The American Legion Magazine [Volume 49, No. 2 (August 1950)]

15$ THE AMERICAN THE REDS REACH FOR YOUR WALLET By i. Anthony Marcus

LEGION Could YOU Go to Congress? MAGAZINE AUGUST 1950 By Joe McCaffrey IVE WAY STREAM

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Loaded with features found in no other station wagon in its field, the "Country Squire" still sports an economy price tag.

Your Ford Dealer will show you how easy it is to own the new "Country Squire." Why not see him today? New "Stowaway" center seat completes the "Flat Deck" loading platform. You can slide things in "slick as a ballroom floor."

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I it. The model's rather Contents for August 10 hesitant appearance on this month's cover is understandable if CONVOY (tiction) you know the circumstances. He posed for BY WILLIAM HOLDER 11 his part of the paint- Strange changes come over people when the chips can't go ing on the diving are down board of an empty without swimming pool, looking down at a bare THE REDS REACH FOR YOUR WALLET one!" concrete floor 30 feet below. The girls did BY J. ANTHONY MARCUS 14 soys their posing later at How the commies are dumping products in the U.S.A. a Connecticut George T. beach on a cold day in April Brillain, and they too had WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO AMERICAN COOKING? Columbia, S.C trouble whipping up enthusiasm for the job. BY HARRY BOTSPORD 16 They don't cook things the way they used to And men in all walks of life tell us of POSTMASTER: Please similar . . experiences . how they've send copies returned WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION DRUM CORPS found a way to help reduce fatigue, under labels Form 3579 to Post Office Box BY PETER BOLTER 18 improve their appearance, gain new 1055, Indianapolis 6* The story behind the success of the Garbarina Post comfort, by wearing a BRACER Indiana. Supporter Belt. POWER TOOLS THAT PAY FOR THEMSELVES The American Legion No other garment offers you all the Magazine is the official BY JOE A. CROSS 20 publication of The Ameri- features of BRACER: full 2-way stretch If you're interested in home improvement, this is can Legion and is owned for you belt gently but firmly pulls your stom- exclusively by The Ameri- ach in, helps you stand straighter, feel can Legion. Copyright 1950. Published monthly ARE THERE MEN ON THE MOON? less tired, look trimmer! Exclusive at 11 00 W. Broadway, tubular elastic leg bands won't crease, Louisville, Ky. Acceptance BY KENNETH BALDWIN 22 for mailing at special rate The germ of the flying saucer idea isn't exactly new curl or roll ! Special fly-front pouch for of postage provided for in all-day convenience. Section 1 103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. COULD YOU GO TO CONGRESS? 5, 1925. Price single Ask for it by name of your drug, department, copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- BY JOE MCCAFFREY 24 men's wear or surgical store tion, $1.50. Entered as An entertaining lesson in practical politics second class matter June

30, 1 948, at the Post Office at Louisville, Ky. t HOW YOU MADE 3,000,000 KIDS HAPPY under the Act of March 3, 1879. Non-member sub- BY ROBERT B. PITKIN 26 scriptions should be sent A report to those who aided the Tide of Toys to the Circulation Depart- SUPPORTER BELT ment of The American Legion Magazine, P. O. 50 Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, I $3 ncl i a n a . 29-36 EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Indianapolis 6, Indiana Ventures

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A sampling of items which are in process of development or are coming on the market. Mention of products in no way constitutes an endorsement of them, since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers.

MESSED UP WITH CRABGRASS? If so, now is a good time to do something about it. O. M. Scott and Sons Company, Marysville, Ohio, is supplying a revolutionary dry-applied powder that is so selective it kills only crabgrass and does no harm whatsoever to good grass, flowers or valuable DIGNITY and IMPUDENCE shrubs. Called Scutl, the new herbicide is best applied from o famous painting by Sir E. Landseer mid-June to mid-September, while the crabgrass is growing most actively and before the plants ripen and drop their seed. Since crabgrass is an annual, application of the powder means that there will be no new harvest of seed to infest the lawn the following spring. Indeed, if areas cleared of crabgrass are immediately sowed with lawn seed a good lawn can be established before frost ends the germination period. Best way of spreading Scutl is Just as a fine painter with a two-wheeled mechanical spreader, though a perforated shaker will serve for small areas. It retails at $1.95 for four pounds, enough for 1250 square feet.

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FOR BETTER GROOMING. A whisk broom which telescopes so it can be packed away exact product you like. in a small space is being manufactured by Eraenee Industries, Inc., 200 Fifth Ave., New York City 10. When not in use the bristles slide into the handle, and they can be moved out to three positions, the greatest length being nine inches. Both bristles and handle are made of Bakelite styrene plastic. Made in red, green or blue with white bristles the item retails for 69«J

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SIMPLE SANDALS. Sandals of many purposes which fit compactly into a tiny space are being marketed by Trylyn Manufacturing Co., 57 Post St., San Francisco 4. Made of flexible Bakelite, the sandals are water-resistant and can be dried instantly by shaking off the water. The soles have molded grooves to prevent slipping. Available £uard hair in sizes for men, women and children, and in a choice of white, yellow, green or blue, they retail for 79< a pair. and scalp fom FOR PRECISION WORKERS. It is said that you can tell a Sun! clumsy workman by the way he butchers screw heads, Summer particularly the tiny screws used in precision machinery. To avoid such butchery, craftsmen will welcome a kit of small screw drivers being offered by the Moody Machine

Products Co., Inc., 42-46 Dudley St., Providence 5, R. I. This SC-5 Moody Kit, as it is called, consists of a screw driver barrel of nickel plated steel with an aluminum swivel top that insures ease of operation, together with five blades ranging in size from .100 inch to .040 inch. Blades are interchangeable, being inserted in a chuck in the barrel. Blades and barrel are stored in a machined aluminum base and the complete unit is protected by a clear plastic cover. The price of the kit is $1.50.

FOR PHONE USERS WHO HAVE CHILDREN. An ingenious device that locks down the contact posts of square base telephones so curious youngsters can't cause service in- terruptions has been announced by the Murray Manu- facturing Co., 63 Rock St., Avon, Mass. Called the Kiddie Proof Phone Gard, it is a metal clamp that can be fastened on the phone in a matter of seconds, and removed just as quickly. Children, or others who don't know how to work it, will find it tricky to detach. The price is 98^.

ENDS LEAF-RAKING. With autumn coming on apace it won't be long till you start the yearly chore of raking, hauling and burning fallen leaves. However, there's a way to save yourself the trouble, and at the same time turn your leaves into rich plant food, by means of a device called the Grind-a-leaf which is offered by Propulsion Engine Your hair's handsomer, your scalp feels Corp., 7th and Sunshine Road, Kansas City 15, Kan., as an accessory for their rotary better, when you give them extra protection power lawnmowers. Costing $10, f.o.b. factory, the Grind-a-leaf attachment consists against drying summer sun. Use Vitalis of a highly pitched blade and shroud. The blade revolves at a high speed and sucks "Live-Action" care—Vitalis and the famous the leaves up, and the shroud confines them while the blade grinds them up and blows "60-Second Workout"— to guard hair, in- the particles through the perforations of the shroud. The device is for use only with vigorate scalp. Get Vitalis today, at any drug this company's Mow-Master mowers. counter or barber shop.

WORK AND PLAY GLOVES. Legionnaire D. D. Bryant got tired of gloves that got in his way when he wanted to handle tools or shoot or fish, so he invented something different in hand haberdashery. He calls his product Feel Gloves, and that pretty well explains them. The body of the gloves is made of wool for warmth and long wear, but the index finger and thumb are made of Byrd cloth so you can feel or grip even small objects. In addition the deluxe gloves have leather reinforcing, and this too helps grip things. Made by the Morris Manufacturing Co., Newbern, Tenn., Vftaus the deluxe line of gloves sell for $2.00 a pair, and those without leather are $1.50. v fjO-£eGond Worfaui FISTFUL OF FUN. Now you can get close-up views of sports events and wild-life without lugging a heavy pair of con- 50 SECONDS' massage feel ventional binoculars. Thanks to a radically different design, the difference in your scalp. 6-power prism binoculars are available which weigh only Vitalis stimulates scalp, pre- four ounces and measure only three inches across — a mere vents dryness, routs flaky dan- fistful. Yet these powerful little glasses, providing a field druff, helps check excessive of view of 375 feet at a thousand yards, and equipped with falling hair. coated optics, sell for only $19.50 plus 20 percent Federal tax. The binocular is all metal, baked on black enamel with 10 SECONDS' combing see contrasting chrome finish, and comes in an attractive the difference in your hair. leather case. It is being offered by United Products Co., Neater, handsomer — set to 7941 S. Halsted St., Chicago 20. stay. No "slicked-down" look. Vitalis contains no greasy petrolatum just pure natural ARE YOU IN A NUTTY BUSINESS? A new type of nutcracker, for those who use more — vegetable oil. nuts than can be handled by the kitchen variety of cracker, but who can't spend several hundred dollars for a power-driven machine, has been announced by the Woodson Nut Machinery Co., 3826 Arsenal St., St. Louis 16, Mo. Costing $23.50, the • Many skin specialists Woodson machine is a compact and sturdily built tool that the manufacturer says prescribe two of Vitalis' will easily handle 25 nuts a minute. This, he points out, permits a person to start his basic ingredients for dry, scalp. The Vitalis own small business supplying shelled pecans, Brazil nuts, English walnuts, hazel flaky workout stimulates scalp, nuts, filberts and almonds. prevents dryness.

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WHICH WAY DID THEM UP-PAINTERS GO, PODNER?

For our ladies' page in this issue (page 28), Kitty York originally recommended painting a wall from the bottom up. A copy of the article got out of the office before publication and then the bristles started to fly. Somebody in the paint industry, whom we asked to check the story, said you must paint walls from the top down — it's the only neat way. We asked somebody else in the industry, and he said To Paint Up or To Paint Down is still an unresolved controversy, and if you discuss it with strangers (or even friends) you should have your voice and your muscles in trim. Here in the office most of us said Kitty was wrong. Everybody (we said) paints down, and that makes sense because the drippings fall on unpainted old wall rather than on new paint you've just smoothed. But Kitty rallied a few deep thinkers on the subject who admitted that the

Oometimes you may think of So do the large purchases of Bell the Telephone Company simply as Telephone Companies themselves. most numerous the organization that provides you Home Town Booster —Western Down-Painters, though by far, have not yet wiped out all enemy with good telephone service at low Electric, the manufacturing and pockets of resistance. There's life in the cost. purchasing unit of the Bell System, Up-Painters yet. That, of course, is its most im- alone bought from 23,000 concerns Then we learned that one paint company once ordered an expensive piece of portant job. in 2500 cities and towns last year. advertising art from a Eureopan artist, But its value to the community These things are good for you but scrapped it when the artist sent in a and to you personally goes far be- and good for your town. fine picture of a wall being painted up. all were in, the Down- yond the completing of a call. Need for Adequate Rates —The When the votes Painters were way out in front, and, Wrapped up in the words "Tele- jobs, the wages, the money spent faced with the evidence, Kitty consented phone Company" are jobs and for local goods and services, and the to go along with the winners and change wages and local purchases, as well continuation of good telephone her copy. But not without pointing out things as Up-Painters as telephone service. service, all depend on adequate that there are such who do a very nice job. The Bell System employs over rates and earnings. "50,000 men and women and its Only through adequate rates and LOCAL STORY payroll is above $2,000,000,000 earnings can Bell Telephone Com- When, a few days before last Christmas, annually. The wages spent by tele- panies meet the increased cost of fur- Legion Posts were asked by their Na- phone employees create jobs and nishing the service and attract the tional Commander to collect millions of kids, the Posts wages for people in many other lines. new capital needed to improve it. toys to send to European waded into a big assignment. In less than two months Posts sent three million toys to the Legion's Philadelphia BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM shipping point. That is nothing to sneeze at. g • The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 .:

You know how you did the Tide of Toys job in your town, and you know the co- YOU WON'T GET ANYWHERE UNLESS YOU START operation you received from your town- folk. Hundreds of Posts, like Adam Schel- linger Post of Nebraska City, Nebraska, had just completed their own toy drives for poor kids in their own towns, and they did the job all over again. The schools of America were magnificent. Legionnaires asked teachers to help. Teachers asked each school child to bring a toy to school to send to Europe. The children brought toys to school by the millions. Department stores, firehouses and police stations, as well as Legion Posts, also acted as central collection points. Merchants gave toys from their Xmas inventories. The clergy backed up Tide of Toys from the pulpits. Local newspapers really went to work on the job, like the Main Line Times in the Merion, Pa., area, which printed the name of every child giving a toy, and whose editor sent a letter to each such child. Many Posts, too, gave recognition to the American kids, handing out printed certificates acknowledging gifts. Just crating the toys was a terrific job, but Legionnaires found all kinds of help, like the Miami, Florida, carpenters union which made crates free for toys piled up at Miami Legion Posts. Local truckers often donated local haul- age of toys. Boys Clubs and Boy Scouts canvassed homes for the Legion toy drive — as in Toledo and Los Angeles. Now here's your chance to say thank you, and then some. On page 26 is an article, Hoio You Made 3,000,000 Kids Happy, which tells what happened after the toys left your town. The article will give Legionnaires everywhere real satisfaction, we think. And why not show it to the folks who helped you in your Tide of Toys drive? We know they'd appreciate learning what came of their efforts. If your local paper sees a story possi- bility in a summary of how Tide of Toys worked in your town, followed by ex- WHIN IT'S AN £)Ci6e ...rou START tracts from our present article, we will honor postcard requests for permission to reprint in whole or in part. The Tide of Toys is a local story, for it became a fan- Up at dawn, all set for that long-planned vacation trip . . tastic success purely by local efforts, multiplied several thousand-fold. and the car won't start.

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Q • The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 Hup, Hup, 3-4! It's your convention! March

proudly in the stirring Legion parade! Mar-

vel at the gorgeous pageant to be presented

in the great Memorial Coliseum ! Relax in

the comforts of Los Angeles hospitality. Thrill

to the magnificence of Los Angeles! More

places to go! More things to do! Have a

swell time at the marvelous motion picture

studios! See the glamorous movie stars!

Enjoy the warmth of welcome that all Los

Angeles has prepared for you! Yes — it will

be a thrilling convention — and jam-packed

with joyful hours to guarantee you the time

of your life. Get off the dime! Join your

state delegation. Contact your state adjutant.

Let's go to the biggest Legion convention in

history! Meet your buddies from Iwo Jima,

Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Casa Blanca, Algiers,

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By WILLIAM HOLDER But Slim Baker wasn't. That's what it meant itting in the Navy gunners' mess of the to be a real Navy man. Slim peeled off his George Foster, Johnny Ordway could heavy jacket, loosened a scarf. "Cold up theah. almost taste in the coffee the general uneasi- Damn if I didn't like to feeze. Wouldn't be so ness and fear. He adjusted his body to the roll bad if it wasn't fo' that misable rain." of the heavily laden freighter and was silent, Feeney said, "It'll be a lot colder where watching the others. The convoy had lost four you're goin'. A lot colder and a lot hotter." ships coming across the North Atlantic and Their destination wasn't any secret, now. A Johnny had seen three of them go, so scared day and half out of Loch Lamb, in Northern that he couldn't spit. But this was different. Scotland, and the needle of the compass on the This was something you could feel in the hull flying bridge pointing due north. That could itself. The whole ship was tight and tense. mean one thing. (Continued on next page) AS THEY SWERVED PAST the burning ship Saunders said. '">

"All right. Finish your coffee but zines. You can do that I'll ( I iiiu and take run I'd ) don't take all day." And Parsons was care of George, here." gone. Johnny said, "Okay." He took a CONVOY Slim sighed. "Man won't even give magazine from the ready box, put it you a. chance to get warm." He grinned on the frame and started winding up Fat Furulo said the word. "Mur- through the smoke of his cigarette. the tension with the loading lever. mansk." It had an ugly sound and "That stinker is strikin' for admiral." "Baker says that Parsons has never just hung there in the room. Feeney said, "How come he's got a been with the Fleet.'" Slim Baker shrugged. "Won't be the rate and you haven't, Slim?" "That makes a crowd of us," Marty first time for tH<= lil' ol' boy." He lit a Slim's grin widened. "Them little said. "But I wish Parsons was with spots on his nose ain't freckles, son. the Fleet right now. The guy is a dilly. Now, ol' Baker, he just don't seem to I been on this thing a month and I ain't get along with that gold braid. Never put in four hours straight sleep." did. They're of one mind and most of Johnny kept working. "How'd you the time I'm of another." come to get in the Armed Guard, "He ever with the Fleet, Slim?" Marty?" Johnny asked. Marty had the barrel out of the gun Baker stared at and he placed it on some rags on the him. "Him? With the floor of the gun tub so that it wouldn't Fleet? Hell, boy, he's roll. He straightened up. "I volun- only been in the out- teered. I was just through with boot fit a yeah, yeah and a school, down in Norfolk, and there was half. These rust buck- a draft of thirty going up to submarine ets is the only Fleet school in New London. We're all lined Parsons up with our gear, and some old chief cigarette and the gesture had an air, knows. He comes along with a bunch of papers like everything Slim did. "Any of you wouldn't last in his hand. He brings us to attention been up theah?" No one answered, a week in tells us that the Armed Guard needed and he shook his head. "You ain't the real Navy. This Armed Guard is some men. He tells us, 'One step for- gonna like it one little bit." his style." ward—march!' and we all take one "It's tough?" Feeney asked. Johnny got up, took his cup into the step. He says, 'You just volunteered.' Baker looked at him and grinned. pantry and washed it out. He headed That was all, brother. I been ridin' "Tough, son? Really rugged. Why, I for the door and the others followed these tubs ever since." ." remember . . him. Baker said, "Now don't rush off, They worked in the cold, reluctant But looking at Slim, Johnny Ord- men, jest because that boy rings the light of the fading sun, and men were way knew it wouldn't be tough for bell. We got plenty of time." occupied with the other seven 20mm's. him. He'd been around. He'd been in Johnny was still grinning when he At the three inch fifties, one on the the Navy for almost six years. Work- went up the after ladders to the flying bow and the other at the stern, the ing on his second hitch. He'd been with bridge and to his gun, the Number crews were busy, cleaning" and oiling. the Fleet. He recalled the stories Slim Three 20mm. He stood beside the gun Johnny felt a presence at the side of had told during the long night watches tub and looked at the convoy, fifteen the tub and looked up. they'd spent together, during the ses- ships in all, and the sense of depres- It was Parsons. He said, "Every- sions in the mess room or in the com- sion returned. The freighters, in col- thing okay, Marty?" partment. Stories of the Fleet, of lib- umns of three, plodded like toys "Sure. I rub this thing down one erties in Colon and Panama, of girls through the limitless gray sea. They more time and it's gonna fall apart." in sun-drenched Eastern ports, of rolled in the swell, some of them in Parsons didn't even smile as he fights in Boston and New York. Slim unison and several out of time with walked away, and Johnny looked after was strictly Navy, and a run like this the rest, and far out on the flanks him with distaste. He hadn't cared wouldn't bother him. Johnny could see a couple of the much for Parsons since the first time The hard, flat voice interrupted Slim. British trawlers that were serving as he'd seen him. The guy was all drive. Parsons' voice. The coxswain was escorts. He'd asked Johnny if he'd known the framed in the doorway, his face white, Marty Moran said, "All right, tour- 20mm, and Johnny said, yes, he did. his jaw jutting. "Okay, we're getting a ist. Let's get to work." break in the weather. Rain's stopped Marty was the gunner, a square, and the sun's trying to break out. Let's chunky man of twenty-four, seven hit those guns. I don't know how long years older than Johnny. The inevit- 4 it will last." able cigar butt was in his mouth and Slim Baker said, "Hell, man, we jest he was taking the gun down. "Parsons come off watch." says put full tension on all the maga-

12 "That was the Harry Salmon. Gee, I knew a lot of guys on that!'

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT That had been in Philadelphia, when and Johnny snapped the magazine on, they'd been tied up to the dock, load- good. Parsons lowered the boom." then covered the gun. They were ing. Parsons had walked him right to Johnny had heard nothing about it. climbing out of the tub when Slim a gun and had said, "All right, take it He remembered Feeney coming back Baker, who had the gun on the port down and put it together again." from a liberty, once, with his face in side, walked up from the after ladders Johnny had tried. He'd thought he'd awful shape. Someone had mentioned and slung a leg over his tub. known the gun. He'd been schooled on a fight in a bar, and he'd forgotten Parsons went over to him. "You sure it at Little Creek. But he was fumbling about it. So that was how it had hap- took your time, Baker. It'll be dark and inept. He needed help and he was pened. It surprised him. Feeney was before you're through." slow. big and rugged. Slim smiled at him. "Had a second And Parsons had said, "You're not "Parsons is too cold," Johnny said. cup of coffee. Don't you fret yourself bad, but you don't know that gun the "He does everything by the book. about ol' Slim, boy. I'll get along." He ." way you should. You're going to be Hell, Slim said . . turned and started working on the loader for Marty Moran on No. 3. From Then he saw Mr. Rawley, the ensign gun, and Parsons stood there silently. now on you'll spend two hours a day who was the gunnery officer, talking Johnny grinned as he and Marty on that gun until you really know it." to Parsons over near the canvas wind- walked to the after ladders. You And he had. Parsons had seen to break. Rawley was a tall, thin young couldn't ruffle that Slim. that. After two weeks he could put the man, and this was his first trip, too, The messroom was noisier than ever thing together in his sleep. His mind Johnny knew. He remembered seeing at chow that night, Johnny noticed. was full of breech bars, barrel springs, him at the gunnery school in Little Everybody was trying to be a come- breech bolt, securing bolt, buffer Creek. Rawley spoke above the wind. dian and no one was making the grade. springs, magazine interlock, sear, "Don't you think you might be The tension was mounting and they

striker pin, trigger mechanism. Par- working them a little hard, Parsons? were all attempting to dispel it. sons checked him every other day, After all, if we're going to be "About these Russian babes," Fat and finally, two days after they busy they should be rested." Furulo said. "Have I got the right sailed, he said, "All right, Ordway. dope? They really cooperate?"

Now you know it. Just don't for- Slim Baker

' get any of it." Johnny thought he grinned. ' A never would. Parsons thin, couple bars of Now he said to Marty Moran, "You harsh voice said, chocolate makes ever work for a guy like Parsons." "Yes, sir. But it 'em mighty Marty shook his head. "On the out- won't do them any good to be rested friendly, Fat. side they couldn't pay me enough to if the guns aren't right." You figure you work for him." Rawley nodded slowly. "You have want to buy some of mine?" "Somebody ought to knock his something there." "Hell, I won't need any candy. I'll brains out," Johnny said. "Maybe he'd And Marty mumbled, "Yeah, but just give 'em that big Furulo smile, a learn." what is it?" little Jersey City technique, an' I'll Marty looked at him. "Feeney tried Marty finished with the gun just as have to chase 'em away with a club." it. In Philly. He didn't make out so Johnny put tension on the last maga- "Chase them my way," Feeney said. zine. Marty pushed up the catch lever "I could use a little of that stuff." Harris, the gunners' mate, said, "Slim, what are they like?" Slim Baker grinned at him. "Why, Harris, to a little ol' boy like you, I "HOWINELL can that ensign tell when guess it woldn't make no nevermind. it's a thousand yards?" Marty muttered What was it like the first time you ever wore shoes?" A roar went up, and when it subsided, Johnny noticed Parsons, down at the end of the table, eating slowly and silently, unsmilingly. Marty Moran said, "What's it like, Parsons? You been up here?" Parsons shook his head. "No." The table was silent for a moment, then Slim Baker said, "Where have you been, Parsons?" Parsons set down his knife and fork. "I've only (Continued on page 42) FROM THE HOLD of the Polish liner Batory come various commodities which will return dollars to commie countries. It will be recalled that Eisler escaped on the Batory

"HE OEMAHELU, HE nPOAAW" ery few of us ever stop to think how Soviet imperial- (IF YOU DON'T CHEAT, YOU DON'T SELL) V ism is eating into our pock- RVSSIAM ADAGE ets — rich and poor alike. Every pay envelope is being rifled by the invisible Kremlin hand. Every By J. ANTHONY MARCUS President, Institute of Foreign Trade CZECH hat factories, run by Stalin's gang, are turning out hats for the U. S. A. — cheap, too

The Kremlin gang has already taken a big bite out

of every dollar you earn. Now they hope to get more,

plus your job, by dumping cheap products on our markets

14 ONCE THE JAPS dominated the crab-meat industry. Then the Russians moved in and took over this rich revenue-producer

ALREADY they've taken over the hog CZECH SHOES were dumped here at 870 a bristle industry from China. Soviet trade pair. A famous department store and a large commissars are not far behind Red armies chain featured the goods from commie-land

1917, economic normalcy has become To gain our diplomatic recognition a thing of the past. Long-range devel- in 1933 the Kremlin dangled billions opment programs are not undertaken, in trade for our then idle factories. We jobs are not multiplying fast enough fell for it and found ourselves cheated to take care of the ever-rising popu- and deceived. Soviet purchases actu- lation because Moscow wants condi- ally fell off. With recognition, however, dividend check is being robbed by the tions to remain uncertain, chaotic in came Stalin's hoped-for opportunity same international brigand. Every order to fish in muddy waters. War- to flood this country with industrial grocery bag contains less food because weary and impoverished nations must spies disguised as "buying commis- a fanatical gang of Moscow has de- spend huge fortunes on armaments to sions" to steal our technological se- creed perpetual war until either they prepare for the showdown which crets in order to strengthen the Soviet or free men survive. Lenin, chief architect of the Russian war potential. Due to the rise of the Soviet counter- slave state, had proclaimed as "un- At Teheran and Yalta Stalin cheated revolution against free institutions in avoidable." President Roosevelt by promising peaceful cooperation after the wai\ like his ONE RESULT of the commies' cheap hats—some of the unemployed in Danbury, Conn., center With men Alger Hiss as ad- of America's hat industry. Buyers would do well to study the maker's label, not just the price tag visers, he was unaware of Stalin's strict adherence to the old Russian Principle: "If you don't cheat, you don't sell." No sooner were our common enemies defeated then, with renewed fury, the Soviet Government resumed the perpetual war against the democratic nations which is costing us over twenty -five billions of dollars a year. No nation has ever been confronted with so deadly and costly an enemy. No nation has ever had less reason to (Continued on page 57)

15 f something very serious hasn't happened to American food, tell me, where are the traditional dishes that once graced the American Are we eating better than ever before? Here's one expert table? How long has it been since you enjoyed rawfried potatoes, raised buckwheat cakes, an ungilded bean who doesn't think so as he recalls the fragrant dishes of soup or a mess of dandelion greens? If you are having these succulent dishes with regularity, you are most yesteryear that made the mouth water and stuck to the ribs fortunate. If, from time to time, you sniff the unforgettable fragrance of freshly-baked bread and if you're persuasive enough to be given the warm heel of the loaf, spread thickly with By HARRY BOTSFORD butter, then you are sharing a great American heritage. And, how long has ILLUSTRATED BY BUD HAWES it been since you sipped a tall glass of 16 —

flavored and tender as the kiss of a baby. With them would be a platter of fried, home-made sausage, or a few slices of home-cured ham. There, friends and neighbors, was a break-

fast! After eating it, a man went forth fully fortified against inclement weather, capable of chopping a cord of stove wood before the midday meal. A fine breakfast food! My grandfather used to hold that the finest breakfast food was a small steak, judiciously broiled and served with hot soda biscuits, a theory with which I cannot quarrel. Some day, a poet blessed with understanding, embittered by frustrated nostalgia in all its branches, will sit down and compose a great epic poem about raised buckwheat cakes. I hope he puts me down for a copy. How about the pasty? English song and prose of yesteryear frequently mentioned and praised a venison pasty. WHEN November came to the hills, a crock of divine buck- It's now a stranger to most American wheat batter lurked close to the old wood-burning: kitchen range tables, unhappily. Yet, in this country the pasty attained its greatest stature. In reality, it's a one-dish meal of great "Gold" soup? It was a cunning brew virtues: pie dough is cut to size, into of assorted vegetables that had sim- the middle is placed an appetizing heap genuine buttermilk, cool-fresh from a mered with a generous piece of fat of diced raw beef, chopped onion,

farm spring house— nectar flecked with beef for hours on end. When it ar- diced potatoes, all appropriately sea- the gold of butter? This differs from rived at the table, the surface of the soned, mixed in a little butter. Then the modern cultured synthetic butter- soup had a shimmering, entrancing the dough is folded over the ingredi- milk as vintage champagne differs film of sheer gold—liquid and palatable ents, the top is slit for the escape of from prune juice. fat, a grace-note of absolute merit, one steam and into the slip goes some I remember when bean soup ar- that helped to give the soup basic in- rived at the table in its pristine glory. tegrity. Today's dieticians, the vandals, It was an uplifting soup, with liberal cool their soups, skim off the energiz- traces of ham hock with which the ing fat, a culinary crime of the first beans had been simmering for as much magnitude. as eight hours. It was — and still is I find myself baffled on many food about the best of all soups. fronts. Outside my home, I haven't Today's bean soup is often a trav- tasted raised buckwheat pancakes for esty. In it will be found onion, diced two hungry decades. Mention raised potatoes, slices of tomato, remnants of buckwheat pancakes to the modern salt pork and strange herbs. It has been housewife and about all you can ex- cooked casually and with great speed. pect is a blank look or a hasty admis- "You can't hurry a bean," my grand- sion that she heard John mention them mother used to say. Her culinary pre- favorably. cepts were sound. Cream, assorted When November came to the Penn- herbs and alien and unfriendly odd- sylvania hills, a crock of divine buck- ments, such as paprika, were things wheat batter lurked close to the old that never contaminated her glorious wood-burning range in the farm kit- soup. A huge tureen of bean soup, chen. It stayed there until the follow- freshly-baked crusty bread and a bowl ing April. By popular request! From of tangy cole slaw — these were a meal this brown crock emerged a robust and a very good one. "These are vittles and stimulating aroma that I once that stick to the ribs," grandfather found more delightful than any mod- would "FOOD is somesing near holy, declare -high praise and de- ern perfume. It was compounded of yet" a served. Pennsylvania Dutch woman once told mc the active fermentation of a mixture I am paid to eat in the best restau- of buckwheat flour, yeast, sour milk, melted butter. Forty-five minutes in a rants of New York and to report on soda and a modicum of molasses. The 350-degree oven produces a noble and the character of food encountered. I crock was never fully emptied, for inspiring dish — it's too bad we don't have tried for years to find a single some of it had to serve as a starter for have it more often! bistro where I could indulge in a bowl the next day's batch. Who doesn't recall l-aw-fried pota- of honest and unadulterated bean soup. When you came in for breakfast after toes? They are crusty and heavenly, The search for the Holy Grail was a a brisk bout of chilly chores, you found potatoes at their ultimate best. The minor affair compared to my unsuc- the batter being translated into small dieticians sneer at raw-fried potatoes, cessful safari. brown pancakes on a long griddle. scream that they are calculated to Remember the glorious goodness of They were delicately and distinctively generate (Continued on page 41)

