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Wht-n Wally Richards Contents for Jnly 19SO painted this month's cover, he drew a com- ANOTHER CHANCE FOR CASEY (fiction) posite of some of the homes lie rememhered BY LARRY SIEGEL 11 as a boy, and the other The renowned slugger returns to bat details proved easy to do. When he came to the drum, however, TERROR BY LAW every Legionnaire he BY GEORGE N. CRAIG 14 knew wanted him to put his Post's name The National Commander tells how the reds intimidate decent Americans and number on it. The problem was finally solved by just using FREE FOR NOTHING, ALMOST the Legion emblem and "Post 18," be- BY WENDY .A.ND EVERETT MARTIN 16 cause every continen- The .story behind the mammoth premium business tal Department has at least that many Posts. HOW THE LEGION FIGHTS FOR THE FARM Now the cover, as Wally intended, can be VETERAN anywhere in the B. U.S.A. on the Fourth BY ROBERT PITKIN 18 of .July. We can take credit for many success stories of the soil

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T A sampling of itevis which are in process of development or are coming on the market. Mention of prodticts in no way constitutes an endorsement oj tliem, since in most cases tliey are described as represented by manujacturers.

OPEN DOOR POLICY. A clever way of holding a door open is available in the Minute Man Door Hold being offered by the Acton Mail Sales Co., R.F.D. Concord, Mass. This consists of a catch lock which is attached to the wall, and a strike plate which is attached to the door. When the two pieces come together the jaw of the lock engages the strike plate holding it securely. To release, it is only necessary to give the door a slight push and the catch lock lets go. The Minute Man Door Hold is attractively finished in brass and sells for a dollar postpaid.

STRICTLY FOR LAUGHS. If youVe been intrigued by the amusing framed pictures certain comic strip artists use to dress up the backgrounds of their drawings, you'll be interested to know that similar pictures are now coming on the market. The pictures, you will recall, are not con- fined within the frame but have some action going on outside. For instance, a hunter will be shooting an animal further up on the wall. Anyway, B. C. Moses, 4313 Austin

St., ffouston 4, Texas, is offering an assortment of 24 such laugh-provoking framed pictures and 11 ash trays of the

. ' same general type. These Gremlin pictures and ash trays have ceramic figures and sell for $3.95 each postpaid. A list of subjects will be furnished by the manufacturer. Famous players in every major sport — including such baseball WITH LIGHT CONTROL. The ability of polaroid lenses to eliminate glare greats as Ted Williams and Bob SUN GLASSES from light rays is combined with an unusual means of controlling the intensity of Feller — use and recommend light through them in sun glasses announced by Pioneer Scientific Corp., Wilson sports equipment — passing 29.5 Lafayette St., New York City 12. These glasses have movable tabs on the under today's modern equipment for to- side of tiie frame and by moving the tabs the user can dial in the exact amount of day's fast modern play. They say light that he desires. They retail for $12..50. "Play Wilson and you play the finest." See this modern equipment at your Wilson dealer. WATCH THE BIRDIE. Children can be given a never-ending Wilson Sporting Goodt Co., Chicago show with birds taking the leading roles, by means of an subsidiary of Wilson & Co., Inc.) (a unusual birdhouse called the Nest-Vu. This is so designed Branch offices in New York, Son Francisco and other principal cities that it can be mounted just outside a window and children can look through a peephole and follow the activities of the birds living inside. It is made of green glazed ceramic with a base of molded rubber, and the perch is natural wood with the bark still on it. No nails or screws are needed to mount it, and it is easily removed for annual cleaning. The price is $3.95 postpaid, and it can be obtained from the MCD Manufacturing Co., 1860 Holland Ave., New York City 60.

HOW TO WATER A DOG. An automatic water fountain which will ensure that your pet always has enough to drink is being offered by B & G Sales Co., 247 W. Kellogg the Friend, it con- The Wilson "Ball Hawk" — the sensational n'ove Blvd.. St. Paul 2, Minn. Called Furry with the patented "three-for-tive" finger construc- sists of a fountain which feeds down into a bowl, and tion. The sweetest fielding >;love in the same. keeps the bowl full of water without permitting it to overflow. It is ready for use by simply connecting to water supply with a length of garden hose. According to the manufacturer, there is nothing to get out of order. Price TODAY IN SPORTS EQUIPMENT of a complete unit is $9.85.

4 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 NEW WEAPON TO FIGHT THE SUN. Sun tan lotions are not news but now they come packaged in a way that is worth noting. Instead of using a conventional bottle for its Suntan Spray, Matthew Products, Inc., 117 E. 24th St., New York City 10, is employing a flexible, non-breakable container made of Bakelite polyethylene. This not only prevents breakage, since the bottle will only bounce if dropped, but makes it possible to apply the lotion by merely squeezing the bottle. The lotion costs 79r and will soon be available through many retail outlets.

FOR FASTER ELECTRIC SHAVING. An interesting accessory for electric shavers, to speed them up, is the Shavex, being offered by the Electronic Specialty Co., 3456 Glendale Blvd., ^os Angeles 26. The device converts alternating current to direct current and, since sH^iver motors run faster on the latter, the shaver wastes no time in mowing one's beard. The Shavex is a small, plastic plug-in device which fits into any outlet, and the shaver plug is in turn plugged into it. The change from ac to dc is made b.v a selenium rectifier. The device will soon be available nationally, and will retail for $5.95.

FILES RIGHT. The tedious job of filing is simplified with an ingenious handle called the Handee-Guide which can be fitted to any kind of file. The handle has a tapering groove into which the tang of any file, flat, half-round or rasp, from 8 to 16 inches in length, can be easily slipped. Fitted to the hand, the Handee-Guide permits evenly distributed pressure and prevents scrapes and bruises. Made by the Riverview Foundry Co., Fall River, Mass., it sells for 49(/-.

BURGLARY INSURANCE FOR 19<. That's the price of a simple but nonetheless effective gadget, invented by Legionnaire Joseph E. Farrell, P.O. Box 187, Carmel. Indiana, to keep prowlers on the outside. His gadget, called the Prowler Proof Ke.y Guard, is made of heavy spring wire, and is designed to work with the ordinary lock, not the cylinder type lock. To use it, the door is locked and the key is left in the door. The Key Guard is placed around the shaft of the door knob, passed through the key and fastened by snapping shut. The key is held so that no one can insert another key and unlock the door from the outside.

RAIN FORECAST. It's easy enough to describe a downpour by saying "it rained cats and dogs," but if you want to be exact — precise, in fact — you'll be interested in a rain gauge being offered by Jobs, Inc., Albert Lea, Minn. Guaranteed to measure accurately rainfall from .01 to 6 inches, this gauge, called the Tru-Chek, is made of Plexine plastic which is permanently marked with an easy-to-read, graduated scale. It comes with an aluminum mounting bracket for fastening to post. The price is $4.95 postpaid. Incidentally, Jobs, Inc., is described as "a corporation organized solely for the purpose of expanding Job opportunities in Albert Lea and Freeborn County, Minn."

TRICKY CIGARETTE BOX. An attractive container for cigarettes which your guests will have a hard time figuring out is the Flip-a-Dor, made by the Bert M. Morris Co., 8651 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles 48. Five inches long and slightly higher than a cigarette, it has two doors which, © You just know she has him at t'ne head of when the box is turned upside down, open so you can ber list. He's got Pipe Appeal! And you can guess he's get at the smokes inside. When you put it down the doors got mild, rich -tasting Prince close by themselves. The Flip-a-Dor holds two packs of Albert in his pipe! Crimp cut P.A. is Ameri- cigarettes, comes in various colors and sells for $3.95 F.O.B. ca's largest-selling smoking tobacco! Get Prince Albert — choice tobacco specially treated to insure against tongue bite. KEEPS MINNOWS FRISKY. A minnow bucket made of a clear plastic which folds com- pactly and weighs only five ounces when collapsed is being marketed by Waltco R.J. Reynold:. Tob. Co., Products, 2300 W. 49th St., Chicago. Called the Tuk-a-Buket, it employs what is called "hydro-tension" construction to keep it in semi-rigid upright position when filled to its 6y2-quart capacity, or it floats when an inner plastic tube on its upper rim is in- flated through an oral valve. A perforated plastic cover with fastener prevents splashing when filled or carried by hand or in a car. The retail price is $2.25.

ALLERGIC TO DUST? A method of treating fabrics to keep them from shedding dust has been developed by L. S. Green Associates, 160 W. 59th St., New York City 19, and is being marketed under the name Dust-Seal. This chemical is mixed with water and fabrics are dipped into or thoroughly wetted with it. Called "a useful adjunct in dust therapy" by the American Academy of Allergy, Dust-Seal has another advantage in making frequent dusting unnecessary. According to the manufacturer, the product will not harm fabrics that won't be harmed by water.

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From where I sit

jSy Joe Marsh

WHO KNOWS WHAT THE LEGION DOES?

Any veteran who gets dii'ect dollar benefits to which he is entitled as a veteran probably appreciates the work the Legion has done to make sure such gov- Mud Lake ernment obligations are actually met. But we often wonder how many Legionnaires or other veterans, or for that Gets ''Cleared Up'' matter the general public, realize how much indirect work the Legion does to foster wholesome situations without spe- County officers got a notice from cifically entitling any certain man to so many dollars. The Legion concentrates the government not long ago, asking considerable effort and expertness on a them to change the name of Mud great number of such programs, to the certain benefit of veterans and often to Lake. Seems ifs a pond, not a lake, the benefit of all. An article in this issue How The Legion by government standards. Fights jor the Farm Veteran. Page 18, is a case in point. Although it seems a highly Because it lies inside our town limits, unusual story, it is really rather typical we asked to do the name-changing of a great number of little-known programs that help people who perhaps don't ourselves. Figured we'd think up a even know the Legion helped them. brand-new name. Mud Lake's really We can think of a great number of other such programs, part'oularly in the not muddy — sort of pretty, in fact. legislative field. Our Child Welfare program has done County people said go ahead, so a great deal to increase the number of county child welfare agencies all over the held a Town Meeting. Everyone we country. We got into the business because suggested something. Windy Taylor of the problems of the children of dead and disabled veterans, but our main legis- thought "Taylor Pond" would be kind lative efforts have fostered agencies and instruments that aid all needy children. nice, because his place borders it — of We wonder how many widows who have for about 30 feet! But we finally de- benefited from local child welfare agencies would tell you Legionnaires are just cided to call it "Turtle Pond" in a bunch of rowdies. We wonder how many GI college boys honor of the real owners. who got an education thanks to Legion effort have been taught by their profes- From where I sit, naming that pond sors that the Legion is a gang of treasury wasn't the most important thing in robbers and defenders of bureaucracy. Professors, that is, whose universities world but the way we did it was. the — survived inflation and failed to lose the Everyone offered his opinion and then War Two generation of students thanks to the Legion's GI Bill. Students, that is, it. the majority vote decided That's who because of their Legion-sponsored the way it should be —whether it con- education may some day rise to a position of eminence and authority so that any cerns naming a pond, or having the opinion of theirs will carry weight, whether right to enjoy a friendly glass of beer thought out or not. Will they be like so many eminent and educated people who or ale— if and when we choose. mixed in the current Hoover Report con- troversy and cussed out the Legion without studying the facts? It isn't that we feel anybody owes us allegiance for past favors. It's just that we're pretty sure an awful lot of people who profess to know all about the Legion, really know very little indeed. Yet some of them pass judgment, and we mean un- kind judgment, at the drop of a hat. Our Copyright, 1950, United States Brewers Foundation skins are pretty thick, and we welcome g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 criticism — but chiefly from those who know what they're talking about. We wonder how many people know How The Legion Fights for the Farm Veteran, Page 18. Legionnaires can be proud of our part she makes us in this typical, sound, worthy program.

THE BOSS DON'T WANT NONE Some people have the notion that being a nation a magazine editor gives one many privi- leges — invitations to functions at the Stork Club and the Waldorf, meetings with the mighty, a place on the speakers' dais, and so on. It does, but now and then of neighbors something happens that is shattering to an ego nurtured on the upper-strata stuff. Like the other day when the information- seeking editor of this magazine (tenth largest in circulation in the United States) walked into a little radio store in mid- town Manhattan and asked to see the manager. A girl took his card back to the boss in a glassed-in cubicle. In a moment she came back. "Mr. X is too busy to see you," she announced, "and he says if you're soliciting subscriptions to that magazine he ain't interested."

WANT ME TO SETTLE YOUR BETS? We've never had anything against sports announcer Bill Stern. But he has just published a book. Bill Stern's Sports ". Quiz Book. The first page says, . . this book is a handy authority to have for settling bets and arguments about sports

. . . because Bill Stern gives the facts and only the facts."

We would forgive everything if that little line about settling your bets wasn't in thei'e. When you volunteer for one buck to settle other peoples' bets, you'd better have the right dope. You'd better not have anything wrong.

The wrong guy would get the dough if you settled a bet on whether Coaltown and Citation are full brothers out of Bill's book. Bill says they are full brothers. True, they were both sired by Bull Lea, but Citation's dam was Hydroplane II and Coaltown's was Easy Lass. In racing talk they aren't even half-brothers, since that requires a common dam. If you bet that Man o' War and his foals won over a million and a half dollars you New homes go up all over the business in Seattle or Syracuse. couldn't settle the bet from Bill's book. He asks how much they won, and says map. New families form. More Every Long Distance call is "Over a million dollars." True, but what and more people want to keep personal and made to your order are "the facts and only the facts?" How much did they win? in touch. And your Long Dis- with quiet courtesy. Every call In a quiz on "Golfing puns" the book tance telephone operator keeps is handled as if the whole Bell asks what American golfer reminds you of the King of Jazz. The answer given is right on tying all these varied System had been built just for Johnny Goodman. OK, Bill. How does voices together. you. Johnny Goodman remind us of Paul Whiteman? We know. You or your assist- At her finger tips, she has a Fast, clear and constantly im- ant thought Benny Goodman was the service King of Jazz. No harm done, but should nationwide web of wires, cables proving Long Distance our guys settle bets on that kind of ex- and switchboards. In little helps keep this big, busy coun- pertness? And we only read 200 of the 2,000 questions and answers. more than a minute, she can try a nation of neighbors. And Don't get us wrong. We make mistakes take you to visit friends in it does this at remarkably low and will again. But we don't ask folks to settle bets from our pages. One error in Miami or Minneapolis or to do cost to the user. fifty pages would be the one the bet went down on. Why not? The guy who recognizes the error looks for the bet. He has a sure thing, and our mistake (or Bill BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM liM. Stern's) is his come-on. rbp

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SOUND OFF! with Science's New Midget Writers must give name and address. Name withheld if requested. So many letters are being re- Miracle, the PRESTO, ceived it is not possible to promise answers. Keep your letters short. Address: Sound Off, The American Fire Extinguisher Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y.

A RECORD? that may have anything to do with the Says William F. Wydallis, patients. The hospitality of this staff can't On Saturday, April 29th, Heatiquarters Ohio. Many Others "Clean- be beat. Company, 311th Infantry, 78th Division, ing Up" — Can YOU! James F. Cassel So composeti entirely of veterans of the First PFC, Co. D, 6th U.S. Engineers (WWl) over the United World War, held their thirty-first annual ALL Cuttingsville, Vt. States, more and reunion in Trenton, N. J. more men and women WYDALLIS The question arose as to whether any report large profits from A FARMER'S LAMENT introducing the new Presto Fire Extinguish- other company or comparable unit of the What do veterans have to do to make er. And no wonder! 11,000 people died in American Army in World War I has held an honest living in this so-called peace- fires last year! Over half were women and a reunion every year since 1919. We feel children! So an eager public has been wait- time world? that our outfit is unique in this respect ing for a handy new kind of fire extinguish- I am a retired veteran of 22 years in er — one without the drawbacks of large, but at any rate we would like to hear the Regular Army who sought farm train- bulky, expensive models. Now it's here. And through your column Sound Off! if we sales are tremendous! ing, raising chickens on a small place have made a record for reunions. Out of Presto salesman H. J. Kerr reports mak- an original already owned the hard way (payments ing $20 a day. R. E. Meade - $76.56 the roster of 350 men of whom being made out of retirement pay) in very first day! Peter Zuccaro, a beginner — approximately 30 have passed on we usu- Braxton County, W. Va I was told that $169 in one week. And now this report ally have an attendance of approximately from Stanley Hyman has just arrived: if I already had a building and equipment "I have been selling the Presto Fire Extinguish- 60 to 75. Captain Barnard Eberlin of New erected for accommodation of 1200 chicks er for well over a year and have found it to be York City never misses. Edward Ritter the fastest money-maker and quickest-selling item (my ultimate goal) the application for ever produced. If a man demonstrates it intelli- of Elizabeth was appointed the new

genllv, sales follow automatically. training would be approved . . . proving "I have made an excellent living »ith the Presto Chairman succeeding Charles E. Cook of once again that if you have no need of I'irc ICxIinguisher. having made over $1000 a Pennington, who retired after 31 years month. Presto is a 'natural* for any salesman." veterans' assistance you can get it. — Stanley Hyman. of service. My wife, also a veteran, rates high in How You Con Make Good Money Too Willard S. Danser Civil Service as a specialist, yet it has You can make good money in this way too! Just Trenton, N. J. start introducing this new kind of fire extinguisher taken more than six months to get even a to owners of homes, farms, cars, boats, filling stations, buses, trucks, service stations, factories, report on the rating ... a definite ap- oltices, in SAME PROBLEMS FOR BLIND your locality. pointment may take more than a year. The Presto is so light — so small — so handy — that even a child can put out a blaze with it. So I am a librarian and happen to read the What is there to hope for except an- inexpensive ($3.98) that anyone can afford it. Yet its contents (a new wonder chemical developed article by Walter Duckat entitled How other war, when once again we will all during the war) have been rated 1.5 to 6 times as Do You Rate As a Parent? (March, page be heroes and a veteran will be able to effective as chemicals used in other extinguishers on an equal weight basis. make 22) . I found it certainly one of the best of an honest living ... at least a living. And what sales advantages for you — as com- pared with large, bulky extinguishers that cost 4 its kind in that it actually brought the S/Sgt. Bruce Simmons, USA, Ret. times as much and are 8 times as matter down to the concrete rather than Gassaway, W. Va. heavy! Presto is easier to use. No pumping — no heavy lank or tangled theorizing upon it. tubes to struggle with. Just a twist VETERANS here in the school (the New York BEWARE! o! the knob . . . and flames dis- We appear as fast as 2 seconds! Institute for the Education of the Blind) "The most likely corner to weep." Mail Coupon to Get Started find exactly the same sort of behavior On October 24, 1949 I subscribed to what We give >ou FREf: re-fills for problems for the children live, move, and your Demonstrator. FREE printed seemed to be an honest magazine of vet- sales aids. You are not required have their being here, as it is a residen- erans' interest. I paid six dollars for a to invest a penny. tial school. And blind children have the 24-month subscription. Get started now. Every day you problems children. hesitate may cost you $10, $15, or same as sighted An unsuspecting merchant cashed my even $50 you could otherwise be I am sure that the article must have check and to this day after two letters I making. Mail coupon NOW for pleased your readers. everything you need. MERLITE have heard nothing. INDUSTRIES, Inc., Dept. 297, Leatha V. Hartung, librarian From this day on nobody gets anything 301 East 16»h St., New York 3. New York Institute for the from me unless he leaves his right arm. Education of the Blind John W. Donovan MERLUE INDUSTRIES, Inc., Dept. 297, New York City Y. 201 East 16th St., t

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If baseball's greatest failure, mighty Casey,

could again step up to the plate, what would happen?

Here is one answer, in the classic style

By LARRY SIEGEL

. . . and somewhere men are laughing. ASEY WALKED SLOWLY across the cloud and And somewhere children shout; went up to the big golden gate. He took his bat off his shoulder, and for the But there is no joy in Mudville - 12,123rd time he rapped loudly with his fist. Nobody answered and he stepped back. He Mighty Casey has struck out! looked up at the hand-lettered sign over the gate CASEY AT THE BAT - BY ERNEST L. THAYER and read for the 12,123rd time - WITHIN THESE SACRED PORTALS DWELL THE SPIRITS OF THE SHINING LIGHTS OF BASEBALL. NO TRESPASSING! SIGNED, A. DOUBLEDAY, CO.

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( coiitiiiued Another Chance for Casey Casey knocked on the gate again. Suddenly he heard someone approach- ing from inside. A few seconds later the door was thrown open, and a chunky figure poked his head out. "Well, well, if it ain't old Casey again," the figure said. "What do you want this time — as if I didn't know?" "Mr. McGraw," said Casey, "I want in." "Oh you do, do you?" said McGraw, cocking his head and grinning sarcas- tically. "Look, Casey, I been telling you for the past twenty years and the guy before me at the gate told you for another twenty years that we don't want failures in here. Do you see what that sign up there says? 'Shining light.' You ain't a shining light. What right And then the bull came ivinging — a u-hiizing b/ui' has a flop to come in here and play ball of ichite, A tvhirling blob of five, a lightning flash in flight. with like guys Matty, the Babe, and Close by the form of Casey the blazing hovsehide sped. the Big Train?" "Too high for me" said Casey. "ThaVs a strike," the umpire said. "I ain't a flop," said Casey.

"Oh you ain't?" McGraw came back. ness in Mudville. If you could fix, me "Yeah, there's one going on now," "What do you call that day in Mud- ." up with a little pass, maybe I . . said McGraw. "One of the spotters in- ville when you whiffed— V-Day? And "Don't be nuts, Casey," said McGraw. side gave me the dope. Right now it's soviewhere men are laughing, and "It's too much trouble to get those three minutes to three, Mudville time. somewhere children shout, hut there passes. And even if I could get one, You gotta be back here three minutes ." is no joy in . . why should I give it to you? after four, their time, and I wouldn't be "Can it, Mr. McGraw," said Casey "Because you guys owe it to me," A.W.O.L. if I was you. The elevator sensitively. "That damn poem is driv- said Casey. "Every man who gets a operator will give you an hour and six ing me nuts. Look, I been upstairs for rough deal should get another break." minutes worth of mortal fluid. Don't around forty years I now. like it pretty "Supposing," said McGraw, "that I try to connive for more 'cause the much. if I can't But get inside this gate, got you a pass and you flopped again, officers up here are strict about those I might as well be stationed down- would you swear that you'd never things. Oh yeah, before I forget, don't stairs in the other place." bother me again?" be coming back with wild stories be- "Look, Casey," said McGraw, "when "I swear," said Casey. cause somebody'U be watching every anybody mentions your name, what do "On this?" asked McGraw, holding move you make." they think of? big A bust, right? Now out a faded copy of The Sporting News. With that, McGraw gave Casey the how would it look to anyone if I "On this." said Casey solemnly, as pass and closed the gate. Casey went brought a big bust inside these gates?" he dropped his bat, removed his cap, to the elevator on East Astral Street, "Mr. McGraw," said Casey, "didn't and placed his left hand on the Sjjort- took his proper amount of fluid, and in any of the guys inside flop once in a ing News and his right hand in the air. a short while he was zooming through while?" "Wait here," said McGraw, "I'll be space with unbelievable speed. "I suppose so," said McGraw, "but right back." A minute later the elevator stopped, nobody made a fuss about it." Casey whistled softly as he paced and Casey got out. He found himself "That's what I'm driving at," said the cloud. He tugged at the large in a dark corridor. He looked around Casey. "Nobody looks at my overall square peak on his woolen cap. He and up ahead he saw a light. He fol- record. All they think about is that fidgeted with his black stockings. He lowed the light, came to a few steps, single lousy day in Mudville. In case kicked star dust out of his spikes, and went up the steps, and discovered that you didn't it, know I was a shining he swung his big bat back and forth. he was standing in a dugout. About a light till up then, but I never got an- He felt great — in the pink! dozen men were sitting around on a other chance after that strikeout. I An hour later McGraw opened the long bench peering intently at the field think it's time I got another chance — gate again. "Casey," he said, "you'll in front of them. They didn't see him. right now." never know what I went through for What strange outfits these guys wear, "What do you mean 'right now'?" you. They don't give these passes to Casey thought. They had the word asked McGi'aw. just anybody, you know; and I had to '"Mudville" written across their shirt "Well," said Casey, "today I spoke speak to everybody all the way up be- fronts, just as he did, but everything to some guy who just arrived up here fore I got any place. Even then I didn't else was different. from the U.S.A. He told me about do too well. The best I could get was Casey turned and looked out on the some moving pictures he's been seeing a one-hour pass with an extra six field. An electric shock shot through - whatever they are — and in them minutes for traveling. Take it or leave him. Old familiar memories stirred there are stories about guys from up it." within him. The sight of uniformed here who get a chance to go downstairs "If there's a game on at Mudville, men battling on a diamond. The sound to earth to take care of unfinished that's all the time I need," said Casey. of horsehide hitting against wood. The business. Now, I got unfinished busi- ILLUSTRATED BY AL MUENCHEN chatter in the (Continued on page 54)

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Commies now use lawyers to intimidate decent Americans who dare to stand in their way. But the Legion at the

Post level can stop them cold

By GEORGE N. CRAIG National Commander, American Legion

SOON AFTER he charged that pinks and reds were buttin? in on town business, a pair of local lawyers threatened to sue him

ERROR WAS THE WATCHWORD for Today, the reds have changed their was that he objected to domination of anyone who dared talk out against the strategy. his town's government by a group led communists 20 years ago. The communist party knows that by communists. The reds had goon squads, gangs the average American of the year 1950 What happened was this. equipped with blackjacks and knives, cannot easily be frightened by threats A long-time resident of this New and they used them to beat into a of bodily harm. Instead of using physi- York suburb suddenly awakened to bloody pulp the men — and the women, cal assaults, the Party, therefore, is the fact that a clique of alleged "liber- too — who opposed their plot to take now resorting to something even more als," led by a small but efficient core over America. sinister — legal beatings-up — as a of communists, had taken control of In the mine fields of West Virginia, means of intimidating the town's affairs. By in the steel mills of Pennsylvania, in anti -communists. shrewd politicking, the automobile plants of Michigan and No word of this has these people had the garment factories of New York, it yet hit the headlines, placed their men in was a rare day that someone was not but I can reveal that office as city manager, found in a crumpled, bleeding heap. a well-organized ma- as police commissioner And that someone was always a per- chine of communist and, even more insidi- son who had stood up against the legal goons are now ous, as head of the lo- communists. operating in every cal school board. Concentrating as the Stalinists were section of the United The old-timer didn't then on organizing the foreign-born, States. Like the old like it. their terroristic tactics were designed gangs of strong-arm THREAT of a suit cull make He got up at a town most people knuckle to spread fear among the susceptible, men, the machine has down meeting and declared, panicky people they were working on. just one objective — to "This town is under They were devised to create the leg- scare off opposition to the reds" plans. the thumb of a gang of pinks and reds end, "It doesn't pay to fight commu- This communist legal juggernaut and it's time that the real Americans nists." That such tactics were effective swung into action recently in a little here did something about it." can be seen from the success the reds community on the outskirts of New Minutes later, this old-timer was had in gaining so much control in the York City. Its victim was a plain, or- approached by two men of the com- American labor movement. dinary American whose sole crime munist-led faction whom he knew to 14 )

itself to clean house. The other calls for the rallying of all lawyers within the ranks of The American Legion to help in the ^ght against communism. Under its terms, lawyers' committees would be established in every Post to protect good Americans from legal persecution by the communists. That something must be done, and soon, is certain. Here are some actual case histories of how the red legal juggernaut has been functioning. In a small town near Chicago, a veteran demanded the ouster of a confessed communist from the city council.

