The American Legion Magazine [Volume 46, No. 3 (March 1949)]

IN THIS ISSUE

YOUR CHANCES IN LATIN AMERICA By William LaVarre

HOW TO BEAUTIFY A CHEESE-BOX HOUSE

By Richard B. Pollman

When -fhelefepnone Kings

Pop hopes it's a call from Brown & Smith, Greater Value. Your telephone is more valu-

saying that business deal is OK. able today because there are nearly 40% more telephones — about 9,000,000 more— than three Mom's expecting a call from her mother. years ago.

Sis will go into a tailspin if it isn't Harry, who You Can Reach more people and more can hasn't yet asked her for a Saturday night date. reach you. The cost is small per call and exceed- ingly small in relation to the value of each call. Buddy hopes it's Joe, asking if he can come over. Rates Are Still Low. Telephone rate increases are much less than the increases in most other Family Story. The story of Pop and Mom things you buy. They are far less than past and Sis and Buddy is typical of many a family increases in telephone wages, and other higher throughout the country- It shows the two-way costs of providing service. value of your telephone service. The calls you get are as important as the ones you make — In fact, telephone rate increases average only sometimes more so. a penny or so per call.

BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM . —

SAYS TENNIS CHAMP Vol. 46 JACK KRAMER No. 3 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Got hair as hard POSTMASTER: March 1949 Please send no- to handle as a tices on Form 3578 and copies re- CONTENTS turned under la- fast service? bels Form 3579 to Post Office Box Partners Wanted: Apply Latin America 1 055, Indianapolis BY WILLIAM LAVARRE 11 6, Indiana. There have been great changes since the war

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zine is the official publica- Private Wumperdopp of the New Army . . by larry siegel 14 tion of The American Legion and is owned exclusively by The Old Army you belonged to was never like this The American Legion. Copy- right 1949. Published month- ly at 1)00 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Acceptance How to Beautify a Cheese-Box House for mailing at special rate BY RICHARD B. of postage provided for in POLLMAN 16 Section 1103, Act of Oct. A few hundred dollars can accomplish a miracle 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, 1925. Price, single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.25. Entered as second The Man Captured class matter June 30, 1948, Who Cleveland by paul Gardner 18 at the Post Office at Louis- About the fabulous Bill Veeck and his Indians ville, Ky., under the Act of March 3, 1879. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES The Men Who Spy for America. . . .by donald robinson 22 Indianapolis 6, Indiana Not many fellows can qualify for this kind of job EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING

Keep your hair One Park Avenue I Wanted to Be a Captain of Industry. by rufus h. jones 24 New York 16, N. Y. In case you're dreaming of your own business, in top-flight form WESTERN OFFICE read this 333 North Michigan Avenue

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. . t. with the James F. O'Neil, Man Perry Brown: Man with a Mission. .by tanner hunt 26 Waifs cheste-r. New Hampshire Chairman of the Legion We present our National Commander Publications Commission 60-Second Workout.'"; Members of the Commission Vilos H. Wholey, Racine Wis.; Tom W. McCaw, Den Shades of Indiana by boyd b. stutler 39 nison, Ohio; Theodore Cogs all well, Washington, D. C. The Legion wrapped up a present for Hoosiers Paul B. Dague, Downing town, Pa.,- Josephus Daniels Jr., Raleigh, N. C; George D. Levy, Sumter, S. C; Dr The National Legionnaire 29-36 Charles R. Logan, Keokuk Iowa; Eorl L. Meyer, Alii a nee. Neb.; Charles E Booth, Huntington, W. Va. FEATURES A. C. Jackson, Lubbock Texas; Max Slepin, Phila Previews 4 Report From Hollywood. 44 delphia, Pa.; Roland Cocre ham, Baton Rouge, La. Editor's Corner 6 Life in the Open 54 George D. Baron, Bethany Conn., Lang Armstrong Sound Off! 8 Vets with Ideas 60 Spokane, Wash.; Earl Hitch cock. Glens Falls, N. Y. Newsletter 37 Parting Shots 64 Edgar G. Vaughn, St. Paul Minn.; Harold A. Shindler

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Director of Publications Post Office Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed James F. Barton your address. Be sure to give your 1949 membership card number Indianapolis, Ind. and both your new and your old address. Ass't to Director Do as Frank Lisiecki Jack Kramer does. Take . . seconds Editor 50 to massage. Vitalis' special Alexander Gardiner formula not only It can get plenty cold in the deep prevents dryness but stim- Managing Editor South — in December or January. But ulates your scalp as no non-alcoholic dress- Boyd B. Stutter by now the mimosas are sniffing the ing can! Massaging with Vitalis routs loose Executive Editor sun in the Carolinas and the sap is dandruff, Joseph C. Keeley helps check excessive falling hair. starting to run in Georgia. Therefore, Associate Editor 10 the lad on Wally Richards' cover must seconds to comb. Now Robert B. Pitkin your come from the northern tier of states hair looks naturally Art Editor where the worst aspect of winter is well-groomed. No greasy Al Marshall now in full sway. It's not the cold or "patent-leather" shine Make-up and Production the snow, it's the way it hangs on Vitalis contains no mineral Editor Irving Herschbein through February and March. oil just pure vegetable oil. V — Advertising Director VITALIS Get Vitalis today. At drug Fred L. Maguire

counters and barber shops. Eastern Advertising Manager Russell Holt PICTURE CREDITS: SHOSTAL rRESS AGENCY, GRAPHIC HOUSE 12-13: HANK Western Advertising WEBER, GENERAL MOTORS. 10-17; ACME. WIDE WORLD. ARTHUR A. SOMERS, he handsomer, Manager 18-19; NEW YORK TIMES, 22; ELMER TRUMBLE, 20-27; SID LATHAM, 30-4O-41. Fred E. Crawford, Jr. MtfSm healthier-Iooftng hair 2 • The American Legion Magazine • March. 1949 Have you tied

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Feel the ease of handling ... in city traffic or on the open road ... in parking 'fed'? anywhere. Feel the sprightly response of the new Ford engines. Feel the control you get from Finger-Tip Steering. Feel the increased safety you get from the Feel those "Sofa -Wide" Seats! Here's 35% easier-acting "Magic Action" Brakes! extra comfort for Ford's famous ' Mid There's a feel of solid roadability in the Ship" Ride! Not only are the seats '49 Ford! built for living-room comfort, they provide plenty of hip and shoulder room for six big people!

While side wall tires, optional at extra cost.

Feel that "Mid Ship" Ride! You ride Feel those "Hydra-Coil" Springs! in the low cradled center-section You seem to float across the bumps! of Ford's heavy-gauge steel Life- And the new Ford "Para-Flex'

guard" Body . . . you get a true road- Rear Springs — they're slow act- hugging "feel"that's ing for a soft, level, rear-seat sure and steady. ride over all kinds of roads!

Feel that "Eqoa-Poise" Power you get from your choice of a new IOO h. p. V-8 There's in your future or the new 95 h. p. Six! And remember there's up to IO% better gas economy, Drive a Ford thanks to new "Equa-Flo" Cooling, new and FEEL Deep Breath" Manifolding and the difference a new lubrication system! Ilk FAMOUS PLAYER EQUIPMENT reviews 0F products INVENTIONS IDEAS

A sampling of products which are in process of development or are coming on the market.

BOON FOR FISHERMEN. Broken fishing rods can he repaired quickly with an ingenious device now available called Jiffy Ferrules. These are short metal tubes into which the broken rod is inserted, being locked in place with screw-in ends. The ferrules are precision tooled of stainless aluminum, are rust-resisting and non-corroding. Extremely light in weight they will not interfere with the balance of the rod. Jiffy Ferrules come in sets of three, in different diameters, and sell for $1.55 a set postpaid. They are available from A. F. Driscoll Co., Box 2026, Denver, Colo.

MEN'S MILLINERY DEPT. This season, and maybe next, the outdoor man will wear something snappy in headgear in a new all-purpose sports cap which does several things. It has a rigid green visor made of Vinylite which keeps out the glare, and it also has a zipper pocket on the front of the crown which provides a handy container for small items. One model goes even further, having welded loops for golf tees or fish flies. Made by Westbrook Hats, Inc., 721 Broadway, New York City, the caps with the plain visor retail for $1.95 while those with the golf tee visor sell for $2.50.

COLORFUL CAR POLISH. Something different in automobile polish is Dupli-Color which comes in colors to match your car. Said to clean, wax and polish in one operation,

it is applied with a soft cloth. After drying it wipes off smoothly without leaving the white chalky deposits ordinarily left in co nets, cracks and seams. At the same time it does not discolor your hands. Made by Dupli-Color Products Co., 2440 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 16, the polish sells for 69t east of Denver, 79£ west.

Famous players in every major sport — including such baseball DICK TRACY STUFF. Individual walkie-talkie radios are now greats as Ted Williams and Bob being offered by the Citizens Radio Corporation of Cleve- Feller — use and recommend land. Receiver and transmitter are housed in an attractive, Wilson sports equipment — compact unit which can readily be held in one hand. For those interested in technical data, the model 100-B trans- today's modern equipment for to- ceiver is for Class B stations only; operating at 465 mc, day's fast modern play. They say tolerance 0.4; input 3 watts; emission A-3 with 30% maxi- "Play Wilson and you play the mum modulation. The transmitter uses a Sylvania 6K4 finest." See this modern equip- subminiature oscillator and receiver is super regenera- ment at your Wilson dealer. tive using three 1V5 subminiature tubes. For those not in- Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago terested in the technical aspects, the outfit will sell for (A subsidiary of Wilson & Co., Inc.) about $250 a pair complete and ready to operate. Branch offices in New York, San Francisco and other principal cities

KEEPING YOUR BATTERY AT ITS PEAK. A new electric device called a battery vitalizer, to keep automobile batteries at top efficiency, has been developed by the General Electric Co. A small, lightweight unit, it is connected to ordinary 110-volt household current and then plugged into the cigar lighter receptacle on the car's dashboard. The slight current is fed to the battery through the ignition system. Now available at automobile supply stores, the vitalizer will cost about $7.95.

SEE YOUR MAIL. Mailmen will be startled to see the latest wrinkle in mail boxes — a The Wilson "Ball Hawk" — the sensational (dove it an- with the patented "three-for-five" finger construc- new creation made of glass. Called the Perfection Mail Box, is made of thick league play. tion. Proved in three years of bis nealed, hard-to-break glass. It is held in place by a metal hinge at the top, which permits it to swing out so that magazines and newspaper can be placed between it and the wall. Since the contents are 100 percent visible the manufacturer says the box saves trips to see what the postman left. It is offered by Perfection Store Device Co., E. St., Chicago 19, at $2.00. TODAY IN SPORTS EQUIPMENT 637 71st 4 • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 .

Frick and frock, corned/ stars SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO GO HOME. A simple device of of Shipstads and Johnson, direct personal interest to every hunter is being placed Ice Follies for 1949 on the market by the Poly-Choke Co., of Hartford, Conn., perform with . . manufacturers of the variable shotgun choke known to all nimrods. The new item, called the Poly-Choke Gunner's Guide, was designed to ease the hunter's task of finding his way in and out of the woods. It is a greatly simplified compass which takes no skill to read instantly. But instead of showing north and south, it shows you the direction home. The Gunner's Guide is made a permanent part of your gun, set into the top of the stock. The metal in the gun does not affect its operation as a guide, and it is shock and moisture-proof. Selling for $3, the handy little gadget can be found at sporting goods stores or will be shipped postpaid from the plant at Hartford.

TO FIT YOUR WRIST. An ingenious flexible steel watch band which can be shortened in a jiffy has been announced by the L. H. Knibb Co., 122 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 3. Called the Ever-Last-O Royal Knibb, the watch band is light in weight, comfortable and attractive. To make the desired length adjustment it is only necessary to slip off the end-clip and file through a single strand. The clip is then slid back on the new end. The price in stainless steel is $1.00 and in gold plate on stainless steel, $1.50.

BRIGHTEN UP THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE. Friends, post- men and delivery boys (not to mention bill collectors) will find you more easily if you use a new kind of illuminated house number called the Illum-Addrex. This is made of translucent Plexiglas with black numbers fused onto the plastic. Attached to a doorbell transformer it remains lighted day and night, but the manufacturer says the operating cost is only about 351* a year. Selling for $4.95 the Illum-Addrex can be ordered from the manufacturer,

F. E. Young, 401 Endicott Bldg., St. Paul 1, Minn.

TO HELP WITH THE DISHES. Dishwashing is made easier with a simple gadget which puts a stream of sudsy water where it will do the most good, directing it through a brush to attack the dirt. Called the Quik-Suds Dishwasher, it consists of a unit which produces suds and which attaches to the faucet with a hose. The suds are made by detergent tablets, three of which will last for about three days. The unit comes with two brushes, one of nylon for dishes and glasses, and the other of bronze wire for pots and pans. A plastic handle on the unit makes it possible for the housewife to use scalding hot water. Available from H. G. Kolb & Co.. 6674 Yucca St., Hollywood ...Pennzoil Motor Oil 28, Cal., the dishwasher sells for $6.49 postpaid. performs with

HOW TO KEEP OUT OF AN AMBULANCE. Safety experts know that one of the riskiest Double Action, too! things you can do is change a tire after dark. Now there's a way of making this job a good deal safer—an ingenious blinker signal which you can set on the road alongside rr nam fast- your car. Called the Save-Ur-Life Tire-changing Light, it is a compact flat-based light with a 17-foot reel built into the base. This plugs into the car's cigar lighter, and instanl protection not only provides a red blinker light for warning, but a steady white light to work by. during warm-up! Since either white or red light can be used separately, the device can be used as a reading light within the car, or employed in other ways. Made by Alden Products Co., Brockton, Mass., the Save-Ur-Life Light sells for $5.95. ifSTAYS T0U6H- lasting safety for

all kinds of driving INTERESTED IN THE WEATHER? Dr. Irving P. Krick, for 15 years head of the Meteorology Department at California Institute of Technology, and on General Eisenhower's aero- logical survey staff during the war, has invented a handy weather forecaster which is said to be remarkably accurate. Called the Weather Guide, Dr. Krick's device resembles a slide rule with pictures of cloud formations on the face. To use it you observe the sky and then select the cloud picture and description best matching your observation. You then find the direction from which the wind is blowing, using a built-in compass. Next you turn an arrow to the wind direction opposite the selected cloud picture — and read the forecast. Separate forecasts are incorporated in each Weather Guide for summer and winter. The device can be obtained from Dr. Irving P. Krick, 1276 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena 1, Cal., for $12.50 postpaid. J. C. K. At better dealers, coast to coast

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PRIVATE WUMPERDOPP

We can't remember when last we published a play on these pages, but you'll find one on page 14 entitled Private America's Favorite! Wumperdopp of the Neiv Army. The author, Larry Siegel, was just sitting home reading the paper when he saw one At "sugaring time" or any time when tem- of those items about how nice the Army peratures are low, dependable spark plugs is treating the new draftees. Siegel couldn't resist the temptation to scribble are essential to the efficient performance Private Wumperdopp for his own amuse- ment. Having written it, he sent the man- of cars, buses, trucks, tractors, and stationary uscript along for us to look at, just for engines which are such a vital part of rural the hell of it. When we read it we knew we had to let you share it, and we doubt or urban life. Dependable spark plugs that there's an ex-GI of either World make dependable engines, so dependable War who won't find a couple of chuckles in Siegel's flight of fancy. CHAMPIONS are naturally America's favorite. In fact, Champions are the favorite DO YOU HAVE A LITTLE HOUSE? spark plugs of most users throughout the Has anybody ever counted the number of veterans who live in little homes of world, proof positive that they represent their own, with the accent on little? We mean those tiny $6,000 to $10,000 houses the ultimate in quality, value, performance built like boxes, usually without cellars. and dependability. They are so small they deny mama and papa the luxury of not speaking to each other, yet they aren't large enough to permit the normal growth of a family — a damnable architectural paradox! Well, if you live in one we can't help you find more elbow room — nor will we flash you a big, toothy grin like the home and gardening magazines and make out you're living one big, swell adventure. But in this issue Architect Richard B. Pollman suggests some inexpensive ideas for making that little house seem more like home. See How to Beautify a Cheese- box House, page 16. Pollman specializes in designing small homes for the greatest utility. He has designed (but never built) a standard-sized small home with just one big room plus bathroom, kitchen and heating unit. To this one big room the owner may add movable interior walls (which are all closet) as he pleases, and reshuffle them from time to time according to the demands of life. Pollman freely admits he has never found how to squeeze two cubic feet into one, however. Millions of veterans and their wives and kids are still waiting for that miracle. FOLLOW THE EXPERTS MEET THE COMMANDER In this issue you may meet Perry DEMAND DEPENDABLE CHAMPIONS Brown, who was elected National Com- mander of The American Legion at the FOR YOUR CAR Miami Convention last October. As you will see in Tanner T. Hunt's article on CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY, TOLEDO 1, OHIO page 26, Commander Brown is the em- bodiment of The American Legion's long

listen to the CHAMPION ROU CALL . . . Harry Wismer's fast sportscast every Friday night, over the ABC network stand for Universal Military Training. The Commander is no kind of Big Brass g • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 at all. He was a civilian soldier, crouching wounded in a shellhole, when he first began to wish he'd had civilian military training. CAREERS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Early in the 1930's William La Varre knew a Latin branch manager of a U. S. Hereyes seldom stray firm in South America who urged that the company institute certain reforms at its South American plant to solve local human-relations problems. The manager's the request was refused by the New York Jmm man withPA' office and he lost his job. Soon afterward the local government in South America compelled the company to make those same reforms and more besides. For fail- ing to do what it might have done volun- tarily this firm, like many others, paid the price in the end but lost the goodwill it could have enjoyed. In this issue La Varre's article Partners Wanted, Apply Latin America, page 11, points out that successful business with South and Cen- tral America is no longer open to the lone-wolf exploiter, but opportunity still abounds for those who will cooperate with their neighbors. La Varre has spent most of his life since 1918 in South America, discovering economic wealth and obtaining concessions for American firms. He is neither a sen- timentalist nor an imperialist. He simply knows that bad business is not good business, and that U. S. ventures in Latin America and elsewhere will not prosper if they ignore local interests. To put his ideas in unmistakable terms La Varre recently reminded us that Eng- lish investments opened up America, but that the failure of English investors to respect American interests ended in the English being thrown out. • The ladies have a way of paying special 'TWIXT MAN AND BEAST attention to the man who smokes a pipe. And

Life in the Open, page 54, this month when you add Prince Albert to that pipe of reveals a little about the interesting things yours — man, you've connected with real smok- that turn up in the attempts of our fish ing joy and comfort. and game commissions to strike a balance between human beings and wild creatures. Nobody who knows anything about this business will envy the members or em- ployes of a state game commission. They are subjected to unending pressures from j^j*meansPipeAppeal all sides, few of which have much to do with the facts of game management. And they are continually learning surprising meansPrinceAlbert things only to find few will believe them. We regularly keep in touch with the doings of all the wildlife commissions of NEW HUMIDOR TOP this country and Canada. Their publica- # When you buy that familiar red pocket tin tions open an amazing world to the reader of P. A., you've got the National Joy Smoke who is not familiar with the problems of — America's largest-selling smoking tobacco. wildlife conservation. The published his- Choice, crimp cut tobacco specially treated to tories of white-tailed deer in Pennsyl- insure against tongue bite. It's a great day vania and Wisconsin belong with the im- when you light up P. A.! portant American literature of our time. Incidentally, the Pennsylvania State R. J. Roynolds Tobacco Co.. Winston-Sale Game Commission offers the public, at 50

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At, HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR CO., DepL Milwaukee 1, Wis. Writers must give name and address. Name has a better understanding of their work. withheld if requested. So many letters are Sylvia (Mrs. Dan) Hoffman received it is being not possible to promise Houston, Miss. unstvers. Keep your letter short. Address: Sound Off, The American Legion Maga- BOLSHEVIKI A MINORITY zine, One Park Ave., Neiv York 16, N. Y. In the otherwise excellent article by A LIFE SAVED Eugene Lyons (Four Men Who Made Communism, January issue) there is a We have a neighbor in my home town slight inaccuracy. whose brother was in a city hospital with Mr. Lyons refers to the "Bolshevik a service-connected disability. He is an (majority) faction" and the "Menshevik honorably discharged veteran. (minority)"; actually the Bolsheviki were He was getting worse instead of better. called "majority men" only because they I showed his sister the December, 1947 advocated the adoption of a majority of American Legion Magazine which tells the points of their socialist platform, by of the veterans' benefits and hospitaliza- force if necessary, while the Mensheviki, tion. They then took the man to a VA hos- or "minority men," favored the introduc- pital. They didn't expect him to live until tion of their program by parliamentary he got to the VA hospital. Three months and peaceful means, if only a minority later he was back home recovered, get- of their demands at any one time. ting around as well as ever. This section HARLEY-DAVIDSON 125 The Bolsheviki never comprised any- POWER RIDING FOR EVERYONE! of the Legion Magazine saved the life of thing approaching a majority of the Rus- a veteran. sian people, although Kenneth Himebaugh they did control a majority of the delegates to the Congress Batavia, N. Y. of Soviets of November, 1917. Even before THOSE NORMANDY PICTURES that body met, however, the government had been taken over at gunpoint; of Your article and pictures entitled Nor- course, there hasn't been an honest elec-

mandy Invasion Route, As It Was . . . As tion since. It Is sure was swell. I really enjoyed this Gerald Raftery article. Can't you get one up on the Americanization Chairman Paratroopers . . . ex-para Pacific Area? Give us one on Island Step- Post 260, Elizabeth, N. J. troopers . . . sportsmen ! ! Here are your boots. For ping Stones To Japan, Then and Now! hunt- duty, for dress, or for With best wishes for the New Year, I LIFE MEMBERSHIPS fishing, hiking and all ing, remain kinds of outdoor use. The Although The American Legion has a famous soft, comfortable John F. Zeidler and very rugged boots card for any member who pays for the Baltimore, Md. worn by paratroopers same during any year, why not advocate during the warare now available in two styles There will be a Pacific sequence of the following: A lifetime card for any military, the . . . one "Then and Now" pictures, probably in member who has paid his clues successive- other, civilian . . . both similar in con- the fall of this year. Editors ly for a quarter of a century. This would struction, design be something some World War I Legion- and high aual- ity standards. LEGION-MINDED naires could at present take advantage of. We World War 2 veterans could have My husband joined the local American something to look forward to, when that Legion Post when he was discharged time approaches. from the Army Air Forces in 1946. I was Jasper B. Smith, Jr. interested, but only mildly, until a friend Charlestown, Ind. of ours was elected Commander of this PKICE SUBJECT TO C Post. He was so very interested in the Life memberships do not require ac- WITHOUT NOTICE t Government Surplus Stuck Paratroop Jump Boots work, until together we organized an tion by the national organization or by The same boots worn by Paratroopers dur- Auxiliary Unit in October, 1947. I was a Department, provided the member in ing war. Comes in tan elk finish. elected President, and really went to question is in good standing. In effect Paratroop Hunting Boots work. It was almost a one-woman or- when a Post confers a life membership Same features as Paratroop Jump Boots, ganization for about six months, but by it guarantees that so long as that person only made in heavy-oiled waterproof elk finish. talking to every eligible woman I could lives his Post will pay his national, De- CORCORAN INC STOUGHTON, MASS. see, I finally got others interested, too. I partment and Post dues. The procedure Send pair of Paratroop Jump Boots went to the Department Convention last for getting a life membership card proc- Hunting Boots summer, and needless to say, was more essed is described on page 21 of the cur- Enclosed find check or money order.. determined than ever to let everyone rent catalogue of the Emblem Division. for $ U .87. I will pay postage C.O.D. know the wonderful accomplishments of This catalogue may be secured without Name both the Legion and Auxiliary. I am so charge by addressing the Division at Na- Address. enthusiastic about it that my husband tional Headquarters, 777 N. Meridian gets rather peeved at times, but now he Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Editors Regular shoe size and width_ AL} g • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 A LOT MORE TRAVEL 6t,K LOT LESS MONEY

A LOT MORE RELAXATION A LOT MORE PLACES SERVED Everybody knows that Greyhound travel A single ticket (Greyhound) will take

costs less . . . but there are still a few you to any of the 48 states, through people who haven't experienced the Canada, and Mexico. Greyhoundserves unequalled comfort and relaxation of the big cities and also thousands of individual reclining chairs especially little towns and farm communities. developed for Greyhound. A LOT MORE MILES Just compare the fares of any other A LOT MORE CONVENIENCE type of transportation! Greyhound Greyhound carries so many millions of gives you many more miles for each people throughout America, in com- of your travel dollars — and costs much paratively small groups, that it is able less than operating your own car. to offer far more frequent daily depar- tures — hourly on many schedules. A LOT MORE SCENIC INTEREST America's fine highways go right through the loveliest scenic areas. You enjoy the scenery while one of the world's best drivers pilots your coach.

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of fAe United States THERE WAS treasure in the cities as well as in the jungles, in the form of franchises

»ne of the world's most interesting By WILLIAM La VARRE groups of men formed a club in the wonderful get-rich-quick boom days of the 1920's El Club de Los Mil- lone s. It met in Buenos Aires, Monte- Not long ago Americans made their millions in the video, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Lima, Bogota, Mexico City or Havana, whenever two or more members happened countries to the south of us and then pulled out. Today to be in the same city for business or pleasure. It was a fraternity of U. S. business and professional men who had things are different. You can still make money, but now each made at least a million dollars in Latin America. We were very exclusive people. it is necessary to work on a partnership basis Those were the days! Right after the

11 AN AMERICAN behind Argentine's production is this toolmaker

THESE WOMEN laboratory workers brought their skills from the U.S.

