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I Pick Walcott BY PAUL GARDNER

Who's to Blame for High Prices? ft the of flavor

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of beer brewed in America today, we think

you'd still agree that Blatz Beer tops them all. One

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C1948. Blatz Brewing Co., Est. 1861 in MilwRukre. Wis Who Pays for Telephone Expansion? INVESTORS DO

They invest in telephone bonds and stocks dollars we are putting into our expansion and we use the money to build new telephone program — or see a new building going up — facilities. it is good to be able to say:

On the other hand, the money you pay us "Thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Investor. Thanks for for telephone service is used for wages, taxes, putting up so much money so we can have so depreciation and other operating costs. much more and better telephone service."

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Who's to Blame for High Prices? By James F. O'ISeil II The National Commander discusses a problem affecting everyone

What to Expect in Your New Car By Stanley H. Brams 14 A peek at the developments going on inside Detroit

Your House hy the Side of the Road By Maynard Good Stoddard 16 Proving that there are laughs even in such a serious matter as housing

Got a Gun? You're a Criminal! By W. H. B. Smith 1» // some legislators had their way even a cap-gun would make you a felon

Insurance is Like Love By Robert B. Pitkin 2© You never heard an insurance man discuss the subject like this

I Pick Walcott By Paul Gardner 22 Most people think Louis will take Jersey Joe. Here's a dissenting opinion

Your Candidates in '68 By Dan Mathes, Jr. 24 Hoiv Boys' State looks to a boy who knows it from the inside

Something New in Movies By R. Wilson Brown 2« Hollywood wakes up to the fact that truth is more interesting than fiction FEATIRES The Editors' Corner 4 Vets With Ideas 37 IT'S AMAZING how much better you feel Previews 6 Life in the Open 45 with a "Bracer." Its gentle support helps Sound OH ! 8 Book Reviews 50 you stand straighter, you feel better, look better, your clothes fit better. Many men Newsletter 27 8 Parting Shots 52 tell us it gives real relief from fatigue.

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Vice Chairman; Members of Committee: Jerry Owen, Oakland, Calif. ; Theodore Cogswell, self ho w it can help you feel better at work, nison, Ohio, Washington, D. C. ; Lawrence Hager, Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y.; Earl L. Meyer, Alli- look slimmer at play $3.50 ance, Neb. ; Paul B. Dague, Dowingtown, Pa.; Raymond F. Gates, Rocky Hill. Conn.; Max Slepin, Drexel Hill, Raleigh. Stelle, 111. Pa. ; Roger Cole, Jasonville, Ind. ; Joscphus Daniels, Jr., N. C; John McLeansboro. ; George "BRACER* ROYAL" . . . wider, cooler, more D. Levy. Sumter, S. C; Charles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; A. C. Jackson, Lubbock, Tex. ; Dr. Charles R. porous waistband that offers you even more Logan, Keokuk, Iowa. supportive action $5.00 General Manager, James F. Barton, Indianapolis. Ind. ; Assistant to General Manager. Frank Lisiecki.

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From where I sit it/ Joe Marsh

The Sergeant They let the Sounded OH

The sergeant was an old Army man Wives in assigned to ride herd on a company of draftees at Fort Dix during the early days of the war. He had nothing but The ex-GPs of our town entertained contempt for the "shotgun soldiers" as their wives the other night at one of he called the hapless rookies, and didn't hesitate to let the world know it. A their "feeds" of hamburger sand- nightmare of the area was the ser- girls geant's sarcastic, grating voice on the wiches and ice cold beer. (The P. A. system, "C'mon, you lazy, blink- had been hinting around that they'd ety-blank goldbricks . . . roll out of them sacks and pull on those socks. like to see what went on when their Ya've got two minutes to get out in husbands got together!) that company street!" It was well known that, next to draftees, the sergeant most detested Being wary, the boys provided officers who had been directly com- missioned from civilian life. "Blinkety- chicken sandwiches and cake and blank grocery clerks, most of 'em! cider — for those wives who might Panty-waists that ain't dry behind the ears yet." Safely at his paper-strewn have other tastes. But though they desk, surrounded by his special cronies, were grateful for the choice, most he'd sound off on what an "old soldier" thought of those interlopers who were wives agreed that hamburger sand- trying to run the Army. wiches and beer were a mighty fine The sarge was in his best form on the day that the new lieutenant colonel combination. was due to make inspection. The bar- racks were spotless; the grass-planting, After the the husbands took gravel-spreading details all obviously "feed" busy under the sergeant's vocal whip. their wives on at a game of darts, and As the colonel hove into view of the orderly room the sergeant settled back later they played "Indications." The at his desk for a real tirade. "Look at party didn't break up until around 'im . . . strutting along like a banty rooster, the gahdamned tin soldier. ten, with the boys agreeing that it was Probably was some politician's office boy before he got them oak leaves. I mighty successful. ." always say . . Suddenly his voice trailed off, his red From where I sit, it's this pleasant face turned mottled white as the colonel snapped about and headed purposely companionship among young couples for the orderly room. The sergeant's today, and their moderation in a sen- words had gotten around. Echoes of the rasping tones had hardly stopped sible beverage like beer, that's won bouncing about when the door crashed the younger generation back against the sergeant's desk. such a whole- Two days later an outfit due to go some reputation. overseas almost immediately was sup- plemented by one first sergeant turned P.F.C. The ex-sergeant never did dis- cover who had switched on that PA. microphone right in front of him. -By A. D. Wilkes

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I.tntin vit. Walvatt

When it became apparent that Joe Walcott would sign to fight a return bout we double-timed it to Toots Shor's restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, where we found Paul Gardner sandwiched be- tween broad-shouldered Vic Ghezzi, the golfer, and Arthur Donovan, the referee. Gardner is a good sportswriter. He did the piece we ran about Frank Leahy last fall, and tipped you off on the Notre Dame team and its coach before the first whistle. At Shor's we rushed Gardner to a neu- tral corner and said: "Pick a winner. Louis or Walcott. Your choice." Paul ducked and parried, but we had him on the ropes and he finally said: "I pick Walcott." He says it again on page 22 of this issue, and explains why. No matter who wins the coming heavyweight contest Gardner's article, 7 Pick Walcott, gives you the straight dope on the style, ability, motives and private life of the challenger. It'll hold water even if Paul's prediction doesn't.

Waiting Out llouning Inflation

A short time ago Comrade Paul Russell, of Basin, Wyoming, wrote asking if there FOLLOW THE EXPERTS was any way he could get a GI home loan to build a basement apartment with the DEMAND NEW DEPENDABLE CHAMPIONS FOR YOUR CAR intention of building the rest of the house "some time in the future."

The American Legion Magazine listen to the CHAMPION ROLL CALL . . Harry Winner's last sporlscast every Friday night, over the ABC network 4 We couldn't answer the question so we routed it through your Legion Housing Committee, which took the matter up with the VA. Just recently Committeeman Robert Dinger received a reply from the Score another hit ". VA, which we quote in part: . . Very glad to advise you that from the facts sub- mitted it appears that a loan for the pur- pose of the proposed construction should fcr ." iJif^an^ith be eligible for guaranty under the Act . . P/\! A Xeir Look In Autos

If you haven't been able to get a new car perhaps you have been lucky all along. During the next few months you will see that the auto industry has finally broken the bonds that, except for a few makes, tied it to pre-war design. On page 14 of this issue Stanley H. Brams gives you an exclusive peek — right out of Detroit's inner sanctums — at what will be popping up in new models, starting very shortly.

War Tiro Insurance

A year ago we ran the story of the awful mess the VA got into in handling this in- surance, a mess which resulted in the dropping of millions of policies. On page 20 is a report to War Two Vets on their insurance today, with particular emphasis on things veterans should know about their coverage which haven't been made very clear heretofore. Since those who have dropped their insurance have only until July 31 to get it back easily, and those who still have it may still feel doubt- ful about it, we feel it is important that War Two vets read the current report.

W ho Doesn't Want UMT?

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of Legionnaires who have signed UMT petitions to Congress many hundreds have A man with Pipe Appeal scores a hit with sent unsolicited letters to this magazine the ladies . . . just as a pipeful of Prince Albert praising the Legion's endorsement of im- mediate Universal Military Training. We scores with particular smokers everywhere. wish we could award our monthly $100 prize to one of them but don't see how we could without discriminating against all the others. By the hundreds they have talked turkey on national preparedness. " Our mail praising the Legion's UMT stand means Pipe Appeal comes also from persons whose names are being used against the bill by its oppo- nents, including many mothers whose chil- • dren would serve, and many of the young means Prince Albert men who would be UMTees themselves. They all want it. • When you try Prince Albert — you'll under- Veterans In Small Uusinesses stand why it's America's largest-selling smoking tobacco! It tastes rich. It smokes cool. It's mild We have an article in the hopper for an and tongue-easy. For P. A.'s choice tobacco is spe- early issue concerning the many problems cially treated to insure against tongue bite. For a veteran faces in conducting a small busi- smoking joy and comfort — try P. A.! ness. However we are receiving so many requests for specific information which go K. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. Winston-Salem. N. C. beyond anything we could cover in an article it is time to point out a good source of information. The U. S. Government Printing Office lists 40 books on small busi- nesses which sell for from 10^ to 55^'. For the full list write Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Ask for the list on Establishing and Operating Your Own Business. r. b. p. THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE June, 1948 5 —

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GOING That Way? . . . Ex-GI Edward F. Lally learned something in the infantry which he has developed into an interesting emergency sun-compass. Called the gmington Watch Pocket Guide, it is a plastic device which, when used in combination with R your watch, serves as a compass. Lally says he got the idea during a course in compass reading at Fort Custer, Michigan, and had occasion to test it in the Sudeten Mountains in Germany. Advantages over the magnetic compass are that

it isn't influenced by metallic objects, it's faster and it sells for only a dime. Lally,

mm is in the market for salesmen, is at 57 Alden Square, Bridgewater, Mass. who Targetmaster, Scoremaster, Sportmaster are Reg. U. S. Pat. The American tegion Magazine Off. by Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. Do Shoe Laces Get You Down? . . . For those people who dislike the job of lacing and unlacing shoe laces, the Cecil Cor- poration of Chicago has come up with an invention to make life simpler. It is a flexible shoe lace called Flex-O-Lace which eliminates the need for the daily tying and untying of laces. The secret, of course, is the elastic lace which stretches as the foot is inserted in or removed from the shoe. Besides appealing to those who like to avoid effort or who have a bulging waistline, it is likely to be of interest to the disabled.

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the manufacturers claim, it creates a minutely etched surface which holds paint with a firm grip. Deoxidine comes in two grades, one to be used where rinse facilities are available and the other where the only cleaning possible is a wipe-off operation.

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Our Loyal and Abused Indians

. . . Many of us in this Indian Reservation were in the Army and we thought it would be fine if we had one of the few

Indian American Legion Posts . . . Now we have it and we've been raising the Legion

fund by giving games and Indian dances . . We are proud to be Legionnaires and the only all-Indian Post in the State of Iowa, and we're going to keep her going to the Fishin ? Let's GO end. Arthur Blackcloud How about it? Tackle ready? Boat shipshape? Got a motor to Tama, Iowa do the heavy work? ... Funny thing about fishermen, experi- enced fishermen. They're cranks about equipment, including 1 ... A few Indian veterans of North Dakota outboard motors. That's why it means something when so have joined the Legion. More have not, for many anglers say that Johnson is "America's Favorite Fishing we have a question in mind. We were told Motor." Ask any fisherman you know — see if the majority we fought for freedom, but it is not free- don't say, "Buy Johnson." dom for the Indian vet. We are wards of JOHNSON MOTORS, 1300 Pershing Rd., Waukegan, Illinois the government and don't enjoy citizen- Peterboro, Canada Johnson Motors of Canada. ship privileges, such as borrowing money for business. An Indian vet can borrow YOURS FOR YEARS of Sweet Performance from the Indian Council, but has to buy what he's told to buy. It's like being a little boy who is told to buy a green sucker, though he wants a red one. That's how it is with the Indian veteran. Where does that leave us with our rights under the GI Bill? Where does it leave us as Americans? EVE RYWH E ft E The Legion has done a lot. Can it do UNDER THE* SUN something about this? It would mean so much to us, but we can do nothing without the help of our white friends. Indian (name withheld) Bismarck, North Dakota

Long before the recent rash of magazine articles about Indian rights the American Legion stood officially for full citizenship for all American Indians without loss of treaty rights. (Resolution #177, San Fran- cisco Convention, 1946). It's about time that every Legionnaire wrote his Congress- Wherever are the you — whatever man to back up this policy. Hardly any- weather — enjoy unsurpassed com- body is opposed to the idea, but apparently most Congressmen feel no particular urge fort and appearance with a Vaga- to make Americans of the first Americans. bond. Be keen, discriminating — They must be shown that even in States Yes indeed, la Province de Quebec welcomes where there are no Indians to worry about choose Vagabond. You'll get an you to the scenic playground of North Amer- it is popular to do the decent thing. Such all aluminum exterior; Vagabond's ica. Explore the picturesque charm of its old- a letter would be very simple. It would villages, linked by thousands floor heating system; distinctive world towns and say: "Give American Indians full citizen- of miles of splendid highways. You will be mil- appointments and interior decora- ship rights immediately." A couple of welcomed with truly French-Canadian hospi- lion such letters ought to get action. tions; rugged truss-type frame: and tality in comfortable modern inns and hotels. Editors. Vagabond's famous roadability. No Oean Tooth Never Decay LA PROVINCE DE Don't let my razzing deter you from print- ing more articles such as What You Don't Know About Your Health by J. B. Rice, Write, TODAY, M.D., in the April issue, for they are worth descriptive m for while. But when the good Doctor spoke of I catalog and uebec the possibility of a clean tooth decaying he dealer's name. For help planning your missed the reason ... In over thirty years of vacation, or for informa- looking down in the mouth I have yet to tion covering the unsurpassed industrial in a tooth for the simple VAGABOND COACH MFG. CO. opportunities in our province, write the see decay clean Provincial Publicity Bureau, Parliament BOX 43 • NEW HUDSON MICH. Buildings, Quebec City, Canada. 8 The American Legion Magazine 1 )

reason that I've never yet seen a clean tooth more than fill an issue of this magazine. The

... in the . mouth . . Child Welfare Division of the American John E. Waters, D.D.S. Legion has been fighting heart disease, and Coronado, California particidarly rheumatic fever, for over twenty years. February is Heart Month. No Children Ilun Wild Post could go wrong in raising a contribu- tion to the American Heart Association each . . . What can the Legion do for the chil- February, be it dren of our community? We want a park large or small. No Legion- naire could go wrong in or playground for them in the near future, educating his fel- low townsmen until they all for they have no social or physical recre- know that the words "rheumatic are ation facilities — they play in the streets fever" more terrible for children than the and run wild. My husband and sons are words "scarlet fever, Legionnaires. diphtheria, polio, mumps, measles, small pox and meningitis" all rolled into one. Mrs. D. F. P. We Kentucky repeat two sentences, from Mr. Stearns' article: "Violent accidents kill more chil- dren than any other cause. After that comes The answer can be discovered only in your rheumatic fever." Legionnaires have good town, and it's a job for your Post. Hun- reason to write in expressing the pride they dreds of other Posts have met the same take in their organization for its work in problem, and perhaps each did it different- this field, editors ly. But there is a pattern for doing the job. The Post shoidd come up with a plan Fun On The Base Paths for the town to follow. Find an available tract of land, recommend what should be In The Phillies' Prize Rookie (April) Au-

done with it, learn the cost and whose co- thor John Strohmeyer said . . . Rhawn operation is needed and determine how walked, Witek walked and Blattner singled jar the Post is willing to go on the job itself. to right, scoring Rhawn. Then, with the Armed with a workable plan a Post com- score 3-1 against them the Giants sent Mize mittee may persuade town officials to do to the plate to face young Curt Simmons the rest in one or more friendly talks — or and "Mize represented the tying run." the matter may have to be made a toion Blattner must be the forgotten man . . . issue, kept alive until solved. If other John D. Warren Posts have suggestions to offer we will Nashua, New Hampshire gladly forward them to Mrs. D. F. P. Editors. ...Perhaps Blattner took off for a short beer. That Heart Article Berner E. Clark Buffalo, New York I agree with J. E. Lee, of Dallas who wrote Want a date with a slambang bronze-back?

(April Sound Off) that the Legion should He's waiting for you at the edge of the lily dunce to Strohmeyer. Your set apart a Heart Month and every Legion- A cap Author pads . . . spoiling for a figfit. And, waiting editors are in the clear. After all, Simmons naire should donate 50hook. Write H-l Dept. h, Utica.N.Y. ' I • A lot of people have some pretty sur- prising ideas about how much of each dollar that industry takes in goes for profits. They think profits take a big slice of the sales "pie"— an average of as much as 25 per cent.

5. And even that doesn't tell the whole story. For about half of the reasonable profits earned industry go right back into 3. The fact is, as shown by Government by

figures, industry averages less than half that business to pay for the development and much profit! expansion that bring more products, more jobs, and greater security for all.

4. So, profits are not the big piece of 2. These same people— all over the coun- pic that many people think. They aren't try — were asked what they thought would be 6. That's how "the profit system" works even the middle-sized piece most people a fair profit for business to make. The great to give more Americans more good things believe to be fair. Actually, they are only majority said from 10 to 15 cents out of each than are enjoyed by any other people on half of even that—the little piece of pie dollar ! That is amazing— because . . . earth! shown here.

NLtional SSOCIATION OF M ANUFACTURERS Composed of the 16,500 large and small companies that make most of America's manufactured products. UK*

Who's to Blame for High Prices?

HAtf HAMS . CHOW MftN

1" y BUTTER. /Ot Everyone blames every-

one else for today's high

cost of living, and

just about everyone

MILK, t\Z\ is partly responsible. But there's something you can do

about today's sky-high prices.

By JAMES F. O'NEIL

National Commander, The American Legion

ntil that first big (77"J break in com- ^\ modity prices a few months ago, living costs had skyrocketed to the highest levels on record — even higher than the dizzy peak reached in 1920, after World War

I. Retail food prices, the worst offender, jumped more than 120 percent above pre- war levels. Fantastic prices for meat, but- ter, milk and eggs, among other things, put a terrific crimp in the family budget, and caused misery in plenty of American homes.

