The American Legion Magazine [Volume 54, No. 2 (February 1953)]

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1928 PLYMOUTH — the first Plymouth—was powered by a 4-cylinder, 45-h.p. engine. It was the first car in the low-priced class to have 4-wheel hydraulic brakes.

. . CARS RUN THEIR BEST ON THE BEST GASOLINE

1953 PLYMOUTH Belvedere is powered by a 100-h.p., high compression engine. It's described as the "first truly balanced car in the low-priced field."

1904 GENERAL ELECTRIC hada novel electric transmission. A gasoline engine ran a generator which supplied power to two electric motors driving the rear wheels. There was no gear shift.

IN 1928, automobile advertisements offered "flashing power at your fingertips." Then, as now, car owners wanted better performance —and "Ethyl" gasoline helped them get it. And just as the car of today is far superior to the average car of a quarter century ago — so, too, has "Ethyl" gasoline improved over the years. Today's "Ethyl" gasoline helps you get top power and performance.

1900 GASMOBILE was the first 6-cylinder ETHYL it to fill the car That's why pays up at pump with sold in the U. S. It actually had two CORPORATION the familiar "Ethyl" emblem. Remember, there's 3-cylinder engines. Though hailed as "fu- York 17, York New New a powerful difference between gasoline and turistic," the company failed in 1902. Ethyl Antiknock Ltd., in Canada "Ethyl" gasoline! 0

/ Made the extra mow THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

VOL. 54 No. 2

CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1953

LADY ON THE REEF (fiction) 15 BY BENEDICT THIELEN The Admiral's daughter sized him up as a good mate. What Do YOU Want In 1953? NOW HEAR THIS! 18 I I a new ear BY FELIX WITTMER Q a wonderful vacation trip Strange doings on our lecture platforms. Q new clothes for the family things for his I I your In essay new home pictorial CAT TRACKS IN THE on Valentine's Day, SNOW 20

I I needed repairs, painting home artist Mel Phillips BY RAY L. TRULLINGER for shows how different I I pay needed medical care people react to love. The moral is — go after bobcats.

| clear bills I up annoying 50 TIPS ON INCOME TAXES 22 Get the EXTRA MONEY POSTMASTER: Please send copies returned BY SAM STAVISKY You Want This EASY WAY .... under labels Form 35791 to Post Office Box Uncle Sam doesn't want more than his share. Up to $120 in a Week EXTRA 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. in Just Spare Time Selling WHO IS BEING TREATED IN THE VA HOSPITALS?. . . . 24 D-FROST-O-MATIC on BY LEWIS K. GOUGH The American Legion The National Commander sets the record straight. Dramatic FREE TRIAL Plan! Magazine is the official publication of The Ameri- Don't just wish for extra money! cou- The can Legion and is owned THE LOWDOWN ON LUMBER 26 pon below will bring you exciting facts exclusively by The Ameri- BY ROBERT SCHARFF about a wonderful new money- making can Legion. Copyright 1953 by The American How to save money when you make things. plan that can pay you as much as $120.00 Legion. Published month- a week for just a few spare hours—up to ly at 1100 W. Broadway, $2 10.00 a week full time! Louisville. Ky. Acceptance THE LEGION IN PICTURES 28 for mailing at special rate What your organization is doing. It's Easy with Amazing of postage provided for in D FROST O MATIC! Section 1 103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. THE IN EUROPE 30 after PROPAGANDA WAR WESTERN Man man tells 5, 1925. Price single copy, how delighted he is 15 cents; yearly subscrip- BY WILSON COMPTON making EXTRA tion, $1.50. Entered as There is no clear-cut answer to this problem. MONEY selling second class matter June D-FROST-O-MAT- 30, 1948, at the Post It's IC! easy just Office calling on house- at Louisville, Ky., WHY PEOPLE BORROW MONEY 32 under the Act of March wives in spare hours BY EUGENE KELLY 3, 1879. Non-member and saying "Never sub- scriptions should be sent The reasons are sometimes highly original. defrost your refrig- to the Circulalion Depart- erator" and leaving D-FROST-O-MAT- ment of The American IC on FREE TRIAL. When Legion Magazine, P. O. THE NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE 33-40 the housewife sees how Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, D- FROST O MATIC ends Ind. messy hand defrosting for- EXECUTIVE AND ever how it saves work, — ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Ventures time, food, money— she won't let you take it out! That's why Indianapolis 6, Indiana out of 10 8 FREE TRIAL installations are almost EDITORIAL AND SOUND OFF! 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB .. . 12 certain sales — with a big cash profit for you! Many ADVERTISING men sell 5, 7, 10 and more D-FROST-O-MATIC PRODUCTS PARADE .... 8 NEWSLETTER 41 in a day on this sure-fire FREE TRIAL Plan! 580 Fifth Avenue 72 Rush Coupon Today for Profit Details New York 36, N. Y. EDITOR'S CORNER 10 PARTING SHOTS and Free Trial Plan! WESTERN OFFICE Hundreds of homes in your 333 North Michigan Avenue Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not SELLY community want D-FROST-O- Chicago 1, Illinois be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included. of California MATIC! Rush coupon today. started in his We'll airmail exciting facts, SPARE TIME proof and sure-profit Free Trial and now sells Plan. No obligation. Mail cou- Please notify the Lewis K. Gough, Nalional Commander, Indianapolis 1,500 pon now! John Stelle, McLeans- E. Booth, Huntington, tin, Texas; Russell Lor- D-FROST-O- Circulation Depart- D-FROST-O-MATIC ment, Publications boro, Illinois, Chairman W. Va.; Roland Cocre- combe, Malta, Mont.; MATICS of the Legion Publico- ham. Baton Rouge, La.; George D. Levy, Sumter, 1 73 W. Madison St., Dept. T- 1 Division, P. O. Box a month! tions Commission; Dan Clovis Copelond, Little S. C; Dr. Charles R. Chicago 2, III. 10S5, Indianapolis, W. Emmett, Ventura, Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa; Indiana, if you have L. Dogue, Downingtown, William P. Roan, Lorks- your ad- California, and Earl D-Frost-O-Matic Corp. changed Meyer, Alliance, Ne- Pa.; Josephus Daniels, ville, Penna.; Emmett dress, using notice Jr., Raleigh, N. Safay, Jacksonville, 173 W. Madison St., Dept. T-10, Chicago 2, Illinois braska, Vice-Chairmen. C; form 22S which you Members of the Com- Dave H. Fleischer, St. Fla.; D. L. Sears, To- Rush me your dramatic FREE TRIAL plan may secure from mission: Lang Arm- Louis, Mo.; Earl Hitch- ledo, Ohio; Harold A. and show me how I can make big EXTRA your Postmaster. Be strong, Spokane, Wash.; cock, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Shindler, Newburgh, MONEY with D-Frost-O-Matic. sure to cut off the George D. Baron, Herschiel L. Hunt, Aus- Ind.; Edgar G. Vaughon, No obligation. address label on Bethany, Conn.; Charles St. Paul, Minn. your Magazine and Managing Editor Publications Boyd B. Stutler A drer tising Director paste it in the space Director of Name. provided. Always James F. O'Neil Art Editor Fred L. Maguire give your latest New York, N. Y. Al Marshall Eastern Adv. Mgr. membership card A ss't to Director A ssociate Editors William M.DeVitalii Addre Frank Lisiecki Robert B. Pitkin number and both Western Adv. Mgr. Editor Irving Herschbein your new and your Joseph C. Keeley Manager H. J. Prussing, Jr. State. Town old address. A dvisory Editor James F. Barton Detroit Adv. Rep. L Alexander Gardiner Indianapolis, Ind. John 0. Gillman

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Doit strongly as I must do in this munici- „ CONVENIENT now pal college and in the field of education * Sir: In case you have missed this item I generally. Believe me, you people cannot yourself want to call your attention to the fact that emphasize the issues too strongly. We poor all military items on Korea pass over the with "reactionaries" have our backs to the wall. desk of Constantine Zinchenko, of the UN The unceasing, systematic bombardment secretariat. He is a Russian citizen as was from the left has the inexperienced students his predecessor. He is Minister of War, in —the great majority—baffled, confused and 1 Communications and Information of the "snowed." The American Legion is a prime •^"gSue*Build, repair, install, finish or UN. The Russians demanded this office target for the sneers and taunts of the refinish — at your convenience, at low cost. when the UN was set up. Is it any wonder "liberals." The mention of the name always Powerful SpeedTools take the drudgery out of that there can be no end to the Korean work, help you do "professional" quality work brings forth snorts and laughter. The im- War? With all our plans okayed by a in a hurry. plications are serious and deadly. Bear in Russian and all information being given No. mind that most of these individuals will 150 SpeedSander to him. An all-ball-bearing, take their place in the field of education. Mrs. Ruth S. Porter orbital-motion, finish- Name Withheld ing sander with power- St. Petersburg, Fla. Y. ful 3450 r.p.m., A.C. Jamaica, N. induction motor and cast, aluminum body. WHO SAID THAT? Sir: I write to say that your article Our $34.50 Sir: I object strongly to the letter from Academic Hucksters is the most nauseous No. 150-K SpeedSander Kit Mercer R. Limrick who would brand com- bucket of swill you have carried in your The Sander with Accesso- mentator Drew Pearson as a communist well-soiled history. How long did you ries including: deep con- tour pad, finishing plate, because, he, Pearson, docs not speak as Mr. have to look before you found this felts for free abrasives Limrick thinks. thoroughly undistinguished, vicious oaf and wet rubbing, Jack Smith who was willing to knife his whole pro- lamb's wool bonnet, getting 90 sheet abrasive cov- Santa Monica, Calif. fession for the dubious pleasure of ers, etc. in fitted steel his name in print and pocketing a few T Mr. Limrick did not brand Pearson as a carrying case. $49.50 smelly dollars? communist. He objected to the way Pearson Howard Hall No. 1000 SpeedSaw attacks ami communists. Editors M H.P. Universal Motor, Omaha, Neb. cast aluminum housing, safety shut-off switch. ABOUT HUCKSTERS It's has put into Cuts all angles to 45°, any Sir: about time someone depth to ". simple and understanding language the fal- V/t $29.95 Sir: If any Legionnaire overlooked reading lacy of our so-called "intellectual thinking" SpeedDrills Our Academic Hucksters in the December concerning the loosely used terms "liberal- (for metal or wood) issue he ought to dig it out and do so—not Extra power, high ism" and "reactionary." once but twice or thrice until the full im- speed, electric drill Harry E. Fischer with cast aluminum port strikes home. Congratulations for this York City cases, and geared ringing and most timely denunciation of New chucks. the slickers of the left, who lyingly call No.200-JK"SpeedDrill themselves "liberals." REDCOATS RETURN $19.50 R. F. Steiner Sir: The first decade of the 20th Century Topeka, Kan. saw the United States flooded with litera- _^i^No. 400 ture of Karl Marx; the second decade ob- Sir: The author of Our Academic Hucks- *Sr / Yz " Speed Drill served the works of Hitler, a la Nietzsche; $39.50 ters must have had a unique experience. and the third decade observed the advent f\ also other sizes, types. It has been my experience that professors of the diatribes of Lenin, et al. All were who believe a measure of socialization is Drill Kits made of the same ingredients but under Several fast selling necessary both to answer our economic different labels. During the past thirty kits. Painters and problems and to take the wind out of com- Householders Kit years I have known teachers who have munistic arguments are the ones who usu- (illustrated) is typical. gone to our leading universities to secure " ally find themselves ridiculed and out of It has: 14 Hornet their A.M. or Ph.D. degrees, and came Drill, Abrasive Discs their jobs. back to their respective schools advocates and rubber back- Thomas Ford Hoult er plate, grinding of communism. Eastern wheel, wire brush, New Mexico University W. Forest Dutton, M.D. buff, etc. in at- Portales, N. M. Noel, Mo. tractive display

carton . . . $19.95 Sir: I am pursuing work in education at Write for catalog CHAS. CHAPLIN Queens College, Flushing, L. I., but at no MANUFACTURING CO. time in my military service of several years Sir: If Charlie Chaplin is 10% the louse he was I ever called upon to defend our flag, seems to be, as per Victor Lasky's article 1868 Sco. 52nd Ave., Cicero 50, III. -*r our heritage, traditions and way of life as (Continued on page 6)

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( Continued from page 4) in the December issue, why cannot we do Advertisement something about it? Harry O. Rex Plainville, Conn.

T You can. The State Department and the Justice Department might be interested in From where I sit your views. His latest movie Limelight might be coming to your town, too. Joe Marsh Editors TOO HOT?

Sir: It is gratifying to find The American Legion Magazine month after month carrying articles which so badly need to be written but which ordinary big circulation periodicals find "too hot to handle." Keep pitching. Our Town Wouldn't Lee Arms Hermosa Beach, Calif.

Take a "Back Seat" HIS HONOR SAW RED

Sir: My Post held its annual dinner dance not long ago and the guest speaker was a Well, the "battle of the buses" has judge. His speech was on "guilt by association," and he continually dwelt been settled! Our town is again friendly upon the theme that communism is no danger,

with Balesville. but that anti-communism is, and that the anti-communists will take our freedom Everything started when buses began away. Beware, fellow Legionnaires, when you choose a guest speaker. Please with- big going through our town with a hold my name, I am a policeman and this sign on them saying SHOP IN judge could probably get some sort of re- venge on me through my job. BALESVILLE. The bus line is Name Withheld New York City owned in Balesville and operates over Please turn to page 18 and read Now here on a franchise. Hear This! concerning speakers. Editors.

Windy Taylor was all for putting SHOW BIZ up barricades—he kept calling up the Sir: I read the story on the production of police and the bus company. Finally a Legion show in Jefferson, Wise, with

interest. I have been producing and direct- Judge Cunningham invited the Bales- ing the Wyckoff, N. J., Legion Follies ville Chamber of Commerce to meet since 1947. We can do a complete show for anywhere from $400 to $2,000. Wyckoff with ours at Andy's Garden Tavern. is a small town, yet the Legion clears at Over lunch and glass of beer we all least $1,000 every year for the Legion- owned and operated ambulance corps. A reached a compromise without any lot of our cast have gone on to the pro- trouble. Those signs now read SHOP fessional theater. The first time Ben Cas- sidy walked on a stage was with our show HERE IN TOWN. Everyone's happy in 1949. He is now in My Darling Aida, and was formerly in Kiss Me Kate. The From where I sit, it shows how Lee Sisters are in Baltimore completing an extended night club tour. problems disappear once both sides Floyd F. Ackerman

get together and try to work things Wyckoff, N. J.

out. Naturally we're all a little differ- FREEDOM OF CHOICE ent. like soda pop, instance, Some for Sir: A number of people who admit that communists complain and some like beer. So what? We all they were former rather bitterly that they have lost their have to ride along through life together. jobs by reason of their affiliations or be- fuddlements. They do not seem to under- not make it a pleasant trip? Why stand that there is no obligation on any American to engage ex-fools, former communists or erstwhile nazis. The right of selecting our associates or employees is one

of our great civil rights, and is just as sacred as the right of any individual to join any particular group or school of thought. William Ross Copyright, 1952, United States Brewers Foundation Brooklyn g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 MOBILE HOMES make quick moves easy for Air Force families!"

say S/Sgt. and Mrs. DARREL B. FAIRBANKS of Randolph Field, Texas

r\nd the Fairbanks' speak from expe- lords refuse to rent to families with rience — they've moved with their children. With a trailer coach the home trailer coach seven times in the past and all its furnishings belong to us. year. "When you're an Air Force fam- Moving is simpler and cheaper. We just ily," they say, "the best way to live is hook our home to the car and have it in a mobile home. You save so much with us when we get to the next base. trouble and expense. Apartments are We've been in the Air Force ten years hard to find and priced far above the and plan to stay in. And this is the only means of most servicemen. Many land- type of home that meets our needs."

THE COMPLETELY TILED BATHROOM is equipped with modern, easy- to-clean shower, stool and wash- stand. Automatic heater provides plenty of hot water for family use. Here young Gayle Ann pre- pares for school. An Air Force bus will pick her up and bring her home in the evening.

HERE IN THEIR COMFORTABLE LIVING ROOM Mrs. THE LIGHT, AIRY BEDROOM has built-in dressers Fairbanks sews while Daddy and the children and chests of drawers with ample extra stor- relax. "It's nice to have our own furniture and age space above. It closes off for privacy, and belongings with us wherever we go," says Mrs. the living room becomes another separate Fairbanks. Trailerists on base live among bedroom as the sofa converts to a big double- friends in well-kept parks near work with easy bed. Automatic heating and insulation keep access to service clubs, PX and commissary. temperatures even the year around.

Priced from $2000 to $6000 including furnishings, these new TCMA coaches offer attractive mobile and moderately priced housing for IN HER STREAMLINED KITCHEN Mrs. Fair- families in the Armed Forces, defense plant workers, banks has a modern gas stove, 8-ft. construction men in the field, young marrieds and re- refrigerator with a deep-freeze unit, tired couples. Make the TCMA emblem your guide trim sink, and plenty of working space to quality and satisfaction, for the members of TCMA with cupboards above and below. are the leaders of the industry, pioneering improved FREE NEW BOOK! designs, building dependably to high standards. Complete information on newest TCMA mobile homes.WriteTCM A, Dept. A-23, Civic Opera Building, Chicago 6, Illinoisi Products

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

SHINE 'EM UP conies in two models, chrome costing $3.95 and gold plated at $4.95, blades included. GI's who have retained their spit 'n polish habits will be intrigued with a new method FIT FOR HANGING of shoe-shining being marketed by the Gold Seal Co., Bismarck, N. D. Instead of the Clothes hooks usually are not very news- polish and the applicator and the brush worthy, but an unusual new kind of hook and the cloths formerly necessary for that being made by the Continental Hardware Juvenile _all nS well known mirror finish, this outfit consists Co., 539 Overbrook, S.E., Grand Rapids 7, Mich., is worth more than passing notice. cost. of an applicator with a built-in capsule of \ no polish. When you've applied the polish and Called the Robemaster, this is an unusually shoes you throw that particular attractive chrome-plated item which fea- 6 AIR RIFLERY Features: buffed your PROGRAM tures a novel method of fastening to the RIFLE unit away. Since the shiners, called Goldie • NO RANGE NEEDED! Any 20 foot wall — a slot-slide, the manufacturer calls space indoors or out; corrugated cartons for back- Shines, will sell for from 29^ to 394 tor a it. Unlike" other hooks, screws show. stops! • COSTS ALMOST NOTHING TO box of six, you're spending less than you no START AND OPERATE. • NO AIR RIFLES would for the services of a shoe-shine boy. After two screws are inserted in a vertical TO BUY! Most 8 thru 14 juniors have Daisys or position one inch apart, the Robemaster can borrow one. • 168 SHOTS FOR ONLY 5c! Incidentally, the manufacturer explains the • SPECIAL "SHORT" 15 FOOT AIR RIFLE variation in price as "depending on the type simply slides over the screws. It can be QUALIFICATION COURSES APPROVED BY removed just as easily. The price is 69tf NRA. Shooters can earn NRA Awards. • SUC- of store." each, or three for SI.95. CESSFULLY TEST-PROVEN in camps, clubs. DC/* AIICE. A Daisy is not a Bt^MUJS. pneumatic or com- FOR THE HOME TINKERER pressed air gun. It cannot be "pumped up" to increase power! Another ingenious gadget for the person

i A Daisy is a low "factory-limited" who makes or fixes things is a Zip Clip, a power short-range spring-type air rifle—best and safest of its kind for drive-in metal clip which simplifies the teaching juniors safe gun handling making of shelves, drawers, and so on. Zip -since 1888! Clips come in the form of 14-inch channel pieces that are 1% inches long, 5/16-inch deep and 5/16-inch wide. Made of 22 gauge steel, they have four sharp prongs which serve instead of nails or screws. The clips are hammered in place, and the shelves or drawer dividers are inserted. Available in SPRING'S COMING stores or from manufacturer, Asa D. Scott It won't be long now till Spring, and Industries, 5447 Wayne Ave., Chicago 40. with warmer weather window screens will —teUs *g one You get 24 for a dollar, postpaid. rt be in order. For those who plan to start as a sep« . our work on screens, and for those who in- oraS tend to repair sagging storm windows, Fnt junior present J*fe b there's an ingenious new product that's a must. This is a corner brace called the P ords^nd1 Mitey-Miter, being made by Reagan Prod- fnin Wv" ;. It photographs- ucts Co., 35 Beacon St., Natick, Mass. As , you. intrigue shown in the illustration, this triangular brace does more than hold the outer edge Teach Juniors Safety and Citizenship with of the frame; its ingenious construction makes the brace lock the two pieces of wood by fitting into a simple saw cut. The Mitey-Miter comes in sets of four. The price is 49^ a set. PETOMAT Science has come to the aid of pet own- air rifles SELF-SHARPENING RAZOR — ers. That is, those owners of dogs and cats r t A razor which you keep sharp with a who worry about feeding their pets on | FREE BOOKLET COUPON flick of the wrist is being placed on the time. Lorraine Metal Specialties Co., 163 DAISY MANUFACTURING COMPANY market by Volume Sales Corp., 1209 Oregon Tillary St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y., is manu- • Dept. C-523, Plymouth, Michigan, U.S.A. 1 Ave., Philadelphia. Called the Shake-Sharp, facturing a device consisting of a metal I Gentlemen: Send your Free "How To Start | A Junior Air Rifle Club" booklet. it uses a conventional double-edge blade container in which a tray holding the pet's | and according to the manufacturer each food is concealed. A built-in clock is set .' NAME . . | | blade will give more than a hundred shaves. to whatever time the animal should be fed, The sharpening is done by a hone on a and at that time the tray is automatically | ST. Se NO | jointed arm which automatically sharpens moved into feeding position. Available at CITY I STATE I the blade when you flick your wrist. It $9.95.

^ group name (if any) ^ When writing to manufacturers concerning items described here kindly I ___ I mention that you read about them in The American Legion Magazine

g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 — — —

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10 • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 the people who called attention to the fact that the egg-heads w ere cither pretty dumb specimens or a traitorous lot.

That is something no egg-head can for- give, so he makes loud noises to protect his precious ego. You can hear these wails in many quarters. A new show on this theme is opening on Broadway. A new TV series has just opened, backed by a Foundation, naturally. Lecture halls resound to the battle cries of the egg-heads proclaiming that they arc being done in by "super patriots," "flag wavers" and other untouch- ables. And not long ago one of our better known women's magazines whipped up a fluffy meringue of three intellectual-type articles on education — castigating, of course, those who question subversives in same. Don't these egg-heads realize that there is a pungent odor surrounding them? May- be if they laundered themselves they'd get a more respectful hearing.