17 What makes a CHAMPION

The boys of Garbarina Post knew they'd

be the best corps in the

land. But it took 17

years to prove it

By PETER BOLTER

DRUM MAJOR OLSEN needed first aid for exhaustion after Garbarina Post, en route to the National title, won the Pageant of the Drum at Syracuse, N. Y„ July 4, 1949

THE SCENE BELOW is on the field of Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last September, where Garbarina won the National Senior title in its first try

HEN NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE \ /, f 1 employee William St. John organized a junior drum and bugle corps in 1932, the boys of his corps averaged nine years of age. They lived in the area around the west end of 125th Street, in New York, where the West Side subway rumbles overhead. There isn't much room for kids to play there, except when police close off nearby La Salle Street as a play street in the hot summer months. Ten years later, in 1942, when St. John's junior corps was still going strong, the older members disbanded for service around the globe with the

armed forces of ' the United States. Since 1932 they had become one of the four best junior corps in the East and they had every intention of being the best junior or senior corps in the country. They had, in the meantime, been sponsored at different times by three separate Posts of The American Legion and one VFW Post. "When we come back from the war," the corps agreed, "let's form a Legion Drum Corps

Post of our own. We will name it after the first of us to be killed in service, and we will stay together and be the peted in the Legion's eastern cham- best senior drum and bugle corps in pionship senior drum corps circuit. In 1948 the convention moved to the country." This circuit has so far produced every Miami. Garbarina couldn't afford the The first to be killed was Raymond post-war Legion National Champion- trip, and their other old rivals, the A. Garbarina, who had been a bugler ship Senior Drum and Bugle Corps, in- Jersey Joes from Riverside, N. J., won. in St. John's junior corps. He was a cluding those of Stratford, Conn., Since anybody in New York can truck-driving PFC in the army when Hackensack, N. J., and Riverside, N. J. afford to go to Philadelphia, Garbarina his ammo truck received a direct hit Garbarina Post lost only one com- Post was there last fall for the 1949 in the Battle of the Bulge. petition in that company during four National Convention, after four years Six other members of the Corps years. of nail-biting for a crack at the Na- were lost in War Two, and the man But the Post was strapped for tional Senior title. who made the corps, William St. John, money, and couldn't send its 60-man At Philadelphia, only the pre-war a War One veteran who also served corps to the 1946 Legion Convention champion corps of Commonwealth briefly in War Two, died when he in San Francisco, where Stratford won Edison Post, of Chicago, was able to fell from a Customs launch patrol- the national senior title. grab one of the first five spots away ling New York Harbor in November, In '47, when the Legion Convention from the tough eastern circuit. Hack- 1945. moved to New York, Garbarina Post ensack's Doremus Post was well up The rest came back. They chartered learned that the host town wasn't al- again, in fifth. Edison was fourth. Raymond A. Garbarina Memorial Post lowed to compete. The corps sat in the Hamilton Post, of Baltimore, in the of The American Legion, with HQ at stands, unable to go onto the field and eastern circuit, was third. The River- Tiemann Place in their old New York vie with their old rivals from Hacken- side Jersey Joes were second. City neighborhood. sack, across the river, who won the On top was Raymond A. Garbarina For the next four years they com- national title. Memorial (Continued on page 55)

19 Power Tools that pay for themselves

Home improvements are a cinch if

you use modern tools, and there are few

investments that pay better dividends

By JOE ARMEL CROSS

pouT five years ago I bought a house. Until that time I had lived in an apartment, and there was no particular reason for me to think about more or less permanent improvements in the place I was occupying. But when you buy a house it's different. If you've recently bought one, you'll know what I mean. Before THIS CUMMINS electric hand saw is a versatile tool which can be quickly converted into a sander or planer with accessories you've even moved in, you and your wife are thinking of all sorts of things that need doing to fix up the place the way you'd like it. Maybe there are partitions to be built, so you can make wife, she came up with one of those Introducing myself. I made some re- better use of part of the space. There typical feminine answers — a simple mark about not expecting to find him are sure to be shelves to be put up; statement that settled the whole thing. using so many power tools. He fixed probably the living-room would look She said, "Go and talk to an expei't." me with a glittering eye and said, "Mr. far better with built-in bookcases, and Then I thought I had her. I came Cross, I've been a cabinet maker for there's no such creature as a wife who right back with "Who?" forty years and more. I learned long doesn't want a dozen things changed Didn't faze her a bit. She answered, ago that when it comes to pushing a in the kitchen. So it was with us. "Old man Miller. Everybody around saw through a piece of wood, I can't First thing I did was to get catalogues here seems to know him. He's been a hold a candle to an electric motor. of power-tools. Right away I was in carpenter and furniture maker since Even when I was younger, that was trouble. I looked at all those gleaming the year one." true. Now that I'm getting on, and sort pictures of lathes, drill-presses, band- "That's just the trouble," I answered. of have to save my strength, power saws, shapers, and what have you, and "I don't want to talk to some old- tools are doubly important." He looked I wanted them all. But there was the fashioned character who was around around at all the labor-saving ma- little matter of budget. The outlay for when Noah was inventing the auger." chinery in his shop and went on, "I tools had to be kept as small as pos- "How do you know he's old-fash- don't do one single, solitary operation sible. Since I couldn't buy them all, ioned?" asked my helpmeet. I couldn't that I can find a machine to do for me. I had to start off by getting one, or answer that, so I went to see Mr. Look at it this way. I read some place two (maybe) that I needed most. Miller. that a strong man, working his hard- The question was, which did I need Much to my surprise, I found him est can put out a quarter of a horse- first? busily at work in the most modern and power for short periods of time. Elec- When I laid this problem before my highly mechanized shop I ever saw. tricity these days costs five cents a

20 )

AN INEXPENSIVE sander-polisher such as this Black & Decker unit will prove to be an excellent investment

kilowatt hour, in many places. Often costs less than that. One kilowatt hour — is about one and a third horsepower near enough five times the energy a man can exert. To do the work an electric motor can do for him, a man's time is bringing him one cent an hour. Don't sound like good pay to me." "How about people like me?" I inquired. "You know, the man who makes things for the house in his spare time. Are power tools as important for A GREAT TIME saver is a paint sprayer such as this one made by Binks. A him?" sprayer is at its best when you have a lot of work to do. Practice, however, is needed "To my way of thinking they are. Your spare time, when you can work around the house, evenings and week- ends, is worth a certain amount. But for amateurs like you, power tools have another value. Can you use an old-fashioned cross-cut saw?" "Huh? Can I saw a piece of wood? Sure. Why?" "How straight can you saw it? Here, look. I rule a pencil line along near the edge of this piece of wood. Now you take that saw out of the rack and cut along that line." I did as he told me. The wood was about a foot wide, and my arm felt like it when I was through. He took the piece when I was through and

looked at it. BECAUSE IT can do so many things, a drill press "Hum. within Kept about a sixteenth such as this Delta is a must in any workshop of an inch of the center line. Not bad for an amateur. I timed you. Took a HAND SANDING is a slow, exasperating job. A minute and ten seconds. Now watch belt sander like this Skilsaw model will do in a ." this . . few minutes what would ordinarily take hours He took a piece of wood the same width, put it on his bench saw and cut it in seven seconds. "Saves quite a bit of time," he pointed out. Then he went on, "My arm isn't tired, like yours was. Another thing. Take that piece you cut, and stand it on the ground on the edge you sawed, like this." He balanced his piece on edge. It stood easily. But I couldn't get mine to stand up. "Know why yours won't stand up? Because the cut isn't square. You didn't hold the ( Continued on page 51 ANOTHER very useful tool, and one of the first you should consider, is a PHOTOS BY BOB ISEAR bench saw. This one is made by Atlas 21 re there iwmen on (he Moon ?

Man's desire to believe that there are Others in outer

space has made him fall for some tall tales. But the

greatest hoax of all was put across in 1835

By KENNETH BALDWIN

jERSONALLY, I HOPE IT'S TRUE. I with the desire to believe they are true. hope there are other crea- Some saucer sightings are well doc- tures. After all, it's pretty umented and apparently legitimate. vain of us to think we're the Others are obviously pure figments of only ones." Earthman's excited imagination. In That's Earthman talking. That's the either case, however, the fact flying way he's been talking and thinking for saucers are consistently front-page a long time. He's been intrigued. His news is evidence of Earthman's burn- Earthbound mind has been reaching ing curiosity and his unspoken hope out, burning with fascination, hope, that he is not alone.

maybe fear, but surely curiosity. He On November 1, 1938, a young actor has had a strong inclination to believe with a voice of doom took to radio's any piece of evidence that said he was airways with dramatization of an old not alone; that somewhere, somehow story -H. G. Wells' The War of the there were Others. Worlds, published forty years earlier. Now he's on the threshold of finding The result was a press agent's dream out. With every flaming swoosh of a for Orson Welles and the strangest rocket leaving Earth from White case of mass hysteria in the history of Sands, N. M., closer to liber- he comes NOT LONG AGO Mexico reported that fly- ating himself and closer to finding the ing saucers had landed there with midgets answer to the question of Others. When he finally does find out, it's going to mark the end of a lot of wishful speculation. Let's look at three examples: Earth- man's desire to believe in the reality of flying saucers; his inclination to believe that Orson Welle's men from Mars were invading New Jersey; and his hook-line-and-telescope acceptance of a bizarre Moon Story in 1835. Whether flying saucers are real or not — that is, whether they are inter- planetary vehicles operated by Others — is not so important as the fact that Earthmen in every part of this globe have been for the most part caught up ONE MAN told the crowd he had seen the lens loaded for its journey to South Afric:i 22 the U. S. People who heard the broad- daddy of 'em all . . . the clincher to of the paper in his hand. Inhabited!

cast listened so fast that they did not the argument that Earthman is terribly And by what order of beings . . . ! He hear three announcements stating that anxious to know, affirmatively, that had to show it to somebody. He had the show was pure fiction. Instead, there are people on another planet. to talk about it. Migawd, he wanted to they believed that huge, mechanical This time, it was our own Moon. say, there are people on the moon! men from Mars had invaded New Jer- New Yorkers who picked up their And, of course, he believed it. There sey and were advancing on New York copy of the Sun on August 25th of that it was in the Sun. It was a good and City. From coast to coast, men and year, saw a bold headline: reliable newspaper, although a young women fainted, took poison, clogged one. Why not believe it? GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DIS- police stations and hopelessly snarled COVERIES LATELY MADE BY Don't scoff too soon, Mr. 1950! Re- telephone systems in frantic for member stories about the search SIR JOHN HERSCHEL AT the news advice. The giant telescope Others had come at last! THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. at Mt. Palomar? Re- Earthman was ready to believe it. member the speculation as to what the But for perhaps the best example of The news may not. have come as any huge lens would bring to the knowl- our desire to believe that we are not great schock to many. Science was edge of man? Remember the first pic- alone, we must go back one hundred making progress at what seemed an tures taken through it. What did you and fifteen years to 1835 and to the indecent rate even in those days. Most expect to see? You didn't actually story of the Moon Hoax. It's the grand- people were beginning to feel that know, did you? If the men of Palomar nothing was beyond belief. had said the new telescope had given But the story that went with the proof positive of life (say on Mars) headline was another matter. It was an would you have doubted them? Prob- eye-popper! It told of a new telescope, ably not. You would have run through T H e JKeBffi s V N . greater in size than any then in use, the house shouting, Migawd, there are

NEW YORK. TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25. 1835. which was sufficiently powerful to people on Mars! GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES, have "discovered planets in other solar The story ran in the Sun for eight LATELY MADE systems," and to obtain "a distinct days. It was a lulu. The remarks of the BY SIR JOHN HERSCHF.L. LI D. F.R.9. *«. At the Cape of Good H»pe. view of objects on the Moon, fully first day were actually only introduc- [From Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science.] equal to that which the unaided eye tory. They were the teaser. "Man has In this unusual addition to our Journal, we have commands of terrestrial objects at a stepped beyond the apparently natural the happiness of making known to the British pub- lick, and thence to the whole civilized world, reoent distance of one hundred yards; and boundary of his privileges," said the discoveries in Astronomy which will build an impe- has affirmatively settled the question Sun, then went on to explain it rishable monument to the age in which we hve, and that confer upon the present generation of the human race whether this satellite be inhabited — was reprinting the story from the roud distinction through all future time. It has and by what order of beings." Edinburgh Journal Science, •en poetically said that the stars of heaven are of a re- By the time the Sun reader hit that, spected publication in its field. The THIS IS HOW The Sun started the series of he probably jumped from his chair and Sir John Herschel who was credited moon stories that rocked the whole world ran through the house with the copy with the amazing discoveries was the ILLUSTRATED BY BOB GREENHALGH son of the (Continued on page 53)

23 Could YOU

EVERY TWO years there are openings for 435 qualified men and women

service examination to qualify, but the tests you must face are a greater stumbling block than any examination a civil service official ever dreamed up. Since there is no patented formula for winning a seat in the House of Representatives the result is that no This isn't what they tell you in the textbooks, but two men in any Congress are alike in background, personality, ability or temperament.

it will get you to the House of Representatives faster Education, or the lack of it, has very little to do with being elected to Con- gress. In the last Congressional election, for example, the voters of Mis- souri ranged both ends of the educa- By joe McCaffrey tional scale in choosing their members. They named a former college profes- sor, Richard W. Boiling, and a man U~xT"j«ow would you like a salary of who left public school at the age of $12,500 a year, plus $2500 an- J C [ thirteen to help his family, Leonard nual expenses and a liberal Irving. pension upon retirement? However, a survey of the last two Are you looking for work that is Congresses proves there ore basic- challenging, guaranteed to test your ground rules for eligibility. If you can't patience, ability and courage? meet these fundamental requirements, Every two years there are 435 such you might as well relax; there is little government jobs open: Representative chance that you will be offered as a in the Congress of the United States. sacrifice for the voters of your Con- Although traditionally every baby gressional district. born in the United States has the hope Topping the list of ground rules is: of becoming President, his chance of Be a Veteran! reaching the lesser goal of membership With very few exceptions, the 95 in the House of Representatives is not new members elected in November only much greater but also much more 1948 to the 81st Congress were vet- realistic. YOU DON'T have to be an attorney, but your erans of World War I or World War II. There is no need to take a civil chances are a whole lot better if you are one Oregon Congressman Walter Noi - 24 )

in your Congressional district who will make the final decision as to whether or not you will reach that $12,500 a year goal. Because of this, the more people you meet the better your to chances. Congress ? of the The biographical section "Congressional Directory," supplied by each individual member, is a catalogue of fraternal and religious organizations. Few men have ever been elected to Congress who did not belong to some such organizations. One of the most active "joiners," according to his biography, is New York's L. Gary Clemente, who lists the following:

". . . has been active in civic affairs in the community of Ozone Park and Bill interested in the entire city civic bet- terment since 1931; is a member of the following organizations: Reserve Of- ficers Association since 1929; Corp. John Ruoff Post No. 632, American Legion; Queens Borough Lodge of the the blad, an Air Force veteran who won The entire Kansas delegation in Elks 878, Morris Park Council No. 566, his seat in a special election in Janu- 81st Congress, for example, is made up Knights of Columbus; Nativity Blessed ary 1946, believes there is a very of members of the bar. Virgin Post, Catholic War Veterans: sound reason for the influx of ex-GI's Of the full membership in the cur- into politics. rent Congress, more than sixty -five "In some districts veterans and their percent were practicing attorneys be- families make up more than sixty per- fore being sent to Washington. cent of the eligible voters," explains Most attorneys not only command Norblad. "To these people the last war prestige in their home towns, but also was real — they have no desire to face are their own masters. They find the another such conflict. Because of this time necessary for politics, whereas they feel that fellow veterans think as too many businessmen, doctors, white they do, that if they elect them to collar workers and others cannot, un- Congress they will do all they can to fortunately, devote the needed time to fight for peace." serve in civic posts. Observers also feel that veterans re- The attorney has other advantages. sent the thought of any man "who had He has been trained in the art of pre- an easy time of it as a civilian" being senting his argument, he knows the selected for an important political job value of public appearances and his once the shooting war ended. work brings him contacts with a Next on the list is your occupation. thorough cross-section of the com- If you are an attorney your chances of munity which results in votes when reaching Congress are much greater. he later seeks election. RULE NUMBER ONE IS: Be a Veteran. Voters feel that the vets think as they do ILLUSTRATED BY ART CUMMINGS After all, it's the men and women

Italian Charities and Welfare League of Queens; former president, Junior League of Italian Center; Board of Di- rectors of the Ferrini Welfare League, former president; Queens County Bar Association; Military Order of the Canary, Military Order of the World Wars; Army-Navy Officers Club, New York City; president of the Parkwood Democratic Club for 7 years; former vice president of the United Executive Democratic Club; board of Directors of the Georgetown University Alumni. N. Y.; past governor Loyal Order of Moose, Richmond Hill Lodge No. 1176; Queens County Criminal Bar Associ- ation; Real Estate Brokers Associa- tion; Cardinal Hayes Memorial Post No. 296, Catholic War Veterans; Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Police Athletic League; Queens Botanical Gardens Society, charter member; Corp. M. Ferrara Post No. 7, Italian American World War ( Continued on page 39

WHEN THE votes were counted he had carried every Polish district in the city 25 How you made 3,000,000 Kids Happy

TWO SCOTTISH children skip the ceremonies and get off to a Alessandroni, Pennsylvania Legion Commander, makes formal head start with a Tide of Toys steam shovel, while Walter presentation at Bridge of Weir Orphan Home near Glasgow

LEGIONNAIRES, like these of California's Memory Post and San Jose Post, acted as collectors and agents for their towns and sent more than three million toys to Europe after Christmas the Posts start collecting a Tide of Toys, which would be A Report from The American Legion to the shipped to "The American Legion, Pier 38 South, Philadelphia, Pa." The Children Commander said that Paul C. French, Parents Executive Director of CARE (Coop- Teachers erative for American Remittances to

Railroads Europe) , had promised that his private Newspapers relief agency would handle distribution all Steamship lines of the toys in countries where Warehousemen it functioned. Each Legion Post would pay the freight on the toys it sent. Each Radio stations child giving a toy would pin to it a Firemen personal note addressed to the Euro- Policemen pean child receiving it. Truckers Right into the Christmas mail jam Legionnaires went this first letter, as well as a sec- and others of America ond one from the Commander a few on a job they did together days later giving instructions for proper packing of the toys. The in- ANNE RHODES, of Rochester, N. Y., proudly exhibits letter structions were provided by Joe of thanks and photo from Vienna child who got Anne's toy Weaver, CARE supervisor at the Mack Warehouse in Philadelphia, which was to handle the expected flood of material. By this time Walter Alessandroni, Legion Department By ROBERT B. PITKIN Commander of Pennsylvania, was getting set for his job as Port Director

ithin a space of four months men remarked that it was fifth for TOT in Philadelphia. ™ the ' last winter an idea in the Christmas since the end of War Two. Meanwhile, all over America, minds of two men grew into an enor- Then they talked of the poor, inno- Legion Posts went into action, asking mous fact that involved millions of cent kids of Europe born during and their local newspapers, radio stations, Americans in the job of placing toys since the war into a world of violence, and community organizations gener- from America in the hands of grateful wreckage and insecurity— with hunger ally to publicize the drive. Drew Pear- little children of Europe. and fear for bedfellows and bomb pits son never let the cause of Tide of Toys The American Legion now takes for playgrounds. rest a moment in his columns or broad- great pleasure in reporting back to "What a swell thing it would be," casts, and he gave TOT a plug on his America the story of the Tide of Toys they agreed, "if each kid in America frequent appearances on other proof 1950. In terms of speed, scope and would look under his Christmas tree grams. Bob Montgomery gave the Tide unselfish effort it ranks as the greatest this year and pick out one toy to send a full fifteen-minute broadcast. Kate job of its kind ever done on a volun- to a child in Europe." Smith plugged it, and so did Jack tary basis in time of peace. That was on December 8th — seven- Benny, Bob Hope, Amos 'n' Andy, Ted Here is what happened: teen days before Christmas. Three Malone and others, with the backing Early last December Drew Pearson, days later Drew Pearson went on the of their networks and sponsors. War- columnist and radio commentator, had air with the story. And three days ner Brothers gave TOT newsreel cov- lunch in Washington with George N. after that Commander Craig's letter erage. Before a toy had been collected Craig, National Commander of The calling Legionnaires into action went the news and entertainment agencies American Legion. out to every one of our more than of America had backed the plan to the Christmas was coming and the two 17,500 Posts. It asked that immediately hilt. (Continued on page 47)

27 .

They've Taken the Pain

Out of Painting . . • By KITTY YORK

are a big help in covering a large, plain surface. When you're doing furniture, don't let the paint collect inside the corners. It will dry on the surface but it will stay soft underneath. Scotch tape can be a boon when you're painting window frames. Apply it to the edge of the panes and you won't daub the glass. For that tricky task — painting the ceiling — there's an easy way to keep the brush from dripping down on you. Slice a soft rubber ball in half. Then cut a slit in one piece and force the handle of your brush through it from the inside. It will form a cup to catch the excess paint. for paint closet is under cellar stairs A GOOD PLACE a your When you've finished painting, lay the brush flat in a baking tin. Pour in Ihere's no mystery to painting any else himself. Then the quality of the paint remover until it comes half way more. It's easy now. Even if you've materials was so bad that nobody knew up the brush and let it sit that way for never handled a brush before, you can what color he was likely to end up with. a few hours. Then turn it over and let do all those painting jobs around the Today, though, you can get a ready- the other side soak. Afterwards, wash house — the chair you've wanted to re- to-use paint for almost any purpose the brush with plain soap and water finish, the closet door that has needed and in almost any color. There are and let it dry flat. touching up, the andirons you've been special paints for outdoors and in- Any old bookcase or cabinet will do anxious to blacken — without any doors, for metal, concrete, plaster, to hold your painting supplies. How- trouble at all. wood, brick, practically everything. ever, if space is limited, you might Back in Grandpa's day, painting was There are paints that put a frosty coat- think of building a little paint closet a problem. Grandpa practically had to ing on clear glass, that make a wood under your cellar stairs, using the concoct his own paint. He had to blend grain effect, that give a waxed finish. stairs themselves for supports. Just the oils, the pigments and everything They're all simple to use. They spread choose three steps at an easy height smoothly and dry quickly. Many cover and attach boards about eight inches with one coat. Several even come in wide to them. Angle irons or wooden If you have a problem that your containers that spray automatically blocks will do. Skip one step then and dealer cannot solve, write for free information to the following like DDT bombs; they're wonderful add an extra wide shelf. This will give paint companies: for mean jobs like radiators or wicker you space for the tall bottles and cans. Murphy Paints Division, Inter- furniture. If you're bothered by the Clamps to hold your brushes upright chemical Corp., Publicity Dept. AL, smell of paint, there are some from can be fastened to the wall. A pouch 67 W. 44th Street, New York 18, N. Y. which the odor has been removed. for rags can be hung on one side (but National Lead Co., AL Dept., Ill Just ask your dealer for the right don't keep any paint-smeared ones Broadway, New York 6, N. Y. kind of paint for the job you have in there as they constitute a very bad fire Keystone Varnish and Paint Co., mind. hazard) AL Dept., 71 Otsego Street, Brook- After that it will be a cinch. Merely A good paint closet should have sev- lyn, N. Y. remember the three rules of all good eral sizes of brushes and a can of brush Sapolin Paints Inc., AL Dept., 229 painters: 1. Be sure the surface to be cleaner. It ought to have some putty E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. painted is clean and dry. 2. Mix the and a putty knife for preparing sur- Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Paint paint thoroughly. 3. Apply the brush faces. Steel wool, a wire brush and Division AL, Pittsburgh 22, Pa. smoothly, using long, even strokes. several grades of sandpaper are essen- The Martin Senour Co., Sherwin- Here are a few tips to help you. tials. Turpentine, shellac, denatured Williams Paint Div. AL, 2520 Most people in painting a wall or alcohol and linseed oil are necessary. Quarry St., Chicago, Illinois. other large upright surface, brush from A pound or so of whiting is useful, too. Colorizer Associates Inc., AL the top down. Others, however, main- Keep it in a glass jar. A few old sticks Dept., 345 North Western Ave., tain that by painting from the bottom and some empty coffee cans should Chicago, Illinois. up you prevent dribbles. Paint rollers also be hoarded for mixing paints.

28 The National Legionnaire LEGION VOTES $25,000 TO SPARK NATIONAL FIGHT ON MENTAL ILLS Governing Body Provides Funds for First Organized Drive However, improved care in mental hospitals is only one phase of the nation- To Study and Stem the Ravages of Mental Diseases; Cites wide movement which the Legion hopes Precedent in Vitalizing Heart, Rheumatic Fever Research to see get under way within the next few months. Through modern methods The American Legion has provided National Commander Craig feels that of mass education, people now recognize funds to stimulate a long-range cam- the time is now ripe to launch a frontal the early symptoms of many serious paign intended to win mastery for hu- attack on this nation-wide problem. Al- physical disorders and know the neces- manity over the greatest remaining though scare statistics are available in sity of getting prompt medical help. It health threat — mental illness. The plenty, Commander Craig and others in- is hoped that people can become just as Legion's National Executive Committee terested in the formation of this new well informed on the early symptoms of at its May meeting appropriated $25,000 movement want to see the main empha- mental illness and will learn to seek to back the campaign, and actual ex- sis laid on prevention and the hopeful professional help before disorders have penditures await only the development side. Even though medical science will advanced to the chronic or incurable of final plans of the nation-wide pro- readily admit that there are still wide state. gram. gaps in knowledge of causes and treat- At the same time, a great deal can be The first half of the twentieth century ment of mental illness, psychiatry has accomplished in the field of prevention has been marked by the medical con- made important advances in recent through child guidance and adult men- quest of many of mankind's most years. tal hygiene clinics and through general dreaded physical ills, particularly in the education of the public in mental health Majority Can Be Helped field of communicable diseases. Now, if principles. Parents offer one of the most The American Legion has its way about Present experience is that at least hopeful fields for work in this field. Ex- it, the second half of the century will two-thirds of the persons needing psy- perts agree that a great many and per- witness the same sort of victory over chiatric care can be aided to the extent haps a majority of mental ills might be mental and nervous ailments. that permanent institutionalization will avoided if parents could be better not be required provided they receive schooled in child development and child Volunteer Movement expert attention within the first year care. after the onset of mental or nervous dis- Legion Recommendations The $25,000 appropriated by the Na- order. This figure compares with the tional Executive Committee is not to be Authorization of $25,000 to spark this actual record in some state mental hos- used in a Legion-directed movement, but movement came on the recommendation pitals where a discharge rate as low as instead is to help meet the expenses of of the Medical Advisory Board, the Na- 10 per cent is not uncommon. an independent, volunteer movement in tional Rehabilitation Commission, and the field of mental health. National the National Child Welfare Commission. Commander George N. Craig likens this The Rehabilitation Commission during move to a similar contribution which and since World War II has had first ? COLORADOmil MAKES RECORD was made for heax-t disease and rheu- hand experience with the accomplish- matic fever just four years ago. At that MEMBERSHIP FOR 1950 ments of modern psychiatry and wants time, even though diseases of the heart to see the best in mental health prac- and circulatory system were and con- l Of the 58 Departments of the tices extended to all people. tinue to be the principal cause of death, Z Legion organization, Colorado alone The Child Welfare Commission has has its there was no nation-wide effort to cur- J broken 32-year record for also long recognized the need for much ? membership enrollment. On June tail the untimely deaths and disabilities more attention to parent-education and > 22nd the Colorado Legion had 30,437 resulting from heart afflictions. child guidance. During the past winter 1 members paid-up at National Head- It was The American Legion and five Area Child Welfare Conferences 2 quarters, against a quota of 30,400, conducted an inquiry into what appeared American Legion Auxiliary with their ? or 100.12 percent of quota. joint gift of $50,000 which actually The percentage of quota record to be a wave of sex crimes against chil- launched the present program of the goes to Italy in the over-all organi- dren. After dispassionate and objective American Heart Association. zation, with 2,105 members and a study, the Child Welfare Commission As a re- J percentage of 175.41. North Dakota, sult of the impetus given by the Legion, J agreed that if we were to prevent such the early leader in the membership research projects, educational activities, \ abnormal behavior, our greatest hope race, still holds top position on a per- I and other services for the prevention of lay in intensive research in mental ill- centage basis, with 24,228 members ! heart disease are coming to be supported ness and in public education in sound ', against a quota of 15,180 — a record by practices. contributions from the general public 2 of 159.60 percent. In alphabetical mental health at a level at least comparable with the order other 1950 } quota-busters are Broad Program Envisioned support given to other national volun- I Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Kan- < sas, tary health organizations. Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, ! The program envisioned by the Legion Nebraska New Hampshire, Philip- From the standpoint of number ! is that of a volunteer movement, similar £ pine Islands, South Dakota, Vermont affected, mental disease is the greatest ] to the Tuberculosis Association, the and Wyoming. remaining health problem. Dr. Leonard $ Heart Association, and others, with a Others almost ready to take top t G. Rowntree, Chairman of the Legion's many-sided program, including: im- rank are Pennsylvania, with an en- I Medical Advisory Board, points out that provement of public mental institutions; ! rollment of 261,885 against a quota | 50 per cent of all hospital beds are now of 290,718. The Keystoners have made more out-patient care and preventive ; occupied by mental patients, and that 90.08 percent of the assigned quota. treatment through clinics; training of '; there is an additional person on the out- Tennessee has reported 93.63 per- additional professional personnel; par- cent; side waiting to occupy every bed in Nevada, 92.35; Wisconsin, 91.06, ! ent education; changing the public atti- I and New Mexico, 91. mental institutions as soon as it is tude toward mental illness; and improve- vacated. ment of commitment laws.

