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FEBRUARY 1956
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"BEST TRAILER Vol. 60, No. 2; February 1956 THE AMERICAN AVAILABLE!" I Says Richard E. Turner, LEGION Memphis, Tennessee MAGAZINE "I moved a lefrigciator from Georgia to Ten- Cover by Walter Baumhofer nessee. U-Haul just fit the need." Contents for February 1956 Wherever )ou move, a better-made U-haul tar- ries hiad safer more economitally. Rent a the and EXCERPTS FROM WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS 11 U-Haul at a ser\ ice station in your neighborhood ADVICE THAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD HAVE US FORGET. — return it to a service station u herei er yoii mot e. A U-Haul trailer rents for no more than an ordi- WHAT GENEVA MEANS TO US by Henry C. Wolfe 12 nary trailer — locally or one-uay tinyu here. THE REASONS FOR THE MEETING. AND THE RESULTS.
Look In YELLOW PAGES of your HOW TO MAKE A BILLION! by Leslie Gould 14 phone book for this trademark LET US HOPE THAT VOU DON'T HAVE THE QUALIFICATIONS. heading, or coll WESTERN LINION by number and ask OPERATOR 25 IT DOESN'T WORK HERE by Merle Thorpe 16 for nearest U-Houl service station. COMMUNISM HAS BEEN TRIED IN THE U.S.A. AND FOUND WANTING.
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The American Legion The American Legion Magazine Midwestern Executive and Editorial & Advertising Offices Advertising Sales Office Administrative Offices 720 fifth Avenue Center and Monroe Sifcels AfrnmiTA^yT Indlanopolis 6, liidiano Mew York 19, New York Bloominglon, Illinois Mm I BECOME AN EXPERT { Please notify the Circulation Dept., Publications Div.. P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis II it«n I 6, ind., of change of address, using notice Form 22-S which you may secure from Mtbuu your Postmaster. Remove your address label from the cover of magazine and the ..AUDITOR.. CP. A. paste it in the space provided. Give your latest membership card number and both your new and your old address, and notify the Adjutant of your Post. The demand Icir .skdied accountants--7«f« iimi women who really I now iheif hiisiness is increasing. National and state legislation IS requiring of business much more in the Wagner, way of Auditing, Cost Accounting, Business Law and J. Addington Nalional Commander, The Amertcon Legion, Indionopoiis 6, Indiono qualifica- Income Tax Procedure. Men who prove their The American Legion Cocreham, Baton Rouge, schiel L. Hunt, Austin, tions in this important field are promoted to responsible Publications Commis- La.; Clovis Copeland, Tex.; George D. Levy, executive positions. sion: John Stelle, Mc- Little Rock, Ark.; Paul Sumter, S. C; Dr. Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train B. Downingtown, R. Leansboro, III. |Chair- Dague, Chorles Logan, you Irom ground up, or according to your individual Pa.; John E. Drinkard, Keokuk, Iowa; William manl; Dan W. Emmett, needs. Low cost; easy terms. Cullman, Ala.; Dove H. P. Roon, Plymouth, Oakdale, Calif., ond Send for Free illustrated book describing the LaSalle Fleischer, St. Louis, Pa.; Emmet Sofay, Rev. Milton B. Faust, Accounting training and the opportunities in this highly Mo.; Samuel J. Gor- Jacksonville, Flo.; D. L. Salisbury, N. C. (Vice profitable licld. MAIL COUPON TODAY. man. West Hortlord, Seors, Toledo, Ohio; Arm- Chairmen); Lang Conn, Earl C. Hitch- Horold A. Shindler, LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY strong, Spokane, Wash.; cock Glens Falls, Newburgh, Ind.; Ray- Charles E. Booth, Hunt N. Y Eorl L. Meyer, mond Fields, Guymon, Institution A Correspondence ington, W. Vo.; Roland Alliance, Nebr.; Her Oklo. — 417 S. Dearborn Street————— — Dept. 2361 HR, Chicago 5, III. Puhliihei A rt Editor A dreiti<.tn^ Director James F. O'Neil Al Marshall Fred L. Maguire Please send me Free Book "Ac- 4 siociate Editor Publiihcr /:.r>ffr;i A dv. Afj^r. countancy, the Profession That A Sit. to Irving hierschbein Frank Lisiecki WilliamM. DeVitalis Pays" —without obligation. Edtton.tl ,4 fits. Editor Edward W. Atkinson Detroit .idy. Kep. n LiiSalli- Af-eiiiintifiK Joseph C. Keeley Alda Viorengo Adv. Sales Assoc. LI Law: LI,.H. I).-Kr<«- .l/.jn.JK'^K Editor M ;(/ Ci),i(( .A dy. Rep. liiiHitirNH James F. Barton t I Maiia^eiiii'iil Robert B. Pitkin Indianapolis, Ind. The Eschen Company L I SalrHiiiaiiHliip
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New VITALIS Hair Tonic With V-l NE PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS much space as Aliss Pels devoured. I am merely one of the millions of vet- erans whom you reactionary blue shirted fascists DO NOT represent and never will so long as men of in- tegrity continue to oppose fanatic ex- tremists of cither left or right in the fight to protect our rights of the indi-
\ idual. Wc will not conform to your
strait jacket! Your magazine is but an ugly reflection of your narrow-
minded, narrow-brained selves and 1 note that >ou offer to print letters w ithout the signature of the writer
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He is one of the great generals who entering the service afrer July 27, 1953, testified under oath that we were should be excluded from your mem- prohibited from w inning the Korean bership! In my estimation The iVmeri-
war by the United Nations. Is it not can Legion is one of the strongest rime for the American people to wake \oices raised in the world today in up to the international conspiracy to defense of the American way of life
rake away our place and nation? Is it as our forefathers meant it to be prac- not now time for people to rise up ticed. The Legion has always been a and speak up for their own country? sN'mbol of dynamic Americanism to C. A. Nolan me. Yet I am told that I may not join Seymour, hid. when I am discharged because I was '1 not in the service on a particular date. make sure I'll be Waller P. Doyle, Jr. RECOMMENDS BOOK Neiv York City satisfied— I always buy Sir: I would like to recommend a T The Aiiic'i iean Legion was liiarteied book that is now on our library a BRAND that's made a by Congress as an organisation ol ittii sliehes for all Americans to read. It Mlerans, and eliglbilily is sliittly