First World War smart men who wanted to pioneer southwards could make their millions quickly. There was of treasure in the South Ameri- that means plenty /Jk DRILLING for oil calls for skilled workmen, and can jungles — gold, diamonds, silver, jobs for North Americans in the rich oil fields to the south emeralds, copper, mercury, aluminum, also is petroleum, platinum. There were TO SUPPLY its growing industry, South America needs steel and as this foreman great undeveloped treasures in the y making more of it, aided by such North Americans cities — franchises for gas and electric light, for trolley cars and new railroads, for telephone and telegraph lines, for new docks and sewerage systems. Finders keepers! Ours for the asking, and a few gold twenty-dollar pieces. "Si, Hermano!" we often said to each other in our newly learned Span- ish or Portuguese. "Another year, another million!" Several of the club's charter members thought that by the end of the 40's El Club de Los Millones would have at least a thousand members and that our various million-dollar profits from the jungles and cities south of the Rio Grande would total two, three, or even four billion dollars. Wherever we looked we saw quick profits, fabulous take-home fortunes. We discovered rich mines and obtained mining concessions. We ex- plored the jungle for oil, found it, and obtained 99-year concession monopo-

12 lies. We devised new transportation ists, that safe formulae, both chemical writing on the ancient walls of adobe, and communication systems, new utili- and human, require strong catalysts. suddenly confiscated four hundred ties for ancient cities, and obtained Had we mixed up the Latin Americans million dollars' worth of foreign- 99-year franchises. We ganged up to- in our formulae for fortune -making owned oil wells and refineries, that the gether, wherever necessary, forming all of us could have become richer and old members of El Club de Los Mil- special syndicates for promoting po- richer together. But most of us didn't lones gave any real thought to the litical as well as financial propuestas. natives. Humble since the days of the Financially and politically we, mem- Conquistador es, the Mexican peon now bers of El Club de Los Millones, were had a spokesman and leader. "The Gente Poderosos—Powerful People. long presence of foreign oil companies If you can qualify for one I remember one occasion of my own in Mexico," he said on the 18th day of of these jobs you may have a exaltation particularly. I had gone with March, 1938, "has not benefited Mexi- good future in Latin America. some primitive South American In- cans. Forever they take out—and bring Industrial Engineer dians up an unmapped jungle river in little but more machinery for their Electrical Engineer looking for gold. I found gold — and own greater profit." Chemical Engineer also diamonds. There were so many Factory Management The Mexicans, looking more closely beautiful gems lying there in Nature's Radio Technician at their country from this new per- cache, waiting for me in the clay banks Communications Engineer spective, saw, almost as a discovery, and potholes, that I often worked all Aeronautical Engineer that foreigners owned over two-thirds night by torchlight collecting them. Architect of the tangible wealth of their country. Night and day the jungle gave me big Draftsman So they did not stop with oil and oil Master Mechanic profits in little crystals—the most con- refineries. They expropriated all for- Marketing Specialist centrated fortune man can obtain. Yes, eign-owned mines, millions of dollars' Advertising (must have superior I could carry first million tax-free worth of gold, silver, zinc, lead, copper, my Spanish or Portuguese) dollars out of the jungle under one Automotive Service Station Managers mercury, tungsten and molybdenum; arm—in four old ginger ale bottles. Civil Engineer all foreign owned agricultural estates; New mines and petroleum wells, new Construction Contractor and all foreign-owned utilities— electric and cheap sources of other valuable Mining Engineer light and power, railroads, and trol- raw products, new utility franchises, Geologist leys, telephones and telegraph lines. Meteorologist all owned and operated exclusively by One gigantic sugar estate alone, owned Chemist U. S. Citizens, was the basic formula by a member of El Club de Los Mil- Industrial farmer for making our millions of dollars in lones, had been "written down" in his Mineralogist Latin America—and for taking our un- private fortune ledger at $10,000,000. taxed profits as fast as we made them On page 43 you will find a list It was producing for him, each year, of U.S. corporations which oper- out of Latin America. But something a million-dollar exported profit! ate extensively in Latin America went wreng with the formula and it But let's back -track for a moment began exploding—right in our Club de through some jungles of pre-Carde- Los Millones faces. ********* nas history. The old formula was that I have always thought the explosion Central and South America were was caused by our forgetting the fact want to work with the natives of Cen- storehouses of raw products, first for that the land south of the Rio Grande, tral or South America as catalysts—or Europe, then for England, then for the and all of its resources and treasures, partners. growing industries of the United belonged not to us, gringos, but to the It was not until a Tarascan Indian, States. Cortez and Pizairo were the Latin Americans. We also forgot, Lazaro Cardenas, became President of first pioneers of this philosophy. They though some of us were master chem- Mexico and, after four years of hand- conquered the (Continued on page 42)

FOR EVERY U.S. citizen who went to South America last year there were about 20 Europeans, a few of whom are shown arriving THE FELLOWS were having a bully old time at the mess

Private Wumperdopp of

post "as near home as possible." (2) His instructors will try "to establish a personal relationship Any general will tell you that army life today is with him." He will have explained "the rea- different. It may not be quite as changed as we portray (3) son for everything he does which is new to him. it here, but you will enjoy this fanciful account of a (4) No matter how or when he arrives, "someone will meet him" new recruit and his sojourn at Camp Cadence and he will be given "a chance to ask questions." (5) His uniforms are individually fitted. ILLUSTRATED BY WHITNEY DARROW , JR. (6) The Army will insist that "he write home." News Item mothers a recruit will be treated as a (7) He will be interviewed by his YORK, PA., Oct. 22 (Affiliated Press) person "of individual dignity and feel- company commander and first — The Army told the mothers of ings, entitled to courtesy and consid- sergeant, each of whom also will America tonight that every youth eration." write a personal letter to his drafted into the Army "will be treated The officer presented the following mother. as a human being, never a raw recruit." nine points: (8) The young man gets "an ad- A high ranking officer promised the (1) The recruit will be sent to a vance on his pay" immediately.

14 tall, even though all the lobsters had been eaten up

he New Army By LARRY SIEGEL

(9) Neither he nor his instructors dence all the way on the other side of Mother: (grasping his arm tightly will use profanity. town. and looking into his eyes) Twelve Julius: Mother, I told you they tried blocks! It might as well be twelve scene I to get me into Fenwick, but it's filled. miles! Oh, Julius! (The front steps of the Wumperdopp However, I heard that Cadence isn't Julius: There, there, mother. Before house. Julius Wumperdopp, 19, is bad; it's only twelve blocks from here. you look around, I'll be home. And standing with his right arm around his don't forget, I'll write you. We'll all suitcase and his left arm around his write you. mother. The day they have both been Mother: I know you will. And now, fearfully anticipating has arrived.) goodbye. I'll miss you, son. (she kisses Julius: (manfully) Goodbye, moth- him and scampers into the house, lib- er, I'm off for the army. erally expending tears along the way). Mother: (tearfully) Goodbye, Julius. Julius: (to the closed door) And I I'll miss you, son. you, mother. Julius: And I you, mother. (Curtain) Mother: Are you taking the bus to camp? scene II Julius: No, it's balmy today; I think (Twelve minutes later. The front gate I'll walk. of Camp Cadence. Julius, with bag in ' Mother: Oh, Julius, I wish they were hand and awe in his eyes, approaches sending you to Fort Fenwick on Maple "WHY, HELLO, Julius," said the M.P. the nattily -dressed military policeman Street, instead of to that Camp Ca- "We have all been expecting you" on duty) (Continued on page 57)

15 BEFORE THERE IS little more than four walls and a roof

rrf.i if /

How to Beautify

By RICHARD B. POLLMAN

Richard B. Pollman has been designing and building homes since his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1936. He is the author of three books on house planning, is president of Home Planners, Inc., a director of the HomOgraf Planner Corp., and recently entered the prefabricated house field with the Thyer Manufacturing Corp., of Toledo.

There's much you can do with the frame and the door itself, and without spending a lot of money. With this Here are tricks of the trade, to some make done, you can tackle the entrance porch, and for about $50 plus some time you can work a miracle. your building dollars do at least double duty in By the time you get your next pay- check you may want to buy some shutters for the side and rear windows, or dressing up that uninteresting little house you may prefer to add the fence and lamp-post. By this time, though, you'll begin to realize that you are making an excellent investment. The biggest addition of all, of course, is the breezeway and garage, shown Mccording to the experts, approxi- wanted a cute, vine-covered cottage. in the lower right-hand illustration. t\ mately 900,000 new houses will be But don't be discouraged. It is easily That, you can figure, will cost you a few started during 1949. However, one possible to convert that drab little box hundred dollars. But, don't forget, a major difference is expected between of a house into something quite differ- garage is mighty important. the new crop of dwellings and those ent. Furthermore, you can do this for All in all, for this job you will spend built in the past few years. Builders, relatively little money, all the while in the neighborhood of $1,000. Exactly it is believed, will concentrate on having the fun of seeing your dream- how much will depend on how much houses selling for less than $10,000. house materialize week by week. of the work you can do yourself, the The result is that you will see a lot How? By utilizing some of the tricks quality of the materials you buy, and more smaller houses going up and of the architectural profession and where you buy them. these will have less frills. Indeed, in building trade. It is recognized, of course, that not many cases they will be pretty stark — Look at the next page and you'll see everyone lives in a house just like the unadorned "cheese-boxes." If you are what I mean. Beginning with the box- one shown above. But there are few buying, you may be disappointed in like house shown above, you start add- houses which cannot be improved by their looks. However, the builder will ing. By means of shutters you break additions such as those we indicate. point out that within the limits he has up that bleak front of your house. If you doubt it, start looking into it. given you everything he possibly could Costly? Not at all. A trip to your local Reading books on home planning, etc., for the six, seven or eight thousand lumber yard will convince you that you studies of small homes, talks with dollars you are paying. That, however, get a whole lot of improvement, in this lumber dealers or a session with a is small comfort for the purchaser, not detail alone, for what you have to spend. builder or architect should be con- to mention his bride, who always Then you start in on the front door. vincing. THE END

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I i Cheese -Box House

THE SIMPLE STEPS WHICH MADE THE TRANSFORMATION

SHUTTERS can make an amazing differ- A CHEAP entrance frame can be enhanced IF YOU'RE handy with tools this entrance ence in a house. These panel shutters, simply and economically by adding a few porch should be a cinch. The simple decora- breaking up the bleak house front, can pieces of 1x6 and 1x8 boards. The cost tive trellises at each side are made of 2x6. be bought for as little as $12 a pair. Ma- should not run over $10. A slab door with The gable triangle is plywood and the fram- terial for the panel beneath the window, the light cut through also adds a pleasant ing made of 2x4s. The scalloped design is plywood with two simple moldings touch. Such doors can be had for as little cut on a pattern from a 1x8. Cost of this tacked to it, will cost approximately $5. as $30, to replace your present plain door. attractive feature should not exceed $45.

YOU CAN extend the lines of your house with this simple fence and lamp-post. The fence is made of 1x6 boards and a 4x4 post, costing about $15. Price of the lamp-postsi depends on the detail. The one shown is about $15, and the lamp on top sells for about $15.

THIS BREEZEWAY and garage represent a major improvement. The porch roof framing is of 2x4 rafters, 1x6 roof boards, shingles to match the house, and trellises of 2x4 or 2x6 stock. Cost of such a porch 12x10 including foundations is about $150. Total cost of the garage itself should not exceed $500. •••>-' <*!ie cupola on top sells for from $30 to $50. Baseball has never seen

an executive quite like

The Man Who Captured Cleveland

By PAUL GARDNER

The pictures on these pages hit the high spots of the ride of the Cleve- land Indians baseball team to the pin- nacle of success—financially and afield. Behind the story of the 1948 World Champion Indians, who had not won an American League pennant since 1920, is the restless saga of the club president, flamboyant, one-legged, necktieless William Veeck, Jr., among executives an odd fish indeed. In midsummer of 1946 he limped into Cleveland to head up a syndicate which bought out the sixth-place Indians. Two and a half tempestuous years later Veeck had engineered a miracle of baseball money-making, attracting the greatest crowd ever to see one game, 86,288, and the largest season home attendance for any club, 2,640,000, both in 1948. Meanwhile the team under manager Lou Boudreau swept to the World Championship. The only mystery in the rise of the Indians is Veeck himself. The question is, how has he been able to cut loose BOB HOPE, symbol of fame, became a part TO KEEP THE fans regaled Veeck produced from the curse of dignity and self- owner, brought early headlines to the bands, fireworks, stunt men (above) and importance which so often forms a bar- at the ball park new regime of the Cleveland baseball club other entertainment rier between baseball executives and the fans? Baseball has long been un- MORE LADIES to baseball Veeck gave away orchids. Below, left, TO INTRODUCE derstood to be the American version girls scramble for 20,000 orchids in one handout. When N. Y. Yankees gave of holiday, until 500 pair of nylons Veeck gave 503. He also installed nursery for kids (right) the Roman yet Veeck came along to prove their folly, most club presidents have remained aloof from the throng—acting more like distant financiers or captains of industry than showmen. But there is gold in the common

touch, and Veeck has it. If the fans like to curse the umpire, scream themselves hoarse, dance in the streets and flaunt their city before the nation as the biggest, the best, and the rootin'est, toot- in'est, they will do it in even greater numbers if the Emperor will come down off his throne and cavort too. The mystery of Bill Veeck is not why he has clowned and mugged and rubbed elbows with the fans and never missed a chance to prove to the people of Cleveland that their team does things bigger and better than anyone else. The question is: how has he been able to do it from his exalted position — why has he not set up the barriers between himself and the fans which other club presidents erect? The answer is revealed in Veeck's life, and is simplicity itself. His success as a baseball executive springs not only from his brilliant mind but from his character. He is a baseball executive by accident, by nature he is a roistering gang leader. His father, William Veeck, Sr., was president of the Chicago Cubs of the National League, and young Bill, who was himself treasurer of the Cubs, knows his way around a big-league front office blindfolded. But in spirit he is a peren- nial sophomore, the first boy to lay hands on the outhouse on Hallowe'en. The showmanship in him is part of Veeck, and would be there whether it "WIN, LOSE OR DRAW we want 'em to have a good time in our ball yard," said Veeek. to circulating among fans to find out just what they would were good business or not. As long as He took like (above) and went whole hog on any deal that would draw crowds to games he remains in baseball he will continue to be the despair of other club presidents. Unlike them Veeck will scarcely have to think of a way to draw crowds. He can do it by feel, for Veeck is the emotional twin of the most exuberant baseball fan - delirious in victory, in- consolable in defeat, blindly loyal.

I watched him on the evening following the fourth game of the World Series last fall, a game in which Cleve- land went ahead of Boston, three games to one. The president was not in the counting house counting out his money. He was dancing wildly on his artificial leg in the Assembly Room of the Hotel Hollenden in Cleveland. His right leg, injured by the recoil of an artillery piece when Veeck served with the Marines on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, had been whittled away many times to stabilize the im- properly healed wound. His doctor had warned him to lie on his back for a year in a warm climate. But on this night he danced madly, risking his health to express the joy he felt in common with the people of Cleveland. TWENTY YEARS AGO THOUSANDS thronged to see Babe Ruth, highest paid light hair, open collar and mas- His player in baseball. Veeck never turned a hair when he paid pitcher Bob sively virile face stood out among the Feller more than Ruth's $80,000 (above). Veeck's operation began to draw crowd, and he outlasted every able- crowds over 70.000 (below) even before the club was a steady winner bodied fellow on the floor as he stamped about with partner after partner. Veeck was always as exuberant, foolhardy and fun-loving. His mother says that when he was a boy in Hins- dale, Illinois, where he was born on

February 9, 1914, there was scarcely a time when he had not at least one broken bone. His sister, Margaret Anne, and his childhood companions recall that he had a perverse sense of fun which was always getting him in trouble, and that he was utterly careless of himself or the consequences of his frequent impulsive acts of deviltry. He was the smallest and fightingest recommended them to him that day. member of his gang, forever battling One college chum recalls that Veeck someone bigger than himself. impressed him as "a serious guy who As catcher in games of sandlot base- didn't want you to know he was a seri- ball the boy loved lightly to touch the ous guy." A fraternity brother would swinging bat of the hitter as the ball not have been surprised "if Veeck whistled over the plate. As a first base- turned out to be a circus clown or a man he evolved the illegal tactic of banker." This was an able prophecy, chasing baserunners who got past him since he has managed to be a little bit and tackling them before they could of both as a baseball executive. reach second. In school he poured per- Jack Stickney told me that the col- fume on his larger playmates "so lege legend that Veeck leaped out of they'd smell sweet." Bored in a game a fast moving car one night while rid- of marbles he'd jump on the migs so ing in a rumble seat with a blind date the owners would have to dig them is absolutely true. I then checked this out of the dirt. Somehow he survived, yarn with Veeck, and he nodded. but he never changed much. "Why did you do it?" I asked him. Veeck went to Kenyon College, in He shrugged. "I didn't like the doll." Gambier, Ohio, for two years, where I have been trying for a long time to he established such a reputation as a imagine such talk coming from the combined scholar and hell-raiser that mouth of Branch Rickey, Tom Yaw- he is still talked about at Kenyon. key, Phil Wrigley, Larry MacPhail, the Jack Stickney, now with Eastern late Colonel Jacob Ruppert or even Airlines, was a classmate of Veeck's the late William Veeck, Sr., Bill's at Kenyon. Stickney says: "I always father. I can't do it. I didn't like the doll think of him with a big grin on his is right out of the bleacher seats. face. This ugly white man with the big Veeck has always been at war with smile immediately took over our fresh- conservatism, though he was brought man class at Kenyon as ringleader." up in it. A psychiatrist might say that Awed freshmen today tell a story of a he wants to prove to his father, a be- supposed time when Veeck jumped loved baseball figure who died in 1933, out of a fourth floor window of that you can still succeed even though Leonard Hall then got up and ran back you are unconventional. Veeck's en- in. I asked Veeck about this yarn and tire style of dress suggests rebellion. he said: His father, William Veeck, Sr., had "The story's all wrong. I didn't jump. been a reporter on the Louisville I was hanging out of the window by one Courier-Journal, then had shifted to hand and waved at somebody. I waved a sportswriter's job on the Chicago the wrong hand and broke a leg in American. The original family name eight or nine places. Why, the boys had been Vander Veeck, of Dutch ori- had to sneak me out of the hospital gin, but had later been changed to for fraternity initiation next night." Veeck (rimes with deck.) The elder This is the same freshman who was Veeck used the pen name "Bill Bailey" met by professor Ray Ashford meanwhile on the Chicago American. He dering down Kenyon's Middle Path had a thoughtful, penetrating mind (so carrying a huge stack of books. They has his son) and his constructive criti- were essays on law by Justice Cardozo cisms of the Chicago Cubs baseball CLUB PRESIDENT VEECK, who lost a leg in the and were not required reading for team so impressed owner William Solomons, joined in his show. Above, after freshmen. fact in- Wrigley that finally a rainy spell Big Chief Veeck thanks the In Dr. Ashford got he asked Veeck, "Sun God" for the return of baseball weather side them for the first time after Veeck Sr., to head the Cubs' organization. It

UNDER VEECK AND MANAGER LOU BOUDREAU the Indians rose in the IN 1948 VEECK SIGNED UP old Satchel Paige, legendary Negro pitch baseball world. When Brooklyn broke color line Veeck followed in a er, who turned out to be a great box-office draw and won more thai hurry, signing slugger Larry Doby (below) to implement fast-moving team his share of games in a tight pennant race. Below, Satch and Veec) was a wise move. In 1929 and 1932 the Cubs won National League pennants. The elder Veeck died in 1933 while young Bill was a sophomore in Kenyon College. Bill, Jr., never showed the slightest interest in professional baseball while his father lived, but when his father died he dropped out of college and joined the Cubs' organization. It almost seemed that his ideas about how to conduct a ball club might offend his father and the wild young- ster would keep them to himself so long as his father lived. The son had the greatest respect and love for conservative, dignified "Old Will." His mother and sister say their wildest entreaties failed to control him when he was a boy, but a soft "Bill" from his father would do the trick. Bill's mother is a De Forest of Kentucky, and she says his impetu- WHEN PITCHER DON BLACK collapsed from LARGE CROWD delighted in "night for a ousness comes entirely from her side brain hemorrhage (above) Veeck spec- fan" when typical fans Mr. & Mrs. Joe of the family. Bill was nothing like his tacularly and loyally gave him $40,000 Early were showered with odd gifts (above) father in temperament. Something of the confusion of his feeling toward his father comes to the surface in two recent remarks of Bill, Jr. Bobby Feller says in his book Strikeout Story that six weeks after Veeck took over the Indians in 1946 a crowd of 74,529 paid to see a Sunday double-header of their sixth-place club. Veeck viewed the crowd with great satisfaction and remarked: "This sure stops Old Will." After the recent World Series Veeck, surveying all his success, told me: "My father was everything I'm not." Veeck was nineteen when he left Kenyon to join the Cubs. He was treasurer of the club at the age of twenty-six in 1940 when he borrowed $130,000 and purchased the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association. There he busted loose with the kind of showmanship and baseball manipula- tion which he later displayed at Cleve- land. By 1942 Milwaukee was making money and winning pennants. In 1945, IN LESS THAN THREE years Cleveland's cup and the Indians' coffers were while in Marines, Veeck he was the full. Above, baseball's largest crowd - 86,288 - leave fifth game of 1948 sold the Brewers at a nice profit. With World Series. Below, 400,000 cheer as Manager and Mrs. Boudreau and his damaged leg he settled in Tucson, grinning, necktieless Veeck ride home in triumph after Indians won Series Arizona to let his wounds heal. But he was too restless, and showed up in Cleveland, unhealed. Veeck's theory about baseball showmanship is simple: "When you're on a shoestring—like I am—you may not always be able to compete with the victories of the well-heeled clubs. We want everybody to have a good time who comes to our ball yard. Anyway, that's our theory." He says his biggest thrill in Cleve- land was not winning the pennant, nor yet winning the World Series. "It was coming back to Cleveland, riding down Euclid Avenue with the club—when a third of the population of the city came

out to see us . . . all grinning, all

secrets. Only because Washington has finally lifted some of its security re- Spy for America strictions can it be recounted here. To prevent any "enemy" nation from penetrating the Central Intelligence Agency—that is, to keep another country from planting spies inside CIA itself — the organization has hitherto maintained a complete veil of secrecy around the selection of its agents. It people Not many have what has declined even to make public the qualification it seeks in them. it takes to be a secret agent in However, it can now be disclosed that CIA requires all its agents to have Uncle Sam's new world-wide "a standard, well-rounded education," including a knowledge of economics, political science, military history, so- intelligence network. Do you? cial science, mathematics, history and some engineering. In addition, CIA generally demands that they have pre- '% M viously lived in the area in which they 91 Admiral Hillenkoeter head of the CIA are going to work and that they speak its language fluently. From a high Government official who has dealt intimately with CIA, this writer has also learned the personal characteristics CIA looks for in By DONALD ROBINSON agents. "The agent," this official says, "must ILLUSTRATED BY AL MVENCHEN have unbounded energy. He must have imagination and yet unquestioningly obey orders and guidance from head- MTobody knows who they are. Noth- writer was present at the conversation. quarters. He must be able to under- LM ing is more carefully concealed "You're a damned fool to be risking stand and cope with matters on an in- than their activities. Yet at this very your neck," the friend said. "Why do ternational scale and yet be willing and moment they are risking their lives to you do it?" able to go into endless detail and month defend the United States. "Intelligence work gets in your after month of routine work. He must They are the secret agents of the blood," the agent replied. have nerve tempered with discretion. Central Intelligence Agency, the That is said to be a motivating factor He must be willing to 'stick his neck United States' new, world-wide intel- with most of the men and women who out' once he has arrived at a conclu- ligence network. Matching wits with spy for America. sion. He must, above all, possess fear- the undercover forces of Russia and The story of the heroic job these lessness. other nations hostile to democracy, Americans are doing, and how they are "Each man must be of unquestioned they are operating today in every selected and trained to do it, has until integrity and yet be willing to lead a country on earth, collecting the mili- now been one of the United States life of continual duplicity." tary, economic and political informa- Government's most closely-guarded Professional (Continued on page 52) tion which America must have if it is to prevent Pearl Harbor No. 2. They are making lifetime careers in secret intelligence. They have chosen this field even though it means dodging bullets and knives, even though it offers little in the way of glory or monetary reward. Not one of them gets more than $9,900 a year; many get a lot less. Why have they picked it? Love of their country is one reason. The other reason was best stated by one of the agents himself. Back in this country on a short trip, he was quizzed by a friend as to why he worked long hours, seven days a week, chancing torture and death, knowing full well that his Government would have to disown him if he got into difficulty, when he could be making much more money in another occupation. This OUR MAINE neighbor, a carpenter who could make a clock with wooden parts, came in on the idea

I wanted to be a CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY

we came up to Maine from Would you like to become a manufacturer? If so, read When New York, I had an idea, $1000 in cash, 12 shares of stock quoted at this before you buy tools, rent a factory and hire workers. 2%, and my grandmother's diamond. Now, two years later, I still have the diamond — but I've had it appraised. You decide may there are better ways to make a living As for the idea, enthusiasm is a

great thing but it should be restrained,

in an asylum if necessary. By RUFUS H. JONES My statistics show — and I don't need Gallup - that among office-bound city ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE KANELOVS dwellers three out, of five treasure in

24 their hearts "a small business of my THE BUYER was a flint-eyed woman with own" with which one day they are a cold expression of give-or-get-out going to get away from it all to a happy independence. I was one of the three. Others might dream of reproductions of old sea chests, or of pallets for industrial fork trucks. My dream was toys. One recent Christmas we had bought our little girl a doll carriage made of wood. On Christmas Day the handle came off. Then the hood came off. Then the wheels started to come off. Finally my wife had to carry a hammer with her to drive them back on when Debby took her dolls to the park. Surely, we said, somebody could make a wooden toy better than that, and for less money. At first we would make just one thing — a sample, a dollbed for

Debby. If nothing came of it, at least Debby would have the bed. Thus by plausible argument we found an ex- cuse to let ourselves down the well in a bucket and cut the rope. A Maine neighbor of ours, a car- success. With this, we couldn't fail. Fourth Pricing Method Report for penter who could make a clock with But the first bright chapter of our Consumer Durable Goods Under MPR wooden parts if he had a mind to, came success story, Inspiration, was to be 188, Section 1499.158, would have in on the idea. He couldn't resist the followed by others entitled Confusion stopped me cold. It's enough for a dog lush illustrations of woodworking ma- and Frustration. I am now writing the to jump through a hoop without ex- chinery which I showed him—any more epilogue: Life May Still Begin at 41. pecting him to do it with a lighted cigar than I, at ten, had resisted advertise- I grant that my experience as an in- in his mouth. ments for the Ranger bicycle. This, he dependent businessman had been I had understood, in theory, two — said, was the sort of thing he had limited chiefly to selling newspapers, points essential to business success wanted to do all his life, especially now garden vegetables, and subscriptions to have a product people wanted and that he was getting too old to climb to the Youth's Companion as a boy. I to be able to sell it at a price in line around roofs. Under our arrangement, grant also that I began business in a with competition. But the books I read he was to take care of production while period of shortages. Yet I had assets: told me nothing about the primary I handled financing and sales. Persistence, a college education and, problem of how to set up an enterprise. Soon we had a faithful reproduction, comparatively, it seemed to me then, I was soon comparing myself to Snow doll size, of an early American rope- a fair brain. White lost in a Disney forest.

