIES GOING BACK

{Contitmed frotn page 26) ries, farms and villages of a third of the done with many thousands of French, Dutch, script labor directly. Are we to force men Russian nation. When the invader was Poles, Norwegians, Yugoslavs. How explain to do "slave" labor after winning a war driven from Russian soil there was little to Ivan that Fritz can exact such service of which was to do away with totalitarian for 60 million Russians to return to but him and his relatives, but that the defeated enslavement? ashes and memories of slaughtered loved Fritz cannot be made to work for him?

To this it^ has been objected that there ones. Already the German propagandists have is no very great difference between taking The Russians have made it clear that it raised the cry of "a nation in chains doing the product of labor and taking the labor would be intolerable to them to see Berlin, slave labor on the ice plains of Siberia." itself. Anyway, during his visit to Yalta, Hamburg and Dresden splendidly rebuilt, This brings up the question of who will President Roosevelt saw at first-hand the while Kiev. Odessa and Stalingrad lie in be affected if the Russian proposal is adopt- destruction inflicted by the Nazis. At one of ruins. And one of the jobs the Germans ed. Not all Germans will be transported to his press conferences after his return he was will have to work on is the rebuilding of Russia or some other of the Allied nations asked about the Russian demand for German the famous loo-million-dollar dam over the to help with reconstruction. Presumably the manpower. He replied that he didn't think Dnieper River built under the supervision most guilty groups, those with the most United it would be a bad idea to send some German of the late Col. Hugh Cooper of the blood on their hands will be given an ex-soldiers back "to clean things up." States. The Russians destroyed this great A-i' priority for this privilege. that In part, the issue is one of expediency. dam in 1941 when it became apparent A tentative list of the most fanatical

It is also, of course, a matter of justice. the Germans were going to capture it. adherents of the Nazi doctrine would in- that As the Russians see it, both considerations And the Russians have not forgotten clude : support their claim. through almost four years the Germans All members of the SS and SA organiz- At the flood-tide of German victories, forced some 6 million peaceful Soviet citi- ations, from general to private. Nazi armies engulfed the homes and facto- zens into slave labor in Germany—as was All members of the Gestapo. All who were Nazi party members before January, 1933. All who held Nazi party office, even AMERICA'S DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE though they joined the party after 1933. It is of utmost importance that thorough- 1619—August, Jamestown, Virginia. going and fundamental re-education be sup- plied for these most rabid the 1687—August 2, Ipsvi^ich, Massachusetts. members of Nazi party. 1765—October 7, New York City. (Stamp Act Congress) As yet there is no indication of what 1769—May 12, Williamsburg, Virginia. (Virginia Resolu- America will ask in reparations. France has tions) joined Russia in asking for German man- 1774 —October 10, Chester, Vermont. power. Holland wants fertile German soil 1775—May 31, Charlotte, North Carolina. (The Mecklen- to replace flooded areas of her own country. burg Declaration of Independence) Yugoslavs and Greeks will want tools. Po- 1776—May 27, Maiden, Massachusetts, land, restitution of stolen and destroyed property—and so on. 1776—June 12, Williamsburg, Virginia. (Declaration o£ Rights) There is little hope that this country can get much of a material nature. Its primary 1776 June 15, Newport, Rhode Island. (Declaration of In- — interest is a Germany unable to make war, dependence) and a stable Europe. This country will be 1776 —June 15, Exeter, New Hampshire. in a position to play a decisive role in 1776—July 2, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (DECLARA- settling disputes at the reparations table. TION OF INDEPENDENCE) If American statesmanship rises to the oc- casion, there will be ample reward just in lessening the prospect of World War III. All Kinds of People Work for Republic

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WEARERS {Continued from page ij) stopped using that German bridge four at a signal they gouged roads through the days before it finally slumped into the dykes. Rhine. But it wasn't easy going. The first LCVM After the Army was ready to take over to hit the water made two eastward trips, and move on into Germany, the Navy went delivering two tanks with full crews, but back to sea, after the most important inland

on the second return trip it was hit by an naval action in history. 88 millimeter shell and was completely knocked out. On the first day, however, at the point How YOU Can Avoid When Navy Chief Photographer where the two chief photographers were Robert Parrish was taking official taking pictures, the Navy craft landed pictures of the Rhine crossings, an DENTURE BREATH across the Rhine 300 tanks and tank de- Army officer pointed out a castle on stroyers with crews, 1,000 jeeps and trail- a high bluff. He said it permitted an doesn't ers, 4,000 troops. They brought back across Guess Who? He have to guess... ideal picture of that section of the wounded, 2,000 he knows! There's just no hiding your . . the river 200 American river. Parrish privately disagreed, DENTURE BREATH. Avoid offending in German prisoners of war. considering the type of equipment he this way. Don't trust brushing with ordi- The photographers, both of whom were had. But in both Army and Navy nary cleansers that scratch your plate ma- Hollywood movie technicians, crossed the scratches help food particles "orders is orders" so he toiled up to terial. Such Rhine themselves at dawn, to get both sides and film to collect faster, cling tighter, the castle. As he had expected, his of the invasion picture. And then they causing offensive Denture Breath. equipment was not suitable for that toured the entire bridgehead area, watching distance. But he found an old care- Third and Ninth Armies SOAK DENTURES IN POLIDENT DAILY men of the First, taker . who told him the castle be- land. longed to the Rhinelander family of It's Easy! It's Quick! At Remagen they found the Army engi- New York, and gave him an old pic- pontoon Play safe! . . . Soak NO neers already at work building ture postcard of the Rhine from that denture in Polident BRUSHING bridges. The current was so strong that view. Chief Parrish went back to the 15 minutes or over- Navy LCVPs down stream were being used night . . . rinse . . . and river and showed the card to the them and hold them in place use. A daily Polident to push against officer. "That the sort of thing you bath gets into tiny until they could be linked together. It was wanted, sir?" he asked. "Absolutely," crevices brushing r an almost impossible job, but in three days never seems to reach, the officer beamed. "I don't know three bridges across the Rhine were built —keeps your plate you fellows develop and print from the old Rema- how clean and odor-free. there, to take the load your pictures so fast." gen bridge. result of this we had already What's more . . . brushing with ordinary As a tooth pastes, tooth powders or soaps, often wears down the delicate fitting ridges on your plate. With worn-down ridges, of WE BOMB HONG KONG course, your pUte may loosen. There's no such danger with Polident brushing— so no {Continued from page 23) cut a wide path of red fire and black smoke —and soaking is so easy, so sure. along the waterfront. stretched out belly-bumper and looking Chicago, down through the bomb bay I could see Lt. Ray L. Jorgenson, navigator, shoulder. "Not Honk Kong 11,500 feet below; its streets 111., peered down over my much ack-ack today," he remarked non- parks, public squares and larger buildings chalantly nasty burst near the nose standing out in a pattern as distinct as a as a gave the ship an uneasy moment and an- toy village. in one No Japanese planes came on out to other at the tail cut a jagged hole challenge the heavy bombers—they had of the fins. Lieut. Jorgenson had made a great many had their fill of fighting the day before runs and had seen a lot of ground fire, and when Lt. Col. James T. Pettus, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., 43d Group Commander, led a raid on the same area. The ship was straining at top speed in making its run over the dock installations. Later — Now no Denture Breath comes below, flashes of fire in serried ranks between them! She's one of the delighted Down places told us that the anti- millions who have found Polident the new, from dozens of licks easy way to keep dental plates and bridges aircraft batteries were getting in their sparkling clean, odor-free. If you wear a and were expending a great deal of am- removable bridge, a partial or complete munition. dental plate, play safe. Use Polident daily "Bombs away!" snapped Col. Staley. to help maintain the original natural ap- Lt. M. M. Schoonmaker, veteran Ten- pearance of your plate. Costs less than 1(4 nessee bombardier, tripped the release and a day. All drug counters; 30i, 60^. eight thousand pounds of lethal enlighten- ment in 1,000 pound projectiles went hur- tling down smack on the assigned target. But the first bombload had not struck when TO KEEP PLATES AND BRIDGES Number Two dropped its load, followed by CLEAN... AND ODOR-FREE! Number Three—the bombs bursting in fine ^hunt Ruihmore Meriiurt^il m :hi B.uci Hiili of S^ulh Dili 0/ thCC 3 Sitl^