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BACK IN HARNESS IT \\'OULD be foolish to say that ban- 4000-Mile quets and dinners are a w aste of time since quite often the food is good and sometimes even the speeches are stinni- ''Cattle Crossing" lating. However, even though it happened last summer, we are still impressed w itii the idc'ii behind a dinner given by Grant Hughes w ho had served as Commander Our High School correspondent wrote of Post 279, Jacksonville, 111., in 1926-27. in about a new project local students Grant called together a highly select group of 30 men who, like himself, had It's well- are taking up. a small — but served Post 279 as Commanders. Tlie din- planned — venture into international ner was to honor them, of course, but its primar>' purpose was to reactivate tlieir diplomacy. previous interest in the rehab work for which the Post has long been noted. ''We're to the going use some of Some of these men had become inacti\ e. proceeds from football and basketball others had drifted away completely, it was to get them back, so their demon- games to buy a couple of heifers" — she strated leadership could again be used, that Grant Hughes staged his dinner. writes — "and send them to some needy Was it a success? farm family overseas. "It's now like old times," said Grant. "I think a lot of these men felt the\' w ere "The folks who get our heifers will no longer needed, but now the>' realize how much their help means not just to have to promise to give their first Post 279 but to the 700 mentally disabled female calves to other deserving fami- vets for whom the Post acts as guardian. — That ')ob calls for organization that only lies" — the report continues "so that experienced leaders can give. A\'ith our the good work will go on and on." WW I old-timers back in harness teamed up witli the W\\' II Past Commanders, From where I sit, helping others to w e now have a winning team to give our Post projects a new lease on life."
help themselves is always the best way. It's something you might think over, to be taken up at your next Post meeting. Both here and overseas, people should be encouraged to work out their own NO HANDOUT solutions —on how to make a living BI'CAUSE of rhe American Legion on where to live, on what to eat, on the Community Chest of I.arcii- Community whether their favorite beverage should mont, N. v., is out $3,000, the Chest of Mamaroncck, N. Y., is $2,000
be coffee, beer, soda water or what- poorer than it would ha\c been, agd an organization calleil tlie Guidance Center, have-you. That's the way we do things located in New Roclielle, is not going to
get ,>5,00(). here in America . . . and it's not a If you fiiink this is bad, read on. A
bad idea to "export." couple of ) ears ago the Guidance Center hired as consultant one Goodw in AX'atson.
This is a luniinar>' of Teachers (College, (Columbia University, w1u) has a record of atiiliations w ith communist fronts that
is almost record-breaking. It was so bad back in 1943, w hen he was on the gov- ernment pa> r()ll, in a strategic W ashing- ton job, that Congress went to the ex- treme of passing a law to cut off his Copyright, 1955, United States Brewers Foundation salarj-. Anyw a>-, up to now the good
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Doctor has been tied up with scores of malodorous outfits. When he turned up in the Guidance WANT A C001£R SMOKE? Center, advising disturbed people, in- cluding veterans, The American Legion of Westchester County protested and publicized his front record. Of course there was the usual counterattack b>' the phony liberals in the community, but the ..DISCOVER EDGEWDRm facts were too much. The Guidance Center, which went to bat for ^Vatson, was cut off by the New Rochelle Com- munity Chest. However, in the neighbor- ing towns of Larchmont and Mamaro- neck the Community Chests continued to allow their funds to go to the Center. Then, last October, a strange offer was quietly made to the Guidance Center and the two Community Chests. For their valiant work in shielding AVatson, they were offered a total of $10,000 by-yes, you guessed it—the Fund for the Repub- lic. Half was offered to the Guidance Center, and the rest was to go to the two Community Chests which had not been troubled by Goodwin Watson's record of communist front affiliations. The deal, much like the one made in behalf of Mary Knowles, the Fifth Amendment librarian of Plymouth iMeet- ing. Pa., would have gone through except for one thing. The American Legion's charges against such abuses by the Fund for the Republic began to bear fniit when even Henry P'ord II expressed his dis- pleasure with what was being done. Anyway, with the heat on, the boys who dispense the millions must have de- cided they couldn't pull it off. Wonl went out to the three agencies that thcrc'd be no handout after all.
ALL-AMERICAN GIFT IT IS HARDLY necessary to remind our readers that we have been highly critical of certain actions of certain large A. BITS AND FLAKES B. FINE CUT SHREDS C. ONLY EDGEWORTH burn hot and fast, bite all right for cigarettes- gives you slow burning, foundations. Still, if >ou will refer to the tongue. not for pipes. cool smoking '^chunks." back issues of this magazine you will find so good that while we have criticized the way in which some foundations have aided left- experts that hurley is best wingers and subversive causes, we have No other tobacco can duplicate the Edge- agree white of applauded the way in which most foun- worth cut, because it's actually "ready- all for pipes. But Edgeworth looks for a dations have aided worthwhile causes. rubbed" by an exclusive process. See in certain type of white hurley, grown on Dramatizing the way in which founda- the picture what a difference this makes. well-drained land on sunny hillsides, just tion money can be used constructively, Edgeworth's even-sized chunks (Picture like fine wine grapes or fine coffee. Then the Ford Foundation has now embarked C) burn slow and cool, with never a these special burleys are aged for years on a project which will benefit the entire touch of tongue bite. before blending. This is another reason nation. Soon a half-billion dollars from Edgeworth smokes cooler—8 to 10 de- this foundation will begin to flow into EDGEWORTH'S SPECIAL BURLEYS grees cooler by actual test. hospitals and colleges all over the coun- No one in over 50 years has ever equalled try, permitting better medical care and Edgeworth's way with tobaccos. Tobacco improved educational facilities for mil- lions. To Mr. Henry Ford II and all those who planned this gift to all America, The American Legion extends its appreciation.