The next day, this veteran, who . was earning less than $75 a week as a bank teller, was sued for $50,000. In filing their suit, the communists deliberately saw to it that it received wide newspaper attention. Just as they expected, the bank for which the veteran worked didn't like this publicity and discharged him. Out in the midwest, a young business man started a campaign to oust a known communist from his position as the city welfare administrator. This business man knew that the communist in question was utilizing his post not only to aid other reds but also to discriminate against non-communists in real need of relief. Within ten days after he had launched the drive, this business man, WHEN A COMMIE goes into court you cau count on fireworks, with his lawyers using the trial for Stalinist propaganda who was the head of a small, struggling

be lawyers. One of them shoved his fist The two lawyers who threatened in his face. the old-timer were, of course, part of "You've just committed a vicious the communists' legal steamroller and slander," he said, "and unless you re- their blackmailing approach was typi- tract it publicly, we're going to sue." cal of the techniques it employs. "Go ahead and sue," he replied. This red legal machine is used "What I said is true and you know it." throughout the country, in big cities "Maybe so," the lawyers said, "but and small towns, to intimidate indi- you'll still have to hire lawyers to de- viduals, organizations and even news- fend you and before we're through papers who oppose the Stalinists. with you, it'll cost you every cent you But that is not all it is used for. have." It is used to aid communist spies and Like any citizen confronted with the conspirators escape punishment for threat of a lawsuit, the old-timer was their admitted crimes. alarmed. He felt sure he could sub- It is used to discredit the courts and stantiate his charges but he knew he the democratic code of justice. couldn't afford the big fee a lawyer It is used to plant communist lawyers LITIGATION is used where the reds once might ask to defend him. Such a trial, in high Government posts so that they beat up their enemies or killed them he knew, might drag on for months can commit espionage in behalf of or years. And supposing the commies Soviet Russia. factory, received a letter from a left- won . . . ! The activities of this machine are so wing lawyer. It was a threat to bring At the next meeting he rose and widespread, and so menacing, that im- suit against his company for alleged withdrew his statement. mediate steps to offset them are im- infringement of patents. The significance of this retreat was perative. Before he even had a chance to reply not lost on others at the meeting and What is desperately needed, in my to the letter, the business man got a a budding rebellion against the reds opinion, is a remedial program con- telephone call. It was from the left- collapsed. Today that New York town sisting of two equally important points. wing lawyer. of 10,000 people is still under the sway One provides for the legal profession "If you'll drop your campaign," he of the red-led clique. ILLUSTRATED BY HARVEY KIDDER said, "we'll (Coiitinued on page 41

15 A NECKLACE just like the one worn by lovely Mercy De Troy

SOMETIIVIES the premium gets as much consideration as the product

FREE/or Nothing ...Almost

four daughters and a sister-in-law. That premiuiTi you get for a dime or a They all wanted charm braclets. "So far, they have sent for four quarter and a box top represents a mammoth business bracelets apiece," he said, "and because of that I've been eating fish six times a week. But who am I to deny By WENDY and EVERETT MARTIN them charm photos of Bob Hope, Alan Ladd and John Lund?" The women of America are premium N OHIO MAN complained re- pany offered a sterling silver charm conscious. Their children are premi- cently that since premiums came into bracelet, with photo charms of movie um conscious. There's nothing for men his life he has had more than his fill stars, for $1 and a label from every to do but eat the kind of cereal that of fish. can of tuna fish purchased. offers Junior a premium cowboy hat, It seems a California packing com- The Ohio man lived with his wife, and drink the kind of beverage that

16 ILLUSTRATED BY WHITNEY DARROW, JR. for a of shaker salt. offers the little woman a plastic make- simply ask box Blarney Stone bracelet had a lot to do Out of 2,000 women interviewed in a up kit. According to figures given out by with it." recent survey, few cared what brand Appeal to women is the rule in 72 Their the premium trade, merchandisers in of salt they purchased. guesses percent of all premium offers made. salt the United States are spending over as to the weight of an average items from pressure cook- $1,000,000,000 for premiums annually. Houseware container ran from 3 ounces to 3 The same source estimates premiums ers to paring knives head the list of pounds. (Average weight is 1 pound influence the sale of more than $5,000,- gadgets women can get with box tops 13 ounces.) 000,000 worth of merchandise a year. and cash. So an alert manufacturer of a staple The trade usually divides premiums Fifteen percent of premium offers item these days gives a premium with into several classifications. Most popu- are aimed at children, and 8 percent his product. Women may not remem- adult appeal. But only 5 lar is a mail-away self-liquidator. have general ber the brand name, but they remem- What this fancy terminology means percent of all premium offers are en- ber the premium. That's how it works. directed at men. In is that a consumer sends in a box top, tirely recent offers salt promotions have label, or facsimile, with a coin, to get So, if the average American home is given such premiums as paring knives, a premium. In this type of offer, the premium conscious to a fabulous de- plastic aprons, juice glasses, scatter deal, as premium men say, "washes its gree, women have made it that way. pins, printed stationery and narcissus own face." In other words, the coin One of the nation's great premium bulbs. remittance pays the cost of the item houses. Reuben H. Donnelley Com- At the present time, according to to its sponsor, taxes, if any, packaging, pany, has on file a list of people to premium men, more than 30 percent handling and mailing charges. whom premiums have been mailed — of all chinaware manufactured in the An example of a mail-away self- a list of 35,000,000 names, most of them U. S., more than 15 percent of all liquidator was one dreamed up for women. enamelware and more than 10 percent B. T. Babbitt, Inc., by Duane Jones, Last year, 306 national manufactur- of the aluminumware are consumed by who heads an advertising agency of ers offered 749 different premiums to the premium trade. More than $3,500,- that name in New York. The Duane boost sales of their products. The same 000 worth of jewelry items, represent- Jones people sent a man to Blarney year, there were 163 various contests ing 15,000,000 individual pieces, were Castle, in Ireland. He arranged to send in which prizes, a sort of premium, offered as premiums in 1948. Simulated back ten tons of stones from around were given. pearls, always a favorite, have been Many housewives no longer tele- used as premium offers with such phone grocers to ask, "Do you carry products as household appliances, Farmer John's Fancy Flour?" Nowa- brushes, cosmetics, groceries and days they say, "What brand of flour diaper services. is giving away a premium today?" Who sends away for premium jew- The premium may cost its sponsor elry? Perhaps a sponsor's experience anything from 3/10 of a cent to more sheds light on that question. He of- than a dollar. But it may cost the fered a sterling silver wedding ring, housewife nothing. Or it may cost her set with "24 beautiful, simulated dia- anywhere from 10 cents up. In many monds," as a premium with his prod- instances, premiums cost more than uct. Hundreds of thousands of people the primary product they are intended took advantage of the offer. There were to promote. This is most often true in the usual (Cojitmued on page 49) promotions involving soaps, cleansers and kitchen salt. The last item, by the way, is a night- mare to advertising men. It seems when women want to buy salt, they

BACK in "the good old days" pop and grandpop got pretty pictures like these as premiums

NO PARENT has to be reminded that premiums can raise the devil with sales resistance

the grounds of the castle. They were chipped into small pieces and charm bracelets were made "with a piece of the Blarney Stone in them." Two weeks' promotion on the radio brought request letters, containing Bab-0 box tops and quarters, for 480,000 of these bracelets. Curiously enough, hundreds of women wrote to Duane Jones saying the bracelets had brought them good luck. One woman wrote, "I am now the proud mama of twins — a boy and a girl — and I am convinced your Here are some of the thousands of ex-GIs who could not finance their farms

VAUGHN JONES. THE BOWDEN brothers of Coffee County, RUFUS WELLS of Scottsboro. Ala., first Ala., pictured here while discussing, with Alphabetta. Ga. The vet in nation to county FHA supervisor, the operation FHA guaranteed his get housing loan of farm they bought on FHA loan farm purchase loan

MR. & MRS. HERBERT HERNDON, Rutlcdge. Ga., first to complete lionic under farm home loan How the Legion Fights for

PHOTO BY ACME You can't keep a good

JOHN HAYHURST, left, of Paw Paw, Michigan, man down, they say. But some- was blinded in action in Manila. Shown with him are his wife, their children, and FHA supervisor J. B. Warnfsf who believed in the Hayhursts. See this article for their amazing story times you go to bat for him

By ROBERT B. PITKIN

F YOU WERE A BANKER what WOuld you do in the following case? Into your office one morning comes a rangy, young blind man guided by his petite, bespectacled, blonde wife. "Mr. Banker," the blind man says to you, "my name is John Hayhurst and this is my wife, Ethel. We've just spent all our money to buy a dairy farm, but we don't have any livestock. Will you lend us a couple of thousand dollars so we can get ten good milk cows and a bull?" You look at his sightless eyes and ask: "Who's going to run the farm?" "Ethel and I will run it," Hayhurst tells you. "I suppose you've had some experience operating a dairy herd?" "No, sir," says Hayhurst. "I was a factory mechanic before the war. Then I went into the Pacific with the First Cavalry and two days befoie the firing stopped in Manila I lost my eyesight in enemy action. Now I can't stand life in town, so Ethel and I decided we'd make our living in the country."

18 except under the Legion-backed farm loan program Yet if we're going to do better than that we need those cows. We hope the cattle we buy with your loan will help secure our note." All right. You're the banker. What do you do? Answer. The Hayhursts are a bad banking risk on the face of things. And live animals are too, especially when 1 managed by inexperienced people, one of whom is blind. Good, average banking practice requires that you refuse ELLSWORTH HARDY, PAUL PIEDMONT, CLARENCE EDE- CHARLIE JONES. the loan. American Fork, Utah, first Jersey vet to buy LEN, Md., among Pike Co., Ala., among However, you might send the Hay- bought his farm with farm witli FHA guar- first to repay vet- first Negro veterans hursts to your county supervisor of FHA ownership loan anteed mortgage eran's operating loan to get operating loan the Farmers Home Administration, a bureau of the Department of Agricul- ture. John and Ethel Hayhurst are real people. In 1948, when no bank would lend them money to buy cattle, they took their problem to J. B. Warner, Van Buren county supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration in Paw Paw, Michigan. This FHA has Federal THE FarmVeteran money to lend farmers. Warner was startled by the Hay- hursts' proposition. But he talked it

Your heart sinks at the idea of an inexperienced blind man going into debt to run a dairy farm. Finally you say, hopefully: "Ah! Then your wife knows dairy farming!" "Oh no, sir," says Ethel Hayhurst. "It's going to be something new to both of us. I've always lived in town.'' "Well," you say, "if your farm is good security we might put a mortgage

on it. But I'd hate to. You're bound to fail and then we'd have to foreclose. So if I lend you the money it would be like taking your farm away from you. Do you want to take that chance?" "I wouldn't mind at all," says Hay- hurst. "However, the farm, is already mortgaged. But I get a pension, so Ethel and I and the two kids can keep alive and meet the mortgage with that. LIKE ALL BORROWERS from Farmers they own the Alabama farm they once Home Administration. Mr. & IMrs. Euell sharecropped. and in two years have PHOTOS BY HAROLD E. CHRISTIE Blackwell lacked credit to buy farm — repaid more than half their 40-year note! even under GI loan guarantees. But today Blackwell was lOO^'f disabled - now 60%

over with a voluntary committee of three county residents. Without ap- pioval of such local committees no FHA farm loan can be made. The committee was startled and said, "No." Then Warner got to thinking the case over and noted a number of favorable things about John and Ethel. They were: 1. John Hayhurst seemed eager to learn, so he would probably make the most of veterans farm training courses under the GI Bill or Pubhc Law 16. 2. If a loan were made, one of Warner's (Continued on page 39)

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IN THE "good old days" kids saved for weeks to buy fireworks, and supply on hand by the time tlie big day arrived they usually had a big They got the

cities and towns will have civic Independence Day fireworks used to kill and maim 25,000 shows in 1950, say the pyrotechnics makers. In Chicago last year, 85,000 thousands. Now the shooting is done by experts, and crowded into Soldier Field to crane necks at flaming feathery pompoms. County Council last year the death rate dropped to exactly zero The Legion's Cook pioneered these patriotic pyrotechnics and set a pattern for other vet groups. By MAURICE FISCHER For more than half a century the

^ YES BURNED TO BLINDNESS. Fingers and hands blown off. Faces ^L^ scarred livid. Children maimed, mangled, killed Horrible war atrocities? No — just what Americans were inflicting on themselves in years past through "backyard" fireworks celebrations of Independence Day. When the count in dead and injured in 1938 alone nearly equaled the 10.048 Americans killed or wounded in the six and one-half years of the War for Independence, the nation sobered up. Already too late to help more than 175,000 victims of the July Fourth bang- bang binge, state after state passed laws banning private use of dangerous fireworks. Last Independence Day, for the first time on record, not a single death was attributed to fireworks though more than 800 persons perished observing the holiday. Yet, thanks largely to The American Legion, millions of Ameri- cans celebrated last Fourth in the traditional way — with fireworks. And because of the Legion, some five million American men, women and kids this year will enjoy Foui'th of July fireworks - without scorched fingers, singed eyebrows or worse. They'll watch "safe-and-sane" supervised celebrations permitted by law and put on principally by American Legion Posts. At least rarely lights his cigar, never smokes a cigarette. "Can't smoke cigarettes around fireworks and you can't chew them," he explains, peering over his glasses. Those "cheaters" caused his turn-down for active service in World War II — probably a good break for Uncle Sam, for Briese's contribution in seci'et material proved quite important. After the Pain fire, Charles Duffield organized Thearle-Duffield Fireworks, Inc. He included Thearle's name as a memorial to his first employer and late associate. Charles set up a new, one-shed factory at Roby, Ind., about 20 miles south of Chicago. Now the plant spreads over eight acres with fifteen well-separated, fireproofed buildings. All work is done by daylight. Safety permits no artificial lighting. Workers may not go from one building into another as a precaution against dangerous mingling of chemicals. Duffield revived a Pain success — "Last Days of Pompeii" — that trouped county and state fairs. It depicted Mt. Vesuvius erupting as the ancient city's columns crashed. Archaeologists were excavating ruins of the real Pompeii about then. Charles, in 1920, got young brother Frank to quit railroading in Minne- apolis and join him. When Charles retired to California, Frank became president. Today he's 63, a silver- haired, husky six-footer and a genial, gladhanding past president of the Showmen's League of America. dupli- BIG SPECTACULAR pieces require painstaking assembly. The girls here are Son Jack, 41, a dark-haired connecting "lances" whose colored fire will reveal the picture in flame world's No. 1 producer of these fii-e- Briese, the Duffield flying repre- works spectacles has been Thearle- sentative, logs around 70,000 miles Duffield Fireworks, Inc. yearly by train, bus and auto, but While the Thearle-Duffield poster is mostly in his own plane, an Ercoupe a sign of safety— no spectator has even he calls "The Skyrocket." been scorched — the company was born He's supervised spectaculars or in tragedy. "specs" as they are called for the Cal- Before 1900 the British-owned Pain gary Stampede in Canada, for presi- Fireworks Company was the world's dential inaugurals in Mexico and in biggest. Harry Bishop Thearle, who Washington, for the Orange Bowl fes- switched from reUgious book pubhsh- tival in Miami and the Winter Carnival ing to theatrical booking, was Pain's — sometimes at 25 below zero — in St. general manager here. Paul. In 1914 Pain's Chicago factory was On his way to a music lesson after wrecked by an explosion. Five persons high school in June, 1914, when he were killed — among them Thearle. was 14, Briese strolled into a Chicago The blast blew the company out of office building. business. But its American rights were "I saw the Pain name on that door," ARTHUR F. BRIESE, secretary, and Frank P. Duffield, president of Thearle-Duffield bought by Charles Duffield, assistant he recalls. "I figured they could use a manager at Chicago. Duffield had gone kid dui-ing vacation. I talked to Charlie to work for Thearle as an office boy in Duffield and he hired me - for $4.50 a cate of his dad, is the Duffield vice 1898 after graduating from high school week. president. He helped with shows in his in Minneapolis. "I've been shooting fireworks ever teens, later worked in the factory. Charles escaped the fire because since — about a million dollars worth Chemical warfare service took him as a private he forty he'd left the building a few minutes so far." Briese (say it "breeze") is a but emerged before with his office boy on a banking bustling bespectacled showman who months later a first lieutenant. errand. That office boy was Arthur F. wears bow ties and chews cigars. He During the war, while Frank di- Briese, now secretary of the firm. /LLt/STRATED BY JOHN RUGE rected the (CoJitinued on page 59) 21 What hais

The world's most fabulous city will be the

setting for this year's National Convention. Here is what you

can expect to find while you're attending the big event

ILLUSTRATED BY LOWELL HESS

OS ANGELES, the scene of this a bit unusual. He might just be a con- and a place where the gospel is ac- yeai-'s Amei-ican Legion Na- testant on "People Are Funny." cording to Hollywood, with motion tional Convention, is with- This is the city where the visitor pictures the criterion and climate the out question the world's most fabulous takes his choice — the desert, the God. city. Maybe not the greatest. Maybe mountains, the ocean, big city atmos- It's a city spread out all over the not the most steeped in history. But phere, quaint little-town fellowship — place mainly because of water, or certainly the most fabulous. all within an hour's .automobile ride. rather the lack of it. A few of its sub- It's the city where anything — well, Or add another half hour and be in a urbs have their own water sources, almost anything — can happen and foreign country — Mexico. but most of them don't, so they've usually does. One can grow a beard, If Boston is a tuxedo town, then joined up in order to tap onto the city wrap himself in a sheet, walk down Los Angeles can best be described as mains. New residents have been flood- Hollywood Boulevard saying he is a a bathing suit town. Not that every- ing into California at about 10,000 a new God, and by the time he gets to one wears a bathing suit, but the con- month with Los Angeles getting the Vine Street he'll have some followers. trast is that great. It's a city of weird bulk, so the city Uke Topsy, just Or he can walk down the same street architecture, bright colors, religious growed and is growing. in top hat and bathing trunks and no cults, oil wells, oranges, high spenders, It's a little Mexico — with more one will pay any heed — that being not old people on pensions, celebrities. Mexicans than any city in that country other than Mexico City. It has its Chinatown, bright with neon lights and steaming with Jasmine tea. It has its Japanese settlements built on an economy of gardening. It has fabulous mansions where the movie great live and entertain, bathe in blue-tiled pools, keep their gay-colored convertibles in car-ports covered with green vines. Here lives, for instance, Charlie Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, whose salary, as last reported by the Government, was $985,300 -the highest of any person in the nation. On the other side of the tracks there is skid row, where nightly the police pick winos out of the gutters and cart them of? to jail tanks. And the inbetweens — the great mass of immigrants from other states who heard that California was a land of milk and honey, came, found the milk and honey was there, couldn't get more than a sample for themselves but stayed on — anyway — in make-shift shacks. GRAUMAN'S Chinese Theatre during the cu.stomary hoopla of a Hollywood Here live.s Arlene Judge, who has premiere. The screen great come to be ogled by their devoted public had six (Continued on page 46)

A SOMEWHAT different type of entertainment will be found at the Hollywood Bowl, in a magnificent natural setting 5M'^4^rJ^SliiSi^ll&^ fe?) ^Ol # By R. WILSON BROWN

BURBANK GLENDALE

BEVERLY HIUS home of the stars

o PREMIERE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE Downtown Paramount MAKE SURE your radiator's anti-freeze is drained when warm weather comes

YOUR CARS Liquid Diet

By GEORGE H. WALTZ, Jr. THEKE IS NO difference o£ opinion on this — get it greased every thousand xnilcsl

There have been arguments galore on the an old army friend, who now works for one of the automobile companies in Detroit and was in town for a visit. all points covered here. This article may not settle I don't remember how it came about, perhaps because we were having a late winter cold spell, but we got to the disputes but it can help make motoring pleasanter talking about the various kinds of antifreeze solutions. I happened to mention that I used the permanent HEN IT COMES to taking good At least that's what I thought until type for two reasons. One, since they care of the family car, just recently. Now I'm not so sure that, didn't boil off, I didn't have to check I've always felt that I did the job as along with a good many other car my radiator so often. And two, I could well as, or better than, the next fellow. owners, I haven't been an unwise leave a permanent antifreeze solution

I've always seen to it that it got the spendthrift about some things that in my radiator all year 'round. At that kind of general servicing I believed didn't particularly count and a neglect- point my automobile friend launched would add miles and years to its life, ful miser about some others that did. into what turned out to be a twenty- yet I never felt that I pampered it by My re-education started a few ininute lecture on why I shouldn't spending unnecessary dollars. months ago. I was having lunch with leave any antifreeze solution, even the

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READY FOR an oil change? Your answer to this question can have IT WILL PAY you to learn the difference between regular-grade an important bearing on the life of your car and running costs gasoline and premium grade. There's more to it than just price

permanent type, in my car over the PHOTOS BY BOB ISEAR That settled that. From now on I summer. According to him, it wasn't fur, will react with alkaline compounds drain and flush my radiator every even safe to drain it off into bottles in the inhibitor (Ed. Note: Inhibitors Spring and put in fresh permanent or cans and store it for re-use. are added to prevent corrosion.) to antifreeze every fall. But then I be-

I thought about his arguments for form salts. . . . Contaminated antifreeze gan to wonder about some of my other several days and then finally shrugged solutions with depleted inhibitors can pet theories on car care. Is it safe, as them off. After all, I told myself, he's cause more corrosion and rust forma- some garagemen do, to use ordinary an automobile man and all they're in- tion than uninhibited hard water if tap water instead of distilled water in terested in is selling the public more their use is continued indefinitely. To filling my car battery? Was I really automotive equipment whether it be protect against corrosion, drain the gaining anything in mileage and per- cars or antifreeze. Besides, a perma- antifreeze solution after one winter's formance by feeding my 1948 car pre- nent-type antifreeze is nothing more use or earlier if it becomes rusty in a mium gas? Was it really necessary to than a solution of ethylene glycol, and cooling system that was reasonably be so religiously careful about having that's the same stuff they use to cool clean when the fresh antifreeze solu- the motor oil changed every time the

liquid-cooled airplane engines. tion was installed. . . . Under no cir- speedometer clocked off 1,000 miles? Warmer weather had set in before cumstances should antifreeze solution What about chassis and general lu- I thought about it again. Then I be- remain in the cooling system during brication? gan to wonder. Perhaps my Detroit the summer, as its deterioration will These questions started me off on friend did know what he was talking be much more lapid under summer a long and interesting quest for the about. Maybe I should drain my radi- driving conditions." right answers. When I finished, just ator and throw away last recently, I not only had the winter's anti -freeze. answers to those questions Finally, I decided to put the but to others, and I suddenly question to some disinterested DO YOU GIVE much thought to your realized that for the most part hydraulic brake fluid? Few motorists and qualified agency. I wrote many of my old ideas about do and thereby gamble with lives a letter to the National Bureau car care were far from valid. of Standards in Washington, Like a good many car owners D. C. In a few days, I had my I know, I had blindly been answer in the form of a book- following some long-standing let, "Automotive Antifreezes." misconceptions. "The question of whether Because I had often won- antifreeze solutions can be dered about the advisability used safely for more than one of using tap water in a car season is one on which much storage battery, even in local- study has been expended," ities where natural water is the Bureau's booklet advises. relatively pure, that question "During use, the antifreeze was next on my list. Again I solution can become contami- wrote to the Bureau of Stand- nated by leakage of exhaust ards and received a prompt gas. The combustion products reply. in exhaust gas, particularly "The purity of natural the oxides of carbon and sul- ( Continued on page 61 these V \ Hoodlums 7h

The cruel, senseless vandals who

destroy and desecrate, just for laughs,

are no credit to anyone. But it is pos-

sible to prevent some of the havoc

By LESTER DAVID

^ |\| HE TWO KIDS lounged beneath They didn't have to wait long. A car r^L a massive oak by the side of roared by, the left front tire ran over the main highway which the spike and blew out with a loud stretched into Tulsa 50 miles away. report.

Idly they watched an automobile dart Was it fun to watch? Hardly. Be- by into the setting Spring sun. Then cause the automobile careened crazily one of the boys, a sandy-haired off the road and crashed headlong into twelve-year-old, saw something the very oak tree behind which the gleaming dully by the roadside. He boys were watching. Three persons scrambled to his feet and pounced were killed in the wreck and another upon it. It was a six-inch steel spike. permanently maimed. "Hey," he called to his friend, "let's And the fun-loving boys? One lost have some fun. Let's stick this into the an eye when he was hit by a flying highway, right into that crack there, glass fragment. The other was so un- and watch the cars get flat tires!" nerved by the juggernaut which The other boy leaped up gleefully. plummeted toward him and plowed "Swell," he called. It had been a dull into the other side of the tree that he day at school. Anything for some ac- is still in a mental institution. tion. In a moment the two were kneel- These boys, while not cold-blooded ing in the middle of the road, hammer- killers, are nevertheless part of an ing the spike into the macadam with a army of vandals which today is ex- Hat rock. When they had finished they acting a fearful toll of lives and prop- retreated behind the tree and stretched erty all over the nation. They are part VANDALS set this huge blaze which destroyed adults as the top floors of a Dorchester, Mass., school out on the grass to watch the fun. of a cruel, senseless mob,

26 well as juveniles, which deliberately sets out to wreck homes, neighbor- hoods, public buildings, parks, statues - anything and everything — for no reason except a lust to destroy. Their shocking behavior costs scores of lives each year, injures hundreds of persons and causes property damage ranging high into the millions. In New York City last year, vandals wreaked $200,000 worth of damage in the parks alone, destroying 30 miles of bench slats, thousands of light fixtures and hundreds of trees, drink- ing fountains and monuments. They broke or stole more than 150,000 light bulbs in the city's network of sub- ways, trolleys and buses. They smashed 100,000 window panes in the public schools. Only a few months ago the latest major act of wanton destruction took place in a New York City school. Six boys, ranging from 13 to 15 years of age, sneaked into P.S. 28 in the Bx'onx and ran amok during a seven-hour reign of vandalistic terror. They left 38 of the 40 rooms a shambles, spilled ink, water and supplies over the floors, scrawled obscene messages on the blackboards and broke doors and windows. They left unmistakable trails and it took policemen only a day to round them all up. Elsewhere in the country this army of marauders leaves the following shameful toll in its wake almost evei-y day. You will wince at the list because you are likely to recognize many of these things as occurring frequently in youi" own community: Vending machines ripped from their moorings and mangled, telephone books shredded and strewn about, NEW HAVEN police send gun-toting youngsters to tlie Wincliester plant to learn safe tombstones in cemeteries hurled down shooting from head targeteer Jack Lacy. The boys here are models, not delinquents and smashed, flowers and shrubs in public and private gardens trampled, Ambassador Robert Butler later placed magnificent St. Patrick's Cathedral in signs torn down, tires on cars slashed a wreath at the foot of the statue and New York City were defaced by large or deflated, walls defaced with pro- apologized to the Cuban people for the red paint smears, which were crude fanity, washrooms littered, street "unspeakable conduct of the sailors." reproductions of the hammer and lights broken by bullets, stones or BBs, But there is a type of vandalism sickle. sidewalk vendors' carts overturned which is perhaps ugliest of all, and the Vandalism against houses of wor- and their contents pilfered, building most terrifying. It is vandalism against ship rose to such an alarming pitch in materials on construction jobs scat- houses of worship. Churches and New York that city and state lawmak- tered. synagogues are invaded in the dark ers were forced to enact emergency It is not a pretty list. of night and profaned. Incidents like legislation in an effort to stem the It is especially shameful when the these stalk through the nation's press: menace. The State now has a law mak- prestige of the United States is in- In Buffalo a gang entered the Cal- ing such an act a felony puni.shable volved. vary Lutheran Church, desecrated by three years' imprisonment and the Witness the degrading spectacle last sacred objects, smashed furniture and city law provides for a one-year term, year when sailors from the American abused books and records. In Corona, $500 fine or both destroyer Rodman desecrated the L. I., hoodlums set five fires in the Many of these shocking deeds were statue of Jose Marti, hero of Cuba's Jewish Center, destroying prayer committed by youthful offenders, most independence, in Havana. An inter- books, curtains, furniture and the holy of whom were brought to book, but national incident erupted when in- scroll. In Brooklyn, N. Y., two churches are they the only ones responsible foj- furiated Cubans stoned the American and a synagogue were left a shambles this savage destruction of propei-ty? Embassy in leprisal, tried to burn Ihe within a three-week period. And a few Not by a long shot. Adults, many of U. S. flag and were prevented from years ago several doors and a con- whom don't realize they are disgrac- doing .so by the timely arrival of police siderable pai't of the stone work of the ing themselves and the nation, share who fired over the heads of the crowd. PHOTOS BY SYD LATHAM the guilt. (Contimied on page 5]) 27 Right under the nazis' noses, four Americans soldiers and the wide-open look of Teutonic tourists stuffed on butter, Lanvin gowns, Veuve Clicquot and in Paris celebrated the Fourth of July, 1940 in a way worthless money — marched straight up the Avenue. had left the Place de Concorde that brought hope to the hearts of the French They well behind them before the French crowds on the sidewalks understood what was happening and set up a timid By RICHARD M. BLUMENTHAL cheer. The only thing the four march- ers had in the way of a uniform was the Legion caps all of them wore. TEN YEARS AGO - OH the Fourth of street, and attempt to light the Sacred The cheering increased, growing to July, 1940 — four Americans, two Flame at the Tomb of France's Un- such a volume that, as they reached of them carrying the Stars and known Soldier under the Arc de the halfway point of their march and Stripes, marched shoulder to shoulder Triomphe. a nazi officer in an armored car up the center of the Champs Elysees With Schwartz were "Biz" Mackey loomed up just ahead of them, they on their way to the Arc de Triomphe. from New York and a man named had to figure that the game was up. Paris had been in the hands of the Beauvais. The fourth member has But no, all he did was whip out a nazis since June 14th, and the four never been identified. The four were camera and take a picture of them. knew of the official proclamation is- all that showed up of a group of thirty Uniformed nazis leaned out from ". sued a few days before: . . Under who on the night before had promised windows on both sides of the Avenue. penalty of death ... it is strictly for- that they would go through with the The crowds watching the four march- bidden to have or to hold any public march up the Avenue. ers and sensing what they were about, gatherings, meetings, demonstrations, With Old Glory waving, the four, hurried along the sidewalks toward ." parades, etc. . . whistling not too well but loudly the Arc. The leader of this little group was Yankee Doodle and then Over There, A panzer car raced past them and Gare Schwartz, member of Paris Post with special emphasis for the notes screamed to a stop a few yards ahead No. 1 of the American Legion, and it celebrating the "Yanks are coming" of them. As its occupants poured out, was primarily his idea that a group of line — under the astonished, then in- more panzer wagons loaded to capac- Americans, officially neutral, should credulous stares of nazi officers and ity converged upon the Arc, clearing carry their flag up Paris' best known ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY DERSH traffic away. (Continued on page 45)

28 : The National Legionnaire

All-American ConferenceTo Combat Communism Made Permanent In Meet Of 60 National Groups At Chicago

