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AN EYE ON THE DIPPER (fiction) by Paul R. Milton 11 THE LESSON WAS LEARNED THE HARD WAY.

ARE YOU GOING TO GET A PENSION? by Patricia L. Pitzele 14 AMERICAN BUSINESS IS THINKING OF YOUR OLD AGE. IT'S THE LATEST U GET LOST, DISGU ISE OF ANY- f FLAT- FOOT/ DOPE FROM RED CHINA by Rodney Gilbert 16 PAV MAO WOULD LIKE TO DO A BIG BUSINESS IN THIS COMMODITY. face:/- OFF , WANT TO BE -OP I'LL PUT A ALONE WITH SLUG INVOUr rr II TH ,s G|RL MORE COMPETITION FOR THE BIG THREE by James C. Jones 18 THINGS MAY BE DIFFERENT IN THE AUTO BUSINESS NEXT YEAR.

RUSSIA'S GOLDEN BULLETS by Victor Lasky 20 THE REDS KNOW WHAT SOME PEOPLE WILL DO FOR MONEY.

MONEY BY MAIL by Robert A. Baker 22 WHAT'S BEHIND THE FANTASTIC GROWTH OF MAIL ORDER SELLING.

HUNTING FOR BETTER HUNTING by Jack Denton Scott 24 HOW TO PICK THE BRAINS OF EXPERTS.

NEWS OF THE LEGION 29 Features

SOUND OFF! 4 PRODUCTS PARADE . . 8 NEWSLETTER .... 27

EDITOR'S CORNER . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. 26 PARTING SHOTS . . 64

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Chiang It explains how you can avoid worries In show business, including radio and offered his army to fight the Koreans television, there aren't any commu- about business ups and downs, how you but, oh no, our leaders sent more than nists or pro-communists and further- can obtain an income you will never lose, 30,000 Americans to their death be- more there never were any. The same never outlive. It explains how such plans cause some circles opposed the Chi- tiling goes for our churches. Unfor- are used to supplement Social Security nese leader who has so much reason to tunately, things aren't quite so good hate benefits. the Red Chinese. Certainly what abroad. 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As Many as 144 Separate Sir: That letter from Ross Rajotte 36—36 12 draw., 6'/s x 12'A x fi", $5.95 No. compart.. makes me hotter than the cup of cof- 1 No. 60—60compart.,20draw.,10 /8Xl2'/2 x6", $7.95 SARCASM? No. 96-H6 compart.. 32 draw., 15'/4 xl2'/2 x6". $12.95 fee I w as drinking. Not all Democrats 1/2xl2'/ xfi". $20.95 No. 144- 144 compart.. 48 draw..22 2 Sir: Reading the papers and listening are like him, thank God, wanting war "SEE-THRU" DIRECT BY MAIL. Send check BUY to the radio, I am very happy to learn and more w ar and a big paycheck. or money order today! Money back if not delighted. that communism is no longer a prob- Name Withheld AMERICAN HOMECRAFT CO., Dept. 399 3710 MILWAUKEE AVENUE, CHICAGO 41, ILLINOIS lem here in the U.S.A. Thanks to our Benicia, Calif.

4 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1954 Sir: Rajotrc blames the Republicans now most vehement in support of for his four-day week and five cents World Federation. Warren C. Haag an hour pay cut. 1 would rather go back to com bread and beans than to Bath, N. Y. have wars and blood money. Here's a war hoping we don't have to blame DANGER AT HOME You can be an on the Republicans or the Democrats Sir: We have some 25,000 communists cither again. reserves in country Harlan Hutchins, Jr. plus unknown our should be on trial. In my opinion investor for only Martinsville, III. who 25,000 commies here are more dangerous to our -country than 10 million BRAZEN? who are 4,000 miles away. $40 a month A. J. Sheehey Sir: According to the New York Union City, New Jersey (or even every 3 months) Herald Tribune of June 29th William Sir: The fifth column on Madison G. Carr, executive secretary of the How? National Education Association, spoke Avenue (New York City) is a greater at the opening session of a special menace to this nation than the enemy Simply by joining the Merrill Lynch face on foreign soil. series of seven meetings on "Education we "pay-as-you-go" plan for buying stocks and the United Nations" sponsored by J J- Nagle — the kind of a plan thousands of the U.N. and the N.E.A. In the course East Orange, New Jersey people have been waiting for. of his remarks .Mr. Carr is quoted as Sir: The "honest" liberals and dis- saying "It is patriotism in the United senters have already cost America her Why? States to speak for, and to teach about, atomic secrets, her hydrogen secrets Because it's to be part owner the United Nations," and "pledged good and her radar secrets. That is con- that the nation's teachers w ill continue of some leading American business . . . formism to communism. to do so." Could anything more than Donald G. Scott Because American business has grown this brazen utterance be needed to Philadelphia, Pa. mightily and it's going to go on grow- confirm the fact that the N.E.A. be- — lieves that it, and not the States and ing in the years ahead. the local school boards, is to decide POPPIES VS. GERANIUMS Because last year nine out of ten what is to be taught in our schools? Sir: I could hardly believe it when I stocks on the New York Stock Exchange I can think of more controversial no saw geraniums on the cover of our issue at present than this whole United paid dividends, and those dividends May magazine for Memorial Day. Nations setup, with the Republican averaged of the selling price at What's the matter with our poppies? 6.3% and Democratic leaders in the Senate Mrs. H. L. Taylor the end of the year. urging our withdrawal from the U.N. Volga, la. There's no down payment if you join if Red China is admitted to membership. And yet in the variety of news- Sir: The men of the G.A.R. thought this plan . . . papers, magazines and circular up the geranium for Alemorial matter idea You have your choice of 1200 stocks that crosses my reading table I have Day long before the poppy. This sym- on the New York Stock Exchange . . . not seen a word to challenge this im- bol of good hope is found in dry, pudent "promise" to deliver our teach- rocky places — every place the soldiers The commission cost can be as low ers and their teachings served during the Civil War. to the pro- as 1.3%—never higher than 6%. U.N. advocates. Name Withheld Roscoe Peacock Lynn, Mass. And that's your only cost, aside from Naples, N. Y. the regular small charge which is made WHO CENSORS WHOM? for buying stocks in less than 100 share 12l/ WORLD lots that is, i/ for shares under GOVERNMENT Sir: After perusing Who Are the Cen- — 2 or more. sors? in the July issue, my faith is $40, 25£ for those costing $40 Sir: In Sound Off for July, Martin T. somewhat restored in that part of the Hutchinson asks who has a better plan There are no management fees, no human race who dare to print the than World Federalists. At least 21 penalty payments, no interest or service truth — despite the vested interests and States have rescinded their previous charges of any kind. action concerning world government influential cliquers who would gag their efforts. so this should prove there are a whole If you'd like full details on the brand C. L. 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THOSE BIG, BLACK CLOUDS SOMETIME this month we hope to visit a few college campuses to see if things are as bad as they were painted by speakers at a lot of graduation exercises this year.

First of all, we want to have a look at all those black clouds. You've heard of the black clouds, of course, since virtually every commencement speaker described them in horrible detail. Seems that these black clouds have settled down on every campus. Ordinarily that wouldn't be so bad since many students and professors Live in a fog anyway, but these black clouds are different. Like some strange tiling you find in science fiction, these clouds ooze fear,

and tli is has rubbed off on faculty members who go around shivering and shak- ing, afraid to open their mouths and afraid even to join the faculty club for fear of being called subversive.

The big fear, however, is that someday their campuses will be invaded by Con- gressmen and Senators, armed with frightening weapons that destroy academic freedom. The professors know what these horrid investigators can do because they've seen how other professors have been turned by them into pathetic, sub-human creatures able to babble only such gibberish as "Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, Fifth ." Amendment. . .

It certainly is just about as bad as what

might happen if flying saucers from outer space arrived on earth. Or at least that's the way it seems to one who read a lot of commencement day addresses as reported in a few metropolitan dailies.

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Still, maybe we'd better check ro make sure. Those commencement speakers, and those newspapers, aren't 100% trust- An Elephant Goes to School! worthy.

IGNORANCE OF THE LAW . . N YIF.W of what wc sec happening, I it may be redundant to point out that certain people with a great deal of book learning are prone to pull bad boners. Let's take the matter of guilt by association. Some of our most illustrious eggheads have tackled this subject in articles and books in which they have proved conclusively that the theory of guilt by

association is un-American, unconstitu- tional, uncouth, unfair and underhanded.

In passing we might add that it is also mighty annoying to communists and the people who are so comradely witli them. But in trying to prove the wickedness of believing that a man is known by the company he keeps, the eggheads con- veniently ignore an elementary legal fact. Here in New York State, Section 722 of

the Penal Code makes it a criminal offense to knowingly consort with known crimi- nals. Look up the law in your State and

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A story about an average citizen who suddenly found

L: <. A M ^—.l-m.MaJ :~ M 1 1 -town subversion.

By PAUL R. MILTON

THE CAST

Ben TED OSBORNE Barker ERIC DRESSLER

Ethel VICKI VOLA Moore SAM SIEGEL

(Tuttle (Ed (Joe GEORGE KLUGE (Chairman. .BLAINE CORONER

Mrs. S ELIZABETH MORGAN

(INTRODUCTION) ben: Something like what happened to me must've happened to lots of others, too. Because Vm an average citizen, average home and hopes; my wife Ethel and boy Jimmy are the only real above-average things in my life. Name: Ben Dawson; age: thirty-one; seven years out of State University with an arts degree; Ethel: three years off the same campus, only she was a Phi Beta Kappa. We moved to this town I'll )

THE DIPPER

call Rockingham two years ago when I got my present job: public relations with a company just converted to making radar parts, and bang! — the population jumped from thirteen to twenty thousand; new houses, stores and service stations; the union doubled its membership, the school population jumped 50 percent. One night — Jimmy in bed and Ethel at a meeting—I had a visitor: a big craggy fellow named Nick Tuttle, physical education instructor at Jimmy's school. He had a traveling bag with him. tuttle: You're looking at an angry man, Dawson.

: — ) — ben Well f chuckle how about a beer to cool you down? Ethel's at the Community Association meeting, but— tuttle: I've only got a minute, thanks. Dawson, can you get your hand on "I refuse to answer, Mr. Chairman, on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment. all the past issues of the Community Association Bulletin? ben: I guess so, why? tuttle: And can you dig up some dope some milk? about Barker? Who he is, what he ben: No, thanks, Ethel. Tuttle started THIS STORY did before he came to Rockingham? what? Here's a glass. WILL BE BROADCAST ben: Barker? The Association presi- ethel: Thanks. dent? for? pours are reading is What ( ) WHAT you tui rLE: Remember a couple of months He's one of those superpatriots! the actual script of a radio program which will be ago after a basketball game? You and (refrigerator door closes) broadcast over the Mutual I had a little talk about communism? ben: Superpatriot? What's that? Broadcasting System on Thurs- ben: Yes — ethel: (drinks) Mmm. Good. Well, up day, September 2nd, one of tuttle: You sounded okay on the sub- got Tuttle and said our Association— the well-known Crime Fight- ers series. If any Legion Post ject and that makes you about the the officers, that is — ought to sign or community organization only I ask. affidavits that they're not person can commu- wishes to present An Eye on ben: You in a jam, Tuttle? nists. Well, you can imagine! the Dipper as a play, a limited tuttle: If you know your head's going ben: No, I can't, Ethel. I never go to number of reprints are available and the usual copyright to be chopped off, I don't believe in those meetings. restrictions are waived so no waiting it. ethel: shame you. Tuttle said around for More on performance royalty need be ben: Fired? You mean you're getting he'd read in some out-of-town paper paid. fired from the school a month before that communists have been found ac- the term is up? tive in a few associations like ours in

( way off: Church bell starts striking other places and that some groups tuttle: It's hitting eleven. I'm on my were thinking about a sort of affi- Barker put me on the investigating way to the eleven-twenty-five sleep- davit. committee. We're inviting Tuttle to er. Will you do what I've asked you? ben: Is that a bad idea? What hap- meet with us on Tuesday. ben: Barker—communism—you running pened? ben: He won't be there. out this way: what's the score, Tuttle? ethel: Right away there was a motion ethel: What? tuttle: You'll hear about it — and I'll by Ed what's-his-name. Mr. Barker's ben: He quit before you people could look bad — but I'll write to you and partner in the bookstore? get him fired. try to explain. Remember me to ben: Ed Clarion? ethel: Then — then he must know he Jimmy. So long! ethel: He moved and we voted that was wrong!

( door closes) Mr. Barker head a committee of three ben: Ethel, what's the matter with not to investigate Tuttle's motives for this wanting commies influencing schools? ethel: Ben! You must've drunk the last troublemaking, and then maybe rec- ethel: Now, Ben, 1 don't want you ginger ale we had! ommend Tuttle's dismissal from the getting into this. (refrigerator door closes) school. ben: Hey-y! You were always saying bi n: (come on) Jimmy maybe. Big rat ben: Fire Tuttle just for bringing up it'd help me with Mr. Staybridge at race at the meetings? the subject? the plant if Mrs. Staybridge saw me ethel: Good heavens, how'd you hear ethel: Air. Barker said this kind of self- at meetings. Why the switch? about it? Oh — milk — appointed patriotism creates fear and ethel: You sound as if you think Tuttle (refrigerator door opens) mistrust; it's an attack on academic was right. But Mrs. Staybridge is all

That man Tuttle started it. Want freedom. Tuttle walked out and Mr. for Mr. Barker and so it certainly 12 )

moore: (filter) This is Moore speaking, Mr. Dawson. ben: Oh, yes! Hello.

moore: I wanted you to know; our friend Barker appeared before our Committee yesterday in executive session — ben: In what, Mr. Moore? moore: (fdter) Executive hearing, not

open to press and public. I can't tell you details, but we're putting Barker on the stand at a general public hearing next week, in Chambersburg, about fifty miles from you. The material you supplied us was helpful and I'd like you to observe the hearing at firsthand.

ben: Suddenly it hit me; was Barker actually a communist? I hustled right over to the meeting, found a seat next to Ethel, (echo)

ethel: (low) I didn't expect you at all, Ben. ben: (low) That's Barker stepping up now, huh? barker: (off, up) — and now, if I may step briefly out of the chair, I wish to "There was I, smeared with the label of communist by two informers." present a resolution.

(stir) barker: (off, up) Resolved: that the Association won't help you now if — know about communist infiltration Rockingham Community attacks on academic free- ben: Oh. I get it. (pause) Have we got in the town here? condemns any old Association Bulletins lying ben: Rockingham? Nothing. dom, the witch-hunting and smearing around? moore: Or the plant? of innocent people with guilt by as- ben: Two government security men sociation—all masquerading as opposition to communism. In reality, this ben: (reading a card) J. L. Moore, spe- take care of that, Mr. Moore. What's si- cial counsel, Congressional Investigat- Barker got to do with it? And Tuttle? anti-communism creates a black ing Committee. Sit down, Mr. Moore! moore: A committee like ours, Mr. lence of fear which violates every precept of American free thinking, ( chair ) Dawson — it needs citizen help. Nick free writing and free speech. Anti- moore : Thanks. Know anything about Tuttle helped us a little and he our work, Mr. Dawson? thought you might care to help too. communism constitutes a far greater ben: Oh, what I read in the papers and ben: Sure, only I'm not one of these menace than communism! magazines. You dig up commies, as I public-spirited citizens always stick- mrs. s: (off) I second the motion! Stay- get it. ing his neck out. ( chuckle barker: ( off, up) Thank you, Mrs. and moore: It was Nick Tuttle suggested I moore: May I have this material on bridge. We all know how up get in touch with you. Barker? down the land today demagogues, ben: He was going to write me, but he ben: Help yourself. There's two sets of legislative committees and other self- didn't. everything. appointed vigilante guardians of our moore: We're old friends, in the Ma- moore: One set then and the commit- safety tell us that anybody who dis- rines together. He told me what hap- tee'll be much obliged, (chair) agrees with them is a communist.

pened to him here. ( chuckle ) In my time I've seen lots of Why, the most innocent expression ben: It was a two-day wonder in town, people like you, Mr. Dawson; good of a liberal idea becomes treason!

then everybody forgot about it. Me citizens who don't stick their necks But all they are really doing is creat- included, I'm afraid. out. Then they catch on to this coming fear and mistrust for their own moore: He said he asked you to dig up munist thing. That may not happen power and gain! information about a man named to you, but if it does, you'll under- ben: (low) Ethel, what did Nick Tuttle Barker. stand how Nick Tuttle could blow gain? ben: (chuckle) Oh, I did that — his top. But meanwhile—don't let your ethel: (low) Quiet! (opens desk drawer) wife tie up too closely with Barker. barker: (off, up) Someone must cry — complete file of the Association ben: What? "Stop!" We must stand against this Bulletin. Clippings from the Rocking- moore: Tuttle told me she rather rising tide of fascism and fear!

ham Leader. And photostats from admires Barker. If I were you, I (applause ) newspapers and magazines from the wouldn't miss any more meetings of ben: (low) What a faker he is! And New York Public Library. Here it the Community Association. they fall for him! is — ben: / was more puzzled than worried ethel: (low) Please, Ben! People will (sheaf of papers shuffled on desk) and when the next Association meet- hear you! moore: Have you read it? ing came and I had to stay late at the ben: (low) No. Nobody hears me. Not ben: Frankly, I was just holding it till office, I wasnh too disturbed. Then even you. I heard from Tuttle. I got a ''phone call from Washington. (echo out) moore: Mr. Dawson, what do you ILLUSTRATED BY DOM LUPO (Continued on page 54) 13 Are you going to get a

Half a million retired workers now get benefit checks

from privately financed plans. The number is grow ing.

By PATRICIA PITZELE

A $50-a-week employee of Sears, Roe- buck & Co. had a mammoth nest egg.

left, the amount totalled $3,762. Matching employer contributions, plus interest on the fund as a whole, which was invested in From the day a person goes to work for AT&T he benefits from a retirement program. company stock, resulted in his retirement bonanza. This rosy retirement situation This Texaco driller will cash in on a is of course out of the ordinary. plan worked out in the oil industry. If he was lucky, and his health stayed There are not many pension or profit- good, he remained on the job well into sharing plans that can match up to that

his seventies, until literally he couldn't of Sears. It is more likely that they will work any longer. After that, since his operate something like the American The story uoks that the animals of savings were either meager or non-ex- Telephone & Telegraph Company plan, forest and prairie were gathered to- istent, he most likely sat as unobtru- started in 1913, and one of the oldest in gether, chatting on the subject of sively as possible in the corner of his the country. their allotted life span. They agreed children's kitchen. His old age was Bill Simpson, engineer, who had left that the Creator had dealt generously haunted by anxieties, fear of illness, and college in June, 1954, went to work a with all but Alan, the most intelligent a sense of uselessness. few weeks ago for AT&T. From the among them. Given only forty years Today the picture is in process of day he started work he was a member to live, he'd been shortchanged, the ani- radical change. Take a look at Joe of the company retirement program.

mals felt, and they decided to rectify Smith, who retired last month from his Actually this is a bit unusual, since most matters. "1," said the horse, "have too $50-a-week job for the huge mail-order plans require a year or so of service

long a life anyway, I'll give him ten firm of Sears, Roebuck & Co. He got a before permitting membership. Bill was years." "And 1," agreed the dog, "I can check in the mail made out in his name given material to read about the com- spare ten of mine." "Me, too," said the for the whopping sum of $118,250. pany so that he might rapidly acquaint monkey. And from that day on man How did he come by this money, the himself with its policies. Among the has worked like a horse — from 40 to dividends from which will keep him pile of literature he found a booklet de- 50; has led a dog's life — from 50 to 60; comfortably the rest of his days? When scribing the pension, disability and and from 60 to 70, he has just monkeyed he first went to work for Sears, he had death benefits to which working for the around. joined the company's deferred-profit- Bell System entitles him. Until a short time ago, however, man sharing plan. Each week, during his 37 Just out of college, he isn't too con- didn't get much out of the extra years years of employment, he paid into the cerned about retirement. Even so, on earth given to him by the animals. fund from his earnings — and when he knowing that he is guaranteed a mini- 14 were only 110 pension or profit-sharing plans known to be in effect. It was not until the Social Security Act was passed in 1937 that people really woke up to the fact that the nation as a whole had a responsibility toward its aged. The effects of this new awareness were widespread; cities, counties and States established retirement programs covering an ever-increasing number of employes. Private industry jumped aboard the pension special, and really went to town, setting up pension plans at a continuously accelerated rate—now some 350 a month. Half of these current plans are of the profit-sharing variety, such as the one operated by Sears. When, in World War II, ceilings were placed on earnings by the government as an inflation- control device, money put into pensions began to be looked upon in the light of deferred wage payments. In 1942 the Revenue Act established an incentive for business to put profits into pensions and avoid some of the large wartime tax levies. If the plan fulfilled certain specific requirements laid down by the government its costs were fully deductible. mum of $100 a month w hen he reaches workers receive benefit checks from But the most dramatic cause of the 65 is a definite influence on his attitude privately financed plans. Employers are rise in the number of new pension plans to the company generally-, and his sense anxious to build good labor-manage- followed the National Labor Relations of responsibility toward his job. No de- ment relations with their current work Board ruling in the Inland Steel case, duction is taken from his weekly pay force. They are aware of their respon- to the effect that employers must per- check to pay for the pension — it costs sibility in compensating workers for mit bargaining on pension matters as him nothing, for the company operates service in such a way that old age is part of union negotiations. Today well what is known as a non-contributory made secure. They hope also to reduce over half the workers protected by pri- plan. It is figured on the basis of one turnover by providing incentives to vate pensions are covered by plans cre- percent of his annual pay over a 10- employes for remaining with the com- ated or amended through collective year period, multiplied by the length pany. Spending profits on pensions bargaining between labor and manage- of his service with the company. He makes sense to them also, since the cost ment. doesn't need to wait till he is 65 to of qualified plans is deductible from In the jargon of those professionals qualify, either, since he came to the their taxes. expert in the field, pensions can be company when he was 22; the plan per- Unions, also mindful of their respon- separated into two rather general types. mits him to retire after 30 years' service, sibility to older members, take the at- First, there is the "conventional" plan, aged only 52. The average man retiring titude that pensions, paid for by the which is initiated by the employer, on from the Bell System is 63. employer, are part of what is owed the the same general order as the AT&T Today there are close to 14 million worker as compensation for work per- plan to which Bill Simpson belonged. Americans aged 65 and over, and the formed. To date the Bureau of Internal And then there is the "pattern" plan, number is growing at a rapidly increas- Revenue has qualified for tax deduction which is hammered out through union ing rate. Apart from the four million more than 21,000 plans of the pension negotiating, and is usually adhered to, - with variations, its basic formula, by or so who still have work of one kind or profit-sharing variety . in or another, five of the remaining nine In the first few decades of the century industries recognizing the same union million receive some kind of pension there were companies which, in an in- bargaining agent. check, whether it comes from private formal sort of way, pensioned off em- As a rule, pattern plans provide bene- industry, federal social security, vet- ployes too old to be of further use. The fits varying with length of service, or erans' pensions, the Armed Forces, or amount of the pension and when it was provide a flat benefit after a stipulated public pensions from State or munici- given depended solely on the heart and number of years of employment. They pal governments. But coming up are at pocketbook of the employer. Early rarely take a man's earnings into ac- least 60 million working people who pension plans operated by business en- count in figuring what benefits he is to are members of a retirement pay pro- terprises were all well and good in get when he retires. Most of the steel gram of one sort or another. With few profitable times, but a worker's security companies, notably Bethlehem and U.S. exceptions, modern pension programs in old age could be wiped out by a Steel, follow the pattern as negotiated for these people are very carefully period of bad business. with the United Steelworkers, CIO. thought out and made effective by em- Even if he had helped, through his There arc always exceptions, of ployers, public officials, union leaders, own regular contribution out of wages course. Inland Steel, for example, offers and the experts they hire. or salary to build up his retirement in- its employes an alternative pension plan,

The entire country is becoming pen- come, he could in many cases lose the to which they can contribute. In like sion-conscious. Half a million retired whole sum overnight. Before 1930 there (Continued on page 37) 15 DOPE

By RODNEY GILBERT

Mao Tse-tung, ruler of red China.

In Mao's hands the poppy, source of opium, is a powerful weapon.

the use of narcotic drugs as "an instrument of Inpolicy," the Japanese army in Manchuria did the pioneering and set the fashion about 30 years ago. The particular instrument selected for moral subversion of a people marked for conquest, these being the Chinese of course, was heroin, the deadliest of opium derivatives. The smugglers and purveyors employed, directed and protected by the Japanese military authorities in Manchuria, were Korean hoodlums. They were Japanese subjects and therefore enjoyed extraterritorial rights. If an examiner for the Chinese Maritime Cus- toms, or a police agent in an interior town, caught a Korean with the goods on him, the "dope" was for- feited, but the Japanese consular authorities immediately demanded his surrender to their jurisdic- Rockies. For nearly three years small sei- tion. zures of narcotics of red Chinese origin have t The Chinese communist government has been made on steamers from the Orient in taken over this operation, and has ex- both East and West Coast ports. In Janu- panded it immeasurably; from the time in ary, 1952, a certain John R. Carroll, alias the late fall of 1947 when the Japanese Brown, was sentenced in San Francisco to police intercepted a consignment of heroin 15 years in McNeil Island Federal Peniten- from a North Korean communist group to tiary for receiving consignments of heroin Japanese communist party officials on the from Hongkong in hollow ed-out magazines. island of Kyushu, everyone who knows If there was any doubt about the volume the communists and their "bolshevik of the influx from the Far East, however, ethics," as Lenin described their utterly unmoral code, knew the agents of the Narcotics Bureau dispelled it in a spectacu- what was coming. It was no surprise, therefore, when a lar way on Sunday, April 4th, of this year, when they ar- trickle of drugs began flowing out of Tientsin, (the port for rested seven San Francisco Chinese from .whom they had Peiping) in 1949, a few months after they were in possession bought or on whom they seized a total of six pounds of of that area. It was no surprise to the British authorities in heroin. If adulterated, as it usually is, that would sell to Hongkong when a little river of narcotics started flowing addicts as a million "shots." The stuff, easily' identified by into that colony shortly after the reds were in possession color, texture and other properties, was from red China via of Canton, late in 1949. Hongkong. From one of these fellows an agent had bought It was not surprising either that, immediately after the a pound of pure heroin for $7,000, which was esteemed a outbreak of hostilities in Korea and the arrival of large bargain because the quoted market prices in the underworld, bodies of UN soldiery in Japan and Korea, greater and insofar as it has any, range from $4,500 to $6,000 an ounce. greater quantities of heroin became available in the vicinity But on the day of the arrest one of the gang was caught of all military installations. Before the reds began to launch wandering about with a half pound of the stuff in his pocket. their absurd tirades against America's purely fictional "germ In a statement to the press an agent of the Narcotics warfare," their own big campaign of "dope warfare" was Bureau held two of the alleged dealers responsible for the fully organized. distribution of most of the heroin in the western half of And now heroin from red China is coming into this coun- the country and remarked that, in their line of business, try, which is certainly not surprising to Commissioner Harry "they don't come any bigger."