END OF THE COMPASS

Whenever a newspaper dies there is usually a certain feeling of sadness at its passing. However, we feel no pangs at the passing of The Compass, a New York thing whose journalistic delicatessen smellcd much like that dispensed by The Daily Worker. We were surprised though at one bit of news that came out when The Compass expired. It seems that Wall Street money had been propping it up. The money had been forthcoming from Corliss Lamont, Ned H. Dearborn (left), president of the National Safety Council, presenting the Award of w ho apparently divides his time between Honor to Cleo F. Craig, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. professoring at Columbia, clipping coupons from securities left him by his papa, and working for a brave new world via various communist fronts. Corliss's father was a partner of J. P. Morgan, but to give junior his due he's trying to live down his capitalistic background. Bell Telephone Companies Possibly because of some hereditary trait, Corliss pulled a capitalistic trick in connection with The Compass. He went and fore- closed the mortgage he held on the thing. Receive Highest Award of So now a lot of people are going to have to go back to the Worker for mental sus- tenance. The "journalists" employed by The Compass got a tough break too. When National Safety Council a newspaperman gets laid off by a capital- ist-type paper he usually gets severance pay. But not so in this case. The management not only skipped the severance; they didn't even pass around crying towels. Bell telephone men and women are is so important and no service is so proud of the Award of Honor pre- urgent that we cannot take time to RED FROM HUNGER sented to them recently by the perform our work safely." National Safety Council. The award A lot of heavy thinkers have the theory The lineman on the pole, the in outstand- that if you stuff enough food in a person's was recognition of an driver on the highway, the operator stomach he won't go for communism. record ing for two years. at the switchboard, the men and That's the thinking behind our policy of offices — all giving a few billions here, a few billions It is no accident that the com- women in the business there, and any billions left over to India. munications industry leads in safety. have tried hard to live up to this However, we don't get it. We can't help Telephone equipment and build- safety creed. thinking of the well-fed "Americans" who are red-hot reds. There are the red leaders ings are designed for safety. And We're grateful for this award and themselves, many of them so fat that they on the wall of every Bell telephone we're going to keep on trying to seem to ooze grease. And let's not forget building are these words — "No job make the record even better. the waddling "workers" in the May Day Parade, people who could afford to lose a lot of poundage in addition to their chains. For that matter, even the commie BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM "intellectuals" don't seem exactly anemic, "A Good Place to Work" except in their brain cells.

11 LEGION [f 0D& UN CLUB

By JACK DENTON \ SCOTT

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Of the stretcher type, it is light I Address Write John Herrin, president of the and makes the heretofore insuperable task I Wyoming Game and Fish Commission at of lugging the deer out of dangerous Thermopohs, Wyoming, for details on (Continued on page 45)

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Eddie had never been called "sir" by an

Admiral, and it did something to him.

By BENEDICT THIELEN

was crawling along face-down in "What makes you think that?" I

approximately two feet of water and asked, rising from the water with, I I I was perfectly happy. I was doing thought, considerable dignity. just what I wanted to do, in the best "You look so annoyed," she said. possible place for doing it. The name "And what are you doing out here, of this place is Sand Key, a small island fishing?" off the city of Key West, and I had "No," I said. "I'm collecting. 1 am been camping there for the past three a malacologist," I added. days. "A what?"

I had been entirely alone, so that "A malacologist," I repeated. "I study when I suddenly heard the sound of mollusks. Shells." someone laughing it startled me. I She looked at me in a half-puzzled, turned over to look up but I had my half-amused way, then she said, "I was diving mask on and the water running quite frightened when I saw you lying off it made everything look blurred. there. I thought you were a corpse. I

When it occurred to me to take it off could just see the headlines: 'Mystery I saw this girl. Although, as a scientist, Surrounds Slaying on Sand Key. Ad- I have trained myself to be observant, miral's Daughter Held for Question- " I can only remember a vague genera ing.' impression of soft-looking blonde hair, "Admiral's daughter?" I said. a tanned skin, and a costume consisting "Well, yes. Pop's down here on an of white shorts and blouse. inspection trip. He always manages to As I lay there staring up at her she get down here in the winter. He loves laughed again and said, "You don't like fishing." company, do you?" I nodded and said, "I was in the Navy

Through the blurred diving mask I saw the girl I picked up the fish-spear, fitted on the diving mask and went over the side. I drifted off, looking down. The sheer sides of the reef were covered with coral and sea-fans, anemones and sea feathers. They and ^Continued were colored yellow and moss-green ^fty on jftg Reef purple and they swayed lightly in the current. I saw two barracuda hanging just below the

surface, watching me. I took a stroke toward them myself for a while. During the war, that was." and they shied away, then turned and stared back. "Did you hate it?" They have cold eyes that look straight at you.

"Well," I said, "I never did anything I was After a while I saw a small grouper on the bot-

fitted for. I submitted a suggestion once but . . . tom at the edge of the reef. I dived down and 1 was just a yeoman. Second class." speared him. As I was coming up a long shadow

"That's typical," she said. "Why didn't you moved across the bottom. I thought it was a shark

get a commission?" and when I came up and saw her face I was sure

"I had marked malocclusion," I said, and opened of it.

my mouth a little to show that my lower teeth As I climbed in the boat she shuddered and said, projected slightly beyond the upper ones. "Didn't you see the shark? And the barracuda?"

"As if that mattered! And anyway you could "Yes," I said. have gotten a waiver. Pop could have fixed it up "And you weren't the least bit frightened?" for you in a minute." "Well," I said, "I know they're harmless, but

I looked over at the dock where the small sometimes they do make me a little uneasy. So motorboat I'd rented was tied up. Next to it was do morays." a mast that looked as if it belonged to a sailboat. She looked at me for several seconds, then she

"Did you sail out here?" I asked her. "Alone?" said slowly, "You're a very brave man."

She nodded and I said, "That's sort of risky. I didn't know what to say, so I picked up the These are dangerous waters; lots of reefs." oars and started to row.

As she looked up at me I noticed her eyes for When we got back I cooked the fish and after- the first time. They were large and wide apart ward we stretched out in the shade and didn't

and a curious golden-green in color, like the shal- say much. Her silence puzzled me. I have alw ays low waters above a reef in bright sunlight. I been under the impression that w omen practically

looked beyond her at the reef and the deep blue never stop talking and, since I am not a very

at its edge. talkative man myself, I have often found

"I'll show you the reef if you want," I said. "It's this trait rather trying. I wondered if

very pretty. I might spear a fish for lunch." possibly she might be an exception

We got in the dinghy and rowed over to the to the rule. Perhaps, I thought, she

reef. I dropped anchor at the edge and gave her was different from other women. the water glass. She looked for a long time and It was a possibility that had when she finally raised her head her eyes were not occurred to me before. shining. "You know," she said, "I "It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But don't even know your ." isn't it dangerous? Aren't there barracuda and . . name."

4 M, I told her my name was Edwin Simmons and she said, I meant you. I gave you definite orders not to go beyond ." . "Edwin . . . Eddie . . . That's my name too." She looked the channel buoy. It's dangerous. You might . suddenly very angry. "My real name's Edna and I simply "But it all turned out all right, Pop. Eddie ... Mr. Sim- loathe it. But I've always been called Eddie and that's not mons towed me in." so bad." "All right, all right," he said. "But what if Mr. Simmons "That's strange," I said, "our having identical names." hadn't been there? What about that?" "Yes, isn't it? It's as if ... I mean, it's hard to tell which She lowered her eyes and said, "I just don't know what is which, isn't it?" I would have done." For some time we did not speak, then she looked at her "Well," he said to me, "it's a good thing you were. I'm watch and sighed. "I suppose I ought to think about getting grateful to you, sir." back." I had just taken a drink and I don't know whether it was We looked out at the water, then she turned to me and because it was strong or whether being called "sir" by an said, "But there's no wind! 1 hadn't even noticed it." admiral was the reason, but I felt momentarily a little dizzy. "It might come up later," I said, but from the appearance There was a short silence, then she said, "Eddie was in of the sky it seemed unlikely. the Navy too, Pop, during the war." ." "Of course I could just stay here. But . . She shook He looked me up and down once and I had the feeling her head. "No. If I'm not back by sundown Pop'll have he didn't especially like what he saw. everything on the Base out looking for me. I guess you'll "Oh," he said. "Reserve?" have to tow me back." I nodded and he said, "Well, it wouldn't have been much

"I hadn't planned ..." I began, but she interrupted me. of a Navy if it hadn't been for the Reserves, ha-ha!" I had "You mean you're going to hold heard this remark and this laugh me here against my will?" often before and, as usual, it didn't "Oh, no," I said quickly. "No, of ring true. I began to remember a lot course not." of things about the Navy I had for- She laid her hand for a second on gotten—none of them pleasant. my arm. He sat down heavily in his chair, "Oh, Eddie," she said, "you're so yawned a little, and said, "They did funny. And you know what?" a wonderful job." "No," I said. "What?" Then a strange thing happened. "You've got the longest eyelashes." As I have said, the idea of meeting It is this kind of non-sequitur that an admiral at close range made me I find so difficult to account for in uneasy. But now I remembered his the workings of the feminine mind. After I had taken another drink I calling me "sir" a few moments ago decided I'd say an ything I wanted. At any rate, we got my gear and and it made me realize that he no my specimens together and started longer had any power over me. I off. As the sun sank toward the horizon the whole sky be- could say anything I wanted to him. After I had taken came filled with a magnificent scarlet glow. I felt curiously another drink I decided I would say any thing I wanted to contented and in no hurry whatever to reach shore. him.

When we arrived and had tied up the boats she telephoned "They could have done a good job," I said. "If they'd her father to tell him that she was safely back. been given half a chance." "I told him all about you," she said, as she stepped out He looked up quickly'. "What's that? How do you mean, of the 'phone booth, "and he insists on meeting you. He's given half a chance?" very grateful to you for saving me." "If the Navy had put them in positions they were fitted ." "I didn't save you," I said. for. If instead of making a yeomen out of malacologists . . "Of course you did. If it weren't for you I wouldn't be "Out of what?" here now. You . . . you had me in your power." "Malacologists," his daughter said. "That's what Mr. Sim- What she said gave me an odd feeling. For no discernible mons is. He collects shells and things. It's very fascinating." reason my heart seemed to skip several beats. A vein was beginning to stand out on the Admiral's fore- We walked down the main street. In the bars juke boxes head. With an effort he took a deep breath and leaned back were playing loudly. Colored lights shimmered inside them in his chair. and bubbled around their edges. Neon signs were flashing "Well!" he said. "That's very interesting. But it would above the street. On a corner some Cuban boys were play- be a little hard to decide just what slot a mala- ... a scien- ing a guitar and singing. I had been on this street often but tist with that specialty would fit in. Wouldn't it?" it looked different to me now. It seemed very lively and gay. He smiled up at me but his eyes reminded me of a bar- By contrast, the grounds of the Naval Base seemed solemn racuda's. For a moment I was slightly disconcerted. Then and dark. The idea of meeting an admiral made me slightly' I remembered that I was not in the least afraid of barra- uneasy. As we approached the Admiral's quarters I had cudas. the impression of being about to encounter a strong per- "Well," I said, "they might at least have given some con- sonality and when I saw him I knew it was so. He looked sideration to a suggestion made by such a specialist." exactly as you would think an admiral should look: intense A look of patiently borne suffering came over the Ad- blue eyes, a firm jaw, and a red face which looked as though miral's face. it could, and often did, get even redder. His voice was "Did you make a suggestion?" he asked gently. loud and carrying. Even though he smiled pleasantly when I nodded and took another drink. I was surprised to see we came in he looked very determined. He had a drink how little was left in the glass. in one hand and after I had been introduced he made us "I certainly did," I said. "And that was the last that was each another. ever heard of it." As he handed them to us he said, "Eddie, you really were The Admiral got out of his chair, reached for my glass a damn fool, you know it?" and went over to the table where the whiskey and ice were. His daughter laughed and, pointing at me, said, "His "That happens, of course," he said over his shoulder. "It's

r name's Eddie too." regrettable but . . . May I ask, Mr. Simmons, if your sug- He grunted and said, "Oh, so? Well, I didn't mean him. gestion had something to do with (Continued on page 43)

17 ! HOW HE IK THIS

Many communities have been deluged with verbal torrents from lecturers with unsavory 9 V 5 records. Who is responsible for procuring such people and for screening out speakers who favor traditional Americanism?

Here are some facts that may surprise you.

"bigot," "fascist," "reactionary," "witch hunter," "AIc- By FELIX WITTMER Carthyist," "hate-monger" or "self-appointed vigilante." Consequently, you kept quiet, went about your busi- Have you, as a patriotic citizen, been ness, and hoped that George would do something about

infuriated by the collectivism un-Ameri- the matter. But it happens that you are George. Therefore, can nonsense which some do-gooding if you don't get busy and organize wide-spread protest speaker displayed before your service right in your community, the itinerant do-gooders — pro- club? Did it make you "mad" to hear fessors, clergymen, commentators and various profes- .") — from your wife or child that another sional "commiebuts" ("I'm not a commie, but . . pink had invaded the platform of your will continue to take the fight out of us, at this time of local woman's club and the community college? Did it the greatest menace which ever has threatened the United burn you up to see the beloved recreation hall of your States of America. own church misused for some veiled defense of socialism or an open attack on patriots who have the courage to The following lines on our lecturing lefties are writ- slug it out with the pinks? Why didn't you do something ten by a man who has fought against the enemies of more drastic than merely tell your program chairman liberty all his life. Twenty years ago, on a lecture tour that you were displeased with the speaker? through Germany, he was injured by Nazis because he Throughout the years of happier times, you had fol- told an audience in the Burger-Museum in Stuttgart that lowed the policy of avoiding friction. For the sake of Hitler ought to be put in a straightjacket. He's a veteran public relations, and out of loyalty to the organization of public debates against communists and fellow-travelers. to which you belong, you did not wish to "put your club He resigned from the college where he had taught for in a bad light." You felt it was none of your business to seventeen years rather than play along with the pinks intrude into the quiet precincts of your campus. You felt on the faculty. it was improper to argue with the minister or embarrass In this particular article, he reports on some phases and him in public, though you did bear a grudge against him cases of the lecture business which he regards as typical. because of his impractical and foolish idealism. You also He feels that too little attention has been paid to red did not want to cause any embarrassment to yourself. subversion in this area of our public life, and that it is You did not want to be branded as a "flag-waver," high time to do something about the matter.

For twelve years I served as Hon- views, speaking ability and price range Two of the speakers whom we en- orary President of the New Jersey of the lecturers, I had but one of the gaged, Anna Louise Strong and Max International Relations Forum, a five votes which decided the selection Lerner, in varying degrees were known state-wide organization of high school of the speakers. to be pro-communist. The notorious students in whose conferences more If ever an American student organi- Soviet agitator, who used to spend ten than a hundred schools have partici- zation was anti-communist, it was the months of the year in the USSR, was

pated. In this capacity I advised the N.J.I.R.F. Yet, even this association sel- prevented from making her platform respective student officers in the semi- dom had a speaker who stood up for appearance, thanks to the British, who annual selection of their speakers. free enterprise. Anti-communist orators delayed her Soviet ship in the port of While, unlike the young student offi- known for their socialistic leanings Gibraltar. She was replaced by Pro-

cers, I was acquainted with the political were prevalent. fessor Hans Simon, who is now presi-

18 HERE ARE SOME OF THE SPEAKERS WHO SHOULD dent of that stronghold of collectivist- minded scholars, the New School for BE GETTING A HEARING IN YOUR COMMUNITY Social Research, in New York City. Professor Simon's speech deliberately soft-pedaled our conflict with Russia. Max Lcrner, w hile unusually cautious, did not say a single word to express any anxiety about the USSR. How did the high school faculty sponsors respond to Simon and Lcrner? The strongly entrenched pro-Soviet teachers of certain large high schools were not even present because for years they William George James Henry had boycotted our "fascist" organiza- Buckley Fielding Eliot Burnham C. Wolfe tion. Those left-wingers who still were sending student delegations urged me to "get more speakers like Lcrner" in the future. Considering that World Federalism for years had been a student fad which influential social studies teachers had cultivated, it could not be avoided that Vernon Nash, who then was field secretary of United World Federalists, spoke at our Conference at Nutlcy High School. In the question period of the plenary session, Dr. Nash was asked if he was not afraid of Soviet infiltration by including the USSR in his one world scheme. "Most certainly not," the Doctor answered. "We welcome the Soviet Union in our midst because w e all are brothers." When Dr. W alter H. Judd, Repub- lican Representative of /Minnesota, spoke at Hillside High School, several Ralph Oliver Vladimar J. Anthony schools protested against using the de Toledano Carlson Petrov Marcus Forum in behalf of "reactionary" influences. When Louis Francis Budenz, the anti-communist, was scheduled to speak at South Side High School, Newark, I received so many threatening phone calls that I had to ask Safety Director Keenan for police protection of the conference. How was it possible that even the N.J.I.R.F. could not secure more speakers who unequivocally uphold the Con- stitutional guarantees of our free enterprise system? There are several answers, one of which stands out. As a matter of plain fact, well-known conservative speakers demand fees which are far above the $200 limit of the organization. They apparently do not benefit by any subsidies to beat the leftist competition. What with deductions for agents' commissions, taxes and traveling expenses, they do not consider it worthwhile to make the effort. Many noted Ruth Karl E. John T. Howard leftist speakers, on the other hand, Fischer Mundt Flynn Rushmore gladly accept the $200 fee. Vernon Nash spoke for $50, and in addition brought along an attractively dolled-up assistant with bulky packages of free literature. Every six months, our experience repeated itself. I would write to the three or four conservative speakers who topped the list of our selections, only (Combined on page 58) Alfred Louis Louis Joseph Z. Kohlberg Waldman Budenz Kornfeder in the snow 90+ When you shoot a hobcat you are performing a

humane act, ridding the woods of a vicious killer.

By RAY L. TRULLINGER

DEATH TOLL IN ONE MAINE DISTRICT.\j^^|^ V* W 'W *W

Bobcats make a rush and leap for that We found a partly eaten deer of perhaps 130 One warden found the carcasses of death grip around the buck's windpipe. lbs. We circled the kill looking for cat tracks. 26 bobcat-killed deer in three months.

Ever see a bobcat in the woods? It's difficult to believe a 30 to 40-pound cat can kill a Reference is not to a treed or trapped varmint, but 200-pound buck. Uninformed people usually are disposed to a prowling animal, encountered by chance. If you to scoff at such an idea. But any warden who operates where have, you're one of a lucky few, because a man can spend big bobcats range in deer country will confirm the state- years in the woods in typical bobcat country and never ment, often with profane emphasis. When one man finds glimpse one of the predators. Same goes for cougar or lynx. the carcasses of 26 bobcat-killed deer in his district within It isn't that bobcats are scarce. Actually they're plentiful three months, as my friend Warden Supervisor Lloyd Clark in places where the average person never suspects their did in his section of Washington County, Maine last winter, presence, and they range throughout much of the U.S. How there isn't much doubt the vicious cats take a big annual

plentiful they are in some localities perhaps is best revealed toll. Nobody knows how extensive such killings are because by the fact that 18 were killed last winter ahead of a friend's only a few carcasses are found while it's still possible to pair of hounds in one small area of northeastern Maine. And determine how the deer came to its end. Scavengers, furred practically all were shot within a mile or two of marginal and feathered, quickly destroy the evidence. farmland, often within hearing of passing traffic on county Last winter I was invited on a week's bobcat hunt with roads. Warden Supervisor Clark, of the Maine Department of

The reason bobcats are so seldom seen is simply that Inland Fisheries and Game. He owns two crack varmint they're furtive and wary in the extreme, and to a large ex- hounds, as do others of Maine's fine warden force. We tent nocturnal. Infrequently a silently watchful deer hunter, got off to a tardy start that first day, mainly for the purpose ambushed near a deer crossing or trail, will see a bobcat, of scouting the area for cat signs. But we took a dog along, and, if he's lucky, get a shot. But such encounters are rare. just in case. It was cold, and about two inches of fresh A year ago, something like 5,000 deer were shot during snow mantled the ground. the November season in one of Maine's better deer counties, Now the first move on a cat hunt is to drive back-country which indicates a lot of rifle-toting hopefuls were in the roads, preferably after a fresh snowfall, and watch both woods. Despite the presence of that army of hunters, only sides of the road for tracks. That's the easiest part of bob- 21 of the spotted cats were shot and turned in for the $15 cat hunting. The more strenuous part comes after tracks bounty they bring. That low tally certainly was not attri- are found. If enough ground is covered, sooner or later butable to any bobcat scarcity in that area, but to the fact those telltale prints in the snow will be seen. The mute that a hunter's chances of seeing one in the woods are about evidence of other passings also will be noted—deer, foxes,

5,000 to 1. rabbits and infrequently, otter. Contrary to popular belief, bobcats are something more There's no mistaking a bobcat's tracks. They are larger than mere destroyers of small game such as grouse, snow- editions of a housecat's, round, well-defined and approxi- shoe rabbits and squirrels. They're deer killers of the first mately the size of a half-dollar. A cougar or mountain lion's rank, and they'll kill any deer they can catch, from year- prints, incidentally, are identical, except they're much larger. lings to mature bucks. The lynx, a rare varmint in this country but reasonably 20 Ray Trullinger, noted sports writer plentiful in Canada's north woods, wears furred pads of the York New World Telegram A which make a less well-defined track. That cat's track Sun, holds up a forty-pound bobcat is perhaps best described as resembling an imprint which he shot in Maine. made by pushing a powder puff in the snow. That first afternoon the two of us jeeped up a nar- row, rutty road leading toward the warden's hunting and fishing camp at the head of a four-mile-long lake. About two miles from camp we were surprised to see several ravens and a pair of eagles fly up from a spot about 60 yards off the road. "What do you suppose those things are feeding

on?" I queried my friend, as he braked to a stop. "I have a pretty good idea," he replied, "but we'll check to be sure." We walked over and there was a partly eaten buck of perhaps 130-pound weight. The animal had shed

Seven deer killers shot by Warden Supervisor Lloyd Clark and Ray Trullinger. An eighth cat was added next morning.

its horns, and the carcass was surrounded by a maze of fox, eagle and raven tracks. "That thing wasn't there yesterday afternoon when I came by here," my companion remarked. "Must have been killed last night." "W hat do you suppose killed it?" The warden looked at me in surprise. "Why," he replied, "a bobcat, of course. What else would kill it?" My face registered disbelief. "You think I'm kidding? W ell, look here." And with that he began yanking tufts of hair from around the buck's windpipe, exposing a score of needle-like fang punctures. "Bobcats always kill like that," he explained. "That's why there's no mistaking a bobcat-killed deer. They snealc up on a deer, make a quick rush, and try for

that death grip on the windpipe. If they get it, the deer hasn't a chance." J W e circled the kill, looking for cat tracks leading to or away from the carcass, but found none. "That's easily explained," my companion stated. "It

snowed last night after the buck was killed. I have a hunch we'll cut that varmint's tracks somewhere along the road between here and camp. Anyway, we'll drive up and look." A mile beyond, the warden stopped the jeep abrupt- ly and remarked, "I thought so." There were fresh tracks coming down off a wooded ridge and crossing the road. Less than 50 yards (Continued on page 4S)

21 **x INCOME

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HOPELESSLY BEWILDERED CITIZEN re- Anyhow, tax forms aren't as formid- 5. If you earn less than $5,000, A cently returned his blank income able and terrifying as they first appear. all in wages, then your best bet tax forms to the collector's office Three out of four Americans filing is to file Form 1040A. Attach with the following note of resignation: individual income tax returns— it will to it the tax withholding statement from "Boss, I've read these blame forms amaze you to learn—pay the correct your employer (Form W-2), and let over and over, and I can't understand amount of tax, neither less nor more. the collector's office compute the tax 'em. So if it means jail, I'm ready when This 75 percent doesn't wait until for you. He will then send you a bill you are ready." March 15 to file, but starts out some for additional, if due; or a check for a The fact is that tens of thousands of few days before the deadline, and takes refund, if you've overpaid. This is a American taxpayers are also confused a little time and trouble—an investment special service for Form 1040A only. by the tax forms—and as a result pay worthwhile. Uncle Sam too much! £k 6. If you are in the less-than- Strict as he may be in exacting the $5,00i000 bracket, but more than 2. Watch your arithmetic! government's due, the income tax col- 100 of your income is from 22. This may not seem like much lector wants only the legal minimum sources not subject to withholding tax, of a tip. But the startling fact from you. you can save yourself time, and per- is that three out of ten overpayments Yet, on the basis of surveys made by haps money as well, by filing Short result from faulty arithmetic on the the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Form 1040. It gives the taxpayer a flat part of the taxpayers. estimated 1,500,000 Americans will 10 percent deduction on the assumption overpay an average of $80 on their in- that during the tax year he spent 10 come taxes for 1952. 3. Pick the right line! percent of his income on contributions Inasmuch as the 1952 tax rate is 9 It seems silly, but some anx- to charities, interest on loans, heavy percent higher than the 1951 levy, it is ious taxpayers, in a rush to get medical expenses, and the like. (This just possible that you might want to rid of their tax chore, read the wrong benefit automatically applies for tax- consider giving Uncle Sam what's com- line or column in the tax table, and so payers using Form 1040A.) ing to him under the law, but no more. overpay on their income tax. If this is the case, then you will find The hand is quicker than the eye, 7. Should you find that your the following tips on taxes, obtained and is not to be trusted for this finan- contributions, interest on a big from among the oldtimers at the In- cial matter. Use a straight-edge or ruler mortgage, extraordinarily high ternal Revenue Bureau, worth dollars picking in out the right tax on the tax medical expenses, and other legitimate to you. table. It may save you money. deductions add up to more than 10 percent of your income, then it might be

X/SjV 4. Select the tax return form money-wise to file Long Form 1040,

1 rather than accept the standard 10 per- 1. Don't put off filing your tax v^ most advantageous to you. returns until the eleventh hour, Uncle Sam gives you some cent deduction. and then scramble in a frenzy leeway in picking out the return form to fill out the forms and get rid of which will cost you the least in taxes. 8. Compute your tax with both them as if they were ticking time bombs. Take advantage of this break, even if it Short and Long Forms 1040, Sure you hate to tackle the income means that you must fill out two or and see for yourself how much tax! But why bite your nose to spite more forms in order to determine which you save in filing your tax with the your face? will save you the most. form best suited to your pocketbook.