WELCOME EDGEWORTH SO MANY powerful voices are ped- dling the phony "liberal" viewpoint FINEST that it is encouraging to find another AMERICAS magazine joining the ranks of those who oppose subversion in all its forms. We PIPE TOBACCO Made by welcome the National Review, a new- EDGEWORTH'S EXCLUSIVE wrap-around Larui & Brother Co., Inc. conservative weekly being published by pouch is heat-sealed. Moisture can't get in — Richmond, William F. Buckley, address of Jr. The freshness can't get out. Virginia the new publication is 211 E. 37th St., New York City 16. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • J .
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But what was obvious to Mrs. Luce seems once again to be bey- .State- ond the grasp of those who run the MGM lot.
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People of the United States
George Washington
September 19, 1796
The Great rule of contlnct for us, in regard to foreign Na- tions is in exteniling our commercial relations to iiave with them as little poli/iial connection as possible. — So tar as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled,
[26] with perfect good faitii. — Here let us stop.
Europe has a set of primar\ interests, wiiicii to us iiave none, or a very remote relation. — l!irue she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of uiiicii are essentially foreign to our concerns. — Hence therefore it must be un- wise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary com- binations Si collisions of her friendships, or enmities: —
Our detached & distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. — If we remain one People, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; — when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupuhjusly re- spected ;— when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, w ill ncjt liglitl\ ha/.ard the giving us provocation ; — when w e ma\ ch(jose peace or war, as our interest guided by justice sliall counsel.—
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? —
\Vh\' quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? — Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and [27] prosperit\' in the toils of Eu- ropean ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humouror Caprice?—
'Tis our true policy to steer cle.ir of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world — so far, I mean,
as we are now at liberty to do it — for let me not be under- stood as capable of patronising infidility to existing engage- ments, ( I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private af?airs, that honesty is always the best policy).
I repeat it therefore, let those engagements be observed in
theii- genuine sense. — But in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. —
THE FOREOOINC IS PRESEVTEn AS WRITTEN BY GEOnCE WASH INC.TON.
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Means to us By HENRY C. WOLFE
The slory of w hni led up io the Geneva Conference, cient teamwork. Through the Balkan Entente, moreover, the Greeks and Turks were allied with Yugoslavia, a nonmember of NATO. Although
and what has resuhed from this historic meethig. Yugoslavia is a communist police state, the Greeks and Turks believed that Tito, the South Slav dictator, would, WHENEVER THE SOVIETS gCt lOtO It was in the /Mediterranean, how- in his ow n self-interest, go along with trouble, the free world can be e\er, that we v\ere strongest vis-a-vis the powerful Western force l)eing es- counted on to bail tliem out. It the Soviet Union. Here we could, in tablished in the A4editerranean basin. happens over and 'over again. A\ e case of Soviet aggression against West- Behind the Greek-Turkish bastion rushed to their rescue in the n>2 ern Europe, launch our strongest stood Italy, a member of NATO, with famine, and we granted them an armis- counterattack. Here, indeed, was poised about ten divisions of elite troops. tice when Korea had them on the run. At Geneva last July we lent them a helping hand— in fact, both hands. The
Big Four Conference is a lesson in red switch-tactics and another tragic ex- ample of \\'estern gullibilitx To understand the significance of the conference, we need to look at the European situation of a \ear ago. It presented an encouraging picture for the free world. W e had the Kremlin stalled there. \^'estern strength w as in- creasing steadily. NATO had become a force to be reckoned with. There were American, British, French, Italian, Greek, and Turkish troops holding the line, supported b\- smaller contingents of Belgian, Dutch. Luxeniburgian, Danish, Norwegian, and Canadian forces. \A'e had built on the Continent a network of airfields for tactical sup- port of our infantry and armored divi- sions. These were supplied b\ a vast system of pipelines and supply bases. Behind the frontline of NATO bristled the powerful strategic bombing bases in Britain and North Africa. No longer was there a possibility that the Red 1955, with the U. S. delegation ai iijtj)er left. arm> could march from Central Europe to the English Channel.
German)-, at last, w as started on the our greatest deterrent to further Soviet Ital\ 's contribution to NATO consisted way toward a contribution of 12 divi- attack on the free world. A glance at not only of top-grade soldiers but also sions to NATO. From the beginning our Mediterranean defense posture air and naval bases. And backing up the
of the NATO buildup we had w anted show s why. Greeks, Turks, and Italians was the German troops integrated into the At the eastern end of the Inland Sea, hard-hitting United States Sixth Fleet Western defense force. In the earh- NA TO members Greece and Turke\ v\ hose carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and stages of NATO our strategy w as based stood guard w ith nearly 30 divisions of auxiliaries range the Inland Sea from on a holding operation at the Rhine. excellent troops. We had not only end to end. From the carriers our W ith 12 crack CJerman divisions bol- armed these allies but built them roads bombers could strike at the vital Baku stering our forces it would be possible and air and naval bases. We had helped oilfields and at the most important in- to move our defense line east to the them strengthen their economies. At dustrial, mining, and power centers in Elbe. The prospect of adding the Ger- Izmir, Turkey, a staflf of Greek and southern Russia. man contingents, therefore, gave new Turkish officers under an American Still farther back lay our great heart to our NATO leaders. commander worked in close and effi- ( Contiiiiied on page SI I 13 You too can be well heeled
if you are the kintl of heel who
doesn't mmd explohing others.