J. Anslinger, of the Treasury's Narcotics Bureau, nor to his There is no longer the slightest doubt that the production staff, nor to the police authorities in any State west of the and export of narcotics is the official business of what the

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W ith typical disregard for human decency, the communists running

China stepped up production of narcotics for this vicious warfare.

China's neighbors. We shall then know its policies by their fruits before nosing behind the bamboo curtain. Hongkong Among both wealthy and poor refugees flooding into Hongkong since the latter part of 1948 were underworld characters from every big city in China; and among these w ere some who were experienced traffick- ers in opium and its derivatives, willing enough to work with the communists, but not certain that the latter would appreciate their talents and make use of them. They had not long to wait. In October, 1949, the communists occupied Canton and the southern ports of Swatow and Amoy, which gave them direct commercial access to Hongkong at short range; and, within a few months, the dope traffic was an established institution. The opium then most in demand came from "beyond the wall," meaning presumably the Mongol border provinces of Chahar, Jchol and Suiyuan. Next came opium from the western province of Szechuan and the southwestern province of Yunnan. Third and least valued was opium from the northwest. A year later one began to hear of "Camel" and "Race Horse" brands.

Commissioner Anslinger is responsible for the statement that in 1951 the Hongkong customs and the police seized 22.8 tons of opium smuggled in from red China. At the same time the Chinese language press in Hong- kong monotonously reported the arrest, conviction and sentencing of drug "pushers," such reports often giving point to the complaint on Formosa that the assiduity of the Hongkong police, ter- (Continued on page W) Some of heroin and opium seized when government agents ar- rested the mob shown at left. Harry Anslinger discusses the haul.

A major objectiv'e of red dope peddllers

is the American soldiers< stationed Mao gang in Pciping have the effront- o ery to call "the Central Peoples' Gov- ernment of the Republic of China," and RedS that the supreme directorate of this [Says

great enterprise is made up of members of what we should call their cabinet. to Make This was the subject of well-documented Try

statements by Harry J. Anslinger to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in G.I.sAddicts April of 1952, '53 and '54. Always the Aim-Amevicat ! , May • Soviet and Polish members of the Com- TOKYO. *Jf told today mission rise up and denounce these military to spref *fSff£ sol- masses of evidence as slander without comm^SSSong Allied foundation. But perhaps the best way to approach the Mao regime's respon- ° Army » l<1 sibility for the flood of narcotics is to L_ +vif» problem.nroblern. ..._; Dtv o{]ol to the . ty first Peddle a consider its impact upon red agents . Red r ces

oas».°-:r AUlAllied Diego. Jr°fof san Luce, sucn purlW, Tne drUg addicts much cieateereate that they adu than soldi more amckly Uy Wted narcotics " Luce MORE COMPETITION UFO

By JAMES C. JONES

Not the least of the automotive in- percent of total industry production, sales somewhat in excess of $18 billion. dustry developments to come along with the Big Three taking the balance. At the same time, the six smaller over the past year is the consider- Judged by past performance, five per- makers together accounted for slightly able sales decline suffered by the smaller cent is a poor, if not lamentable, showing. under S2 billion in sales. Four of them auto companies. The independents — or Little Three — made combined profits of over $22 Studebaker, Nash, Packard, Kaiser, produced 11.03 percent of total industry million, while Hudson and Kaiser to- Willys and Hudson for months have output in the years 1938-1942. In 1945- gether lost a total of nearly $37.5 million.

been accounting for only about five 1952, they averaged a comfortable 15.24 The picture is not so rosy for the percent annually. Their high point was Little Three, either, if you compare reached in 1948, when they accounted their total capital expenditures for ex- DISCHARGE AIR OUTLET for almost 20 percent. Then last year, pansion and modernization of plants, their combined share plummeted to 8.8 equipment and machinery with those of and this year they seem headed for only the Big Three, which have been enor- 5 percent. mous. Since 1946, GM, Ford and Chry- This formidable sales and production sler have committed about $5 billion to setback in two years has many times past and present expansion and mod- inspired the question: Can the smaller ernization programs. That vast sum does companies survive? The answer depends not include the hundreds of millions of pretty much upon the statistics used. dollars each company has spent on spe- If, for instance, you compare total cial tooling for model changes. sales of the Little Three with those of Capital expenditures of the Little the Big Three, you're apt to decide that Three are almost minute by comparison. the smaller companies are in critical Although complete figures are not avail- shape. Last year, the sales of the cham- able, outlay over that period probably pion — General Motors — amounted to has not been much over $250 million — 1 50LENOID VAIVE over $10 billion. Privately owned Ford only five percent of total Big Three 1 FILTER ' SIGHT GLASS Motor Co. probably did roughly half expenditures. ' FRESH AIR FILTER 1 HEATING UNIT that well. Chrysler Corp. set its all-time But as usual, the statistics can be COOLING UNIT (EVAPORATOR) sales record: More than $3.3 billion. turned around to present an optimistic Nash is counting on low-cost air The Big Three in toto thus enjoyed picture. For one thing, even as little as conditioning to attract car buyers. )

This has heen a tough year for the smaller motor companies

but they are organizing to make up for the ground they have lost.

World War II years, the highest pro- and economy continue to grow, so, too, ductive peak ever reached was 3.7 mil- will the auto business. lion cars — a mark achieved in several Reasons for the smaller companies' years. But annual average production present difficulties are many and com- in the unsettled years beginning with plex, but essentially, they revolve around 1947 through this year has risen to over these factors: 1954 has been the first

5 million units. What it will grow to in full year of transition from a market

the years ahead is, of course, a question that had not been fully met since before that neither businessmen nor their World War II, to a year of all-out sales economic staffs can agree on, in the competition; the independents gener- industry or outside it. But as ally did not spend modernization and surely as the nation's wealth expansion money soon enough; GM and Ford came into 1954 geared for a sales battle of such proportions that lighter contenders were bound to be trampled. These two producers had The long-expected merger of Packard brought production costs down to a and Studebaker took place in June. lower per-unit level than other makers, their products appealed to more people, and their dealers were more fully prepared to take lower rive percent of this country's massive profits. auto business translates into very im- Having realized in 1953 that portant money. Consider that only 8.8 they were finally catching percent of the business last year meant up with demand, giants nearly $2 billion in sales volume to the Ford smaller companies. (Included in that like Chevrolet and Continued on page figure, as in the Big Three total, are ( 45 sales of appliances, defense items, commercial engines and other goods manufactured by auto companies.) Little Three output this year will probably Overhead expenses were a major factor represent nearly 250,000 cars — a lot of in getting Willys and Kaiser together. cars and sales dollars, even though split among American Motors, Studebaker- Packard and Kaiser-Willys. Moreover, the long-range outlook for the auto industry as a whole is anything Nash and Hudson were brought *r but discouraging. Consider that in pre- "* together to form American Motors.

The new Kaiser-Darrin follows the company's policy of advanced styling. R17SSIAS BUIXETS

At Stalin's funeral, Malenkov These Britons spent three weeks in Russia making business made a pitch for business. deals supposed to bring in £400,000,000 to the tight little isle.

How the Soviet uses the promise of trade to div ide and conquer the free world.

By VICTOR LASKY There is nothing dangerous in trade as such. Americans want trade, the more the better. But do we want trade which

can be, and is being, used against us? Russia's current trade offensive, rather than her atomic To communists, trade — buying and selling — is (to para- pile and H-bombs, may well be the secret weapon with phrase Clausewitz) war pursued by other means. As George which the Kremlin seeks to dominate the world. Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor, In a carefully planned cold war engagement, the Kremlin stated: has made a little-noticed shift from outright political bluster- "To the Kremlin, foreign trade serves only as an ing to cloak-and-dagger economics. instrument of political warfare employed to further

The Soviet Trojan Horse, along with its usual spies and the cause of communism and Russia's world conquest." slogans, now totes get-rich-quick schemes to entice capi- talistic suckers. the blueprint for the Kremlin's current trade drive was Despite 37 years of red perfidy, Moscow con men manage laid down by Joe Stalin in his last speech in October, 1952. to find plenty of suckers. By opening up its golden arsenal, He demanded the economic isolation of the U.S., by encour- and firing golden bullets, the Kremlin has disarmed and aging Allied "resentment of U. S. dollar-infiltration of their divided the free world. Merely by promising a lush trade economies and markets." By promoting East-West trade, England and France would be forced to conflict with the U.S. "in order to y»iK AMTORG TRADING CORP. assure themselves an independent position and, of course, high profits." To Stalin, this added up to a delecta- In this country, the Russkys negotiate through this outfit in New York. ble vision of a Kilkenny-cats' fight in the West, with Russia picking up with Russia and her satellites, the Soviets undid much of the pieces as the alliance falls apart. the good some 50 billions in U. S. aid to the free nations The unwillingness of our Allies to understand the real was supposed to have accomplished for us. nature of the red trade offensive is largely due to diverse U.S. policy-makers, groping to combat these divisive pressures — from capitalists interested in making money and tactics, are now in an impossible position: encouraging East- leftwingers ideologically committed to aiding the Soviet West trade, while preparing for possible war with com- Fatherland. As a result of these pressures, both at home and munism. abroad, the U.S. has decided to encourage East-West trade, a 20 )

Baruch, who helped guide U.S. economic warfare in two

world wars, is unwilling to conjecture about Soviet gold since "1 do not know how much pressure our so-called Allies are putting on us." But he adds: "If we had acted in 1939, Japan would have been unable to prepare for Pearl

Harbor . . . Are we worshipping the golden calf?" Even before the Korean war was over, a group of Brit- ish businessmen were pursuing the "golden calf." They flew to Peiping to discuss trade with Mao. The British had to get their licks in "the battle for the China market." After all, hadn't the French just signed a $56,000,000 trade pact with Mao? It might be pointed out that this was prior to Dien Bien Phu.

In this obscene scramble for red Chinese trade, it apparently mattered little that U.S. and Allied blood was still being spilled in Korea. These people constantly decry America's "dollar im- perialism." But, when there's a buck to be made, our British cousins want to be there fustest to get the mostest,

even though it means putting the shiv in anti-communist defense plans. U.S. policy-makers could hardly cope with the tremendous pressures exerted on them by the governments of foreign businessmen screeching for an opportunity to get some of that Moscow gold. Obviously our policy-makers had vastly overrated the likelihood of military aggression and underrated, almost to the point of ignoring them, Soviet opportunities for ad-

calculated risk aimed mainly at keeping a sem- blance of Allied unity. This major shift in U.S. policy was announced in April by Foreign Operations Administrator Harold E. Stassen, nine months after the decision was made by the National Security Council. Stassen, who dispenses U.S. largesse to keep our Allies from falling for red blandishments, announced that increased trade with the Soviets would "carry a net advantage to the free world." This, of course, ignored the fact that ever since Stalin's death, increased trade has been the major objective of Soviet foreign policy. In Harold Stassen's idea is The kind of trade the Russians like best is exem- fact, at Stalin's funeral, Georgi Malenkov that increased trade with plified by this picture showing a small part of the Soviet would help. the $10,000,000,000 lend-lease we gave them. couldn't resist making a pitch for developing "business-like relations" with the capitalist world. It wasn't long before visions of inexhaustible trade with the vancement by fattening the "golden calf." Soviet bloc's 750,000,000 people — underfed, underhoused, under- Not that the men of the Kremlin would scruple clothed and underequipped — swept the world's business com- against unleashing atomic war. But they are not luna- munity. tics. They know they would face retaliation in kind. Particularly when Russia dropped an economic blockbuster by So they're playing for time, seeking to overcome the dumping gold in Europe's markets. From then on, capitalist U.S. thermonuclear lead. Meanwhile, if they can soften profit-glands drooled from Oslo to Canberra, from Rio to Pitts- up the free world, without firing a shot, all the better. burgh. To gold-shy, dollar-shy nations, trade with the reds ap- Guided always by their credo that inevitably "the peared to offer solvency and economic independence of the U.S. Soviet will be the human race," Moscow uses trade These nations fail to realize it also offers economic dependence for many reasons, both large and small. To aid fifth on Russia. columns abroad, for example: Financier Bernard M. Baruch senses danger in all this. In 1939, Item: To obtain red trade, Italian businessmen must he recalls, the Japanese began shipping gold. Baruch strongly pay brokerage fees to the communists, now waiting

urged President Roosevelt to keep the U.S. from purchasing it. to seize power. Thus, businessmen pay for their own "If the U.S. should refuse to buy Japanese gold," he memoed the suicide.

President, "the Japanese economy would be seriously affected." Item: To import Russian furs, U.S. ( Co/ft on page 40 21 There's more fo the mail order business than running an ad, and then

waiting lor the postman to bring in the money.

By ROBERT A. BAKER magazine. The headline of that ad was: mail-order profits. For years he made a "This 2-Room House $126." Today it study of Aztec, Mexican and African is a 5-room house for considerably more civilizations, and he was particularly in- you tired of your humdrum ex- Are money, but meanwhile the Aladdin terested in their pottery and sculptures. istence at a routine job its with day- Company has sold over 250,000 homes! He found that other people thought his after-day monotony? you sigh Do They have no salesmen at all, and de- hobby interesting, and he was a fre- for the '49 Gold Rushes of in California pend only on their ads and their letters quent speaker at southern California or '98 in the Klondike — rich where one to sell entirely by mail houses costing service clubs. So he decided to see if strike would make a man wealthy for as much as $7,000, with full cash in ad- he could not find a way to duplicate the rest of his life? Do you dream of vance for every one! Otto Sovereign this primitive art he loved so well, and the "Good Old Days" when a man's has titled his autobiography, "Twenty he succeeded. Then he placed a few ingenuity, skill and daring could pay Million Dollars on a Shoestring," and ads in national magazines to find out if off in tremendous business rewards? he should have added, "in the amazing people would buy his reproductions. Believe it or not, all of those goals mail-order business." They did, in quantities beyond his wild- are still available today, and thousands Austin Gyde Van Hove of Riverside, est dreams. At one point he ran nearly of men and women in all parts of the California, turned a lifelong hobby into two months behind his orders while he country are "prospecting" for golden profits this very minute. You see evidence of their efforts all round you, but most likely you have failed to recognize the excitement and YOU NAME IT -A MAIL ORDER HOUSE PROBABLY HAS IT adventure behind what you saw. For txtta tatlqutd nul Mil bra- Need I aaj awr«T Caaa of pol- cket. these "prospectors" are the people who nhed Mhoguy fieiah - «p4m MJO pjmI faced dial reveal i seek their fortunes in the mail-order ti»e HT«MDt. Overall dl«- business. As a group, they are truly the last of a long line of Rugged Individ- ualists.

Mail Order is America's last frontier,

hi mail order the sky is still the limit.

Plastic fcaturai of a tborou4hbr*d. Here fortunes are made and lost, and pol- SHAMPOO Meed I Bar a»r«T Caaa «f CAPE uhfd awhoguy fiuiah - opu here thousands who will never make a HOUSEKEEPING HELPERS fortune still know thrills available today in no other field of endeavor. Forget for a moment the gigantic "catalog houses" such as Sears, Roebuck or Montgomery Ward. Look at individual men and women — there are around 20,000 of them who offer literally thousands of items for sale by means of the U. S. mails. Their wares include almost everything you can

«KtfEN «Ktco",rY name from tiny seeds to complete . i™l Outside Window Cleaners Th ClOTH M"** for Mogic Silver Leaf 354 houses. ladders ' or Like , to climb sensational lovely shaped lec dusty windows' Then you is truly magic. It cleans silvc In fact, the Sovereign brothers up in •ant this It takes away the instantly, just place in dishpar *** window cleaningcleanii sink or silver compartment c Bay City, Michigan, have made a tidy «M»»o**y MMA, dish washer—with luke warr sum selling complete houses bv mail. ********* V' Otto S( ivercign began his business in 1907 with a total capital of $200, just 44t enough for a half-inch ad in a national 22

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a hard, competitive business, and only lot of people want, but just different conceived a brand-new method of mass about 30 percent of those who try their enough so that your prospective buyers production. Now he has a nationwide hand at it manage to survive their first don't see it every day in the stores business, built from a hobby and his year. where they shop. The more unusual it own ingenuity. What does it take to find success in is, the better, but a "schmaltzy" unique- Carl Brandenfels turned a hobby into this mail-order business? First, obvi- ness, please, and if it's sentimental, too, a mail-order fortune, too. His "hobby" ously, you must have something to sell. that's even better yet. Since you are — I think it could be called that — was While you can sell almost anything, a working through the mails, your item worrying about the prospect of grow- good mail-order item meets certain rigid must be easy to w rap and ship; and with ing bald. In college he took medical requirements. It must be a genuine good rising parcel post rates weight becomes subjects to learn about baldness, and value at the price you ask, for more an increasingly important factor. afterwards he read about everything he There is no such thing as a "magic could find on the subject. In 1945, he formula" for mail-order success. There- developed a set of formulas that seemed are general rules which one should fol- to do him some good. He gathered a low, but each of these has exceptions group of his balding neighbors near and variations. Mail order is more of an his home in St. Helens, Oregon, to be art than it is a science, and probably

"guinea pigs," and the formulas seemed "feel" is the most important single ele- to help at least some of them, too. So ment for success. Carl decided to offer his product for I have been working with mail-order sale by mail. Today the "hair farmer" people for nearly fifteen years, and I has a new $100,000 home, his own pri- have seen a lot of successes and a lot of vate fishing lake, an airplane and a thriv- failures. One thing I've noticed over ing mail-order business. and over again. Every successful mail- Gordon Gemeroy took his special order man I've ever known has had un- skill, a genius for creating puzzles, and bounded faith both in himself and in combined this with mail-order tech- his product. He just knew it would niques in order to raise money for char- work, and he would prove it by doing ities. Gemeroy conducts national puzzle the completely impossible. And each of contests by mail. In the past ten years he these had the pow er to convey his con- This Aladdin House, under construc- has given away over $300,000 in prize fidence on to others. tion, was one of thousands sold by mail. money; and has helped build two hos- I think I'd say selling houses by mail pitals, a half-million-dollar American is about as tough an assignment as any- Legion Post, a youth center and other people buy by mail because they expect one could hand himself. Aladdin houses, equally substantial projects. From to save money than for any other one for example, are complete with one twenty to fifty thousand people enter reason. And, while it must be a good small exception — you have to put them each of his puzzle games, all conducted value for the buyer, you have to have up yourself. But when you start reading through the mails. a big profit margin for yourself. There the catalogs that Otto Sovereign sends Like prospecting for gold, in mail are many exceptions, but a general rule you, you forget that you can hardly order the "big strike" makes the head- is a selling price of three times the cost drive a nail. Sovereign tells you how lines, but little is said about thousands of the merchandise itself. wonderful it is to own your own home, who fall by the wayside. Mail order is Your product should be something a ( Continued on page 62 23 By JACK DENTON SCOTT the sportsman an unusual and helpful service.

f you as a hunter find that one of the site and get early morning starts. In Ask yourself as a hunter what is the big problems of the shooting season many States, duck and deer hunters take most important asset you can have. In is hunting for a place to hunt, then advantage of the free park cabins every addition to a right and left foot, your read on. We're your man. Information year. answer might be to know where you about grouse shooting in Maine, duck Quite often park authorities will be are while afield. Or to have the ability and goose shooting in the South or the happy to point out where the game-rich to scout out new hunting byways. It was rich tip of southern Illinois, wild-boar areas are. And the parks do plenty to rumored that for twenty cents or so a hunting in Tennessee, pheasant shooting increase your shooting pleasure. map of many areas could be obtained just a few miles from your own back- In Longfellow-Evangeline and Marks- from the Geological Survey, so we stuck yard, can be yours for the small invest- ville Prehistoric Indian Parks, Louisiana, fifty cents in an envelope and asked for ment of five minutes of your time and a deer have been furnished from the park a map of Roxbury, Connecticut, where three-cent stamp. Coming your way are deer pens to many of the larger areas, we live. Roxbury is a rural area, some new hunting horizons, the ability to step and from the roaming of deer on these 100 miles from New York City, with a off the same old sports treadmill, to in- acres to open hunting ground have come total population of about 300. We crease your shooting pleasure and add many a prize head. weren't hopeful. to your fund of hunting lore. Antelope, moose, elk, many species of Back came two maps, one a large, You probably didn't know it but the deer, rabbits, squirrels, game birds of all minutely scaled, excellent map of .Mas- National Parks Service, Department of kinds, have become so abundant in some sachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecti- the Interior, Washington 25, D. C, with State and national park areas that, for cut. A map that gave a clear, over-all huge stretches of land from tropical their own good, they arc weeded out picture of the entire State of Connecti- swamps to arctic tundra its jurisdiction, and shipped to other territories where cut. The other map was also a large one is one of the sportsman's best friends. they are used to help restock depleted of Roxbury and territory. On the back Although hunting is not permitted in areas and improve hunting. of this map was a list of symbols show- either national or State parks, both do Did you ever hear of the U. S. Geo- ing how to properly read it. For exam- what they can to aid the hunter. Cabins, logical Survey? It sounds stuffy and un- ple, a church was marked with a small actually on park property, but near pub- interesting, bringing forth visions of cross, a trail with a series of dots or a lic hunting grounds, are made available dusty rooms and the dull picture of men broken line, a mine or quarry with a to sportsmen, giving them the oppor- who make a study of the science of rock small crossed pick and shovel. tunity to bed down near the hunting masses. Actually, this organization offers We spent one hour reading the Rox- 24 bury map and discovered three new there are, and helps set the bag limits. of these lands to the States for admin- grouse-hunting areas and a series of open Also the Fish and Wildlife Service istration relieves the Federal Govern- meadows near a heavy woods that co-ordinates effort among States to in- ment of responsibility for the manage- looked like top pheasant cover. Every crease and distribute supplies of game ment of lands for wildlife purposes. bridge, no matter how small, road junc- animals of all kinds. (5) Co-operative agreements for man- tion or lane; cliff, small and large hills, It gets its help directly to you through agement of national wildlife refuge old mines, all the physical aspects of any your own State. It might be interesting lands by State conservation depart- place you mention are spread before for you as a sportsman to know that in ments. In general, these lands are of you as clear as if you were suspended administering the national wildlife ref- significance for waterfowl management, over the area and had the ability to look uges, which as of July 1952 numbered but are of such small size as not to war- down and spot the countryside. Better 272, with a total of 17,409,968 acres, the rant major governmental expenditures. than a compass or as good as a guide, Fish and Wildlife Service cooperates with the States in a number of ways, a few of which are:

) management of national TENNESSEE ( 1 The wildlife refuges for public hunting of migratory waterfowl, upland game, and big game by State conservation departments or jointly by the State conservation departments and the Fish and Wildlife Service. This has enabled Not everyone can hunt wild boar thousands of hunters to as- but you get a fair chance at it. sist in the harvest of surplus widlife and to partici- ILLINOIS pate in waterfowl hunting where these activities do not interfere with the pri- mary purpose of the na- Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, releases a wild tagged mallard duck. You'll find the ducks and geese downstate.