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ductible as a business expense because

the father is bound by law to support the child. Taxes By SAM STAVISKY 16. A minor who earns less than $600 a year, and whose Every year thousands of Americans wages have been subject to withholding tax, owes no income tax and has a refund coming to him. To ob- pay Uncle Sam too much income tax. tain this refund, he should file a return and attach the Form W-2 withholding tax statements. The father who supports is to avoid costly tax errors. Here how a minor earning less than $600 a year may claim his child as a dependent ($600 tax exemption) without having to add the child's earnings to taxpayer's income.

17. A wife earning under $600 a year, whose wages have been subjected to withholding tax, would be wise to file a joint return with her husband. In this way, she would not only get her refund—in the form of a credit applied to the joint income tax- but at the same time, the married couple would be enabled to take advantage of the lower tax available in the joint return.

9. If your adjusted gross in- could have saved money by having 18. come is $5,000 or more then filed a joint return instead, he has three Watch your dependency you must file Long Form 1040. years in which to change the return exemptions! Each one knocks However, you are permitted to use the and get his refund. $600 off your taxable income, standard 10 percent deduction (gener- and thereby substantially lowers your income tax. ally limited to a maximum of $1,000) or SO 13. Something new has been ' itemized deductions. Here again you VP added to the 1952 tax returns— .'A will find it worthwhile to determine a special tax treatment for tax- 19. Every taxpayer is allowed by actual computation whether or not payer who qualifies as "head of house- one $600 exemption for him- to use the standard deduction. hold." self. He gets a double exemp- You can qualify as "head of house- tion, $1200, if he is 65 or over. He gets 10. Ordinarily a married cou- hold" if you arc single or legally sepa- an additional exemption of $600 if he is ple will save money by filing rated, provided you furnish over half blind.

a joint return. This is permis- of the maintenance of a home w hich sible even if one spouse has no income is your principal residence and is shared *|gjL 20. Mr. Taxpayer is allowed

at all. with any tax-exemption dependent, or Ifjff one $600 exemption for his Congress has given married folks a with any unmarried child, stepchild, or wife; another $600 exemption break in this respect because a joint re- grandchild, even though the child is if she is 65 or over; an extra exemption turn results in a lower surtax rate. For not a dependent. of $600 if she is blind, provided in each example, a married couple with $4,999 The "head of household" gets a bet- case that she has no income. If the wife income, filing a joint return and taking ter break than the taxpayer who files has any income whatsoever, they should the standard deduction from the tax a separate return, but not as good a file a joint return. table will pay a tax of $728, as against break as the taxpayer filing a joint re- a tax of $758 if the husband and wife turn. For example, the married taxpayer 2 1 . As a taxpayer, you are per- file separate returns, or if the husband with $4,999 income, pays a tax of $758 mitted to take exemption of files a separate return and the wife files on a separate return, $743 as "head of $600 for each closely related none. that the household," a joint return. Note saving here is $30. $728 on person who is dependent on you. By closely related persons, the tax collector 11. Married taxpayers should 14. Minors are required to file means your children or stepchildren, be alert to the fact, however, Federal income tax returns, your children's children (but not your that because of some special just like anyone else, if their stepchildren's children); your brothers, circumstances involving their own par- gross income for the year was $600 or sisters, half brothers, half sisters, step- ticular tax return they might be better more. Parents and guardians of minors brothers, stepsisters, your parents, off filing a separate return. Therefore, are responsible for seeing to it that the grandparents, and other direct ancestors; it would again be dollar-wise to take the returns are filed. your stepparents; your uncles, aunts, time and effort required to compute the nephews, nieces (but not their spouses); tax both ways. employ a your parents-in-law, brothers and sis- Y~\^u) ^ parent may child in his own business and ters-in-law, sons and daughters-in-law \ \ Jf 12. If a married taxpayer filed deduct the child's wages as a Cousins, no matter how close to you, a separate return for 1951 (or legitimate business expense. But the are not allow able as exemptions. thereafter) and later learns he child's meals and lodgings are not de- (Continued on page 46)

22 WHO IS BEING TREATED IN

By LEWIS K. GOUGH NATIONAL COMMANDER. THE AMERICAN LECION

"/ am shocked and amazed . . . approximately 90 percent eligibility. The "eligibles" and the "ineligibles" on the single of those treated (in VA hospitals) have non-service-connected dis- basis of being admitted for service-connected disabilities

...... are abilities. The hospitals are . filled . . by veterans who are shown, percentage-wise, by the black and white figures not rightfully entitled to this service . . Statements from address below: Asso- of Dr. R. J. Wilkinson, President of the Southern Medical ciation, at the 1952 Miami Convention of that association. m$m ? Wilkinson is not the only one w ho is shocked and 35.5% Service- I 64.5% Unaccounted for Dr. Connected amazed. I am too. Some would have us think that nearly |

every veteran in the hospitals is some sort of a bum, VA Going further, the survey found other patients who had a free-loader or a liar who is taking the taxpayers for a ride service-connected disabilities, but who had been admitted and cheating fees at private practice rates. doctors out of for other medical complaints. These, added to those who publication the That idea has been supported by wide of were admitted for service-connection, brought those with fact it is a fact) that the unadorned and unexplained (and official service-connected disabilities to an even 50 percent of the patients in the hospitals have not been majority VA of the total. admitted for service-connected disabilities. Does this sort of reporting justify dark questions as to how most of the patients got into the hospitals in the first place? All Legionnaires, all veterans and all Americans have a right to know who is being treated in the Veterans 50% Rated Service- I 50% Not Rated Administration hospitals, and by what right or reason they Connected | Service-Connected are getting this care. admitted By 1950, wild tales about the status of VA patients had However, let us forget all but those who were gotten wide circulation. That part of the true VA hospital for service-connection. We have seen they numbered 35.5 admission figures that made the situation seem the worst percent. One will quickly see that this is the rock-bottom had been repeated (and exaggerated) over and over, without figure that can be used to suggest that most patients are free- further facts or explanation. loaders who milk taxpayers and cheat doctors. For instance, Dr. Wilkinson's analysis of the hospitalized When it arrived at this figure, the 1951 survey did not veterans looks something like this: immediately shut its eyes and condemn all the other patients. It took a second look at the 64.5 percent (not 90 percent) who had been admitted for reasons rated "non-service- connected." A number of these were hospitalized for tuberculosis and mental disturbances. These patients, even if they are fairly 10% Service- I 90% "No Entitlement" well-off when taken ill, cannot begin to pay for their care. Connected | As a class, they are conceded to be "medically indigent." But in 1950, in connection with the U.S. census, the VA Their afflictions cut off their incomes for a long time and surveyed the status of every other VA patient—50 percent drain away their resources. Remove them from the VA of those hospitalized. The survey covered all patients in hospitals and they will go uncared for as serious public VA beds on January 31, 1950. problems. Or they will enter the state hospitals which are, The findings of this survey so completely belied the facts like the VA hospitals, tax-supported. and implications of statements like those of Dr. Wilkinson Today, the state hospitals cannot hold the VA mental that another survey was made a year later, on January 31, and tubercular patients, while the municipal hospitals do 1951. The results were substantially the same as those of not want any of them. Not only are most states unable to the previous year. absorb the VA mental and tubercular patients, but such Let's take a look at the results of the 1951 survey, it being care as most states can give is vastly inferior to VA care. the more recent. It reviewed a huge cross-section of all VA Some state health commissioners have frankly stated that, patients, and no fair idea of the veterans hospital program in their opinion, veterans are entitled to better care than can be formed by anybody who only sees a part of the they have to offer. Tragic punctuation was given this situ- picture. ation last Thanksgiving Day, when the newspapers reported There were 107,226 veterans hospitalized by the VA on that 15 patients were burned to death in a fire in a decrepit January 31, 1951. and ancient state mental hospital building in Dr. Wilkinson's First, the survey found how many veterans had been ad- home town of Huntington, West Virginia. mitted for care for disabilities that were rated "service- To kick the mental and tubercular patients out of the connected." The finding was that 35.5 percent had been, VA hospitals would solve nothing and make new social and while the rest (64.5) needed some other basis for their health problems for the nation.

24 Himm. How many non-service-connected patients in the VA 1. Veterans who were service-connected but were not hospitals on January 31, 1951 were being given care for rated "service-connected" by the VA. It is not true, as is T.B. or mental disturbances? The survey found the figure so often carelessly reported, that every veteran who is not to be 37.4 percent of the total then hospitalized. rated "service-connected" is being treated for disabilities If these, plus the 35.5 percent who were admitted for that have no connection with war service. Those who make service connection, were eligible, then the total eligible this interpretation of VA figures deceive themselves be- was 72.9 percent. cause they don't understand the VA classification system. "Service-connected" as it applies to patients is a technical phrase which means that the VA has officially ruled that ? the patient has a war-connected disability, and that he is hospitalized as a service-connected veteran. VA has patients who are service-connected, but are not 72.9% Service-Connected 27.1% so rated because an official determination has not yet been or Mental or T.B. Unaccounted for made. As many as 4 percent of all veterans in VA hospitals Now we have 27.1 percent remaining. in some months have been rated "non-service-connected" There were also some "non-service-connected" patients in the monthly report, only to be rated "service-connected" who, while not mental or tubercular, had long-term chronic later. diseases such as cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and similar VA has other patients who are service-connected, but economically disabling afflictions. who are hospitalized on some other basis than that of a Medical authorities who have been among the strongest "service-connected veteran," such as by arrangement with critics of the VA hospital admission system (when they the armed forces. Where this is true, they are not listed as looked no farther than the "service-connected" figures) service-connected veterans. We now have Korean combat readily admit that chronic cases that need more than 90 casualties in VA hospitals who are not rated service-con- straight days of hospitalization are "medically indigent" as nected, but who are supposed to "have no rightful entitle- a class, just as the mental and tubercular are. The same goes ment to this service," by critics who do not, or pretend not for patients with the same chronic, disabling afflictions who to, understand what "service-connected" means.

do not need 90 days straight treatment, but who need end- 2. The 14.4 percent also included veterans who had been less repeated hospital care for shorter periods. As a group ordered into the hospitals by the VA, so that VA could they suffer pauperizing illnesses if left to their own re- make its own check of medical evidence that the veteran sources. (In view of the tendency of some VA critics to had offered in support of a claim. ignore the long-term patients in their attacks on the VA, 3. The 14.4 percent included persons who were not even it is interesting to note that the recent Booz-Allen-Hamilton veterans, but who had been admitted because the VA offered survey of hospitals reported that 46 percent all pa- VA of the nearest or the only medical care in a life-or-death crisis. tients had been hospitalized for two years or more.) 4. The 14.4 percent included veterans who had been ad- What did the 1951 survey find about the long-term mitted for one-shot, short-term care solely on the basis of chronic patients who were not service-connected, mental their oath that they could not afford the care they needed. or T.B. patients? It found that they numbered 12.7 percent These have been estimated at 8 percent of the VA's yearly- of the total. (4.6 percent were in for 90 days or more, and patient load by a former severe critic of the system. 8.1 percent were "repeat chronics" with long histories of Several leading physicians and municipal hospital experts, repeated admissions for chronic, disabling afflictions.) who once thought there was no sound basis for the admis- If these too were eligible, then the total eligible was 85.6 sion of 70 percent of the VA patients, recently made a more percent. thorough study. They then announced that they didn't know how big the group of patients was that they would challenge, but said it was so small it "wasn't worth fighting -•ftttmttft ? about." Of course, any real abuse of the veterans hospitals is worth 85.6% Service-Connected or .4% fighting about, just as the frequenr abuse of those who are Mental or T.B. or Chronic Unnaccounted for I justly hospitalized is worth fighting about. The survey of those in the VA hospitals on that day To be hospitalized for any non-service-connected dis- ended there. Of our original ten little men, less than one ability, a veteran must sign a Form P10, which includes an and a half, or 14.4 percent, remain to be accounted for. affidavit that he cannot afford to pay for the treatment for Already we are a far cry from the thought that two- which he applies. This makes him eligible if facilities are thirds (or even 90 percent) of the veteran patients are joy- available. riders. The abusive attacks that discredit all the non-service- What about the 14.4 percent that were left? connected, assume that they all lie when they say they They included: cannot pay for their care on their {Continued on page SO)

25 Tlie> Lowdown on

Ways of stretching your hobby and home repair dollars.

You can save money and get better Common lumber contains numerous different—the higher the price the bet- results on your workshop projects defects and blemishes which make fin- ter the grade. The type of wood, natu- and home repair jobs if you buy ishing difficult, but it is suitable for rally, also makes a difference in the your lumber carefully and wisely. Gen- general utility and construction pur- price—the most plentiful woods in your erally, almost everyone knows how poses. In this type strength, stiffness particular area usually being the most much lumber to buy, but many waste and dryness are placed ahead of ap- reasonable in cost. The price range be- money by purchasing the wrong types pearance. Common lumber is classified tween the lower select grades and the

and grades. It isn't, of course, wise to by grades ranging from No. 1 Com- upper board grades of softwoods is buy cheap, knot-filled lumber for a mon to No. 5 Common, depending on frequently as much as 30 to 60 percent. radio cabinet that will be used in the the number and size of defects and With such a difference in price, it is

living room, and there is equally little blemishes. No. 5 Common has many obviously important not to buy a bet- sense in buying top-grade lumber to defects and is very rough, but a certain ter grade than is needed. Any tendency build a shelf for the basement. You percentage of the board of this grade to buy the best the market offers for should, therefore, consider the entire can be utilized. all uses is wasteful of both lumber and project before you order your lumber, Grades of hardwoods or lumber from money, for in most uses the lower and since there are many types, with vari- broad-leaved trees, such as the oaks, cheaper grades will render as long and ous advantages and disadvantages to maples, and birches, are based upon the satisfactory service as the upper and each. percentage of clear cuttings that can higher-priced grades. The wise buyer Lumber, like many food commodi- be obtained from a piece of lumber. takes the lowest grade suitable for his ties, is graded according to quality and Because it is impossible to determine purpose. the better the quality the higher the accurately any such percentage of clear Softwoods like white pine and fir are price. The softwoods, which in the wood, hardwoods are sold in combined usually lower priced than hardwoods main are obtained from needle-leaved, grades: Firsts and Seconds, which will like walnut and oak, though in the top evergreen, cone-bearing trees, are clas- give approximately 66y$ percent clear; grades the price is often nearly the sified as either select or common. The No. 2 Common, and Sound Wormy, same. In hardwood, too, you are likely pines, firs, and hemlocks are familiar approximately 50 percent; No. 3 Corn- to find only the higher grades available

HOW TO REPAIR LUMBER DEFECTS

.oose knots may be made Cracks or checks can be To correct a cupped board, wet the To remove dents, wet the dent ight by using adhesive filled in with wood filler. concave side and cover with a damp thoroughly and then pick up the ind allowing to dry. Sand smooth when dry. rag. Leave rags in place for 24 hours. fibres with on ice pick or awl.

examples of softwood species. The se- mon, approximately 30 percent. Be- at lumberyards in your neighborhood. lect grades of softwoods are based on cause of the wide variation in grades, Another way for you to save money (A) suitability for natural and paint great care must be taken when purchas- is to buy lower grade lumber, using finishes; (B) Select and better for ing hardwoods and because of the cost, only the clear portions between defects. natural finishes; (C) Select, and (D) you should inspect each piece. To in- Even on a large job, shorter pieces may Select for paint finishes. These grades sure your getting the proper grade of be used, thus allowing you to discard of lumber are generally clear, with de- either softwood or hardwood, most imperfect sections. You will also find fects few in size or number. Select manufacturers stamp the grade on their that many lower-grade pieces have lumber should be used only in places lumber. been graded down because of defects

that can be seen. The price of each grade, of course, is on only one side; the other side may 26 )

By ROBERT SCHARFF

NEW LUMBER When buying new lumber, careful inspection of the boards may allow purchase of lower grades.

IOTOS BY THE AUTHOR FREE LUMBER Old crates and boxes are fine sources of lumber. You can resurface old lumber or lower grade boards with be good. Such lumber is perfectly satis- a power jointer-planer or belt sander. factory where only one side will be seen. By spending a little time, you can into place, then nail or screw it down. correct many of the common defects When a wide board is cupped— a gut- that reduce the grade and of course terlike hollow from one side to the

the price of lumber. For example, if other— it can be corrected by wetting you find a loose knot, push it out, coat the concave side and covering it with the rim with clear cellulose cement or damp rags. Leave the rags in place wood adhesive and then press the knot overnight in a warm room; the resultant back into place. Next, wipe away any swelling generally will flatten the board. adhesive from the surface and allow Dents can often be eliminated by it to dry. Before staining or painting dropping a few drops of water on the the wood, sand away glue on the face dented surface and then picking at the of the board to permit the stain or paint spot with the point of a knife or brad- to penetrate. awl. This causes the fibers of the wood ITEM NO. PCS. SIZE IN INCHES WOOD J A warped or a bowed board can often to swell and thus fill the dent. After a 2 /4xll'/2 x36 Pine 3 has dried out, sand down b 1 /jxll!/2 x48 Pine be straightened by supporting the board the moisture c 3 %xll'/2x46'/i Pine at the ends, and piling weights on the the spot even with the surface of the d 1 '4x36x48 Plywood or center. Don't weigh the board down board. hardbocrd too heavily, and be sure to give it plenty Cracks or checks, unless they are deep 3 e 1 4x2x464 Pine of time for straightening. If the board enough to weaken the lumber seriously, Note: Add all lengths of common wood, is to be fastened to a rigid frame or sur- can be repaired by filling them with widths and thickness to get total foot- face that will hold it flat, it is not neces- a wood filler or a mixture of glue and age needed for this particular size. sary to straighten it first. Just force it ( Continued on page 53 Examples (A), (B), and (C) would be 27 ordered together. THE LEGION IN PICTURES

Children of Public School 89, in Winsor Village, Indianapolis is Frederick T. Cretors, War II veteran, state director of Civil listen with interest as they get dog tags and learn their value Defense, and a member of the Legion's National Civil Defense in the event of a surprise air attack on America. Their visitor Committee (a division of the National Security Commission.)

In Montana's 10th Legion District, vast distances hamper Part of the throng at the national Armistice Day memorial services for emergency medical care. With magazine subscription funds, America's war dead, at Arlington Amphitheater. The ceremonies, ar- Voiture 52, 40 & 8, of Miles City made flyable emergency ranged by the Legion, included the laying of wreaths on the tomb of the medical equipment available in 1951 (above). Now similar Unknown Soldier by the President's representative, The Legion and the units have been placed with all 14 Posts in the District. Legion Auxiliary. Nat'l Commander Gough gave principal address. Members of Bergen County (N. J.) unique Legion bowling parted member, and has league wives to a semi-formal dance league show, above, some of the fun and companionship at each season's end. Each team represents a Post in the Legion membership offers. In addition to fun, the league county, increasing social contacts among Legionnaires in pays a death benefit for each member, based on the number different towns. The league has two offspring since WWII; of games he rolled since league was formed in 1934, and a Bergen County Legion Leagues "Two" and "Three," using special bonus to each as he completes his 1800th game in the same alleys. In League "One" (above) 38 members have the league. The league also sends get-well cards to hospi- more than 1,000 games behind them. More than 200 Legion- talized members, maintains a plaque memorializing each de- naires bowl each week in the three leagues.

Richland, Washington, rates near the top of cities its size bicycle safety. Another is the attention paid by Post 71 to the in the nation in highway safety. One reason is the large 200 children in Richland's School Patrol, seen below at one number of boys and girls trained by Richland Post 71 in of the recent annual outings given the Patrol by the Post. "

The Propaganda War in Western Europe

By WILSON COMPTON ADMINISTRATOR. UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION

The problem is an exceedingly complex one.