Militant Anti-Red Front Formed by Loyal and Patriotic by name such ideologies as fascism and naziism, on a scale and with a vigor Organizations with Memberships of 80,000,000; Details never before attempted, this first perma- Ironed Out After Legion-Called First Meet in New York nent organization meeting outlined com- prehensive plans for immediate action. Presenting a solid front against the authorized an interim menace of communism and other sub- The Conference an independent versive and un-American movements, budget of $50,000 and, as headquarters and delegates from 60 of the largest organi- unit, will have its own its staff. zations in the United States perfected own All-American Conference, as vis- a united, militant organization in a two- The ualized the founders in the Chicago day meeting at Chicago on May 13-14. by body through The new organization, with a potential meeting, is a voluntary the member groups fighting power of 80,000,000 individual which the'efforts of will be coordinated, and thus made more members of its constitutent groups, effective. The constitutent organization clearly defined its purpose in its name will maintain their own au- — All-American Conference to Combat members Communism. tonomy, and freedom of action in their fields. fee was fixed at The Chicago meeting was held to fin- own Membership ish the work of the Legion-called All- $100 for each member hoAy. organization American Conference which met at the When that section of the adopted, Elsie G. Jones, call of National Commander George N. plan was Mrs. Indianapolis, Indiana, representing the Craig in New York City on January Dr. Daniel A. Poling 28-29, of this year. Despite the handi- National Chairman Mothers of World War II, rose from her caps of a railroad strike and the im- place on the floor and presented a check tive, American Federation of Labor; of pending visit of the President of the for $100. Thus the Mothers World Rev. Father John A. Cronin, Washing- United States to Chicago, some 120 dele- War II became the first officially paid- ton, D. C, National Catholic Welfare gates from 60 organizations responded up member of the organization. Conference; Dr. Frederick C. Fowler, to the roll-call. After two full days of Pittsburgh, Pa., President, National As- Policy Statement debate and discussion, ironing out de- sociation of Evangelicals; Alexander T. tails of organization and the adoption The statement of policy adopted by Wells, New York City, Past President, the newly-created Conference comprised of a strong, virile statement of purpose Lions International. blueprint of activities featuring edu- and policy, the new patriotic confer- a W. C. "Tom" Sawyer, Indianapolis, cational programs at the grassroots lev- Ind., and Mesa, Arizona, American- els in the local communities to develop ism Director, The American Legion, was named as Secretary, and J. George Fredman, Jewish War Veterans, Jersey City, New Jersey was elected Treasurer. An Executive Council of General Con- ference Members was elected to assist and advise in the affairs of the Confer- ence. This group is composed of Miss Olive H. Huston, New York City, Execu- tive Director, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Robert W. Hanson, Milwaukee, Lewis G. Hines Mrs. Marie L. Sheehe Vice Chairmen Wis., editor of the National Eagles Rev. Fr. John A. Cronin Magazine ; Paul Wamsley, Buffalo, New Alexander T. Wells Vice Chairmen ence came into official existence by York, Past President, National Educa- unanimous vote of the cheering dele- tion Association; Rabbi Benjamin gates. a greater appreciation of the blessings National Commander George N. Schultz, New York City, Executive Di- Craig and dividends of the American way of of The American Legion presided rector, Jewish Against American League life; of exposing communist activities; at the sessions until the election of the Communism; Senator Jack B. Tenney, of meeting communist propaganda with interim officers who will serve until the Los Angeles, Cal., member of the Cali- better American counter-propaganda; next meeting to be held at Buffalo, New fornia Legislature; Rear Admiral of sponsoring aggressively annual ob- York, on November 18 and 19. Charles S. Stephenson, M.C., USN (Re- servances of "Know Your America Dr. Poling Elected Chairman tired), Washington, D.C.^ National Med- Week"; of protecting American free- ical Director, Disabled American Veter- Dr. Daniel A. Poling, New York City, doms through aiding all Americans to M. Cahill, Washington, eminent churchman, editor of the ans, and Gerald become more alert to the personalities, D. Association of Motion Picture Christian Herald, author and radio com- C, purpose, programs and front organiza- Producers. mentator was elected National Chair- tions of the communists in this country, United States Senator Karl Mundt, man for the interim period. Elected to and of making widest use of the press, as serve with him as Vice Chairmen were Madison, South Dakota, was named radio, movie screen and television in an Associate Conference member. Mrs. Marie L. Sheehe, Rockford, Illi- fighting communism. nois, National President, The American Plans for Immediate Action The Conference will also establish a Legion Auxiliary; Lewis G. Hines, Organized to combat communism and national clearing house to collect, pre- Washington, D. C., Special Representa- other subversive elements, which include pare and distribute through its member Tha American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • 29 organizations or by its own direction, printed material, motion pictures, radio and television scripts, speeches and arti- STATEMENT OF POLICY ADOPTED AT CHICAGO BY cles to portray dramatically the values AMERICAN CONFERENCE TO COMBAT COMMUNISM and virtues of free American institu- The constituent bodies of the AU-American Conference to Combat Commu- tions. It will also publicize, expose, check nism support whole-heartedly the basic liberties which are assured by the and prevent secret infiltrations into Constitution of the United States — freedom of speech, freedom of the press, American institutions by communist freedom of assembly and freedom of religion. agents. The objectives of the Confer- They will continue to strive for equal justice for ALL citizens without dis- ence will be further promoted by a series crimination on grounds of race, color, national origin, faith or creed. of national state and regional meetings. They will strive, in all areas of life, to strengthen American democracy and thereby demonstrate its moral and spiritual, as well as economic, superiority Craig's Efforts Recognized over any totalitarian regime, whether it be communist, fascist or nazi. The Conference recognizes that its functions are informational, educational The Chicago meeting was the out- and advisory. growth of the meeting sparked by Na- The immediate, specific and united task of this Conference is to unite in one tional Commander George N. Craig, held all-American organization those groups of good repute desiring to coordinate in New York last January, whose pur- their activities in a nation-wide crusade to defend and promote our freedoms pose was to join all foes of communism and to expose and curtail communism and other subversive elements in this into a single, unified and effective body. country. The All-American Conference proposes to carry out its campaign The American Legion, through National through national, state and local efforts. It will stress the use of effective means of education and publicity directed at the local grass-roots level by the co- Commander Craig, carried the burden operative leadership of the groups which are associated in the national program of organization through the months. of the All-American Conference. This Conference recognizes that communism, fascism and naziism and all other forms of un-Americanism are equally abhorrent, and each is destructive of the rights and dignity of the individual. Therefore, we pledge our efforts to combat all as inconsistent with the democratic way of life. While we are equally opposed to all, we recognize the clear and present dangers of communism and the necessity of meeting it with a positive and militant program as described herein, and whenever fascism or naziism or other forms of un- Americanism threaten all or any segment of the American population we likewise will meet it with the same positive and militant program.

out of work as a result," he said. "These PHILIPPINE LEGION HAS witnesses who testified have no one to whom they can turn for help. The reds CHILD WELFARE PROBLEM Dr. Frederick C. Fowler W. C. "Tom" Sawyer know this, and when someone else comes Vice Chairman Secretary A tremendous task faces the Child up for trial, it will be make it more Welfare Committee of The American difficult for the Government to find wit- When the Ail-American Conference ob- Legion in the Philippine Islands, re- jective been realized, the Legion nesses." He further said that French had ports Chairman Alva J. Hill. The prob- communists adopted a resolution not to became one of the participating organi- lem arises from several thousand GI zations, unload any ships employing any of the with voice and vote on equality babies abandoned by one or both parents with each one witnesses who testified against Bridges. of the other constituent and left destitute. members. Gitlow, who recently participated in Every Legion Post in the Philippines Recognizing National the demonstration in Mosinee, Wiscon- Commander is assisting with the work, and the De- Craig's leadership in bringing about the sin, portraying what would happen to partment Child Welfare Committee is united anti-communist front, he was working very closely with the Ameri- unanimously elected Honorary National can-Philippine Guardian Association, Chairman. which has been caring for the interests On taking over the gavel to preside of mestizo children for nearly 30 years. over the concluding session, after a stir- In February, as one instance of sub- ring prayer for Divine guidance, Dr. stantial Legion assistance, Manila Post Poling said: No. 1 contributed $2,000 worth of milk "This marks the first dynamic new and supplies to various charitable unity of the American people to carry groups engaged in child welfare work. the fight to communism everywhere in the United States. We have mobilized LIVING WAR MEMORIAL IS here today a mighty task force to wipe out every communist beachhead in our AUTHORIZED BY VIRGINIA land." J. George Fredman Senator Jack B. Tenney Treasurer Council Member After a long legislative battle. The Donohue and Gitlow Speak American Legion of Virginia working At the dinner meeting on the evening American communities under communist in co-operation with other veterans' of the first day, the principal speakers rule, told the gathering that this demon- organizations won a victory when the were Ben Gitlow, former Secretary Gen- stration was one of the first eff'ective General Assembly passed a bill author- eral of the communist party who broke steps taken by the American people in izing the construction of a Living War with Moscow in 1929, and F. Joseph the psychological warfare against com- Memorial, and providing for .$1,000,000 Donohue, Special Assistant U. S. Attor- munism. for its construction. The Memorial Bill ney General, prosecutor in the recent "If other similar efforts are success- was drawn by Past Department Com- perjury trial of Harry Bridges and two ful, we can wipe the communist May mander John J. Wicker, Jr., now serv- associates in San Francisco. Day off the map," he said. "If the lessons ing as Chairman of the Department Donohue said that the communists are learned in Mosinee are followed, the Legislative Committee, conforming to a persecuting the witnesses who testified United States can convert May Day from Department Convention mandate. against Bridges. He spoke of their a communist symbol into a holiday for Plans for the Memorial building have plight, and pointed out that the Govern- the propagation of Americanism." not been completed, but tentative plans ment was dependent under present de- Mr. Gitlow asserted that American include a "Shrine of Memory," a small fective legislation on the testimony of communists are Moscow's fifth column auditorium for statewide meetings and ex-communists to secure convictions. in the United States, and said further appropriate office space for State agen- "Of the 10 Government witnesses who that the communists already have a cies dealing with veterans and offices for testified against Bridges, six are now highly trained military corps. the principal veterans' organizations.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 LEGION'S FOREIGN POLICY STATED National Executive Committee Adopts Concise Statement We should encourage economic, educational and spiritual development in Western Of Its World Policy Presented by the Foreign Relations Germany. This area will again be a critical Commission at May Meeting; Rejects Defeatism Attitude spot in Europe's development. But Ameri- cans must be realistic in their aid and ever The foreign policy of The American nations of Western Europe, Canada and the watchful in their assistance in eliminating

. Legion is primarily dedicated to the preser- United States are militarily stronger than military power in Germany. We must not vation of "Freedom," freedom of the indi- at any time since World War II. Arms and abandon these people to the Russians, but vidual, and of human liberties. essential materials are now flowing and equally we must avoid the historic danger The menace in the world today is the must continue to flow to our allies in this of strengthening them to a point where they spi^ead of Soviet communism, whose aims area so that the North Atlantic Pact coun- will again menace their neighbors whom are the destruction of liberties human and tries will have the necessary equipment and they over-ran in two world wars. eventual world conquest. Therefore, the trained troops to make a formidable stand We should support in every way possible foreign policy of The American Legion is against any aggressor. the religious minorities in the satellite to fight communism everywhere. We now urge the countries of the North countries in Europe that arc trying to hold Instead of condemning the mistakes and Atlantic Pact to join forces within the the last citadel of freedom in their coun- inadequacies of the past let us now unite United Nations to insist on the amendment tries—the right to worship God as they our efforts and actions toward the one of the United Nations Charter to accomplish please. These peojjle have seen the State goal of destroying the threat of world do- the objectives of The American Legion Plan subjugate the Church, and then, try to minion our real enemy— Soviet Russia. by as stated above. In this way the democratic abolish the'Church. We must support them No longer should we contain communism nations of the West would thereby declare in their fight to regain freedom of worship. in one part of the world, then ignore its to the world their intention of making the Some Central Eui'opean problems cannot continued and successful advance in an- United Nations an effective authority for be solved until the final settlement of the other part. No longer will we tolerate trade peace. Austrian Peace Treaty. Many important is- or diplomatic expediencies which save us sues are at stake. Confidence in Western pennies today, but which will cost us dol- Recovery Program Endorsed Europe and America will be greatly aided lars tomorrow. foreign policy must Our be We further urge these same democracies by our insistence that the Treaty be con- consistently dedicated to the principle that which sponsored the North Atlantic Pact to cluded as soon as possible. the greatest contribution that can be made send delegates to a Convention to be held by the United States to a peaceful world Eastern Mediterranean Area soon in the United States to explore the is the preservation of freedom for those possibilities of the establishment, within Americans can view with pride the ac- who will be free— and through our moral, complishments of our helpfulness and aid militao' and economic strength, the destruc- in the Eastern Mediterranean Area. Greece tion and complete elimination of false and would not have a democratic form of Gov- untruthful philosophies and ideologies FOREIGN RELATIONS ernment today if it had not been for the bi- which are loose in the world today. partisan support of the Truman Doctrine of COMMISSION MEMBERS 1947— which stated that communist aggres- Faith in United Nations sion should advance no further in Europe Chairman, William Verity, Middle- without the United States, thru the United We retain our faith in the United Nations. town, Ohio. Nations, taking notice of, and doing some- We believe that it can be made an effective Vice Chairmen, Charles A. Gonser. thing about, such aggression. America world authority which can prevent aggres- Spokane, Wash.; Leon Happell. fought communist aggression in this Area, sion if the Charter is amended immediately Stockton, Cal.; Rogers KcUey, Edin- for we wanted the people of the Near East as suggested by The American Legion in burg, Texas. to have a chance to mold a destiny of their November of 1946 — to accomplish the fol- Members, Alton T. Roberts, High- choice— and not one dictated to them by lowing: land Park, Mich.; Harry E. Jackson. Moscow. 1. Removal of the veto power in the two Manchester, N. H.; Philip G. Cash- We must continue to effectively and af- specific instances of matters pertaining to man, Fitchburg, Mass.; Charles S. firmatively enlighten the people of Europe aggression and preparation for aggression. Cook, Bethlehem, Pa.; James A. Dun- and Asia to the truth of the American way 2. The adoption of the U. S. proposals for lap, Gainesville. Ga.; John J. Barn- of life in the advantages, both material and the international control of atomic energy hardt. Concord, N. C; Oscar Rohlff. spiritual, to be gained by free people oper- and the establishment of arms quotas, both Casper, Wyo.; George W. Cregg. ating under democratic processes—where the to be guaranteed thru a system of positive Syracuse, N. Y. international inspection. individual is served by the State without 3. Establishment of an effective tyranny- being dependent upon it. Containment of proof international police force. This force Soviet aggression is not enough. We must the framework of the United Nations, of an would consist of two parts, an independent go forward to the destruction of the ag- Association for closer political cooperation active force to be under the direct control gressive power of the Soviet police state. among freedom-loving democracies. of the Security council and a reserve force Massive propaganda projects must be To preserve faith of others in our system made up of the national contingents of the launched to take the truth to all corners of of freedoms we must continue to help those major powers capable of backing up the the world so that all peoples will have an war torn nations and people of the world, active forces when necessary. Tlie result understanding of the basic issues in this who will first help themselves, to rebuild would be that the United Nations, thru an great struggle for freedom's survival. their countries and to regain their basic lib- results in this direc- effective police force, could enforce its de- We believe that good erties. We therefore urge continuation of the cisions, prevent aggression and the prep- tion have been obtained by the Office of European Recovery Program as provided for aration of aggression, and so maintain the International Information and the United the present Economic Cooperation Act. peace. in States Information Service. We urge that which The American Legion was the first We believe that The American Legion these two agencies and others operating un- nation-wide organization to endoi'se. We Plan for strengthening the United Nations der the guidance of our State Department believe that this program has been ad- the truth to the far corners pi-ovides the essential basic requirements of, continue to take ministered to the benefit of the American to allot and the first steps toward, true world wide of the world. We urge Congress people and that is has accomplished its sufficient to carry out this important enforcement of law and order, which is the funds purpose of rehabilitating the economies of immediate necessity. phase of winning the cold war. Western Europe and has contained com- Aid for China and Formosa Opposes World Federation munist expansion in this area. We urge all possible economies in the administration of The American Legion urges opposition The American Legion is opposed to any ECA, so that our own economy will not be to the expansion of communism in Asia. Wc form of World Federation or World Gov- jeopardized. We heartily endorse a pro- propose that our Government extend every ernment, at this time. posal that a study by a Commission be made reasonable assistance to foster all influences In 1948 The American Legion recom- sufficiently prior to June 1952 so that ap- favorable to democracy. We oppose recog- mended a mutual self defense pact com- propriate recommendations can be made to nition of communist China. posed of the nations of the North Atlantic the Congress and the American people as At the 1949 Philadelphia Convention wc Area. Our suggestion was made fully a year to what steps, if any, might be necessary urged that our support should be made before the North Atlantic Pact was ap- after that time to continue economic help available to any patriotic groups or organi- proved by Congress. to the countries of Europe who have joined zations of Chinese whose principles and As a result of the North Atlantic Pact the forces with us in our fight for freedom. stability are worthy of our confidence and

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I who will vigorously fight communism and final battle for liberty, justice and democ- COUNTY HOSPITAL BUILT outside aggressors to preserve the basic racy. rights and liberties of a free China. And when successful — as we will certain- BY S. C. LEGION POST We again say we reject defeatism and ly be — our peace will be built upon the abandonment of this area to communist rock of self-reliance of all free people, good Georgetown, South Carolina, has a aggressors. The immediate threat is at For- will, and international law, internationally new $300,000 county hospital, thanks to mosa and in the Philippines. We abhor the enforced. Only then can we openly admit Georgetown Post No. 114, The American idea of abandoning the free and indepen- to ourselves and to each other that we have Legion. The new hospital was dedicated dent Government of Formosa. If we are found true peace and real security. with appropriate ceremonies on May 10, opposed to communist aggression, and if All this is possible if we, as individuals, when Legionnaire Governor J. Strom we are the world's last and greatest pro- accept the responsibility to do our share Thurmond, the principal speaker, offi- tector of human liberties, then certainly we to protect our own liberties. With our trust the public. cannot abandon Formosa at such a crucial in God we shall find divine guidance along cially opened it for use of moment. If we do so, then we are merely the rough road that lies ahead. This call A hospital had been needed for many borrowing a temporary period of peace un- for God's help is not to lull the peace- years, but no one took the initiative to til we are forced to face the same issue in seeking into weakness and compromise. build one. Back in 1944, Georgetown another place, which will be just a bit closer Only in strength of character and arms and Post took on the task — the members un- to the heart of our national defense struc- purpose, based on Christian principles of dertook to raise $300,000 within two ture. justice and righteousness, will America be years. It was a big job — the war was able to offer proper leadership to peace- Formosan Defense Imperative in its final stages; the members of the hungry citizens of the world who starve for not too We believe it is imperative that our De- God's most cherished gift— "human dignity." Post were all WWl vets, and partment of Defense appraise the defend- many of them. However the drive got ability of Formosa at once, with the thought under way. that Formosa be preserved, with our help, When the WW2 vets came back they as a bastion of freedom and a base for COWAN STARTS 25TH YEAR joined in the movement. Finally the military operations against the communist funds were raised with the help of the aggressors on the mainland of Asia. AS NEW JERSEY ADJUTANT entire community, and the Legion turned We should also aid the Philippine Gov- New Jersey Legionnaires gave Committee. ernment in every possible way, to resist the the sum over to the Hospital their old-timer Department Adju- infiltration of communist aggressors and to Other obstacles were raised; the cost of tant, F. Cowan, a big hand maintain a free democratic government. Roland construction had increased, and there on April 1st when he started his 25th Because the North Atlantic Pact has been was a scarcity of essential building ma- year in that office. He was reminded of such immense value and protection to It not until 10 that the that under his direction as the chief terials. was May the countries involved and because a simi- administrative officer, the New building was called complete. lar regional alliance might be a deterrent to Jersey Legion has grown from 200 Legionnaire Joe Doyle was master of communist expansion in the Pacific and Far Posts and 12,000 members to the ceremonies and the dedicatory exercises, Eastern areas, we again urge our Govern- present 457 Posts enrolling a mem- Thurmond, De- ment to lend its aid in forming a regional introducing Governor bership of 73.000. alliance under Article 51 of the United Na- partment Commander W. J. McLeod, vet of with overseas tions Charter, composed of those countries A Navy WWl and Department Senior Vice Command- battlewagon service, he assisted in of the Pacific and Far Eastern areas, who, er George E. Doyle. The address of organizing Union Hill Post No. 46 through self-help and mutual aid, desire to was delivered by Post Com- (now Union City Post) in May, 1919, welcome guarantee their mutual defense and to pre- of charter mander Gordon L. Miller, Jr. serve individual liberties. which he was a member first again The President's Point Four Program rec- and Commander. He served the Post as its skipper in 1923- ommends that Congress provide funds to 24, but since 1928 has been a GEORGIA POST DEDICATES finance technical, scientific, and managerial member of Trenton Post No. largest knowledge to underdeveloped areas of the 93, SAVANNAH TUMOR CLINIC in the Department. In addition to world, and also, limited financial assist- serving in Post ance for the creation of productive enter- and County, as well Dedicated to the use of all who need as the Department of Jersey, prises. The President has requested forty- New its services, Savannah (Georgia) Post Adjutant has served as five million dollars to finance the program Cowan No. 35 financed and has opened a new "King" of the Steivos — the national for the first year. laboratory room at the Savannah Tumor organization of past and present De- This plan suggests assistance in many addition to the funds raised partment Adjutants. Clinic. In fields and emphasizes technical projects in for the initial cost of equipping and fur- health, industry, labor, agriculture and sci- nishing the laboratory, the Post has entific research with respect to natural re- provided funds for supplies for 1950 and sources in underdeveloped countries show- Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo mainte- ing particular need. The wise and careful has pledged itself to continue Colorado Springs (Colorado) Post administration of such a program bears nance through the years. great possibilities for the development of No. 5, whose home town is in the shadow At the dedication ceremonies, when intex-national understanding and cooper- of Pikes Peak, will put on its annual William T. Walsh, Chairman of the ation, and would contribute considerably colorful rodeo — appropriately named Post Cancer Committee, and Mrs. Angus to the enlargement of world trade. "Pikes Peak or Bust"— on August 8-12. N. Purvis, clinic official, unveiled the The American Legion approves, in prin- Impresario C. Keith Riddoeh, Chairman, plaque, the gift was hailed by Dr. Lee ciple, the President's Point Four Program. and his associates have assembled a line- Howard, Sr., clinic dii-ector, as a means We urge the full cooperation of our gov- up of virtually all the big names in the in.^.another ernment with private enterprise in the de- of making possible work rodeo circuit to pit their skill against velopment of such a program. phase of cancer detection and treatment. the meanest broncs, the toughest bulls He said "Savannah Post is rendering an Must Strive for Peace and the friskiest calves. The event is extremly valuable service to Savannah The foregoing should constitute the for- one of the best in the Rockies. and the 13 neighboring counties." eign policy of the United States as visualized The presentation was made by Post by our Commission at this time. The best Kansas City, Kansas Commander Thomas J. Canty. In his evaluation of any foreign policy is whether Correction. In the March number, response Mayor Olin F. Fulmer con- or not it can keep the peace. We know that gratulated the Post on its splendid work we cannot have peace by just wishing for through some inadvertence, credit for in behalf of the community. it or by negotiating a temporary breathing the splendid Tjj[le of Toys contribution spell with the Politburo. made by the Legion Posts of Wyandotte The clinic was established in 1938 and' We will have peace only after we have Council, Kansas City, Kansas, was given has an annual average of more than accepted and absorbed the fact that we in to Kansas City, Missouri. "It was no 1,200 patients. Operating expenses are America must offer the leadership necessary one's fault and could not have been met only in part by fees collected. A con- to win this great global conflict of ideas. We deficit is helped, I feel certain," writes Wyan- siderable part of the monthly must fight the insidious menace of com- dotte Commander Carl L. Collins. "All carried by the American Cancer Society, munism and totalitarian aggression with all Savannah Post No. 135, The American our might and resources. We must gather of the toys were shipped from Kansas Legion, the Rainbow Girls, and other to us, as allies, all people who will be free- City, Missouri, because the Santa Fe all who are willing to join with us in this Railroad is on that side of the river." organizations.

22 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 No. 3 — Approved — Interior Department — Same as for Justice Department, with an exception for Passed by House; Name the Virgin Islands Corp. Diluted Draft Act No. 4 — Defeated — Would have reorganized Agriculture Department along the same general lines. No. 5 — Approved — Commerce Department — Is Changed to Manpower Registration Act Confers on Secretary same general control as in Interior and Justice. Exceptions are: Civil Aero- amendments. Chairman Vinson offered nautics Board and Inland Waterways Corp. Pro- vides for the new Administrative Assistant Sec- Favorable Action by Senate Is an amendment to change the title from retary, under classified civil service, at $14,000 Forecast; Summary of Hoover Selective Service Act to Manpower Reg- a year. No. 6 — Approved — Labor Department — Con- Reorganization Plans istration Act. The amendment was ac- fers on Secretary centralized control over all func- hearing examiners, and authorizes cepted by the House. The bill is now in tions except him to reassign functions. Provides for the new By Miles D. Kennedy the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Administrative Assistant Secretary, under civil service, at $14,000 a year. National Legislative Director and it is almost a certainty that the No. 7 — Defeated — Would have empowered Senate will approve, and that the Presi- President to choose the chairman of the Inter- On January 17, Representative Carl dent will sign this measure extending a state Commerce Commission, now chosen by other Vinson of Georgia introduced H.R. 6826, commissioners, and would have centralized ad- "watered down" draft law for two years. ministrative functions in chairman. a bill that would have simply extended — While registration and classification No. 8 — Approved — Federal Trade Commission the Selective Service Act of 1948 for Transfers selection of chairman from commis- of all young men from 18 to 26 would sion to President and centralizes in chairman the an additional three year period, replac- continue, under the provisions of this executive and administrative functions. Chairman ing the 1948 act which expired on June to be guided in administering the agency by gen- act, there can be no induction or con- eral policies laid down by commission. 24, 1950. Hearings were held on this bill — scription unless the Congress so author- No. 9 — Approved Federal Power Commission in January and February. Based on — To be reorganized along same lines as Federal izes by joint resolution. Trade Commission. their then analysis of the world situa- No. 10 — Approved — Securities and Exchange The bill also authorizes the President tion and the testimony brought out in Commission — To be reorganized along same lines to order to active duty for 21 months as Federal Trade and Federal Power Commissions. the hearings, the House Armed Services No. 1 1 — Defeated — Would have reorganized all National Guardsmen, Reserves and Committee decided to defer further con- Federal Communications Commission along simi- Regular retired personnel after a na- lar lines, but Senate vetoed it. sideration of the bill. No report was No. 12 — Defeated — Would have abolished inde- tional emergency is declared by the made to the House. pendent office of general counsel of National Congress. Labor Relations Board, and transferred his func- The shooting down of a Navy plane The proposed act suspends the Presi- tions to the chairman. Senate vetoed it. over the Baltic, and other international No. 13 — Approved — Civil Aeronautics Board — dent's power to seize plants essential Follows reorganization of Federal Trade and developments of a serious nature caused Power Commissions. to war until Congress declares an emer- the committee early in May to reopen No. 14 — Approved — To co-ordinate the admin- gency. It also suspends provisions of istration of labor standards — Authorizes the Sec- consideration of the extension, just be- law authorizing short term enlistments retary of Labor to make rules and regulations fore the May 3-5 meeting of the Legion's for the uniform enforcement by other Govern- in the Regular Armed Forces. ment agencies of the various laws affecting National Executive Committee. the In consideration of youths under the wages and hours on Federal projects and on work Cognizant of the evidence of mounting financed in part by Federal aid. age of 19 years who may be members of No. 15 — Approved — Transfers supervision over tension the National Executive Commit- the National Guard or other reserve public works in Alaska and the Virgin Islands tee adopted a resolution expressing deep- from GSA to Interior. components ordered into active duty, the No. 16 — Approved — Transfers from GSA to the est apprehension of the current state of act provides that these youths may be Federal Security Agency supervision over aid to world affairs and reasserting the Le- local school districts on Federal reservations and relieved from such duty upon their own gion's traditional position on the neces- application, or that of their parents or guardians. BOYS' NATION WILL BE House debate on the measure indi- LEGIONNAIRES WELCOMED cated that the most important objective HELD AT FT. MYER, VA. of the bill, however, is to retain the ex- AT NATL. HEADQUARTERS 5th annual Boys' Nation to tensive Selective Service System which The be sponsored by The American Legion is now organized and functioning in 54 Legionnaires, when in Indianapo- will be held at Fort Myer, Virginia, lis pay a visit to your National Head- states territories, is and and which rep- on July 21 to 27th. This military es- quarters, 777 North Meridian Street. resented by 3,745 draft boards. In the tablishment borders on the Arling- There is always a warm welcome for event of a national military emergency, ton National Cemetery, and is within visiting Legionnaires. Aside from the an established and functioning system very easy reach of the National social contact, such a visit will give would save an estimated four months Capitol where much of the activities a better knowledge of the Legion time. In connection with "time saving," of the Boys' Nation will be carried on. and how it operates. General Bradley said: "Now is the time to buy our time and be ready if an in defense areas, and functions connected with emergency arises." sity of a National Security Training- the Water Pollution Control Act. No. 17 — Approved — Transfers from GSA to the program. The resolution pointed out Summary of Reorganization Plans Housing and Home Finance Agency, the plan- that the Legion has submitted such a ning of non-Federal public works, and disposal Numerous inquiries have been re- of wartime community facilities. program that will provide an adequate, ceived by the Legislative Commission as No. 18 — Approved — To give GSA general con- permanent solution to the problem of trol over the leasing and management of most to the status of various reorganization office space for civilian Federal agencies outside furnishing a pool of trained manpower, plans arising out of the Hoover Com- of Washington, similar to the central control and at the same time keep in existence already exercised over Government office space in mission Report heretofore submitted to the district. the present machinery of a Selective Congress by the President. For the in- No. 19 — Approved — Transfers to the Bureau of Service System. Pending the enactment Employes' Compensation and the Employes' formation and guidance of our readers Compensation Appeals Board from the Federal of the National Security Training pro- we set forth below a brief statement Security Agency to the Secretary of Labor. gram, the Legion asked that the Selec- No. 20 — Approved — Transfers from the State covering Plans Nos. 1 to 21, both inclu- Department to the GSA the task of preserving tive Service law be continued. sive, and have indicated the disposition certain Government archives which have no con- The House Armed Services Commit- nection with foreign affairs. These include the of each. receipt and preservation of original copies of tee following open and closed meetings No. 1 — Defeated — Would have given the Secre- laws, certification of constitutional amendments over a period of three days, during tary of the Treasury the same centralized control and the certificates of electors in presidential over his bureaus that will be conferred on the elections. which time they heard General Bradley Secretaries of the Interior, Commerce and Labor No. 21 — Approved — Abolishes the Maritime and other military and civilian repre- and on the Attorney General by the plans that Commission. Creates in the Commerce Depart- Congress did not veto. Reorganization plan No. ment a three-man Federal Maritime Board, to sentatives of the Department of Na- 26, similar to No. 1, but making no change in be appointed by the President and confirmed by tional Defense, unanimously recom- status of office of the Cpmptroller of the Cur- the Senate. rency, was presented by the President on May mended to the House that H.R. 6826, 31st. Under date of May 9, 1950, the Presi- as amended, be passed by that body. No. 2 — Approved — Justice Department — Trans- dent submitted to the Congress plans fers to Attorney General nearly all functions of The bill was debated and overwhelm- subordinate officers and empowers him to reassign Nos. 22 to 25, both inclusive. Objections ingly passed (216-11) on May 24. Be- functions. Exceptions are hearing examiners, the can be filed to any of said plans within cause directors of Federal Prison Industries, Inc., and of limitations etl'ected by the the Board of Parole, etc. sixty days from said date.