LOUISIANA (6) Joint management of upland- these maps are avaliable to everyone. game animals on national wildlife ref- We understand that index maps of uges provides for coordination. Since every State, Alaska, and Hawaii may be the management of upland game is a obtained free. Copies of standard topo- state responsibility, the joint endeavor of graphic maps such as we just described relieves the Federal Government are yours for 20 cents each; river survey responsibility for a species which is pri- deer are raised and then maps where available are 10 cents per The marily controlled by the State conser- turned loose from refuges. State sheet and special maps cost various prices. vation department and gives the a voice in the Orders for all maps should be ad- conservation department dressed to the United States Geological management of species on the federal Survey, Washington 25, D. C. (Or to area. the wildlife refuges is of Denver 15, Colorado, for maps of areas Game from direct benefit to the hunter. To the vast west of the Mississippi.) Prepayment is of required and may be made by cash, Crab Orchard Waterfowl Refuge money order or check, payable to the (Continued on page 58) Director of the Geological Survey.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, a fed- The State is glad to send you complete details about game. eral unit attached to the United States Department of the Interior, is an agency MONTANA working full time for the person interested in the outdoors. Since May the tional widlife refuge program. Fish and Wildlife Service has conducted (2) Designated parts of na- a wildfowl survey of the entire United tional wildlife refuges for public States and Canada. From this study, fishing by state conservation de- which is made at the breeding grounds partments are managed to en- and is compiled from both ground and able the public to enjoy better If you like long-range shooting. aerial observation, will come informa- fishing. tion about breeding pairs, water condi- (3) The joint development of NEBRASKA tions and the new generation of birds. wildlife management areas by By means of the latest sampling methods, State game departments and the representative data will be gathered Fish and Wildlife Service is such that the from all corners of the North American purposes of both the national migratory bird continent where waterfowl are known management program and the State wildlife to breed. management program are benefited. Out of these studies comes informa- (4) Lease agreements with State conser- tion which increases your duck-hunting vation departments for the management of Need we remind you that is quail pleasure, tells when the big duck flights lands under the custody of the Fish and this good country? are due, approximately how many birds Wildlife Service. The transfer of control 25 Winchester has brought out a new semi- By JACK DENTON SCOTT L. Hulett, Chief, Sales Branch, Depart- automatic shotgun that really has some- ment of the Army, Office of the Director thing. It's the model 50 and it's the first John D. Keith, sales manager, Ocean City of Civilian Marksmanship, Washington 25, semi-automatic scattergun with a fixed bar- Manufacturing Company, "A" and Somer- D. C, again tells us that .22 ammunition is rel. The model 50 starts its self-loading set Streets, Philadelphia 34, Penna., an- available at this time at $8.50 for 1,000 functions through an independent chamber nounces a spinning reel at long last in Mr. cartridges. This ammunition is packed in which moves less than one-tenth of an Average Man's price bracket, $4.95. cans of 3,000 or 6,000 to a box. These inch. Recoil is reduced up to 30 percent. It's the Spinalong model #350, which prices are available to members of recog- We fired it on a trap range and can weighs six ounces. The Spinalong reel nized gun clubs or the National Rifle Asso- recommend it. Fifty 12-gauge shells fired holds 100 yards of six-pound test monofila- ciation. Springfield rifles arc not available. in a short period didn't bother our shoul- ment line. It features an adjustable drag der. With no moving barrel there's no and a comfortable offset stand so your full "double shuffle," as in conventional self- hand can be placed forward of the reel for loaders. easy fishing and longer casts. The Spin- along has a thrce-to-one gear ratio, a housing step on which to wrap the line when not fishing, and locked-in lubrication. For more details write John D. Keith at Ocean City or contact your local sporting goods store. Ocean City also make the famous (Montague rods. Always glad to explode myths, we are happy to report that the old bromide, "fast Stevens has two new models, a stream- as a striking snake," can now be stricken lined model 77 slide action repeating shot- from our vocabulary. Dr. Walter Van gun and model 58-ac bolt action shotgun Riper of the New York Zoological Society equipped with the new Savage adjustable has recently measured the speeds of strik- choke. You can get the 77 for $59.00, the ing rattlesnakes. The stroke of each rattler The model 50 also has balance, easy han- 58-ac for $32.95. was timed and photographed with special dling and good pointing qualities. It should For handgunners, the High Standard equipment as the snake struck at a rubber Manufacturing be a swell weapon in a duck blind. Cost Company has brought out bulb. In 20 tests, the average speed of the the begins at $120.50. Available in 12-gauge spanking new Dura-matic, a .22 long snakes was 8.1 feet per second — slow as only at present. Thirty-inch, full-choke rifle autoloading pistol. It has a double- animal movements are measured. barrels, twenty-eight inch, modified-choke safety feature, a visible indicator to show barrels, and twenty-six inch, skect-bored when the pistol is ready to fire and a Two good booklets on bird shooting free barrels may be interchanged without fac- combination slide lock and positive bolt to hunters are "How to bag the upland tory fitting. For further details write to safety. Comes in 6'A or 4J4 -inch barrel, flyers," and "How to get your duck," put Hank Hunter, Olin Industries, 505 Park easily interchangeable. Sells for $37.50. Or out by Federal Cartridge Corporation, 2700 Avenue, New York 22, New York. you can have both barrels for $7.50 extra. Foshay Tower, Minneapolis 2, Minnesota. These are 16 pages, each 554x4. The 46th annual edition of the best The upland game booklet is in full color spoilsman's catalogue we know, the 500- and cov ers pheasant, grouse, quail, wood- page "Shooter's Bible," published by Stoc- cock and wild turkey. Tells about each ger Arms Corporation, 507 Fifth Avenue, bird and w hat size shot to use, also six New York 17, N. Y., is about to hit the game recipes. street, as they say in publishing circles. The duck booklet is in two colors and Stoeger's "Shooter's Bible" is about as tells about wing speeds and leads needed complete as any sportsman's catalogue can L. A. Pattison, 1828 Adams, Pinchurst, for mallards, spoonbills, pintails, teal, can- be. It shows every domestic and imported Washington, getting set to refurbish his vasbacks, Canada geese and others. rifle, shotgun and pistol you can think of, fishing equipment, has a comment: The booklet states how to handle the with illustrations, description and cost. It "Every time I read an article about re- various types of shots you get such as going has information and articles written by finishing fishing rods, the method for away, over head, quartering, straight on some of the country's foremost sporting holding the thread for wrapping and keep- and when the birds hit the decoys. Good writers and arms experts. It has sections ing proper tension on the thread is hope- illustrations. .Write to H. C. Russell at on camping equipment, hunting clothes, lessly complicated with vises and all kinds Federal for your free copies. gun parts, fishing tackle, fishing duds, of special equipment recommended. My shooting glasses, reloading tools, holsters, system is a snap. If you have a helpful idea that pertains archery, fencing equipment, targets, traps "Place the spool of thread in an ordinary lo hunting or fishing, send it along. If we and practically every item the sportsman water glass to keep it from rolling off the can use it, we'll reward you with a hunting will be interested in. Stoeger's "Shooter's table. Pass the thread through a large book. or fishing accessory. Address: OUTDOOR Bible" maj be purchased at all leading The book holds just enough to put tension EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The Ameri sporting goods and book stores or direct on the thread and leaves both hands free can Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue. from Stoeger. Price $2.00 postpaid. to rotate the rod." New York 36, New York.

25 • THE AMERICAN 1 EG ION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1954 HAS RECORDS OF USS HOUSTON POWS: war-disabled. These two laws presume vet needs special training because of his disability; they provide no certain Men of the U. S. S. Houston , and their families, are advised that while survivors of the sinking of the Houston amount of training, are deemed to have done job when vet were prisoners of war of the Japanese, John A. Harrell, then is back on his feet, employment-wise. ... In some cases, Y3c, kept extensive service records of 308 enlisted men and disabled vets had private opportunity to work for a few years, and decided to hoard special training and work a 8 officers of the Houston, which he still has . . . . Harrell's records, though not necessarily complete, cover the period while first, for their own convenience. Where they managed

to hold job they lost PL16 and PL894 entitlement. . . . from 1942 to the time in 1944 when the Japanese , Fact that they had become self-sufficient wiped out separated Harrell from the ship's company. . . . Many of the vital statistics that Harrell has are certified by officers presumption that special rehabilitation was needed. of the Houston and other Allied officers. . . . Records Any vet who plans, nevertheless, to postpone any sort include such things as pay records, medical records, death of vet training for his own convenience would be well

records, insurance applications. . . . Harrell has told Legion advised to discuss his exact plans with VA or a competent he will make records available to any former Houston veterans service officer beforehand — to prevent bad news men or their families to whom the information may be of later. assistance. . . . Navy Dep't has photostated Harrell's * * * * documents, but the info does not necessarily appear in

BuPers folders of the individuals. . . . Send queries for SHARPENS ETE FORGERIES: forwarding to Harrell to: Newsletter, American Legion VA FOR VA investigation service has adopted use of an Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y. electronic magic eye to scan documents related to claims against VA for erasures, scratch-outs and other alterations. * * * * Gadget reveals alterations instantly, whether done with ink, pencil or typewriter. Previously, investigators had POSTPONING GI EDUCATION HAS DANGERS: used a slow, expensive and not-always-satisfactory infra-red How cagey is it for a vet to postpone initiating such photo process. education and training as he may be entitled to as a * * * * veteran? Legion files contain sad cases where vet postponed GI training for his own convenience and lost his entitlement. INVESTIGATIONS MAKE VA TOUGH ON VETS: Korea GI Bill requires vet to start training within In last year, Legion Washington office has handled an two years of discharge . Because two years is not enough increase of 10% in the number of VA decisions on vets time for many vets to be ready to start training, Legion claims taken up for administrative review. When Legion

has asked for extension of starting time to four years. . . . accepts case for such review it means Legion staff workers

At this writing , a bill (HR 9888) that meets Legion feel VA has made insufficient award to vet on the face halfway and would extend starting time to three years of it, and believes VA may be persuaded to give vet a from discharge, is in the Senate, with House approval, and better break without going through appeal process. . . . will probably be law when these words are printed. Increase of 10% in review cases indicates VA boards are

This additional time has been sought to take care of getting tougher and tougher on vets . . . . Staff believes it the many cases in which it has been nearly impossible is telltale reflection of effect of a General Accounting Office

investigation. . . . GAO has been sampling VA claims for vet to get in under the two-year wire. . . . Legion staff specialists warn that it is dangerous for vets who can procedure looking for overgenerosity to veterans by VA, start training soon to manipulate the time cushion for not looking for undergenerosity. Some VA claims workers, imagined advantages. ... In too many cases, vets who knowing they won't be criticized by any gov't investigation put off training until eligibility date was nearly up ran into for underrating vets claims , seem very humanly to be unforeseen additional delays, and entitlement was lost. playing it safe by doing just that while GAO is breathing Sad cases are also of record where disabled vets on their necks. postponed training under PL16 or PL894, the WW2 and VA has been making own investigation of its claims Korea laws that offer special rehabilitation training for the work, and has come up with errors both ways that just

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 27 about balance out in terms of total money errors. It has Agriculture and Conservation Committee has striven for found some compensation and pension cases that should adequate funds for FHA farm lending each year. Agency have been reduced or eliminated, others that should have has secured every cent it asked for in its budget request been increased. . . . Within year, GAO will probably report for 1955. its findings, listing errors that cost the government, Tax relief for Legion Junior Baseball admission charges. but not those that cost the vet claimant. If past experience Legion asked that Federal admission taxes to Junior is an index, vets can then expect a rash of editorials that Baseball be eliminated. Main Federal tax bill (HR 8300) was VA claims errors are costing taxpaper big money. passed in late July, and included provision exempting amatur baseball from admissions tax. Posts should get exact info from revenue folks before acting on this news.

Supplemental $3 million for VA hospital program ,

"EN-ROUTE-TO-INDUCTION" BENEFITS requested by President . Legion felt VA hospital funds for EXTENDED: 1955, as passed in June, were at least $6 million short. Service-connected benefit eligibility was made available President asked for $3 million supplement after appropria- on June 30 to inductees of the Korea period who never tion had passed. At presstime. Senate had approved the saw active duty because they incurred service-connected $3 million. House had not acted.

disabilities in the course of reporting for induction. . . . Alaska -Hawaii statehood, long favored by Legion, Example of type of case covered would be those who were tabled for this session on motion of House Rules Committee. injured, and the survivors of those who were killed, in a As previously reported, Legion-supported moves train wreck while en route to Camp Atterbury, Ind., for to make Armistice Day become Veterans Day, and to induction early in Korea conflict. Eligibility was extended include words "under God" in the flag pledge, are both law.

in Public Law 463. . . . Effect is to provide for service- Bricker Amendment , to protect Constitution from connection for a claim arising out of "en route" disability "legal violation" by treaty powers of President and Senate, that would be valid in all other respects under existing was strongly supported by Legion in current session. veteran benefit laws. As amended by Senator George, it lost by one vote in Senate in late winter, then hung fire for balance of session. Sen. Backer's office told Newsletter he would re-introduce amendment in dying days of session, for early action in WW2 VETS KEEP UP HIGH RATE OF next session. LOAN REPAYMENT: Five-year extension of aid to Philippines ($10 million)

By August 1, veterans of WW2 had paid in full 685,000 for early operation of Philippines own veterans hospital , of their GI Bill home, farm and business loans. That is supported by Legion, became PL 421 when approved

19% of the more than 3.6 million loans made. . . . by President on June 18. High rate of total repayment in the 1st ten years of the Attacks on McCarran-Walter Immigration Act made lending program continues to be matched by the low no material progress in this session of Congress. Legion rate of foreclosures in loans made good by VA — strongly supports the Act. less than 1%. Senate Report 1892 (on Senate Bill 3423) is favorable to Legion position that alien property in U.S. custody as aftermath of WW2 be now returned to Japanese and LEGISLATIVE ROUND-UP: West German nationals. The Whitten Amendment , and an Executive Order Annual legislative round-up of current laws of interest related to it (No. 10180, of November 1, 1950) has caused to vets and Legion is usually offered by Newsletter at a lot of wrangling over Civil Service jobs. The amendment this time. But as Congress dragged its session into put a ceiling on permanent gov't jobs available at any August, and Newsletter went to press, some bills had been one time. Legion objects strongly to the results of the passed and signed, but others were still pending final amendment and the executive order, which Legion Legislative action. Some important bills are covered in attached news " Commission describes as an administrative breakdown section. . . . Summary of how some others fared or were of Federal employment practices" and a "lack of security faring at press deadline herewith: and consequent demoralization of nearly a quarter of a VA direct loan program, extension of and increase in million employes who are classed as temporary-indefinites ." funds. This is the program where VA makes direct GI loans But Legion did not endorse or oppose a recent Senate action of cash in designated national areas where private lending to repeal parts of the Whitten Amendment, not being sure facilities are deemed inadequate . Funds for direct loans whether the fault lay in the law's administration or in the at $100 million a year have been spread pretty thin in past. law itself. Legion instead asked Congress to remove the More funds were sought this extension year along with c ause of the difficulties, whatever it may be . of direct lending program until next June. At presstime, extension of program seemed sure, funds increase unsure. * # * * House had approved extension and usual $100 million. Senate approved extension, and Sen. Sparkman's amendment PL 16 & 894 OK FOR TRAINING DUTY to double the funds . Funds amount would depend upon RESERVISTS: what figure House and Senate could agree upon as final figure to send to Ike. An opinion of VA general counsel of July 20 stated that while Farmers Home Administration lending funds . Lending a reservist who suffered a service-connected disability program of this agency has helped more vet farmers on temporary training duty would be eligible for become independent than GI farm loan program. Legion rehabilitation training under PL 16 or PL894.

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favorable action probably woidd be House Broadens Pension Boost; taken after deadline for these pages.

Defense Brews Strong UMT Plans Who's on First? Confusing sounds came from the De- As the current session of Congress Finally, Rules Committee and major- fense Department the first week in Au- moved toward the middle of August be- ity party leadership realized they had a gust, and above the confusion it became fore adjourning, developments on im- bear by tail and resolved to do some- plain that when the present Selective portant issues of interest to vets and the thing, but not much. Rep. Chas. Halleck Service Act runs out next June, Defense Legion ran off in all directions. Two (R. Ind.) is majority leader. will be on hand with a proposal for Con- government actions made Legionnaires Result was passage of a bill that cut a gress that looks very much like the long- alternately (1) mad as wet hens and proposed 10% increase for most compen- awaited Universal Military Training. (2) moderately, hopefully, dubiously sation cases down to 5% and rejected en- But it would be a brave or foolish glad. tirely any cost-of-living increases for man who would guess just what's up. In the mad dep't was a lopsided, va- pensioners. On Aug. 1, retiring Ass't Sec. of De- cillating, hardboiled action taken by Pensioners given no boost at all in- fense Dr. John A. Hannah made a press- Congress on HR 9020, the bill to pro- clude totally and permanently disabled conference announcement with enough vide a cost-of-living increase for vets veterans with limited incomes, mostly in of the unusual in it to suggest the Pres- and their dependents who have been older age-groups — and widows of de- ident should release it instead of the awarded compensation or pensions. ceased veterans. The entire group num- Ass't Secretary — who was returning to After the House Rules Committee bers just short of one million veterans the presidency of Michigan State Col- tried to bury the whole bill, a half- and widows. lege. hearted increase emerged for compensa- Odd action left Administration policy Hannah spoke of plans for a stabi- tion cases, while pensioners got no up on cost-of-living increases in a shambles lized standing force well above 3 mil- at all. by admitting a meagre change in cost of lion, plus a compulsory Ready Reserve In the dubiously glad dep't were living requiring adjustment for one even bigger than that, plus compulsory, jumbled reports and statements coming group, denying it for another. military duty for every qualified young from Defense Dep't indicating that De- Late Report man, plus Selective Service protection fense ivants to go all out to bring in a Too late to add as anything but a for older reservists, plus earmarking de- real, workable form of universal military postcript to these words, the House re- ferred selectees for prompt call-up in an manpower bill by next June, a 35-year considered on Aug. approved a 5% emergency, plus excusing WW2 and aim of The American Legion supported 4, increase for the previously ignored pen- Korea vets from reserve obligations. in leading polls year after year by 70% sioners, and sent it to the Senate, where Even more newsworthy, Hannah an- to 80% of the American people.

Pensions Hatcheted BOYS' NATION DELEGATES Eisenhower Administration was put on tough spot by whole spirit and action of the House on the cost-of-living increase for vets compensation and pension. President had said in election plat- form that "adjustment of compensation and pension payments must be made from time to time with changes in cost of living." He had added: "This responsibility I shall never overlook." Coming into summer, House Rules Committee was holding tight to bill approved by House Veterans Affairs Com- mittee granting a general 10% increase to most vet compensation and pension cases. For months, Legion Legislative Com- mission tried in vain to shake bill loose — got deaf ear from Rules Committee,

headed by Rep. Leo Allen (R. 111.) In July, House Veterans Affairs Commit- tee, headed by Rep. Edith Nourse Rog- ers (R. Mass.) sought in desperation to bring bill to the floor over heads of Delegates to the 9th annual Legion Boys' Nation, July 23-30, met with the President Rules Committee, by petition. Petition at the White House, visited the Pentagon, lunched in the Senate dining room. failed to get enough names in House. Above, they inspect a bridge at the Army Engineer Center, Fort Belvoir, Va.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 29 nounced plans for welding the present than 40,000 was possible for a 7-game Thus, the decision, though subject to Army and Air Force Reserves into the series. appeal, made the point that studios National Guard and nationalizing the Yakima, home of last year's national could refrain from hiring people if they National Guard "for all practical pur- Junior Raseball champions, is making feared such employes were not ac- poses." ample preparations for the series, Car- ceptable to movie audiences. Hannah's statements left room for a penter reported. Post 36 in Yakima has The major studios, long fearing legal lot of guesswork, not only as to the exact 76 commitees working on the toumey. complications, had taken little action meaning of the plan but as to the mean- Sightseeing trips through the Northwest against Hollywood reds until recent ing of such an important announcement for the youthful team members, swim- years. Three years ago they moved to coming from Hannah. ming, free movies and other entertain- rid themselves of the most objectionable Attempts to learn more disclosed that ment are planned. Legion Auxiliary Unit characters, regardless of the legal con-

( 1 ) No written release of any such plans 36 in Yakima will provide daily laundry sequences. The 23 plaintiffs in the pres- were available in the Pentagon, (2) The service for the members of the four ent case included some who are con- White House was not ready to say that teams. sidered to have been the most abusive anything Hannah had released had Ad- Competing teams will be survivors of witnesses that ever appeared before the ministration blessing, (3) Nobody in late August sectional tournaments held House Un-American Activities Com- the Administration was prepared to am- in Pittsfield, Mass.; Ponchatoula, La.; mittee. plify on Hannah's statement, and (4) Rloomington, Ind.; and Hastings, Neb. The group included Michael Wilson, Defense was still working on its recom- The 1954 Champion will receive the Gale Sondergaard, Howard da Silva, mendation for a new manpower act. Legion's Howard P. Savage Trophy and John Howland Chamberlin, Fred Graf, On Aug. 3, Defense Secretary Charles the Edsel Ford 10-year silver plaque. Alvin Hammer, Donald A. Gordon, Rob- A. Wilson held a press conference to The plaque is retired every 10 years to ert Lees, Richard L. Richards, Waldo answer the questions raised by Han- the Raseball Hall of Fame at Coopers- Salt, Phillip Stevenson, Louise Rousseau, nah's statements. town, N. Y., with the names of series Alfred Lewis Levitt, Paul Jarrico, Abra-

said it. Lincoln Shore, He that ( 1 ) Principles of a new winners engraved on ham Polonsky, Wilma manpower plan have been accepted in a Herta Uerkvitz, Paul Perlin, Guy En- broad sense by the top-flite Nat'l Secur- Movies Win Out dore, Edward F. Huebsch, Fredric I. ity Council, (2) Defense wasn't ready Twenty-three film writers who had Rinaldo, Louis Solomon and Anne Re- with details yet, (3) A plan would be been uncooperative with House Un- vere. offered early next year, (4) The plan American Activities Committee investi- Defendants, in addition to 11 leading wouldn't "do away with" the Army and gations of communism, lost out in a studios and the House committee mem- Air Force Reserves, (5) Defense ex- whopping big suit against motion pic- bers and investigator, were: Dore Senary pected opposition to the plan it would ture producers and House Committee and E. R. Mannix, MGM executives; offer, (6) Would probably have to settle personnel in Los Angeles Superior Court and Jack and Harry Warner. for less, and (7) The present reserve on July 12. MEMBERSHIP: system would be revealed as "a scandal" The 23 sued for more than $51 mil- '55 if war should break out. lion damages, claiming a conspiracy in Readv for There was not necessarily any incon- moviedom against them that blocked Nat'l Legion membership plans for sistency between Hannah's and Wilson's their further employment in films. Eigh- 1955, formulated by the staff of the statements. Roth indicated that Defense teen had "taken the Fifth Amendment" Nat'l Membership and Post Activities will strive for a large and workable com- when asked to testify about their com- Committee at Indianapolis Hq, were pulsory reserve — a close cousin to UMT munist connections. Five others had re- moving fast by Aug. 1. — and is working on brand new design fused to appear to testify. Subsequently, Membership slogan for the year is for such a system. they said, they had been unable to find "Get 5 for '55." That slogan is also the It is possible that Defense has an idea movie work. title of the new 32-page membership for integrating the reserve system with Judge Ellsworth Meyer threw out planning booklet, a valuable and in- the National Guard to implement UMT their suit against 11 major movie com- formative aid for Post membership plan- - by dividing the Federal interest and panies, 1 movie association and 4 studio ning. Rooklet is a complete outline for the State interest in the Guard without executives, "without leave to amend." organizing a Post membership program. destroying either — and including the The court also rejected the plaintiffs' Limited to one per Post, booklets have Air and Army Reserves therein. suit against two members of the House been sent to Department offices, where In that case, the Hannah announce- Committee and its investigator, William Posts can get their copies. ment could be viewed as a trial balloon Wheeler, but allowed 30 days for the Other Nat'l literature for 1955 mem- to feel out National Guard and regular plaintiffs to amend their suit against bership program includes an individual service Reserve reactions while Defense those three. aid, ' Salesbook for Legion Salesmen," is still preparing its plan. The 23 claimed that the studios had with tips on selling membership and a "boycotted" them and that the other supply of application forms bound in. AMERICANISM: three defendants had "induced the It is available through Departments, studios to boycott them." The court ac- which have been sent bulk quantities. Series at Yakima cepted the claim that the 23 couldn't Also available in quantity through De- Four sectional winners from among get film work, but denied damages. partments is a pamphlet that can be more than 16,000 Legion Junior Rase- "No reason occurs," said Judge Mey- read quickly by a prospective member. ball teams will compete in the final er," why those who merely are possible Called "AL, the Veterans' Pal" the elimination at the Little World Series in employers should be required to re- pamphlet is a short, concise answer to Yakima, Wash., Sept 1-5. On July 17, spond to damages for conduct to protect the veteran who asks: "What does the Owen O. Carpenter, general chmn of their business interest" against infer- Legion stand for?" It does a rapid-fire, this year's series, reported that more ences regarding the 23 drawn by the easy-to-read job of explaining Legion's than 20,000 advance tickets had been studios' customers as a result of the be- community service, child welfare, veter- sold, and that a total attendance of more havior of the 23. ans service, legislative, Americanism,

3Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 nat'l security and religious emphasis ]> At the halfway point of 1954, Post 1 welfare projects, researches and surveys programs. It also stresses the fun and in Denver, Colo., was running ahead of as its directors deemed worthy of Foun- sociability of Legion membership and Post 1, Omaha, Neb. Denver Legion- dation expenditures. Emphasis was ex- convention activities, and points up die naires were determined to hold the lead pected to he in fields of child welfare Legion's anti-communist work. and unseat Omaha as the world's big- where serious problems have not yet Also available on a test-basis is a new gest Post at year's end — a long-time been tackled by any agencies, or have "calling-card" booklet. It, too, is an ex- Denver ambition. Both Posts are over been poorly met. planatory booklet for a prospective mem- the 11,000 mark so far. It is the second Legion Foundation to established. The American Legion ber. Its cover serves as the calling card ]) The 6th District of California won its be of the membership solicitor. Made for Dep't trophy for membership increase Endowment Fund formed in 1925, dedi- quick reading, the 8-page booklet is laid in 1954. The District, under Cmdr Dick cated chiefly to veterans' welfare, now out in a format that is actually the size Burkhardt lof Post 832, Sacramento, has funds in excess of $7 million, whose of a calling card. Samples have been upped membership 247%. capital is untouchable. furnish bulk New Child Welfare Foundation has sent out to Posts. Plan is to |) First to sign up for 1955 at Blue Jack- initial assets of mineral rights in 10,000 orders, if demanded, at a nominal price. et Post 599, Zanesville, Ohio, is Law- rence E. Zane, resident of Miami, Okla. acres of oil lands in Williston Basin of '54 North Dakota and Montana — un- Slightly Down Zane is chief of the Wyandotte Indian now In the 1954 membership campaign, tribe in Oklahoma, and a great-great- der lease for development by major oil total membership stood at 2,764,900 on grandson of Isaac Zane, founder of companies. Assets also include fractional interest in an undeveloped oil well in July 29. Figure was 7,526 below com- Zanesville. Zane is one-eighth Indian. parative figure of one year Oklahoma and in a Montana uranium 2,772,426 ) Round-trip air travel to the U.S. has mine. Mineral assets are gift of a Legion- earlier. Final 1954 figures would be been offered to (1) That member of naire who requested no publicity be those of Dec. 31. Post 1, Frankfurt, Germany, who se- given him. Foundation does not antici- In spite of slight Nat'l fall-off, many cured most members before August 1, pate a public drive funds, has Dep'ts were rolling at high levels. On and (2) that member who secures the for but July 29 these Dep'ts had the highest most 1955 memberships before Decem- received unsolicited small gifts from in- membership in history: Georgia, Louisi- ber 15. Trips were offered by Bernard dividuals, Posts and Districts. It also ana, Mexico, North Dakota and Panama. Mishkin, manager of Furlough Flights has received three requests for contribu- In addition, the following were ahead plane travel agency in Frankfurt, who tions from agencies in the fields of child health, juvenile of their 1953 total membership by July also awarded free trips for two Post mental health and de- 29: Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Ha- members to attend Nat'l Convention in linquency. Early requests came from waii, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Washington. Louisiana, California and Massachusetts. Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New CHILD WELFARE: A Record Year Mexico, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Texas, Ver- The 1954 Report of the Nat'l Child mont and Wisconsin. Something New Welfare Commission reveals that the their for full Over quotas the year On July 9, a brand new American Legion and its three affiliated organiza- 1954 by July 29 were the following ad- Legion Child Welfare Foundation was tions spent an all-time record amount ditional Dep'ts: Arizona, Canada, Flor- officially incorporated in the State of of their own funds - $6,657,499.19 - ida, Italy, Maine and the Philippine Indiana. The foundation, a separate for child welfare during the period from Islands. entity from the Legion's Child Welfare June 1, 1953, through May 31, 1954. Continental quota leaders were: Commission, was established to receive During this period, Child Welfare re- North Dakota, 114%; Georgia 113%, and funds for child welfare projects in addi- ports were submitted by 7,073 Posts Louisiana, 110%. tion to those of the Legion's established (41% of all Posts, and another all-time Foreign quota leaders were: Mexico, program. Source of funds would be from record) and 11,643 Auxiliary Units 133%; Puerto Rico, 123% and France, gifts. (84%). 121%. Creation of the foundation had been The money spent came from the fol- Trailing in quota on July 29 were the several years in the brewing. Its estab- lowing sources: following, below 90% on that date: lishment was finally authorized by the From Nat'l Child Alaska, 74%; West Virginia, 80%; Ken- Nat'l Executive Committee last May. Welfare Division $ 73,266.44 tucky, 80%; North Carolina, 86%; Mon- When and if properly financed, Founda- From Legion Posts tana, 87%; Arkansas, 87%; Alabama, 89% tion could sponsor or aid such child and Departments $3,004,679.38 and Idaho, 89%. Membership News Notes CHAMP CLARK, LEGION S FIRST PRESIDING OFFICER, DIES Recent reports of Post and District membership activities include the following:

]> Fred L. Stanley Post 292, Granger, Tex., broke its membership record for the 4th straight year. Steady climb took Post from 146 in 1951 to 210 by mid- June this year. ] In Georgia, where Dep't had record high last year and broke that record in first half of this year, century-clubbers were blooming all over. At Post 13, in Valdosta, for example, Sgt-at-arms R. L. Above, burial of Judge (and ex-U.S. Senator from Missouri) Smith had signed up 123 members by Bennett Champ Clark at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery, with Legion escort headed by Past Nat'l Cmdrs July 14; Adjt George T. Mulligan 110; Johnson, Hayes, Stanibaugh and Griffith—and the Legion's Nat'l Guard of Honor. Cmdr H. B. Edwards 115 Jr. and Cmdr- Judge Clark, who presided at the Legion's Paris Caucus and served the Legion elect Gerald W. Blanton 103. in many capacities later, died while vacationing at Gloucester, Mass., July 13. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1954 • 3J

From Auxiliary Units Mississippi: T. W. Carr, Moorhead, copies should send requests to Dept and Departments $2,254,084.51 Miss.; county service officer. Adjts.