National commakder's Message Wilson Compter,

At the recent National Convention of The American Legion in well as turning the spotlight on communist treachery and deceit. New York a number of the adopted resolutions of both the Last January the State Department reorganized its Overseas National Security Commission and the Committee on Foreign Information Service and an International Information Adminis- Relations pertained to psychological warfare. These resolutions tration was established in an effort to improve and strengthen reflected the necessity of seizing the offensive to the end that the Voice of America and other overseas information media. "constructive propaganda would make passive emotions of all Dr. Wilson Compton, former President of Washington State free men active." College, became the first Administrator of this Agency, and he These resolutions followed statements in the past by The has maintained that position ever since. At my request he has American Legion that the Voice of America should be maintained presented herewith an objective analysis of the activities of his

as an independent agency for psychological warfare and that it organization as they are being conducted at present to enable should assume a policy of initiative in favorably and accurately Legionnaires to be informed of developments as they are now portraying American objectives, trends, and aims overseas, as progressing. LEWIS K. GOUGH

we winning the Are "propaganda war" 5,500,000 in 1947 to scarcely 1,500,000 featist thinking of the dark days of in Western Europe? That question in 1952. 1946-47. is simple. But the answer is not sim- France has been smothered in foreign- Yet, by mid-summer of 1952 com- ple. In fact there are two answers. We directed propaganda for many years. As munist party prestige had hit a new are, and we are not. This means that a result, Frenchmen are inclined to "look low for postwar France. It began drop- there is no conclusive answer — yet. In under the cover." They are beginning ping in February with the first outright any war, the winner is determined by to realize that the communist party line failure of a communist-planned gen- who wins the last battle — not the first is leading not to higher wages and eral strike. It reached a new low in the — and we are evidently in the initial shorter hours, but to political slavery— days of red rout and confusion follow- stages of this war. If the question were: and economic slavery. Communism is ing the arrival of General Matthew Are we making progress? the answer not the spirit of Frenchmen. Ridgway at SHAPE headquarters in would be as simple as the question. Yes. This awakening of French workers Paris. Let me be specific. France is prob- since the peak of communist power and For weeks before Ridgway arrived ably the most strategic single country prestige in 1947 has been slow. But the every organ of the Soviet propaganda in Western Europe. The international signposts on the road have been there- machine worked feverishly to discredit communists know this. They have been French participation in NATO, French the new NATO chief, to prove to the making a major drive to convert the acceptance of plans for the military world that the French hated the Ameri- French people. It is reliably estimated, and economic integration of Western cans, and to prove to the French that for example, that during 1951 the com- Europe, the renewed spirit of confi- the communist party was the "way of munists spent no less than $150,000,000 dence in the French government, the the future." Marseillaise, a communist for propaganda purposes in France gradual revival of the French will to daily, issued a manifesto. It ordered alone. This is more than the United resist aggression and, above all, the party members to "begin today to or- States spent last year on its entire spirit of France—a country that would ganize and head any and all kinds of world-wide information program. never be the servant of any foreign protest actions" against General Ridg- Yet, for the past five years the com- power but always the mistress of her way. Said the communist press: munist party in France has been in a own fate. "He comes dripping with the slow but steady decline. circulation The Kremlin has been of The aware blood of martyred Korean and of the numerous communist newspapers every step of the French along the Chinese women, children and old has been dropping off. UHumanite, road leading away from despair and people against whom he has com- the leading French communist daily, in discouragement. Last spring additional mitted crimes of the most unspeak- 1947 had a circulation of 600,000; by investments of money and energy were able savagery. He is the war crimi- nal whom history will always call 1952, it had dropped to less than 200,- made by the Soviets in an effort to con- 'Ridgway the plague.' 000. Membership in communist-con- vince the French that they should turn trolled labor unions had fallen from about and retrace their steps to the de- The communist radio described 30 Ridgway as a microbean killer, a pest Duclos' arrest infuriated the commu- munist party were pointed out. The monger, a dollar imperialist, an inter- nists. The cry for action became even U.S. answer to the red propaganda ventionist, and a perpetrator of the more shrill. The National Confederal campaign against Ridgway was to pre- most shocking atrocities — all hate- Committee of the CGT, the commu- sent the facts. These facts were so pre- America themes inspired from Moscow. nist-controlled French general labor sented as to fortify and advance the For the past three years the Soviets union, met in special session and pub- objectives and policies of the "Cam- have been fabricating and fomenting lished an appeal calling for a "vast paign of Truth" which is directed by these themes with increasing fury. It is movement of unanimous action of the the U.S. International Information Ad- estimated that the USSR and its satel- working class for the immediate libera- ministration. lites spent an equivalent of one billion, tion of Jacques Duclos." The U.S. Congress stated in the Mu-

400 million U.S. dollars in 1950 for di- . . Assemble without delay in tual Security Act "its belief in the ne- rect governmental propaganda. Al- enterprises ... all united, walk out, cessity of further vigorous efforts to- though exact figures for 1951 and 1952 demonstrate, strike in each enter- wards these ends (political federation, prise. Unify, coordinate your strikes are not available, it is conservatively military integration and economic uni- in local neighborhoods, depart- estimated that their expenditures during fication in Europe) as a means of build- ments and on a national scale by these two years for this purpose sub- ." ing strength, establishing security and industry. . . stantially exceeded that of 1950. It is preserving peace in the North Atlantic The strike was called for June 4th. estimated that their present expendi- Area." The Voice of America, in its June 4th came, and business in France ture is more than ten times greater than daily commentary on Ridgway and went on as usual. At noon the Interior the amount the United States will be NATO, "plugged" for the desirability Ministry stated: "The Communist ap- spending on its overseas information of military integration. peal for a general strike was a complete and educational exchange programs Said the VOA: failure. Less than two percent of French during the fiscal year 1953. "When General Matthew Ridg- workers obeyed the political strike French communist party fitted way arrives in Europe this week . . . The order." Ridgway to the pattern which the he will be returning to lands for On June 5th the Paris newspapers re- whose freedom he fought and Kremlin had conjured up and called ported: "Communist strike foundered risked his life. . . . The Command for violent demonstrations against the in ridicule. . . . Never without doubt over troops of mixed armies is a presence of American troops in France. has the Communist Party suffered fail- new kind of military office. In mod- UHwnanite, in an article by editor ure comparable to that yesterday ern practice the various national Stil, declared that "more than Andre throughout France." elements are integrated into one twenty powerful demonstrations" would living organism. It is no longer On June 18th, the Central Committee take place, "the first squalls of the tem- possible for a Bluecher to arrive of the French communist party got to- pest to greet Ridgway"; and that these late at Waterloo with an army that gether for a session of self-criticism, demonstrations would be a mere "dress merely cooperates with its allies." aimed at analyzing the party's "past rehearsal" in the "great national strug- After the arrest of Duclos, VOA mistakes and weaknesses." a gle" to make "life impossible here for programmed series of broadcasts in insiders criticized the for The party which extracts Ridgway and his troops." The follow- from the French com- strike failures, loss of influence among munist leader's ing day Andre Stil was arrested on diary, which was seized French workers, decline of circulation charges of attempting to incite the pop- at party headquarters at the time of in the party press, and inability to de- ulation to violence. the arrest, were read to the French. lay the transportation or manufacture Ridgway arrived on schedule. The These broadcasts were in line with one of arms. "powerful demonstrations" the com- of our goals, namely, to expose Soviet Among the orders issued for restor- munists had promised failed to mate- communism as a threat to the security ing prestige were: (1) The party must rialize. and freedom of France, and the French avoid excesses in word or action, since The United States Embassy reported communist party as an instrument of these only weaken bonds tying party from Paris: Soviet policy masquerading behind a to masses. (2) Party press distribution "Amid applause and almost no facade of patriotism and the defense of must be increased. ( 3 ) A recruiting pro- protest note . . . Ridgway pro- the workers. gram must be systematically organized ceeded from Orl v Field . . . through VOA quoted Thorez, Secretary and broadened, above all in factories. Paris to the Arc de Triomphe. General of the French communist (4) Cells and individual militants must There he laid a wreath in an im- party, who has been sojourning in Mos-

pressive ceremony . . . L'Humanite, carefully plan activities and improve cow: "A world war would end in a vic- only morning paper to make no training of members. tory for us, but only after the gravest reference to Ridgway procession Thus, the French communists in mid- sacrifices. ..." through Paris after all its preceding summer 1952 found themselves wonder- hullabaloo . . . (its) . . . embar- Then asked: ing how they could regroup their scat- VOA rassed silence together with Ridg- front "A victory for us ... ? Does way's peaceful passage through tered battalions into an effective Thorez mean France, the country Paris, constitute a knockout blow to for the Kremlin. This sequence of ." events indicated clear-cut gains for the which nurtured him, whose pass- Communist party prestige . . port he carries, whose language he The next day the hard core of forces of truth, democracy and freedom speaks, whose workers he presumes French communists armed with spiked in France and elsewhere. to lead? Of course not! Thorez clubs and other weapons and chanting Concurrent with the communist agi- means 'A victory for us Commu- hymns of hate against the United States tation which began weeks before Gen- nists, us citizen converts of the So- demonstrated against Ridgway's pres- eral Ridgway's arrival, the United viet Union.' He means a defeat for ence in France. "Thousands of police States International Information Ad- France, for his native country. . . . and a drizzle of rain broke up the dem- ministration redoubled its efforts to Thorez has already long before onstrations," the New York Times re- promote support among the French for proved that he puts Communism ported. Jacques Duclos, secretary of General Ridgway and for the goal of ahead of country. When France the French communist party and collective security which he personi- was at war with Hitler, but when France's top ranking communist, was fied. Biographies of Ridgway were cir- Hitler and Stalin were allies, arrested by French police for carrying culated via press and radio. The pro- Thorez deserted from the front of concealed weapons. USSR and anti-French aims of the com- (Continued on page 68) 31 The person who wants a loan usually has further evidence of the American's independence and desire to stand on his his reasons, and sometimes they make sense. own feet. Borrowing in this way also prevents cousin Jennie from sticking Joe was in a panic. He had just been billions of dollars from banks, consumer her nose into purely personal affairs. offered an accountant's position in finance companies, credit unions, indus- We are a fiercely proud people. New York City at $100 a week. His trial banks and industrial loan com- Some of the reasons why people bor- current factory job in a midwestern panies. Ninety-nine percent of us, in- row money may seem screwy to ultra- town was paying him $50. It had helped cluding the most thrifty, are forced at conservatives, who are horrified by the him through college. With a wife and some time or other to borrow money. word debt, and do not understand its two kids, a better job offer should have Different people borrow money for function in modern society. For in- had him walking on air. Instead, he was different reasons from different sources. stance, an elderly New England widow miserable and desperate. He did not The major compulsion to borrow, na- with a modest income, each year makes have money for train fare and the first tional surveys reveal, stems from the a $300 loan. She spends this money on a month's rent in New York. individual's urgency to pay off annoy- winter cruise. "I reserve the right," she Joe had neither collateral nor credit. ing debts by putting all of his financial chuckles, "to blow my own money in In fact, he did not even have a bank or headaches in one basket, such as a my own way. I would never save savings account. He is one of millions lending institution. These loans are not money for these cruises, which are my who have never established credit, pay- added debt but merely a shift of exist- only luxury of the year. The freedom ing cash for everything. For this reason ing obligations. Last year, for example, to borrow money when and where I he was, curiously enough, a poor credit a California truck driver owed his Aunt choose and to spend it foolishly, if I risk! Joe had been trained in the belief Sarah $20; a department store $50; the want to, represents to me the essential that only those who are down and al- dentist $30, and a $100 balance on a difference between Russia and the most out borrow money or buy merch- surgeon's bill, long overdue. Rather United States." andise on the installment plan. than keep these creditors waiting for A Chicago salesman is constantly in Joe could have borrowed money their money, an irritation to most peo- hock to a bank, although he averages from a local loan shark who would have ple anyhow, he consolidated his debts $6,000 a year and has no real need for charged him $1,560 for the year's use of by arranging a $200 loan. the loans. These unnecessary borrow- $300.00. Instead, he went to a consumer Strangely enough, most debt-ridden ings are his method of enforced savings. finance company. Joe received $300, individuals prefer lending institutions, When asked by a friend why he makes payable in eighteen monthly install- where the use of cash costs money, to these "silly" loans, he replied: "I have ments. relatives or friends who would happily been borrowing $300 a year from this Millions of Joes last year borrowed advance the money without charge — (Continued on page 66)

32 The National A, Legionnaire

Montana traffic accidents in 1952, com- President Eisenhower Will Participate In pared with 141 during the correspond- ing period in 1951. Commission Chairman Harry Soder- Legion's Back-To-God Service, February 1 berg, Havre, complimented the Legion on "one of the finest projects I have In his first appearance on a Legion rights and tolerance of the individual it ever seen undertaken by an organiza- program as President of the United is believed that this service may inspire tion. Motorists seeing the crosses should States, Dwight D. Eisenhower will par- and renew the spiritual strength of free be impressed by the need for careful ticipate in a special religious emphasis people throughout the world symboliz- driving and safe speeds." service which will be held by The Amer- ing a deeper awareness of our own dedi- ican Legion at the Center Theatre in cation to God and Country. KANSAS CITY POST GIVES New York City on Sunday, February 1st. The Legionnaire President will speak SCHOLARSHIP IN CONTEST from the White House after a brief MONTANA LEGION TO ERECT introduction by National Commander CROSSES FOR ROAD DEATHS For the fifth consecutive year Mnook- Lewis K. Gough. Vice President Rich- in-Brown Post No. 468, Kansas City, ard M. Nixon, also a Legionnaire, will Montana's Highway Commission has Missouri, is awarding a Memorial Col- appear in person at the service and will authorized The American Legion to put lege Scholarship honoring the men for be a speaker on the program. The entire up a metal cross near the scene of every whom the Post is named to the two high program will be nationally broadcast fatal highway accident in that state. school seniors in its home city who have and televised through all major net- The plan was presented to the Com- done most during the school year to works at 1:30 P.M., Eastern standard mission by Department Adjutant Herb further human relations. The scholar- time. Kibler of the Montana American Le- ships total $1,000. A special award will The impressive service will mark the gion. He said support of this project also be granted to one senior in each second anniversary of The American spread through Western Montana Posts high school who has been outstanding Legion's Back-to-God crusade through from a start in Missoula after Labor in promotion of human relations in which the American people are urged Day weekend auto accidents killed six home, school and community life. Semi- to seek divine guidance in everyday in that area. finals will be held on February 21 ; the activities by regular church attendance, Highway Patrol Chief H. L. O'Neal four finalists will compete for top daily family prayer and the religious said he believed the project would help awards on March 3. All high schools, training of children. cut Montana's increasing highway death public, private and Catholic, are in- The program was arranged by the rate. More than 165 persons died in cluded. National Religious Emphasis Commit- tee, which is under the direction of Na- tional Chaplain John E. Duffy, New Legion Will Celebrate 35th Birthday March London, Ohio. Non-sectarian Service 15-17; Posts Called Upon to Observe Event The Back-to-God movement was officially adopted as a national program The American Legion will be 35 years lax in paying up for 1953, and for the at the 33rd National Convention in old on March 15-17, dating from the enrollment of new members in a pre- Miami, Florida, in 1951 and has made historic gathering of war-worn service birthday clean-up drive. an impressive impact on the conscious- men in the Cirque de Paris in the Plans for Parties ness of our people and religious leaders French capital on that date in 1919. of all faiths. Protestant, Catholic and Out of that caucus composed of men While no fixed program has been Jewish faiths have commended the pro- drawn from every combat unit in made up at National Headquarters, and gram which emphasizes spiritual re- France, from the Naval units, and from each Post will be expected to arrange awakening in our time and preserves the the service and administrative units beits own observance, a suggested outline tradition of religious freedom and trust hind the lines came the organization of has been prepared and sent out by the established by the founding fathers of The American Legion dedicated to serv- National Membership and Post Activi- our country. ice of God and Country. From the initial ties Committee. This outline suggests The famed Choir from the United 1,000 men assembled in the caucus has that special attention be given to the States Military Academy at West Point grown the largest organization of war original and charter members of the with 180 voices will lend a note of musi- veterans in the world, with nearly three Post in developing the program; first cal pageantry to the service. A high- million members enrolled in 17,285 Posts Post Commander as master of cere- light of the program will be Morton in the homeland and in several friendly monies, and special seats of honor for Downey's singing of the Preamble to foreign nations. those who signed the charter. It is also The American Legion Constitution re- The organization born of service on suggested that, in addition to the main cently set to music by James Rule, the battlefield has gone far in its first speaker (if a speaking program is Downey's arranger and composer for 35 years, and is recognized as the cham- planned) that on roll call these charter the last 20 years. This will be the first pion and spokesman for veterans of members respond with one-minute talks. public presentation of this stirring and both World Wars and Korea. The membership enrollment drive, as inspiring composition. National Commander Gough has called a special event, could be aimed at a National Chaplain Duffy will ask that upon the Posts and Legionnaires through- definite goal set for the birthday, with all peoples of the free world join with out the world to fittingly and appropri- the cards presented by the Membership the millions of American Legionnaires ately observe the 35th birthday by hold- Chairman as a birthday present to the in 15 seconds of silent prayer for divine ing real, bang-up birthday parties. The Post Commander. guidance of President Eisenhower and birthday observance provides a real op- The speaker of the evening could very his administration and for holy blessing portunity to strengthen the position of well build his remarks around the ac- and surveillance in a troubled world. the Post among its own membership by complishment of the Legion during the The three major faiths will be rep- putting on a grand social event with the past 35 years, particularly in public resented in the Legion's non-sectarian Auxiliary Unit participating. It also and community service, and in behalf religious observances. At a time when provides the opportunity for a general of the veterans of both World Wars certain ideologies threaten the religious round-up of members who have been and the war in Korea.

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • QJJ INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL offices of the Civil Service Regional BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE TO U. S. Directors, or from the Board of U. S. STRESSED BY LEGION POST Civil Service Examiners, for Central WAR DEAD FREE TO FAMILIES Air Procurement District, West War- An international good will and better "Britain's Homage to 28,000 Ameri- ren Avenue and Lonyo Boulevard, De- understanding of other people program can Dead" is a warm tribute to the troit 32, Michigan. that is really working out is one in- American men and women who shared For the present openings the com- augurated by Lt. Wilbur Small Post in Britain's triumphs and disasters pleted application and Preference Form No. 690, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. through more than four years of World 14 (if claimed) should be mailed to the The program is built on the idea that II. It was published by the Times Examiners at the Detroit address. War one of the ways by which peace may of London and the Dulverton Trust as come to the world is through a better a supplement to the national commemo- understanding of the people who were, Post Occupies New Home ration of American war dead in St. or who may become, our enemies. Newell (West Virginia) Post No. 114 Paul's Cathedral, London, where the Early in the fall Post Commander moved into its brand new, ultra modern names of the 28,000 are listed in a roll Samuel Chew named Chaplain Irvin C. home on December 29, which had just of honor. Now, The Times is making Wise as Chairman of a special com- been completed at a cost of $65,000. copies of the splendidly illustrated and mittee to plan such a program. At the Formal dedicatory services will be held neatly bound book available without first program on November 15, the even- later in the year. The structure, 54 by cost to the next of kin of the dead. ing was given to "A Night in Japan," 60 feet, is constructed of gray brick The Roll of Honor lists the names — with Consul Krei Miyakawa, American with aluminum trim; the gray brick the difficulty The Times has experienced born Japanese who is attached to the motif is carried through to the interior in making distribution is in obtaining Japanese Consulate in New York, as where it contrasts with walls of vertical the names and home addresses of the the guest speaker. Legionnaire James redwood paneling. The new building is next of kin of the hero dead. The great Burke, recently returned from Japan, specially designed to fit the needs of newspaper has asked The American Le- showed a series of pictures he had taken the Post with ballroom, grill, kitchen gion to assist in locating these relatives while in that country, with comments and service rooms. of the dead who were based in Britain, on the Japan of today. so that the families may receive the At the December meeting the Central book. American country of Costa Rica was BILL JARVIS NEW HEAD OF The procedure to obtain this tribute explored via pictures, samples of the JUNIOR BASEBALL PROGRAM is simple. Next-of-kin of American men handiwork of Costa Ricans, and an ad- and women killed during WW2 while dress by Hon. Juan Peres, Consul Gen- After five years as Administrator of based in Britain may obtain free copies eral at Philadelphia. A German pro- The American Legion's Junior Baseball by addressing a postcard requesting it gram is planned for the third meeting, program, Dale Miller retired from that to the New York office, to: laying particular stress on the Western position on December 31. He has not Colonel the Hon. J. J. Astor Zone as it is today. entirely severed his connection with the The Times, London, Inc. The Committee believes that much program, but will continue to act as an 45 East 51st Street can be accomplished in any Post in the advisor in Junior Baseball matters, a New York 22, New York. way of international understanding by program which annually provides valu- The card should contain the name, use of such programs, and is willing to able citizenship and sportsmanship full address and relationship to the de- share its plans with any other Post. training to hundreds of thousands of ceased American serviceman, and the Address Rev. Irvin C. Wise, 33 West- boys. name and unit of the serviceman him- view Street, Philadelphia 33, Pa. self. Next-of-kin living in the British Commonwealth should address Colonel Astor at The Times, Printing House INSPECTORS WANTED FOR Square, London E. C. 4. AIR PRODUCTION PLANTS

The Board of U. S. Civil Service Ex- 75 PERCENT OF SEA SCOUT aminers for the Central Air Procure- SHIP GRADUATE INTO NAVY ment District has announced that employment opportunities are open for Seventy-five percent of the boys who qualified men in the States of Michigan, were members of Sea Scout Ship No. 69, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and West sponsored by Santa Cruz (California) Virginia. Immediate vacancies exist for Post No. 64 are now wearing Navy blue, aircraft materials and equipment in- according to Don Fyle, skipper of the spectors in plants at Cleveland, Akron, unit. The Ship has its own training Youngstown, Mansfield and Toledo, vessel, The Galavan, used as a Coast Ohio, in grade GS-7, starting at salaries Guard patrol boat during WW2 which, of $4,205 per year. on being declared surplus, was leased Applicants must be citizens of or own to the Scout Ship and sponsoring Post allegiance to the United States, and for $1. must be physically capable of perform- The crew of The Galavan is proud of

ing the duties required in the position -» , i £ f,:",^,,, . the fact that their ship is the best selected. Veterans must file Preference William Jarvis Dale Miller equipped of any in the Monterey Bay Form 14 with application if the service Boy Scout Council. The boat has a ship- preference is claimed—5 points prefer- He will be succeeded as Administrator to-shore radio, a 60-gallon a minute ence based on other than wartime serv- by William (Bill) Jarvis, who has pump on the stern for emergency, ten ice or 10-point veterans perference, served as his assistant at National bunks, a galley, and 140 horsepower which includes disability, widow, wife Headquarters for the past two years, twin Chrysler marine engines. It isn't or mother preference. but who has been connected with the restricted to the harbor, weather per- A minimum of four years experience National Americanism Division since mitting the crew takes off for two week- in manufacture, inspection and testing October, 1948. end cruises monthly during the summer, in the aviation or related field is re- Miller will take up his residence at and at least one trip monthly during quired. Appropriate education at the Sebring, Florida, and in addition to his the remainder of the year. Howard college level may be substituted for ex- work as advisor to the Junior Baseball Bethel is Chairman of the Post's Sea perience. program, will also serve other ball clubs Scout Committee, who asserts that the Application forms can be had from and youth programs in a similar 1 ca- training boys receive in Sea Scouting any first or second class postoffice, the pacity. is comparable to Navy boot camp.

g£ • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 FAMILIES OF KOREA DEAD BLACKMORE TAKES OVER AS UTAH ELECTS "COMEBACK" PREYED ON BY CHISELERS ASST. NATIONAL ADJUTANT WINNER TO 83rd CONGRESS