And if that wasn't bad enough for the average guy trying to make ends meet, de- velopments arising out of the general shortage of things made matters even worse. We've all seen these things, read about them in the newspapers, even ex- perienced them ourselves in one way or another. For instance, many of us are bitter about the activities of the chiselers, the gray marketeers. We all know about the smart operators who were getting up to $3,000 for an automobile listed at half that amount. We are acquainted with builders who not only demand an exorbitant price for their houses but who cheat the buyer in every way possible. During the past winter we were treated to the sight of certain fuel dealers who, taking advantage of zero weather and an oil shortage, held out for double the price of oil — and if the buyer had a sick wife or child in his house that was just too bad for him. In times like these such chiselers always emerge and, since

1 1 they are usually slick enough to stay within the letter of the law, it's hard to get them behind bars where they belong. But there's no reason for becoming too discouraged over the situation, bleak as it might seem. Without calling on the Government it's possible for you, as an individual, not only to ride out the inflationary storm but help lower prices. Before coming to that, however, I

The 1939 dollar was good for a lot

But in terms of the 1939 dollar the 1948 dollar is worth about 59*

would like to discuss a phase of the in- flation picture I don't think is suffi- ciently understood. While incidents such as I've described have made the newspaper headlines, they don't tell the whole story of inflation — not by a long shot. Seeking the basic reasons for the inflationary spiral, people the coun- try over have been asking in all seri- ousness, "How did prices of everything get so high, anyway?" Many people have put that question to me as I've traveled around the country. And every time they did, it made me think — not of a long-haired economic explanation — but of a famous keeper for the sky-high prices for the as never before. Hardest hit of all have cartoon that appeared many, many family groceries. "Don't blame me," been people like school teachers, police- years ago. said the storekeeper. "Look at the men and firemen, elderly pensioners, Remember the notorious Tweed Ring prices I've had to pay the wholesaler." and married vets trying to go to college, that' flourished in poli- And the wholesaler, using the same because their income has increased no- tics after the Civil War? Well, when argument, promptly passed the buck where in proportion to their rise in outraged citizens asked who was get- to the food manufacturer and processor. living expenses. ting all the graft (for example: $8,000,- The labor unions have been blamed Business has been charged with mak- 000 for a courthouse that was supposed for helping to put prices up because of ing fantastic profits — the highest in to have cost $250,000), Thomas Nast the successive wage increases they've history. That's true, and one reason for drew a cartoon that became a classic. demanded and won. True or false, the it is that business has been doing the It showed Boss Tweed and his hench- fact remains that many breadwinners greatest dollar volume of business in men all grouped around a circle, with are not a great deal better off than be- history. But for all their swollen profits each of them pointing to the next fel- fore the war, as a practical matter; many a business man reports that low as the culprit. some groups of workers, in fact, are he's had to pay continually higher The same idea seems to express the somewhat worse off or just about even prices for raw materials and higher attitude of different groups today, with 1939. Why? Because the rise in wages to his employees, as well as in- whenever anyone tries to blame them prices has taken a big bite out of every- flated prices for expanding his plant for the rise in prices that took place. one's purchasing power, and because or replacing worn-out equipment. Many a housewife blamed her store- until recently we've all had to pay taxes Moreover, business men in many lines

12 STOCKHOLDER struck it rich during the war, and their inflated earnings reflected the old law of supply and demand. But now, with the peak in prices apparently over, to guaranteed TAX COLLECTOR farmers are looking the floors — not the potential ceilings — for their crops, in order to assure them- selves of a minimum income. And to show how mercurial farm income can be, that market break last February — which pared consumers' food costs by around 3 percent — clipped a full 9 per- cent off the prices farmers had been receiving for their crops. What all this boils down to is that we've all been part of the inflationary

ring ... in the same boat . . . riding the same merry-go-round — whatever

you want to call it. So before anyone starts calling anyone else names, let him be sure his own nose is clean. If you're an employe, have you been putting in a full day's work on the job, or have you been taking more than you've been giving? If you're a manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer, have you been passing on your merchandise to the public at a fair price, or have you tacked on more than a little extra for yourself? Or as a consumer — which we all are — have you been paying the regular prices for scarce items or have you been bidding up prices by paying pre- miums for things you want badly? That last (Continued on page 28)

are concerned about the high-cost in- ventories they have on hand. These in- ventories, they declare, could become a serious problem if sales should fall off drastically and they'd have to be un- loaded at lower price levels, even though many companies have set aside large reserves to guard against this con- tingency. Farmers have been singled out for their part in kiting living expenses. True, farm prices went up — at last winter's peak, more than 200 percent above pre-war levels. But so have the prices farmers in turn have had to pay for such things as feed and machinery; moreover, the wages farmers pay their hired hands have nearly tripled since pre-war days. After suffering bitterly The house-buyer is well aware that all hands have joined in pushing up prices throughout the depression, farmers

13 Oldsmobile has in- creased the wind- shield area from the

What to Expect in Your New Car

My STANLEY H. BRAMS in the weeks and months just ahead. autodom's new look. The first signpost The industry as a whole has been in that direction appeared with Stude- spending about $200,000,000 to put out baker, in 1946. Its new cars created a the finest automobiles the world has sensation with their lowered hoods, IF you haven't been lucky enough to ever seen. So far as actual manufacture raised backs, widened bodies and en- get your new car yet, cheer up. and public showings are concerned, larged use of glass. Kaiser-Frazer fur- Would-be buyers on the waiting lists that program is about half finished to- ther defined the trend with its brand may not think so, but they are getting day. Some of the best is yet to come, new "pontoon side" style, widening the one real break. The longer they have between now and early next year. Those body beyond all previous standards. to wait, the better their cars will be. near the end of the delivery lines will Packard, then Hudson, showed refine- The important improvements already have much wider choice than those ments of this design approach late last made by the auto companies will be who are now getting them. year. Today all automobile manufac- joined by others of interest to motorists First off, all makes will be clothed in turers are following this general trend.

1 4 You'll be safer with all around girder construction.

This is the frame of the new Hudson

Here is a preview of the cars which will he rolling

off the assembly lines in the next few months, with a peek

at what is being planned for next year and after

When the first revamped General major rivals to Ford for volume honors, boast -important new subordinate style Motors cars appeared late last winter, will be out next winter with new features. Finishes will last longer, they added another characteristic to models intended to restore to them the thanks to new paints of greater dura- postwar car appearance. Both Olds and styling edge they are losing to the new bility and translucence, developed dur- Cadillac enlarged their windshields and Fords this month. ing the war. Welded joints will resist rear windows, right up to the roofline. Buick has some ideas fermenting rust far longer, due to a new sealing The result: visibility far better than which will combine the luxury air of principle. Foam rubber is being in- ever before. They improved visibility the Cadillac and lowslung length of its stalled on more seat cushions, to re- further by moving front corner posts recent models. Chrysler has similar duce sagging for the life of the car. back a notch, considerably reducing plans. These makes, along with Pon- Good looks are obviously interesting, traditional blind spots. The new Mer- tiac, Dodge, DeSoto and Nash will all but Joes who became mechanically cury and Lincoln models were also be seen in new dress next winter. minded during the war will be at least notable in this respect. Two makes, Nash and Hudson, now equally concerned with the changes Ford's 1949 cars, right on the edge of have integrated construction of frame coming along under the body shells. public announcement, will bring all and chassis. There are real advantages The main lines of development cluster these new design concepts into what for the owner in such construction; around engines and transmissions. Un- Detroit calls the popular price field. such as reduced height, better road- like design developments, they are still The high bustle back will be a char- ability, and others. Accordingly, all mostly secret, or at least hush-hush. acteristic of Ford's vast restyling, along companies are interested — notably A revolution is brewing in power- with the widened body, greater visi- Packard and Ford — but not yet to the plants. General Motors hinted at it just bility, and the rest. point of scheduling production. The a year ago at a Society of Automotive Other makes which have not yet frameless car may be standard through- Engineers meeting. G. M. researchers shifted to new bodies will follow the out the industry some day, but the showed a new kind of engine, reaching same general approach; when the car expense of starting it into manufacture upward toward Diesel compression ra- companies see a worthwhile trend, they will make the transition slow. tios and efficiency, but still retaining all follow it. Plymouth and Chevrolet, All the car makers boast — or will the flexibility (Continued on page 30) 15 Lumbering along U. S. Highway 1, our humorous

hero finds his solution to the housing problem

in at all. But here I come any way. by the I've been doing a lot of serious Your House thinking about this housing problem. And I have reached the—if I do say so — brilliant conclusion that there wouldn't be a shortage of houses if Side of the Road there was more building material. Nearly every carpenter I have talked to has told me that if there is anything he likes to have before he begins build- By >f A VlVAItO GOOD STODDARD ber here and so much cement there and ing a house it's lumber. And I have so much graft here and there and we'll figured out where to get the lumber. put up this many houses?" Not one of That's what I have done. T have an idea these government hous- them. These jokers work on paper only. Furthermore, my idea will result in J. ing agencies are made up mostly of They couldn't tell a—one of those doo- getting seasoned lumber. I heard over people, because they go in so much for hickies that one of those fellows use the radio (so you can take it for what a lot of yata-tee-yata-tee-yata-tee, with to put that stuff between bricks from a it's worth) of a house built of lumber very little banga-tee-banga-tee-banga- —that rigamajig that tells whether a so green that it grew a bay window tee. strip of lumber that goes on the side and a back porch before the contractor These men at the top are all right at of the house is the same number of could get it sold. There's no reason for finding out how many families are liv- feet off the ground at both ends or if this. Why use green lumber when you ing in garages, hen coops and other it is running on the bias. They don't can get seasoned stuff? There's plenty out-buildings. And they can estimate have, to be blunt, the practical knowl- of it around. how much it would cost to put up edge of the average citizen. Especially, Consider just this one minor source. houses for these people. But that's in all modesty, me. Within the last few years several of the about as far as they go. How many of Maybe you've been wondering just neighbors out our way have built bath- these theorists have ever come right where I come in. Maybe you haven't. rooms, and they've left the little build- out and said, "We'll get so much lum- Maybe you don't care if I never come ing standing (Continued on page 48)

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Got a Gun? You're a Criminal!

"A well-regulated militia being neces- Since criminals usually pose of this act is to provide a method il sary to the security of a free State, of licensing the possession of firearms the right of the people to keep and bear carry weapons some legisla- in an effort to help bring about a de- arms shall not be infringed." — Second crease in crime and to discourage the Amendment to the Constitution. tors assume that anyone with use of firearms by juveniles." In justi- New Jersey was the first State to fying the introduction of this asinine a shotgun or rifle is a mon- ratify that Amendment, which with nine bill, a bill proposed by the State At- others constitutes what Americans have torney General, it was pointed out that ster. So they're after you come to know as the Bill of Rights. a boy from a well-to-do family had Today New Jersey legislators are try- with legislation that is almost shot a citizen in an attempt at robbery. ing to upset it. If they get away with A pistol was used. It was also pointed it by state law, the national pattern will funny. But read why it isn't out that youngsters had recently bur- be set for similar unrealistic, hysterical glarized several houses, plus a distil- anti-gun laws which will eventually lery, and had robbed many parking challenge the security of the nation. By W. H. B. SMITH meters. Exactly how licensing a hunt- Under the New Jersey bill as drawn ing rifle will cut down housebreaking at the time of this writing, here is what and meter wrecking was not made firearms owners will face: For every clear. You have to be a lawyer to fig- rifle, shotgun, revolver or pistol you ure that out. own, you must apply for a permit to a Coming as it does hard on the heels Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the recent efforts in New York to until September 15, 1948. After that jam through laws requiring special time you apply to a County Court registration of all rifles and shotguns, Judge. Note that these judges are not plus special permits to buy ammuni- the common magistrates who might un- tion, this New Jersey bill indicates a derstand your problems. speeding up of the determination of The granting or refusal of the per- some peculiar groups to disarm every mit is entirely at the discretion of the American householder and farmer. judge. He doesn't have to have a rea- law, for which some justification might Are such bills as these being in- son to refuse you a permit. If you have be made. This law covers shotguns and spired by Communist sympathizers or a hunting license, there is no added rifles, strictly sporting arms and sou- Communist dupes, following the pat- fee. If not, the permit costs you $1.00. venir weapons. By the time you get tern set in Czechoslovakia? Stranger Note this fact, too: You must present through monkeying around with solic- things have happened. The motives of yourself to the Court each year to have iting the judge, fingerprinting, listing everyone forcing these drastic attacks the permit renewed! If you are an out- and registering, you'll be right where on our Constitutional rights should be of-state man who wants to hunt or do the Czechs were when the Communists very carefully examined and dragged target or match shooting in the State, took over — thoroughly disgusted, help- out into the light of day. at this moment there is no way pro- less and disarmed. One week before Czechoslovakia fell vided for you to get a permit. What brought on this abortion? Well, I received a letter from that ill-starred Remember, this is not just a pistol the learned legislator says: "The pur- country which (Continued on page 31)

"— ! "J, M»WM»..

f' « 1 1 - 1

... When Czechoslovakia went under only the "peace-loving" communists possessed weapons 19 The boss called me into his office and said: "Write us a piece about vet- erans' insurance." I walked out and looked through all the want ads but couldn't find another Insurance job so I went back into the boss' office. "Who, me?" I said. "Yes, you." So I learned about insurance. is Like Love I entered the halls of the mighty in the insurance world and got so I could jabber their language well enough so that one of them mistook me for an in- You don't have to under- surance man. I talked to men at the top and the bottom of the big insurance stand insurance to enjoy it — but companies, the VA Insurance Division and the Legion. I talked to other vet- here are a few things about your erans about their policies. I read scads of literature and law and waded service policy that might help, through Congressional proceedings and hearings. I journeyed far and wide and poked my nose into conferences and whether you still carry it or not records where I had no business to poke it.

Near the end of the chase I posed as an By It Oil 8-: It T II. PITKIX authority and sat in with a board of insurance experts in Washington—some of the best in the land. They read a bill on life insurance that another in- surance expert had written and put before Congress. When they were through reading it the chairman sat back and said, "I don't know what it means." And the rest of them said, "Neither do I." I didn't know what it meant either, so that makes me an ex- pert too. One of the things I did learn before I sat down at my typewriter is that so far as life insurance is concerned a man who pays his premiums on time is in- sured for the full amount of his policy. That holds for all the reputable com- panies, all the standard policies, and your National Service Insurance. There are few laws in this land that protect the man who spends his money quite so thoroughly as do the life insurance laws of the Federal government and the various States. Insurance, I learned positively, is like love — anybody can enjoy its advantages whether h.e un- derstands it or not. For my money the only explanation of your VA insurance that means any- thing to you and me can be written in a paragraph. If you understand that paragraph you're all set. Alter that, if you read any farther, you're on your own, brothei*. The next paragraph is the one. If your VA policy is in force today you don't have to know anything about insurance to keep up a $10,000 estate. Simply pay your few paltry dollars a month on time, by check or by money order, spell your name and address correctly and readably, and write down your policy number on anything re- garding your insurance (letters, checks,

20 money orders) that you send to the "Trouble is, no matter what your begun, and I couldn't stop him. He VA. Ij your policy is not in jorce today name is we probably have someone else showed me another Csontos. Then at there are a few simple steps you can with the same name in our files, but if random he plucked out twelve Irving take to reinstate it. See your Legion you have what you consider to be an Davises, four Harry Van Homes, seven Service Officer (before July 31st for unusual name you probably get cocky Edward Quirks, five Charles Olmsteads, the best break) and, if the reinstate- and deliberately leave off your policy seven David Diazes, seven Harry Platts, ment takes, you're back in the fold number. twenty-two Benjamin Bernsteins and with a $10,000 estate bought at a bar- "'I'm the only guy named Phthrif- two Herman Pheffers. gain counter. Thereafter follow the di- thung Trueblood in the world,' you He showed me eight Arthur Weisses rections in the second sentence in this think. So you probably imagine that and then said, "Let's take a peek at a paragraph. when your check comes in, signed fairly common one," and he showed me The lovely thing about that para- P. Trueblood, the VA clerk opens it up 85 Morris Cohens with no middle ini- graph is that no matter how confusing and hollers, 'Here's another from good tial, 27 Morris Cohens with middle ini- the rest of this article may be, it makes old Phthrifty!' while the rest of the tials. Then we spent five minutes look- no difference. That pet paragraph of staff dives for your well-thumbed file- ing for a name that wasn't repeated at mine is 100% true today, and if you folder. least once but didn't find one. However, follow it you can't lose. The law won't "Of course we probably have folders no two have the same policy number, let you, the Legion won't let you, and on six long-lost cousins of yours by the even though there are twelve other the VA can't stop you. same name and another who is no rela- Branch offices with additional records The situation is even better than that. tive but changed his name from John on still more Davises, Van Homes, The VA and the Legion will do their Smith to yours just to be different. Quirks, and Cohens — and fellows with best to save you even if you try to lose. Perhaps none of them ever gives his your name' too. The best way for you to try to lose is to policy number and we don't know if "What happens to the unidentified send in your premiums but keep it a the money belongs to one of our letters and money?" I asked. secret who sent the money. Phthrifthung Truebloods or someone "We do our best to straighten it out, I was in VA Branch Office #2 and else whose records are in another but if we aren't good enough detec- the insurance boys showed me a lot of Branch Office." tives there's trouble. Drawers full of letters from our generous buddies who Just to convince me, the VA man trouble, desks full of trouble, rooms full were trying to throw their money (his name was Csontos) took me over of trouble. Trouble for us, trouble for away. You know: "Please put this $9.00 to the files and showed me records of the unidentified account, trouble for in my insurance. John Smith." That's four other fellows with my name. That other veterans who are losing our serv- all. No policy number, no readable ad- cured me. Outside of Junior and a ices while we play detective." dress. Nothing but $9.00 and a name. fifth cousin who probably fought in the "What shall I tell the boys and girls?" And there was the VA clerk working Spanish-American War I thought I "Write your full name and address away on Smith's letter trying to find was the only one. so we can read it. Never send cash. Al- some clew as to which John Smith he I was convinced but Csontos had just ways put (Continued on page 38) was, which of the 5V2 million policies was his, trying to make the $9.00 work for John. "That happens all the time," the VA men told me. "The entire VA had 247,000 payments from veterans which we could not apply immediately, for one reason or another, during last November. That was a very ordinary month for such things. "Of course the Smiths and the Joneses are usually pretty careful. They know about those other Smiths and Joneses. Not all of them do, but most of them do.

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VA employees try to guess who sent pre- miums that weren't properly identified. Form at right indicates needed information

21 Big surprise. Joe F.oui> floored bj ) ;il«-.»ti in til, roiin.i of December fighl'afte experts scorned Jerseyman's chances

a couple Just of years ago, the late est psychiatrist concerning that last re- the sense of a or Jimmy Johnston sought a fight an Arturo mark. Louis is made to order for a license for Godoy has always caused the Bomber an unknown heavyweight rigTit and Walcott has a right which trouble. When a named man like Walcott who had makes strong men shrink. Lee stepped Oma comes along, a boxer who can hit, then in and out of retirement half took the Walcott special to the stomach a Louis well a dozen times. The veteran on the declining road manager, in the first round of their fight and must of necessity be heading for h »hnston, communicated with John Hall, he broke Bill Robinson's world record catastrophe. New Jersey commissioner, on for racing backwards thereafter. The Somewhere behalf of Walcott. along the path of hard same happened with Lee Q. Murray. knocks, Jersey When the commissioner Joe learned to shift for reviewed Neither , Elmer Ray nor Walcott's himself in the ring -and what a shift background, he turned down Joey Maxim could cope with Walcott it is. Walcott, in feinting, the application with the pronounce- inclines his at his best. And it was Walcott ment, who head and shoulders a few inches. Jer- outpointed Joe Baksi when Joe was sey Joe is •'Too old." the master of the maneuver, flying high. or of a series of maneuvers, which That was the Walcott who later Walcott's right and his other lethal belted down must perplex all but the most alert Joe Louis twice. That was punches are delivered from a shift as rivals. He will step to the Walcott who. in the left, slide to the minds of involved as the T. When you box him the right, more to the many, actually won the right, then veer championship —and you are crazy if you do—you find left with speed equal to fight on December 5th. the time it 1947 although that he is the big man who isn't there. takes to read his name. the decision went to the That last step incumbent, Louis, a counter puncher of immortal Louis. to the left brings Jersey Joe directly That is the Walcott, thirty-four vintage, has always been able to cope in front of his foe again year old father of six children, and the Cam- who I with a man coming straight in or going think den. New Jersey, boxer will either lash will conquer Louis in June. straight back. But an opponent who out or repeat the involved sequence And I would not be surprised if he moves from side to side, in the speedy depending upon knocks Joe out. the other boxer's re- manner of the of the first sponse. The man who faces the Now wait -do not send for the near- Jersey Louis fight, or who is unorthodox in Joe Walcott of the first Louis bout must 22 i Down again. Like the champ, the crowd was stunned when second knockdown proved

first was no fluke. Louis, perplexed, came back to press the fight. Badly

battered, he won much-disputed verdict

ever saw. muck of anonymity. He married young, have a chess brain in a .- present world champion the hard, moved to Camden. The first of his six for Walcott, without any particular Jersey Joe Walcott came up one of eleven children arrived fourteen years ago style of his own, is a spoiler of other hungry way. He was is Arnold and they moseyed into the world fre- men's styles. .Unfortunately for Joe children and bis real name always take quently. Jersey Joe's lot was that of Louis, one of the greatest of all boxers, Cream. As a boy he could prowess became a many a colored heavyweight who is too the champion is not equipped with a care of. himself. His a good for his own good. Smart managers chess brain. He has a style of his own legend in the neighborhood. When start, suddenly a shout did not want their promising aspirants and is tremendous with it against an fight would Arnold to meet him. He was too clever, too obliging opponent—or a terrorized one. would .go up: "Here comes cute. He had the habit of not taking But he has never looked great against Cream, the rough guy." like any any punishment and he does not bear spoilers, though in the past he has And the gang that did not coffee would a single mark to this day. All in all, managed to beat them. extra Cream in its fistic it wasn't easy for Jersey Joe. No one should ever underestimate break for cover. profes- He fought for pittances. He would the power of a woman or of the dyna- When Cream decided to turn the name of Joe get a manager and the manager would mite in Joe Louis' fists. He still strikes sional, he assumed Barbados quit him after a few profitless months. like a python and some of his pile- Walcott after the original choice by As a result of fly-by-night training drivers in the early rounds could make Demon. The reason for the his father methods, Walcott's record is not the a shambles of any prediction. But Louis Jersey Joe was that both Walcott most sparkling in the books. He lost never faced a rival so psychologically and the father of the original Barbados his first heavyweight professional fight intent, so physiologically ready, and so had come from the Island of best in 1936 and was stopped by Tiger Jack confident as Jersey Joe Walcott. That's in the West Indies. It was the heavyweight Fox in New York City eleven years right, this man who has been boxing choice of a name by a adop- ago. Abe Simon halted Walcott in six for seventeen years since he first started since William Harrison Dempsey Nonpareil. Jack rounds in 1940. Then there were three as a 135-pounder in his native Mer- ted that of the original years, from 1941 to 1944, when he was chantville, New Jersey, believes that Dempsey. the out of action. (Continued on page 42) he could defeat Louis the best day the For years. Jersey Joe battled in 23 President Truman talking informally to the Bovs Form

Your Candidates in '68

You may think government is a mystifying

subject, but these kids got the low-down.

