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OCTOBER 1975 Volume 99, Number 4 National Commander LEGION Harry G. Wiles MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1975 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers, please notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 using Form 3578 which is available at your local post office. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses with ZIP Code Table of Contents number and current membership card num- ber. Also, notify your Post Adjutant or other officer charged with such responsibilities.

The American Legion Magazine THEY'RE FLYING OLD GLORY AGAIN 4 Editorial & Advertising Offices BY LOUISE PRICE BELL 1345 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 Stars Stripes everywhere We are seeing more and more of the and Publisher, James F. 0*Neil —from tiny crossroad hamlets to bustling metropolitan areas. Editor Robert B. Pitkin Assistant to Publisher MODERN BASEBALL IN ITS 100TH YEAR John Andreola A BICENTENNIAL FEATURE 8 Art Editor BY BOWIE KUHN Walter H. Boll Commissioner of Baseball Assistant Editor James S. Swartz Commissioner surveys the condition and appeal Kuhn Associate Editor of professional and Legion baseball. Roy Miller Production Manager Art Bretzfield SHOULD GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES BE Copy Editor ALLOWED TO STRIKE? 12 Grail S. Hanford Two Sides Of National Question Editorial Specialist A Irene Christodoulou pro: REP. WILLIAM D. FORD (D-MICH.) Circulation Manager con: REP. JOHN H. ROUSSELOT (R-CALIF.) Dean B. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. HOW TO KEEP JOB ALL Advertising Sales YOUR WHEN ABOUT Robert Redden Associates, Inc. YOU ARE LOSING THEIRS 14 P. 0. Box 999 Teaneck, N.J. 07666 BY LAWRENCE C. LEVY 201-837-5511 If layoffs are likely in your firm, here are some suggestions you can The American Legion follow to lessen the chances that you will be one of those let go. Magazine Commission

Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn. JUST OFF THE HIGHWAY: AUDUBON'S OLD (Chairman) : Milford A. Forrester, Green- ville, S.C. (Vice Chairman) ; James R. Kel- HOME NEAR VALLEY FORGE, PA 17 ley, Radnor, Pa. (National Commander's Fla.; BY JAMES S. SWARTZ Representative) ; Billy Anderson, Miami, Lang Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.; Norman Seventh in a series on things to see quickly that aren't far from Biebel, Belleville, III.; Adolph Bremer, turnpikes and freeways. Here, adjacent to Valley Forge State Uinona, Minn.; B. C. Connelly, Hunting-

ton, . Va. ; Andrew Cooper, Gulf Park and just off the Turnpike is Mill Grove, W J. Shores, Ala.; Raymond Fields, Oklahoma naturalist James Audubon's first home in America. City, Okla.; Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Ga.;

James V. Kissner, Palatine, III. ; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, Iowa; Henry S. Lemay. Lancaster, Ohio Loyd McDermott, Benton, THE AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL CONVENTION ; Ark.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss.; J. H. IN MINNEAPOLIS 18 Morris, Baton Rouge, La.; Robert F. Mur- phy, Chelmsford, Mass.; Frank W. Naylor, A report in text and photos of The American Legion's 57th Jr., Kansas City, Kans. ; Harry H. Schaffer, National Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fresno, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; George Sinopoli, August 15-August 21. Calif.; Wayne L. Talbert, Delphi, Ind.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N.Y. (Consultant), Edward McSweeney, New York, N.Y. (Con- sultant). COVER: Homes flying flags on S.E. 18th St.. in Portland. Ore. ESTHER HENDERSON photo from Louise Price Bell. The American Legion Magazine is owned and published monthly by The American Legion. Copyright 1975 by The American Legion. Second class postage paid at Indianapolis, Ind., 46204 and additional mailing offices. Price: single copy, 20 cents; yearly sub- Departments scription, $2.00. Direct inquiries regarding circulation to: Circulation Department, P. 0. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. PERSONAL 2 LEGION SHOPPER 46 Send editorial and advertising material to: DATELINE WASHINGTON 7 PARTING SHOTS 48 The American Legion Magazine, 1345 Avenue of the Americas. New York, N.Y. 10019.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 PERSONAL

MAJOR ITEMS TO COST MORE. • The federal government shows little sign of entering the brawl. It MEDICAL MALPRACTICE MISERIES. probably will keep hands off. • The long-range hope is that the ESTATE PLANNING PROVISIONS. states eventually will refine their laws to the point where a viable compro- mise is possible. Professional forecasters are sizing up three items that figure important- ly in your fall-winter budget this way: * HEATING FUELS: Supplies look in pretty good shape except natural — Latest Internal Revenue Service gas, which again is touch and go (primarily for industrial users). But fuel figures show that there's an uptrend costs are sure to be up in scary fashion. Figure it will cost you at least in the number of estates subject to 10% more to heat your home this winter than in 1974, assuming that taxation. The figure, while still rather weather conditions are about normal. small, may nevertheless remind you AUTOMOTIVE: Everything in this category keeps rising. New-car prices of the following: are 5% to 6% higher because of anti-pollution devices and costlier com- • If your estate is taxable (you can ponents. That means several hundred additional dollars, depending on quickly find out from your banker, what you're buying. Gasoline will average 10% more at a minimum. Tires have been hiked in a 3% to 6% range, while used-car prices will continue to be stiff as consumers try to trade down. Should be a bright spot. been portending only FOOD: Crops have good, 5Ave a- lot a slow price rise. But don't bet on it. Transportation costs, foreign deals and imports (notably coffee) can build strong adverse leverage.

The controversy over medical malpractice insurance will smolder for years to come. So will your pocketbook. Medical bills will continue to be affected by higher malpractice costs, because: 1) Even though insurance pools are being set up to ease the insurance bind, they won't bring costs down. At best, they'll brake them on a short-term basis. 2) All sorts of hidden charges are cropping up. Many doctors and hos- pitals now insist on extra tests, X-rays, etc. to be sure you can't accuse them of negligence. Quite literally, the tab for these precautionary mea- sures runs into the billions. Doctors complain that greedy patients and lawyers sue for outrageous sums, and the only remedy is a legal lid on this alleged extortion. Patients and lawyers counter that doctors are careless and unconcerned. Insurance companies plead that they're caught in the middle, and would just as soon wash their hands of the mess (as many have). Meantime: "Here's a coupon for ten cents off • Some 25 states have passed legislation to make insurance available or on a tube of shaving cream." restrict law suits; but it's stop-gap and experimental. The American Legion Magazine

lawyer or insurance man), be sure your heirs will have enough ready

cash to settle it. Life insurance is one Earwax: of the usual ways to guarantee fast funds. Incidentally, the cash problem the sneak thief of sound. may be especially acute if you're a Government studies show that hearing problems and age go small businessman and have the bulk hand in hand. These studies also show that many hearing problems of your assets tied up in the enterprise. • are merely due to excessive earwax. Of course, anyone suspecting a If it hasn't occurred to you before, will hearing problem should consult a physician to determine the cause. check whether your wife has a (yours, of course, is an absolute must). One way for earwax to impair hearing is very simple. As we Even if your spouse hasn't much prop- grow older, the fine hairs lining our ear canals grow coarse. Even- erty now, remember that she's likely tually, they can prevent earwax that forms daily from getting out. to get most—if not all—of yours This in turn muffles sounds trying to get in. Because the wax builds should you pass on before she does. up so gradually, your hearing can diminish without realizing it. you • Check whether your will has a The safest, most effective way to remove earwax is by using "common disaster" clause. Simply, DEBROX® Drops regularly. DEBROX is recommended by thou- what this means is that if husband sands of physicians. They know it safely removes wax and can be and wife perish simultaneously, it will used daily to prevent buildup. DEBROX costs only pennies a day be presumed—solely for legal reasons and is available at drugstores without a prescription. —that the husband died first. The rea- son for this is to guarantee a marital deduction in taxes potentially DC B- 1774 rox DROPS estate — Deb saving a pretty penny for your heirs. By Edgar A. Grunwald

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 "When we foundout whatAARPdid forpeople over 55, my wife didn't mind telling her age?

"After a friend of ours told us about AARP, I said to my wife, 'Irma, everybody's having fun but us.' So I clipped out a coupon just like the one on this page. And got our AARP memberships. I wish we had done it 5 years earlier." What's AARP? Irma and Peter McNulty AARP is the American Association of Retired Persons. A non-profit association of over 7 million people. Rich people. All you have to be is 55 or over. Poor people. People on the go. People who We don't care who you are, where you live, like to stay put. It's one of the few or what you do, if you're 55 or over you can organizations that offers you the opportunity be a member of AARP. And find the purpose to give so much of yourself, and at the same and involvement you've been looking for. time provides so many benefits and services. So tell us your age. Because joining AARP is the best way we know to start feeling What does it give? younger. Primarily it gives you the opportunity for a new kind of life. A way to explore new interests. To save money on medicines, travel, auto and health insurance. To Join AARR strengthen the voice of older Americans in federal, state and local government. The new social security But, most of all, it's a way to maintain your for individuality, and your dignity. people 55 and over, r How does AARP work? -J I American Association of Retired Persons To become enrolled in AARP all you have 1909 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049 J to do is clip and mail this coupon. Your ~ Gentlemen : I am 55 or over. membership costs you $2 a year. That's it. Please enroll as I me a member of AARP. I under- | stand that it makes me eligible for all AARP What kind of benefits or services? benefits and privileges. n Enclosed find Well, there's AARP's travel service. : $2 (one year dues) rj $5 (3 year dues) Bill me later. ~: There's information about a recommended [

Life Insurance Plan and an Auto Insurance Name ! . I (Please Print) Plan designed for mature persons. Eligibility DFZ2 m Address for a Group Health Insurance Plan to help p supplement Medicare. There's a home- City Birthdate ! delivery pharmacy service. There are over J 2000 local chapters where you can meet new State Zip Code J people and get involved in community One membership makes both member and spouse I a service jj programs. There's Mature Temps, eligible for all AARP benefits and privileges, I I even however, only one vote. to help you get part-time work. You I may receive subscriptions to Modern Maturity U J magazine and the AARP News Bulletin. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 3 a —

it every day when the weather per- More people are flying the flag in more places, more mits it? Some people even have a often today than they have done for many a year. permanent flagpole to which the flag is proudly hoisted every pleasant morning. And there are whole pa- By LOUISE PRICE BELL 'cause the flag has altoays been sym- triotic communities, and sections of bolic . . . just as much as now. . . . others, where everyone does the same Anyway, it's a good thing. Patrio- thing. More and more flags are be- Maybe it took the Bicentennial tism is important." ing flown properly lighted at night, to do it, or maybe it was Amen ! There's nothing more thrill- too. It's inspiring to look down a something else, but the display of ing than the sight of the Stars and street and see Old Glory in front of, the American flag is more popular Stripes waving gently against an or attached to, every building. When today than it has been in years. Flag azure-blue sky. So if your eyes mois- you see something like that you manufacturers have been swamped ten, your throat tightens and your know you're in the "land of the with orders and purchases of Amer- spine tingles at the sight, apologies free!" ican flags of all sizes, materials, are not in order. These reactions The celebration of the birth of our vintages and prices. merely prove that you're a full- nation has certainly set us to think-

"We have expanded our produc- fledged, red-blooded American, proud ing . . . reminiscing . . . digging into tion facilities, added extra shifts of our heritage and the banner that our dusty history books to confirm and hired new people," says Daniel is the symbol of our democracy and some date or episode in our country's Connors, advertising manager of ourselves. past that is under discussion. We're Annin & Co. of Verona, N.J.— Countless individuals and families realizing more keenly how fortunate leading flag maker. In Tucson, Ariz., own American flags and display them we are to be American citizens the Ruhl Flag Co. reports a 33% in front of house or apartment on whether native-born or naturalized. jump in sales in a few months. national holidays, and their numbers And while doing our best to improve "People are buying flags like are growing. But have you ever conditions, we are trying to accept crazy," said one dealer. "Funny, too, thought of making a habit of flying the fact that it's inevitable for any

4 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 BLACK STAR / GENE DANIELS H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS

Be they suburban homes or city apartment houses, more are showing the flag on holidays and every day.

country to experience its "ups-and- duce a patriotic effect." Because of Betsy Ross grave in Saint Moriah downs." Nations are made up of hu- this law, the flag began to appear in Cemetery and at Flag Square on man beings . . . and human beings many places at night. It always Pratt Street where the first flag was

are far from infallible. seemed right for Old Glory to wave supposedly made. . . . Pennsylvania Perhaps you haven't owned and over the east and west front of the Hall at Gettysburg College, Pa., was flown the flag of your country, in U.S. Capitol in Washington—day or used as both a lookout and a hospital the past. Until quite recently, aside night—and this is true of several during the Battle of Gettysburg. The from schools, government buildings other spots, especially the White 34-star banner that is constantly and memorials, far too few of these House and the Washington Monu- flown over the hall is a copy of the colorful banners have been displayed ment. American flag as it was designed in except in officially designated places. Francis Scott Key was inspired to 1863. So it's a significant step forward that write the words of The Star-Span- Visitors to New Mexico ask why we are seeing more and more of the gled Banner when, during the War the American flag flies 24 hours a Stars and Stripes everywhere—from of 1812, he watched the "rocket's day over the little village of Taos. tiny crossroad hamlets to bustling red glare" as our boys defended their It seems that during the Civil War metropolitan areas. country against the British. Thus, a group of early residents, including As youngsters we were taught that Old Glory at the Fort McHenry Na- Kit Carson, nailed a flag to a post, the flag should be displayed only tional Monument in Baltimore flies defended it from the Southern sym- from sunrise to sunset. Although day and night in memory of this in- pathizers and vowed that it would this custom is still quite general, spiration. It also flies continually at stay there forever. Their descendants more and more flags are now quite Key's birthplace in Keysville and have kept their promise, replacing regula-lv flown the clock around. over his grave at Mt. Olivet Ceme- worn flags with new ones when On Dec. 22, 1942, Congress passed tery in Frederick—both towns in necessary. ". a law stating . . the flag may be Maryland. After WW2 and until 1968, an displayed at night upon special oc- In , you'll see the American flag was flown day and casions where it is desired to pro- Stars and Stripes at all hours at the night on Iwo Jima, as a reminder of