The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • £9 taining law and order in an area of Post-Convention Trips To Hawaiian Islands hundreds of square miles, 65 percent is made up of former service men. Several of these, doing excellent work at desks Will Climax Los Angeles National Conclave or radio controls, are amputees. "No body of men in the nation is more for the tour and extensions vary accord- deeply concerned with imparting the Special 23-Day Tour Offered For ing to the type of accommodation se- spirit of true Americanism and good Legionnaires and Families lected on steamship and ashore, but in citizenship to our younger people than To Pacific Paradise general run from about $450 to approxi- The American Legion," Sheriff Walsh mately $700. Reservations are limited told a group of veterans who had vol- to see Hawaii, haven't Always wanted to the space allocated by the Lurline — unteered as adult community leaders in Or, if once visitor, you want to you? a first applicants, of course, will get the the Junior Deputy Sheriff's program. "I go back? Here is another chance for pick. know that no greater help possibly could friends. Legionnaires, their families and The tour is scheduled to cover Hono- be given you than by you veterans. You Arrangements have been made by the lulu during Aloha Week, October 22 to not only stand for the high principles of the Legion National Headquarters 29 — that city's gala and most color- we are seeking to pass on to our boys, with the American Express Travel Serv- ful pageant of ancient Hawaii. What but you have fought to preserve them ice for special post-Convention trips to the Mardi Gras is to New Orleans,' in our country's wars." Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands im- Aloha Week is to Honolulu — a gay and adjournment of mediately following the glamorous revival of the Makahiki car- BAR ASSOCIATION DEFENDS the National meet at Los Angeles. A nival of old Polynesia. substantial block of space has been Then, to some thousands of Legion- SCHOOL TRIAL EXAMINER signed up on the luxurious Matson flag- naires who did their war in the Pacific ship, the SS. Lurline, to accommodate area, the Lurline itself will have a nos- In a house-cleaning operation, eight the post-Convention tourists. The Lur- talgic appeal — that gallant craft, con- instructors in the Brooklyn, New York, line will sail from Los Angeles in the verted intq a transport, poked its nose schools were suspended for conduct un- afternoon of October 13th. into nearly every port in the active war becoming a teacher when they refused A main tour of 23 days has been theatre in the broad Pacific. But now to answer questions about past or pres- planned, covering Honolulu and the restored to its pre-war splendor, the GI ent communist party affiliations asked Island of Oahu, with reservations at the will look in vain for his name carved by School Superintendent William Jan- Royal Hawaiian and Moana hotels on on the teakwood deck rails. sen. All of the teachers are officers or world-famous Waikiki Beach. Extension Handsome brochures outlining the members of the Teachers Union which trips will be provided to all the neigh- tours and explaining the price ranges was kicked out of the CIO for being boring islands that go to make up the have been prepared, and can be secured communist dominated. glamorous group which, in all probabil- from offices of the American Express When Theodore W. Kiendl, long a ity, will soon be our 49th State. Company. For those not in close touch member of the Brooklyn bar, was named For those who cannot take time for with such an office for information or as trial examjner to hear the case the full tour, arrangements have been reservations, write American Express against the eight, he was attacked as made for the return trip by air, leaving Travel Service, 65 Broadway, New York, "anti-Semitic." Other assaults designed Honolulu on October 27. The rates fixed N. Y. to impugn his integrity, in line with the tactics described by National Com- mander George N. Craig in his article, number WATSON MILLER RETURNS TO VETS GET PREFERENCE IN "Terror by Law," in the July were employed. The Bar Association of LEGION SPECIAL SERVICE CHICAGO SHERIFF'S OFFICE Brooklyn was quick to come to the defense of Mr. Kiendl. In a statement is- Watson B. Miller, who served as Di- Fulfilling campaign pledge, veterans a sued by President Julius Applebaum, rector of The American Legion's Re- rate high in service in the office of Elmer the Association's Board of Trustees de- habilitation service from 1923 to 1941, Michael Walsh, Sheriff of Cook. County, clared that "in the American tradition, has resigned as United States Commis- Illinois, which embraces the city of such trial must be fair and orderly, and sioner of Immigration and, effective Chicago. Though at times Sheriff any attempt to disrupt such hearing by July 1st, returned to the service of the Walsh's selection of veterans has em- smear tactics tends to defeat justice and Legion as Special Representative of the barrassed his political rating, his in- is to be deplored and condemned . . . Mr. National Commander. He will be located sistence- on employing former service Kiendl is a lawyer of unusual ability at the Washington branch of the Na- and high acclaim men women has won and broad experience. Anti-Semitism or tional Headquarters. not only from the veterans' groups in any form of bigotry is foreign to his 18 as Rehabilitation Di- his bailiwick, but from the citizens at After years mind and character." rector, during which time he became one large. of the foremost authorities on veteran Sheriff Walsh himself is a veteran Massachusetts Legion Academy matters, Legionnaire Miller resigned to of both World Wars. He went into the become Assistant Administrator of the first one a private and came out the June, the month of graduations, was Federal Security Agency under Past same way, but he learned a lot while he observed by The American Legion National Commander Paul V. McNutt, was in. He did better in WW2 — he came Academy of the Department of Massa- and upon resignation of his chief was out a colonel — and he had more practi- chusetts, when 307 Legionnaires, rep- appointed Administrator. He served in cal experience in dealing with men and resenting 125 Posts in the 10 Districts this position until 1947, when he was problems. were given Certificates of Award, after appointed Commissioner of the U. S. From the angle of employment, the completing the full course. Suffolk Immigration and Naturalization Service. Sheriff's department is the largest in The first exercise was held by He is a Past Department Commander Illinois except the State Government. County Council on June 22 at the head- of D. C, and Past National Vice Com- In his campaign, Candidate Walsh quarters of Newspaper Men's Post, mander. learned still more, and determined to Boston, when 41 certificates were handed Under a resolution adopted at the build his staff from ex-service personnel out. Other ceremonies were held at May, 1950, meeting of the National Ex- insofar as possible, including the dis- Haverhill, West Quincy, Indian Orchard, ecutive Committee his duties in his new abled, without sacrificing efficiency. Brockton, Rutland and Colrain. The Legion job will be as a special repre- As a result of this policy something Academy is designed to orient the newer sentative for establishing contacts with more than 30 percent of the more than members in procedures, problems and the various Governmental agencies, and 700 employees are war veterans. Of the activities at the Post level. The school to act in an advisory capacity to the County Highway Police force, upon is under the direction of Department National Commander. whom falls the responsibility of main- Historian John P. Sullivan.

3Q * The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 first employed by the Department after Overrides their release from active duty. The Hearings On UMA Resumed; House average salary increase would be about $200 per year. The Senate passed this bill on June Truman Veto of Postal War Service Credit 8th and it was then sent to the President who vetoed it on June 23rd. The House gram, as expressed by Drs. Mayo and considered the veto on June 26th, and Citizens Committee Takes Time Rowntree, and tried to slide over the ob- overrode it by a record vote of 213 to two-thirds To Belittle Legion Opposition jections raised, by discussing organiza- 72 — much greater than the tion as against policy. In his statement, which is necessary in both Houses of • Medical Bill To McCormick said the Citizens Committee Congress. had prepared amendments to the bill As we go to press it is impossible to Senate action when the veto By Miles D. Kennedy which should meet the Legion's objec- predict the tions. This, in itself, is proof of the is considered by that body. Your Legis- National Legislative Director soundness of The American Legion's lative Commission has done everything out Following a temporary suspension of opposition. This point was emphasized possible to have the matter brought of hearings on H.R. 5182, the House Com- by Chairman Dawson, when he directed and favorably considered on the floor every Senator, mittee on Expenditures in the Executive somewhat critical remarks to McCormick the Senate. We contacted Departments resumed consideration of for the light manner in which the latter and requested all of the continental de- lend support to the end this bill in late June. National Com- referred to the testimony of the Legion's partments to mander George N. Craig, Doctors representatives. that the veto might be overridden in the Charles W. Mayo and Leonard G. Rown- The Citizen's Committee received per- Senate. supported this tree, and others testified in behalf of mission to bring some of their "big The American Legion Resolutions 305, The American Legion in opposition to brass" and members of the Hoover Task measure on the basis of San Francisco, 1946, and 714, New York, the bill on March 29, 1950. Force . before the House Committee to Dr. Charles Walter Clark, Executive further pressure for UMA. 1947. The Senate Committee on Expendi- Director of the American Social Hygiene Alien Enlistments in Army Association, was the first witness to tures in the Executive Departments The Senate and the House agreed to testify at the renewal hearing. Speaking commenced hearings early in July on S. compromise on S. 2269, a bill to author- in behalf of the Association, he opposed 2008, which is the companion measure ize enlistment of selected aliens in the the passage of H.R. 5182 on the premise to H.R. 5182. Representatives of The Regular Army. The Secretary of the that: American Legion appeared in opposition the approval of the Secre- to this bill. Army, with question that it is desirable (1) "We tary of State, may accept up to 2500 to separate medical services from We must not be lulled into a false such enlistments.* the other interests and activities of sense of security; we must continue on purpose of this bill is to en- and for special groups such as those guard in defense of the veterans' medi- The real services of care- in the Armed Forces and those cal program which The American able the Army to utilize from abroad who, by served by the Veterans' Administra- Legion had such a great part in devel- fully selected men tion, knowledge, are and oping over the past thirty years. education and general (2) "Creation of a proposed United in a position to give valuable aid in the Medical Administration would cause Military Service Credit study of terrain, languages, and other the disruption of the present rea- subjects of military value, which apply On April 8, 1950, the House passed sonably well functioning organiza- to the far reaches of the world. H.R. 87, a bill having for its purpose tion for public health and medical Enlistees must be unmarried, have care within the Federal Govern- the promotion of World War II veterans no dependents and be between the ages ment." in the Field Service of the Post Office Enlistments are limited to Department. Promotion credit would be of 18 and 35. Ewing Opposes Plan of five years. As a bonus for given on the basis of years of service in a minimum loyal and faithful service, these aliens Earlier, Oscar R. Ewing, Federal Se- the Armed Forces, and would affect ap- following honorable discharge curity Administrator, while testifying proximately 100,000 veterans who were would, and five years of service, be eligible for on other reorganization plans, said : "My U. S. citizenship. other point is that the proposal of a under this United Medical Administration ought The enlistment authority bill would terminate on June 30, 1953. not, on its merits, to be accepted." VOLUNTEER TRAINING PLAN The Department of Defense and the Appearing in support of UMA, how- OFFERED TO THE CONGRESS Secretary of the Army made strong ever, was Robert L. L. McCormick, Re- pleas for this legislation. It is our search Director of the Citizens Commit- Bills were introduced in both the opinion that the President will approve tee for the Hoover Report. Five of the House and Senate on June 30 em- fifteen pages of his prepared statement bracing a defense plan known as the the bill. Extension were devoted to belittling or discounting "Volunteer Instructee Program of Draft the testimony offered by The American 1950." The purpose of these bills is The impact of the Korean situation to strengthen the civilian compo- Legion's witnesses on March 29. brought quick end to Senate and House nents of the Armed Forces and to McCormick, speaking on the testimony conferees' disagreements on the provi- provide a volunteer instructee proof National sions of the draft extension bill, H.R. Commander Craig, stated: gram for national security through "Under this bill, the veteran medical the medium of summer training 6826. As repoi'ted in the July issue of program, naturally, remains intact." camps operated under civilian con- this magazine, the House had passed a This sounds like double talk, however, trol. draft bill merely to maintain the Selec- when a statement he made in another The American Legion- strongly tive Service machinery and thus have it breath is considered: "VA hospitals re- supports the program which, for in readiness in the event of a national brevity, is known as "VIP." duce the income of community hospitals emergency. Senate and House conferees The plan provides that young men by taking away a large class of patients had almost reached an impasse at the between the ages of 17 and 21 may. — about fourteen per cent of time the Korean situation broke and had, the com- upon their own application and at munity population — many of whom Government expense, but without by joint resolution, extended the 1948 would normally come to them." This is military status, be received and draft law for 15 days, or to July 9, 1950. but one example of the manner in which given basic military training. The . On June 27 the House passed H.R. UMA proponents try to becloud the overall purpose is to create a pool 6826, with amendments, by a record issue. of trained manpower to answer in vote of 315 to 4. The amendments agreed national emergency. McCormick pointed to the fears for any to provide a one-year extension to July the future of the veterans' medical pro- (Continued on page 33)

The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • 31 DETROIT DEDICATES MEMORIAL TO VETERANS, CLIMAX TO DREAM OF 29 YEARSears]

Rising in gleaming white marble two days before the dedication and ad- with a seating capacity of 300 for ban- splendor on Detroit's historic old river journed its sessions to participate in the quets and up to 600 for meetings and front, with the tall buildings of the ceremonies. Mrs. Eleanor D. Boyd, dances, and a Grand Ball Room with a city's busy mid-town section as a back- National President of the Gold Star capacity of 600 for banquets and 1,200 drop, the new Veterans' Memorial Hall Mothers of America delivered a stirring for meetings and dancing. stands in "Honored Memory To Those message. Three lounge rooms and building of- Who Gave Their Lives For Their On a site composed of two city blocks, fices share the second floor with the long Country." Built at a cost of more than the Memorial Hall—one of the very fin- bronze roll of Detroit's service dead in $5,700,000, the formal dedication on June est in all our country—provides 10 stories three wars. The third and fourth floors 11th climaxed a dream and planning of facilities for various kinds of veter- will house the various veterans organ- spanning more than 29 years. ans' and civic activities. It will house izations and welfare agencies, and on It was in 1921 that the people of De- the Department Headquarters of the the fifth, sixth and seventh floors are 21 troit approved a bond issue of $5,000,000 Legion of Michigan, Veterans of Foreign meeting rooms ranging in seating capa- to erect a memorial in honor of its ser- Wars, the Amvets, various auxiliaries city from 15 to 250, six of which will vice men of the Spanish-American and and other organizations allied with the have service kitchens adjoining. On the First World Wars—but obstacles and vi- veterans and patriotic groups. Splen- eighth floor are three meeting rooms and cissitudes arose to prevent immediate didly finished and efficiently planned, a a cocktail lounge and restaurant which construction. Then a long business de- number of auditoriums are provided for will be open to the public. pression intervened, another World War, meetings of various sizes. Waldrip on Commission and a shortage of materials. It was not On the second floor is a plaque bear- until 1948 that the actual building got ing the names of the nearly 8,000 Detroit The building will be administered by under way. men and women who gave their lives the Memorial Hall Commission, under for their country in the three wars. which it was planned and constructed. Gen. Devers Speaks Each name is cast individually in en- Representing the Legion on this Com- The formal dedicatory ceremonies was during bronze. mission is W. B. Waldrip, Past Depart- preceded by an hour-long parade of De- ment Commander, Past National Exec- First Unit of Civic Center troit's veteran and civic organizations, utive Committeeman, and long active in with a long section of marching veterans The Veterans' Memorial Building is the organization's Department and Na- and musical units of the Canadian Le- the first completed structure, and the tional affairs. gion. Mayor Alfred E. Cobo, speaking central unit, in a long-range plan of for the entire city, presented the build- constructing a Detroit Civic Center. Post Honors 30-Year Members ing to the Memorial Hall Commission, This center will include a Civic Audi- and President J. E. Frawley accepted torium or Music Hall with a seating Clyde Gustine Post No. 236, Excelsior the charge for the Commission. The ded- capacity of 3,500, and a Convention Hall Springs, Missouri, threw a big party to icatory address was delivered by Gen- capable of holding the largest automo- celebrate its 30th anniversary. Forty- eral Jacob L. Devers, retired, a veteran bile show and provide a seating capacity seven charter members were present of both World Wars, and who developed for 20,000. The new $15,000,000 City- and received their 30-year cards. Em- and trained a major part of the Army's County Building will also be a part of phasis was placed on service at the armored forces for World War 2. .The the Civic Center. meeting — service to veterans, and to the prayer of consecration was made by Beautifully designed and monumental community, state and nation, with Willis Colonel Gustave A. Schellhase, Chaplain in its lines, the Veterans' Memorial Shirley, Service Officer for Western Dis- of the 46th Infantry Division. Building was planned for service as a trict of Missouri, and Steve Slaughter It was particularly appropriate that practical, living memorial. Air-condi- as guest speakers. the first group to make use of the build- tioned throughout, the basement floor At the meeting it was announced that ing was the Gold Star Mothers of Amer- has a public cafeteria, with a fully- 505 members had been enrolled for 1950, ica. The national convention of this equipped heavy duty kitchen and bakery. of which Commander Ray Vance had organization convened in the building On the first floor is the banquet hall signed up 250.

32 * The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 DRAFT EXTENSION TRADING POST IN ALABAMA 300,000 VETS NOTIFIED (Continued from page 31) HAS MILLION $ BUSINESS OF NSLI DIVIDEND SNARLS 9, 1951. It also authorizes the President Started in a small way to raise money Something more than 300,000 card to induct men when needed, and to call to pay for a club home, the Trading notices have gone out from Veterans up the National Guard and Reserves for Post of Florence (Alabama) Post No. Administration notifying WW2 vets 21 months' service. The only restriction 11 has in twelve years grown into a mil- that NSLI dividend checks will be de- imposed upon the President appears to lion dollar business. Dealing in livestock, layed until kinks and snarls are ironed be that the 1948 manpower strength of the operations have spread out into a out by further checking. Some of the 2,005,882 may not be exceeded. tri-State trading concern, serving parts causes of delay are not directly trace- The following day the Senate ap- of Tennessee and Mississippi as well as able to errors on the part of the vet- proved the bill by a 76-0 vote, and sent Northern Alabama. This livestock mar- erans, but are caused by duplications, it to the White House for signature. The ket has proved a tremendous boon to changes of status, dropped and renewed bill is now known as The Selective Serv- stock raisers throughout the area. policies, and a dozen other causes. ice Extension Act of 1950. It was signed But also announces that it is On April 7, 1939, the Post Executive — VA by the President on June 30th. Committee borrowed $850 to apply on holding 50,000 checks worth more than the establishment of a public livestock a million dollars which have been re- auction or trading post. The Post had turned because of insufficient addresses. WW2 VETS GET EXTENSION just bought a $45,000 home and money Also, there are about 10,000 acknowl- IN PULMONARY TB CASES was needed — the idea clicked and the edgement cards returned because of in- Legion's "baby" mushroomed until it is adequate or insufficient addresses. Veterans of WW2 who develop pul- the heart of one of the largest of Ten- WW2 vets who are due a check from monary tuberculosis within three years nessee Valley's larg-est and most impor- the NSLI dividend, who have not had a from date of discharge are granted new tant industries. Though established card explaining cause of delay, should presumptions of service-connection for solely for the farmers of Lauderdale write E. G. Joseph, Director, Special purposes of compensation, hospitaliza- County, the Florence Trading Post has Insurance Projects Service, Veterans tion and medical treatment under the stabilized prices throughout the area for Administration, Washington 25, D. C, full terms of Public Law 573, approved by all classes of livestock. Cattle and hogs giving and complete identifying in- the President on June 23rd. bought elsewhere in trading markets are formation as to person (serial number, Previous law provided a presumptive often brought to the Trading Post for outfit, etc.) and policy number. period of one year g-enerally for chronic resale because of the high market prices diseases, with additional presumptions established. Commander Dies At First Meeting running up to two years for varying Stimulates Stock Raising Robert Richard Smith, Commander of stages of tuberculosis. Fort Cralo Post, The American Legion, Presumption of service connection More land has been put into pasture, Rensselaer, New York, died suddenly on means that, in the absence of evidence planting of winter crops has increased, the evening of June 20th while he was to the contrary, a disease which becomes soil conservation programs have been presiding at the first Post meeting after manifest within the specified period to carried on, and there has been a huge his installation. Commander Smith, the extent that it is at least 10 percent increase in livestock production in Lau- aged 42, was a veteran of the Second disabling is presumed to have had its derdale County since the Trading Post World War. origin while the veteran was in service. began business. In the County today are WW1 vets were granted a presump- five or six hundred purebred bulls be- tive period for tuberculosis which ex- sides sevfcral thousand purebred cows. Builds Home for Vet's Widow tended up to January 1, 1925. The pur- Twelve years ago there were none. El Segundo (California) Post No. 38 pose of the new law is to provide a com- The businfcss is managed by a Legion recently completed a home for the widow parable presumptive period for WW2 Trading Post Committee of five mem- of a veteran who died after an attack of veterans. bers: J. M. Massey, Chairman; S. B. polio. Los Angeles papers publicized VA has announced that it is drafting Howard, Secretary; O. W. Duke, Execu- this fine service, resulting in a high- regulations to administer the new law tive Chairman; Floyd Threet and Glen spot example of unselfish service. R. V. for WW2 vets. Murphy. It is supervised by'H. L. Wes- Holcomb, cabinet-maker of Chino Post son, P. L. King and Dewey Mitchell, who No. 299, WW1 vet and himself a polio share in profits from the sales. victim, wrote that he would make the Approximately 33,000 head of live- cabinets free of charge at his home, or ANDREW McARDLE, MASS. stock are sold each year. Sales average would build them on the premises if around per month, and for the LEGION COMMANDER, DEAD $100,000 provided transportation. He is on year ending June 30, 1949, the gross crutches, but carries on his cabinet work Andrew P. McArdle, Department sales amounted to $1,493,670.35. successfully. Commander of the Massachusetts The Trading Post acts solely as an American Legion, died at his home agent for the livestock seller with a in East Boston in early June after commission charge which figures out to KANSAS HAS CANDIDATE an illness of many months. He was be less ,than two percent, gross. This the first Bay State Commander to commission has never been raised, al- FOR TOP MEMBER RATING die in office. though overhead has doubled. During Commander McArdle had a long This from Irvin L. (Click) Cowger, plant has record of Legion service and at the the past year the physical Department Adjutant of Kansas: time of his death, in addition to been rebuilt at a cost of approximately "Department Adjutant Jess Bul- commanding the Department, he was $25,000 to Florence Post. Up until this lard. South Carolina, has a record also serving as Alternate National rebuilding project was begun, the Post Commander who has signed up Executive Committeeman. Legion Post had used most of the profits 41 of the 48 members of his Post. Edward F. Convery, of Maiden, for community welfare. (American Legion Magazine, July, was selected as his beat it. percentage- successor by the Through the operation of the Trading 1950). Kansas can Department Executive Committee wise at least. W. T. Burton, Milan, Post, Florence Post is on a sound finan- at a special meeting held on June Kansas, organized the Post in his cial basis. Although over a million dol- 10, and District Commander H. Perry town and personally signed up each Chandler was moved up to Depart- lars passes through the operation each one of the 36 members. Totally dis- ment Vice Commander to succeed year, only part of the revenue is avail- abled veteran, service-connected, Convery. Elections for the regular able for Legion use. It does more than Legionnaire Burton is a worker on 1950-51 terms will be made at the care for rehabilitation and welfare any and all Legion programs. He is Department Convention at Cam- work. It has established a cattle and hog directing a Building Fund program bridge 17-19. and personally sold tickets. on August market for three States to the benefit has 200 of both the farmers and business men.

The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 • 23 .

Washington High School, Atlanta, * Georgia, was named as winner of the * * * LEGIONITEMS * * city-wide essay contest sponsored by At- lanta Post No. 1. Students from 14 At- lanta high schools, A handsome silk United States flag spring of 1950, John F. Murphy, Jr., white and Negro,

participated . . . was the first decoration offered for the Lawrence, Massachusetts, entered the Last December while installing television new Savannah, Georgia, City Police Legion oratorical contest—his first speak- a on a house roof, Court, presented by Chatham Post No. ing experience. He won the county con- young Legionnaire Jacob Symans, West Medway, 36. Formal presentation was made by test, but lost by a single point in the Massachusetts, saw two children fall into a fast-moving stream. Past Commander W. L. Kilroy . . . Kings finals in Faneuil Hall, Boston. Not dis- Mountain Post No. 24, Johnson City, couraged, he took 2d place in the Massa- Tumbling off the roof he plunged into the icy Tennessee honored its 30 Past Com- chusetts State high school contest in a water, rescued the children and directed manders with a banquet. Past Depart- field of 163, then closed the season by first-aid. He was awarded a ment Commander Donald McSween, taking 2d place in the New England com- Legion Hero Medal by his Post, which guest speaker, told the Post: "Honoring petition at Colby College, Waterville, his father Adjutant Samuel Symans, your past leaders, as you are doing, is Maine. proudly pinned on his Legion uniform fulfilling that part of our preamble in * * * * at ceremonies held in Medway Post No. 367. The father, is its promise to sanctify our comrade- Wilshire Post No. 319, Los Angeles, who Post Adjutant, and three sons are members of the same ship." . . . Bridgeville (Pennsylvania) California, established a Go-to-Church Post. Post No. 54 has placed six safety signs, program two years ago when it decided "Drive Carefully, Protect Our Chil- to hold annual memorial services in a * dren," on six roads leading into its home church of different faith or denomina- Forty-six Long Island, N. Y., Posts of city. tion each year. 1948 special services were The American Legion sponsored a two- * held in a Catholic Church; 1949, Pres- day stand of Ringling Brothers and The Clarence Lewis family, Topeka, byterian, and 1950 to the new Jewish Barnum and Bailey Circus at Westbury Kansas, is an all-vet family — father, Temple Israel in Hollywood . . . Anna — the first appearance of a major circus mother and three sons were all in service Elizabeth Thomas, student at Booker T. on Long Island. The show was given for in WW2, serving in the Air Force, Navy, the benefit of the fund for disabled vet- Marines and WACs. All are members of erans . . . Police Post No. 460, New York Capitol Post No. 1, Topeka . ... Kinkead- LEGIONNAIRE MILLIGAN City, presented the Police Department Martin Post No. 583, Rippey, Iowa, put REACHES 99th BIRTHDAY with three iceless oxygen tents for emer- the finishing touches on its new home gency use . . . Legionnaire Simon Moly- last fall. Next, the Post organized an ker, Syracuse (New York) Post No. 41, Auxiliary Unit with 30 members. Herman placed wreaths in the name of his Post Lambert is Post Commander, and Mrs. at the American Cemetery at Margraten, Herman Lambert is Auxiliary President Holland, on Memorial Days, 1948 and . . . Johnson County Post No. 117, Paints- 1949. Ill health prevented the 1950 trip, ville, Kentucky, has subscribed for two but he is planning to make a 1951 pil- copies of The American Legion Magazine for each high school in its area — part of its practical Americanism program. What six years ago was the Spring * Valley, New York, public dump has been The American Legion Posts and converted into a handsome 28-acre park Auxiliary Units of Atlantic County, — dedicated as a living memorial to New Jersey, combined on May 19th to Spring Valley men who died in wars. honor the memory of the late Very Rev. Project was sparked by Mayor Anthony Mortimer A. Sullivan, O.S.A., WW1 Milewski, long active in Legion affairs Chaplain, and Past Chaplain of Atlantic . . . Coffeyville (Kansas) Post No. 20 City Post No. 2, the Atlantic County purchased 225 new American flags for Executive Committee and the Depart- street display on holidays and other oc- " ment of New Jersey. A monstrance, casions. These flags were bought for altar vessel, was presented and dedi- the city to replace the ones bought in Born July 31, 1851, Dr. John D. Milli- cated to the memory of Father Sullivan 1935, now worn out . . . As a joint pro- gan, six-star member of East Liberty the 115 . . . Clarence R. Gordon, 100 West 13th gram of the Legion and VFW, Post No. 5, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has Ave., Denver, Colorado — an old China cemeteries of Armstrong County, Penn- reaehed his 99th birthday and — until hand- has continued the wartime "CBI sylvania, in which veterans are buried — further returns are received — can be Roundup" as the "Ex-CBI Roundup," a are to be surveyed, each grave of a vet- called the oldest member of The Ameri- reminiscing picture magazine for China- eran located, and arrangements made can Legion. He is at present a patient in proper care. county has been Burma-India veterans . . . Federal Judge for The Aspinwall VA Hospital, near Pittsburgh, Harold R. Medina, who presided at last divided into 12 cemetery districts, each and while his health is far from good, year's trial of the 11 top U. S. Com- district to be under the sponsorship of he bids fair to round out the full century. munists, was recently honored by the a designated Post. The 11 Legion Posts In active practice since 1876 at Madison, Passaic County (New Jersey) American are especially concerned with seeking Greensburg and Pittsburgh, he has had Legion by presentation of an engrossed out unmarked graves and to secure Gov- a long and successful career. He was one citation "in grateful recognition of your ernment headstones for them. of the first medical men to reach Johns- conspicuous accomplishments in the per- town, Pennsylvania, after the disastrous petuation of the profound principles of flood in 1889, and worked there three Echoes of the San Francisco earth- American democracy." * weeks by the side of Clara Barton, found- quake and fire of 1906 were heard in the er of the American Red Cross. U. S. Court of Claims, Washington, D. C, With an unbroken record since 1919, Enrolling for service in the Spanish- in late May when Edward F. Braunsch- Legionnaire Peter Pavilenti, Armington, American War, he was not called to duty weiger, San Francisco—long-time Legion- Montana, ranks as one of the oldest of — the war was over too soon. In Novem- naire and Past Commander of Okinawa the Legion's Sergeants at Arms and color ber, 1915, he was commissioned in the Post — presented a claim amounting to bearers. His jobs pile up, in 1942 he was Medical Corps and in 1917 was promoted $104,800 for losses suffered by his grand- Sergeant at Arms for five Legion units, to Major and stationed at Camp Custer, father. His case is based on the asserted but now he has only two units — Great Michigan. Later he was transferred to failure of German insurance companies Falls Post No. 3 and the District, which Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where he to pay on policies held by property own- he has served for 20 years ... In the early was chief of surgery. ers at the time of the fire 44 years ago . .