. I went first to buy machinery. strung bed of the 1700's such as maybe I borrowed on my life insurance and "Here," I said to machine tool experts, George Washington slept in. We called plunged just as OPA price control was "is a measured drawing of what I want it the Heirloom Dollbed. "Consumer- taken on toys. I hold this against the to make. What do I need to make it?" tested" in our circle, it was a great Administration. OPA Form 663-1049, I came away burdened with as much contradictory advice and misinforma- tion as if I had asked the cure of the common cold. From then on every facet of my enterprise was a research problem, each step a campaign. You don't fall into business — you work yourself into it and have no one to blame but yourself. I studied up on such things as prime costs, sales channels, selling terms, shipping methods, design protection. I even read a trade journal booklet on why toy manufacturers sometimes go broke. It was addressed to some other fellow, I thought, not me. The particulars in my case may have been different but the problems were universal. The persistence I used in an attempt to get what I needed for my business would have shamed a campaign manager trying to wheedle an Alabama Democrat into voting Repub- lican. The money spent on travel, postage, stationery, phone calls, and half- soling in the hope of finding turnings for our dollbed posts, would have CARELESS mill hands planed ripples into our best stock endowed a (Continued on page 50)

25 PERRYBROWN Man With a Mission

The wound he got in the St. Mihiel Drive started it. The more he thought about

it the more he became convinced that the security of the U.S.A. lies in UMT

By TANNER T. HUNT

When the tall, distinguished man in the cherry-red cap descended from the big air transport at Jefferson County airport he wore a smile that, as the day's events proved, wouldn't wear off. Throughout a day of homecoming for The American Legion's new Na- tional Commander — when Beaumont extended its traditional hospitality as it never had done before — that smile of quiet satisfaction, of honest gratifi- cation, of deep appreciation, lighted the face of the honor guest. That is the picture which will live long in the memory of friends of San- ford Perry Brown who greeted the commander on that bright, warm December 11 in Beaumont, Texas. What really was behind that smile which no amount of hustle, bustle and fatigue would erase? The answer comes readily to those who have watched the elements back of that victory smile build up and crystallize over a long period of time. Here is a man who for a quarter of a century has worked patiently, definitely, doggedly, often brilliantly, for an ideal. That ideal is an enduring de- sire to help the young America, which now is inheriting an atomic age, to do something about the fundamental problems which confront it. And it seemed to this observer that Perry Brown, fresh home from his overwhelming election as Legion Na- tional Commander and his first conferences in Washington with the men of national Government who will guide the nation's affairs through the next critical year, had found solid assur- ance for a realization of that ideal. f Men who have the young people's SMILING BROADLY, Commander Brown leads the parade at Beaumont's great homecoming AN UNSCHEDULED event at the Beaumont welcome party: Mrs. Brown gives the Commander first bite

interests as their hobby devote them- He had seven months in a hospital Perry Brown's background is cer- selves to a variety of pursuits designed to figure out the answer to that one. tainly not that of a professional soldier. to build character, and to provide the Those companion phases of the prob- On the contrary, it is filled with that proper experience with which to fight lem—how proper instruction in indi- type of peace-loving citizen who has the battle of life. Perry Brown, a man vidual defense can make a nation so proven himself in all America's wars of calm and deliberate purpose, whose strong that an aggressor will stand to be the man who in the end wins counsel for more than a decade has back, and how injured veterans should them. been courted by the brightest minds in be given adequate means to resume He was born June 14, 1892, in the the nation's leadership, boiled this their peacetime battles — developed in little town of Amite, in the Louisiana problem down to the fundamentals — a 25-year quest for the best workable strawberry country just above New as he does every question in a fashion. solution. Orleans. His parents were Paul Mar- That ideal and that purpose began National and individual security in vin and Alice Perry Brown, who had to take shape, dimly, just thirty years man's recurrent challenge of the sur- dedicated themselves to a life of serv- ago in France as Perry Brown lay in vival of the fittest — that became and ice in the Methodist ministry. So young a fresh shell crater at the top of a hill is Perry Brown's personal patriotic Perry saw a lot of Louisiana as his in No Man's Land. He slowly began objective. preacher father moved frequently from to ask himself why he hadn't known What sort of man is this whose one church charge to another: Keat- enough to keep from charging straight singleness of purpose will drive him chie, in the northwest corner of the up into the teeth of the Germans, why on through a quarter-century of state near the Sabine River; Baton he hadn't gone around the side of that preaching a principle, of striving for a Rouge on the Mississippi, the capital; hill. The proper training, he argued, goal which not long ago would have Alexandria on the Red River; indus- would have taught him how to pro- been an apparent contradiction to trial Shreveport, little Bunkie and tect himself. American tradition? Trout. (Continued on next page)

27 As a youth Perry Brown worked in the cotton fields, the pine timber and ON THE WASHINGTON SCENE the sawmills. Centenary, whose football gentlemen once cut quite a swath across the collegiate gridiron, has played an important part in the life of Perry Brown. One of the oldest schools west of the Mississippi, founded in the 1820's, Cen- tenary has had Browns in it for five generations. They have been students, professors, presidents of Centenary, and at this writing, Perry's brother, Paul Brown, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees. A Brown was in Centenary when all the boys left to join the Confederate Army, and the institution was closed down for the duration of the war. The Browns show no professional soldiers in the family history, but plenty of civilian soldiers in the War Between the States and in the two World Wars. His father was director of war work in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, during World War I. The year Centenary was moved from the town of Jackson, Louisiana to Shreveport, Perry Brown entered GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL, then Secretary of State, and Perry the college. Seeing the 1949 com- Brown confer on UMT and other phases of the Legion's National Defense program mander of The American Legion move briskly about, you may get the idea that he handles himself with fine physical as well as mental co-ordina- tion. You won't be wrong there. Perry Brown in his youth was a natural baseball player and he never relinquished the sport until his last son grew up and the "family" baseball team scattered to their respective lifetime pursuits. Our man Brown played baseball with no less a diamond hero than Joe Tinker, of the immortal Tinker - to - Evers - to - Chance double - play combination. While Perry was a college student, Tinker brought his Chicago team of the old Federal League to train in Shreveport, and Brown and other Centenarians not only played with but against them. Perry, a fine third base- man, did not follow up what might have been a real baseball career, but chose rather to pursue his college education. He did play a number of years later with the civic league team of Beaumont Kiwanis club, of which he is a charter member. As a boy and young man, Brown's ambition was to build something, pref- erably a railroad. Someone had told him that you could make $5 a day in that sort of business. After receiving his B. A. degree, he helped build railroads, in east Texas and Illinois. In 1915 he took a job with the Interstate Commerce Commission in a survey of the nation's railways. After a year of that, he became resident engineer for Daviess County, Kentucky, and made his (Continued on page 44)

28 PERRY GREETS Cadet Cavett Brown, first classman at U. S. Military Academy, West Point. Inset, Captain Perry Brown, 89th Division, in France in 1918 In conformance with a resolution adopted by tht National Executive Committee at its November, 19i8, meeting. The National Legionnaire is con- solidated with The American Legion Magazine. The Nation^pLegidnnaire The National Legionnaire section will be a regular I feature of the Magazine each month, and will contain the same class of material relating to Legion programs and activities as used in that publication in past years.

Representative James E. Van Zandt (H. R. 2220). Representative Van Zandt Legion Drive For Pensions is Past National Commander-in-Chief of the VFW and, in addition to intro- ducing the Legion's UMT bill, also in- For W W Vets Gains Momentum troduced our pension bill. During hearings of the composition of cost of the pension program, with an the Armed Services, Representative House Committee Holds estimated cost for the first year of $1,- Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House 839,008,000. Figures submitted by the Armed Services Committee, announced Hearings on Bills — Priority Veterans Administration greatly exceed that Congress is not going to approve Legislative Program Legion estimates, which procedure was UMT and therefore the $800,000,000 Well Under Way in line with past experience where execu- requested by the President for UMT tive agencies are opposed to pending should be transferred to the budget of legislation. For instance, during consid- the Air Force for material. Vinson is a Taylor By John Thomas eration of terminal leave legislation, the strong advocate of the 70-Group Air National Legislative Director armed services submitted estimates of Force. six nine billion dollars as the During the meeting in Washington Following its organization, the first from to of the National Legislative Commission meeting of the House Veterans Affairs estimated cost. Two and three-quarter in January, Chairman Erie Cocke, Jr., Committee was called by Representative billion dollars was appropriated by of the Legion National Security Com- John E. Rankin, Mississippi, Chairman, Congress and this was not all used. mission, and Chairman Granville Ridley on January 27th for the express purpose The written report submitted by the of our UMT Committee, consulted with of commencing hearings on The Ameri- Administrator stated: "The Bureau of the Legislative Commission relative to can Legion's bill to provide pensions for the Budget has advised that in view of action so far taken and plans for the World Wars I and II veterans based on the factual data contained in this report future drive for the UMT legislation. non-service-connected disability and at- and in light of the President's policy as tained age, and to meet the members of expressed in his recent budget message, Rehabilitation our National Legislative Commission enactment of H. R. 1693 could not be / Bills have been introduced to carry and National Rehabilitation Commis- considered in accord with the program out priority items on our legislative pro- sion. Following introduction to the Com- of the President." As the Budget Bu- gram relative to rehabilitation. While mittee of all Legion representatives by reau represents the Administration, this the House Veterans Affairs Committee the National Legislative Director, the means that the legislation, at least for is at present engaged in consideration of Director gave a summation of the past the present, does not meet with its ap- our pension bill, it is expected that hear- history of pension laws enacted for vet- proval. ings on our rehabilitation bills will be erans of all prior wars. Dr. Leonard W. The Veterans Affairs Committee is started in the near future. Esper, a member of the National Execu- continuing hearings and Chairman tive Committee from Illinois, and Chair- Rankin predicts that the bill will be re- Housing man of the special committee appointed ported and favorably acted on by The Senate House Banking and Cur- by the National Commander to reconcile Congress. started hearings pension resolutions adopted by the rency Committees have housing. Bills to carry Miami National Convention, presented a Universal Military Training on all phases of out the principal points of the Legion's strong argument in support of the bill. Senator Millard E. Tydings, the new are before The Legion Department Adjutant for housing program coming Chairman of the Senate Armed Services these committees and the Legion's views Pennsylvania, Edward Linsky, then tes- Committee, for himself and for Senator regarding housing are being presented tified in support of the bill. George W. Malone, introduced for The in detail by Legion representatives. The Legion's "bills on pensions are: American Legion S. 66, to carry out the H.R. 1693, introduced by Chairman Legion plan for Universal Military Americanism Rankin; H.R. 1629, by Representa- Training. Companion bills were intro- The Senate House Banking and Cur- tive Harold A. Patten, Arizona; H.R. duced by Representative Charles E. Committee has not held any public meet- 2068, by Representative James E. Van Bennett of Florida (H. R. 1305) and ings, but the staff is in the process of Zandt, Pennsylvania, and S. by 596, being organized and some of their inves- Senator Earnest W. McFarland, Ari- tigations are already underway. The zona, for himself and Senator Ed- | DENVER POST HAS TWO committee voted to bar television, radio, ward C. Johnson, Colorado. and the taking of moving pictures dur- > MEMBERS OF CONGRESS f In addition, Chairman John H. Walsh > ing any future hearings. of the Legion's National Rehabilitation I Leyden - Chiles - Wickersham Post » A large number of bills have been in- Commission Legion's gave the committee a sum- I No. 1, Denver, Colorado, the [ troduced to liberalize the immigration second largest unit, takes pride in its mary of rehabilitation bills which have J and naturalization laws. There is a con- two members now sitting in the 81st been introduced for the Legion. J certed drive to amend legislation to per- » Congress. They are Senator Eugene > mit the admission into the United States Administration Opposes Bills ! D. Millikin and Representative John t large number of displaced persons, A. Carroll, both of Denver. Senator of a The House Committee resumed hear- J t Carroll is a vet; Representa- the Displaced Persons Commission hav- | WW1 ings on February 1st at which time } > tive Carroll served in both World ing recommended that Congress increase Veterans | Administrator Carl Gray sub- > Wars, and both date their Legion > the number of admitted from 205,000, as mitted the report of the Veterans Ad- I activities back more than a quarter ! provided under present law, to 400,000

of a century. Can any Post beat the ! ministration on our bill. General Gray J and to eliminate many of the restric- • record? and other representatives presented fac- [ tions now in force. tual data relative to the prospective ! (Continued on page S6) The American Legion Magazine * March, 1949 • 29 formation on the economic situation Award Offered CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT confronting veterans. An important fea- New ture will be an exchange of information LEGION EVENTS IN MARCH from the various regions, with the idea of best activating the Legion program For Member Effort 2- 4 National Rehabilitation Con- of assistance in their economic problems. ference. Washington, D. C. The U. S. Veterans Employment 4- 5 Area "A" Child Welfare Con- Service, under the direction of Perry National Commander Calls on ference, Boston, Mass. Faulkner, will join in the' conferences, 11- 12 Area "C" Child Welfare Con- Posts to Get Full Enrollment as well as representatives from other ference, Jackson, Miss. bureaus of government whose functions Legion Birthday 12- 15 3rd Annual Nebraska Ameri- by touch on the welfare of veterans. These can Legion College, Hastings will include agriculture and conserva- 15 30th Anniversary, The Amer- tion, housing, loan guarantees, readjust- "Every Post of the American Legion ican Legion. Watch local newspapers for announcement and veterans preference. ahead of its 1948 membership total by ment time and station na- The conferences will be held as fol- the Legion's birthday, March 15" is the tional radio broadcast. lows : goal set by National Com- membership New Orleans, March 21-23, for Ala- mander Perry Brown. 21-23 Regional Economic Confer- ence, New Orleans, La. To bama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, The National Commander said "with include Departments of Ala- South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, already under way the momentum bama, Florida, Georgia, Mis- Texas and New Mexico. through splendid early membership ef- sissippi, South Carolina, Washington, D. C, April 11-13, for fort in many of our Posts, we must keep Louisiana, Texas and New Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, going 'full steam ahead' on this impor- Mexico. District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir- tant job of building an all time high in ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina. 1949. Hundreds of Posts have already Salt Lake City, Utah, May 16-18, for signed up 1949 members far in excess of LEGION WILL HOLD SERIES their 1948 totals. And to these Posts, I Colorado, Idaho, Montana^Utah, Wy- extend my congratulations and sincere OF ECONOMIC CONFERENCES oming, Arizona, California, Nevada, appreciation. To the other Posts which Oregon and Washington. Announcement has been made of a have not as yet reached that goal, I Kansas City, Missouri, May 23-25, series of Regional Economic Confer- urgently request that steps be taken im- for Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North ences to be held under the direction of mediately to get an intensive member- Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Arkan- Elbert H. Burns, Director of the ship drive under way. The Legion's sas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Legion's National Economic Commis- thirtieth birthday anniversary provides sion. These conferences will start with Boston, Mass., June 6-8, for Connecti- an excellent date to climax this intensive a meeting at New Orleans on March 21- cut, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, drive." 23, and will be completed with the con- New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Commander Brown points out that ference at Chicago in late June. York. many readers of this publication who The conferences are designed to bring Chicago, Illinois, June 27-29, for Ken- were paid up Legionnaires for 1948 may to Department officers and Legionnaires tucky, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana not have as of this date renewed for in attendance the latest authentic in- and Wisconsin. 1949, and he urges the immediate re- enrollment of these comrades. He said "if the comrades who are now on the PHOENIX SAL RIFLE TEAM IS NEW STATE CHAMPION Legion's roster for 1949 will go out and sign up just one additional member, think of the tremendous job the organization could do for America and for the veteran." Special Citation Offered As an incentive for additional membership effort at this time, National Headquarters has arranged for a special award to Legion Posts doing an effective membership job in connection with the birthday of the Legion. To every Post which is over the top on membership (ahead of its 1948 total) prior to March 15, and which holds a birthday program during the period of March 7 to 15, and which transmits one or more membership cards to the Department Head- quarters between those dates, will be presented a special citation indicating participation in the thirtieth birthday anniversary program, which will carry the signatures of National Commander Perry Brown and National Adjutant Henry H. Dudley. The special citation will be furnished to Department Head- Posing in firing position with its newly won trophy, is the Sons of American quarters for presentation to Posts en- Legion Rifle Team sponsored by Luke-Greenway Post No. 1, Phoenix, Arizona. These titled to this special award. "Dead-Eye Dicks" are the new junior shootin' champs of Arizona, a title won when they copped the State Rifle Association's Junior Small-bore trophy—and with it the Administrator of Veteran Affairs Carl State championship. The trophy had been held by Tucson's SAL team from 1939 to R. Gray, Jr., has announced that there 1946, When it was won by North Phoenix ROTC. This outfit's luck held out in the will be no immediate increase in the GI 1947 matches, but on December 12, 1948, they bowed to Luke-Greenway's SAL. l loan interest rate from 4 to 4 /z percent, Prone in the foreground is Billy Cox, 18; kneeling, Charles Cox, 15; standing, as authorized by the 80th Congress. The center, Charles Rogers, 13; sitting, forward, Donald Hook, 16, and holding the trophy increased rate was not made mandatory. is Ronald Peck, Squadron Adjutant.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 1

NATIONAL BASKETBALL MEET ILLINOIS COMMANDER BROWN WILL SET FOR BEAVER FALLS, PA. :j LEGION MAKES RECORD FOR SPEAK FOR RED CROSS 3rd annual VET HELP ;j The American Legion Na- j tional Basketball Tournament will be ! Lester R. Benston, Illinois Depart- I I During the of February 27- week 1 ment Rehabilitation Director of the staged at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, j| | ! March 6 more than 600 radio sta- || Legion, in his ! ; says report that in 1948 ' on March 31, April 1 and 2. Col. Joseph | ', tions throughout the country will \ the Legion service J bureau which he * H. |j carry a program the Cross > Thompson Post No. 261, of that city, on Red ; > ; heads succeeded in arranging pay- |

', and veterans' organizations. The > sponsors of the present national cham- ! ments of $2,094,885 the claims J on of £ i Legion's National Commander, Perry [ pion cage will ; team, be the host. ! 4,882 disabled veterans and depend- | ' ! Brown, will be heard on this pro- ! [ The ents of deceased 1948 tournament, held | veterans. Of these at Jeffer- | • grain. He will say, in part: I \ \* cases involving | sonville, Indiana, saw 24 Department compensation, pen- 5 !| "We of The American Legion are ;• sions, or death benefits, 3,668 con- champions fight it out in a four-day | j | proud of our record of disaster work * ;> > | cerned veterans. meeting before the Beaver Falls lads ; WW2 > and our cooperation with the Ameri- ! He further reported that during \\

' downed Moorhead, Minnesota, in the i can Red Cross, the nation's official ; [ \\ the year the Legion presented 29,292

' final ', clash to annex top ! disaster relief agency. Mobilizing honors. It is ex- i cases and J handled 7,500 other cases pected that J | ![ emergency aid, food, shelter, cloth- \< more competing teams will itself. Director Benston appeared ; in §

* > ing, transport, doctors, medicines, is be entered this > \ year. 1,100 cases heard in the psychopathic I a difficult and complex job. Even more difficult, in a sense, is the long case \ a bona fide member of The American | work, the Illinois Legion pro- ? ' range job of rehabilitation— the job vided meals and lodging for { Legion and must have been a member \\ 3,000 | ' of > of restoring people a stricken [ ; » transient vets. In child welfare of the Post which he represents before work ? community to their health and live- 'i this \ » Legion agency ; helped 3,000 chil- February 15, 1949. % 1 No player will be al- lihoods. Nature is unpredictable. Dis- > \ j dren of veterans ! obtain $432,000 from §

• lowed to > inevitable. is compete who is under contract asters are That one ![ Federal and State agencies in 750 f '[ to a professional > reason, one main reason, why we basketball team, and no cases. ] | ? say—keep the Red Cross strong." > [ more than 12 players may be certified for any team. Departments entering their State champions in the tournament TWO DAKOTAS AND IOWA have until March 23 to certify their ORATORICAL FINALS WILL '49 team with the Tournament Director at LEAD MEMBERSHIP BE HELD AT PHILADELPHIA National Headquarters, Indianapolis. When the telegraphic roll-call of '49 The national finals of the 12th annual Departments will be allowed only one membership was made at National National High School Oratorical Con- team entry with the exception of Penn- Headquarters in mid-November, Com- test, sponsored by The American Legion, sylvania. In that Department the 1948 mander Pat Milloy of North Dakota will be held at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- champion team of Col. Joseph H. Thomp- piped up with a pledge of 100 percent son vania, on Monday, April 18, 1949. Four Post will automatically qualify in of quota—amounting to 15,180 members. addition outstanding contestants, representing to the 1949 Department winner. That Department was the only one to more than a quarter of a million of high pledge total fulfillment. school students from a majority of the "We have 'em," was veteran Depart- senior high schools in 46 States, will vie OLATHE, KANS., NAMED FOR ment Adjutant Jack William's retort for forensic honors in the nation's top MODEL AIRPLANE CONTEST to the wisecracks that followed the Constitutional oratorical contest in sec- pledge. ondary schools. The National Americanism Commis- North Dakota did have 'em— in fact, Scholarship awards in the amount of sion of the Legion has announced that the full quota was turned in to head- $8,000 are awarded annually by the Olathe, Kansas, has been selected as the quarters on time to redeem the pledge, Legion to the four contest finalists. The site of the 1949 Model Airplane Contest, and by the end of January the mem- first place winner receives a $4,000 and dates are fixed on July 26 to 31. This bership had continued to climb to 19,- scholarship; second place, $2,500; third, is a repeat engagement, and as in 1948 262, or 126.89 percent of quota. $1,000, and fourth, $500. The scholar- the meet will be sponsored by Earl South Dakota following the lead of ship awards are good in any college or Collier Post No. 153, The American its neighbor, came through with 100.26 university in the United States. Legion, and the Olathe Chamber of percent of quota on January 21, with Commerce, in conjunction with the U. S. 21,140 members. Immediately Duties and Obligations Featured after this Naval Station. report, together with cash and cards, The prepared orations and discussion The 1948 meet under this same spon- had been tabulated, the Department of of the extemporaneous topics by the sorship was recognized by contestants Iowa came through with 101.26 percent contestants must be based on some phase and aviation authorities as the most out- of quota. The tall corn lads skippered of the Constitution of the United States standing competition of its type ever this year by Frost P. Patterson, of which will give emphasis to the attend- held. A full thousand model aircraft Fontanelle, turned in a total of 83,217 ant duties and obligations of a citizen builders and fliers from 40 States, and members to set against a national quota to our government. from Canada and Mexico, participated of 82,174. The contest competition begins in the in the 5-day junior air race and set six local high school and progresses through new world records. WOMEN'S POST SETS GOAL inter-school, county, district and Depart- As a result of the general success, the ment levels. Department winners must U. S. Navy set up a 7-point model avia- OF DOUBLED MEMBERSHIP be certified to the National Americanism tion program, which opens the doors of On its third anniversary, in Febru- Commission by April 4. National elim- all naval air stations to the local model ary, Kansas City (Missouri) Women's ination will be through 12 regional and builders and fliers. This year the na- Post No. 465 looked back over its rec- four sectional contests with the winners tional meet lists 51 events, including the ord and set a 100 percent increase in of the sectionals entering the Philadel- radio control contest. The 1948 national membership as its goal for 1949. The phia final event. Regional and sectional champion is Jack Norris, Lakewood, Post, organized in February, 1946, had contests will be held between April 7 Ohio, and the junior national champ is a membership of 91 in 1948, according and 15. Charles Sotich, Chicago, Illinois. William to Mrs. Marian Powers, Post Publiti- Elaborate plans for entertaining the Fox, Boulder, Colorado, carried off the cian. national finals contest in Philadelphia novice championship honors. This Post has maintained an active are being made by the Department of Entry blanks and complete informa- welfare program, with emphasis on Pennsylvania.. Frank A. Keegan, Vice tion on the 1949 national meet can be "Gift to Yanks Who Gave," crippled Chairman of the Essay and Scholarship had from the Americanism Commission, children, and especially looking after Committee, has been named as Contest The American Legion, at National Head- women veterans in Wadsworth, Excel- Chairman. quarters, Indianapolis, Indiana. sior Springs and Winter Hospitals.