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 5 FREDERIC LEWIS CONTINUED Old Glory the handful of brave men who so gal- lantly defended it. But at the request of the Japanese government in March of 1968 it was removed, pre- ceding the island's return to its orig- inal ownership. However, the Iwo Jima statue—based on the famous WW2 photo by Blumenthal of the flag-raising on Iwo's Mount Suri- bachi—stands at the /U.S. Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, Va. And the colorful banner for which they fought waves above it at all times. Until quite recently, Old Glory was displayed at our country's Ports of Entry by day only. Now it's there around the clock. Authorities felt that since these ports are open all the time, returning Americans and The flag is increasingly being flown at night, properly lighted. This was once visitors from other countries should reserved for special places and occasions, but is becoming a more general practice.

be welcomed by the flag, whether

they arrive by day or night . . . that the national colors of the United States should provide a colorful and welcome greeting of warm promise at any hour. When we attend an outdoor night- time concert, religious gathering, commencement or pageant, the flag certainly seems suitably displayed. It is often spotlighted to enhance the beauty to which no other flag can compare in the hearts and minds of Americans. There's no more heady experience than to be one of hun- dreds, often thousands, who stand, face a brilliantly lighted flag sur- rounded by the ink-blackness of the night, and join in singing The Star- Spangled Banner or God Bless America! In recent years, it has become fairly common to consider that any time is good enough to be a "special occasion" to fly the flag at night, as our Ports of Entry do, provided that a "patriotic effect" is produced by shining a light on the flag all night. The flag itself is "special." The only "bad taste" is to fly it at night unil- luminated. One need only recall that our national anthem includes the words "Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there." Many American Legion Posts and business establishments have been flying illuminated flags at night for more than ten years, following this new custom. But those who wish to lower their flags at night are free to do so, and should if the flag is not lighted. Day or night, more American flags Flag manufacturers have had to expand operations to meet the new demands. are being flown with each passing Here we see flags being made by Annin & Co., at one of two New Jersey plants. week in 1975. end.

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Dateline Washington

FOOD: POLITICAL HOT POTATO. SEARCHING FOR A "SAFE" CIGARETTE. REDUCING BATHROOM HAZARDS.

The skyrocketing cost of the Food Stamp by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Program is shaping up as part of the hottest Commission. political issue of next fall's elections Children are the maj or victims — over 75% the country's welfare program, which has of all deaths occur among children under liberals pitted against conservatives in five, and 90% of the injuries and deaths both parties. The recession is mostly to happen when they ' re not watched by an adult blame for the 33 1/3% increase in food stamp The Commission is urging the bathtub recipients. . .15 million last October to and shower industry to come up with voluntary 19.6 million in May. safety standards. If the industry can* t In the 1975 fiscal year $4 billion was come up with meaningful standards, the budgeted. It actually cost $5 billion. In Commission will. Slips and falls, according the fiscal year ending June 30th, the cost to the study , were f ound to be the most is expected to be $6.5 billion. frequent type of accident ; burns from Sen. James Buckley (N.Y. ) and Rep. Robert scalding water were less common, but H.Michel (111.) are leading a coalition to generally more serious, resulting in over tighten up requirements for the Food Stamp 70 deaths a year. Over 100 people drown Program which, they say, would save $1% to every year in bathtubs $2 billion, while Senators Robert Dole PEOPLE (Kan. ) , Charles Percy (111. ) and George & QUOTES McGovern (S.D. ) are opposing the coali- TIRED OF DASHED HOPES BRITISH VIEW tion' s fight, as well as the Administra- "The people of all Europe "Detente means little if it tion' s efforts to tighten the food stamp and, I assure you, the people is not reflected in the daily ground rules. of North America are lives of our people." Prime thoroughly tired of having Minister Harold Wilson, their hopes raised and then Britain. Despite the Surgeon General ' s Report and shattered by empty words a broad educational campaign, smoking is and unfulfilled pledges." A BETTER EARTH

on the increase , and efforts are being President Ford. "We today have few illu- stepped up to make the tobacco in cigarettes sions left about happiness, TERRIBLE TERROR about building a heaven on safe for people. The Agriculture Dept ' s "If an individual's rights earth. But we can still hope Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has are violated by a law enforce- for a better earth." HEW announced 11 research grants totalling ment officer, remedies are Sec'y Dr. F. David Mathews. available. But there is 2/3 of a million dollars in cooperation with no DETENTE DIRECTIVE the Nat '1 Cancer Institute, the Univ. of appeal, there is no such remedy for a terrorist's "It is high time for the Kentucky and other research institutions bomb." FBI Director Clar- Russians to be made aware to identify and remove health hazards ence Kelley. that detente must not be a from cigarette smoke. one-way street." Eep. Ronald Mottl (Ohio). Tobacco consumption in the United States RECYCLE RESOURCES reached a high of 217 packs per person in "A society set up to reuse SERVICE JEALOUSY? most of its resources syste- "The services have resisted 1963, but began dropping the following year matically and habitually will consolidation in the past by when the Surgeon General issued the famous effect enormous energy sav- making up excuses about the ings. This eventually must smoking report —down to 200 packs in 1969. uniqueness of their respective be the industrial philosophy Last year, however, Americans smoked 211 programs. This was pure of a stabilized society." Glenn service jealousy and packs per person, according to the ARS. Seaborg, Nobel Prize Winner. parochial Researchers feel one answer to lowering empire building." Sen. Wil- liam Proxmire (Wis.) the death rate from smoking is to find and GOVT SPENDING remove tobacco's cancer-causing substances, "We are trying to intro- FREE TRADE OUTLOOK duce a greater sense of "The attitude toward free discipline in government trade will improve as the Consumer education and safer bathtubs spending so that our nation world moves out of the reces- are the keys to reducing the 110,000 bathtub will not drown in the red ink sion in 1976. Most major and shower-related accidents that occur of budget deficits and there trading nations recognize will be enough money to in- that annually in the second most dangerous r oom they are increasingly vest in the future." Treasury interdependent." Frederick in a house, according to a study sponsored Sec'y William E. Simon. Dent, U.S. Trade Negotiator.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 7 A BICENTENNIAL FEATURE ,h Modern Baseball In Its 100 Year

selves in one explosive blending of Commissioner looks at professional and Legion The their different skills and respon- baseball as each reaches a historic milestone. sibilities; each man being where he has tc be or backing up another; ignoring the possibility of injury to FABIAN BACH RACH execute the play; always alert to By BOWIE KUHN the total, changing situation, and all Commissioner of Baseball the time heeding manager and coaches and readapting in an instant if a teammate misplays—all this is aseball was America's first pop- the superlative parallel in sports to JrS ular team sport. It had already the highest ideal of humans working been around a long time when, in together in life. 1876, the present Many a player with outstanding played its first season, to inaugurate skills has failed to make it because modern professional baseball. he flunked as a team player, while When major league ball was 50 many another with lesser skills be- years old in 1926, The American Le- came invaluable for his teamwork. gion sponsored the first national Yet we all know that the parallel baseball tournament for teen-agers. to the challenges of life runs far By a happy coincidence, the nation deeper than that. is in its 200th year, major league Every fan looks on baseball as a baseball is in its 100th year, and laboratory in human relations and American Legion baseball is in its personal qualities. Managers are 50th year all at the same time. Three praised by fans or panned by them rugged institutions, these, for they The author, for how they handle their players have well stood the test of time. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. as people. Players, managers, club All-time major league attendance owners, league presidents, umpires in the United States is rapidly clos- Series, the eyes and ears of the na- and the Commissioner are judged for ing on the one billion mark! The tion are glued to every inning, with things they say and do off the field number of people who have played most of the population freely second- as well as on it, in and out of season. the game in the major and minor guessing the losing managers and Baseball's business is everybody's leagues and in The American Legion mentally re-running every key play. business—player contracts, trades, program, or who have been closely For most Americans, the impact investments. Generosity and mean- associated with the management and of the game has much deeper ness, shrewdness and folly, effort regulation of baseball, or with re- than its entertainment value. Every- and laziness, wisdom and short- porting and broadcasting it, is now one instinctively sees in baseball a sightedness, modesty and immodesty, up in the millions. And though our game modeled after what is im- sportsmanship and boorishness in National Pastime is only now gain- portant in life itself. The evidence baseball are all quite as much of ing a foothold in Europe, it spread of that runs deep. It has always public concern as hits, runs, fielding, long ago to Canada, Latin America been so widely recognized that no- pitching, catching and baserunning. and Japan. It is a national craze body raised the slightest question Baseball is a source of much of our on Taiwan and is growing in other when nationwide American Legion language and literature. It is a parts of Asia. baseball for youngsters was first specimen of our national character Baseball's appeal is phenomenal. proposed at the South Dakota state placed in an arena, as well as a Many have tried to analyze why Legion convention in Milbank, S.D. fountain of national humor and na- that is so. After more than a century in 1925. tional wisdom. We roar at Casey of professional baseball, whole cities The idea wasn't put forward Stengel's and Dizzy Dean's use of and regions of the nation still go simply to get youngsters to play a English and agree with Wee Willie wild over a hot September pennant game. There was unanimous agree- Keeler that you should hit 'em race. Dramatic plays, as the season ment that while baseball would help where they ain't, a phrase that Gen- narrows down, are remembered in physical training and "get kids eral MacArthur borrowed to describe vividly by millions a quarter of a off the streets," it would also be a his strategy in the Southwest Pacific. century later. school for all sorts of intangible Many a youngster first learned what "When did we put the back porch values in the game of life, such as strategy is from baseball, where you on the house?" a New Jersey "citizenship," "teamwork," "integ- surrender one point to try to gain woman recently asked her husband. rity," etc. a bigger one—like walking a man to "Well," he said, "I remember I had Nobody ever said that about shoot- get past a tough batter or to set up the radio on and was nailing down ing pool or playing tag. a double play, or like sacrificing the steps when Bobby Thompson hit But, of course, the degree of yourself to advance a base runner. his pennant-winning . So teamwork and self-discipline in base- Above all else, baseball has to look that up and we'll know when ball when nine men have to be have integrity. Baseball players don't we built the porch." ready (without a fraction of a have to be "nice," and some are as When it comes to the World second delay) to coordinate them- rough as you please. But, in matters

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 WIDE WORLD

Crowds were unmanageable in Boston during the first World Se- League began in 1876, but the Series had to await the success- ries, in 1903, between the Red Sox and the Pirates. The National ful formation of the at the turn of the century.

of basic integrity, they are in the Because ballplayers are human, its National Executive Committee same boat as Caesar's wife and the they can fall into serious mistakes adopted a resolution commending clergy. They have to be better than in their own behavior. Because they and supporting professional baseball most people. are the idols of many another, they and professional football, and their No political scandal ever rocked have the opportunity to set examples Commissioners, for their "leadership the nation any more than did base- for others in many important mat- role in informing young people . . . ball's Black Sox scandal of 1919, ters. about the dangers of drug abuse." when players were discovered to When drug use became so preva- We were proud and thankful for have thrown games for gambling lent, we were concerned lest ball- that support, and for a similar ex- interests. Grown men cursed and players succumb to the use of drugs, pression from the President of the children wept over the villainy of while we felt that ballplayers could United States, and proudest of all their former idols. help others avoid the drug trap. of the players who gave their own Pro football reacted similarly. time to warn others against drug Out of that scandal, the office of In 1971, we initiated an education- abuse. the Commissioner was estab- al "Baseball vs. Drugs" program. We We are proud, too, of the many lished, to clean the game up and want all players to know of the players over the decades who have keep it clean. possible harm from using illegal visited youngsters in hospitals, to The most important single duty drugs and we want them to be able whom the personal attention of a of my position as Commissioner is to teach by example, and, when baseball star was almost like the to do everything in my power to see needed, by explanation. fulfillment of an impossible dream. that the integrity of baseball is un- Any number of our present-day Another of our worries that is questioned. It has been very seldom and former players have become demanding attention today is the in modern times that any doubt has outstanding fighters in our country's threat of legalized gambling to base- been cast upon the integrity of the battle against drug abuse. Some of ball and other team sports, and once game or its participants. the names that come to mind are again the Legion is in wholehearted But we cannot relax. We maintain Reggie Smith, Lou Brock, Wes Par- support. an active security department to ker, Jim Lefebvre, , Milt The Commission on the Review of check any rumor or suggestion which Pappas, Carl Yastrzemski and Pete the National Policy Toward Gam- may indicate any question of our Richert. bling in Washington, D.C., is holding rules being violated. We must be The American Legion stood behind a series of hearings on this matter. above suspicion. us all the way on this, and When I addressed the group in