34 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 Field Representative, The American Legion, C/o VA, 252 7th Ave., New York, N. Y. COMRADES IN DISTRESS Stalag 11-B — Anyone this POW camp who OUTFIT REUNIONS knew Corp. Edison H. Travis, between December, 1944, and April, 1945, and remember any illness (stomach and kidney), please contact Nicholas 2nd Engineers Special Brigade — Urgently need Lynch, Jr., National Field Representative, The 2nd Marine Division— 1st annual reunion, Wash- from men who served in SWPA, 1948, American Legion, c/o VA, 252 7th Ave., New ington, D. C. August 11-13; headquarters May- to hear 2nd with Capt. (later Col.) Arthur H. Barrett, York, N. Y. flower Hotel. Write Secretary-Treasurer, (Barry), now deceased, relative to his sickness. Co. K, 1st Regt., Ft. Francis E. Warren, Chey- Marine Division Assn., Headquarters Marine Widow and sons need statements. Write Lydia enne, Wyo. — Need to contact 1st Sgt. Quisenberry, Corps, Washington 25, D. C. Association — Reunion, York K. Barrett, P. O. Box 191, Ronkonkoma, New S/Sgt. Cunningham, Sgt. Wagner, PFC Wallace 3rd Army New Info from York. Lillard, Tom O'Brien, Pvt. Roberts, Cook; Pvts. City, August 18-20; Hotel Commodore. Poplar St., Naval Training Station, Bainbridge, Md. — Will Henderson and Hendrickson, (SS) trainees, Lt. Richard F. Hughes, Secy., 1275 W. York, Pa. at this station in December, 1944, and Levine and others this station in 1942. Claim anyone 6th Division Assn., (Ohio Sector) — Convention, January, 1945, who remembers Johnnie Epps, pending. Herbt C. George, 4711 Chesterfield St., September 10; Deshler-Wallick (Negro), and remembers him being hospitalized El Paso, Tex. Columbus, Ohio, Hotel. Write Orva Detrick, Convention Chairman, time for pneumonia, please write E. Oscar Air Force, Austria — Need to hear from Air at that Shaffer Springfield, Ohio. County Service Officer, P. 0. Box 788, Force men who were with me when we were 122 S. St., Smith, 8th Infantry Division Assn. — 3rd annual re- Fla. beaten by a mob of civilians at Amstettin, Austria, Bradenton, union, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 16-18; Nether- Perry, Va.-Important March 20, 1945, while being escorted to POW 144th Special Bn„ Camp lands Plaza Hotel. Details from Chalmer A. outfit, present on camp. Irvin D. Baer, 1002 Lincoln Park Ave., that I locate someone in this Ave., Cincinnati Danville, 111. (Ex-T/Sgt. 15th AF, 301st Bomb Young, Exec. Secy., 1736 Kemper 14 1943, or the Lt. medical officer. Write May Grp., 352nd Sqdrn.) 31, Ohio. Clyde A. (Tex) DeSpain, Bldg. 64, VA Hospital, Battery D, 310th FA, 79th Div. (WWl) - State- 27th Division Assn. — Annual reunion, Albany, Ft. Thomas, Ky. ments from service comrades needed. Please write N. Y., October 6-7; Hotel Ten Eyck. Write Joseph S. Navy, Norfolk, Va. — Sailors who were Ave., Albany, N. Y. U. Harry A. Emmons, Ward 5, U. S. Naval Hospi- P. Dooley, Secy., 640 Madison draft from Phila. to Norfolk in June, 1944, Infantry Division, (both in a tal, Philadelphia, Pa. 32nd (Red Arrow) hour, twenty-five minutes late, and who were one 101st Battalion, Seabees — Would like to hear WWs) — Annual reunion, Madison, Wis., Septem- brig, please get in touch with got ten days in the from any man who was on board the U.S.S. ber 2-4; Info from Jos. A. Herdlick, Natl. Secy., needed. John Pedone, 27 Chilmark me. Statements Latrona (APA 244), Okinawa to San Francisco, 1806 N. 49th St., Milwaukee 8, Wis. Worcester, Mass. Infantry Division, (Los St., July, 1945, and who remembers me being in sick 33rd (Yellow Cross) - Urgently need to — meeting, both U.S.S. C. W. Morris (WW1) bay with ear infection. Records lost. Myron F. Angeles Chapter) Dinner WWs, locate H. S. Duncan, F2/c, at Receiving Station, October 10 during National Convention, American September-Novem- (Mike) Hagen, Henniker, N. H. Brooklyn Navy Yard, through Battery C, 297th AAA, Searchlight Bn. - Com- Legion. Reservations limited to 500. Write Bob Levi Andry when he fell Angeles, Cal. ber, 1918, who was with rades who remember my injury in January, 1944, Linder, 5323 So. Broadway, Los scrubbing and painting on Bull) Infantry Division — 3rd annual from jackstay while at Camp Stewart, Ga., and another in Florida in 34th (Red for claim. Write Levi 16-17. Morris. Statement needed August, same year, are asked to write. Need reunion, Des Moines, Iowa, September Thomas, Service Moines, Andry, Vallene, Ind., or L. A. statements. Jack M. Horton, 10602 Joan Ave., Write Col. Ed Bird, 6708 University, Des Officer, Paoli, Ind. Cleveland 11, Ohio. Iowa. 3rd Air Force — Urgently need present addresses Co. B, 351st Engrs., General Service, (Attached 75th Division Assn. — 4th annual reunion, Kan- President. Info of Major Verree Mason, Executive Officer, Sqdrn. to British Army) - Will Sgt. Goddard, (N. Y.); sas City, Mo., August 18-20; Hotel Fuller S, MacDill Field; Major Maurice McKeon. TJA PFC Geiser, Carr, Cartwright who served with from Harry P. Wiseman, Natl. Pres., 9724 Ohio. III Bomber Command, MacDill Field, and Capt. me at Norwich, England, in 1942, please write. Ave., Cleveland 4, Green- 77th Infantry Division, (both WWs) — Annual Joseph Holmes, Exec, Sqdrn. O, GA.AB, Statements needed. Leroy R. Jones, 195 S. Hill Butler, 56 reunion, New York City, November 9-11; head; ville, S. C in late 1944. Write Bob St. Dubuque, Iowa. Steele Ave., Gloversville, N. Y. Camp Crowder, Mo. (Cryptographic School) — quarters 77th Div. Club, 28 E. 39th St. Jack - Malpass, General Chairman, address him at Club. Ft. Slocum, N. Y., Hospital Corps. (WW1) Wish to contact men and WAC personnel in 78th (Lightning) Infantry Division, (both Urgently need to contact members, especially den- cryptographic school between May, 1944, and WWs)— Annual reunion, Fort Dix, N. J., August tal corpsman who marched off Ft. Slocum boat August, 1945. I was in Hdqrs. Co., ASFTC, as Hackett, General Chair- and shouted "Bandsman Sporn, you've got a clerk-typist; cleared cryptographic personnel. 11-13. Write Gerald R. Nutley, N. J., for info. fracture." Returning from Mexican Border ser- Write Vernon D. Stenzel, Box 777, Neal, Kans. man, 80th (Blue Ridge) Infantry Division, (both vice. Help needed. Write F. J. Sporn, 21 Allen 1st Division, 49th Aero Sqdrn. (WWl) - Want WWs)—31st national reunion, Harrisonburg, Va., St., Passaic, N. J. to hear from some of my service comrades. Wil- . 80th Div. Vet. Assn., 535 Battery E, 313th FA, Camp Lee, Va. (WW1) liam Petzold, Home for Disabled Soldiers, Menlo August 3-6. Info from Ave., Pittsburgh Pa., or Russell L. Stultz, — Will anyone who remembers Forest H. Hall, Park N J. 5th 19, St., Harrisonburg, Va. or recalls that he fainted while drilling (Febru- Co.' C,'8th Field Signal Bn. (WWl) - Need to 224 N. Main Infantry Division Assn. — 3rd annual re- ary-March, 1918) please write his widow. Help hear from service comrades of Clarence W. Over- 88th Ohio, 17-19; Nether- needed to obtain pension. Mrs. Florence H. Hall, man while acting as radio operator aboard the union, Cincinnati, August Plaza Hotel. Contact Reunion Committee, Box 665, Delsea Drive, Vineland, N. J. transports 7". Sheridan and/or Saint Michael while lands Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Patsu 8-1 and 8-2, Alameda, Cal. — Need to bringing prisoners out of Siberia. Widow needs 88th Div., Netherlands for info. contact S2/c Eddie Hivey, MM2/c Ted Garrett, help to prove claim. Write Mrs. Ruth G. Overman, Ohio, 89th Division Society, (California Sector)— Re- MM3/c Thomas Mahoney; will anyone who knows 707 West 5th St., North Platte, Neb. October Rodger their present address please write. Statements 1st Co., CAC, Ft. Constitution, N. H., (WWl) union, Los Angeles, Cal., 8, 936 Washington Blvd. needed. James E. Baker, RD2, Romulus, N. Y. — Urgently need to contact men who remember Young Auditorium, W. Adjutant, P. O. Box 18th Engineers (France) and 12th Cavalry, me; worked in Post Exchange; hospitalized from Info from Joe T. Woods, Angeles 15, Cal. Hachita, N. M. (WW1)—Need statements to prove Jan. 24, to March camp hospital, above 7844 DeValle Sta., Los 7, 1919, Infantry Division, (both service connection, particularly at Hachita in station. Claim pending. Broadus Foster, 313 North 91st (Wild West) - Reunion, Seattle, Wash., latter part of January, 1920. Will anyone who knows present Ave., Burlington, N. C. WWs) Walker, Secy., Drawer addresses of 1st Sgt. Albert Sullivan, PFCs Curtis Battery A, 948th AAA - Will men who knew September. Write Archie W. Harding, Clyde R. Cole and John T. Sewell, me in service please write, especially Sgt. Trem- 2219, Seattle 11, Wash. Infantry Division, (both WWs) — Annual Jr., and Pvts. Ernest L. Evans and Raymond C. mel, (last known address Uniontown, Pa.) Need 92nd 111., August 27-September 1. Young, please write. Harry E. Price, Box 523, statements to prove claim. Clair R. Elder, 819 reunion, Chicago, L. Carter, National Commander, Russellville, Ark. South St., Altoona, Pa. Contact Jesse St., Chicago 21, 111. Camp Young, Cal.— Present addresses of Corp. 93rd Bomb Sqdrn., 19th Grp. -This office would 5745 S. State (Timberwolf) Infantry Division — Annual Albert Barnett and Chaplain Mayfield, this sta- like to contact any AAF personnel who joined 104th Pa., September 2-4. Contact tion in July, 1943, needed. Claim for lost money above outfit as replacements at Longreach, reunion, Pittsburgh, Davies, Convention Chairman, 2934 West order. George Durham, Rt. 1, Box 618, Muskogee, Queensland, Australia, about May, 1942. Thomas John G. Pa. Oklahoma. E. Humphrey, Jr., Service Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh 16, Officer, Box 104, — Annual reunion, Los Marine Air Group 31 — Thomas B. Redding, this Columbia, Tenn. National Yeoman F 9-12, during Legion Natl. Con- outfit, urgently needs statements from his service 8th Co., 3rd Regt., Des Moines, or 11th Co., Angeles, October Mrs. Etta M. Zeh, Chairman, comrades who were with him on Okinawa or in WAAC Det., Camp Polk, or WAC Det., AAF, vention. Info from Land, Rte. 2, Box 743, Palos Japan, especially Capt. Schwartz, Transporta- TAC, Orlando, Fla. — Need to get in touch with 26870 Dapplegray Lomite, Cal. tion Officer; Johnson, (Los Angeles), and Hay- Lt. Bell, Louise Poole, Louise Parker, Louise Verdes Estate, Railway Operating Bn. — 4th annual re- worth, (Bakersfield, Cal.) Write William L. Kel- Sharp, Mary (Brooks) Kenney, Nancy Kidd, 734th Denver, Colo., September 29-30; Cosmo- lick Attorney, 770 Main St., Niagara Falls, N. Y. Dorothy Eaton, or others who knew me in service union, George H. Armishaw, Secy.- U. S. Navy, "Operations Rhine Crossing" — Ur- in 1942 and 1943. Claim pending. Write Eunice politan Hotel. Write Treas., 1466 S. Josephine St., Denver 10, Colo. gently need to hear from men who know of eye (Boyd) Sutton, 2037 W. Pine St., Orlando, Fla. 279th Engr. Combat Bn. — 4th annual reunion, injury sustained by William Carl Basinger, Mobile Surgical Hospital 7 (later Camp Hospi- August 11-13. Info from Roy F. MOMM2/c, USNR, in this operation, or from tal 115) (WWl)— Will comrades who served with Nashville, Tenn., Chairman, 907 Knox Ave., Nash- any shipmate who knows of other injuries, par- me in Champagne Sector in France please write; Moody, Reunion ville, Tenn. ticularly medics. Widow needs help to obtain especially 1st Sgt. Arnold, (Meriden. Conn.) and _ „ . . _ Fighter Sqdrn., 35th Fighter Grp., 5th AF pension. Write Thomas F. Gallagher, County Sgt. Major Allan B. Harrison, (Washington, 39th — 2nd annual reunion, Kansas City, Mo., August Service Officer, Lima, Ohio. D. C). Write Mark M. Merrill, 116 Mill St., Fen- Monroe G. Brock, 102 W. 3425th Ordnance MAM Co. — Need to locate men ton, Mich. 11-13. Details from City, Okla. who served with me at Port Moresby and Hollan- X-Ray Technician, Anzio Beach — Will Robert Rickenbacker, Oklahoma 224th Medical Co., 17th Airborne Division dia, New Guinea. Claim pending. Scott H. Chap- B. England, (outfit unknown), but at Anzio, AB — 3rd reunion, August 20, Dean's Farm, Stanley, man, Tateville, Ky. Italy, please write. Believed to be in Florida. New York. Write Francis J. Brennan, Pres., 451 Marine Dance Band, N.O.B., Newfoundland — Claude Mangus, Apt. 1, 428 Argyle Drive, Falls Need address of Mattie Greco, who played Span- Church, Va. Flint St., Rochester 11, N. Y. USS Scorpion, Constantinople, (WWl) - Re- ish guitar. Statement for claim. L. E. Reese, 410 1st Bn., 116th Infantry, (WWl) -Need to hear union, August 1, at 9915 S. Green St., Chicago, E. Logan St., Bellefonte, Pa. from men who served with me in intelligence Barnes General Hospital, Vancouver, Wash. — 111. Details from Martin Burke, same address. section, especially 1st Lt. Alison Reppy, Corp. Field Signal Bn. Assn. — Annual reunion, Need to locate Capt. Nickel, that station in May, 306th Fred Weible, James J. Long, Joe B. Long, Dwight of Pa., August 4-6. 1943, with Medical Corps. Statements for claim. Brookland Club, west Galeton, Berry, and Joseph Shardon. Claim pending. Jonas Zoar Frank L. Info from John L. Honeywell, Secy., 773 Mt. Brown, Box 45, Ft. Washakie, Wyo. R. Supinger, RR 1. Covington, Ohio. U.S.S. Hickman, (WW1) - Shipmates who re- St., Elmira, N. Y. PCE 842 — Shipmates who remember my in- 349th Infantry, 88th Div. — Reunion, member my head injury in shaft alley on way to Co. H, jury from a fall in 1944 are asked to write. Claim Iowa, August 27. France, Oct. or Nov., 1918, or of being lowered Greenwood Park, Des Moines, pending. Otis J. Claywood, 503 E. Broadway, overside Details from Wm. J. McConnell, P. O. Box 142, at LaPallice to be taken to hospital, Yale, Okla. please write. Treated on shipboard by Pharmacist Seymour, Iowa. 3463 Ord. Co. Men of this unit discharged Bn. — 3rd reunion, Longacre Mate, name forgotten. Help needed for service MM — 989th FA annual with William C. Bredehoft in Tennessee in June, Park, Highway South, Indianapaolis, Ind., connection. Joseph Jacobs, 212 Beach 67 St., 431, Arverne, N. Y. 1943, please write Veterans Service Office, Colum- August 20. Write George Beachler, 910 21st St., bus, Neb. Stalag 4-B — Anyone in this camp between Logansport, Ind. 49th Fighter Sqdrn., 14th Grp. — Reunion, Kan- August, 1944, and January, 1945, who knows of Hospital, Camp Grant, 111., (WWl) - Need to City, August 26-27; Hotel Aladdin. Con- Pvt. Gus F. George suffering injury to right hear from Caldwell, in this hospital in 1920, home sas Mo., thumb, please write Nicholas Lynch, Jr., National (Continued on page 36) ( Continued on page 36)

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Bn. — Reunion planned. New Providence," Pa., 3rd COMRADES IN DISTRESS OUTFIT REUNIONS Saturday in September. Write Charles H. Rehm, (Continued from page 35) New Providence, or Roy J. Knott, RD 3, Spring (Continued from page 35) Grove, Pa. discharge May, 1920. tact R. A. Johnson, 720 West St.. Emporia. Kans. 113th Engineers Assn., (WW1) — Annual re- State, Indiana; medical 23rd Co. P.C., 6th MG Bn., USMC - Reunion. union. Forest Park, Noblesville, Ind., September Write C. C. Ballance, Rl, Poplar Bluff, Mo. 73) - Will any man in Washington. D. C, August 10-12; Shoreham Hotel. 23-24. Write Charles M. Beal, Secy.,. 321 S. Main U.S.S. Cleburne, (APA Division on this ship's last trip please Write Charles Mikelberg, 4618 Glendale Court. St., Tipton, Ind. the "H" Bieren, 1115 Arenow Drive, Brooklyn 34. N. Y. 729th Railway Operating Bn. — 1st reunion. contact Dr. Roland E. service-connection Hq. and Hq. Sqdrn., 521st Air Service Grp., Fort Wayne, Ind., September 23-24; Hotel Keenan. Falls Church, Va. Claim for (formerly 3rd AB Grp.) — Blue Hornets, 5th an- Write S. Carr, Room 446, South Station. Bos- pending. W. — from shipmates nual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., August 11-13; Fort ton, Mass., for details. U.S.S. Daly Need statements write once. Pitt Hotel. Direct inquiries to W. L. Baker. 729th Ordnance Assn., (Former members Co. E, in 1944 to pro\e claim. Please at Marion Farms, Fombell, Pa. 104th QM, 729th Ordnance Co.) — 3rd reunion. Elmer Elder, Rt. 2, Amite, La. Wood, Mo. — Will the officer in Battery A, 269th FA Bn. - 1st reunion, Colum- Camp Ritchie, Md.. September 23-24. Write Fort Leonard State Guard Officer Training School who saw me bia, S. C August 12-13. Details from G. P. Poole, Donald E. Freeman, Secy., Uniontown Rd., West- fall (in January, 1943) while crossing street; 508 Dartmouth St., Columbia 3, S. C. minster, Md. "it hap- 20th Engineers Assn. — 4th annual reunion, 33rd Seabees — 4th annual reunion, New York laughed while picking me up because needed. Lloyd C. New York City, August 18-20; Park Sheraton City, September 16: Hotel Statler. Write C. A. pened so funny." Statement Macksburf* Iowa. Hotel. Write Gerald M. Goodman, 1466 E. 69th Decker, 387 Union Ave., Staten Island 3. N. Y. Bates, 112th Cavalry Regt. — Statements needed from St., Chicago 37, 111. 415th RR Tel. Bn., AEF- Reunion, Los Angeles, Sgts. Tipton, Kirby, and Landey, and from Lt. Bakery Co., Wo. 2, QMC (WW1) - Annual re- Cal., during Legion National Convention, October in Leyte in 1944. Informa- union, Hamilton, Ohio, August 5-6; Anthony 9-12; headquarters Harry's Grill, 652 Flower Bumstead who served tion to process claim of Theodore (Ted) Wayne Hotel. Contact Eddie Wehr, 433 Fair Ave., Street. Contact James J. Maher, Secy., 3723 So. needed Hoolihan, leg, back and stomach condition while Hamilton, or Jos. J. (Mix) Neumann, 527 W. Rockwell St.. Chicago 32. 111. unit. Write Edward F. Loughrea, Lincoln St., Findlav, Ohio. 26th Engineers — Reunion, Los Angeles, Cal., attached to _Officer, Kre- 68th CAC, (WW1) - 11th annual reunion, during American Legion Natl. Convention, County Veterans Service Room 16, mer Bldg., Grand Rapids, Minn. American Legion Billet, Pontiac, 111., August 20. October 9-12; hdqrs. and banquet at Biltmore 3rd Machine Gun Bn., 3rd Division, (WW1) — Send inquiries to Maurice Bremer, Pontiac, III. Hotel. For info write A. A. Fricke, Secy.-Treas., Moore, 142 Cooper St., Brooklyn 7, Co. B, 113th Ammunition Trn., (WW1) - An- 1136 West 6th St., Los Angeles, Cal. Howard C. like former nual reunion. City Park, Murray. Ky., September 519th Ordnance (HM) Co. (FA) - Reunion, N. Y., would to contact any members this outfit who remembers him being wounded 3. Info from J. H. Henley, Rt. 1, Murray, Ky. Wheeling, W. Va., October 21-22. Write Kenneth hospitalized. (Shrapnel, abdomen, right arm, 11th FA, (both WWs)-26th annual reunion. Lewis, C/o Wheeling Electric Co., or George R. and shoulder and leg, at St. Mihiel) Columbus, Ohio, September 2-4; Fort Hayes Hotel. Pell, 528 Hawley Bldg., Wheeling, W. Va. Hdqrs. Co., 47th Infantry, (WW1) - Will any- Write Robert S ummers. Secy., 81 Ampere Park- USS Solace, (WW1) - Annual reunion of ship- one who knows address of Pvt. Edwin Carl Daum, way, East Orange, N. J. mates. Philadelphia, November 4. Write Dr. R. last known address St. Louis, Mo., please write. 316th Infantry Assn. — 31st annual reunion, A. Kern, Temple University Hospital, 3401 N. Settlement of estate. James R. Keller, RD 1, Allentown, Pa.. September 29-30; Americus Hotel. Broad St.. Philadelphia Pa. 40, Linglestown, Pa. Address Raymond A. Cullen. Secy., P. O. Box 115th Engineers, (both WWs) — Reunion to be 13th AAF, 42nd Bomb Grp., 100th Sqdrn. - 1303, Philadelphia 5, Pa. held in connection with 40th Infantry Division Need to contact Dr. Aviakan, former Flight Sur- 613th Ord. Base Arm. Maint. Bn. and attached reunion, Los Angeles, Cal., October 8-12, during geon, relative to back injury. Write Leopold units — 4th annual reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Sep- Legion Natl. Convention. Place National Guard Gauthier, Rivers Ave., Williamansett, Mass. tember 2-3: Ambassador Hotel. Reservations and Armory, Exposition Park, Exposition Blvd. and 93 64th Co., PWE, AEF, '(WW1) - Will anyone info from Richard D. Beck, 3005 N. 53rd St., Figueroa Sts. Write Robert D. Kneisel, Reunion who served at Chaumont or any other station in Milwaukee 10, Wis. Chairman, 700 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, France with me, please write. statement. 27th Armored Infantry Bn. — Reunion dinner- Cal. Need Elwood Browning, Gait, Mo. dance, New York City, September 9: Governor 18th Special Seabee Bn. — 5th annual reunion, Battery F, 3rd Coast Field Artillery, Ft. Mac- Clinton Hotel. Info from Martin P. Hobby, 405 Marion, Ohio, October 7; Harding Hotel. Con- Arthur, Cal — Men who knew me in service please E. 182nd St. New York 57, N. Y. tact Floyd M. Wilson, 741 Henry St.. Marion, write. Need help to establish claim. Carroll G. 15th Tank Bn. Assn. — 3rd annual reunion. Ohio. Comer 600 Hollister Ave., Del Paso Heights, Cal. New York City, September 1-3; Hotel New York- U. S. Navy, Subchaser Base 25, Corfu, Greece, Co. B, 6th Armored Inf. Bn., (1st Platoon) — er. Write George L. Peterson, Secv., 69-14 58 (WW1) — Reunion, Wickenburg, Ariz., October Need statements, will anyone in this outfit please Road, Maspeth, L. I., N. Y. 4-5, including members of Adriatic Fleet stationed contact me. Fuller Clark, Jr., Box Petros, 6th Armored Division — 3rd annual reunion, at Spalato, Dalmatia, and men on captured ships 73, Texas. New York City, September 1-3; Hotel New York- Radetsky and Zyrini. Write Herbert F. Saxton, er. Info from Wm. Rutledge, Secy-Treas., P. O. P. O. Box 31, Wickenburg, Ariz. Box A, Yadkinville. N. C. 305th FA Bn. — Reunion in connection with 43rd General Hospital - 2nd annual reunion, 77th Division reunion. New York City, 77th Div. PUERTO RICO TO COMPETE New Haven, Conn., September 10. Write Henry Club House, 28 E. 39th St., November 9-12. Info L. Jacobsen, Indian Cove, Guilford, Conn., for from John Wilkes, 2nd Vice Commander, 305th IN JR. BASEBALL TOURNEY details. FA Post, American Legion, 28 E. 39th St.. New 556th HMTK Co., (Ordnance) — 5th reunion, York. Huntington, W. Va., September 3. Write Harold A championship team representing Compton, C/o Compton Office Machine Co., Puerto Rico will enter this year's na- Huntington, or Homer J. Thacker, Box 384, Kenova, W. Va. THE AMERICAN LEGION tional Junior Baseball tournament. The 61st Railway Engineers, - (WW1) Annual re- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Puerto Rican entry brings the total union, Chicago, 111., September 2-4; St. Clair Hotel. Write E. M. Soboda, 932 Roscoe St., Green INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA number of Departments participating to Bay, Wis. MAY 31, 1950 50, which is the all-time high. This in- 110th Seabees — 2nd reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 2-4; Hotel Roosevelt. Contact F. J. Hilt cludes 47 continental States, District of Secy., ASSETS 5843 Montrose St., W. Philadelphia 43 Pa. Columbia, and Puerto Rico. 178th QM Co., (formerly Hawaii now Co. B, 614 QM Bn.) Cash on hand and on deposit. . $1,514,181.10 — 3rd annual reunion, Louisville, Ky., September Receivables 244,711.72 The Puerto Rican champs are tenta- 2-4. Write Lamar Fante, 905 Goss Ave., Louisville, Inventories 367,675.99 tively slated to compete in Regional No. Ky., for details. Invested Funds 972,248.79 Co. A, 115th Infantry, 29th Div. - Annual re- Permanent Trusts: 2 at Torrington, Connecticut, against union, Frederick, Md., September 2. Contact Al- Overseas Graves Decoration ton the top-notchers of New York, New E. Shaff, Woodsboro, Md., for details Trust Fund ..$ 250,611.27 355th Infantry, (WW1) - Reunion, Fremont. Employees' Retirement Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. ep tember 9-1 °- Contact u Albert L. Carlberg Trust Fund . . 1,200.422.36 1,451,033.63 If it survives this test, the team would 748 hi. bth St., or Albert M. Bang, 1705 No. H St . Real Estate, Fremont, Neb. less depreciation. . 318,139.50 then advance to Sectional "A" at Park- Furniture and Fixtures, 308th Motor Supply Train, (WW1) less -Silver an- depreciation 258,836.49 ersburg, West Virginia, and from there niversary, 25th annual reunion, Springfield. Ohio, beptember Deferred Charges 84,881.03 2-4; Shawnee Hotel. Write Wm J to the Little World Championship finals Schmidt, Rt. 1, Medway, O. $5,211,708.25 U. at Omaha, Nebraska. S. Naval Hospital, Seattle, Wash. - 4th annual reunion. LIABILITIES, Chicago. 111., September 3. Write DEFERRED REVENUE Hawaii has sent a team to the main- A J Hudec, 2611 Taylor Ave., Racine, Wis., for AND NET WORTH details. land annually since 1947, although none 22nd Ordnance Assn., (Cleveland Chapter) - Current Liabilities $ 212,832.77 has advanced beyond Regional play. Keunion, Schluter's Center Ridge Road, Westlake, Funds restricted as to use.... 592,049.19 Oh,o Contact Play in the 12 Regional sites will get John R. McGuigan, Box 6722, Deferred Income 1,237,005.27 Cleveland, Ohio. Permanent Trusts: under way on August 19, with Sectional C l, ,i0n and Overseas Dinner - Chicago. 111., at Graves Decoration tm— r,Ft ! competition coming a week later. The Illinois Club for Catholic Women. 820 N. Michigan Trust $ 250.611.27 Ave., September 9 at 5:30 p.m. Reservation with Employees' Retirement National Finals will be staged at Omaha remittance of Trust $3, to be sent to Zola Wist, 5516 1,200,422.36 1,451,033.63 from September 4 to 8. Defending cham- Kenmore Ave., Chicago 40, III. Net Worth: 319th Field pion is the representing Captain Signal Bn. - Annual reunion, Sun- Restricted Capital: team set Park, Route 44 between Canton and Alliance, Reserve Fund .. $739,646.20 Bill Erwin Post No. 337, Oakland, m r 0 " C 43 1 Arthu '- M. Bergman, Restricted Fund 13,465.53 41?1 W.W 184thiR^l «? xr- ? California. St., New York 53, N Y. Reserve for construction of D, 7 th MP Bn--3 r« annual reunion, Washington Buffalo,R, fr° i N.XT \?Y.. c September 9-10. Details from Wil- office 320,160.49 arPmski. 468 Wilson St., Buffalo, £ N. Y. Real Estate . . . 80,000.00 1,153,272.22 Gene Tunney Commands Post 8;>th Station Hospital - 4th annual reunion, Chicago. Unrestricted Capital: 111., September 1-3: Congress Hotel. Info world heavy- from Dr. L. Surplus 97.180.98 Gene Tunney, former Gilman, 977 Goodrich Ave.. St. Paul 5, Minn. Excess of Income over Ex- weight champion, has been elected Com- Co. B, 21st (824th) penses Months Engrs. Bn. Avn., (Iceland) 468,334.1 9 565.515.17 mander of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Post - Keunion, Philadelphia, Pa., September 29-30; 1,718,787.39 Henjamin Franklin Hotel. Write Fred L. Miller, No. 1755, New York City. He succeeds RD Box $5.211,708.25 2, 25, Bellefonte, Pa., or Harold C. F. Darius Benham, organizer and first Knapp, 126 S. Main St.. Albion, N. Y. 1st Service Co. 166th FA, or Service, 938th FA Commander of the Legion unit.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 . . . Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