What they learned can help take the

kinks out of democracy.

By DAN MATHES, JR.

Although i had had history and civics

L courses in my classes at school, I had never realized fully the wonderful work- ings of our American democracy until in the short space of a couple of weeks I had had the experience of attending the Ar- kansas Boys' State and the Boys' Forum of National Government in Washington, both American Legion projects. Like many other boys who attended these forums- in-democracy I went through the motions of doing the work of a public official, getting instructions concerning my du- ties from the man who did the work every day. Thus each of us was at

Symbols of the States thej represent, the lads link arms descending the Capitol steps 24 some time in the driver's seat, and I zation of a complete system of govern- hours were broken by play and com- am sure that what we learned will help ment, beginning at the very bottom. I petitive sports — basketball and Softball, our fellow Americans as well as us. learned then that this method is used for instance — and each day we had a At the Arkansas Boys' State 1947 in all the forty-two Boys' States es- drill and parade. And there were jokes session we had a full week — a time all tablished by the Legion in as many and pranks to lighten the hours. too short. We dug into the fundamentals States of the Union. 1 came to know Each citizen was assigned to one of of practical government in a practical also that while the ultimate aim of the simulated cities and given a place way, learning the American system from representative government is the same in a political party. To better carry out its beginning in the community and up in all the forty-eight States, there is, the idea of a representative citizenry, through successive stages to the com- however, some slight variance in forms neither party was given a numerical plete state administration. The Boys' and procedure among the several units. advantage — and that made for some Forum of National Government, also I had read somewhere hot political campaigning in session for a week, gave us the na- that the Boys' State pro- a lot of silver-tongued tional picture. The hundred boys who ject was operated as a oratory, and much clever made the trip to Washington had a soil of junior laboratory political maneuvering as down-to-earth course in civics that will of civil government and each evenly balanced pay dividends to their community, state administration. After the party made its supreme and the nation. first day or so and after a effort to win enough votes Like a great many other high school close personal participa- from the opposition to students I knew in only a very general tion in the party conven- carry the election. way about The American Legion's in- tions, the caucuses, the The first elections were terest in youth training and education. elections, and the pre- for city offices, progress- I had earned an Eagle Scout's badge in liminary work of getting ing from the city to a Boy Scout Troop sponsored by Rich- a governmental unit in Dan Mai hes, Jr.. county and State. I was ard L. Kitchen Post of my home town, workable shape it dawned an \ikan-as Stater fortunate enough, as a Helena, Arkansas. But perhaps like a on me that this was not Federalist, to be elected number of others I had thought of Boys' really an overstatement. to both city and coun.; State as something like a Scout sum- That is exactly what the offices, but passed these mer camp. Before enrollment was com- Boys' State is planned to be, and what offices on to others when I was elected pleted, I knew that this was something it actually is as we worked it out Secretary of State — the only member of different. through that busy week. My single my simulated party to weather ti e Here, as we gathered at the Arkansas criticism is not based on the plan itself onslaught of the Nationalists led by School for the Deaf at Little Rock, I or what it attempts to do, but that the Pierce Matheny, of El Dorado, who was met a selected group of high school time given the citizens to organize their elected Governor. As I look back ( a students of the junior and senior classes local and county governments, and those eventful days I still think it was who came from every part of the State. finally their mythical forty -ninth State, a splendid victory. These boys had been selected on the is not long enough. The final night for campaign speeches basis of leadership, scholarship, or other The plan of operation, perhaps, can before the election of State officers w. s values. We were in very short order be better understood by those who have the most exciting and eventful of the assigned to two simulated political par- read of it only as a "Legion program" week. It was the climax to all our ties—the National and the Federal — and by telling something about what we efforts, and we were all worked up to were then told to set about the organi- did and how we worked. The working a high pitch of (Continued on page 34)

A Hoosier Boys' State counselor Oklahoma "Statesmen" pla> ball briefs his successors on what's what 'on llic fit-Id as well a> at classes 25 Something New in Movies

There will be less emphasis on dream worlds as films come down to earth

By It. WILSON IHUnVN

Paramount's Scaled Verdict uses the German war crimes trials as a background From now on you'll be seeing more realism in movies. The success of San Pietro, Fighting Lady, The House Eagle-Lion will also tackle the Mexican in addition to intrinsic worth have mass on ,92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, smuggling situation with its Wetbacks. appeal, such as the ones you mention, Boomerang, Kiss of Death, Call North- Columbia is planning to do the story of the bulk of 'good' pictures have died side 777, T-Man, To the Ends of the The Associated Press. Runyon of from box office starvation. The masses Earth and The Naked City set the pace. Broadivay, the life of Damon Runyon, want gangsters, they want gun battles Such semi-documentary pictures will get underway this winter with on the plains, they want cheap sex, clicked with the public. proceeds to go to the Runyon Cancer they want escapist fare in which the The big one at the moment is The Fund. And of course there's the biog- heroes and heroines drink champagne Iron Curtain. Illegal Entry by Ben raphy of Babe Ruth with William Ben- on beer incomes." So often, that does Bengal, Dan Moore and Herbert Kline dix in the top role which Roy Del Ruth seem the case. But right now we learn has been purchased by U-I. It deals is making. Even more are in the plan- that Cecil B. DeMille's Unconquered is with the California-Mexican border ning stage. the picture bringing in the most money. area where, it is said many dangerous We think it's a healthy trend. We From 1944 to 1947 only seven films have aliens are finding their way into the are unquestionably passing through the grossed a figure in the Unconquered U. S. The U. S. Bureau of Immigration most interesting era in history. Today's neighborhood: Welcome Stranger, will help on the technical aspect. Ed- happenings are packed with drama, Bells of St. Mary's, The Razor's Edge, ward Finney has purchased The His- and it seems obvious that a screen Sojig of Bernadette, Duel in the Sun, tory of the Red as the basis for which reflects the world about us is The Best Years of Our Lives and The his picture, The Life of going to be a dynamic Jolson Story. But then maybe Mr. Henri Dunant, to be screen. Barker hits the nail on the head when * * * produced this summer. he says a good picture must show "fine Republic will film Police Some months ago we and painstaking production" and that State, a picture with an wondered out loud "a fine movie is like any other piece of international locale and whether the movies creative work; it takes genius and time dealing with a prospec- were selling America for the creation." Unconquered meets tive GI war bride who is short and pointed to the those tests. As a matter of fact, it seems forced to cooperate with records established by to us that the other titles mentioned the terror police be- some good old down-to- above were "fine and painstaking pro- cause her family lives ' earth historical pieces ductions"—even Duel in the Sun which, in a country behind the of the real America. however, could have been a little less Red curtain. Film Clas- One exhibitor, Gray objectionable with a little more cloth- sics will release Women Barker of Clarksburg, ing. It doesn't take a million dollars Without Men, which W. Va., wrote us one of and a star-studded cast to achieve tackles the problem of the most intelligent let- greatness. Paramount achieved it a few unaccompanied women ters on this subject years back with a man, a boy, a dog drinking at bars. War- we've ever seen. But one and a field in its The Biscuit Eater. * * * ner Bros, is seriously paragraph has us guess- considering filming The ing. He writes: "With There is a trick of the trade which,

. , . ( , T ,esar Komero. 20th-< entui v .. , , B right Leaf, the story . the exception of a few in some incidents is obvious; in others, ,, ((X player) s nominated of the tobacco industry. ; ,s our Vet-o f-the-Month motion pictures which probably un- (Continued on page 46)

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Legion Newsletter

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU JUNE 1948

SWEETHEART BILL: President Truman, on LEGION LEADS IN SCOUTING: For the second March 24, signed bill extending time to consecutive year the Legion leads all December 21, 1948, for fiancees of service groups in percentage gain in organizing personnel to enter U. S. on temporary Boy Scout Troops . . . Net' increase for permits . . . GI sweethearts, under this two-year period is 996 units, zooming up law, must marry within 90 days of arrival to an all-time high of 3,416 Legion out-

. . . The original law expired December fits, or 19.6 percent of all units in the

31, 1947. entire organization . . . Minnesota makes

the greatest percentage increase . . . HOSPITAL AND CONVALESCENT RATING: Legion Nevada leads in ratio of units to Posts, and other veterans' organizations are with more than half of its Posts sponsor- pressing for liberalisation of 1945 VA ing Troops . . . California, with 383, rating schedule ... Amendment is asked leads all Departments in number of units to provide not only for 100 percent dis- . . . Nice going, says Americanism ability rating during hospitalization for Director Tom Sawyer, who sets 1948 goal at service-connected organic disease or 1,000 new Troops. injury, but also for a convalescent rating * * * * for a certain period after release by furlough or maximum hospital benefit SCOUT NOTES: Marine Hospital Post 188,— discharge all members are patients in the Leprosarium * * * * at Carville, Louisiana, — sponsors a troop of boy patients at the institution RADIO "DECISION NOW" : Legion's program . . . American, white and Negro French, "Decision Now" is being regularly broad- — — are in cast every week on a national spread of Italian and Japanese boys enrolled this unique unit. Troop is active and 917 radio stations . . . 758 stations are the carrying the show in a regular weekly slot works in many ways within hospital . . . Ralph Cole Post, Findlay, Ohio, in the schedule . . . Radio section of National Public Relations Division reports appropriated $4,000 for a cabin at the that three or four new stations are being Boy Scout Reservation . . . Indiana's Legion District 11, including Indianapolis, added each week . . . Programs tie in with all Legion activities and with observance has 17 new Troops under organization . . . Grenville, New Mexico, has made some sort of special days and holidays . . . Broadly this includes child welfare, national of a record . . . Population 124, the security, Americanism, rehabilitation, town's John Duffy Post 51 has an active and patriotic holidays and observances Troop of 24 members.

. . . Check your favorite station for $ $ $ $ "Decision Now." NATIONAL CONVENTION: plans something $ r $ new for the "moon over Miami" at the DEPARTMENT CONVENTIONS: The 1948 conven- National Convention, October 18-21 . . . tion season takes a flying start in June The big parade will start at 4 P. M. with nine Department conclaves scheduled October 19 and march on and on until the . . . They are: Colorado, Durango 8-10; , late hours at night — running at least South Carolina, Myrtle Beach, 12-15; eight hours . . . Contest-wise, greater Maine, Bangor, 18-20; New Hampshire, emphasis will be placed on always colorful Dover, 18-20; Rhode Island, Pawtucket, Drum and Bugle Corps competitions at the 24-26; , , 24-27; Montana, Orange Bowl on Monday night, 18th . . . Great Falls, 27-29; South Dakota, Aberdeen, Arrangements are being made to seat 60,000 27-29 and Canada, Windsor, 12. spectators * * * * * * * *

SPECIAL AUTO PLATES FOR VETS: Illinois has "HEROES SHOULD APPLY" : Turned down through set aside 300 special auto license plates error because of educational deficiencies, for severely handicapped war veterans (this magazine, March, 1948, page 35) , Staff . . . Words "Disabled Veteran" are let- Sergeant Paul L. Bolden, Medal of Honor tered in white on top of plate . . . Idea winner of Huntsville, , is back in sprang from accidents to vets driving the service . . . When he reported at Fort specially equipped cars issued by VA . . . Benning, Georgia, he was sworn in and Special plates are expected to bring extra assigned to duty by Huntsville 's other courtesies in driving and in road-side Medal of Honor man, Captain Cecil H. repair jobs. (Bushy) Bolton. 27 WHO'S TO BLAME FOil On a broader scale, it may come as sented a step in the right direction—and a im.ll D»ICI< BvS news to some to learn that a number of break for the buying public. commodity prices were inching lower last As breadwinners, the way to approach (Continued from page 13) winter—before the market crash set them this whole problem of high living costs point has been, and still is, a very im- down hard. Why had they been declining? is to bear in mind two things. They may portant factor in keeping prices high. It Because they ran into the stiff-arm of be familiar to some people but they are has made the so-called seller's market in outraged consumers. still worth repeating. They are, first, that which almost anything goes. As a con- Butchers found their meat supplies the increase in the general level of prices be sumer you would wise to be less im- backed up on them when angry house- has reduced the purchasing power of the patient, and to think twice before you wives snapped their pocketbooks shut on dollar, and second, there's been a dispro- decide that you must have some hard-to- prevailing prices. Grocers saw their cus- portionate increase in some of the things get commodity. tomers turn up their noses at high-priced that make up the cost of living. But there is something else you can do. items. Housewives, for example, turned For example, suppose that a person was It is not enough to walk into a store and from $1 a pound butter to 45c a pound making $40 a week before the war and then either meekly pay the price or walk margarine, and bought less pastry. maybe $75 weekly since. His higher salary out. If you feel that the price is out of Nor was the food front the only line on is just fine until you take the price rises line let the storekeeper know about it. which prices had been retreating—all this, into consideration. After allowing for them, Protests have a way of getting back to the remember, prior to the break. Department you find that his $75 buys in 1948 just a people who can do something about them, stores, seeing their unit sales decline, be- shade more than his $40 bought back in but if there are no protests you can rest gan luring customers in with old-fash- 1939. What's more, the same wage earner assured that no action will be taken—un- ioned bargains. Some were back with now has to contend with income taxes less it's to cause prices to keep on inching pre-war "Easy Credit" terms. The night which a married man earning $40 a week upward. club business and other entertainment didn't have to pay before the war. Also, it is highly in order to let manu- lines, to put it mildly, were something less For that reason, we've got to stop kid- facturers know your feelings. If you think than terrific. Other business were begin- ding ourselves about the "high" salaries and wages we've been making in this brave new world. Too many of us, it seems to me, have been looking through rose colored glasses at the number of dol- lars we've been earning, without realizing fully their true purchasing power. There are also those who, taking their 1948 wages for granted, have been shop- ping around for 1939 prices. What they fail to understand is that 1948 wages and 1939 prices don't go hand in hand. Meanwhile, what has made things extra tough for everybody is that some prices, particularly food, have expanded at a terrific rate, throwing everything else out of adjustment. Even in normal times, food is the biggest single item in a family's budget, accounting for about a third of all living expenses for moderate income families. Because of the jump in food prices, and because we've been eating more than before the war, food costs for Here s

28 * The American Legion Magazine • June, 1948 —

one thing we've all got to do, until we WHAT TO EXPECT IN to the aircraft class. (Some frankly Buck beat this inflation, is to add up our ex- YOUR NEW CAR Rogers jobs in all companies are so ad- penses, see what percentage of our in- vanced that they use pure synthetic fuel, (Continued page come each group eats up, and then match frovi 15) made today only in experimental labora- the total expenses against total income. of the spark-fired cylinder. Detroit re- tories.) Some surprises may be in store for you, search laboratories rushed into overtime Willys has a new engine in the lower and a realignment of your budget may be work on high-compression engines; and power class, turning out approximately 75 in order. oil companies began to move at parallel h.p. It is to be installed in a new 4-pas- It's impossible to say just how much speed to hasten production of higher qual- senger sedan which may go onto the W-O anyone should allow for any item or group ity gasolines, some partly synthetic, to fuel production lines before the end of this —that depends upon the individual and his them. year—a smart, smaller-sized version of the style of living. But only by keeping each Olds seems destined, right now, to be bigger streamliners. Willys also has cause group of expenses within a reasonable or out with the first real postwar engine. for distinction with its Jeepster, youth- maximum prescribed limit can anyone Compression ratio will be jacked up to minded runabout version of the Jeep, in- stay ahead of the game. This may sound about 8 to 1, compared with today's 6.7 to troduced last spring. like Dorothy Dix or A. L. Alexander, but 1 average on all cars. This engine will Simple increases in power will precede it's the only way of staying solvent. weigh a little more and probably cost a brand-new engines at some factories, but As this was written, the impact of the little more. To compensate, it is expected these are modification jobs, not develop- price decline was still being felt all along to provide greater power and use a little ment projects. But rest assured that the the store counter, much to the relief of less gas per mile doing so. coming Olds engine (and a parallel unit harried consumers. But while prices were The beauty of this advanced engine is in Cadillac) will mark a trail for every working lower, there were still such further shown in the plans for its modi- other manufacturer in the industry. factors as the European Recovery Pro- fication in future years as better gas That kind of a chain reaction will also gram to reckon with. What's more, meat reaches the market. The block itself, basic be seen in transmissions. The first of the supplies, among other things, promise to element, will be unchanged, but a succes- postwar drives was unwrapped this past be anything but ample this year. In fact, sion of revamped heads and accessories spring at Buick, the torque converter they may never be ample enough so every- will be employed to squeeze more com- Dynaflow. It is automatic from the moment one can have all the steaks he wants. pression into the cylinders and increase you move the lever that sets it into ac- Why? With our increasing population and economy and performance, step by step. tion. In infinitely variable ratio, the Dyna- a greater per capita demand the prices Higher compression ratios will also be flow converter drive takes a car from a are likely to stay too high for many seen on all other makes. Ford people are standing start to top speed at least as fast people to afford them. well along on a new in-line engine which as any other device, and does so without