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BOYS' COUNTY TRIED OUT POST COMMANDER SIGNS IN TENNESSEE BY LEGION DONALD CLARK RESIGNSIGNS \

UP RECORD MEMBERSHIP The Legion of Tennessee tried out the AS CALIFORNIA ADJUTANT of teaching county gov- Department Adjutant Jess Bullard Nebraska plan Donald L. Clarke. Department Ad- of South Carolina reports that David ernment in a practical way—and called jutant of California since August, P. Martin, Commander of Lebenon it good. About one-third of the counties 1946, has resigned that position to Post No. 86, in his Department, has in the State participated. In its first enter business for himself. He is a personally signed up 41 of the 48 Volunteer Boys' County Governor Gor- Navy vet of WW2, with three years record of members of his Post, for a don Browning gave official sanction in a of service. of the total membership. Department Commander Lewis K. 85 percent proclamation designating the week as Department Adjutant Bullard says Gough has appointed Gordon A. Boys County Week. the record is unsurpassed in South Lyons as Acting Adjutant. Lyons Carolina, and challenges any other Patterned along the lines of The was assistant to Clarke. Post to equal it. American Legion's Boys' State, high school lads took over the principal offices in the participating counties. Offi- INITIATION TEAM CONTEST AMERICAN LEGION DAY AT cials explained their duties and turned their offices over to the boys for a day. SET FOR L A. CONVENTION MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY Following the one day reign, local Posts Legion Initiation entertained the young officials at a din- The first National The United States Merchant Marine definitely scheduled as ner where American Legion leaders Team contest is Academy at Kings Point, Long Island, of the National Con- stressed the need for keeping govern- one of the events N. Y., held an American Legion Day vention at Los Angeles, October 9-12. ment close at home. on May 13th, when Secretary of the Application for team entry and rules The Boys' and Girls' County Govern- Francis P. Matthews led a dele- contest been pre- Navy ment movement was started three years governing the have gation of his top aides to the campus the Trophies, Awards and ago in the Department of Nebraska, pared by to participate in the ceremonies. Mark- sparked by Nebraska Supreme Court Ceremonials Committee, which are ing the first visit of a Cabinet officer to available National Headquarters. Justice Robei-t Simmons. The program from the Academy, Secretary Matthews was contest itself will be conducted was fully explained in an article by Will The awarded a Legion Merit Medal for his the direction of the Contests Oursler, "Kid's County," in this maga- under distinguished service in reorganizing Supervisory Committee. zine for May, 1949. The training plan, and strengthening the U. S. Naval Initiation Team contests have fea- which is complementary to Boys' State, Reserve. tured meets for several was adopted as a National Americanism Department Presentation of the Medal was made particularly in Illinois program by the National Executive years, where a by Henry C. Parke, Commander of the keen interest has been developed. Naval Committee at its meeting in May of this Robert L. Hague Merchant Marine In- Chicago, organized in year. Post team, of was dustries Post, The American Legion, of 1935 and has carried away the Illinois New York City, Knoxville's Burial Squad championship five times. Similar awards were made to Vice Knoxville (Tennessee) Post No. 2 has Admiral John W. Roper, Deputy Chief a well organized and efficient uniformed Legion Founder Dead of Naval Operations and Chief of Naval burial unit, consisting of firing squad, David Marvin Goodrich, 73, honorary Personnel; Rear Admiral Ralph S. escort and other necessary personnel. Chairman of the Board of the B. F. Riggs, Assistant Chief of Naval Opera- During the year ending May 15th, this Goodrich Co., died May 17th at his home tions and Director of the Naval Reserve unit was called upon to pay the last at Mount Kisco, New York. A veteran Rear Admiral Walter S. Delaney, Com- honors to 141 veterans, making in all of the Spanish-American War, he was a mandant of the 3rd Naval District, and 641 funerals and burials it has con- Colonel in WWl and was one of the 26 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in ducted, according to Ross F. Crosby, officers called by Theodore Roosevelt, absentia. Department Commander Louis Post Historian. Jr. to the dinner meeting in Paris on Drago, and Captain Edward C. Holder, February 16, 1919, to plan an organiza- USNR, Chairman of the New York De- New Zealand Medals tion of the veterans of the war just partment Merchant Marine Committee, Issue of campaign stars and medals ended. He participated actively in the participated in the ceremonies of the day. for WW2 service with New Zealand Paris Caucus and in the formation of After passing in review, the 1,000- forces has been authorized by the Min- The American Legion. From 1927 until strong student body honored the Navy ister for Defense. Those entitled to any his retirement in April of this year, he Secretary, his staff, and the American of the awards are required to make ap- was Chairman of the Board of the rub- Legion representatives with a drill ex- plication on special forms, which are ber company, which was started by his hibition. available "from the New Zealand Joint father. Staff Mission. Washington 25, D. C. One Way Ticket to Moscow 47 Life Memberships Awarded Grant Town (West Virginia) Post Willits-Hogan-Tonne Post No. 39, No. 157 has announced that it will Roebling, New Jersey, established a na- gladly give a one-way ticket to Moscow HAS YOUR POST BACKED tional record when life membership to any native communist who loves the CO-OP HOUSING PROJECT? cards were presented to 47 of its mem- USSR better than his own country. This bers at one meeting—all WWl members is the spirit of the Post, says Command- The Legion's National Economic of long service. The presentation was er Mike Salinia. Commission is in need of complete made one week after National Comman- Grant Town Post, starting with 30 information about the .participation der Craig had been honored by an out- members in 1946, now has an enrollment of local Posts and other Legion units in co-operative housing projects. standing reception in Burlington County, of 160—more than 100 percent of its Commanders and Adjutants of Posts in which the Roebling Post and its mem- Depai-tment quota. A 50-piece junior which have sponsored such projects bers had an active part. band has been organized which will are urged to make immediate re- challenge others in its class at the De- port, giving brief description of the partment Convention. In addition to re- nature, extent, cost and number of Building New Home modeling and redecorating its club units constructed or in prospect. Highland Park (Illinois) Post No. house, the Post has worked with the Write Ralph H. Lavers, Director. 145 has broken ground for the construc- schools, presented plaques and School National Economic Commission, The tion of a new Legion Memorial building, American Legion, 734 15th Street Award Medals, and made liberal c5n- Commander Alan J. Harrison has an- N. W.. Washington, D. C. tributions to the School Patrol and Boy nounced. The overall cost of the struc- Scouts. ture will be about $135,000.

34 • The American Legion Magazine • luly, 1950 torpedo division and gunner's gang. Henry C. Fox, 415 Hartford Ave., Des Moines 15, Iowa. Co. I, 411th Inf., 103rd Div.-Will Lts. Mc- OUTFIT REUNIONS COMRADES IN DISTRESS Cutcheon, Don Brackett and Coe; Sgts. Waldo, Mills, Bill Wykle, Dixon, or anyone connected with this outfit overseas, please write. Claim pending. Barnard Allen Welch, 1106 N. Ewing St., 3rd Army Association — Reunion New York Ridge, Brooklyn — Men who re- Indianapolis, Ind. Sick Bay, Bay City, August 18-20; Hotel Commodore. For info sick bay, please write; ur- Smoky Hill Air Base Hospital —Will 1st member me being in Army write Kichard F. Hughes, Secretary, 1275 W. statements. William J. Smith, (ex- Lts. Bridgeman and Longnecker, MC, this station gently need St., York, Penna. South Boston Poplar Carpenter 2/c) 657 E. Sixth St., November, 1942, through April 15, 1943, please 8th Infantry Division Assn., (and attached write. Also need contact Vincent Mee, Norville 27, Mass. „ ^ to units) — 3rd annual reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Camp Stewart, Ga., or Kennedy and Kress, patients there when I was Hdqrs. 589th AAA, November 16-18; Hotel Netherland Plaza. Details Gordon — Statements under treatment. Marion Davis, Box Motor Pool Hdqrs., Camp Write V. from Chalmer A. Young, Executive Secretary, claim; men who remember me please 993, Greggton, Texas. needed for 1736 Kemper Ave., Cincinnati 31, Ohio. 6th St. North, I, I was write. Ralph V. Carter, 1123 Co. 26th Infantry — On October 4, 1918, 27th Division Assn. — Annual reunion, Albany, buried by a shell; three others were with me, Minneapolis, Minn. N. Y., October 6-7; Hotel Ten Eyck. Info from 341) and USS Simpson one. who remembers USS Decatur (DD Sgt. McCoy was Anyone Joseph P. Dooley, Secretary, 540 Madison Ave, commissary division, in in (DD 221) — Shipmates of that incident please get touch with me. Albany, Y. convoy, please N. Iceland, convoy duty and African (Corp.) Leo J. Dorb, 1255 N. Orange Dr., Holly- 34th Infantry (Red Bull) Division — 3rd annual complete claim. Louis write- need statements to wood 38, Calif. reunion, Des Moines, Iowa, September 16-17. De- Ismay, 21 Fairview Ave., Tuckahoe 7, N. Y. Hdqrs. 30th FA and Barnes General Hospital- Lewis Ur- tails from Col. Ed Bird, 6708 University, Des 1st Co., Development Bn., Camp — Will anyone who was stationed at Camp Roberts, Moines, Iowa. who served gently need statements from men Cal, and left there for Alaska, also those who 75th Division Assn. — 4th annual reunion, Kan- write. William J. Fielding, hospital with me in 1918; please remember my treatment at above sum- sas City, Mo., Auguust 18-20; Hotel President. Clearfield, Utah. mer of 1942, please get in touch with me. Harry P. Wiseman, National from men Information from Harry 42nd Infantry Band — Need to hear M. Faroux, RD 6, Box 167A, Greensburg, Pa. Fuller Ave., Cleveland Ohio. back President, 9724 4, who served with me in 1917 when I suffered Hdqrs. Battery, FA Training Detachment, Fort 80th (Blue Ridge) Infantry Division (Both Jack Curley, Frank — injury, especially Capt. Ditto, Knox Urgently need to hear from anyone who WWs) — 31st national reunion, Harrisonburg, Va., Write James Salley, Pfc. ("Smitty"), Ernest Funk, Corp. Simons. served with Robert L. Smith, August 3-6. Details from 80th Div. Vet. Assn., especially Sgt. Graven, believed to be Rl, Taneytown, Md. a home 535 5th Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa., or Russell L. 1194th Demb. Group, last assigned State. required to estab- Casual Det., Washington Statements Stultz, 224 N. Main St., Harrisonburg, Va. to Co. C, 8th MG Co. -Need to hear from two lish widow's claim. Write Mrs. T. V. Smith, Box 89th Division Society— Reunion, Los Angeles, but believe from comrades names not remembered 43, Vandalia, 111. California, October 9-12, during American Legion Coblenz, Pennsylvania, who served with me at USS Richmond — Need to contact shipmates National Convention. Info from Joe T. Woods, injury from Germany, in 1918, who will recall my who served with me prior to February, 1941, also Adjutant, California Sector, P. O. Box 7844, Del 10th St., Eldora, school, D.C., a fall. Benjamin Teske, 1610 classmates primary FC Washington, Valle Sta., Los Angeles 15, California. Iowa. Navy Yard, June to November, 1940. Claim pend- 92nd Infantry Division, (both WWs) — Annual (Neb.) Air Base — Pfc. Kenneth Mc- ing. Hugler Dismuke. Alba, Ala. Lincoln reunion. Chicago, 111., August 27-September 1. in need Bride, Lake Andes, S. Dak., is urgently CASU 11 — Will men who served with me on Contact Jesse L. Carter, National Commander, service comrades, particularly particularly officers, please of statements from Guadalcanal, medical 5745 S. State St., Chicago 21, 111. Sgt. "Slim"; was injured while cooking at offi- write. Need statements to complete claim. Henry National Yeomen F — Annual reunion, Los An- of night shift, cer's mess. "Slim" was in charge Garland Sullivan. 624 Alio St., Marrero, Loui- geles, Cal.. October 9-12, during American Legion believed to be from Pennsylvania. Records lost; National Convention. For info write Mrs. Etta Hosp.; McBride was hospitalized at Lincoln Base '^'oe't. 911, QM Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. -Will M. Zeh, Chairman, 26870 Dapplegray Lane, Rte. needed to obtain hospitalization. Kelly and Burt Stover, who know statements Edward M. 2, Box 743, Palos Verdes Estate, Lomite, Cal. Write veteran, please. about my knee injury while playing baseball, 319th Engineers (WWl) and 319th Engineer Virginia)- Need USS Huntington (old West please write; statements needed. Richard E. Bn., (WW2)- Reunion, Los Angeles, Cal., Oc- force to hear from shipmates of the fireroom Grant, Benson Sta., Rt. 1. Omaha 4, Neb. tober Rodger Young Auditorium, 936 W. Cor- 7; (black gang), especially F2/c Raymond C. 87th Heavy Pontoon (Eng.) Bn. — Will anyone Washington Blvd. Contact Col. C. W. Otwell, Haymie. or any member coran; PhMl/c John M. who knows present address of Capt. Albert W. 14,444 Magnolia Blvd., Van Nuys, Cal. of medical corps. Roy V. R. Grogan, RFD 4, Holmes, medical officer this outfit, please write. National Assn. of American Balloon Corps Easton, Md. Statement neded. Santo A. Perito, 430 Oak St., Veterans — 19th annual reunion, Los Angeles, Cal.. Russey, Honolulu — Want Medical Det., Fort De Marion, Ohio. October 7-11, during American Legion National to contact any officer or enlisted man. above out- USS Grenadier (Submarine 210) — Need to con- Convention; headquarters. Hotel Mayfair. Annual to November 15, fit, at station March 28, 1917, tact shipmates; statements needed to establish dinner October 9th, Hollywood-Roosevelt Hotel, 1918. Please write Van L. Woodruff, 57 Tilton St.. back and leg injuries while prisoner of Japs. Blossom Room. Contact Walter W. Quigley, Na- St. Paul 2, Minn. Write Glen Foure, Star Rt. 1, Box 67, Shelton, tional Commander, 2320 Hagan Drive, Alhambra, Rifle Range Det., Instr. Bn., Marine Corps, Wash. — from men Cal., for details. Camp LeJeune Statements needed 141st Armored Signal Co.-Will Lt. J. T. Rossi, 5th Infantry Regiment Assn. — 2nd annual re- those who remem- this detachment, particularly later assigned to 5th Army Signal Office, please union, Portland, Maine, July 23. Info from of concussion. ber my ear condition as a result write; statement needed. James K. Davis, 1161 Robert Howell. Secretary, P. O. Box. 2161, South Sidney, Ohio. David M. Dilbone. 306 Belmont St.. E. 6th St., Hermiston, Oregon. Portland, Maine. Urgently need to hear from 64th CAC Band — U. S. Navy, (WW2) — Will anyone who knows U. S. Army Ambulance Service Assn., (USA- served with me in France in' 1918, comrades who present address of Edgar Schneider, formerly of ACS) — 31st annual convention, Chicago, 111., Frank Bonner, Sgts. particularly Bandleader Brooklyn, N. Y., please write. Important; set- July 13-15; Hotel La Salle. Write H. G. Rossell, Schaffer and Wells. Write Ezekiel E. Black and tlement of estate and trust fund. Write Max Chairman, 550 Arlington Place, Chicago 14, 111., Ave., Seattle Zimmerman, SSOSVo 20th N.W., Schneider, or John E. Guinter, Box 93, Belleview, or Charles L. Winkler, National Adjutant, 1727 7, Washington. Fla. S. Yewdall St., Philadelphia 43, Pa., for details. Bn., 97th Div.-Will Co. A, 322nd Engineer SS ESSO, Gettysburg- Will Lt. (jg.) Arnold or Co. A, 128th Inf„ 32nd Div.- 17th reunion, in Station Hospital Camp anyone who was anyone serving with me, please write. Urgent; Neillsville, Wisconsin, July 29-30. Write A. F. Cooke,' Cal., with Tech. Sgt. Arthur C. Olson. claim pending. Oliver Lepscier, Keshena, Wis. Prange. Secretary-Treasurer, Reedsburg, Wis., please write his August to November, 1944, 24th Armored Engineer Bn., 4th Arm'd Div.— for further information. widow. Statemenfs needed to establish claim. Anyone who served in Medical Detachment, this F Association (Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Ave., Hood Mrs. Arthur C. Olson, 709 Cascade unit, please write ex-lst Sgt. Forrest M. Holtz- Corps Firefighters) — Annual reunion, Columbus, River, Oregon. man, Dalmatia, Pa. Claim pending. Ohio, July 20-22. Info from William J. Mignery, Prison 17, Omuta, Japan — Urgently need Camp Co. E, 2Sth Infantry, 1st' Div. (WWl) -Will Secretary-Treasurer, 728 West Marion St., Elk- either of the two Medical Officers, to contact Burke or Foley, who dug me out when completely hart. Indiana. back injury. Ottis G. above camp, concerning buried by shell-burst at Cantigny, or others who Co. H, 319th Infantry, (WWl)- Annual re- Bibb St., Shreveport, La. Houston, 2637 know of incident, please wi'ite. Chas. H. Brooks, union at Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 359th Fighter Squadron - Will Capt. Walter 200 E. Ann St.,- Darlington, Wis. 30. Details from H. B. Hayden, Secretary-Trea- Baumgarten, Jr., T/Sgt. Dale Thompson or any VP 51, and Hedron, FAW-4 - Need to contact surer, 44 Academy Ave., Pittsburgh 28, Pa. others who knew me at Martlesham Heath, Eng- shipmates, chiefs or officers, who served at Ko- 11th Evacuation Hospital — Reunion, Chicago, land, please write. Very urgent. William C. diak, Adak, Kiska and Amchitka, Aleutians, 111., July 3-4; Hotel Sherman. Write Alton G. (3ouglin, Baxter Mountain Lodge, Keene Valley, June, 1942, to September, 1943; especially those Brown, M.D., Rock Hill, South Carolina, for N. Y. of maintenance crews of PBYs, Write to James details. Co. A, 131st Naval Construction Bn. — Widow A. Martin, 3803 Centraloma Dr., San Diego 7, 608th Tank Destroyer Bn,— 2nd annual reunion. needs statements from men who served with Cal. Bowling Green, Ohio, July 9. Info and reserva- Dolph Hawkins, on Guam in 1944-45, con- CMM, tions from Bill Butler, 124 E. Reed, Bowling cerning wound or stomach treatment. Urgent. 7th Recon. Squadron, 1st Cav. Div., Fort Bliss, Texas—Want to contact Capt. Wilmerding, Capt. Green, Ohio. Write Wm. C. Cooley, Service Officer, Buffalo, 38th Infantry Regt. Assn., (WWl, 3rd Div.; Okla. Tibore, M.D., Corp. John Miller, and Lawrence of or Bellevue, Los WW2, 2nd Div.) — Annual reunion. New York Co. I, 307th Infantry, 77th Div. (AEF)-Will Oliver, formerly 1706 1707 City, July 13-15. Hotel New Yorker. Particulars Lt. Sheridan and others who remember me in Angeles, Cal., for statements. Please write Merlin Francisco, from A. H. Zindel, Secretary, 558 West 193rd St., Co. I, please write. Need statements. James N. Paul Wright, 3670-A Sacramento, San Cal. New York 33, N. Y. Glass, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. 91st Cml. Mortar Bn. — 5th annual reunion, Co. M, 123rd Inf., 33rd Div. (WW2)-Need to 1537th AAA Base Unit, Guam — Men who Philadelphia, Pa., August 5. Write Eugene G. impor- served with Adolphus F. Rotax, particularly locate Major Wolf; claim pending; very Millarg, 529 B, East Tabor Rd., Philadelphia tant. Sigmund R. Zielinski. Rothbury, Michigan. Royal Harris, H. Kratz, Henry Shatsman, please 20. Pa. Battery A, 14th FA, Fort Sill, Okla., (WWl)- write George E. Roscoe, Service Officer, American Ordnance Dept., Americal Division— 1st re- Need statements of service comrades who know Legion, 5 Maple St., Vergennes, Vermont. State- union, Dayton. Ohio, August 3-6, Details from of my hospitalization and operation at above ments needed. William Fodor, Secretary, 6208 Alcove Ave., post. Worked in YMCA in off-duty hours, helped Battery B, 108th AAA Gun Bn.-Will Dr. War- North Hollywood, Cal. in boxing program, etc. Clarence A. Millett, 420 wick or anyone who knows his address, or others West Main, Jerome, Idaho. who know of treatment of John Majchrzyk.at 749th Railway Operating Bn. — Reunion, New USS Keokuk (ANK 4), USS Fargo - Shipmates Bagnoli, Italy, in December, 1943, please write York City, August 24-25. Contact Don Gothard, Ohio. on Keokuk 1943-46, and Fargo 1946-47 please Miss S. Majchrzyk, TWA, 30 E. Adams St., 1277 Michigan Ave., Columbus, write: need statements to complete claim. J. J. Phoenix, Ariz. 6th Anti Aircraft Battery — Reunion, Grubville. Janulavitch, 53 Fenwood Road, Worcester, Mass. 34th Ambulance Co., 7th Div. — Urgent that I Mo., August 5. Write R. B. (Jack) Frost, Grub- 112th AAA (AW) Bn. Hdqrs. Co., Swiss Leave get in touch with service comrades who served on ville. Mo., for information. Center, ETO — Need to locate men to obtain Metz front in November. 1918. Claim pending. 747th Bomb Squadron — 4th annual reunion, statement re injuries in ETO, August, 1945, to Please write Irving Yoffy, 927 W. Grace St., Memphis, Tenn.. August 4-6; Hotel Peabody. February, 1946. particularly James Curboy, Richmond 20, Va. Write Ed Lincoln, Secretary-'Treasurer, 113 W. (Conn.), Carlos Ugate, (Ariz.), James Mcin- Co, L, 355th Inf., 89th Div. -Edward W. Web- Cedar Ave., Connellsville, Pa. tosh, and Lauren Cantall, (Ind.) Write Donald ster, 3019 Roxboro Rd., Durham, N. C, needs AEF Siberia Association, (27th and 31st Inf., Dickey, 6 Scott St., Sykesville, Pa. to locate Charles V. DeWitt, (believe home in 1918-20) — Two reunion dinners; in Chicago, 111., USS Utah (WWl) - Need to contact men who Illinois), for .statement about illness and hospital- August 31, with VFW; write Wiliam A. Thomas, served with me in 1917-18, particularly those in (Continued on page 36) (Continued on page 36)

The American Legion Magazine • luly, 1950 • 82nd Construction Bn. — 4th annual reunion, OUTFIT REUNIONS Pittsburgh, Pa., September 15-16; Wm. Penn MEMORIAL TO 1ST CAVALRY (Continued from page 35) Hotel. Write Milton A. Douglass, Secretary-Trea- BLISS 2625 N. Sacramento Ave., Chicago 47, 111. At surer, RD 2, Cannonsburg, Pa. DEDICATED AT FORT Los Angeles, Cal., October 9-12, with Legion 58th Hdgrs. and Hdtirs. Group, 5th Air Force- National Convention. Write Harry A. Taylor, Reunion planned in Pittsburgh, Pa., I>abor Day In reverent memory of the courage- week-end. Write J. O'Melia, 314 East 62nd St., 12446 Short Ave., Venice, Cal. ous dead of the 1st Cavalry Division, 6th Armored Division — Reunion, New York New York City. — III., City, September 1-3; Hotel New Yorker. Write Acorn 17 (Navy 908) Reunion, Chicago, the Division Association dedicated a Morrison. Details from Wiliam E. Rutledge, Jr., P. O. Box A, Yadkin- September 2-4; Hotel permanent nvemorial in Memorial Circle III:, or villle. North Carolina, for info and reservations. Don Naylor, 421 Belden Ave., Chicago, 57th Field Hospital — 147th Station Hospital- V. W. Boette, 1727 Beaver St., Parkersburg, at Fort Bliss, Texas, on March 25. The W. Va. Enlisted Men's Assn. — 1st reunion, Detroit, memorial is in the form of a bronze Michigan, September -1-4; Book Cadillac Hotel. 537th Ordnance H. M. Co., FA -Reunion, Write Frank Was, Chairman, 6942 Parkwood, Springfield, Mass.. September 30. Write Francis plaque 9 feet long. At the ceremonies J. (Mac) Mahoney. 94 Jackson St. Ext., Me- Detroit, or V. C. Mossman, P. O. Box 614, Port Major General William C. Chase, for- Huron, Mich. thuen, Mass. 17th U. S. Infantry Society and Auxiliary —24th LS'T 1024 — 1st reunion, all personnel, Chicago, mer Division Commander, recited the III.. 2-4. Roger J. Hennessy, national reunion, Columbus, Ohio, August 27-29; September Write record of the 1st Cav. in the Asiatic- Southern Hotel. Write George W. Crawford, 1917 E.xcelsior, Minnesota. Ordnance Co. 4th reunion, Min- Pacific in it Overlook St., Pittsburgh 14, Pa. 622nd — annual Theatre WW2, where was neapolis. Minn., September 2-3: Hotel Dyckman. 325th (Checkertail Clan) Fighter Group — 5th "first in Manila" and "first in Tokyo." annual reunion, entire group, Syracuse, N. Y., Info from E. L. Bunanek, Rt. 1, Warrensville August 4-6- Hotel Syracuse. Write Donald F. Rd.. Downers Grove, III. The plaque was dedicated by Major 39th Combat Engineers — Reunion, Kokomo, In- Lynch, 208 Elk St., Syracuse 5, N. Y. General Innis P. Swift who took the 2-3. Hotel reservations handled — Annual reunion, Chicago, 111., Au- diana, September Retreads Division gust 26-28: Hotel LaSalle. Details from S. P. by J. R. Serrin, 308 E. Sycamore St., Kokomo, overseas and commanded it Indiana. Medbury, Vice Commander, Dept. of Illinois. through most of its campaigns. 52nd Seabees — 3rd annual reunion, Dallas, Room 636, 29 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. 3rd Service Group (Blue Hornets), Hdqrs. & Texas, August 4-6. Write R. R. Struve, P. O. Box Hdqrs. Sqdrn. — Reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., Au- 158, Abernathy, Texas. 309th Assn. — 26th reunion, COMRADES IN DISTRESS gust 11-13; Fort Pitt Hotel. Contact Kermit Mil- Engineers annual Gary, Ind., August 25-26; Hotel Gary. Write (Continued jxige ,)o) ler, 81 S. Hickory St., Chillicothe, Ohio. from Stoner, Secretary, .333 Sherman St., 190th and 200th F. A. Bn., and 103rd Cavalry, George Ga- ization while on maneuvers at Camp Hunter, Lig- P.N.G.- Reunion, P.N.G. Armory, Sunbury, Pa., lion, Ohio. gett, Cal. 38th Bn., Camp Crowder, Mo.—2nd annual re- August 6. Write John W. Duttinger, 623 Walnut Co. C, 26th Regt., 5th Marines -Ph2/c Bjourk- union at McClelland Park, Joplin. Mo., August St., Sunluirv, Pa. land, home in Alabama or Mississippi, is re- 13. Write Bill Saulbeamer, 1112 W. Austin, Webb enth Railway Engineers, AEF, (WWl) and quested to write Oscar Wildgrube, Worden, III. City, Mo. Auxiliary — Reunion, San Jose, California, August Statement needed in regard to condition of feet. 21st Air Depot Supply Squadron — Reunion, 10-13; Sainte Claire Hotel. Info from D. E. Gal- 686th Rep. Co., 60th Bn., Manila -Need to lo- Dayton, Ohio, July 15-16: Biltmore Hotel. Send lagher, Secretary Treasurer, 812 East 21st St., cate Charles I. Johnson, ex-Cedar Rapids, Iowa; reservations to Riehl, Little Rock, Arkansas. Ed P. O. Box 2002, Colum- Sgt. Wm. Neutral, ex-Omaha, Neb; and Charles 56th Pioneer Infantry (WWl) — Annual re- bus 16. Ohio. H. Ham, ex-Oklahoma, for statements to support Battery A, 489th AAA (SP) Bn. - Reunion, union, Washington, D. C., August 5-6; Willard claim. Write Leslie T. McCoy, Rt. 3, Princeton, Pa., 29. Sotak, Sec- Hotel. Info from W, M. Gaskin, Secretary, Smith- Scranton. July Contact John Ky. retary, 904 Penn St., Reading, Pa. field, North Carolina. Battery A, 466th Para. FA Bn. -Need state- 47th Ordnance MM Co. — 2nd annual reunion, ments from service comrades in service with me Youngstown, Ohio, August 26-27; Hotel Pick- in September-November, 1943, particularly bat- Ohio. Details from William F. Nief, 72 Fernwood tery commander; and others who know of my Ave., Youngstown 0, Ohio. GOOSE LAID GOLDEN EGG hospital treatments at Camp Mackall, N. C. 149th Infantry Veterans' Association — 2nd an- Please write. John W. Waller, Room 336, VA nual reunion, Fort Knox, Kentucky, August 12. Hospital, 13th and Harrison Sts., Oakland 12, Info from B. T. (Rusty) Hauer, President, 821 FOR BUTTE LEGION POST Cal. Temple Bar Bldg.. Cincinnati 2, Ohio. Coast Guard, K-9 Corps, Patuxent River, Md.— 757th Engineer Parts Supply Co. — 4th annual Will Chief Hittison or anyone who knows his reunion, Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-6; Biltmore present address please write; stationed there in Hotel. (Contact John Caviness, 1295 W. Marietta 1944, believed to be from Amarillo, Texas. Boyd St., N.W., Atlanta, Ga. Lainhart, Afton, Wyoming. 283id Engineer Combat Bn., — 1st annual re- Co. E, 415th Inf., 104 th Div.-Will S/Sgt. union, Durham, North Carolina, September 1-4. Wheeler, T/Sgt. Weaver, Capt. Bell, and service Write Nicholas Melillo, 409 Howard St., Mt. comrades who remember my wound about No- Pleasant, Pa., or Michael Chuberka, 1023 Ros- vember, 1944, please write. Help needed. Thomas traver St.. Monessen, Pa. Nelson Cox, 906 West Roma, Albuquerque, New 144th Infantry Par Orncri Club — Reunion at Mexico. Fort Worth. Texas, October 28-29; Blackstone Hotel. Contact W. J. Hefner, Secretary-Treasurer, P. O. Box 805, Fort Worth 1, Texas. THE AMERICAN LEGION National Otranto-Kashmir Assn. — ( Survivors of two ships), reunion, DeWitte, Iowa, October NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 8; Legion club rooms. Info from D. B. Berg- INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA quist, 3rd Ave. at 18th St., Rock Island, III. APRIL 30. 1950 Crane-Burns City Navy-Marines — Personnel at two Indiana stations, 5th annual reunion at ASSETS Bloomington, Indiana, September 2-4. Write Cash on hand and on deposit. . $1,605,815.84 Clyde W. Taylor, President, 1000 S. Walnut St.. Receivables 230,696.90 Bloomington, Indiana. Inventories 377,452.58 Co. C, 128th Infantry, .S2nd Div. (WW2)-lst Invested Funds 962.248.79 reunion, Marshfield, Wisconsin, October 20-22. Permanent Trusts: Details from Harrv D. Steinmetz, 1207 So. Chest- Overseas Graves Decoration nut St., Marshfield, Wis. Silver Bow Post No. 1, Butte, Montana, Trust Fund ..$ 250.811.97 P. T. Veterans Assn. — 5th national convention, Employees' Retirement least that Philadelphia, Pa., September 1-4. Info from has a golden goose — at a goose Trust Fund .. 1.20(1,565.6 8 1,451,377.65 Fabian .W. Baisley, 85 Central St., Somerville 43, in a short time produced some 900 mem- Mass. Real Estate, less depreciation.. 294,425.04 Furniture 15Sth and 1111th QM Service Group (AVN)- bers for the Post. He's Kilroy — a good and Fixtures, less depreciation 260.973.96 1st annual reunion, Chicago, 111., September 2-3; name for a traveling GI bird — and in Deferred Hotel LaSalle. Information and reservations from Charges 80.987.38 Tony Camerano, 7952 So. Wood St., Chicago 20, the above picture First Vice Commander .$5.263,878.14 III. Robert Heckman (astern) is passing Co. L, 302nd Assn., 94th Inf. Div. -Re- Bn LIABILITIES, DEFERRED union, Pittsbuigh, Pa., September 1-3. Details Kilroy on to Legionnaire James Burns. REVENUE AND NET from Alden A. Ives, Treasurer, RFD 1, Thomas- Past Commander Jack Wulf hatched WORTH ton, Conn. — Current Liabilities 182,167.37 USS Bahani — 2nd annual reunion, all person- up the idea of putting Kilroy to work Funds restricted as to use 543.325.58 nel, Toledo, Ohio, September 3. Contact Olin he was placed in charge of a Legionnaire Deferred Income 1,361,329.94 Schmidt, President, 2822 Telegraph Rd., St. Permanent Trusts: Louis 23, Mo. who was obliged to keep him until the Overseas Graves Decoration 21st Engineers Light Railway Society, (WWl)- custodian signed up three members for Trust 250,811.97 29th annual reunion, Omaha, Nebraska, Septem- Employees' Retirement ber 22-23; Hotel Paxton. Write J. H. Brooks, 1950. Kilroy, like a whirling dervish, was Trust 1,200.565.68 1.451,377.65 Secretary, 2410 S. Harrison, Fort Wayne, In- shifted from one member to another in diana. Net Worth: 4th (Cavalry Assn. — Reunion, Minneapolis, rapid order — result: 900 members signed Restricted Capital: Reserve Fund ..$739,646.20 Minnesota, September 22-23. Write Myloe J. Lo- up. Contrary to belief of some, the wear Restricted Fund. 13,465.53 berg, Annandale, Minn., for details. for constructicm of 405th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Div. and tear on Kilroy wasn't so tough. He Reserve -2nd Washington annual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., 2-4; September put on weight. Although it was agreed Benjamin Franklin Hotel. Contact Albert E. office 320,367.71 Real Estate . . . . 80,000.00 1,153,479.44 Schwabacher, Jr., 600 Market St., San Francisco, that the person who signed up the biggest Unrestricted Capital: Cal. list would get Kilroy as the makin's for 322nd FA Assn. {WWl)-31st annual reunion, Surplus 97,180.98 Dayton, Ohio, September 9. Info from Bill Brann, a big dinner, the goose was retired with- Excess of Income over Ex- pense 4 hs 475,017.18 572,198.16 343 W. Siebenthaler Ave., Dayton, 6, Ohio, or out facing the chopping block when the mont Chris Keller, 323 Park Drive, Dayton 10, Ohio. 1.725.677.60 North Sea Mine Force Assn. — Annual reunion. winner, Charles Christman; could not $5.2ri:i.878.14 New York City, October 20-21; Hotel New Yorker. bring himself to eat such a willing Contact George W. Kennedy, 16 Court St.. Brooklyn 2, N. Y. worker. A rancher got the bird.