From Forty and Eight $ 1 ,023,300. 15 Delaware: Harry S. Zerby, Box 97, }i Korean war cost Uncle Sam $151 bil- From Eight and Forty $302,168.71 Georgetown, Del.; insurance agent. lion. WW1 cost was $66 and WW2 The Legion and Auxiliary expended Wyoming: Dana Davis, Box 261, $500 billion. the following amounts: Sheridan, Wyo. ]\ The American Legion will throw the For direct help in Connecticut: George D. Baron, Fair- force of its 17,200 Posts behind a na- cash or kind to wood Road, Bethany, Conn.; New York, tional "Get Out the Vote" campaign this needy youngsters $2,201,857.96 New Haven and Hartford Railroad em- Fall. Lapel buttons reading "I Pledge to For contributions to ploye. Vote," such as were used in 1952, will welfare and char- Indiana: Ira E. Lyon, 19 Center be sold through Nat'l Emblem Sales, itable agencies $997,628.12 Street, Greenfield, Ind.; lumber business. The American Legion, P. O. Box 1055, For parties, gifts Wisconsin: James A. Martineau, Indianapolis 6, Ind. Price $4.00 per and other extras $818,342.54 Oconto, Wis.; attorney. thousand (minimum order).

For other Child Ohio: James M. Wagonseller, 323 E. ]> Herman Pheffer, who lost both legs Welfare activities Main Street, Lancaster, Ohio; insurance on the Anzio beachhead is Legion's top and projects $1,239,905.58 agent. specialist on artificial limbs. Recently he For Department Georgia: Jack Langford, Griffin, Ga.; took a one-week course in upper ex- Child Welfare office supply business. tremity prosthetics at the University of

administrative ex- Minnesota: Lawrence J. Willett, Jack- California. Pheffer — only non-doctor in pense $74,295.48 son, Minn.; contractor. class — made top score. Maryland: These figures do not include any help Benjamin B. Buckner, ]> Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon, USAF- for children obtained by the Legion Room E., War Memorial Bldg, Balti- Ret. has been recalled to active duty to from outside sources. more, Md.; taxicab business. head up new Air Force Academy at Tennessee: Whit LaFon, 300 Johnson School $ $ Lost Colorado Springs, Colo. St., Jackson, Tenn.; ass't district attor- ]) The Firing Line, weekly newsletter On July 16, in Indianapolis, Ed Wie- ney general. of the Nat'l Americanism Commission, land, head of the Scholarship Informa- California: Malcolm M. Champlin, on July 15 reported appointment of con- tion Service of the Legion Child Wel- attorney, Stark and Champlin law firm, gressional committee to investigate edu- fare Division, pointed out a chronic Oakland, Cal. cational activities of the Federal Gov- problem. From his files he pulled a West Virginia: L. O. Bickel, Fair- ernment. Committee headed by Con- couple of current examples. There were mount, Va.; Federal Internal W. Reve- gressman Ralph W. Gwinn is expected five applicants for two scholarships to nue Service employe. to look into instructional materials. The Rice Institute. But there was a hitch — New York: John B. Ryan, Jr., 548 Firing Line urged Legionnaires, having the five had applied too late. Warren St., Albany, N. Y.; Employment un-American instructional materials Another dip into the same files pro- and public relations director, Albany of- used in education, to send copies to duced evidence of a similar mistake on fice of General Aniline and Film Corp. Nat'l Americanism Commission, The the part of some youngsters who wished Arkansas: Abe J. Davidson, Marvell, American Legion, P. O. Box 1055, In- to take advantage of scholarships to Ark. dianapolis, Ind. Tufts College. Hawaii: Toma Tasaki, 2011 Dole St., Many college scholarships go beg- Honolulu; school principal. CONVENTION CALENDAR: ging, he said, because ( people don't 1 ) Michigan: Kent T. Lundgren, 1001 about them, they apply Sunday, Aug. 29: know (2) too Sheridan St., Menominee, Mich.; phar- Bugle Corps Contest, late. Approximately 80% of the applica- macist. Junior Drum & Eastern High School Stadium, 9:00 tions received by the Legion Scholar- Missouri: Elmer W. Kuhhnann, 5505 ship Information Service arrive late. A. M. too Era Ave., St. Louis, Mo.; member of Early planning is also necessary for St. Louis Police Dep't. Memorial Services, Amphitheater, those who wish to enter the service Oregon: Carl R. Moser, 2410 N. E. Arlington Nat'l Cemetery, 12:30 academies. Appointments exist for sons Hoyt Ave., Portland, Ore. P. M. of veterans killed in action or who died Pennsylvania: Sherman W. Mason, Band Contest, Roosevelt High School as a direct result of military service. Jeannette, Pa.; mortician. Stadium, 1:00 P. M. Those interested should apply in the Color Guard Contest, The Ellipse, BRIEFLY NOTED: October before the year of entrance. behind the White House, 2:00 P. M. High school students seeking college ]> The New York Chapter of the 36th Nat'l Executive Committee Meeting, scholarships should begin their investi- (Texas) Div. will hold Memorial Serv- Statler Hotel, 2:00 P. M. gations during the junior year. ices commemorating the Salerno landing Chorus Contest Water Gate Park, Scholarship information can be ob- on Sept. 10 at 8:00 P. M. at the Hotel rear of Lincoln Memorial, 2:30 P. M. tained from the Scholarship Information Martinique. Landing was first by Amer- 50 cents with registration ticket, Service, The American Legion, P. O. ican troops in Europe in WW2. otherwise $1.00. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. ]i Military Chaplains Ass'n is looking American Legion Press Ass'n. elec- for names of former Armed Forces tion, banquet and Show, Nat'l Press DEPARTMENT CONVENTIONS: Chaplains who have served as Legion Club, 7:00 P. M. Dept or Post chaplains. Names should 40 & 8 Opening Session, Temporary Commanders for 1955 be forwarded to William E. Austill, Edi- Bldg. U, Constitution Ave. below Partial returns from Legion Depart- tor, The Military Chaplain, 1710 Six- 14th St., 9:00 P. M. ment conventions report the following teenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Monday, Aug. 30: new Dep't Commanders for 1955, in ad- ]) Nat'l Security Commission has re- dition to the 15 new Commanders released Air Power in An Age of Peril a Opening Session Auxiliary, Mayflow- ported on these pages last month: new illustrated booklet. Posts wishing er Hotel 8:30 A. M.

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Drum and Bugle Corps Contest, discuss a subject which is of interest to zations, of "Open House in Olde Mar- Roosevelt High School, 9:00 A. M. Post members. blehead," during which old colonial Opening Session American Legion ]) Post 501, Minneapolis, Minn., donated homes and gardens were opened to the Convention, Natl Guard Armory, an automatic page turner for paralysis general public. 10:00 A. M. victims to the Sister Kenny Institute. ]> Post 1, Balboa, Canal Zone, sent 100 Firing Squad Contest, The Ellipse, Post 11, Florence, Ala., conducts live- ]) gift packages to French soldiers in Indo- 10:00 A. M. stock auctions which have provided a China. Each package contained a mes- Junior Color Guard, The Ellipse, service to the farmers of Lauderdale sage saying that Balboa Legionnaires 1:00 P. M. County and have been a source of rev- appreciated the fact that the French Drum and Bugle Corps Finals, Grif- enue for other activities of the Post. In soldiers were engaged in the big war fith Stadium, 7:00 P. M. 50 cents the past year the auctions have enabled against communism. Packages went with registration ticket — $1.00 other- the Post to donate more than $450 to with cooperation of French Ambassador wise. local charities, to set aside $400 for a to Panama. Post requested that, insofar National Commander's Dinner, Stat- new roof for the Post home, to buy 100 as possible, Dien Bien Phu survivors ler Hotel, 8:00 P. M. chairs for the Post home, and to end the should get the gifts. Tuesday, Aug. 31: year in the black. }) Post 262, Waverly, 111., presented a American Legion Parade, 2:00 P. M. ]| When U. S. Citizenship was conferred medal for outstanding heroism to Boy Seats are 1, 2, & 3 dollars. upon nine immigrants at Bemidji, Minn., Scout Kenneth Muckelston. Post's action Wednesday, Sept. 1: Post 16 conducted a Flag ceremony for was taken in recognition of the intrepid Army Retreat honoring National the occasion, and presented a Flag and deeds performed by the 12-year-old lad Commander, 5:00 P. M. a book about Flag etiquette to each of last 28 when he saved three per- 40 & 8 Banquet, Statler Hotel, 7:00 the nine new citizens. June sons from drowning. Presentation took P. M. }} Members of Post 194, Wellsville, Kan., place at the Post's anniversary meeting. All States Dinner, American Legion played host at a strawberry feed to all

Auxiliary, Mayflower Hotel, 8:00 ex-servicemen in Franklin County. ]) Post 1, Leonia, N. J., raised more than

P. M. ]) The cast and orchestra of "Le Cafe $8,000 in order to build a house for Thursday, Sept. 2: du Legion," minstrel show of Post 275, quadriplegic Korea veteran John Mc- American Legion Convention Session Lisbon, Ohio, traveled to the Chillicothe Eachen who must have special equip- and election of officers, Nat'l Guard (Ohio) VA Hospital (round trip more ment to enable him to get into a wheel Armory, 9:00 A. M. than 400 miles) and presented an hour- chair from his bed. House was needed Auxiliary Convention Session and long performance for patients there. because hoist required to move vet from

election of officers, Mayflower Hotel, > Post 32, Marblehead, Mass., (325 special bed to wheel chair could not be 9:00 A. M. years old this year) was a co-sponsor accommodated in apartment in which National Commander's Inaugural with various other Marblehead organi- vet's family lives. Ball, Nat'l Guard Armory, 8:00 P. M. RECENT POST DOINGS: }i Post 24, New Prague, Minn., voted to IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT donate $500 to the City Park Board for use in improving and maintaining Me- morial Park.

]> Post 168, Thurmont, Md., bought a fully-equipped ambulance. Post also devoted all proceeds from a dance and floor show which it held to a project to buy wheel chairs, hospital beds, and crutches.

]> Post 129, Hillsboro, Ohio, presented to the State of Ohio a Flag and flag- pole. Flag is now flown from a point on the north beach of Rocky Fork Lake. • ]> Post 50, Daytona Beach, Fla., gave a WHAT A FRAGRANCE LOAD SOME MORE IN • • 24-inch TV set to the Lake City (Fla.) THATS FOR ME THEN YOU'LL SEE Veterans Hospital.

]> Post 235, Marseilles, 111., donated a movie screen to the St. Charles School IT SMOKES SWEET it cant aire i for Boys. SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S ]> Post 423, Worcester, Mass., which is CHOICE KENTUCKY composed entirely of veterans of the BLEND OF Naval Service, presented the Comdr. 6URLEYS IS EXTRA-AGED TO Rufus A. Soule III Memorial Award to GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE the Naval Reserve Division which won top honors in the annual inspection by representatives of the First Naval Dis- trict. 24- PAGE BOOKLET

]> As an incentive to greater attendance ON PIPE CARE . at Post meetings, Post 13, Tallahassee, JUST WRITE TO: Fla., has inaugurated a "Parade of Tal- SIR WALTER ent" at one of the two meetings the Post RALEIGH,

holds each month. The "Parade of Tal- . . . JUST HOW GOOD DEPT. A-4, ent" presents a speaker who is well- A PIPE CAN BE/ LOUISVILLE, KY. known in the area and who is able to THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 33 -

Antigua Island, B.W.I. (WW2) - In 1941, I was need to contact him in order to establish claim. Post Pittsburg, Kan., held its 18th ]> 64, under treatment of Capt. Brewer, an Army Write J. P. Shelton, Box 15 Rover Rt„ West annual banquet for the blind of Pittsburg Doctor, for an ear infection. I need his help Plains, Mo. to establish claim. Write William D. Harrill, Camp Lee, Va., Station Hospital, Ward 45 - Need and Girard. Twenty-six sightless persons Box 190, Forest City, N. C. to contact any persons who were hospitalized this ward during the period from 82nd Airborne Div., 325th Inf. - July 5. 1942, I with me in and their guests attended. 1944. Edward underwent an operation at the Station Hospi- June 17, to July 20, Write McGuire, P. O. Box 1122, Petersburg, tal, Camp Claiborne, La. I was a Private at Thomas PEOPLE IN THE NEWS the time. My officers were Capt. Zinn, 1st Lt. Va. (WW2) - In 1944, Green, and 1st Lt. Goff. Anyone who knows 603rd Medical Clearing Co. Islands Negros) Jobs, Honors, Activities their whereabouts contact John LeRoy North, while in the Admiralty (Los duty. Need R. R. #2, Sparta, Wis. Info needed to estab- I was found disabled for military statements from anyone who served with me E. Meade Wilson, Nat'l Executive lish claim. order to establish that I was on full military 315th Field Artillery, Battery A (WW1) - In order in duty at that time. Would especially like to Committeeman from Florida, made a to establish claim, need to hear from Lt. Law- hear from Capt. Amesse. Capt. Kelly, Sgt. rence C. Stickney, Sgt. Wm. R. Murphy, director of Polk Federal Savings & Loan Miller. Write Austin "Joe" Russell, 14 E. Samuel Smith, who should remember my total Giles St.. Sullivan, Ind. Claim pending. Fla. deafness for two days after a bombardment in Assn., Lakeland, Inf., Co. B - the afternoon France. Write Howard D. Royer, Watson- 29lh Div., 115th On Cpl. Smith and I were in a Sam W. Reynolds, of Omaha, Neb., town, Pa. of Oct. 12. 1918, deep, steep canyon when two shells knocked 355th Bakery Co., Liftiol Le Grand, France (Sept. who established the record of having out our location. Smith died in a few minutes. 1918-Apr. 1919) - Need to contact anyone My spine was injured. I was x-rayed in Base remembers Cpl. John J. having attended more consecutive meetings of who Hughes Hospital #57, but no record can now be served with this outfit and having gone to found. Need to contact someone who re- the NEC than any other man (when he doctor every day for six months while suffer- members the shelling or the x-ray. Write ing from flu and other ailment as a result ot was a Nat'l Executive Committeeman. Jack Hensley, Route 2. Box 363, Westville, action. Medical officer was Doctor Welsh. Okla. Claim pending. the S. Senate Hughes is now disabled and unable to work. 1924-35), appointed to U. 90th Inf. Div., 357th Inf., Co. E - I received con- Write John J. Hughes, 3323 So. Oakley Ave.. cussion from an 88 shell near Dillingen, Ger- to fill the unexpired term of the late Chicago 8, 111. many. I need proof of this, especially from Hugh Butler. 44th Engineer Bn., Co. B (WW1) - In order to James Roberts, Alfred Gray. John Crinnian, establish claim, I would like contact buddies Edward D. Cleary. Write Frederick W. Hen- /. W. Carpenter, Omaha, Neb., ap- who served with me at Rheims, France. I was nel, 902 Schultz Ave.. Columbus. Ohio. Claim Company Barber at the time. Write Joseph pending. pointed Assistant Sec. of State. Condarcuri, Arnold, Pa. — Hugh McKenna, Omaha, Neb., Motor Transport School, Pine Valley, Cal. Would appreciate hearing from anyone who Navy elected vice-president, U. S. Junior served with me during June and July, 1944, in Wyava Gulch, Territory of Hawaii — Anyone who order to establish claim which is of impor- knows about the injuries I (then S 1/c, of Chamber Commerce. tance to me and wife and six children. Write USNR) received while serving at this station, James E. Powers, Macon, Ga., ap- Merrill Bohnenkamp, Ward 8E, Veterans Oct. 12, 1944, contact Freddie W. Shaw, 1024 Hospital. Omaha, Neb. West 10th St., Prineville, Ore. Info needed to pointed to Nat'l Executive Committee, 62nd Armored Field Artillery Bn., Battery D — establish claim. While on bivouac at Fort Leonard Wood, USS Hornet — Need to contact Phm 3/c John to fill the unexpired term of O. Guy Mo., in Jan.. 1951, (during very rainy weather MacSweeney or anyone else who served with Stone, resigned. which changed to sub-zero temperatures) Pvt. me aboard this ship between April, 1944, and Howard D. Vix had foot trouble. The last few March, 1945. Contact Carl E. Lawrence, Red- David V. Addij, Vice-Chmn, Child days, he was left in camp to keep the fires wood Falls, Minn. Claim pending. going because USS Tinsman — Need to hear from men who Auditor he could not march properly. Welfare Commission, named Later, paralysis of the right leg and neuritis served aboard this ship, especially from the General of Detroit, Mich. of both legs developed. Need help to establish Chief Pharmacist's Mate who treated my back claim. Anyone who remembers any of these and from members of the Ship's Office who Lou Bahb, Acting Adjutant, Dept of incidents write Howard D. Vix, Saylor St., witnessed or who remember the safe falling Downers Grove, 111. across my back and pinning me against the Montana, confirmed as Adjutant. Motor Transport Unit #304 (WW1) - William filing cabinets in the ship's Office during rough weather in Philippine waters. I have had Walter W. Smith, elected Adjutant, Helfrich served as a Sergeant with this outfit. He needs to hear from those who served with trouble with my back since then. This injury Dept of Alaska. him, especially from: Harold O. Brown, Alex- was not noted on my medical record. Write ander A. Brown, Abraham M. Ravich, and Anthony J. Ahhruzzi, 110 S. Catherine St., Norman M. ("Pat") Lyon, Vice- 1st Lt. J. M. Clifton. Write Wm. Helfrich, Plattsburg, N. Y. Help needed to establish 203 Thompson, Waterloo, Iowa. Claim pend- claim. Chmn, Legion Aeronautics Committee, ing. 3rd Fleet, USS Yorktown and USS Sarasota - Anyone who remembers having served with appointed Director, Angeles (Cal.) Co. C of a QM Regt., Camp Lee, Va. - Anyone Los me during the period 1941-45, write Perry Jay who served in such an outfit at Camp Lee be- Orr, 50 Walnut St., Leetonia, Ohio. Office of Federal Housing Administra- tween Oct. and Dec. 24, 1941, please contact tion. Raymond Warrick, Box 206, Rt. 3, Rocking- ham. N. C. Claim pending. Air Died 114th Med. Sv. Unit Sn., and 147th General Hos- 34th Air Depot Group, San Bernardino Air Depot, pital, Honolulu, Hawaii (WW2) - Need to Cal. — Anyone who can furnish information hear from someone who served with either ol about Sgt. Kenneth Doyle Henderson (home William ./. O'Connell, of Des Moines, these organizations and who knows about my State, Mich.), please contact Gordon L. Rich, condition. Iowa, Vice Chmn, Legion Counter-Sub- Please write Louis D. Mulhall, Yel- 9 Elm St., Dalton, Ga. Info needed to estab- lowpine, Tex. versive Activities Committee. lish claim. 28th Div., 109th Inf., Co. D - In May. 1944. Ken- 2537th A.A.F.B.U., Perrin Field, Tex. - Need to neth (Kelley) Ryle was ruptured at Bonn, contact persons who served with me, 1943-46. Germany, as a result of carrving heavy ma- during which time I was treated for a sinus chine gun. He needs to contact Capt. Rand ailment. Write Bill Burnett, 512 East Harrison (Co. Commander), 1st Sgt. Milroy, Platoon St., McAlester, Okla. Need help to establish Sgt. Vanderwell, Sgt. Obe Jerald, and Chris claim. Kern who know of the injury. Write Kenneth 144th Night Photo Recon Sqdn. — Need to hear COMRADES Ryle, Patriot, Ind. Claim pending. from anyone who served in battle area in Rhineland. Ardennes, Holland. France, and 24th Div., 34th Inf., Antitank Co. - Served with Belgium with Cpl. Francis R. Berryman of this outfit in the Mine Platoon and Motor IN DISTRESS Ipswich, Mass. Write William F. Regan, 14 Pool on Mindanao (Philippines) and in Japan. Main St.. Peabody. Mass. Claim pending. Need to hear from any member of the Space docs not permit notices to contact unit, Camp Seven Mile, Spokane, Wash., 13th Bombing who remembers me especially from the 1st & Gunnery Range, near Geiger Field — In persons for any purpose except to assist in Sgt. Need help to establish claim. Write Mills summer of 1943. PFC William E. Goddard establishing claim for a F. Heard, Route 2. Tchula, Miss. a veteran or his de- fell from rear of ammo truck, landed on his 44th Const. pendents. Statement to that effect should Engr. Bn., H & S Co., or Co. B - Need head. He suffered convulsive seizure in his to contact someone who was serving with me barracks shortly alterwards. Anyone who accompany notice. in Seoul, Korea, about Sept. 10, 1950, when knows of the accident, or who can verify it, I received an eye injury. 1 was hospitalized in or who knows of witnesses to it. write William 813th Engr. Aviation Bn., H & S Co. - Need to Japan and did not return to my outfit. Write E. P. hear from anyone who served with this outfit Goddard, O. Box 666, Daytona Beach, Walton G. Wilkey, Gen. Del.. Belle Rive, III. Fla. Claim pending. in Jan., 1951, when I had a knot removed Claim pending. from my right side. Cooks or officers might 472nd Aviation Sqdn. — When I was serving as a 537th Field Artillery, Batterv - in remember me. because I was DRO for the C From Oct I PFC the Pacific and on Okinawa, 1943-45, Officers* Mess where Lt. BorglofT was Mess 1952 to May 20, 1953, PFC James E. Mason my knee was injured. Need to hear from some- Officer and .Sgt. Russell was Mess Sgt. Write was stationed with this outfit at Camp Carson, one who served with me, especially from Colo. Lester L. Knowles, Route 1, Dumas, Miss. He was married Dec. 29. 1952. Since Frank Howard who lived in the South. Write Claim pending. his death. May 1 1, 1953. the government has J. L. Armstrong, Jr., 1135 Canal St., Warren. maintained that it has no record of his having Ohio. Claim pending. 204th AAA SL Bn., Batterv C, San Diego, Cal., changed the beneficiary of his insurance. or 292nd and 296th SL Bns., Territory of Ha- Need 2115th B.U., Sqdn. C-3, Anniston A.A.F., Ala. to hear from those who served with Mason in waii (WW2) - Would like to hear from any At Talledega. Ala., just prior to June 6, 1944, order to establish that Mason did in fact members of these units who may remember Sgt. Norman H. Kelliher fell out of a truck change his beneficiary and that the forms my right arm and shoulder paining me during while helping a private into it. Need to hear were not received by proper governmental late 1944 or 1945. My arm, shoulder, and from anyone who witnessed the fall, especially office. Write Radinsky. Kripk shoulder blade have been amputated because & McLean, 1045 from Pvt. Carl Prusch, Pvt. Tony DeMarco, Acoma St., Denver 4. Colo. or Capt. S. Kelliher has Oi an incurable tumor of the bone, and I need William Bond. been help (0 establish a claim. Write (former Sgt.) Co. D of an Engineer outfit, Fort Lewis, Wash. — hospitalized since Dec. 1953. Write Norman Prentice T. Paulson, 4451 South Grant, Engle- I served as a Cpl. in this outfit, Dec. 1945- H. Kelliher, 22 Frank St., Watertown, Mass. wood, Colo. Mar. 1946 with a Cpl. Loy from Kentucky. I Claim pending.

34 • THE AMERICAN I EGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1954 MISSING IN KOREA Name, rank, and complete unit should be clearly spelled out — no abbreviations. Re- plies to these notices which ask for money should be reported to the editors.

7th Div., 17th Inf., Co. L - SFC Homer Irwin May missing since Sept. 2, 1951. on Hill 851; presumed dead by Government Dec. 31, 1953. Anyone who served with him or who knows what happened to him please write his mother, Mrs. Virginia F. May, 3326 4th St., North, Minneapolis, Minn. 7th Div., 7th Signal Co., Photo Section - Sgt. Bela Kapotsffy died in Korea. Anyone who was with him at the time of his death or who was in his unit please write his mother, Mrs. Mar- garet Kapotsffy, 224 Third St., Passaic, N J. 2nd Div., 9th Inf. Regt., 2nd Bn., Hq Co. - SFC Daniel H. Sutton reported killed Dec. 1, 1950, near Sunchon. His body has never been recov- ered. His parents, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Sut- ton, Route 3, Port Townsend, Wash., would appreciate receiving any information about his death and burial, especially from anyone in his company who knew him. 5th RCT, 555th Field Artillery Bn., Battery B - "Browser's" License 2nd Lt. Paul Owen Parkhurst reported missing July 14, 1953. Anyone having any information about him please write his next of kin, Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Romine, 339 Logan, Bethal- "Specs" Johnson, high school to, 111. our 24th Div. — Cpl. Ray Frank Henry, who served English teacher, thinks it's a real with a heavy tank or artillery unit, was with who members of his unit waiting for an airplane to drop them a tank belt, July 31, 1950. Part treat to spend an hour or so browsing of the 24th Div. blew up the bridge which was the only way out for these men. It has in a bookshop found his idea of also been reported that Henry and another man were killed trying to remove the wounded heaven up in Centerville last week. Lt. Fowler from the path of enemy fire. Any- one who has any information about him please write his parents, Mr. & Mrs. William A. Henry, Route 2, Maryville, Tenn. "Just inside the door" Spec says, 2nd Div., 15th Field Artillery Bn., Battery B - Pvt. George L. Rights missing Feb. 13, 1951; "there's a tray of bright blue buttons. reported to have been a POW in the Bean Camp May 15, 1951. Any additional informa- If you want to look around without tion will be appreciated by his father, Dr. Douglas L. Rights, Box 68, Salem Station, Winston-Salem, N. C. having someone suggest you buy the latest best-selling novel, or maybe a OUTFIT history of Africa, you pin a button REUNIONS on your coat lapel. Notices restricted to those which give: Name of outfit; date; city; meeting place of "You can take your time and poke reunion; name and address of secretary. around all you like. Then when you've Army found the book you want, take off the 10th Armored Div. Vets' Ass'n. & 796th AAA - Annual convention, New York, N. Y.; Sept. button, and someone's right there to 4-6; Henry Hudson Hotel. For details write J. Edwin Grace. 172 Larch Road, Cambridge 38, Mass. take care of you." 11th Airborne Div. Ass'n. — 2nd annual reunion, New York, N. Y.; Oct. 16; 69th Regiment Ar- From where I sit, everybody prefers mory. Write Peter J. O'Regan, P. O. Box 11, Times Square Station, New York 36, N. Y. to his choice in things. It 32nd (Red Arrow) Div. (both WWs) - 35th annual make own convention, reunion & banquet, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sept. 4-6; Pantlind Hotel. For details doesn't matter whether it's books, or write V. J. Coles, 2306 Oakwood, NE, Grand Rapids, Mich. preferences in clothing or makes of 34th Inf. Div. Ass'n. - 7th nat'l reunion, Des Moines, Iowa; Sept. 10-12; Fort Des Moines cars. it's surprise that Hotel. Write Nat'l Hq. 34th Div. Ass'n., Ar- And no folks gonne Armory, Des Moines, Iowa.