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • "

INSURANCE DIVIDEND AND VA SERVICES REVIEWED

Question. What about dividends to By T. O. Kraabel thorities. American Legion Departments holders of National Service Life Insur- National Rehabilitation Director in States affected are working through ance during WW2? their Congressional delegations and the treating hospitalized veterans, but also Answer. The President's budget mes- Legion's Washington office is recording for examining and observing them in their protests. Legion's stand as sage to Congress has this statement: The connection with their claims. Such a step "Dividend estimated at about 2 billion expressed by John H. Walsh, National may bring conditions similar to those Rehabilitation Chairman, is: "At a time dollars is scheduled for payment during which obtained after World War 1. Then there are veterans of the fiscal year 1950." when 2,000,000 another presidential commission found both World Wars being compensated for Q. Why does it take so long to figure confusion and inefficiency in the han- service incurred and aggravated dis- out what dividend each WW2 veteran dling of veterans affairs resulting from abilities, when thousands of new claims will get? the "distribution of responsibility among are pending adjudication and when near- A. Every one of-more than 20 million three main Government agencies . . ., ly 15,000 veterans are awaiting hospital premium accounting records has to be — and the utter lack of central control admission, we will strenuously fight cur- reviewed and summarized, and the As the result of recommendations of that tailment of the VA hospital construction amount of reserve needed to meet obli- commission Congress created a central holders and program." gations to current policy agency. Stripping that agency now of beneficiaries will have to be determined. its medical and hospital services may Branch Offices Eliminated Administrator for Insur- The Assistant bring on again confusion, inefficiency advised that this study has Q. Will the change-over of VA Branch ance has and undue delays in handling veterans to a point of nearing com- Offices to district offices affect services progressed claims. The experience of Legion Service pletion, but is not yet in a position to veterans? he Officers throughout the country proves to definite date Legion to even guess as any that medical and hospital services of the A. For some time American the dividends actually might be recommended the when best quality are essential not only to ade- Service Officers have paid. The best we can hope for is some elimination Branch Offices as orig- quately identify and treat veterans' ail- of VA time during fiscal year 1950. a resolution ments but also to correctly describe them inally constituted. At Miami will veteran when, that these Q. How a know for purposes of settling their claims. was approved recommending his func- where and to whom application for This cannot be satisfactorily accom- offices be reduced in scope of their dividend should be made? tions that death and insurance plished if medical and hospital services and A. VA authorities advise that when are divorced from the administrative claims operations be decentralized to applications, they are ready to handle set-up. regional offices. The change-over just nationwide publicity will be given to the announced does away with branch of- The Hospital Cutback manner of filing, and blanks and instruc- fices as such and sets up district offices tions will be made available through VA Q. What about the cutback or reduc- where death compensation, death pen- tion offices. The application will be simple, in the VA hospital construction sion, death insurance and disability in- and each veteran will be able to make program? surance claims will be handled. All out his own quickly and easily without A. The Administrator of Veterans Af- supervisory and administrative func- hiring anyone to help him. Consult your fairs announced the cancellation of 24 tions are taken back to the main office in American Legion Service Officer or near- projects and the reduction in size of 14 Washington. The authorities announce est VA office. others, involving an over-all reduction that this move will increase efficiency in Q. What can be done to speed up the of over 16,000 beds. Since the total num- operation, avoid overlapping of respon- dividend paying program? ber of new hospital projects was 88 as sibilities and make it possible to utilize A. We are told that obstacles to be of the first of this year, 64 remain. Of personnel more economically. these, 31 hospitals overcome include a shortage of trained are under construc- Q. Does this step substantially meet personnel, space and office equipment. tion, and 33 in the planning stage. These the long-time recommendation of The will This is an administrative matter which 64 projects produce a total of over American Legion with reference to de- will have to be solved by the Government 37,000 beds in permanent construction. centralization of VA activities? As of 1952, according to present esti- itself. On our part the most helpful as- A. No, it does not, but it can be inter- mates, the VA will have 129,000 beds, sistance we can render is to refrain from preted as a step in that direction. The instead of 145,000 previously estimated. sending in letters asking about divi- American Legion has long regarded the This will bring about a ratio of one bed dends. Answering such inquiries takes VA hospitals and Regional Offices as the per 139 veterans. time away from the real work itself. The primary or essential elements in the VA What is The American Legion National Rehabilitation Commission will Q. system. These stations are placed doing about these reductions? continue to press for speed in computing throughout the country where they are A. The whole situation is being care- and settling these dividend accounts. more readily accessible to the veterans fully scrutinized. Last-minute infor- and their dependents. The more these Medical Changes Resisted mation from areas affected is being offices are empowered to handle the cases obtained and data compiled for presen- Q. What does the so-called Voorhees of these folks the more prompt and satis- tation to Congress and appropriate au- report on Federal medical services say factory will be the processing and settle- about the VA? ment of same. Service officers and A. This report is dated November 30, rehabilitation people will still look for 1948, and was submitted by the Com- HOLD YOUR INSURANCE the day when Regional Offices will be mittee on Federal Medical Services empowered to receive and settle so-called to The National Rehabilitation Com- the Commission on Organization of the death claims as well as the claims of mission urges all veterans to keep up Executive Branch of the Government living veterans. Experience and observa- (Hoover Commission). The report pro- their Gl insurance. If the insurance tion on the part of people engaged in poses a National Bureau of Health, to has lapsed, it should he put in force veterans service work, as well as the which should be transferred the medical under the liberal reinstatement pro- majority of those working for the VA, functions of the VA in toto, including visions. American L'egion Service support an arrangement or system the outpatient service in the Regional Officers are eager to help, but if vet- whereby the essential services connected Offices of the VA. erans prefer, icrite or visit the nearest with veterans benefits are rendered through and by Regional Offices and Q. How will this affect VA services local VA office for forms and addi- hospitals with a minimum but necessary to veterans? tional information. A. It will remove from the VA system supervision and control by a central its division and facilities for not only office.

22 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 of proper dignity and within the means of a small Post with a limited budget.

. . . Dr. Samuel Cecil Stanton 92, sur- LEGIONITEMS geon, soldier, philatelist and Legion- naire, who as a child saw part of the battle of Gettysburg, died at his home in Chicago, Illinois, on January 26. Vet- Big Seven conference basketball teams have amounted to more than half a mil- eran of the Spanish-American and will be trying for a new trophy when lion dollars. WW1, he was an active member of they swing into the 1949 cage wars. This * * * * Hinsdale Legion Post. trophy, put up by Blue Hills Post No. 469, William R. Campbell, Adjutant of ***-.* Kansas City, Missouri, will be awarded Petroleum Valley Post No. 218, Petro- Senior Vice Commander Lyman L. to the conference school whose cage team lia, Pa., was first over the top in the '49 Frary, of Bristol (Vermont) Post No. 19, exhibits the best sportsmanship during membership rush—a job completed by is a '49 membership rusher who lost a the season. ... At the last Department August 20th. With 101 members in '48, national award because he didn't read of Washington Department Convention, the Post had enrolled 220 by mid-Janu- the membership bulletin—probably was Richland Post No. 71 captured a major ary, of which Adjutant Campbell had 1948 awards, including too busy signing 'em up. He had a record share of the credit for 100. . . . H. Mills Kingsberry, of 70 members by August 21, and by late trophies for most and best publicity, rec- Jr., of Abe E. Miller Post No. 133, December had personally signed up 160. ord for Americanism and civic activities, South Windsor, Conn., wants ideas for Bristol Post is away ahead of its '48 for overall membership record, and for a memorial to men of both World Wars record. . . . Crescent City Post No. youth activities. The Post was skippered 125, of Orleans, Louisiana, presented a in 1948 by W. C. MacBrayne. New WAUKEGAN REMEMBERS large television set to the patients in the * * * tf ITS DEAD OF TWO WARS VA Hospital in its home city. ... A semi- Roebling (New Jersey) Post No. 39 weekly chore of Mrs. Carolyn M. Frid, recently awarded life memberships to Commander of Marion Clark Phillips Post No. Orlando, Florida, and her all its WW1 members for outstanding 227, service and devotion to the Legion as a Finance Officer, Miss Mildred Nicolaus, group. The Post had 42 members prior is to shop for veterans in the State Tuberculosis Sanitorium. They have to WW2; now has 395 and still grow- been doing it for two years, helped at ing. . . . William B. Seach, retired Navy lieutenant, Veteran of the Spanish- times by other members of this all- American, Boxer Rebellion and WW1, woman Post. Purchases run all the way Congressional Medal of Honor winner from personal items to hobby craft material feed the birds. and life member of Weymouth (Mass.) and cracked corn to Post No. 79, was recently honored by * * * his Post and was the subject of some col- umns of newspaper articles. Weymouth Mnookin-Brown Post No. 468, Kan- Post Adjutant William B. Seach sends sas City, Missouri, has established two clippings about "a mighty fine man. I Memorial Scholarships of $1000 each to tell you this because Bill is my dad." honor the memory of men and women

. . . Early in 1948 a good cheer hospital who gave their lives in WW2. The service was inaugurated by Marshall awards are made

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • 33 which are geared to conditions in each individual community. Special Observance of Child Success of this program is seen in the impressive dollar total of Legion help to children. During the 1948 fiscal year, Welfare Work Called for April the Legion and its affiliated organizations of the Forty and Eight, American An Alabama post reports a project Legion Auxiliary, and the Eight and Entire Month is Dedicated to that is winning many friends. The post Forty, spent $3,105,151.57 from their own treasuries Review and Round-Up of Tre- there started a program of providing on child welfare while beds and meals for veterans and their $2,218,817.70 was secured by American mendous Program of Legion families when the veteran arrives in the Legion workers from other agencies in community too late in the day for admis- aid to children. This adds up to a total By Charles W. Geile sion to the V. A. hospital there and of more than five and a quarter million Assistant Child Welfare Director would otherwise be stranded until dollars for one year. morning. Service to children of veterans will Vets Have Half of Children Some of the other projects reported be dramatized by the more than 17,000 are : sponsoring a "well-baby" clinic for The National Child Welfare Commis- posts of The American Legion in the pre-school children; providing cod liver sion, however, points out that more than annual observance of April as Legion oil for under-nourished school children; half of the children of the United States Child Welfare Month. "While child wel- providing free immunizations, vaccina- are now the sons and daughters of fare is an important year-round activ- tions, and chest X-rays; staging a hobby World War I and II veterans. It would ity," according to David V. Addy of show and community "Fun Day"; set- be impossible for any private organiza- Detroit, Michigan, Legion National ting up a scholarship fund; organizing tion, however large or capable it might Child Welfare Chairman, "April has a nursery school for children of G.I.'s at be, to meet all the needs that might be been set aside for the past 12 years as a university; supporting needed changes expected to arise among half of the the time to put special emphasis on this in state child labor laws; holding public Nation's 45 million children. work and to make the public conscious meetings on child welfare; establishing For this reason the Commission em- of our aims in this field." a fund to" provide dental care for chil- phasized the importance of seeing that A special promotional booklet entitled dren whose parents are unable to pay adequate aid for needy children of vet- "The Whip End" has been published by for needed service; holding a special erans is available. National Headquarters to give sugges- drive to secure an occupational therapist "We can and do fill in some of the tions for special April projects. The for a work shop for pre-school children gaps when our various public agencies booklet recalls the game "crack-the- with spastic paralysis; etc. can't do the whole job," Chairman Addy whip", which has always been a favorite Since child welfare is a program which says, "and through the April program with active youngsters. It is pointed out is centered in each post, the National this year we are urging posts to search that, just as in the game the boy or girl Child Welfare Commission urges each out those last children of the community on the end of the whip is apt to get a post to develop programs and projects to make sure that they receive proper fall, in real life many children suffer care. hardships because they happen to be in ****** "In the long run, however, we are a spot where unusual pressures or working to see that there are established strains are exerted. The Legion and Kids and maintained those needed services in Copies of the booklet may be secured Child welfare is a part of The Amer- the local communities the states, and the by writing the Child Welfare Division, ican Legion's broad program of service. nation which will bring us nearer to the National Headquarter, The American Since 1925, The American Legion, realization of The American Legion's Legion, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. with its affiliated organization, has long-time goal of 'A Square Deal for "The child welfare job of The Ameri- carried on child welfare work on a Every Child,'" he concluded. can Legion will not be completed until wide front, totaling in dollar value every last child in the United States has almost $69 million. More than 30,000 volunteers, to- at least an even chance of growing up to gether with a small professional staff, SHOOTING EVENTS LISTED be a happy, independent citizen," is the carry on the day-to-day child welfare National BY MARKSMANSHIP DIRECTOR challenge presented by the work of the Legion. Child Welfare Commission. The child welfare program has two James A. Woolrey, National Marks- main objectives: (1) To guarantee care manship Director, has announced two What Some Posts Do and protection for the children of vet- matches to be fired during the next three erans; (2) To improve conditions for Specific methods and projects adopted months, for championship honors. all children. The goal is: "A Square by posts throughout the United States Deal for Every Child." The national individual pistol and re- in helping some of the "last" children There are three main methods by volver match, (gallery), will be fired are listed. In St. Louis, Missouri, a post which The American Legion seeks to during the month of March. This is for has organized a club of 25 blind boys reach its child welfare goals: (1) By members of the Legion as individuals, and girls, along with many other youth informing the membership and the no teams, using any calibre of revolver programs, and carries on a year-round general public of the needs of children or pistol except "free" type. It will be and of the resources for meeting those program of activities for these handi- limited to 20 shots per entrant, 50 feet, needs; (2) By support of sound legisla- capped children. slow fire, and may be held either indoors tion for children; (3) By rendering di- In Idaho members of an American or outdoors. rect aid and service to children of Legion Post provide transportation to veterans. * Sons of the Legion small-bore rifle and from Sunday School and Church for More than 50 per cent of the children match, (gallery), will be fired during children who would not otherwise be of the United States are now the chil- April or May, winner to be awarded the able to attend. It is reported that Legion- dren of veterans. Because of death, National SAL Trophy. This match is for naires are very enthusiastic about their disability and other reasons, we know Sons of the Legion, using .22 calibre that many of the 22 or 23 million chil- ' experiences with these children, and that rifles with metallic sights, by teams of dren of veterans will be in need of at the same time they are becoming more from five to eight members, all of whom help from outside their families at regular in their own church attendance. some time. Since no private organiza- must belong to the same Squadron. It A Legion investigation of a veterans' tion could meet from its own resources may be fired indoors or outdoors on a trailer camp in Wisconsin resulted in the the potential needs of half the children 50 foot range. establishment of playgrounds and other of the U. S., great effort will be re- The Americanism Division at Na- recreational facilities, while general san- quired to see that needed help is forth- tional Headquarters will furnish com- itary and health conditions were also coming from public sources. plete instructions for entering compe- improved. ****** titions. 34 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 interested in holding a reunion in April, 1949, New York City, contact Lester Sealey, 14 High Street, Natick, Mass. Co. A, 126th MG Battalion, 33rd Division— 1949 OUTFIT reunion being arranged. For information time COMRADES and place write Lawrence Hossman, 3044 Blaine REUNIONS Ave., Apt. 5, Detroit 6, Michigan. IN DISTRESS

cccccc c~ffjB c g c e g treTrce'Ci c c a c c° PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION Green Bay, 5th Air Force Society—This society was recently Great Lakes Training Center, Camp III.— in Co. 324 in boot training between formed in Philadelphia. Membership is open to all Men OFFICIAL GROUP ORGANIZED injury past and present personnel of the 5th AF, and to March 9 and 30, 1945, who remember an sustained by Frederick B. George are requested all Army veterans who were attached or assigned Philadelphia has already begun to lay to write him at 513, East Oak, Lamar, Colo., to to it, including WACs. For information write John H. Weller, Secretary, 134 So. 4th Street, plans for the reception and entertain- help establish a claim. Infantry-Frank E. Baker, Philadelphia. Pa. Co. E, 33rd U.S. ment of the 31st annual National Con- Y., to locate 550th Ordnance Co.—Annual reunion will be 704 Hillcrest Rd., Elmira, N. wants Mulligan, stationed 1920-22 at Coroza? held at Holliday Inn, Northern Blvd., Flushing, vention of The American Legion in that William C. Z., later of 12th Engineers. Testimony needed L. I., N. Y., on May 7th. Contact Frank Messinger, city on August 29th to September 1st. prove claim. 240 Sip Ave., Jersey City, N. J. to 70th Pursuit Squadron, A.A.F.—Will anyone 21st Engineers L.R. Society and Auxiliary— The place and dates were fixed by the who served with Lt. James W. Blose prior to WW1, Ry., WW2, Aviation-Will hold 28th annual National Executive Committee at its April 1942, at Mausori Airfield, Viti Levu, reunion at Chicago. For time and place write 22, Fiji Islands, write Edison C. Blose, 239 S. Third J. H. Brooks, Secy.-Treas., 2410 S. Harrison St., regular meeting last November. Sharpsville, Pa. Statements needed. Fort Wayne, Ind., or Mrs. Lillian E. Graham, St., organization of the American Hdqrs. Co., 34th Infantry, 7th Division, (WW1) Secy.-Treas., 1609 Rumsey Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. The F. Dial, Box 142, Baytown, Texas, 309th Engineers and Auxiliary— 25th annual re- Legion National Convention Corpora- —Corp. Robert needs statements of men who served with him at union will be held in Fort Wayne, Ind., August tion has been perfected with the election Chateaux Moncel, France, in February, 1919, to 26 and 27, 1949. Headquarters, Hotel Van Orman. Write George Stoner, Secretary, 333 Sherman of Vincent A. Carroll as President. prove service-connected disability. . 31st Naval Construction Battalion— Paging Street, Galion, Ohio. Carroll, long active in his home of in Arkansas, and 625th Ordnance Amm. Co.— Annual reunion Judge James S. Partain, somewhere L. D. Brown, Oklahoma, in service in Bermuda, September 4 and 5, 1949, at Buckeye Lake Park, Department and in the National organi- whose statements are needed by Sam H. Smith, 30 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, on U.S. Route zation, is also serving as Chairman of (MM2/c), Bridgeport, Ala. 40. Contact Harold Hall, 151 State Street, Ritt- LSM 174—Shipmates between May 14 and June Ohio. National Convention Commission. man, the please contact John Bringman, 160 23rd Engineers, WW1—Annual reunion, New 28, 1946, Other officers elected are Vice Presi- Wood-Ridge Street, Woodridge, N. J. Needs aid England section, at Hotel Manger, Boston, Mass., in proving claim. April30, 1949. Write Carl W. Steri, Secy.-Treas., dent, John Marchant; Secretary, Edw. Hdqrs. Co., 14th Regiment, Camp Fannin, Texas 27 Clement Street, Worcester 3, Mass. McGrail; and Treasurer, Joseph I. Fin- —Will anyone who knew me in service write me 54th Pioneer Infantry— Reunion at Philadel- at once. I need help in establishing my claim. phia, Pa., August 29-September 2, 1949, during nerty, Pennsylvania Department Treas- Charles. H. Holcomb, 215 Guth»ie, Mexico, Mo. National Convention, American Legion. Contact urer. These officers together with County Co. F, 121 Inf. Regiment, 69th Division— Paul Fry, 531 Stanwood Street, Philadelphia 11, Pa. C.W. O. Gibson, now deceased, was injured in booby 102nd Cavalry Group Association— Reunion at J. will Commander Samuel C. Green trap explosion during Battle of the Bulge. VA Cavalry Armory, Rahway Ave., Westfield, N. 500 constitute the Board of Directors. Com- denies me pension because of no record of service- on April 30, 1949. Write Roland Beetham, J., connected disability. Will any one of his com- address. will also same mander Green serve as Chair- rades in service who knows of incident please Battalion, Members 1st AA Machine Gun WW1— write Mrs. Maxine (wife), 1130 Francis man of the Housing Committee. me. L. Gibson interested in reunion write Col. W. Freeman Road, Neosho, Mo. Shoreview Road, Port Washing- Moore, M.C., 6 In addition to these officers, the Cor- 24th Replacement Depot, Vulturno Valley, Italy ton, N. Y —Herbert Wescott, 505 N. 1st Avenue, Eseanaba, 83rd Division Association—Eastern States chap- poration has named Governor James H. Mich., was injured in June, 1945, when tripped former members write James Kelly, 163 El- ter Duff, Mayor Bernard Samuel, and De- and thrown under feet of mules. Treated at 8th mora Ave., Elizabeth, N. J., for schedule of meet- partment Commander Lawrence Trainor Replacement Depot, Ponte Egola, Italy. Now asks ings. anyone who knows of his injury to write him; 1st Radio Detachment, Ellington Field, 1917— as honorary presidents. Honorary vice needs help to prove injury. write V. Bryant, Rt. 3, Members requested to M. Present addresses of Sain C. Zauss and Amos Kingston, N. Y, for purpose of arrang- presidents include National Vice Com- Box 371, Thompson, both WW1 vets, and both from ing for 1949 reunion. mander Walter E. Allessandroni, Na- Youngstown, Ohio, area, is being sought by P. J. 54th Armored Inf. Bn., (10th Armored Co. C, tional Morice, 4055 South Ave. Ext., Youngstown, Ohio. annual reunion, July 2-4, 1949, at Executive Committeeman Harry Div.)—Second Co. A, 37th Training Bn., Camp Croft, S. C. Victoria, York City. Contact Gabriel Hotel New Stinger, Past Department Commanders —Will Corp. Sanders L. Enerman and 1st Ser- Pollock, 74 Beekman Ave., No. Tarrytown. H. geant of Co. A in January, 1942, write Joseph H. information reservations. William Windsor and Clyde Rankin, N. Y, for and Miller, Rt. Vernon, Ala. Statement needed to Battalion—Second annual reunion, 3, 722nd M.P. and Department Adjutant Edward A. prove disability. Broadwood Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., March 12, Squadron, Detachment 373—Lt. Broadwood Linsky. 18th Weather 1949. Write Joseph Wiekersham, John Chambers or anyone who served with Corp. Streets, Philadelphia, or Hotel, Broad and Wood The Corporation offices have been es- Mario Battistelli in England, please contact York Road, Abingdon, Va. Adolph Lightman, 12 Mathew Klempa, Service Officer, The American 78th Division, tablished in Room 169, Old Broad Street 310th Ambulance Co., (WW1)- Legion, Bellaire, Ohio, to help establish a claim. at Hotel Hildebrecht, 23rd reunion, June 11, 1949, Station, 1401 Market Street, Philadel- USS Northumberland—Needed to contact the Trenton, N. J. Address Frank V. Rusling, 27 Wil- phia, in charge of National Convention physician or ship personnel on board on trip son Terrace, Livingstone, N. J. leaving New York about October 21, 1918, for USS LST 491-Short history, "The Ol' Double Director Edw. McGrail. Liverpool. Help needed in claim. William V. published; price $2.25. Supply limited. Trouble," Sneed, Box 47, Vernon, Texas. Write the author, James W. Knox, 104 Court Co. E, 146th Infantry, (WWl)-Statement cf House, Pittsburgh, Pa. Lt. Chalmei-s or any man of outfit who remem- Bn., get 3rd AA Machine Gun WW1—Members bers my wound from shellfire in Argonne. (Cor- in touch with Sergeant Al E. Gutshaw, 75 River- * TIMELY ARTICLES FOR poral) Edward M. Ebbert, 701 Reedsdale St., Apt. Drive, Saranac Lake, N. Y. side 47, Pittsburgh 12 Pa. 34th Engineers, WW1— Reunion at Lexington, DISCUSSION BY POSTS 306th Motorcycle Co.— ( Sergeant) Leo Gouthier, Ky., September 3-5, 1949. Headquarters at Spalding, Mich., needs to make contact with men Phoenix Hotel. Contact George Remple, Secre- In this number of your American of this outfit who can aid him in proving his tary, 3523 N. Main Street, Dayton, Ohio. claim. 2nd Armored Division—Trophy room, display- Legion Magazine are three articles Co. I, 1st Training Regiment, Camp Sibert, Ala. ing flags, weapons, and other mementoes of this of special importance to the Legion —Men who knew Paul Rebert in service, and who outfit, established command famous has been at know of his disablement from rheumatism, please club for for- and to the welfare of our common headquarters. Also to serve as room write him at 328 27th Street, Ogden, Utah. Is country. It mer members. All items contributed should be is recommended that trying to prove claim. sent to Commanding General, 2nd Armored Divi- these articles be studied and dis- 28th Evac. Ambulance Co. (WWl)-Am anxious sion, Camp Hood, Texas, together with brief his- in Post to locate former Sergeant Frederick Gibson, of tory of piece. cussed meetings. They are: this outfit, Base Sec. 5, Brest, France, who knows Baltimore, (CA68)—Annual reunion at The Men for — USS Who Spy America of an injury that I received in line of duty. Louis Parker House, Boston, Mass., on April 16, 1949. By Donald Robinson. Page 22. A McKercher, Herman, Nebraska. Contact Charles J. Hladik, 714 Avermfe A, Bay- 305th Co., Remount Depot, Camp clear statement of what it takes to A.R.D. Wagon onne, N. J. Lee—Will anyone who served with me in above Battalion—Annual super-sleuth Hqrs. Battery, 108th AAA be a in guarding our outfit July, 1918, to April, 1919, write Charles V. Statler, York, April reunion dinner at Hotel New national security. Miller, 323 Walnut Street, Reading, Pa. 1949. For reservations write Dom Indell, 179 23, Medical Det., Station Hospital, Hamilton Field, E. 111th Street, New York City. Partners Wanted: Apply Latin California— Sgt. Max Goose, Corp. Donald E. 14th Engineers Vet. Assn., (WW1)—31 annual America— William La Varre. Page By Palmer, PFC Seymour Rosenberg, Sgt. Robert reunion and dinner at Boston, Mass., March 19, is 11. A change of policy indicated in Fyles, ' and Lt. Francis B. Hilt are requested to 1949. For reservations write David E. Brooks, relations write Charlie Rose, 3253 E. Speedway, Tucson, 253 No. Central Ave., Wollaston 70, Mass. our with our neighbors to Arizona, who needs affidavits for compensation Division at Little Rock, South. 35th Assn.—Reunion the purposes. Ark., June 10-12, 1949. Contact Charles H. _ Perry Brown: Man With a Mission 35th Balloon Co., A.S. (WWl)-Former mem- Browne, Sr., Secretary, Box 29, Horton, Kansas. to contact Joseph J. Jordan, 56 9th Air Force— Members interested in formation -By Tanner T. Hunt. Page 26. A bers are asked Gorman Road, Framingham, Mass., to help with of 9th AF Association, reunion and publication close-up and revealing pen picture evidence needed to establish a claim. of history, write Thos. H. Morrow, Courthouse, of the man who leads the Legion Cincinnati, Ohio. Troopship Columbia, (Capt. Smith in command, 393rd Bomb Squadron—Jim Hinchey, 88 Union written by a long-time friend and WW1)—Former members of this crew, or crews Street, East Walpole, Mass., asks vets to contact fellow-worker. of the Conshohocken or the Van Dyke, please Killiarides, St., Reading, him in squadron interest and organization. contact Petro 251 Penn 1896th Engineers Av. Bn., H&S Co.—Members Pa., who needs statement to prove service. The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • 35 : ' :