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he was not greatly impressed, ^ut to an Lt. Robert E. Locke, bombardier, Grant led the squadron of six planes to the vicin- inexperienced obser\-er it seemed that the City. ^lo., released the forty bombs in ity of Simpson Harbor, shut off their en- Japs were throwing up ever\-thing they had strings of five and by the time the other gines and glided in undetected, dropping except Hirohito"s back teeth. I had been South Sea Scalpers completed their run their bombs from masthead height on a on the receiving end so many times when the field had taken a very thorough plas- cluster of Jap' ships. So successful was the tering. try-out that the same maneuver was car- Lt. Locke's father, the late Benjamin ried out the following night, and in the Frankhn Locke, was an active member of two raids the six planes destroyed more John Edgar Barnes Post of the Legion, at than 100,000 tons of Jap shipping without Grant City, and while flying 17,000 feet loss or injur\- to themselves. above Formosa Strait the young bombar- Col. Harry Staley. then a Heutenant, dier dug down into his pocket and fished command pilot on the Hong Kong mission, out a Legion hospitahty card issued to him was one of the wild flyers who helped Capt. by his father's Post. Benn. and who was on that first skip- The two flights made with the Lucky bombing foray. Now on his third tour of Dicers and the South Sea Scalpers were duty in the Southwest Pacific, he has merely routine to the 43d Bombardment earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with Group—Ken's Men, the group is called two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with the oldest hea\-y-bombing outfit in the five Clusters, in addition to a miscellaneous Southwest Pacific Theater. This group has lot of other ribbons and decorations. literally advanced the bomb line from Aus- The others in the original skip-bombing tralia, their starting point in the bitter squadron were Capt. Kenneth McCullar, days early in the war when Uncle Sam Courtland, Miss., who gave the group its was marshaling his forces, to the waters name and who is almost a legendary figure surrv mding the inner fortress of the Jap- in the folklore of the 43d. Promoted to major, he was killed some months later Jap raiders came over Morotai, the Philip- anese 5nipire. Landing at Sydney in Februan.-, in a takeoff' from a New Giunea field when pines and ships at sea that it was a satis- 1942, flying equipment a wallaby fouled his ship. Maj. Franklin faction to be a dispatcher briefly. without planes or other from York, T. Greene, Capt. William Murphy, and Back at the field after eight hours and after an ocean voyage New the South Atlantic and around the Capt. Edward W. Scott, later group com- thirty minutes in the air. it was found that through .\frica Australia, the 43d mander as a colonel, completed the roll. the lead plane in which I rode was the only southern tip of to Group, After McCuUar's death the men of the one hit. The damage was slight, but the relieved the 19th Bombardment from the Philip- 43d named their group Ken's Men as a crew was elated—that small jagged hole which had just retreated tribute to their great flight leader who. it is counted one point for every officer and man pines. claimed, once circled around over Rabaul on the loo-point scale for Statewide leave. Now after more than three years of the for four hours when it was the hottest Only the day before when Col. Pettus came hardest kind of ser\-ice and with but sixty spot in the Pacific. Two other Kens were in from his flight he had a badly-wounded of its original personnel left on its rolls, also honored in the selection of the name: man aboard and flak holes in a dozen places it has rolled up a record of more than Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney, Commanding cut in the plane. 65.000 hours of combat flying; has sunk General of the Far East Air Forces, and Other members of the crew on the flight or damaged more than 1,025.000 tons of Brig. Gen. Kenneth Walker, 5th Bomber to Hongkong were Lt. Willard Brown, co- Jap shipping, and has put in thousands of Command, who was lost in combat. pilot. Everett. Wash.; Lt. Ray K. Keller, hours in support of ground troops. Ken's Among its many honors is a Presidential Vancouver, Wash.; Lt. Wayne D. Potter. Men have sunk or damaged more than Unit Citation for its participation in the Bear Lake. Mich.; Staff Sgt. Ra>Tnond F. 115.000 tons of Jap shipping during the Papua, New Guinea, campaign, when it ^^'eidman, Colhngdale. Pa.; Staff Sgt. Har- Phihppine campaign alone. played a major role in keeping the Japs old F. Elhott, Lawrence. Kans.: Staff Sgt. High-level bombing has not been reduced out of Port Moresby in December, 1942, J. B. Petray. Jr., San Antonio. Texas; Staff' to an exact science, but the Ken's Men by bombing the Kokoda Trail in the Buna Sgt. David T. Turner. Boston. Mass.: Staff bombardiers have held up their end of the area. Shortly thereafter, it will be remem- Sgt. Bert R. Will. Baldwin Park. Cal.. and string. In the three years these lads have bered, the tide turned and the Japs started Staff Sgt. Kenneth McLean, .\tlanta. Ga. maintained an average of 72.42 percent of the long trek back home. Ever>- man in the crew had earned decora- bombs on target, while for five months tions and nearly all of them had two Oak in 1944 the group led all heavy bomber Leaf Clusters to decorate their Air Medals. outfits in the Far East Air Force with over 90 percent. What is more pleasing is that TWO DAYS later, flying with Maj. Lin this group, whose missions sometimes re- Parker. Arkansas City, Ark., commanding quire fourteen to eighteen hours of flying, the South Sea Scalper squadron. I rode has not lost a ship over a target in more another bombing mission to strike at an than a year. enemy airdrome at Shinchiku. on the north- Pioneering in hea\y bombing methods, em tip of Formosa, in weather so foul and six men of the 43d developed the technique soupy that it was only with chfficulty that of skip-bombing and were the first to em- the target was located. Looking down ploy the movement. It was while the group through the waist hatch, over the shoulder was stationed at Port Moresby, New- of FFC Edward Downey, Xorristown, Pa., Guinea, that Capt. Bill Benn, a squadron I could make out the outlines of the Jap commander, conceived the idea. He sold air field and see the dull flashes as the the plan to five wildcat flyers and to- strings of loo-pound frag bombs found gether they worked out complete details their billet. An interceptor plane flashed and did some practice skipping on aban- across our path, but he had no stomach doned ships in the New Guinea harbors. for a fight. One night in August, 1942, Capt. Benn . !