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 9 CONTINUED dividual performances, which would Modern Baseball In Its 100th Year not necessarily involve fixing a game. Baseball long ago proved to be a February I told them; "Any legisla- bility of professional baseball. vital American institution. Foreign tion to legalize gambling could While it is an unpleasant thing observers still say that if you want jeopardize the very existence of pro- to have to say, I firmly believe that to understand the heart of America, fessional baseball and other pro- legalized gambling would increase you must understand baseball. Its fessional team sports." I laid down the likelihood of efforts being made heritage has coincided with our five specific reasons: to fix games and performances in country's history. Whether on the 1. Shaking public confidence in the professional and amateur sports. concrete fields of our cities or the integrity of the game. Another danger of legalized gam- green baseball diamonds of the coun- 2. Creating a climate favorable to bling is that it would lead to forms try, baseball has been our game since gambling which would under- of baseball betting other than in- 1839. In its earlier forms, such as mine baseball's historic efforts dividual game bets. rounders, townball and one-o-cat, it to prevent gambling by its peo- The most likely new form of is as old as the colonial settlement ple. betting would be point-spread betting of this continent. 3. Creating a new class of gam- and individual performance betting. Baseball's heroes, from Ty Cobb bling fans. The danger of these more sophisti- to Hank Aaron, are not only legend- 4. Adversely affecting baseball's cated forms of gambling is that ary heroes of a game, but have rated strong family following. performers might be lured into as national celebrities and been ac- 5. Threatening the financial sta- shaving scores and manipulating in- corded the same adulation and respect—sometimes even more—as statesmen or diplomats. When enemy soldiers attacked the Allied THE WHITE HOUSE forces in World War 2, they tried WASHINGTON to damn the thing most precious to Americans in their war cry. What January ij, 1942 did they yell? "Down with Babe My dear Judge:— Ruth!" When Americanism in any Thank you for yours of January fourteenth. As you will, of form is discussed many things are course, realize the final decision about the baseball season must brought to mind. One of the fore- most elements is baseball. rest with you and the Baseball Club owners.—so what I am going When Pearl Harbor shook the na- to say is solely a personal and not an official point of view. tion, and war was declared in 1941, I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep base- our first Commissioner of Baseball, ball going. There will be fewer people unemployed and everybody Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, will work longer hours and harder than ever before. wrote to President Franklin D. And that means that they ought to have a chance for recreation Roosevelt to ask if there was any- thing baseball could do, and to in- and for taking their minds off their work even more than before. quire whether the President would Baseball a recreation which last provides does not over two hours like the leagues to suspend their or two hours and a half, and which can be got for very little cost. play for the duration. And, incidentally, I hope that night baseball can be extended be- cause it gives an opportunity to the day shift to see a game occa- President Roosevelt's answer is reproduced on these pages. He sionally. wanted baseball to continue, even if to the players themselves, 1 know you agree with me that As most of the best players went to individual players who are of active military or naval age should war, and he asked that night base- ball be expanded. go, without question, into the services. Even if the actual quality Of course, most of the players of the teams is lowered by the greater use of older players, this did go to war, and the game was will not the popularity dampen of the sport. 'Of course, if any in- continued largely by those who, for dividual has some particidar aptitude in a trade or profession, he one reason or another, were rejected ought to serve the Government. That, however, is a matter which for service. Back in World War I, I know you can handle with complete justice. more than half of the players went to war. Major , who Here is another way of looking at it—if 300 teams use 5,000 played for the New York Giants in or players, these players 6,000 are a definite recreational asset to the 1913 , was killed in at least 20,000,000 of their fellow citizens—and that in my judg- the Argonne Forest. Hank Gowdy, ment is thoroughly worthwhile. of the Boston Braves, joined up in Base- With every best wish, WWI and again in WW2. The ball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Very sincerely yours, N.Y., has a wall covered with the (Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt names of those who answered the Hon. Kenesaw M. Landis call to the colors: Ty Cobb, Christy 233 North Michigan Avenue Mathewson, , Tris Speaker and others in WWI; Joe Chicago, Illinois DiMaggio, Hang Greenberg, , Phil Rizzuto and many others in WW2. Ted Williams was When Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis asked President Roosevelt if and repeated he wanted baseball to suspend play in WW2, Roosevelt sent the answer shown above. a Marine flyer in WW2

10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 PHOTO PROVIDED BY MINNE BELLE HICKMAN last year, and the program still is growing. Professional baseball has enthusi- astically provided financial and pro- fessional assistance to the Legion down through the years, because of its belief in the Legion program and because of the obvious benefits the program has provided for profes- sional baseball. Not surprisingly, we have a par- ticular affection for the wonderful and dedicated men who provide ad- ministration and coaching in the Le- gion program. Most of them have an ingrained love of baseball which has provided the motive power for their toils and achievements. It is this same love of the game which under- The oldest photo known to us of an official Legion youth baseball team is this lies the vast amateur baseball struc- 1928 picture of the team sponsored by the all-women U.S.S. Jacob Jones Post 2, D.C. ture in our high schools, colleges, little leagues and wherever we have in Korea. Many a student of baseball Carl Yastrzemski and Reggie Jack- organized play. Every person statistics likes to argue that if Ted son, The American Legion program who has contributed hadn't spent so many of the best has produced some of baseball's can take personal pride when he years of his athletic career in ser- greatest superstars. hears remarks such as those of the vice, his batting records would be A look at the rosters of the 24 late Chief Justice of the Supreme beyond hope of future challenge. major league clubs this year is evi- Court Earl Warren, who said during For keepers of statistics (and dence enough of the impressive con- an interview at the 1973 World baseball statisticians must be more tribution the Legion has made to Series in Baltimore: numerous than all other statisticians the major leagues. Approximately "Yes, baseball is truly the great combined), here are a couple of 500 of the 600 players on the major national pastime. There is always historical firsts: league rosters played American some excitement and a fan can see The first enclosed ball park ever Legion baseball. That's a stunning the values of clean competition and erected was in Williamsburg, Brook- 83 percent. sportsmanship as well as a display lyn, N.Y. The opening game was Thirty-five of the 56 players of physical skills and athletic talent played there in May 1862 (14 years selected to play in the 1975 All-Star that calls for precision and speed. before the first of the present major Game in Milwaukee played Legion I am particularly pleased to learn leagues was formed). It was a ball. that today more young people are benefit for the Civil War Sanitary Bench and Yastrzemski, All-Stars playing baseball under expert super- Commission, the forerunner of the in 1975 for the National League and vision than ever before in the long American Red Cross. American League, respectively, are history of the game." The first time a band played the past winners of The American Le- Equally as significant was a com- Star-Spangled Banner at a baseball gion Baseball Graduate of the Year ment by the late President Eisen- game while the crowd sang it was Award. hower: "I think baseball is a in the , in New York, The Legion program is a natural wonderful sport for American youth. on the opening day of the 1898 pacesetter because of its 50-year I think that as a recreation for season, during the Spanish-American history, which has seen at least three young Americans the more baseball War. and a half million teen-agers playing the better. It is a healthful sport and Baseball was played in and out of baseball. Some 70,000 participated develops team play and initiative both the Union and Confederate and an independent attitude." WIDE WORLD armies in the Civil War, and it was The Posts of the Legion program one of the pastimes in the prisoner lead countless youths to champion- of war camps on both sides. Abner ship teams, and one fortunate young Doubleday, whose organization of man each year receives the Com- baseball games in New York State missioner's Trophy which goes to in 1839 is generally accepted as the the Most Valuable Player in the Le- dividing line between what we call gion World Series. baseball and its earlier forms, was But more important, on Legion himself a Union general in the Civil diamonds across the country, these War. young men are learning not only the Professional baseball has benefited skills of baseball, but the valuable greatly from The American Legion lessons of sportsmanship, self-dis- and its youth baseball program. cipline, teamwork, courage and in- It is truly hard to imagine major tegrity which will make them better league baseball today without the American citizens. influx of American Legion products. For me, it boils down to this: The From such Hall of Fame greats as American Legion baseball program Great plays are never forgotten, as Bob Feller, Ted Williams, Stan when is a national asset and every person Willie Mays made his back-to-the-plate Musial to involved should be proud of the role and Roy Campanella, catch of a 450-foot drive by Vic Wertz, present-day stars Johnny Bench, on September 29, 1954. he has played. end THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 H .

WASHINGTON Opposing Views by Congressmen on The Question . . PRO & CON

SHOULD GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

The real question is not whether we should treated differently than legalize or prohibit public employee strikes, but private employees be- how we can best avoid them. cause of the "essential Experience shows that strikes cannot be pre- nature" of their services vented merely by making them illegal. is not altogether valid. Forty years' experience with the Wagner Act and Detroit, San Francisco its successor, the National Labor Relations Act, have and many other cities demonstrated that the best way to avoid labor dis- maintain municipal zoos putes is to give employees full collective bargaining operated by public work- rights and provide both employers and employees ers. These same cities with a clearly denned set of rules and procedures have private hospitals for settling disputes. staffed by private work- Rep. William D. Ford In 1934, the year before enactment of the Wagner ers. In Philadelphia, re- (D-Mich.) Act, 7.2% of all American workers were involved tail liquor stores are in work stoppages. In most of the years since then, owned and operated by the state, but gas and elec- the percentage of our work force participating in tric utilities are privately owned. strikes has been considerably less. Are scotch and gin, giraffes and monkeys more The federal government and 43 states presently "essential" than hospitals, heat and light? have laws prohibiting public employees from strik- There are only two major nations in the world ing. These laws have not been effective deterrents. with universal prohibition against federal employee The postal strike of 1970, Air Traffic Controller strikes—the United States and Soviet Russia. "slowdowns," the increasing number of teacher Our neighbors to the north and south guarantee strikes, the "blue flu" of many police forces and the their federal employees full collective bargaining recent New York garbage strike help prove their rights (including the right to strike) —Canada by failure. statute, and Mexico by its Constitution. The Italian, Just as the prohibition of public employee strikes French and German Constitutions all guarantee the does not necessarily prevent them, the legalization right of public employees to strike, and Sweden, of strikes does not necessarily encourage them. Norway and Denmark authorize this by law. Vermont, which enacted a municipal right-to- Isn't it time for the United States to catch up with strike statute in 1967, and extended it to teachers in the rest of the "free world"? 1969, has had no public worker strike in any of these years. By contrast, among the 43 states which prohibit strikes by public employees, there were 25 in Wis- consin, 32 in Illinois, 44 in Ohio and 73 in my own state of Michigan, all in 1973 alone. The argument that public employees must be

If you wish to let your Congressman or one of your Senators know how you feel on this

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 BE ALLOWED TO STRIKE ? "NO" The very basic differ- Second, as voters, government employees have a ences between em- voice in the operations and management of govern- ployment in the public ment through their elected officials. There are not sector and employment many, if any, employees in the private sector who in the private sector have such a direct voice in the operations of the clearly demonstrate that corporations which employ them, and have mem- strikes by government bers on the board of directors who have been elected employees cannot be al- to also represent them. lowed or tolerated. Third, government's sovereignty and responsibili- First, government em- ties must be respected if we are to continue to have ployees are salaried by a free and orderly society. Collective bargaining be- the taxpayers to provide tween government and its employees pits the needs Rep. John H. Rousselot services to the public of one group of citizens against the needs of all (R-Calif.) which have been de- citizens. Government cannot share its responsibili- termined by law to be necessary, and in many cases ties for the health, welfare and safety of the public these are services which can only be provided by with a handful of professional union men who are government. The Constitution specifically delegates not directly answerable to the electorate. certain responsibilities to Congress, and it further There is nothing arbitrary in denying government ". workers the right to strike. is, mandates that Congress . . make all Laws which The fact there is no ." I, Constitutional right shall be necessary and proper. . . (Article Sec- to strike. Quite the opposite is tion 8) to carry out these responsibilities. Unlike the true—a 1971 decision by the United States Supreme private sector, government is not profit oriented. Jur- Court upheld the government's Constitutional right isdiction over the formation and maintenance of our to bar strikes by federal employees in a suit brought armed forces is but one of the Constitutional re- by the United Federation of Postal Clerks against quirements, and in my opinion, it would be a viola- the Postmaster General. tion of this Constitutional mandate to allow, for example, our military forces to go out on strike and expose the nation to an attack by an aggressive foreign power. Without its employees, government would not be able to perform its necessary and proper functions. Collective bargaining between the government and its employees would place an un- fair burden on government to meet employee de- mands in order to avert a strike, and if government

employees should go out on strike, the pressure I have read in The American Legion Magazine for would be even more intense to accede to the de- October the arguments in PRO & CON: Should Gov- ernment Employees Be Allowed To Strike? mands and return vital services to citizens. IN MY OPINION THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS: YES NO