By LESLIE GOULD
well-heeled enterprise where the man- agement has grown old and has only F. Donald Coster, who a small stock interest. AVith the lawyers, headed a mammoth they will work out the various tax drug firm, was really dodges. Philip Musira, a convict. This field of business raiding is high- ly lucrative. It is almost financially TO GET rich quick? riskless. There are millions in it. WANT There are some risks. You can Control a multimillion dollar wind up at the end of a gun, sev- business, maybe several? wrong as eral have, either self-destroyed or mur- Have a generous tax-free expense ac- dered. Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match count, including a limousine with chauf- king. Coster-Musica, swindled feur and a personal airplane? who AlcKesson Robbins. Serge Rubinstein, You can do it, in spite of today's high taxes. the draft-dodging financial finagler. Serge Rubinstein, The first two were suicides. Rubinstein You don't have to marry the boss's Russian finagler, was murdered—a crime still mysterious- daughter, nor be the son of a successful whose murder is ly unsolved. father. still unsolved. There are some necessary qualifica- The start can be modest. The same as to initial capital— a few thousand—and tions. You have to be bold— daring—and, Everyone has a price—that is your that can be goal is con- of course, overly ambitious. creed—and you act accordingly. borrowed. The trol of a small company, the shares of You must be ruthless. Not burdened Those that you can't buy off, you which can be manipulated with a sensitive conscience. Nor sym- try to get something on and resort to and swapped for shares in other companies. pathetic, nor charitable. The last can blackmail. You must be willing even is fixed formula for the come later after success. to frame an individual standing in the There no initial stages. The only limit is your A good war record isn't necessary. way of your making a fast buck. Any- imagination in this kind of scheming. In fact, if you dodged or otherwise es- thing and everything goes. Before attempting the takeover of the caped military service you had a chance You can't do it alone. You need smart company that is to be the vehicle for to get a start— a stake— while others were lawyers, clever accountants and com- imbued or occupied with patriotism. mission-hungry brokers and bankers building up the empire, you may want to try your hand at some other fast The most important qualification for who like to pick up a little change on deals. success in this field of business raiding the side. These may be a quick turn in the is to have no compunctions about liqui- The lawyers are the most important. in obscure stock. in dating a business, throwing hundreds— They sec that you keep just within the market some Or real estate. in dealing, as in the war maybe thousands—out of employment letter if not the spirit and intent of the Or immediately following years, in —and turning a community into a ghost law. They know how to buy the politi- and supplies. This is black or tow n. cal influence that will be needed to put hard-to-get gray marketeering, and this is tax-free The only consideration is how to over the fast deals. They know the make a fast buck without paying any- "deer paths." While a most reputable money. war and immediately following tiiing more than the smaller capital law firm won't trod these, it will always The opportunities for gains tax. To hell with exerything and provide an introduction to a counselor years presented other agile-brained in- everyone else— the public, old em- who will. the quick-footed and in liquidating Gov- ployees, a community's welfare, wid- The accountants will help ferret out dividual. This was ows, orphans, and even an old associate. the candidates for a raid—usually a ILLUSTRATED BY JOEL KING 14 First, you set your sights on the business you intend Need money? One source is cash in the hands of mobsters, to raid. Don't worry about what your activities will do anxious to move into respectable circles. This kind of to the people concerned. Think only of number one. money has turned up in tractions, steel, theaters, etc.
Lawyers are most important, to A crooked accountant can help you fer- When you grab control, you can move keep you within the letter of ret out candidates for your raid. He can your relatives, lawyers and others onto the law, if not within the spirit. tell you who owns stock and how much. the payroll, giving them lush jobs.
Your enterprise may need some window dress- Once the raid is over, you may decide And so you attain the proper goal for ing. If so, it isn't too hard to find lawyers to ditch the company. This may put a smart young fellow like yourself. Such and public relations men to deodorize you. people out of work, but why worry? things couldn't happen to a nicer guyt
ernment surplus property—an\ thing from pipe and blank- ets to shipyards and tankers. The bigger these deals, the more political help is needed, and this can be obtained. There always is a onetime Senator or Congressman or bureaucrat looking for a fee.
The surprising thing is how cheap Washington influence can be bought. Sometimes nothing more than a cocktail party, or a retainer of $2,500. A trinket or a fur coat for the individual's wife or sweetheart. One of the tricks of the trade—Rubinstein was a past master at this— is to compromise a married man with in- fluence. \ ou take some pictures, or have a tape recording.
Blackmail? Sure, but so what— if it will open doors and let you get awa>' with millions or escape, say, the draft? The operations can be within (Continued on page 55) The only people who mind are the suckers who have to pay more for the things they need, the people thrown out of jobs, and those who once owned your companies. .
By MERLE THORPE
COM MUMS r Lr.AOKKs h;i\ c toid us iigain and again that coniniunism It"t)oesnt and capitalism cannot exist together. And they are right. Coexistence has been tried, time and again, right here in America. It has never worked. There have been 75 communistic ex- periments in the United States. All were based on the idea of common ownership f)f land and equal sharing of mrk^ere the products of labor. They were not organized by nitwits nor crackpots, but by the finest minds of their day. Nor w as there anything but cooperation on Time after (iiiie eoiniiiuiiism has tri
the same ailment. All, that is, except those few w hich adopted the ways of capitalism.
They all would fail again today in a fair and open trial. They failed not be- cause of lack of intelligence, nor ability, nor mone>', nor tangible assets, nor sub- stantial sponsoj^ship. Robert Owen, who founded New Harmony in Indiana in 1S25, had the sympathetic ear of John Quincy Adams, the President-elect, and upon invitation, spoke before the Congress rji»igf''#' In 1825 Robert O^vcn attempted a social revolution '_ at Indiana. But there was no harmony. of the United States. ^fj New Harmony, The North American Phalanx,
founded near Red Bank, N. J., in 1843, w as endorsed b>' Horace Crecle\ The food was often scanty, consisting This ambitious project lasted five years. Brook Farm in Massachusetts was of graham bread stewed w ith milk, but The 75 experiments were inspired promoted b)' the capable pens of Ralph the table talk w as full of protein. It w as b\' many different motives. Some w ere W aldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott. and lich with "alert sallies and quick j"e- religious. Others had a sincere desire
Margaret I'uller. It was the most bril- torts . . . pat allusions . . . shrewd w it- to impro\ e the social and economic lot liantly intellectual of the communistic ticisms" from the lips of members and of the poor and underprivileged. Their settlements. There Charles Dana, later such guests as Emerson and Greeley. geographic locations were e\'cn more the great editor of the New York S/ni, Brook l"arm consisted of 200 acres of varied than their motives. transplanted trees and shrubs, and land, was well-financed, and entered The Shakers established four com- Nathaniel Haw thorne shoveled manure. into with enthusiasm by 115 members. munities in Alassaciiusetts, two in New
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Some ol lilt experiineiits were motivated by religion. The Shakers establislied lour siith conniuiiiities.