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{Continued from page 21) tics." Carl A. Gray, author of the plan Choose from wasn't too good, he wanted to train for a that bears his name, studied unemployment new job and didn't know how to go about of men over 40 as far back as 1932 and found that many were veterans of All 3 Types it, and there were perplexing questions as World to compensation claims, insurance, and War I. In Gray's re-training program to of Zenith Radionic Hearing Aids some taxes—enough to give anybody a find those men jobs and help end unem- good case of heebie-jeebies. ployment, he held to the theory that a When the Center went to work on the more satisfactory return to peacetime pur- problems, it called in the Veterans Admin- suits could be accomplished by the indi- istration to settle the claim, the Treasury vidual communities. So successful were to adjust tax payments, the local family his operations, with the help of a state-wide NEUTRAL-COLOR agency for housing and home difficulties. committee of Legionnaires, that Governor EARPHONE AND CORD He took a complete examination and was Baldwin's Commission was organized along So Inconspicuous! given physical therapy for the arthritis, those lines. aptitude tests for that new job, with ar- Accordingly, in Bridgeport they held a rangements for special training, and expert regular old-fashioned town meeting to advice on insurance, and all for free. Under inaugurate the idea of local control over 7^ . that treatment the guilt complex disap- local problems. Mayor Jasper McLevy ap- The new Zenith, model A- 2 -A, for average hearing loss. The new, patented "Prentiss Tube" peared, and the veteran became a happy, pointed as Co-ordinator, Legionnaire J. brings clarity and volume range with low battery solid citizen, all Wilham Hope, whom everybody in the because the people of consumption. Complete, ready-to-wear, $40. Bridgeport realized several months ago vicinity knows as "Bill," and who has a that there was a thing termed "reconver- reputation for sparkplugging civic projects. sion" headed in their general direction. Hope was gassed in the last war and \yas Quite a number of them recalled a some- a German prisoner for six months. He The new super-power Air- Conduction Zenith, model what comparable situation of 26 years ago, knows what returning service men of this A-3-A, for more than average and they shuddered at recollection of the war are up against, because he had his hearing loss. Extra volume to strains, sprains, and dislocations it had own way to make when he came back in assure maximum clarity and brought about in their economic and social 1919. Bill Hope was given a free hand, tone quality under the most difficult conditions. Complete, lives. They thought of the 68,000 men in wholly uninfluenced by politics, special ready-to-wear, $50. uniform who returned to Connecticut after groups, planning agencies, or other pressure, the last war, and compared that figure with orders to dig deeply into the situation. with the 225,000 to 250,000 veterans ex- Bill dug, on the theory that he would The new Bone-Conduction pected to return to the Nutmeg State after find out what others were doing that was Zenith, model B-3-A, for the this one. The 206-square-mile Bridgeport 7iot working, and in the belief that the very few who need more than metropolitan area alone can anticipate an dominant characteristics of the program air-conduction aid. This power- ful instrument eventual homecoming for its 28,000 young "should be creative, experimental, and has helped many thousands who thought they men and women in service, when all the adaptable to new problems and needs, not were doomed to deafness. Com- shooting stops. based on rigidly established patterns. This plete, ready-to-wear, $SO. Then the Bridgeporters counted noses is a human engineering job of unprecedent- and discovered that in order to contribute ed proportions," he said, "and .you can't ONLY ZENITH OFFERS three new as splendidly as fhey have to the nation's successfully solve the returning soldier's models to aid practically every type of correctable hearing loss. war effort, the 35,000 industrial workers difficulties if the general human situation of peacetime had been increased to more within the community is unhealthy." than 83,000. Nobody needed a crystal ball A sizeable volume could be written about Choice of Amplifier Colors too, at No Extra Cost to see that when the shriveling winds of Co-ordinator Hope's ensuing community Lustrous Ebony Amplifier reconversion blew around the corner of activities, but one statement will sum them harmonizes with dark cloth- Main Street and Fairfield Avenue, thou- ing. Delicate shade of new Pastel Coralite Amplifier har- sands of readjustments would have to be monizes with sheer and light- made in personal, vocational, geographic, color apparel. and educational living plans. Of course, Bridgeport wasn't alone in facing such a THE NEW dilemma, but thanks to what is behind that sign on the big house on Golden Hill Street, and to Legionnaires who had con- siderable to do with putting it there, Bridgeport is far out in the vanguard of tADIONIC HEARING AID American cities in readiness to cope with BY THE MAKERS OF ZENITH RADIO the situation. Here is how that came about. In August, 1943, Connecticut's Legion- ---PASTE ON PENNY POSTCARD AND MAIL naire Governor Raymond E. Baldwin Zenith Radio Corporation, Dept. AL-7A 6001 Dickens Avenue, Chicago 39, Illinois created the state's Re-Employment Com- Please send me your FREE booklet about the mission. It began business with a basic Zenith Radionic Hearing Aids. philosophy contained in "The Gray Plan," Name.. first published by The American Legion, Department earlier of Connecticut, that Address- year, and later endorsed by ' the National Convention, that "the veteran and the dis- "Oh, yeah? Then how come it says City State private placed war worker are persons, not statis- on your pass?" COPYRIGHT 1945, ZENITH RADIO CORP. 38 Tlu AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

"Fners are not Expendable" up as a herculean task: There are 800 Fed- eral, state, and Bridgeport organizations, — represented by 37 committees, available says our Navy for the facilities of the Center. Organization of this vast network of it DOWN at sea ! No fun at best, but makes a world human implements with which to combat of difference to a flier's morale to know that, any form of economic or social dislocation was accomplished through co-operating /'/ it happens, every effort will be made to save him! committees composed of democratically He knows that new and amazingly efficient rescue chosen delegates from each unit in each

equipment is ready to be swiftly flown to him. Re- interest. The chairmen of all the commit- tees, elected by their respective delegates, cently perfected air-sea rescue techniques include form the membership of the Central Co- shipwreck kits for one and for many men. Most ordinating Committee. With a program thus assemblies is complete of the several Navy rescue designed to serve the total human adjust- the AR-10. Designed for release from a bomber's ment needs of the community during the bay, this "train" of five buoyant packages, linked reconversion period, the Center became the central clearing house for dissemination of together with a long floating line, provides complete all helpful information, and the contact survival equipment for ten men. point for those who need it. And the entire set-up, with all its con-

structive ramifications, is in no way be- holden to any single agency, organization, or special interest. It belongs solely to and is responsible only to the 280,000 people in the Bridgeport Area, of whom some 100,000 .are contributors to the United Community and War Fund, from which the

annual budget for the Center is derived. In that connection, the permanent staff consists of Dr. Hamrick, and three counse- lors—Meyer H. Sarkin on occupational guidance. Dr. Tyrus Hillway on educational /A rescue job for the AR-10 assem- 2 The pilot has dropped the train on Miss Sicilian, bly! Dye marks in the ocean lead the upwind side of the swimmers so counseling and Eleanor a this searching Navy "Avenger" to a that entire assembly floats to survivors. trained social worker on personal affairs shipwrecked crew. Out of the bomb The first package opened is the one problems. Also, Miss Helen McHugh, the bay goes the 240-yard train of packages. containing the large rubber lifeboat. trained psychometrist, and the small cleri- cal staff. There are no other salaried per- sonnel. Representatives of local, state and federal agencies, including Dr. E. F. Mc- Govern, active Legionnaire whose services are supplied by the Veterans Administra- tion, and Maj. Robert B. Cate, of the State's Re-employment Commission, have offices at the Center, but are carried on the payrolls of their respective organiza- tions. Major Cate is a Legionnaire.

Dr. Hamrick is one of those sincerely genial men who have the faculty of inspir-

O As boat package is opened, inflation 4 The outboard is mounted. Ample *^ automatically begins. The boat ready, fuel is provided to swiftly power a other packages are hauled in — an out- good distance from enemy coast. Then board motor, fuel, and shipwreck kits motor can be quickly replaced with containing every needed survival aid. a collapsible rudder for use with sail.

Building motors for many critical war needs is F.vinrude's job today. Intensive engineering constantly seeks ways to make these motors finer — and still finer. Which is add- ed assurance that the peacetime Evinrudes to follow will be worth waiting for J EVINRUDE MOTORS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. EVINRUDE IT The powerful Evinrude "Lightfour" OUTBOARD MOTORS *' is started and "the good ship AR-10" is underway. Shipwreck kits contain BUY MORE WAR BONDS water, desalting kit, still, solar other . . . AND HOLD THEM! equipment necessary for a lengthy voyage. JULY, 1945 30 Can He Turn Those Air Castles

Into SOm STUFF ?

ing confidence and ease at the first hand- shake, an invaluable asset in his work. A graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan, he had three years of post-graduate work at Northwestern University, and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Yale. That background and the Director's en- suing 12 years of practical experience in the field of personnel work are reflected in his ability to make any returning soldier feel entirely at home in a very few min- utes of visiting, a talent in which Dr. Ham- rick is ably seconded by every member of his staff.