37th Div. Vets Ass'n. - Reunion, Chicago, 111.; have personal preferences in beverages, Sept. 4-6; Morrison Hotel. Write Jack Mc- Guire, 1101 Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus 15, too. So if your neighbor orders a glass Ohio. 45th Inf. Div. - Annual reunion. New York, N. Y;. of beer while you're having coffee, re- Oct. 1-3; Hotel New Yorker. For info write Herman Lesansky, 398 Hinsdale St., Brook- lyn 7, N. Y. member he's entitled to his choice, too. 65th Div. Ass'n. - Convention, New York, N. Y.; Oct. 1-3; Hotel New Yorker. Info from James N. Robertson, 111 North Olive St., Media, Pa. 77th Div. - Annual dance & reunion. New York, N. Y.; Oct. 2; Hotel Roosevelt. Write Thomas F. Hyland, 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 East 39th St., New York, N. Y. 81st (Wildcat) Div. - Nat'l reunion, Rock Hill. S. C; Oct. 2-3; Hotel Andrew Jackson. For details write Wildcat Veterans Ass'n., 1325 Wilson Ave., Chicago 40, 111. 82nd (All American) Div. (WW1) - 35th annual reunion & dinner, New York, N. Y.; Oct. 23; Memorial Hall (28 East 39th St.). Write Edward C. Ellinger, 82nd Div. East Ass'n., 28 Copyright United States Brewers Foundation 39th St., New York 16, N. Y. 1954, THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 35 87th Div. Ass'n. — 5th reunion, Philadelphia. Pa.;' Minn.; Sept. 18. For info write Carl A. Olson, 103rd U. S. Inf. Vets "Last Survivor's Club" Sept. 17-18; Ben Franklin Hotel. Details rrom 2822 W. 60th St., Minneapolis, Minn. (AEF) — Annual reunion, Manchester, N. H.; 9-10; Donald McCabe, 6517 Torresdale Ave., Phila- 938th Field Artillery Bn., Service Battery, and Oct. William E. Jutras Post #43 A. L. delphia 35, Pa. 166th Field Artillery Regt., 1st Serv. - 7th Bldg. For info write Henry P. Paris, 155 St. James Ave., Manchester, N. 90th Inf. Div. — Annual reunion, Tulsa, Okla.; annual reunion. New Providence, Pa.; Sept. H. Nov. 12-14: Mayo Hotel. For info write 18; Home of Charles H. Rehm. Info from 431st AAA (AW) Bn. — Annual reunion. New Samuel W. Fry, Courthouse. Tulsa, Okla. Charles H. Rehm, New Providence, Pa. York. N. Y.; Oct. 9; Hotel Statler. Info from Alexander Wright, Alexander Ave., Washing- 91st Div. Ass'n. of Washington (both WW's) - 712th Tank Bn., Co. A - Reunion. Rockford, 111.; ton, 36th annua] reunion. Seattle, Wash.; Sept. 25; Sept. 18-19. Contact Robert E. Anderson, Ga. Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Write Rube La- Prophetstown, 111. Los Angeles M. P. Organization, Service Command 4910 — Los Shelle, 5407 42nd S. W., Seattle, Wash. 721st Railway Operating Bn. — 5th annual reunion. Unit Annual reunion & Banquet. Angeles, Cal.; Oct. 1-2; Mayfair Hotel. De- 95th Inf. Div. — 5th annual reunion, Chicago. 111.; Columbus. Ohio; Sept. 24-25; Deshler Hilton tails from Wm. W. Search, 1253 Redondo Sept. 17-19; LaSalle Hotel. Info from J. G. Hotel. Info from James J. Weaver, 925'/i S. Blvd.: Los Angeles 19. Cal. Sitter. P. O Box 1274. Chicago 90, 111. Broad St.. Lancaster, Ohio. 389th Field Artillery Bn., Battery - 6th annual 104th Inf. Div. (Nat'I Timberwolf Ass'n.) - 9th 521st Ordnance Co. (H.M.F.A.) - Reunion. Sag- C reunion, Castle. Pa.; Oct. Walmo annual reunion & convention, Portland. Ore.; inaw. Mich.; Sept. 24-26; Bancroft Hotel. New 2; Inn, Route 18 N. For info contact G. M. Sept. 4-6; Multnomah Hotel. Write G. C. Rat- Contact Jay Gunnett, 4130 Hillandale St., Goetze, Charlotteville Road. Newfane, N. Y. cliff, 607 Henry Bldg., Portland, Ore. Kalamazoo. Mich. 36th Tank Bn. Ass'n. — 9th annual reunion. New 315th Inf. Regt. |WW2| - Reunion. Cincinnati. 319th Engineers (WWI) — Annual reunion, San York, N. Y.: Oct. 2: Hotel Sutton. Details Ohio; Sept. 3-6; Hotel Gibson. For info write Francisco, Cal.j Sept. 25; Marines Memorial from Joseph A. Pellicano. 331 Holt Drive, T. G. Shufflebarger, Richlands, Va. Bldg. (Mason & Sutter Streets). Contact Col. Pearl River, N. Y. 80lh Field Artillery, Battery D (WWI) - Reunion, C. W. Otwell, 348 Addison St., Palo Alto. Cal. 68th C.A.C., Battery B (WWI) -6th annual re- Philadelphia, Pa.; Sept. 4; Hotel Sylvania. union, Bradley. III.; Oct. 3; American Legion Contact Frank C. Grieves. 3202 Princeton 252nd Field Artillery Bn. — Annual reunion, Mil- Home. Info from John C. Kehm. 1306 Jeff St.. Ave., Philadelphia 49, Pa. waukee, Wis.; Sept. 25; AHEPA Bldg. (3208 Mendota, 111. W. Highland Blvd.). Info from Arthur E. 40lh Engr. Nat'I Ass'n. - Reunion. St. Cloud. Mertens, 2415 N. 37th St., Milwaukee 10. Wis. 148th Field Hospital — 34th annual reunion, Bowl- Minn.; Sept. 4; Hotel St. Cloud. Write Lock ing Green, Ohio; Oct. 3; 164 N. Main. Details Box 132. Chippewa Falls, Wis. 516th Ordnance Co. (H.M.F.A.) — 10th annual re- from O. N. Grover, 260 S. Enterprise. Bowl- union, Madison. Wis.; Sept. 25; Eagles Club. 550th Airborne Inf. Ass'n. — 2nd annual reunion ing Green. Ohio. Write Earl Haakenstad. 413 Frost New York, N. Y.; Sept. 4-5; Hotel Shelburne. Woods Rd. Madison 135th AAA (GN.) Bn. — Annual reunion, Cleve- Contact Vincent W. Kelleher. 243 4, Wis. Lexington land, Ohio; Oct. 15-16; Hotel Hollenden. Con- Ave., New York 16, N. Y. 135th Medical Regt. - Annual reunion. Burlington. tact Charles Brewer, 16213 Madison Ave., Inf. Wis.; Sept. 25-26; Browns Lake Resort. For 353rd - Reunion, Hutchinson, Kan.; Sept. 4-6; Lakewood 7, Ohio. details write Sam Fragale. 1410 Willmor. Baker Hotel. For info contact John C. Racine, Wis. 12th Eng'rs Regt. (L.R.) (AEF) - Biennial home- Hughes, 829 East Ave. B.; Hutchinson. Kan. coming reunion, St. Louis, Mo.; Oct. 15-16; 133rd Inf., Co. E. (WW2) - Reunion. Webster 10th Engineer Bn. - Eighth annual re- York Hotel. Write Charles A. Lieber, 3939 Citv, Iowa; Sept. 25-26; Armorv. Write Don- union, Monroe, Wis.; Sept. 4-6; farm of Law- Magnolia Ave., St. Louis 10. Mo. ald M. Andrew. 1220 Walnut St.. rence Raymer. Additional into from Lawrence Webster City, Iowa. 132nd General Hospital — Reunion, Newark, N. J.; Raymer. Rt. 5, Monroe, Wis. Oct. 16; Douglas Hotel. Contact C. L. Barr, 137th Inf., Co. B (WWI) - Reunion, Horton, 39lh Combat Engr's Ass'n. - 7th annual reunion. 817 Duncan Ave.. Yeadon, Pa. Kan.; Sept. 26; Hall. Info Louisville. Ky.; Sept. 4-6; Hotel Seelbach. Info VFW from Floyd A. McGehe, 406 New Jersey Ave., Holton, 143rd Inf., Co. C (WWI) - Annual reunion, Beau- from R. A. Stokes. 1124 Monument St., No- mont, Tex.; Nov. 11; Woodmen of the World blesville, Ind. Kan. Hall. Info from M. P. Stewart, 1475 Cart- 107th Field Artillery, Battery A (WWI) - Reunion, 326th Field Artillery, Batterv B - Reunion, Louis- wright, Beaumont, Tex. Phillipsburg, N. J.; Sept. 26; Thorpe's Grove. ville, Ky.; Sept. 5; 6 mi So. Fourth St. Write Write Wm. H. Wack, 628 Terrace Ave., 315th Trench Mortar Battery (WWI) - Bowie. Chester Brown, P. O. Box 112, Cynthiana, Ky. Bethlehem, Pa. Tex.; Nov. 11. Contact E. I. Drechsel, P. O. Box 596, Quitman, Tex. 7th Regt. N. Y. Post #107 American Legion - 555th Engineer Hv. Pon. Bn. - 7th annual reunion. Annual reunion & dinner commemorating Milwaukee, Wis.; Sept. 5; Amvets Hall at 6th breaking of Hindenburg Line. York. Navy & Mitchell. Details from Anton Brzezinski, New N. Y.; Sept. 29; Appleton Memorial Mess 2650 So. 66th St., Milwaukee, Wis. 1st Marine Aviation Force Veterans Ass'n — 16th Hall & Lounge. Contact Erno Hartmann. 643 605th Tank annual reunion, Baltimore, Md.; Nov. 12-14; Destroyer Bn. — 6th annual reunion. Park Ave., New York 21, N. Y. Findlay, Ohio; Sept. 5; Findlay City Park. Lord Baltimore Hotel. For info contact James E. Nicholson. 310 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore 1, Inio from Alfred Schmit. 626 E. 3rd St., Delphus, Ohio. Md. National (F) — Annual reunion, Washing- 1st Convalescent Hospital - 7th annual reunion, THE AMERICAN LEGION Yeomen ton, D. Sept. 1; National Press Club. Info Grinnell, Iowa; Sept. 5; home of LeRoy C; NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS from Miss Jane R. Cox, 1621 H Street, S. E., Mithelman ( Vi mi. south of town). Info from Washington, D. C. Henry J. Neidert, 203 Bluff St., Waterloo, JULY 30, 1954 Iowa. 62nd Naval Construction Bn. — Reunion, Chicago. 1st Signal Bn. - 9th annual reunion. Canton. Ohio; ASSETS 111.; Sept. 4-5; LaSalle Hotel. Contact Willard Sept. 5; Home of Joe Addessi. 3300 Cherry Richardson, 432 W. 74th St., Chicago, 111. Ext. S.E. Info from George Hands. Jr.. 12034 Cash on hand and nn deposit.....' 406,852.39 USS Lexington — 1st annual reunion. Long Beach. Bramel, Detroit. Mich. 196,376.30 Cal.; Sept. 10; Lakewood Country Club. Con- 4143rd Ser. Co. (formerly Co. C, 533rd Ser. Bn.) - 438,273.65 tact Tallie James. 2651 Cedar Ave., Long Beach, Cal. 5th annual reunion, Syracuse, N. Y.; Sept. 6; 1,259,600.22 Permanent Trusts: Polish Legion of America Vets. For info con- North Sea Mine Force Ass'n. — Annual reunion, Overseas tact Joe Virgil, 28 Kingsboro Rd., Rochester Graves Decoration New York, N. Y.; Oct. 14-16; Hotel New Trust 19, N. Y. Fund $ 255,277.33 Yorker. For info contact J. J. Kammer, 54 Employees' Retirement 561st QM Group, 3919th - Walnut Ave., Floral Park, L. I., N. Y. QM GS Supply Co. Re- Trust Fund 1,602,917.43 1,858,144.76 union, Cincinnati, Ohio; Sept. 6;' 1554 Linn USS Guest - 1st reunion. New York, N. Y.; Oct. 973,972.65 St.. Apt. 882. Write Hubert O. Tatum, 410 So. 16-17; Hotel New Yorker. Details from James Furniture and Fixtures, Fayette St.. Beckley, W. Va. J. Fischer. 33>-i Isabel Ave.. Glenolden, Pa. 257,769.02 535th Ordnance Co. (H.M. F.A.I - Reunion, Water- 75,947.69 Veterans of USS Salvage — 4th annual reunion, loo. Iowa; Sept. 10-12; Hotel President. Con- Boston, Mass.; Oct. 23; Hotel Touraine. De- $5,466,936.68 tact Del Kendall, 1150 Glenny Ave.; Waterloo, tails from Arthur Hapenny, 12 Sunset Hill Iowa. Road, Roslindale 31, Mass. 129th Inf. Co. M (WWI) - Reunion. Belvidere. LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE USS Trego - Reunion, Atlanta. Ga.; Nov. 26-28; III.; Sept. 11; Eldon Bowlevs Inn. Details AND NET WORTH Piedmont Hotel. Write M. A. Garner. Route 2. trom William M. Georgeson, Capron, III. Box 92. Greenwood. S. C. 322nd Field Artillery Ass'n. (WWI) - 35th annual reunion, Columbus, Ohio; Sept. 11; Haft Mo- 84,710.36 Air tel, U. S. Route 40. Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Con- Deferred Income 1,059,580.78 American Balloon Corps Veterans Ass'n. — Re- tact L. B. Fritsch, P. 0. Box 324, Hamilton, Permanent Trusts: Ohio. Overseas Graves Decoration union, Washington, D. C; Aug. 29-Sept. 1; Trust Fund 225,227.33 Sheraton-Park Hotel. Contact Charles F. De- 134th M. G. Bn., Co. B (WWI) - Reunion. Steu- $ Employees' Retirement vine, 1620 Sterigere St.. Norristown, Pa. benville, Ohio; Sept. 11; H. G. Weals, Mingo Trust Fund 1,602,917.43 Jet., Ohio. Info from H. G. Weals, Mingo 1,858,144.76 4th Air Depot Group — 7th annual dance & re- Jet.. Ohio, c/o Mingo Pharmacy. Net Worth: union, Wilmington, Ohio; Sept. 5-6; Gen. Restricted Denver Hotel and Clinton County Fair- X8th Div. M. P. Co.'s. (WWI) - 17th annual re- Capital: grounds. Write Bill Williams, 539 W. Main union. Mille Lacs Lake. Minn.; Sept. 11-12; Reserve Fund . .$ 23.852.30 Restricted Fund. 18,331.42 St., Wilmington, Ohio. New Lakeside Inn. Write Albert J. Meyer. Cumberland. Iowa. Reserve for construction 37th Aero Sqdn. — Annual reunion, Marina, Cal.;

Washington . . 38,534.18 327lh Field Artillery (WWI) - Sept. 18-19; Paradise Lodge. Write F. W. Reunion, Taylor- Real Estate 973,972.65 ville. III.; Sept. 12; Manners Park. Ring. P. O. Box 413. Marina. Cal. Info from Reserve for Rehabili- Paul E. Zeeb, City Hall, Greenville. 1st Air Service Mechanics Regt., Co. 6 (AEF) - 111. tation 364,018.57 90th Annual reunion & dinner. New York, N. Y.: General Hospital (WW2) - Reunion New Reserve for Child Hotel Piccadilly. Info Edwin York, N. Y.; Sept. 12; Prince George Hotel. Welfare 35,472.36 Oct. 16; from Contact Dr. A. Henry Clagett. Jr.. 303 Light- Lord, 11 Otis St., Everett 49, Mass. $1,454,181.48 house Road. Wilmington 3, Del. Sqdn.— Reunion. Monterey, Cal.; Nov. Unrestricted Capital: 372nd Aero 120th Inf. Regt., Co. IV1 - Hotel. Write Leonard Abi- Annual reunion. Wilson, Excess for Income over 6; Casa Munras N. Sept. 425 Alvarado St., Monterey, Cal. C.J 16; Parker's Restaurant. Details Expense 666,986.37 2,121,167.85 nanti, from Edmond J. Reizck, 121 Tate St., Greens- 557th Bomb. Sqdn. Ass'n. — 3rd annual reunion, $5,466,936.68 boro, N. C. Dallas. Tex.; Feb. 12-14. 1955: Baker Hotel. 3rd Inf. Regt. (The Old Guard) Vets Ass'n. & Contact Bob Sarason, Secretary, Hotel Gover- Auxiliary - Annual reunion. Fort Snelling, nor Clinton, New York 1, N. Y.

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ARE YOU GOING TO GET A PENSION?

(Continued from page 1 5 Ifoit'CC m hettvi, am wwz eo6t£y, fashion, General Motors, Ford, and other automobile manufacturers follow pretty much the pattern of plan arrived at through bargaining with the United Automobile Workers, CIO. Most pattern plans mesh in with federal social security benefits, and very few are contributory. The petroleum industry, however, was not content to wait for union de- mands to stir up their pension pudding. Apart from the few concerns with plans of long standing, oil companies had organized their own during the Thirties, and on a pretty liberal basis. And they MODEL K3 added a new ingredient, in the form of 3 Power Weaver-Scope shown with Weaver Detachable Split-Ring a thrift, or provident, fund, as an ad- Mounts. Scope $37.50; Mount $9.75. ditional source of retirement income. Shell Oil Company, like many of the wtik a oil giants, not only has a non-contributory fixed income pension for wage and NEW MODEL K SERIES 60 salary workers, which is based on length of service and 40 percent of final pay. They have also, on a voluntary basis, a Weaver - scope Provident Fund, to which the employe can contribute a percentage of his pay. Take the case of Joe Jones, who is mak- Your shooting can be only as good as your vision. The precision ing some $400 a month. From his first optics of the Series 60 K Model Scopes give you a brilliant, sharp year of employment through his third, and magnified target, with just the crosshair to align on the game; he can contribute to the fund 2\A per- you'll aim easily and quickly—resulting in more accurate shooting, cent of his monthly pay check. This more clean kills and less wounded game. See the new Series 60 K goes up, and from his seventh year on, Models at your dealer's. he is allowed to put in 10 percent. After 20 years he will have accumulated, NEW . . . SERIES 60 MODEL through his own contributions and equally matching ones on the company's part, the healthy balance of $15,360. >45<>o

Add to this the interest, which is close to $2,000, and Joe Jones has in his CHECK THESE IMPORTANT MODEL K SERIES 60 FEATURES hand a lump sum of money the like of • Large Precision Lenses— for a sharp, clear and magnified image. which he has never before held. It is • Micrometer Click Adjustments— guaranteed accurate and dependable. rare indeed for a Shell employe to re- • Hermetically Sealed Lenses— airtight, moistureproof. tire on less 50 than percent of his pre- • Lightweight Steel Tube— for strength and permanent finish. retirement pay; so there seems some • New Seal-Lock Turret— adjustments fully protected and sealed. justification for the company's hope © 1954 W. R. Weaver Co. that this prospect will serve as an an- chor to hold him at his job. WEAVER SERIES 60 PRICES Please send folders on Weaver Scopes and Mounts Because the various elements of the K2.5 $37.50 K6 $48.50 NAME Shell retirement package—the pension, K3 37.50 K8 59.50 Provident Fund, insurance, disability K4 45.00 K10 59.50 ADDRESS KV $57.50 and death benefits—are so satisfactory CITY ^ZONE_ _STATE_ Weaver Detachable Mounts to most employes, union bargaining on R. EL with Split-Rings W. WEAVER CO. PASO, TEXAS pension matters, save in terms of raising Top or Side $9.75 DEPT. 38 benefits, is strictly pro forma, just to MADE IN U. S. A. BY AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN keep the franchise, so to speak. Shell employes have a vested right to their pension, and can retire when they wish, ALL NYLON Auto Seat Cover! is TOUGH! Will Resist provided their age and years of service imaee. No installation Proi.lem— No Tacks or Nails Needed. GUAR- add up to the figure 80. ANTEED TO TIT OR MONEY BACK WITH- Though covering far fewer people IN 10 DAYS' WASH- ABLE— Dries in One than Hour. Split Style for the federal social security program Folding Front Seat and Solid Style for F.iiher —eleven million as opposed to 60 million Front or Rear Seats Price ONLY $2.98 For Front Split Or —private pension plans are far more x.hd Seat and ONLY Just show am features to friei $3.50 for BOTH j. pius E»

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SLi'TEMBER, 1954 • 37 workers has a complicated problem. discriminatory by the Bureau of In- the employer wants to give an employe plan The employer first of all has to real- ternal Revenue, over half are insured. for his years of service before the ize that pension planning means long- But they protect only some 31/2 million becomes effective. Thus for example range planning. He must decide how of the 10 or 11 million workers covered he must determine how much pension much income he wishes to give his by industrial programs today. credit to give a 55-year-old worker the superannuated employes, how much he Many of the first retirement plans with 30 years of employment on plan goes into effect. is willing to pay for it, and how best were set up on what is known as a "pay- day the new To to do this. The experts will tell him that as-you-go" basis. This meant that when give him full service credits, such as he there are basically two good ways of a worker retired, his boss took the would have had if the plan had been first to work, paying for his plan. The first is the in- money for his pension out of the till. effective when he went prohibitively expensive. de- suring of retirement benefits with an He did not save for it in advance, but would be A the insurance company, on a group or in- met his pension costs as the demand cision must be made as to where programs dividual basis. If he does this, by paying for them arose. In the beginning this is line is to be drawn. Most that his contributions regularly in the form an inexpensive way of handling pension work out some way of funding, so credits will be paid up in of premiums, he is in effect handing financing. But the costs pyramid; more these service over to the insurance company the en- employes are approaching retirement 10, 20, or even 30 years. develop sharp tire responsibility of guaranteeing that all the time, and those already drawing Pension problems can management retirement income when it comes due. retirement checks are living longer. The differences of opinion, and He even divests himself of administra- time inevitably comes when the costs and labor may frequently be in conflict tion matters. Or, second, he can trans- are too high to be met. Experts seem over them. One such conflict lies in fer the money in his pension fund to a to agree that in the light of experience who is to pay for the plan — the em- alone, in conjunction with his trust, either a corporate trust run by this type of plan is not sound. It is not, ployer or large, unions feel that a bank, or an individual trust that is self- moreover, qualified under the Internal employes. By and responsibility of administered. The trust will handle the Revenue Act as eligible for tax deduc- pensions should be the that if operating and administering of the pen- tions. Only recently John L. Lewis, the employer. They point out sion program, and also the investing of whose United Mine Workers and the the boss pays for the pension, it costs taxes. the money. The company, however, re- coal operators had set up this kind of less, for it is deductible from his tains financial control. Either of these pay-as-you-go plan, had to declare a re- Management believes that although an methods of financing can be used with duction in benefits being paid out to employe-contributed plan might be variations, or in combination. retired anthracite workers. Even more more costly to administer, it will be valued more by its members, who will Briefly, it is held that trusts, whether cuts are expected. interest corporate or individual, provide more The employer's costs will be made then feel a direct proprietary in it. 80 percent of the more than flexibility administratively, and also per- up of what he pays out in the form of About five million workers covered by nego- mit a wider range of investment pos- benefits, plus the expense of operating tiated plans do not contribute toward sibilities. And in the short run at least, his program. From these expenses will them. In general, the CIO is against they cost less. The insurance company, be deducted whatever the fund earns them, while the AFL regards them with on the other hand, while it is bound by if it is invested. The employer must rather stringent legal regulations to in- accumulate enough money in his fund less hostility. One of management's chief motiva- vest its funds very conservatively, can to pay for future retirement benefits tions in setting up a pension program is spread the risks over a far wider area, when they come due. He must also, and the hope that because a worker can and thus provide the employer and this is perhaps his toughest financial nut look forward to a more secure old age, prospective pensioner a much greater to crack, make regular installment pay- will less likely to shop around guarantee. Of the 22,000-odd plans in ments on past service liabilities so that he be job. But in spite of the existence that are qualified as being eventually they'll be paid off in full. A for another burgeoning coverage of workers, rela- satisfactorily funded, formal, and non- past service liability is that credit which tively few of them do stay in one place long enough to be eligible for a pension. The average American worker changes jobs once every three or four years, and when he does so, he usually loses all rights to whatever pension has accrued in his name. Vested rights are a standard union demand—one which has thus far found little employer acceptance. A vested pension right really' amounts to private ownership of pension credits. Under a fully-vested program a man who at the age of 50 had worked for 20 years could leave his job, and 15 years later, if 65 were the accepted retirement age of the company, begin drawing a pension based upon the credits accumulated during those 20 years. One of the basic ideas underlying

the theory of insurance is that people operating as a group can afford what an individual cannot. This was put into effect some time ago in pension plans "Let's see — what town is this? of some of the old-line unions, notably AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the International Ladies Garment

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Workers, and the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers—since a large number of clothing industry employers operate businesses of 20 employes or less. Such an employer cannot afford the single-policy type of insured pension, yet his employes cannot qualify nu- merically for any sort of group program. So the unions and employers grouped together to insure retirement income for their workers. Known as an industry-wide plan, this kind of program was rare only a few years ago.