Relatives of men killed or missing in EmilA.(Blackie) A winner in The American Legion's Korea, particularly those who have Blackmore, Chey- "Operation Comeback" contest for dis- notices printed in our "Missing in enne, Wyoming, abled veterans has been elected to Con- Korea" column, are warned to watch has been named gress from Utah, reports J. Lloyd Wig- out for chiselers and human vultures Assistant National nail, Utah Department Adjutant. He is who seek to obtain money, or make Adjutant to suc- Douglas R. Stringfellow of Ogden who sales, on the strength of some state- ceed William E. will represent Utah's First District in ment that they knew the serviceman, Sayer, who re- the 83rd Congress. A steadfast Legion- was with him when he was killed or signed to become naire, Representative Stringfellow said: captured. Several such instances have Administrative As- "I intend to be ever mindful of the been reported to this magazine—and one sistant to Governor problems of our servicemen and veter- set of complaints were traced back to a George N. Craig of ans, and will do everything possible to State prison, where two convicts were Indiana. The ap- see that their rights and interests are working the racket. pointment was an- adequately protected by fair and reason- Convictions for frauds of this char- able legislation." Emii A. Blackmore nounced by Na- acter are extremely difficult because tional Commander "Operation Comeback" was sponsored many of those victimized do not want Lewis K. Gough during the Christmas by The American Legion in 1951. The to appear as prosecuting witnesses. For week, and the new Assistant National contest was open to all handicapped, the protection of others, please do this: Adjutant took up the duties of that honorably discharged veterans of World When such appeals are made, please position on January 5. Wars I and II and the Korean conflict. have the person investigated by organ- The appointment of Blackmore is a Contestants were invited to write a ized groups such as the Legion, the Red promotion from the position of aide to brief essay on "How I Overcame My Cross, or through the Better Business the National Commander, to which posi- Physical Handicap." Purpose of the Bureau or police channels. If the ap- tion he was named by National Com- contest was to inspire other disabled peal is made by mail, by all means save mander Gough soon after the adjourn- veterans in their fight against war- the letter and envelope with postmark— ment of the National Convention in New caused handicaps. Top winners received a postal violation may be involved. York last August. Though his service $1,000 each and were guests of The Notices appearing in the "Missing in in the national organization has been American Legion at its 33rd National Korea" column are carefully screened— comparatively short, he has had long Convention in Miami, Florida. In all, they are appeals from sorely stricken experience in veteran and Legion work 20 contestants received cash awards. relatives who use this means to get and has a thorough understanding of word of their lost or missing sons or the various American Legion programs. brothers from their officers or service After service in the Navy from 1943 N. Y. CONVENTION FILM IS comrades. The Defense Department can to 1946, with the Pacific fleet, Black- FOR POST SHOWING not tell READY them what they want to know. more returned to his home section and The magazine is glad to render this joined up with Travis Snow Post No. 5 The full-color sound motion picture service, but the notices once published at Torrington, Wyoming, and took up of the 1952 Legion National Conven- in the column are open to all, therefore work as a VA contact officer. Becoming tion in New York City is now available the magazine has no to protect power active in the Legion, he also served as to Departments and Posts throughout the relatives against the approach of the Post Service Officer, and in 1948 most of the country. chiselers, vultures and ghouls. was named Department Service Officer The 30-minute film, presented in by the Wyoming Legion, in which posi- newsreel style, was produced and dedi- tion he served until joining the National cated to the spirit of The American NEVADA POST DEDICATES Headquarters staff last August. Legion by five Legion Posts of Schenley SAFETY SIGNS TO HEROES Industries, Inc.—Schenley Post No. 1190, for the city; Victor F. Whittlesea, De- New York City; Carl E. Franklin Post George Shaw Post No. 17, Reno, partment Adjutant; Thomas W. Miller, No. 775, Schenley, Pa.; Schenley Post Nevada, has inaugurated a safety pro- National Executive Committeeman; J. No. 641, San Francisco, California; gram in its home city by erecting per- E. Martie, Chairman of the National Capt. Edward Schenley Post No. 643, manent warning signs at danger spots. Un-American Activities Committee; A. Cincinnati, Ohio, and Schenley Post No. The signs are placed so that they are Ross Schindler, member of the National 235, Louisville, Kentucky. visible to all motorists approaching the Accident Prevention Committee, who The film features the highlights of area, and who can not fail to see the was the principal speaker at the dedi- the 34th National Convention including appeal: "Drive Carefully. Protect Our cation; Edward C. Hughes, Post Adju- the colorful spectacle of the Big Parade Children." A Legion emblem decorates tant, and Legionnaires. up New York's famed Fifth Avenue, the center of the sign. the drama surrounding the election of Such signs have been used for sev- Lewis K. Gough as National Com- Lady Bugler Signs Members eral years, but the Reno Legion Post mander, the speeches of both Presiden- has given an added dignity to their erec- North Side Post No. 136, Spokane, tial candidates, the drum and bugle tion. Each sign, when made ready for Washington, has a lady bugler, Rose corps contests, and "behind-the-scenes" use, is formally dedicated to the mem- Weeden, whose service at funerals is deliberations of The American Legion. ory of a Reno war hero, and appropri- much in demand, writes Department Here's how a Post can be assured of ate services are held. The first one of Adjutant Fred M. Fuecker. Recently an early booking: Direct requests im- the series was dedicated to the memory when booked for a funeral, just before mediately to Frank Rinn, Schenley In- of Private James Friel, and the second leaving home she cut her hand while dustries, Inc., 350 Fifth Avenue, New to honor Lieutenant Eugene B. Fran- opening a tin can. The funeral was held York 1, N. Y., giving two or three al- covich, both killed in Korea. up while men from a fire station rushed ternate dates. At the dedication of the second high- her to a hospital, where ten stitches There is no charge for the film, Rinn way safety sign the ceremony was con- were taken in her thumb, then the two said, except that Posts located a considered of such importance that it at- firemen took her to the cemetery in an siderable distance from the Company's tracted attendance by ranking Legion- inhalator car, where she played taps as field offices must pay shipping costs. naires of the Department, as well as a if nothing had happened. On the way Rinn urged all Post Commanders to good audience. Participating in the out the lady bugler found that the two submit their requests as early as pos- event were James T. Rush, Commander firemen were veterans and eligible to sible, stressing that requests will be of George Shaw Post; Police Captain Legion membership. She signed them up filled in the order in which they are Louis Spitz, who accepted the marker then and there for North Side Post. received. The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • 35 CHILD WELFARE MEETINGS ARMY DRAFT FOR FEBRUARY ANNOUNCED FOR 3 AREAS POST OFFERS REWARD FOR WILL INDUCT 53,000 MEN LEGION STEWARD SLAYER Three area Child Welfa're Conferences The military high command stepped have been announced by National Child A reward of $500 has been posted up its call for draftees for the Army to Welfare Chairman Samuel S. Fried, of by Malcolm Ross White Post No. the highest level reached since early in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. 433, Southampton, New York, for in- the Korean war. It asked Selective The nine Departments of the Middle formation leading to the arrest of Service to induct 53,000 men in Febru- Legionnaire Atlantic Region (Area "B") will meet the knife slayer of ary. Frank Austin, steward of the Post's at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, on Feb- This raised the prospect that 19-year- clubhouse. The Post officer was ruary 6 and 7. The Southern region, olds would be drafted in increasing stabbed to death in his car just out- with 13 Departments, will hold its Con- side the Southampton village limits numbers. A Selective Service spokesman ference in Atlanta, Georgia, the follow- by a bandit who apparently was said that State draft headquarters had ing week, February 12-14. after the $700 proceeds of the Post's been under orders to fill their quotas The final Area Child Welfare Con- weekly dance. Austin had put the with older men wherever possible, but ference of the year is scheduled to con- money in the clubhouse safe. undoubtedly would be told to dip into vene in Brattleboro, Vermont, March the ranks of 19-year-olds if they could 13-14, when delegates from six New not get enough men otherwise. England States, which compose Area son, Jr. "The Post has never in its his- Officials said the high call for Febru- "A", will assemble. tory failed to get its annual quota, and, ary was necessary to replace drafted A primary purpose of this year's further, Adkins District Post is always men whose terms of service were com- Area Child Welfare Conference, accord- among the first of the larger Posts of ing to an end. ing to Chairman Fried, is to organize the Department to do so. As of mid- The February call is the highest for American Legion strength in a nation- December our Post ranks first in mem- the Army since the early months of wide program for better treatment and bership in West Virginia." 1951. There was a higher call, for 59,650 control of juvenile delinquency. Commander John L. Schroder, Jr., men, in January of 1952. But this in- Previous conferences have been held gives credit for the fine accomplishment cluded 11,650 for -the Marine Corps. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Janu- to Membership Co-ordinators James The Marines are no longer taking draf- ary 9-10, and in Salt Lake City, Utah, Heldreth, Jr., and George Gillison, and tees. The Navy and Air Force are also December 4-6. to their well organized teams of mem- relying on enlistments, which have filled bership go-getters. their needs for some months past. WISCONSIN DEDICATES NEW The February call will bring to 1,- 255,430 the number of men drafted of $I00G HEADQUARTERS HOME Medal Honor Vet Retires since the outbreak of fighting in Korea. Phil C. Katz, Medal of Honor winner Draft calls for 1952 dropped to 10,000 The Legion Department of Wisconsin in WW1 and long an active member of in June and then rose gradually to 47,- celebrated Pearl Harbor Day, Decem- San Francisco (California) Post No. 1, 000 each in October, November and De- ber by a dedication of its new $100,- 7, retired as San Francisco Public Ad- cember. 000 Department Headquarters building ministrator on December 31 after more For January, 1953, the draft call was at Milwaukee. The dedication cere- than 30 years in office. 48,000. monies were timed to start at 1:57 P. M., the exact moment, Milwaukee time, at which the first Japanese bomb 34-YEAR OLD POST HAS 33 LIVING PAST COMMANDERS fell on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter A. Rose, Past Department Commander. The new home of the Wisconsin Le- gion, purchased from the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin last May, is one of the finest Department owned build- ings in the Legion. Extensive remodel- ing, requiring several months, was made in order to adapt it to the needs of the organization. The services and open house were at- tended by Legionnaires and Auxiliares drawn from all parts of the Badger State. Later, Department Commander Harold A. Kuehl was host at a dedication dinner held at the clubhouse of Alonzo Cudworth Post No. 23.

WEST VIRGINIA POST OUT Canandaigua (New York) Post No. 256 has a record of longevity and stabilized FOR MEMBERSHIP RECORD membership of its Past Commanders that can be boasted by few Legion Posts organized in 1919. This unit, now in its 34th year, has had 34 Commanders —William Passing its 1953 quota by 73, and Devereaux, the present skipper, and 33 living Past Commanders. And of the Past topping the 1952 enrollment by 143, in Commanders all but five still live in the vicinity of Canandaigua — four of the five mid-December Adkins District Post No. still retain their membership in the Post. The former skippers have an active 38, Gary, West Virginia, was well on Past Commander's Association, organized in 1941, which serves as a sort of an its way to the most outstanding mem- advisory board of elder statesmen. At the last dinner held by this Association, bership year in its history. Already 27 of the 33 Past Commanders were in attendance. In the picture above, reading 1,304 Legionnaires had been signed up from left to right, top row, are Dr. L. C. Webster, Elbert L. Smith, John R. Stickney, in this coal mining center — population George E. Hopkins, Thomas L. Smith, Arthur R. Munson, Frank F. Darling, James F. of town, 1,500 — with a goal set to beat Knapp, Arthur T. Poole, James F. Hobbins, Leo A. Boyle, and Ralph M. Denby. the 1949 enrollment of 1,336. Middle row, same order, are Thomas D. Kennedy, Burrell T. Cappon, Claude F. "Each year we enroll 98 percent of Saeger, George W. Urstadt, George R. Jones, Chester S. Hall, Clifford E. Murphy, the potential membership in our area," George S. Mather, and William B. Johncox. Bottom row: William N. Carter, Sesto says Post Publicity Officer Allen Thomp- Vecchi, Walter C. Benham, William J. Devereaux, Leon G. Warters, and Samuel Kay.

3g • The American Legion Magazine * February, 1353 DRUM CORPS OF THE LEGION By RALPH B. BOYLE Racine, Wisconsin—"The Boys of 76." only Connecticut corps which has ever This corps might well be called the reached the finals. They are perennial business Aside from the serious con- "father" of modern Legion drum corps Department champions. at the Legion's National ducted Con- techniques as we have come to know New Jersey tops the eastern section ventions, the Big Parade and the Drum them. It is the only corps that has ever with 31 finalists and 4 champions, while competition are always the high- Corps held the National title four years in suc- Illinois leads the central section with lights for attending Legionnaires and cession. Following close is the Harvey 22 finalists and 3 champions. their families, and for the general pub- Seeds Post, of Miami, Florida, who held lic. corps and bands at- More Liberal Rules Many drum who the National title in 1927 and 1928, qualifications participate tend these conventions and contribute to 1930, and 1931. Both corps through the The to in a the colorful parades do not enter the years have been consistent competitors, National Contest are that all members competitions that of the corps be Legionnaires in due to the fact drum Miami having been a finalist in 14 of must in the standing. corps must be marching and the 28 contests held to date, not count- good Some Departments, how- maneuvering class requiring precision ing the three National Conventions held ever, permit a certain percentage of resulting from endless practice. In ad- non-Legion in Department in its home city. As host corps they members dition, efficiency in musical ability is re- were barred from competition. This rule contests. Another feature is that for- quired the standards. bugles required to be sealed under judging was rescinded last year and Garbarina merly were Legion competitive in pitch position, corps as we know Corps of New York City was permitted and taped a fixed key today apparently had their origin viz. 1st soprano, 1st and 2nd them to participate in the 1952 contest. and 2nd G in the Midwest, although this be soprano, and the same with and may Two other old National Champions, D G D open to controversy. However, Bill baritones, which provided eight part and still active, are the Commonwealth- a Legionnaire, did valve. Ludwig, Chicago Edison Post Corps of Chicago, who have music without use of the Today to foster the forward-looking this restriction is relaxed, allowing use much been finalists in 13 events and excluded movement in corps exhibitions. valve restricting bugles to drum from two as the host corps. This corps of the but Many corps started their work with his instruments of no more than two has held the National title three times. bugle and piece, "The Legion pitches permits in drum Stratford, Connecticut, Corps has par- which more leeway Drummer." And who among the old- writing and producing music not pos- ticipated in 13 finals and held the Na- timers can forget those pioneers, sible under the old rules. Yet the corps tional title once. Incidentally it is the Hamon Gray Post, LaPorte, Indiana; which pioneered in producing such Elyria (Ohio) Post; the Greensburg, music did so with the locked valve re- Pennsylvania, Trojans; Uniontown, KELLY JOINS MEMBERSHIP, striction. Pennsylvania; Harvey Seeds Post of POST ACTIVITY DIVISION Under the old rules corps in compe- Miami, Florida, and many others. tition were required to march at a ca- Frank X. Kelly dence of not less than 128 and not more Old Time Drummers of Normal, Illinois, than 132 steps per minute for which a New England had long been known has been appointed maximum of 10 points was allowed in for its Fife and Drum Corps, with par- Assistant Director the scoring. This point feature has been ticular stress on the rudiments of drum- of the Membership eliminated and the 10 points added to ming. The late Fred Stone, of Massa- and Post Activities "general effect." It was noted in the chusetts, and Burns Moore, of Connec- Division at Nation- 1952 contest that several corps did such ticut, were exponents in the art of rudi- al Headquarters. steps as a jig and rhumba. mental drumming and instructors in The appointment May the well-founded tradition of their chosen field. Burns Moore for announced by Na- Legion Drum Corps continue and sur- many years was chief drum judge at tional Adjutant pass the heights of their pioneers in National Legion Contests as well as Henry H. Dudley this field of Legion activity which pro- judge in individual contests to evaluate became effective on motes comradeship and competitive a National Champion Drummer, an when Frank X. Kelly January 5, spirit. We need a revival of the com- event which has been dispensed with in the new Assistant petitive interest shown by the old-timers recent years. The Herbert F. Akroyd Director transferred to the Indianapolis in our active drum and bugle corps Post of Marlboro, Massachusetts, was Headquarters after seven years with units. a standout. After long and arduous the Illinois Department Headquarters*at work to attain the New England Cham- Bloomington. pionship, they entered National Compe- He will work with Charles M. Wilson, JUNIOR BASEBALL GIVEN tition at Chicago in 1933 and brought Director, in the promotion of member- $50,000 BY BIG LEAGUES home the coveted gold flag that goes to ship and in stimulating community serv- the National Champion. It is significant ice and other activities carried on by Commisioner Ford C. Frick has an- to note that this corps entered and local Posts. Assistant Director Kelly nounced the major baseball leagues qualified in only seven National Con- joined the staff of the Illinois Legion again will underwrite the national tests and carried off first place three Department as organization officer in American Legion Junior Baseball pro- times. They have not competed since October, 1945, and two years later was gram in the amount of $50,000. The an- 1939. promoted to Director of Public Rela- nouncement followed the close of a There have been 28 National Contests tions, in which position he has since joint meeting of Major League Club including the 1952 event. The first con- served. owners and their representatives at test was held in 1921 in Kansas City A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Phoenix, Arizona, with more than 900 and has been a continuing event with the Kelly served in the U. S. Navy in WW2, baseball people in attendance. exception of the years 1942 to 1945, in- the last few months aboard the USS League officials, sports writers, scouts, clusive, when the National Conventions Saratoga. Educated in the Lawrence managers, players and owners were lav- were confined to business sessions only. high school and Massachusetts Normal ish in their praise of the American Le- The first award of the Creviston Cup College of Art at Boston, he was a region Junior Baseball program and ex- to a national winner was made at the porter, cartoonist and columnist on the pressed the hope that it would continue Kansas City Convention in 1921 to the Lawrence Sun-Telegram and Sunday to grow. Besides providing professional fine corps of the General George A. Star for eight years before enlisting for baseball with a good supply of young Custer Post No. 54 of Battle Creek, service. talent, the program is gaining in popu- Michigan. His membership is held in Quincy larity through its role as a community One of the oldest competitors and sec- (Illinois) Post No. 37, in his wife's program valuable in its citizenship ond National Champion was Post 76 of home town. training. The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • 37 cate of Merit to the Magee Carpet Com- * pany for its outstanding efforts in com- * * * LEGIONITEMS * * bating communism. Specific citation was for presenting a dramatized program, "I Was A Communist for the FBI," Joseph N. Neel Post No. 3, Macon, Essex (Massachusetts) Voiture, 40 over Radio Station WHLM of Blooms- Georgia, has dedicated its new $100,000 and 8, played Santa Claus to the children burg. Presentation was made by Post home as a memorial to all Bibb County in a ward of Lawrence (Massachusetts) Adjutant A. Leroy Wintersteen. . . . war dead. Charles J. Bloch, Post mem- General Hospital on the Sunday before Commander William F. Glass of Wilson ber and Past President of the Georgia Christmas. Each child was given toys Ritch Post No. 432, 109 Myrtle Avenue, Bar Association, was the principal and were treated to ice cream and other Port Jefferson, New York, is making a speaker. . . . Harold K. Byrd Post No. Yuletide goodies. . . . The 13 Posts in collection of Legion and Post match 66, Decatur, Georgia, issued its 13th Mercer County, New Jersey, joined in a book covers. Recommends such a collec- annual Christmas edition of a special testimonial dinner to Past Department tion as a fascinating hobby for shut-ins.

publication, 16 pages, tabloid size, with Commander Lester G. Block on the eve- Will welcome contributions. . . . "Bud," a 10,000 circulation. Receipts from the ning of December 13th. His Legion rec- bulldog mascot of the 306th Engineers publication, reports Adjutant R. K. ord is long and faithful, Commander of — joined up in England in 1943, is dead Whiteford, ran to more than $2,500 Trenton Post No. 93 in 1923-24; County at the home of his master, Colonel James which is set apart for rehabilitation and Commander, 1924-25; Department Com- A. Barksdale, Jackson, Mississippi. . . . child 1938-39, for 28 years was welfare work. . . . Bayshore Post mander, and General Douglas MacArthur served as No. 139, Tampa, Florida, netted $250 Mercer County representative on the Grand Marshal of the Herkimer County from its annual fish fry — check was Department Executive Committe. . . . Legion Armistice Day parade at Mo- sent to the American Legion Hospital A. Leigh Pardun Post No. 459, North hawk, New York. Crowley-Barnum for Crippled Children located at St. Brunswick Township, New Jersey, join- Post No. 25 was host. Mohawk, says Petersburg. ing with the VFW, has raised a fund of Post Commander P. J. Casadonte, has a $1,675 to erect a memorial monument to population of 3,000 and even the Gen- * * * the war dead of their area. Monument eral was amazed at the turn-out and will be modeled after that erected to success of the annual event. Two days of prayer for President the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Ceme- Eisenhower was observed by the Sulli- tery, constructed of polished Vermont van County (New York) Legion Organi- granite. Liberty Post No. 22, New York City, zation at Jeffersonville. The 9 Posts in presented a silver plaque to Past Com- the County Organization asked churches, Frank W. Sidler Post No. 40, Dan- mander Ralph B. Feder at a gala party clergymen, newspapers and civic groups ville, Pennsylvania, presented a Certifi- held in his Plaque was in recog- to cooperate. The program was sparked honor. the devoted services of Past by County Chaplain William Wilson, who nition of Commander Feder since the Post was is also Chaplain of Lester White Post No. U. S. VETS IN STOCKHOLM organized. . . . Hearin-Connolly Post 566, Livingston Manor. . . . James J. HAVE ACTIVE LEGION POST No. 32, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has a father Doyle, Past Department Commander of and son team — Bill Ellis, senior and New Hampshire and member of the Na- junior. Junior, WW2 vet, is Post Com- tional Executive Committee from 1941 mander; senior, WW1 and 34-year Le- to 1945, retired as manager of the VA gionnaire, after serving two terms as Regional Office at Manchester on De- Post Commander and as Department cember 31. . . . Ledden- Young Post No. Vice Commander, is Post Adjutant. . . . 208, Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, put on a Chef de Chemin de Fer John O. New- memorial program marking the 11th an- berry, Jefferson City, Missouri, has anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day through nounced the appointment of Harold J. Radio Station WKBI. Post Commander Taylor, St. Louis, Missouri, as Conduc- Harry Stannard, Senior Vice Commander teur National, 40 and 8. He will be in John J. Antonini and Rev. Richard Knel- charge of arrangements for the 34th ler were the speakers. Promenade Nationale, 40 and 8, which * * * An old-timer in the Legion organiza- will be held in St. Louis concurrently the tion is Stockholm Post No. 1, the center with American Legion National Con- Robert G. Storey, Dallas, Texas, of activities of former U. S. servicemen vention, August 31-September 3. . . . newly elected President of the American who have returned to Sweden to reside, Hartman Post No. 84, Columbus, Ne- Bar Association, has been a Legionnaire and Americans who are stationed in braska, paid honor to Dr. William L. almost as long as he has been a lawyer. that country. The Post meets regularly Neumarker at an Armistice Day dinner. A 35-year member of Post No. 53 in his each month from September to April, Dr. Neumarker, one of the Legion home town, veteran of both World Wars, reports Commander Gustaf Strindberg founders, was presented a Gold Life he was a member of the National Ex- (left, above), with social gatherings at secutive membership card in recognition ecutive Committee in 1920-21. He served intervals through the other months. of his faithful service. as executive trial counsel at the historic Right bower to the 32-year member Le- Nuremberg * trials of the Nazi leaders. gion Commander is Adjutant Nils Wid-

. . . Berkeley (Michigan) Post No. 374 strand, who is shown with the American Bowen-Franklin-Knox Post No. 55, came up with something new with a flag. An active Auxiliary Unit is also Fredericksburg, Virginia, presented a baby shower for its Post Historian, Mrs. maintained, alert to the needs of the Certificate of Merit to its member, Herbert (Virginia) Carden, complete sick and hospitalized as well as con- Lieutenant Eddie LeBaron, USMC, who with scale model stork and all. Hus- tributing greatly to the social gatherings was twee wounded in Korea. Quarter- band, Herbert Carden, WW2 Navy vet, of the two Legion units. Commander back on the Quantico Marine football is Senior Vice Commander; Mrs. Car- Stringberg also reports that the 223 team before going overseas, he played den served as a WAC. . . . Georgia De- newspapers of Sweden are friendly to the same position with the Washington partment has arranged with FBI for a the Legion and are free to give space to pro-football Redskins in 1952. . . . Bout- series of talks by FBI agents to Legion the organization and its activities. Post- well-Clark-Craven-Eads Post No. 285, Posts to discuss local programs for ers are placed in the American Embassy Hamilton, Missouri, turned out to honor combating subversive influences. Series and on every passenger ship coming into Dr. Herbert R. Booth, 1919 charter will cover first half of 1953, with speak- Sweden inviting Legionnaires and vet- member. Gold Life Membership Card ers available for Posts or sponsored erans to call at the Post headquarters — was presented by Past Department joint meetings with other civic, frater- and inviting them to join if they intend Commander Charles L. Bacon, of Mar- nal and patriotic groups. to stay in Sweden any length of time. shall.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 .