"We tr>'," said Co-ordinator Hope, "to make every veteran feel that he is coming back to a community where everybody is interested in him and nobody is trying to take advantage of him. The Center will by no means do all the work. It is just a friendly place where the veteran can get whatever help he needs without running "Foxhole dreams deserve every around from pillar to post." Not only is there no "pillar-to-post" stuff, break. . . but it's going to take more also a man tells his story and enumer- but than wishes to make them come true" ates his problems just once. If he is sent WJ'K to any of the agencies for particular help, SAYS to an employer for a job, referral is ac- complished by appointment, arranged by the Center, with a specific person who will • Many high hopes are being built in most potentially profitable and im- have all the details in advance of the in- foxholes ... in the hearts of millions portant profession in business . . , terview. So far this year the Center has of fighting sons, husbands, brothers, SELLING . . , where the only salary- served about 1200 men, approximately half and sweethearts. ceiling is imposed by a man's own of the area's returned veterans. In addition, grateful America just can't let capability. some 2500 members of their families. A World War I widows, and other Bridge- those air castles fade. Neither can we Under the Bowes Plan selected vet- port citizens, including high school youths wish them into reality. It is going to erans will be given intensive training seeking vocational or educational guidance, take ACTION to assure each home- in the fundamentals of the science of have found help at 258 Golden Hill Street. coming fighting man of a fair oppor- salesmanship. Some wiU then go into It is by efficient handling of this whole tunity to realize his dreams. desirable jobs in this expanding or- gamut of human needs, desires, and rela- The Bowes Plan offers action. It ganization. Some will be put into well- tions that the people of Bridgeport, through backed businesses of their own, mer- the committees representing the 800 or- aims at recruiting a post-war "Sales ganizations, have made their Center an out- Army" capable of doing the fighting chandising popular Bowes "Seal Fast" standing example of how to administer and selling which wiU be needed to automotive products. community welfare. If ever a town achieved create and keep good all the jobs And if enough other business or- complete unanimity in the belief that fil- needed for a prosperous and busy ganizations join in this program, bright tering its warriors safely and securely back America. It will offer to many World futures can be provided for as many into civilian life is a grass roots proposition War II veterans a firm foothold in the veterans as are properly qualified. that must not fail, that town is Bridgeport. For example, the 57 local unions in the BOW'ES If you have a loved one in the armed forces— put him in area, including C. I. 0., A. F. of L., N. touch with us. If you ore an employer— help raise a post- M. U., Railway Brotherhoods, and others, war "Sales Army" which can win a prosperous peace and forgot their differences and chose one man turn those air castles into SOLID STUFF! Write now for to represent them and perform necessary functions to bring union programs for train- full information about the Bowes Plan. ing and placement of veterans into closer BOWES "SEAL FAST" CORPORATION, INDIANAPOLIS 7, INDIANA liaison with comparable local and Federal 40 J he AIVIILKICAN Lt,(jiursl Magazine NEW efforts. The insurance representatives, is given or done through working arrange- through their co-operating committee, keep ments with the Veterans Administration, an insurance counselor at the Center every The banking committee for the lending HORIZONS hour of the day. He is completely anony- institutions in the area installed Major G. mous so far as his own company affilia- Gresham Griggs at the Center as a full- tion is concerned, and deals only with mat- time financial counselor. The major, a vet- beckon you to ters pertaining to continuance, or re-instate- eran of the last war and this one, with ment, of the veteran's National Service two sons in service, finds good use for all opportunity ? Life Insurance, or other such holdings. his own previous banking experience in Frequently, problems of the law beset explaining the intricacies for loans to vet- This question will be answered differently the returning soldier, Bridgeport's bar asso- erans who think they want to borrow money by each and every ex-service man. It is ciation appointed 23 lawyers who provide under terms of the GI law. The job of known that many will return to their free legal aid on a rotation system. One screening these requests isn't easy. former positions. Others plan on entering former warrior had an idea for improve- There was the lad who thought he wanted new fields of activity. ment of the clothespin which might make to raise chickens, for example, but who The American idea of "doing what I him some money, if he could secure a knew less than nothing of poultry and the please!" is just as evident today as it was patent. The Center and its co-operating risks of loss which operation of a chicken when our Founding Fathers signed the lawyers took care of that. The Municipal farm entails. He was gently but firmly Declaration of Independence. Government Committee advises concerning convinced that he could choose another Unlike traditions which prevail across matters pertaining to special fees licenses, method of living. ' or making a On the other the seas, our men are never hidebound by if a man wants to enter a business requir- hand, the boy who worked in a dry-clean- vocational barriers. When opportunity for ing them. Industry's committee looks after ing establishment before entering service • betterment is present, Americans nearly foreman and apprentice training, job re- had a substantial knowledge of that trade, always make the change! placements and evaluation. The Educa- and went back to it. With the aid of a The number of veterans who have quit tional interests developed a comprehensive GI loan, engineered by Major Griggs after old jobs and made new connections is directory of all educational facilities. thorough investigation, that veteran and legion. It was the same after the last war. More recently, the medical men of his wife now successfully operate a clean- Many, in changing jobs, have achieved suc- Bridgeport have arranged to make their ing business of their own, and enjoy a cesses far and beyond normal expectancy. services available at no cost, if necessary, very comfortable income. Not a few are famed in their transplanted to men in need of anything from doctor's occupations. By far the most successful advice to an operation. This was an im- The photographs jar this article were ob- are those in the selling or agency field! portant step, as formerly such medical care tained with the co-operation of the jollow- Men are attracted to selling security to was available gratis only at Newington or ing: Remington Arms Co., Junior College the people in their communities. Security Rocky Hill, with both institutions a day's of Connecticut at Bridgeport, Bridgeport in every form is the most wanted of all trip from Bridgeport. All advice and work Post Office, J. L. Lucas Co. things in life. For, security offers financial protection against life's hazards! Men of good character easily qualify in this well WANT TO BE A SALESMAN? paying field. The things that threaten the security (Continued from page 15) the-vvorld head of the huge International Busi- organization, of your neighbor, the family across the goods, but only a small percentage of the ness Machines who was a one- time National Cash Register executive. There street, the folks in the next block, the pro- population knows how to SELL goods. And is genial, capable William Robbins, president fessional man, and the workers at the unless the goods are sold, the productive jobs of General Sales Co., the largest food won't last long. Foods factory are many. There is always the distributor in the U. S., who came to his top possibility of fire, lightning, tornadoes post via the job of salesman and sales-man- Edward N. Scheiberling, National Com- ager. I could name dozens of others, all ex- and hurricanes. There is always the spec- mander of The American Legion, declares salesmen, who climbed to the very top via ter of a thief stealing one's clothes, that 23,000,000 of the 55,000,000 jobs the selling route. jewelry or furniture. There is always the sought by the Legion must be in the sales, certainty of accident or sickness. There is Of course, young men who have not had service and distribution fields. At the same always the knowledge of old age de- much personal experience with selling or time, Lawrence J. Fenlon, chairman of the pendence and death. There is always the Legion's Employment Committee, points danger of collision, damage, injury, fire, out that in a normal community only one death and damage suits if one owns an job in four can be found in an industrial automobile. plant—the other three must be found in Security in the event of the foregoing service and other non-manufacturing fields. disasters is priceless. The men who sell "After the war," continues Mr. Fenlon, security against such misfortunes have "we are going to have to really sell for the steady employment and financial rewards first time in our national life, or we may that match their worth. This field is big become a socialist state, with the Govern- and those who serve are clothed in dignity, ment controlling production and distribu- surrounded by a growing list of friends, tion." and ultimately retire in excellent cir- In other words, after the war, salesman- cumstances. ship is going to be a top-notch profession ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY of Class A importance to the future of ALLSTATE FIRE INSURANCE CO. America. HOME OFFICE: 20 N. WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO Ninth: Selling is a sure pathway to a bigger job for the man who demonstrates his ability to lead others! 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SOME TIME AGO OUT Raymond Gram whole news and information picture And maybe the fact that the American Swing was given the famed George might have something to do with it. network practices freedom of speech Foster Peabody award for his excellence That's a pretty important part of our instead of just preaching it inspires these and competence as a commentator. A operation over here, you know. We're men to do a great job. day or two before that, "Variety," top doing things with news. It's part of our We Owe This to the U. S. Public publication in the entertainment world, job to keep the public informed. trust America. don't think our came through with a nice citation for We are building some of the soundest We We people to spoon-fed. think one of our ace newscasters, George news policies radio has ever seen, too. need be We they can make smart decisions if they're Hicks . . . and old man Temptation nearly No Censorship given all the news, all the information, got us : we came near writing an ad about all the slants. And, so far, we can't see the swell job some of our boys are doing For example, we face the issue and any evidence that this is a wrong slant on the news front. Felt like bragging a admit that everyone over the age of six on a public that has "come through" little. is prejudiced one way or another. And during these years. After all, George did make one of the this fact in itself makes it impossible, on outstanding broadcasts of all time on D the face of it, to overcome bias by filter- LET'S TALK ABOUT NEWS: News is a lot of day and was first to broadcast the Rhine ing all the news and commentaries things: the first flash over the wire . . . the fox-

hole-eye view . . . the interview with the Com- crossing . . . and our Gordon Frazer was through one "unprejudiced" man. manding General . . . the Washington sum-up . . the first radio correspondent to cross the the commentator's interpretation. That's silly. No man is smart enough to bridge . . . and our Arthur Feldman was know what the public ought to hear. So, But most of all, it's information; it's the anvil the first to broadcast the news of three on which tomorrow's public opinion is shaped.* having picked men with a sense of respon- landings That's why the American Broadcasting Com- major of the Philippines cam- sibility, we let them say what they feel, pany does everything possible, every day, to paign. ..and Raymond Swing also got the reviewing their work only for good taste keep it- BBC award (for his job in keeping the and for competent news authority. Then Accurate Speedy Varied we set out to balance these prejudices: a British people aware of America's war Comprehensive Interesting commentator with a slant toward the liberal effort) in addition to the Peabody award. —and our commentators is balanced ofiF with another more conser- are not muzzled or censored Temptation Bows Out vative. A Whisper to Advertisers: A network that's win- Well, it was quite Then we let them ride, with only this ^ temptation. But we ning acceptance by dealing them straight isn't a bit of coaching : "Get it all get it straight; finally put our bugle away without blow- ; bad one to keep in mind! get it first, if you can." ing a note. Settled down then to figure out why these men (and all our other men up front and out at sea) consis- • which changed its name to tently do such a bang-up job. Got to thinking that our red-hot interest in the AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY —