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

July, 1950

GI VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION: TERMINATING SECOND MORTGAGE LOANS: Vets who have not taken GI tra in ing have but little VA has set October 20. 1950. as the effective date

time left in which to start their courses. . . .VA has of Public Law 475 for terminating combination, or issued a crack-down regulation, foreshadowed in a second mortgage loans provided for in the GI Bill .... report to Congress last January, which has for its The date fixed is to carry out the provisions of the purpose a restriction on the use of entitlement .... new law that this type of loan be discontinued not

The new regulation becomes effective July 25. 1951. later than December 31, 1950. . . .And to effect this but in its effect it applies to training prior to that transition in an orderly manner and to give full con- date - -or provision for advanced courses after com- sideration to the interests of veterans, existing pletion of the basic course.... VA has denied the plans of veterans and the home building industry, Legion's appeal for rescinding or modifying the four dates have been established for four successive

regulations, so unless legislation is enacted to steps. . . .Under the law, combination loans are of

nullify its effect, vets who plan to take educational two classes. . . .One class requires that the loan courses or to take advanced courses must abide by it have prior approval of the VA before guaranty will

Here is a brief summary: be issued. . . .In the other class, known as supervised The regulation, effective July 25, 1951, affects loans, no prior approval is required. Two of the

all training subsequent to this date. . . .It applies steps in cutting out combination loans apply to prior only to training under the GI Bill (Public Law 346) approval and two of them apply to supervised loans .... and does not apply to the rehabilitation of disabled The steps are

veterans under Public Law 16. . . .Eligible veterans After July 20. 1950. prior approval of second must have commenced and be pursuing their course on mortgage loans will generally be withheld unless the July 25, 1951, or the date four years after discharge first mortgage loan is at a rate of 4% percent or less

(whichever is the later) , except where the attendance After August 20. 1950. guaranty will generally be is interrupted because of normal interruptions for refused on supervised loans except where the first summer vacations, or other reasons beyond the control mortgage loan is at 4]i percent or less.

of the veteran. . . .Once a veteran elects and com- After September 20. 1950, certificates of approval

mences a course , he shall pursue it continuously will not be issued on new applications for prior until completion, except for conditions which approval on combination loans, and after October 20. normally cause interruption. 1950. combination loans will not be guaranteed. All A veteran may change his course only while in train- loans already in process prior to this date will be ing and then for reasons satisfactory to the VA. A completed change of one or more subjects in an elected curricu- lum, the dropping of a subject or a change in the BENEFITS FOR PHILIPPINE ARMY VETS: sequence of subjects does not constitute a change Philippine veterans of WW2 who served with U.S.

of course. . . .Advancement from a basic or preparatory Forces were deprived of benefits under a 1946 law phase to an advanced phase does not constitute a which reduced entitlement to insurance and death

cheinge of course. . . .A change of course may be con- and disability payments. . . .The American Legion has sidered to be for satisfactory reasons when: (a) petitioned Congress to recognize our Government's There is unsatisfactory progress not due to miscon- "moral obligation" to restore burial and educational

duct, neglect or lack of application; (b) a change benefits to veterans of the Philippine Army. . . .Some in course would be more in keeping with the veteran's 338,000 Filipinos would qualify for burial benefits aptitude, previous education, training, or other and as many as 50,000 for GI Bill schooling under five

pertinent facts, or (c) the new course is a normal separate bills now before Congress. . . .Eligibles progression from the original course enabling the under the legislation would be persons who served veteran to attain his objective; (d) when a course in the organized military forces of the Commonwealth is completed or discontinued another course cannot of the Philippines between July 26, 1941, and June

be initiated. . . .That is a gimmick that will work to 20, 1946, and have discharges other than dishonor-

the disadvantage of many vets, regardless of their able. . . .Certain members of organized guerrilla unused entitlements, and regardless of the provi- forces after May 7, 1942, would qualify. sion of the GI Bill that educational and training Rates fixed by the pending bills would be, where

courses may continue until July 25, 1956. . . .Under death occurs in the Philippines, 150 pesos; where this regulation a vet who receives his undergraduate death occurs in the U. S. or elsewhere, a majcimum of degree in June, 1950, will not be able to take gradu- $150; GI schooling, a ceiling of 50,000 student par- ate work in the sajne general field starting in Sep- ticipants in institutions approved by the Republic.

tember, 1951, unless he applied for his extended . . .Subsistence rate, 65 pesos monthly for a maximum

training before he finished in June. . . .This will be of 36 months, and tuition at the rate of 200 pesos true at any time subsequent to July 25, 1951 -- a re- annually for a maximum of three school years. quest for an extension of training in the same general field is not a change of course but is treated ARMY BLAMES HASTE FOR OVERPAYMENTS:

the S£ime for purpose of VA approval. . . .The same Desire to pay benefits promptly to veterans' de- regulation imposes hardship on vet students who pendents led to millions of dollars in overpayments cannot "pursue a course without interruption," but by the Army Finance Center at St. Louis, Missouri -- must take time out for work to meet family obliga- but no fraud was involved. . . .So Assistant Secretary tions .... It could even deny the right of vets to teach of the Army Karl H. Bendetsen testified before the in schools during the regular school year and attend House Armed Service Committee ... .He furthr testi- summer sessions to earn advanced degrees. . . .This, fied that all but $35,000,000 of the $160,000,000 however, Administrator Gray says, is under study -- overpaid has been collected or "adjusted," and that but there are signs and omens that this general much of the remainder may be recovered. . . .This re- practice in the teaching profession will probably covery, he said, was made in the face of 400 letters be disapproved. from Congressmen asking the Army to adopt a lenient

37 . . . policy toward the veterans' f amilies - - all of which the average vet enrolled in school outside the U.S. served to hinder the program of recovery. is 29 years old. GOOD-BYE TO THE CAVALRY: LOS ANGELES CONVENTIONEERS: • The House Armed Services Comm ittee has unanimously Ed Boltj^ Nationa l Convention Director is planning approved legislation to abolish the Cavalry as an a big party for the 100,000 or more Legionnaires who arm of the U. S. fighting forces. . . .This will be sad will attend the National Convention at Los Angeles, news to a lot of saddle-sore old Yellow Legs to whom October 9-12. . . .Being a confirmed Californiac, a horse was as much a part of the equipment for Director Bolt has a lot to say about California and service as a carbine or sabre. . . .But the machine its thousand-fold attractions. . . .But he also urges age progresses, and this most glamorous branch of that Legionnaires defer their vacations until fighting forces from time immemorial bows to the un- October, take a leisurely trip from home to the feeling tank and the internal combustion engine. . . . Golden State and see some of the sights and scenery

The measure makes other changes in the internal in between. . . .There'll be plenty of rooms for all -- big structure of the Army. . . .It is designed to modernize comers, he gives assurance Los Angeles is a and further mechanize the Army and continue changes old place and covers a lot of ground. . . .If a room made during VfW2 under emergency authority. . . .An cannot be had right across from the Convention Hall, armored branch replaces the Cavalry. . . .The Field another one can be secured in a desirable locality and Coast Artillery branches would be combined in and not too far away. . . .Director Bolt will be glad one command. to hear from you; his official address is 947 West

7th Street, Los Angeles, Cal ifornia . INSURANCE FOR ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL: OREGON HAS 5,000 VET BORROWERS: House Committee on Veterans' Affairs has directed its staff to check recommendations for a new law to The State of Oregon set up a WW2 farm and home loan provide insurance protection for members of the program in the fall of 1945. . . .The 5,000th vet to

Armed Forces and veterans of such Forces. . . .Such a receive a loan under this program got his 85,250 in law would take the peace-time personnel out of the late April to apply on purchase of a home . . . .Since the provisions of the wartime NSLI, and set up a new loans were made available, the State Veterans De- system. . . .Staff was directed to consult with the partment has loaned a total of $20,462,189, with a VA, other Federal agencies, The American Legion and record of $8,000,000 in the fiscal year just ended. other recognized vet organizations during the com- . . .Average amount of each loan runs slightly over ing recess of Congress. $4,000. CONGRESSIONAL CHARTERS REFUSED: SURVIVORS OF '61 -'65: Senate Judici ary Committee has cracked down on The Memoria l Day survey disclosed 3g survivors of granting charters to vet groups and other organiza- the Federal and Confederate States Armies of the tions deriving from war service --at this session, Civil War. . . .Numerically, the CSA has the greatest at least. . . .Bills proposing to«give the prestige of number of living veterans, though it had the smaller a Congressional charter of incorporation to a dozen army in service. . . .23 Confederates and 16 Federals, or more such organizations were squelched at one ranging in ages from 96 to 108, were living through meeting and in one lot. . . .Among the petitioners were the Memorial Day observances the American Veterans Committee (AVC), Army-Navy Union, Gold Star Wives, Gold Star Society of American PREFERENCE RIGHTS FOR VETS UPHELD:

War Widows and Orphans, Blue Star Mothers of America, U. S. Court of Claims. Washington . D_^ C^j. rapped

5th (Red Diamond) Division Association . . . .Observers Government officials for failure to follow "the say the action grew out of 1948 rejection of Con- simple requirements of Congress" and for "slicing gressional charter for the Catholic War Veterans, the ham too thin" in carrying out the Veterans' Em- which set precedent. . . .Senate-passed bill to estab- ployment Preference Act . . . .The blast was issued in a lish standards organizations must meet to obtain decision upholding the veterans' preferential Congressional charter was received coldly by House rights of Rhea W. Stringer, an Army Engineers' em-

Committee ployee in Dallas, Texas. . . .A vet of WWl, he was

demoted from Civil Service grade 13 to 12 in 1944. . . . NEW CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE: In an unanimous opinion the Court ruled the Govern- Pr esiden t T ruman signed the new Unified Code for ment must pay Stringer the difference between his Military Justice on May 8 to become effective on top salary, $5,600 annually, and the $4,600 pay he May 31, 1951, (Public Law 506, 81st Congress) .... received after demotion. This Act will assure an accused of legal counsel, make certain that a "law officer" is provided for NON- COMMUNIST OATH UPHELD: every general court martial to act in much the sajne The non-communi st oath requirement of the Taft- capacity as a civilian judge. . . .It will also set up Hartley labor law was held constitutional by the a new Court of Military Appeal similar to civilian United States Supreme Court in a 5 to 1 decision. . . .

Courts of Appeal. . . .The new court will have three The right of The American Legion to refuse a perma- judges who will be appointed by the President for nent charter to Duncan-Paris Post No. 1422, New York 15-year terms. City, was upheld by the Appellate Division of the

New York Supreme Court. . . .Post was suspended in BILL VETS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES: GI 1946 on charges that it was dominated by commies. More than 5 .000 WW2 vets are studying under the LOST DISCHARGE CERTIFICATES: GI Bill in 45 foreign countries. . . .Half of these are taking training in the humanities and social sci- Vets who have lost t hei r discha rge cer tificate s ences. The remainder are enrolled in a wide variety can not obtain a duplicate, but they can get a "cer- of courses ranging from architecture to theology. . . . tificate in lieu of lost discharge" . . . .Many inquiries France, Canada and Mexico have about half our over- about lost discharges come to Newsletter -- this is seas vet students , or 1 , 150 , 826 and 821 , respective- a group answer to those who have not written. . . . ly. Great Britain has 578; Italy, 390; Switzerland, If in the Army, write the Adjutant General, Depart-

382, and Australia, 238. . . .The remainder of the GI ment of the Army, Washington 25, D. C, and request Bill trainees have been scattered elsewhere through- Form 214i Air Force vets write the Air Adjutant out the world from Sweden to South Africa, and from General, same address for same form. . . .If Navy vet, Ireland to Israel, but not one is in training behind write Bureau of Navy Personnel, Navy Department, the iron curtain. . . .An interesting sidelight is that Washington 25, D. C. , for Form NAVPERS 663

38 How the Legion Fighin lor the Far fft Veteran (Continued from page 19)

duties as FHA supervisor would be to it differs from private lending agencies. under VA. The GI Bill also stipulated help the Hayhursts plan a successful dairy The Hayhursts are also an extreme ex- that veterans were to get definite Federal operation. ample of why FHA exists. People like loan priorities under the existing Farmers 3. John Hayhurst aimed to make good. John and Ethel are the salt of the earth, Home Administration. Blind, and having spent eighteen months and they can feed America. But to get Two years later John Stelle, who had in a VA hospital, he was still ready for started they need credit. been chairman of the Legion's special GI life. Back in 1935 the Federal government Bill Committee, was National Com- 4. Ethel Hayhurst was a wonderful recognized the unjust credit position of mander. Fearful for the veteran farmer, gamble as a human being. She was the girl thousands of farmers of good character he created within the Legion a perma- back home who waited for John. She but little property. It was too often easier nent Agriculture Committee to keep married him after he lost his eyesight to get a private farm loan if you had watch on what actually happened to vet- and had since borne him two children. property but little character. erans on the farm. And the new commit- 5. Hayhurst drew veterans' disability From a national welfare point of view tee saw that the farm provisions of the compensation, but refused to be satisfied it is important that our land be in the GI Bill were not firing on all cylinders. with it. He wanted to work and produce. hands of people who will farm sensibly In far too many cases banks would not 6. John and Ethel had already bought and take good care of the soil. So there make GI farm loans even under the 50% the farm on their own initiative, and it was set up in the Department of Agricul- government guarantee. Good farms and was a good farm. ture a bureau called the Farm Security good farm equipment had skyrocketed in Warner called on the Hayhursts and Administration which later became the price so that where GI credit could be together they worked out a sound plan Farmers Home Administration. It is a had it was only a beginning. Often, to get for the management of the dairy herd. bureau which has had a bad time with its a GI loan, the veteran had to make a plan for book- And a a budgeting and initials. As FSA it was the alphabetical down payment out-of-pocket larger than keeping system. And a plan for the edu- twin of the Federal Security Agency, he could raise. And, as a farmer, the vet- cation Ethel dairy farmers. of John and as and now as FHA it shares its abbreviation eran had almost no credit. Private lenders Then he went back to the committee, with the Federal Housing Administration. often felt that the veteran had never finally certified and they the Hayhursts It was and is a lending and teaching learned farming or had just spent several for $2,500 at interest a five-year 5% on agency. Under the Bankhead-Jones Act years forgetting it. Fanners Administration note. Home it gave credit equality to farmers who This was a double-barreled blow to the With the money John and Ethel bought wanted to be good farmers, and it ad- GI and to the intent of the GI Bill. It ten milk cows and a bull and began their vised them on good farming practices. meant, in many cases, that the veteran milk business. They followed the super- There was an emergency in those early who took VA farm training couldn't use it visor's farm plan. John and Ethel learned days. The agency worked on a bad farm afterward. He had no farm. Or he had a all they could from Department of Agri- credit situation that had existed for gen- farm without proper equipment. culture agencies and John took GI Bill erations and had become worse as a result The Legion and Congress intended that farm training. of the depression. the farm credit and the farm training of One year later the Hayhursts paid back But 1944 saw the beginning of a differ- the GI Bill go hand in hand, and it wasn't almost half the five-year note. They paid ent emergency. Veterans of War Two be- working that way entirely. While many $1,100 out of income earned by themselves gan to return, many of them to seek a veterans were in a position to get full on their 209-acre farm nine miles north livelihood on the farm. Far too many worth from the combined GI loans and of Paw Paw, Michigan. Today they oper- veterans were looked upon as bad bank- treiining, thousands of others were left ate a successful family farm and blind ing risks, and it began to appear that with a piece of paper in their hands called John Hayhurst is carrying a man's share America might lose the better part of a the GI Bill of Rights. These included both of the work. generation of farmers. the just and unjust, because the root of You can say the Farmers Home Ad- The American Legion had foreseen this, the evU was not the veteran's worth as a ministration played a long shot when and it had written, into the GI Bill, loan man. It was credit based more on property it lent Federal money to the Hayhursts. guarantees for farm purchases and farm than on character. John and Ethel proved that it only looked operation, as well as farm training courses The Legion's Agriculture Committee like a long shot. And FHA, in fifteen years of unusual lending experience, had UKNKRj%L reason to believe in its method of lending. MIM^IIIEF By S. B. STEVENS You might better say that your Uncle Sam played a long shot with your money when he set up the Farmers Home Admin- istration. This FHA is entrusted with 32nd ANNUAL millions of dollars to lend to family farm- AMERICAN LEGION ers whose credit is not good enough to make private loans against their farming CONVENTION needs. LOS ANGELES While FHA does not lend to every farmer who cannot borrow from his bank, OCTOBER 9-12 it may not lend to anyone who can get the credit he needs elsewhere. But, like John and Ethel Hayhurst, FHA Administrator Dillard B. Lasseter and his staff have proved that their proposition only looks like a long shot. In fact the agency's record of lending your money to farmers who have no credit is so successful, and fills such an important need in America, it has been the official position of Tlie American Legion for several years that the Farmers Home Adminis- tration should have more millions than it does to lend in the same way. The story of the Hayhursts is a fine AMt:i

The American Legion Magozine • July, 1950 • watched and saw that one of the soundest If he wanted to buy or equip a farm, of Altha, Florida, was a sharecropper and most realistic parts of the GI Bill what farm? Was the farm a good pro- until he borrowed $9,500 from FHA in farm program was the little-heralded item ducer? If not, was the veteran apt to March, 1947 and bought his own farm. that gave veterans a priority for loans make it a good producer? If he wanted Under terms of his forty-year note he under the old Farm Security Administra- an operating loan how did he propose to should have repaid $840 by the end of tion. That is the agency we met at the spend the money? two years. By then he had paid back beginning of this account. It had just What was the veteran's plan for oper- $4,232.91 and increased his net worth changed its name to the FHA, or Farmers ating the farm? Was it a sound plan? If from $2,385 to $8,960. Home Administi-ation. not, would he agree to a plan worked out Charles Llewellyn of Allegany County, Dillard B. Lasseter had just become with him by the supervisor and other Maryland, and his wife — a city girl — "had Administrator of the FHA. Years earlier Agriculture Department agents? Would only a little household goods, an old car. Lasseter, a veteran of War One, had been he keep financial records properly? a few chickens and some odds and ends injured in action and returned home in The FHA supervisors looked for the of equipment in 1946," says a supervisor's 1919 to find that in his absence he had chance of that vian making that farm report. "Naturally their assets wouldn't been demoted to the bottom of the heap pav. rate them a bank loan, neither would a ." in his State Department job. He thus had If satisfied, the supervisor called on the GI loan meet their needs . . But personal knowledge of the economic dis- FHA's voluntary county committee. Every Llewellyn and his wife got an FHA loan ability that years in service can inflict agricultural couniy in tne ujuccu otaies to equip the farm they rented and in three on a veteran. A member of Atlanta Post has an FHA county committee, and that years they increased their net worth #1 of the Legion, Lasseter had never lost is nearly every county in the country. twelve times over! his interest in veterans' problems. The committee is made up of three rep- Charles F. Cline, a single disabled vet- In 1946, as head of Farmers Home Ad- utable county residents, at least two of eran of Ontario, Oregon, made two loans ministration, Lasseter was busy applying whom must be successful farmers. The from FHA in 1945. One of them was a all the veterans' priorities the law de- third is often a banker. $12,000 loan on a forty-year mortgage to manded in FHA loans. Beyond that he They are local people and are never buy his farm. In 1946 he paid the install- was applying all the veterans' priorities paid anything except per diem expenses ment then due on both loans and also the law and his budget allowed. while meeting. Presumably they know the paid the ownership loan for two years His agency was making three loans to farm in question and they know the bor- in advance. GI farmers for every one granted by rower or his family, or they investigate Here's the whole story. Since 1945 FHA private lenders under GI Bill guarantees. him. Unless the committee certifies the borrowers have met 98% of payments and And Lasseter's three were to veterEms loan it cannot be made. interest when or before due. Since 1945 who could not get GI loans. If the loan is certified and made (often about 28% of all farm purchase borrowers Right down to this day that figure still it is certified and not made for lack of have paid their forty-year loans in full in holds. As of last Christmas, GI Bill farm FHA funds) the supervisor continues to adva^ice. The rest average two years loans totalled 53,789. During the same check on the farm operation for the dura- ahead in their payments. And none of time the FHA had made 155,978 farm tion of the loan to help the borrower solve them could get the credit they needed loans to veterans. his farming problems. FHA makes 100% locally! In 1946, Lasseter's supervisors were out loans with ceilings that vary according In the combined history of FSA and in the field talking to thousands of vet- to type of loan and locality. The certified FHA dating back to the depression years eran farmers who couldn't get GI or any farmer need not put up any money him- of 1935 the record is not quite so good. other farm loans from banks or loan asso- self to borrow the full amount. It includes the years when the agency ciations. The procedure was about the How did this system work? was feeling its way, and it includes loans it times same as it was later with the Hayhursts. Woodrow HoUiman was the first War made when were much harder on farmers generally. Was the veteran intelligent? Was he Two veteran to get an FHA farm pur- But look at the record. earnest? Was he serious about good farm- chase loan in Arkansas. Terms allowed More than one and a half billion ing? Was he a good farmer? If not, could him forty years to pay. Holliman repaid dollars have been lent in fifteen he learn good farming? Would he learn in four years! years ($1,575,- good farming? Jack Strickland, disabled Navy veteran 000,000.) Of each dollar lent, 71.3i;' have been repaid, 22.8(;' are not yet due, 5.9(/' are in arrears. Meanwhile, 10.3

• The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 the national wealth at the same time. There was no economy, there was even year. In the winter of 1948 he wrote long Here was a program which could not waste. The fixed costs of FHA remained and detailed letters to Senators and Rep- be wrecked by boondogglers and which about the same while the amount of good resentatives in important committee spots. should not be wrecked by the taxpayers' it could do was reduced. Although the One old friend in the Senate wrote him fear of boondogglers. The FHA county number of veterans FHA could certify in and said, "I heartily share in your opinion. I other spon- committees had proved themselves the 1948 increased considerably, the number . . . You may know that and best of all safeguards against fly- by- of loans it could make fell off from a sors of this programs have had a difficult nights and poor farm investments. third to a half in the major categories of time every year securing any junds at all The Legion was for this program, and operating loans and ownership loans. The jor this purpose." it went to bat for it. The Legion said demand for FHA farm loans has risen But another Senator said he was afraid FHA should have money to lend any man steadily since the war as more and more of "overprotecting the veteran" into too it could certify under its proved system. veterans completed GI farm training and heavy a debt load during times of infla- But FHA has never had that amount of were ready to go to work. tion. His motive sounded good, but as money. Each year it has had to turn down When the 1948 cut was proposed in Brown had pointed out the year before, certified veterans and non-veterans be- Congress in the spring of 1947 the FHA had never lent money on farms in- cause its money wouldn't stretch far Legion's Agriculture Committee howled flated beyond their productive worth. enough. bloody murder. And rightly so. However, the Legion and other sup- In 1946 the Legion made enough noise Charles L. (Farmer) Brown of Spring- porters of FHA were effective, and the to arouse Congress' interest in the amount field, Missouri was then chairman of the foolish cuts were eliminated in 1948 for of money available for the wave of vet- committee. He sent a strongly worded the 1949 lending program. eran farmers. The veterans already had telegram to key members of the Senate Yet the Legion still holds to its original a priority but there wasn't enough money and the House. position that even more money should be even for them, thus their priority was not It said, in substance: The Legion con- available. The biggest need for FHA loans enough and it was shutting all other demns the cut in FHA lending funds. FHA is now and in the future, as more and more farmers out of the program. loans are economic, not political. They veterans complete their farm training. As a result, fifteen million dollars were do not boost farm inflation, for they are There are too many John and Ethel Hay- appropriated to FHA exclusively for based on production values, not land hursts, too many Woodrow HoUimans, too loans to veterans. That was not enough, prices. They are doing the job Congress many Jack Stricklands, Charles Llewel- but it was better. The appropriation has and the Legion want done on the farm. lyns and Charles F. Clines still left to never been big enough, although for four Brown also sent the Congressmen a whom FHA has to say, "Sorry, no funds." years now farmers who have borrowed copy of official Legion policy stating that The Legion still asks, "To what better use have been putting the money back into even more, rather than less, such loans can we put our millions than to lend them the treasury faster than it has been com- should be available to render the best to those who need the money to help ing out. service to worthy veteran farmers, other themselves, and who will use it to feed us But since 1946 the appropriation has worthy farmers and the nation. and give us our money back at interest?" been smaller. In one of those queer But the cut went through. So, acting Farmers Home Administration is a gov- "economy" gestures, Congress, in 1947, for his committee. Brown attacked the ernment adventure in capitalism and the slashed FHA's 1948 loan appropriation. job of eliminating the cut the following way they work it — it works. the end Terror by Law (Continued jrom page 15) drop our suit. If you won't, we'll take "You're forgetting something," the trio fight on communism, he has been having your business away from you." of attorneys stated. "Under Connecticut some sleepless, worrying nights lately. The business man told him, "Go to law, we can attach all the property and The reds' lawyers have moved in on hell." As a result, his concern is now tied funds of your newspaper in a case like anti-communist writers and publishers, up in the courts. this. And we can freeze them until the too. Nor is it solely laymen who have suf- outcome of the trial. That means you fered. won't be able to use your bank account WHEN Eugene Lyons, the noted author, or anything else for months and maybe wrote a book exposing the subversive WHEN the police of a southern city tried years." methods of the communists, reds all over to halt an illegal communist-spon- Although this editor has continued his the nation bombarded the publisher with sored parade, the commie stooges inten- threats of suit. tionally created such a row that they had One fellow-traveler actually filed suit, to be arrested. and, despite Lyons' objections, the pub- Less than a week afterward, a half- lisher backed down before the threats of dozen policemen had been served with the fellow-traveler's lawyers and agreed papers in a false-arrest suit. to make revisions in the text of the book. Right now, Paul Robeson and some of The fellow-traveler didn't stop there. his fellow left-wingers have a $2,000,000 He went so far as to try to prevent damage suit pending against the law en- book wholesalers from distributing the forcement authorities of Westchester book. County, N. Y. That, you'll recall, is where "We'll sue you too," his lawyers told the commies provoked two shocking riots. the book wholesalers, "unless you stop The extent to which the communist handling this book." legal machine will go was illustrated even They brought so much pressure that more vividly in Connecticut a few weeks several wholesalers became frightened, ago. too, and ceased distributing the book. The editor of a small newspaper there who had been vigorously crusading HARASSING tactics of this sort are, how- against certain communist organizations ever, only one use the communists was visited by a delegation of three law- make of their legal machine. yers from nearby Hartford. They constantly utilize it to protect "We've come to ask you to halt these party followers from paying the penalty attacks on our organizations," they said. for their subversive acts. "You're wasting your time," the editor To do this, they maintain a regular told them. "Better find yourself another filing pool of high-priced lawyers, each of them cabinet, Bub! I'm expecting guests "Then we'll sue you for $1 ,000,000 dam- skilled at taking advantage of all loop- dinner tonight." ages." for holes in American law. These lawyers AMERICAN LECION MACiAZlNK "Go ahead and sue," the editor said. are always on call for the defense of reds