But it is now gaining in popularity. Some of the industrial-type unions are pushing pensions on a geographic, multi-employer basis. A plan worked out in Toledo, Ohio, served pretty much as the model for this, when 27 small-scale employers got together and signed an agreement for retirement income for their employes. Among them were a paint and varnish concern, a manufacturer of box lunches, and a hardware store—different industries but all recognizing the same union, the UAW, CIO. Each of them contributed seven cents an hour worked into a pool, a trust fund administered by a board on which sit four employer representatives, four union representatives, and presided over by an impartial chairman. A man working for one of the member businesses can change freely from one to another without jeopardizing his pension credits. As the number of plans grows, so does the impact of pensions on the economy of the country in general. An enormous amount of money is involved in the pension business, and its management wields tremendous power. It is estimated that a sum far in excess of $17 billion is lodged in pension funds, and well over $3 billion of this is invested in public and private bonds and stocks.

Additional money is flowing into retirement plans at the rate of $2 to $214 billion every year. Pension money represents roughly one-fifth of the entire savings of the country. Funds invest their money in diverse wr ays— in bonds and stocks, in various kinds of businesses, and in property. One such fund SEND YOUR NAME and address with $1 to has bought the entire land on w hich Calvert, Box 5068-AL, Chicago, III., for fow the Fifth Avenue Woolw orth's in New de luxe "Lo-Ball" Glasses hand-carved with York City stands. By 1970, when the your last-name initial. ( Print Plainly. lease of the store is up, the fund will own property worth some $27 million. (Offer void if taxed, prohibited, or otherwise restricted by .slate or municipal laws. Limited to U.S.A., its territories and possessions. Deliv- So rapid has been the rate of grow th, ery of glasses takes about four weeks. Offer expires Dec. 31, 1954.) so complex the problems that need to be ironed out, both in the initial es- tablishment of plans and in their continued operation, that a whole new profession has developed—that of pension ... 1 Compa re a nd you 1 expert. The top consultants, who ten fCafoerfl ^^^k . rT-i h»i £ years ago were devoting their time to ^ I I actuarial, legal, insurance or accounting switch to affairs, now have switched over com- c«iivc?t pletely to the new field. But while the steclworker, milk de- BLENDED WHISKEY-86.8 PR00F-65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPI RITS— CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., N.Y.C. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • .SEPTEMBER. 1954 • 39 liverer, baseball player, clerk or nurse cent date that the matter of pensions full vesting rights to the accruing pen- is able today to look toward retirement is not yet on the bargaining table. Small sion. He retains these rights through- with some sense of freedom from anxi- proprietors just don't know how to out his life, even during periods of un- ety, there are many Americans who still finance a retirement program for their employment or while working for an worry because they have no proctec- handful of employes. They see no focal outfit that is not in the association. tion. Continued broadening of the fed- point in which to center their pooled To date, the self-employed person, eral social security base will eventually resources, and the sizable transient ele- though in process of gaining admittance insure all Americans some money for ment in their work force stops them to the federal social security family, their support in old age. But economists from even considering what possibilities has had no way of getting for himself maintain that anything above the very there are. the extra cushion for his old age that a minimum cannot be provided without They might take a leaf out of the privately financed pension or profit- the whole economy of the country be- book of the social workers, to whom sharing plan provides. Individual annui- ing set askew. Pension experts agree job changes are inherent in the pro- ties are prohibitively costly. A bill in- that private plans should make up the fession. In 1945 leaders in the field got troduced in Congress this year, how- difference between the rockbottom sum together and organized the National ever, if passed, will permit many of necessary for board and lodging, and Health and Welfare Association for so- these individuals who work for them- the additional amount necessary to cial workers and hospital employes selves to set up their own plan and make old age moderately comfortable, from one side of the nation to the other. deduct what it costs from their income satisfying, and free from worry. At that time there was a particular need tax. In most small units like the corner for some such body, since federal so- How does the picture look for the grocer, the druggist, the small garage cial security didn't cover this area of future? There is no doubt that pension proprietor, there are few retirement employment, because it is on the non- programs are going to cover more and programs in existence. The theaters, profit level. The 2,280 member organi- more people. No one in the field, or con- supermarkets, department stores, in fact zations of the association today cover nected with it, believes that a strong all industries where turnover is impor- about 25,000 employes and are loosely wind, a broiling sun, or even a good- tant, pose some weighty problems for knit in the extreme; they are bound size depression is likely to melt away the pension planner. Many of these only by the field of employment. Each the pension fund snowball that is at places of employment are not union- member, whether a social worker, a the core of the country's industrial pen- ized, and if they are, it is of such re- nurse, orderly or technician, maintains sion picture today. the end

RUSSIA'S GOLDEN BULLETS (Continued from page 21) furriers must play ball with the Reds' Red propaganda among nations de- revive. And once we get back into the

Fur Workers Union. "There's little we pendent on U.S. trade is devoted to government, we won't be thrown ." can do about it," said one furrier, "as claims that the U.S. will suffer an eco- out . . long as women prefer Russian sables." nomic crisis, leaving the Allies on the These remarkable utterances quite The Kremlin also uses trade for in- breadline. Soviet trade is offered as a naturally caused a sensation when ex- dustrial espionage. Its U.S. purchasing hedge against depression and a means of posed in April by the Finnish press. agency, Amtorg, serves as a "cover" for "smashing Wall Street domination." Little wonder, then, that the Finns are such spying, which it found compara- Of course, the reds hope, by crippling not overly anxious to trade with their tively easy following U.S. recognition U.S. trade (about 10 percent normal big neighbor. of Russia in 1933. U.S. economic activity), a U.S. depres- The reds are wholly without morals That Moscow is still conducting in- sion will ensue. in terms of normal trade tradition. dustrial espionage was reported by Ra- What the reds don't tell is their plans They will overbid, undersell, and make dio Free Europe in March. The U.S. for nations whose economies become any kind of deal suiting them politi- firms from which the reds sought sam- enmeshed with the Soviets'. This was cally. ples of strategic items, according to the spelled out, however, at a secret meet- At times, Kremlin trade policies may report, include: Lukens Steel, Bethle- ing of Scandinavian reds by Ville Pessi, appear contradictory. But, basically, hem Steel, New Jersey Zinc, Illinois head of Finland's communists: everything fits into the over-all design Zinc, Republic Steel, Celotex, the Cela- "We have launched a powerful of expansion abroad and consolidation nese Corp., Hercules Powder, Rohm & campaign to direct our foreign trade at home. Haas, and B. F. Goodrich. more and more to the U.S.S.R. and For example, Russia is so deficient in

The "samples" sought were so small the people's democracies. capital equipment, that she is beseech- they apparently were wanted for re- "We shall prosecute this campaign ing the West for mining machinery, search. Radio Free Europe said some until 40 or 50 percent of our trade construction steel, machine tools and "samples" were obtained and shipped is carried on with the East. the like. to Moscow by diplomatic courier. "Thereby, we shall force Finland Yet, to obtain foodstuffs to quiet dis- On a worldwide scale, the Kremlin's into the Soviet orbit. At a suitable content among the enslaved peoples, the trade offensive has two major purposes: juncture, this trade will suddenly be Kremlin is making deals to export such 1. To obtain strategic goods, banned stopped. equipment - $30,000,000 worth in the by the West, to speed industrialization "With Finland wholly dependent case of Argentina. in the Soviet slave empire, from the on eastern trade for vital supplies, the In effect, this is robbing Peter to pay Elbe to the Yangtze; the accent, of paralysis would bring about economic Paul; but, in the long run, Moscow course, is on armaments and atomic crisis, followed by political crisis, hopes to get out of the hole by vast production. widespread unemployment and pub- imports from the West. 2. To smash Allied unity, weaken lic unrest. If ever there was commercial Machia- NATO, and abort the plan for a Euro- "At this point, we will be invited vellianism in the world, this is it. Take pean Defense Community, eventually into the government. the experience of sixty British business- making Western Europe economically "Of course, we would immediately men in Moscow last January. dependent on Russia. tackle the difficulties. Trade would The group had gone for a billion dol-

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 lars in orders. Instead, they heard "PLEASE HELP ME. MY HUSBAND IS VERY ILL." speeches, attended vodka parties, and returned home practically empty-handed. The billion-dollar proposition had a catch to it. Moscow was supremely uninterested in textiles. Moscow wanted machine tools, Diesel engines and other banned heavy equipment. In effect, the British were told: Bring pressure on your government to force the U.S. to abandon what's left of the economic blockade and then you can participate in the Moscow gold rush. In the U.S. the Kremlin's 25,000 full- time operatives are telling Americans that unless Washington "plays ball" with Moscow, England will grab all the lush trade. The Daily Worker put it this way: "Chicago and cities like Peoria are losing this business to the Brit- ish firms which are laughing up their sleeves at the way the 'red scare' here blinds us to our own interest. The 'red scare' junk is costing the country heavily. This is one of the worst fruits of fascist Mc- Carthyism, the country's worst enemy of East-West trade." Medal. Mrs. Carolyn F. Gross, night operator in Berlin, N. Awarded The trade embargo was devised for Awarded J. Vail Medal for "initiative and resourcefulness" in answering an emergency call. precisely that reason: to hurt the Soviet. Vail Medals, accompanied by cash awards, are given annually by the Bell System. Ever since the 1948 red grab of Czechoslovakia, but increasingly after Korea, a big, fantastically complicated system was worked out under U.S. guidance (or prodding) to keep the reds from obtaining Allied goods which Out of the Njght could add to the enemy's military strength. The embargo, however, was not total. All through Korea the Allies were per- Came a Call for Help mitted to ship "non-strategic" goods. As time went on, the U.S. tolerated more loopholes. Quick action of alert telephone operator The official explanation was that the economies of our Allies depend on a helps save man with heart attack minimum of trade with the enemy. differentia- Of course, the attempted It was about two o'clock of an August arranged to have the State Police meet tion between "strategic" and "non-stra- morning when the call flashed on the him and lead him to the house. tegic" is a myth. The complexity of war switchboard. A woman, in an excited Shortly after, the subscriber's daugh- is such that few items are not war- voice, asked to be connected with a ter called to ask for oxygen. useful. The test is simply: do the reds doctor. "It's on the way," said Mrs. Gross. want it? Mrs. Carolyn F. Gross, the night "I thought you might need it so I tele- Bernard M. Baruch has illustrated the operator, rang the doctor's home im- phoned the emergency ambulance serv- difficulty in trying to differentiate be- mediately but he was unavailable. Sens- ice. They'll be there any minute." tween strategic and non-strategic. The ing a critical emergency, she asked if duty, elder statesman asked the President's Just before she went off Mrs. she could help get another doctor. Commission on Foreign Economic Pol- Gross called to ask how the sick man if anything else icy to name one item that could not be "Oh, please do everything you can," was doing and there was useful in war. implored the caller. "My husband has she could do. The Commission was stumped. "What had a heart attack and is very ill." "You've already done so much," said about bubble gum?" the chairman fi- Mrs. Gross rang a doctor who had a grateful voice. "The doctor says that nally asked. helped in a previous emergency. Then, it's only because of your help that my Which places the term "non-strate- realizing he was new in the area, she husband is alive." gic" in proper focus. stands ever Yet, according to Harold Stassen, Ever Ready . . . Ever Helpful. Day or night, the telephone "strategic" is a "relative term with no ready to help yon. It will run your errands, guard your home, save steps and relatives In and definition that holds good for all times, time and keep you in touch with and friends. office home, these oft-repeated words reveal its value— "I don't know what places and circumstances . . . There are I'd do without the telephone." innumerable goods used entirely or pre- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM dominantly in the civilian economy

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which] call 'non-strategic' . . . But, effi- 22 CALIBER | we thanks to "Moscow's highly You would have no trouble drawing the cient intelligence service," as the New line between a jet plane and a powder York Times pointed out, Moscow knew CARBINES puff — or butter." of it almost immediately'. But the reds want butter, not powder Columnist David Lawrence said the \SMALL PRICE puffs. Like most consumers' goods, it "secrecy" actually was designed "to was sacrificed for war production. By keep the American people and Congress BIG VALUE buying butter from the West, the from knowing that the spirit, if not the Kremlin hopes to maintain a war econ- letter, of its laws forbidding trade in That' s the quick story of Mossberg' omy and have its cake, too. strategic commodities with aggressors two fast-handling, 7-shot, 5 lb., 22 caliber carbines. They shoot with Food, therefore, can be strategic, a was being flagrantly violated. It is a dis- the best of them. And note hinged fact recognized by Prime Minister tressing chapter in American history." forend, which serves as hand grip Churchill in World War 11. Prior to Also distressing were Administration or ground support. Clip type re- U.S. entry, Herbert Hoover offered to attempts to pooh-pooh the McCarthy peater and automatic. Both offer children the Countries, choice of peep sight or open sights. feed of Low Committee findings on Allied trade. The YOUR MOSSBERG DIALER overrun by the nazis. Churchill refused, Committee reported in mid- 195 3 that WANTS TO SHOW YOU THESE stating the food would aid the nazi our allies had engaged in a two-billion- Just see how much quality war machine. dollar trade with the Soviet bloc right Mossberg gives you for so little Ladies' underwear has been classified strategic, since nylon can be converted #142 and #1 42K (bolt action) into parachutes. Yet wool, which can WALLY ($24.95 West ol Rockies) *23 95 make uniforms, now is "non-strategic." #1 52 and #1 52K (automatic) That many strategic items were thus ($30.95 West ol Rockies) *29' 5 reclassified was disclosed by Harold NOW IS THE "K" Models above have open Stassen, in his April testimony before RIGHT TIME sights— others have peep sfghf the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee. However, Stassen indulged in some TO WRITE JOIN A GUN CLUB semantic sleight-of-hand. Organized shooting is loads of fun—and you'll find the nicest Stassen declared the U.S. was not re- folks in town are members. laxing the ban on strategic goods. No — we were simply reducing materials listed as strategic.

^^i^ 1 ^ Send for Stassen insisted that a total blockade FREE catalog of the Soviet bloc would "make the sales at factory 0. F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc. No prospects of war more likely." How 49909 St. John St., New Haven 5, Conn. helping build up Soviet war potential will lessen war danger is difficult to understand — particularly after Stassen (From May, 1943 A.L.M.) MAKE took bows for the fact that tight trade A letter NOW would be controls had caused "people's unrest" appreciated! BIG MONEY behind the Iron Curtain. "Then," asked Jersey's Senator IN YOUR SPARE TIME New H. Alexander Smith, "why not keep PRINTING—CALENDARS—NOVELTIES. through Korea. The report, said the the pressures on, even increase them?" Big money selling the big National Line at New York Times' Arthur Krock, was in the industry. Embossed lowest prices Stassen cited the carrot-and-stick compiled with "infinite and apparently calendars $5.95 for 100. Kitchen recipe and analogy. Having used the "stick" of a Pocket calendars $12.50. Hangers $11.95. irrefutable detail ... an example of calendars Plastic, metal and leatherette desk heavy trade ban to impede red military Congressional investigation at the high- $9.95. Low prices and fast delivery on from production, we will now use the "car- salesbooks, business stationery, business est level." ptc. sales kit. National Press, reds to build cards, Free rot" trade to persuade the One can understand, after reading it, Dept. A-l, North Chicago 5, Illinois. a peaceful economy, thus helping "main- why Europeans are so alarmed about tain the basic friendship of people be- "McCarthyism." The real animus abroad hind the Iron Curtain." against McCarthy- was not that he a Assuming these people obtain launched a "reign of terror" on "non- living standard, the slightly higher conformists." No, it was more serious. I'll Send You This Handsome credit will redound solely to the Soviet He was exposing the fact that our Allies SAMPLE CASE-FREE system. would do anything for a buck. Said the But these peoples will also believe the London Times: and Show You How to Make gj U.S. will do nothing to further their "The McCarthy policy-, if one Up to $30.00 in a Day Mailt liberation, that there is no hope of de- it such a name, .S«i.lrtW|K»*nl»ith lMllieuu- can dignify by tiful, bin-value suit and overcoat fabrics. Take orders trom friends, liverance from abroad, that even passive would logically lead to the stop- fellow - workers, others, for fine quality, made-to-measure clothes. resistance to Soviet rule is suicide. all the Soviet Pocket bit; cash profits in advance. ping of trade with Because wear intr our suits and over- it rinirs more orders, we make easy internal revolt behind . . . And successful | bloc ] >ur own clothes with. lilt lc cost. No SATISh ACTION GUARANTEED. the Iron Curtain is the only measure idea seems to be gaining SEND NO MONEY. Just fill out and mail coupon - today ! "The INC., 500 South Throop Street W. Z. GIBSON, that -/night bring peace to States that DEPT. R-405 - CHICAGO 7, ILLINOIS short of war fresh hold in the United mankind. trade with a communist country is W. Z. GIBSON, INC., Dept. R-405 [ I SOO S. Throop St.. Chicago 7, III. The decision to increase East-West in itself wrong." I Dear Sir: I WANT A MADE -TO- MEASURE SUIT TO WEAR | I without li it Rush Sample AND SHOW, payini' for details and I before Korea, with its 140,000 casualties, was actual fabrics. trade was taken nine months | Kit of ABSOLUTELY FREE. j Stassen disclosed it. Our Allies had been a war. Americans were taught it is I NAME AGE | informed, but the American people wrong to trade with the enemy. In were not. The great secrecy was sup- World War I, the British seized U.S. CITY STATE - posed to keep the enemy in the dark. vessels carrying cargoes to neutrals be-

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 cause they might get to the enemy. In World War II, the U.S. and Britain bought goods from neutrals to prevent

the nazis getting it. When the U.S. tried to buy rubber from Ceylon to prevent Red China get-

ting it, the British Commonwealth nation asked an extortionate price. The U.S. refused to be blackmailed. The British position was that, despite its many military uses, rubber is not strategic. Not that we were totally without sin. In 1952, we imported some $28,000,000 in Red Chinese goods. Armed with $28,000,000 in the world's most negotiable currency, there was little Peiping could not obtain from dollar-hungry nations. Iron-Curtain products are being dumped in the U.S. at cut-rate prices. Some are below standard. At least one

is considered "dangerous." That is, hat bodies from Czechoslovakia. Alex Rose, of the Hatter's Union, terms them

"poison hats," since their felt is treated with mercury. Rose charged mercury gives hat blockers and wearers a disease he calls "hatter's shakes." What's more, U.S. aid apparently is being used by our Allies to purchase red goods. John L. Lewis, for one, has pro- tested against our Allies buying coal from Poland, Manchuria and Czecho- slovakia, calling this "the acme of negli- gence" on the part of Washington. And Mississippi Congressman Thom- as Abernethy charged that Moscow, by DISTILLED UOTTLED IN THE U SA BY i THE DISTILLERS COMPANY LIMITED dumping cut-rate slave-labor products j linden NEW j£rsev at home and abroad, aims to ruin im- p portant U.S. war-useful industries. He G088G83 DRY G!S (MWt UMB cited the potash industry as being dam- aged by low-price Russian imports. The men of Moscow now face considerable internal difficulties. Otherwise they would not ask for food. The shortage is mainly due to the fact some 2,000,000 Russians last year were shifted from farms to factories. But the free world appears unwilling to press this advantage. No wonder the men of Moscow look to the West to bail them out. No wonder, too, their trade propaganda is aimed

mainly at businessmen. For, when it comes to hanging capitalists, as Lenin supposedly said, "We'll have them bid- ding together for the rope." Whether he said it or not, the fact is that many capitalists are now playing the red game, under the guise of "being realistic." Too many capitalists (now blaming Franklin D. Roosevelt, for having recognized Russia, over the bitter protests BECAUSE OF LIQUEUR QUALITY and HIGH PROOF (94.4) of the AFL and The Americn Legion) forget their high-pressure campaign for DRINKS NEVER TASTE THIN WITH GORDON'S GIN recognition.

Even J. P. Morgan urged recognition.

Myron C. Taylor, U.S. Steel board 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N. J. chairman, and Morgan dined one night with President Roosevelt. In its report

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the affair, the 00 on New York Times said, cause of East- West trade. He wrote a Kruger Pistols Vmcfam % "There has been much talk of possible pamphlet urging "peace" negotiations .12 CALIBER single SHOT heavy purchases by Russia [of steel] if with the Kremlin. proper credits could be arranged." Lamar F. Fleming, Jr., chairman of The next day Roosevelt announced the cotton firm Anderson, Clayton & recognition, thus making available trade Co., says, "It is stupid to discourage any and credits desperately needed by the trade that would alleviate the lot of Crafted after famous German Luger design. unstable Soviet economy. those poor people without enhancing 3 Not an air or CO gun By indiscriminate aid in World War the destructive power of their tyrants. This is a small bore gun that actual shoots .12 caliber lead bullets fired by II, the U. S. again saved Russia. The It fills me with confusion when we re- light 1 4 mq. powder charge. Beautiful 4" steel gun . ideal for target shooting. U.S. shipped some $9,500,000,000 in fuse to sell them surplus butter and barrel in knurled styrene stock. Overall 3 "services." ex- length 8 4 inches. This amazingly low goods, plus $1,500,000,000 in edible oils." Such as margarine, for price due to ball and cap design. Direct According to Major George Racey ample, of which his firm happens to factory-to-you-sales. Comes with 50 bullets. Send for extra bullets or available at stores. Jordan, only 49 percent were munitions have large surpluses. Money back if not satisfied. Limited quantity. 'Adults only. and weapons. The remainder, over These men are not communists, but Send S3 to KRUGER CORPORATION KRUGER BUILDING, BOX 52-C, ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA $4,800,000,000, went to build up the unwittingly they play the red game. Soviet economy. Their remarks are used by Soviet prop- FALSE TEETH This massive transfer of wealth to our agandists throughout the world. In fact, Soviet "friend and ally" placed a mur- the Weir pamphlet was reprinted in KLUTCH holds them tighter derous opportunity in the hands of an Moscow's Pravda. KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion; holds dental plates enemy. The International Confederation of so much firmer and snugger that one can eat and talk with greater comfort and security; in many But history teaches us we learn little cases almost as well as with natural teeth. Klutch lessens the constant fear of a dropping, rocking, from history. chafing plate. 35c and 60c at druggists. ... If your druggist hasn't it, don't waste money on substitutes, Even Winston Churchill, in the twi- but send us 10c and we will mail you a generous trial box. light of a monumental career, has KLUTCH CO., Box 54521, ELMIRA, N. Y. succumbed to a stubborn notion it's msend form possible to do business with reds. His recent proposal for trade as a major "step Free Re to peace" led the London Economist to say, "To persist in thinking . . . that START SPEAKING there is a short cut to agreement, is to look at Soviet policy in blinkers." A novel reason for red trade was FRENCHOR given by Warren Lee Pierson, chair- SPANISH ALMOST OVERNIGHT! man of the U. S. Council of the Inter- UEKE'S the easiest way to learn FRENCH. SPANISH. 1 Russian. German, Italian. Japanese or Brazilian. national Chamber of Commerce. "By Listen to FREE 2 -sided non-hreakable record Let your eyes rollow words in FREE sample lesson. Almost at once blocking off potential markets behind "Twenty-seven dollars a square yard and you'll be chatting in a new language with a perfect accent! it!" That's all you hear! No memorizing needed Just listen the Iron Curtain," he declared, "the ya' mean people walk on imitate! It's that easy! Offer may end soon. Rush 25( to AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE help cover cost of special packaging, shipping. State Kremlin keeps Europe dependent on language you want We'll also send free information on aid, continuing the full Cortin3 course. No obligation CORTINA ACADEMY. American thereby Dept. 359. 136 W. 52nd St.. New York 19. strain on our economy and disturbing gPM GENUINE PIGSKIN BILLFOLD friendly relations between us and our Trade Unions, of which the AFL ' Free JT None Finer . . . Only $4.95 Postpaid ' America's most distinguished billfold Allies." and the CIO are the U. S. components, — to own or give! 18 "see-thru" compartments for photos, idenl. card, Significantly, this appeared in the bul- has announced it will call on world licenses, etc. kept clean and seen at letin of the Foreign Policy Association labor a glance . . . useful pocket for cards, labor to refuse to handle slave

spare keys, etc. . . . roomy billfold whose research director, Mrs. Vera products made behind the Iron Curtain. . yet slim and trim . . . fine quality pigskin to last for vears. Check or M.O. No Micheles Dean, could never be accused "By such action," said an I.C.F.T.U. 8. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. G. STEVENS MORSE of being anti-Soviet. spokesman, "we will demonstrate our BOX 113 HIGHLAND STA. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. In January, 1950, Mrs. Dean declared solidarity with workers now enslaved OLD LEG TROUBLE there were two risks involved in East- in communist lands." Easy to use Viscose Applications West trade. By trading, "the risk is we Asked whether this would not ru.i may heal many old leg sores due will increase Soviet war-waging capac- counter to high decisions in Washing- to venous congestion of varicose ity." However, she doubted the reds ton and London, the I.C.F.T.U. man veins, leg swelling or injuries. war. "The other risk," she con- If work- Send today for a FREE BOOK and want said, "That's not our problem. - - - plan. NO COST FOR -TRIAL tinued, "is not to trade with them and ers refuse to handle the stuff, it's just L. E. VISCOSE COMPANY 14Q North Dearborn Street, Chicago 2, Illinois to put pressure on our friends also not like an American refusing to buy a to trade. Then we run the risk of in- Soviet-made camera. No one can force INEWJEWELi creasing the economic difficulties of him to do so. Anyway, a general boy- Christmas Cards Western Europe. I would plump for cott of all red products is long, too long,

Proven plan lot easy money. Show new JEWEL cards in the risk of trading." overdue." popular oblong size to friends and neighbors They'll 1 used buy on sight. Over 100 other items. Name imprinted ' FREE Five months later, South Korea was For the boycott weapon was BALL POINT CHRISTMAS CARDS 25 for SI up BURG0YNE line Chance < PEN If YOU i invaded. with great effectiveness to demonstrate to win MINK STOLE or OTHER PRIZES Write today tor As WRITE NOW I J sortments on approval and gel FREE pen lot prompt action Not only are left-wingers and egg- American hatred of nazi persecution CHAS. C. SCHWER CO. Dept. 15G Westlield, Mass. heads yelping to appease Moscow. and Japanese aggression. The boycott Some conservatives are doing likewise: on silk stockings, for example, did great RUPTURE harm to industry, and the same tac- Ernest T. Weir, board chairman of Jap the National Steel Corp., described by tic can be used to keep U. S. dollars out a leftwing publication as "a hard-shelled of red hands. For dollars are what the Tory who dislikes labor unions," is to- reds want. They will pay for strategic day, in red eyes, "a realistic industrial- materials that eventually will be used the to kill Americans, as in Korea, the end WEB TRUSS CO. Dept. AL-9 Hagerstown, Maryland ist." Weir is loudly championing 44 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1954 MORE COMPETITION - FOR THE BIG 3