• No one knows for sure, whether prices may replace the much-vaunted V-8. In even split-second pauses for shifting gears. are going to move up, down or sideways. addition, they are working on experimental The gears have simply been eliminated. But, even if the initial food price de- powerplants of great diversity—horizontally That approach is the one most automakers cline should carry further—taking other opposed pancake engines, five-cylinder are hoping to imitate soon. prices along for the sleighride—it does not radial jobs, others. The uniform character- Ford and Chrysler are both well ad- mean a sudden, automatic end to the istics of these new engine ideas are high vanced on new automatic transmissions. problem of inflation. compression ratios and use of fuels close Whether Ford will have one in time for The prices of haircuts are up, shoe shines cost more, dry cleaning prices are higher; so, too, are the prices of maga- BUILD AN IDEAL HOME LIKE THIS FOR $6900 zines and the daily newspaper. You don't less than per eat these things, but you still pay for them Payments $45 month regularly. What's more, insurance rates are higher, and state and municipal taxes have been increased. Automobile prices are higher, the price of gasoline is up, and so are a lot of other things. They're up be- cause the people who provide these serv- ices and make these things have to live, and the cost of living is as high for them as it is for you. In short, the price of nearly everything m nfr is higher, reflecting previously increased costs of material and labor—and all of these things take time to reflect a major price change. Sure, there can be "mark- downs." Certainly, declines in some lines can precipitate declines in others, particu- larly if the public gets seriously worried about the prospect of a recession. But it still takes time before a major turn in all prices, if it's to come, can be fully reflected in your pocketbook. That being the case, it's only common sense to watch your living expenses in coming months and go slow about enter- ing into any major commitments. This does not mean burying your money in a hole in the ground; it does mean resisting any unwarrantably high prices. Until the Designed for solid comfort, lasting value. Brick Enclose $1 for both plan books, itemized cost construction, full basement, hot water heat, hard- sheet of above design, also 3 booklets full of day again have a five- nickel we cent or wood floors, complete tile bath. Low cost is made valuable information on building and financing. a reasonable facsimile, this seems to be possible by plans standardized to avoid waste. Print name and address, enclose $1 and mail today. Individual home builders have been receiving Your money back promptly if you do not find the the only sensible course. After all, every- our help constantly for 29 years. Now, more than a help you urgently need. Mail orders only. Offer not in Washington, and vicinity. body knows what inflation is— inflation is million live in our carefully planned homes. good D. C. Send TODAY for two of our new plan books where you can't take it with you. the end BETTER HOMES AT LOWER COST and HOMES OF TODAY AND TOMORROW— showing STANDARD HOMES COMPANY June, 1948 illustrations from actual photographs and numerous 29 Colorado Building AL2 • Washington 5, D. C. floor plans for 61 of America's Best Planned Small Homes, ranging in cost from $5,000 to $12,000. If you can pay rent, you can pay for a borne of your own next year's Mercury and Lincoln models doing real business. Others are planning is an open question today; several experi- to move into that same field — Playboy, ments, mainly in the torque converter Davis, Keller, other makes. Their pilot class, are in advanced testing but have not cars are all interesting to look at, nice been given final approval. Chrysler, like- jobs of design and development. But none wise, is working on torque converter which except Crosley is on the market today. It might supplant its present fluid coupling takes time to bring an automobile from — but nothing's been decided yet. pilot design to mass production. Packard leans to the type of shift used That time element is one reason you in Olds, Cadillac and Pontiac — the hy- won't see what motor makers call "Sunday draulically-actuated, automatic shifting Supplement ideas" in the new postwar Hydra-Matic, with fluid flywheel. cars: Time, and the tooling that takes the Automatic transmissions, however, won't time, costs money — large money in Auto be seen for some time in the low priced Row. Companies won't gamble millions on cars. The reason is evident. Today they random, unproved ideas. The changes in cost anywhere from $80 to $200 or so. Few automobiles are gradual, modest, not too popular priced car owners are minded to much a shock to the buying public. spend that much above the car purchase So don't expect any engines in the rear price, so manufacturers won't offer them in tomorrow's editions of today's cars. as optional equipment. But — and this is (Besides being radical, say the engineers, positive — all Detroit is planning for a day they unbalance car weight; and they make when $30 automatic transmission will put winter heating for riders well-nigh impos- self-shifters into almost universal use. sible and summer cooling of the power- Chrysler gets the credit for another plant almost as difficult.) pioneering job in postwar cai"s which is Don't look for aluminum bodies; they spreading throughout the industry. Extra- cost too much. (But you may see mag- low pressure balloon tires first appeared nesium wheels on Kaiser-Frazer's new on Chrysler cars last winter, then on Plym- cars, because the steel that's saved might outh, Dodge and DeSoto, providing bet- justify the higher price.) Don't look, ter ride, longer tire life, more driver con- either, for plastic bodies; they haven't trol. By next year at this time all makes enough physical strength, even if prices will have these doughnut baloons. were competitive with steel. These improvements are not the reason, Above all, don't expect 50-mile-a-gallon as some have thought, for higher prices. engines. There's just so much energy in An auto, Detroit points out, costs no more a drop of gas, and auto engineers haven't in terms of days of work or farm produce figured out how to extract much more than it ever did. By many comparisons it's power from it than they are now doing — cheaper. Yesterday's $900 car is now not, anyway, without using a motor that $1,350, up 50 percent. But so are pay rates, costs about as much as a primary trainer groceries, everything else. radial. The new high-compression engines Due to high costs, there will be no quick will save a few miles, to be sure, but, descent from today's prices. "Give us 1941 again — "no miracles." wages," says one automotive brass hat. And still, there is a dream car. It does "Then give us 1941 prices on materials, exist. It looks better than anything you and we'll give you 1941 prices. But not ever saw before, and it performs better before. We're good, but we can't make and lasts longer. Where, you ask? Why. miracles." it's the new model you see on the streets, One way Mr. Average can get a car at the one that may already be in the garage close to yesterday's price is to get a small behind your house. Tomorrow is already one. Price is the reason Crosley has been here oh the highway. the end

Qharp kids . . . these caddies. ^ Young in years but full of the experience and knowledge that comes from going around day after day with the experts and duffers alike, observing the clubs they play.

So we agree with the young man:

"Play Grand Slams" is a mighty good tip-off for your tee-off ! Stop in your sporting goods dealer's and look over the new H&B offerings for 1948—could be you, too, will find them the perfect answer to what you've been looking for!

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(Continued from page 19) contained this passage: "Communists have infiltrated our police and labor groups. 'Action Committees' have complete control of production and distribution of all small arms. Pistols are being passed out to Com- munists from the old Strakonice works. Rifles are being issued from the Brno plant. Thousands of Russian Shpagins (Russian PPSH 41 sub-machine guns— Ed.) have been passed out. The police have rounded up all registered weapons. When the Communists move- and it will be soon —there can be no opposition. Only the Communist police and Action groups have weapons." Registration laws are always followed by more and more drastic laws everywhere they have been tried. At the other extreme consider Switzerland. Here every man is issued a rifle when he enters the army. Rifles and ammunition are kept in his home and are subject to surprise inspec- tion. Non-coms are issued light machine "U.S. AIR FORCE" guns, and officers have pistols and sub- machine guns. There cannot lie the easy upset of government in democratic Swit- zerland that happened in Czechoslovakia. And, incidentally, criminal use of firearms is almost unknown. In Switzerland, the officials are the true servants of the law- abiding citizenry. Never before in its history lias your Air Force faced If you give these registration maniacs heavier responsibilities. First line of defense in a the benefit of the doubt and decide they still unsettled world, the Air Force must continue are not Conimunist inclined or duped, then to progress and be ready for instant action. it follows that they are either people trying make to impose a police state of fascist type on Today, only the best-fitted prospects are being us; or they are simply irresponsible blow- accepted by the Air Force. But young men who hards who don't know the facts of life. measure up will have a choice of unequaled oppor- New York State passed the notorious Sul- livan pistol law to "prevent crime." After tunities. Here they are: years of experience it is now evident that years, assign- this law has inj ured only law abiding 1 By enlisting for throe they may choose citizens. Crime has steadily increased every ment to the U. S. Air Force. time economic conditions fertilized the 2 Tf they are high school graduates, between 17 and 34 soil, for after all most crimes arise from economic and social conditions. years obi, the Aviation Career Plan allows them to According to a top New York City mag- select and qualify for any one of more than 40 Air Force istrate, honest citizens have been arrested Specialist Schools before they enlist. for "possessing" revolvers they took away from thugs attacking them; for firing re- 3 Veterans of the armed forces who are qualified in one volvers at burglars; for turning in revol- of 300 skills and trades may re-enter service in advanced vers they have found; and have even been non-commissioned Air Force grades, depending upon their blackmailed by people who planted re- previous training and experience. volvers on them. Indeed the magistrate cites the case of a notorious character 4 They can win their wings with the Aviation Cadets. who walked around with all his pockets The world's finest pilot training is open to men who are sewed up so a revolver couldn't be l single. 20 to 26 /2 years old. who have completed at least planted on him! half the credits for a college degree, or pass the equivalent. A high percentage of juvenile shooting scrapes - today result from home built Every qualified young man in your community pistols made with pieces of brass tubing, should know about these great programs. Will you wooden blocks, friction tape, bent nails and rubber bands — the so-called "zip" help by discussing these choices v\ ith them? Com- guns with which recently a New York City plete details on each opportunity are available at policeman accidentally shot a police- U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force Recruiting Stations. woman in the Clinton Street Station. Ex- plosives may be made from celluloid shav- U. S. ARMY AND U. S. AIR FORCE RECRUITING SERVICE ings, shoe polish or simple drug store chemicals; and deadly home-made weapons can be fashioned out of gas pipe and door URGE THE FINEST YOUNG MEN YOU KNOW hinges. Criminals will never want for weap- TO ENLIST IN THE U. S. AIR FORCE ons; harsh laws affect only the law abiding. It is time that aroused public opinion

June, 1948 31 starts giving some close attention to the may be, its ejffect is the one that Com- personalities who propose further hog- munists desire. Stalin would cheerfully tieing honest American citizens for the decorate legislators who passed such bills Alleged purpose of "preventing crime." in the United States. Instead of sitting The percentage of crimes resulting from back letting our paid servants, the legisla- criminal use of hunting rifles and shot- tors and police, go right on scrapping our guns is so extremely low that it is stupid Constitutional rights, isn't it about time to even consider them as instruments of that sportsmen and citizens generally crime. It would be far more sensible to started telling them what we want? outlaw automobiles which are invaluable Legionnaires are writing to this depart- to the criminal, and which also are cur- ment to ask why they cannot buy rifles rently killing or disabling some 621,000 at low cost through Government channels people per year, according to latest actu- for early delivery, yet can buy used arial statistics. military arms at high cost through pawn- The National Rifle Association and a few shops and mail order dealers. of the general sporting magazines and Our own cursory investigation indi- writers have for years been following anti- cates that something is very sour indeed. gun legislation and crying it down where Used (and abused) Model 1917 rifles cali- it was too vicious or violent. But it has ber .30-06 which we shipped without cost always cropped up again. It is now ap- to the British after Dunkirk are being proaching the stage where it will require shipped back here for retail sale. Most of action on the part of a much wider seg- these rifles are being marketed through ment of American citizens to keep this outlets which are not set up to check elementary American right from being them for safety, reliability or accuracy. further violated. Incidentally, Model 1917's as orginally sold Members of the Legion, shooters and through Government outlet channels at ... To Bring Your Town non-shooters alike, should give some $7.50 are fetching as high as $37.50 through thought to this problem while there is the hock-shop and mail outlets; and be- still time; otherwise we'll wake up some cause of the shortage of rifles, are actually An OLD-FASHIONED day to find that any group able to seize finding buyers. police control can actually do what mili- An even screwier fact is that British tary might could not—overthrow our lib- discarded SMLE rifles (Short Model Lee erty as has already been done in so many Enfields, Caliber .303) and ammunition European countries under similar condi- are also allegedly being" offered to the tions. American market in quantity. If these Hunting itself is a big business in our rifles are available in serviceable condi- country today. The U. S. Fish and Wild tion, why isn't our Army Mission in Greece AM? Life Service says that ending June 30, 1947, buying them up for the Greek forces? In- 12,066,763 of us laid out $28,558,477 for stead we are purchasing new rifles of the hunting licenses alone! Add to that the same design and caliber but later manu- Like the Stars with go the Stripes cost of arms, ammunition, clothing, travel facture from Great Britain at a cost of and freedom goes with America, so and other incidentals and we see that 9 pounds each. If these rifles and their fireworks have always been associ- hunters form an important segment of our ammunition are not suitable for use in ated with Independence Day. Yet, in national life. the Greek hills, should sale be permitted British many places, folks haven't seen a That, however, is the least part of this for American sporting use? .303 vicious registration picture which would is an official caliber in Greece. It is so real fireworks display in years. Per- make criminals of every shotgun owner inferior to our own that it has never been haps that's true in your town, too. who failed to present himself yearly to a accepted here by competent shooters. Our Your Legion Post can win a lot of courthouse for a permit which might or Model 1917, incidentally, is widely used prestige and spread a lot of pleasure might not be granted. in China. by climaxing the traditional cele- Whatever the intent of such legislation There is a legitimate market here now bration of the Fourth with a thrill- ing fireworks display. And, maybe it will help folks think a little more about the things that make our coun-

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possibly dangerous used military arms. 122 EAST 63RD ST. • CHICAGO 37, ILLINOIS • TEL. ENGLEWOOD 6644 American manufacturers are working full shifts to meet sporting demands, but a flood of foreign military rifles can serious- ly disrupt their marketing organizations. ATHLETES FOOT It is certainly most desirable that we standardize the equipment and calibers of our friends with our own—Russia is doing exactly that. But obsolete equipment may

very profitably be checked and re-issued Paratroopers . . . ex-para-

! ! troopers . . . sportsmen to nations currently where we are supply- Here are your boots. For ing costly new equipment, and where care duty, for dress, or for hunt- tov>« ing, fishing, hiking and all and maintenance factors are such that kinds of outdoor use. The older weapons are often even more valu- famous soft, comfortable \ and very rugged boots able than more complicated new types. •worn by paratroopers Weapons not suitable for Greece and during the war are now available in two styles China should be scrapped, not used to . . . one military, the line the pockets of opportunists. other, civilian . . both similar in con If our State Department is issuing large struction, design scale import permits for war junk rifles, and high qual- standards. if our Department of Defense is spending money for foreign missions without con- Use Doctor's Famous Prescription the Moment sidering cost and suitability of cheaper Toes Itch or Skin Between Toes is Cracked equipment, or if the War Assets Adminis- Athlete's foot is highly infectious. If tration is being empowered to unload mu- tracked into your home, it exposes every nitions for private profit which might bet- member of your family to it. Do not ter be shipped to military missions, it's wait. At the first sign of itching, cracked, Not Government Surplus Stock raw or peeling skin between the toes or about time someone in Congress started Paratroop Jump Boots on the feet get Dr. Scholl's Solvex. It thinking about the taxpayers. This un- — The same boots worn by Paratroopers dur- acts in 4 effective ways: ing war. Comes in tan elk finish. healthy situation is costing us all money. 1 Quickly relieves intense itching Paratroop Hunting Boots Another question that needs an official 2 Kills the fungi of Athlete's Foot, on contact Same features as Paratroop Jump Boots, answer is this: The M 1 (Garand) Rifle 3 Aids in prevention of spreading only made in heavy-oiled waterproof elk Helps promote natural healing finish. and the Carbine are still first line arms. 4 INC STOUGHTON, MASS. You as a Legionnaire can't buy them. Dr. Scholl's Solvex (Liquid, Ointment CORCORAN or Powder) only at Drug, Shoe and Send pair of Paratroop Jump Boots Where are certain arms dealers getting Department Stores. Don't accept a sub- Hunting Boots large quantities of parts to build these stitute. Insist on Dr. Scholl's Solvex. Enclosed find check or money order. weapons? How can they sell them at a for$10.87il will pay postage C.O.D. fraction of Government cost? the end Name. Address June, 1948 33 D'Scholls SOLVEX Regular shoe size and width AF.6 ? YOUR CANDIDATE IN «tt it be in school, on the playing fields, or in terviews learned how each one functioned, the affairs of real life after we reach and how that division was interlocked in (Continued from page 25) maturity. the general pattern of the national gov- excitement. A State election with the Election to one of the highest State ernment. We were introduced to and were actual offices at stake could hardly have offices, after breaking through the almost addressed by President Truman, Secretary been more exhilerating or inspiring to a solid lines of the opposition party, seemed of State Marshall, Secretary of Agriculture similar group of qualified voters. to me to be high honor won on so brief Anderson, Secretary of the Interior Krug, Instruction in the particular duties of an acquaintance with my fellow citizens. General Vandergrift, Admiral Nimitz, the several offices in the local and State Therefore I was somewhat overwhelmed world famous foreign correspondents and governments was given by men qualified when, by secret ballot held under general radio news analysts, and many others. The to speak because, for the most part, that rules governing State elections, I was entire list would read like a roll of official instruction was given by the men who chosen as one of the two delegates to rep- Washington. actually held the high offices. Governor resent the Arkansas Boys' State in the In addition to this strenuous program of Ben Laney, who had followed the simu- Boys' Forum of National Government at instruction the Legion planners had man- lated government with the closest atten- Washington, where the general activities aged to sandwich in sightseeing tours to tion, told the citizens about the practical centered around the campus of American patriotic shrines and famous places such workings of the office of the Governor of University. Governor Pierce Matheny was as the White House, Washington Monu- Arkansas. He was followed by other State chosen as the other delegate. I must confess ment, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, and local officers, and not the least in that I did get an additional thrill when the Supreme Court Building, Library of interest was a conducted tour through the the vote was announced— it meant that my Congress, offices and museum of the Fed- Capitol and a comprehensive review of home city, my school and my Legion Post eral Bureau of Investigation, Tomb of the what goes on there. By that time the citi- sponsor for the second time would be rep- Unknown Soldier, Mount Vernon, General Lee's home at Arlington, U. S. Naval Aca- demy at Annapolis, to mention only a part of the list. That in itself was a mar- velous experience. I was awed when I stood under the great dome of the National Capitol, and was filled with wonder when I came to see with my own eyes the im- mensity of the Pentagon Building. That, too, was part of my education. That each one who attended the Arkan- sas Boys' State and the National Boys' Forum of National Government was meas- urably helped in many ways need not be repeated. Some of us— I can speak for my- self — have a quickened interest in State, national and international affairs as a re- sult of some of the lessons and demonstra- tions, and particularly as a result of per- sonal contacts made at Little Rock and zens of Boys' State had come to have a resented in the National Boys' Forum. Washington. Let me speak for myself and personal interest — rather than a more or Charles Perry, one class ahead of me in give one example. I have always been in- less impersonal acceptance of the reality high school, was a 1946 delegate. terested in sports. The sport pages made of government—because they now realized The National Boys' Forum is but an up most of my newspaper reading before that they, too, were important parts of the expansion of the idea of the Boys' State I went to the Boys' State at Little Rock. entire plan. at the national level, but is more limited When I came back home I found myself To some of us it was a rather sudden and more restricted in attendance because reading the State news and particularly awakening. Little Rock and the domed of the long distances most of the delegates the news about governmental matters that Capitol were far removed from most of must travel to reach Washington, and the came out of the national capital. Then, our homes and from our daily lives. On problem in these post-war days of finding after the trip to Washington and after un- that tour through the nerve center of the a place to house, feed and instruct a large dergoing the intensive course of instruc- real State government I was taken to the group. Speaking of feeding, a subject al- tion given in the Forum, my reading office of C. G. ("Crip") Hall, Secretary of ways of interest to healthy, growing boys interest broadened. It even included a State, and there as a beginning filling a —the food situation was kept well in hand, study of the Marshall Plan for the relief simulated office I was inducted into the fully justifying the claim that Legionnaires of Europe. Why? Without realizing it I work of the Secretary of State by Mr. Hall are always good foragers. The first supper, had been led into this new channel of himself. That night simulated sessions of served at the University, was good old reading and thinking because of the per- the Senate and House of Representatives Southern fried chicken which was relished sonal contacts made at Little Rock and were held in the legislative halls directly by the delegates from the North and West Washington. under the supervision of men experienced as well as those of us who know the deli- I cannot express in words my gratitude in legislative procedure. The Boys' State cacy on its home grounds. After that the to The American Legion for giving me the judicial system was completed from police full hundred delegates had meals at such privilege better to acquaint myself with to the Supreme Court. places as the Statler Hotel, the private the government of my State and Nation, Aside from the educational values and dining room of the U. S. Senate, in a thereby equipping me to be a better citi- the practical knowledge of how we keep Pentagon cafeteria, the National Press Club zen and to take my rightful place in so- our government going, of equal importance and other places that we knew of through ciety. It will help me to contribute toward was the opportunity the simulated State the newspapers. improving our national and world condi- gave to meet boys from all sections of The schedule of one week was a crowded tions. Then, I learned to appreciate more Arkansas. There we learned other lessons one, with preliminary caucuses and elec- fully the honor, as well as the duty and in what might be called human relations, tions in order to complete a national gov- responsibility, of being an American citi- in good sportsmanship, in getting along ernment comparable to the State govern- zen. I only hope that more boys will be with people, of caring for ourselves in a ment the delegates had just helped to able to attend Boys' State and the National school of give and take, and in developing organize. This work out of the way, with Boys' Forum, because I feel certain they such talents of leadership that we might Edmond Gong of elected President, will all be eager to make good use of the possess. The lasting friendships made there we were taken on tours to every depart- invaluable experience they receive through will help us all to a better understanding ment of the Government, met the heads of the educational program of The American of our fellows and their problems, whether each department and through informal in- Legion. the end

34 * The American Legion Magazine • June, 1948 What BIG difference haie 60 years made?