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 13 How To Keep^bur Job When All About You Are Losing Theirs

lot of the old "platitudes" and told Who gets the axe and who escapes it, when it's up me quite earnestly that they are as to management to decide during a company cutback? good as gold today to anyone who's worrying about keeping his job in the By LAWRENCE C. LEVY picked to stay and some will be face of layoffs all around him. picked to go. I could wrap all of their advice up The third group is usually the big- under one broad heading. If you have name of this game is LAY- The gest, and if you are in it then your the wit and desire to think like man- OFF. Times are hard, sales and own performance on the job may be agement, to consider yourself as one profits are down, and people are be- the deciding factor in keeping you or who is on management's team, then ing laid off from their jobs. laying you off. your chances of staying when others Problem: if layoffs are likely in Enough books to fill a library con- go are greatly improved. For if you your firm, what can you do to lessen tain advice on how to make yourself think like a team member, you will the chances that you will be one of valuable to your employer. Most of probably act like one, and it's a good those let go? them were written on the subject of way to act to keep your job. In some cases, of course, you can "how to get ahead." To the extent There isn't a job in your estab- do very little. If you are under a that the advice in them is good ad- lishment where it is not possible to union contract, layoffs may be gov- vice, it also applies to the problem play it as if you were on the team, erned wholly by seniority. of "how to keep your head" when or as if you were not on the team. Nor is there much you can do if a the axe falls. The difference is often found in very layoff is managed by shutting down In the recent long years of pros- simple little things, in management's the division or plant where you perity, a lot of this advice has been view. work. Other divisions may keep dismissed as a bunch of platitudes. The guy or gal who comes in late operating, but where you are every- We have just left an era when em- every day, and gets ready to leave body goes—for days, for months or ployers had so much business that a little before quitting time, and who permanently. they were glad to hire warm bodies is the first one to make the coffee Even so, millions of people work to fill many jobs. break and the last one to return on jobs where, if it is necessary to No more ! A lot of those platitudes from it, is well known to everyone in cut back, management can still pick are worth a fresh look, today. sight as a non-team member. and choose in deciding who will have I recently interviewed various When times were good, perhaps to go. management and personnel people nobody said a word to him, if it was When that's the situation, there on the question: "If it comes to a only five minutes that he stole on are apt to be three classes of work- layoff, and if there is a choice, then every possible occasion. He was prob- ers: 1. Those who are certain to go. who do you think is most likely and ably the proud butt of a lot of jokes. 2. Those who will never be laid off. least likely to get the axe?" The one day when he got to work a 3. Those among whom some will be By and large they warmed up a minute early, someone said: "Hey!

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 morale in this place at the same in that big gray area of those who time. are competent but not brilliant, who The toughest faultfinder for man- aren't tarnished but don't shine, who agement to handle is Little Miss are never first up the ladder though Martyr. She does her job in bang-up never last. They won't be the first fashion, but lets everyone know not to be laid off, but they won't be only how good she is, but how poor the last, either. They are useful but they are by comparison. When she —in a crunch—not necessary. doesn't do it with her mouth she does What's more, I have it from a pro- it with her actions—perhaps clean- fessional job counsellor that many ing up after others and making an workers never realize all that they obvious show of it, while muttering are expected to do. If there's any about "some people." Her job is doubt, ask. Sometimes orders are fairly secure until things get really given in the form of hints, and, if tight. But between her and somebody one adopts the posture that he'll wait else who also does her job well but for a direct order, the next order he never makes a point of it, Miss gets these days may be to step down Martyr is apt to be the first to go. to the paymaster for his last check. Her work is good, but she was never The last person management wants a team member. She was only doing to lay off is the one who only starts a good job for herself, while her by learning what's expected of him attitude, like Chronic Grumbler's, and the motions to go through. He's was always a morale problem. the one who then—under his own Does it sound silly to advise you to steam—learns all he can about his do your job well? When they meet work—what its purpose is, its im- in that big office and talk about who portance to the firm, how his execu- they will have to let go, no one sub- tion of it affects others. If he studies Joe set his alarm clock!" And no- ject will be taken as seriously as the general literature about the busi- body laughed louder than Joe. "Who does his job well?" It's a sure ness and his part in it, goes to school When Joe used up all his sick thing that those on the staff who get or reads nights, gets to know the leave, another joke was: "What's he a low mark here will bounce higher whole general field even if he's only going to do when he's really sick?" than a rubber ball. a little cog in it at present, and But humor is often a cover for There are levels of performance learns the history and broad policies serious criticism. that apply to any job. If you do your of the company—then he becomes a You can make it a rule that if you job poorly, slowly, requiring much very hard person to lay off. Such are the butt of "friendly" jokes about supervision, with plenty of errors, wide knowledge cannot help but getting away with things on the job, then, unless you do something about show up in the performance of his the sword is over your head now. If it yourself fast, you can't help but work (unless the only use he makes you have time, put an end to that be placed in a high priority for lay- of his learning is to tell everyone fast. Not only should you be on time off. If you are a poor listener, so that how much he knows). for work, and perhaps a little slow your supervisor has to keep telling Several of the management people to stop work, but if you are Joe you you the same thing many times, all I interviewed noted that firms prefer have a whole reputation to mend lest the worse. to let those go who seem to be just you be Numero Uno in any impend- If one does his job fairly well, but marking time. Said one: "It can't ing layoff. is essentially only going through the hurt to indicate to your superiors Beware of grumbling and grum- motions, with the attitude of: "I do that you are interested in the com- blers. all that is expected of me," then he's pany for a long-term career—not There are three kinds of workers who find fault. One is the construc- tive critic who occasionally points out some problem in a factual way to his immediate superior. He is about the only faultfinder who is welcome to management. Having pointed out something that's going wrong, he does not follow up by asking his superior what he is going to do about it every few days. The worst faultfinder is Mr. Chronic Grumbler. He has his tongue going all the time about others, doesn't do his own job very well, and justifies his own slackness by saying that Mary and Jack and Frank and Dottie are goof-offs too, so why should he put out? He is real layoff fodder. For years someone higher up has probably been waiting for a chance to get rid of him. The recession becomes a golden opportunity to put Chronic Grum- bler out to pasture and improve the High priority candidates for release include the habitual clock watchers.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 15 CONTINUED like management, and if you don't How to Keep Your Job know that management has been yelling about productivity for years, where have you been ? just as a stepping stone to some- The best time to do this is when where else." you have finished your assignments The platitudes here are: 1. Do and have idle time. It is no feather your job well, 2. Know your job, and in your cap to do something extra at 3. Love your job. the expense of your normal duties. Young workers get the bad end of In some union shops it is forbidden the stick under the "last to come, to do any work but that which goes first to go" policy. But if they apply with your job. But in other places it themselves and use their wits, they could pay to learn a few different have a few things going for them. jobs, even ask for training in them. The personnel director of a large "The more you know, and the publishing company said that young more jobs you can do," a personnel men and women can impress su- manager told me, "the more desir- periors in ways older workers can't. able you are to your boss. If it comes "They have a chance to shine, be- to where he has to consolidate two cause there's not as much expected positions into one, he is going to of them," he said. "A young worker look for someone both who quickly shows only the average who can do and let the guy go who can only do savvy of an older one may be con- one." top of that, eagerness sidered exceptional." But he warned On to learn and the ability to acquire youngsters not to be know-it-all new skills always eager beavers. "When you are new impress management. The worker who has learned to do more to a job, play it cool. Don't come on Several employers and personnel than he has to around the shop may be too strong at first and don't criticize just too useful to be allowed to leave. managers told that workers old hands. Maybe you don't know as me who spot changing trends, then take much as you think you do, and even pains to educate themselves with And so can all the other intangi- if you're right, the person you criti- respect to them, gain job security bles. Is your personality a happy cize may be somebody's brother-in- asset to the office or plant? You law." over fellow employees whose only can't make your whole personality reaction td change is resistance. Young or old, if you think your job Even before the current recession, over, but you might try to smile, be is at stake, it might be a good idea polite to others, avoid needless un- to be an eager beaver about pro- automation replaced many workers. pleasantnesses and over-talkative- However, those it ductivity. The chances to produce who saw coming and read up on computers and other ness, keep your personal troubles at more than is expected of you vary automation on their home, say good things about people from job to job. On some jobs there own had a higher survival rate than those who or nothing, give more credit to others is no way. But on others there is, than you ask from them, and do a without grabbing work away from a simply griped about the inevitable. There are always trends in host of other things that make peo- fellow worker, or being obnoxious in new most occupations, and the worker ple like you instead of hate you . . . some other way. The idea is to think even if it hurts. it's time to who has taken the pains to under- Maybe stand them has a decided edge. read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" again. The platitude here is: "Don't resist change, get on board, instead." And Buttering the boss is good policy if you know to do it, but it can it doesn't apply only to things as how fatal complex as computers. If manage- be if you don't. If you are low on the totem pole, don't rush in to ment says it's going to install any congratulate his latest feat. sort of a new system in your depart- him on Congratulations run down the peck- ment, a certain percentage of trie ing order, staff will grumble. At that point, not up. But—in modera- tion others. their value drops several points be- —speak well of him to Don't low that of those who say the join others in harsh gossip. If the boss does something nice for equivalent of: "Gee, boss! Show me you, be sure to thank him. Never how it works." take it as your due, even if it is. Finally, there is an entire area of It would take a whole book to tell things, some trivial, some not, that just how to butter the boss. Over- can help you keep your job. Suppose doing it is the biggest danger. There the boss is ordered to let X people are unprintable words for over- go. He makes a list of the loafers, zealous apple polishers. Your fellow the jokers, the grumblers and the employees may find ways to cut your fumblers, and still has to dismiss throat if you make it obvious that more. How does he pick them, if you're running for Teacher's Pet. their job performance is about equal? And it can be dangerous to have the Do you think neatness doesn't boss thinking of you all the time. count? Well, he has to have some He may be thinking that you're a basis, if it to neat- and comes down bloody nuisance. It's good enough if ness he'll let the slobs go. So how you butter him just such a little bit Those who adapt to change may stay while you dress and look and keep your that when your name comes up he those who resist it may get pink slips. desk or tools can become important. thinks well of you. end

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 Just Off The Highway. THE AUDUBON HOME AND WILDLIFE SANCTUARY NEAR VALLEY FORGE, PA

JAMES Studio and taxidermy room, where Audubon worked while living at Mill Grove. S. SWARTZ

By JAMES S. SWARTZ there. Other rooms are furnished in and over 400 species of flowering the style of the early 1800's. plants have been identified there. Throughout the house are Audubon's Mill Grove gives a first-rate, close- freeways now provide an ex- America's original hand-colored copperplate up introduction to Audubon, his work cellent system for traveling long distances in a hurry by car. It is also a engravings of birds and wildlife, and and his interest in nature. A visit can system for whizzing past many interest- there is a complete volume in ele- be a refreshing intermission from ing things to see without seeing them. phant folio size (26" by 39") of turnpike driving. If you're traveling From time to time we propose to show "Birds in America," his masterwork, with a pet, it must remain in the car. you here a few interesting things to be seen "just off the highway" all over the published in England in 1826-1838. nation, such as "Mill Grove," John James Visitors are free to roam the es- Readers might clip and save "Just Off the Pa. Audubon's old home in Audubon, tate, and a map of the trails is pro- Highway" features as they appear from time to time, against the day they may travel the vided. More than 175 species of birds routes mentioned. Just two miles from the Valley Forge State Park exit (#23) of MONTGOMERY COUNTY (PA.) TOURIST BUREAU the Pennsylvania Turnpike—west of Philadelphia—is Mill Grove, the one- time home and estate of the famous bird painter, John James Audubon. The estate itself is a 130-acre wooded wildlife sanctuary, laced with six miles of foot paths, while the old home is now a museum of Audubon's life and work. Leaving the Turnpike, one pro- ceeds north on Rt. 363, then left on Audubon Road, coming immediately to the old Audubon home. It is open free from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. except most Mondays and Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. It is open on the stan- dard Monday holidays. Eleven rooms are on display to the public. In the upper attic are a studio and taxi- dermy room, depicting Audubon's lived working quarters when he Exterior of Audubon home on 130-acre wildlife sanctuary near Valley Forge.

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A REPORT FROM MINNEAPOLIS The American Legion's 57th National Convention

The 57th National Convention of the American Legion met in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from Friday Aug. 15 to Thursday Aug. 21, 1975, under the chairmanship of outgoing National Commander James M. Wag- onseller, of Ohio. Standing Commis- sions and Committees met on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 15 and 16. Con- vention Committees, to recommend action on 437 proposed resolutions, met from Sunday, Aug. 17, until their work was done. The full delegate strength of the convention (3,062) sat for three days in the spacious Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium Tues. Aug. 19 to Thurs. Aug. 21. The delegates represented a mem- bership strength, as of the close of business of July 21 (the cutoff date for reckoning delegate representa- tion) of 2,670,052 for 1975, up 15,403 President Gerald Ford went on network from the same date last year. TV at convention to say that detente with Russia is not a one-way street. They adopted the sense of 245 of the proposed resolutions, which were boiled down to 96 resolutions as passed. All adopted resolutions are summarized on these pages, and some are reported at more length. The estimated attendance of Le- gionnaires and their families at Min- neapolis was 35,000. In the only resolution emanating from the convention Finance Com- mittee, the national organization's share of Legion dues was increased by one dollar, from $2.50 to $3.50, then the full convention passed the but the increase is not to take effect dues increase unanimously. until July 1, 1976. National dues for As the last order of business on 1976 remain at the old $2.50 rate, Thursday, Aug. national officers though any that are unpaid on June 21, were elected for 1975-76, including 30, 1976 would then go to $3.50. Harry G. Wiles, of Kansas, as Na- With that exception, the increase ap- tional Commander, to serve until the plies generally to 1977 dues. In view end of the Seattle Convention in of their awareness of the financial The Alaska Legion brought 3,000 pounds August of 1976. state of the Legion's national oper- of seafood for guests at a party it hosted While the Legion met, the Ameri- at Richfield Post. ations, the Finance Committee and can Legion Auxiliary held its 55th National Convention concurrently in Minneapolis' Radisson Downtown Hotel, at which Mrs. Alan Schanel, of Riverside, R.I., was elected Na- tional President for 1975-76. The list of prominent speakers to the convention was headed by Presi- dent Gerald R. Ford, who addressed the delegates on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 10:30 a.m. The President appeared wearing The Scarlet Cadets, of Post 299, Belleville, N.J., Junior Color Guard champs. the blue Legion cap of Furniture

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 A special Minnesota contingent led off parade marchers, carrying nearly 900 massed flags.