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salesmen, likely are to hold several mis- happened will say that such a man is a conceptions about this kind of work as a "born salesman"—rather, he is a developed future profession for themselves. salesman. Some of them, for example, may think For over 20 years, I have been helping of selling as a racket. to hire, train, equip and supervise sales- Selling cajt be a racket, of course, but men. For many years, I personally trained so can religion, law, education and the arts on the average of 2,000 salesmen per year. and sciences. The old-time gold-mining I've taken 24-year-olds, trained them well, stock salesman, or the oil-stock salesman, and in less than two years on the sales or the fellow who sold your grandfather firing line, I have seen them lick the pants lightning rods—these men have all but dis- off of 40-to-5o-year-olds who had been on appeared from the American selling scene. their selling jobs 20 years or more. For In their places have come the sincere, well- my money, I'm not looking for "born sales- trained chaps who deliver a dollar-plus in men"—I'm searching for trai?ied salesmen value for every dollar's worth of orders they —or salesmen capable of absorbing training. take. On the other side of the fence, those companies that formerly let a salesman grub WHAT MAKES A GOOD SALESMAN? along on his own capital are getting fewer If you took a cross section sample of the and fewer. Most reliable companies today general population without any regard to provide "grocery" money guarantees, train their aptitudes and proficiences and put their men well and really help them to suc- them to work as salesmen, a good percent-

ceed in selling. age of them would fail. Therefore, it is This modern salesman looks at selling important to know how a salesman differs as a ver>' basic human service, viz: from the general population, in other words, The process of discovering human needs what does a good salesman have that makes or wants and persuading people to meet him tick? them adequately and economically with I asked this question of Dr. Edwin G. the right product or service. Flemming, technical director of the Klein Let's test that definition: Institute of New York City, an organiza- A salesman calls on our office manager tion whose business it is to test salesmen to sell an office printing machine. Our man- and prospective salesmen to determine ager declares, "No, we're not interested. whether they are likely to succeed or fail

We don't need it. We have our printing in selling. This group of professional psy- done outside." The salesman, nevertheless, chologists and psychometrists have exam- studies our printing problem, and shows ined some 15,000 salesmen in the past half- us how we can keep the machine busy i8 dozen years. Out of the great mass of data days out of the month, and save 30 percent they have accumulated in these thousands of our printing costs. Convinced, we buy of tests they have developed "norms" for the promised saving proves correct. salesmen and have built psychograms show- That salesman has rendered us a valu- ing the profiles of successful and unsuc- able service. He discovered for us a need cessful salesmen. which we didn't know existed. He persuaded Dr. Flemming tells me that if you can us to buy a machine which adequately and answer "Yes" to six of the following eight economically satisfied our need and saved questions, you have the characteristics us money. which experience shows distinguishes the Everybody benefited. The salesman's men most likely to succeed in selling:

• company sold a machine and made a profit; 1. Do 3'ou have a feeling that other peo- he made a commission; we enjoyed a sav- ple really like you? ing on our office printing costs. 2. Do you have a willingness and abil- Can you call selling like that a "racket"? ity to learn new things? Are you open- Another common misconception results minded, teachable, able to adapt yourself Worry of in over-glamorizing salesmanship and re- to new ideas, new situations and n^w people?

garding it as a profession peopled only by 3. Do you have ability to present your FALSE TEETH the handsome, high-powered personality- own ideas to others by the means of speech? plus boys. No picture is further from the 4. Are you the kind of fellow who takes Slipping Irritating? or truth, as you will shortly see when we dis- the lead among your associates?

Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth cuss the attributes which make up the suc- 5. Do you have the ability to "bounce slipping-, dropping or wabbling when you cessful salesman. Personality is an asset, back" after a rebuff or disappointment? Do eat, talk or laugh. Just .sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This pleasant of course, in any job—whether you are you have grit and guts and come-back? powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates more running an elevator o"r being President of 6. Do you have a desire for something firmly. No gumm,\-, gooey, pasty taste or the United States. But, as you will discover, more than mere weekly pay-check security? feeling. It's alkaline (non-acid). Get FAS- TEETH at any drug store. personality is only part of what it takes. 7. Are you a self-starter? Do you have Often you will hear it said: "He's a born initiative? Do you 'get going on your own STUDY AT HOME for Personal power? Success and LARGER EARN- salesman!" That's a third misconception. INGS. 35 years expert instruc- Don't believe it! Salesmen aren't born that 8. Do you like action? tion—over 108,000 students en- rolled. LL.B. Degree awarded. way. It is true that a certain individual If you wish to test yourself in a negative All text material furnished. may do a good job of developing a basic way on these eight points, we may say that Easy payment plan. Send for FREE BOOK—-Law and Ex- set of personality traits and native apti- if you feel people do not like you; if you ecutive Guidance"—NOW! tudes, and thus become a superior sales- find it hard to learn new things, or meet AMERICAN EXTENSION SCHOOL OF LAW Dept. man—but no one who knows what has up with new situations or new people; if 55-K. 646 N. Michigan Ave.. Chicago II, III. "

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you find yourself awkward in using language him trained. Experience will always be help-

to present your ideas ; if you are a follower ful, but it will not be as important after

and not a leader; if you are easily discour- the war as it was in pre-war days.

aged, or if your feelings are easily hurt; Mental ability is necessary in selling, of if .you want security more than oppor- course, but high mentality does not mean tunity; and if you like to sit and think high sales ability. In fact, too high a men- then you would do better in some activity tal ability rating might prove a handicap other than selling. in some kinds of selling, for the reason

But, if you can answer a confident "Yes" that it would place the salesman too far to at least six of the eight questions above, above his customers and make him feel too

you definitely should consider the sales much superior to them. This attitude is field as one offering better-than-average bad for success in selling.

opportunities for you. In short, if you have a high-school edu-

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rience nor education is mentioned above. liking for the nine "satisfactions" which

There are definite reasons for these omis- selling offers, if you have a positive response ME-in a Rut? sions. to at least six of the eight key questions Experience is not mentioned because few above, it seems likely that you will make -COULD BE! of the younger men returning to civilian a better-than-average success in sales work. life will have had any extensive experience If you decide to try selling as your after- you be in a rut just getting by YES— may — in sales work before entering the service. the-war job, you will want to read the and not fully realizing it. Furthermore, the comprehensive training second article in this series, "How To Get Every day you stay in tliat rut you "dig deeper"—make it harder and harder to get out. courses now being offered will train a man A Post-War Selling Job" which will appear So today while you think of it, take stock of in exactly the way his own company wants in an early fssue. yourself—are you getting ahead as fast as you should— are you satisfied to go along in a small job at small pay the rest of your life? Hundreds of thousands of our students have won promotion a^id more money—and the prestige and happiness that success brings perhaps we can help you. Better investigate— the coupon below is for SIX KINDS OF SELLING your convenience. Just check the field of your choice and we'll send you without obligation While the basic aptitudes necessary for success in selling are much the full information on that field— the require- regardless the type of selling, the following list indicates the wide ments and opportunities. same of Take the first step to get out of that rut choice of sales jobs available. make more money—get a better job. Send the coupon today. 1. RETAIL SELLING. Inside-the-store. Food stores, department stores, drug stores, clothing and hardware stores, LASALLE Extension University gas and electric companies. Radio and appliance stores. Bakeries. Auto- A Correspondence Institution mobile and truck agencies. Automotive parts and accessories. 417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 7361-R, Chicago 5,111. 2. RETAIL SELLING. Outside-the-store. If I am in a rut, I don't want to stay in it. Please send me your free 48-page booklet on the field I have Route selling, combination truck-driver and salesman for: Bakeries, laun- marked below and full information about your spare- dries, beverage distributors, dry-cleaners, tea and coffee houses, grocery special- time training. ties, gasoline and lubricating oils. Law: LL.B. degree Salesmanship D Bookkeeping Traffic Management OAccounting Executive Management Selling for local retailers in the field: Electric appliances, electric or gas ser- C.P.A. Coaching Foremanship air conditioning, roofing, autos, trucks, insulation, Stenotypy Industrial Management vice jor local utility, heating, Business English Effective Speaking home repairs and remodelling.