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Contributed by this magazine in co-operation with the Magazine Publishers of America us a public servia Advertisement SOMETHING NEW IN MEN'S SUITS

One company to feel the magic of what modern marketers call a special "sales advantage" is Mayfield, Ken- tucky's 50-year-old Merit Clothing Co., Inc., makers of Style-Mart Suits for men. Show Biz "Fit, comfort and good looks," said Back in 1944-45 a lot of 9th Air Force Merit's president, William F. Foster, learned outfit boys about an called the to his designers, "depend on the hang GI Gypsies. This traveling service show, and fit in the neck and shoulder area the brain-child of Paul Olsen, Army . . . let's do something about it." entertainment technician, helped to amuse the flying fellows from England put a swivel snap on one end of a cord That something was a new idea in to Germany. and taped the other. Tests showed that popular-priced men's clothing: Care- When V-E Day arrived and the GI the tough, springy nylon worked ex- ful inspection and better shaping in Gypsies disbanded to civilian life from cellently as a check cord. He also de- the neck and shoulder region in all New York to California, Olsen returned vised a two-colored dog leash. For both standard men's sizes. to Chicago as fond of his idea as ever. the check cord and the leash he coined Supplied with a name (NECK Why wouldn't veteran and civilian or- the name Featherlite. ZONE tailoring) ganizations like the musical and comedy As with the chute panels, he started and a slogan (No novelties they had dreamed up under selling them by direct mail, and by tak- Matter How You Twist or Turn, fire, just as the Joes had? With this in ing small space in a few selected maga- NECK ZONE Stays Put) by Merit's mind Olsen, who had enrolled at zines. The 50-foot check cords sell for alert Prater Advertising Agency of Columbia College under the GI Bill, $2.50, 15-foot training cords cost $1.50, St. Louis, salesmen hit the road. rounded up a young musical combina- and the leashes in black and gold sell tion with four instruments with which for $1.50. Orders are coming in at a his ETO material jived perfectly. They rate which, Greenberg feels, calls for broke in the new act on the veterans expansion of his business. NO MATTER HOW YOU hospital circuit. Wherever they played At present he is operating from his hospitalized vets were enthusiastic over residence, 2310 Hamilton Road, Colum- the act. bus, Ga. He makes the cords and leashes But selling the act was difficult. Even himself, his wife helping him with the though it was good, with special mate- finishing touches. rial which had been written by Joshua —By David E. Fisher Logan, director-producer of such Broadway hits as Annie Get Your Gun, Flowers Plus Happy Birthday and John Loves Mary, George Brown was working in his theatrical agents shrugged their shoul- father-in-law's flower shop in Cincin- ders and pointed out that show busi- nati when he got an idea that put him ness was in a slump. and his friend, Harry Karlson, in busi- So Olsen started sending out mailing ness for themselves. George learned that pieces to everyone he thought might florists were having trouble getting want his unusual European-type show. enough novelty flower containers to fill The first response came from a ladies' orders, so he decided that the field was club, which booked the boys for an open for a small industry. He discussed entertainment they gave at Chicago's the matter with Karlson. Congress Hotel. Then the Gypsies tied After careful planning, Brown and in with a drive for hospitalized vets, Karlson, who had met in the Air Corps, following which they started to get obtained wood-working machinery and bookings with American Legion Posts moved into an empty building where and the D.A.V. they started turning out flower holders. With the rough edges off the show, Most of the novelties they make are Olsen is now sitting pretty. His Gypsies mounted on wood bases six inches wide are being booked by a top talent agency, and a foot long. The ones designed for Music Corporation of America, and maternity cases include, beside the he's off for the big-time. bowl, a toy for the new baby. One, —By Hal Johnson for card-players has a pitcher to hold the flowers while beside the container Doggy Stuff is a stack of chips and a poker deck. Neck Zone, the exclusive Sam Greenberg got out of the Army Plastic and glass parts of the products tailoring feature of with about a thousand dollars in his are purchased in wholesale lots. The STYLE MART Suits for men— prevents unsightly bank account and an itch to put it to finished flower holder is hand decor- collar gap. work. Settling in Columbus, Ga., he ated in bright colors and sells for about spent some of his money at a WAA a dollar and a quarter each. sale buying a quantity of nylon para- While the first orders came from chutes. Soon he was selling panels from Cincinnati and vicinity, business has Style-Mart Suits with NECK ZONE the chutes by direct mail to women now expanded so that the holders are tailoring looked, felt, fit better. Cus- buyers all over the country. The ladies going to all parts of the country. Two tomers responded. Sales jumped. used the nylon to make blouses, slips, salesmen will soon go on the road Quantity buying of materials kept scarves, hankies and feminine unmen- covering Michigan, Ohio and Pennsyl- tionables. vania. Much of the business represents prices low. Good Housekeeping In- But the nylon cording shroud lines repeat orders, and volume is such that stitute tested Style-Mart Suits. Each remained. What to do with them? 100 units of each item are made at a one now carries the Good Housekeep- After consulting with an advertising time. ing Guaranty of satisfaction or refund man, Sam finally hit on the idea that Under the name of the Goth Manu- of money. the cord, trimmed clean and cut into facturing Co., the ex-GI's operate at Today, a leader in its field, Merit proper lengths, could be made into 1109 Vine Street, Cincinnati. looks check cords used in training dogs. He —By George Laycock forward to even greater sales as more men learn the comfort, style and fit of NECK ZONE tailored Style-Mart Suits. June, 1948 37 Advertisement )

INSURANCE IS LIKE LOVE back now I see that it was really fun. because I composed some of the meanest ( Continued from page 21 letters I ever wrote and sent them at ran-

policy number on letters, checks, money dom to anybody in the VA whose name 1 orders. For good measure put your service could discover — and there is something number on too. Communicate on insurance pleasant about being righteously outraged. matters only with the VA Branch Office I really hate to go into this here, be- in your area — it has all your insurance cause maybe you won't believe me when records." I say it makes no difference. So let me There it is, comrades. I can do no more. repeat that if you have made all your But far be it from me to pretend that payments on time, and have done it with the veteran is always at fault and the VA check or money order so that you have is always an angel in handling your ac- a record of payment, then you are insured. Make those carefree summer days count. The VA insurance division, you will Your Legion Service Officer can use your doubly enjoyable by living in a new if ZIMMER TRAILER. Scientific engineer- remember you read last June's issue of records to set the VA straight if they think

ing is your assurance of "top" per- this magazine, was pretty badly loused up. otherwise. The biggest danger to you in formance. All-aluminum top and Today it is better, but still not perfect. such a situation is that you will get so body — baked enamel finish — "all- One of the worst things that happened a mad you really will omit the next pay- weather" insulation and ample living year ago was that a fellow who paid his ment and your policy will really lapse. accommodations for 4 to 6 persons are premiums properly would get word from You may think that by such action you just a few of the many features assur- ing you high resale value. Remember the VA that his policy had lapsed because are getting even with the VA but you are —for an exceptional trailer at low they said he hadn't paid. This was mad- really throwing the cheapest $10,000 estate cost, it's the ZIMMER every time. dening, and it had a lot of veterans talking you can buy right down the drain. If THE to themselves. It happened to me. Looking there's a difference of opinion between

~ TRAILEI ABIAN A. WALLGREN 1892 — 1948

Abian A. (Wally) Wallgren was working WELL HOW on the cartoon which would have filled DO YOU — HEAR? this space when he died on March 24th Oo you miss words? Do voices lometimes sound indistinct? May- at Delaware County Hospital, Upper be your "usual HEARzone" is lim- Darby, Pa. Wally, whose drawings were ited? To expand it, try a . . . known to all Legionnaires, was the favorite PARAVOX cartoonist of War One doughboys, a member of the staff of Stars and Stripes %W\\l&l HEARING AID throughout its War One existence from Thomondi of people use Paravox, now, to Write expand electrically the "usual HEARzone" for February 1918 to June 1919. He was a loyal (that distance beyond which normal con- versation tends to become unintelligible). FREE Legionnaire, Past Commander of the Try one. Discover truth of better hearing. facts about ally Thomas Roberts Reath Marine Post 186 Paravox clearly increases sounds. One your "usual M year "on-the-spot" service guarantee. HEARzone*' in Philadelphia, a resident of Drexel Hill, Accepted by the Council on Physical Medicine, American Medical Aeeociation Pa., an active of PARAPHONK HEARING AID. INC. member Forty and Eight 2O01-C E.4th St. • CLEVELAND IS, OHIO and a regular cartoonist of this magazine, the National Legionnaire and the Forty and Eighter. During War One he ably reduced the miseries of the doughfoot to the level at which could laugh at Bronze Memorials 1 men their own troubles. One of his most Show your respect for their deeds H famous characters was the Salutin' in imperishable bronze. Without obligation B we will furnish information about our wide H Demon who, in one classic in- range of Bronze Memorials and distinctive B Honor Roll Tablets. WRITE US TODAY! H stance, saluted the feet showing at the bottom of a Paris street latrine

DIPT. 1, MINNEAPOLIS. MINN •'. for fear they might belong to an officer. The Demon was modeled MECHANICS • HOME STUDY after Wally 's friend, Hudson Haw- Step up your own skill with facts & figures of your trade. Audels Mechanics Guides contain Practical Inside Trade ley, and many of his other char- Information in handy form. Fully illustrated. Easy to Understand, lliglilv Endorsed. Check hook you want for acters were pirated from his actual 7 days' Free Examination. Send no Money. Nothing to pay postman. DCarpentrySG • AutoS4« Oil Burners $1 circle of acquaintances. Hoosegow Sheet Metal SI • Welding SI • Refrigeration S4 Plumbing S6 • Masonry $6» Painting S2 • Radio S4 Herman was another Wally favor- Electricity S4« Mathematics S'2 • Steam Engineers $4 Machinist • Blueprint S2»DI>iesclS2 • l.)rawing$2. S4 ite, and so was his rollicking de- If satisfied vou pay only SI a month until price is paid. AUDEL, Publishers, 49 W. 23 St.. New York 10, N. Y. partment of Helpful Hints, none of which were exactly SOP. Wally maintained the quality of his MUSIC down-to-earth humor though suf- BE YOUR OWN TEACHER! fering from the illness which way Learn at home this money-saving eventually caused his death. The It's ensy as A-B-C. no matter which in- Wally's famous Yua learn by Ftrament yoa want to play. is poorer passing. playing real melodies from actual notes world by his Saluting Demon instead of tiresome exercises. Everything- is in print and pictures. First yoa read how to play a tune. Then a picture shows you how. Hft>,oi)0 Finally you play it and hear how it sounds. Some of our pupils are now BAND LEADERS. If you want to learn music fast. send poBt card for FREE 36 pa*re Booklet and Print & Picture sample. Mention instrument* Don't delay—write today! (Onr 49th Yr.) FREE U.S. SCHOOL OF MUSIC BOOKLET 1376 Brunswick Bids. • New York 10, N. V. 38 The American Legion Magazine you and the VA about the status of your we added to the paper work by dropping policy, go right on making your payments our policies or just letting them run out. while you or your Legion Service Officer It was awful! are straightening out the difference of The dropping of those policies by vet- opinion. erans, no matter what the reason, was a You may well ask: What happens to shocking thing. To give you an idea of such payments, which I would make after how shocking listen to this. A short while the VA has told me that my policy has ago our comrade, John Thomas Taylor, lapsed, if it should turn out that I was the Legion's legislative director, was ex- in error and the policy really had lapsed? plaining to a group of Legion rehabilitation Would I not be throwing good money workers what the Legion had done in the after bad? way of getting benefits for War Two vet- The answer is a flat no. The VA has to erans. He pointed out with justifiable return any money you sent them after the pride that 155 laws had been passed grant- actual date that your policy lapsed, if it ing benefits amounting to 30 billion dollars. really did. Your Service Officer can get Nearly all of this is to make up, in one fast action on the readjustment if there is any trouble. Meanwhile, if it turns out that the VA was in error about your policy > ASroR INDUS lapsing you will have maintained your IN O - On good status during the time it took to straighten things out, and only the VA c r" o 0 o will be embarrassed. >2 h a Fortunately the above remarks are ad- 5 3 ~ dressed to an ever smaller group of vet- erans. More and more policies are running smoothly today, and the biggest bunch of lapse louse- ups is over. The VA made that maddening error most often over a year ago when it decentralized from one main office in New York to thirteen Branch Offices throughout the country. That step had to be made. There was neither the office space nor the available personnel in New York to handle the business. While the change was being made many records got split up, and vet- erans made payments to offices which didn't have their records. ''I'm sorry — I'm a Everything is on the upbeat today. Most stranger here myself!" of the fouled up accounts are not new AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ones, but those which were fouled up two years ago. VA Chief Carl Gray—suc- cessor to General Bradley—told Legion way or another, injury done to veterans, Commander Jimmy O'Neil on March 9 of their wives and children, as a result of this year that unapplied payments had military service—be it loss of income, edu- shrunk from the staggering total of two cational set-back, actual physical or men- and a half million down to 669,000, and tal injury or loss of life. that of those, probably not more than Most of us are men, our lives are de- 2,400 were beyond redemption. The VA voted to protecting our wives and chil- Insurance Conservation Officer in the VA dren, and we feel our war losses most Branch office in your area would like to keenly as they harm us in our efforts to have facts and figures from you if you provide for our wives and children, or think you are one of those 669,000. other dependents. As a result of tireless But many things have been done to vigilance 30 billion dollars in benefits have make amends to the veteran for the ad- been achieved. But during the same time mitted bad situation that existed, things those gains were made veterans have unique in the insurance world. Let's re- dropped a potential of 115 billions of dol- view the bad situation and see how resti- lars in National Service Life Insurance — tution has been made possible. which is direct protection where we feel You probably know that right after the its need the most, for our wives and chil- war VA insurance was in a frightful mess. dren. Five and a half million policies, or Eighteen million policies on which the a potential protecting future widows and X c -Jj Army and Navy had been handling the orphans of veterans in the amount of 36 payments were dumped on the VA over- billion dollars, remain in force. night. We vets started paying the premiums The insurance is not a substitute for the and we were running all over the country, other benefits. Most of those others help changing our addresses, sending in uniden- guarantee the income and health of vet- tified premiums and otherwise doing our erans while they live, while most of the part to mess it up. Even if we had all done insurance protects the futures of our de- everything right the VA, with its un- pendents. trained personnel and its staggering load, Now to get back to our insurance mess. couldn't have done the job right. Today the VA has cleared up a tremend- Things started to back up, and instead ous part of this chaos. It could clear up of getting better, they got worse. Then what's left of it even faster if hundreds about 12 V2 million of us got sore, or didn't of thousands of veterans would stop con- properly appreciate insurance anyway, and suming the VA's time by sending in cor- "> Z a* a O June, 1948 39 respondence which is so poorly identified that there are a great many other pro- UPPOfaSportsmen that it cannot be handled in a routine way. visions regarding reinstatement besides But meanwhile, it has been felt by. all this routine one, and if you wish to LOOP concerned that many of the lapsed poli- reinstate your policy but think you are ^ cies were dropped as a result of the un- an exceptional case and might not be LIGHTER fortunate jumble in handling the accounts. eligible under the broad rule, talk over $300 The value of the dropped policies is so your problem with your Legion Service initials $1.00 extra great that it was felt that extraordinary Officer to find out if you are eligible any- steps should be taken to reactivate them. way. If he doesn't know the answer right 0 At your After all they add up to nearly four times off he knows where to get it. For instance all other War Two dollar benefits. there is one exception to the "comparable dealer All along the line corrective steps were health" reinstatement privilege. A man taken. The American Legion, the other who was totally disabled when his policy Can be fattened ZIPPO veterans organizations, the Congressional lapsed can't reinstate if he is still totally to chain, strap MFG. or CO. Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the Vet- disabled. Yet there is no reason for him tord and cannot be Dept. L erans Administration and many private in- to disqualify himself. His idea of total dropped or lost. Bradford, Pa. surance companies as well as individuals disability may not be the same as that of in the insurance world have concerned the VA and he cannot hurt himself by HTER themselves with the problem. Former applying. President Herbert Hoover today To return to the general reinstatement ALSO DEMAND ZIPPO FUNTS AND FLUID heads up a commission investigating all government rule, it is a unique provision, without prec- Build Your Own Trailer with agencies with a view to making sugges- edent in the insurance world, and a real NATIONAL'S Simplified Plans tions for improvement. Under this com- way in which the VA has said, "I'm sorry." Beat the housing shortage with a full- mission is a subcommittee of skilled in- This provision has already been well size house on wheels or add new pleasure ro your vacations and week-ends with surance men, headed by the first elected worth-while. As of last March 1,319,500 It's Easy! a sleek sport trailer. Step-by-step in- National Commander of The American veterans had applied for reinstatement and structions and complete bill of materials with every plan. Three different models Legion, Franklin D'Olier, retired chairman it was granted to 1,297,500 of them, to the PUIIONil HOOfl 77: A 27-ft. luxury liner of the board of the Prudential Insurance tune of seven and three quarters billions with ) rooms, Ij'jtory, sleeping space Economical! QQ J| Company, and including other able men of dollars in life insurance coverage for MTtBMl MOOtL 20: A 20 ft cabin rutin d looking ind sturdy, wilh beds QQ from other insurance companies, which is their dependents. Of the remaining 22,000 H1II0NIL CAMPER The sport iniler you've investigating and making recommenda- who applied many of the applications were hsh ns , ' t " ,on, - rC»o' pS"* ! : .50 tions for the improvement of VA insur- still pending at the time of that report. ORDER AU THREE — AND GET ONE FREE Complete sel 52 00 ance administration. Let's make sure now that if you apply Big ports catalog rilrri I will not go further into the details of for reinstatement, you do it right the first FREE with any order! rfltfj those matters which are problems only for time. NATIONAL TRAILER STORES the men who administer the insurance. It You simply make out a reinstatement DEPT. 63, BOX 2353 TERMINAL AN 10S ANGELES 54, (Allf. is important that you know that the most form (a one-pager which you can get capable men in the country, including in- from your Legion Service Office or the l u g er surance experts are if your health is comparable 9 M. M. SHELLS MS p 3 8 4:25 for 50 who members of The VA) and American Legion, are hammering away to to what it was when your policy lapsed