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knew they could no longer depend upon productive capacity alone to keep them on top, but now must begin to rely on sales ability. The production and sales campaigns the leaders have waged have been too hotly paced for some competitors. With some factories pumping out vehicles so fast that pipe- lines to the public all but clogged and overflowed, dealers had to sell cars, else risk being inundated by them. And it's no news that a good many dealers had forgotten how to sell. The sheer economic power of the bigger companies, plus their very aggressive sales tactics and the greater because all 3 MENNEN SHAVE CREAMS wilt toughest whiskers extra soft! ability of their large and rich dealer organizations to take lower profits without stumbling into serious financial difficulties have largely outclassed the smaller makers and dealers. More specifically, certain dealer organizations simply were not capable of matching the high-gear methods of operation of larger, more experienced dealers. Take the Kaiser retail outlets: Having entered the automotive field only in 1947, Kaiser had to start from scratch in training its dealers. Its pro-

ductive capacity enabled it to take a sizable share of the "captive" market in those years (as high as 166,000 units, or 4.76 percent of total car registrations, in 1948), but it set up dealerships in garages, farm implement shops — any- where possible. Not many of its dealers were veteran auto salesmen schooled in the hard techniques of the trade. Even before the big push came along this year, many of those dealers were in hot water. At the factory level, some smaller Want easier shaves? More comfortable soft work for any blade — keeps blades makers moved into dangerous ground, shaves? Closer, long-lasting shaves? sharp longer! too. Certain managements had been Then you want one of the 3 great content to build cars as fast as possible PROVE IT- AT OUR RISK! Mennen Shave Creams — Lather, Brush- during the fat post-war years, without Buy a tube of Mennen Shave Cream to- less, or Lather Menthol-Iced. No other proper regard for modernization and day. Test how many good shaves you get shave creams give you such shaving com- expansion of production facilities. per blade. If you don't get more good fort — and this big bonus: they actually "It's easy to be a dummy or a genius shaves per blade with Mennen than you make razor blades last longer! in this business," said a production ex- are getting now, mail us the unused por- • Even the best razor blades get dull ecutive of one of the Big Three divi- tion of the tube — we'll refund your quick if they must cut tough, unsoftened sions, "so I don't mean to be as critical money in full. whiskers. But the special beard-softening as I may sound when I say that the action of Mennen Shave Creams makes THE MENNEN CO., MORRISTOWN, N.J. independents, by and large, perhaps gave too much attention to dividends or other considerations. I think they began spending most of their moderni- MENNEN zation money at the wrong time. They makes were too late." Other individual troubles can be all 3 traced back into the history of the Little Three. (Also available in Canada) Packard apparently began to suffer in the mid-Thirties when it "cheapened" Lather Regular 35c and 53c • Brushless 31 < and 47c • Lather Menthol-Iced® 53c its line by introducing a less expensive model than the public had come to ac- cept as a Packard product. It has since MENNEN ^86* FOR MEN THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 45 been fighting every year — except dur- with the same basic body shell too Kidney Slow- Down ing the war — to reestablish itself as a long, so that large parts of the public leading luxury-car maker. And it stayed tired of its styling. May Bring in its antiquated Detroit plants right up Nash possibly has held steadier than until late this summer, when its rela- any other smaller producer. It has main- tively new management began moving tained its plants well, has held on to a Restless Nights part of the company's operations into a reasonably strong sales organization, When kidney functionslowsdown.manyfolkscom- modern plant in Utica, Mich. Packard's and has introduced a profitable trio of plain of nagging backache, headaches, dizziness and loss of pep and energy. Don't suffer restless nights multi-storied Detroit plants defy instal- new car lines. A wide range of offer- with these discomforts if reduced kidney function lation of the continuous flow produc- ings, not all of which have required the is getting you down— due to such common causes as stress and strain, over-exertion or exposure to cold. tion methods which are essential if usual huge investment in tooling (tool- Minor bladder irritations due to cold or wrong diet may cause getting up nights or frequent passages. manufacturing costs are to be lowered. ing costs for the Metropolitan were Don't neglect your kidneys if these conditions Studebaker was taking wide cuts into comparatively small; new-model ex- bother you. Try Doan's Pills-a mild diuretic. Used successfully by millions for over 50 years. It's amaz- the total market beginning in 1947 when penses for this small car, in fact, totaled ing how many times Doan's give happy relief from it introduced the first radically restyled million), these discomforts—help the 15 miles of kidney tubes only about $2 had kept Nash and niters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills today! post-war car. It performed well in sales broadly in the 2.5 to 4.5 percent bracket ~| competition until it went into its 1953 in total sales, until this year. rSTAMP COLLECTORS ! model production year. Then it en- Willys' bread and butter for years J DIFFERENT countered tool and die troubles, both has come from specialized products: its " STAMPS in its own plants and those of suppliers. four-wheel-drive vehicles. Because it Production was greatly reduced during has no direct competition in that field, 5 With 8 Exciting W%t — the first part of the year. sooner its repeat business holds fairly firm. But ^Topical Groups f No were those problems whipped than a its Aero Willys passenger car series, in- This valuable imported collec- tion includes the NEW CROATIA 10-week strike in a major supplier plant troduced to give it a broader offering, U.P.U. SET of 4, gorgeous In- donesia U.P.U. set. Roosevelt Memorial group including reduced Studebaker schedules again. has not sold very well. underground issues. Unit Hons Issues from far off Islands. The company had enjoyed one of the Kaiser has been burdened by all man- Sports contests from riotous TRIE TRIANGLES GALORE, multicolt BIRDS, ANIMALS. FLOWERS, PI most colossal publicity coups in auto- ner of woe. Moving into the Detroit HUNDREDS of other fascinating sues. A total of 322 all differs motive history. Its continental-styled area after the war, it had to dredge up stamps cataloging more than $«..= for only 25c, to introduce ou Money hack if not delighted. FREE: cars were pictured and storied in dozens workers where it could, precisely at the FAMOUS BARGAIN APPROVALS. 40-PAGE STAMP DICTIONARY of publications. But while the buying time when auto workers were at a very STAMPS X CO. 116-RJ Nassau St., N. Y. C. 38 public's fever was high, Studebaker high premium and inclined to stay put. production was low. Many customers Kaiser also saddled itself with an un- who couldn't get delivery of a Stude- realistic and very costly labor contract baker shifted to other makes. At about which shot production costs sky high. the time the company overcame its It channeled cars to the public through WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND LOW DIRECT PRICES production problems the entire car an unstable dealership organization REDINGTON&CO. market softened. Studebaker has been which couldn't stand up well to the dragging its sales heels ever since. torrid 1953-1954 sales push. Further, the DEPT. 197 SCRANTON 2, PA. 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46 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 Despite the critical condition of the tion cars ever seen in the U. S. It has was an instant success, judged by pre- smaller makers this year, their past rec- been a leader for years in the trend to- vious attempts in that area. Before that, ords would seem to indicate that they ward ever greater use of glass. In 1949, in 1950, Nash risked heavy financial loss are not about to fall flat, by the num- it put its Virginian on the market, the by introducing the successful Rambler bers. Each company has behind it a first notable effort toward the highly series. It has built over 200,000 of these number of credits in engineering, styl- popular hardtop. The Virginian re- cars. Nash is still the only company ing and engine development. They are, tained side window posts, but its fixed which builds a car in which passengers in fact, often ahead of the Big Three in steel top, covered by layers of special can sleep comfortably, providing seats popularizing various innovations. padding with an outer sheath of vinyl- that recline to form a bed. This feature Hudson was the originator of the nylon, was the industry's initial move perhaps appeals only to a fringe element unique "stepdown" design. The car's toward a genuine hardtop. The steel of the motoring public — sportsmen, low center of gravity and strong sus- roof was even stamped with ridges to some tourists, etc. — but it represents an pension system, plus a peppy engine, simulate the roof bows of a convertible. effort on Nash's part to offer something have enabled it to run away from all The Kaiser Traveler and the Vaga- that no other maker does. Besides its contenders in stock car racing. In 1952, bond, too, were innovations. Styled as Statesman, Ambassador, Rambler and for instance, it set every AAA stock car conventional six-passenger cars, the rear Metropolitan series, it can deliver an record and for several years had led all seats of these utility models could be expensive and bonafide sports car. The makes in the NASCAR stock car racing folded forward in seconds, leaving the Nash-Healey performs in the best Eu- standings. Such racing performance un- rear of the car open from floor to roof ropean road-racing traditions. While deniably has helped to sell Hudsons. to provide access to about 130 cubic the market for such cars is not large in

This company also pioneered unit feet of cargo space. the U. S., the Nash-Healey is another engineering — building the body and In 1950, this youngest member of the example of the aggressive efforts of the chassis as a single unit, with body bolted auto industry trotted out the Henry J, independents. direct to the frame. Other Hudson tech- which failed saleswise, but nevertheless Nash claims another first in condi- nological "firsts": Four-speed overdrive represented the first major post-war ef- tioned air-heating systems, which it in- transmission (1914); the first inside- fort on the part of any auto maker to troduced in 1936. (Its cowl-level air drive enclosed body (1913), forerunner plumb the inexpensive, small-car market intake, copied this year by Buick, Olds of sedans and coupes; the first hydraulic depths. In early 1953, it showed its and Cadillac, will be picked up by other and mechanized reserve braking systems Kaiser-Darrin 161 plastics sports car. makers in 1955.) And the Nash "600" to be operated from the same foot pedal Chevrolet got its plastic-bodied Cor- of almost two decades ago introduced (1936); placing the battery under the vette into production first, but Kaiser "Airflyte" construction — an underbody hood instead of under the front seat still remains as one of only two com- which Nash terms a "shallow boat" of compartment. panies offering a plastics car. stamped steel, designed to help prevent Kaiser four years ago brought out Nash recently jumped into the small rattles and squeaks. one of the most rakishly styled produc- car puddle with its Metropolitan, which If you're old enough to remember the

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early depression years, you probably share of desperate days. It went into can recall that Packard for a number receivership, in fact, in 1953, then was of years up until the mid-Thirties was reorganized two years later.

regarded as the prestige car of its day. Stormy years like 1954 thus are not It has other claims to fame besides without historical precedent for the

its former reign as king. In 194°, it put smaller companies. But they assuredly its Ultramatic transmission on the mar- are the years that try the souls of small ket — the only independent to tool and companies and force them into action. produce its own automatic transmission Kaiser's purchase of Willys for $62 and one that has been very well re- million led off the current parade of garded even by rivals. large transactions. Nash and Hudson Packard also claims to be the first to followed suit by coupling activities un- introduce air conditioning on produc- der the newly formed American Mo- tion cars, first glove compartment in the tors roof. Studebaker-Packard Corp. dashboard, first to use a selective gear became the married name of the two shift with the familiar "H" movement, remaining "independents." first (in 1901) to use a steering wheel Further mergers are entirely possible. instead of a tiller handle, first to offer Some well-informed Detroiters believe a straight-8 L-head and a V-12 engine, first (in 1909) to furnish headlights as regular equipment, and first (in 1923) to offer four-wheel brakes as standard EASY SALES-QUICK CASH equipment. Willys is probably best known now FREE! Get the colorful for its activities in the four-wheel-drive new GREETINGS UN- and commercial vehicle fields. Its mili- fff/|07 LIMITED Catalog. 68 /q pages of smartest Greeting tary Jeeps have been a company stand- Card assortments, gift by for more than a decade, of course, wraps, household items but it has since explored other markers, over 400 unusual gadgets and gifts. Show them to at no small expense. Its defunct Jeepster friends and neighbors. Quick sales, automatic sports phaeton— only about 20,000 w ere repeat business. A chance, too, to give club built — still has a regular cult of ad- treasuries a lift — only a few spare hours per mirers. And its Aero Willys passenger week per member. Write today for FREE CATALOG and samples on approval. car series is a bold attempt to move be- DEPT. AL-2, PARK SQ. yond its four-wheel-drive domain. GREETINGS UNLIMITED ST. PAUL, MINN. Certainly the small makers are working toward other revolutionary engi- "] can easily explain the shortage. M> pulled up lame." neering and body style changes. True, horse AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE they do not have the vast amounts of eUILDCnTV$ct money for research which are available TES, Build your own top-quality TV set. toe supply complete equipment, that either American Motors or Stude- tools, instruction as part of Americas finest to the Big Three, but their past record Home-Study TV Course. Be a highly-paid TV Technician, In- stall, Repair, Service all makes of sets. No experience needed baker-Packard forms the "tent" under Many excellent lobs now open. Or start your own is proof that engineering and styling in- Send business todey for big FREE Booh. "You and Television." Com.' all small makers may eventually merclel Trades Institute, Dept.T29-9. which 1400 Creenleaf Ave * genuity is not an exclusive property of Chlcaio 26, III. the bigger companies. stand. parts combine, too, may grow up. Tough years like 1954 are nothing A All manufacturers, of course, pay about new to the smaller firms. for such basic mate- The first Packard was built in 1899. the same money pooling facilities During the 55 years since, the company rials as steel. But by gain good has successfully ridden out main' an ec- and equipment in order to onomic storm. component parts at less manufacturing able to The first car to be built under \\ hat cost, the Little Three may be later became the Nash banner rolled stand up better to the strain of the Big- out in 1902. The 52 car-building years Three pace. Tooling costs on a "per- the How To Hold behind Nash were not all prosperous unit" basis naturally are higher for ones, by any means. low-volume producers. A Big Three- FALSE TEETH division may obtain as many as a mil- Willys began in 1905, w hen the first lion or more pieces from a machine or More Firmly in Place Overland w as built. Before J. N. Will} s Do your false teeth annoy and embarrass took control of Overland Co. in 1907, scries of machines. A Little Three divi- by slipping, dropping or wobbling when you sion, same money for the eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little the company had failed tw ice. paying the

FASTEETH on your plates. This alkaline ( non- in 1909. be- same machine or series of machines, acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly Hudson was founded Just pieces, so that and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, fore it became a division of American may get only 150,000 pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour. Checks the smaller has paid more for "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH Motors this year, it was losing huge company today at any drug counter. hums of money. each unit. Kaiser was neck-deep in debt for It is possible, too, that some smaller pat- years and is still not out of the swamp. companies max follow the general Inc. This corn- But it has reduced its debt steadily and tern set by Reo Motors, expects to get back on solid ground. pans w as formed a half-century ago to Pick Up Pins Studebaker actually dates back to turn our Reo cars. In 1908, a Reo truck as years, Reo's NEW KINO OF SEWING SHEARS. Revolutionary invention replaces 1852, when H. & C.' Studebaker was w introduced. Over the old. fashioned shears. Magnetic Points pick up pins, needles. Ruler Blade measures lis you rut. Stav-sharp, keen cuttiiiK edires. Kull V the name of a blacksmith and w agon- strength appeared to be more and more length. Beautifully plated. Sella like wild. Taktaritrtl Bamnumeyl in the truck field, and in 1956, manage- SAMPLES FOR TRIAL r^?^??.?,?',!?. making shop. The Studebaker Corp. send name at once. Hurry. Postcard will do. SEND Nil HONEY— jns( unur name. KRISTEE CO., Dept. 1454. AKRON 8, OHIO was formed in 1911, anil later saw its ment decided to concentrate entirely on

• • 1111 AMI UK AN I I (IH)N MAGAZINE SEPPTEMHER, 1954 the commercial field. The passenger car line was dropped. In 1946, Reo began broadening out again. It added the Reo Lawn Mower Division and soon became the country's largest producer of power mowers for the home. Thereafter, it moved into the industrial and marine engine field and the wheel goods business — building bi- cycles, velocipedes, children's autos, baby strollers and lawn gym sets. Reo had these three "cushions" to fall back on when truck sales and defense work tapered off. The smaller auto companies may well choose to provide similar cushions. Nash, with its Kelvinator appliance line, and Kaiser-Willys, with

its Electronics Division, are already well aong the diversification road.

It's well known in Detroit that the Big Three would be more than pleased to keep the little companies in the automotive field. Should a smaller maker fail, the sales melon shares for survivors would increase accordingly. GM par-

ticularly is already on touchy anti-trust

ground, since it is flirting with a 1954 sales volume which may exceed 50 percent of all car sales. If GM, Ford and Chrysler end up with 9> percent or so of this year's market, as is possible, they are sure to be accorded increasing attention by the Justice Department. Just what the Big Three can do to Here's the newest member of the famous Ithaca help out the Little Three, and still avoid FEATHERLIGHT Family—the Model 37RD Deluxe! Built by charges of collusion, is not clear. While executives of any of the larger pro- the same skilled hands that create the Ithaca FEATHERLIGHT ducers freely admit that they'd prefer and $2,000.00 Grade Repeaters, this gunning gem gives to keep the Little Three running along- the shooter an ideal game and target combination. side them in the sales race, they cannot go into any agreement which would Sporting a solid raised rib for perfect pointing, the Model tend to parcel out given blocks of the market, nor can they sensibly absorb a 37RD Deluxe also carries the large beavertail type forend smaller company. demanded by all crack target shots, and has handsomely- ultimate outcome for Whatever the figured black walnut wood. the independents, this much is certain:

Some of the best business minds any- Ithaca's exclusive ultra-fast bottom ejection is featured, where are devoted to discovering ways giving the shooter and the gun protection. Shell explosion, and means to keep the small companies alive and kicking. The smaller compa- gases, burned powder, etc. cannot be thrown out in front nies have three aces in the hole, two of the shooter's face. Dirt, rain, snow, and sleet cannot of which are not available to the Big enter the gun while shooting. Three: (1) There is that part of the public which traditionally wants a car For left handers the Model 37RD Deluxe can be ordered different from the neighbors', or which simply resents the bigness of the Big with left-handed safety at no extra cost. Here's the game Three and will continue to buy prod- and target gun for portsiders or starboard shooters—the ucts of other makers. (2) Because of Ithaca Deluxe! at sporting their smaller operations, the Little Model 37RD $129.95 your goods Three are more flexible and can adopt dealer. styling or engineering innovations that will appeal to a large enough segment of the public to keep the smaller companies going, whereas the Big Three members cannot risk changes that might Send 10c for not appeal to the hundreds of thousands booklet on Since 1880 of buyers they need. country (3) The shooting tips and continues to grow in wealth and popu- FEATHERLIGHT ITHACA CO., Inc. lation the GUN and total car market in years information. ahead should be greatly above today's DEPT. 29 , ITHACA, N.Y. sales levels. the end

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 49 DOPE FROM RED CHINA (Continued from page 17)-

1 ribly overburdened with all their refu- down the coast by boat, into heroin Wonderful Relief gee problems, was given no encourage- and producing about 250 grams daily. ment in the courts, where penalties Guerrilla couriers carry this to the were ridiculously light. A professional cities for distribution among the pros- For Itching Skin! dealer, for example, might be given a titutes and others to be used for "politi- fine of HK$100 (about US$18) if cal purposes." This stuff is sold to GI's caught with a considerable Also store of nar- and other such targets at prices varying cotics in his possession. According to from $10 to $20 a gram, or roughly Aids Healing Mr. Anslinger, in his 1954 report, this $4,500 to $9,000 a pound which, as a rate

Zenio is a doctor's weakness has now been amended, with to addicts, is very cheap. highly medicated the usual result. Other outlets are be- All of the heroin that has so far ap- antiseptic liquid with ing used, notably Hainan Island. In con- peared in Korea is identical with that an amazing record of t ( success. Zemo prompt- ^ trast to the $18 fines cited above, Mr. put up in Tientsin under the now fa- ly relieves intense Anslinger notes that a culprit caught in miliar Red Lion label— light tan in color itching, stops scratching and so helps heal and clear rashes, eczema, psoriasis, ath- February of this year with 12 grams of and coarse in texture. In one instance lete's foot and similar surface skin and heroin from red China, got a sentence recently reported to Mr. Anslinger, it scalp irritations. Greaseless, stainless — of two years and six months on each of transpired that 2,000 grams of heroin Zemo doesn't show on the skin. Buy Extra Strength Zemo for several counts. That will not stop the (close to 21/9 pounds) and 1,500 grams stubborn cases. ZEMO traffic through the colony, but it will of opium found in a small boat inter- eliminate a lot of amateurs and will cepted along the coast had been bought

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1 Christmas cards as low as 3c each. in one hand and heroin in the other." "dope" be made available to the Armed The gold they were to sell to get local Forces of the United Nations, moving Robinson Cards Dept. Y-l, Clinton, Matt. currency for expenses; the heroin they into and through Japan. The Japanese Pleate tend me tamplet on approval and FREE were to use "for political purposes." authorities point to the upsurge of their imprintt proving I can make money quickly, easily On October 3 1 of last year, a raid on troubles with heroin-smuggling in 1950 NAME a guerrilla hideout in the South Korean as evidence that, however useful the hills brought to light a plant that was proceeds of sales may be to the Japa-

converting morphine base, brought nese communist party v estimatcd at

5Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 US$30,000,000 annually), the major purpose of all the bold and ingenious devices resorted to for smuggling was to put demoralizing drugs within reach Look, all razor blades of the uniformed American. The Tokyo English-language daily, are not alike! Nippon Times, published on Aug. 8, 1953 a long article and an editorial on the traffic in red Chinese narcotics which indicated that, so far as the Japa- nese were concerned, the lid was off. The "co-operation" of the U. S. Air Force was praised, and the hope was expressed that the U. S. Army was going to be more "co-operative" in the future. What brought this on was the exploration of several towns in the vicinity of American installations by a commission representative of the Diet and the Ministry of Welfare, from which the investigators had returned "profoundly shocked." In the town of Tachikawa they had found American (Ts in 20 establishments that were selling "dope." In the neighboring town of Showa, which has a population of 24,000, they learned that at least half of the 1,000 resident Chinese were communist agents engaged in the heroin SINGLE EDGE BLADES in dispenser with business. used-blade vault 20 blades 490 In 1952, well over 2,000 arrests of Also lOt and 25

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • has been until lately Minister of Finance reports of refugees from all parts of

in the Peiping setup and director of the mainland China, there is now no prov- FREE! narcotics traffic in the so-called People's ince that is not growing at least small EARLY Government. Now, according to Mr. acreages of poppies. TIMES Anslinger's statement to the UN Nar- If the reader is not now persuaded 1954 FOOTBALL BOOKLET cotics Commission last April, opium and that red China is producing drugs for derivatives to a total value of US$60,- export, under the direction of members 000,000 were exported in the previous of the supreme dictatorship in Peiping, year. Not only is this traffic a money- no further account of the business making device; it is also "an instrument would be any more convincing. The

• 32 pages of interesting foot- of policy" to the red Chinese govern- only thing left to consider is the mean- ball information! ment, whose Chou En-lai had such hard ing to us of red China's success in push- • 1954 Schedules, both Col- things to say of American policy, at the ing more and more of the deadly heroin lege and Professional! recent Geneva Conference. into international traffic. • Final 1953 team standings Tientsin is, according to all agents and Bowl game results! and informers of all police systems in • Predictions for 1954! the Far East, the site of the plant which (Offer good only where legal) turns out the ubiquitous Red Lion KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON heroin. Under the Japanese, Mukden, in WHISKY . 86 PROOF Manchuria, had the biggest heroin plant in the world, with a capacity of 50 tons MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY a year, and the reds should have fallen

Early Times Distillery Company heir to it. But since Korean opium goes Box 1080, Dept. AL, Louisville, Ky. through Mukden to Tientsin to be re- Please send me postpaid the Early Times fined and the heroin that out of Football Schedule Booklet for 1954. comes North Korea comes from Tientsin Name through Mukden, it is presumed that Address the Mukden plant was one of the in- City State dustries stripped by the Soviet red army during the post-war occupation. YOUR When the communists won complete RE-STYLE OUT-OF-DATE control of China late in 1949, their only DOUBLE BREASTED SUIT sources of opium were their own for- INTO A SMART NEW mer bailiwick in the northwest, Mongol SINGLE BREASTED MODEL border districts in which the Japanese Write Dept. H for details and free brochure had promoted poppy cultivation (not-

m, I m II 313 NO. BEVERLYi DRIVE ably Jehol, in which the Nationalists Sid Colburn beverly HILLS, CALIf. had no chance to interfere after the "Thursday? We'll all be crazy by war and where the reds took over the Thursday!" Japanese opium setup intact), and the AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Tibetan border districts of Szechuan and Yunnan, with which Chungking dared not interfere during the war for In the U. S. A. after every war there

fear of the defection of petty warlords is an upsurge of narcotics addiction, for to the Japanese. reasons too complex to explain here. In the old red stamping ground in This applies particularly to juvenile ad-

the northwest, the business is as it was diction, which is about the only form and the old warehouse survives. From of the drug menace that seems to stir Yenan stocks are forwarded to another the imagination of the American people. warehouse at Shihchiachuang, on the In the U.S.A. Peiping-FIankow line, established there At the end of World War II, the during the period when A4ao Tse-tung Federal Narcotics Bureau and the nar- and General Chu Teh made that town cotic squads of the police departments their headqarters, while awaiting the of all big cities were braced for that

LEGIONNAIRE RETAILERS capture of Peiping by General Lin Piao. upsurge, and, in due course, it developed In Szechuan poppy cultivation has as usual. The rise started in 1947 and Join the American Legion come down out of the Tibetan foothills reached its peak in 1950. This is well Magazine Retail Advisory and has spread over the province. The illustrated by the figures on addicts un- business is under the personal direction der 21 treated in the two federal hos- Council and display this dis- of the provincial governor, Li Ching- pitals in Lexington, Kentucky, and Fort tinctive membership emblem. chuan, and this enterprising fellow has Worth, Texas. In 1947 there were 22; set up his own morphine and heroin in 1950, the peak year, there were 440. factor>' in the town of Chiunglai. The Then the usual decline set in, for rea- LEGIONNAIRE CUSTOMERS goods are in one-pound cans labeled in sons as complex as the upsurge. In the English and Japanese. The southwestern first ten months of 1953 there were only Trade with confidence and province of Yunnan is probably the 119, despite the fact that the public had buy with pride when you see heaviest producer of opium in red China. been alarmed by talk on the part played The traffic is in the hands of a deputy by drugs in juvenile delinquency, and this emblem. You are sup- governor and the chief of the secret the consequent inclination of courts to porting a fellow Legionnaire. police (Kung An Chii, meaning Public order compulsory treatment. Peace Office). These are the major When heroin and morphine are in sources of supply; but, according to the plentiful supply, they are cheap; sales

52 * THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 are pushed beyond the usual markets, and juvenile addiction becomes con- spicuous. It has been mentioned that the expected postwar peak was reached in 1950, after which the number of cases hospitalized fell off sharply. Consider- ing that there was an upsurge from 1947 to 1950, the figures on arrests of boys and girls for narcotics offenses (including use and sale of marihuana, which made up 60 percent of them) are rather remarkable. In 1951 and 1952 eighteen States had not a single case. Eleven States had less than 20 in the two years, many much less. Virginia, for instance, had 2 cases in 1951 and none in 1952. South Carolina had 2 in two years, and

Utah 5; Massachusetts, including Boston of course, had 11 in two years. The worst records were made by Illinois, New York and California, in that order, with Michigan and Louisiana tagging along behind. But it is noteworthy that, while the incidence of juvenile narcotics offenses declined sharply from 1951 to 1952 in four out of these five Popular TV announcer Joel Aldred protects his hair from "summer dryness" with grease/ess Vitalis. States, the number of cases involving minors in California, where pure, cheap heroin from China was already appear- NEW GREASELESS WAY TO KEEP YOUR HAIR NEAT ALL DAY ing in 1952, went up from 846 to 902. Vitalis with V-7 Vitalis gives extraordinary protection The result of years of warfare New makes even against "summer dryness"—dull, brittle dry, unruly hair easy to manage against the narcotics traffic, only too hair, parched scalp. Also, it maintains your hair's natural moisture balance bet- often protected by European and other V-7, the greaseless grooming discovery ter than any other leading tonic. governments, has been the confining of now in Vitalis, outdates messy oils. Keeps your hair neat, yet you never both addiction and dope distribution VITALIS HAIR TONIC WITH V-7 have an over-slick, plastered-down look. pretty closely to the poverty-stricken, PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS crime-infected sore spots of a dozen ^SOMETHING NEW and SENSATIONAL in big cities. What is more, very few cases CHRISTMAS CARDS were turned up in which an addict did DRAIN WASH TUBS. CELLARS. CISTERNS. Famous #7 pumps 2800 Superb Satin Velour & Metallic GPH. 420 GPH at 75' high or 1600 GPH from 25' well Sturdy, not have a police record before resort- Show Rich New Cards never before rustproof Alloy Metal. Six Blade impeller. Uses any Ye to Vs not or clog. Fits any garden hose. of 'ered. Amazine; Value! Gets Easv H.P. Motor. Will leak Or.lers r Immediate money back guarantee Send Check, Money JQ95 ing to dope. FAST! 1'avs up to l(l(J ;, Cash

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AN EYE ON THE DIPPER Stops Foot Itch (Continued from page 1}) ben: A few days later, 'without telling Education there learned you had been anybody, I drove over to the hearing. active in some communist-front Kills In one of the local county court- groups? Groups cited as subversive ATHLETE'S rooms, the committee members sat by the Attorney General of the at one long table; there was a steno- United States?