York, two in Maine, two in New to the beginning of tlic Civil War. Se\ - of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. Hampshire, and one in Connecticut. eral groups had foreign origins. The\ Owen's business success in Scotland Massachusetts also had its Brook Farm, came to America because it offered had v\'on him the confidence and its Hopedale, and its Fruitlands. Indiana freedom of action. They could set up patronage of Britisii nobility; and he had Harmony, New Harmony, Blue their little circles without governmental came to America with prestige that ad- Springs, and Fo] rcst\ illc. Ohio liad its interference or restrictions. mitted him to the House of Repre- Yellow Springs, Kendal, Zoar, and New Harmony was the first nonre- sentatives, where lie delivered more Snowberger communities. Penns\ l\ ania ligious experiment of any great size. Its than one lecture. President James Mon- was the site of two Rappite experiments founder, Robert Owen, had made a roe, President-elect John Quincy and of another at Ephrata. New York fortune operating textile mills on a Adams, the justices of the Supreme had more than one Fourier project profit-sharing pattern. With this ex- Court, and all Cabinet members were along with its Shakers, a Franklin Com- perience he envisioned a social revo- present to hear him. munity, Haverstraw Coxsackic, Onei- lution which said would "give the In public lectures, delivered in man\ , he da, Skaneateles, and the Ebenezers. death blow to a tyranny which, for places, Mr. Owen invited "the indus- Frances Wright founded a commu- unnumbered ages, has held the human trious and w ell disposed of all nations" nist communit\' called Hashoba in mind spellbound in chains of sucli to emigrate to New Harmony. W'ithin Tennessee. The Phalanx movement, a mvsterious forms that no mortal has six weeks after the purchase of New
Intellectual leaders of a century ago batked Brook Farm in iMassachusctts. Hawthorne did manual Ralph AV^altlo Emerson Above are three members: Thomas Hitks, Ciharles Dana, and George W. Curtis. work at Brook farm. promoted it with his|>en. ALL ABOVE PHOTOS TUOAI HKTTALVNX AICIIIIVES form of Fourierism, went west as far dared approach to set the suffering Harmony 600 persons had gathered as Illinois and Wisconsin. None of these prisoner free." These words were slo- there, and in less than a > car the pojiu- settlements w as hampered In tr\ ing to ganized by modern Marxists into the lation was more than 900. Many intel- till rocky, barren land. All chose fertile rallying cry, "Workers of the world, lectuals of the day were Owen con- soil, many the finest river bottom land. arise! You have nothing to lose but verts. Yet there was no harmony in Geography seems to have nothing to \oiu- chains!" New Harmon)-. Even table manners do with the failure of communism in The start was auspicious. Owen had degenerated. Parents complained that America. bought 30,000 fertile acres—ak)ng with tbeir children were deprived of fooii The movements excited Americans cabins, stables, and other farm build- because of the piggishness of others. most in the 40 years from about 1820 inus. This domain w as at the confluence Cuntiiiiicd on 46 ( jm^ic 17 " MORE FISH tv/th an OUTBOARD
Tlie moior-propellcd l)oat takes
\ (HI where (he fish are.
Slow trolling often does it.
By ROGER WRIGHT THE AGE-OLD argument about \\liich method or bait is "best" is still go-
ing on. And it probablx' will ct)n- tinuc as long as our lakes and streams are inhabited with fish. "W hat's >"Our flavor, worms?"' "Not on \'our life, Mister. You just Fishing from a log raft for trout and salmon in Alaska. can't beat a .Marihn Monroe-finish 'Ri\ er Runt.'
"Spinning is the onl>' wa\' to catch best fish-finding gadget ever invented. fish." Tlie average outboard owner, how- "Never, absoluteh' never. Cimme a ever, only uses his kicker to ferr>' him three-pound monofilament and a small back and forth across the lake. When green frog." he reaches the spot he wants to fish, "Did you ever try a 50-foot gill net?" he'll shut off his motor and grab up Every lure, ever\' fishing technique an oar.
that has been invented, has been touted This is a mistake. Your outboard is as as the only May to mess up a skillet superior to a pair of oars for fishing with fillets. Now I'm going to add an- as it is for taking you there and bring- other log to the fire. ing you back. Of course, there are a The best lure a fisherman can own few outboard-handling tricks to learn
is an outboard motor. —that's the purpose of this article. But Before >'ou consider this mechanized once these techniques are mastered, chLinl< of aluminum in the same class as \()u"ll be in for more fishing fun than
other fishing equipment, let's think \ ou e\ cr imagined.
about this business of catching fisii for Clet an outboard— and fish with it.
a minute. Let's consider the plight f)f the I'ish are where \()u find them. One sportsman when he takes that long- bend of the rixer ma\' not produce a dreamed -of trip to a strange lake. With single strike, while another may put a all of that strange water around him he This fisherman steers with his half dozen fish on the stringer. And un- literalh' doesn't know where to go or foot while moving stern end less your uncle w as a northern pike or w hat to do. The beginner and expert first as he easts along shore. you have 200 bucks to invest in an alike are faced with the same problem
a(iualung, yoii can't be sure until \<)u w hen in such a situation. And if he has asking questions. I know something fish them both. an outboard, the w hole lake is his to about the habitat of the largemouthed
The big point is— to catch fish, you fish and explore. bass that I'm seeking, but 1 alw ays make
first have to find w here they are feed- When in such a position, as 1 w as on it a point to ask questions.
ing. And an outboard motor is the a recent trip to Kentucky Lake, I start "How's fishin'?" is the first one. 18 customers, and he won't spai c tlic gaso-
line in doing it. His tcchnii|ue is the one I've already described— motoring from spot to spot until there's enough fish on the stringer to satisfy his guests.