August, 1950

POW - - WAR CLAIMS COMMISSION: unremarried is understood -- the widow must not have

remarried after the veteran's death. . . .Widows who Handicapped by personnel shortage . . .and lack of are eligible for GI loan benefits in their own right funds. . .War Claims Commission is necessarily making slow progress in processing flood of prisoner-of-war by virtue of their own service in the Armed Forces receive no additional benefits as widows . . . .While claims. . . .This despite all-out effort of executives and employees in unpaid overtime and voluntarily GI loans for home, farm or business purposes are made by banks and other loan institutions, with VA guar- forfeited leaves . . . .But , as of July 1 , the Commission the was approximately 90 days behind in opening its anteeing the lender against loss on a portion, new Housing Act will benefit both widows and GIs. . . . mail. . . .125,000 pieces await opening and routing loans to proper section, each envelope containing an ap- One amendment authorizes VA to make direct to plication, or a letter wanting to know why check has eligibles for home purchases after July 19, 1950, in localities where mortgage financing at 4 percent not been received. . . .The incoming volume is slacking up and officials believe that the flood-tide has interest is not available. been reached. . . .Up to July 1, approximately 5,000 AMPUTEES, SURGEONS, REHAB MEN -- SPECIAL SERVICE: claims had been completed and about $3,000,000 dis- VA has centralized in New York (Manhattan) Regional bursed to claimant former prisoners of war ($1 per day Office a permanent exhibit and reference library on subsistence) , and certain civilian internees in the artificial limbs, artificial eyes, plastic and cos- Pacific area ($60 per month) . . . .Claimants filing metic devices and other prosthetics. . . .This is the after March 1, 1950, are warned that checks will not, in the normal course, be coming their way until first permanent central source of information on techniques, products and advances in the wonderful September or after. . . .Commission has been operat- . . .It is to public. . . ing with two members since death of David N. Lewis spare-parts industry. open the The reference material and exhibit cover advances in plane crash last November. . . .Daniel F. Cleary, in prosthetics in VA, the Army, Navy and the various Chairman, and Mrs. Georgia F. Lusk, member. . . .In early June, Senate confirmed appointment of Myron private manufacturing firms. In the same building is a plastic eye and restora- Wiener, New York, as third member. . . .Commissioner for Wiener, lawyer, was a wartime civilian internee in tion clinic and the VA's only laboratory testing limbs. . . .There is highly Santo Tomas prison camp in Manila. artificial even a specialized shop for manufacturing the gadgets to test the NSLI DIVIDEND PAYMENT N EARING END: devices. . . .An artificial leg, walking along in a testing machine to prove how long it would last in Ninety percent complete, VA is beginning to see use, took its 312,204th step on June 14 and was still the end of Operation Dividend, NSLI. . . .Vouchers for going strong. . . .The exhibit and library were set nearly 15 million of the estimated 16 million policy- up in cooperation with the National Research Council, holders have been sent out. . . .All claims, it is said, and the Army and Navy that did not require more than routine checking On display, among other things, is the most recent against records at hand have been paid .But there approach to the annoying problem of artificial legs are lot yet a of claims pending that require special for amputations above the knee .... It is a suction- handling. . . .Knotty ones such as duplicate numbers, held limb which has an admirable joint and attaches two or more policies, changed status, dropped and to the thigh without harness. ... (Mentioned in re-instated . . policies, etc. .16 million men can Veterans Newsletter. April. 1950, and indicative of ring the changes in more than that many devious ways, interest shown by both vets and civilians, the brief and now it is up .... is to VA to untangle the knots It mention brought a lot of letters of inquiry) ... .It this hard . . core that is causing trouble. .The mammoth is quite light, and though not a solution for the program of disbursing $2.8 billion on more than 20 above- joint problem for all such amputees, it is an million insurance aocounts to 16 million WW2 vets advance which helps many. . . .A great variety of is so near the end that 1,300 temporary employees crutch tips is on display, as well as many forms of were let out on June 30. . . .Vets who have not received artificial hands of both hook and cosmetic type. . . . their share of the dividend melon, and who are getting Hooks, though less attractive, have an ever-growing concerned about the delay, may write IL_ G^ Joseph. range of special adaptations for special uses. Director. Special Insurance Pro.iects Service. Out-of-town physicians, surgeons and rehab men, Veterans Administration, Washington 25. D^ C^_ as well as interested amputees unable to visit the library, may mail specific questions to Information WW2 VET WIDOWS ELIGIBLE FOR GI LOANS: Spec ialist . Prosthetics and Sensory Aids Service. Unremarried widows of veterans who died as a result Y.A Regio nal Office. 252 Seventh Avenue, New York 1, of service in WW2 are made eligible for GI home, farm New York . . . .Information is available equally for the and business loans under instructions sent out by benefit of the major amputee population of the coun-

VA to all of its field offices. . . .Amendments to the try, veteran and non-veteran. . . .This group increases Housing Act of 1950 broadened the provisions to make by about 25,000 each year. such unremarried widows eligible for VA-guaranteed loans in the same amounts that their husbands would BENEFITS FOR YANKS IN CANADIAN SERVICE: have had. .. .Eligibility requirements in general Amerioan citizens who served in Canadian forces parallel those governing death compensation payable may be entitled to the War Service Gratuity of $7.50 to widows of WW2 vets. . . .Vet husband must have served for each 30 days of service, 25 cents extra for each in the Armed Forces at some period between September day overseas, plus 7 days pay and allowance of rank

16, 1940. and July 25. 1947. and his death must have for each 6 months of overseas service. . . .Other bene- resulted from service while on duty, or from service- fits are provided for Canadian veterans living in connected causes following discharge under condi- Canada. . . .Direct inquiries to Canadian Department tions other than dishonorable . . .Of course the term of Veteran Affairs. Ottawa. Ontario± Canada 37 , : . " : . : . , , -

HOSPITAL CUTBACK COST TEN MILLION SMACKS: to further GI Bill training. . . .Under present regu-

1 lations, most veterans must start their courses by Presiden t Truman ' s 16. OOP-bed cutback in veterans after that hospital building program in December, 1948, cost July 25, 1951, if they want to continue on

. . .Final for vets comes on the Government more than $10,000,000, a VA report date. cut-off most July 25, 1956. to Congress made in early June revealed. . . .The money had been spent on plans, sites, and preliminary work More than $11 billion of GI loans have been obtained by architects and contractors before the "economy" by 2 , 100 , 000 WW2 vets . . . 92 percent , or 1 , 940 , 000

were for homes. . . .Another 121,000 were for busi- order was issued. . . .24 hospitals were eliminated for from the VA plans and bed capacity reduoed in 15 nesses, and the remaining 39,000 were farms and farm equipment. . . .Only seven-tenths of one percent others. . . .Some of the loss can be reoovered, VA said, VA especially that in acquiring sites, and a "substan- of the loans were defaulted to the extent that portions. tial portion" of the cost of final working drawings. had to make good the guaranteed and insured . . .The loan program has another 7 years to go, ending . . .House has passed a bill restoring the 16,000 beds -- to the building program now awaiting Senate aotion. for most WW2 vets on July 25, 1957 so there's no need to rush; think things over carefully before WW2 UNKNOWN TO SHARE WW1 TOMB: borrowing to build or go into business. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. WW1. at Arlington Readjustment allowances for unemployment and self National Cemetery, will be adapted for entombment employment -- third major GI Bill benefit -- ended

for most vets on July 25, 1949. . . .About 9,000,000 of the Unknown Service Man of WW2. . . .Rather than construct a second monument and disturb the simplic- vets drew readjustment allowances up to a total of ity of the War Memorial's setting, the Fine Arts $3.8 billion. . . .The average vet found a job after Commission has decided to place the two honored war having been on the readjustment allowance rolls for about a month and a half, despite the fact that bene- dead in the same burial vault. . . .Now reading "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but fits could extend in most cases for 52 weeks. to God" a new legend will be cut into the white marble ST. MIHIEL MEDALS, WW1 . . .It will read: "Here rests in honored glory members of the American Armed Forces of the World Wars Veterans of 16 American WW1 Divisions which fought known only to God" The WW2 Unknown will be se- in the historic St. Mihiel Offensive in France are lected May 26, 1951, at Independence Hall, Philadel- reminded that the special St. Mihiel Medal, to which

is still available. . . .Issued phia. . . .Bodies will be brought together from all they are eligible, overseas theatres. .. .The one chosen, unknown in some 25 years ago, many eligible vets have received name and unknown in arm of servioe, will be symbolic their medals and diplomas, but to those who have not of all branches of the service and of all war zones Councilman L^. Thieblemont of St . Mihiel , who is a Formal entombment, with elaborate ceremonies, will visitor in the United States, will receive applica- be made on Memorial Day, 1951. tions and assist in proouring the municipal decora-

tion. . . .Councilman Thieblemont will be at 57-53 60th HARRY BRIDGES' CITIZENSHIP REVOKED: Street, Woodside. Lu. Llj. IL !La. until September and Australian-born Harry Bridges, West Coast agitator will furnish the necessary questionnaire blank to and radical labor leader of the longshoremen, was all applicants Vets of the following WW1 Divi- deprived of his United States citizenship, obtained sions, present with their outfits during the offen- in 1945, by an order of Federal Judge George B. Harris sive, are eligible: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th, 26th, 33rd, at San Francisco on June 15. . . .Bridges was recently 35th, 42nd, 45th, 78th, 80th, 82nd, 89th, 90th, 91st found guilty of fraud and perjury by swearing that and 92nd. he had never been a member of the communist party, POSTAL VETS in obtaining United States citizenship, in the long- PRESIDENT DENIES WAR CREDIT TO est trial in the San Francisco Federal Court ... .He is President Truman, on June 23dj_ vetoed a bill that now under sentence to 5 years in prison. . . ."Harry would have given war-service credit to some 120,000 Bridges has no moral or constitutional right to retain vets who have entered the postal service since dis- the privileges of citizenship, if, by false swearing, charge from service. . . .This credit would have given an imposition is practiced. . .without which the cer- vets promotion benefits and an average increase of tificate of citizenship could not and would not have $225 in annual salary. . . .Truman called the measure been issued," said Judge Harris. . . .This ruling is an "indirect bonus" and that it represented "a far- the first step in the Government's effort to deport reaching step in an undesirable direction" . . . .Objec- -- Bridges to Australia which the Legion demanded tions : "Based on bad principle of allowing credit for nearly 15 years ago. service in no way related to a civil career;". . . Second, "discriminatory, because limited to small GI BILL PASSES ITS SIXTH BIRTHDAY: fraction of veterans in Federal employ" ... .Third, June 22nd marked jhe 6th birthday of the GI Bill "provides a special benefit to a special group of a law passed on that day in 1944, to help WW2 vets get veterans without preference to a real and distinctive back into the swing of civilian living. . . .Legion- need" . . . .Fourth, the measure would "require a large inspired and Legion-written, it was born out of the additional budget expenditure at a time when the experience and knowledge gained in the haphazard postal service throughout the nation is being and slap-happy days following WW1 when, without a curtailed. system of vet care and benefits, the young WW1 vets FIVE LEAD IN HALL OF FAME VOTE: were pushed around after discharge. . . .Now, after six years, a little stock-taking seems to be in order Preliminary balloting on the 186 candidates for a During the 6 years the Act has been in effect, a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the majority of the 15,300,000 WW2 vets have benefited New York University campus discloses the top five by or one more of its three major provisions. . . .Some favorites of the electoral college. . . .Leading the

7,000,000 vets, men and women, have attended school 186 were Theodore Roosevelt . Woodrow Wilson. Alex- or trained on-the-job or on-the-farm under the edu- ander Graham Bell. Wilbur Wrigh t and Josiah Willard cational . . provisions. .This program so far has cost Gibbs . . . .The preliminary vote is in the nature of more than $10 billion for tuition, supplies and an elimination test . . . .Voting will continue, and subsistence allowance. . . .All together, vets spent result of final selection will be annouced November a total of 95,000,000 months in the classroom, at 1. . . .Hall of Fame rules require that the candidate the work bench and on the farm, or an average of be dead 25 years or longer and that he or she receives about 15 months of training per veteran. . . .Only 4 a majority of all votes of ths electoral college .... percent of all vets who have been in training -- Five names may be selected at each quinqunnial around 300,000 -- have exhausted their entitlements election. 38 Could You Ho To CongreHH?

( Continued from page 25 ) Veterans; David J. O'Connell Post No. long-time member of the House as "exag- District — represented by Mr. Boykin. 2264, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Disabled gerated courtesy." After this "appetizer" came the dinner. Veterans, Astoria Chapt. American 29; You have to remember to visit the kitch- The menu: Gulf shrimp, celery and olives, Holy Name Society, Church of the Nativ- en to thank the wives who cooked that green turtle soup a l'Anglaise au Sherry; ity; Three Hundred and Second Armored- wonderful Grange chicken Rayburn," broiled with fresh Cavalry Reserve Group; Bishop's Lay dinner; you "Steak Hol- Committee for Catholic Charities; Mayor's have to remember to ask your neighbors mushrooms, sauce Bernaise, broccoli Golden Jubilee Committee; and Queens- about their wives and children; you have landaise, glaced carrots, spring salad with ." boro Council for Social Welfare . . . to remember to smile every time you say roquefort, ice cream tri-color with melba But joining organizations means little, "Good Morning" as you walk along the sauce, Texas pecans, coffee and corona- if you don't follow up that membership street. coronas. by being willing to "mix with people." Combined with this, of course, is the The check, picked up by the ever-smil- And that, of course, can be done without knack of being the genial host. Being the ing Boykin, is reported to have tallied becoming a member of dozens of organ- host back home is actually only minor over $10,000. Happily for Congressmen, ized groups. league training for the entertaining you'll such dinners are not "expected" of them. One Republican Congressman, repre- have to do once you reach Washington. Comradeship can't be confined to per- senting an industrial area, proved how "The only line to draw in picking up sonal contacts alone; much of it is main- important this willingness can be in a checks," cautions a freshman member, "is tained through correspondence. Sharpen political campaign. Three of the most im- don't pick up so many that you wind up up on your letter-writing ability if you portant wards in his city are made up of at the end of your term flat broke." aspire to Congress! Polish voters. For years these wards had This is no idle warning. Every day the Illinois Congressman Melvin Price re- gone Democratic by big majorities. House restaurant is filled with influential ceives — and answers — an average of five Although he had spoken to Polish constituents dining as guests of their hundred letters a week. When an impor- groups for almost a month, he sensed he wasn't changing a vote. Finally, a week before the election, he attended a giant Polish festival. A friend dragged him to the center of the floor to dance the polka before he could protest that he was almost fifty, not too rugged and, besides, had never danced the polka in his life. As huge spotlights focused on him, he was roughly bounced about the dance floor by a beautiful but muscular six-foot blonde. Recalling the incident, the Con- gressman said, "I kept thinking, any minute I'll have a heart attack — I'm too old for this sort of thing." After fifteen minutes, the music stopped, the festival goers began shouting the name of the Republican candidate who, by now bent from exhaustion, waved a feeble hand in reply. The next day, confined to bed on his doctor's orders, he was forced to cancel four important speeches. But when the votes were counted he had carried every Polish district in the city and that margin insured his election to Congress. The dignified John Davis Lodge, who represents Connecticut's Fourth District, had a similar experience. Lodge was running against a candidate of Italian descent in a district which has "Billy's Grandma bakes him cakes and cookies. All is sit cigarettes!" a heavy Italian population. you do around and smoke Against the advice of his supporters AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Lodge agreed to invade the heart of the Italian section for a debate. The night of the debate the hall was Representatives. One first termer in the tant issue is under discussion in Congress packed. Lodge received a cool reception present Congress spent more than five this mail may mount to almost eight hun- when he was introduced, but his opponent hundred dollars during the first two dred a week, all of which must be an- had 'em paying a standing tribute. months of last year before he found that swered. The mail of most Congressmen Lodge's opponent led off and before he it was safer to be "in committee" or "on runs about the same, more or less. had finished one of Lodge's supporters the floor of the House" from noon until Many letters received at the House of- whispered, "This is no place for a 'Blue after one-thirty in the afternoon. fice buildings seek financial help. One Blood' like John." Not all members can afford such a din- member's mail averages from three to But after the cheering had subsided ner as Alabama's famous Frank Boykin five such "touches" a week. Lodge arose and made his speech, every gave for his colleague, Speaker of the Some of these letters continue even word of it in beautiful Italian. From then House Sam Rayburn, last year. after retirement from Congress. A year on, Lodge was the election favorite. He Before the dinner, which was attended after he left Congress, Carter Manasco, clinched his victory when his opponent, by more than five hundred guests, a buf- who represented Alabama's Seventh Dis- although from a widely known Italian fet was served which offered, among other trict, received this special delivery letter family, admitted he had never mastered choice items, salmon from Quebec, venison from a town in Arkansas: the language and was forced to rebut in from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear English. from the Okeefenokee, turkey from Geor- "Dear Congressman, This ability to get along with people and gia, antelope from Chugwater, coon, pos- I'm here dead broke. I haven't been have people like you is described by one sum and 'taters from Alabama's First home for three years but when I'm

The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • gg theie, I in tor you! or no money, moving into a small, inex- the House of Representatives must reflect Please wire me fifty dollars right pensive apartment with his wife and two the peculiarities, the ideologies and the

away. It' you don't I can really hurt children in order to conserve what little political temper of his district. you back home. money he had. Before the campaign was If, for instance, you don't believe in the Yours, over he had spent all his savings. Silver Purchase Act, which although as- While poor men do win election to Con- sailed as economically unsound, has No longer in politics, Manasco couid gress and a survey of the 81st Congress proved a boon to silver miners, don't seek torget this demand. But if he'd been a shows the average member a man of very public office in the mining state of Nevada! member, he'd either have had to put up modest means, money is a nice thing to And if you are against the whole prin- the fifty dollars or compose a reply have when campaigning. ciple of support prices for farm products, which, hopefully, would still hold the vote The story is being told this year in don't attempt to enter public life in a farm of his stranded, itinerant constituent. Kentucky of a well-known businessman State! Every letter, no matter how irrelevant who was seeking a seat in the United But no man has ever devised an easy or bitter, must be answered tactfully, States Senate. He approached a political course in "How to Win Election to Con- honestly and in a spirit of friendliness. leader and asked him how much money gress." The ground rules we have gleaned Yet, even a spirit of friendliness, a rep- he would need for the campaign. from the 80th and 81st Congresses provide utation as a host, a war record and mem- only an outline for potential candidates. bership in the bar association will count The local conditions, differing in each for little if you have never given any of the 435 Congressional districts, are indication of an interest in local politics. what fill out that outline into a complete Most men who reach Congress have story. taken part in politics at the "ground level." If you have answered all the qualifica- They have served as committeemen for tions already listed, you can carry on their political party, members of city and from there. Not even such a shrewd vote town councils or as members of state winner as Congressman Mike Kirwan, legislatures. Chairman of the Democratic Congression- The two top men in the present House, al Campaign Committee, can offer the Speaker Sam Rayburn and Minority next lesson. Kirwan is the only Democrat Leader Joseph W. Martin, both served in ever to be elected from Ohio's Nineteenth the state legislatures of their home States district, a rugged Republican district once before moving up to Washington. represented by James A. Garfield and A few present members, however, broke William McKinley, both of whom later the rules. Charles Potter, who represents were elected to the Presidency. Michigan's Eleventh District, had not only Kirwan believes no college can teach never held any public office before, but the art of winning votes and influencing began his campaign from a hospital bed voters. To illustrate this, Kirwan tells in Walter Reed Hospital where he was about the young fellow who had just recuperating from the loss of both legs graduated from a wonderful political sci- in combat. ence course at Princeton and was running However, political leaders shy away for a local office. from first night supporting the nomination of men "Blow your horn again — I don't "The of the campaign he had who have not "worked their way up." think it heard you!" eight visits to make," explains Kirwan, There is no magic age which is the "best "At the first hall he found not one voter time" to bid for the House of Represen- had showed up, so he fidgeted around tatives. In 1948, Barratt O'Hara of Illinois waiting. Finally, after a dozen people had AMEIUCAN It.:. ION MAGAZINE won election as a freshman Congressman turned up, he had a beer and a sandwich at the age of sixty-six while Hugo S. Sims, with them, gave them a little pep talk Jr., was winning his first term in the and went to his next stop. As the night House from South Carolina at the age of went on he began to lag, more and more twenty-seven. The only stipulation the "Oh," replied the politico, "about $150,- behind his schedule. Constitution makes is that no man can be 000." "He turned up — at nearly one in the sworn in as a member until he has "What?" gasped the hopeful. "Why, morning — at the last meeting. Most of reached the age of twenty-five. when I ran for governor a few years ago the people had already left for home, but The "Grand Old Man" of New York I only needed $60,000." there were about twenty still there. State politics, Lieutenant Governor Joe "Yep," drawled the top man, "and you "His campaign manager said, 'Now have Hanley, when asked recently to advise ain't governor, are you?" a beer and a sandwich with these people political hopefuls said, "Well, you start in Even with money many men have been — they've waited a long time to meet you.' working for your party, doing all kinds turned down by the voters because they "At the mention of the word beer, the of chores. Finally you go to the party thought that as Representatives, they young fellow turned green, rushed to the leaders and ask them if you can stand wouldn't be "representative" of the dis- door and collapsed over the railing of the for election. They pat you on the head tricts. No other elective position in gov- porch. and say, 'You're a little too young yet, ernment is better named than the formal "His manager dashed out, shouting, my boy!' title applied to Congressmen. 'What's the trouble? What's the trouble?' "So, you get out there again, working Voters shy away from candidates they "The candidate turned red eyes toward hard, rounding up votes and making a feel are "too big" for them. Because of him and sobbed, 'I have had twelve beers speech or two. Finally, you know you're this one member of the 81st Congress is and twenty ham sandwiches tonight — I'm ready to step before the voters. You again afraid to take his new car back home. giving up politics, my stomach just can't approach the party leaders. This time they Early this year he traded in his 1946 take it.' shake their heads, give you a look of pity Chevrolet for a $3000 luxury automobile. "See," explains Kirwan, "they can't and say, 'Sorry — but you're just a little Now he lives in fear that the people in teach you to drink beer and eat ham sand- " too old.' his home district will find out and feel wiches at Princeton or any other college Don't get caught in such a trap! he has "gone high hat." If that happened in the country. Money is as unimportant as age in mak- he might be back practicing law in his "No," he says with a shake of his head, ing the decision to run for Congress. There home town, come 1951. "there's no magic formula for election to are rich men in the House — and there As the lawmaker most responsive to Congress." are also poor men. the public will, seeking election every There is one to test Kirwan's statement, Richard Nixon, who won election to two years compared with members of the however. Congress in 1946 by defeating a Demo- United States Senate, who appear before Run for Congress and find out! cratic incumbent, campaigned with little the voters every six years, a member of THE END

4Q • The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 What Haft Happened To American Cooking? (Continued from, page 17) indigestion, to encourage ulcers and other old-fashioned, time- tested recipe of heavy them; their haunting flavor is a nostalgic- disabling disorders. I agree with none of cream, vinegar, salt and pepper, plus crisp memory that plagues me to this day. She this specious heresy. I know happy and shredded cabbage, has yet to be beaten. picked the tiny pods when the peas were healthy old men and women who have The result is a tangy, tasty salad, supreme smaller than the head of a parlor match. eaten these potatoes twice a week since in its field. She washed them in cold water, snipped they first had teeth. The American consumption of fish off the ends and dropped them in a heavy The potatoes are sliced thin, allowed grows apace, thanks to modern refrigera- iron kettle. The covered kettle — no water! to become crisp in cold water, drained, tion and fast transportation. The growth — went over a low heat and soon the seasoned and plopped into a heavy deep has been stimulated in part by a rash of peas simmered gently in their own de- frying pan that contains a lot of hot bacon new recipes for the cookery of fish. Many lightful juices to a point where the pods fat. The lid is clamped on and kept there of them seem to be deliberately designed were tender to the point of fragility. Then until the bottom layer is deeply crusted to disguise the native flavor of the fish — into the kettle went a prodigal but appro- and an authentic brown. Then, with a with condiments, herbs, strange sauces, priate amount of butter, a modest sprinkle wide spatula, the mass is deftly turned nuts and fruit. These recipes have been of salt and pepper. When the butter for browning on the other side. When so avidly accepted by housewives that melted, the peas were ready for the table. the potatoes come to the table, they should I'm afraid the trend is such that it may They were a cheerful and inviting green, occupy the place of honor. They make a mark the end of the finest of all fish golden with butter — and each bite called handsome dish, ideal with a broiled steak dishes—fried fish. Properly prepared, fried for an immediate encore. Grandfather, a or pork chops, with a slice of broiled fish is a delight. The meat is thoroughly frugal Yankee, would grumble about the country ham surrounded by lightly- fried cooked, nothing has been done to destroy, waste of peas that should have been per- eggs. distort or exaggerate the natural delicate mitted to mature instead of being cut But, try to get 'em! flavor of the fish. It is a culinary rite I down in their youth. But, as he grumbled, In this imperfect but interesting world, am sorry to see fall into disuse. I want my he gobbled — and a little smile took the we have made great strides in the proc- fish to taste like fish, not to be drenched sting out of his mild tirade. essing, refrigeration and transportation of in some fearsome sauce, to reek of garlic, I wonder if enough Americans fully food. The average grocery store offers a to be topped by almonds or melted cheese. appreciate the fine raw material we have wealth of the finest vegetables and fruits, Crunchy fried fish, aside from the re- available? I know intimately many of the canned, fresh or quick-frozen. The bounty mote river restaurants along Old Man best restaurant chefs in New York, master of the sea is no longer denied the citizens River, will soon be as extinct as the pas- craftsmen and mostly trained in Europe. of Dubuque, Iowa. The Maine lobster, senger pigeon or a publicity-shy politi- Their Continental cookery is superb, but fresh as when caught, is now available cian. In a few homes, fish are still fried they know my fondness for authentic for the tribal cooking pots in Salt Lake surreptitiously. In these fortunate homes American foods and try to cater to it. City. Trout from the Colorado streams they know and appreciate the true taste "Over here, my cookery is superior to arrive in New York in prime condition. of good fish. anything I ever did in Paris, Vienna, Lon- All this indicates great progress, an ad- You would suffer considerable eye don or Rome," they will frankly admit. vance in what some call the American strain if you perused standard cook books "Here, we have the finest, freshest fish in way of life. I refuse, however, to subscribe in search of instructions for cooking green the world; the poultry, beef and mutton to a theory that the system has reached peas. The compilers of these culinary are superlative. The vegetables, fresh or perfection until I can march into a food charts evidently believe that this is a type quick-frozen, cannot be matched else- emporium and tell the man to wrap me of cookery that every woman automati- where. Your fruits are fresh, delicately up a peck of dandelion greens. cally knows. flavored—your butter, milk and cream are I like all salad greens, but I prefer dan- No finer, more delicately flavored vege- packaged with a degree of sanitation that delion greens prepared as my mother did table ever grew than the green pea, yet is unknown in Europe. No wonder your many years ago. A lot of men feel the it is often ruined by inept cookery. It's American foods are excellent. I wonder same way about them. They seldom sell been a long time since I tasted peas as my if Americans are fully conscious of how dandelion greens across the counter, paternal grandmother once prepared lucky they are to have such an abun- worse luck. The small, delicately bitter leaves make one of the finest of salads, hot or cold. In the Spring, when the shoots were small and very youthful, we ate them with a simple French dressing. Later, when the leaves were larger and the bitterness more robust, mother prepared the salad by tossing the leaves in a mixture of hot bacon fat and vinegar, with crisp, crumbled bacon atop the dish. The quantities of this salad that could be con- sumed were almost astronomical, especially when it was served as a companion piece to fried spring chicken and tiny new boiled potatoes in hot cream, sprinkled with finely chopped chives. Cole slaw! Another traditionally glorious dish that has fallen on evil days. I have been browsing through a dozen modern cook books and I am saddened and deeply shocked at the variety of things inventive women can do to a head of cabbage and call the end result cole slaw. Simplicity seems to go out the window when the little woman toys with the idea of compounding a cole slaw. The addition of chunks of pineapple, for example, or shreds of carrots, or the addi- "Wouldja kindly stand up straight so J can gel my arm out." tion of whipped cream — alien never were AMEKK'AN LEGION MACiAZINK ingredients more unhappily mated. The