City Post 258, Grand Rapids, Mich. in other contests, and the winners of Monday. This format, first intro- last year, will He is the 6th successive Legionnaire are noted on these pages. duced at Miami Beach President since Harry S. Truman as- It was the second year in a row in probably be followed in the future. sumed the Presidency in 1945. which the Musical Spectacular was The parade lasted from 2 p.m. until In his nationally televised speech held on Saturday instead of Sunday, long after sundown. to the convention, Mr. Ford stressed and the Legion's annual Convention The Legion's Distinguished Ser- the need of the U.S. and the rest of Parade was held on Sunday instead vice Medal was presented to Harry the free world not to let their guard down because of "detente" with Rus- sia, which, he said, is a policy worth trying. But it is still unproved as a path to a more stable world peace. The Legion's annual Musical Spec- tacular was held in Minneapolis' Parade Stadium on Saturday eve- ning, Aug. 16, during which ten musical and marching groups com- peted, five for the Senior and five for the Junior Drum and Bugle Corps national championships, before an audience of 10,000. Nine other musical and/or march- ing championships were determined Part of crowd at opening joint convention session of Legion and Auxiliary.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 19 CONTINUED THE LEGION'S NATIONAL CONVENTION

Part of crowd of 2,000 at Nat'l Cmdr's Dinner for Distinguished Guests, at which sportscaster Curt Gowdy (inset) spoke on occasion of Legion Baseball's 50th year.

W. Colmery, of Kansas, the first Past Colmery, in accepting for all of gion to raise millions for the fight National Commander of the Legion those who created the WW2 GI Bill against cancer. to receive the award. Colmery, a in 1943-44, gave the convention an Nat'l Cmdr Wagonseller formally Topeka, Kans., and Washington, D.C. account of the work of many of those announced the Legion's embarkation attorney, was National Commander who participated, few of whom sur- on a "major . . . cooperative fund- in 1936-37. He has long been presi- vive today. Nobody, he said, could raising drive with the American Can- dent of the Legion's Endowment ever credit them all. At one point in cer Society" from the platform of Fund Corporation, and during WW2 1944, he noted, the Legion was able the convention, as a third major Bi- to present more than a million sig- he cast the original GI Bill in the centennial Legion project. natures on petitions to Congress to Mr. Willig and Mrs. Bayh, wife of form in which it was introduced by enact the bill, which has been the Indiana's Senator Bayh, thanked the the Legion in Congress, while serv- model for all successive GI Bills. Legion and Auxiliary for joining in ing on a special GI Bill committee Others who addressed the conven- the cancer drive. Mrs. Bayh said she under the National Commandership tion included Mrs. Birch Bayh and had spoken to a Legion convention of Warren Atherton, of California, W. Armin Willig, speaking for the once before—as President of the and the chairmanship of the late American Cancer Society, in connec- Auxiliary's Girls' Nation, 25 years John Stelle, of Illinois. tion with a joint drive with the Le- ago. Initial gifts to the drive, amounting to $32,550, were presented to Cmdr Wagonseller on the conven- WINNERS OF TWO FORDS tion stage. Leonard E. Baxter, New IN SEAGRAM DRAWING York Commander, presented $25,000 from the Department of New York, The drawing for two Ford auto- as well as personal gifts of $500 mobiles, sponsored by the Seagram from Carmine Constantine, and Posts, was held before the spectators $1,000 each from Mr. and Mrs. Mau- at the Musical Spectacular in Min- rice Stember, all of New York. W. neapolis' Parade Stadium, Saturday Dean Scholl, Ohio Commander, pre- evening, August 16. sented $5,000 from the Department Winners of the Fords were: of Ohio. Frank Wilcox, Post 501, Madison, Other speakers included Clinton Wis. Morrison, Board Chairman of the Grover C. Chapman, Post 21, U.S. A Ford-winning coupon is drawn from Chamber of Commerce, Gen. Morganton, N.C. drum by Nat'l Commander Wagonseller. Frederick C. Weyand, Chief of Staff,

20 T HE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 1975. The full convention in session in Minneapolis Convention Hall Auditorium, Tues. Aug. 19, THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 continued THE LEGION S NATIONAL CONVENTION

John P. Condon, Pres., Nat'l Alliance of Businessmen (left), and Clinton Morri- son, Chmn of Board, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, addressed convention.

Nat'l Cmdr Wagonseller hangs the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal on Past Nat'l Cmdr Harry Colmery, of Kansas, one of the architects of the first Gl Bill in 1943-44.

rence E. Hoffman, who was presi- dent of the Legion's convention corporation in Miami Beach. San Diego Post 6 gave to the Emil A. Blackmore Museum, at Legion Nat'l Hq in. Indianapolis, the original Legion banner used at the first Le- gion Nat'l Convention in Minneapolis California Legionnaires present San Diego Post 6 historic 1919 Convention in 1919. The banner, whose design Banner to Legion for Nat'l Museum. was permanently adopted, was brought to the 1919 convention by tate Award, for excellence in jour- the San Diego post, and has been nalism, was given to author and preserved by it ever since. columnist Jim Bishop. The William Randolph Hearst The title of Past National Com- Americanism Trophy was awarded mander was officially bestowed upon for 1975 to the Legion Department Maurice Stember, Department Ad- of Vermont. Maurice Stember, of New York, is officially jutant of New York, for his leader- designated a Past National Commander of The Commander Wagonseller presented ship on the national scene for more William American Legion. National Adjutant than 50 years. He is the 7th Legion- F. Hauck, left, makes the award to Stember. naire to have the title bestowed upon him without having actually U.S. Army, and John P. Condon, been elected an President of the National Alliance active National Com- mander. of Businessmen. The Past Numerous presentations and Department Command- ers' club bestowed its annual Good awards were made to or by the Le- gion. Immediate Past Nat'l Cmdr Robert E. L. Eaton presented a medallion to Miami Beach as host of last year's convention. It was accepted by Law-

Outgoing Nat'l Chaplain Harvey T. Good- ling (left) with Certificate of Appreciation from Nat'l Cmdr. At right, Past Dep't Cmdr Melvin "Doc" Simon (Vt.), accepts Hearst Americanism trophy for his dep't.

two awards to firms for outstanding records in hiring veterans. Recipients were the ITT Continental Baking Co. and the Fleischmann Distilling Corp. They were accepted, respectively, by William L. Schreck and John E. Cal- lery, each the general manager of ANAVICUS breakfast, chaired by Past Nat'l Cmdr James F. O'Neil (N.H.). The his firm. The Nat'l Firing Squad champs, of Amer- Canadian-American group inducted 23 ican Legion Post 70, Wellsville, Ohio. The American Legion Fourth Es- members.

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Above, W. Armin Willig and Mrs. Birch Bayh, of the American Cancer Society, address the convention on behalf of the Minn. Gov. Wendell Anderson (left), and joint Legion-ACS cancer fund drive. At Minneapolis Mayor Albert Hofstede greet left, N.Y. Dep't Cmdr Leonard E. Baxter Legion convention delegates. presents a New York Legion check for $25,000 to be used in the cancer fight.

of the bulk of what was a huge Sons organization before 1944. There were Guy award on William Conrad, star 152 delegates, representing a na- of the TV Cannon detective series. tional membership as of July 15 of Several Constitutional Amend- 23,330—up nearly 5,000 over the ments were proposed, but none were same date in 1974. adopted. Grant M. Jamieson, of Novi, Mich., In Res. #4, the convention urged was elected National Commander, the President and the Congress to and Kenneth E. Nerkowski, of Bran- take all necessary steps to form a ford, Conn., was chosen Chaplain. S national energy policy, to include the Numerous separate but Legion- Sons of the Legion Nat'l Cmdr Grant Jamieson (Mich.), greets delegates. At speedy development of the several related organizations held reunions, right, Michael Begley, Nat'l Oratorical underused energy sources that are socials, and/or business meetings of champ, addresses convention, represent- available domestically. their own. They included (with their ing Legion youth programs. The Sons of The American Legion new presidents in parentheses in held their fourth National Conven- some cases) the following: ican Legion Department Historians. tion in the Holiday Inn Downtown The National American Legion (Arnold J. Stockstad, West Fargo, in Minneapolis on Aug. 16-17. The Press Association. (George W. N. Dak.) Sons had their biggest membership Hooten, Decatur, Ga.) The Foreign and Outlying Depart- since WW2 made Legionnaires out The National Association of Araer- ments of The American Legion. (Helmut Spangenthal, France.) The Past Department Command- ers' Association. (E. Roy Stone, Jr., S.C.) The American Legion College Alumni, Class of 1954. The Society of American Legion Founders. (Charles R. Tips, Dallas, Tex.)

The Twenty and Four ( a separate Society of women Legionnaires.) ANAVICUS, The U.S. branch of the Army, Navy and Air Force Vet- erans in Canada.

Champion Men's Chorus of Post 15, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. (Convention News Cont'd)

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T. W. "Tom" Miller, of Little Rock, tional Executive Committee, which tional Treasurer ; C. Howard Larsen,

Ark. ; John W. Adams, Jr., of Eliza- confirmed the following events and N.Y., reappointed as National Ser- bethtown, Ky. ; Leo F. Malloy, of appointments for the new Legion geant-at-Arms Dorothy ; Crimes,

Cambridge, Mass. ; James F. Walker, year: Colo., appointed National Historian.

The new Nat'l officers. Left to right, National Vice Command- National Vice Commander James F. Walker (Minn.); National er T. W. Miller (Ark.); National Vice Commander John W. Vice Commander Leo F. Malloy (Mass.); National Vice Corn- Adams, Jr. (Ky.); National Commander Harry G. Wiles (Kans.); mander Fred W. Anderson, Jr. (Nev.); and National Chaplain Claude E. Smithmier (Ga.).

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 U.S. "Udie" Grant, of McPherson, Kans., nominates Harry Wiles for Commander.

Past Nat'l Commander Harry W. Colmery (at mike) presents the Commander's colors The National Commander's Home- to fellow Topekan Wiles (seated at left) in traditional ceremony for new Commander. coming was set for Oct. 3-5, in and around Kansas City, Kans. The annual fall meetings in Indianapolis of Department Com- manders and Adjutants, and Com- missions and Committees, were set for Oct. 6-7, and the National Ex- ecutive Committee meetings for Oct. 8-9. The 1976 Washington Conference was set for March 1 to March 4, with the Congressional Banquet on Tues., March 2. The new National Commander presents members of his family to the convention. MAKE EXTRA $$$ EVERY DAY! Get into the big, year-round EXTRA MONEY BUSINESS that's EASY to learn -EASY to do and EASY ON YOU! Be a LOCKSMITH! You Can Make Up to $10 an Hour Machine given you with course. These plus practice materials — even while learning! Train FAST at Home! and equipment, plus simple, illustrated lessons, plus expert Never before have money-making opportunities been so supervision, plus business-building guidance will enable you great for qualified Locksmiths. Now lucrative regular lock to KEEP THE MONEY COMING IN! Ideal for retirement-good and key business has multiplied a thousandfold as millions jobs, too. seek more protection against zooming crime. Yet there's SEND FOR EXCITING FACTS- No Obligation only one Locksmith for every people! 17,000 Discover what's in Locksmithing for you—how Belsaw's mas- Start Collecting CASH PROFITS Right Away ter-locksmith-approved training can give you the skill you You're "in business" ready to earn $5 to $10 an hour a few can depend on to EARN MORE— ENJOY LIFE MORE. Just fill days after you begin Belsaw's shortcut training. Take advan- in and mail the coupon below to receive full information by tage of today's unprecedented opportunities in Locksmithing return mail. Do it TODAY! for year-round EXTRA INCOME in sparetime—or fulltime in a BELSAW INSTITUTE, 246T Field Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 64111 high-profit business of your own. Hundreds we've trained Accredited Member National Home Study Council have done it. So can All tools plus professional YOU! Key Approved for all Veteran Training 6- THIS PRO FRfc MAIL THIS COUPON— NO SALESMAN WILL CALL

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Repeaters as Senior Drum and Bugle Corps champs—the Caballeros of Post 199, Hawthorne, N.J. A MUSICAL SPECTACULAR On Saturday evening, August 16, The Junior championship was about 13,000 spectators moved taken by the Marquis of Post 75, into Minneapolis' Parade Stadium Fond du Lac, Wis. (77.65). Next was for the two contests to decide the another Wisconsin corps, the Ameri- Legion's national Senior and Junior canos of Post 38, Appleton, Wis. Drum and Bugle Corps champion- (74.45.) They were followed by the ships. A total of 28 Junior corps and Long Island Kingsmen, Post 944,

seven Senior corps had entered, and Kings Park, N.Y. (67.75) ; the Blue elimination trials were held the day Notes, Post 58, Ishpeming, Mich. before to qualify five finalists in each (66.70), and the Knights, Post 350, contest. The weather was balmy, and Geneseo, 111. (61.00.) it was nearly midnight before the Elsewhere, during the convention, Musical Spectacular came to an end. national Legion and Sons of the Le- Last year's Senior champions, the gion championships were won by the Caballeros of Post 199, Hawthorne, following: N.J., repeated in fine style, scoring Senior Band: The Joliet Legion The championship Sons of The American 89.30 points. The race for the runner- Band, Post 1284, Joliet, 111. Legion Color Guard—the Copper Squires, up Senior spot was a close one, in Junior Field Band: Chatfield Ju- of Squadron 36, S.A.L., Tucson, Ariz. which the Rhode Island Matadors of nior Band, Post 92, Rochester, Minn. Post 60, Providence, R.I., nosed out Men's Chorus: The Singing Le- Wellsville, Ohio. the Crusaders of Post 468, Greece, gionnaires, Post 15, Sioux Falls, S. Junior Color Guard: The Scarlet N.Y., by 82.90 to 82.00. It was even Dak. Cadets, Post 299, Belleville, N.J. closer between the 4th and 5th corps. Junior Drill Team: The Northern Senior Color Guard: The Jersey In fourth was the Spirit of '76 of Steps, Post 11, Green Bay, Wis. Chevrons, Post 40, Ridgefield Park, Post 310, Racine, Wis. (62.40 points), Senior Drill Team: Team spon- N.J. followed by Brass, Inc. of the 5th sored by American Legion Auxiliary Sons of The American Legion Color Legion District of Minnesota (62.20 Unit 102, Anoka, Minn. Guard: The Copper Squires, Squad- points.) Firing Squad: Wellsville Post 70, ron 36, S.A.L., Tucson, Ariz.