NATIONAL SECURITY GROUP WAR CLAIMS COMMISSION THE AMERICAN LEGION OPPOSES FEDERALIZED NG HAS NOT BEEN APPOINTED NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS DECEMBER 31. 1948 In a three-day session of the Legion's According to a circular released by National Security Commission, held at the Veterans Administration President ASSETS Washington January 27-29, the entire Truman has deferred the appointment Cash on hand and on deposit. .$1,129,300.11 national defense structure was reviewed of a commission authorized by the 80th Receivables 160,399.58 Inventories •. . 500,385.17 in discussions sparked by top ranking Congress to receive and process the Invested Funds 956,790.96 service personnel, and by members of claim of military personnel and civilians Permanent Investments: Overseas Graves Decoration it is both Houses of the Congress who sit for war losses. The commission, Trust Fund 255,440.11 in key positions. The meetings were said, will not be named until Congress Employees' Retirement Trust Fund 868,155.15 the leadership of Erie Cocke, Jr., makes the necessary appropriation for under Real Estate, less depreciation. . 563,705.47 of Georgia, Chairman. the payment of claims and for related Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, less depreciation 294,219.20 The entire Saturday morning session administrative expenses. Deferred Charges 140,174.10 was given to a discussion of the defense It is not believed that the commission $4,868,569.85 problem in its relation to appropriations will be appointed before March, 1949. In and other matters on which the Con- the meantime, claims are piling up in LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE AND NET WORTH gress must act. These talks were led the offices of the VA and other agencies

Current liabilities t>: . . . Millard E. Tydings, Mary- of Government. Under present instruc- $ 283,894.39 by Senator Funds restricted as to use.... 300,007.42 land, Chairman of the Armed Services tions, the departments can only ac- Deferred Revenue 1,642,159.18 claims transmit an Permanent Trusts: Committee, and Congressman Overton knowledge such and Overseas Graves Decoration Brooks of Louisiana. explanation of the cause of delay. Trust Fund .. $255,440.11 Employees' Retirement The recommendations of the Com- The law authorizes the commission, if Trust Fund . . 868,155.15 1,123,595.26 mission included: and when constituted, to receive and Net Worth: 1. "That we record our opposition to adjudicate claims in behalf of: Restricted that portion of the Gray Board Report 1. Certain employees of contractors Unrestricted federalization of the that pertains to the of the United States in Wake, Guam Capital 771,259.70 1_.518.913.60 National Guard Forces of the Depart- and Cavite. $4,868,568.85 ment of the Army. With the exception 2. American civilians-' who were in- of the above provision, the National terned by the Japanese Imperial Gov- Security Commission of The American APPROVED 1949 BUDGET ernment. ANTICIPATED REVENUE Legion goes on record as endorsing the General Revenue Board Report." 3f Military personnel who were pris- Gray Dues @ $1.00 per member. . . $3,j.00,000.00 2. "That the National Security Com- oners of war of an enemy country. Dues prior years 5,000.00 S.A.L. Dues @ 25

. Membership. . 13,566.68 community, shares in that obligation." full and complete information and has Reierve Against $3,594.330.00 .... "Find out what the needs are—know proven invaluable in keeping National, and use the resources that are available State, and local officers and members of National Finance Committee Sam W. Reynolds. Nebraska, Chairman —fill in the gaps—build better services the Legion and Auxiliary promptly infor children in each community." formed of developments in Washington.

gg • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 . , ; ,, , , . . , . . .; , Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

March, 1949

OVERSEAS CEMETERIES FOR WAR DEAD: Amer- for domestic service only, less than 90 ican war dead from 400 overseas ceme- days, $50; 90 days to six months, $75; teries will be brought together in 14 six months to one year, $100; more than permanent military cemeteries in Europe one year, $150. .. .Louisiana vets get forms from Parish or Legion Serv- Africa and the Philippines . ... It is blank estimated that of the 558,967 overseas ice Of ficers. .. .Eligible out-of-staters dead of WW2, more than 100,000 will be get their application forms from Thomas laid to final rest in these cemeteries C. Glaze , Bonus Administrator, Baton which are markers along the lines of Rouge . . . .Administrator Glaze warns ap- fighting. .. .Permanent cemeteries are lo- plicants not to write about payment cated as follows: Cambridge, England; checks will come through as quickly as Margraten, Holland; Hamm, Luxembourg; possible after claims are proven and Henri Chapelle, and Neuville-en-Condros, money is available . . . .Correspondence Belgium; St. Laurent, St. James, will only clog the procedure and serve Draguignan, Epinal and St. Avoid, to delay payment.

France; Nettuno, (Anzio) , and Florence, a|c a)^ sfc aft; Italy; Carthage, near Tunis, North OUTSTANDING: A blinded veteran, the Africa, and Fort McKinley, near Manila, Governor of Arkansas, a labor leader and in the Philippines ... .National cemeteries a Congressman, all Legionnaires, are are established at Honolulu, Hawaii, and among the nation's Ten Outstanding Young San Juan, Puerto Rico . . . After WW1, Men of 1948 Picked by a panel of 13 eight permanent military cemeteries were judges, chairmaned by General Dwight D. established in France, Belgium and Eng- Eisenhower, organized by the Junior land A total of 30,908 WW1 dead are Chamber of Commerce, the four are: buried in them. Thomas C. Hasbrook, 28, Indianapolis, Indiana, National President, Blinded STATE BONUS DEADLINES: Eligible Michigan Veterans Association, and public rela- WW2 veterans have bu t a few days left in tions man, for his distinguished work which to apply for the liberal State despite handicap suffered in explosion bonus.... The deadline for filing applica- of a land mine .... Sidney S McMath, 36, Gov- tions is March 20, 1949 . . . .All applica- Hot Springs, recently inaugurated tions must be notarized and mailed to ernor of Arkansas, for ending rule of political machine in Adjutant General ' s Office , Bonus Sec- allegedly corrupt his home city. . . Walter W. Cenerazzo tion, Lansing 1 , Michigan, before that date.... Time is also creeping up on 35, President, American Watch Workers eligible veterans who entered service Union, Boston, for his program of democ- from Connecticu t and Illinois . . . . The racy in labor union organization. . . deadline in these two States is July 1 George A. Smathers 35, Congressman, 1949 .... Connecticut veterans write Miami, Florida, for his Amendment to the Treasurer, Veterans Bonu s Division, State Immigration Act of 1917 simplifying in-

Armory, Hartford . . . . Illinois WW2 vet- ternational travel and generally pro- erans contact Service Recognition Board, gressive legislative program. W_;_ Springfield, for 501 Adams Street , * * * * blanks and information for filing. ROTARIANS: Six Legionnaires are serving s|c *fc s)c 3|c as District Governors of Rotary Inter- LOUISIANA BONUS APPLICATIONS READY: national, elected at the 1948 interna- Application forms for the Louisiana tional convention at Rio de Janeiro, bonus for WW2 vets are being distributed Brazil .... They are: Charles H. Cross written, unsigned and ....Checks will be Fayettesville , Arkansas, director of undated, as claims are processed, t_o be teacher training at the University of released when money is obtained on the Arkansas . . Roy D. Hickman, Birmingham, $50,000,000 State bond issue It is Alabama, an engraving executive ... ..K W. expected that this money will_ become Hull Russellville , Arkansas, President, available in late March or early April . Arkansas Polytechnic College. . . William ...Bonus is paid veterans who were J. Chinworth. Warsaw, Indiana, owner of

Louisiana citizens at time of entry into retail furniture store . . . Emmett J. armed forces, who served between January Roach, Plattsburg, New York, president 1^ 1941, and March 1^ 1946. .. .Rates of a dairy company, whose district in- $250 for service outside of the U.S. cludes parts of (Continued on next page)

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Ontario and Quebec, Canada. . . Morris E. community center until the last one died White, Tampa, Florida, an attorney. in 1941 .... Sons of Union Veterans took

>}c >jc s}( !>f* over to carry on the tradition. .. .Now, PRISONERS PAY IN BLOOD: Inmates of Mas- with only four surviving members, the sachusetts' prisons, reformatories and S.U.V. deeded the property to Boynton- jails are doing their bit to save the Webber Post , The American Legion . ... It lives of hospitalized veterans as par- will be the home and club for the Post ticipants in a unique blood donor pro- and Auxiliary, and at the same time will gram devised by the Legion of the old continue its more than 60 year service Bay State ... .Under this program prison- as South China's community center. ers have donated 70 percent of a total S|C sf( 3K j|( of 8, 700 units supplied to 51 hospitals in NO OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FOR DEPENDENTS: the Commonwealth, all ear-marked for veter- Many wives of veterans were treated by ans and their families . ... It is esti- Army and Navy doctors while their hus- that the blood donated, if paid mated bands were in service. .. .From the number for at prevailing rates, would amount to of letters and inquiries flowing in to about $225,000. .. .This highly successful the Newsletter, i_t seems that there is program has been carried on by the De- a somewhat general impression that wives partment's Blood Donor Committee for and other dependents are entitled to nearly three years.... It is a program treatment from VA physicians . . . That recommended for adoption by other De- belief is erroneous . . . .Hospitalization partments. and outpatient treatment provided by the * * * * VA are not available to member s of vet- NEW BOOKS FOR VET HOSPITALS: When books erans ' families .... Only ex-service men are called for to fill the shelves of and women, if discharged under condi- vet hospitals most people go to their tions other than dishonorable, are en- attics to find them. ... Taking a new titled to hospital treatment under a angle, "Author Meets the Critics," a na- priority system. ... (1) Emergency cases. tionally featured NBC radio and tele- ...(2) Service-connected cases.... (3) vision program, has launched a campaign Those unable to pay hospital charges for to provide new books of the best seller nonservice-connected disabilities or variety to veteran hospital libraries. illnesses. .. .These vets, if not emer- ...Remember, new or newly published gency cases, must wait until a bed be- books only . . . . Send them to Library Divi- comes available. . . Outpatient treatment sion, Branch Office No . 2, Veterans Ad- is available only for veterans with ministration, 346 Broadway, New York 13 service-connected disabilities . . . . Such N. Y. treatment must be authorized by VA. * * * * * * * * DRILLING FOR OIL: Newhall, California, ROCK THE MARNE : Legion Post is on the way to new riches OF It's a long, long trail, the - and a new clubhouse .... The Post owns leading back thirty years to a corner lot of nearly an acre on which Battle of the Marne, when the 30th In- it had planned to build its home.... fantry stood as a great barrier to the Then came an oil strike in the area.... German enemies. .. .Now, officially, the Newhall Post got a $7,000 bonus check for motto "Rock of the Marne, July 14-18, 1918" a lease a rig was built in record time has been added to the distinctive and drilling started in early January. insignia of that Regiment. ...The Post can start its building right * * * * now, except that the drill is pushing LOST DISCHARGE PAPERS: Veterans in in- down right in the middle of the building creasing numbers are discovering the site originally . . . selected .Commander value of the Honorable Discharge Cer- Ralph Overton announced that it is prob- tificate given them on separation from able a new site for the home will be service ... .Many failed to have their secured. discharges recorded, and have lost the * * * * original. .. .Now, when it is necessary to NSLI POLICIES: VA announces that Na- produce evidence of service for their tional Service Life Insurance policies State bonus, or for any one of a number are being sent out at the rate of 160,- of other purposes, they are stymied. . . 000 per week . ... If that rate is main- A duplicate discharge canno t be issued tained, the entire job should be fin- but there is provision for the issuance ished this fall.... As of October 31, of a Certificate in Lieu of Lost or De- 1948, latest figures available, there stroyed Discharge which will answer of- were 7,000,300 NSLI contracts in effect. ficial purposes. .. .Application forms can 3)C 3|C 9)C )|c be obtained at VA offices, or by writing G.A.R. BUILDING: Back in 1885 members the Department of the A rmy, or Department of the South China, Maine, Grand Army of the Navy, Washington, D. C tJ_ for Army Post united to build themselves a home. Navy and Marine Corps personnel...... 100 of them gave their labor and es- Coast Guardsmen will use Form CG9552, sential materials . . . .The two-story from the U.S. Treasury Department, building served the Civil War vets as a Coast Guard, Washington, D.C. 38 THE SHADES AMEKICAN LECION MEflORl A.L,

BRONZE TABLET at the gateway dedicates The Shades to use of the public in memory of Hoosiers who fell in war

For more than half a century The Shades, a scenic spot in Indiana some forty miles west of Indian- apolis, has been known and used by pleasure seek- ers as a recreational park under private ownership. Often ranked among the top scenic spots in the mid-western country, The Shades contains 1,542 acres of virgin and semi-virgin timbers, the last remaining major stand of virgin hardwoods in Indiana. But there came a time when this beauty spot was threatened; when timber-cutters were poised at the gates, ready to start falling the giant white oaks and other top -grade hardwoods that for centuries had defied all the elements. Destruction seemed imminent when the Legion STUDENTS from nearby Purdue University enjoy a campfire and hot-dog roast DEVIL'S FIRE PLACE, high on cliff, needs looking into

stepped in. The park has been saved to the people of Indiana for all time, and it has a new name. It is now "The Shades, American Legion Memorial Park." Indiana has never purchased a State park — all such properties have come into its possession by gift or by public subscription — and when the acreage comprising The Shades came on the market the century-old policy stood as a bar to State purchase. But Past Department Commander Charles H. ("Red") Maston had an idea. Why not preserve The Shades as a Legion memorial? He carried his idea to De- partment Commander W. I. Brunton and together they talked it over with Governor Ralph Gates, himself a Past Department Commander of the In- diana Legion. The Governor was fully sold on the plan and offered his personal services as a Legionnaire to put it across, as well as his official actions as Governor of the Hoosier State. The Legion's Department Executive Com- mittee gave the green light to the plan - bingo, "Save the Shades" campaign was under way. Civic groups joined the movement; school children contributed their pennies — and when the drive ended the fund stood at $265,000, of which $250,000 was needed for purchase and the remainder for park improvement. Now under control of the Indiana Department of Conservation, recreational facilities will be installed, with the emphasis on training and activities of youth groups. THE END 40

INDUSTRIAL PLANT poisons killed many fish, but Rock River will be restocked IDEAL FOR CAMPING, The Shades has long been a favorite resort for Boy Scout Troops and all who love the great outdoors

BOTANY class of Wabash College on field trip to The Shades HEIGH-YO, Silver! Here's a bunch of Hoosier horsemen all ready for morning ride PARTNERS WANTED (Continued from page 13)

Aztecs and Incas for gold which they took haggled too long over, he proceeded to These repatriated Latin Americans, be- back to Spain by the shipload. Other do it. Prior to March, 1938 the members ing clever people, began reappraising their adventurers followed them across the of El Club de Los Millones could find, or own resources. "Caramba!" they said, Atlantic, discovered additional treasures, buy up cheaply, rich Mexican mines, pro- looking at their empty stores and worn- established colonies. But no colony in duce minerals at very low labor costs and out farm machinery. "If we can't buy the America was permitted to manufacture sell the mineral concentrates to them- things we need from the gringos let's buy anything. The far away Crown retained selves in the United States far below their idle machines—while they are cheap a monopoly over both resources and trade. market prices. But those days were now —and build our own factories!" First Spain, then Portugal, France and over. England grew rich on American resources The get-rich-quick era for Gringos was The ships we rushed south for urgently and on the industrial profits from goods over not only in Mexico but in all the needed war products — copper, cotton, which were exported and sold to the other Latin American Republics, though sugar, rubber, tin, aluminum, wool, meat, American Colonies. only a few of us could see our golden leather, manganese and scores of other sun setting. Mexicans took back their na- raw products for our converted war indus- The era of Conquistadores did not actu- tive resources, and markets, by confisca- tries—did not go south in ballast. Few of ally end, however, the birth of the tions, abrupt and Indian-cold-eye expro- us saw them but they were loaded, often Repxiblicas. The new Latin American priations. "Muy crudo!" the other Latin even deck-piled, with machines we had Republics freed themselves from foreign Americans whispered. "Very crude! We'll removed from hundreds of prewar con- Kings, but they still remained the eco- do it like caballeros, with finesse rather sumer goods factories to make room for nomic slaves— of foreign trade. Ships con- than force. Si, Senores! Let the gringos war production equipment. Some of these tinued to carry away cheap raw resources find and develop our resources! Then we ships carried complete plants dismantled and bring whatever manufactured prod- can tax their profits so they can't export at knock-down prices. We paid boom ucts the Republics, as the Colonies, used. them!" prices for Latin American resources and In Europe, England and the expanding the Latin Americans had plenty of dol- United States 19th and early 20th Cen- Yes, the good old days when we could lars with which to buy our set-aside ma- tury manufacturers saw Latin America send the Marines southward to protect chinery and reassemble their own, family only as a source of cheap raw materials our monopolies were certainly over. There owned, factories. The era of industriali- and a market for the disposal of products would be very few, if any, new members zation was born in Latin America, from which mass production methods began for El Club de Los Millones. The war the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, Latin turning out faster than the home markets years, 1940-45, drove many wealthy Latin American industries owned by the Latin could profitably consume. Americans, who had lived most of their Americans. Thus when Lazaro Cardenas reclaimed lives in European luxury, back to their "Bueno!" The Central and South all Mexico's natural resources for Mexi- native haciendas and, at the same time, Americans exclaimed gleefully, at the can rather than foreign profits, in March cut them off from vitally needed imports. sight of machines making things cheap 1938, he was not really the "dumb Indian" They could import no modern plumbing which they had formerly had to import at many people outside of Mexico at first for their ancient casas, no new autos or high prices. "Maravilloso! The Americans seemed to think. As a matter of fact he trucks for their highways, no new tires, of the North had tariffs to protect their was, from the Mexican point of view, ex- no new clothing, no cans of delicacies for factories, resources and labor; let us be ceedingly astute—and a master of timing. their mesas, no bonded whiskey. We no smart, too, and build plenty of tariff walls If he could not sell Mexico's nationalized longer had surpluses to sell to Latin to make our new industries profitable!" resources, produced by Mexican Coopera- Americans. Instead we had export restric- tivos, to the industrialists of the next tions, military priorities. The machines Thus we have arrived, rather blindly I door United States at a good profit for which we had used to make the things think, at a quite historic milepost on Mexicans there were plenty of other in- we shipped to Latin America were dis- the highway of inter-American commerce, dustrialists, and governments, in 1938, he mantled, set aside to make room for new economics, profits, and opportunities. I could make deals with. And in several machines that could make more and more think we ought to look facts in the face, instances, for resources we needed but war materials. and not with the eyes of a has-been. The Colossus of the North, in a world crum- fMP-ULSES By Ponce de Leon bling to pieces, is a bigger giant than ever among nations and men; but we are looking, too, into a new era for the people of the other 20 Republics of the American Hemisphere. Here, between the Atlantic and the Pacific, are two hundred million other people stepping into their own Cen- tury of the Little Americas. And they will have their own subtitles and slogans, such

as "Brazil For The Brazilians!" . . . "Ar-

gentina For The Argentines!" . . . "Chile

For The Chileans!" . . . "Peru For The

Peruvians!" . . . "Colombia For The

Colombians!" . . . "Cuba For The Cubans!" No more take-home fortunes for gringos. No more mineral concessions, oil leaseholds, utility franchises for foreigners. No more exportable profits for branch industries of U. S. corporations. Plenty of protection, by priorities, regulations and taxes, for native industries. Adios, El Club de Los Millones! But I don't see the Past as being better than the Future. The next score of years will be so much brighter for so many people south of the Rio Grande that they ought to contain assets for us, too, who live in the same booming hemisphere.

42 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 From Texas to the Straits of Magellan Riley — in Latin America. Big, spacious> a pleasant Chilean partner. Chile's new more natural resources of the Western homes, thriving little big businesses, import duties will give him plenty of pro- and , Hemisphere will be developed than ever lush country haciendas, fishing, and hunt- tection—from his old boss in Dayton. We

before, more long dormant treasure for ing clubs; more holidays, some months,, will sell fewer storage batteries to Chile-

Americans; more communication and than working days. They have adopted the; ans—but we'll surely sell more and more transportation systems will be built in the pet philosophy of the Latin Americans, machines, equipment, and processes for ,

next 20 years than in the last 200; and a "Salud y Pesetas y Bastante Tiempo Parai making all sorts of batteries to all the capitalize booming industrialization will Gastarla!" Which means, in English,, Latin Americans.

on all the inventions of the modern ma- Health and Wealth and Plenty of Time to> chine age. The long sleeping Colossus of Enjoy Them. Colombians, Peruvians and Brazilians, the South has, at last, awakened. We had "Well," scores of young and old North though possessing great cotton and

to spend years, generations, inventing ma- Americans have told me recently, "I'd1 wool resources, only a few years ago im- chines, plants, and technological proc- ported shiploads of cotton and woolen tex- esses. The Colossus of the South, now, tiles from the United States and England. only has to buy them. A-* Now they have built their own textile mills, Here are the U. S. Corporations and they are already exporting cotton and The list of what we—you—can sell Latin which through branch factories have woolen textiles to other South Americans Americans seems, for 1949, almost end- been past industrial pioneers in the who used to be our customers. Ten rapid- less. They will want machine of all kinds, other American Republics. ly expanding shoe and leather goods fac- industrial equipment and blueprints, syn- tories in Argentina, pioneered since 1935, United Shoe Machinery Corporation thetics, technical processes, chemical already produce more shoes and leather Singer Sewing Machine Company, formulae, patent rights. They will buy products than the Argentine can use; they assembly systems and services. And I think they are exporting them to other South Ameri- will be our best world market for ideas. Swift & Company, Canning cans who used to be our shoe and leather They can possess, pronto by cablegram Armour & Company, Canning goods customers. Many people do not and fast steamer, our most modern ma- Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company know it, but native Mexican shoe factories chinery, equipment and processes, and Johnson Wax Company have for several months been exporting those of England and Europe, too, if they Corn Products Refining Company shoes to the United States, shoes made in want them. But we have the golden op- Ford Motor Company, assembly Mexico much cheaper than our own shoe as hemisphere neighbors, for factories can produce them. Bountiful new portunity, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company teaming up with these new capitalists and hydroelectric power assets, plenty of International Printing Ink Company industrialists of the other American Re- cheap labor, and cheap raw products are Lehn & Fink Company public^ putting our machines, processes being hooked together, at last, by the Parke, and formulae together correctly and, often Davis & Company people who live in Latin America and for as partners, efficiently and profitably run- RCA Victor Company the benefit of the people who live in the ning them. Standard Oil Company, refining & other American Republics. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! The show's al- canning We can't beat them, believe me — but ready started — and there's a big line W. R. Grace & Company, Textile Mills we can join them, if we go south, as quick- waiting—at Europe's ports and consulates. Texas Company, oil refining & canning ly as possible. Keep in mind though that If you do not see these great new oppor- Daggett & Ramsdell, cosmetics a partnership arrangement is necessary. in thriving If have other ideas, you had better tunities for being partners new General Electric Company, assembly you American Hemisphere industries there not make the trip. Armco International Corporation, are plenty of others who want them. Dur- If you have a good know-how I.Q. and foundries ing the last twelve months for every U. S. really want to spend the next ten years Standard Brands Inc., food packaging Citizen who sailed or flew southwards profitably pioneering with it, in Central International Cement Corporation there were four Germans, three Italians, or South America, the problem is simple: three Czechs, two Poles, three English- Curtdss- Wright Corporation, aviation Get in touch with the people in Latin men, and an assortment of other Euro- assembly America who are buying our machines, peans, all migrating with families and International Tel. & Tel. Corp., equipment, industrial processes and prod- technical training to get jobs or partner- communications ucts, and our specialized services, and ships in Latin America. There has been Otis Elevator Company, assembly also with the people in the United States so much recent controversy over how Frederick Snare & Company, who are producing and exporting them, many and what kind of European refugees construction and ride south with them! we should let into our ports that many Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company best club of the future for us North people have overlooked a very important Firestone Tire & Rubber Company The fact: Most of the smartest technicians of Americans will be the Club to which E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Europe—the master mechanics, chemists, the native capitalists, industrialists, busi- White (S.S.) Dental Manufacturing and professional men belong. We'll be electrical engineers, draftsmen, industrial Company ness architects, metallurgists, and war-im- lucky, at this late date, if we are invited International Harvester, assembly poverished industrialists — have already to join them. For almost a century we've studied the opportunities in both the Johnson & Johnson, packaging bulk tried to be very exclusive, with our own United States and Latin America, espe- imports gringo clubs and corporations. There will try- cially for little businessmen who want to Electric Bond & Share, power still be some of us who will keep on grow bigger and bigger, and have chosen installations, etc. ing to fight the Latin Americans, eco- Latin America. Many shiploads of them nomically or financially, to block their at- their own have already migrated to new homes in "A"** tempts to get new machines or Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, industrial plants; some who will refuse

' America unless Colombia, Central America, Mexico and like some of that too! How can 7 get it?" to do business in Latin the Cuba. By doing the things which, up to now, they can do it all by themselves, as in past, without Latin American partners, For years that has been one of the great we haven't done, I tell them. By hurrying; ' But there hidden liabilities for us in Latin America: down to Central or South America for stockholders or co-directors. the rest of us. so few of us have been inter-American partnerships, rather than as conquista- will be plenty of room for States, we pioneers while so many Europeans have dores. By taking our technical know-how The strength of the United on the allied become residents and citizens. Thousands to the other Americans. One North Ameri- should remember, is based entire American hemi- of European families migrated to Latin can, for instance, who only a few years agoi strength of the Republic and America during and after the First World was working for a Dayton, Ohio, battery sphere, not one big rich twenty-one War and the Second World War has pro- maker, has become Chile's first manu- twenty poor little ones—but and well fortified Pan Ameri- duced an even greater exodus. Many facturer of Chilean storage batteries, withi rich, strong Nations. the end Europeans today are living the Life of a nice little factory that's booming, and[ can