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46 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine MADE ESPECIALLY AMERICAN opinion against a foreign menace such as TO RELIEVE TORTURE AND darkened the nation with the rise of the {Continued from page KILL GERMS* THAT CAUSE 24) European and Far Eastern dictators and their embassies at Washington even while war lords—a task wholly beyond the F. B. this nation was a neutral. The money was ATHLETE'S FOOT I.'s capacity or jurisdiction. Indeed, it was used to influence newspapers, magazines, this basic consideration which persuade.d publicists, churches, schools, unions and 'Extra Strength' Congress to set up this new agency, with a any other source of communication and dis- preliminary appropriation of Liquid Also $50,000. semination which could affect American The new chairman is Representative KILLS GERMS'' thinking on international questions. Edward J. Hart, a sound and solid member Cause It! investigation, That The although harassed from from New Jersey, and seven of the nine start to finish from inside and outside the new members were connected with the First applications of wonderful soothing, Congress, placed a protective piece of legis- Army or Navy during the last war. highly medicated liquid Zemo promptly lation on the statute books. It was respon- relieve itchy soreness between cracked Critics of the new investigative body, peeling toes. Then Zemo *on contact kills sible for the law requiring representatives especially certain types of radicals, scoff germs that cause and spread Athlete's Foot. of all alien enterprises to register with the at the necessity for a further inquiry. With is formula Zemo a Doctor's antiseptic State Department. The original demand for eventual defeat of the Axis assured, they backed by an amazing record of success. this measure failed of approval for several ask why the Congress should authorize an- The first trial convinces! At all drugstores. years, but it passed with a whoop after other and permanent investigation of un- Send a bottle of Zemo to boys in service. "Brother" Dies' findings revealed its need. American movements. It seems like a sen- .ZEMO Other legislation providing for deportation sible query. of professed Fascists and Communists, and But the experience of the Dies Commit- their expulsion from federal jobs, was tee furnishes a devastating reply. Before Makes All -Day adopted in the House several times, but did Russia became involved in the war in June not receive Senate sanction because of of 1 941, the principal enemies of our na- Standing Easy Administration opposition. tional defense preparations, and therefore But the prize accomplishment of the the chief targets of the investigators, were On Your Feet Dies Committee—and a pro-American gain our native American communists, who be- vastly underpublicized and underrated by fore the Soviets were attacked called it an — walking the If you are on your feet all day friends and foes of the inquirj'—was the imperialist war on the part of the enemies floor or standing in front of a machine — just sprinkle AUen's Foot-Ease on your feet and into compilation of a list of 300,000 individuals of Germany, and boasted that "the Yanks powder brings quick your shoes. This soothing are NOT coming." These men and women relief to tired, burning feet. When shoes pinch and hundreds of societies which, at one — Allen's and torture you from all-day standing time or another, have shown that they picketed the White House in Washington, Foot-Ease is what you want. Acts instantly to and sought to divide and confuse their na- absorb excessive perspiration and prevents foot— placed the interests of a foreign nation, odors. So, be sure to ask for Allen's Foot-Ease tive land. the easy, simple way to all-day standing and walk- faction or ideology ahead of America's. druggists. course they changed the "party line" ing comfort. Get it today at all Not a day passes during which repre- Of Soviets began to battle for their sentatives of Army or Navy Intelligence, when the national existence and nothing about them the State Department, the Federal Bureau — is for the future except that they FREE of Investigation or the Civil Service Com- predictable will at all times be working to substitute mission does not check and recheck this file Marxist philosophy for our democratic ia All of suspects. These documents have proved the life. It was the Nazis planted in invaluable in fingerprinting the American- way of the U. S. who tried to sabotage our mili- AUTO ism of appHcants for special military serv- tary effort when the Communists changed ice, for civilian positions in the Govern- owners in ment, for assignment to Europe, for plant their stance June, 1941. members of the new commit- guards and for other key posts in the na- Prominent Chairman Hart, believe that PRACTICAL tional defense establishment. tee, including foreign propaganda 196 SUGGESTIONS Homer L. Chaillaux, former Director of the need for policing the Legion's National Americanism Com- ffiaf wi// /le/p you to gef mission, writing on behalf of National Com- Edward Scheiberling, empha- better gas mileage mander N. li^ sized the importance of this inventory- in a longer tire life letter to Representative Karl E. Mundt of Dip* better performance South Dakota, one of the most able mem- bers of the old and new committees. In DIF^ lower upkeep costs explaining the Legion's support for a per- manent committee, Mr. Chaillaux wrote:- Get a FREE COPY from any General "By continuing the Un-American Activi- Motors dealer, or use coupon below. ties Committee, we shall be able to hold Customer Research Dept., Room 1739 together all of the existing files of that GENERAL MOTORS, DETROIT 2, MICH. (the Dies) committee, where they will be of edition 64-page Please send FREE COPY new accessible to all agencies of government "Automobile User's Guide" — containing 196 and the friends of government. If the com- practical suggestions on wartime operation. mittee were to be discontinued now, the

Name.. active enemies of the Dies Committee pleas* print would see to it immediately that the files Address destroyed. In fact, pfeote priof of that committee were I of moves in that direction now." Cily.. know Zone Sfaie The long-range value of the continuing Make of car admittedly lies in its ever-pres- now owned . committee year model ent power to educate and awaken public "Who ever heard of a fat fox!"

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and activities will be as great in the future propagandize for many other advantages, as in the past. In their opinion, the Amer- some of which may be harmful to our abid- ican people will soon be subjected to a ing national interests. heavier barrage by foreign and self-serving The question of compulsory universal groups than ever before in our history. military training will become the subject Both the Nazis and Japs will seek soft cf national and Congressional controversy treatment as the years temper the war's almost as soon as the guns cease firing. bitterness, and they will resort to under- Certain powers may not want Uncle Sam ground methods to obtain an amelioration to resort to such a system of national de- of the peace terms, as did the Germans fense, and they may finance "Peace'' or after World War One. Other nations will "Christian" groups to try to defeat the pro- bid for favors in the form of huge loans, posal. They may interfere behind the scenes trade concessions, lowering of immigration concerning a problem which the American barriers and tariff rates; they will ask and people alone have the right to decide.

THE LEGION'S BUDGET FOR 1945 IN COMPLIANCE with Convention which has been set up for the National action, the National Finance Commit- Organization of The American Legion for tee hereby publishes the detail of the budget the year 1945. REVENUE General:

Dues (S) $1.00 per member $1, 750,000.00 Dues prior years S.A.L. Dues @ 25<' per member iiVsbbioo S.A.L. Dues prior years '.

Emblem Division . . . r ...... 66,000.06 Advertising Sales ... 649,860.00 Reserve Fund Earnings 25,000.00 Purchase Discount 4,000.00 Interest Earned Interest on Washington Building '5,280.00 Interest on Emblem Inventory 4,000.00 Miscellaneous

Total Grand Revenue $2,509,640.00

Appropriation from Reserve and Restricted Funds to be used by W. W. II Activities. . . . 140,699.11

Restricted: . Earnings of Endowment Fund S 132,000.00 CONTRIBUTIONS: Forty and Eight for Child Welfare 20,000.00 Auxiliary for Rehabilitation 25,000.00 Auxiliary for Child Welfare 10,000.00 Eight and Forty for Child Welfare , 1,000.00

Balance from 1944 .