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Lewis Hotel Training School Room NH-4724. Washington 7, O. C. 32: Send mo the Free Hook. "Your Ilig Opportunity." without obligation. I wish to know how to Qualify for a well-paid position at home, in my leisure time. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Name Address The American Legion Magazine City Zone State 40 Check here if eligible under 0.1. Hill of Itigbts hearing last January testified in answer to pay up the back premiums when you to a question from Representative R. T. reinstate term insurance. Send two months Ross of New York that "... Ordinarily premiums along with the form, and there- New Way to Own the man's statement is satisfactory . . . after keep paying your premiums on time. (Health examinations for reinstatement) That too is important. It tells you on the are very rare . . . Probably there isn't form to start making regular payments, one of 10,000 applications that are re- New Hearing Aid! quired to take a physical examination." Mr. Breining may have been overly op- timistic in that report. The actual figures from the field indicate that, for one rea- son or another, one of sixty applicants (22,000 out of 1,319,500) fail to qualify for reinstatement. It's a good guess that all those who fail, plus many who get by, take the health exam. So probably two or three in a hundred, rather than "not one in 10,000" take health exams. But those are still good odds, and a much better break than will be open to veterans after this coming July 31. After July 31st all reinstatement appli- cations will have to prove insurable health by examination, like any other insurance. The generous provisions of "comparable health" hold only until then. form "He's grouchy if he doesn't get his When it comes to filling out the 1" coffee first thing in the morning. for reinstatement, experience has shown AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE that a few certain errors made by vet- erans result in unnecessary red tape. Let me prep you on them. and it actually means that. In other words, Questions 8, 9 and 10 relate to health. you don't wait until you hear from the All three must be answered (as must VA that your reinstatement is okay, but • Comes To You By Mail every other question.) Questions 8 and you start paying as if it were okay. I think • Satisfaction Guaranteed 10 call for checking Yes or No. check that's a lousy statement to make, because A Or Your Money Back mark must appear or the VA clerks have somebody failed to add that if they don't • Just Clip Coupon Below no authority to reinstate the insurance. accept the reinstatement for any reason In thousands of cases to date neither the then you positively get all that money So Good We Can Offer You This Yes nor the No has been checked, the back. You do, and they ought to reassure MONEY-BACK TRIAL! veteran apparently assuming that no you on the form that you do, because it Wear the Zenith "75" at home, at work, answer means No. It doesn't. leaves room in your mind for an uneasy anywhere. If it isn't better than you ever Question 9 asks if medical treatment has suspicion that you might lose. You can't dreamed ANY hearing aid could be, re- turn it within 10 days of receipt and been received or illness suffered since the lose. Any money you ever send the VA Zenith will refund your money in full. policy lapsed. It too must be answered Yes for insurance which doesn't actually insure or No, and if the answer is Yes some de- you is yours, and you get it back. If you Have you often wished you could try a tails must be written in. Yet thousands have have any trouble getting it back your superb hearing aid without going through failed to fill in the details and the form Legion Service Officer will work for you. embarrassing "fittings" or exposing your- has inescapably bounced right back. Per- Keep paying those premiums on time. self to high-pressure salesmen? The new single-unit Zenith "75" offers you this haps veterans don't feel qualified to an- Before I close this brief run-over, here golden opportunity, and you do not risk swer a question on medicine. And who are some other changes that have been a penny! would blame them? made in your service insurance that liber- Saves you over $ 1 00, too ! Because the new The best way to handle this is to re- alize it. Zenith "75" needs no "fitting" comes member that when you make out a sworn • When you were in service you could — to you by mail — it also saves you over statement your signature at the bottom only name certain close relatives as your $100 cash money. If its price had to in- that statements true to the any- means the are beneficiaries. Today you can name clude "fitting," middlemen's profits and best of your knoweldge. You can fill in the one, and that means you can change the high sales commissions, this top quality details on Question 9 in your own lan- choice you made in service if you wish, hearing aid would have to sell for $195 guage and to the best of your ability, and and, later, change it again if you wish. instead of $75! So do as tens of thousands that's enough. • When you were in service you could have already done. Find new happiness If you had a bad cold and went to the only use one "option." An insurance "op- and success by mailing the coupon below doctor and he said, "hmmm," and gave you tion" is simply your choice of how you —right now! RADIOS some pills and a pat on the back and want the money paid to your beneficiary. BY THE MAKERS OF WORLD-FAMOUS ZENITH wrote down acute coryza on the record, You will recall that once you were stuck Look only to your doctor for advice on your or anything else unknown to you, you with a certain amount per month to your SwHHffj ears and hearing don't have to give the VA that medical wife or other named survivor depending ^=£^5?—MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY terminology. Just answer Question 9 by on her age at the time. Today there are 1 Zenith Radio Corporation telling about the medical treatment as you four choices, yours to make, one of which Hearing Aid Division, Dept. AL68 5801 Dickens Avenue, Chicago 39, 111. understood it. That's all your signature at is cash settlement for the full value of — 1 I enclose check or money order for $75* the bottom swears to. the policy. ' "75" —' for one Zenith Hearing Aid. Unless On the reinstatement form there is a And there is one other thing that is im- I am completely satisfied and find the Zenith — "75** superior to any other hearing aid, I space to enter the date of application portant today, in view of the fact that so may return it within ten days of receipt the date you signed the form. Don't let it many dealings with the VA in the past and get my money back in full. *Plus tax $1.50 in Illinois or York sit around the house after that date, for on insurance have been unsatisfactory. of New City; $1.88 in California, except Los Angeles, unless the envelope containing the form These dealings have led many veterans $2.25. is postmarked five days after the date of to be suspicious of the VA, I mean sus- ~~j Please send me free descriptive literature. application it's not acceptable. picious in the sense that they feel there Name.. How's about money? You don't have might be a desire for gain on the part of Address June, 1948 41 City State.. )

the VA. Whatever may have happened I PICK WALCOTT this suspicion is unfounded. ( Continued jrom page 23 The VA is powerless to profit in any But since his return in 1944, his record way from your policy or your premiums. has been impressive enough. He lost a de- All the premiums go into a special fund cision to Roxy Allen which he reversed in the U. S. treasury which is a trust fund in 1945. In 1946, he dropped verdicts to for those War Two vets who carry in- Joey Maxim and Elmer Ray, but he re- surance. All the rules and regulations are versed them in short order. Prior to the aimed at protecting the War Two vets as first Louis brawl, Jersey Joe Walcott had a group. The entire insurance sum col- lost but three fights in four years as he lected is theirs and nobody else's, to be was achieving strength, maturity and guile. spent fairly in insurance claims and, if in is Every important batting Walcott is fortunate that he the record in Baseball has been more is on hand than is needed to meet best fighter among one of the worst crops Slugger made with a Louisville these claims, to be returned to War Two of heavyweights extant in any period. Be- bat. Look for the H&8 oval trade- the mark and a famous player's written vets in dividends. The VA has to do hind Louis and Walcott, the rest of the signature on the barrel end. work, keep the records, and enforce those pack -looms as a group of second-raters or rules which are necessary to keep the in- worse. But Walcott has now been imbued The 1948 edition of H&B's Famous surance on a fair basis in terms of what with a mission in life. He still retains, for Slugger Year Book is ready now. vets pay for it. The VA never gets title the most part, his outward placidity, but Get your copy from your to your money, it operates on public funds he is given to swift flashes of temper. Louisville Slugger dealer allocated by Congress, and every day the I know. I spoke to him at a Philadelphia or send 5c direct to us premiums received from veterans are night club after the Police Gazette had coin) to (stamps or turned over to the insurance trust fund tendered him a heavyweight championship mailing. Address cover in the Treasury for War Two vets. When belt. Walcott was called away from the L-21 Hillerich Dept. , you drop your insurance you are drop- table to pose for a picture. So I chatted & Bradsby, Inc., ping your own interest in this trust fund. with Joe Holmes, his brother-in-law. I Louisville 2, Ky. Those past troubles which have been the was seeking the usual background material fault of the VA rather than the veterans for Holmes has always been extremely have all been reflections of the job the VA close to Jersey Joe, travelling with him was doing in the situation it was in, not during the dog days. When Walcott re- of the motives of the VA employees. turned, he noticed me speaking to Holmes. By now it should be plain that I think "I'll do all the talking here," he flared, you should reinstate your insurance if it lips compressed tightly, to Holmes. And he has dropped. I think you should keep it if seemed to be a bit hurt by my curiosity. you have it now. Your government life Before the evening closed, he was his insurance is a $10,000 estate bought on a amiable self again. But a glance at Walcott 1SP0T NEW "Magic Paste" bargain counter. I don't want to argue aroused gives you a queasy feeling. about it. I want to say that men who know During his frequent retirements, Jersey puis SILVER or NICKEL PLATE on Mi'IalS most about life insurance carry the most. Joe would try anything. He delivered ice, Just rub new "Magic Paste" on Iron, Brass or other metal Men who need it the least, because they he was a day laborer, a hod carrier. After article and PRESTO! It takes on INSTANTLY a heavy plating of REAL NICKEL or BEAUTIFUL SILVER. Makes are successful business men with other Jimmy Johnston's failure to procure a old or worn things like new. NO POISONOUS CYANIDES OR MERCURY. Fascinating profitable hobby. Sensational forms of wealth to leave their families, license for him, he felt that his cause was offer: Complete kit. SILVER or NICKEL: $2.50, both for $4.75, postpaid. C.O.D.'s few cents extra. Money back carry the most. I myself carry a little hopeless. It happened that he had not guarantee. more than I can carry comfortably—and as brought his birth certificate to the New INSTANT PLATING, Dept. 4, 1216 Park Row Bldg., New York 7 a result of my sticking my nose into life Jersey commissioner,, but from the way insurance matters to write this report to things were breaking, Jersey Joe didn't you I know more than you probably do care if he fought again or not. He turned ir= FALSE TEETH =n about how confusing and complicated it more and more to back-breaking labor. can be. But I'm hanging on to mine, be- This properly should have been the end FIT TIGHT cause, when all is said and done, it is 100% of the career, if any, of Jersey Joe Walcott, FOR LIFE OF PLATE true that for my premiums my family is one of the talented unknown and unspec- With One Application or YOUR MONEY BACK protected for the full amount jaf my tacular fighters of America who box in Professionally Developed policy, and that's enough for me. the end the highways and the byways and then Amazing slip into limbo, far short of the golden LINO-DENT grail that draws them all on. But a few tons of coal and a fellow who wanted to REAL COMFORT INSTANTLY FOR ALL PLATE WEARERS ... No fuss or bother — looseness and promote bouts in Camden helped change vanish — gum soreness heals and disap- pears — forever. the course of pugilistic history. Not Messy Not Sticky Not a paste or powder but an amazing develop- One Felix Bocchicchio of Camden ment In field of plastics. The same material modern dentures are made of. That's why we can guarantee wanted to promote bouts in Camden and perfect plate comfort permanently with one appli- cation. he figured that Walcott would provide a Absolutely Safe Pure, non-toxic, non-lrrltating, harmless, odorless, tasteless, pleasant. Needs no good local name. Walcott was then work- heat. Easy to use! Money back guarantee ing in the shipyards as a chipper, the guy SEND NO MONEY - Full size package only $ 1 plus Postage. Specify upner or lower. Both $2.00 plus i)ost;ii'« C.O.I). Enclose pavment and save postage. who holds an air drum when they chip (Dept. AL) 1199 BROADWAY LINO-DENT, Inc. NEW YORK 1. N. Y. rough edges off welding. There were eight Walcotts to feed at home and, not only that, there was not enough money to buy coal to warm the house. Bocchicchio FLEA stocked Walcott's coal bin and Jersey Joe PULVEX POWDER agreed to come out of retirement. Bocchicchio's investment in Walcott ran JEFF into more than coal as he tried to hit the WITH 5% DDT KEATE ... for dogs. Kills fleas and jackpot that beckons to a successful heavy- lice quick. Keeps fleas off 5- weight. In order to get the bout with 7 days. Many home uses. "Now I know why our people Baksi, it was necessary that the Walcott OR WITH ROTENONE started sarin 'ugh'!" f! people guarantee $35,000. Tex Sullivan, ... for cats, dogs. Quickly AMEKK'AN LEGION MAGAZINE kills fleas, lice. Kills fleas manager of Baksi, was skeptical about when put on a single spot^,,*? Pre-war formula. &*Jt*~ Legion Magazine EITHER KIND: JSt ft 30t ^ 42 The American !

Walcott's backers owning that kind of rounds. Louis entered as a 10 to 1, or pro- EVERYTHING FOR money. Bocchicchio heard about it. One day hibitive favorite, and doubts were ex- he dropped up to Sullivan's office, carry- pressed that the mysterious Jersey Joe ing a big black bag. In it was $35,000 in Walcott would even appear. How could cash. Bocchicchio posted $15,000 with Sul- this nobody stand up against the Louis livan. When the Garden paid off at $25,000 who had successfully defended his title the Camden promoter lost $10,000. But twenty-three times? Jersey Joe Walcott whipped Baksi and the Walcott stood up so well that at the end gamble by Bocchicchio eventually paid off. of the thirteenth round no less a student Guided carefully, intelligently, honestly, of fights than Abe Attell, who had bet Jersey Joe put up some splendid bouts. heavily on Louis, picked himself up in dis- Bivins rated 5 to 1 over him in Cleveland, gust and left the Garden.

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CHICAGO STREAMLITE CORPORATION but Jersey Joe's method upset him and the "When I heard the verdict," declares Dept. A.L., N. W. Corner 37th St. at Princeton. Chicago 9. Illinois experts. Of course, the other fellow has to Abe, "I felt I had found $3,500 on the lead to Walcott to produce a skirmish. floor. I did not see how Walcott could lose IT'S NEW When he boxed Joe Maxim in Los Angeles, that fight in the last two rounds unless he /^ in a bout in which promoter Frank Sinatra was knocked out." dropped plenty of money, Walcott and Louis did not knock out Jersey Joe Maxim, both cautious, "smelled out the Walcott, whom he defeated on a split de- TARGETTADACT PISTOLDIC mi joint," as they say in the trade. But the cision in that fight, and the way he is point is that Jersey Joe kept in first-rate going about it, he will not knock him out condition and was primed for the oppor- in this one either. Much has been made Here's new fun for tunity of a lifetime. of the fact that Louis dumps them con- shooters! For the new Meanwhile, Joe Louis had not had a real vincingly the second time — witness Crosman "Bullseye" offers ad- fight in six years. Don't forget that. On the Schmeling, Godoy, Bob Pastor, Conn, justable "power without powder" way up, Louis battled almost every month. Buddy Baer. for accuracy with safety indoors and out! No noise, no recoil, no odor, no cleaning! Perfect required almost as But Joe Louis has been approaching the He matches as much balance! Rifled barrel! Fine gunsmithing! Low cost! oxygen. And that steady action, with the Joe Walcott return combat with .an en- THAT'S what you get in this new .177 cal. single-shot now deceased Jack Blackburn as trainer, tirely erroneous mental attitude. After pistol of regulation target type and weight. Shoots Crosman Super-Pells at % cent per shot. No wonder enabled Louis to demonstrate continued the first battle, his face still well battered, they say no other pistol provides so much fun at such supremacy over the field. he asserted, small cost. At your sporting goods or hardware But from the moment that Joe entered "Next time I'll knock him out in three dealer's ... or write direct. the Army until his bout with Walcott, his rounds sure as daylight." Sile*tt only major tests were with Conn and Tami Louis held Walcott in such contempt Crosman RIFLE Mauriello. Conn never threw a real that, originally, he even refused to regard most amazing gun ever invented and the fattish Mauriello, who did not last him as a challenger for the first fight. He for target shooting indoors or out and for long, nevertheless staggered the softening was mistaken about Jersey Joe for the small game! Adjustable "power without powder" , . . no noise, recoil, odor or cleaning. Rifled barrel. Shoots low- Louis with the one blow he landed. Man's initial fray, and he appears to be repeat- cost Super-Pells. .177 or .22 col. single-shot or magazine tendency to hero worship failed to note ing himself for this one. Whereas, the models. At your dealer's ... or write direct. the deterioration in Louis and when he solidly-built, 195-pound Walcott has been CROSMAN ARMS CO., INC. was signed with Walcott — because nobody training diligently since April for the June 21 HENRIETTA ST. • ROCHESTER 7, N. Y. else was around—the affair was first sched- bout, Louis took altogether too much time uled as an exhibition. was out for exhibitions abroad. He averred that ten rounds. he could get into shape for Walcott within It is claimed that Walcott only got the title five weeks, but Joe Louis was thinking of chance in the first place because the tele- the young fellow he was ten years ago. A vision and radio contracts demanded that fighter in his thirties must engage in road DE LUXE 00 Louis box for the title at least once a year. work, in wood chopping, in sharp tune- WINDPROOF At any rate the "exhibition" was changed ups, must give it the long pull. Joe Louis LIGHTER 4 to a title match after prodding, and the has once again been practising to hit Wal- Streamlined — Precision Built. Louis- Walcott contest was extended to 15 cott, whereas the emphasis in his training Large Sea led -In Fuel Chamber. Easy to Fill. Lifetime Wick. At leading stores everywhere June, 1948 43 STATLER MANUFACTURING CO., CHICAGO 10, ILL should have been to build up the leg victory, this would be only the beginning power to catch him. as Walcott strove to cash in during the The series of exhibitions in which Louis remainder of the top-flight fighting time appeared in England this past winter left to him. would have slowed up a Louis in his Wealth, renown, respect, security—all of prime, let alone a 34-year old Louis who these loom for a Walcott who is a mature, is ten to twenty pounds over his best reflective fellow in his own right. Life has weight, who has had fourteen years of taught much to this deeply religious prize boxing, and whose reflexes have dulled. fighter, who smokes little and drinks less. Exhibitions of any length for fighters He and his children have starved too much are serious mistakes. Mike McTigue, the for him to take this fight lightly. light heavyweight champion of years gone A triumph would not make him the old- by, would have arrived a long time before est champion. Bob Fitzsimmons gained that he did had he not given boxing instruc- distinction at thirty-five, when he beat tions to wealthy clients. This careful fenc- Jim Corbett. Corbett at thirty-four al- ing inculcated a lack of aggressiveness in most regained his crown from the youth- Demolish And It via if McTigue, and placed stress on defensive ful Jim Jeffries until nature collared him When war came to the Philippines, tactics. For in exhibitions, or in lessons, in the twenty-third round. Both Fitz- Major General Hugh J. Casey, who is a champion does not go all out, or there simmons and Corbett were keen for the still General Douglas MacArthur's would be no exhibition fodder for him. fray even at this stage of their careers. Chief Engineer, had a special job to Terry McGovern was another devastating And that meant something. It will mean do. From the handful of available En- fighter who ran out of opponents and who something for Jersey Joe. gineer officers and a motley bunch of indulged in stage work. When he was But Joe Louis seems to be in the same civilian specialists he molded a group signed with Young Corbett, there were situation as Jack Dempsey, who at thirty- that soon earned the name of "Casey's simply no takers for bets. The great three, remarked disconsolately after the Dynamiters." In these early days of McGovern! But rustiness had set in, and it second fight with Gene Tunney: the war in the Pacific the only hope was Young Corbett who stowed McGovern "My legs were gone. I just couldn't catch was a successful withdrawal to the away in the second round. An eye-witness, the guy. I guess I'm an old man." Bataan Peninsula. Casey's Dynamiters, a friend of McGovern's, once told me: Mentally, at 34, champion Joe Louis is with their slogan "Demolish and De- "The stage work did it. Terry missed a an old man. The irony of it all is that this lay," became a dominant factor in all lot, and he was wide open. He wasn't time it will be an older man, with a tactical planning. Under the inspira- himself. Instead of his old style of tearing younger outlook, who will catch him. tion of this battle cry, one Philippine in with his head lowered, Terry slugged We'll sum it up this way. John L. Sulli- Army Engineer battalion alone de- from an upright position. He underesti- van and Jim Corbett each emerged from stroyed more than 150 road and rail- mated Corbett, who was a tough kid." three years of retirement to lose their road bridges during the withdrawal. If Terrible Terry McGovern, a much titles. Bob Fitzsimmons didn't try on a Throughout Luzon the Engineers younger warrior than Louis at the time of glove for two years—then he was knocked prepared bridges for demolition. When his decline, should have succumbed to ex- out by Jeffries. Jeffries, mountainous at withdrawing American and Filipino hibitions, why should not a Joe Louis, who 270 pounds and aged 35, came out of six forces were safely across, sometimes swung so much into the stage mood that years of idleness, scaled down to 225, when the surging Japanese had actual- he boxed an exhibition with Comedian trained for a full year—and then was ly set foot on a span, up it would go. Danny Kaye. Jersey Joe Walcott, grim and belted out by Jack Johnson in the fifteenth But the key job was to be on the great eager, hasn't Kaye's sense of humor. round. Jess Willard did not have a fight Calumpit Bridge over the Pampanga Joe Louis cannot gear himself for the for three years before Dempsey blasted River, scheduled for destruction on magnificent effort any more. Jersey Joe, him to pieces at Toledo. Joe Louis, with January 1, 1942. Calumpit was the bot- although a few months older than Louis, six years of inactivity behind him and with tleneck for the hordes escaping out of sleeps, lives, dreams of the second Louis a mental attitude gone sour, is all set to the Manila area and for the South Lu- fight with a zest given only to the young, leave the glory road. zon Force which had to reach Bataan. or the underprivileged. Walcott is not At any rate, at Yankee Stadium this At 6:15 A.M. the New Year was wel- young, but he could sure use the cham- June I pick Jersey Joe Walcott, the man comed with reverberations from the pionship. His board of strategy could slice they once called too old to fight, to win most significant single demolition of up a quarter of a million dollars with the the world heavyweight championship from the campaign. The Calumpit Bridge various takes from the bout in Yankee Joe Louis. And — don't be surprised if he filled the air with its own debris in Stadium on June 23. But if there were a knocks him out! the end sight of the advancing Japanese. But with the final phase of the Philippine Defense about to begin, Casey's Dyna- miters still had some unfinished busi- ness. As the enemy doubled his efforts to overcome the delaying tactics of the North Luzon Force rear guard, the little band of Engineers under Lt. Col. N. L. Manzano moved back into enemy territory from Calumpit to Meycauyan to destroy six bridges which the re- treating troops had not demolished. With their necessary movement al- ways from any hope of escape, the Engineers calmly continued their de- structive mission. They then managed to make their way through swamp and jungle into Bataan. The job done, General Casey re- ported to General MacArthur. "Sir, we've run clean out of bridges," he said, "it's up to the infantry now" —By Gordon Link and Evelyn Marion "The Pressure cooker blew up again, so come to dinner — quick /*' AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