Trolling is another good method of finding fish. For some species of fish
this technique is rather ineffective, but
for others it is deadly.
As an example of this, Wisconsin is well known for its law against using an outboard motor for trolling. There's a sound reason for this. The muskel- lunge is the backbone of this State's
tourist trade, and this big fish is a sucker for a trolled lure. If anglers could troll with an outboard in Wisconsin, the supply of muskic would be so seriously
depicted that the resort business \\ ould suffer. Other species of fish frequently taken by trolling are walleyed pike, northern
pike, \\ hite bass, and occasionally black
bass. Of course, trolling is one of the most effective methods of taking a
number of salt-water game fish and is likewise a favorite technique for West Coast salmon and steelhead fishermen. As a general rule of thumb, slow trolling pays off best. Select a slow- wobbling underwater lure, and throttle your outboard motor down to its slow- est speed. Maintain just enough forward motion to impart action to the lure. Put out enough line to allow your lure to run at the desired depth, but don't let it too far out in back of the boat. Re- member this, the wake of your slowly churning outboard propeller will at-
tract more fish than it will scare away. An undcrw ater lure trolled 20 feet be- hind the boat will ordinarily take more A nice bass about to be netted. Note the proximity of weeds and lily pads. fish than one wobbling along 100 j-ards back.
I don't expect to get a profound rock>' point produced fish, I'll concen- Although slow trolling is considered answer, but this query is one of the trate on similar spots. And even if such correct, and the worth of a fishing out- best ways to open a conversation on the fishing sites prove to be a mile or so board is judged on its ability to run at subject. After this opening, Fll find out apart, I'll spend the necessary 15 min- a virtual crawl, the opposite case is oc- if the bass are on the points or back in utes motoring to each one of them in- casionally the only solution. the bays at this season of the year. I'l] stead of blindly fishing one section of We were fishing the Lake of the want to know if they're in deep or shal- shoreline. Ozarks in Missouri, and had arrived at low water, if they're hitting on surface This is finding fish. And it takes an the peak of the summer \\ hite bass run.
or underwater plugs. outboard motor to do it. Consider the The fish were schooled up, but had not With this information, I crank up professional fishing guide, for instance. begun to slash at the shad on the sur- my outboard and set out oa an explo- A guide is paid to produce fish for his (Cuiitiiiiicd on piige 60) ration jaunt. The bass won't be feeding
actively until evening, so I want to have several good fishing spots in mind be- liack willi the morning's catch. A spin across the lake lound the fish. fore this lucrative period is on hand. Slowly cruising around the edge of the lake, I make mental note of a sub- merged log, a rocky point that drops off into deep water, or a little cove that is filled with stumps.
Later on I'll fish these spots I've se- lected. All of them may- not pay off, but one or several are likely to produce the action that I'm looking for. And
on the next morning I'll have more in-
formation than I had before. If the Even on national holidays most people don't bother to display the flag.
''Let's try Patriotism
Coiiiimiiii8ts. rolloclivisis. and oiie-
worJclers sneer a( pnlriolisni I>nl (liey
know \i can cleleal (lieir schemes.
By J. ADDINGTON WAGNER Since the beginning of time man has NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION taken pride in his native land. Some of the greatest pages in history tell of men DURING FEBRUARY Legioniiaircs will is that most Americans are apathetic w ho have show n this love of country have two opportunities to tr>' a when it comes to our National Color, b\- heroic actions in its behalf. These
little experiment. On February and this apathy is a dangerous symp- men were not merely patriots; their 12th ^\ e will celebrate Lincoln's Birth- tom. Another danger sign is the sneer- actions made them superpatriots. And day, and on the 22nd we w ill mark the ing way in which some people talk man\' t)f them were flag wavers, liter- day of ^^'asl^ingron"s birth. On both about patriotism and "flag waving" in ail)' as well as figurative!)'. We have those national holitlays observe care- attempting to prove how progressive had a great many such men in our own fully what happens. Walk or drive and sophisticated they are in their histoiy. As a matter of fact, it is be- around your coniniunit>' and see to thinking. cause of such men—more than a few of what extent the flag is displayed. It will Actually such people prove some- w hom have been Legionnaires—that we of coiu'se appear before public build- thing quite different—that they are ig- are a free, independent, and great na- ings, but the chances arc you will not norant of this nation's history and the tion. What has happened in recent find it waving in front of one house reasons for its greatness. Still, it is \ ears to cause some Americans to talk out of four or five. If you do, your s This is something that is relatively certain courses at certain institutions of that the great majority of professors new, an attitude that has been devel- higher education the\- are likely to and teachers in this country are loyal, oped only in the past two or three dec- couple patriotism with a five-ruble dedicated Americans who arc doing ades. Prior to that time there was no word, "chauvinism." This show of edu- their utmost to instill in our children a compulsion about patriotism. No Amer- cation still does not alter the fact that love of country based on understand- ican used to salute the flag or stand for such a person is not quite as bright as ing. Unfortunately, there are a few our national anthem with a self-con- he pretends to be. The fault may be educators who have set a difi^erent goal scious feeling that this was something his o\\ n since he may have been exposed for themselves. Aiming to prepare our he bad to do. Those earlier Americans to a proper education about this coun- boys and girls to be "citizens of the did more than show respect for their try, and it didn't take. On the other world," or pawns in a highly organized flag; thc\' felt something deep inside hand, he may be another victim of a collectivist society, the\' decry love of them that often made Old Glory look certain segment of educators whose al- country as something shameful, recking a bit blurred as it went by. legiance is not to the United States of of "the poisoned air of nationalism." To many of our modern-day sophis- America we know, but to some fuzzy Fortunately, such