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 '41 who get into trouble. So strict is party The defense, he complained to the Court, case into an "agit-prop" device — a meains discipline that they will drop any other had "badgered and threatened" Rathbome for creating agitation and propaganda. client they may be representing, no mat- and referred to him as "a burglar, a They used the trial to cast reflections on ter how high the fee, to defend anyone drunkard, a gambler, a thief, a liar." the American jury system and the fair- the Party designates. The reds' lawyers do more, though, ness of American judges. than just put up a defense for accused As part of this plot the reds' lawyers TIME and again, these machine lawyers commies. They also are ultra-skilled at made their grandstand charges that Ne- have succeeded in getting communists making every trial serve as a vehicle for groes and Jews were excluded from fed- out of blatant jams. Stalinist propaganda. eral jury rolls — an accusation that was Scores of alien communists have been completely disproven but which made for saved from deportation by their tricks. two months of headlines. Hundreds of communists have success- As part of this plot, the reds' lawyers fully avoided answering the questions of EXPERT TESTIMONY adopted heckling, obstructionistic tactics Congressional probers because of their which threatened to convert the trial into When Louis F. Budenz, former legal stratagems. a circus. They did everything in their editor of the Dailfi Worker who has The Congressional power to exasperate Judge Harold R. Committee on Un- renounced communism, appeared be- American Activities was so outraged by fore the Senate investigating sub- Medina and make him declare a mistrial. the testimony of one of the reds' lawyers, committee and named Owen Latti- Their efforts were so flagrant that they Maurice L. Braverman of Washington, more as a member of a communist resulted in jail sentences for several of D. C, that former Congressman John Mc- cell, he explained commie strategy the lawyers for contempt of court. Dowell, Pennsylvania, exclaimed bitterly, regarding lawsuits. Pointing out that since 1945 all secret commies had "It is not beyond the bounds of pos- IS significant, incidentally, that Vin- been instructed to file libel suits IT sibility that an attorney, too, is a traitor cent Hallinan, chief defense counsel for against anyone who named them as to his country." Harry Bridges, was also held in contempt reds, he said: by a federal judge for employing the Nothing is too extreme for some of "The idea was not to win the suit these lawyers to do. Character assassina- but to bleed them white and shut same type of courtroom conduct. tion is, for instance, one of their special- them up." In both cases, the object of the attor- ties. neys appeared plain— to break down pub- Mervyn Rathbome, a reformed com- lic confidence in democratic judicial proc- munist who used to be president of the esses. The most sinister of all uses made by CIO American Communications Associa- THE trial of the 11 top leaders of the tion, found that out when he was called American Communist Party on charges the commimists for their legal machine to testify at the recent trial of Harry of conspiracy to overthrow the United is the infiltration of the Government for Bridges for perjury. The defense counsel States Government is a graphic example subversive purposes. went to such lengths to discredit Rath- of this. Congressional investigators have dis- bome's statement that Bridges, the left- Knowing that the evidence was pre- covered how this plot has operated. wing stevedore leader, had lied when he ponderantly against the defendants, their The Communist Party laid the ground- said he had never been a communist, the attorneys set out to milk the trial dry for work for it back in the '30's by getting prosecuting attorney had to protest. propaganda purposes. They turned the jobs for Party lawyers in such federal agencies as the PWA, the WPA, the AAA and the old NRA. The lawyers they planted there saw to it that other communist attorneys were hired, and they helped each other get placed in "sensitive spots" throughout the Government. That was how Alger Hiss obtained his high-ranking post in the State Depart- ment and was able, according to the sworn testimony of Whittaker Chambers, to act as a spy for the Soviets. The communist underground in Wash- ington was full of these lawyers. In it, according to Chambers' sworn testimony, were left-wing attorneys like Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman and John Abt. When these three and the others were asked whether they were members of the Com- munist Party, they refused to reply. To answer this simple question, they said, might incriminate them. The injury that men like these have done, and still may be doing, to the security of the United States is enormous.

THERE is yet another major use which the reds make of their legal machine. It is one of their chief instruments for sub- verting labor unions. In every union in which the communists have any influence, they always seek to get one of their lawyers appointed as the organization counsel. "Communist lawyers," states an oflficial Congressional report, "serve as the direct channel between the Communist Party and the union. Although not elected by the membership and not responsible to it, they often exercise monopoly control of collective bargaining and union policy.

42 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 "They are responsible for all kinds of Formed as an organization of lawyers munist lawyers who make a mockery out legal tricks to perpetuate the control of ostensibly interested in raising the stand- of the Canons of the Professional Ethics communist officials and stifle all opposi- ards of the bar, the Guild succeeded in of the Bar. tion." enrolling thousands of non-suspecting The Grievance Committees in the var- How does the red legal juggernaut lawyers, men of the calibre of Judge ious local bar associations must move to function? Ferdinand Pecora, Joseph D. McGoldrick disbar any lawyers who deliberately try At the top, in total control, is the and Nathan Margolf, the Solicitor to the to sabotage the American system of jus- Party's Politburo. Next in command are U.S. Department of the Interior. tice. the Party heads in the various states and Although all three of these men, and Grievance Committees in most bar asso- cities. Under policies laid down by the many others, have since quit in disgust ciations have this right, and it is up to Politburo, these local communist chief- over the organization's adherence to the them to use it. tains decide what cases they want their communist line, the Guild still maintains Such a move would not deprive com- lawyers to handle, what individuals or its facade of respectability. munists, or anyone else, of the legal pro- groups they want them to assail. tection to which they are entitled under How does the red legal machine recruit the American Constitution. It would its forces? simply prevent communist lawyers from The Party makes it a special point to sabotaging the Constitution. enroll lawyers in preference to any other At this very moment, the legal profes- group. It maintains a regular Lawyers' sion is — and knows it is — under fire for Fraction inside the organization. Today, its disregard of the public. There is, in insiders say that more than 5000 of the the words of Glenn R. Winters, editor of Party's 55,000 dues-paying members are the Journal of the American Judicature lawyers. Typical of them is Harry Sacher, Society, "an estrangement between at- who has been identified as a Party mem- torneys and the public." ber by Louis Budenz. The bar can do much to ease this es- The force of 5,000 attorneys, moreover, trangement by acting against the type of

represents only a part of the Party's legal lawyers who most discredit it. strength. In addition to it, the Party can As a lawyer, I call on the bar to act also count on the help of thousands of now. fellow-traveling lawyers. But even that will not be enough. What also is needed is legal protection THE principal mechanism utilized by for the average American who believes the red legal machine is the "front it his patriotic duty to stand up against organization." the commies. More than 20 separate legal "fronts" have been established by the Party pre- THAT is why I, as National Commander cisely for this purpose. These range all of The American Legion, am calling on the way from the All-California Con- lawyer-members of the Legion to join ference for Defense of Civil Rights and "Yes Sir! Man and boy I've lived around the battle against the reds. Aid to Labor's Prisoners to the Oklahoma cowboys all my life and I'm here to tell I urge that each Legion Post organize Federation for Constitutional Rights and all you cowboys out there that I never a committee of lawyers from among its seen the who didn't brush his the Committee for Citizenship Rights. cowboy own membership who would be prepared teeth every night. And a real cowboy is is for Typical of them the Committee ." to give advice to any Legionnaire tangling polite! He don't sass his mother . . the Defense of Joint Anti-Fascist Refu- with the red legal machine. They would AMERICAN LKGION MAGAZINE gee Committee. It has been described by tell what is safe, and what is legally un- the Congressional Committee on Un- safe, for him to say and do. They would American Activities as "drummed up by JUST how much this outfit has been able tell him how seriously to take the threats the communist party and its fellow-ti-av- to dupe the public came glaringly to of the red lawyers and how much atten- elers to defend known communists from the surface only a couple of months ago. tion he need pay to their blackjacking charges of perjury, contempt of Congress The expose occurred when an enter- methods. and the courts, immigration and passport prising Washington correspondent asked If a Legiormaire learns that a public fraud, illegal registration, and other vio- the Senate Judiciary Committee how it official in his town is a communist and lations of law." determined the qualifications of persons wants to make it known, he could discuss Also typical is the International Juridi- nominated for federal judgeships by the matter first with his Post's legal com- cal Association. The New York City President Truman. mittee. He could find out how solid is Council has said that it is "devoted to the "We get the advice of outside organiza- the evidence he has, and whether he has defense of the communist party, com- tions," committee officials declared. the right to air it. This will safeguard munists, and radical agitators . . . not "What sort of organizations?" the cor- him by keeping him from making charges limited merely to legal research but to respondent inquired. he can't make stick. sharp criticism of existing governmental "The National Lawyers Guild," the Equally important, the legal committee agencies and defense of subversive committee said. would be ready to defend any Legion- groups." Incredible as it may sound, the all-im- naire unjustly attacked by the commun- The two worst of these communist legal portant Judiciary Committee of the Unit- ists. "fronts", unquestionably, are the Civil ed States Senate was consulting with an What if there are no lawyers in a Le- Rights Congress and the National Law- organization named by Earl Browder gion Post? yers Guild. himself as "a communist transmission Then the Post should enlist the aid of The Civil Rights Congress is an out- belt" as to who should sit on the federal prominent anti-communist lawyers in growth of the International Labor De- bench. town. The Post should explain the threat fense, or organization officially branded So far, all endeavors to fight the com- of the communist legal machine and ask "The American section ... of the Red munist legal machine have failed. When these other attorneys to serve on a vol- International Aid." Formed in Detroit on a move was made in the California leg- untary basis. I am certain that they will April 28, 1946, this Civil Rights Con- islature to compel lawyers to take loyalty be glad to help. gress, if has been found, is "dedicated not oaths, the machine licked it. Both these steps — the clean-up of the to the broader issues of civil liberties but It is with this in mind that I am calling bar and the establishment of Legion legal specifically to the defense of individual for the adoption of the two-plank reme- committees — are essential if the red legal communists and the Communist Party." dial program which I outlined earlier in juggernaut is to be stopped from con- The National Lawyers Guild is even this article. The need for it is urgent. tinuing to trample on the civil liberties more dangerous because it has been able Under this program, the legal profes- of America and genuine Americans. to camouflage its communist connections. sion itself would crack down on com- THE END

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • and tomatoes, one after another. {Mush- rooms, too, if you want). Elach person then lays his skewer on the grill over a hot fire and turns it occasionally. About 15 minutes are all you'll need for the cooking. Your salad can be chopped up on the spot. French bread, cake and fruit will complete a grand meal. And there'll be no dishes to wash. At Ho/me in July (If you'd like several other recipes for outdoor dining accessories, write me in care of The American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y., enclosing a stamped, self-addressed en- Outdoor cooking can velope.) 000 he fun hut you have to HERE ARE some little touches that will do wonders in making your home seem cooler these dog days. know how to go ahout it Clear away the bric-a-brac from your living room table and replace it with a row of white flower pots, each filled with By KITTY YORK glossy dark green leaves. Set a green bowl with a bouquet of FROSTOST .,V~:C/ FOUNDATION/-'—7 ^ / / '"K'-'^l white flowers in it atop your radio. Re-do your lamps with fresh white shades. Here is an efficient and inexpensive outdoor fireplace whicli you can build over a weeliend Give your silver objets d'art a vacation. Their color isn't bad but their for- EVERY WOMAN KNOWS — and it's about brick with cement. You can buy these mality bespeaks winter. Blue glass or time men realized it, too — that there bricks, and the firebricks for the firebox, white china pieces will be much more is no torture like cooking indoors on a cheaply from a building wrecker. The summery. sultry summer evening. A woman has to cement and iron grill you'll need can You can even give your pictures a rest by roast herself alive in a red-hot kitchen be bought at a hardware store. for even the simplest repast. Then, to The next thing you do is mark out the make things worse, she has to sit and size of the firebox, 15 x 28 inches. Cover suffer while her perspiring family merely this area with a flooring of firebricks, one nibbles at the dinner she's prepared. It's brick deep, mortaring them with a special no fun for her or anybody else. fire cement. Now, build up the remainder But the summer food problem can be a of the fireplace with regular bricks — using pleasure for everybody. ordinary cement — to a height of 28 inches. Outdoor cooking is the solution. With Line the firebox itself with one row of very little trouble, you can convert your firebricks on edge, mortaring them to back yard into a summer resort, get your each other and the rest of the bricks with husband and children to pitch in gladly the fire cement. But don't take the fire- with the chores, and make each meal a bricks all the way up to the top. End the package of fun for the whole family. lining an inch or so below the level of For winter this living room decor is fine The thing to do is have a barbecue the other bricks. That will leave a little (not a picnic — that's just something made platform all around on which you can lay up of soggy sandwiches) for your evening an iron grill. meal as often as you can in your own With your outdoor cooking facilities back yard. Select for the menu foods that installed, you can start thinking about each person can cook for himself or her- the sort of food to serve. Something hot, self, and then watch how appetites grow. something cold is the rule for every meal. Nicest of all, every dinner will be a party, Broiled chicken and watermelon, or ham- and, if you wish, you can invite in a burgers, corn and ice cream are tasty dozen friends without adding appreciably combinations. Schaschlyk and salad is to your work. another that's delicious. To begin with, you'll need a cooking To prepare the schaschlyk: place. A few rocks piled up with a grill The night before you plan to use it, cut over the top can be sufficient. However, 2 pounds of lamb steak into 1 inch cubes, as outdoor cooking becomes a habit, you'll trimmed of gristle. A few changes make it cool and summery want a more permanent fireplace. Don't Cut small onions into thick slices (as let your'ideas run away with you, though. many as there are pieces of meat.) taking them down and hanging something Building an elaborate stone fireplace is Then, boil l^/z cups vinegar, 1% cups else in their place. Wrought iron flower an expensive, backbreaking job. water, 6 bay leaves, 2 teaspoons salt, 2 holders for potted plants is one idea you A simple but efficient fireplace, like the teaspoons sugar, for 5 minutes and let might try. Or you can stretch a large silk one illustrated here, can be built by you cool. scarf — one with a sharp pattern in cool and your husband over a single weekend, Put the lamb and the onions into the colors — on the wall. It can be fastened and for less than $16.50. cooked vinegar and let soak until the with adhesive tape that comes in colors. First, dig a hole about 44 inches long, following day. You'll have enough for You can do a lot in your kitchen, too. 28 inches wide, and from one to two feet four people. Take down your winter curtains and sub- deep. (Just be sure it's below the frost A few minutes before your barbecue is stitute a ruffle of green plastic film. Use line). This is for the foundation, which to start, slice tomatoes, V4 inch wide, one a length of it on your kitchen table, too. you can make of hunks of stone, broken slice for each piece of meat. Strips of green adhesive tape can be run bricks and concrete, smoothing it off Out to the fireplace you and your around the walls, at shoulder height, for across the top. Lay a brick flooring over family go. Have everyone tatce his own a moulding effect that's crisp and cool. it all, three bricks deep, mortaring each long skewer and spear the lamb, onions In your bedrooms, pastel-colored sheets 44 ) will make splendid bedspreads. HERE'S THE STORY OF THE And don't forget that you can make the hottest night more bearable for sleeping by spraying your pillows with pine scent. O O O PAYS to have a good group project IT ready for a ramy day when you have the children on your hands. Getting up a family book is a natural. Use large craft paper, a page or two for each member of the family, to record birthdays, graduation dates, anniversaries Organized Reserve Corps and other events. All kinds of personal data can also go in, including clothing sizes and favorite colors (wonderful when it comes to picking gifts) . Other pages can be employed for garden charts, your Thanksgiving Day menu, lists of guests, that annual football weekend, your pets, your automobiles, your vacation trips. The kids will have a grand time helping you remember all the facts, and m future years they'll revel in helping you keep the book up to date. You'll be proud of your family traditions and cherish them Many changes have been made in the structure and admin- more and more as your family book grows. istration of the ORG — all of them directed at developing it o o o into a still more efficient arm of our National Defense. Of You've been too busy all winter to write primary importance is its functional structvire under the new letters? Of course. Well, summer's the time to steal a couple of restful moments program. each day to scribble off at least one note The new ORG has three principal parts — the Active Reserve to some friend you've been neglecting. — the Inactive Reserve — the Honorary Reserve. The Active THE END Reserve is composed of the Organized Reserve and the Vol- They Rekindled unteer Reserve. the Flame ( Continued from page 28 Members of the Organized Reserve — all those Reservists Von Abetz, High Commissioner of Occu- assigned to M-Day T/O&E and T/D units— and Divi- pied France, was due soon, it appeared, on sional Cadre units — will drill regularly — and will be paid his way to Versailles. tor the drUls they attend. And now the four were at their goal. Under the new ORG program additional training schools The crippled old Gardien de la Flamme, are being set up in selected cities all over the nation. who had been watching from the top of the Arc, came down to meet them, with Hundreds more are planned to accommodate the steadily the sacred Sword that was used in the growing Army Reserve. ceremony of rededication. Waving aside About 9,000 units will be included in the new training the gasoline can Schwartz had brought program to be manned by 625,000 officers and men of along as a precaution, he brandished the — the Reserve. will, course, Sword over the Flame, saluted, unscrewed Organized They of have adequate, the valve. The Flame leaped up. This had up-to-date training equipment. been forbidden explicitly, and it could Those Reserve units will be properly housed, too. Already mean death for him. some armories are under construction — or, are being leased. Von Abetz was stiffly saluting the hell- Others are planned for the near future. ing nazis as his car reached the Rond Point. But at the Flame there suddenly ******* appeared as if by magic men and women, *^ ^ir carrying in their hands red, white and In these troubled days the blue bouquets, which they placed rever- Army Reserve must be kept ently over the Tomb of the Unknown. at peak efficiency — ever For that moment at least Paris had re- ORGANIZED captured its place as the City of Light, alert— ever ready. You can the guardian of civilization. help your country — and RESERVE CORPS The four, their mission accomplished, yourself— by becoming a U.S. slipped through the crowd. Schwartz, who ARMY member of the new ORC. is now on the West Coast, still wonders, ten years later, what caused two nazi captains to stand first at attention, and then at salute as the flame was rekindled. THE END If you are not a member of the Army Reserve, get full details on the new program from your local Reserve unit — or the U. S. WE'VE MOVED Army and U. S. Air Force Recruiting Station in your locality. Please note that the new address Without obligation, you will be told how your training and for the Editorial and Advertising experience can be used — and what opportunities may be open offices is: to you — in the /lew ORC program. 580 Fifth Avenue New York 19, New York

Listen to SALUTE TO RESERVISTS. For time and station consult your local newspaper. ihe American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 ) What Has l>os Angeles Got? ( Continued from page 22 husbands, and Greta Garbo, who has had Because of so msiny high-salaried peo- where land can be bought for anywhere none. Here lives Earl Warren, whom the ple, plus the huge citrus crops and oil from fifty cents an acre to $5,000 a front Republicans considered vice-presidential producing lands, Los Angeles is said by foot. It's a land where rain is by courtesy timber. And Frank Spector, Russian- federal surveys to have the highest living of the local irrigation district. born communist alien whom the govern- standard and income of any city. It's a land where the deer and the an- ment has been trying to kick out for six- If Los Angeles sometimes seems zany, telope run, and the state pays hunters to teen years without success. there are reasons. First, it's a mecca for rid the mountaitis of lions. It's a land of This is the town where there are more people from everywhere except California. automobiles than in any other city in the Because of its year-round climate (42 The Automobile of world. And for a reason — not only be- degrees is considered a cold wave and Club Southern California, like all cause the city claims to be the nation's 80 degrees a heat wave), it is an outdoor would to extend to Legionnaires and their families No. 3 in population, but because it's No. 1 town — a town of parks and beaches, and in area and has no other transportation patios and backyard swimming pools, friends who are contemplating driving except buses and streetcars. palm trees and flower gardens. Then to Los Angeles to attend the National Convention, the opportunity of obtaining It's a town artificially created out of there are the movies. If one isn't naturally road maps giving detailed information the desert and kept alive by water casual because of the outdoor life, he can best routes brought in from as far as 400 miles away always say he's oddly dressed or growing and from any point in the United States to Los Angeles. through big aqueducts. a beard for a role in a picture — which is Routes shown will be the best and direct Here are such luxury spots as Giro's often the case. Then too, this is head- most from the point of origin and Mocambo, where the elite meet to quarters for some of the highest paid to Los Angeles, unless otherwise specified. These eat, and it's a rare night indeed when press agents in the world: their business maps will be furnished free of charge to you don't dine elbow-to-elbow with a is to cook up wild stunts to attract atten- any out-of-state visitor Lana Turner or a Dorothy Lamour. Los tion. Los Angeles in general and Holly- who addresses a request to the Touring Bureau, Automobile Angeles is the home of Ptomaine Tom- wood in particular are getting so used to Club of Southern California, 2601 my's, where the French dip sandwiches these stunts that it now takes the wildest South Figueroa Street, are excellent; Forest Lawn, a cemetery of the wild — like Jim Moran sitting on Los Angeles 54, Cali- fornia. Also available is a directory of which has become a legend and, odd as an ostrich egg until it hatches as a way Approved Trailer Parks of Southern it may seem, a must on your sightseeing of advertising "The Egg And I" — to at- Califo rnia for those persons list; a motel for cats; Angelus Temple, tract attention locally. With celebrity- who plan to bring trailers. where Aimee Semple McPherson held wise people thus competing for public It is hoped that all pro- spective visitors forth and where prayer goes on 24 hours attention, anything might happen; except to the National Conven- tion will avail themselves a day, 365 days a year, year after year; there are laws on the books which proof the accurate and reliable road the famed Chinese Theatre with the foot- hibit people from shooting rabbits from information provided by the Automobile Club, prints, profiles and leg prints of the movie streetcars, selling snakes on streets and and will make this organization their touring great preserved in concrete; the big radio making pickles in the downtown district. headquarters for local or return trip maps. studios where Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Los Angeles is so much a part of South- Amos 'n' Andy and others perform week- ern California that it is unfair to write ly and admission is free; and, of course, of one and not the other. For Southern oranges, lemons, grapefruit, grapes, let- the cradle of motion pictures. California, too, is as fabulous a land as tuce, carrots, cauliflower, artichokes, giant To many, Los Angeles means Holly- Los Angeles is a city. This is the land of persimmons, English walnuts, melons, wood, although the latter is only a small Death Valley — the lowest point in the cacti, sagebrush and tumbleweed. It's a part of the former. And many think of western hemisphere — and Mt. Whitney, seacoast land, where thoughts often drift Hollywood as the movie capital of the the nation's highest peak, only an hour's to fishing and swimming. world, yet more studios are located in auto drive from parts of the Valley. Be- If the convention visitor's time will per- Culver City, Universal City, Burbank and cause of the low deserts and high peaks, mit, there are things to do and see out- Beverly Hills than in Hollywood, but all this is a land that has winter and summer side of Los Angeles. A trip to Catalina are a part of greater Los Angeles. at one and the same time. It's the place Island, for instance, is well worth a day. Just a streetcar ride from downtown Los Angeles and a couple of hours of riding the waves and you're in a remote para- dise with rolling hills surrounded by crystal clear water lapping at sand and rock. You can ride in a glass-bottom boat and see the wonders of a world that springs from the bottom of the ocean. You can see the seals play, an aviary of many rare birds, eat fresh -caught fish, hunt for wild boar among the 55,000 wooded acres. And you'll be aware of chewing gum in a big way, for Wrigley built all but the land, owns all including the land. If the visitor wants to get in a bit of deep-sea fishing, boats go out from Santa Monica pier at all hours of the day and night, or can be chartered at will with everything furnished. For the Coney Island type of fun, there are the pikes at Venice and Long Beach which stretch from here to there with amusement catch-alls from a flea circus, tattoo shop and fried shrimp stands to trips under water in pressure tanks and a shoot-the-shoot out over the surf. For the wonders of man's handiwork, P-pIease, fellas! Not in my cell!" there is the Long Beach-Los Angeles AMfiRICAN I,E(;[ON MAGA/INt man-made harbor, with the oil derricks

4g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 right out in the water bringing up their the Painted Desert, which must be seen tral Cafe in Juarez across the Rio Grande black gold. In 1542 the bay was discovered, at sunup or sunset to be fully appreci- from El Paso; colorful Tucson; the rich and from 1871 on man has been improving ated as the sun highlights its many col- agricultural Imperial Valley as you enter upon nature. During WW II it was one of ored sands; Carlsbad Caverns, said by California; and the lure of the sea as you the jumping -off points for the Pacific. Robert Ripley, who had been everywhere, come up the coast, or the beauty of citrus Magnificent is the sight of man's work to surpass six of the seven wonders of groves if you drive inland. at delving into the depths of the earth for the world; Yellowstone National Park, If you come by train, you'll wonder at riches — Signal Hill where oil wells dot where Old Faithful won't let you down; the beauty of Los Angeles' great modern the hill like rain drops on a pane, with Jerome, the Arizona mining town built Union Station with its patios, colored in- the black gold flowing to refineries to on stilts on the side of a mountain; Wick- laid tile and cleanliness. keep a nation's engines humming. There's Paduah Hills out near Ontario, where you will be well fed and enter- WALLY tained from 6 to 11 p.m. for $3.80. Your lady friends will swoon at Mario's soft rich singing of the love songs of his Mexico to the tune of a string ensemble. There's Knott's Berry Farm where you can pan gold, stroll through a real ghost town, and feast upon fried chicken, hot biscuits and orange blossom honey topped off with delicious berry pie. The land is dotted with old, picturesque Spanish missions steeped in history, some within a few minutes of your hotel. There's Marion Davies' old home on the Santa Monica Beach where you can now go to dine in walnut-paneled rooms lifted out of castles , in England, beneath hand-painted ceilings carted from old enburg in central Arizona, the dude ranch If you fly, there are many big airports Spanish villas. capital of the world; Oak Creek Canyon, with sleek cars waiting to speed you to If you go by automobile you can see where nature is displayed at her best; the hotel of your choice. many of the wonders of this land of the the Indian Reservations, of which the Yes, the National Convention this year free. If you approach from the east, there's Navajo is the most primitive and colorful; goes to a fabulous land where the ingre- Grand Canyon, open the year around and Salt Lake City, a modern city founded dients for business are stimulating; the with plenty of accommodations of all upon a religious faith, and Great Salt tools of pleasure on every hand. And one types; the Petrified Forest with its aci'es Lake with its beaches of salt; or, via Texas, thing is sure: those who make the trip upon acres of fallen trees turned to stone; the wild duck and quail dinners at Cen- will not be bored. the end

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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • A curious smoker turns up some intriguing facts about that pack of cigarettes in your pocket By MICHAEL KEARNS With every pack of cigarettes, chosen — among thousands of Tobacco tax history, incidentally, you receive a man's portrait in American imortals, from D. Boone is good ammunition for citizens miniature. to A. Lincoln — to adorn the first who howl about those special ex- It's pasted atop your cigarette cigarette tax stamp. Why has he cise taxes still in effect from World package, covering most of that blue remained on the cigarette stamp for War II. (Examples: the 25 percent stamp. You rip it apart every time almost three-fourths of a century? on long distance calls, the 20 per- you open a pack. If you're an adult Truthfully, no one's quite certain. cent on jewelry.) smoker, chances are you've looked Internal Revenue officers, however, As explained above, America's at that picture hundreds and hun- respond to the question with a tobacco tax also began as a war- dreds of times. somewhat reasonable explanation. time measure, during the Civil War. Yet— don't look at your cigarette Digging into musty records, they It brought in less than $500,000 that package!— who is this man? find that the first tobacco tax was first year, for all types of cigars The odds are over 1,000-to-l you dreamed up by Union legislators and cigarettes. don't know. Like the number of anxious to feed their starving Since that time, our grandfathers, steps in your stairway, the number treasury during the Civil War. Six our fathers, and we have paid to- of cubes in your ice tray, it's too years later, in 1868, the tax was bacco taxes which total almost 20 familiar to be remembered. being collected via stamps. Here, billion dollars. Still, that face has been the big- fact ends and fantasy begins. Last year's tobacco tax alone gest pin-up in American history, History sleuths at Internal Rev- brought in revenue totaling $1,319,- circulated more thoroughly than all enue emphasize that the separate 976,502.00. That's from official rec- of Hollywood's glamor photos put tax stamp for cigarettes was first ords. It was more than the combined together. It has appeared on bil- authorized in 1876. America was tax revenue from luggage, gasoline, lions of cigarette packs for 70 years. celebrating the Erie Canal's 50th furs, sporting goods, firearms, tires, (In fact, ever since the historic year anniversary that year, they point light bulbs, cars, trucks, buses, auto of Custer's Last Stand.) out. And DeWitt Clinton had been parts and accessories, motorcycles, Government officials say 352,300,- the canal's chief promoter. So — ammunition, toilet preparations, 000,000 cigarettes were "withdrawn DeWitt Clinton ended up on the matches, lubricating oils, electrical for domestic consumption" during new cigarette tax stamp. To stay. energy, phonographs, records, re- 1949. That means this mysterious If you have any more curiosity frigerators, musical instruments man's likeness is reproduced upon about the cigarette tax stamp: and radio sets! almost seventeen and a half billion The big "Class A" is the tax But don't be too hasty about packs of cigarettes a year! designation. Covering all cigarettes these new-fangled cigarettes. You can win a few dozen bridge weighing less than three pounds Another tobacco fad has been or bar bets by knowing the identity per thousand, it sets up a tax of popular much longer than ciga- of this man whose face has three dollars for that amount. rettes. And it doesn't show any launched billions of smokes: (That's six cents per pack; $32 in signs of going the way of the horse. DeWitt Clinton. annual taxes if you smoke 1^2 Back in the chewing-sniffing year But DeWitt Clinton had no more packs daily, over S43 if you live in of 1863— long before cigarettes were connection with tobacco than with a state which ups the tax two cents toasted, medicated and elongated— a juke box of today. An early, ob- or more.) That series number? It that fad gave the Government al- scure American senator and gov- indicates the year of issue. This most '^35,000 m taxes. Last year, it ernor, he was dead three decades procedure started in dark 1932. for brought in more than seroi mil- before this country ever thought some reason, with "Series 102." lion dollars! What do you think the of a tobacco tax. Thus, if your stamp carries "Series fad was? Why, then, was DeWitt Clinton 116," it's a leftover from last year. Snufl.