MISSING IN KOREA THE AMERICAN LEGION OUTFIT REUNIONS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS NOVEMBER 30. 1952 Co. C, 7th Regt., 1st Marine Div.—Corporal Society of the 28th Division— Annual conven- Curtis J. Kiesling reported killed Nov. 28, 1950, ASSETS tion, Harrisburg, Pa., July 22-25; both WWs and when he volunteered for hazardous mission to Korea. Reservations from Robert Laskowski, Cash on hand and on deposit $ 642,384.18 locate isolated squad; official sources report re- Treas., 13 S. Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. Receivables 432,230.29 mains not recovered; unofficially informed that 75th Div. Vet. Assn.—National convention, Inventories 517,678.33 body was recovered and buried. Will some com- Washington, D. C, Aug. 14-16; Hotel Washing- Invested Funds 459,482.11 rade or others who know about him please re- ton. Details from John McBurney, Secy., 5822 E. Permanent Trusts: lieve doubt and distress of parents by writing- 14th St., Kansas City, Mo. Overseas Graves Decoration tell us what you know. Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. 69th Infantry Div. Assn.— Annual convention, Trust Fund 255,859.18 Kiesling, 614 Swain Ave., Elmhurst, 111. $ New York City, Aug. 21-23; Hotel Statler. Con- Co. L, 8th Regt., 1st Cav. Div.-Our son, Cpl. Employees' Retirement tact Pierce Rice, Cor. Secy., 135 Broadway, New John W. Bobbs, was reported missing near Unson, Trust Fund 1,263,276.28 1.519,135.46 York, N. Y. Nov. 2, 1950. Will appreciate any information Real Estate 973,972.65 94th Div. Assn., (WW2)—Reunion, New York about him. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Bobbs, 108 Furniture and Fixtures, less City, July 23-26; Hotel New Yorker. Details Depot St., Mt. Pleasant, Pa. depreciation 285,850.25 from Bernard Frank, Chairman, Commonwealth Co. E, 9th Inf., 2nd Div.—Will anyone who Deferred Charges 114,386.55 Bldg., Allentown, Pa. knew Cpl. Willard M. Gibson, reported missing $4,945,119.82 302nd Engineers, (both WWs) -Annual re- Dec. 1, 1950, or know of his present whereabouts, union dinner, 77th Div. Club, 28 E. 39th St., New please write his mother, Mrs. Cecil Gibson, Box York City, Feb. 21. Info from Louis E. Herborn, 204, Shelburn, Ind. LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE Adjt., at Club address, above. Navy Air Service—Lt. Charles Garrison, listed AND NET WORTH USS Pennsylvania—Reunion, Naval Gun Fac- as missing May 18. 1951, near Hyon-ni; bailed tory, Washington, D. C, Feb. 21. Write Ralph out of plane and landed, injured, on hillside; Current Liabilities $ 260,114.78 J. Hopkins, 3362 B, S. Wakefield St., Arlington helicopter could not reach him; no other word. Funds restricted as to use 116,718.39 6, Va., for details. Parents will be grateful for any information; Deferred Income 1,754,049.80 732nd Railway Operating Bn. Assn.—Reunion, would also like to hear from men who covered Permanent Trusts: St. Louis, Mo., April 25-26; Hotel Melbourne. him, and information as to troops in that area Overseas Graves Decoration Write Tony Garino, 1317 Royal Ave., Pekin, 111. at the time. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Garrison, Trust $ 255,859.18 713th Railway Operating Veterans— 8th annual Adrian, Mo. Employees' Retirement reunion, Fort Worth, Tex., June 12-13; Texas Co. H, 5th Marine Regt., 1st Marine Div.-Will Trust 1,263,276.28 1,519,135.46 Hotel. Info from Marvin Krinke, 1200 LaFond greatly appreciate hearing from men who knew Net Worth: Ave., St. Paul 4, Minn. my son, Cpl. Anthony P. Virgadamo, reported Restricted Capital: Co. D, 313th Ammunition Train, 88th Div., killed Dec. 2, 1950, near Yudam-ni; especially (WW1)—4th annual reunion, Clay Center, Kans., Reserve Fund . . 23,464.13 Mrs. Clark Harris, from Father Hickey, Catholic Chaplain, and my Restricted Fund. 17,939.98 June 13-14. Details from son's BAR man at time of his death, said to be Reserve for construction Secy., Idana, Kansas. 1600 Ave., 89th Chemical Mortar Bn.—7th annual reunion, Combs. Mrs. M. R. Virgadamo, 33rd Wash. Office.. 55,956.44 Gulfport, Miss. Indianapolis, Ind., June 26-27; Hotel Severin. Real Estate . . . 973,972.65 Co. B, 32nd Inf., 7th Div.-P/c. Barney A. Write Willis D. Barrett, 1751 East Pleasant Run Talbert, missing since Dec. 2, 1950; mother will 1*071,333.20 Parkway, Indianapolis, Ind. appreciate any word about him, or from parents Unrestricted Capital: 187th Regt. Airborne Combat Team Assn.— 1st of men missing at the same time. Mrs. Nettie P. Excess of Income over Expense annual convention, San Francisco, Cal., July 3-5. 11 Months . 223,768.19 1,295,101.39 Talbert, Rt. 2, Box 200, Atmore, Ala. Info from Paul C. Deramo, Secy., 359 West 9th Co. B, 34th Inf., 24th Div.-My son, Pfc. Ron- $4,945,119.82 St., Pittsburg, Cal. ald W. McKenzie, reported killed near Naktong Naval Flotilla, Base 6, USS Dixie, Newport, River, Aug. 12, 1950; no record of burial; no R. I. T. S., (WW1)—Reunion and banquet, all personal effects returned. Will appreciate letter hands, Fort Wayne, Ind., July 4. Write R. O. from anyone on patrol with him, particularly the Levell, Chairman, Box 163, New Castle, Ind. comrade who stayed behind with him to evacuate 912th Ord. HAM Co.—2nd annual reunion, wounded, or from anyone who has knowledge of Berkeley, Cal., July 11; Claremont Hotel. Info his death. Write Mrs. Grace McKenzie, RFD 1, and reservations from Alfred J. Musante, Chair- Box 67, Claremont, N. H. COMRADES IN DISTRESS man, 3020 Colby St., Berkeley 5, Cal. Co. D, 32nd Inf., 7th Div.-P/c. Guy (Bud) M. Battery A, 379th AAA AW Bn., (WW2)-4th Schroeder was reported missing Dec. 2, 1950; annual reunion. New Philadelphia, Ohio, Aug. will information about him 7-9; Hotel Reeves. Info from John Lawver, anyone who has Co. C, 27th Infantry, AEF, Siberia-Will any- sister, Mrs. Freese, 300 Chairman, 625 Tuscarawas Ave., Newcomers- pleaBe write his Margie one who knew Sgt. Dennis A. Mero, in service Ohio. town, Ohio. Linden Place, Marion, in Siberia, 1919-20, and thereafter please write 15th Bn., will Co. E, 6th Engineers, (WWl)-2nd annual re- Battery A, FA 2nd Div.—I ap- his brother, Herbert E. Mero, 4211 Hoyt, Everett, Mishawaka, Ind., Aug. 16. Details and preciate hearing from anyone who knew my son, Wash. union, copy of Co. Newsletter from Erie A. Scott, Pfc. Eugene H. (Booper) Kling, reported missing 114th Casual Co., Camp Merrett, N. J.-Will E Feb. 1951, at Hoengsong. Not on list. RR 5, Fort Wayne 8, Ind. 13, PW anyone who remembers my late husband, Edward like to from anyone is 332nd Fighter Group and 77th Bomb Group Also would hear who J. Powers, in above unit in April, 1918, please getting prisoners to the (M)—Reunion, Idlewild, Mich., Aug. 21-23; Lazy mail from belonging write. Need help to prove claim. Mrs. Evelyn M. same outfit. Mrs. Fred Kling, Box 500, West Main B Motel and Resort. Contact Clark R. Bullett, Powers, 1234 Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago 40, 111. P. O. Box 784, Idlewild, Mich., for com- St., Cary, I1L 115th AF Base Unit, England—Urgently need Jr., Bn., Inf. plete details. 1st Amb. Co., 2nd Medical 2nd Div.— to locate remember in service, and men who me 43rd AAA Bn.—8th annual reunion, Louisville, Sgt. Tommie Lee Morgan, missing since Nov. 30, who remember my ear condition while stationed 1950; will appreciate any word about him or Ky., Sept. 5-7; Seelbach Hotel. Info from Lee in England. Need help for claim. Write Frank Tenn. present whereabouts; family advised that he is a Marks, 1905 Kimbark Dr., Nashville 12, E. Hancock, 289% Main St., Somersworth, N. H. prisoner. Please write his brother, Joe H. Mor- Co. M, 307th Infantry, 77th Div., (WW1)- 2nd Maint. Bn., 2nd Armored Div.—Need to Anniversary dinner and reunion, Saturday night, gan, 1205 Jacob Ave., Crowley, La. locate Gus Lecondino, formerly Revere, Peter March 14, at 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., Hdqrs. Co., 3rd Bn., 23rd Inf. Regt.-Will be Butkevick, Grafton, and Chris Sampsonis, Pea- very grateful for any word about my husband, New York City. Write Henry H. Ringen. 85 body, all Mass. Claim pending. John F. Santos, Y. Pfc. Harry C. Tolley, missing since May 18, 1951, Vermilyea Ave., New York 34, N. 2 Baxter Ave., Fairhaven, Mass. USS Leviathan Veterans Assn.—30th annual in vicinity of Hangye. Mrs. Harry C. Tolley, Battery B, 343rd FA, (WW1), and Alabama reunion dinner WW1 crew, all hands, New York Rt. 2, Monroe, N. C. Natl. Guard, Border)—Will officers and (Mex April at Dunhall's Restaurant, 40th St. Co. A, 38th Inf. Regt.—2nd Lt. John D. Grieve, Leon Rivers City, 11, men who served with my husband, and Broadway. Reservations from R. L. Hed- last seen near Chosen Reservoir, Nov. 28, 1950; Wallace, (Ala. Natl. Guard, Mex. Border, 1916- will anyone who knows about his disappearance lander, Box 22, Greenwich, Conn. 17, and with FA, Long Island and AEF) please USS Chicago, (WW1 crew)-33rd annual re- or present whereabouts please write his mother. write. Need help to establish service-connected union dinner, Philadelphia, Pa., April 11; McCal- Mrs. Anna Grieve, 704 South Ninth, Grand Forks, claim. Mrs. L. R. Wallace, 710 So. 22nd St., listers. Shipmates contact Paul A. Kline, 1520 N. Dak. Arlington, Va. N. Conestoga St., Philadelphia 31, Pa., for reser- Co. F, 8th Cav. Regt., 1st Cav. Div.-Will ap- Co. H, 116th Inf., 29th Div.-Will Capt. C. W. preciate any information about my brother, Eldo vations. Cawthon, CO, and Sgt. Fulture, 2nd Platoon, Vet. Assn.—34th annual re- Barker, reported missing Nov. 21, 1951, near 15th Engineers please write. Need to establish claim. Roy M. union dinner, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 25; Hotel Sonbyok. Any word will be most welcome; name Parks, Rt. Seminole, Okla. 3, Fort Pitt. Write William H. Turner, Secy., 205 not on PW list. Mrs. Melvin Hoick, Box 631, Victory—Will anyone who remem- SS Alamo Eighth Ave., Laurel Gardens, Pa. Jeffers, Minn. bers me and my ankle trouble while serving Co. A, 9th Inf., 2nd Div.—Will appreciate any aboard ship in Nov., 1944, please write; particu- information about my brother, Sgt. Robert larly Lt. Morly, who treated me at the time. Brunke, reported missing Sept. 28, 1961, near Claim pending. Leon Weis, 262 E. Rice St., El- Kondong. Name not on PW list. Mrs. Betty more, Ohio. Distributes Discussion Material Mielke, 2217 Pioneer Rd., St. Joseph, Mich. North Co. A, 129th TDTB, 2nd TDTR, TDRCT, Five hundred kits containing the Dec- Hq. & Hq. Co., 5th RCT—Will greatly appreci- Camp Hood, Texas—Will anyone who remembers ate hearing from anyone who served with or me when I injured my back in a nightmare be- laration of Independence, the U. S. knew my late brother, John D. Flanders, reported tween June 15-20, 1945, please write. Jesse L. Constitution, tabloid newspapers and killed Sept. 6, 1960. Write Bob Flanders, 637 Brown, Rt. 4, Box 119, Mansfield, La. 5. Elm, Centralia, 111. USS Iowa — Will shipmates in 1945-46 who Abraham Lincoln readings are being 21st Inf. Regt., 24th Div.-Will anyone who Seaman l/c John J. Kerivan please write; knew distributed to Post discussion leaders knows anything about Pvt. Benjamin Ferguson, need to establish that he had scarlet fever while missing since July 6, 1950, please write. Mrs. in service. Write Mrs. John J. Kerivan, 66 by the Cook County Council, Chicago, Annie M. Davis, P. O. Box 95, Pawhuska, Okla. Marked Tree Road, Needham 92, Mass. Illinois, in an "Education for Freedom" Battery A, 57th Field Artillery—Will anyone 15th Tank Bn., 68th Armored Regt., 6th Ar- who knows anything about Pfc. Connie Max mored Div., (known overseas as 773rd Amphibious program. "This reading material," said Conner, missing at Chosen Reservoir since Dec. Tank Bn.) — Will anyone who remembers my Commander Irving Breakstone, 6, 1950, please write his parents, Mr. and Mrs. accident in tank, please write; especially Wm. County T. J. Conner, 14628 S. Atlantic, Compton 2, Cal. Dee, Yonkers, N. Y., or "Macko" of Donoro, Pa. "will be furnished leaders in Cook Co. A, 7th Regiment, 1st Marine Div.— Pfc. Henry Purcyki, 2539 Guilderland Ave., Schenec- Posts who will form 'shock David Perry Lang, reported missing in action tady, N. Y. County during "the hook" and "Warsaw" engagements, Co. F, 8th Regt. SATC, Pittsburgh, Pa. (WW1) troops' to inculcate principles of 100 Oct. 26-27, 1962. His mother, Mrs. Martha R. — Will Richard Rowe, 1st Sgt., latter part of Americanism throughout our Lang, 1076 Bergen St., Brooklyn 16, N. Y., will 1918, or anyone who knows his whereabouts, percent bet grateful for word from any member of his please write. Home believed to have been in organization and the communities tribu- company, or from anyone who knows anything Post." as to his whereabouts. (Continued on page 40) tary to each The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • 39 Membership Application—THE AMERICAN LEGION J & I Name

Street Address m a. is City Zone State _ 3 9 American Lefton Du«a Occupation Ami. Rec'd. Ill (Following additional data absolutely necessary tor NEW Members) a. 1 w u Ol o a. Renew" g Member ( ) III < NEW Member ( ) Branch of Service Service Serial No. Date of Enlistment 1 il Reinstatement ( >. Date of Discharge Character of Discharge £ »

Do you subscribe to the principles of any group opposed to our form of government?

I hereby subscribe to the provisions on the reverse side hereof. H Secured by „..„ „,.«,„. 3 u (Applicant's Signature) *3 9 (This stub to be Immediately delivered to Post Adjutant or Finance Officer, together 1 with dues you receive from member. In order that official membership card can be prompt* ly Issued to such member.) J I I

HAVE YOU ASKED A VET TO JOIN? IF NOT, WHY NOT? Your vet neighbor may only be waiting for an invitation to join your Post. Veterans of both world wars and since June 25, 1950, are eligible. Clip this application and carry it with you -help build up your Post.

LEGIONNAIRE VOLUNTEERS COMRADES IN DISTRESS JERSEY CITY NAMED FOR ( Continued from page 39) ON RENT ADVISORY BOARDS So. Philadelphia at that time. Claim pending;. 1953 ORATORICAL FINALS Charles F. Spiselmyer, 31 Logan St., Lewistown, Drawing upon their own experience Pa. National finals of the 1953 American Co. M, 45th Infantry—Urgently need to locate Oratorical in finding suitable housing for them- men who were with William H. Lasaiter at Camp Legion High School Contest selves and their families at non-infla- Gordon, Ga., in Dec, 1918, and Jan., 1919. Claim will be held in Jersey City, New Jersey, pending. Mrs. William Henry Lassiter, 905 Col- April 20. for the event will be tionary rents when they returned as lege, Clarksville, Texas. Host veterans of both World Wars, Legion- Co. C, Maint. Bn., 2nd Armored Div., (WW2) Quinn Post No. 52. —Very urgent that I locate men who served with Last year's finals were held in Baton naires are helping to administer the and knew Aubrey H. Spears while in service, Federal Rent Program on a community 1942-45; hospitalization required; need proof for Rouge, Louisiana, April 21, with Cliff claim. Mrs. Aubrey H. Spears, Rte. 6, Sparta, City, basis, James Mcl. Henderson, Director Tenn. Thompson, 17, Kansas Kansas, of Rent Stabilization, has reported. Lester Cook, SN 33,373,74 8-Inducted Silver winner of the grand national first prize Springs, Md., 1943; will who knows his anyone of a college scholarship. Approximately 450 Legionnaires — present whereabouts please write. Settlement of $4,000 landlords and tenants alike—are helping estate; heir to a considerable sum. Write William The National Americanism Commis- J. Hartman. Counselor, Veterans' Servic* Agency, sion expects more than 350,000 high to make their communities a better place Sheriff's Building, Catskill, N. Y. to live in for GI's and their families, Austin Patterson—Will anyone who knows of school students all over the country to present address please write; last heard of in enter the 1953 oratorical contest. State Korean veterans and fellow citizens by vicinity of Mobile, Ala. Important that I contact unselfishly serving as voluntary, unpaid him or members of family; appeal of claim pend- winners must be certified to the Com- ing. William A. Martin. Ward 3A, Hospital, mission by April 2. The 12 regional and members on approximately 4000 Rent Veterans Home, Napa County, Cal. Advisory Boards in 46 States and Alaska. 9th Marine Regt., 3rd Marine Div.—Will any 4 sectional tournaments will be held be- service comrades with me when I was wounded tween April 13 and April 17. "In many instances, they have given on Iwo Jima, please write; Lt. Nolan in particu- up the equivalent of a two-week vacation lar. Claim pending. Joseph R. Ridenour, Rte. 2, A new pamphlet outlining the rules Ava, Mo. and regulations for the 16th annual Na- by devoting four or more hours a week Bucknell University V12—Need to locate Steve to reviewing and investigating cases Trink'? and Carl Van Hoozer; will anyone who tional High School Oratorical Contest knows their present addresses please write. Claim has been distributed by the Commission that are to come before them for appeal. pending. Melvin Weddell, Box 238, Medora, Ind. to all "No statistical report," he empha- Departments for transmission to sized, "can reveal the devotion of board Service at Clark Field the 17,285 Posts. members to what may seem, at times, Airman 3c Darrell' Hisey, now sta- a thankless task, nor their deep feeling tioned at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine French Medaille Militaire of moral responsibility toward their fel- Islands, writes that he will be glad to Do you know of any American vet- low citizens. On many occasions they answer questions from persons who have eran who holds the French Medaille have willingly sacrificed a pleasant eve- relatives buried at Clark Field about Militaire? If so, send his name and ad- ning of relaxation at home with their care of graves, or about the Air Base. dress to Dr. George Stewart, Dublin, families and friends." Send stamped, self-addressed envelope New Hampshire, who has been dele- The American Legion, Henderson said, to A3/c Darrell Hisey, 6206th Air Po- gated to form a Section Americaine of is among 36 organizations, representing lice Squadron, APO 74, San Francisco, living veterans who hold this highest business, civic, educational, patriotic, California. French decoration. military and religious groups having a large national representation on these Three Commanders in Post Iowa's Newest Post Has Home boards. Legion members comprise about Englewood (New Jersey) Post No. 78 Williamson Post at Nevinville—young- one-sixth of a small army of more than harks back to 1951 when it had three est in the Iowa Department — owns its

2,700 civic-minded men and women Commanders at the same time : Depart- own home. Legionnaire and Auxiliares members administering the rent law in ment Commander Conrad C. Schneider, pitched in to repair and redecorate the 143 critical and 117 non-critical areas County Commander George F. Axt, and building which is to be a social and from coast to coast. Post Commander John J. Callahan. civic center.

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Veterans FEBRUARY, 1953

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

VA WILL PAT NSLI DIVIDEND IN 1953: effort to find current addresses. ... As of December 18, VA has announced that it will pay the second regular District Offices had reported that 28,000 of the unpaid vet dividend on NSLI policies during 1953. . . . Total amount NSLI policyholders had been located. . . . This first special of this dividend is estimated at $180,000,000. . . . Spread dividend covered an 8-year period, with dividend payments over some 5,000,000 policies, the individual policyholders running up to a considerable sum for those who carried the will get about the same amount as received from the 1952 insurance through the war period. . . . Vets who held insur-

dividend. . . . Maximum payment to those who hold the full ance and who did not apply may find it to their advantage $10,000 NSLI will be $60, computed at 50 cents per month to write the District Office which would normally handle for each $1,000 of insurance held. . . . The dividend payment their insurance account. . . . See your Legion Service Officer. will cover all policies for which premiums have been paid for at least 3 months between the anniversary date of 1952 and the same date in 1953. . . . Payments will start in TOTAL DISABILITY RIDER RATE REDUCED: February and check (if policyholder requests cash payment) VA has announced a reduction in premium rates charged will go out approximately 6 weeks after the anniversary for the total disability income rider on 5 -year term NSLI date of the policy. policies. . . . This reduction will affect some thousands of Plan of distribution of this dividend will follow the WW2 vets who have paid extra premiums for the disability first regular in pattern set for payment of the dividend protection. . . . Any holder of NSLI may have this provision 1952. ... If cash payment is not requested, the amount due added to his policy by passing a physical examination and the policyholder will be credited to his account to be applied paying the additional premium, running from $1.07 annually against future unpaid premiums. . . . Letters will be sent per $1,000 of insurance at age 30 to $11.13 at age 59. . . . to all policyholders advising them of the dividend. . . . Benefit provides monthly income for insured and continues Payment will be automatic to those who requested cash insurance in effect without payment of premiums for so payment of the 1952 dividend, and no new application need long a period as the insured is totally disabled. . . . New be made. . . . But policyholders who have not filed such rates reduce the premiums more than 50 percent in some written request must do so — otherwise the amount is age brackets. credited to the individual's insurance account. New rates are computed on graduated scale, becoming Some several thousand veterans who hold NSLI policies increasingly higher with each renewal of term policy, as the in full force have not applied for the 1952 payment. ... If insured grows older. . . . Renewal at age 55 is the last such an application has not been made the policyholders, permitted — rider becomes inoperative at age 60. . . . Vets in order to receive cash payment, must make application who hold participating 5-year term NSLI with total dis- for both 1952 and 1953 dividends Send to the VA District ability income benefit will have their accounts adjusted to

Office where insurance account is handled. . . . Full identi- the new rates. . . . Notice, by letter, will be sent to all such fying data must be given — name in full as carried on the policyholders. . . . Letters should be in the mails before the policy, Serial Number, date of birth, insurance number or end of the first quarter of 1953. . . . Vets are asked not to numbers, and, most important, the correct address typed write about adjustment. . . . Correspondence serves to slow or printed to which the check should be sent. ... If address up the work of making adjustments and getting the informa- is changed after application is made, advise the VA District tion out to insured vets. Office of the new address. * * * *

To WW1 vets holders of USGLI policies. . . . VA has LOANS TO KOREAN VETERANS: made no announcement as yet about a 1953 dividend for HOME Despite the tight 4-percent money market, during the holders of policies issued to WW1 service men. . . . Payment received from lenders 1,838 applica- of such dividends in the past has been automatic, and paid month of October VA tions for guaranteed or insured loans under the Korean GI when due. . . . No application has been required. Bill. ... Of these, 1,787 were for purchase or construction * * * * of homes; 43 for business purposes, and 8 for farms. . . . HUNTING FOR NON-PAID NSLI POLICYHOLDERS Under the loan program, the lending institution agrees to An estimated 650,000 WW2 Veterans did not apply for make the loan before submitting application to VA for ... In all, including the Korean vets, the first special NSLI dividend, paid in 1950. . . . VA has guaranty or insurance. set up special project to locate these missing veterans, pay VA had a total of 30,777 applications for guarantees from during the month of October, (WW 2 them off and square accounts. . . . Records are being checked lending institutions in both the Central Office and in the District Offices in an and Korea), of which 29,534 were for home loans.