Total Restricted Funds $ 188,000.00

-Total Revenue $2,838,399.11 EXPENSE

Expense Payable from Regular Revenue: Administration (Indianapolis) 194,867.43 —America's Billion Administration (Washington) 69,696.54 Americanism 53,479.25 "^Dollar Opportunity Field 37,746.54 Legislative . 49,255.34 One of Postwar's Most Publicity • • Finance 29,431.06 Promising Futures Executive 178,181.00 Defense 63,170.48 Cash In on the Big Opportunities for Good Pay PUBLICATIONS: which the Radio-Electronics Industry offers American Legion Magazine .... ,194,679.85 NOW and In the FUTUREI Prepare now AT National Legionnaire 179,070.00 LABORATORY 206,793.59 HOME-orin our CHICAGO Rehabilitation and Child Welfare for of the many positions in FM Radio, 136,998.00 — one Appropriation for Retirement Fund. Electronics, Conununicatione, etc.—or for a Bus- DeForest's modern, iness of Your Own. Total Expenditures from General Funds $2 ,383,369.08 up-to-date home training Includes ALL THREE 262,331.11 War II Activities Important, basic A-B-C Training Aids to help World you learn quickly, thoroughly! You use (A) 8 $2,645,700.19 BIG KITS OF "LEARN-BY-DOING" Radio Parts and Assemblies, (B) 90 "SYNCRO- GRAPHIC" LESSON TEXTS, prepared under Expense Payable froni Restricted Revenue: the supervision of Dr. Lee DeForest, the "Father $ 269,821.39 of Radio," (C) "LEARN-BY-SEEING" MOV- Rehabilitation Welfare 124,972.20 DIES to help you more easily master important Child Radio fundamentals. You also get Ef- $ 394,793.59 fective EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. , Restricted Funds. 206,793.59 Mail coupon today for complete factsi NiJ^'! Less: Excess over '• \ $ 188,000.00 DeForest's Training, Inc., 2533 N. Ashland Ave, Dept. Chicago 14, Illinois AL-B7, Total Expenditures " *^'^^4'698!92 Equipment Send FREE Victory Book and Reserve against Membership. Folder; also information as to how we may help you under the "G.I. Bill." $2,838,399.11 Name. -Age- NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE Street- Sam W. Reynolds, Nebraska, Chairman -State- Edgar B. Dunlap, Georgia DeFOREST'S llVc^^'^oVZ: John Lewis Smith, District of Columbia JULY, I94S 49 ROCKINGCHAIR

(Cotitinued from page i6) creek and ran into Pap's camp, he was glad. He'd heard talk about squatters coming in beyond the mountains, but he hadn't paid much attention to what was being said by his brother John and the other big ranchers. There were two wagons and three tents, a lot of household goods scattered about, and some horses were grazing out in the flat- land. They were good horses, too—not the kind he'd seen with some outfits passing by. There was a milk cow and^calf in a pole-pen under a tree, and some chickens scratching around, for Pap's wife liked home comforts. She had had them back East, and her family was going to have "Maybe if you smoked Sir Walter Raleigh, them here—no sowbelly, bread and coffee we could get some service^' for her kids. Bobby could see there was a tent fly stretched, with a stove and table under it, and a couple of women there. Three older Smokes qs sweet boys sat in the shade doing something with saddles. And there was a small man with as it smells long hair and moustache sitting on a log smoking a corncob pipe. The man rose and came forward as Bobby rode up. . . . the quality pipe "Howdy, stranger," he said with easy tobacco of America' hospitality. "Light and look at your sad- dle." So Bobby climbed off and sat on the UNION MADE log and visited with him. "Nice place, this," said Pap, waving his fREE! 24-page illustrated booklet tells how fe select and break in a new pipe; rules for pipe I. Kentucky. pipe. "Just what I've been wantin'—so I'm cleaning, etc. Write today. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville

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aimin' to locate here sorta permanent." of one thing—that nobody was going to Bobby thought he'd better not say any- bother Sally, not even his own uncle, al- thing directly, so he merely, told the old though he wasn't exactly clear just how fellow something about Rockingchair and he'd stop them. "Lucifer"—and said he was just out there They all rode up to Pap's camp and the himself for a few weeks. Pap took it all in. punchers bunched their horses while John LEARN AT HOME Then one of the women called and Pap Deacon rode up to Pap, who had been alert, ambitious, willing to study? Are you adult, got up. "Come along and eat," he said. "I sitting on the log, but now got up. Bobby Investigate LAW ! We guide you step by step furnish all texts, including 14-volumeLawLibra- reckon they put your name in the pot." had slipped off his horse and gone over to ry. Training prepared by leading law professors Bobby went, wondering what they'd have, where Sally was standing beside the tent. and given by members of bar. Degree of LL. B. finicky his food, conferred. Low cost, easy terms. Send NOW for for he was about and at "Howdy," said Pap to John Deacon. Free, 48-page "Law Training for Leadership." the Rockingchair they kept a regular cook "Glad to see you—nothin' hke bein' neigh- University, So. Dearborn St. LASALLE Extension 417 for the main house, although a roundup borly. You and the boys climb off and rest A CDrrespondence Institution Dept 7361-L Chicago 5> I I. cook was good enough for the punchers. your saddles, and we'll eat after a while. I Then he saw Sally Andrews, and forgot sure like 'this place." He waved his hand FALSE TEETH about food: Sally was easy on the eyes. around. "And I aim to stay here quite a As for what Sally thought about him, spell." FIT TIGHT M Bobby didn't know exactly. But he rode "Thank you," said John, with a stiff with t) back to the ranch floating on a rosy cloud; politeness, "but I don't care to do that. Fact and the Meadow Creek range was well is, I've ridden over to tell you that 3'ou'll Soften DENTYTE by warm- visited from then on, although he didn't have to move on." He forced a scowl. "This ing—spread it on your plate —put in mouth and bite to pay much attention to the cattle. Instead, is Rockingchair range, and while we are make a perfect impression. he and Sally rode a lot, and he had a willing to let you fellows pass through to Remove plate — and allow few minutes to "set." You chance to tell her all about himself. beyond the mountain, you can't mess up get an absolutely perfect Then one day Slim Erickson, a Rock- the place." fit. Sore gums vanish — no more slipping or loose teeth. ingchair puncher, taking a short-cut rode Pap looked puzzled. "But I got a gov- DENTYTE is firm but resilient. For both Uppers and Lowers. Each lining lasts for down Meadow Creek; and what Slim told ernment map. It shows this side of the months. Immediately removable with fingers. John Deacon about Bobby wasn't good. mountain vacant and not filed on. So I aim Full siie jar— {a year's undreamed of comfort per plate), postpaid only $1. Send dollar bill So John sent for the boy. to stay." at our risk. Easy to order. Easy to use. Unconditionally Guaranteed. "What in hell do you mean," he asked "No," roared John Deacon, "it's the Dental Products Corp. Dept. AL-Si, Manheim, Pa. savagely, adding a few curses as was his other side—not this side. I'll give you till pride, "by hanging around low-down land tomorrow to move on. That's orders!" scavengers and squatters?" Pap sat down on his log, filled his corn-