44 * The American Legion Magazine • June, 1948 m5

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Montana. In 1946 Battle disappeared from Conducted by the Montana household. Eighteen months later Mrs. Strey whistled at a dog which AMERICA'S MOST WANTED looked like Battle that had walked into TRAILER COACHES . . . ARTHUR CARHART her Colorado Springs back yard. It was

Battle, who had somehow made the 500 "We've seen them all, and this is it" . . . 9 The case of the lady at the dude ranch miles back home. This time he stayed. and "M" System's Deluxe Tandem was proves that you can follow directions too on the receiving end of this fine tribute. Here is a trailer coach that challenges literally. Reed Higby of the Reverse RH • Ever fish from the bottom? comparison — spacious — rugged — and Dude Ranch in Wyoming told this lady If you want to fish deep with bait (worms thoughtfully appointed for care-free liv- guest that if she got lost while out riding or minnows) as will you sometimes when ing. The DeLuxe Tandem is one of 5 new all she had to do was turn the horse loose. going for perch, crappies, and bluegills; or "M" System models that are setting the He meant, of course, just sit on the horse (with doughballs or liver) for catfish, it pace for '48—ready for your inspection. and stop steering it and it would go home. is easy to fish "up from the bottom." Sim- WRITE FOR CATALOG L-48 Well, the lady got lost so she turned the ply thread your line through the eye of a horse loose. Yep, loose. She took off the heavy sinker. Put a bobber beyond the A trip through this catalog is just like a trip through the bridle and sat down under the singing sinker and put the baited hook beyond the trailers. They are that accur- pines while the horse walked away. It re- ately describedand illustrated. turned to the ranch and the crew found the trusting lady some hours later still sitting and wondering what to do next. Luckily for her the instructions worked — after a fashion.

• How many big game animals are there Wildlife in this country? The Fish and bobber. Cast, let the sinker reach bottom, Service, the in its latest estimate, puts ease line, and the bobber will pull up line count at 8,240,000, all but 900,000 of which to any desired position above the bottom. "M" SYSTEM MFG. CO. are deer. This is a modern record, 25% Since too heavy a sinker may interfere higher in (the and U.S. HIGHWAY 61 N., VICKSBURC, MIS3. than 1943 war ammu- with your play of fish, use a sinker which nition shortage cut down on hunting since is just heavy enough to sink the bobber. SYSTEM TRAILER LOACHES then) and it is well above the all-time low 1915. of 3,000,000 in • While we are on the subject of fishing "Big game" in the U. S. means hooved altitude let's come off the bottom and take animals and bear. Aside from deer, elk and a look in trees. You're a fly fisher- M up the moose the count includes bighorn sheep man and on the back-cast you've hooked and goats, peccaries wild mountain and some brush or a limb. You can lose your boars, bison, black bear and grizzly bear. temper and yank if you wish (that's rough Apparently bobcats, cougars, lynxes, wol- on flies, leader, rod and nerves) , or you verines, wolves count. and coyotes don't can come prepared. Just carry a length of Michigan leads the states with 800,000 light sash-cord with you. Tie a rock on WANT TO EARN big animals, mostly deer. Kansas game the end, toss this over the limb, haul down alone, according to the report, has no big the brush and free the fly. If there's a hor- $9000 A YEAR? game at all. net's nest there, use your own judgment. Woodland caribou are scarcest with a Then here's your chance to enter a business animals. Euro- offering an opportunity for unlimited earnings total of 40 Grizzlies (1400), Don't You Believe It . . . plus the satisfaction of rendering worth- pean wild boar (1700), bison (5000) and a while service in your own community. Many of desert bighorn (7600) are next scarcest. Picketwire Pete had a pet rattlesnake. our representatives earn $4000 to $9000 year His friends told him to get rid of the a and more! thing, but Pete had faith in the devotion • How do you dry the inside of your Have you the qualifications for success as a creatures to their friends, and rubber boots or waders when they get of God's life insurance salesman? Our scientific Aptitude It wet? One trick is to do it with a vacuum besides the snake was useful to him. Test will help you find out. cleaner. Remove the bag and put the hose served as his watch-dog around the cabin For those who qualify our program includes on the blowing end. Put the vacuum on Thundermug Creek, and every morning an excellent on-the-job training course, and the cleaner on the open door of a warm oven at sunrise the snake would hang by its Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan provides liberal commissions and service fees, with a so it sucks the air out of the oven and teeth from a limb outside Pete's window comfortable retirement income at 65. Send for it through into boots. and Pete would peek out of one eye from blows the hose your the Aptitude Test today. If you show a good the wind from the No need to have the juice on in your oven, his pillow and judge aptitude, you'll hear from our nearest manager. in fact if yours is a gas, gasoline or kero- way the snake hung. The snake would also sene oven make sure to heat the oven first stick its tail in the gas tank of Pete's and turn the flame out before monkeying jalopy to measure the contents, and every THE MUTUAL LIFE around with the vacuum cleaner. year, when Pete washed his socks, the INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK critter would stretch from bedpost to bed- 34 Nassau Street Alexander E. Patterson New York 5, N. Y. President • When their landlord clamped down on post overnight and serve as a washline. a "no dogs" rule in 1944, Mr. and Mrs. Still Pete's friends were nervous and said PLEASE SEND ME YOUR APTITUDE TEST Walter Strey, of Colorado Springs, shipped he shouldn't trust his pet too far. their puppy, Battle, to relatives at Ekalaka, {continued on next page)

June, 1948 45 .

Then night the one Pete returned from SOMETII I Mi IVEW Air Force at Wright Field, the camera Pitch Inn and heard the frantic rattling IN MOVIES takes one continuous picture, nine-and-a- of his pet. A prowler had broken in, found half inches wide by 200 feet with no shut- Pete's gold dust, and was about to leave (Continued from page 26) ter to break its continuity. when the snake wrapped around the thief's It's a Sonne noticed. leg, took a hitch around the bedpost and Alfred Hitchcock started it years Continuous Strip Stereo Camera usi: g stuck his rattles out the window to sum- ago when he always appeared, just for a aerial Kodacolor which brings a veritable mon help. fleeting glimpse, in every picture he di- spectrum to the screen. It can operate at Just as Pete came up forty big rattlers rected. He did it for identification, just flight speeds varying from 100 to 1,000 the call. in responded to They swarmed like an artist signs his paintings. In Rope. miles per hour which means it is as and trussed the crook up in double time. his newest film, his face is on a neon sign adaptable to jet-propelled planes as to any One made a figure 8 around the man's in the distant background and you'll have other type. Engineers say it can, in time, wrists, several others bound him securely to look carefully and quickly it. revolutionize the industry. from ankles to shoulders while the rest to spot But don't ex- laid by to watch out for any emergency. Next to start the trick, with variations, pect to see it soon. While perfected now Pete and the snakes marched the crook was Bob Hope. In all his pictures, Bing for military purposes, it will be a long down to the sheriff, who was so pleased Crosby puts in a quick surprise appear- time before it can be harnessed for ordi- he signed the whole bunch up as deputies ance. Now the trick is widespread. In Red nary purposes. of Thundermug County and since then Skelton's The Southern Yankee, Clark Also further advanced than the general nobody has complained about Pete's pet. Gable will suddenly appear at the end public realizes (simply because it isn't on That's how Pete tells it. and drive off with the heroine. In every a mass basis as yet) is television. 20th Outdoor Hooks picture that John Huston directs, he man- Century-Fox is now making a daily mo- ages to slip in his father, Walter Huston. tion picture newsreel expressly for televi- is life in How to Build Your Own What The first time was in The Maltese Falcon sion broadcasting and it is being televised Cabin or Summer Home the open with- when the audience gets a glimpse of a daily on NBC's eastern network under out a decent corpse and it's Papa Walter. In Key Largo, sponsorship of Camel cigarettes to the tune place for you his latest, of $10,000 a week. it to sleep and eat? Put that in reverse, for John has his father in the And won't be long too many veterans know that life without driver's seat of a bus which merely passes before that network will be coast to coast. a roof is life in the open in the meanest through a scene. Tim Holt, follows the Don't ever, for a moment, underrate tele- sense. In any event, in these days when same procedure. In The Treasure of the vision. It's here. It's good. It's commer- many veterans are building their own Sierra Madre he saw to it that his father, cially profitable. And it can operate in Cabins, Cottages and homes a recent book, Jack, made an appearance. He was one of color, too. Summer Homes, by Bernard Mason and * * * the bums in the flophouse. Bette Davis' Frederic Kock, may have more meaning Cesar Romero, a veteran of World War husband, William Sherry, is another who than the authors intended. II where he did DE duty in the Pacific for trade-marks his wife's pictures. In Strange It is a practical set of instructions and the Coast Guard, has just completed thir- Meeting (formerly titled Winter Meeting) advice on building anything from the teen years as a contract player at 20th crudest of log cabins to "cottages" which he's a sailor, with seabag over his shoulder, Century-Fox. While lots of actors have are the equal of homes worth many thou- walking along the street. Henry Koster, the been in the game a longer time, only six sands of dollars these days. It is well sup- director, always has a bust of his wife, drawings, details of log others have served as long a time at one ported with shows Polly Moran, visible in some scene. Mitch cabin, concrete, adobe, stone and frame studio. These other are Bette Davis and Leisen scatters his amateur sculpturing construction. Indoor and outdoor fireplaces Alan Hale at Warners; Bing Crosby at around the sets. Jose Iturbi insists upon and grills are diagrammed, and advice on Paramount; Clark Gable, Lewis Stone and being billed as Jose Iturbi so there isn't lighting, sewage, kitchens, etc., is included. Wallace Berry at M-G-M. Thirteen years pits, indoor outdoor furni- any doubt about it. Barbecue and ago Cesar did Clive of India and Cardinal ture get attention. The book includes * * * Richelieu and this native New Yorker has many plans for small houses and cabins The Army has given us something to been working hard ever since. He is usu- suitable to most climates in this country. get excited about. It has 3-dimension ally cast in Latin roles, his latest being a $3.50. A. S. Barnes & Co., N. Y. At your a bookstore or available through the Legion color film. Developed by the U. S. Army Spaniard in Captain from Castile, a Portu- Book Service (see page 51)

Fish and Game Last month we men- Coo c Book tioned that articles and cook books giv- ing recipes for the preparation of all sorts of fish and game for the table were becoming increasingly popular in view of what's happened to the price of butcher meat. Now quite a few readers have written in saying: "Name one such fish and game cook book, for instance." Well, I did one a few years back and one of the most recent is Harry T. Bots- ford's Fish and Game Cook Book put out by Cornell Maritime Press, N. Y., last fall. Harry holds out for 290 pages, and gives you not one but many ways to prepare grouse, pickerel, duck, bass, quail, panfish, woodcock, salmon, rabbit, trout, venison, pike, squirrel, shrimp, pheasant, flounder— and he includes soups, purees and salads. A whole chapter is devoted to the vari- ous salads, pones, potato preparations, bis- cuits, etc., that go well with game, and another lists the larder of spices, herbs, cheeses, etc., the huntsman or fisherman should have waiting in the kitchen for his return from the field. If the volume is over your stove the little woman can never again throw up her hand at your catch and cry: "What am I supposed to do with that stuff?" $3.00 at your bookstore or available through the Legion Book Service (see page 51). the end

46 " The Americon tegion Magazine • June, 1948 guese in Deep Waters, and an Italian in In order to add authenticity to the That Lady in Ermine. His next role is that physical aspects of production, Producer of an acrobat who falls in love with Greer Robert Fellows dispatched a 55-man crew Garson in Julia Misbehaves. Says Cesar, to Strasbourg, along the French- German "It's true I haven't drawn the best roles border, where over 40,000 feet of film was in the world, but then I'm not the best shot. This town had been found to closely actor in the world either." resemble the Reschweiler described in the book. The Strasbourg police headquarters appears in the picture as the headquarters Paramount's Sealed Verdict is the first for the trial. Kaiser Wilhelm's huge castle, motion picture to be made with a back- located at Haut Koenigsburg, and which ground of the momentous German war was prominently featured in the French crimes trials which are setting up a new film, Grand Illusion, a few years ago, is again utilized, this' time as a site for exe- cution of the criminals. Gordon Dean, formerly personal assis- tant to Supreme Court Associate Justice AJAY Robert Jackson who presented the case of the prosecution at the Nurenberg war OPTICAL crimes trials, served as technical adviser Ask your dealer for uni- for the film. forms, work and sport The release date shouldn't be but a few clothes of Reeves Fab- ARMY Ttyirr rics. Reeves Army Twill*, weeks off. * * * of which Uncle Sam bought 90 million yards, Ella Raines, last seen in The Senator insures extra wearability and good looks. Was Indiscreet, has let it be known that Demand Glengarrie Poplin* for matching shirts. her husband comes first, her career sec- •Sanforized—residual shrinkage less than 1% ondly. The husband is Major Robin Olds of the Army Air Forces whom she mar- REEVES BROS., INC. ried on Feb. 6, 1947 . . . River Lady, a story 54 Worth St., New York 13, N.Y. of lumberjacks on the Mississippi in 1860, is U-I's contribution to the screen this

. another month . . Goldwyn will release GET A GENUINE DELTA Danny Kaye picture this summer—A Song ELECTRIC Is Born . . . Joan Fontaine has withdrawn Jg» from Mayerling because the producers reddy//; (^LANTERN aren't yet ready and Joan has other com- mitments. She stars with James Stewart

in You Gotta Stay Happy . . . The Story 6-volt. Shoots beam "I know it teas stupid of me, but I of Seabiscuit will be done by Warners 800-ft. Light revolves just took a minute'" them off for in a circle — "stays AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE with Barry Fitzgerald playing the role of Trainer Tom Smith and Otto Kruger in put" at any angle you set. Dozens of uses. concept of international law affecting the the role of Owner C. S. Howard. Sea- Buy at hdwe., sport, all for generations to come. will three horses all lives of of us biscuit be played by electrical stores.

By all means put it on your "must see" sired by the original . . . Notre Dame Ail- list. American Johnny Lujack has been signed Delta Electric Co Based upon the novel by Lionel Shapiro, for Mr. Quarterback, based upon Francis Marion, Indiana young Canadian newspaperman and for- Wallace's Saturday Evening Post story

merly a topflight war reporter, and starring . . . Robert Stack, after five years in the Ray Milland and Florence Marly (the Navy, is resuming his career. His last RELIABLE MAN American debut of the European actress), picture, a long time ago, was Eagle Squad- WITH CAR WANTED

the story will take the audience to the ron . . . George Murphy received an em- to call on farmers. Wonderful opportunity small Bavarian city of Reschweiler, mostly blem of appreciation from the Australian now. $l5-$20 in a day. No experience or a heap of rubble, on the banks of the Auer Consul General in appreciation of his capital required. Permanent. Write today. Illinois River. Inside the courthouse, one of the efforts in entertainment during the war . . . McNESS CO., Dept. 86, Freeport, few undamaged buildings remaining, seven Carole Andrews who gave up her movie defiant Nazis, the most prominent being career to marry Marine Captain Jack caused by sudden changes when Hying,; General Otto Steigmann, are the defen- Jarvis, is now living with him in Cape- relieved with

dants. town, South Africa . . . France has just Steigmann, in particular, has been ac- upped theatre admissions 35 percent. Which of committing atrocities cused unspeakable reminds us that right here in the U. S. A. .Helps to control against thousands of defenseless persons. servicemen must now pay the 20 percent organs of balance. He justifies his acts by claiming that, as amusement tax, even in military theatres Quiets the nerves. U!l*7f.MI.».W3 an officer, he merely carried out orders . . . Monogram has borrowed $3,850,000 from above. Milland, as an able American from the Security First National Bank of

prosecutor, convicts Steigmann and the California at 4 1/2 percent interest for pic-

others and then begins to have doubts ture making . . . D. W. Griffith, who pro- about the evidence on which the convic- duced such things as Birth of a Nation