The Marquis, of Post 75, Fond du Lac, Wis., won over 27 other Junior Corps. Part of crowd at Musical Spectacular.

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SUMMARY OF han, Wash. Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation: RESOLUTIONS William Lenker, S. Dak. The committees considered 437 convention committees Eleven resolutions. The sense of 186 of them met in advance of the full busi- was rewritten in 37 resolutions that ness meetings and recommended ac- were adopted along with 59 that were tion on all resolutions offered to the not consolidated. Another 95 were Convention. With three exceptions, referred for more study, 61 were re- the committees' recommendations jected and 36 were received and re- were adopted by the full Convention. corded. A "received and recorded" One resolution recommended for resolution is one whose sense is ap- adoption was referred for further proved, but whose passage is not nec- Mrs. James Wagonseller joins her husband study. essary for one reason or another at end of convention business as he gets The 11 committees that screened his permanent Past Nat'l Commander's col- (existing policy, already implement- all resolutions, with their chairmen: ors and plaque from fellow Ohioan Chester ed, no longer needed, etc.). F. Stellar (left) of Creston, Ohio. Americanism: Daniel O'Connor, Following is a digest of all adopted N.Y. to improve the Minuteman Force as an in- resolutions. The digest is a guide tegral part of the TRIAD concept. Franklin, Children & Youth: Earl to the sense of the resolutions and 97. Urges funding for programs designed to insure airlift refueling capabilities Jr., Colo. and to should not be construed as represent- adequately meet U.S. military commit- Constitutional Amendments Legionnaires ments. ing their exact terms. 98. Seeks continued support of A-10 aircraft Frank Giordano, N.Y. interested in the full text of a resolu- program assuring close air support for ground forces. Economic: Al Keller, 111. tion for some particular reason may 99. Seeks continued support of the F-15 air- Finance: Churchill Williams, la. craft program. ask for it (by number and heading 101. Urges full support of the Air Force's Foreign Relations: Dr. Robert that appear below) from: Archives, F-16 aircraft program. 102. Again urges federal support of the Foster, Mo. American Legion National Hq., P.O. TRIAD Nat'l Defense concept and rapid Internal Affairs: Jack Carey, development of the B-l bomber. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. 103. Seeks necessary funding to support the Mich. NATIONAL SECURITY Airborne Warning and Control System pro- 67. Urges funding and rapid development gram's current and future Ind. needs. Legislation: Frank Hamilton, and deployment of the TRIDENT ballistic 104. Urges federal support to advance the missile system. Air Force's Airborne Membership : William Gormley, Command Post pro- 76. Supports Total Force Policy of provid- gram. Pa. ing funds, training and equipment to Na- 105. Urges retention of all Air Nat'l Guard tional Guard and Reserve units. National Security: Emmett Leni- 96. Urges full support of programs designed (Continued on next pageJ

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TRY THIS NEW PIPE FOR 30 DAYS. CONTINUED THE NATIONAL CONVENTION ..For cigar smokers and cigarette smokers alike a "Carey Pipe" can save hundreds of dollars a year.

. . For cigarette smokers, it can end forever the nagging fear of health hazards associated with cigarette smoking.

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So different that it's patented by the If you don't agree that it's the best UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT smoke you've ever had, it won't patent number 3267941 cost you a dime. This top grade Mediterranean briar incorporates a sen- sational invention that contradicts every idea you've ever had about pipe smoking. It completely eliminates breaking-in. Tars, sludge, bite, and bitterness never reach your The hall in which the first Legion na- mouth. You get cleaner, cooler, tastier, moisture- tional convention was held in 1919 stood free thoroughly enjoyable smoking. on this spot. The building is long gone, the site has been excavated and is be- It's the first pipe in the world that's ing turned into a public park known as guaranteed to give unadulterated Peavey Plaza. On the wall are two plaques, pleasure to smokers. one commemorating the first Legion convention, the other noting that the creation of The American Legion Auxil- Give it days— 30 iary was authorized there in 1919. In No cigarette, no cigar, nor any other photo, some Florida Legionnaires attend- pipe can give you the full rich flavor, ing the 57th convention pause to look at aroma, deep down satisfaction, enjoy- the site of the first one. ment, and peace of mind that you get from a Carey Pipe. and Air Force Reserve units with necessary funds to meet current and future needs. You may be a pipe smoker with a rack full of pipes tobacco, in perfectly controlled proportions, cooling the 117. Urges necessary funding to maintain a modern, and still searching for the ideal smoke, or perhaps you smoke, eliminating all tongue bite, and creating MEL- complete and powerful U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. would like to switch to a pipe to cut down on cigarettes LOWNESS, MILDNESS, and SWEETNESS that was 150. Commends President Ford in effecting or expensive cigars. never before enjoyed in pipe smoking. the return of the ship Mayaguez. The Carey Pipe may look like any ordinary pipe, but Today, over one hundred and fifty thousand pipe 169. Calls for the restoration to a position it's a lot different! In fact, there's nothing like it in the smokers smoke Carey Pipes almost exclusively. They of world military superiority by the U.S. and urges that American whole world. The Carey Pipe is made of the finest aged all got started by accepting my most unusual offer to people and media display impartially the collective will essen- mediterranean briar but, its big secret lies in the ex- test a Carey Pipe for 30 days, without any risk on their — tial to American leadership throughout the clusive patented "MAGIC INCH," cleverly concealed part whatsoever. world. in a bite proof nylon stem. They were all granted the same option, an option 197. Supports Defense Civil Preparedness which is yours also. After 30 days, if you agree that the Agency's program to meet high-risk emer- It's Not a Filter gency evacuation crises. Carey Pipe is the best smoke of your life, you may keep The "Magic Inch" is not a filter that gets soggy and 216. Opposes any changes in the military it; if you don't agree, whack it with a hammer and and loaded with foul smelling goo. A soggy foul smelling PX Commissary system. return the broken pieces to me. The trial has cost you 217. Supports continuing Standby Selective filter transmits its stale foul odor into successive each nothing! How many businesses are that sure of their Service System and Standby Selective Ser- puff of smoke, creating more problems than it solves. product? vice Reserve. 218. Supports the military services in their It's Not a Trap Make Your Own 30 Day Test efforts to attain and maintain an all-volun- teer force. The "Magic Inch" is not a trap collecting moisture Clip out the coupon below. Fill in your name and 246. that gurgles with every draw. It is not a trap that must Reaffirms opposition to blanket am- address and send it to me TODAY. I'll send you a full nesty for draft be cleaned after every smoke. evaders and deserters. color brochure, absolutely free, so you can select your 257. Urges full implementation of the Mer- favorite style and shape for your 30 day trial. chant Marine Act of 1970. It's Almost Magic — 309. Commends the U.S. Army on the occa- Not my magic but NATURE'S OWN MAGIC. Warm r t sion of its 200th birthday, June 14, 1975. E. A. Dept. 246P, winds pick up moisture by evaporation from the oceans, | Carey, 349. Calls upon law enforcement agencies to

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36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 The 1975 Legion Commemorative Bottle represents old Fort Snelling, in Minne- apolis, now being restored. Seagram Dis- tillers produced the bottle, and Daniel O'Sullivan, of Seagrams, here presents a check to help in the restoration to Frank Momsen (right), Legion Dep't Ad- jutant of Minnesota. National Adjutant William F. Hauck said that the National Legion would match the Seagram gift.

249. Commends Clarence M. Kelley, Direc- tor, and the FBI. 289. Reaffirms support of marksmanship pro- grams and matches in the U.S. 293. Seeks to assure that all official Bicen- tennial celebrations be coordinated under officially recognized agencies. 434. Supports continued encouragement of youth participation in Americanism pro- grams. 436. Urges continuation of the Senate Sub- committee on Internal Security with ade- quate funds to meet current security de- mands. INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND MEMBERSHIP 2. Bestows upon Maurice Stember, of N.Y., the title of Past National Commander with all the privileges and rights pertaining to such office. 275. Changes listing in Post Officer's Guide and other Legion publications from "Boy Here's a selection of massive Men's Rings with ished by the master craftsmen and diamond Scout Committee" to "Scouting Commit- real masculine appeal you'll impress every- cutters of Amsterdam and Antwerp! Like real tee." — Perfectly 424. Expresses appreciation to all concerned one who sees you wearing one! diamonds, these amazing simulated stones are in the host Dep't of Minnesota for a suc- matched, brilliant, clear white simulated dia- remarkably free of imperfections, specks or cessful Convention. monds with the cut and faceting of genuine cracks and they reflect light with true bril- FINANCE diamonds costing thousands of dollars! Set in liance and sparkle. You'll have to see these

1. Increases the National American Legion heavy mountings finished in 18Kt. Heavy Gold marvelous stones to believe it! dues to $3.50 from $2.50, as of July 1, 1976. Electroplate—each one so skillfully and beau- MONEY BACK GUARANTEE! CHILDREN & YOUTH tifully made that only an experienced jeweler Try any of these amazing Men's Simulated Dia- 161. Encourages initiative by The American could tell that these stones aren't the real Legion to implement a bicycle safety course mond Rings yourself at no risk or obligation thing! These are the kind of rings that were for the nation's schools. to you! See how your friends will be impressed once available only to the very rich, but with CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS with your seeming new affluence and prestige. amazing advances in modern jewelry tech- No resolutions adopted. Simply order today, while our supply lasts. nology and the recent improvements in the When you receive your ring, see for yourself LEGISLATION manufacture of simulated diamonds, any of No resolutions adopted. what a fine piece of jewelry it is. You must these beautifully designed Men's Rings can be be completely satisfied »or you may return any (Resolutions continued) yours now at an amazing low price! ring within 7 days and the full purchase price A FINE QUALITY JEWELRY ITEM! of the ring will be refunded to you at once! The simulated diamonds in these impressive Please be sure to include your ring size when rings are not. cheap paste stones or plastic ordering. imitations—these stones are cut and polished in the same style as genuine diamonds fin- Any Man's RingShown $10.

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CONTINUED AMERICA'S THE NATIONAL CONVENTION NO. 1 FOOTBALL RAISE FUNDS PREDICTION . . . and Help Your Organization Celebrate AMERICA'S BICENTENNIAL! The people SERVICE believe in America and as the Bicentennial gets closer and closer, more and more people will "THE PROPHET" want a quality memento — one they can per- sonally treasure, one that quietly says, "Yes, 3rd Straight year averaging better than I'm proud to be an American." To commemorate this upcoming event, we are 80% vs the point spread in key Pro privileged to offer these antique bronze, die and College selections. struck Bicentennial medallion pendants and The all-women Senior Drill team spon- key tags issued by The Commemorative Mint 17 yrs. experience coupled with the most sored by Auxiliary Unit 102 of Anoka, Each person who purchases a key tag or pen- dant fills in his or her card with their registered pertinent up to date information ... to bring Minn., won the Legion national title. number and mails it to The Commemorative you winning football 1975. Mint. Each card will be filed with The Com- Here is what you receive. FOREIGN RELATIONS memorative Mint for safe-keeping. Fact filled All merchandise shipped under our V * weekly issues air mailed each 12. Supports continued gov't policies offer- Monday before the weekend games which ing relief to and acceptance of victims of famous NO RISK-NO INVEST- y- war, famine and political oppression. MENT plan. You don't risk one j£ includes . . . early Vegas line, schedules ^ 107. Seeks cut-off of aid to Portugal with- penny, you send no money with rankings . . . plus out continued U.S. use of the Azores mili- your order. You pay only AFTER •k Predicted winners and winning margins tary base and a cessation of harassment of you have sold the merchandise and opposing political forces within the country. of every Pro and Major College games with have full re- 134. Seeks Administration and congressional u

. . turn privileges! analysis of each plus . denial of economic aid to any nation with- k The Prophet's Best Bet ... 5 Key College holding information on American POWs and on all unsold merchandise! Selections plus 3 Star Pro Picks weekly MIAs. 173. Opposes any reduction of present U.S. (Games we feel have the best chance of treaty rights regarding control of the Pana- Canal Zone. tripping . ma the oddsmaker & why) plus . . 24" fc Special December and January Playoff chain and Bowl issues including Super Bowl X A must for the handicapers HURRY ONLY 15 WEEKS REMAIN

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State Zip 174. Commends 38 U.S. Senators who urge retention of U.S. sovereignty over the Pan- ama Canal Zone. 334. Reaffirms opposition to diplomatic rec- ognition of Red China and supports Taiwan as sole legitimate gov't of all China. 335. Reaffirms Legion policy toward Castro regime and economic boycott of Cuba. 336. Supports peaceful efforts to resolve Greece-Turkey differences and urges end to Turkish military aid embargo. 338. Supports continuing U.S. policy of co- operation and friendship with Spain and extension of our bilateral military security agreement. 340. Supports efforts to achieve a peaceful 8 Pendants and 4 Key Tags per kit!