The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 * 4] - dance?" This isn't a verbatim report, but take up cooking of a sort recently touted dish composed of dried apples and a ham it is a composite opinion of experts. by Miss Celeste Holm of the cinema. Miss hock, tremendously fine. There had been We are lucky beyond all other peoples. Holm has recently composed a new dish a platter of green peppers stuffed with We have the finest of raw materials — of which she is proud. She cooks — and cabbage, pickled in a spicy vinegar — and premium ingredients that formed the basis eats! — a dish composed of fried chicken, there had been the traditional seven for memorable meals in the past, at a time covered with a fantastic mixture of sweet sweets and seven sours, two kinds of hot when our best cooks put into each dish cherries, cornstarch and Sherry wine. Miss bread. The meal had concluded with two the most precious of all ingredients — a Holm is obviously gorgeous, a fine actress. helpings of parshing ponakucka, a peach little love and genuine pride. She lost an admirer, however, when I fritter that is out of this world. She shyly Happily, most of the food that reaches read her praise of what she calls Chicken added that Pennsylvania Dutch food "ain't the American table is not wholly sec- Montmorency. We must keep our native for fancy." Which is God's truth, but it's tional in character. Instead, it often com- American cookery clean and undefiled, the most distinctive and delightful of all bines the finest from each area. If this is free from similar sabotage. rural cookery — unchanged for two and a done, the quality, the variety is amazing. The food of other years was superla- half centuries. Maybe that's why I am so Amuse yourself by setting down some tive. Today's food can be equally good. fond of it! sample menus that combine the best from If I'm wrong, then I'm just a nasty, opin- Someone with a real spark of genius Maine to California, from Texas to Mon- ioned old man, troubled with assorted may solve this problem. Perhaps he will tana, and all points in between. Just to nostaligic twinges and bent on stirring up write a new book about old recipes, and think of it makes me ravenous! dissent in the American home. Other so persuasively extol their virtues that In all seriousness, I'd like to see staged males, I am confident, must share my curi- old-time cookery will become fashion- an active and vigorous renaissance of tra- ous complex. Is there another dissenter able and popular. To such an individual ditional American cookery in its original in the house? should be erected a memorial of gracious simple form. If this is done, we will not "Food is somesing near holy, yet," a and enduring beauty. I'll be proud to make lose a great talent, a precious heritage - gentle little Pennsylvania Dutch woman a speech at the unveiling. It may not be the capacity to cook and serve superlative once told me. I subscribe to that tenet. much of a speech, but it will be sincere, food and to do it with pride. I had just eaten two helpings of schnitz and the tears of gratitude in these old Certainly it is not necessary for us to un knepp, with buttons (dumplings) — a eyes will not be phony. the end Convoy ( Continued from page 13) been to England. Three times. Why?" their clothes, even. Slim dressed like a Liable to have no trouble at all. Just coast Slim shook his head, grinning. "Gets sailor. Sharp tailor mades and West Coast in there and tie up in a couple of days. a little monotonous, don't it?" blues, the angle of his hat just right. He What's everybody frettin' about, I'd like Parsons thought about that for a mo- talked Navy. Someone had said Parsons to know? Hell, what'd they expect when ment, then he said, "Yeah," and resumed had been a lobster fisherman, up in Maine. they joined up in this outfit." eating. He hadn't changed at all. He should still "I figured on a little sleep," Marty said. The noise continued, but it was empty be grabbing at those lobsters. "An' I'm gonna get some right now. You and strained. Johnny and Marty went up "Not when you get back," Marty said. comin', kid?" to the bow to relieve the watch for chow, "// you get back. From what I understand, Johnny looked at Slim, the cigarette and they were into the night, now. It was this is gonna be a rugged little deal." dangling jauntily from his mouth. He'd black and the wind was rising, and oc- "You've been paying too much attention like to stay and talk with Baker, but he casionally the Foster took a big one on to Parsons. I'll bet it isn't that tough." felt the need of rest. He said, "Yeah, the starboard bow and the spray lashed "The hell with Parsons. He ain't been Marty," and followed him out of the room. onto the three- inch platform, where they up here. But I know guys that have." He said, "Hell, we have to get up in a were standing. And the cold bit into Johnny again, and couple of hours for that eight-to-twelve." Johnny remembered other nights like he was aware of the chow resting uneasily Marty nodded. "An hour and a half. So this. There had been only three weeks of in his stomach. Mr. Moran gets an hour and a halfs sleep." them, for him, but they seemed to have Marty was wearing the headset, and Johnny didn't sleep. He hit the sack and erased most of what had gone before. You Johnny heard him say, "Yeah, everything's lay there thinking of many things. Of just stood up there Ln the cold and the just dandy. The kid and me are havin' a home, and of how the world had changed dark, barely able to make out the shadow- marshmallow roast. Yeah, all right." for him in a few short months. He remem- shapes of the ships around you in the He held his hand over the mouthpiece bered the ordered confusion of the Armed blackness. He recalled that evening, two and swore. "That damned Parsons, check Guard Center, in Brooklyn, when he had weeks before, when they'd been off the in' us from the stern. That skunk is like a first come up from gunnery school. He re- Banks. He would never forget the sight of watchdog. Where'd he think we'd be?" called the first time he'd seen the Foster, the tanker alongside them when it got hit; In a little while Higgins and Stein came in Philadelphia. She'd been empty, then, the first explosion and the initial tongue forward to take the watch again, and tied up to the dock and just as untidy as of flame that shot skyward, grew fiercely Johnny followed Marty down out of the every ship in port. She'd been strange, his and with unbelievable speed until it en- tub. They made their way aft along the first ship, and the other thirty -odd mem- gulfed the entire ship, the whole thing a leeward side, and the Foster's motion was bers of the gun crew had been strange. vast and towering torch that dispelled the sharper, now, more abrupt. Marty yelled, But he knew them both well, now, the fog and fought off the approaching night. "It's gonna be a hell of a night. You better ship and the crew. He was part of them He said to Marty, "You like this duty, tie yourself in that sack." both, part of the anxiety and the fear that Marty? The Armed Guard?" They made their way in through the had come aboard with the certainty of Marty's shoulders moved in a heavy blackout curtains and crossed through the their destination. shrug. "We got nice mottoes like, 'Sighted ship to the messroom. The ports were It was Parsons who came into the com- Sub. Glub! Glub!' and 'Ready, Aim, Aban- dogged shut and the room was stale with partment to get him for the watch. Didn't don Ship!' What the hell difference does it smoke and empty except for Slim Baker. the slob ever sleep? Parsons said, "Dress make if I like it or not. I'm in it." He was playing solitaire! He looked up at warm, it's cold up there." "I think when we get back from this them and grinned. "The chow hounds That was news. It had been cold ever trip I'm going to put in for transfer to didn't eat so good tonight, and now all of since they'd left Philly. Marty Moran the Fleet." He'd be sailing with guys like them have hit the sack. Guess everybody's came awake under the shaking hand of Slim Baker, then. In the real Navy, where a touch nervous about tomorrow." the coxswain and swore in a low voice. everyone knew what they were doing. He Marty said, "I know where I'd rather be "All right. All right! I'm awake, damn it!" wouldn't have to bother with the kind of tomorrow. Home. Chicago. Leanin' against They dressed quickly and went down to chicken that Parsons was handing out. a bar with a big fat beer in my hand. That the messroom for coffee. Slim Baker Hell, you could see the difference between stinkin' Hitler!" grinned at them over his cards. "You boys Baker and Parsons right away. It was in Slim shrugged. "Now you take this trip. git up there, now, and keep good watch

42 * The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 . over us sleepin' infants." Slim had the mid white and strained, a cup of coffee in his stood up there helplessly and wondered to four watch. "Don't forget to wake me hand. He said, "You see it?" who'd get it next. You weren't expected to up on time. Hate to be late for a watch." Marty nodded "She got it right in the do anything because there was nothing to Marty dragged on a cigarette "Parsons'll pumpkin, on the port side. I figured I do but wait. wake you up. He ain't failed yet." might as well get everybody out, as long But with planes it would be different. Slim said, "Parsons," and shook his as they were workin' on this side of the He knew he'd be scared, but how would head. "That boy sure learns hard. Takes convoy." he act? All he had to do was load for himself too serious. Have to talk to him Parsons nodded. "It was all right. If you Marty and keep his eyes open, but you about relaxin'." figure you ought to hit that switch, hit it." could make a mess of that if you weren't They went out, and the night was bitter. He raised the coffee to his mouth and careful. How could you know how you'd When they were on the gun platform, Johnny noticed that his hand was shaking. react to a situation you'd never met be- Higgins and Stein scurried for the ladder. Johnny drew a cup of coffee for himself fore? Suppose he got so scared he'd freeze? Stein said, "Just don't try to spit or you"ll and one for Marty, brought them back to Suppose he loused up the loading, and get hit in the puss with an icicle. Have a the table. Saunders and Morgan and An- Marty started to shout at him? Suppose nice time." tonelli came in, and Saunders said in his he got hit? Suppose . . The night was as black as a midnight thin voice, "Did you see that one go? It It seemed that he'd just fallen asleep sewer, and as healthy. About halfway was the Harry Salmon. Gee, I know a lot when someone started to shake him. He through the watch, Marty said, "Listen to of guys on that. I wonder if she'll stay came out of it slowly, a heavy taste in his that!" afloat." mouth, drenched with sweat. It was Par-

But Johnny had heard it. Somewhere Parsons shook his head "Not from what sons. It was always Parsons. The coxswain off on the left flank one of the escorts was I saw. If she stays up for an hour they're said, "Come on, Ordway. Be dawn in a dropping depth charges. The soft whumff lucky, but they'll have plenty of time to couple of minutes. Just starting to break." — whumff, came to them clearly. Marty get the boats over." Every morning, general quarters at cursed bitterly. "That's all we need to- That would be nice, Johnny thought. dawn. Anything to keep you from sleep- night, a couple of torpedoes." The wind Out in an open boat on a night like this. ing. The compartment came slowly and had risen steadily and was now half a gale. He said, "The escort'll pick 'em up?" profanely awake, but it quieted suddenly. They knew the motion of the ship so well, Marty nodded. "Sure. If they can find Johnny looked around him and saw the now, that when a big sea broke against them. They'll be glad to pick them up." others dressing in the warm gear. Usually the bow they both automatically sought Parsons got up from the table. "You fel- the squawking was prolonged, the dress- shelter under the steel rim of the gun tub lows ought to get some sleep. Tomorrow ing delayed until the last moment. But not before the spray swept over the platform. might be a rough day." He lit a cigarette, today. Today no one had to be awakened "Subs out there," Marty said, "and we and Johnny noticed that he had trouble twice. Today they were all up at the first have some fine protection. A half dozen with the match. He felt a deep nervous- call, all wide awake. Today, something converted trawlers that would have to ness within himself, but he knew that said, would be different. bust their boilers to do more than ten, Parsons was in a worse state. He said, It was still dark when they got up on twelve knots." "Come on, Marty. Let's hit the sack." He the flying bridge. Dawn was a faint prom- And five minutes later the lead ship in was suddenly a little sick He didn't want ise in the northeast and though the wind their column, the outside one on the left, to stay here any longer and watch Parsons. had died somewhat, it was bitter cold. got it good. They heard the terrific ex- They went to the compartment, took off "Heaters," Marty said. "They ought to plosion, saw the sheet of flame rip from the heavy gear. But sleep did not come have electric heaters in these damn gun the side of the freighter. Marty moved fast easily to Johnny. He knew that their tubs." and hit the general alarm switch. He said, danger tomorrow lay not so much from Parsons and Mr. Rawley were heavy "We're thoughtful. We give all hands a submarines as from planes. They were shadows on the flying bridge, and Johnny chance." only a few hundred miles off the coast of had the headset on as all the gun tubs In less than a minute the three inch gun Norway, and each hour would bring them checked in. Mr. Rawley's voice was un- crew was on the platform, and they were necessarily closer to German-held bases. hurried and even as he said, "In case of running for their own gun, up on the fly- And he wondered what an air attack an air attack, remember our procedure. ing bridge The excitement was a dryness would be like. He'd seen submarines No gun is to fire until I give the word. in Johnny's throat, a weakness in his legs strike, but he'd never seen a sub. You just The three inches will be first. Use the that made it difficult for him to go up the ladders, a haste that forced his hands to lose their surety on the railings. They swerved past the hit ship, and they could see that she'd been holed forward, on the port side. There was a fire on the foredeck and even now she was listing badly. They stayed at general quarters for a half hour. The escorts were chasing something off to the west, the sound of depth charges marking the route of their endeavors, but the immediate danger seemed to be over. The gun crew was dis- missed from general quarters and Johnny resumed with Marty their watch on the bow. "Never a dull moment," Marty said. "If it ain't that damned Parsons it's submarines." The rest of the watch was without incident, and when Slim Baker and Eddie Butler relieved them at midnight, Slim said, "You boys got no regard at all for ol' Slim's sack habits, routin' me out like that." And Johnny could sense the grin if he couldn't see it. It was good to have someone like Baker around. No nerves at all. They went below and into the messroom for coffee. Parsons was there, his face

The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 4^ longer fuse settings to start with, then the planes were closer and flying into the lead plane, miss it, come back and search the shorter ones as they come in closer. tiny black clouds, and then he heard the for it again, lose themselves seemingly in And wait for the word." He coughed, and first racketting of the 20mm's in the first a wing. it sounded like an explosion in the head- column of ships. He saw the splash of the Then the plane was over them with a set. He said, "And the 20mm's. Not until first falling bomb, and then he heard roar that washed the deck in its fury, and I give the word. And not until the range Parsons yell, "On the port side! Watch there was another coming in. Above the is under a thousand yards Remember them on the port side!" punching bark of the 20mm, Johnny heard what you've been told. If you fire before He ripped his eyes from the planes he the first bomb fall. The whistle was high that, you'll have an empty magazine just had seen and searched the sky to port. He and piercing, the tone lowering and flat- when the plane is within range. Wait until spotted the two formations of planes al- tening as it came closer. It burst into the I give the word." most immediately, farther away than the sea fifty feet on the starboard side in a The ensign wasn't twenty feet away others, but lower. He heard Mr. Rawley geyser of water. from them, and Marty could hear him shout, "On the three inch! Fire!" Then he was aware of Marty. He was without the headset. Both three inch guns erupted at once, shouting, "Get it off! Gimme a new one! Johnny said nothing. He looked across and Johnny looked for the bursts in the Don't stand there!" the bridge and could make out Slim Baker, sky. And he had the magazine off and was lounging against the gun, confident and Marty, holding fast, muttered, "How- slapping a new one into place and the untroubled. In his own stomach there inell does that ensign tell when it's a gun was going again. were mice parading, and he tried to swal- thousand yards? He got a ruler or some- How long it went on he did not know, low and could not. thing?" but the firing slackened and ceased, and The eastern sky brightened slowly, and Looking to port Johnny saw something Marty stood upright in the harness and it was Marty who said "Johnny! Listen" else. Slim Baker's gun, directly across the said, "All right let's get cleaned up. They And he heard it immediately, the far-off bridge from him, started to fire. It got might be back." sound of motors. Marty yelled across the one shot out, and then Johnny stared The action had seemed to take an in- bridge. "Planes! Hear 'em?" amazedly as the barrel of the 20mm credibly long time, but there were only There was no mistaking the sound, now. curved out over the side and fell into the three empty magazines over near the A heavy whine at first, it had become sea a hundred feet from the ship. For a ready box. He looked out at the convoy, stronger, a pulsation of engines that held moment he didn't know what had hap- and as nearly as he could tell, two ships down one corner of the sky. pened. had been hit, one in the center column, Mr. Rawley's voice came over the phone. And then every gun on the ship was one out far on the right. Heavy smoke "All right. Stand by, now. If they come in going. Baker had set them off, they were was rising from them both. from the right, don't be in a hurry. There following irresistibly his lead. The sound He looked across the bridge, and Par- are plenty of ships over there. Keep a of his gun had pulled the trigger on the sons was in Baker's gun tub, working good lookout on the port side." rest of them. furiously on the 20mm. Marty said, "Did They heard the firing from one of the But Marty wasn't firing. He was strap- you see that? The guy starts firing at escorts, far off to the right, before they ped into the shoulder pieces, the cigar butt three thousand yards and sets off the saw the planes. A hazy sun started to lift was in his face, and he was cursing slowly. whole works. Did you see that barrel go out of the northeastern horizon when He said, "Two thousand yards if it's an over the side?" someone shouted, "Here they come!" inch. You might as well throw potatoes at Johnny said, "Yeah. What happened?" Johnny saw them, spots against the sky them." "The slob just forgot to turn it and lock off in the east, growing larger even as he Johnny looked up and the planes were it when he put it in. It ain't enough he watched. He tried to count them, put the coming in fast, now. Fast and low. He should shoot bullets at them Dutchmen. number vaguely at thirty. The ships in the tried to make himself small behind the He's gotta throw the barrel at them." outside right column started to fire, then. shield of the gun and fear was an ache in Marty was laughing. He heard the sharp, flat sound of three his throat, a parched dryness in his mouth. Johnny felt weak. Good, but weak in inch fifties, and almost simultaneously And then the gun started going. Marty the knees. It had all happened so fast that black puffs of smoke appeared in the sky, was hanging in the harness, his face intent, he'd had no chance to think about it. He'd far short of the planes. and Johnny watched the tracers arc up just loaded and watched Marty, and at He watched, feeling no part of it, until with an astonishing slowness toward the times the planes. He wondered about it, now, trying to bring it back, and not being able to. It was too close. By S. B. STEVENS GENERAL MISCHIEF Across the bridge he heard Slim Baker say, "I sweah I don't know how it happened. Must be somethin' wrong with that damn gun." His voice was thin, now, and high-pitched. "You forgot to lock the barrel when you cleaned it," Parsons said flatly. He was bent over the gun, working fast. "Give me a new face piece out of the spare parts box." He took out the old, adjusted the new. "All right. Put the spare barrel on. And don't forget to lock it." When it was in place he cocked the gun and said, "Get a magazine on." Hoyt, the loader, put a magazine on the gun. Parsons fired a short burst, then stepped away from it. He said, "It's all right. Hoyt, you're the gunner on this thing from now on You load for him, Baker." Marty had been watching, too. He said. "I wonder what Baker's friends in the Fleet would say about that. Probably give Parsons all kinds of hell." The firing started again, off to the right, and they looked up and the planes were back. They were lower, now, and Johnny tried to remember what he had learned of aircraft identification and could recall

44 • The American Leqion Magazine • August. 1950 — nothing. He thought they might be Focke- Wulfs, but he wasn't sure. There was a group attacking from the bow, and Johnny saw the tiny flashing lights along the wings. The gun was going, Marty hunkered down, trying to keep the plane in his sights as it went overhead. From where I sit Johnny heard, almost absently, the sound of bullets going into the stack, and then Marty shouted something unintelligible and was sagged in the gun, supported only 61/ Joe Marsh by the harness. Johnny got him loose, somehow, dragged him to the highest of the three tiered steps in the gun tub. Marty said, "In the leg! The

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Moose got sore the way folks acted refused to budge. Then Doc Sherman, who likes to play centerfield himself sometimes, decided to "use a little psychology on him." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Over a friendly glass of beer at leg!" And Johnny fumbled until he found the hole in the winter gear. Marty said, Andy's Garden Tavern, Doc says y "It's all right. Leave me alone. I'll take care of it." And Johnny left him and "Sorry this had to come up, Moose. went to the gun. We were thinking of asking you to He straightened it out, took off the empty magazine and got another from the umpire—what with your professional ready box, snapped it into place, then belted himself in to the gun. The planes experience and all." (Moose used to were coming over in bunches, and he tried play a little semi-pro ball.) to keep the gun on them. He remembered what he'd been insistently told, "Lead That did it! Next day Moose put them. Lead them. Lead them." He tried to keep them coming into the center of the up a stile over his fence. In return, the ring sight, kept his bursts short until he kids promised not to cause any dam- was pretty sure he was on the target. And in a moment the gun stopped bucking age. From where I sit, when you try to and he knew the magazine was empty. understand the other fellow's point of He started to take off the straps and someone said, "Stay there, Ordway. Stay in view—like his preference for beer or there." then take into considera- It was Parsons. The same flat voice that coffee —and woke him morning, noon and night, the tion the will of the majority, why, same pale, angular face. He pressed up the catch lever and Parsons took off the things seem to go better all around. empty magazine and put on a fresh one. The planes were coming in again. He didn't know how long it lasted. A merchant seaman was loading for him the next time he had an empty magazine. He remembered clearing a stoppage with the cartridge case extractor, doing it automatically, as if Parsons was watching him with the ship tied up to a dock. He watched, in one satisfactory moment, his Copyright, 1950, United States Brewers Foundation The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 • ^5 tracers slide into the belly of a ship and Johnny shook his head. "No trouble." stay there as he moved the gun up slowly. Parsons almost smiled at him. "I guess MILES PER GALLON He saw the patch of flame burst forth, maybe you know the gun pretty good. & MOTOR TUNE -UP -GAUGE and then the plane was gone out of sight You did fine, Ordway. I think you got and another was coming in over the bow. one." But suddenly it was over and the silence "Damn right he did," Curly said. "Damn pounded against his ears. He looked at the near cut the thing in half." merchant seaman beside him and saw that Parsons said, "Sure," but Johnny could it was Curly. Curly said, "It looks like see he was thinking of something else they might be through." Then he said, now. Parsons voice was back to its normal NEW "I think you got one, kid. I didn't see it flat harshness. "Let's get Marty below, ACCURATE fall, but I'll bet a month's pay that monkey and then I want those magazines reloaded. GUARANTEED ain't goin' far." Those bastards'll be back. Will you help Johnny looked around. Parsons was the kid, Curly?" Fits all cars — perma- working on No. 5 gun, just aft on the "Sure," Curly said. "The kid and me get nent. Checks spark plugs — checks carburetor bridge, clearing a jam. The sky was clear along fine." and 31 other motor ad- of planes, and the drone of motors was Then there was the business of getting justments. Registers miles fading in the distance. He looked at the Marty below, and afterward Johnny and per gallon at every speed. convoy, and there was smoke rising from Curly lugged a couple of boxes of Simple to read — Dial ammu- in 4 colors. 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4g • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 How 1 on Made 3,000,000 Kids Happy (Continued from page 27)

One serious hurdle loomed in front of free-freight request, in writing. Before So that adults without children might every Post as it prepared to ship its toys nightfall Faricy had word out to the 131 participate in the drive the Legion an- — the matter of the freight bill to Phila- members of his association with his rec- nounced that it would accept cash gifts delphia. The more toys a Post collected ommendation of affirmative action. Within to send toys to Europe, and a special ac- the more it would have to pay — rather a a few days every member of the railroad count was set up in a Philadelphia bank. frightening prospect for any Post, but association had come in on the plan. In Irving Geist, New York City philanthropist something even worse for the far distant case any local freight agent failed to get who early offered his personal services to Posts on the other side of the Mississippi. the word and refused free freight, said Tide of Toys, also made a cash gift of Eddie McGinnis, the Legion's National the railroads, just ship the toys to Phila- $2,500. Several thousand smaller cash Publicity Director, went with this prob- delphia collect, and the roads themselves gifts, the equivalent of one or a few toys lem to William T. Faricy, President of the would pick up the tab. When a large each, brought the total cash receipts as Association of American Railroads, ask- number of packages sent collect through of mid-April to $5,257.18, every cent of ing if the railroads would ship the toys the Railway Express Agency piled up at which was spent directly on Tide of Toys. to Philadelphia without charge as their the port Mr. Faricy spoke to the Agency Examples of gifts were a two-dollar do- present to European kids. Faricy agreed people, and they voluntarily assumed the nation from a California woman with a to recommend this to the roads, but had charges. $38 pension, and a $10 gift for toys for to remind the Legion that each road must children in Bastogne from a veteran in make the decision for itself. He also Meanwhile, throughout the nation the Tacoma, Washington, still hospitalized pointed out that by law the railroads job of collecting, crating and shipping from wounds received at Bastogne. were forbidden to carry freight free un- went on. Most of a final total of three mil- less written notice were furnished that lion toys poured on to Pier 38 South in Higgest bill footed by the Legion itself this was in the interest of the United the last ten days of January, from every was a little less than $14,000 rendered States Government. corner of America. There is not room in by the Mack Warehouse Corporation in this article to particularize: This entire Philadelphia, which did a tremendous job Time was short and things looked black issue of the magazine would be needed to of handling over several months and billed when McGinnis's assistant George Kelly give credit to the Posts and individuals for cost only. Total bills to the national and Drew Pearson's right hand man Fred who did yeoman work in this greatest of Legion directly chargeable to Tide of Blumenthal put the matter up to Howland all the humanitarian jobs the Legion has Toys amounted to about $15,000 — or half Sargeant, the State Department's Acting undertaken in its 32 years of existence. a cent for each toy delivered from Home- Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, on Mayors of many cities helped out by pro- town, U. S. A. to Cribside, Europe. The the morning of December 29th. But so claiming a Tide of Toys Day or Week. larger bill was paid in deeds, not cash, by thoroughly were Sargeant and his col- Roughly a third of the Governors of States the people of America, big and little. leagues in State convinced that TOT was did the same. Schools, police, firehouses, The Economic Cooperation Adminis- both sound and desirable that within an department stores, churches and local tration, which is the U. S. agency that hour the Government had okayed the newspapers all helped amass the toys. administers the Marshall Plan, had said

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Then one day the Legion learned from Philadelphia that the Shipping Confer- ence, prompted by Weaver of CARE, had authorized its member steamship lines to carry the toys at their own expense, should they so choose. The U. S. lines, whose American Defender was to load a

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Members of Mobilization-Day Units and Cadre Divisions have priority for the summer camps and the number of (From July, 1936 A.L.M.) spaces is limited. So, don't delay . . . make your arrangements to attend camp now! big shipment for Amsterdam, decided to carry it free. Moore-McCormack Lines did the same on a shipment to Norway. Be sure to attend summer Maersk Lines carried free a shipment to field training this year. Germany. U. S. Lines took care of three more cargoes to France, England and Help your country . . . and ORGANIZED Scotland at its own expense. Concordia

yourself . . . by improving RESERVE CORPS Lines carried a shipment to Italy and your efficiency as an Greece the same way. Then Belgian, Army Reservist. U.S. ARMY Yugoslavia and Finnish government- owned ships transported cargoes of toys free to their countries, and Israeli Lines transported the final shipment to Israel. Thus the shipping lines undertook voluntarily all the expense of moving three If you are not a member of the Army Reserve — but are million toys overseas. interested in joining—get full details on the new program from Actual distribution of the toys was your local Reserve unit, or the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force worked out through CARE and ECA in Recruiting Station in your locality. Without obligation, you will England, Scotland, France, Holland, Nor-

be told how your training and experience can be used . . . and what way, Berlin, the three occupation zones

opportunities may beopen to you . . . under the newORC program. of West Germany, Vienna, the U. S. Oc- cupation zone of Austria, Greece and Italy. In Belgian and Finland, which had been Listen to SALUTE TO RESERVISTS. For time and station consult your local newspaper. through greater woe than most of the

The American Legion Magazine • August. 1950 other nations, special arrangements had to be made. But they were made, and the kids got their toys.

What of the communist countries of eastern Europe? Drew Pearson made the approach to Czechoslovakia, most western of the Soviet-dominated nations, through the embassy of that nation in Washington. For a month there was no answer, then this word came: Much as the Czech government would like to have its children receive toys, it could not but feel that The American Legion was more interested in discrediting communism than in making Czech children happy. So the answer was no. In a sense the Czechs were right. The toys, coming from American children, would speak for themselves in language that would wipe out the hate-America campaign that has priority in the teaching of children in Soviet-dominated lands. Yugoslavia proved to be something quite different. Its Washington embassy, contacting Belgrade, announced that it would be delighted to accept the toys, and would itself transport them overseas. So on March 1, 1950, the Yugoslav government-owned steamship Srbija (Serbia) picked up an estimated 150,000 toys at Philadelphia, for shipment to Rejika, Yugoslavia. The Legion was told that the Yugoslav Red Cross would distribute. The Legion did not supervise the job and as of this writing has no accounting of those toys, nor has it made an attempt to get one. We are certain the toys went to children, and children are innocent of war and politics.

For a time it looked as if our toys would, surprisingly enough, get into Po- land. Casimir E. Midowicz of Chicago, vice president of American Relief for Poland, wrote the Legion that his group would be glad to get toys for Poland and would transport them overseas. Arrange- ments had gone so far that a Polish- American Legion Convention American group had inspected the 180,000 toys allotted to that country and they were ready to be swung aboard a ship at Los Angeles, California— October 8-12, 1950 Philadelphia, when suddenly the Polish communist government ousted the ARP — executive in Poland. With that action You can see one or all of the great western wonderlands went all hopes of getting Tide of Toys easily — on your convention trip to or from Los Angeles via to Polish kids. Santa Fe. Poland's loss was Israel's gain. The gifts Five daily Santa Fe transcontinental trains offer you a wide for Poland were offered Israel and speed- choice of service and accommodations to suit your travel pleas- ily accepted. By then all other shipments had ure and your pocketbook. gone out. On April 20th the last load of toys left Philadelphia, carried free by Let us send you free folders — just mail the coupon! Israeli Lines aboard the Akka for Tel Aviv. In this case the Jewish Relief Agency for Palestine was able and eager Santa Fe System Lines, Room 1753, Dept. Am. L. to handle distribution and relieved CARE 80 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 4, Illinois of the job.