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • 43 PERRY BROWN MAN WITH A MISSION REPORT t*** (Continued from page 28) headquarters in the city of Owensboro. War was declared Aloiies while he was in Ken- Reviews of Important \eu tucky, and he enlisted. From the Louis- ville training center, he was sent to it j r. wilson mmu \ Indianapolis, and there learned that his educational and other qualifications en- THE GREEN PROMISE actors are he-men, battling nature and titled him to try for a commission at Fort other men, without or pretty Benjamin Harrison officers' training A Glenn McCarthy production for RKO makeup sets school. On his graduation he was com- release starring Marguerite Chapman, or dreamy photography to clutter up a missioned a second lieutenant. Walter Brennan and Robert Paige. fine performance. Mr. Barrymore, always a great actor, deserts his wheel chair for Here is the picture The American Le- crutches, a difficult feat for a his Shavetail Brown was assigned to the gion has been asking for — a story that man of age who has been crippled for so long. 342nd machine gun battalion of the tells not only of America's greatness but 89th Division Most amazing to this reviewer is the fact at Camp Funston, Kansas. about what makes it great. A Texas oil- that while the picture He was made an instructor in the division man, Glenn McCarthy, who believes in appears to be the real thing of the whaling ships which the American way of life and that this sailed out of New England, it was made country is still a land of opportunity, saw almost entirely on the studio lot. I saw a this script and was so impressed that he part of it filmed. The ocean is actually a huge concrete pool with machines to whip up the water into the fury so typical of the North Atlantic, machines to make fog, machines to create winds of near-gale velocity, and behind it all a big wall on which is painted the horizon and sky. This can very possibly be one of the great pictures of the year, just as Sitting Pretty, The Search and Johnny Belinda were outstanding in 1948. Recommended without reservation.

f FAMILY HONEYMOON A Universal-International picture with Jeanne La Duke was picked from Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and 12,000 for The Green Promise Rita Johnson. A college professor (MacMurray) mar- ries a widow (Claudette) and, because of formed a new film company to bring the a last minute accident, has to take the "Dip if in starch and story to public attention. It is a simple widow's three children along on the press it back on" story based upon the premise that the honeymoon to Grand Canyon. The chil- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE greatest single reason for the rise of this dren are alternatively lovable, indiscreet country as the greatest food producing and downright pesky. The result is a fast nation in the world is to be found in the moving hilarious evening from start to machine gun school and attached to the national 4-H clubs made up of two mil- finish — the freshest comedy since Sitting staff of General Leonard Wood. lion farm youngsters who have dedicated Pretty. The two stars have a natural, cas- While training machine gunners at themselves to the proposition that the soil ual way which they never lose, even in Camp Funston, he invented a clinometer. is bountiful only to those who have the The British machine guns were fitted with heads, hearts, hands and health to treat such instruments, providing elevation as it properly, and that it will give back only well as direction, but the Americans were in direct ratio to what has been put into training with guns that didn't have them. it. The picture portrays a father and four Brown's invention was based on the prin- motherless children who try to wrest a ciple of the transit. He claims no inventor's livelihood from the soil. It deals not only rights and did not pursue that phase of with the struggle against nature, but also his work past his training instructions. He of the trying battle the younger genera- was just getting a job done, with tools tion often is called upon to fight against that American democracy had not at that the fixed ideas and hard prejudices of time developed though the Germans and some of the older folk, who think their the British had them. old-fashioned way of farming is best. This In April, 1918, Brown went overseas picture is heartily recommended to all with the 89th division. It wasn't long after ages and all groups and especially to the landing in France that he went into action, Legion. The team of Colbert-MacMurray in the front lines. Gas was the first thing again turn in a fine performance he encountered. DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS "There was nothing worse in this war (World War II) than the gas used in A 20th Century-Fox picture with Richard the zaniest scenes. Best crack of the show World War I," Brown will tell you. "When Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stock- takes place when the family is on the they found out a new outfit had reached well, Cecil Kellaway and Gene Lockhart. train. The little girl, not realizing the the front, they gave them the gas treat- Those who know the sea — its magnifi- meaning of step-father, inquires in a loud ment. It was awful — it does things to a cence, its mysteries, its tragedies — cannot voice which echoes throughout the train, man." help liking Lionel Barrymore as an 80- "Mama, you're not going to sleep with He was soon back with his outfit, after year-old sea captain who wants to bring that man, are you?" And mama doesn't. treatment in a field hospital for his first up his grandson, played by 11-year-old As entertainment, this is just what the bout with German gas. In August he was Dean Stockwell, in the tradition of the doctor ordered. Hollywood needs more of promoted to captain. family and the sea. In this picture the this type of entertainment. Recommended. If there ever has been a more dangerous

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assignment in any war, or a shorter life expectancy, than that of a machine gunner in the first World War, there are some Return to Active Duty who will question it. These doughboys were described as being members of the "suicide squad," because they were given the toughest sort of front-line jobs and Opportunities Awaiting everybody on the opposing side was after Many them, first. Add to that the additional hazards and responsibilities of a machine — — officer, — Forte Officers gun outfit's commanding and the Former Air word "expendable" takes on an awesome r meaning. It was during the great St. Mihiel drive Vacancies exist now for officers under the age of 40 in all company that Captain Brown received his knock- grades. All applicants must have high efficiency ratings. out blow. An Allied offensive was under Sufficient applications from field grade officers and from officers way, and he was leading his company in in all grades seeking flying assignments now are on hand to meet the first assault wave across No-Man's Land against an enemy machine gun nest. immediate requirements. The date was September 12, 1918, first Officers applying for extended active duty must be commissioned day of the drive. in the Air Force Reserve or the Air National Guard of the United Charging straight up the face of a hill. States. Former officers who do not now hold commissions may Brown almost collided head-on with a apply for U. S. Air Force Reserve commissions at the same time .77-millimeter shell hurled from a Ger- they volunteer for duty. man gun that had him under direct fire. The shell landed a few feet away and the machine gun captain fell near its big IF YOU CAN QUALIFY crater. A great place was torn in his right Many interesting vacancies are now open in a wide range of pro- leg by shell fragments. Almost before the fessional, technical and administrative fields. Never before has explosion died out, several other shells the Air Force offered Reserve and National Guard officers such landed in quick succession nearly in the opportunities. same spot, so that Brown was almost buried in dirt and debris. ONE OFFICER, who recently returned to active duty, has an Air Force job comparable to being executive to the treasurer of a I is men hauled him out and back to civilian firm employing about half a million people with a gross il their own lines. Four German prison- business of approximately five billion dollars annually. ers newly captured were detailed to carry the badly wounded American officer on a ANOTHER, a management engineer by profession, has a job in stretcher back to a field hospital, and the Air Force similar to being the executive in charge of the thence to a base hospital. He was hospital- statistical services of the largest air line in the world. ized for seven months, the Armistice You, too, have this opportunity! You can volunteer now for meanwhile being signed two months after three years of active duty in the highest grade you held prior to iie was hit. "That's the time a fellow thinks about relief from wartime active duty . . . receive valuable training those that just missed him," he says of for a new career in the Air Force, in the aviation industry, or in his days in the hospital. "I began to ask the field of commercial aviation. myself the question, 'Why wasn't I better prepared?' Special opportunities exist for officers with military He became interested also in veteran rehabilitation, for he had a problem of or civilian experience in these fields: his own, staring him right in the face. * Communications And he knows, for he learned there, what Radar Navigation Electronics and Radar wounded men think . . . "Who knows better than the man on the next cot?" * Supply— Procurement, Pro- Public Information You see, the Browns, like most Ameri- duction and Renegotiation cans, didn't believe in military training. * Intelligence (especially Chemistry "We were a civilized nation," Perry photo-interpreters) recalls that he thought in those Brown Inspection — Technical and Weather pre-World War I days of peace. "Our Administrative principle and policy was: Turn the other * Air Installation Civil Aeronautical Engineering cheek. Physical strength was something — Engineering boasted, and depended upon, by the bully; Photography the brain guided the actions of civilized Management— Finance, people." Accounting, Budgeting But in 1918 he had come up against the and Statistics Law stark fact that everybody in the world doesn't look down on a bully, or think that Appl ication Form 125 may be brute force is uncivilized. obtained at your nearest Air After his release from the hospital in Force Base, your local Air February 1919 he was sent to Germany Reserve Unit, any U. S. Army for a short time, with the Army of Occu- and U. S. Air Force Recruit- pation. But his engineering record of prewar days soon drew him back to Le Mans, ing Station, or write: Chief where he assisted in the great return of Staff, United States Air movement of the American Expeditionary Force, Washington 25, D. C. Forces. He himself got home in September, (Attention: Recall). U.S. AIR FORCE 1919. That was just a year after that high ex- U. S. ARMY AND U. S. AIR FORCE RECRUITING SERVICE plosive shell had laid him low on the (Continued on page 46)

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 (Continued from page 45) —that was in 1932—just as the depression has put as much consistent time and effort Western Front. The United States had a began to be felt heavily in that section of on the subject as the Legion's current pitifully inadequate rehabilitation pro- the country. leader. gram for its injured veterans, he soon As business conditions bettered, Perry The basic idea was to build a trained found out. Brown utilized his engineer's and build- citizen reserve, as opposed to the mainte- If a man had been shot up — couldn't er's knowledge to become one of the really nance of a large professional military es- make a living as he had done before he prominent contractors in the South and tablishment. entered the service—he could get govern- Southwest. He built many peacetime For years Brown discussed the subject ment assistance in a rehabilitation pro- projects, and in the early phases of World with fellow Legionnaires, ministers of the gram, to try to learn some other way of War II was borrowed by the armed forces gospel, educators, civic leaders, news- making a living. to devote his experience and talents to papermen, and his personal friends. He Perry Brown, with his badly injured leg setting up a number of bases and canton- made many talks and he wrote many couldn't get about in the field as he had ments. He was released for awhile from articles for publication in his hometown done as a civilian engineer before the war. active duty as an infantry officer to super- newspapers and elsewhere, and this writer He decided to go to Rice Institute in vise the construction of a housing project can testify that he always made a good Houston, changing to a type of engineer- and receiving station for the Navy at showing. As time went by, Brown's idea ing that did not require a lot of walking. Orange, Texas, 26 miles east of Beaumont. for a peacetime military setup that would What did this World War I rehabilita- Upon his return to active duty—he had do the job without militarizing America tion arrangement for Perry Brown amount entered into service in World War II from or interfering with the American boy's to? Well, he always had been pretty good reserve officer status—Major Brown was normal education and business life, be- in the sciences, so he became interested assigned to the post of professor of mili- came a working plan its opponents found in the production of sugar from sweet po- tary science and tactics at Louisiana State most difficult to refute. tatoes. That undoubtedly was one of the University, Baton Rouge, and was pro- Brown visited virtually every military original projects in the field of chemurgy, moted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel camp in the country. He talked to in- but they didn't call it that. of infantry. structors in both the regular army and At any rate, the project was bona fide Warren Atherton of California, one of the air forces. and had the active blessing and assistance Perry Brown's close friends in many an Through service on department com- of certain members of the faculty of the American Legion job, next called for his mittees, on up to the Legion's National Institute. After all, someone had to find services. Brown had been so successful Defense Committee (to which he was ap- out sometime that the sugar in yam pota- in the ROTC program he had set up in pointed in 1936 by National Commander toes doesn't crystallize. over 100 Louisiana high schools—training Harry Colmery) Brown worked his way. After a year of pursuing his education also the men who trained the boys— that He became Chairman of this committee— at Rice, with government financial assist- Legion Commander Atherton spotted him now known as the national security com- ance, as he experimented with sweet po- as the man to carry the ball for Universal mission — in 1944 and was still chairman tatoes and adjusted himself to a new way Military Training. So the War Depart- when he was elected National Commander of life, Perry Brown called it a day. He ment was prevailed upon to release last October. moved to nearby Beaumont, in the Sa- Colonel Brown to that program, General As a member, and chairman, of this bine-Neches shipping, oil refining, lumber Marshall consenting. group he was able to broaden the scope and cattle country of southeast Texas. Perry went into this big job working in of his investigations. As he was shown He chose Beaumont because of his in- co-operation with the Legion, the reserve over the nation's postwar military estab- terest in the metallurgy of steel. There officers and the National Guard. He rep- lishment by a government grateful to was an East Texas iron ore development resented the Legion in the work with the have the active interest of The American under way at that time. However, it did House committee on a postwar military Legion, he visited even the defenses in not pan out until many years later. establishment. Alaska. His background and his devotion But Brown was in Beaumont and he The American Legion, Perry Brown gained him the reputation of being the had to have a job. He joined the Beau- points out, has favored a UMT program best informed civilian in America on na- mont Building Material Company, and since 1919. A number of people have given tional security. soon was named vice-president and gen- a great deal of study to this proposition And so he brought his findings back to eral manager. After 12 years with this since it first was broached in general the people. The program became the concern, he organized his own company terms, but it is doubtful that' any other people's program — "We weren't satisfied for it to come from Washington, as a man- date from above; it must come from the people." He talked at all kinds of meetings and to all sorts of people, getting intelligent, constructive criticism and suggestions on what by this time had been whipped into a definite, concrete plan. No gospel evan- gelist ever labored more diligently in the vineyard than did this man Brown in his mission for peacetime preparedness. He prosecuted the program to the limit of his resources. And as the support from the citizenship mounted, Brown went back to Washington for a final series of conferences, and the legislative showdown. The Eightieth Congress was not quite ready for UMT. But the companion meas- ure, providing for the first peacetime draft, was adopted. Brown and the Legion committee and the other workers from the Organized Reserves had a prominent hand in that. Perry Brown summed up the situation like this: "Congress was called into special session last year to pass the highly essential "Wow!! This is going to give the government a new lease on life!" European Recovery Program. To perfect AMERICAN LKOION MACAZINE this program, the President said, we needed to increase our armed forces.

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(Continued on page 48) KLUTCH CO., Box 4952-C, ELMIRA, N. Y. Steger Bldg., Chicago 4, III. The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • £J (Continued from page 47) complete a required course in army, navy Legion then went to Secretary Marshall. or air ROTC. He might enlist in the Na- WANT TO EARN Said he: 'I see no possible way financially tional Guard or a unit of the organized to maintain a reasonable military posture reserves. He might enlist in the regu- S9000 A YEAR? except on the foundation of UMTV lar armed forces. Or he might complete "This is our answer. We need a UMT his training in the security training corps, Then here's your chance to enter a business program. Our work, then, on UMT is really as still another optional alternative. offerinu an opportunity for unlimited earnings ahead of us." In any event, at the end of his training . . . plus the satisfaction of rendering a worth- while service in your own community. Many of That's the way Perry Brown works. the American youth will have been our representatives earn $4000 to $9000 a year That's the way all the various ideas and schooled in essentials, with a minimum of and more! proposals were worked out and sifted and lost motion, and will be ready for any To find out more about the opportunities boiled plan national offered to you in a life insurance selling career, down to the UMT which was emergency on short notice. Those send for our free booklet. presented to the last Congress labeled as unfitted would be exempt from this pro- For those who qualify our program includes the American Legion plan, as developed gram from the start, so that there would excellent on-the-job training course, and the an by and with and for the average citizen. be no guesswork about what the nation's Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan provides Revised refined still further, it is strength in liberal commissions and service fees, with a and peace actually was. comfortable retirement income at 65. For com- again before the Congress and the calm Does Perry Brown know what he is plete information send for our "opportunity" and assured smile worn by the new Legion talking about? Go back to that day in bookli'i today. Commander must mean that he senses a 1918 when he lay in that shell hole and crowning achievement to his long and ar- began to ask himself why he had not been THE MUTUAL LIFE duous efforts. better trained to protect himself. Follow of NEW YORK INSURANCE COMPANY The Legion's UMT plan -call it the him through his work as a scoutmaster, Brown plan and it will be no misnomer — and in the rearing of three and two 34 Nassau Street ^ New York 5. N. Y. boys is designed to implement and support girls. His interests always have been with FOR FREE BOOKLET ADDRESS DEPT. 4 America's new foreign policy in these par- the youth; he has played with them and lous times, with a minimum of dislocation he has worked with them. He talks their NAME AGE for the American youth. Just exactly what language just like he talks the language the UMT plan as adopted by Congress may of the wounded doughboy and the GI. be like is a matter of conjecture in a He knows the side of the civilian sol- number of details but in general terms its dier. One of his brothers, Ellis Brown, HEAD LETTUCE objectives are as follows: died at Camp Gettysburg, Pa., while in the The young American will get approxi- tank corps, in the influenza epidemic of mately half of his basic training the first World War I. His other brother, Paul, was GREAT LAKES-ICEBERG TYPE summer he is out of high school and be- teaching Greek in college when he en- 1 Resistant to heat and sun. Medium fore the fall college semester opens — or listed in the Signal Corps in the war of ALL size. Solid crisp heads. Send only 5c AMERICA for big packet and New as he turns 18, if he is not in school. 1917-18. 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50 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 Aih 1 1 1 mement learning something, but usually too late. For example, a man who is going to ride a horse should know which way is front. It was now July and we hadn't put one bed together. My carpenter neighbor, who was supposed to head up pro- From where I sit duction, had been doing over somebody's house. After that, he had promised to paint the school. But after that we would have the green light with us and we would Joe Marsh tear. Coming up weekends from New £y York, however, I came to suspect that he enjoyed the leisurely social contact of working out by the day. Also, he con- ducted much of his economic life on a

YOU TOO CAN HELP through RED^ROSS Dutch Miller's

Back in Uniform

After ten days in the city, Dutch is back in uniform. T don't mean Army khaki or Navy blue — but a different uniform, that's every bit as patriotic and American.

Blue jeans and a denim shirt, for work around the yards and barns; stout boots for tramping through fields; a straw hat when the sun gets barter basis. In return for car repairs, he high— a uniform you see from Maine helped the garage men make a tube-testing tank. He helped someone else make to Texas, Iowa to Alabama. a truck canopy. I am not sure what this It's the uniform an army— the was in return ior. The man was his of brother-in-law. great army of American farmers who, I had great respect for his skill; I had less for his philosophy: "Tomorrow is an- by their productivity, are helping to other day." But he will probably live keep this nation strong— bolstering longer than I shall. All I knew about woodworking was the forces of democracy that guard our what I learned in grammar school Manual Training Class, making a whiskbroom freedom. holder and tie rack. But on weekends and life, too, they during vacation I matched my two col- And in their way of lege degrees against routine shop opera- are champions of freedom. Temperate tions in a five-thumbed way. I had expected the work to run on ballbearings. folk who enjoy a moderate glass of But I learned not to be surprised at any- beer —but never quarrel with those thing. In an armchair anyone can be a Cap- who prefer cider. Tolerant people who tain of Industry. There it is possible to fight to the bitter end against oppres- transpose the idea of mass-production into the operation itself, and "tooling up" sion and intolerance. From where I is only a phrase. In the shop it is expense, sit, a credit to America! sweat, and exasperation. If it had depended on me, the automobile would never had advanced beyond the buck- board and motor. I had already ticked off "Things To Get" on tallies as long as a Christmas list in a family with nine children. Now I wore a groove to town to buy V-belts, multiple pulleys, bandsaw blades, or left-handed boring bits which had to be drilled, bored, milled down, grooved, welded, or otherwise fitted to specifications which, perversely, never were standard. Careless mill hands planed ripples into our best stock. Tools broke. We missed Copyright, 1948, United States Brewers Foundation

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • our first shipping date. We apologized to count for prompt payment had been taken. who fancy the idea of "a small business the buyer, but needlessly since the buyer The usual selling terms, I snorted, don't of my own." City. was resting at Atlantic mean any more than a song about love. I 1. Don't let me discourage you. This chin eyes bright. I pre- learned to ask, with humility, Keeping up and becoming country would never be where it is schedules which would where the pared production money was when an account today, economically, if no one had have won me a job in Detroit. Then we remained unpaid. One department store ever taken a chance, although some heard from the buyer, back from the account took two months, four letters, and individuals might now be wearing shore. The message: "Ship the rest of the one call to collect. Another, I believe, used shirts who aren't. order." The first part was at last shipped. my requests for payment to fire the boiler. 2. Be sure you know what you are doing. "No, I don't want to cancel. I want your But now we had money. I showed the If you are going to make knitted ties, stuff. It's good!" check to my carpenter friend. "Why, bless what do you know about making ties? Briefly, I was Dr. Bell and the first tele- her — — old soul!" he saluted the buyer Remember, 2543 businesses went pffft phone, Ford and the assembly line. I was irreverently. I smiled — for a moment. A in the first half of 1948 alone. creating something. I knew a satisfaction notation followed with the remittance — 3. More important, be sure you want to I didn't find at a desk. But if I was going three dozen headboards were split "due do it and are not looking for escape. to have a business, I would have to stay to green wood being used." We accepted You're not going on any holiday, with it. I quit office job. Many, among the returns and re-built them. The buyer, my brother. those I had worked with, were wistful. A I snarled, should see my bills for kiln- 4. Remember that working for yourself few recommended me to the company drying. in the hope of any profit is more brutal psychiatrist. I replied to them in kind and We tested the "green wood" by hanging than working for somebody else. There went to live in Maine, cheerfully. panels over the kitchen stove. The shrink- are no hours. You work all the time. Two months later I had won my Purple age was a quarter-inch to the foot. Don't 5. If you can, try Heart from the N.A.M. We had failed to talk to me about the "wonders of wood." out your venture with one foot on somebody else's payroll. keep up our supply lines. We were winged The wonder is that it is used for anything There's comfort, by cancellations, sinister half-sheets more delicate than barn-framing. boy, in a regular pay- check. barbed with "Mfr. can't supply" or "Long I always had a conventional respect for past due." There were symptoms of battle the successful businessman. Now I was 6. Don't invest more than you can afford fatigue on both sides. No deliveries would ready to fall on my face before his nerve, to lose and go on living. But be sure be accepted after December 1, after brain, imagination—and guts. Anyone who you have enough to swing it. That's November 25. The buyer said both. I asked can make the things people want in the more than you think. which. She could not find that she had amount they want when they want it at a 7. Start small. Until you know your ever said December 1. I said I had her price they will pay and come out at the product — how many you can make, letter. "Rowdy-dow-dee-dow! Come on, end of the year with his shirt—well, if he just what it costs, what it will do — you old devil!" My neighbor swore at the has two shirts it's all right with me. And "volume" can be another spelling of finishing machine, ripped out a few more one can be -400 percent virgin wool in "suicide." posts, and we sent off enough beds to make bright colors. 8. Before soliciting business, be sure you half our order. "That's the last of you, My reward for what I had been through can produce — up to quality and on damn you!" he grumbled, banging the was $3.61 profit, an inventory of doubtful time. Your first order can be a halo packages end over end to the truck. value and some depreciated machinery. or a noose. "I don't mind workin'," he said in a However, it was an interesting experi- 9. Don't aim to make a killing. You prob- persecuted voice, "but I don't like being ence, like being caught inside a sleeping- ably won't. If you do, there's the in- driven all the damn time." bag with no knife, and I feel I have won come tax. Eventually we received our check for the right to break out with some left- 10. Aren't you happy where you are? the last shipment. It was late but the dis- over conclusions for the benefit of others THE END

THE MEN WHO SPY FOR AMERICA (Continued from page 23)

spies and small-time agents for hire, this loyalty and freedom from foreign pres- CIA was interested in his background. same official declares, may be usable for sures. It had to do this so secretively that In this case, the report came back, messenger boys and flatfoot work, but no one, not even he, suspected that the "Loyalty check o.k." that is all. According to him, CIA much Next, CIA had to find out if the engi- prefers topflight men. neer was interested in the assignment. "They are the key to clandestine intel- This was a still more ticklish job. As one ligence," he says. CIA insider commented, "It was a beau- The recruiting and training of CIA tifully delicate operation in which we agents is no easy matter. "Enemy" na- could not tip our hand until we were sure tions have men spread all over America of the man, and yet we had to feel certain with no other assignment than to spot new that he knew what he was getting into." CIA agents before they go abroad, and An understanding was ultimately CIA knows it. Always, therefore, it must reached with the engineer, but then the guard against disclosing the identity of its troubles really started. He had to be personnel. And, always it must be on trained in all aspects of his assignment. guard against attempts by "enemy" spies He had to be "wised up" on the internal to get into its organization. (CIA men re- situation in the country he was going to. member all too well the two German spies He had to be given a condensed course in who, during the war, got themselves sent espionage—how to make contacts, how to to the Office of Strategic Services school track down data, when to buy and when in London where they received full de- not to buy information, and, of the ut- tails of OSS methods and equipment.) most significance, how to communicate his Not long ago, CIA heard of a young en- findings to CIA without giving away his gineer who was going into the Balkans sources or himself. He had to learn how on a business deal. The man had been to use codes, how to operate a portable there before, talked the language, was radio, how to set up a "post office"—a blind "I owe fifty-four dollars for a mem- alert and aggressive. He seemed the per- for the receipt and transmission of mes- ory course? I don't remember taking fect type. But CIA could not go up to him, any memory course." sages. say "You're hired," and ship him off. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE And to avoid compromising this new First, it had to check his personal agent, never during his entire training