41 LOAN INTEREST RATE UNDER DISCUSSION: (CDD), Washington 25, D. C; and for Coast Guard to Refusal of lenders to accept the 4 percent interest rate Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington 25, D. C.

authorized for GI home loans in many areas has worked if! ijl - 3fG 5|S hardship on thousands of veterans who are trying desperately INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS!

their own. . . . Acting under a resolution to have homes of Income tax-minded veterans, looking ahead to that adopted at the New York National Convention in 1952, March 15 deadline, ask Vetletter for list of tax-exempt National Gough has named a special American Commander personal income items, particularly as to Government pay- Legion committee to discuss the GI home interest rate with ments in compensation and benefits. . . . All Government other Government agencies, and with various VA and payments and benefits made to veterans and their families banking, financial, lending and insurance groups in an effort (except non-disability retirement pay and interest on

find a solution. . . . Committee is headed by Thomas to Terminal Leave Bonds) are non-taxable for Federal income Moses, Charleston, West Virginia, Chairman of the National tax purposes and should not be reported. . . . Other non- Committee; with Milo Warner, Toledo, Ohio, Housing J. taxable items are: Mustering-out pay, bonuses received Past National Commander, and Lawrence Fenlon, J. from States, dividends on Government insurance, Federal Chicago, Illinois, Chairman of the National Economic and State social security benefits, Railroad Retirement Act

Commission, as members. . . . Several meetings have been benefits, gifts, inheritances, bequests, Workmen's compen- held seeking ways and means to make loan capital available sation insurance, damages, etc., for bodily injury or sickness, in all areas under the GI Home Loan Program. interest on State and municipal bonds, and on certain

* * * * Federal bonds issued before March 1, 1941, life insurance "50 POW CHECKS BEING SENT OUT: proceeds upon death. . . . See Tips on Income Taxes," War Claims Commission has received approximately in this issue, for details of reporting income. 95,000 claims of WW2 prisoners of war for the $1.50 per * * * * day payment for forced labor or inhumane treatment while INDIANA REPORTS ON STATE BONUS t

. . . one-half of this number were in enemy hands. Almost Bonus Division of the Indiana Department of Veterans' few days after the claim forms were made received within a Affairs reports that a total of 343,001 applications for the

available in August, 1952. . . . Claims are being adjudicated State bonus authorized at the 1948 election have been re- at the rate of about 1,000 per week, which will be stepped ceived and processed. ... Of this number 326,330 have been

up to 2,000. . . . Approximately 10,000 claims had been ad- allowed, 11,279 have been disallowed, and 5,492 are still

judicated and paid by mid-December. . . . Commission is undetermined. . . . Under original plan, no payment was not following plan of processing claims in numerical order planned until a fund from special taxes had accumulated of receipt, as in the case of the first payment for sub-standard in such sum as to pay all at once, estimated to pay off in subsistence. 1954. . . . Under special Act of 1951 General Assembly law * * * * was amended to permit payment of claims to next-of-kin VETS HAVE CHOICE OF RETIREMENT PAY: of men who died in service, service-connected disabled, and. Retired Armed Forces vets with pay for physical dis- 100 percent non-service-connected disabled. . . . 52,798 such ability, including members of Reserve components, in many claims have been paid, totalling $25,714,454.34. . . . Estimate instances may establish eligibility for increased benefits by of 1954 as date to complete payment still stands. . . . Dead- filing disability claims with the VA. ... If VA compensation line for filing applications was January 1, 1952. exceeds the disability retirement pay, the vet can elect to * * * *

receive the higher amount. . . . Members of Armed Forces GRAND ARMY OF REPUBLIC HIGHWAY t who are retired for disability receive pay based on either Honoring the defenders of the Republic in 1861-65, length of service or percentage of disability, both limited to the Grand Army of the Republic U. S. 6 Highway is the 75 percent of base pay of the highest grade held. . . . VA

longest highway in the United States under one name. . . . pays compensation for war-time service -connected disabili- A full 25 years was required to construct the road stretching ties ranging from $15.75 (10 percent disabled) to $400 3,654 miles from the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to monthly, depending on percentage ratings and statutory Long Beach, California. ... It also required some 16 years award entitlements. . . . Peace-time veterans are entitled to secure legislation in 14 States to give it the official name. to 80 percent of these rates.

. . . Daughters of Union Veterans have requested the U. S. * * * * Postal Department to issue a commemorative stamp cele- AIR FORCE VETS GET MUSTERING-OUT PAY: brating the completion of the highway. More than 90 percent of Air Force vets discharged or * * * * released since the start of the Korean war have been paid mustering-out pay by the Air Force Finance Center at OLD GLORY -LONG MAY IT WAVE!

Denver, Colorado. ... A total of nearly 104,000 claims, The Stars and Stripes — our national flag — is the third totaling more than $21,000,000, have been processed and oldest national standard in the world. ... It is older than

paid. . . . Air Service vets who have not applied, still have the Union Jack of Great Britain or the Tri-color of France.

time to do so. . . . Applications, accompanied by Report of ... It was first authorized by Congress on June 14, 1777, Separation (DD Form 214) should be mailed to Military and was first flown from Fort Stanwix (now Rome, New

Pay Division, Air Force Finance Center, 3800 York Street, York), August 3, 1777. . . . First carried into battle at

Denver. . . . Vets of other branches of the Armed Forces Brandywine, September 11, 1777, and was first flown over should send their applications to: For the Army, Finance foreign territory at Nassau, Bahama Island, on January

Center, U. S. Army, St. Louis 20, Missouri; Navy, Field 28, 1778. . . . The Stars and Stripes received its first foreign

Branch, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Cleveland 14, salute on February 13, 1778, from the French Admiral Ohio; Marine Corps, Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps, LaMott Piquet.

42 Lady on the Reef (Continued from pag© 17)

. . . er . . . malacology— that the word?" becomes strained, you will understand. "I'm really no longer particularly in-

"Strictly speaking, it didn't," I said. Putting my glass down on the table, terested in it," I said, and looked be-

"But it had to do with another phase of I said, "Not a theory. A practical sug- yond him out the window. marine biology. It had to do with bar- gestion." My voice rose and, I am "Why, Eddie!" Eddie said. "I'm sur- nacles." afraid, cracked slightly. "A new, more prised at you." The Admiral spun around on his heel efficient, cheaper, anti-fouling com- She looked at me reproachfully.

and his face lighted up as though I had pound for ship's bottoms." "Well, gosh!" I said. just mentioned the name of an old 1 glanced over at Eddie and was "All right, now," the Admiral said. friend. "Barnacles? Ah, well, now . . . gratified to observe that she was re- "Let's not go off half-cocked. Suppose

Of course I should have known that garding me with what seemed to be you sit down and just give me a brief you'd know all about them. Barnacles open admiration. outline of your idea. I'm with the ." I are shells and . . "That was all," said, modestly, and Bureau of Ships and naturally I'm in-

"I beg your pardon," I said. "Barna- took a sip of my drink. terested." cles are not shells." The Admiral was leaning forward, Since my conception was predicated "Nonsense!" he said. "Of course they his chin in his hand, staring up at me. on an intimate knowledge of the lives, are." "Now let's see about this," he said habits and reactions of the crustaceans slowly. "Suppose you start from the in question it was necessary for me to beginning and tell me exactly what go at some length into background ma-

your theory— I mean your suggestion- terial with which an admiral would was." naturally not be acquainted. It took

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The American Legion Magazine • February. 1953 • 43 ." some time and, as a result, the Admiral squared away in no time and then . . "Oh, I'll be all right," I said. "I guess." saw fit to invite me to stay for dinner. "I don't want ..." I began, but Eddie "You're so reckless. I just feel as When I had finished, both he and his interrupted me. though I shouldn't let you take such daughter—who had sat throughout the "You mean you'd refuse to do this chances." She shook her head and meal quietly listening and not inter- for your country?" sighed. "If there were only something rupting with pointless remarks the way Both of them looked at me steadily I could do about it. But I don't suppose the average woman would—sat for without saying anything. As they sat there is. Is there?" some time without saying anything. there I was surprised to observe how "No," I said, "I don't suppose there Finally he turned to me and said, much alike they looked. It was not so is." "Young man, this is very interesting much their actual appearance as the ex- "You'd be so much safer in Washing- indeed. There may be a few bugs to pression in their faces. I had not noticed ton," she said. straighten out but of course you'd be it before. "I have this paper ..." I began. ." in charge of the actual work and . . "The Navy needs you," the Admiral "I know. I understand." She got up "Oh, no," I said. "No, I've got this said. and began to walk back and forth across ." I paper I'm working on and . . "I know," said. "That's what it said the room. "Your work means every- "Oh, it would be absolutely essential on the recruiting posters. But I've done thing to you. Nothing else really mat- ." for you to be present." all that once and I don't want . . ters."

"After all, you've specialized in this," "Let's see," the Admiral said slowly. "That's not so." I got up too, and be-

Eddie said. "You're still in the Reserve, aren't gan to follow her. "That's not so at all. ." "Yes," I said, "but I don't have the you?" When I think of you . . ." "Yes," I said, time . . and for a second they "No," she said. "No, that's the way "He'd get a commission of course, glanced at each other and both of them all men feel. That's the way Pop feels Pop, wouldn't he?" Eddie said. smiled a little. too." She stopped and looked at me. "Naturally. Of course." He looked "Washington's really an awfully nice "Of course with him it's a question of at me. "How old are you?" place," Eddie said. duty, too. I mean to his country."

"Thirty," I said. "But I don't want..." Shortly after, the Admiral left the I started -to speak but didn't know

"Lieutenant," he said. "Maybe Lieu- room and when he had gone Eddie how to go on. I felt embarrassed and tenant Commander, even. Very impor- turned to me and said, "You know, somehow guilty. tant work. We'll fix that." we're leaving tomorrow." "But naturally your work is the most

"I can't" I said, and again my voice I stared at her. It was almost as important thing," she said. "Malacology. ." rose abnormally. "I've got marked though someone had hit me. I felt as Even more important than . . malocclusion." though there were all sorts of things I "Than what?" I said. "Don't you worry, son. We'll get a must say to her immediately but I didn't She didn't answer. I put my hand on waiver on that. Nothing to it." know how to begin. All I could say her arm and repeated my question. "See?" Eddie said. "I told you Pop was, "Tomorrow?" "Oh, nothing." She drew away from could fix it." She nodded. "We may never see each me. "Nothing at all."

"Of course if you'd rather come in other again." She began walking again. I followed as a civilian," the Admiral said, "you "Eddie ..." I said. her. could do that." "Oh, Eddie," she said. "I'm so wor- "Than you?" I said. "No, Eddie,

"No," I said. "I don't want to. I have ried. All those dreadful fish and things. there's nothing . . . nothing in the ." ." this paper I'm working on and . . I just can't bear to think of you . . . whole world . . "I think it's a wise decision," the Ad- taking your life in your hands that way. We were at the end of the room now miral said. "We'll get that commission Every day." and she turned around so suddenly that

I bumped into her.

"Excuse me," I said and before I fully realized what was happening my arms were around her. A second later the Admiral's voice sounded from the hall. "Eddie! Eddie, come here, will you?" We jumped apart and both hurried to the hall. When he saw us the Admiral laughed and said, "I forgot." He motioned to-

ward his daughter, "I meant her. I just wanted to remind her that we're leaving early in the morning and we don't want any last-minute foul-ups." He turned to her. "Are you all squared away?" She looked up at me. Her eyes again made me think of reef water and sud-

denly I had the feeling that even if I

never saw a reef again I would always be able to see the strange and beautiful things that grew there reflected in her eyes. "Well?" the Admiral said. "Speak up. Don't mumble." "Yes," she said, still looking at me. "I'm all squared away." the end .

(Continued fro?n page 12) woods, both safe and relatively easy. I'd hate to tote up all the hunters who have been killed carrying their deer back to the I sat back to enjoy a parade of talented dancing school students, an car at the end of the day. I believe this is It looked Orlando station hillbilly a step in the right direction and am noth- radio crop tagged the Whoot Owls, but ing short of enthusiastic about it. Costs Whoo under ten bucks. different legs, Legs, and more legs! All very feminine and most shapely. from inside All at once I remembered a wastebasket, the one with a mimeographed

caravan invitation in it. Hadn't

By PAT FORD thought when I dumped it there,

that I might be on the receiving end On the Way: The Lyman Gun Sight when the affair came along. Corporation with headquarters at Middle- Now take this vet hospital cara- As I sat there listening to the other field, Connecticut are about to put a new van business . . patients beat their hands off, I was varmint scope on the market. From 6 to Each of the past three years since strongly aware I hadn't contributed 10-power, it will give the human marksman I joined the Legion I caught the a damn thing to the show, except my the keen eye of a mountain sheep, the field usual mimeographed letters inviting presence which was an "under of vision of a hawk. One of the great ad- me to participate in our annual Post duress" escape from boredom. vances in scopes in recent years, it is some- caravan to Bay Pines VA Hospital. Still, I felt a throat-constricting thing to look forward to seeing—and using. Each year for the past three years pride in that Orlando Memorial I demurred. The memory of having been in- Legion Post No. 19 card in my bill- Conservation: The brains in most of the vited as a newspaperman to a few- fold. state agencies claim that one out of every such deals here and there across the I drifted back into a side room four ducks shot is crippled and not bagged. country dampened my enthusiasm. lounge for a smoke. Unknown to me couple of solutions: waiting the A Try a bit I couldn't buy into the proposi- Jimmie Dean had been doing birds out until they are within killing tions I'd seen where badly broken of scouting around. Presently he range, never out over 40 yards. Thirty-five down or hammish amateur acts turned up shoving his wheelchair yards is even better. Also plan hunting | played to partly-filled houses for a along heading up a collection of old with a dog. The trained retriever is still the minimum of routine applause. personal friends of mine, many I was best answer for cripples. William Young not even aware were Legionnaires. Then two weeks before I planned Simpson, Jr., has a gimmick that could be to leave Orlando, Florida, for Chi- I sort of choked up momentarily of help if you're forced to hunt ducks | again. a lot cago I was clipped by what the doc Here were of Post mem- without a dog. He takes along his casting | tentatively diagnosed as a slight brain bers spending time, gas, and other rod, uses a plug with gang hooks and, hemorrhage. Two weeks and 493 ice things to break the routine for us. when a duck is downed, flips the plug out, it over, all at once "us" caps later I had come out of the haze Thinking hooks the duck and reels in. enough to laboriously sign my name was personified to me by just one to an entrance application to Bay guy. A lug named Pat Ford. Dr. Richard Vibert, inspector of France's Pines for therapy to snap back a This, in case you might have for- Department of Waters and Forests has re- a ? sluggish right hand and right leg to gotten, was the so-and-so who cently invented an ingenious trout-rearing normal. couple of weeks earlier had slammed box which may mean more fish in the pan J Jimmie Dean, a fellow-member of a caravan invitation into the waste- for American fishermen. The idea is to ( Orlando Memorial Legion Post No. basket. bring fish from the egg to fry stage in 19, happened to be in the same Bay That evening I listened to the completely natural habitat. The brainchild patients. Pines Ward H where I was assigned. comments of many other is plastic, has a series of vents which per- This being my first VA hospitaliza- Boys who didn't know I was a Post mits water to flow through the box and the tion, Jimmie set out to make it as No. 19 member. young fry to swim into the stream after I cheerful as possible. All were highly complimentary. they are hatched. The French box is being As I said, this was the Post to In my pocket I squeezed tight the tested in several spawning in this streams 19 which I allegedly belonged. At least billfold with the Post No. mem- country. the one to which I annually paid bership card and time and time again dues. I was one of those enthusiastic came through with a forced casual- lugs who— if something special came ness, "Yeah, that's the gang I belong ." up—actually managed to make one, to . . possibly two meetings a year. Having been on the receiving end —well, the next one of those cara- A deceitful element now sneaks in. Ash- Jimmie wangled me clear and van invitations won't wind up in ton Burrowes tells you how to call a squir- talked me into visiting the Orlando anyone's wastebasket. rel within shooting distance. "Take two Post caravan show Sunday after- You see, now I know how cheer- half dollars," he says, "place one in the noon, November 22. I definitely ing those things can be. semi-circle formed at the base of your I wasn't enthusiastic, still, it was a way I've just had it rammed thumb and forefinger. Then take the other J to kill time. down my half • It turned out to be a lot more. throat that The Guy who long ago dollar and, holding it in the other J came through with the well known hand, hit the flat face of coin number 1 The Orlando Post membership "more blessed to give than to re- with the edge of coin number 2. By cup- brought along a darn good three- ceive" boosting the ante strictly ping hand in and out with the rhythm of hour crop of talent of either semi- was pro or professional status. with blue chips only. tapping (using the cadence of the squirrel j time in, please. chatter), a sound not unlike a gray squir- Apparently the boys at Bay Pines Next count me I'll find—or the time. This rel is emitted and you'll find they answer." remembered Orlando shows of pre- make deal I want to sit in on. Thanks, Ashton, although it does sound ! vious years. The auditorium was like a dirty jammed. And if you need any help lining trick. Besides, where do we J get the two half dollars? That show was good. Plenty good. up top-flight talent to keep the show- Good—not because it was spon- one of the big events of the hospi-

If you have problems or questions connected sored by what was nominally my tal year . . . well, don't hesitate to with the outdoors: hunting, fishing, dogs, etc., Post—but a show thoroughly cap- ask. don't hesitate to send them on to The Outdoor

Editor, American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth i able of standing on its own feet. I'll do my best. Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. We will do our best to help. Please enclose a stamped, self- addressed envelope for reply.

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • 45 —

50 Tips on Income Taxes —— (Continued from page 23) ———

Any of these close relatives can be much you love the creatures—you may non-taxable. This no-tax benefit is claimed as your dependent—and a $600 not claim them as dependents. The in- limited to $5,000 maximum total for all tax exemption— if he has received more come tax agents—some of whom are beneficiaries of the dead employe. than half of his support for the year animal lovers—cannot allow such a de- 30. A portion of retirement pay and from you; if his gross annual personal pendency claim. annuity payments is considered to rep- income is less than $600; if he is a citi- 26. A child, or other dependent, serv- resent a return of the recipient's own zen or resident of this country, or a ing in the Armed Forces for a full year funds, and is not taxable. The remainder resident of Canada or Mexico; if the cannot be claimed as a dependency ex- must be reported as taxable income. dependent does not make a joint return emption. However, if this dependent After he has received full return of his with his spouse. The claimed dependent serves less than a year in military uni- own funds, the entire annuity is taxable. must fulfill all of these requirements. form, and his gross income for the 31. Members of the Armed Forces,

22. Once the exemption of a spouse's year is less than $600, he may be claimed serving in a combat zone, get a special relatives has been established for in- as a $600 exemption— as long as the tax- income tax dispensation. come tax purposes, the relationship for payer furnishes more than half of the Enlisted men and warrant officers are tax purposes may continue even though cost of the dependent's support for that exempt from all income tax on their the taxpayer loses his spouse through tax year. military compensation for the period death or divorce. For example, once 27. The law regards certain kinds of in which they served in the combat one properly claims his mother-in-law income as non-taxable, and these items zone, and for any period in which they as an exemption, he can continue to of revenue do not have to be reported were hospitalized as a result of dis- claim her as an exemption, upon the on your income tax return. ability incurred in the combat zone. A death of his wife, so long as he con- Among non-taxable, non-reportable commissioned officer gets the same tax tinues to be her main support. items of income are the interest on benefit, but only on the first $200 a 23. A taxpayer can claim dependency bonds or other obligations of the states, month of military pay. exemptions for his own uncles, aunts, territories, District of Columbia, pos- This special tax exemption for military nephews, and nieces whom he supports sessions, or political subdivisions of personnel is retroactive to June 24, —but not his wife's uncles, aunts, neph- these, regardless of date of issue; cer- 1950. If you failed to claim this benefit ews, and nieces— if he files a separate tain interest on Federal bonds and other in your 1950 or 1951 return, you can return. But he can claim his wife's quali- obligations issued before March 1, 1941; still do so, and obtain a refund, by filing fied relatives as dependency exemptions Federal or state social security bene- an amended 1950 or 1951 return. when he and his missus file a joint re- fits; workmen's compensation or dam- 32. Congress has also given a special turn—if he supports them. ages; sickness and injury benefits from tax dispensation to GIs slain in the com- 24. The dependency exemption is not insurance policies. bat zone, or who died from disabilities allowable for an unborn child, but once 28. The proceeds of a life insurance incurred in the combat zone. Uncle the child is born alive, even if the in- policy are not taxable when paid on Sam forgives the income taxes of the fant should live but for a few hours, the death of the insured. But the pro- deceased Gl for the tax year in which the full exemption of $600 may be ceeds of an endowment policy are tax- he died, up to the date of his death; and claimed by the parents for the year in able after the cost of the policy has forgives any unpaid taxes of previous which the child was alive. been recovered. years. Back taxes mistakenly paid by 25. No matter how much of your 29. Payments to beneficiaries of a de- his executor after his death can be re- income you spend on pet cats, pooches, ceased employe, based on an agreement claimed as forgiven taxes, as can taxes canaries, or horses—and no matter how between the employer and employe, are paid or withheld for that year. 33. Subsistence and rent allowances to members of the Armed Forces are

tax-exempt. So is mustering out pay. However, lump sum payments for ac- crued leave are taxable to the extent they are attributable to basic pay elements, such as base pay, longevity pay, etc. 34. Veterans compensation and pen- sions are exempt from income taxation.