tion was based. He is faced with the ter- (1915), is now 73 years old . . . Rumor has rible dilemma of a man, trained in Anglo- it that the "Unfriendly Nineteen" will peg Saxon law, who knows that an individual their scripts with "innocent" names so as must not be convicted—no matter how de- to find a market . . . Harry Davenport, 81 Your Vindale Trailer Home In your Vindale trailer home you will find serving of death he may be—except upon years old, is the oldest actor in the busi- all the things that make a home really proven testimony. Otherwise, the whole ness and still going strong in Warners livable. Write today for free literature concept and edifice of justice and security, Christopher Blake. He says there is no on both the 28 and 21 foot Vindales. as Western civilization life has known it, magic formula for a long and merry Also Custom-BailL Coaches would collapse. unless it is work. the end June, 1948 47 vk vinobig cancn & THE BROOKVILLE PRODUCTS COMPANY Dept. AL, BROOKVILLE. OHIO YOUR HOUSE BY THE He told us. everything but the price. He Made to U. S. Army Specifications! SIOE OE THE ROAD boasted a "Homelike Atmosphere," Ad- 16-JEWEL joining Bar," "Beauty-Rest Mattresses," (Continued from page 16) "Tree-Ripened Fruit," "Adjoining Bar," out back, idle. At least they were stand- "Tile Bath," "Steam Heat," "View of the ELGI ing; I haven't thought to notice since last Gulf," "Adjoining Bar." Halloween. These structures are made of As we drew nearer that long-awaited $1995 seasoned boards, and strong board—some haven, Rusty became desperate: "Last are very strong boards. And they would cabins for 200 miles," "Don't sleep in your Sturdy 16-Jewel ELGIN be practical too. Those loopholes in the side car men's wrist watches. Water again tonight," "Civilization ends at Repellent. Sweep second hand. Stainless Steel of the house would be just the thing to Rusty's," he warned. back. Unbreakable crystal. QUALITY! American made. Fully reconditioned with ONE YEAR shoot through if Indians attacked. Soon he became concerned over our GUARANTEE! Made for the U. S. Army Air Corps. They HAD to be good. SEND NO MONEY. But there is a larger supply of even getting confused about the distances and and Simply pay postman $19.95 plus 10% tax more seasoned lumber than this. Enough, "10 postage on delivery. Cash orders sent postpaid. driving past, so he beamed us in: miles 7941 Limited supply. UNSTED PRODUCTS CO., to Rusty's," "5 miles to Rusty's," "Rusty's St. Dept. RES-230, Chicago 20, 111. S. Halsted —2 W'B'2 Service Medals miles," "Rusty's—1 mile," "Rusty's— 500 feet." Then, at long and weary last, a Area service medals for WW2 vet- mammoth neon "Welcome to Rusty's," erans will be available for distribu- .with a flaming red arrow that practically tion by June says a joint announce- Free for Asthma 1, pulled us off the road and underneath a ment of the Armed Services. The If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke rustic canopy bordered at the base by a row and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult medals are the counterparts of the of rustic because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to three "theater ribbons issued during natives. My car lights were shin- send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for the war for service in the Asiatic- ing up ahead on at least a hundred board a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA feet MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- Pacific, European- African -Middle of white pine, across which was let- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. Eastern, and American theaters. tered, "O how I'll miss you tonight—Rusty." No matter where you live or whether you have Eligible veterans may apply by mail I got faith in any medicine under the sun, send today out and the most rustic of the old for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. or in person to distribution centers to codgers rose to his feet. Caution! Use only as directed. Address be announced later. Honorable dis- "I'd like a cabin for four," I said. Frontier Asthma Co. 918-B Frontier Bldg. charge or evidence of honorable sepa- 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. He sat back down and laughed till he ration from the service must be pre- cried. "Ain't had a sented. It is expected that recruiting vacancy for three ILLUSTRATED COMIC stations and veterans' organizations months," he said, when he could talk. BOOKLETS will participate in distribution, as in "Don't know of one within two hundred THE KIND MEN LIKEt the case of the American Defense and miles of here." I didn't either. His signs (VEST POCKET SIZE) WW2 Victory Medal. had blotted out everything but the sun They are loaded with rare car- since we hit Florida. I know just what to toons. Full of Fun and Humor. do with Rusty's signs— 20 DIFFERENT booklets to shortage with- and with all the sent prepaid I think, end the housing for $1 in plain other signs that clutter the highways. sealed wrapper. No C.ftD.'t. out destroying any of the little dwellings Obviously we are going to GRAYKO, Dept. 1354, Box 520,G.P.O.,N. Y.C.I out back, many of which have some sort run into a lot of opposition begin building of intrinsic value as family heirlooms. Yes, when we our houses with all this fine sign board we will get the lumber without upsetting lumber. Most of this can be eliminated if anyone. Just bear with me a little longer. we will guarantee Last winter, at the height of the tourist to leave the advertising right on the boards. After all, if you have season, I drove to Florida. All the way Legionnaire a house you can call your very own, what down I kept hearing, "Made your reser- difference will it if vation?" "You won't find an overnight make "MIGAWD- MIFACE After-Shave Lotion" is place unless you have a reservation." spread Retailers across one side? Your friends might have "Might as well go back if you haven't wired ahead." "Better turn around." "Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels" on theirs, or "I Can Hold Your Rupture." Who "G'wan home," But I kept on going. American Legion Magazine knows, it could become a fad. And before I reached the Florida line Only one thing I ask. Rusty's signs be- I saw that I was all right. The signs along Display Card— FREE long to me. I've always wanted a hotel. the highway assured me that I was. I don't And I might have enough left over from know how I happened to begin following Rusty's signs to build a small scaffold out Rusty 's in particular. His signs were smal- back—in case Rusty ever stops off for a ler, on an average, than the others, about stretch. the end If you sell any of the products 20 by 30 feet. Maybe it was because they came at you so thick and fast. advertised in The American The first dozen or so said simply, "Rus-

ty 's Rustic Cabins." Then they became Legion Magazine (2 columns less formal: "Relax at Rusty 's," they said; or more) write us mentioning "Rusty 's Rustic Cabins are ready for you (get that emphasis) now." The next ser- I he name of the product you ies was even more cordial: "Spend the night with Rusty," was the subtle gist of wish to feature. We will send their message. From there on in we didn't you—FREE—an attractive coun- go many miles without Rusty reminding us that he was sitting in his Tourist tercard on which to mount the Heaven, waiting to greet us. advertisement. From every rock and fill, from the house tops, from barn ends, fence posts, trees, wherever there was a space big enough for R-U-S-T-Y, R-U-S-T-Y was there. And where Nature had failed to look out The American Legion Magazine for Rusty in her scheme of things, he offered us his all from beautiful hard- ONE PARK AVENUE Rot wood signboards, not to mention the rus- A.MKUK AN LEGION MAGAZINE NEW YORK 16, NEW YORK tic ones which he probably whittled out.

48 The American Legion Magazine .

SOUND OFF! Yet several months later on another visit the place was utterly changed — and all for C Continued from page 9) the better. My buddy explained the Legion OWN a Business! had raised Cain to get Magazine, braille edition . . . I've been that hospital back up blind for several years and had to depend to government standards ... So I began to Clean and Mothproof dig into the Legion, and I can say now that on conversations and "out loud" reading Rugs and Upholstery to keep up with veterans affairs. Now, with if every War Two vet found out the great the magazine, I often surprise my friends things the Legion has done and is doing • Nationally Advertised with my knowledge, as do several of my not only for them, but also for others in Services blind friends who all look forward to the many fields they would do as I did — join magazine It has long established and pitch in to help. ... been • Two-Way Profits that only the best written material stands Lewis M. Hill up under braille reading. We enjoy the Mt. Vernon, Ohio • Repeat Orders magazine from cover to cover — not only the veterans affairs, but the whole book. Should We Be Ready? • No Experience

William Johnston . . . The President has asked for temporary Needed

Royal Oak, Michigan reenactment of Selective Service . . . I'm for it 100% because I remember how Pearl If you are dependable, honest and willing to work, send today for details on how to become financially independent ...Last year I joined the Legion, but only Harbor came like lightning when we in a profitable, growing business of your own. Choose an open territory anvwhere In TWted States, Canada or for- attended one meeting . . . I've been pretty weren't prepared. War may come or it may eign countrie's. Services rendered In homes, offices, clubs or public buildings. independent, to not, but let's not proud be "on my own." be caught with our pants DURACLEAN cleans by absorption! NO SCRUBBING. No Well I've bought three different homes down — it pays to be safe, not half safe. soaking or shrinkage. This modern sate cleaning process uses mild solvents. Dirt, grease and many unsightly spots since leaving service, moved five times, Many Legionnaires will be for the draft vanish as if by magic. Wool fibers come to life ... matted pile rises . . . colors revive. Upholstery and floor tried four jobs. I've used up my GI loan and perhaps many against it. Let's have coverings last longer. 18 years of proven success. DURA PROOF is another vear 'round service. Not only kills privileges, my wartime savings and other your views, fellows, as this is an important moths and carpet hnot'os but makes materials resistant to both. Protects furnishings, clothing and auto Interiors. . . issue facing all priorities and assets . Now I'm finding Americans. Guards against mildew, too. DURAPROOF, to our knowl- edge, is the only service by a National if I'd moth proof backed out that taken an interest in the ac- William A. White, Jr. MONEY* BACK, 4 YEAR WARRANTY. tivities of the Legion and studied a little Superior, Wisconsin Leading furniture and department stores recommend DURA- CLEAN Dealer's service. Almost every building in your about the projects it has been working territory houses a potential customer needing one or both these Nationally Advertised services. auto dealers • . . For i hi- l.oo

is yours for the asking . . . Enroll in the Although my father was Commander of our American Legion Extension Institute . . . As high as Post I was one of those wise guys of War R. A. Knudson Two who thought the world owed him a Fort Dodge, Iowa living. Every time I was asked to join I $3,021 asked what was in it for me. Finally they The American Legion Extension Institute quit asking . . . Then I visited a friend in is a correspondence course on the workings A YEAR! a VA hospital and the conditions were ter- of the American Legion. Your Post Com- Men women. Common education often sufficient. Veterans get preference. Write immediately for rible, as anyone could see at a glance . . . mander has details, editors FREE 32-PAGE BOOK with list of positions and full particulars telling how to qualify for them. (Not government controlled). June, 1948 49 FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. Dept BB2, Rochester 4, N. Y. Marines to whom they were submitted

blinked and took it like the good soldiers they were, even when the. points made The New BOOKS | concerned them personally." Particularly notable is the way in which OUR BOOK SERVICE • Hitch ith a further instalment of the book-review section Pratt manages to co-ordinate his accounts dealing with volumes which interpret American life in terms of today. W e are offering of air, naval, and Marine action in some these books and others, as shown in the list on the opposite page, to readers of the magazine through the Legion Book Service. ^— of the most complex battles of history. A large, percentage of the readers of our magazine live in small towns and villages, Without sacrificing any part of the read- and it is not easy them to purchase books. out the given at the for By fdling form ability, and without losing any of the bottom of the page opposite this, and enclosing check or money order, you can get dramatic emphasis which Marine cam- any of the books listed. Watch next month for other books of current interest. THE EDITORS paigns deserve, he manages to tie the various parts of an operation into a single This book is Stilwell's daily diary plus WAR MEMOMRS clear picture in a way that few others can many of his letters home. It is the greatest ADMIRAL HALSEY'S STORY approach. By Admiral William F. Halsey and book ever written by an American soldier Lt. Commander J. Bryan, III. $4.00. —because Vinegar Joe was one of the very FilTiON On December 7, 1941 Admiral Halsey had few soldiers who could write out their — EAGLE IN THE SKY had 41 years in the Navy and only a ideas in a soldier's language, as strongly By F. Van Wyck Mason. $3.00. handful of Americans could have told you and plainly as they could speak them. In A readable novel, compounded equally of who he was. Five years later he was one The Stilwell Papers, also, the general holds history, sex, love, and adventure—the story of the most famous men in the world. back nothing— tells the whole secret story written of three surgeons who served the Ameri- Admiral Halsey's Story was by of China in the war as he saw it and himself Lieutenant Com- can cause in the critical years 1780-1781. Halsey and by judged it daily. Peter Burnham, Asa and mander J. Bryan, III, former Saturday Peabody, Evening Post editor. BARBED WIRE SURGEON Lucius Devoe got their medical degrees the right to Halsey's Story is a fine report of his By Alfred A. Weinstein. 310 pages. $3.00. and practice from the same New England surgeon on New Year's Eve. early life and a good picture of the pre- Alfred A. Weinstein, M.D., Harvard grad- Burnham served with privateers, Peabody World War II American Navy. It gets into uate and surgeon of Atlanta, Georgia joined with the patriot forces at Georgetown, and stride with the story of the days immedi- the Army in 1940. He was on Bataan when Devoe first with General Arnold, later ately preceding Pearl Harbor and keeps the Americans there surrendered to over- with the British and Tories at Yorktown. a high level of top-grade reporting on whelming Japanese forces. Barbed Wire This is the standard handling of love, battle action, personalities, navy life and Surgeon is the story of his years in Jap adventure, and history. But Eagle in the the tactics and strategy of the Pacific War prison camps. Sky is especially notable for its excursions right through to the end. It is a story of almost unparalleled into description of the medical practices This book has the unblushing, unreti- brutality and horror, of a constant battle of the eighteenth century — where the pa- cent comment that we have come to expect for survival, superimposed on a continual, tient was given a bullet to bite on in place of our military and naval leaders. Typical almost hopeless battle for medical sup- of an anaesthetic, when instruments were is this comment on the New Georgia cam- plies, surgical equipment, permission to sterilized in hot brandy, if at all, and paign: keep dying men off their feet and off the suturing needles were filed in the surgeon's "Our original plan allotted 15,000 men work gangs. lapel, so they would be on hand when he to wipe out the 9,000 Japs on New Georgia; Weinstein doesn't cover up for friend or needed them. by the time the Island was secured, we foe. He tells of Americans and American had sent in more than 50.000. When I look allies who played ball with the Japs for back on ELKTON, the smoke of charred special privileges, of murderous Japanese WORLD HISTORY reputations still makes me cough." guards, of skulkers, misfits, and worse. CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Halsey's writing is always up to the And there are stories of the almost in- By Arnold Toynbee. 263 pages. $3.50. standards he set there; his book is not credible heroism of men who kept courage, Arnold Toynbee made his reputation as the only top biography, but a pretty fair in- hope, even a grim humor, through years author of a ponderous and scholarly six- sight into a lot of things that were held of suffering which drove other strong men volume study of history and civilization, as top secret while the war was on. mad. originally published in England. No one THE STILWELL PAPERS was more astounded than Toynbee when U. S. M. C. By General Joseph Stilwell. William a one-volume condensation of his work Sloane Associates. 353 pages. $4.00. THE MARINES' WAR (A Study of History) was published in the Fletcher Pratt. pages. The fame of General Joe Stilwell as our By 456 $5.00. United States, and turned into a long- fighting commander in China and on Oki- Fletcher Pratt's military writing has for a time best seller. nawa came largely from his deep belief long time been recognized as about the The same brilliance of thought and that a war can only be won by fighting. It best and the most readable available to analysis marks Mr. Toynbee's latest publi- can't be won by machines or factories. the public. The Marines' War is up to his cation. Civilization on Trial. Vinegar Joe believed, although he would standard, and it should add considerably A series of closely-related essays, this have been the last man to play down the to his reputation. book ranges from an informal explanation contribution of any American effort in the This is not an "official" history, but of Mr. Toynbee's own view of history,

war. But he thought it took men—men who Pratt was given access to Marine records through Greek and Roman civilization, would fight— to win in the end. and permitted "to interview witnesses to and the struggles which have reduced the In China General Stilwell rebelled his heart's content" as he says himself. stature of Europe, to an essay on the part against the idea of hoping to win by other A little skeptical of the Marines' good which Christianity has played in develop- means than strong attack. He differed time intention, as Pratt explains, he "deliber- ing our contemporary civilization. Written and again with Generalissimo Chang-kai- ately introduced some criticisms that were informally. Civilization on Trial serves as Shek on what could be done to launch pretty harsh and more than a little unfair an excellent introduction to longer and offensives against the Japanese. ju-t to see what would happen. The more systematic study.

50 * The American Legion Magazine • June, 1948 T^e /4t*tvtic&(t jZeyCaa ^>ao& Service recommends... THE STILWELL PAPERS By General Joseph Stilwell

Right out of his private diaries and his letters to his wife, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's own words give this book the tang and flavor of the man himself. They are the plain words of a self-called "deckhand diplomat," who detested stuffed shirts, high-level politics, civilian or military, deceit and guile of any sort. Packed with shrewd, pithy judgments of the great men of World War II, Stilwell Papers as the saltiest Gen. Joe Stilwell gets a Legion The shape up roughest, book * jm of Merit from Henry L. Stimson of memoirs to come out of any war. ON ACTIVE SERVICE RECREATION GENERAL

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Thvg'd «i> For I'nrle Joe Important to remember Members of a picked Russian soccer If speeding while you drive football team traveling from Stockholm Is though life begins at forty, to Oslo, Norway, on a big Scandinavian It may end at forty-five. Air System DC-4 spurned the tempting —By Sidney R. Baron lunch offered by the pretty blonde hostess. COMMUNIST PHRASES They turned stony faces at hot cups EXPLAINED of coffee and looked with suspicion Parting By Professor Ivan Poopanitch on gift packages of razor blades. They WAR HYSTERIA—In my beck yod, I took their unspoken orders from an am planting hysteria bush (wheech is inscrutable Red football coach who, shrub-like plant giving popple flow- except for the Russian equivalent of Shots ers) . But comes up de stuck, de "No!", scarcely opened his mouth leaves droop hoff, de popple flowers during the air journey. no come. She no more is hysteria- "I suppose they're afraid of getting she war hysteria. poisoned and maybe losing their game EXPLOITED MASSES-A party work- at Oslo," a baffled Norwegian pas- er he is having in his basement a senger said to a United States army guess lick. De guess is licking out and officer as the players trooped from the smelling de place op someting offul. Long ttittianee plane following the landing. "They De worker is going down in dock tell me they're very good—haven't The regular Sunday morning service of basement to see, and is striking a lost a game so far." the First Methodist Church, Mitchell, metch wheech is cuzzing guess to ex- "Why shouldn't they be good?" the dis- South Dakota, is broadcast over Mitchell's ploit so — POOF! "Hi!" say de worker, "it gusted Yank officer growled. "They'd prob- station, KMHK. In the course of the ser- exploited! Such a masses!" on a recent the pastor said, ably get shot if they lost." mon Sunday RED BAITING—In misery sturry, de wil- Moxness "Let us communicate with the Lord." —By Ron lain is dragging always across de trail a The radio audience was amazed to hear herring. A herring is a liddle feesh. A a cut in the I lush In Th<> ran telephone operator with re- liddle feesh is a bait. A herring is ulzo red. line, mark, "Let me have another please. So is a herring across de trail a red bait- Fair maiden with lips red as roses My circuits are all busy." ing. cheeks lovely— I And pink and hope —By Irma Belle Thaden That a closer inspection discloses INCITERS OF WAR-De Sowiet is making is more than skin dope! a war, a beeg bettle. De glorious Red Your beauty Tact —By S. Omar Barker Harmy is standing outcite where is falling Touring the Ozarks on their honeymoon, de bumps. But our glorious Red leaders is On Iteeviving A 1'hveh the young couple stopped for the night at in a bump cellar under de Kremlin— in- a clapboard hotel and asked for a double cite, not outcite. Dey is inciters of war. that in the morning mail? What's this comes room. Without comment or explanation, DOLLAR DEMOCRACY—In Russia, a dol- birthday check, no less! A the proprietress led them to a large room lar we don't got. Democracy we don't got if gift that is opportune, And there's a containing two double beds. ulzo. De former we are vaunting. But not It's a birthday check, oh yes! Next morning at breakfast their hostess de ladder. (Or any old check, I guess.) asked amiably, "Newlyweds, ain't you?" -By W. F. Miksch And so, for once, we will celebrate. We'll go out for dinner, baby. We'll order a cocktail— yes, we will! And another cocktail, maybe! We'll go to a play where someone runs The well-known gamut of A-B! We'll buy the radio brother dreams of! The doll-carriage little sister screams of! For Junior, some brand new hickory skis; Frivolous undies for Louise; And—just to rejoice the man that's inner— A thick, thick steak for tomorrow's dinner! Well, thank you, aunt, for your kindly thought. Would you like to know what 1 really bought? Item:—one month's electric bill; Item: —retreading tire; Item: —typewriter overhauled; Some coal for the kitchen fire; One pair of shoes (resoling same); Fixing alarm on clock; Item:—five dollars on account To doc;

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