52 * Tne American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 period could he be seen in the company Disguised as peasants, the Americans unimpeachable authority that death alone of any known CIA personnel. He was not set up a clandestine "assembly area" in a kept CIA from pulling off one of the big- even allowed to write or telephone CIA. suburb of Prague. Here they met the gest coups of modern times—the escape of Eventually, this engineer got off to refugees and briefed them for their flight. the late Czech President Edouard Benes Europe. He even had to arrange his own With the help of false identity papers, from the hands of his Communist captors. passport, visas and transportation. He did they then personally led the Czech demo- CIA agents penetrated right through get a telegram wishing him "Bon voyage." crats through road barriers, check points the cordon placed around Benes, after his It was unsigned, though. and literally hordes of Russian secret po- ouster from office, and asked him if he In this instance, CIA was lucky in that lice on the way to the border. There they would like to flee to the United States. it had a ready cover. Usually, it has to took them past the searchlights and ma- Benes said yes. rig a commercial deal or some other ar- chine guns of communist-commanded All arrangements for his flight were rangement to justify an agent's presence in the area to which he is sent. Many go as students or just as tourists. What sort of work have CIA men been doing in foreign countries? And how good has it been? Although CIA has pulled a number of boners in its short span of existence, it can be stated that it has also achieved some splendid results in the field of secret intelligence. CIA officials are banned from talking, and headquarters on the top floor of the Federal Works Building in Wash- ington, D. C, are barred to visitors, but this writer has been reliably informed that: Because of CIA's work, Marshal Tito's break with the Kremlin came as no great surprise to Washington. CIA men in Yugoslavia had notified our Government that the Belgrade dictator was purging Stalinists from his party. They even had discovered that Tito had shot one leading pro-Russian communist. It was CIA which learned of the con- version of the Soviet's Sixth Air Force into a long-range striking force and of its location, along with the Red Sixth Army, in Siberia. CIA has also done wonders in determining the placement of new Russian armament industries east of the Urals. CIA has kept Washington well-posted patrols into the U. S. Zone of Germany. completed when he was taken down with on the collapse of Chiang-Kai-shek's Not all of them made it. Some of the his fatal illness. military and political power. Americans and some of the Czechs paid Although some CIA men have been Down in Bogota, Colombia, CIA men for their love of democracy with their "killed in action," it can be authoritative- were well-placed that so they had warn- lives. In one case reported to Washington, ly stated that—to date—very few of CIA's ing far in advance of riots dis- the that only three out of a party of six succeeded secret agents have been unmasked. Some rupted the Pan American Conference in reaching the U. S. Zone. CIA men are reported to have been there, last April. (It must be noted here, This group, which included a ranking trapped in Finland and Hungary but most however, that of their some dispatches Czech general staff officer, was surprised of the other communist-authored "ex- were badly evaluated, and others en- as it was trying to steal across the border. poses" of "American spy rings" overseas tangled in State Department red tape.) The six of them had to double on their are said to be false. Persons in a position CIA agents have been able to pick up tracks and hole up in the forest while Red to know assert that these various "ex- the most intimate details on the lives and troops searched for them. For two days poses" are usually concocted by the Rus- activities (secret and otherwise) of vir- and nights, they hid there. During that sians for propaganda purposes. tually every prominent communist be- time, they had neither food nor water. As an illustration of the lengths to hind Iron "The Curtain." In fact, some On the third morning, they decided to which the Russians have gone in this di- of these Russian stooges probably would make a dash for it. They had only gone a rection, Washington cites the case of be astounded to see the CIA files on few yards, though, when they were Lieutenant Robert Dreher, the former As- them. They are said to include reports on spotted. A hail of bullets splattered after sistant Naval Attache in Moscow. This is everything from the sincerity of these them and only three got across the border the inside story of that case as garnered Reds' Marxism to their susceptibility to safely. One of the others was shot dead, from official Government sources. flattery, the brand of Cognac they prefer a second was wounded so severely that While on duty in the American Em- and the fidelity of their girl friends. he later died and the third was captured. bassy in Moscow, last April Dreher re- CIA men have been doing even more However, CIA was able to rescue over ceived a telephone call from a Russian than spy. Everywhere in official the world, they 1,000 other Czech democrats, among them customs whom he had met when have also giving been active assistance to such key figures as General Antonin he had been stationed in the Soviet Black the democratic elements that are fighting Bohumil Hasal, Deputy Chief of Staff of Sea port of Odessa. the Red tide. Minister of the Interior, Dr. Ferdinand According to the official report sent to After the Red putsch in Czechoslovakia, Ververke, once the Czech Ambassador Washington, the Russian told Dreher that a small group of these American agents the Czech Army, Joseph Cerny, former he, too, was now stationed in Moscow and set up an underground railway and helped to the United States, and at least three that he had some information he would hundreds of Czech democrats to escape members of the Czech Parliament. Most like to give him. He asked Dreher to visit the communist terror. They defied the of these refugees are now living in an him. It was here, Washington feels, that entire might of the Russian secret police Army camp at Oberursel, Germany. They 32-year-old Dreher made his only mis- — and won. have given the United States Government take. He should have realized that so This is how the CIA agents did it, as information of immense value. blatant an offer was obviously a frame-up, told this writer by high officials. In this connection, it can be revealed on (Contined on page 56)

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • gJJ in the history of game management over this question in 1928 — and the story is being repeated in Wisconsin today. From 1896, when there were practically no deer at all in Pennsylvania, to 1928, when the storm broke, the game commission built up its herd of whitetail deer. From 1905 to 1928 does were generally protected, and the law that they should not be shot became a custom. Hunters took an increasing number of bucks in season; 1,287 in 1915 and 14.374 in 1927. But by 1920 there was growing evidence that deer were becoming a curse in Pennsylvania. By 1928, in spite of every effort for relief except a general open season on does, the overpopulation of deer had created a wildlife emergency. These protected animals — whose only natural enemy in Pennsylvania outside of a few bobcats is man — were overrunning many areas, overbrowsing the forests, de- stroying the cover of other game and ruining farmland to such an extent that many farms were being abandoned! So what happened? In 1928 the game commission wisely forbade the hunting of A Feature For All Who Love Outdoor America bucks and declared a general open season on does. And it tripped heavily over the custom of sparing does. Hunters rose up This month's guest, Charles N. Elliott, lighted with the increasing number of in Director of tlie Georgia Game and Fish wrath and secured injunctions against Commission, points out some suitors per lady that they failed to pro- the open season on lady deer. The At- duce any children. Within a few years torney General denied the right of the QUEER EXPERIENCES IN there were no rabbits within the en- commission to permit doe-hunting, and GAME MANAGEMENT closure. Rabbits, mind you! the fight was on in earnest. A violent example of what can happen The Pennsylvania Game Commission, to a lady animal with too many husbands without a friend in sight, persisted in its The heath hen, a grand American game happened in a monkey cage. The toughest efforts to whittle down the does and slow- bird, is extinct today, and it is probable monkey had a lovely wife, the only female ly gained some acceptance of the idea — that well-meaning bird-lovers blocked in a large group. So long as her muscular witn the help of the terrible pressure of the step that would have saved that bird. and ill-tempered husband lived the other the deer. The last known heath hens lived on boys left her strictly alone. Then came Deer, more than any other wild animal, Martha's Vineyard, an island off Massa- the morning when papa was dead, and in are mixed up in politics — because of the chusetts, where they had plenty of food the terrible battle among the heirs for special but conflicting interest caused by and protection. When it was noted that possession of the dead one's female prop- their beauty, their "big game" status and there were more male than female birds, erty Solomon's judgment was fulfilled. their destructiveness. Yet deer suffer experts suggested killing some of the Each surviving male made off with a little when game management is run by ballot males to balance the sexes. The idea of piece of the widow, and nothing else re- rather than science. The West Virginia deliberately killing any of the waning mained of her. game commissioner began this year to species was more than some well-meaning Many reasons have been advanced to prepare for a doe season next fall in view nature-lovers could stand. They success- explain the total disappearance of the of present overbrowsing. He may have a fully summoned support to block the pro- passenger pigeons. They were hunted and fight on his hands. Montana has one of posal — and soon the birds were extinct! shot unmercifully in the days when they the few laws which says clearly that the How come? Could killing off some of filled the sky— but did man shoot 'em down game commission may regulate the deer the birds have saved the race? Probably to the last few birds? He hasn't done it population when and where necessary. so. Among many creatures, if boys out- with other game birds. James Silver, Re- The Pennsylvania commission is now per- number girls, the constant courtship of gional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wild- mitted to hold doe seasons when needed, many males affects females so that they life Service, believes that here again the but hunters, by vote, may block a doe appear to become barren. imbalance of the sexes finally destroyed season in their county. Farmers can't vote The things we learn in game manage- the race. Slaughter near the nesting as farmers in such a deal, though they are ment are often the opposite of what we grounds in the last part of the nineteenth vitally concerned. Nevada permits local had always supposed. Not only may we century took a tremendous toll of the fe- groups of all interested parties to study sometimes favor a certain species by re- males. Though many were left they were and recommend steps for the control of moving some of its kind, we may also help outnumbered by the males. Then, Silver wild grazing and browsing animals in a species by sparing its apparent enemies. suggests, the lady passenger pigeons, like their areas. But when we learn these things unbe- the heath hens and the experimental rab- Today Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wis- lieving public opinion frequently prevents bits, just quit bringing up kids. consin have too many deer, as do Utah, the proper action. Maine, Colorado and other States to a The heath hen fiasco is but one example Would You Shoot A Doe? lesser and more local extent. Several of the balance-of-sexes theory, which States occasionally have an open doe sea- might require the destruction of males Yet sometimes it may be wise to weed son, and others which should are blocked for the good of a race. Recently, in an ex- out some of the female of a species. Should by political pressure. And though doe- periment, a number of cottontail rabbits a deer hunter shoot a doe? Never! That is hunting is never permitted except for the were released in an extensive wire en- never unless the law permits him to. Then good of wildlife including the deer popu- closure with all the good things to make perhaps he ought to! lation, you will still find sportsmen's rabbits grow fat and prosperous. As they Open season on does is only allowed in groups patrolling the forests in legal doe multiplied, half the females were removed. States where some does should be ex- seasons, urging hunters to leave the pro- Then what happened to the heath hen terminated to help nature's balance. lific lady deer alone! Just last fall the happened again! The remaining female The Pennsylvania Game Commission Governor of Wisconsin prevailed upon rabbits were either so harried or so de- ran into one of the hottest controversies the conservation commission to abandon a

54 * Tne American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 planned doe season—and yet for over ten years deer in northern Wisconsin have been starving to death by the thousands on the winter range. H"7" fl/CSC Author of Streamside Guide- Last year Pennsylvania deer were one of the most authoritative and practically useful "runty." Too many deer for the amount of winter food, even though in 1938 the books ever written on the dry fly — is a New York biggest deer bag in the State to that time State guide and a fly tier of wide reputation. He's a was all does—171,662 of them! When deer "trout specialist" — an acknowledged authority on starve on the winter range the fawns and young adults die first, for they can't stream lore and fly fishing. browse as high as the others. Nothing could be kinder in overpopulated deer WOULD THE LEADER HOLD? areas than to thin out the does with the / WAS LAYING OUT v^fXPios/m * hunter's quick bullet. Winter starvation a my ny on My f*' THEN THE ACTION S *™ COULD I KEEP HIM OUT OF is by far more frightful and cruel, but TAV0RITE CATSKILL THE RAPIDS? THESE WERE has steadily been the choice of sentimen- THE QUESTIONS talists and many sportsmen's groups. STREAM WHEN . . . $64 Friendly Enemies In the whole business of game management it doesn't pay to guess. Which would you suppose quail should dread most, foxes or mice? One quail may shiver in his cover when Br'er Fox approaches, but all quail may depend on the foxes to save them from the mice. Herbert Stoddard, who grew up around southern hunting plantations, was employed by the sportsmen owners of the Cooperative Quail As- sociation to increase the wild quail and turkey on their hunting grounds. When Stoddard arranged the extermi- nation of the quail's natural enemies — foxes, hawks, owls and other varmints — the quail also disappeared! Why? Give up? Well, Stoddard learned that rats and mice, instead of quail, formed the chief food of foxes, hawks, owls and weasels. With these predators out of the way the rodents multiplied unchecked. They overran the fields and woods and destroyed all quail nests and young quail. SURE ART WAS LUCKY For the good of the game birds the flesh- MOST FISHERMEN eaters were brought back—and up went HAVE TO BE the turkey and quail population thanks TO HOOK 'EM to the presence of their "enemies." AND LAND •EM Then there were the Kaibab deer herds BUT LUCK in Arizona. Wildlife experts estimated that each mountain lion killed about fifty deer AND H-i TACKLE a year there. Less lions should mean more ARE AN UNBEATABLE deer, so they polished off the lions with COMBINATION hunts and high bounties. Then the deer increased so rapidly that they over- browsed the forest. 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Dreher entered the man's office in the Moscow Customs House when MVD agents burst in on them. Although Dreher had taken no papers whatsoever from the man, the Kremlin proclaimed to the world that the MVD had found documents on him "with completely secret military information." Quite properly, the United States State Department commented: "In good American lingo, it was a plant." The Central Intelligence Agency is, of course, the first permanent intelligence organization in American history. Estab- lished on September 26, 1947 under the terms of the National Security Act, it has a dual function. It is charged with all American undercover operations abroad and with coordinating the intelligence activities of the Army's G-2, the Air Forces' A-2, the Navy's ONI and the State De- partment's Foreign Service. These other agencies, it should be pointed out, are only like for all things clandestine, it had con- also did naval intelligence work in Latin permitted now to collect information tinually shut its eyes to the need for America. Wounded at Pearl Harbor, he through "open channels." They can do no learning what other nations, even poten- commanded the U.S.S. Dixie for a time espionage. That is CIA's job. tial enemies, were up to. Not until Pearl and won medals for bravery in the Solo- CIA is responsible solely to the National Harbor No. 1 did Americans begin to see mon Islands campaign. Later in the war, Security Council, a top echelon board the danger of playing blind man's buff in he organized Admiral Nimitz' intelligence consisting of the President, the Secretaries world affairs. And then it was too late! network in the Pacific. of State, Defense, Army, Navy and Air, To give the United States a real intelli- What kind of man is he? and the Chairman of the National Security gence set-up before it again grew too As America's spy chief, Hillenkoetter Resources Board. late, President Truman chose as CIA di- shuns public life and publicity like the It was no easy task setting up a brand rector Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillen- plague. However, his brother- officers say new intelligence organization. There were koetter, one of the Navy's few intelligence that he is a friendly, easy-going man with no facilities, no contacts and practically specialists. considerable charm. They say he plays a no trained personnel to draw upon. Nor A big, burly man of 51, Hillenkoetter fair game of golf, reads a good deal, and was this strange. Always before the has concentrated on intelligence all of his spends as much time as he can steal from United States had scorned peacetime es- Navy life. Before the war, he spent many his desk with his wife and ten-year-old pionage. With traditional American dis- years as a Naval Attache in Europe. He daughter. On occasion, though, he can be plenty tough, they add. It took Hillenkoetter 17 months to build it but CIA now has a staff of several thousand men and women, and good ones! NEW EMBLEM Most of them were in intelligence during the war, many were with OSS. The^ir exact number and identities are top secrets, told only to the National Security Council. CATALOG Incidentally, it should be stressed that espionage is only a small portion of intel- Crammed with New Items for ligence work. Actually, the greatest portion of it consists of painstaking research Posts and Legionnaires into openly available material. It encom- passes endless digging into musty Govern- Ask to see copy mailed to your Post ment reports, technical journals, books, newspapers and magazines. One fact is Adjutant. Additional copies will be gleaned here, another there, and in the mailed to Posts and individual end a huge store of data is collected. To this are added the reports of our diplo- Legionnaires upon request. matic staff, the military, air and naval attaches and those of individual travelers. -Write for Your Copy — Today In that way a composite picture of what is going on across the seas can usually be National Emblem Sales, The American Legion, Indianapolis 6, Indiana developed. From this picture trained intelligence evaluators can generally deter- Please send 1949 Legion Catalog. mine what any nation is likely to do and Name how well it will be able to do it. Clandestine intelligence is resorted to Street only to obtain the information which other nations conceal behind a cloak of censor- CITY STATE ship. The experts say that it produces merely one to two percent of CIA's total Serial Number My 1949 Membership Card is intelligence output.

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For its research and evaluation work, — of possible rioting, pogroms, anti- AMAZING NEW CIA depends largely on former college American discrimination — and of Israeli professors, economists and statisticians. gratitude to the United States—will go to Most of them, however, are far more than the Council. cloistered academicians. In fact, a recent Constantly, CIA is asked for its estimate CIA study showed that 58 percent of the as to the danger of an attack on the United personnel in CIA's key Evaluation Branch States. In this respect, it has been the TROLLING ROD have had military service. It also demon- least alarmist of Washington agencies and CASTING AND strated that 98 percent have had over one so far, at least, events have proved it year of intelligence experience, 84 percent correct. 21" over two years', and 70 percent over three This is not to say that CIA is perfect. Nothing like it! Only overall, years'. More than 99 percent are college It has made and no doubt will continue to yet STUBCASTER'S patented coil t w graduates and among them they speak make blunders. However, the White House ' spring gives thrilling, live 5 ft. action. and the feel that it is and read 29 separate languages. Some 95 Pentagon both doing Breaks down to 1 4", so fits any tackle as — — percent speak and read one foreign lan- good and even better a job as one box. Shortened arc means greater casting 71 percent speak and read lan- can expect from so young an intelligence guage, two accuracy, maximum distance. Reduces guages, and 23 percent speak and read organization. Already, they say, it can backlash! Cast 3 or 4 in a boat without three languages. Three out of every ten stand comparison with the British Secret tangling linesl Brings fish right to net are women. Service and that doughty outfit is 539 fewer losses. Especially adapted to pier- One of CIA's biggest jobs, by the way, is years old. In the words of that realistic to prepare special studies for the Presi- Congressional veteran, Walter G. fishing or trolling. Perfect supplement dent and the National Security Council. Andrews, Former Chairman of the House to any fisherman's equipment.

"The White House wants a report on Armed Forces Committee: ' without OjJ Russia's magnesium production," CIA will "CIA is off to one helluva good begin- be asked. ning." The CIA staff will then collect every The men and women who spy for Money back guarantee! iota of available information on the sub- America, he says, are doing a good job. If dealer can't supply, send check or ject, condense and analyze it and let the money Legionnaires who consider themselves order to President have a concise survey. qualified for clandestine work abroad or WALTCO Or, CIA will be told, "The National Se- for research work in America and who PRODUCTS curity Council needs an estimate on what want to join the undercover fight to safe- Dept. 100-C is likely to occur in the Near East should guard America should write the Director, 2300 W. 49th St., Chicago 9, III. the United States lift the arms embargo Central Intelligence Agency, Federal on Palestine." Works Building, Washington, D. C. NEW! LONGCASTER . . .conventional type, high A detailed prediction of Arab reactions THE END quality, solid steel, casting rod blade—42" long. Sensitive tip action! Fits all STUBCASTER handles PRIVATE WUMPERDOPP OF THE NEW ARMY only $4.95. Blade and handle (52")—$7.95. (Continued from page 15) Bronze Memorials Julius: Hello there, my name is Julius Julius: And you must be Sgt. Snead. Wumperdopp. Snead: In person! My, my, you look Show your respect for their deed M.P.: (warmly) Why hello, Julius. We've splendid! You know, in those pictures in imperishable bronze. Without obligatio we will furnish information about wid been expecting you. My name is Fred. your mother sent me, you seemed kind our range of Bronze Memorials and distinctly Julius: Honor Roll Tablets. Pleased to meet you, Fred. of . . . well, pale. But you're not at all. By WRITE US TODAY M.P.: Did you have a nice trip? George, it's grand seeing you! Julius: Fair to middlin'. I had a little Julius: Same here, Sgt. Snead. But I trouble breaking through the shopping must say that your pictures don't do you crowd at Grand Avenue. any kind of justice. You're so bronzed! So M.P.: That's Save Your Feet too bad. But the important alive! So clean-cut! Thousands relieved from pain walk 1 thing is that you're here now. The way I Snead: (blushing) Well, you know freely with HEEFNER look at it, that's all that counts. good food, plenty of sleep, clean living. It ARCH SUPPORTS Julius: Well, Fred, where is he? Write for Free adds up. But don't call me Sgt. Snead. The M.P.: Who? Booklet other fellows call me Salvatore. I wish you FOOT Julius: who's The man supposed to meet would too. FACTS" me. Julius: Okay . . . Salvatore. HEEFNER ARCH SUPPORT CO., 67 Logon Bldg., Salem, Va. M.P.: Oh, I almost forgot. Sgt. Snead Snead: And now, guess what I've got said he'd be a little late. Some last minute • for you. (reaches into his pocket) MECHANICS HOME STUDY stuff turned up to detain him. But he Step up your own skill with tacts & figures of your trade. Julius: For me? Gee, I don't know. Audels Mechanics Guides contain Practical Inside Trade promised he'd be here as soon as possible. Information in handy form. Fully illustrated. Easy to Snead: Aw, come on, guess. Understand. Highly Endorsed. Check book you want for I hope you don't mind. 7 days' Free Examination. Send no Money. Nothing to Julius: I couldn't even try. pay postman. Carpentry $6 • DAuto$4« Oil BurnersSl Julius: (shrugging his shoulders) Well, Sheet Metal |1 • Welding SI • Refrigeration $4 Snead: (takes out a roll of bills) Here Plumbing$6» DMasonry S6 • L Painting $2 • DRadio $4 I guess it's all right. I'll wait. Electricity $4« Mathematics $2 • strain Engineers ?4 you are, Julius. M.P.: I knew you'd understand. Machinist $4» Blueprint$2»QDiesel$2 • Drawing S2. If satisfied only month until price is paid. Julius: What's this? you pay $1 a Julius: (takes out a pack of cigarettes) All DEL, Publishers. 49 W. 23 St.. New York 10. N. V. Smoke, Fred? Snead: Your raise in pay. You earned it. just follow orders M.P.: Heavens, no! There is nothing Now you and be a more detrimental to the lungs than nico- good soldier and ... (he winks at him) tine. in who knows what you'll get next month. colonial (models We the New Army look down on it. Julius: I see. (Takes out a package of Julius: (visibly touched) I don't know By SPORTSMAN how to thank you, Salvatore. Designed for permanent living. Write today gum) Gum? tor a free copy of Sportsman's new cotalog. M.P.: Well ... no, I'd better not. Not Snead: Forget it, kid. And now the while I'm on duty. (Sgt. Snead, trim and questions. bronzed, in an impeccably laundered suit Jidius: What questions? of khakis, enters from the left. He stops Snead: The ones you're supposed to ask and scrutinizes Julius' profile. Then, his me. Go ahead, ask. entire face one huge smile, he hurries Julius: About what? over) Snead: Anything, anything at all about Snead: (seizing Julius' hand) Well, well, army life. INDUSTRIES if it isn't . . . no, no, don't tell me! Let me Julius: But I don't have any questions. SPORTSMAN 6446 SOUTH WENTWORTH AVENUE guess! Julius! Julius Wumperdopp! Snead: Aw, go ahead and try. Please do. L. CHICAGO 21. ILLINOIS u The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • 57 .

Surely there must be something. There is Snead: It's terrible. nothing I want more than for you to ask Julius: Was he killed? WANTED me about things. Snead: Just as bad. He's in the Navy. Julius: Sorry, I can't think of anything. Julius: So? MAN WITH CAR Snead: Well, that's all right. But Julius Snead: (explosively) So! Did you hear — (his face warms with feeling) if at any what I said. He's in the Navy. Do you No Time Like time, anywhere, anything bothers you, know what that means? Now to Get In come to me. No matter where I am, no Julius: Gracious sakes! Tell me. McNess Business matter what I'm doing, come to me, and by Primm: (pulling herself together) It's It's no trick to make I'll I all right, I'm good money when you George, help you. All want is ques- boys. okay now. Julius, my "Store use your car as a McNess tions. Trust in me, Julius. Have faith in son Eliot, my only son Eliot is a sailor boy. on Wheels." Farmers buy everything I because I Use Your they can from McNess Men me. Ask questions. Ask questions. They . . . they treat him like dirt. He's McNess Products are tops in quality, represent extra values. Attractive busi- CAR Julius: (completely overwhelmed) been away for over a month now, and he ness-getting prizes and premiums; also I money-saving deals to customers make to Raise Thank you; I shall. But right now I don't still didn't get a raise in pay. There's no selling McNess daily necessities a snap. I . . I one to care for don't Your . oh, yes, by the way do have a ques- him. They explain We Supply Capital— Start Now! tion. At home I was looking through an things to him. They don't make his bed. There's no better work anywhere. Pays I PAY welt. i>ermanent, need no experience to I army manual, and there was a tactics They . . . they . . . (she breaks down again) start, and we supply capital to help you get started quick. You begin making money first day. problem that stumped me. Here it is: If a Snead: (putting his arm around her) Write at once for McNess Dealer Book. It's FREE. Tells all — no obligation. (I) battalion leader had to go through a Easy, Mrs. Primm. Don't torture yourself THE McNESS CO., 700 Adams St.Freeport, III. wooded area to attack an enemy strong- like this. point at dawn, would it be wiser for him Primm: I'll be all right, (dabs her eyes SERVICE CLUBS MAKE to use his own mortars for overhead fire, with her apron) call for artillery support, or air cover? Julius: Gee, I'm sorry, ma'am. You must MONEY... others make get Snead: I don't know. And now, shall be having a rough go of it. DOES THE WORK of BIG MONEY to the barracks? Primm: Well, let's forget about it for IN 1 we go 6 TOOLS •'Enclosed find 56 orders Holds 20 times its representing 91/2 hours Julius: Sure thing, (picks up his bag) now. Shall we? Let's talk about you. How Tues- weight in water work on Monday and day." "Enclosed are 12 I'd like to meet the rest of the gang. was the trip? orders secured alter sup- Hands * per this p.m. " Snead: (takes bag from him) Give me Julius: Oh, it could have been better. I Housewives Pleased that. You don't think I'm going to let you was held up. Everyone that sees this outstanding CELL- U -MOP carry that all the way, do you? Primm: Grand Avenue shopping immediately want one . . . That's the reason our dis- (to Well, crowds? tributors are so success- Julius: Okay, Salvatore. M.P.) ful . For MOPPING, WAXING, WALLS. WIN- so long, Fred, see you around. Julius: Yes, ma'am. DOWS. AUTOS and CLEANING RUGS. Sells M.P.: Righto. Oh say, Julius, I'm going Primm: Land sakes! You'd think they'd quick to Taverns, Clubs. Hotels, Hospitals, Stores. off duty in a little while. I'll take that stick do something about that. But I guess it's Restaurants. Homes, etc. Drain Bracket squeezes one of those things you boys have to put out water thoroughly. of gum. Write for FREE particulars (Curtain) up with. OLL-U-MOP CO., Dept. 1-3, FREEPORT, ILL. Julius: I'm firmly convinced of that, scene III ma'am.