48 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 " .

Free for Nothing ... Almost (Continued from page 17) OWN YOUR OWN housewives, of course, But there were soaps and detergents had moved into first '"^ also men, children, circus freaks. United place, followed by makers of beverages, BUSINESS Nations employees, and in some cases flour and cereals. several members of the same family. In order of popularity with the public, BE INDEPENDENT One thing is generally true about pre- premiums costing 25 cents come first, miums: they would cost more in the open those costing 50 cents second, those from — EARN MORE! market than the amount a consumer sends 51 cents to a dollar third, those under 25 WRITE TODAY FOR in to obtain them. This is so because of cents fourth. Premiums bringing over a FULL INFORMATION the great volume of one item a premium dollar are at the bottom of the list. Some make more, some make less . . . but offer comprises. Requests for a single ofiEer Most premium offers are made with a usually run beyond the 200,000 mark. tie-in between sponsor and a big premium $217 IN FIRST 10 DAYS Many offers bring 2,000,000 coins and box mailing house, such as Reuben Donnelley was the total gross receipts of Chas. A. Stelle. E. C. Thomas grossed $1100 in 18 days. These tops. A buyer for a big premium house Company. The latter is set up in such a BIG incomes were made with our easily-operated, can prices way that receipt of 126,000 letters drive for premium articles con- highly efficient Wall Washing Machine. This is taining coins and box tops in one day's YOUR money making opportunity. Possible cus- mail is treated as normal routine. tomers are everywhere —homes, offices, hotels, schools, churches, stores, etc. Your equipment is The Donnelley Company mails out pre- not expensive, and what you take in is mostly miums from 48 to 72 hours after recjuest profit because material costs are low and you need letters are received. But premiums are not rent office or shop. Operate from your home. Write NOW for FREE Wall Washer information. sent out third class postage, which means they travel by deferred, not preferred, VON SCHRADER MFG. CO. pJc^e^wis. mail. Delays are inevitable. The company wishes that housewives would wait at least four weeks after sending a request for a premium before writing a letter to the sponsor, saying, "Dear Sir, you cur: My premium has not arrived!" IfB easy! Just show FOUR biK N AME-IMI'RINTED to friends— low as 50 for SI. Make up to 60c on 21. During the $1 DeLuxe Box. E.XCLUSIVE SECRET PAL. EASTERN many years Donnelley has STAR. Also Catholic. 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Perhaps the unique feature of the Don- ALLIMIN Garlic Tablets nelley organization is its "chiseler file, "He wears a 15V-> shirt. What size tie would he take?" which contains the names of hundreds of AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE women who write, complaining, "Three ACCURATE WRIST WATCH GUARANTEED I weeks ago mailed you 25 cents and a box I" 111 his iniportfrl fn down to levels beneath those open to top for my premium — a Little Zippo land. Made by skilled artists that In sure a perfect timepiece. Chromiun for retail stores. Miracle Dish Cloth. I have not received plated with a stainless steel hacV buyers that resists moisture and Riff SWEEP SECOND HANP Almost without exception premiums it. Why?" LUMINOUS dial that can $4.98 he seen in the dark are not misrepresented by their sponsors. How does Donnelley know they are FREE: At no extra cost we will include a Brand New STAINLESS Fear of damaging the reputation of the chiselers? The answer is simple. Such STEEL STRETt H WATCH BAND and .1 1 vear ffuarnntee against mechani- primary product, with which the premium women usually write in on a Monday fol- cal defects. Send $5. We Pay Postage. CHARM SALES CO. is given, is largely responsible for this lowing an offer made only the day be- ^'^^^Mfi i?X:^:^° fact. Premiums are merely puffed up to fore, Sunday, and not "three weeks ago." seem more valuable than they are. Some of them go to great lengths to de- A lapel pin replica of the Freedom fraud premium houses. One woman, ar- Sword, presented to General Eisenhower rested by postal authorities in Chicago, by the British people, was brought out was living in a well-furnished apartment, for a sponsor by Duane Jones. It was which was filled with premium goods. The oflered for 25 cents and a label, and was woman confessed she had obtained them advertised as "solid-gold washed." Duane without ever having sent a penny through Jones sent one of his office boys out to the mails. test the item. He succeeded in pawning A different story from the mail-away, a one of the lapel pins in a New York factory-packed premium is one the con- pawnshop for $1.25. sumer does not mail a coin for and then There have been instances where such wait to receive the additional bargain. A premiums have back-fired accidentally. package containing the primary product ATHLETES FOOT Leonard is inside, usually Heim, of New York, noted pre- announces what packed Dr. SchoH's Fast Relief and Healing Aid! mium consultant, tells of a case in which at no added cost. A dish towel included Don't wait! Get Dr. SchoU's a premium, "a gold-plate thimble," was in a package of soap flakes, or a relish SOLVEX today! This famous offered with a well-known household spoon taped to a bottle of seasoning, are prescription oif Dr. SchoU's quickly relieves itching, kills product. Many women wrote indignantly, factory-packed premiums. fungi of Athlete's Foot on after they had received their premiums, Another premium deal, the coupon contact, aids rapid healing of red, raw, cracked or "I got the thimble, but where is the gold plan, is probably one of the oldest and peeling skin. Insist on Dr. SchoU's Itching, Red, Raw, PLATE?" most popular of all promotions. In this SOLVEX. \ In Liquid, Ointment Cracked Skin between In 1948, the top premium users in the type of merchandising, a premium coupon or Powder form. / Toes and on the Feet; U. S. were manufacturers of cereals, bev- is printed upon, or enclosed within, a erages, soaps and detergents, and flour, in package of a product. A consumer collects that order. In 1949, manufacturers of these coupons over a period of time, then DrScholli SOLVEX

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • trades them in for merchandise, usually their trade the length and breadth of Thirty-six companies, leaders in the described in a free catalogue. America. In a sense, they were the origi- coffee, tea and soft drink fields, have Coupon plans have an advantage, ac- nal premium men. agreed that their use of premiums has cording to their sponsors, of holding a P. T. Champlin, treasurer of Cattarau- increased enormously in the past five housewife to a product for long periods gus Cutlery Company, large premium years. George C. Kiernan, executive edi- of time. A woman, who has started sav- supplier, often tells about a county fair tor of Premiwn Practices and Business ing coupon wrappers from Whoopsy- he attended in New York State about 1910. Promotion, has stated that the premium Doopsy Soap, in order to get a gigantic A well-known faker was there, selling a market is 21/2 times greater today than free premium, say an automatic toaster brand of soap. He played a trombone, it was four years ago. and cheese snack griddle, is not apt to gave recitations, then introduced his soap, The Premium Advertising Association switch to another brand of soap until she which he claimed to be "the purest of its of America now has more than 300 mem- has landed the premium. kind under the sun." To prove his point, ber companies, some of which are users of On the other hand, a slight misadven- at each performance he ate a piece of the premiums and others are manufacturers or ture with premium coupons can sour the soap. suppliers of premium goods. The associ- outlook of a consumer for years to come. This faker offered a premium besides. ation holds annual expositions in Chicago, Charles O'Donnell, vice president of It was a metal sugar and creamer set "im- and occasionally in New York. In both Geare-Marston, Inc., New York advertis- ported from England at great expense," cities membership groups meet monthly. ing agency, is known as an expert on pre- offered with the soap because the manu- And a representative of the Premium As- miums. But he admits to being touchy on facturer wanted "to establish his line in sociation now sits on the board of direc- the subject. America." The sugar and creamer proved, tors of the Advertising Federation of He recalls a time, many years ago, when of course, to be made of lead, which America. he saved coupons to get a "genuine turned all colors, finally winding up a It would be hard to imagine a meeting meerschaum pipe." He persuaded his dead black. The creamer gave cream, or of premium men at which the conversa- friends, relatives, fellow employees and any other liquid, a lead flavor. tion did not revolve around the topic of casual acquaintances to hoard coupons This is a long cry from the premium women. But the smoking-room flavor of for him. Finally, the great day arrived. He offer of today, which avoids "flash" and yesteryear is gone. Today the subject is swapped his coupons for a pipe. makes a selling point out of real value. treated with all the respect due a con- That same day, he went to a baseball The leaky fountain pen and trick pencil sumer who has purchasing power so great game, sat in the bleachers in his shirt- that never worked have been supplanted that it can determine the future of prod- sleeves, and sat on the pipe, which was by premium merchandise tested and ucts manufactured all over the United in his coat pocket. The pipe broke into a proved for value and reliability. In 1949, States. dozen pieces. O'Donnell confesses he has a single manufacturer supplied the pre- There was a time when merchandising never saved coupons for a premium since. mium trade with more than $100,000 presented a bargain in terms of widely The use of premium coupons dates back worth of quality fountain pens and me- publicized price reductions. But now the more than 50 years. Picture cards of base- chanical pencils that would have made trend is to advance the compelling appeal ball players, prize fighters and famous the 1899 version of a premium man's eyes of a bargain without disturbing price actresses were insert-premiums in ciga- bug. structure. This is done by substituting a rette packages at the turn of the century. As premium items have been improved, premium for lower prices. And once A primitive type of fountain pen and firms long noted for being conservative more, the appeal is to women. mechanical pencil were listed, according have started using them as part of busi- So smitten are women with the idea of to Dave Pickering, premium buyer for ness promotion. According to H. A. Rich- getting a premium sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, in a premium mond, of Metropolitan Life Insurance maker of a much-needed household catalogue put out by Colgate in 1899. That Company, New York, results of a survey article, that they often send away for a year, consumers were offered a fountain disclosed that of 125 insurance companies premium and forget about it completely pen for Bee Soap coupons. in the U. S. and Canada 120 reported they before it has arrived. In those days, a certain amount of use some form of advertising specialty, During one offer, a woman mailed 25 novelty, or "flash," was expected in a or premium. Items favored were policy cents and a box top for a kitchenware premium. This was a direct result of the wallets, wall calendars, calendar cards, premium. After three weeks had gone influence of carnival fakers, who plied blotters and baby books. by, it was delivered. But she could not remember by that time what she had sent away for. She was never certain fMP-ITI.SKS By Ponce de Leon i afterward whether she had a new pan- ! — - - - - - cake turner, a plate scraper, or a cake server. But she was happy with her gadget anyway. Another woman sent a coin and a label for a premium, received it and began using it regularly in her kitchen. One day she described it as "a little flour sifter" to a friend, who asked to see this new kitchen marvel. When the friend

looked at it, she exclaimed, "Why, I have one of those. But it's not a sifter. It's a nut-meat grinder!" Neither woman felt she had wasted her money. In one of its promotions, a company offered to give as a premium engraved plates to be used in printing calling cards. The offer was well received. But one woman felt she had cause for complaint. After several months had gone by, she wrote the sponsor, informing him, "My name plate is very pretty. I have it tacked to my front door. But, unfortunately, my name is spelled backward, so people can't read it. Can anything be done about this?" For the most part, a premium is a bar- AMEItKAN LEGION MAfJAZINE gain few women can resist. When she

• The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 sends in a box top and 25 cents for a agreed that premiums are here to stay. "genuine, simulated emerald necklace," Perhaps they know about a certain an exact duplicate of the one "beautiful postman in a little city out west. He had LOVE IT TOO Mercy De Troy wears in that thrilling been on the job almost 20 years. He knew ... TH€ OmS ^ radio love story, Mary's Other Husband," all about premium campaigns, when they she is getting more than her money's were offered, and when the premiums worth. She is getting a romantic thrill were mailed. He had carried those pre- besides. mium packages a long time. He couldn't And when Junior sends for a sheriff's help but know. badge, just like the one "Fearless Frank During one campaign, a premium house Farrell, Border Ranger" wears, Junior discovered that undelivered packages isn't getting gypped either. In his boy's from that city were not being returned. world of imagined adventure, he will An investigation was started. Then it was know many exciting hours of being Fear- learned that the old postman had taken less Frank. the "no correct address," the "family has 4 BOOKS Perhaps women, for all their caution, moved away," and the "undeliverable for EACH different! like to gamble just a little bit. In dis- other causes" packages home with him at MORE THANFf\f\ cussing women's desire to get premiums, night. yUUpAGES Helen Morton, of Benton & Bowles, Inc., He had opened them. They contained a New York advertising firm, pointed out toy item. He had given the toys to under- 1BUCK that sending away for a premium is, in privileged children. I MONCY BACK OUAHAftrft some respects, a it is U gamble. Usually not In the eyes of the law, the postman was too expensive. If the return is disappoint- a criminal. He lost his job and was sent

ing, a woman never mentions it. If she to jail. gets something very good, she is proud of But to premium men, that postman was herself. She tells her husband about it Santa Claus. He was giving a new gener- that night. ation of premium users the right start in All the merchandise men we talked to life. THE END Free for Asthma If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke Who Raised These Hoodlums? and gatp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to (Continued from page 27) send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA These are the souvenir hunters and the These are the visitors to Washington MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- name scratchers, who are wreaking their who not long ago disfigured the $22,500 tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. No matter where you live or whether you have worst havoc at this very moment, when intricately decorated bronze door to the faith in any medicine under the sun, send today nothing. the vacation season is at its height. Senate wing of the Capitol. The massive for this free trial. It will cost you Frontier Asthma Co. 631-D Frontier Bldg. These are the pin-headed hooligans door is divided into a series of panels 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. who pocket mementos from historical depicting historical scenes. Souvenir places, litter scenic highways with rub- hunters snatched the bronze reins from bish thrown from automobiles, rip off the first President's gloved hand; they TERRIFIC POWER, NO "PUMPING"! trail markers in our national parks as a snapped off an officer's sword at the hilt; WITH CROSMAN'S NEW CO2 GUNS souvenir for the den back home and leave they twisted off bayonets and muzzles of Amozing new "Power without disgraceful scars on our monuments and soldiers' muskets. And inside the Capitol r" principle odds landmarks. somebody took home the trigger guard s to shooting the ol and Rifle with These are the gay hordes who year from the long rifle held in the sculptured See them ot your after year deface America's great shrine, hand of Texas' famed hero, Stephen F. r free literature. the Statue of Liberty. They daub the in- Austin. Crosman Arms Co., Inc., Rochester 7, N.Y. side walls with pen, pencil and lipstick And these are the hotel guests whose and carve their names with knives and collections of memorabilia in the form of nailfiles. ash trays, towels, linens, silverware and i?E'\;;?7JEWELS sundry other articles mounts up to an 3 YEAR SERVICE GUARANTEE annual six-figure loss to innkeepers. : li;v;;s.S;^uV $1^.95 T. Harry Gowman, president of the sweep Second Hand . M p. p,|,| • < hrome ( ase American Hotel Association which repre- • Leather B.md plus 70c tax Refund if not satisfi Special! sents 6000 of the country's leading hos- ry. no O. D. 's as above, smaller telries, told me: 80c tiix. W. Washin^to call it souvenir hunting 166 "They may EICO PRODUCTS CO., Dept. 75 Chicago. III. but to the hotels it's outright thievery. Guests who take things from rooms are shop-lifting and if they realized that is IS how they're regarded, they'd think twice AMAZING OFFER -$40 YOURS j for selliiif; only 50 boxes of before popping that next article into their FREE SAMPLES Christmas Cards. And this PERSONALIZED suitcases." can be done in a single day. Free samples. Other leading CHRISTMAS CARDS What makes a vandal tick? Why do boxes on approval. Many I surprise items. Write today. STATIONERY they ransack, pilfer, desecrate? What's in I It costs nothing to try. NAPKINS I it all? Plains, N. Y. back of CHEERFUL CARD CO., Oept. AX-1 White | I put the question to Edmond Fitz- Gerald, chief probation officer of the Brooklyn County Court, an internationally famed authority on youth problems. SELL CLOTHES He recently returned from Israel where, at the invitation of the Ministry of Jus- Popular Prices • Good Profits

tice, he helped revamp the new nation's Earn good money selling Homeland penal law and prison and probation sys- made-to-measure clothes for men or ladies—at low prices made possible by tems. Said Mr. FitzGerald: selling direct from maker to wearer. Satisfaction guaranteed. Full time or "There certainly must be other "No boy is fundamentally vandal- some part time. Be in business for yourself; name for it besides 'athlete's foot'!" minded. Usually a gang act of vandalism make good profits. We supply complete outfit no cost to you. Apply AMERICAN can be traced to the aggressiveness of the at LEGION MAGAZINE NOW for new Fall line. Homeland leader who wants to show the rest that Tailors, Inc., Dept. A, Baltimore 3, Md.

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he's the big shot. He initiates the van- vided by Stamford, Conn., which has had sengers did with a zest . . . and left the dalistic plan and the others, afraid of be- such an astounding success in the curb- rest of the train alone, which is what the ing called yellow, follow along." ing of vandalism that 98 cities throughout railroad wanted in the first place. Long Psychiatrists to whom I spoke ampli- the country have adopted its plan. And Island University has set up a special fied this. Dr. Frederic Wertham, director the plan is a simple one: wall in one of the rooms where students of three mental hygiene clinics in New In 1946 the Stamford Police Depart- can paint and smear until they get arm York City and a noted psychiatrist and ment, plagued by a series of vandalistic weary. The village of Scarsdale, N. Y., neurologist, said: acts at Southfield Village, a public hous- actually offers prizes for the best art

"By and large, children do not have an ing project, formed a Police Boy Scout work done on windows at Hallowe'en . . inborn destructive urge. They have a Troop in the area. Starting with 12 boys, special windows used, of course. tendency to activity and aggressiveness the troop now has 130 members, whose Youngsters may paint only on win- which can very easily be directed into normal boyish enthusiasms have been dows of stores belonging to members of constructive channels. In almost all cases channeled from destructiveness to the Scarsdale Chamber of Commerce. where vandalism occurs it is due to the healthy activity. The association helps Prizes are given in several age groups attitudes of adults. boys buy uniforms, sends them to camp, and then a number of "all-around "Children do not have any conception and provides for their entertainment and awards" are handed out. Says Arthur of race or religious hatred. Intolerance guidance. Meeting every Friday night, the Kollen, president of the Chamber: "Since does not exist in a child's mind. It only boys play baseball, basketball, attend we began this, there hasn't been a car flourishes when it is planted there by movies and have parties on all holidays. marked up or a fence busted in the entire adults in the home. They hear things at After three years of operation, the village." home, get distorted views and go out to Stamford Plan has virtually erased van- A partial solution has been found in desecrate houses of worship. dalism at the housing project. Other cities Denver, where school authorities make "Similarly, children are being constant- saw and followed suit. Now there are 38 the culprits repair their own damage. ly exposed to glamorized acts of murder, police scout troops in California, 27 in A unique experiment in New Haven, arson, crime of all sorts, in the millions Michigan, nine in Maryland, eight in Conn., has proved vastly successful in of evil comic books that are published Connecticut, seven in New York, five in curbing the dangerous use of firearms by and in certain movies, and radio and Pennsylvania and four in Texas. Every youngsters. The Police Department found television programs. Even though the vil- one has reported a decline in vandalism that teen-agers, eager for target practice, lains always get caught, their crimes are after the plan had been placed in effect. were popping off in suburban areas, en- romantic and children are impelled to Another type of answer which is show- ''ngering lives. They asked Jack Lacy, ape them on a lesser scale. ing remarkable results is the institution ciiief gun tester for the Winchester Re- "If we want to eliminate vandalism we of "legalized vandalism." This embraces peating Arms Company, to teach them must look into ourselves." the thesis: if they want to smear, paint how to handle arms safely. There is an encouraging side to the and carve, let 'em do so to their hearts' Lacy organized a number of junior rifie bleak picture. A few forward-looking content, but where it won't do any harm. clubs and today the urge to shoot is con- communities are looking into themselves Accordingly, the Union Pacific Railroad trolled, channeled into safe paths. When- and are curbing or halting the menace added a specially constructed bar car to ever a boy is picked up for firing a rifle by meeting it head-on. The entire nation its streamliner City of Denver and en- in an illegal area he is sent to one of could profit by their examples. couraged patrons to carve names in the Lacy's classes. He never repeats the of- One of the best answers is being pro- soft pine walls and furniture. The pas- fense. But there is an answer which probes even deeper than these and all authorities agree that it is the only way to oblit- erate completely the scourge of vandalism. It was expressed by Paul A. Ken- nedy, an official of the New York City school system, who said slowly and care- fully, punctuating every word: "We must return to good, old-fashioned training in respect for the rights of others.'' This training must begin at home. But up to now it is failing dismally. Listen to what Robert Moses, New York City park commissioner, says and where he puts the blame: "None of our efforts to combat vandalism has been completely successful because a certain brand of parents have wiped out the line between mischief and vandalism. These are the smart alecks who think liberty means everybody can do everything he damn pleases. It is an astonishing fact that many parents regard complaints about destruction by their children as a huge joke." If parents laugh off the destruction of millions of dollars in property, if they "Eleven years ago, O'Toole and I were kids together. He was the neighbor- themselves carve up our national shrines hood bully, always picking a fight with someone smaller and weaker than and steal souvenirs, can we expect our himself. One day he pounced on me and pounded me to a jelly. I resolved children to know it's wrong to throw then and there to master the art of fisticuffs and teach him a lesson. I trained stones through windows of commuter relentlessly and was gaining something of a reputation as a pugilist when trains? Can we blame the two boys who O'Toole suddenly left town. I continued my activities in the ring and to make rolled a bale of wire onto the railroad a long story short, tonight found myself confronted with my boyhood enemy tracks near Walton, Ind., wrecking an as an adversary. I eagerly leaped into the fray to right an ancient wrong, but onrushing train and killing four persons? unfortunately for poetic justice, he can still knock the stuffing out of me." How many more innocent people have AMERICAN LEGION MAOAZINF. to die before we get hep? THE END

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America in 1938. There are now about Forty-five Weimaraner dogs at first gun trials 1500 in this country, only about 350 in Germany. Two dead Weimaraners were ever held for their kind were worth $100,000 found with Joseph Goebbels' body in Ber- lin. Before the war a Weimaraner was By JACK DENTON SCOTT shown at a Berlin zoo. Only members of the Weimaraner Club of America may world's most unusual and costly THE own these "mink coats of dogdom." Pups hunting dog is the Weimaraner, shown sell at over $350. the end here at the world's first Weimaraner gun trials, held recently in San Juan Bautista, MRS. LYLE KINNEY'S Weimaraner. Silver Blue Calif. Lc\cn, took second prize in the novice class Sleek, silver-gray Weimaraners were first bred by German noblemen in Wei- mar province about 1810, to be an all- purpose hunting dog and companion, and to have a noble enough appearance to go with their masters' opinion of themselves. The dogs successfully hunt birds, rabbits, wild boar and stag. Some are now used in police work. Recently a Weimaraner found a lost Massachusetts boy after bloodhounds failed. A pair of the dogs was first bred in

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stands. The scent of earth and sweat. All these things made him feel as if he were back home after an eternity in prison. SERVICE sitting m Casey saw a squat, elderly man nearby, and he sat down next to him. TRAVELING THIS SUMMER? big-league pitcher tells every young ballplayer "What's the score?'' asked Casey. how to groom himself for a career on the dia- Here's the Boofc You Need! "One all, top of the 7th," the man said, mond. $3.50 THE STEVENS AMERICA: without looking at Casey. TED WILLIAMS A Traveler's Guide to the U.S. "Who you playing?" Casey asked. By Arthur Sampson By Alden & Marion Stevens "Fallsburgh," the man said. story of the American League's most valu- The tie," A unique guide to the United States, simple "Old Casey could break the Casey able player. $2.50 to use, organized into 28 recommended routes said nonchalantly, as he leaned back and JACKIE ROBINSON that criss-cross the map in any direction you propped his feet up against the wall. By Bill Roeder might want to go. The man stiffened like a cut of frozen The story of the National League's most valu- meat. His mouth opened and closed five SPECiFIC INFORMA7EON on how to get to able player. $2.50 times, but he didn't speak. Then he turned your destination by the quickest, pleasantest THIRTY YEARS OF CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF route. V/HERE to stay. to see. V/HERE to and looked at Casey for the first time. WHAT The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen: eat economically and well. 28 handy maps. Foreword By Bobby Jones "Holy mackerel!" he said. "Who are you? FULL, easy-to-use index to every city, state, pork, By Gene Sarazen and Herbert W. Wind Where'd you get that circus suit? And or other landmark mentioned in the book. $5.00 in this The secrets of championship play by the man what's the idea of cursing dugout?" SUMf.lER SPORTS who has played with the best golfers of his time. Casey locked his hands behind his head $3.00 and pushed his cap over his eyes lazily. MY GREATEST DAY IN GOLF "All I said is that old Casey could break Edited by Darsie L. Darsie FOR EVERY OU7DOORSMAN the tie." Fifty-two of the greatest players in the history The man jumped to his feet. "Look, of golf tell the story of the most memorable HOW TO LIVE IN THE WOODS Morgan. I been round they ever played. $3.00 By Homer Halsted Mac," he said, "I'm Pete Complete details on outfitting every type of managing this outit for ten years. This BASEBALL, 2nd Edition outdoor excursion, whether you plan an over- town ain't hard to get along with, but Individual Play and Team Strategy night hike or extended trip. Includes on camping what you just said is like swearing in By Jack Coombs new camping equipment developed since the churc.'i around here. Do you know that A brilliantly able college coach and former war. $2.75 we refused to play the New York Yankees an exhibition game here last year because SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE! SAVE UP TO 80% their manager's first name is the name don't Here's the biggest bargain sale of books ever offered by The American Legion Book Service. We you just said? Do you know we are clearing out our stock of these titles to save on storage space — therefore we can cut prices (sav- allow people from Kansas City in here? ings as large as $2.00 per book). Circle the numbers of your selections on the order blank below and Do you know what the initials of Kan- mail today. This sole is on a first-come-first-served basis, so mail in your order now, while they last. sas City are? Don't say it! Do you know

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Casey started to say something, but all bat. Then he sat back and stretched out of a sudden Morgan let out a moan. The on the bench. Mudville pitcher just threw a home run The first two Fallsburgh men singled. ball. "Damn!" said Morgan. "Can't that Morgan sprang to his feet and, leaning guy go one game without a gopher ball? out of the dugout, he waved to the bull- Look, Mac. why don't you go inside and pen. have Charley fix you up with a good "What are you doing?" Casey asked, uniform. I don't know where you got the chewing on a piece of grass. thing you're wearing, but those outfits "My wife just came in the park, and Amazing results in sales, inquiries and con-

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The American Legion Magazine " July, 1950 • 55 get up there now. It's getting kind of late, "That's right," said Casey. "It's getting dressed the seething throng. And every you know." late, and I figure this is a good enough word he uttered rang clearly like a gong. With that, he stretched and started spot." "Whoever lays a hand upon this batter's climbing out of the dugout. "Now where The umpire walked to the screen and head, will have to deal with me. Now do you think you're going?" asked Mor- picked up his megaphone. He came back let's play ball," he said. gan, seizing Casey by the leg. and asked, "What's your name, bud? Casey heaved a little sigh as he stepped "I told you it's getting kind of late," "Casey. Why?" Casey said, taking a into his place. A funny little smile started said Casey. "Besides, I think they want firm stance. playing on his face. Four thousand angry action upstairs." "Now batting for Mudville," the um- eyes watched him blow into his hands. He broke loose from Morgan and pire bellowed, "CASEY!" "Casey?" he Two thousand hostile tongues hissed ven- ambled toward the plate. "The fool's ac- said, dropping his megaphone and dou- om from the stands. And when respond- ." tually gonna do it!" a player shouted at ble-taking. "Casey? Well, I'll be . . ing to their jeers he lightly tipped his Mors;an. "Do something! " For a fleeting moment there was hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt "The guy's nuts," said Morgan. "He's shocked silence in the Mudville ball park. 'twas Casey at the bat! absolutely and completely goofy." And now the rival pitcher got his sign "Should I go out and drag him back?" Then from that stricken multitude went and slowly rocked. And Casey's figure another player asked Morgan. up a maddened yell, like the sound of tensed, and his bat was set and cocked. "No," said Morgan, "let him bat. The tortured devils a-screaming down in hell! And then the ball came winging — a whiz- guy's got more guts than brains. He'd be The teeming stands were raging; there zing blur of white. A whirling blob of ." fire, flight. just crazy enough to . . was chaos everywhere. How dare the a lightning flash in Close by Casey was almost up to the plate. A name of Casey contaminate this air! the form of Casey the blazing horsehide curious buzz swept through the stands. Pete Morgan in the dugout and all the sped. "Too high for me," said Casey. Fans were leaning forward to get a better Mudville herd were petrified like statues; "That's a strike," the umpire said. look at this quaint, picturesque figure they didn't say a word. Their necks were "Kill him! Kill the batter!" sci amed who moved with a confident stride. Was strained like stallions that are ready at an overheated fan. "Let's put an en 1 for- it a gag? Who was he? Where'd he come the post. Their eyes bulged from their ever to this flubbing, whiffing clan!" from? sockets as if they'd seen a ghost. Calmly, Casey called for time and rubbed Suddenly in the stands old Doc Walker, And now the roaring hundreds came his bat with dirt. And then he smiled number one baseball fan in Mudville — moving from the stands, like groups of again as he fiddled with his shirt. "It was and still active for his 80 years, leaped stalking panthers, but with weapons in much too high," said Casey. "Two feet to his feet. "If I wasn't sure," he said, "if their hands. Their prey was at the plate; above my head." "It was right across your I wasn't absolutely and positively sure on his shoulder was a bat. His crime? shoulders," the mammoth umpire said. ." . . . His was Casey. bigger crime that . that. name What The Mudville stands were boiling like "What is it, Doc? somebody asked. that that? a pot upon a stove. They cursed the name "No," said Doc, rubbing his eyes. "For- But then the masses halted on their of Casey and the fiendish spell it wove. get it. I felt like I was goin' loco for a trip out to the plate. The umpire stood But Casey took a toehold and signaled to minute." and faced them — a massive wall of the mound. And then the pitch came fly- Casey was now rubbing dirt on his weight. Six feet six inches tall he stood, ing with a chilling, whistling sound. hands. The umpire, a gigantic figure, and weighed three hundred pounds. And "Kind of low," said Casey. "Right around went over to him, and bending down to he made it clear he wanted no strangers my shoe." "Your eyes are telling stories," dust off the plate, he asked, "You pinch- on his grounds. the umpire said. "Strike two!" hitting?" With a loud and booming voice he ad- "Fake!" roared the irate hundreds, and the echo answered, "Fake! Let's throw him in the river or burn him at the stake!" Then Casey dropped his smile, and his lips were firm and tight. He had to do it now or spend eternity in night. He hitched his weary shoulders and dug his feet in earth. The next pitch would determine just what his name was worth. And then the pitcher had his sign, and then began his rock. And somewhere in the distance it was tolling four o'clock. And now the ball came shooting from its gun upon the mound. It was heading far outside, just a foot above the ground. The batter took a lunge as he quickly arched his back. And then there was a gust of wind and then there was a crack! Away up in the stratosphere a leather horsehide flew. It danced up in the sunlight and it disappeared from view.