Please send me the free literature I have checked. Previously, Belgium and Finland had California Land of Pueblos Grand Canyon presented special problems because Nome CARE couldn't take on the job in those countries. The Legion contacted the Bel- Address- gian ambassador to the U.S., Baron Silver- Stale _My phone number is cruys-an impressive, dignified, veteran diplomat. The Baron relayed the problem Do you wan) a Santa Fe representative to give you to his government in Brussels. The Belgian further information — Q Yes; No. government speedily arranged for shipping and distribution. On March 21st a ship of the Belgian Lines picked up nearly 150,- 000 toys in New York. (The ship couldn't

The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • I Is your arrange a Philadelphia stop, and the with nearly 340,000 toys for France. A dock Pennsylvania Railroad ran the load to strike threatened and French war vet- New York in two freight cars at its own erans offered to unload the toys them- expense.) selves. But the strike wasn't on that par- Hearing The same procedure was worked out ticular day and everything turned out worth a via the Finnish embassy in Washington. smoothly. On February 15 a Finline ship left Phila- delphia for Helsinki with over 120,000 Like Berlin, Normandy was fairly well 3? toys to be distributed by the official Fin- > saturated with toys for old times' sake. Stamp? nish welfare agency. The two thousand children of Avranches CARE missions worked out distribu- each received a toy, all at once, at cere- Discover a new way to HEAR AGAIN tion in the rest of war-damaged Europe. monies in a makeshift field house. Many with startling clarity — by spending just toys had 3c for a postage stamp! A way that may On March 4, 1950, a special committee of been earmarked for Normandy help you enjoy normal family and social four Legionnaires flew to Europe to at- kids by Legion Posts, with messages from

life again . . . win new success and hap- tend "kick-off" toy distributing cere- old friends. Lafayette Post 37 of Pough- piness. A way that's easier than you've monies in several European countries. keepsie, N. Y., had adopted St. Lo right dreamed possible. American Overseas Airlines flew the com- after the war, and Poughkeepsie's Tide of Te,,s Howto rAECrprc DUVIKDfiOlf mittee across and back at its own expense, Toys was marked for St. Lo. Overcome Hearing Loss with the required approval of the Civil Throughout Europe toys went to chil- All you do is mail coupon for valuable FREE Aeronautics Board. The group included dren in most need — to cripples, invalids, book. It reveals amazing secrets of how deaf- National the poor and the institutionalized. ness can now be overcome, thanks to a tiny, Chaplain Edward J. Carney, Eng- new electronic miracle. O.S.A.; Herman Luhrs, Chairman of the land and Wales received 240,000 toys. No Button Shows In Ear Legion's National Public Relations Com- Sharman Douglas, daughter of U. S. Am- mission; bassador Lewis Douglas, Book tells how to hide deafness, (ifc'jffy-^i. Walter Alessandroni, Pennsyl- made the first ™ ' Act now to discover what this ?p vania Department Commander, who had gift in Britain at ceremonies in the exec- new way to hear may do for -Ij been Port Director and chief Legion utive offices of Dr. Bernardo's Homes, a YOU. Mail coupon today for \ your FREE book. No obligation. worrier at Philadelphia, and George Kelly, chain of orphanages. It is in the poorest Assistant Public Relations Director, who section of London. The Lord Mayor of MONO-PAC had been the guy on the telephone and London was there. SYMPHONETTE typewriter and general leg man in Wash- CARE and ENDSI, Italian relief agency, Beltone One-Unit Hearing Aid ington during the entire Tide of Toys distributed over 240,000 toys in Italy. The Beltone Hearing Aid Co., Dept. 105B campaign. actual kick-off in Italy was at The Provin- 1450 W. 19th St., Chicago III. 8, cial Institute, on a hill outside of Rome. MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY Official kick-off for Europe was in Ber- Three hundred children, from crawlers to Beltone Hearing Aid Co., Dept. lOSB 1450 W. 19th St.. Chicago 8, 111. lin, where 147,000 toys were distributed 12-year-olds, took part — each age group Please send mo FREE liook that tells how to overcome hearing loss without a button showing in ear. by CARE. Berlin and a few other places wearing special dress. There was a big Name were made special spots where the child meeting of European diplomats in Rome population was saturated with toys. Even that day, but U. S. Ambassador Dunn with three million toys such saturation spent two hours at the ceremonies with was not possible throughout Europe. his whole family. His little granddaughter

CARE has reported that every needy gave the first toy — and with it a kiss — to I child in West Berlin received a toy. One an Italian girl her own age. This was an of the Legion group described the Berlin excellent orphanage, and the children kick-off in these words: were the liveliest seen by the touring i YOU MAKE $50.00 f "CARE did a beautiful job. Funkturm Legion committee. tor selling 100 boxes finest Robinson Christ- mas Cards. An excellent opportunity for Casino (radio center) provided an audi- yourself, club or organization. Other fast money-makers. Write quick for samples on torium where three hundred kids from After the ceremonies in Italy the first to approval. institutions such as hospitals and or- i get toys were the war-mutilated chil- ROBINSON CARDS phanages were invited for the opening dren. Italy has thousands of these juven- DEPT. A-8 CLINTON, MASS. ft ceremony. ile amputees who were caught up and aiSi2.S.S,S,&,S',S,2.2,2.S.S,2.S,SiS,2,S,S,2,2,S.S.S,/ "CARE gave a piece of candy to each overrun by the shooting war, and the kid as he came in the door. When Father government has a special rehabilitation Carney entered he offered his hand to a program for them. Rather than describe He** AUTOMOTIVE DISCOVERY little girl who thrust her piece of candy them here, let us simply let Americans into his hand. Thus Father Carney got know that they got the toys. It is unlikely a gift before he could give one in Europe." that many of them ever had toys before. TRYtrfBJB Walter Alessandroni said of the Berlin Similar ceremonies were held in Scot- opening: "The toys were laid out on tables land, where CARE distributed over 60,000 all over the room and there were about toys, and in Vienna, where that organiza- 200 adults in addition to the kids — half tion parceled out 120,000 toys for the kids of them Germans and half Americans. in Austria's allied and international zones. There was an orchestra on the stage and The traveling Legionnaires did not get there was a puppet show. Clowns circu- to Greece, Holland or Norway, where lated ABOUT ONE-HALF MILLION NOW IN USE! throughout the two-hour program, CARE distributed, respectively, 120,000 Up to 2S°b MORE MILEAGE, EASIER STARTING.! so that the event was a carnival in itself. and 60,000 and 18,000 toys. FASTER PICK-UP and SMOOTHER IDLING — many I users report with this SENSATIONAL NEW automotlvef General Taylor came and spoke and final- Father Carney and Herman Luhrs have product. NOW, test It In your car AT OUR EXPENSE. Then, after 10 days, check mileage and engine per-L ly the kids were turned loose on the toys. reported that Americans cannot possibly lormance. If satisfied, send only $1.60 per needle (8 cyl.l cars take 2i. If not entirely satisfied, Just return It— "Later, when the ceremonies were in appreciate the emotions and especially the FAIR ENOUGH? Authorities differ In opinions on merltsi of Ganes and some users report no Improvemenl the past and CARE settled down to its gratitude and pride of possession evi-

TRY BEFOKE YOU BUY . . . And that's all. not real job the children from Russian East denced by the children of war on receipt BOOK SENT FREE! Berlin got toys. They just came over to of so simple a thing as a gift of one toy When you accept this Gane Needle Fret Trial offer. West Berlin and took 'em back to their in an almost toyless world. Yet they say Yours to keep even if you decide NOT to buy the city of rubble and Russian statues." even to the parents, £3 CANE Needle ifter you've tried it. Tells how to the toys meant more sive gasoline, oil, tires, brakes ... how to let CARE distributed about 300,000 toys in touched to the heart by this personal at- more power, speed and better engine performance. to the U. S. zone of Germany, 324,000 in the tention to their children who have suffered

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Powei* Tools That Pay for Themselves ( Continued from page 21 saw at right angles to the wood. Wood still and moving the saw, than the other that's cut that way doesn't make good way around. (You try and move a four- fitting joints. That's another reason power by -eight-foot sheet of wood through a tools are good. It's easy to make a sound bench-saw, even with help, and you'll see joint when you're through cutting." what I mean.) The attic completed, my "Okay, you've convinced me," I said. next project was a set of built-in book- "Now what power tool should I buy first?" cases at each end of the living room. So I went on to tell him about the jobs I had I went calling on Mr. Miller again. I told lined up. him what was planned, construction- wise, "Selection of power tools is a personal and asked, "Now is it time to get that matter," he told me. "What would suit Mr. bench-saw?" rather job Axelrod wouldn't do Mr. Zzyx a bit of "Yep. Now that you've got that m good. It all depends on the kind of jobs special attic-building job out of the way, ...FASTER... you're going to do. What's your first big a circular saw is next. Power saw's one 'BETTER. ..EASIER project?" of the most useful tools you can get. Fig- ure it this way. The kind of building you're liable to do consists mostly of taking a big piece of wood, cutting it into smaller pieces and fitting them together so they make something." I hadn't thought of it that way, but I could see he was right. "Power saw's good in another way," he SAVE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS went on, "you can use it for other jobs too. head on it, and cut grooves — Put a dado with wide grooves in the uprights for shelves Cummins to fit into; narrow grooves to make a tongue-and-groove joint between two 3 -TOOL Combination pieces of wood. Use it with a moulding head and a set of cutters and you can cut SAW — SANDER — PLANER easy-to-use tools do every sawing, all sorts of ornamental shapes for decora- These sanding and planing job. Cummins Model tive mouldings on furniture — or make 600 Portable Saw is the driving unit for picture-frames, if you feel like it." all three tools. Sander or Planer attach- As I was leaving, Mr. Miller stopped ments mount to saw easily . . . actually me. "They call the kind of saw you want take less than 5 minutes for either one. a 'bench-saw' because you can mount it on one end of your work bench if you want to. Takes up valuable working space, that way, though, and you can't handle SAW 6" ' "Motn, remember yesterday you gave long pieces of work without getting into diam. blade. Cuts 1 Vs deep; bevel cuts at 45° me a dime not to say "darn" any- 3 trouble. Much better to spend a few dol- thru lumber l /e* thick. Die Well today I think I've a cast aluminum frame. Rugged more? got lars and get a metal stand to go with the word that's worth at least a dollar!" worm and wheel gears. saw. Then you can set it out in the mid- Powerful motor for 1 1 5 volts AC or DC. 4200 r.p.m. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE dle of space and have room the working free speed. to maneuver. Makes it easy to mount the Mode! 600 Saw $62.50 stand is drilled to take the motor, too; AS A SANDER "Finishing off the attic — partitioning it mounting screws." -SAW and laying down a floor." I bought a bench-saw, stand, half- Sander attachment mounts If I I'd motor dado head; they "Umm-hmm. were you, buy one horsepower and to 600 Saw, uses standard of those electric hand-saws. Most of the cost me about $125. The shaper attach- 4 x 27* cloth-backed belts. Quick, easy belt change. work on a job like that is cutting long ment I figured I could wait for; the kind Strong aluminum frame. timbers, 2x4's and the like, to length. of work I had in mind didn't call for much Chain belt drive and sprocket transmits power Power hand-saw's ideal for those jobs. Not in the line of decoration. One thing I did from saw arbor to sander. very expensive, either — around $60 for find wrong, though, was that the saw table Model 630 Sander Attach' ment (with one landing one with a six-inch blade." was only 15 x 18 inches. It looked plenty belt) $49.50 "But couldn't I use a bench saw just as big in the store, but it didn't work out AS A PLANER well?" that way with the rather large pieces I "No. Sawing long timbers to length isn't had to cut. So I bought an extension that -SAW Planer attachment mounts to 600 front of the table and easy with a bench-saw. Needs two people, bolted on the Sow. A" wide, three-bladed one to hold each end. Even then it's risky. and brought it up to 15 x 25. The extra cutter head. Blades easily removed for sharpening or If it the outboard end gets ahead of or be- room in front of the blade made much replacement. Maximum depth ot hind the end you're cutting, it'll bind easier to handle big pieces. cut Vm". Bevel fence has safety guard. Chain belt drive and against the blade; that'll stall the saw or, Another thing worth-while as an extra sprocket transmits power from worse, throw the wood out of the machine was a set of long guide rails for the rip- saw arbor to planer. Model 640 Planer Attachment $64.00 and maybe take all somebody's teeth out. fence. The standard set lets you cut With long pieces, a hand-saw's the thing. widths up to 12 inches — not much when 3 roots IN ONE! Besides, that's a tool you take to the work. you're building furniture. 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The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • 51 Mr. Miller proved to be as progressive I was sawing things up by hand and fas- He was right about that too. But one tening them by nails, or maybe screws, I thing Mr. Miller forgot to mention was as ever. He said, "Paint-spray's like a never even thought of clamping and glu- the dust a sander kicks up. It's amazing. sander. Not worth buying for one job. But ing work. But with precisely cut and fitted Take my advice, do your sanding in the a great timesaver if you've got any quantity of pieces, I find furniture-clamps a tremen- cellar, or outdoors. Try it in the living painting to do. People sometimes think a dous help. I bought four, of the type that room once, and you'll have a divorce on paint-spray's a thing that only a fasten to lengths of three-quarter-inch your hands. Or maybe your wife will obey professional can use. 'Tisn't. You've gotta take time to pipe; with them I can glue anything up her first impulse and simply kill you. learn to use it — but then to six feet in width. As a result, nearly Naturally, in speaking of sanders, I'm you've gotta learn to use a brush too. "It's all the joints I make these days are glued. referring to the small, home type. Mr. easier for an amateur to get a really No screws or nails at all. The joints are professional-looking paint job with far stronger; they're neater, and the fin- a spray than it is with a brush. Thing to ished work retains its original form with- The following manufacturers of power do is practice. Maybe you've got a garage out warping or shifting. tools can supply catalogues and helpful that could stand being painted inside; or the When I had my first lot of bookcases information about the use of such equip- cellar walls could do with a coat assembled and ready to finish, I went to ment: of light colored paint. Main thing is to get Mr. Miller again and asked him about some sizeable surface to work on Learn Atlas Press Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. a sander. said, "A belt sander is what how to spray evenly; find out how much He Barron Tool Co., Detroit 1, Mich. thinner you've got to you need and it's going to cost you around Belsaw Machinery Co., 315 Westport add to make up for what $55 for a 2-inch belt job. That's too ex- Rd., Kansas City, Mo. dries out while the paint's in the air. pensive for one job, or even two. But if Bink Mfg. Co., 3114 Carroll Ave., Next thing is to find out how to set you're going to do any quantity of build- Chicago 12 the feed for different jobs, so you'll spray Decker Mfg. Co., Towson, Md. ing, they're great. Hand-sanding is plain Black & as fast as you can without getting too Boice Crane Co., 930 W. Central Ave., donkey-work. It's slow, it's maddening much on. Toledo, Ohio and it's almost tiring sawing by "Don't try to spray furniture indoors at as as Cummins Portable Tools, 4740 N. first. Do it outside, or in the hand. But with a power sander, you do Ravensvvod Ave., Chicago 40 garage with the doors in minutes what would take hours to Delta Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wise. open. Take time to learn the do by hand methods. Not only that, but Duro Metal Products Co., 2649 N. Kil- knack. Spraying's a great time-saver on you can use a sander for shaping up." dare Ave., Chicago 39 a big job. On little jobs, use a brush. Not Mich. "How do you mean?" I asked. Emrick, Inc., Kalamazoo, worth setting up the spray, thinning and Elston Ave., "Well, say you're planning on putting a Skilsaw, Inc., 5033 straining the paint and then cleaning the Chicago 30 long bookcase up against a plastered wall, gun afterwards on a little project." Speedway Mfg. Co., 1834 S. Laramie and you want it to fit really neatly. That My spray gun cost me about $35 with Ave., Cicero, 111. a wall looks flat. But you hold a nice Supershop Power Tools, Inc., 1205 quarter-horsepower motor. After I straight-edged plank against it. You'll Yates Ave., Beloit, Wise. caught on to using it I found it most sat- find that it's a quarter of an inch high isfactory, especially on backbreaking jobs here, and three feet away it will be a like painting ceilings. A spray gun will quarter of an inch low. There's nothing Miller has a bigger one, with a four-inch do a ceiling in one -sixth the time you like a sander to shape the top of the book- belt. This uses a vacuum cleaner device, need with a brush; you don't end up with case so that it fits exactly against those and inhales its dust as it goes along. This a kink in your neck, a sore arm and paint curves. type is expensive and I've never used one. dripping off your elbow, either. "Or again, you're building a cabinet, But it must be a great improvement if These are all the power tools I have out of three-quarter-inch plywood, so you you can justify the cost. bought so far; but I have already checked won't have any trouble with warping. You When it came time for me to paint the with Mr. Miller about the other common want to round the top edges so the fin- various items I had made — and we post- tools I might invest in. I mentioned the ished piece will have a modern look. With poned painting any of it until we could fact that I liked the idea of a lathe. He a portable sander and a little care, you re-do the whole living room, built-in said, "A lathe? Well, if you're going to go can make those edges look as though furniture included— I went seeking advice in for making ornamental lamps, or hard- they'd been done by machine." about spray-painting. wood bowls and so on, a lathe is fine. But for the things you need around a house By Ponce de Leon to make it livable, especially in this day of plain, angular, functional furniture, a lathe isn't necessary. Fun to have, yes; but necessary, no." "How about a band-saw," I asked. "Go- ing to cut a lot of curves? If so, a band- saw's your machine. Good too, if you have to cut an occasional thick timber. But for plain right-angle sawing and cutting, a circular saw is as good or better. Besides, a bench saw will cut wider pieces, and it will also take attachments like a dado head that a band-saw will not." "How about a jig-saw, then?" "A jig- saw, or scroll saw as some people call 'em, is great for model making, cutting short- radius curves, and the like. Way I see it, a jig-saw's fine in what you might call 'a really complete home workshop,' but I don't see it as a basic tool. Not for the type of work you have in mind." "Do you think I need a drill-press, - then?' "A drill-press. That's different. It's what you might call a multipurpose tool. Besides making nice, accurate holes in wood and metal, it can be used with the proper attachments for mortising, routing, AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE drum-sanding and shaping. By and large,

52 * The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 I guess you might put a drill-press down you're the kind that cuts yourself often, as the next power tool you need. or are always hammering your thumb — "You must remember one thing, the better lay off the power tools. *°'W type of tools you buy, and the order you "Another thing, be sure and put guards dL pants buy them in, depends on the work you around the driving belts. Don't risk get- Genuine 100% GABARDINE Or Cool Summer Tropical Weaves intend to do. Buy 'em in the order you ting yourself, your friends, or even a If need 'em, not the order they are in the piece of wood caught in the machinery. rrli or del rU. CI i Ga s fuiu ol Sumr Wc hard f catalogue. Sometimes, several people can you have children, or if the neighbors' Ret; brVss' zipper front Roomy pockets. Blue. club together and share the expense of children ever come calling, make sure Tan Crav. IJRht Brown. Dark Brown. Blue- Gray, Green. WAIST: 28 to 42. particular tool all like can't start power tools in your some you'd to have. they your SEND NO MONEY »,«™ At 2nd and sander's a example. don't a great fascination 3rd color choice State if Gabardine or A good You absence. Saws have Tropical Weaves Pay postman only S4.95 plus small postage. Or send money and need it often, but it's a great time saver for kids. So put a lock switch on your save pstg Money-Back Guarantee. when you do. It's a good tool to share saw, in addition to the regular operating LINCOLN TAILORS, Dept. AM-8, Lincoln, Nebr. expenses with, because casual careless- switch. Keep the key on your keychain, ness isn't likely to harm it. But a bench and lock your saw when you go away, just saw would be a poor tool to buy on a like you lock your car. sharing basis. If one member of the group "I don't know anything that will hurt rnrr about money is ham-handed, he can easily upset the you quicker, or care less, than a power rntt lAblOCAPTC MAKING PLAN adjustment of the saw to a point where driven wood-working tool." :eBaby Shoes at home. Start full or spare Famous WARNER SUCCESS PLAN it won't cut square, true or to size. Or When the question of power tools comes ked by old established company. Facts itnothing. Money waiting. Act! Time is again, he can be cutting a piece of scrap up in discussions with friends and neigh- eious Ru^h name on postcard to Warner Electric Co. ,'151 2 Jrrvis, Dept. 16-0, Chicaso 26. III. lumber and run through a couple of nails. bors, people often say, "Well, of course, Plays holy ned with the saw-blade. Those they must be fun to use. But do they things can all be fixed, of course; but you save you any money?" /Have SO for you.' Make $50 fast! Sellonly 100 sensation- W don't get much fun out of sharing tools The answer is, "Yes. Definitely." My al value 21 - Card $1 Christmas Assort-^, ments! Book tells you how to get biir lnj with people like that." outlay for the tools themselves has been FREE orders easily. Also show Gift Wraps. Stationery, f Books, Address Book and over » Several times while I was discussing about $270, so far. I've spent around $320 Children's Action j_ 70 other fast selling items for all members of the \ V tools with him, Mr. Miller came back to for lumber, paint and other supplies. But family. Name-Imprinted Christmas Cards 50 for $1 and up. Start earning with FREE Imprint Sam- the matter of safety. He's fond of saying, I've added at least $2000 to the value of ples, Assortments on approval. Extra Profit Bonus Write now! Send No Money. nun I me Pinn on Plan! "A circular saw's as dumb as hell. It'll my house. That may not be money in the rnlLLIro L.HKU UU.. 373 HUNT ST., NEWTON, MASS. cut through finger a just as soon as it'll bank. But it's a darned good investment. A L L I M I N cut through a board. If you're careless, if THE END relieves distress- NERVOUS ing symptoms of "nervous stomach" — heaviness Are There Men on the 3Moon? STOMACH after meals, belch- ing, bloating and colic due to gas. ALLIMIN has been (Continued from page 23) scientifically tested by doctors and found highly effective. More than a 14 billion sold. At all drug stores. discoverer of Uranus, a famed British as- very little of which was founded on true tronomer of a previous generation. scientific research. ALLIMIN Garlic Tablets How had the discovery of life on the Prime target of Locke's intended satire Moon been made? On the second day, the was a Dr. Thomas Dick of Dundee, Scot- American Express Sun told all: gave the description of the land. Dick was an astronomer of sorts and giant telescope with "an object glass of 24 a prolific writer on scientific topics. He presents the foot diameter . . . cast by the large glass was also a prolific crackpot. Not the only house of Messrs. Hartly and Grant ... on crackpot of his day, of course, but to OFFICIAL the 3rd day of January, 1833." After pol- Locke he was the most representative of ishing, it weighed 14,826 pounds and had a group of writers who could not be satis- a magnifying power of 42,000 times. With fied with the actual progress of science, POST CONVENTION TOURS such power, objects on the Moon that were but felt that they must embroider and to the Hawaiian Islands only eighteen inches in size could be seen speculate. Spec/a/ Legionnaire group and studied. In fact, Sir John even hoped If it had not been Locke's habit to read Sailing with Escort that with this lens he might eventually the scientific journals as a pastime, he from Los AngelesOct. 13, 7950 study insect life on the Moon — if such might never have seen Dick's article in an existed! old issue of the Edinburgh New Philo- via the S. S. LURLINE This was the status of the story after sophical Journal. In it, Dick had pro- accommodations at Royal Hawaiian three days. Now let's look behind the posed that communication with living and Moana Hotels on Waikiki Beach scenes and see what's going on in the edi- creatures on the Moon might be possible in Honolulu torial offices of the New York Sun. Let's if the governments of Earth would appro- see who was responsible for the hoax — priate funds sufficient to erect some huge MAIN TOUR-23 days and why. stone symbols on the plains of Siberia. Including 12 days in Honolulu dur- In 1835 the Sun was a young paper, These, speculated Dick, would have to be ing "Aloha Week," with round trip struggling against the fierce competition of such size as to be visible by whatever by steamer—$335.75 up, plus tax. of the growing metropolitan press — seek- inhabitants might be on the Moon, and 16 days, 9 days in Honolulu— returning every possible advantage, fair or foul. would also have to have some basic meaning by air—$358.25 up, plus tax. Its editor was a young man named Rich- ing common to all living creatures and Extension Tours to the Islands of ard Adams Locke. He had previously not dependent on any language. Maui, Kauai and Hawaii available. written several very popular articles for The whole idea, including Dick's as- Don't Wait Until It's Too Late — the Sun and had an understanding with sumption that some reply would probably MAKE YOUR RESERV ATIONS EARLY! the paper's owners that he would receive be made by the Moon-folk, struck Locke Express a bonus of $150 for any such special writ- as completely ridiculous. The article ex- American Travel Service ing in the future, particularly if it were of cited his natural tendencies for writing 65 Broadway New York 6, N. Y. a circulation-building character. Locke satire. He decided to write a fraud of his was equal to unbelievable that no one could the demand. He wrote the own so 1 am interested in reservations on American full details. Moon story—every word of it out of whole accept it, and thereby once and for all, kill Legion HawaiiTour. Please furnish AL-8 cloth. the cheap trend in science-fiction writing. Name But it wasn't intended to fool anyone. At the outset, Locke made a mistake To the contrary, Locke hoped that it would that almost doomed the credibility of the Address be so obviously absurd that it would whole yarn. In saying that the article was City State.. put an end to a rash of pseudo-scientific being reprinted from the Edinburgh Jour- writing that was glutting the daily press, nal of Science, he committed an oversight. The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • 53 The magazine was out of publication. But that the Sun should be the means of shed- ments, as if the work of Locke were not in those days of slow communications, the ding so much light on the Moon." enough! One dignified gentleman in the error passed unnoticed. After all, the pub- Readers of the New York Times got an- crowd that milled daily in the street be- lic didn't care where the Sim got the other interpretation. "The description of fore the Sun building, told all who would story. It was what the story said that had Sir John's recently improved instruments, listen (and who wouldn't?) that he had them drooling. The mass mind was fully the prin:iple on which the inestimable been at the East Indian Company docks in primed to receive it. improvements were founded, the account London when the seven-ton lens was After giving an elaborate description of of the wonderful discoveries in the moon, loaded aboard an East Indiaman for its how the telescope had been set up on etc., are all probable and plausible and journey to South Africa. Therefore, he a tableland near Capetown, Locke got to have an air of intense verisimilitude." added, the statement in an early instal- the meat of his story. On the fourth day Joining the parade were the U.S. Ga- ment of the story which said the lens had he wrote, "It was about half past 9 o'clock zette, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Neiv been shipped from St. Catherine's docks

on the night of the tenth . . . that the as- York Sunday News, the Mercantile Ad- must have been in error! tronomer adjusted his instrument for the vertiser, the New York Commercial Ad- Another sidewalk sage told a gathering inspection. The whole immense power of crowd that he had read the original copy ." his telescope was applied . . of the Edinburgh periodical and could What did he see? With the true sense vouch that the Sun version was correct in of a showman, Locke baited his readers. every particular. At first, all that was "seen" were red pop- But back to the story itself. Public in- pies—whole fields of them, growing from terest was at a fever level by the time the volcanic soil. Then trees, "resembling the staggering disclosure was made of human yews of English churchyards," then a lake life on the Moon. "with a beach of white sand," and the wa- "We counted three parties of these crea- ter "as blue as that of the deep ocean." tures," said the story, "of twelve, nine and "In the shade of the woods we beheld fifteen each, walking erect towards a

continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, small wood . . . certainly they were like having all the external characteristics of human beings, for their wings had now the bison." disappeared and their attitude in walking By the fifth day then, the hungry pub- was both erect and dignified. Having ob- lic had bison and red poppies. That life servec iheni at this distance for some existed on the moon there could no longer minutes, we introduced lens H.z. which be any doubt. With appetites whetted for EXPLOITING current interest in brought them to the apparent proximity space matters, the movies are going more marvels, everyone waited. The story of eighty yards. They average four feet in in for the subject. This is a scene was snowballing into a matter of interna- height and were covered, except on the from one such film, Destination Moon tional importance. It was accepted as truth face, with short and glossy copper-colored not only by a gullible few, but as complete hair and had wings of a thin membrane, fact by so many responsible persons that without hair, lying snugly on their backs there is little wonder that the man in the vertiser — papers from coast to coast and from the top of the shoulders to the calves street was overwhelmed. all over the world. Who was to doubt the of the legs. The face, which was of a yel- The Albany Daily Advertiser said, "We moon story? Not the man in the street. low flesh- color, was a slight improvement have read with unspeakable emotions of A knowing few, however, did pro- upon that of the large orangutan." pleasure and astonishment, an article from nounce the story a hoax, but so great was Later, the story went on, the observers the last Edinburgh Journal of Science the desire to believe, that the doubters saw temples, "equi-triangular, built of containing an account of the recent dis- were ignored. Writing some time later in polished sapphire, or of some resplendent ." coveries . . Note that the Albany paper the Southern Literary Messenger, of which blue stone which displayed a myriad did not say they had read this in the New he was editor, Edgar Allan Poe said, "Not points of golden light twinkling and scin- York Sun. They said they read it in the one in ten persons discredited the story." tillating in the sunbeams." They also saw original — the original that never existed. Not oniy did most people fail to dis- more "people" who were "chiefly engaged

And the New York Evening Post added in credit the story, but c me actually added in eating a large yellow fruit like a gourd, praise of its competitor, "It is quite proper credence to it with their own embellish- sections of which they dexterously divided with their fingers and ate with rather un- couth voracity, throwing away the rind. A smaller red fruit, like a cucumber, which we had often seen pendant from t"ees having a broad, dark leaf, were also lying in heaps in the center of several of the festive groups. "They seemed to be eminently happy people and even polite, for we saw, in many instances, individuals sitting near- est these piles of fruit select the largest and brightest specimens and throw them archwise across the circle to some oppo-

site friend . . . "While thus engaged in their rural banquets, or in social converse, they were always seated with their knees flat upon the turf and their feet brought up evenly

together in the form of a triangle . . . "We had no opportunity of seeing them engaged actually in any work of industry or art; and, so far as we could judge, they spent their happy hours in collecting various fruits in the woods, in eating, flying, bathing, and loitering about upon the summits of precipices. "We scientifically denominated them the Vespertillio-homo. or man-bat; and they are doubtless innocent and happy crea-

54 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 — , tures, nothwithstanding some of their should have been the first to recognize amusements would but ill comport with the fraud, reprinted the Moon Story as our terrestrial notions of decorum." truth. (Would YOU Like to Make By now, the circulation of the Sun had As a final tribute to the degree of be- multiplied by five and the capacity of its lief accorded the story by the public, the chugging steam presses had been reached. ladies of Springfield, Massachusetts, as- $1,000 A MONTH?! Shrewdly, the paper's owners had an edi- sembled and voted to send missionaries That's what Stanley Hyman tion of twenty thousand copies of the to the Moon! is making selling the amazing new Moon Story ready for sale in book form At last, Locke told the truth — over a too PRESTO Fire Extinguisher! on the day after the last installment ap- social glass — to a Journal of Commerce peared. This sold out in three days. Illus- reporter. Surprisingly, the public took the Amazing new kind of fire extinguisher. Tiny "Presto" (about trated editions sprang up and the yarn disclosure in good spirit. Of course there size of a flashlight! ) does job of £7k was translated into every foreign lan- were immediately thousands of self-ap- bulky extinguishers that STANLEY cost 4 times as much, Bookbinders in York were so pointed sages who claimed never to have HYMAN guage. New are 8 times as heavy. flooded with orders for the Moon Story been duped. Yet among the more frank Ends fires fast as 2 seconds. Fits in palm of hand. Never corrodes. Guar- it catch and honest folk, there a hearty that did not appear they would was many anteed for 20 years! Sells for only up for over a year. laugh at themselves — and perhaps a wist- $3.98! Show it to owners of homes, cars, in the ful wish it all true. Still there were those who cried that might have been boats, farms, etc.— make good income. wilderness and said the story was a com- Maybe the only explanation is that Man H. J. Kerr reports $20 a day. C. Kama. $1,000 a month. Write for Dr. isn't quite satisfied Earth. plete fabrication. Among these was with his own FREE Sales Kit. No obligation. Dick himself — the faker who had started Maybe he'd rather be "out there" on an- MERLITE INDUSTRIES. Inc., Dept. 298. 201 East 16th St., it all, even of other planet, starting all over again to now out-hoaxed. Yet some Science's New York 3, N. Y. (// you want a New Midget regular Presto to use as a demonstrator these disbelievers gave reasons which build the bright new world and fervently Miracle — "PRESTO" send $2.50. Money back if you wish.) would not hold water. One said the story hoping that he wouldn't end up with what must be a hoax because "it is an estab- he's created here, including taxes, ali- lished scientific impossibility to magnify mony, atomic sterilization and TV come- OVER 500. SURPLUS BARGAINS a shadow." Had the man ever worn a pair dians. At least he's given every evidence of glasses, he would have seen for him- of wanting to believe — almost hoping — tfifV/ CATALOG TERRIFIC BARGAINS lor self that the theory was as cockeyed as that he's not really alone in an ever- Sportsmen — Farm & Home Locke's. shrinking Universe. He's been dreaming greatest stock of Gov't Sur- plus for everyday use in Locke himself, however, was disap- a long time. Now maybe his dream is America 1 SEND 10c FOR YOUR pointed that the story was received as it about to come true. At least there is every CATALOG TODAY! was and not as the satire he intended. He prospect that he's soon going to be able to 72 wA propel himself outward in knew that as soon as the mails from the space, becom- FISLER SALES C0. ^N sKiS! continent arrived in New York the whole ing a citizen of the Universe somewhere affair would be exposed. He began to look along the route, with full rights to the new NEW, DIFFERENT. EXCLUSIVE - forward to the day, but when it came, frontier and a space map in his back {^CHRISTMAS CARDS'* alas, the content of the mails only added pocket that has great gobs of sky labeled f/V SO WITH NAME IMPRINTED M fuel to the fire. British and French sci- "unexplored" as his challenge. - - pen 'n ftriu&A studios f . entific journals full generation were of the news Maybe the next can be Lewis r URN UllKA }$>/ «cn 0 tiflCf Vmit, for selllne only 100 KIW bonus V"*""" .„ , new boxes. Ot all /- nZJjf and even the Edinburgh papers, which and Clark over again. the end /...». •• „p <• .-a / AMAZING profits d /6VER*"ibo%]/OVER 100%,/ You take NO RISK ^"^l^ '°: approval. You llao get free samples easy- to-sell personal Clinst mas cards, stationery, 'PROFIT/ to try. WRITE T0WY. What 3iahes A Chant pion tiratn Corps napkins It costs nothing PEN - N - BRUSH, Dept. Amu, 139 Uuane St., N. 1.13, N. Y. (Continued from page 19)