( Several minutes later. An enlisted man's Primm: How is your mother, Julius? barracks. Sixteen maple beds with inner- Julius: Oh, she's fine. ZINNIAS spring mattresses line the walls. Next to PHmm: The rest of the family? The World's Larcest Flowered Rainbow each bed is a mahogany dresser. Overhead Julius: As well as can be expected. Mixture of Zinnias. Blooms 6* across. To I I introduce our Superior Seeds and Plants, are fluorescent lights. Hanging on the Primm: I'm glad. do declare! can't we will send you a Packet of these walls around the huge room are pictures get over how well you look. I must hurry Gorgeous Zinniasinias and CopyI opj ofol our Big New Cata- r lirf*™ log. Write Today. Send 3c stamp t postage. * Twiddle, the Commanding to my room and write your mother about Box 21 of Captain CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN Rockford, Illinois Officer, in various poses. On one he is it. playing baseball with the boys. On an- Jtilitts: Do you have my address? other he is grinning impishly as he play- Primm: Of course, we all do. (she walks fully ducks a private in the company away muttering, "He doesn't look a bit Inventors pale.") swimming pool. On another—a more seri- Patent laws encourage the development of inventions. Our firm is registered to practice before the ous one—he is selling Baltic Avenue to Julius: (to Snead) She seems to be keen. U. S. Patent Office. Write for further particulars as to patent protection and procedure and "Invention a Pfc. over a Monopoly board. On all the Snead: Oh, she's a pip. We've had her Record" form at once. No obligation. pictures are the same penned inscriptions, McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON Registered Patent Attorneys "To the boys, my boys—members of our \V.\ 1463 Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. one great big, happy family. All my love LLY and then some, Harold." As Julius and OTTAWA Tiller & Mower Snead enter from the left, Mrs. Primm, Mate B\e date Tiller and Mower with 2 H. P. "Red the barracks mother, is straightening a qpY to do vyify Seal Continental Motor.'* Two speeds and freewheeling. Does bed in the corner and humming) tr.SarqiAr!'.?- most any kind of mowing. Cuts ( FuU. lose to trees and fences. At- Snead: Hello, Mrs. Primm! Look what GREEN . tachments for soil tilling, etc. Julius.) I've got! (points to a blushing - ENS&MSLE Thousands in use. Sold liked orange J Mows direct to No 45th year FREE details. Primm: (walking over; her honest, ma- 40" Swath '.' ? Low price adc tronly eyes twinkling) Oh, I'll bet that's OTTAWA MFG. CO..CT 901 Lawn Ave , Ottawa. Kans. Julius! Julius Wumperdopp! I do declare! But he doesn't look at all like his pictures! LOOK He's not a bit pale! Snead: (clapping Julius on the back) for Rupture Help That's what I told him!

Julius: (flustered) I'm . . . I'm pleased Try a Brooks Patented Air Cushion appliance. This mar- to meet you, ma'am. velous invention for most forms Primm: My, my, let me fix my specs so of reducible rupture is GUAR- fixes ANTEED to bring YOU heav- I can take a good look at you. (she enly comfort and security — her specs) You do look grand! Just like day and night — at work and . . . just like . . at play—or it costs you NOTH- ING ! Thousands happy. Light, Julius: What is it, ma'am? neat-fitting. No hard pads or springs. For men, women, and Primm: (breaking down) Just li . . . children. Durable, cheap. Sent on trial to prove it. Snead: (to Julius in a low voice) It's Not sold in stores. Beware of imitations. Write for Free Book on Rupture, no-risk trial order plan, and her son. Proof of Results. Ready for you NOW! Julius: (in an anxious whisper) What (Ft March, 1933 A.L.M.)

BROOKS APPLIANCE CO., 104 0 State St., Marshall, Mich. happened to him?

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HE DIVES FOR LUMBER on Puget Sound. They have lots of timber scorn- at the bottom of Port Angeles harbor. Women appreciateGlider When R. W. "Bob" Forrest was diving fort, beauty and simplicity. Men By Harold Olson tor their ar- for the Coast Guard in the Pacific theater, appreciate Gliders chitectural strength and design. he didn't even dream that by 1948 he Gliders have the latest modula- SUPER-AUCTIONEERS tors which deliver even heat and would be the Pacific Northwest's leading the fresh air to every point in underwater logger. Southern California's newest and zani- trailer. When you buy a Glider you are assured of a home That's what he is today. At Port An- est creation is "the world's largest outdoor not distinctively designed but geles, Washington, where he and another auction," currently attracting an audience dated, one that will be "in style come. Remember, all veteran are in business, he has "logged" of approximately 100,000 a week. The for years to Glider dealers have a liberal close to a million board feet of hemlock place is "Auction City," occupying a 12Vz- time-payment plan. Write today literature. timber from the floor of the bay in one of acre site just twenty minutes from Los for free the unique salvage operations of the day. Angeles near a town named Downey. Forrest makes his living in an under- In the center of Auction City is a long, water forest — a weird tangle of sunken open shed 180 by 60 feet. Here 14 spielers logs in the booming grounds of the Crown all shout at once and woo bids from a Zellerbach Corporation, Pacific coast pa- crowd in front of the various stalls. GLIDER TRAILER CO.

1 828 WEST KINZIE per-making concern. He works in depths Fishing tackle, gas ranges, silverware, STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS of 20 to 120 feet, putting cables on "sink- puppies and kittens, tools, groceries, ce- ers" so they can be hauled to the surface. ramics, clothes, building materials, new FREE BOOKLET- For Those Logs recovered from the depths help sup- cars, furs, diamonds, furniture are among Who Suffer From ply the paper mills. the things to be found in Auction City — Some of Forrest's timber literally has a razzle-dazzle glittering show, mixed TOOTH DECAY! tentacles on it. Last summer the Puget with hot-dogs and hamburgers, the squeal TELLS WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT Sound octopus colony seemed to hold its of a calliope, the shouting of auctioneers Learn the amazing story of Deaf Smith Coun- convention in Port Angeles bay. Forrest and cries of lost kids. It's dusty, noisy, ty, Texas, where tooth decay is practically worked daily within a few feet of some but definitely fun for the whole family. unknown. The booklet, "The Trail Began in Texas," will be sent you absolutely free. of these strange creatures. But this fall While kids whoop it up on miniature thrill Just write your name and address on a penny the devilfish had disappeared. Where they rides at bargain prices of nine cents, their postcard and mail to: L. M. & W. Company, Box 1309-Y Marshall, Mich. went nobody knows. In their place were parents bid for things for their homes. rock cod, big, tough, bullheaded fellows. Who's behind this gigantic enterprise? FEET HURT? Forrest his partner got into first both How and Two ex-GI's who met when THY DR. BARRON'S NEW FOOT CUSHION iff.' fr iiit.tr this odd business is another post-war were members of the Fifth Armored Di- fo pains? Trv Dr. Bar- ron s New Foot Cushions. LIKE WALKING story. In 1946 he and Phil Tobin, ex-major vision. Capt. Albert G. Jeffries and Lt. ON A PILLOW! Soft. Spongy. Ventilated. Fits all shoes. Cushions vour arches and in the Army Air Corps, threw in together Charles W. Harris made plans before they feet from heel to toes. Dr. Barron says: "Wonderful for tired, aching feet!" Send to start a boat yard and marine at overseas that the war only S 1.98 for A PAIR, or C. O. D. plus ways went when was postage. State shoe size and if man or woman. 30-DAY TRIAL GUARANTEE. Monev the new Port Angeles fishing fleet haven. over, they'd meet again and go into busi- back if no blessed relief. ORTHO. INC. The business prospered, thanks to a lot ness. Some kind of business — they didn't 2700 Broadway, Dept. 61-C. N. Y. C. 25 of hard work on the part of the owners. know what kind. Nearby are three paper mills, including Separated on going overseas, they never STANDARD tS£Kt5SS TRACTORS £ PlOW ^ Powerful Gas Tractors for Small the big newsprint mill of the Crown Zel- saw each other again until after the war Se(*d Gardeners. Florists. Nurseri Fruit Growers. Poultrymen. lerbach Corporation, which supplies half when Charlie found his friend Al at Let- Cultivate^ Mow Hav \ 1 & 2 Cylinders the newspapers in the north Pacific coast terman Hospital in San Francisco. Capt. ,gh S hee1 Kubber or aad H S Ji ?;. Lawns* SteelTires. Walk or Ride. region. This company operates its own Jeffries was a war casualty, and spent two Do Belt Work Free Catalog jM tree farms, but was losing an intolerable years at Letterman and Walter Reed. STANDARD ENGINE CO.' MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. NEW YORK, N. Y. quantity of waterlogged hemlock logs in When the two buddies re-met, they de- 1220 Como Avenue 639 West 26th Street the rafting grounds. These just sank to cided they must have tinsel and flash and the bottom. a carnival atmosphere in their business in rr^FALSE TEETH Forrest conceived the idea of diving for order to compete for attention in South- these "sinkers" and got a contract to do ern California. So, there came the idea for IT TIGHT it. The partners rounded up three "sea their Auction City, complete with carnival FOR LIFE OF PLATE With One Application mules," a big marine gas engine, tanks, atmosphere. But most of all, they decided or YOUR MONEY BACK compressor, diving outfit, rigging and oth- there would be a policy of no cheating, Professionally Developed Amazing er equipment — every bit of it war sur- no chiseling, no deception. Furthermore, plus. Then they built a self-contained a money-back policy was set up. mobile diving and hoisting barge. If an over-zealous bidder finds he has LINO-DENT The rig worked fine from the start. In bid too enthusiastically, he has only to HEAL COMFORT INSTANTLY FOR ALL PLATE WKAHKHS ... No fuss or bother — looseness and about a year Forrest and his boys have tell his troubles to the two ex-Field Artil- slipping vanish — gun soreness heals and disap- pears — forever. recovered about 1,800 logs — enough to run lery soldiers. Take the case of the "too Not Messy — Not Sticky Not a paste or powder but an amazing develop- the big paper mill at least week, generous buyer." He sunk $300 in a silver- ment in field of plasties. The same material mortem a and dentures are made of. That's why we can guarantee perfect plate comfort permanently with one appli- "that's not hay," as the saying goes. ware treasure. When he got home, his cation. Absolutely Safe Pure, non-toxic, non-irritating, Forrest usually makes a dive a day, wife convinced him they could not afford harmless, odoiless, tasteless, pleasant. Needs no heat. Easy to use! hooking onto a half dozen 40-foot logs, this luxury. So back came papa, told his Monev back guarantee SEND NO MONEY — Full size package only $1.25 plus postage. Specify upper or lower. Both $2.25 plus each good for about a cord of wood. For- story half-way through and was promptly postage C.O.D. Enclose pavment and save postage. rest and his boys plan to "log" right given his original investment. (Do 99 B OA DWflY LINO-DENT, Inc. VU^RK i. 5 Y through winter, which isn't very severe By V. Skaar Phister

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— Julius: Say, Salvatore, how's the chance OUTBOARD of getting a uniform now? JTMSTfm Snead: Sure thing. Then after that we'll have dinner. . . fUiSxZi MOTOR WITH You know . (winks at him) chow down, like the old army used to say. (they walk to the door) Julius: After you. Gear Shift Control Snead: No, after you. (Curtain) scene IV start in neutral! (Twenty minutes later. The company forward or reverse! dining hall. Gay, flowered curtains bedeck Troll smoothly. the windows. A little fountain with a Go like a flash, statue new kindof outhoard, of the regimental commander JOHNSON QD 10 spurting water through his mouth is in horsepower (OBC cer- the center. The floors are carpeted in Ori- " rake h.p. at 4000 ental style. In a corner is a juke box, Only 56 lbs. Carry which floods the room with popular music separately, easily, in —that is, whenever Monk Monroe and his •Master fuel tank — company jive combo are off duty. Cun- plug it in, "click" urn ning, cruise for hours! hand-carved booths jut out from Fuel gauge, rubber the walls. On each is a menu and a candle mountings, automa- for midnight snacks. Trim blonde wait- tic motor speed con- "You've submitted a real master- resses hustle about taking orders. Snead trols, piece, Mr. 40 features! It's Fuddy. It not only has the and Julius enter from the right. Julius is different. See your O. Henry touch, but also most of the \ immaculately attired in khaki. Every fiber Johnson dealer. sentences." of the material clings to an appropriate for ree AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE XYfriit* ^ Handy Chart which illustrates and de- spot " f fXC> scribes all features of this great motor. on his body. It fits him so perfectly JOHNSON MOTORS. 1350 Pershing Rd..Waukegan,Ill. that if it were of a lighter color, it could Johnson Motors of Canada. Peterboro for four months now. I don't know what easily be mistaken for his skin.) OUTBOARD we'd do without her. The place was a Snead: (guiding Julius) This way, JOHNSON MOTORS mess before she came. But come, let's find Julius. I'll take you over to Captain you a nice bed. Twiddle's booth. He's probably anxious to A REAL MIDGET RADIO Julius: Don't trouble yourself. Any one see you. of these will do. Julius: Say, this place is nifty! CARRY IN POCKET OR PURSE Works on new diode — Snead: (carrying the bag leading Snead: It's not bad. But, boy, NEEDS NO TUBES, and you ought BATTERIES OR ELEC- TRIC "PLUG-INS." Julius to a bed) Now here's a good one. to see it when it's fixed up. (they arrive Plays years for nothing! You've got cross ventilation and an excel- at Captain Twiddle's table) lent view of the parade grounds. Or else, Snead: Harold, I want you to meet GUARANTEED TO WORK Julius loc station this one over here . . . oh, hang it all! Wumperdopp.

ck.. mo. ) and pay postman Julius: Twiddle: (rising his plus postage or send What happened? and dabbing mouth $3.99 and we pay postage. SENT COMPLETE. READY TO Snead: I dropped the foot. with a napkin) This is indeed pleasure, PLAY on simple attachment. JUST THE MIDGET TO bag on my a LISTEN AT HOME. IN BED. IN HOTELS, SCHOOL. MOST Oh, darn, Oh, fush, whilikers! Julius! Come closer to the light that ANYWHERE ANYTIMEl Wonderful gifts for anyone! Amaz- Gee Oh, so ingly low-prlcedl Order Nowl fishcakes! I can look at you. (Julius obliges) MIDWAY CO. Dept. TAL-3, KEARNEY. NEBR.

Julius: Are you all right? Twiddle: Hmm, just as I thought . . . Snead: Yeah, I guess so. I'm sorry for pale as a ghost. But we'll take care of the sudden outburst of profanity. I don't that. Plenty of fresh air, bathing. You'll swear as a rule. None of us do. But some- be in the pink. But sit down, fellows.

times . . . Well, you know, a fellow has to Julius: This is swell of you, sir. LETTERING sort of let go. Twiddle: Aw, can the "sir" business. Julius: (sincerely) I understand. You'll make blush. Call like 1 me me Harold TEAM MGRS. These big league cut, urge, roomy uniforms are quality- tailored of sturdy Cricket Cloth. (The front door opens. Rugged, sun- everybody else does. Unless you want to $11.95 Value. Our price only $6.95. 10 letters sewn on free. Write for Illustrated catalog and burned men in flawlessly-fitting khakis call me "Noodles" like the girls here do. fabric samples. Equal Savings on all other baseball equipment. dash into the barracks. Their eyes shine (he laughs and pokes Julius playfully BACHARACH RASIN CO. Dept. 22, 14 N. Howard St., Baltimore 1, Md. with the radiance that only comes from with his elbow) supreme happiness. They are whistling, Julius: Harold will be fine. PARATROOPER-TYPE laughing, and singing). Twiddle: Now, what'll we have to eat? Snead: (to Julius) Well, well, the men Julius: It really doesn't matter. I like JUMP BOOTS are back from the temperance lecture al- lobsters pretty much. ready. like to them, Twiddle: Bully! Lobsters it is! darn, Direct From Factory How'd you meet Oh Julius? I just forgot. We're all out of lobsters. New, sturdy, paratrooper- Julius: Salvatore, nothing on the face Used 'em up at the company picnic and rype boots designed for all of this earth would give me more pleasure community sing last night. How about round foot comfort, built for all hard outdoor wear. M; than to meet the fellows, the gang with some steak. of heavy, pliable, quality leather upper whom I'm going to share all this, (he Julius: Suits me. Takes brilliant shine. Goodyear welt construction. Hard box toe. Full grain- spreads out his hands as if to signify not Twiddle: How do you want it? leather inner sole and mid sole, all- only the barracks, but the camp and the Julius: It doesn't matter. I'm not a weather non-skid rubber outer eater. half sole-. Non-trip rubber whole army as well). fussy heel. Inner ankle webbing Snead: Very well said, Julius. Twiddle: Good, good! We need rugged and stitching, snug fit, firm Julius: Thank you. men. What about you, Salvatore? support. Long rawhide laces. Snead: (raising his voice) Fellows I Snead: I was sort of counting on lob- YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED want you to come over and shake hands ster myself, but if we don't have any . . .

GEORGIA SHOE MFG. CO. Flowery Branch. Go. with Julius Wumperdopp! (he shrugs his shoulders) we don't have Send me a pair of 'JUMP BOOTS." (The men run over and enthusiastically any. I guess it'll have to be steak. Enclosed is check___Money Order for $9.95. pump Julius' hand and wish him luck) Twiddle: (calls waitress) Two steaks, Postage CO D. or Add 254 in U.S.A. Snead: was the lecture, gang? honey, and let 'em sizzle. NAME How voices: Waitress: You bet, Noodles, slinks ADDRESS. Mixed Super, Whizz bang! Jim (she off) CITY dandy! Peachy! The cats!

Size and width of shoe_ 35 Snead: That's great! (Continued on next page) gQ • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 ( Continued from page 60) Julius: Say, Harold, this is quite a // LIGHTS UP WHEN set-up. ULBUNNY YOU TICKLE ITS Twiddle: Fair. Fair. Needs a lot of fixing, TUMMY!! though. I don't like the way the door is situated. Hell of a draft on the men near • The Ideal Easter Gift it. And the acoustics are awful. Some of the boys in the back can't hear the music • Has Electric Light Eyes That too well. Needs lots of fixing. Julius: How often do the men do K.P. Lite Up and Shine around here? Twiddle: K.P.? K.P.? Oh, K.P.! Kitchen • Fascinating to Young & Old Alike police! Ha, ha, that's out. Oh, we had it Here's a bunny who's completely captivating going for a while, but the men didn't like . . . tickle his tummy and his eyes light up to. all kinds of hell with their it. It played show you he loves you! Battery and two sleep and that sort of stuff. Of course, we colored bulbs come completely assembled . . . do have an enlisted man on duty at all can easily times checking the thermostat. Can't be be removed and replaced to last a lax, you know, (waitress brings two large lifetime. He's all pink and white, with the steaks and puts them down on the table) perkiest ears, a set of proud whiskers, and a Julius: Say, Harold, this is a bit of all bonny blue ribbon to tie around his neck. right. ONLY SEND N0 MONEY Rujh y°ur order today. Remit Wit I.I.Y • if O with order and we pay post- complete a9e or C. 0. D. plus postage. is delicious 2 ~TW?

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The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 * Q\ Julius: Oh, Harold, I like them all. Twiddle: (broken up) Stop! Stop! Twiddle: Well, speak up. What is it right! NOW-ftot/i sides of You're I've been wrong, so horribly then? wrong! Julius, I'll write at once. Julius: ( looking around) Are we alone? Julius: I wish you would. a vital argument Twiddle: (alarmed) Why yes. Twiddle: (his eyes shining now and his Julius: Good. This isn't going to be easy voice quivering) I promise. to say. I don't know exactly how to begin. Julius: (simply) Thanks, Harold. Oh by Twiddle: (walks over to him) Julius the way, is Jolly Sandy, the First Ser- what's the matter? geant, around? Julius: Well, before I start, let me say Twiddle: No, Julius, he's visiting one CORAL that I of sick have always thought you were a the men. Don't tell me that he

peach of a guy. I know that you have too . . . plenty of work to do around here. You Julius: Oh no, he's been writing regu- AND have larly. a whole company of men to take care Well, I guess I'll take off now. of, and it's only natural for you to make Twiddle: Look! (he holds up a pen and mistakes. sheet of paper, as if to signify that he's Twiddle: For goodness sake, what have ready to write the letter). BRASS I done? Julius: Good boy! Well, so long. I want Julius: It's what you haven't done. you to know that my mind is clear, and By General Twiddle: Julius, please tell me. I'm ready to serve my country as it should Julius: You haven't written to my be served. HOLLAND M. SMITH mother in three days. There, I said it. Twiddle: Where are you going now? Julius: Out. USMC (ret.) (Silence follows; tense, awkward silence. Twiddle, his forehead glistening Twiddle: Yes, but where and with who with cold sweat, paces the floor). The vitriolic memoirs of Twiddle: (stopping suddenly) You're "Howlin' Mad" Smith, including his own story of right; I haven't. I guess it had to get out the 27th Division on sooner or later. Now mind you, I'm not Saipan $3.00 making excuses, but I tried to write. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTl Honest I did. I just couldn't find time. Julius: Like I said, I understand that The History Of The LI TW/TT you're busy. But three days . . . ! tt Twiddle: (extremely emotional) Julius, CHILD in last letter to her— 27 INFANTRY my which was Wed- PSrCHOLOClST nesday, I think— I told her that there was DIVISION a chance I wouldn't write for a few days. Things came up. I explained it to her. By Edmund G. Love Doesn't she understand?

Official Army historian, author of the report on the Julius: Oh, she says she does. But some- Army's side of the Saipan controversy which ap- how by reading between the lines I could peared in the Saturday Evening Post, Edmund Love's story of the 27th is factual, authoritative, and fas- tell that she's upset about it. cinating $10.00 reading Twiddle: What have I done? What have

I done? (he buries his head in his hands) New Unit Histories Julius: (consoling him) Now look. LION IN THE WAY: The History of the 106lh In Harold, I forgive you, and I understand. fantry Division. The story of an outfit which put up one of the magnificent tights of the war, an outfit I realize how things turn up at the last whose really magnificent achievements in the Bottle minute. of the Bulge were cloaked by censorship. . . . $7.50 Twiddle: You know what we're up 6th Infantry Div $5.00 103d Infantry Div $3.00 against in the with last minute 24th Infantry Div 3.00 10th Inlantry Regl... S.00 army orders. 30th Infantry Div 4.00 129th Infantry Reg!. . $.00 Why, take yourself. Remember

76th Infantry Div 5.00 313th Inlantry Regt. . 5.00 yesterday when the company was at the 77th Infantry Div 6.00 363d Infantry Regt.. 5.00 theatre during Motion Picture Apprecia- 84th Infantry Div 5.00 506th Parachute Regt. 3.00 AMERICAN I.KUION MAGAZINE 88th Infantry Div 5.00 Fifth Army 6.00 tion hour, and they suddenly pulled you 91st Infantry Div 5.00 Ninth Army 4.50 right out of your seat to play Barnes of lOl.t Airborne Div... 7.50 3d Marine Div 5.00 B Company in the semi-finals of the bat- 4th Marine Div $5.00 talion checker tournament. You remem- —whom? We'd like to know these things.

Other unit histories available . Ask for list ber, don't you? Julius: I'm going to see some girls. THE AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE Julius: Of course I do. You're partly Twiddle: (rising wrathfully) Girls! See here, Private 1608 K St., N. W. Washington 6, D.C. right. But my mother . . . Look, Harold, Wumperdopp, don't you let me put it this way. Let's say, for ex- realize you're in the army? Don't you re- ample, that every commanding officer in call your soldier's oath? Don't you know Order NOW: Cash or C. O. D. the army just put off writing to the your General Order, "I won't fraternize AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE mothers of the men. Just like that, they with girls"? Don't you realize this is a 1608 K St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. stopped. I know it sounds horrible, but court martial offense? Gentlemen: let's say they did, just for argument's Julius: (white-faced) I beg your par- Please send me the books indicated. sake. Can you possibly imagine the conse- don, sir, but I am speaking before Girl quences? Do you dare? All right, so the Scout Troop 23, my mother's troop. I enclose $ Send C.O.D. men themselves would still be writing. But Twiddle: (covered with confusion; Oh, do you think that for one moment the I'm sorry, Julius. A thousand pardons. 1 mothers are going to believe that their hope you will forgive me.

sons are in . . . well, good hands . . . unless Julius: I'm afraid I can't accept your they hear about it directly from the com- apologies, Captain. I believe in forgiveness, manding officer? Let me tell you right but I cannot overlook your lack of faith

Name (please print) now that you're darned right they won't. in me. I'm afraid, sir, that I have no alter- They'll worry. And how they'll worry! native but to resign from an army which Street Harold, that's what my mother is doing does not trust its men. right now. Of course, she doesn't mind (Captain Twiddle's arms jail to his side City Zone State the three days so much, but you know and his head drops hopelessly on his MARCH/ 49

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The American Legion Magazine • March, 1949 • The food was bad. Nothing had been right. A native to the general region but a stranger to the churchman, who had come over the route just behind him, was tell- PARTING ing a group of listeners about his experi- SHOTS ences. His profanity was uninhibited, his descriptions graphic, and his resentment at the cruelties of Mother Nature under- OVERSIGHT standable. My sweetie pie has gone away Finishing his diatribe with warmth, he And I am filled with gloom; turned to the quiet elderly man for cor- She said that she'd write every day — roboration. "Neighbor," he asked, "how — — — But didn't say to whom. f did you find the trip to this — By F. G. Kernan country through that storm?" "Just about the same as you described BLANK CARTRIDGES Me icalk for many moons.—I've waited it." said the Archdeacon dryly. — The great Thomas Huxley had the abil- plenty long for a new car. By August Burghardt horse come. 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