teachers arc a small ticates such a reaction is incomprehen- concept of one-worldism or totalitari- minority, but they do a lot of harm sible. They consider it sloppy, senti- anism. and can undo a lot of the fine work mental poppycock. If they have taken Let me emphasize as strongly as I can being done by the lo\ al and patriotic majority of teachers. However, education is not the only field in which such subversives operate. The attempt to weaken this countr\- by fraying the ties of patriotism that bind us together is not restricted to class- rooms. It is a widespread campaign that operates on many fronts, and its danger is expressed in the Biblical in- junction: "If a house be di\"ided against itself, that house cannot stand." VVe now understand, in general, how communists operate w ithin a country. We know that one of their major ob- jectives is to set class against class so that in the resulting chaos the\' can move in and seize power. Think how eas\' w e will make their task if w e per- mit ourselves to be broken up not into fragments but into millions of human particles without the strong, cohesive force of patriotism to bind us together! We can take it for granted that the communists are part and parcel of the conspiracy to make patriotism unpop- ular. However, it is a grave mistake to think that the>' are the onl>' ones who arc involved in this project. Americans are inclined to oversim- plify things, and this seems to be espc- cialK' true when it comes to communism Americans may not have been more patriotic during World ^Var I but they and other forms of subversion. Too showed it more. This shows the turnout when the troops returned home. (Coiitii/ncd on pdge 51) 21 ITALIAN What has brought about Today^s Re€ord Craze Why Americans nre now l)iiyiiio Iniiuli ods of iiiillioiis of iccords every year. EVERY DAY MORK and iiiorc people are product more desirable has been over- hurr>ing and scurrying to buy By FRANK RIZZATTI looked. more and more records. That this Unquestionably the greatest single indusrr\ would enter the realm of "big most conservative experts. Just a few factor among the many which have business" has long been apparent, but years ago hardly an\'one could have caused the tremendous upsurge in in- it is apparent also that recent sales fig- foretold that approximate!)' 200,000.000 terest on the part of the rccord-buv ing ures have delighted e\en the industry's discs, or $230,000,000 worth, would be public is the improvement in the qualitv' sold in l'>54. Last year approximateh' of recorded sound. Sound reproduction U)0,0()0,000 records were sold and ail has become amazingh' icalistic, both indications are that even more will be because the records themselves have 1' sold in 1956. been astoundingly improved and be- What's causing so man)' slioppers to cause even average home record-play- ' • - ' i stop and pick up their choice of any of ing equipment is so much better than the IH recorded versions of Beethox en's it used to be. "l j-oica," 17 of Tschaikovsky's "Pathe- It is onh' in comparativ eh- recent ri(|ue," 11 of Crieg's "A Minor (Con- >'ears that the soLind of our finest sym- certo," not to niention the almost phony orchestras, of the piano, the limitless variety of less standard works violin, the organ, the string quartet and and, of course, the man)-, man\' "pop" trio could adequately be reproduced in records? Hardly anyone knows for the home. The names of such men as sure, but there are several definite clues. Toscanini, Dorati, iVIonteux, Heifetz, It all stalled in 1877 when Although a purchaser's motives are Horowitz, Francescatti, Ricci, et al. Edison invented this device. not alwav's clearh' imdcrstood, the fact ha\e become household bywords, in that so man>' people spend so many the past the sounds of great voices and hard-earned dollars to indulge their brass bands w ere almost the onh' tilings musical hobl)y is thoroughly appreciated that survived the reproducing process by the record companies. Hardl.v an\ - with even a semblance of telephone thing that could conceivably make their clarity. Nowadays the voice is repro- duced w ith an uncannv', almost HKUWM llltOS electric sense of w hat is called "presence." Alusic lovers in manv' cases have taken advan- tage of the availability of mod- ern high-fidelitv' etjuipment, w hich does the next best thing to actuallv' bringing the per- formers into the home. It wasn't too liard to answer Both Columbia and RCA- this. Still the sound wasn't bad. Victor, among record com- Uciording session I •(()."», stalling^ panies, have done a great deal Lina (iaxalieii, Liuien Alinatorc. toward making very decent- ) IMiisic l<)\cis during tlir c;irl\' >'c;irs of rhis ccn- nir\' liad their stars, and usiialK' tlic>' were favorites from the opera. Tliesc musical titans occupied a po- sition more exalted than that of our most popular movie actors today. They were fretted ovei% mar- veled at, discussed, pampered and even fought over b\' people w ho had never, perhaps, seen them in person. The modern music devotee and record buyer tends to look w ith amused disdain upon those w ho preceded him, but he is not so different after all. Like his forbears he has his favorite performers, stars who, like kings, can do no wrong. Such people as Fisher, Monroe, Louis Armstrong, and Perry Conio have sold millions of records through recent years. Eddy Arnold, a singer of folksy western tunes, has sold more than 4(),()()0,()00 rccf)rds, mostly in the Southwest. The incomparable Bing Crosby is per- haps more familiar to the dcni/ens of the more than half a million iukebox joints than is the President of the United States or Thomas Alva Edison, the man who started it all. Such records as these favor- ites and their like put out account for more than 60 per cent of all record sales. Radio's hundreds of disc jockeys help matters along, and it has been estimated that at least 90 per cent of all "pop" record sales are due to their influence. It is commonly believed that they can make (sometimes break) any given pop record in a matter of w eeks. Not affected by the whims of disc jockeys, of course, the records in the classical lists go serenely on, increasing in sales in a most pleasantly surprising manner. A tremendous variety of titles is available, man\' of them in different versions b>' as many as a dozen ( Coiitiiiiicd ov page 56 RECORD IS MADE A relatively quiet moment in a big store. During a big sale the aisles are jammed. sounding equipment, not strictly hi-fi, available at comparativeh' reasonable prices. It is axiomatic in the record busi- ness that the better the available record playing equipment is, the more records will be sold. In this connection it must be realized that huge quantities of records have to be produced before they can be sold. The engineer