Post 1523, of 55 Tiemann Place. New York onto a field, it attracts attention, and its City, winners in their first national senior proud bearing rattles lesser competitors. competition, at the end of a long, hard "When you go anywhere, hang your INVENTORS trail going back 17 years. head high," St. John taught his boys. If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. When William St. John first got his Though St. John has been dead five years, Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect ' ' ' form. No nine-year-olds together in 1932 for the believe he told Vour Invention, and an 'Invention Record" Moe boys what them so obligation. They nre yours for the asking. Wolff Post of the VFW, he infected them deep down in their bones that they don't McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON with his own passion for perfection. With know how to be anything but proud and lleiistered Patent Attorneys 146-H Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. that as a starter he was able to make the sure of themselves. kids swallow a rigid discipline, without Before the war, whenever more money which, he taught them, perfection is im- was needed than sponsors could provide, possible. St. John footed the bill. He scrounged for St. John, a persuasive talker, procured practice space — sometimes in an armory, And Folding WRITE as musical arranger and bugle instructor sometimes on a Hudson River pier, in a FOR Chairs CATALOG the best man in the East, if not in the parking lot if need be, in a rented music Direct Prices to Legion Posts No. ZOO country — James J. Donnelly. As drum studio, in a Legion or Post. VFW THE MONROE COMPANY, INC and drill instructor he got G. Edward By 1940, St. John's boys were well 69 CHURCH ST. COLFAX. IOWA Pierce, also tops in his specialties. known as the junior corps sponsored by These two men, whose services have Phoebe Apperson Hearst Post of the been available to other corps, are partly Legion. But in competition three other DO YOU SUFFER responsible for the general high level of junior corps of the East were better most eastern performance. When Pierce works of the time. These three were the Grand RHEUMATISM? out a maneuver for Garbarina Post he Street Boys of New York, the Holy Name ARTHRITIS? NEURITIS? SCIATICA? does it with toy soldiers and blocks and Cadets of Garfield, N. J. (National Junior lend for FREE BOOK a slide rule. In corps practice every ma- Legion Champions today), and the Penn describing the proven, spec- neuver must not only look right, but must Treaty Cadets, of Penn Treaty, Pa. ed treatment that has been amaz- in combatting rheumatism, tally mathematically with Pierce's dummy Time after time one or more of these ingly successful arthritis and similar painful disorders. This plans. junior outfits finished ahead of William illustrated book "RHEUMATISM" fully ex- St. John, who knew little or nothing St. John's boys. Grand Street seemed plains causes and effects . . . tells you WHY temporary relief. about drums, drugs and medicines afford but bugles and drills, knew that always out in front. Delay may be dangerous. he wanted only the best. And he was the "You will beat them. You will beat LEARN ABOUT SPECIALIZED TREATMENT Send for FREE Book today—a postcard will boss, manager, moving spirit, discipli- them," St. John insisted. "And the way do. No obligation. Write today. narian and master psychologist. to it is drill, drill, drill." do BALL CLINIC. Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. Today, when Garbarina Corps marches They drilled and drilled and drilled; in

The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • 55 parking lots, on piers, in halls. And just before the war Grand Street found its juniors winning less while Phoebe Apper- son Hearst Post's were winning more. In 1940 St. John's juniors beat Grand Street for the first time — at the New York Department Legion Convention in Sche- nectady. In New York City there is always a lot of shifting of boys from one corps to another. And now, what with Donnelly's music, Pierce's attractive maneuvers and the rise of St. John's juniors to the top, there was a noticeable drift of the best boys in other corps to St. John's group. make regular frankfurters Raymond Garbarina himself was a defec- FRIDAY FRANKS and soon set up a plant in Portsmouth, N. H. tion from Grand Street to St. John's per- New England's sagging tuna fishery Taste tests in consumer panels and in fectionists. faces a brighter future because two vet- Massachusetts schools resulted in quick Then came the war. When it was over erans developed something new in fish acceptance of Friday Franks. They were and the boys, now men, returned and products—a tuna-filled frankfurter, which formed Garbarina introduced to New England consumers in Post of The American is similar in taste and appearance to the November, 1949, and were a prompt suc- Legion, they had only their service clothes real thing. for cess. National distribution followed. uniforms — a conglomeration of army, Pasquale Fraticelli, a Boston lawyer in navy and Because of the acceptance of Friday marine garb! his forties, was doing army personnel They to Franks, many New England commercial had scratch for every penny. work at Mather Field, Sacramento, Cal., One of their old fishermen are rigging their craft to go members, Hank Gold- when he made his first trip through a tuna after tuna which abound off the north- stein, was elected to take over St. John's plant. What he saw there made him won- managerial eastern coast. Employment in Gloucester, worries, and he went at it der why tuna couldn't be used to make O'Hara's headquarters, already has in- with an enthusiasm that almost wore him a fish-filled frank. creased by several hundred. out. Daily consumption of frankfurters This boon to New England's fishing in- To get uniforms the corps raffled off a averages about three million pounds. It dustry came because ex-GI Pasquale car, every member peddling tickets. And slumps to around a half million on Fri- Fraticelli had an idea, and navy veteran a New York furrier, Sam Aaron, who had days. Here was an ideal market for a John O'Hara had the know-how. admired the corps and its spirit, became meatless frank. Victor A. Schlich a devoted follower. He lent them $1500 for Why hadn't somebody else thought of instruments ("Pay me back any time"). it first? HOME-DELIVERED SHOES FOR KIDS Then came the four years of local com- Somebody had. The first attempt at pro- petition, waiting for a crack at the nation- ducing a fish frankfurter was back in 1840. When C. B. McCorkle, former Air Force al title. And now that Garbarina Post is It failed, and so did all other attempts pilot, went back to his pre-war job sell- the champion, the financial headaches are until Fraticelli worked out his method of ing paint in Portland, Ore., he thought worse than ever. It will cost at least using tuna. of other things that might be sold. One $10,000 to get to Los Angeles and defend Discharged from the army in 1945, Fra- idea that came to him was that a man the title at the Legion National Conven- ticelli abandoned a law career of 20 years could make a good thing out of selling tion this October. That's a lot of money standing and decided to go into the fish children's shoes by making deliveries di- to be raised by a bunch of young veterans business. Together with Robert Poling, a rectly to homes. He reasoned that there just starting families of their own. "But Boston spice expert, he worked on devel- are many mothers who find it difficult to we'll get there if we have to crawl on our opment of his tuna frank. Lack of money take their children to town for a fitting bellies," they say. halted the tests after a few months. and would find it much more convenient It would be an unnatural position for That's where the second veteran — 36- if the shoe man came to them. these boys who "hang their heads high." year-old John F. O'Hara, stepped into The idea was so new that McCorkle was THE END the picture. O'Hara heads Davis Bros. cautious about getting into it and decided Fisheries of Gloucester, Mass., one of the to hang onto his regular job while he East Coast's top fish processors. Any idea tried it on a part-time basis. He bought which might boost the fishing industry several dozen pair of children's shoes and was worth investigating, he thought. advertised his service by direct mail to a He discussed Fraticelli's idea with the list of mothers. The number of replies, lawyer and Poling. He checked their ex- and sales, encouraged him to the point perimental development, and decided of starting a full-fledged business as the Fraticelli really had something. He pur- Walket Home Shoe Service. He bought chased world rights from Fraticelli for an a station wagon, at a cost of about $2500, undisclosed sum and set to producing and fitted it with racks to hold 1000 pair meatless franks. of children's shoes, priced at $4.95 and up.

Ironically, O'Hara 's uncle lost consider- His inventory thus represents an invest- able money back in the Thirties experi- ment of between $4000 and $5000. menting with a fish frank. But he failed A modest advertising campaign has because he tried to use cod and mackerel. built his Shoemobile business to a maxi- These fish didn't have the meat texture mum capacity of 20 calls a day. Mothers that was satisfactory in appearance and make their appointments for his call by flavor. telephone and he routes his visits by dis- Tuna provided John O'Hara with meat trict throughout Portland. McCorkle of the right texture and appearance. An works 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a elaborate spicing ingredient developed by week, and his net profit amounts to about Poling provided the answer as far as taste $500 a month. He plans to branch out with was concerned. another Shoemobile in Portland and may "Dear, I was just fooling when I said After buying the world rights, O'Hara expand to another city with a similar the biscuits were hard enough to continued with development work on service. McCorkle is a member of Ameri- bowl with. Besides, they're not even Fraticelli's fish frank, now christened can Legion Post No. 1 in Portland, and ." round . . Friday Franks. found operates his business 1005 S. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE He they could be from W. produced in the same equipment used to Wood, Portland, Ore. W. J. Granberg

50 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 — The Reds Reach for Your Wallet NEW "PELICAN" PIPE ( Continued jrom -page 15) Imported hand carved Brier of grain to European coun- have so little understanding of the true sands of tons Bowl Emergency reserve conspiratorial nature of its adversary than tries while millions of Russians starved Tobacco supply. we have. because of crop failures. It was done in Busy as we are with the humdrum of order to bolster its prestige and to keep everyday living, we have yet to sense the its stranglehold upon large bodies of sub- FREE TRIAL SMOKE 10 Stalin versives abroad. With millions of men and DAYS ruinous economic war with which AT HIS RISK hopes to weaken us before launching the women in slave labor camps exploited in final onslaught for the bolshevization of mines and industries on a twelve to six- Henry B. Cabe, Met. of nor teen- hour schedule without pay, housed The Pelican Pipe Factory the world — a goal which neither he of Franklin, N. C. la PIPE EXPERT — and naturally so his successor will ever abandon. in filthy and unheated barracks, dressed — for HIS STATE, NORTH CARO- without medical care, with the LINA, is the lark't'^t TOBACCO pro- Stalin knows that a shooting war now in rags and ducing State — Five ( Tvpes ) are grown In the TOBACCO Belts — Bright Flue cured-Semi- might spell the doom of his regime. Why? entire Soviet working population chained briKht fire cureci-Nemi-Brifjht Sun cured, Burley & Turkish. All Pipe blends are made in his state. The Because his tyrannical rule has embittered to their jobs and exploited mercilessly, trouble, Henry says, I didn't like to always have a bulky pack of tobacco in my pocket so I made up for Stalin or his heir can make their people my own use the "pelican so I'd always have an against him more than 90 percent of the emergency supply to push in bowl when wanted. My without the elementary necessi- friends wanted a pipe like mine so I made a number. Russian people. There is hardly a family go most The news spread around and It became necessary to increase output facilities. I now have a supply for in Russia which has not had a loved ties and dump their industrial or agricul- Pipe lovers. The reserve tobacco can't spill out. Bowls are interchangeable and may be easily remember tortured or liquidated by this tural products abroad to the injury of moved for recharging from bulk supply. Specify large or small bowl. Price S3.oO; If both bowls, add $1.IH), sadistic secret police the United States or the other nations not stating preference rough or smooth finish. There Is state. He remembers more to know about the Pelican. Write for folder domination. featuring bowls of different shape and how the that in numerous (thousands, one might under the Kremlin Pelican functions. Soviet say) Russian towns and villages the in- In this thirty-third year of the THE PELICAN PIPE MFG. 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While a of war with Hitler, millions of red army pound of bread is about 41 cents, sugar Make good profits selling men had surrendered to the enemy be- $1.50, butter about $6, a shoddy man's- cause they had no use for their communist suit from $120 to $200, a pair of shoes from STRANDS CLOTHES FOR MEN AND LADIES oppressors. $50 to $120, a fall coat from $90 to $200, If this could happen in a war with a a pair of ladies' shoes from $60 to $140, We'll supply you with everything you need to be in business for yourself selling is traditional enemy like the Germans, he the monthly income of an engineer fine made - to - measure clothes from knows that the desertions could be much about $240, a locksmith's from $100 to maker to wearer at popular prices—with a guarantee of satisfaction. Full time or greater in a war with the United States — $180, a highly-qualified worker from $160 part time. Apply for new Fall line the traditional friend of the Russian people, to $200, a common laborer from $60 to complete outfit FREE. Strand Tailoring Co. Inc., Dopt. Y , Baltimore 3, Md. the country which had afforded millions $100, a charwoman $50. of Russians a haven and a refuge, the Since the government owns all the country which had saved millions of Rus- means of production and distribution, the sians from famine and epidemics, and in citizen must pay the prices demanded or the last war actually saved them from do without, he must accept the low wages certain conquest. or be mercilessly liquidated in a slave Stalin is therefore turning to his foreign labor camp. In disregard of the Russian trade monopoly to carry on the war with people's welfare, the Soviet Government, the United States. 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workers and employers alike. And it is have also arrived recently from British The Legion's BOOK not too soon to begin looking at least five ports. to ten years ahead. A few recent develop- CHINA: For generations America has ments are worth recounting here. been China's main customer for hog CZECHOSLOVAKIA: In our oldest cen- bristles. In 1948, for example, U. S. imports ter of the hat industry, Danbury, Con- from China averaged about $1,842,000 per necticut, thousands of workers find their month. They fell to an average of $1,126,- livelihood undermined by the dumping 430 during January- April, 1949, and in of felt hats from Czechoslovakia, one of January, 1950 they were 38 percent be- the best industrialized puppet States of low the corresponding period of 1949, ac- Russia. With America a heavy importer cording to U. S. Department of Commerce of the finer fur for hat felting from East- figures. From the same authority we learn GREAT MISTAKES OF THE WAR ern Europe, our leading source of raw that the importation of Chinese bristles By Hanson W. Baldwin materials is now at the mercy of Mos- from the Soviet Union rose from a month- cow's powerful foreign trade monopoly. ly average of $17,465 in 1948 to an aver- An accurate and convincing discussion of the Counting on the greedy nature of some age of $60,000 in the last four months of errors of World War II — errors which either in- individual traders in a free enterprise 1949. And during the first fluenced the course of the war or affected the six weeks of peace. economy, the marshals of the totalitarian 1950, bristles imported from the U.S.S.R. Hanson Baldwin, a leading military authority, trade war know that not only could they were valued at $865,000 — a monthly aver- shows how our struggle for security has failed strangle our hat industry by denying us age of over half a million dollars. This because we neglected the basic political objec- the raw materials, but could extract fur- represents a rise of 2900 percent over the tives of warfare. He digs into the facts behind ther profits by fabricating the hats them- 1948 monthly average above quoted. these mistakes and shows how they could have selves and selling them here at prices far With China producing 75 percent of the been avoided if the United States had fought below our cost of production. This is now world's supply of hog bristles, and Ameri- for the ultimate peace instead of for the imme- going on, and it is only the beginning. ca its principal customer, it is diate victory. $1.50 quite ap- With America as the world's largest and parent why the Soviet government would THE ART OF READABLE WRITING most efficient producer of shoes, Czecho- want to monopolize this vital raw ma- slovakia is nevertheless underselling terial. It also portends what is of By Rudolph Fleseh us ahead right here in America. Between January us in our trade dealings with the for- Put yourself across with easy-to-read, forceful 1 and April 1 of this year nearly 500,000 merly free countries now slipped behind writing. No matter what you write — personal pairs of such shoes have been landed in the Iron Curtain. One by one all other correspondence, reports, speeches, or social New York at the ridiculous price of 87 vital raw materials we have been import- notes — this new book will help you express cents per pair. They are exact copies of ing from China will forced to your ideas with conviction and originality. A be move new, practical approach to writing. $3.00 American-made shoes, and no manufac- through the rigid Soviet monopoly. turer here could possibly sell them for Take still another highly-strategic metal FAITH IS POWER — FOR YOU less than $2.40 to $3.40 per pair and re- — tungsten. The domestic production is By Daniel A. Poling main in business. When the Czech citizen totally inadequate for our steel industry buys them at home with a ration card he requirements. Of the 17 countries supply- This book will add richness to your life, give must pay the equivalent of about $7.50 per ing us with tungsten ores and concen- meaning to your prayers. In it you will relive pair. On the black market they cost trates, about 50 percent of the total im- with him his personal experience with prayer around With origin ports have been coming from China and and you will find your concrete plan for happi- $30. the country of ness and peace with power. $2.50 concealed, and with some of our retailers 18 percent from Korea — a total of 68 per- conniving to pack them in domestic boxes, cent from the Far East, now sunk in the THE DICTIONARY OF BASEBALL the American consumer is tricked into Soviet cesspool. It will not be long be- WITH OFFICIAL RULES supporting slave labor products shipped fore this too will come under the domina- By Parke Cummings by an enemy government monopoly to the tion of the Soviet world-wide foreign injury of our economy. trade monopoly. Here are all the official, technical, and slang In some instances the merchandise is Accustomed, as the Russian government words that make up the language of baseball, sent to is, to selling inferior quality plus easy-to-understand instructions on how to Western European ports for re- the most score the game, and the new 1950 revised rules, shipment to this country. Recently merchandise to their captive clientele, and incorporating the first major changes made for Czechoslovakia has been shipping here living up to the principle of no cheating, many years. $1 .50 large quantities of rubber dolls, balls and no selling, the Soviet government and its inflatable rubber toys. Large shipments of satellites will stop at nothing to fleece our NEW UNIT HISTORIES burlaps have arrived from the ports of consumers by misrepresentation, conceal- 37th Infantry Oiv $7.50 9th Marine Regt $5.00 Hamburg and Gdynia (Poland) by trans- ment of facts and falsification of trade

45th Infantry D-iv $5.00 10th Infantry Regt $5.00 shipment from Rotterdam, Holland. Glass- marks and patent rights. ware, beads, For the time being the Soviet super 77th Infantry Div $6.00 12th Infantry Regt $7.50 and other manufactured items, as well as permanganate of potash, duper foreign trade monopoly is com- 78th Infantry Div $5.00 508th Parachute Regt. .$5.00 malt for the beer industry, mineral waters, pelled to allow a certain amount of in- Write us for complete free list of available unit etc. have also commenced to move into dependence to the recently conquered histories of both World War I and II our ports. countries. Busy as they are now with fortifying in r POLAND: Despite the fact that most of the secret police network , Order the Polish population is undernourished the satellite nations and China, modeled NOW: Cash or C. O. D. I and impoverished, while hard-working after the Soviet brand, preoccupied with AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE Americans of Polish origin are sharing the rehabilitation of their war devastated 734 15th St., N. W., Washington 5, D. C. I their food with relatives in Poland by areas, they must postpone for the time be- I Gentlemen: Please send me the books indicated. sending them food parcels and paying ing the complete integration of all the

I high duties to foreign trade of the world. | enclose $ Send C.O.D. I the Polish government in communist addition, the Polish When the day of complete integration ar- I communist government is shipping large quantities of rives — and it is as inevitable as the rising canned hams and shoulders, as well as and the setting of the sun — we will be many other foodstuffs to the United confronted by one colossal monopoly States and other countries. About the wherever we are selling in foreign mark- middle of April, for example, the steamer ets. How do I know that this is inevitable? Nome (please print) Mormacelm arrived in New York with a Of course I am not in Stalin's confidence. large consignment of Polish hams; the But there is documentary evidence, re- Street

J SS Paraguay landed considerable ship- cently come to light, to prove the case:

City Zone State ments of candies and other general cargo. On May 9, 1941, the Executive Com- Aug/50 | Substantial consignments of Polish hams mittee of the Communist International

58 * Tll e American Legion Magazine • August, 19S0 (the old Comintern now renamed the lized too the life of every man, woman AMAZING COMFORT — NO SPECIAL FITTING Cominform) worked out a blueprint for and child from cradle to grave by making the future conquest of the Balkan coun- of them involuntary slaves of the state, RUPTURE-EASER tries, for example. Section (e) of the first there were no longer any free interprises paragraph stipulates: left to carry on international trade. Since "Once power has been seized by the that day every purchase or sale abroad,

Party, foreign policy will be laid no matter how small or large, has had to Right or left down by the diplomatic representa- move through the tiny eye of the foreign side $395 tives of the U.S.S.K., who will re- trade monopoly needle. And this has given ceive the necessary directives from the government a powerful weapon Double. ..4.95 stronu. form filtina washable support. Back lacing ." A the Comintern . . against us and the other nations not in adjustable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable les strap. bands. Un- the .Soft, flat groin pail. No steel or leather Then Paragraph 2 makes this sig- communist camp. excelled for comfort. Also used as alter operation sup- For men. women and children. Mail orders give nificant statement: This weapon is not used against capi- port. measure around the lowest pari of the abdomen. "The country where the Central talistic countries alone. The countries Specify riidit or left side or double. 10 DAY TRIAL OFFER Committee has recently assumed within the Soviet orbit are now finding Money-back guarantee if you don't set blessed relief. power should not apply for inclusion out that the Soviet octopus is implacable PIPER BRACE CO., DEPT. AL-85 in the Soviet Union until the neces- to friends as well as enemies. Yugoslavia ^W m 308 E. 12th St., Kansas City 6, Mo. sary instructions to this effect was the first country to make this dis- have Please send my RUPTURE-EASER by return mad. been received from the Executive covery and she incurred the undying en- Right Side $3.95 Measure around lowest part ." Committee of the Comintern . . mity of the Soviet hierarchy because she teft Side $3.95 of my abdomen. And who dominates the Comintern—now fought it. But the other satellite countries Double $4.95 is INCHES. Prepay Postage Except on C. O. D.'s the Cominform? The Kremlin, of course. are also finding out that the true meaning We Enclosed is: O Money Order Since the founding of that conspiratorial of Soviet friendship is, "You give us Check for $ Send C. 6. D. body in Moscow, only two men have thus everything you have and we give you far dared to stand up against its deter- nothing in return." mination to rule the actions of the com- The Rumanian government, for ex- munist parties in foreign countries as well ample, is compelled to export its entire as in their own country. They are: Benja- surplus oil and oil products to the Soviet RUSH TH IS COUPON NOW min Gitlow, the first titular head of the Union. The Soviet government fixed its American Communist Party, and Marshal own price, based on world prices, for DESIGNS FOR Tito of Yugoslavia. is k^t) Their experience set- these petroleum products, which con- COMPLETELY NEW AND I tles for all time the question as to whether siderably below the cost of production in ORIGINAL WAR MEMORIALS AND HONOR ROLL TABLETS or not the communist party in Rumania. the other hand, it compels any coun- On PRESENTED ON REQUEST try is an independent body or a mere the other satellities — Bulgaria, Hungary BY FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL branch, a stooge of Moscow. and Czechoslovakia — to import petroleum IRON CO. To listen to Soviet propagandists and products from the Soviet Union only, and DEPT. L MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. their parroting American red fascists, one charges them Soviet prices, which are would conclude that not they but we are much higher than world prices. Since the dangerous monopolists, not they but these countries do not posses sufficient MAKE $3750 CASH, we are interested in subjugating the rest dollar exchange to pay for the petroleum Sell NEW METALLIC CHRISTMAS CARDS of the world. Of course the very oppo- products, the Soviet government compels Easiest money you ever made. Show gor- site is correct. them to ship machinery, locomotives, geous Christmas name-imprinted Metal Foil cards. Exciting fast sellers — you make 75e One of the first actions of the Soviet textiles, coal, coke and ores. Retaining per box. Also Name - Imprinted Christmas cards, 50 for $1, and up. 50 other Christmas government upon coming into power by the best of these imports for herself, in and Everyday assortments. Get FKEE Per- force and violence, and with the aid of a accordance with the Soviet principle "If sonal samples. Assortments on approval. CHAS.C.SCHWERCO.,Dept. 97 L Westfield.Mass. mere handful of 240,000 followers as Lenin you don't cheat, you don't sell," it resells himself admitted, was to form the for- to Bulgaria, for example, agricultural ma- eign trade monopoly. It was inevitable. chinery imported from Czechoslovakia rnn Having monopolized the entire economic and Hungary. Polish coke and ores and I BECOME AN E XPERT life of the nation, in fact, having monopo- Bulgarian coal are re-exported to Czecho-

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The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 • 5g Slovakia, and to Hungary and Rumania. tional trade, both exports and imports, people almost as much as we sold Rus- Through this double dealing the Soviet the Soviet intriguers are taking to that sia's 180 million in the course of a year. manipulators are now able to dump Czech channel as a means of doing injury to our This business was profitable to both textiles in India, Bulgarian tobacco in economy. Throughout their existence the Czechoslovakia and to the U. S. The same Italy, Hungarian and Rumanian foodstuffs Russian peoples have been accustomed to was true of our trade relations with Po- to Western Germany and, as we have seen getting along on next to nothing, on a land — until the hand of the Kremlin before, Chinese hog bristles in the United close-to-animal existence. On the other stopped all that "nonsense." States. All this is affecting the pockets of hand, their leaders know that if Ameri- It is therefore clear that once the for- our consumers and our industries. cans suffer a drop from their high stand- eign trade war gathers momentum, hun- A hundred years ago a frustrated and ard of living, discontent among our people dreds of thousands of our workers and anti-social Prussian — Karl Marx — had will be widespread. Although the Soviets employes will feel the pinch; so will the taught, the embittered Lenin of Russia have been in need of consumer goods U. S. Treasury in reduced income tax had imbibed and confirmed those teach- worth tens of billions of dollars since 1917, receipts; so will the stockholders of cor- ings, and a man with the morals of a they bought none here or anywhere else. porations with or without overseas trade. head-hunter — Stalin, the Georgian — has Averaging a meager $46,000,000 a year This outlook will not change as long as there is a Soviet government in Russia. Under the circumstances the reader is bound to ask the inevitable question: Can anything be done to remedy the situation: What should it be? 1. Sever trade relations with Russia and all the Kremlin-ruled countries. This step appears to be inevitable and it would be to our advantage to take it now. As Soviet military and industrial power grows, as consolidation of human and material re- sources in Eastern Europe and China is accomplished, their arrogance, insolence and hatred of us will express itself in even more serious forms than the shooting down of an unarmed American plane over the Baltic sea. If need be, they will press down still farther the standard of living of their own people and dump their increased output on world markets to eliminate us as a competitor. Our severing trade relations would bring cheer to the enslaved millions and con- sternation to their tyrants. Many a time brave Russian functionaries have said to me: "Mr. Marcus, why do you Americans come here to deal with our government? You are enhancing the Kremlin's prestige, you are tightening the noose around our necks." 2. We must make it perfectly clear to been parroting ever since in his semi- during the twenty years prior to the last Moscow that if diplomatic relations are literate Russian that since a capitalist war, those purchases were primarily (87 to be continued, it will have to be on a country cannot consume all it produces percent, for example, in 1938) of our most strict reciprocity basis. Up to now Stalin's because of the low income of its masses, modern machines and equipment. Sample interpretation of reciprocity has prevailed it must export or die. Well, then, he would units were bought so their designs could and it has amounted to his saying to us: meet us with ruinous competition in over- be pirated for domestic consumption and "You Americans must do in our country seas markets, help swell the ranks of exported to other countries in order to as we tell you to, and we will act in your our unemployed, recruit them into the red impress those peoples with "Soviet in- country as we damned well please." And fascist movement and hasten the collapse dustrial achievements." Such business was he has got away with it! Washington has of our free institutions. obviously disadvantageous to us and most done considerable injury to our interests One might forgive Marx for his now profitable to the Soviet Union. Under the by permitting this to go on with impunity. exposed silly writings about the develop- hammer blows of this intensified trade The Soviet Embassy in Washington ment of capitalism. He could not have war, our government followed the advice must not be allowed to have a single foreseen the miracle of America's mass of well-informed people and since 1948 member on its staff more than we have production system with the lowest un- has cut down the flow of strategic main Moscow. From the Ambassador down skilled worker enjoying a much higher chinery and equipment to the Soviet their personnel must be restricted in their standard of living than even the highest Union and its satellites. Many loopholes, movement about the country as ours are engineer in Russia. But the refusal of his however, are still to be plugged. in Russia. Under no circumstances should disciples to recognize the superiority of The disappearance of much of the world they be permitted to address public meet- a free enterprise economy to their totali- behind the Iron Curtain has already cut ings, issue interviews or write for publi- tarian form can only be ascribed to the us off from markets laboriously developed cation. Their official publications here deranged mentalities of the leaders and by our people. Of course the Soviet Union should be subjected to the same searching the blindness of their followers. A rude would like nothing better than to use censorship as ours are in Moscow; their awakening, of course, is awaiting them. those countries as a means to obtaining circulation must be restricted to the num- But until it comes, we must accept the here the needed machinery and equip- ber of our magazine copies allowed in challenge of relentless trade war here ment. But that is all the Soviets will allow Russia. and everywhere. Defensive measures these nations to buy from us. As long as 3. Attacks against our government and alone will not suffice. We must take the they are under the yoke of the Kremlin people by the Soviet press and radio must offensive in concert with like-thinking the satellites won't take any of our con- be construed as an attack by the Soviet nations if possible — alone if we must. sumer goods. Formerly, before Czecho- government, since all means of communi- As our continued prosperity becomes slovakia came under the control of the cation are owned and operated by that more and more dependent on interna- Soviets, we used to sell her 13 million government. We must demand and receive gQ • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1950 equal space or time in the Soviet press 3. Labor and management must pull to- MMjiBuinigpw)!^..,. and on the radio to answer their slanders gether, making a conscientious effort to and lies against us. maintain peace and uninterrupted pro- diplo- duction. The belated drive against 4. If our just demands are rejected, com- 200 matic relations should be broken off al- munist infiltration into labor unions must together. It is serving no good purpose to be intensified and continued until the last fhen y'lu buy a us and merely affording them a means subversive has been purged. of vilifying us to our face and before the 4. Rally the nation behind the Ail-Ameri- RICHARDSON whole world. can Committee formed at the All-Ameri- All 1950 Richardson 5. Stop all relief shipments to Russia and can Conference last January, sponsored models have been in- the satellites; prohibit the remittance of by The American Legion to launch a creased 2 to 4 feel— with no increase in price —you all funds from this country to individuals vigorous campaign against the Soviet save $200.00. Write for and organizations in the Soviet Union counter-revolution. The communists are free literature. or the satellite nations. It all goes to help giving the whole of their lives to foment- it impoverishes ing unrest and the destruction of liberty. strengthen the enemy; TRAILER COACHES our people directly and indirectly by re- Is it asking too much that the patriotic EIHHART INDIANA ducing their purchasing power. people of the country give the whole of Adding insult to injury, we have per- their lives to preserve and perpetuate our mitted those gangster governments to set freedoms? FOUND! up right here on our soil customs stations 5. Under the driving and coordinating OVER 100 WAYS TO MAKE to fleece our people by imposing duties power of a citizens' general staff of the EXTRA MONEY and FRIENDS Soil friends newest Metallic food, clothing medicine parcels All-American Committee, clubs, societies, Christmas Cards. Gift Wrappings, on and Novelties. Gifts. Children's "Ac- locals, tion" Books. Profits to 100',. sent by our kind-hearted people to the labor union trade associations, edu- Bonus. Special Offers. 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