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38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 SENSATIONAL, ALL-NEW NONPRISMATIC PANORAMIC BINOCULAR Direct from Importer to You at an Unbelievable LowPrice!

EXCLUSIVE! . . . Direct from an Internationally Only 2 to a Customer 10 YEAR GUARANTEE Known European Optical Factory: Any reader of Each PANORAMIC Binocular undergoes and scratches. The first time you use them this publication can now obtain these sensa- thorough testing at the factory before you're sure to agree: PANORAMIC BINOCULARS shipment. If these binoculars should tional PANORAMIC BINOCULARS for a fraction sure do conquer space! fail to operate satisfactorily due to any of the price that you would expect to pay. manufacturing defect they will be re- paired or replaced free of charge for Only plus a small shipping charge brings UNBELIEVABLE 10 YEAR GUARANTEE $4.98 parts and labor and returned postpaid them to your door. New space-age design. The Yes! We're so sure of the quality and workman- for a period of ten years after date of purchase. creation of an internationally known European ship of the PANORAMIC BINOCULARS that we Optics Factory. Please don't confuse with low are offering an unprecedented 10 YEAR GUAR-

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CONTINUED THE NATIONAL CONVENTION GUARANTEED! solution to the crisis in the Middle East. 341. Opposes reduction of U.S. NATO forces triple your money in 30 days or without mutual reduction by Warsaw Pact nations. less. ..or get your money hack! 342. Supports detente with Russia but op- LOCKSMITH poses most-favored-nation status and ex- port credits for her; supports SALT-II talks, You'll EARN MORE, LIVE BETTER with provisions. r it .jt Than Ever Before in Your Life 344. Supports congressional action calling !f| You'll enjoy your work as a Locksmith for an elected Canal Zone delegate in Con- because it is more fascinating than a gress. hobby — and highly paid besides! You'll 345. Seeks Presidential and congressional go on enjoying the fascinating work, actions to restore U.S. credibility and to year after year, in good times or bad assure all nations of our intent to honor "I have already because you'll be the man in demand in our commitments worldwide. master keyed my an evergrowing field offering big pay 348. Supports efforts to achieve an equitable Elks Lodge and jobs, big profits as your own boss. What SALT-II agreement. 38 apartments . . L more could you ask! so you see my WE MEAN IT! Now there's a guaranteed-safe locksmith course Train at Home - Earn Extra $5$S Right Away! VETERANS AFFAIRS AND way for you to actually in- is practically All this can be yours FAST regardless REHABILITATION TRIPLE your money

paid for." side . . . of age, education, minor physical handi- 44. Urges enlargement of the national cem- of one short month without risking one Adelindo Orsi, Jr. caps. Job enjoyment and earnings begin etery in Alexandria, La. red cent! You can start as large or as small as Azusa, Calif. AT ONCE as you quickly, easily learn 50. Opposes elimination of the characteriza- you want . . . watch a $50.00 investment grow to to on all CASH IN kinds of locksmithing tion of military discharges or any lowering $150.00, or watch $500.00 grow to $1,500.00 - jobs. All keys, locks, parts, picks, special of the requirements for an Honorable Dis- all within 30 days! Or, if you prefer, you can tools and equipment come with the charge. start with investment whatsoever, still course at no extra charge. Licensed 52. Seeks legislation to remove restrictions no and experts guide you to success. rake in fantastic 200% profits that can make Illustrated Book, Sample Lesson Pages FREE your spare time add up to a full-time income Locksmithing Institute graduates now with an absolute minimum of effort! The secret? KEY MACHINE earning, enjoying life more everywhere. Merlite Rings — rings that look as if they must locks, picks, You, can, too. Coupon brings exciting tools supplied sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars each, facts from the school licensed by N. J. with course. State Department of Kd., Accredited but that retail for just $6.00 to $39.00! All you Member, Natl. Home Study Council. do is show them to your friends and watch them Approved for Veterans Training. sell themselves — while YOU make up to $26.00 LOCKSMITHING INSTITUTE and more on every sale! Plenty of extras, too — Div. Technical Home Study Schools individual gift boxes, 48 hours delivery, drop-ship Dept. 1221-105 Little Falls, N. J. 07424 service. PLUS Merlite's famous Lifetime Guaran- tee on every ring purchased from you! LOCKSMITHING INSTITUTE, Dept. 1221-105 1 Div. Technical Home Study Schools Everybody buys Merlite Rings — on sight! Little Falls, New Jersey 07424 Est. 1948 There's no selling required, no "sales pitch" or Please send FREE illustrated Book — "Your Big Oppor- high-pressure tactics needed! Just SHOW these tunities in Locksmithing," complete Equipment folder rings, and watch your profits pour in! Imagine a and sample lesson pages FREE of all obligation — dazzling collection of over 100 exquisite, high- (no salesman will call). fashion styles for men and women . . . rings that Name.. LOOK as if they must cost hundreds, even (Please Print) THOUSANDS of dollars each, but that YOU can offer at the unheard of low price of only Address.. $6.00 to $39.00 each! Nobody can resist! Imagine rings featuring the famous City/State/Zip I Dia-Sim® by Merlite , the man-made stone hard enough to '— _ D Check here if Eligible for Veteran Training __J scratch glass, and with so much of the fiery, blaz- ing beauty of a diamond that only the trained eye of a jeweler can tell them apart! Imagine high-fidelity simulations of rubies, emeralds, even

breathtaking star sapphires . . . plus, the most The newly elected President of The Amer- treasured of genuine gem materials— opals, ivory, ican Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Alan Schanel, cameos, jades, and others! ALL are set in de- R.I., is introduced to the Your of Riverside, signer-created settings of 10K filled gold, 18K delegates to the Legion's convention. heavy gold electroplate, or solid sterling silver. ALL are individually gift-boxed. And ALL are against receipt of military retirement pay guaranteed in writing to give a Lifetime of Satis- due to length of service, concurrently with faction! VA compensation. AND REMEMBER — every one of these gor- Heart Fund 55. Seeks assurance that the VA shall con- tinue as the sole independent agency re- geous rings pays YOU a whopping TWO sponsible for veterans programs. HUNDRED PERCENT PROFIT! Sell a $15.00 58. Urges commitment of necessary funds ring, and pocket $10.00 ... sell a $30.00 ring, highest quality medical care to provide the and pocket $20.00! Sell three, four, five rings for every veteran treated by the VA. hour, you've got a part-time business that 60. Seeks to provide statutory presumption an and Fights of service-connected death of vets who die pays you a FULL-TIME income! service-con- from natural causes, whose NO INVESTMENT REQUIRED! Best of all, nected disabilities have been rated perma- you can get started in this fantastically lucrative nent and total for ten or more years. 70. Seeks legislation to remove, for VA pur- business for the cost of a postage stamp! Mail HEART ATTACK • STROKE poses, conditional status from certain dis- the coupon below, and we'll rush you EVERY- charges. THING you need to start making money NOW: HIGH 89. Supports legislation providing increased our lavish, 64 page full-color Customer Presen- BLOOD PRESSURE awards of service-connected compensation tation Catalogue showing the complete Merlite to certain vets who have suffered loss or INBORN HEART DEFECTS loss of use of paired extremities. Collection, a detailed Profit Manual, a handy 140. Seeks legislation to improve death and pocket ring sizer, wholesale order forms . . . PLUS disability pension program for vets of WW1, a Special Offer that lets you obtain our $8.00 WW2, Korea and Vietnam, and for their Professional Jeweler's Display Case . . . FREE! widows and children. There's no charge, no obligation so mail the 157. Opposes provision of the Vietnam Era — coupon TODAY!

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1 Mail No-Risk Coupon Today! I Their main blessing? Although lovely to look at (as the song . . . goes) they are tempered by a special French hot-cold /hot-cold process that 1 IMPORT DISPOSAL WAREHOUSE makes them LAST VIRTUALLY FOREVER! The better to survive the hearty, table-thumping and (just as often) head-thumping that DEPT. AK-154, 31-A HANSE AVE. takes place towards the wee hours of the morning in the more un- FREEPORT, N.Y. 11520 savory student and working-class "dives" that most tourists, never get to see (and are probably quite happy not to). The long graceful stems YES! Rush my imported set of French "Bistro-Glasses" open into generous six-and-a-half-ounce "bowls" that enhance and for warehouse disposal price of only $11.99 a dozen plus properly "channel" the bouquet of your favorite wines from driest $2 shipping and handling. Chablis to heartiest red Burgundy. They feature the sparkling beauty SAVE MORE! Order 2 dozen for only $21.99 plus of blown crystal-clear stemware. And each is absolutely unadorned the classic configuration—no tasteless designs or tacky "cut-glass" $3.50 shipping and handling. motifs. Whether entertaining guests . . . dining with the family or Enclosed is check or money order for & simply enjoying a late afternoon glass of Madeira and cheese in the quiet of your own study—this is surely the way to enjoy it best! Or charge to my: master charge bankamericard We were able to arrange this special sale from France—not because the Parisian glassblowers are so crazy about our American accents— Card # Exp. Date but because we ordered, all at once, an unheard-of TEN THOUSAND Sorry, sales DOZEN . . . and practically plunked down the entire pile of cash right no C.OD.'s—N.Y. residents add tax. in front of their wide and staring eyes. (With money changing value (Print) over there every 10 minutes, thafs almost the only way one can do NAME : ; business now!) Anyway, if you agree that it's CRAZY to spend the $2.00-to-$3.00 per glass asking price for good French' stemware these ADDRESS days (or about $25.00 to $35.00 per dozen) you'll jump at the chance to grab these all purpose GENUINE IMPORTED FRENCH WINE CITY , B GLASSES ... for (honest) only $11.99 PER DOZEN! (Sorry, limit of STATTC ZIP — 3 to any one address.)

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CONTINUED Just $29.50 per month THE NATIONAL CONVENTION How to Horse buys your own land Readjustment Assistance Act that restricts AROUhlD use of eligibility beyond 36 months to un- in Colorado. ftfc RiN dergraduate study. 158. Opposes any change in the Federal Tax Exempt Status affecting veterans disability AND benefits. RjpHT 234. Supports legislation to increase the per- diem rates paid to state veterans homes. 285. Opposes opening veterans programs to all who served in military service regardless of type of discharge received. 366. Requests VA to review the requirements for additional aid and attendance benefits for seriously disabled veterans and to lib- eralize their application to those vets re- ceiving home dialysis treatment. 392. Seeks legislation to increase amount payable to a vet in receipt of aid and at- tendance to $140. 393. Supports legislation to provide a special NO DOWN PAYMENT — NO INTEREST ARMCHAIR RACES -the prov- Gov't Life Insurance Program for Vietnam en fund-raising package — brings vets. BUYER PROTECTION PLAN. 394. Supports legislation providing muster- 2Va ACRES BIG — equal to 10 CITY LOTS. your organization thrilling races ing-out pay to honorably discharged Viet- in vivid color and authentic track nam vets. THERE IS ONLY ONE COLORADO sounds 423. Urges $8 million appropriation for na- Colorado is a land of many faces, full of ro- and commentary. tional cemetery construction in fiscal year mance and excitement for people any age. It's a complete, across-the-board 1976. Where friendly, growing cities merge with that package: official programs, mu- ECONOMICS colorful western tradition. Now you can own tuel tickets, computer forms, dai- 4. Seeks congressional support of a coordi- your own land in enchanting Colorado — 2'/2 national policy to insure a ly doubles (exactas and quinellas nated energy acres for real living, camping, vacationing, strong domestic economy. or available) plus simple instruc- 26. Urges continuation of The American Le- just relaxing in the peace and quiet. Wild Horse tions to insure a great evening of gion's "Jobs for Veterans" program, and Mesa is whatever you want it to be for you and broad cooperation from other segments of your family for generations to come. fun and profit. society. 64. WILD HORSE MESA - YOUR SPECIAL PLACE ARMCHAIR RACES is wayahead Opposes any attempts to weaken or re- duce rights and benefits of federally em- Breathe fresh, clean air where sunny mountain of the pack — a winner every ployed vets. peaks reach forthe clear, bluesky. Wanderthe time out! 65. Seeks federal funds adequately to staff the Office of Veterans Reemployment Rights. Pinon and Ponderosa woodlands. Ride the Writeto us for complete brochure wild horse trails. See the wild horses still and instructions. roaming the Mesa top. Hike the trails that

overlook Lake Sanchez . . . this beautiful Dept. alio stream-fed lake, largest in the San Luis Valley, 19-31 Mott Avenue adjoins Wild Horse Mesa, just 3 miles from the Far Rockaway center of the development. A sailboat in a N.Y. 11691 gentle breeze, a fisherman out for rainbow (212) 327-2248 trout, a water skier or swimmer nearby — yes, this is Lake Sanchez. TOTAL PRICE ONLY $2950. ACT NOW!