"They're not low-down; they're just cob, lit it and smoked a few puffs. "What Free for Asthma friendly, and I happen to like them." if I won't move?" he said mildly. 'Veah? What's this I hear about you "Then," said Deacon, hard as iron, "I'll During Summer being mixed up with one of their gals?" have to move you—now!" If you suffer with those terrible attacks of Asthma Bobby flushed. "One of their gals! "Well," Pap told him, "maybe so, but when it is hot and sultry ; if heat, dust and general mugginess make you wheeze and choke as if each gasp There's only one—Sally. And believe me, before you make any bad breaks, just look for breath was the very last ; if restful sleep is impossible John, she's tops. Why, I'd marry her if around." because of the struggle to breathe ; if you teel the disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't fail to send at she'd have me." John "Lucifer" Deacon did look around, once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or "Lucifer" snorted. "You will notV he and the first thing he saw was Bobby stand- wiiether you have any faith in any remedy under the >elled. what's more, you'll ing close to Sally, holding her hand. Sun, send for this free trial. If you have suffered for a "And go home life-time and tried everything you could learn ol witliout this week-end. Do you think your mother "Bobby," he shouted sternly, "come relief ; even if you are utterly discouraged, do not abandon hope but send today for this free trial. It will and father would want a girl like that in awav from that girl at once! She's not vour cost you nothing. Address the family? Tomorrow you'll ride with me kind!" Frontier Asthma Co. 608-R Frontier Bldg. 462 Niagara St., Buffalo 1, N. Y. and the men and see us get those scavengers Now, the one thing that would send Pap out and on their way. on the warpath, was for anyone to even look mean-like at Sally; and there was no PULVEX BOBBY WENT with John and the Rock- telling what he would have done to John ingchair punchers the next day, only sure had Bobby not spoken up. FLEA POWDER i^F'UE'fi GQ, SEA^ee.'.' 100% SATISFACTION ^ONtY BACK HAS ^EEH SkKJX' POWM SPEECH DEFECTS -Ttt ^ 05-/ Acute stammering or loss of voice corrected and normal speecti restored. Dr. Martin trained all the aides who corrected "shell shocked" cases during the last war. Only residential institute recognized by the American Medical Association. Veterans trained as specialists under the G. I. Bill. Apply: Dr. Frederick Martin Box A NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VOICE DISORDERS BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND REFRIGERATION ~ AND AIR CONDITIONING COURSE Learn at home—how to start your own repair shop on lit- tle capital. No previous experience needed. Coiniiion seliool education sufficient. Splendid opportunity for older men. Prepare now for after the war. FliEE illustrated booklet. MECHANICS TRAINING SCHOOL 4701 W. Pico Dept. A-7 Los Angeles 6, Calif. JULY, lO+S

The punchers never made a move. Pap went on: "As for you," looking squarely at John Deacon, "if you so much as open that fly-trap of yours again," yanking a Smith and Wesson from out his boot,

"I'll blow it out the back of your rotten head." And from then on what Pap said to John "Lucifer" Deacon nearly set the grass

on fire. But John took it all like a lamb . . . The suspense was broken for a moment as Pap's oldest son rode over the hill be- hind some broncs. Sensing something wrong, he came on the high jump and shoved his Exce/Zenf for Sports horse in between Pap and John Deacon.

. . .The natural a"id to better perform- "What's the row?" he asked, sitting easy ance in all sports! Restful OCULENS and sideways in his saddle, ready for any Sunglasses filter out harmful, strain- play. producing direct and reflected sun Prevent that hard, drawn, tired Pap having expressed himself fully and rays. look - Buy a pair of OCULENS at completely, shoved his revolver back into your favorite store today. his boot. "It's all right now, son," he said. Eliniinale Sun-Squint, Sun-Blur, and Sun- Clare without MASKING Clear Vision and he's "This gent made a little mistake that True Color Values. OCULENS Sunglasses absorp- plenty sorry for." meet U. S. Army specifications lor "Look closely—there should be another tion of injra-red and ultra-violet rays. turned to that we part to this." Then Pap John. "Now understand each other, Lucifer Deacon, take Trsdemark CoitiDtune New York your outfit and get to hell out of my spread, OeuCeiu^ Company, "You go straight to hell—damn you!" back where you came from—and stay CLEAN VISION SUNGLASSES said Bobby. there." So Pap didn't do what he was going to But John didn't leave. He got down from do—but only grinned. Then he said to his horse and walked over to Pap, his eyes John; "That's not what I was meaning wide with wonder, but not with anger. you to see. Cast your eyes a little more." "Stranger," said John vacantly, "did you John looked, and he saw the two younger ever know the Swearing Master of the boys of Pap's—each behind a tree with a Great Smokies?" double barreled shotgun trained squarely Pap's face lightened. "Reckon I do know on the Rockingchair riders, who had been him—why?" foolish enough to stay bunched. "Because I've always wanted to shake Pap spoke, this time with authority. "If his hand, as one old soldier to another. those guns go off, your boys will catch Where can I find him? I need him on ." every buckshot. So keep your shirt on . . Rockingchair." PROTECT YOUR WATCH He added a few choice words of emphasis, Pap extended his hand. "Shake, Lucifer," A watch with a broken crystal is use- less. to any jeweler ask for a G-S warming up to a barrage of cursing which he said. "I'm Pap Andrews, the Swearing Go — FLEXO CRYSTAL 100% BREAK. "would color the valley as it had never been Master. School starts right now. Squat and PROOF. Can be fitted while you wait. colored before, once he let go. make yourself to home." Any size. Any shape. Guaranfeed. CERMANOW-SIMON MACH. CO. Rothesfer, N.Y.

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British air bombs, was reeling before a They are furious over the looting by dis- done." This plant manager told officers of powerful, irresistible Russian attack and placed persons and American soldiers. They the American military government he had Germany west of the Elbe was occupied by call the Yanks "American gangsters," they 2,500 workers, with whom he should like Allied forces as this was written. With rant over the use of their homes as billets to resume production now for the U. S. devastating defeat imminent, what was the for officers and men, while continuing to Asked what he produced, he replied: "Am- attitude of the German people toward the argue they were justified in wrecking any- munition." conquering U. S. soldiers? Most of them thing in the path of their armies in the I myself saw the horrors of the Buchen- were so stunned by what Adolf Hitler had nations they invaded. wald concentration camp near Weimar. convinced them could never happen, they They see no injustice m their having Like cordwood on a truck near a one- defied clear analysis. "They act as if they torn families apart by taking members they story, brick crematorium to the right of the had been hit with an axe," a once promi- wanted for virtual slave labor. They com- inside gate were more than 100 dirty, naked, nent industrialist said. Few appeared normal plain bitterly over the theft of an article skeletonized bodies. Another pile of like mentally, though physically they were for from them, but can see no harm in Ger- size was on the ground. Blood, gashes and the most part well clad and fed. many's stealing a country. Here it is well scars on many of the corpses reflected treat- Many of them, seeking to curry favor, to record that virtually every home of ment inflicted by ruthless guards. insisted they were Russians or Poles. But well-to-do Gentians has well-thumbed geog- Through six open furnace doors might be they didn't fool our men. Occasionally a raphies and atlases indicating they studied seen charred skulls, flesh and bones. glare that reflected hatred might be seen. other countries closely. Also, in most homes About eight feet high on two walls in Some still attempted treacherous acts, but are imperial helmets and other regalia prized the basement were ugly hooks, used for both the surface manner on the whole was for generations. They love martial music hangings and lashings. For the former a servile. They presented a baffling paradox, and marching songs. They put much em- victim's hands were tied behind him, the because they may be led like sheep but are phasis on pure Aryan blood strain, con- feet were tied ic^c^ner and with the noose bullies" when winning; like bullies they tending these Germans are superior to all around his neck he was lifted up and cringe and cry now they're on the receiving other peoples. In many home libraries are fastened so that he would strangle to death. end of things. pamphlets with pictures of American girls, A blood-stained club about the size of a The Germans are a series of contradic- and reading matter designed to make one league baseball bat was wielded on head or tions. Ninety-five percent of the residents examining it believe our women are uni- body to hasten expiration if it were coming of a community the Nazis called Black versally immoral. too slowly to suit the executioner. Town opposed war, but thought Hitler was They make a great profession of kindli- Fingernail scratches in the plaster be- absolutely right in his demands on Poland. ness, but were fanatical over leaders who spoke the desperation of indescribable Most Germans are horrified by the thought engineered tortures of political prisoners agony. of enslavement by Russia, because "of what that make those of the medieval period In the office of the chief medical officer they have read in their own propaganda, look gentle. They were so wholly submis- of the camp was a lampshade of tanned but still think Germany did nothing wrong sive to Hitler and his henchmen as to make human skin. The framework was of hu- in forcing citizens of countries she overran startingly true the assertion of a petrol man bones. A pile of parchment made from to work in her war plants, fields and homes. plant director: "What was ordered was tattoed human skin was in his desk.

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