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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • SOUND OFF! (Continued from page 8)

support and recognition of China, as is, Sailors of Australia (which corresponds here come the Marines and they say, "We by the U.S.A. to our American Legion) has flown to took the island." You do the fighting and Copies of the Burling article have been that cemetery at Lae on our Memorial they get the name of taking the place. obtained from various Legionnaires and Day with a Protestant chaplain, a rabbi, E. L. Woods are being displayed in churches here. and a priest, and they have conducted Post 24 J. D. Kilgore ceremonies there. ... It seems to me that P.O. Box 756 Athens, Ohio in justice to the Southwest Pacific that Blytheville, Ark. mention should be made of this cemetery The article in the May issue of The I was very much interested in reading at Lae. Many Wisconsin and Michigan American Legion Magazine, entitled What the issue of the Magazine, under men are buried there. May You Haven't Been Told About C/iina, by "Sound Off," subheading Who Won the J. Tracy Hale, Jr. Judith and Arthur Burling, is so timely Milwaukee, Wis. War. The Pennsylvania lady may be in- and valuable that it should be reprinted terested in a quotation from General Bul- and widely distributed. It could be made Tracy Hale, Jr. was the first Com- lard's book, as follows: available for a few cents a reprint, like mander of Alonzo Cudworth Post of "The 166th Infantry, Ohio, had been those of the Reader's Digest. Milwaukee, the largest Post in the De- nowhere near Paris and its 'bedroom P. Emory Weaver partment. He served as a combat infan- French' and Buckeye officers were Member, Post #321 tryman in both wars (in the second with having some language trouble, until Littlestown, Pa. the rank of colonel) with the 32nd (Red Battalion Haubrich ne- Arrow) Division, and was wounded in Commander We have received a number of letters both wars. gotiated the transfer to U.S.A. of vital praising the Burlings' article, a French trenches, by conferring in and few The cemetery at Lae is not in the care criticizing for it. German with French officers! Even us carrying These last of the American Battle Monuments Com- do not deny what the article said, but then these French dandies, ever me- mission, which is the reason it was not question the reliability of the authors ticulous about dress, appeared to sniff included in the list given in Richard of the article. at the hobnailed boots, the Mr. Burling went to China Seelye Jones' article. muddy his helmets, and 'issue' of in 1923 upon graduation from Har- Mr. Jones rightfully identified the uniforms our vard, and was for time American officers, newly arrived from 100 days some cemetery at Hamm as being in Luxem- representative in in the trenches. the Chinese Maritime bourg, but our caption on a photograph Vosges They were Customs Service. Later he was connected asked if their men were good fight- of that cemetery wrongfully placed it in with the ing UNRRA work in that country. Belgium, for which we apologize. Editors soldiers. Mrs. Burling has been in China since " 'Tell the Colonel,' Haubrich re- their marriage in the early thirties. They MARINES, 'TENSHUN!! plied in German, grinning, 'that my have both traveled extensively in the in- battalion is one of the best battalions This is in answer to that Pennsylvania terior of the country, and have a wide in the best damned regiment in girl whose husband served in the Infan- circle of Chinese friends. Much of the Europe, bar none!' try, has one brother who was in the Navy, late information given in the article was "American brag? Perhaps. But it and another who was a Marine. She says furnished by Chinese who managed to was provoked again and again by the they quarrel among themselves about escape from the communist area. Editors air of superiority met with among who won the war. Well, I can say a lot these officers who were losing a war." about the Marines that would make her THE CEMETERY AT LAE mad all over again. You see, I was in the I might say that Col. Haubrich organ- In Hallowed Rest Abroad (May issue, Infantry for six years and I saw a lot of ized and commanded the 166th Infantry, page 26) dealt with the permanent over- Marines in that time. . . . ONG, from the end of World War I until seas American cemeteries of World War 2. I was in a place called Attu. When the he retired for age just prior to the induc- It is noted that the cemetery at Lae, Japs held it, it was my job to get the tion of that Regiment in World War II. New Guinea, is not mentioned. There are sick and wounded back after we attacked Sam Richmond many American service men buried there. the island. There wasn't a Marine around Colonel. OSGR The President of the Returned Soldiers & at all. Just as soon as we got the Japs off Cincinnati, Ohio

THE MAGAZINE IN SCHOOLS HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? We the members of Netzel-zenz Post 413 are proud to pass along the word that If your address has been changed since paying your 1950 dues, notice of such change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The American we are sending for a subscription of The Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana. American Legion Magazine for our local schools. We are doing this to combat the BE SURE TO GIVE ALL INFORMATION LISTED BELOW communist propaganda that worms its NEW ADDRESS way into our schools. Maybe other Posts would like to do the same. Donald A. Witt Name Netzel-zenz Post 413 (Please Print) Criintz, Wisconsin

Street Address etc LIKED HENRY'S ARTICLE

I read the Legion Magazine regularly, City Zone State.. being a member of the Auxiliary. I find it quite interesting. 1950 Membership Card No There is a story in the February 1950 (Include Prefix Letter) issue on which I cannot but help making a comment. It is What Are They Doing Post No State Dept to the Female Sex? by Henry G. Felsen. My opinion is that it is the funniest OLD ADDRESS article I've read in a long time. It is too bad that many will miss it, so I have cut Street Address etc it out and expect to pass it along. Con- gratulations to Henry! City Zone State.. Mrs. F. Reed Frasher Morgantown, W. Va.

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THE MONROE COMPANY, INC. 49 CHURCH ST. COLFAX, IOWA Building the set-piece begins in its name. The word is of Celtic origin and Thearle-Duffield studios. After the idea means "to put forth." Today's word for is conceived, sometimes by show spon- it is "launch." sors, usually by Duffield experts, Chief Frames, fuses and lances are shipped Designer George Kirchner paints the pic- to the site of a show. There an expert ture in brilliant colors on dark blue back- supervises assembling and at the proper ADVEKTISIXC ground. time, "fires" the set. IS YOMR BUSINESS "That shows how the fireworks will Firing formerly was done by hand, the stand out at night," explains Briese. shooter carrying a five-foot flare made of If you sell Nationally Advertised products, The sketch is traced on cross-section two rocket sticks spliced together. Now Advertising is your business. paper and blue-printed. Guided by the firing is done electrically a hundred feet scaled blueprint, factory workers tack pli- or more from the set. You can insure complete coverage of all able rattan strips to the frame to form Other favorite July Fourth set-pieces your Legionnaire customers by telling your the design. The rattan, more than a ton likely to be seen at any Legion celebra- manufacturers about a year, is imported from Tahiti. tion are the American eagle and shield The fuse or "match" and the color- and the Statue of Liberty. After World container called a "lance" are fastened to War I the battle of Chateau-Thierry was THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the rattan with double-ended nails. The tops in popularity. Portraits of Washing- fuse resembles brown butcher twine ton and Lincoln are sure-fire. wrapped in chemically treated paper. The pyrotechnic impresarios are always Minus the wrapping the fuse burns slow- alert to topical subjects. M^ITF $50 CASH Sell Christmas ly. Wrapped, it ignites in a flash, firing "Anything you can show me in photo- $t Assortments Easiest money you ever made. Show gorgeou; the lances in seconds. graphs I can reproduce in fireworks," Christmas folders, 21 forJl. Everybody buys —you make up to 50c per box. Also Name- A lance is a thin cylinder much like a Duffield claims — and has proved it. World Itnprinted Christmas Cards, 50 for Jl. Show Christmas and Everyday Assortments, Gift For Selling slightly II flag-raising lengthened king-size cigarette. It War gave him the at Iwo Wrappings, etc. Get Free Pfrsona! Samples. Only AsBortment sent on approval. Write today! contains the secret chemicals that give off Jima, a current best. Another recent 100 Boxas, CHARLES C. SCHWER CO.. 165 Elm Street the colored fire. Lances spaced four to thriller is the fireworks interpretation of Dept. 97K WESTFIELD. MASS.

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • atom bomb tests at Bikini and Eniwetok. Last election year Duffield produced flame-pictures of presidential candidates and party symbols. They gave Briese a narrow escape as a political forecaster. 'In Montana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota — all through the West and Middle West — I watched the crowd's re- action to pictures of Truman and Dewey," Briese relates. "Dewey got about ten

The Polish lietitenant is looldng for an American

I am looking for Bob, Captain We undressed and started to Bob. I only know that he was an swim. Stimulated by the crowd of American Air Forces officer, and 1 people who had gathered, we tried don't even know his last name. But to compete in our swimming. In if he reads this, he will remember. spite of all our efforts, we could It happened in Rome, in July find no line at which to finish; this 1945, but the story really begins was natural, because the fountain

before then. I had been a lieuten- was in the shape of a circle. ant in the Polish Underground and Two Italian policemen appeared took part in the uprising against and attempted to explain to us the Germans in Warsaw. That was something in their sonorous lan- when the Russians purposely guage. We arose from the basin in stopped their offensive ten miles our natural state, stood at atten- from the city, leaving the Poles to tion and said "Cheerio USA and fight alone for 63 days. Poland 1" Offended by their lack of During the fighting we got sup- response, we leaped from the water

plies from about a hundred Ameri- and shoved both of them into it. can Flying Fortresses. The citizens Then Captain Bob and I decided "fCs an expression her fulher picked of Warsaw and I myself will never to exchange everything: I gave him lip 7fhen he was in the army." forget the help of the American my second lieutenant's (Polish Air Force. But finally we had to Lancer's) uniform — I am five feet, siu-render and I was placed in a seven — and he gave me his Air AMKUK AN MCGION MA(!AZINE German PW camp. In March 1945 Forces' captain's uniform — he was I was liberated and joined the 2nd about six, four. We were very Polish Corps in Italy. In July I got happy. As a further gesture we de- my first leave and went to Rome. cided to exchange cars. He gave times more cheers. I thought I had the I arrived there at midnight but me his jeep, I gave him my ar- election low-down — like some pollsters - could find no place to sleep. In one mored scoutcar, and he crashed into did. But I kept what I saw to myself of the hotels I met an American the nearest flower shop window. and lucky I did." Air Forces captain, who could find I wanted to help him drag the When Thearle-Duffield later presented no place to sleep either. Remem- car out from the shop, but he pre- President Truman's fireworks portrait at bering the help from the Flying ferred to stay among the flowers, the inauguration in Washington, there Fortresses during the uprising, I insisting that he was in California. was no question about the biggest ap- wanted very much to show him I wished to remain in California plause-getter. my deep appreciation and grateful- myself, but there was not room for For all the years Thearle-Duffield have ness, but the trouble was that I did my jeep in the shop, so I drove been putting on pyrotechnic magic they not know the English language at up the street until the first street have no illusions about the potency of this time, and he did not speak any lamp ran into my jeep and me. their stock-in-trade. continental language. Finally at 1 At 5 a.m. I found myself in an "There are two kinds of fireworks," a.m. we entered a restaurant and M.P. station. Captain Bob was ar- Briese points out. "Commerical and dis- started to improve our allied co- rested by another M.P. squad. play. Commercial are firecrackers, pin- operation. We did it in this way: We did not meet again. I was wheels, torpedoes and other stuff mostly I would stand up and make the 23 years old in 1945 and this was sold under the counter. That's the stuff toast, "Cheerio USA!" after which my first experience with allied co- that hurts kids. We won't handle it. he would arise and say "Cheerio operation and good cheer. A few "I'd rather fire a ten- inch shell than Poland!" We wanted to be polite to months ago I came to the United shoot off a two-inch firecracker," adds each other so drank a lot of toasts. States to take my degree at Iowa the man who personally has touched o.T After two hours we were only able University. I have no relatives enough fireworks explosives to shatter to whisper our cheerios. At last we here, and if possible I would like Fort Knox. decided to take a bath. to meet my "first-known" Ameri- Briese has a daughter who should have We had some kind of impression can, Captain Bob. again, and to tell been the envy of her playmates as a that before us was a large body of him how beautiful a country I have yovuigster — with all those fireworks avail-

water; and there was the largest found here. . . . Captain Bob! If you able from her dad. fountain in Rome, in the Piazza are reading this story, write to me. Mention that, and Briese takes a vicious Barberini. By Janus Zawodny crunch on his unlighted cigar. "The most dangerous thing I ever let her handle," he snaps, "was a sparkler." the end

• The American Legion Magazine • July. 1950 ' Your Car's hiquid Diet g Is Your Dog ( Continued from page 25) water," wrote the Chief of the Bureaus (Chrysler), the shortest 1,000 miles in kjSCRATCHING? Engines and Lubrication Section, "varies (Packard) , with the overall average considerably from place to place, one time the neighborhood of 2,500 miles. Typical, Projl The Chances Are 2 to 1 of the year to another, with the result is the following recommendation taken I It's Not From Fleas that no definite statement regarding the from the 1950 Ford owner's manual, "The suitability of natural water for use in engine oil should be changed four times a storage batteries can be made. This Bu- year (every 2,000 miles.)" Some manu- but from FUHGI reau prefers to adhere to the general facturers go further by pointing out that I statement that distilled water is preferred their recommended oil-change period is YES, FROM FUNGI—comparable to that of Athlete's ! in visible stage, tliis/i< nai in dog's hide i Iches driving, after break- I-'oot In early when obtainable. Impurities which may for normal and the as ftercely as when scales, scabs, sores (h'velop. Unchecked. lhis/M«^;j can to skin, ear, infections costly to in period. Kaiser-Frazer manual lead eye — be present in natural water supplies are The treat, sometimes incurable. cumulative in the battery. Some of them, puts it this way, "Oil in a new car should EXAMINATION OF 3,121 SCRATCHING DOGS at Dr. Merrick's Small Animal Hospital showed less than changed after the first 1,000 miles and such as iron, chlorine, nitrates, and ele- be 30% scratching from fleas, lice, diet or mange. BUT OVER again after the first 2,000 miles, refilling 70% WERE SCRATCHING FROM FUNGI, picked up ments below hydrogen in the electro- from grass, weeds, etc. chemical series may be definitely harm- with S.A.E. 10 or 10-W oil. The oil should YOUR DOG HAS A 300% BETTER CHANCE to escape changed thereafter, using the proper itching misery if you ajiply Ur. Merrick's SULFOUICNE ful." be before using flea powder. This non-staining, soothing pre- seasonal grade, at 2,000 mile intervals, or fungicide d< stro>'S ftiHx^i, prevents spread. Stops scratch- Just one sentence, "This Bureau ing in rniTiuies; cle.irs up sores witliin a week—or your 1,;l, k. Over 1,(1110,1)00 bottles sold. At your dealer. to to the general statement more frequently depending on the type money fers adhere SI, or direct from Brookheld Laboratories. Dept. that distilled water is preferred when and quality of oil used, the severity of Brooklleld, lU. WALLY TO SELL BRONZE MEMORIAU

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(Fr,in: July. 1937 A.L.M.) SPEAK HO EVIL obtainable," was argument enough for operating conditions, and the condition me. Now I double-check to make sure of the engine." nothing goes into my battery but dis- Many service people, men who work tilled water. right in the automobile plants, on the So far, my survey was showing me other hand, think that for their normal batting just a neat 1.000 — on the wrong day-to-day driving it is unnecessary to side of the score. Out of two things change the oil more than twice a year. checked, I had been wrong, or misled, Many of them change the oil in their own on both. cars only in the spring and fall. However, e rumor- Next, I decided to tackle the premium they insist on a top-quality oil sold by monger is himself vs. regular gasoline and the oil-change a reputable manufacturer. an evil, questions. They intrigued me because I This is in line with the practice fol- but only a monkey seals his knew that they were controversial sub- lowed by the Govei'nment in the servic- lips against reality. And can- jects and I wanted to get my own answers ing and maintenance of its vehicles. The cer is a grim reality. We if I could. I knew that the oil companies Technical Committee for Lubricants and must discuss the facts of can- recommended 1,000-mile oil changes, and Liquid Fuels of the Bureau of the Bud- I also knew that a good many motorists get recently put out this order: "Change cer in order to help educate looked on premium gasoline as the pan- oil in all Government passenger cars, and protect our neighbors. acea for all sluggish engine ills. I won- trucks, and buses in the spring and in For humanity's sake—and our dered what the various automobile man- the fall, or at 4,000-mile intervals, own preservation — -we must ufacturers recommended, what the Gov- whichever comes first. Where experience support the crusade against ernment did about their 97.000 civilian indicates that longer intervals between vehicles, how the large taxicab companies oil changes are satisfactory, no change this mortal enemy of man. handled the problem, and how auto- in existing practice is recommended. motive engineers themselves — the fel- Where the operating conditions include lows who design the engines and work 'stop' and 'go' service, especially in cold GIVE TO on production — treat their own cars weather, or when sand and dust are reg- CONQUER CANCER when it comes to oil and gasoline. ularly encountered, a shorter interval I wrote lots of letters, I talked to lots between oil changes is desirable." of people and, as a result, I got lots of When it comes to really rugged "stop" interesting answers. and "go " service, no privately owned car AMERICAN First of all, a survey of the oil -change can compete with the beating that a taxi- CANCER recommendations made by the manufac- cab takes in big-city driving. Yet, the turers of 19 different makes of new cars average cab in the New York City area SOCIETY showed considerable variation. The long- rolls for 4,500 miles between oil changes. est interval recommended was 5,000 miles The cab companies are able to get that J The American Legion Magazine • July, 1950 • oil mileage under the most severe of had an average rating of about 83. As for driving conditions by careful mainte- volatility, premium gases, on the average, nance and by flushing the engines with completely vaporized at about 393 deg. an active solvent to remove sludge and F. while regular gasolines vaporized at other deposits every time the oil is about 404 deg. F. The special "hand drained. Unfortunately, however, I found tailoring" they receive goes a long way that the active solvent used is not avail- toward eliminating the possibility of va- able to car owners and that the conven- por lock and a stalled fuel system when tional flushing oils available don't do summer temperatures soar. much of an engine cleaning job. Regular-grade gasoline, according to The oil experts, offer still another and gasoline experts I talked to, will give opposite view. They feel that if you are good performance in the average car at

to strike an average in driving conditions moderate cost. In manufacturing it, a re- — and an average in drivers and car finer makes the fullest possible use of usage — motor oil, to be safe, should be changed every 1,000 miles. They agree that under some "ideal" driving conditions it might be safe to let the oil go much longer but they also point out that, according to their findings, under really bad driving conditions an oil change every 500 miles might be in order. Their 1,000-mile recommendation, they feel is a safe mean. Considered on a dollars and cents basis, they also contend that for the private owner, who is likely to be neglectful when it comes to general maintenance, the cost of 1,000-mile oil changes is cheap insurance against possible costly engine repairs. They point out that, figured at a ITCHING FEET oil rate of $2 per change, a man who According to statistics at least 50% of the adult population of the United States are being changes his oil only every 4,000 miles attacked by the disease known as Athlete's Foot. saves, on the yearly average, only $12 Usually the disease starts between the toes. Little watery blisters form and the skin cracks more than the man who sticks to their and peels. After a while the itching becomes in- recommendation of 1,000 miles. tense and you feel as though you would like to scratch otT all the skin. About one point, however, just about everyone seems to agree. A car should BEWARE OF IT SPREADING have an oil filter (and many low-priced Often the disease travels all over the bottom cars don't have them) to remove solids of the feet. The soles of your feet become red and swollen. The skin also cracks and peels, and the from the oil, and the cartridge in that itching becomes worse and worse. "My, what a nice flabby stomach filter should be replaced every 5,000 to Get relief from this disease as quickly as pos- you have!" sible because it is very contagious and it may go 8,000 miles. If not, the filter becomes to your hands or even to the under arm or crotch clogged and the oil, instead of passing

' through the filter, is by-passed directly AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE DISEASE OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD back to the oil system. A clean air filter The cause of the disease is not a germ as so also is a "must." many people think, but a vegetable growth that becomes buried beneath the outer tissues of the Likewise, there is no difference of opin- the petroleum fractions suitable for gas- skin. ion on the subject of when a car should oline. Premium-grade gasoline, on the To obtain relief the medicine to be used should first gently dissolve or remove the outer skin be greased. Every 1,000 miles continues other hand, is blended from more care- and then kill the vegetable growth. to be the accepted rule. fully selected fractions. It is made to meet This growth is so hard to kill that a test shows it takes 15 minutes of boiling to destroy it: how- As for the question of premium gas- the requirements of high compression ever, laboratory tests also show that H. F. will oline vs. the regular brands, I found that engines and a generally wider range of kill it upon contact in 15 seconds. all the new cars with but two or three operating conditions. It is a premium DOUBLE ACTION NEEDED exceptions have been engineered to op- product, sold at a premium price. Recently H. F, was developed solely for the erate efficiently on regular gasoline. Nat- According to a number of the auto- purpose of relieving Athlete's Foot. It both gently dissolves the skin and then kills the vegetable urally, premium gas can be used in any mobile boys I talked with, the owner of growth upon contact. Both actions are necessary of the new cars, but whether or not it an older car with plenty of mileage on its for prompt relief. H. F. is a liquid that doesn't stain. You just will provide any gain in miles per gallon engine many times is likely to gain more, paint the infected parts nightly before going to is a moot question. at least where performance is concerned, bed. Often the terrible tching is relieved at once. I found that the principal differences by using premium gasoline than the own- H. F. SENT ON FREE TRIAL between a premium gasoline and a reg- er of a brand new 1950 car. Carbon de- Sign and mail the coupon and ular gasoline are a better "antiknock" posits can build up in the cylinder head a bottle of H. F. will be mailed quality (a higher octane rating) a slight- of an engine to such an extent that it you immediately. Don't send any money and don't pay the post- ly higher volatility (a slightly lower reduces the volume above the pistons. man any money; don't pay any- boiling or vaporizing point), and the fact This, in effect, increases the compression thing any time unless H. F. is that it goes through additional processes ratio of the engine. Such an engine may helping you. If it does help you. designed to tailor it to provide "knock" or "ping" when regular gas is we know you will be glad to send optimum us $1 for the bottle at the end performance the year round. Having a used and run smoothly when fed the of ten days. That's bow much higher octane rating, premium gasolines premium grade. Removal of the carbon, faith we have in H. F. Read, sign are used to best advantage in engines however, usually will eliminate the and mail the coupon today. having a relatively high compression ratio. "knock." CORE PRODUCTS, INC. AL. Such engines will not operate without Ask the average automobile man which 823 Perdido St., New Orleans, La. knocking unless premium gas is used. The grade of gasoline to use and his answer srilil III.' illlliirili;ih-l\ .1 llottll" Of 11. F for

loot tKiiilil,' iis i iliril (l.-M alii.vc. I uKlve to use it higher volatility of the premium grades will be, "follow the car manufacturer's .uvDiilinK to diifiiiiiiis. II at tlic end ol 10 davs iiiv ipct arc also In than 90 percent KcttiiiK lictiiT. I will shikI vou $1. If I aiii makes for somewhat easier starting recommendation." more not entirely .satisiicil. I iiill return the iuuiscmI iimtion will "I tlip liottle and initial warm-up at low winter tem- of the cases, that means that the car to yiiii witllin l."; davs from the time I ii'c-civc it. peratures. In 1949, the average premium operate satisfactorily on regular fuel. He'll NAME gasoline had a so-called "Research" oc- also tell you that it is the driver, not al- ADDRESS tane rating of about 88; regular gasolines ways the choice of fuel, that means most • CITY STATE g2 • The American Legion Magazine • July. 1950 when it comes to gasoline mileage. Jack- famous noii-blop flight from Honolulu to What's more, 1 lound that in freezing rnbbit drivers and hot-rodders get poor Teterboro, N. J. By chilling the gasoline winter weather an inferior fluid may mileage with any fuel. The conservative, with dry ice before pumping it into the tend to thicken dangerously and become sane motorist, on the other hand, usually plane's tanks, he was able to jam 300 gal- sluggish in flowing through the lines that can get good mileage with any good fuel. lons into a 288-gallon space! connect the master cylinder with the

I also found that another item has a In digging out the information on anti- wheel cylinders. When this happens, the very definite bearing on fuel economy in freezes, oil, and gasoline, I suddenly re- left front brake, which is nearest to the the number of miles per dollar — the con- alized I had completely forgotten about master cylinder and therefore has the dition of the spark plugs. Where I'd alone other liquid food that we feed our shortest lines, will grab before the others ways felt that changing plugs every 10,000 cars — the hydraulic fluid in the brake to put your car into a skid. And that miles was enough, I found that for really system. Frankly, I'd never thought much dangerous skidding comes at a time of good engine performance and economy the about it. The few times in my motoring year when you're likely to be driving on plugs should be cleaned, checked, ad- life that I have had to have it replenished snow or ice. justed, and, if necessary, replaced every I left the choice up to the service man. I The only way to be safe, I was told, 5,000 miles. realize now that each time I'd done so is to use only those brake fluids that

Outdoor air temperature, I learned, also I'd been gambling with the safety of my meet the strict specifications set up by has a bit to do with how much gasoline, family. the Society of Automotive Engineers in whether it be premium or regular, you Unfortunately, I learned, there are some 1947. If your serviceman doesn't know can buy for a dollar. Like any liquid, brake fluids on the market that are far whether or not the brake fluid he is sell- gasoline expands when it is heated, con- from safe to use. They are simply a hap- ing meets the S.A.E. standards, he can tracts when it is cooled. All of which hazard mixture of liquids made to sell at find out by writing to the brake-fluid means, according to Dr. Waldo Kliever, a price. They may work well for ordinary manufacturer. If he is conscientious, he director of the Minneapolis-Honeywell driving, but let you down when you need will. Company's research department, that you your brakes most. When you use brakes All in all, my little private survey cost get more gasoline pumped into your tank a lot, the brake fluid gets hot and an in- me my time, several sheets of three-cent for a specified sum, pai;ticularly in the ferior brake fluid, containing low-boiling stamps, a good quantity of letter paper, broiling summer, if you "fill er up" early liquids, can get hot enough to boil away. and lots of conversation, but I'm glad I in the morning when it is relatively cool When that happens vapor lock develops made it. I now know considerably more than if you wait until mid-day when the in the hydraulic lines and your brakes about the proper care of my cooling sys- temperatures are considerably higher. become useless until the liquid cools down. tem, my battery, and my brakes. In fact, "Bill" Odom, the late round-the-world Instead of pushing fluid into your brake I know a good deal more about my entire flyer, made use of that trick to cram more cylinders when you step on the brake, car and I am getting better motoring and gas into the tanks of his light plane on his you push against compressible vapor. spending less money on it. the end

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