Property at this price is going fast! It will CATALOG pU TABLES! never be any easier to buy your own 2% acre retreat in WILD HORSE MESA. Just • OFFICE & LOUNGE FURNITURE I S29.50 • BANQUET & MEETING FURNITURE total monthly payments. No down payment, • TENNIS TABLES no interest, every dollar is applied to the • COAT/HAT RACKS CHAIRS' purchase of your land. Buy while these low Ten tons of corn on the cob were served prices are still in effect. Wild Horse Mesa is at a corn-feed and beer-bust for regis- proud of its reputation for doing business fairly Adirondack tered conventioneers, Wed. August 20. and honestly. We want you to know more

276-0 Park Ave. So.; N.Y.C. 10010 about us. Simply fill out the coupon below, Shipping Points — PITTSBURGH • CHICAGO 83. Seeks funds adequately to staff federal don't wait! BOSTON • DALLAS • ATLANTA • LOS ANGELES and state employment veterans services with maximum emphasis on priority for REFUND PRIVILEGE: Anytime during the disabled and Vietnam vets or survivors. period of one year from the date of your pur- of UPHOLSTERY/DECORATING 84. Seeks through enforcement monitor- chase agreement, and on your first visit you ing program to determine effectiveness of EARN AS YOU LEARN AT HOME employment and training programs for vets. personally inspect your land and are not totally Send for free book about fascinating profes- 94. Seeks assurance of adherence by Dep't satisfied with your Wild Horse Mesa property sion for men, women, all ages. Simple home of Labor to the Comprehensive Employment study includes materials, frames, tools to you are entitled to a total refund of all money and Training Act as it pertains to vets ake new furniture, redo old, keep or sell you have paid. for profit. Easy to learn for handy folks. preference. Professional accredited Diploma. 126. Seeks increased federal and state job Approved Vet. Training. No salesmen. services for disabled and older vets. wild Upholstery & Decorating School, Div. horse mesa Schools, 130. Urges Legion members to make known Technical Home Study their A Quality Development of N. J. 07424. to local elected officials desire to serve Dept. 5221-105 Little Falls, on the Comprehensive Employment and GREAT AMERICAN PROPERTIES, INC. Training Act's Manpower Planning Coun- LEARN cils. Obtain HUD Property Report from devel- 377. Opposes placement of draft evaders and oper and read it before signing anything. MEAT CUTTING deserters in jobs needed by veterans. 397. Supports the U.S. Savings Bonds pro- HUD neither approves the merits of the Train quickly in 8 short weeks at Toledo gram. for a brisht future with security in the vital 400. Seeks legislation to include all honor- offering nor the value, if any, of the property. meat business. Biff pay. full-time jobs HAVE A PROFITABLE MARKET OFYOUR ably discharged veterans in the Comprehen- OWN I Time payment plan available. Diplo- sive Employment and Training Act's job Job help. Thousands of suc- WILD HORSE MESA A-275 A0#11820 , ma given. preferential provisions. cessful graduates. OUR 52 nd YEAR! Send P. 0. Box 1337 NOW for big new illustrated FREE catalog. No obligation. 415. Seeks legislation authorizing an Ass't G.I. approved. NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING No. 0197T Sec'y of Labor for Veterans Employment to Alamosa, Colo. 81101 Dept. A- 95 Toledo, Ohio 43604 operate a separate service. Send me full information on a 2Vi acre tract. I under-

425. Urges restoration of Veterans Employ- stand that there is no obligation and I may purchase ment Service travel funds. my property for $2950. with no money down, no 426. policy insure that veterans .ssoc,^ Seeks to interest, and monthly payments of only SUPPORT priority services be properly programmed $29.50. into the Computer Assisted Job Matching Please rush my color brochure, HUD Property He- YOUR System. port, purchase agreement, and land map showing °\ffBT 427. Supports legislation to set military the exact location of my property. service cut-off for eligibility for VA home MENTAL loan benefits for Vietnam vets, NAME. VJPj 428. Opposes any legislation hampering La- HEALTH bor Dep't employment services to jobless vets. 429. Supports legislation requiring federal ASSOCIATION contractors to include goals and timetables j^This offer is subject to all local, state and federal regulations. for hiring eligible vets. J 42 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 Ft SAVE $5.00 CAIa ^^^^^^ m THE VERY SAME PROFESSIONAL KIT y^V-vrS, M m THAT SELLS NATIONALLY FOR $24.95 /I \ KNOW YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE EASY TO USE • INSTANT PRESSURE CHECK DAY! ANYWHERE, ANY TIME OF A NIGHT TWICE DAY OR • SAVES ON MEDICAL BILLS • SAVES TIME, WORRY, ANYWHERE! TENSION

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 43 1975 Legion World Series Champs RAKE UP BIG The teen-age baseball team spon- sored by Logan Wheeler Post 36, SAVINGS NOW Yakima, Wash., has won the 50th Annual Legion World Series held ON TOP QUALITY Aug. 28-Sept. 1 at Sioux Park Sta- dium, Rapid City, S. Dak. Region 7 champs Yakima beat Re- MONROE gion 6 champs Hanford Post 5, Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the 15th and final TABLES & CHAIRS game of the two-losses-and-out elim- ination tourney. After the 13th game, three teams remained with but one loss: Yakima, Hanford and Region 8 champs, Fullerton Post 142, Fuller- ton, Cal. Yakima drew a bye, Han- ford beat Fullerton 8-1 in the 14th game but then lost the final game 8-4. Now's the best time to equip your new with Yakima, hall or replace your old worn-out tables Awards: Legion Baseball Play- with our famous Custom Tables — during the money-saving MONROE Fall— Sale! Send er of the Year Award went to David today for FREE sale brochure it's loaded THE MONROE-BUILT CUSTOM TABLE Edler, winning pitcher for Yakima, with outstanding values — or order direct The perfect folding table for ban- from this ad. But hurry — sale prices ex- quets, bingo, meetings, etc. Stain- who had a 15-1 season record, hom- pire November 28, 1975. Your satisfaction resistant plastic top, Tan Linen ered in the final game and struck guaranteed! finish, over W plywood; continu- TEN 30" x 96" MONROE ous plastic moulding edge, flush out 11. Edler won the "Click" Cow- with table top; one-piece frame CUSTOM TABLES . . . ONLY of roll-formed 14 gauge channel ger RBI Award and also tied with 1" steel. tubular steel leg assem- Donald Duncanson of Fullerton for TOTAL blies with gravity-type locks. 30" x 96" size seats 10 with "elbow the Rawlings Big Stick Award with $409 PRICE room" comfort. total bases. Hillerich F.O.B. 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44 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 . . . THE LAWRENCE WELK GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

n this special collection, we have gathered

together what I consider to be the best music we have played during the last five decades.

I hope you like it." ^^j^^-^r^ HEAR IT IN YOUR HOME FREE FOR 15 DAYS

71 numbers, personally selected by

Lawrence Welk . . . and spanning his 50 fabulous years in show business . . featuring 20 of the brightest stars from his musical family . . . including The Lennon Sisters, Bob Ralston, Guy & Ralna, Jo Ann Castle and many more

Here's truly a once-in-a-lifetime This 52-page biography lets you follow his career from a opportunity for Lawrence Welk poor Dakota farm boy to America's favorite musician. Over fans! A valuable collection of 100 photos, many never before published. It's yours to keep 6 long-playing records (tapes or FREE — even if you decide to return the "Golden Anniver- cassettes also available) you can sary" Collection. Don't miss this Free Bonus Gift. Mail your now actually audition free no-risk coupon today! without risk or obligation. More than 3'/2 hours of FREE BONUS GIFT! magnificent music. The Lawrence Welk A You'll thrill as you take a trip Life Story And down memory lane with such Photo Album • 52 Pages A toe-tapping hits as Champagne • 100 Pictures- Lawrence with his first Polka, Baby Face, Calcutta, accordion on his 21st many never before published Smiles, If I Loved You, Amazing Birthday . . . one of more than 100 photos in his Grace, Oh Happy Day, Try to Life Story Photo Album. Remember, True Love, Moon River SEND NO MONEY NOW! MAIL TODAY!

. . . and dozens more, tunes To: GRT MUSIC PRODUCTIONS, Dept. A1075 that made Lawrence Welk 6 Commercial St., Hicksville, New York 11801 the best-loved music Yes! Please send me The Lawrence Welk Golden Anniver- in America — from maker sary Collection to audition in my home, FREE, for 15 days. If the "big band" days when I decide to keep the collection, bill me in 4 equal payments of all of us danced and $5.48 each for LP Stereo records (a total of $21.92) or 4 equal romanced to the Cham- payments of $6.23 each for Stereo 8-track or cassette tapes pagne Music of Lawrence (a total of $24.92). Price includes $1.97 for shipping and Lawrence with his handling. There are NO FINANCE OR INTEREST Welk and his Orchestra . first great sports car, to his exciting early days CHARGES. a Cord Cabriolet — the start of a If not delighted, I will return The Lawrence Welk Golden on TV ... to his very latest lifelong love affair with sporty, fast cars. Anniversary Collection within 15 days and owe nothing. triumphs. Be sure to include The Lawrence Welk Photo Album,

It's a commemorative collection to have in your home . . which I may keep as my FREE gift, whether or not I keep the to play over and over. All in thrilling stereo — more real and musical collection. alive than the music you hear on TV. After 15 days, if you're I prefer: LP Stereo Records Stereo 8-Track Cartridges not absolutely delighted, return the recordings and owe Stereo Cassette Tapes nothing. Otherwise, this fabulous "keepsake" collection is yours for the amazingly low price shown in the Free Trial Name (please print) Coupon below. Address Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear this great Lawrence Welk Golden Anniversary Collection. Fill City State_ _Zip_ out and mail your no-risk coupon now. Signature Mail coupon within 10 days, and also receive a valuable bonus — "The Lawrence Welk Life Story and Photo Album" All orders subject to credit approval.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 45 Hawaiian "Good Luck" #"SAVE ^SHOPPER ti plant YOUR Guaranteed to grow!< HEART"

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46 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 —

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IN THE LAND OF SOAP OPERA The TV housewife comes in view Decked out by Saks Fifth Avenue. No caller knocks early or late And finds her looking less than great With perfect make-up every time And fresh-coiffed hair. I call it crime To show such scenes to gals in denim And dirty sneakers with big holes in 'em, Who know within their soul of souls That THIS is when the doorbell tolls. Virginia T. Downs

APT ANALOGY Federal aid is like giving yourself a blood transfusion in your left arm, draw- ing from your right arm and spilling 90 percent of it on the way across. Hayward Hensley

MODIFIED KNOW-HOW Most people are ambitious With future plans in view; There's no limit to their aspirations, Especially if they have the know-who. R. M. Walsh

WISDOM SETS IN When a man gets too old to set a bad example, he often starts giving good ad- vice. M. Y. Wilcox

"Thanks, but I won't need them. I have a set of skeleton keys." R. I. P. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Here lies economist Dave Whom medical arts couldn't save. When he heard the doc holler, SHE WRAPS IT UP FAST "You're sound as a dollar," He worried himself to the grave. A census taker asked the woman at the door: "How many in your Bob McKenty, Jr. family?" "Five," snapped the answer. "Me, the old man, kid, cow and cat." TOO TRUE THESE DAYS "And the politics of your family?" Some people with gold in "Mixed. I'm Republican, the old man's a Democrat, the kid's wet, the their teeth can't afford to chew meat with them. cow's dry and the cat's a communist." Thomas LaMance Joseph C. Salak

EASY QUESTION, TOUGH ANSWER Three high school youths played hooky from their morning classes. They told their teacher they were late getting to school because their car broke down due to a flat tire. She said they'd have to take a make-up test on the quiz they'd missed that morning. After seating them apart from each other, she gave them just one question: "Which tire was flat?" G. G. Crabtree

FINE FEATHERS A Texan was driving an easterner across the plains of Texas. All that could be seen from horizon to horizon was bleak treeless prairie. Sud- denly, a splendid-feathered game bird appeared from behind a hillock and raced across the road in front of the car. "What kind of bird is that?" inquired the easterner. "Bird of paradise," replied the Texan. The easterner watched the bird retreating through the alkali. "Mighty long way from home, isn't he?" he commented. Georgie Starbuck Galbraith

WE AIM TO PLEASE . . . The customer complained to the waiter that his soup was too taste- less, the salad was wilted, and so on. Finally he said, "And when you order that chop, make it lean." "If you'd used your stupid head that "Yes, sir," said the waiter. "Which way?" accident wouldn't have happened!" Lucille J. Goodyear THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

48 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1975 • - i Alac