FOOT typist, with clerks and a committee barker: That is nothing but malicious Fungi staff. At a press table, some reporters rumor. and photographers, and there were moore: If it's not true, this is a good If your feet itch ... if the skin between your toes is red, raw, cracked or peeling— lose no time. Get people in the public seats. Barker sat opportunity for you to clear your Dr. Scholl's SOLVEX at once. This famous formula at a separate table. record. is a specific for Athlete's Foot. Quickly relieves intense itching; kills fungi of the infection on contact; ( echo barker: Any record on me with this promotes rapid healing. Liquid, Ointment or Pow- chairman: (off) Raise your right hand, committee can have no standing with der. At Drug, Shoe and Department Stores. please, sir. You do solemnly swear decent people. that the evidence you shall give be- chairman: (off) Mr. Barker, it may D-'Scholls SOLVEX fore this committee be the truth, the please you to be insulting. But this whole truth and nothing but the committee is charged by Congress 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT truth, so help you God? with developing information about barker: I do, sir. communism and communist propa- OIL LEASES-S100 chairman": Mr. Moore, open the ganda for two main reasons. One is You do no drilling, pay no taxes, may realize a (off) king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write questioning, please. to alert the people to the dangers of for free map and literature. moore: (come on) Air. Barker, are you a conspiracy directed from abroad American Oil Scouts, Dept. L, 7321 Beverly Blvd. is to develop a basis Los Angeles 36, Calif. accompanied by counsel? and the other barker: I am not. for possible needed legislation. much LEARN chairman: You have a right to have a barker: There is already far too lawyer with you. legislation against people simply be-

MEAT CUTTING barker: I know my rights. cause they espouse unpopular causes. Train quickly In 8 short weeks at To- moore: Sketch briefly for the commit- chairman: (off) We're not interested ledo for a bright future with security tn the vital meat business. Big pay, full-time jobs — HAVE A PROFITAHI.i; tee, if you will, Mr. Barker, your — in communism and fascism because MARKET OF YOUIl OWNI Pay after *V "rnduatlon. Diploma frlven. Job help. the general scope of your education. they're popular or unpopular. Both Thousands of successful graduates. ! bend now for big. new Illustrated FREE communism at ligation. G.I. Apnroved. barker: I attended grade and high are evils. Especially school in Chicago and then took my this moment in history. All right, Mr. arts and master's degree at the Uni- Moore. versity of Paris. moore: Mr. Barker, after you left New moore: And then you became a teacher, Jersey, you went to Rockingham and is that correct? opened a bookstore; is. that correct? Just show FREE Samples to friends, keep SI. per box. Make stifl more with bip line of 21-ca barker: In Jersey, yes, sir. barker: Yes. Assortments, 3-D and Talking Cards, surprise Gifts. New And Personalized Christmas Cards and Stationery, etc.'i by 1951 I'd been a principal for some moore: And you interested yourself in Profits to 100% plus $10-.?'Jr>-$50 in Honus Gifts. Get As- , sortmentson approval. Imprints Fret-. $1.25 Rctnu-tal.le ( Pen Set included FREE it you act fasti Write TODAY. years. school affairs and became president

Creative Card Co. .4401 Cermak, Dept. 569 J Chicago 23, moore: In 1951 did you resign your of the Community Association; is that principalship? correct? barker: Yes. barker: Yes. moore: Was that because the Board of moore: Now, Mr. Barker, there are two legally trained men win higher posi- CTIIIIV AT II n M P OIUUl HI nUITI t tions and bigger success in business and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. ™ e u d Ability: Prestige: More More More Money ep b y s tep. YoS can train at home during spare time. Degree of LL.B. We furnish all text material, including 14-volame l...v. Library. Low cost, easy terms. Get our valuable 48-page " Law Training for Leadership" '• and "Kuiln 1 k:. KRKK. S.-r..l NOW. LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY, 417 South Dearborn Street A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 9361L, Chicago 5, III. GROW MINIATURE TREES kJIUJjKJ FRBii SEED & PLAN New fascinating HOltUY! $$.>$ OPPORTUNITY! Ileal LIVING "Ming" Trees—Beautiful elm, orange, oak, cypress—any kind I Full grown but miniature. Help us fill huge demand from Interior Decorators, Offices. Hotels, etc. FREE Seed and Plan write: NATIONAL NURSERY GARDENS, Dept. AL-9 8463 So. Van Ness, Ingtewood 4, California

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54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 men in this hearing room. I'm going tend to incriminate you in some moore: If these men are wrong about to ask them to rise, (up) Randolph criminal prosecution. you, Mr. Barker, and you said so, you Gingris. barker: That is my grounds. could not possibly be incriminated. (off man rises) moore: Now sir: the committee wanted barker: Same answer, same grounds. moore: (up) Simon Depew. you to confront these men, because moore: Now — they further told the (off man rises) they have testified before the com- committee that you were sent to moore: Mr. Barker, do you know either mittee to the following effect: that Rockingham by the Party, to head or both of these men? both belonged to a Communist Party up communist infiltration of the labor barker: Mr. Moore, I'm not going to cell in a defense plant in New Jersey force at the radar plant. You were help this committee smear me and from 1944 to 1951. They have stated to develop communist cells, to fo- other innocent people. that they both knew you as their chief ment needless dissension and strikes — moore: If you intend not to answer, contact man with the communist ap- to hurt radar production. Correct or sir, the courts have ruled only one paratus in that area. Is that true or not?

proper ground for not answering a false, in whole or in part? barker: I am aware, if this committee

proper question. barker: It's an insult to a decent Ameri- is not, that the attack on the com- barker: Then I shall use it. I have a can to ask him to comment on such pletely false issue of communism is great reverence for the Constitution filthy stool pigeons — nothing but a mask for reactionary

of the United States, which I was chairman: (off) Mr. Barker, if it is not attempts to destroy the labor move- raised to believe applied to all, high true, now is your chance to say so. ment.

and low. I am not sure that this com- barker: I know your tricks. If I admit chairman: (off) Mr. Barker, almost mittee cares about the Constitution at it, you smear me as a communist. If every union in this country — with a

all with your invasion of people's I deny it, you involve me in a per- very few notorious exceptions— is on private political beliefs and forcing jury charge with these scoundrelly, record condemning and opposing witnesses in fear of their jobs into informing stool pigeons — communism. Please answer: were you conformity — chairman: (off) Air. Barker, both these sent to organize communist infiltra- chairman: (off) A4r. Barker, either an- men came forward of their own action of the radar plant? swer or refuse to answer the question. cord—to clear their consciences, and barker: I refuse to answer, Mr. Chair- barker: I refuse to answer on the this committee hopes they will be man, on the grounds of the Fifth grounds of the Fifth Amendment, able to live normal lives again as good Amendment. which says that no man can be forced citizens. Please answer whether what (echo out) to testify against himself. they have said is true or not. chairman: A4r. Barker — please under- barker: I refuse to answer on the ethel: Ben, I asked you to stay out of stand: you may properly invoke the grounds of the Fifth Amendment — this—

Fifth Amendment only if you believe that I need not give testimony which ben: But this character's a communist,

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5^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 ) cast: (many Ayes) barker: (up) All against? cast: (not so many Nays) AMAZING THING/ barker: (up) The ayes have it. I thank you. SEA/SAT/OMAL NEW TING mrs. s: (off') Mr. Chairman, I hope Mr. CfiEAM EOR Dawson will know better in the fu- ITCH ture! rFOOT ethel: (low) Ben—that was iMrs. Stay- (AWL07ZS FOOT) bridge—and I warned you! I warned - REGULAR USE HELPS you! RZL/EVE /TCH/N6- echo out) ( SOOTHES 8URA//NG moore: (filter) (chuckle) And you're BETWEEN CRACfCEO PEEL/MS the man who wouldn't stick his neck TOES - A/OS HEAL/NG out. AMAZINGLY / ben: It's fantastic, Moore! I just had to call you! Barker lies, evades, double- talks—and now he's the hero and I'm the outcast! At the office people suddenly get formal with me. My wife is afraid I'll lose my job! What the USEO sam hill's the matter with so many /N people? They can't all be commu- HOSPITALS nists. NOW they moore: (filter ) Of course not, but RELEASEO simply don't or won't recognize facts. TO ben: They wouldn't sit in a room with ORuee/srs a man who sells dope to school kids,

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Become an ben: Well, so it happened, Sweetie. foolish now and she'll keep quiet. But ethel: —and now it's all over and you'll make other enemies.

Barker's gone, so let's try to get back ben: And I'll make new friends too who nuouninnT- to normal. don't want communists or people ben: Expert Bookkeeper— C. P. A. All over? Ethel, look— who cover up for 'em! (riffles pages) ethel: I just keep wishing you wouldn't The demand for skilled accountants men who really know their business—is increasing. National and state ethel: The Association Bulletin? stick your neck out. legislation is requiring of business much more in the ben: Issue after issue—while Barker ben: I. I way of Auditing, Cost Accounting, Business Law, was So do But can't help myself. I Organization, Management, Finance. Men who prove running it—loaded with the commu- can see the Dipper now. Stick with their qualifications in this important field are promoted to responsible executive positions. nist line lifted right from communist me—will you— till you do too? FREE SAMPLE LESSON literature— dressed up a little and— Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train you oh, yeah: here's the last issue of the ben: "For Better Schools—Under God from ground up, or according to your individual needs. Low cost: easy terms. Bulletin back before Barker came— and the Constitution." We got that Send name and address on the lines below for free (riffles pages) line back onto the Bulletin cover. But Sample Lesson and 48-page book describing the LaSalle accountancy training and the opportunities ben: Line across the front cover: For not without a fight from Ed Clarion, in this highly profitable field. iiAiiir EXTENSION UNIVERSITY Better Schools— Under God and the because the communists never miss a LHoHLlL /7 Ca*leAfia*uLe+ice 9**itUution Constitution. Barker took over— it chance to strike at our religious faith

417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 9361H Chicago 5, III. disappeared. and our Constitution and Bill of ethel: But he's gone now and— Rights. Soon after, Clarion left Rock-

Name . . ben: Don't you realize who's left in ingham. Some of his and Barker's Address charge of the Bulletin? Ed Clarion, friends and admirers, though, are still

City .Zone. . . . State Barker's stooge! We've got the job with us. It sure is hard to get some to do all over again! people to see the Big Dipper. ethel: Ben—Ben, please. You were Curtain ttytAem FREE lucky this time. Mrs. Staybridge feels THE END ASTH MA- HAYFEVER HUNTING FOR BETTER HUNTING Sufferers from Asthma and the discomforts of (Continued from page 25) excessive secretions in the nasal passages associated with Hay Fever have, for over 50 years, found quick, thousands of acres in southern Illinois the State and Pittman- temporary relief by smoking PAGE'S of >4 by 34 by INHALERS. Pleasant, inexpensive. At lead- yearly come flights of hundreds of Robertson funds. These funds are made ing drug stores. Consolidated Chemical Co., 1 thousands of ducks and geese. The con- possible because of you, the individual 807 Cherry St.. Grand Rapids (i. Michigan centration of Canada geese at Crab Or- sportsman, and your purchases of guns chard is larger than that of any other and ammunition in the enjoyment of the single spot on the continent. And al- sport of hunting. though hunting isn't permitted on the Your eleven pennies in action work

Crab Orchard Lakes refuge itself, it is something like this: Five pennies are sanctioned in certain sections of the lake spent for improving game ranges. Food and on open waters throughout that and cover plantings on private and pub- section of Illinois right into Kentucky. lic lands, with a present planting of Check with your own State officials 75,000 coverts for pheasants and rabbits, regarding wildlife refuges and ask about 8,000 miles of multiflora rose hedges as hunting conditions and permissions in a natural protection for animals, and the and around those areas. You'll find new growing of enough lespedeza plots to hunting byways that will amaze you. feed 100,000 quail coveys. Also, provi- Last year we hunted wily Canada honk- sion for duck marsh construction of all ARTHRITIS-RHEUMATISM ers near Cairo, Illinois, a few miles from sizes from one acre and up in New York the Crab Orchard refuge and saw more State to the giant Roseau marsh of 51,000 VITAL FACTS EXPLAINED of those birds than we ever dreamed acres in Minnesota, and game restocking FREE DESCRIPTIVE BOOK How crippling deformities may be avoided. This amazing existed. In addition, we got our limit in in 30 States of wild turkey, antelope, PKEE HOOK explains why ordinary methods give only temporary relief— if that. Describes a drusless method one fast-shooting morning. deer and others. Which means restora- of treatment successfully applied in thousands of cases. Write for this 44-page VWY.V. BOOK today. No obligation. You probably didn't know it, but you tion of hunting seasons on some species BALL CLINIC. DEPT. 5f>0 Excelsior Springs, Mo. as a hunter, a sportsman who buys guns of game birds and animals that had been and ammunition, play a large part in on the closed list for many years. In helping yourself to better sport. An or- seven States, the creation of new water- ganization called the Pittman-Robertson ing places has extended the game range. Wildlife Restoration Program operates Two of these eleven pennies go for on the 11 -cent tax from the gun and buying wildlife lands. For example, 45 ammunition dollar. It helps maintain and States have bought new wildlife areas— increase game flocks and herds, through more land than in the State of Delaware. land purchases, habitat improvement This land has marshes for ducks, homes and research. By a formula based on for upland game, winter range for big paid hunting licenses and area of a given game, and places where you can hunt.

State, each State receives its share of the Another penny is spent for mainte- annual rax receipts. The various State nance, such as plow ing fire breaks and game and fish departments select, plan making improvements that keep wildlife and direct their programs after approval areas at top production. One of the by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. other coppers goes for administration — The States own all lands purchased in selecting, planning and supervising — and the improvements made on their anil the other two go for fact finding or lands. Project costs arc paid on the basis research. This research has pointed the

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way to game abundance and maximum specific questions we wanted to ask and bag limits for hunters. Out of the Pitt- sent 12 booklets of varying size and sub- man-Robertson program has come ject. They were: a beautifully illus- ITCHY modern game management that pro- trated booklet, entitled Maine Hunting, vides game for twice as many hunters containing pertinent information about as in 1938. types of game to be found in Maine; territories TOES? But the States themselves do much to length of seasons; where directly sportsman. If you're various kinds of game are plentiful; a aid the Get FAST RELIEF with this interested in rinding what the vari- book of game laws; one on Maine's in- out MEDICATED POWDER! ous States have to offer you in the way land-ice-fishing laws; another on open- just can't of hunting, the first step to take is to water-fishing laws. There was one of For sore, irritated toes—you write the Fish and Wildlife Service, 120 pages titled Motoring Through get the same relief with unmedicated powder that you get with Ammens! United States Department of the Inte- Maine, giving routes, descriptions of Because Ammens Powder with its rior, Washington 25, D. C, and order every city and village, exactly what gives lists special medicinal ingredients wildlife leaflet 330. This is a 35-page they had to offer, of cabins, motels, 3-way medicated skin care: (1) booklet containing the names and ad- Quickly soothes, relieves irritated skin. (2) Cush- dresses of all organizations and officials ions sore skin to promote healing. (3) Fluffy concerned with wildlife protection. In texture gives cooling protection against further addition, it lists all officers in every de- irritation. For real medicated skin care, get partment of fish and game in every Ammens Medicated Powder. All drug counters. State, Canadian Province and territories FREE trial-size can. Write today to Dept. L-94 Bristol- Myers Hillside, N. (OJjer limited to U.S.A.) in Mexico, the West Indies, Central and Co., J. South America. ' Guaranteed by the State On back of some of the Good Housekeeping t j AMMENS hunting and fishing regulation booklets, MEDICATED POWDER you'll find lists of conservation officers, with their home addresses and phone numbers. These men are interested in helping to better local REto^^ftTE you your hunt- PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE. BIG, ILLUS- TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report ing and fishing. Call or write your local making substantial incomes. Start and run your 1*00*1 own business quickly. Men. women of all ages, officer and ask him about areas where learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property Management, Appraising. Loans, Mortgages, and [Mow// public related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- shooting may be good. In some rooms in leading' cities. Diploma awarded. Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. cases, they can also tell you of private Approved for World War II and Korean Veterans WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est. 1936) lands where top shooting is yours for 2020 Grand Dept. AL Kansas City, Mo. the asking. If the conservation officers are not listed in the regulation booklet, ask the person that issued you your ^6 license (town clerk, etc.) who your "Well, if you didn't get my steak, who— be $100 $200 nearest officer is and how you can get in !" ROVER ! ! touch with him. It'll be worth while. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE RICHER If you have a little land or a friend of yours has some acreage, it might be restaurants, hotels, guides — the whole a good idea to write your State conser- SHOWING ^CHRISTMAS CARDS thing completely and effectively in- vation department and ask them if they dexed. Attached to this was the official have a co-operative pheasant-raising A4aine highway map, illustrated and schedule. Some of the States furnish do keyed to especially help the sportsman. pheasant chicks for little or nothing, Another 32-page book called Hunting with the provision that you release them in Maine, telling what species you will in certain places. If you don't mind find, when and where to hunt and how CASH OR SB****"** spending extra time feeding and water- much it will cost, plus its twin, called ing young pheasants, it be possible may Fishing in Maine, with the same type to get some of the snappiest pheasant information on fish, where to go, places shooting you ever saw — not far from to stay, etc. Then two small booklets, your own backyard. Maine Canoeing, Maine Fishing, giving Inquiring about the broader scope, in brief, almost capsule form all there we made a test case of Maine and, is to know about these two sports, plus IT'S FUN-lt's easy checking 18 page in our wildlife leaflet maps to illustrate points made in the showing the famous WS line. neighbors buy on sight-big quick sales 330, found that the Department of In- Friends, text. A small folder, Maine Camp Sites, that pay you up to 100% profit. Over 120 items to land Fisheries show-Christmas box assortments including two and Game had Roland H. with the material bearing out the title, amazing value 21 cards for $1.00, dozens of other Cobb as Commissioner head- cards and was telling just about everything there is to brand new originations. Exclusive personal new quartered at the State House, Augusta, —50 for $1.50 up, everyday assortments, know about camping in that State. stationery selections, imprint stationery, 30 new Maine. Directing gift gift wrap ensembles- our letter to his atten- Then, the piece resistance in the items, EXCLUSIVE de low tion, simply as as $1.25. we said that we resided in form of a large 120-page book, Maine SPECIAL FUND RAISING PLAN FOR CLUBS Connecticut, knew nothing whatsoever Invites You. This breaks down every FREE TRIAL OFFER about A-Iaine and wanted to know what county in Maine, not only by location, WETMORE & SUGDEN, INC. we could find 44 Monroe Ave., Rochester 2, N. Y. out about that State's but gives a brief history and tells what Gentlemen: hunting possibilities. Promptly we got is available. Please rush me your 10-day FREE TRIAL OFFER in- back a letter from Guy P. Butler, Exec- cluding 4 box assortments on approval, free name Our three-cent stamp had brought imprint samples, 32 page full color catalog and other utive Manager of the State of Maine about $20 worth of books, leaflets, fold- sales helps. Nome « Publicity Bureau. Mr. Butler told us ers and maps. Addresi that he would be glad to answer any ( Continued on page 61 City & State THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1954 • 59 Fall Specials!

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(Continued jrom page 59) let contains the rules and regulations of Next, checking our wildlife leaflet, the parks, gives creel limits and has we wrote Louis Clapper, administrative other helpful information. FREE KIT assistant of the Game and Fish Com- In all of the parks there are rangers mission of Tennessee and told him that to answer your questions, guide you to TELLS we were interested in joining a wild- cabins, show you the picnic spots, and HOW fo Make Up to boar hunt. Back came a letter advising pass out various kinds of printed in- us that we must make application for a formation that will be of help. Many of place in the public drawings which will the parks have boats available and, if nOOO^aMonth! Supplying Demand for New determine which parties will be per- you tire of fishing, there are guided "Midget Miracle" Fire Extinguisher T^iny the job of mitted to participate. Along with the tours that will bring you back to the "Presto" does ^ bulky fire extinguishers that cost application was a letter telling all about sport of dunking a line refreshed and 4 times as much, and weigh 8 times more. Fits in palm of boars and boar hunting in Tennessee, a full of the vitality that only a change in hand. Ends fires fast as Guaranteed map of the Tellico wildlife management scenery can give. 2 seconds. 20 years. Sells for only area, a list of places to write for ac- After reading the free booklet that $3.98. Over 2 million sold! Charles Kama commodations and guides, and the you've sent for and getting into the Ml. "clean up" showing current hunting regulations. Realizing spirit of the thing, you may have a esto" to owners of homes, cars, boats, is, etc., and to stores for re-sale. Write that we were interested in hunting, Mr. particular park you'd like to visit. If so, ly. No risk. No obligation. (If want 'Cular Presto to use as a demonstrator.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1954 • ^3 Exception Knox to build a gold fence two feet high all around Texas." Over "You can't take it with you" "Well," drawled the Texan, "why don't Let others stew and fret. you go ahead and build it, if you want to. As you can see, that's not for Ji/e — If we like it, we'll buy it." 1 haven't had it yet. —HAROLD HELFER — RAY ROMINE

Good Idea Paid in Full What this world really needs is a system influential businessman lay dying. The whereby those who climb highest are those his best friend, elicited from He summoned who are on the level. him a promise to sec that his mortal re- — MARY ALKUS mains be cremated. The friend agreed but with deep reverence asked: "What would you want me to do with the ashes?" V.I.P. "Do with the ashes?" gasped the dying- At every wedding that you see man. "Place them in an envelope and send The bridegroom always seems to be them to the Collector of Internal Revenue "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"; " and tell him 'now you have everything." The bride gets all the ballyhoo, — JOSEPH C. SALAK The groom is not expected to Receive attention, thought or care; Yet this neglect is kind of quaint, For, with no groom, a wedding ain't! And it would be a dud affair, crevasse disappeared into the deep and If, in this matrimonial plan, presently his ball came bobbing out and The groom should be "The Little Man after a time he appeared over the edge. Who Wasn't There!" "How many strokes?" asked his opponent. — BERTON BRALEY "Three," was the tired reply.

"But I heard six," said the other. "Three of them were echoes," was the Do Times C hange? spirited answer. The older generation thought nothing of — DAN BENNETT getting up at six hi the morning. The younger generation doesn't think much of American Plan it either. — F. C. KERNAN Let's heu> to the line and let the chips fall Wherever they may! But isn't all that Seems Odd The rule that we'd better be true to: These days, in a icorld fidl of communist Simpkins insisted on telling corny jokes vermin, at every social gathering, much to the an- It seems more advisable first to determine noyance of his wife. At one affair he re- The hue of the line that we'll hew to! galed the assemblage with some ancient — S. OMAR BARKER wheezes, while his wife burned. "By the way," he said, launching another chestnut, "a funny thing once happened to We'll Buy Anything ." "It's the instructions!" my mother in New York . . A Kentuckian and a Texan fell into con- "But Henry," interrupted' his wife, "I versation. "You know," declared the Ken- thought you said you were born in San Tricky tuckian, "we're the richest State in the Francisco." Union. Why, there's enough gold at Fort —FRANCIS GERARD It takes just a little wile for a gal to get a husband. — HOWIE LASSETER

Fashion Vole

Regarding gowns the ladies wear, And dresses they look chic and slim in: Sonic women show a lot of style. And some styles show a lot of women. — STEPHEN SCHLITZER

Wauls to lie Alone

Bilious Bill says that some relatix'es can get along — he Irishes that his would. — RAYMOND HUBBARD

Good Answer

Four men were playing golf on a course where the hazard on the ninth hole was a deep ravine. They drove off the tee. Three of the men went into the ravine and the other managed to get his ball over. Two men decided not to play their balls and gave up the hole. The third said that he would go down and play out his ball. He "Mind telling me just who that was you drove to the station, dear?"

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