So is most disability retirement pay for officers. But officers' retirement pay,

based on age or service, is taxable income and must be reported. 35. The law permits employees to deduct from their adjusted gross income the "ordinary and necessary" expenses of their work. These expenses include union dues and assessments, subscrip- tions to professional journals, membership dues in professional societies, special apparel required by ballplayers, firemen, policemen, aviators, nurses, etc. To be credited for these expenses, the taxpayer must file Long Form 1040, itemize his deductions, and be prepared to back up the expense items with records. Employers and self-employed tax-

4g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 payers may deduct similar expense not have to declare a capital gains tax, income. If you are over 65, you may items from their gross income. unless the cost of your second home deduct all your own medical expenses. 36. An employe traveling away from is less than what you got for selling In either case, reimbursement from home on behalf of his employer may your first one. health insurance reduces by that much deduct the cost of transportation, meals, 44. You can afford to be freer with the amount of the medical deduction. and lodgings. If you work under an your contributions, because as of 1952, Top limit for medical deduction in expense account, you must add the re- Congress has upped from 15 percent to any one year is $5,000. Cost of medi- imbursement to your wages, and then 20 percent the amount of contributions cal insurance is a part of your medical subtract your actual expenses. If your deductible from your taxable income. expenses. expenses are higher than your reim- Permissible contributions include those 49. Items like tooth paste and tooth bursement, you must itemize the ex- to charitable, religious, educational, brushes are not deductible ordinarily penses in detail (on page 3 of Long scientific, and literary societies, and vet- as medical expenses. But if the taxpay- Form 1040). erans organizations. (A contribution to er, because of some illness, requires a 37. Business and professional men The American Legion or any of its ac- special kind of toothpaste, prescribed rate deductions for business expenses, tivities is a legitimate deduction from by the doctor, the cost of the tooth- and can take advantage of this deduc- your taxable income. Dues are not.) paste becomes a legitimate medical ex- tion on Long Form 1040. 45. Interest on personal indebtedness, pense. In the same way, if you like to These business expenses may include such as mortgage, judgment, delinquent buy and eat vitamin pills, it is not a reasonable salaries and wages paid, in- tax payment, personal loan, installment deductible expense; if the doctor pre- terest on business indebtedness, taxes purchase, etc., is deductible from your scribes vitamin pills for you, it is a de- on business including the social secur- taxable income. ductible item. ity taxes imposed on the employer, 46. Certain non-business taxes are de- However, not quite everything pre- taxes on business property, business ductible, including state and local in- scribed by the doctor is deductible. If losses, depreciation, obsolescence, de- your family physician tells you that a pletion, rents, repairs, fees for manage- change in climate—say Miami Beach in ments, commissions, labor, supplies, ad- the winter—would be good for your vertising, merchandising expenses, pre- system, and you carry out his advice, miums on business insurance, etc. go ahead and enjoy the trip. But don't 38. Professional men who maintain attempt to deduct this nice little item offices in their residences may deduct a as a medical deduction. Such a trip is proportionate part of the expenses in- not accepted as a medical expense de- curred (rent, heat, light, etc.) as a duction under the law. legitimate business expense. They may 50. You do not have to pay income also deduct the cost of books, instru- taxes on gifts, bequests, or inheritances ments and equipment having a useful received by you. Thus, if one of the life of less than one year. If these items give-away radio shows calls you up and have a longer-than-a-year use, they announces, just because your name was must be treated as capital investments, luckily found in the phone book, that and the cost can be deducted, a little you've won a new television set, you each year, on the basis of depreciation. can enjoy it without paying any in-

39. If you suffered a heavy loss in come tax on it. your business or profession, you may But if you actively compete for a apply this loss not only to the tax year come taxes (but not Federal income prize—say, guess the name of the Presi- 1952, but also back to 1951, and forward taxes), personal property taxes, real dent of the United States on a quiz to 1957. estate taxes, directly-imposed sales show—and you win a fourwheeler bike, 40. Bad debts are deductible if they taxes. Federal excise taxes are not de- a case of Aunt Melinda's pickled plums, become worthless during the year, but ductible. a set of silver stirrups, or one mink the taxpayer must explain the nature of 47. Should your property suffer loss coat—then you must pay the tax on a the debt, name of the debtor and his due to theft, fire, flood, storm, light- fair market value of the prize. relationship to the taxpayer, note the ning, frost, earthquake, shipwreck, air- These fifty tips do not represent, by date the debt was created and when it plane crash, hurricane, duststorm, col- any means, a rulebook on income taxes. became due, list his efforts in trying lision—you rate a deduction from your They're simply suggestions that will to collect the debt, and tell how he de- taxable income. But you must be sure help you save money, and in the long termined the debt was worthless. to itemize your deductions on a Long run, time and trouble as well. 41. Depreciation of business property Form 1040. For those taxpayers who feel they is allowable; but depreciation of per- If the loss is greater than your tax- should get professional assistance, there sonal property is not permitted. Depre- able income for 1952, you may apply are some 2,000 regular income tax ciation of an auto, for example, is per- the loss to the return of 1951, and for- offices available to them, and during missible only to the extent that the ward five years to 1957. Should your the taxpaying "season" hundreds more auto is used for business, or for the pro- loss be covered by insurance, you must are opened for their convenience. duction of income. deduct from the loss the money you re- If you have questions, visit one of the 42. If the taxpayer makes a profit on ceive from the insurance company and income tax offices, (Director of Inter- the sale or exchange of a capital asset only claim the final loss to you. nal Revenue)—formerly Collector of which he has held for at least six 48. If you've had a rough year on Internal Revenue—for a helping hand. months, that profit is regarded as a medical-dental expenses, it may pay If you can't make a personal appear- "long return capital gain." Only half of you to file your return on Long Form ance, send an explanatory letter along a long-term capital gain is taxable, and 1040, itemizing your expenses. You are with your returns to the collector, stat- that at a relatively low rate, not more permitted to deduct from your tax- ing all the facts. The collector is sin- than 26 percent. able income medical exemptions for cerely interested in helping you pay the 43. If you sell your home and buy yourself, wife and dependents exceed- lowest legal tax that you owe the gov- a new residence within a year, you do ing 5 percent of your adjusted gross ernment. THE END

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Cat Tracks in the Snow (Continued from page 21) farther on, I found another trail of The hound was in good voice a few cold, baleful eyes showed above the prints going in the same direction and minutes later and then, suddenly, the greenery, as it watched, almost disdain- paralleling the others. dog was tonguing at every stride. fully, the two humans and raging dog

"I think I know where they're go- "He's jumped one of them," my below. ing," my friend said. "They'll cross a friend said. "Come on, we've got to bust "Mean-looking cuss, isn't he?" my brook on some logs just below here, into that hellhole and end this chase companion remarked. "Pop him, and and move into a heavy growth of jack quickly." be sure you do a good job because I firs on the other side. Come on, let's When chased by dogs, it's bobcat don't want that dog ripped up." Those get going. There isn't must daylight strategy to circle in cedar swamps and cold cat eyes never flickered as they left and this one will have to be short dense patches of evergreens so thick a looked down the shotgun barrel. Then and sweet." standing man cannot see 20 feet in any the weapon's noisy blast ripped the We jolted down the last mile of direction. So it's the hunter's strategy woodsy stillness. snowy road and rolled down a steep to get into such places, kneel down, and The warden let the dog worry the embankment toward the frozen lake, watch in all directions below the dead bobcat for a minute or two and bouncing over rocks and fallen tree screening branches with the hope he'll then we single-filed out of the dark- limbs. For a moment I had a horrible be afforded a glimpse of the running ening woods. vision of a sudden lurch, as the jeep cat. Which explains why a shotgun "Tomorrow," my backwoods shep- hit the frozen surface of the lake, and loaded with heavy shot usually is car- herd said, "we'll come out and get that a quick closing in of icy water, 30 feet ried. A rifle is next to useless in such other one. It'll be right around here deep. cover. somewhere." "Keep your shirt on," my companion The cat made two circles in the Things didn't look auspicious the fol- remarked with a laugh. "There's a foot thicket and then ran straight away lowing morning. The weather had of ice below us. Hold up a train of along a ridge until the dog was almost moderated during the night and there cars." out of hearing. We followed, sometimes were indications of rain, which was the We skimmed over the lake to the taking headers into the snow where it last thing either of us wanted. We opposite shoreline and stopped. "From was deep in sheltered spots. And then breakfasted hurriedly and took off in now on the going won't be so easy," the the dog music dwindled. Plainly some- the jeep as dawn was breaking, and warden said, climbing out of the jeep, thing had gone wrong. We caught up before we'd traveled a mile it was rain- followed by the leashed hound. I gath- with the hound, which we found cir- ing heavily. ered up my gun and trailed along be- cling in a frozen swamp, apparently "If this keeps up," my friend re- hind them. trying to pick up a confused track. marked sourly, "the ground will be Sure enough, the cats had crossed the "Tough luck," my companion com- bare in an hour or two and there won't brook on the logs and had wandered mented. "Le's separate and see if we can be any more cat chasing until it snows off into the evergreen thicket. By that work this thing out. That cat either again." time purple afternoon shadows were must be in this swamp, or we'll find It was daylight when we parked the lengthening on the snow and there was tracks going out." jeep on the frozen lake where we'd left doubt we had time to do the job be- An outburst of baying about a hun- it the previous afternoon, and as we fore darkness closed in. After dark dred yards away announced that the pushed on into the woods afoot it was bobcat chasing has little appeal. matter was settled. obvious time was running against us. "What do you say?" the warden "Got that cat treed over there," the The snow was going fast. But luck was asked. warden said. "Come on." It took some still on our side. Fresh tracks were "Turn the pooch loose," I replied. "I looking to locate the motionless var- found almost at once and again the want to find out whether he sings tenor mint, 40 feet above us on the limb of a woods were noisy with the hound's or bass." big hemlock. Only its tufted ears and tonguing. That chase was soon over. Again the cat treed, and a charge of chilled two's tore away its life. Strangely enough the chase ended within 200 yards of the parked jeep. "It couldn't have been more con-

venient for us," I observed, "unless that varmint had treed on the car's hood. But what will we do, now that rainy weather has loused up our cat chasing?

"Oh, I'll think up something to keep you out of mischief," was the answer. We fished through the ice and tended beaver traps for the next three days, while awaiting the hoped-for weather change, but most of all we talked about bobcats and their sly ways. "I've often wondered why more hunters aren't interested in bobcat hunting," Warden Clark mused, as we returned from an ice-fishing jaunt. "It isn't something that requires any great experience or much time to learn. Aside from a pair of snowshoes, no special 4g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 ) ! .

equipment is needed and even snow- except shoes are not absolutely essential When felk turns from bowling to whiskey . . during periods of deep snow. Every hunter has a shotgun. "The main requirement," he continued, "is a good dog. By good dog I mean one that isn't interested in foxes Calvert speak ftr ifeelf or deer— just cats. Neither Jack nor Ranger, as you've noticed, will look at a deer or fox track. They both just naturally hate bobcats. Most dogs in- stinctively run cats and it doesn't take much training to make a varmint dog, if you have a likely animal to begin with and the patience and savvy to get a young dog started right. "Certainly if more hunters ran bobcats in the winter, there would be more grouse, deer and rabbits to hunt in the fall. 1 don't know of a more practical conservation measure than cat hunting.

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Then there's that bounty dividend, which soon pays a profit on the original dog investment." The snow came three days later. More, in fact, than we wanted. When the junior-sized blizzard subsided, there was a foot of fluff on the ground and the temperature was well below zero. "Every bobcat in the state will be on WHICH BALL IS BETTER? Some bowlers tell you that the three- the prowl after that storm," my hunting partner told me, as we drove up the finger ball gives you a finer grip, much better control. But many

road the morning after the storm. still prefer the two-finger type — and swear by it. Actually you "Nothing moves during a heavy snow- should test them both. See which one fits your hand and your fall and those cats will be hungry." bowling style better. We hit a fresh track less than a quarter of a mile from the main high- Test whiskies, too, before you pick the brand to stick with. way, and after a short run the cat treed Compare Y^-oz. samples of Calvert and any other whiskey on the in a pine on a high ridge, with Ranger market. them to judge their aroma. Taste them critically, for in full voice just below. Traveling in Sniff the deep snow had quickly exhausted smoothness, mellowness. Choose the whiskey you really like the feline, and it might be added, at better. least one of its pursuers. I was still some Calvert's finer taste will speak for itself! distance away and puffing mightily, when the flat bark of a shotgun signaled FREE WHISKEY TASTE TEST KIT! Contains two special glass jiggers, complete instruc- the end of another deer killer. 1 was tions and "Whiskey Expert" cards. Write Calvert, Room 1321 AL. 405 Lexington glad to sit down and await my com- Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. ( Offer not good where local regulations forbid. panion's return. "The trouble with you city guys," the warden gibed as he came down the hillside with the bobcat slung over his you'll shoulder, "is that you're like a bobcat Compare. ..anJ —snow pulls your plug."

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The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • 49 Who is Being Treated in the VA Hospitals? (Continued from page 25)

P10 Forms. All? The tubercular, the (open also to representatives of other mental, the chronics—who make up the veteran and medical groups) held an bulk of the non-service-connected— initial meeting last spring in Washing- sign the P10. ton to study alleged abuses. Is the Form P10 being abused? If so, At that meeting, misrepresentation of to what extent? Actually, nobody the actual facts loomed as the biggest knows, though we do know the figure hurdle to clear. The chief problems that

is small. If reforms are in order, they emerged were ( 1 ) lack of real evidence must be based on knowledge of abuse, to back up claims of widespread abuses and on methods of correction that do and (2) the barrage of untrue charges not hurt others. This year the P10 has whose investigation constantly wastes been tightened to the extent of empha- the time and energy of those interested sizing, at the signature line, the penal- in good VA administration. ties for false oath. Such meetings hold promise. Our Actually, the real figures should be National Legion Rehabilitation staff re- most reassuring to the critics, for what ports that follow-up talks with national they reveal about general admission medical and hospital leaders reveal a EYES TIRED? practices of the VA. Although any vet- growing understanding of the facts of REUS* eran who will sign a P10 eli- veterans medicine. TWO DROPS-QUICK becomes gible for hospital space if he needs the Many leading medical authorities care and if the space is available, the who have now really studied the prob- figures show that the VA is pretty tough lems are coming to agree that the pres- Two drops' of Murine in each about who gets the available space. ent national goal of about 131,000 VA eye seems to bathe and soothe All but about 8 percent who are hos- beds is realistic. This is a position they away that tired feeling in sec- pitalized are service-connected, mental, violently opposed not long ago—for onds. Gently as a tear, Murine's T.B., chronic, ordered in, public emer- want of proper information. seven tested ingredients wash gencies, or only technically non-servicc- The difficulty of better understand- the delicate tissues and leave a connected. ing all around arises from the large feeling of delightful refreshment. Murine makes your The critics who blast away indis- number of willing critics who sound criminately at all the non-service-con- off publicly on the strength of very eyes feel good! nccted have a job to do, if they are to skimpy know ledge. turn honest. They must subtract from Dr. Wilkinson's is just the most re- the approximately 8 percent remaining cent of a steady stream of non-factual MURINE all those who told the truth on their attacks on care for the disabled veterans -for your eyes PlOs, and level their charges at a proved that have been aired in public ever remainder. since the close of WWII, when many The VA and the Legion have re- were unwilling to face up to the big BUY DIRECT -SAVE peatedly offered to join forces with post w ar obligation to veterans that a FACTORY DISCOUNTS UP TO 85% critics who would give facts on abuses big war makes. pusISno MASTER GARDENER prowled that would stand examination. At the Harper's magazine in Feb. 1948, pub- It's a Idwn mower It's a rotary till Legion's invitation, an informal joint lished an article by a Dr. Frederic W. It's a power sickle It's a bulldozer It's a cultivator It's a plow committee of the Legion, the Ameri- Taylor, that attacked veterans medicine Here at last ia a power unit that doeB every- Tractor can .Medical Association and the VA on the basis that 80 percent of the vet- thing;. Works for you year round. Docs terrific job of preparing mellowed deep seed bed without labor. Built-in power take-off todrive pumpe, saws, generators, etc. Safety clutch—can't burn out. More versatile and

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gQ • The American Legion Magazine • February 1953 erans hospitalized have illnesses not re- motely connected with war service. Dr. Taylor "demonstrated" what the non- . . . fish in Canada service-connectcd patients arc like by citing six anonymous "case histories" for speckled, rainbow, eastern brook trout; land locked, Atlantic, that were all unsavory or dubious. Al- Tyee salmon; pike; pickerel; bass; muskies; bluefin tuna. though the Harper's article gave all its attention to non-service-connected care, it did not so much as mention the T.B., mental and chronic cases who make up the vast hulk of the nov-service-connected patients. Intelligent literature? In 1949, the Hoover Commission gave Congress a report on government medical affairs. The opening page of the official report told Congress that the government is trying to give medical care to all 18'/2 million living veterans. No such principle, or fact, of care for all veterans has ever existed in this country. VA hospitals are geared to accommodate .007 of the veteran population. Those whom we saw in our 1951 survey, who were admitted on the basis

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of their P10 without long-term diseases or service-connection, numbered .00046 of the veteran population. Although the Hoover Commission has disbanded, its statements live on and You'll find your kind of angling in this land of a million continue to be aired with raised eye- brows by the uninformed. As recently lakes and streams, of sporting coastal waters ... of record-size as September, 1952, Medical Economics fish. You can have a remote lake all to yourself, or find good magazine ran a cartoon against govern- sport close to the border. Dependable guides and outfitters. ment medicine that contained the Detailed information on seasons, territories, accommodation, Hoover Commission "information." etc. promptly supplied. Just write us. This commercial medical magazine's cartoon show ed a billboard, whose let- tering included "free medical care available 18i/ indiscriminately to 2 million veterans." A totally untrue statement without any basis in fact at all, but published to the medical profession nonetheless. The average veteran reader of these words has never had VA care, has never been in a position where he could get it, and pays his own doctor bills. He knows that VA care is so unavailable that it is highly selective. He is quite happy to have escaped war disability and to remain healthy enough and well enough off so that the VA wouldn't have him. He is also happy to know that

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if health and prosperity both desert was • first laid down for the U.S. by him he will have a chance for decent George Washington, in the name of the care from the government that he soldiers of the American Revolution. served in war. On leaving command of his army, Gen- The New York Times reported on eral Washington wrote the governor May 21, 1952, that the 1200 delegates of each state, asking: "Where is the to the convention of the /Medical So- man to be found who wishes to remain ciety- of New Jersey had passed a reso- indebted for the defense of his own

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The Lowdown on Lumber (Continued from page 27)

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the saw . These steps reduce the two- in inches times length in feet. So a piece 1" 6" by-four down to 1 5^ by 3% inches, but of lumber x x 10' would measure for permanent living i/ it is still sold by its normal or rough- five board feet, 1 x 2 x 10 = 5. The sawn dimensions. cost would be found by multiplying the This 35-foot model is truly a family trailer. It has two private bedrooms and a comfortable The amonnt of wood removed by the cost per board foot by five. studio couch in the living room which affords planing operation varies with the thick- Lumber less than 4 inches wide and sleeping accommodations for the large family ness and width of the board. The final of any thickness is ordered by the lineal all at a 'reasonable price. The kitchen is and "actual" size is completely equipped for ease of housekeeping. 25/32 inch thick- foot except in large amounts where it is A complete bathroom which includes a toilet, ness or width for 1-inch lumber. From sold by the board foot method. (An lavatory and shower is also in this livable trailer. 2 inches to 6 inches the actual dimen- order for a board 10' long would be Write today to Dept. A for complete details sion is %-inch less than the expressed specified as 10 lineal feet and cost would and free literature. dimensions; that is, a 2 x 6 is really 1% be found by multiplying the price of RICHARDSON TRAILER MFG. inches thick and 5^ inches wide. a lineal foot times ten.

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54 • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 ally can be had at a much lower price. grade furniture wood will not have ber properly, the boards must be Appearance, strength and stiffness shrunk more than from 1/1 6th to 3/32 stacked in layers with the layers sepa- are dependent to a large extent on the of an inch. When the wood you want rated from each other by spacer blocks dryness of the lumber you used. Fresh- to check is less than 6 inches wide, make —strips of seasoned wood 1-inch thick ly cut lumber contains a good deal of the samples 3 inches instead of 6 and and 1 Yz to 2 inches wide. moisture. As the moisture disappears, compute shrinkage at half of that for Start by laying down two-by-fours the board shrinks somewhat. When the the larger sample. Edge grain lumber on edge. Two-by-sixes are better if you moisture content of a board becomes shrinks only about half as much as flat have them. Set these base supports 16 about 12 percent, the lumber is con- grain so you can see it would be much to 36 inches apart. Place the first layer sidered seasoned or ready for use. Sea- more difficult to get an accurate shrink- of boards to be seasoned on the base soning is accomplished by allowing it age measurement if you used it for your supports. Leave 1 to 3 inches of space to dry in the air or by placing the wood samples. between the edges of the boards. Place in an oven, a process called "kiln dry- To prevent the lumber from absorb- the spacer blocks 48 inches apart. Put ing." (Only kiln-dried lumber should ing moisture, store it in a warm, dry the next layer of boards on the blocks. be used when building furniture pieces.) place. Do not let the lumber sag or it Locate each block along the one be- Lumber with a high moisture content will warp and twist out of shape. A low and continue to build the stack. is not only difficult to work with, but sturdy lumber-storage rack placed Placing the spacer blocks one above the when the project is finished and the where there is adequate circulation of other will lessen warping as the lumber lumber begins to dry out, it will shrink air will aid greatly in keeping your dries. and may open up glued joints and seams lumber in perfect condition. The size Moisture content of wood as it comes or may even crack. of the racks will be determined by the from a tree may amount to only 30 per- A simple way to check the dryness space available and the average length cent of the dry weight in the heartwood of lumber is to saw a one-inch-long of lumber stock ordinarily kept on of some species, while the sapwood of sample from several flat grain boards. hand. Supports should be placed not some conifers may contain twice as Make them the full width of the board more than 3 feet apart to prevent warp- much water as wood. Given enough and then trim them to exactly 6 inches ing of stock. In storing the wood, put time, wood loses or takes on moisture in width. Place the samples in an oven spacer blocks over each frame cross- until its content is in balance with that for a couple of hours or over a radiator piece and between layers of lumber to of the air around it. So the ideal is lum- for about forty-eight hours and then air the stock. There are many ways to ber of the same approximate dryness as measure each sample with a rule. Wood store lumber: An overhead rack pro- the air in which it is used. Wood used that is to be used for interior finish vides one efficient way without stealing indoors usually should be drier than work should not shrink more than % valuable floor space in your shop. wood for exterior application. You can of inch on the 6-inch width. Wood You may save close to half the cost check the seasoning of your lumber as that is to be used for framing, however, of a job by buying green lumber and previously described. i/ may shrink as much as 2 inch. High- seasoning it yourself. To air-dry lum- The best spot is an open shed or a

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But I venture to put myself on record that a chart of the speakers on American campuses, for the last two decades — with the exception of the Catholic and a few small denomina- tional instutions — would disclose a heavy preponderance of socialistic, one-world, pro-Soviet and communist speakers.

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The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 • g] BE WELL GROOMED of Education of New York University At least adherence to some form of so- is a favorite speaker among certain cialistic scheme is held to be a mark of USE metropolitan audiences. Professor Lin- culture. The staffs of the publishing deman for years was a champion of the houses, the press and the magazines are communist fronts. If, to redeem his rec- known to be heavily infiltrated. Evi- ord, he has turned into a determined dence of that can be found in sworn

fighter against the collectivist evil, I and amply convincing testimony before would be delighted to be so advised. Congressional Committees. Even where Professor Schuman, of Williams Col- you think you deal with anti-reds, the lege, who as far back as twenty years collcctivists have made inroads. Why ago signed a manifesto in behalf of the should we expect the lecture agencies communist party, and who has long to deviate from the pattern? been known to Americans as one of The program chairmen, in the ma- ry Su r-Lay Hair Dressing. A few drops the most persistent apologists for the jority of cases, are responsible for the place all keeps hair in Soviet cause. red infiltration of our platforms. Those day giving it a natural look of good grooming. Considering that most of our lecture who are dissatisfied with present condi- Particularly valuable for dry hair and scalp. agencies arc located in the city of New tions, those who want to bring about a

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g2 • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1953 fronts, we should not be surprised that even through our churches pro-communist and socialist speakers have throughout the years been let loose on our communities. I have as a lecturer many a time encountered the hostility of "peace-loving" clergymen who had the power to select the speakers of their evening meetings and whose favorite parishioners controlled the selection of community forum speakers. When, in 1946, it became somewhat unpopular to invite straight communist speakers, many program chairmen adopted the device of letting their audiences "hear both sides" of the problem. Thus, even Roxanna Wells, who regarded me as an anti-communist "warmonger," booked me for a debate WALLY

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From February, I'J.U A. L.M.J on "Is Russia a Force for World Peace?" in the Old Bergen Church, in Jersey City. My opponent was the well- meaning humanitarian, Selwyn James of PM, New York's uptown Daily Worker, and the New School for So- cial Research. Though the audience \\as manifestly pleased with my appearance, the program chairman did not book me for any repeat engagement.

In 1946-1947 I was booked for a series of debates on "Can We Get Along With Russia?" for selected audiences in New York, Connecticut, Massachu- setts, and Canada. My opponents were the Rev. Bcharian. from Quincy, Mass., a cunning and determined defender of the Soviet Union who loved to quote Vishinsky as an authority, and James Waterman Wise, a veteran sponsor of communist fronts. Every one of these audiences greeted my opponents as friends. I, the foe of communism, was also welcomed. But none of the program chairmen booked me for a second performance. I believe I have a right to say that my opponents came out of the debates with many a figura- tive scar. When a patriotic grass-roots movement made the platform appearance of communists and communist fronters undesirable, some organizations began to look for means of checking the record of available speakers. American Legion

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When women find They have a yen For simpler things, They marry men. — Lois F. Pasley

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"Stand up!" shouted the colored preacher, "if you want to go to heaven." Everybody got up but one old gentle- man. "Don't you want to go to Heaven, my brother?" shouted the preacher loudly. "Sho," said the elderly man, "but Ah ain't goin' with no excursion." — Sheila Casey

A SURE THING

The real home stretch is making both ends meet. "My, how we bounce out of bed on these crisp mornings!" — U. F. Newlin

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