adjusts the The sound is not re- Music on taj)e is rere- In the beginning, records, usually controls to achieve bal- corded on discs but is corded on discs. The ut- ance during recording. first taken down on tape. most precision is essential. cylinders, were made individually. A singer, no matter how stentorian, could usually bellow into only three record- ing horns at once; and a band, into ten. Consequently, it took a mighty rugged session to turn out the couple of hun- dred records that were to be sold for the then magnificent sum of one dollar each. Most citizens in those days earned about 90 cents a day. Incidentally, a good many of these early recordings were preceded by a voice announce- ment, precisely in the manner later to become popular in radio and TV circles. Nowadays we take the multitu- dinous pressings from an original single The newly retoided disc is I Ik sc |)lasli< plaies or The stamper, wliitli is recording for granted, and the an- silver-phited as one step bisdiils are being set like a huge waffle iron, nouncement is printed on the label. in mass jnoducing copies. uj) lor the molding job. ]>resses out the record. 23 FOR GOD AND COUNTRY Keystone of American life is the family. The family that piays together stays together. Sli()iil><)iil " OK GOD AM) coLNiio w'c associatc Should America lose its religious faith ourselves together for the follow- and its reliance on spiritual guidance, ." ing purposes. . . says the Pre- it would lose itself. amble to the Constitution of The Totalitarian regimes know this. The>' American I^egion. can tolerate no higher Authority than The American Legion is a lay or- themselves. ganization, dedicated to patriotism and If men can be made to deny Cod, or Americanism, hut Ciod c(»mes first in its prevented from knowing (iod, there statement of principles. will be an end to a l)elief in God- it could not be otherwise. All that is given rights. uniquely American rests upon the basic Only if this is achieved, can tyrant premise of the Declaration of indc- states safely masquerade as God and jKiidence—that nien are endowed by assume full authority to deal with men their Creator with certain unalienable as they will, without fear of an appeal rights, and that governments exist only to the true Author of liberty. to secure to men rights that are God- Thus, i]uite apart from the religious given. feelings of any individual or the tenets \\'asliiiigi<>n IoiuhI strength in prayer To deny Cod is to deny Anierica. of any church, faith in Ciod has a spe- at Vallev Iorgc. Later warned that lo go\ern themselves successfully, 24 free people need spiritual guidance. the nationally adopted Manual of Cere- Tuonies and is scrupulously observed. Each Post and larger division of The American Legion has a chaplain. The chaplain is as likeh' to be a layman as a clergyman. In the absence of the chap- lain at a Post meeting, any member may be called upon to lead the meeting in prayer, thus every member of The American Legion is a potential substi- tute chaplain. There is a national Religious Empha- sis Committee of The American Legion, and Posts are urged to have similar committees. Each year a national con- American Legion Back to God Broadcast from Grand Central Station. New York, in ference is called of the 58 Department 1955 was heard by millions. For third straight year the President took part, reminded Chaplains, representing The American all that without God there could be no American Government or way of life. Legion in each State, Territorial, and overseas Department. The conference of chaplains and the cial and priceless meaning to Americans. Religious Emphasis Committee seek to It is not the only one. develop ways by which The American George Washington, in his Farewell Legion may, as a lay organization, Address spoke of an additional peculi- arly American obligation to keep alive the tenets and teachings of the spiritual life. He warned that a people who would Teach Children govern themselves must do so not only with wordly wisdom, but with right- To Have Faith eousness and morality. Said Washington, "Virtue or moral- In God ity is a necessary spring of popular i^Z>^ AMERICAN LEGION government." Let us not suppose that "morality can Teaching faith to children is a main aim be maintained without religion," he of Legion's religious emphasis program. added. Training in religion must go hand in foster better citizenship and better hand with other forms of education, Americanism through ". moral and spirit- Washington urged, for . . reason and ual avenues. Suggestions and programs experience both forbid us to expect so developed are passed on to the 17,000 that national morality can prevail in Posts. exclusion of religious principle." though it is a lay organization. The Since 1951 The American Legion has A free people rule thei/zselves with American Legion emphasizes increas- had a national program of religious em- God^s authority, avd to be fit to ride ingly that Americans, of whatever faith, phasis known as the "Back to God" themselves they need that guidance must know their God, that they must movement. In 1955 a standard manual which is only found in the teachings of keep Him in their thoughts and know known as Tl.ie American Legion ''Back the great religions. Him to be the Author of their being to God" Handbook, was published and Small wonder that, as a patriotic or- on earth and the Creator of the rights made available to all Posts. Prepared by ganization, The American Legion of the least of them. the Department Chaplains and the na- could not, and did not, dedicate itself No meeting of an official body of tional Religious Emphasis Committee, to America without first dedicating it- The American Legion opens or closes the handbook helps Posts to plan pro- self to God. Small wonder that, al- without a prayer. This is provided in grams and activities that will encourage increased spiritual experience and spiritual knowledge in America. The Legion's "Back to God" pro- gram has three main objectives. They are to urge each American, whatever his religion may be, to: 1. Attend public worship regularly, 2. Practice daily family pra>er at home, and 3. Attend to the religious education of his children. The "Back to God" movement is not a religious program in itself, but one to help cause Americans of all faiths to embrace more closely the faith to w hicli they were born or v\ hich they The faith that ke|)t the Pilgrims strong in purpose is aptly portrayed in Jennie ha\ e adopted. Brownscombe's famous painting of the first Thanksgiving Day at Plymouth, Mass. (Continued on page 62) 25 LEGION ROD mi AND GUN FORGET! CLUB • By jack DENTON SCOTT ^ You can provide FELLOW WHO RUNS a g;is stirion over EDWARD J. WHITE, 34 Garden Street, near Paw ling, N. Y., told us of a car stop- Stratford, Conn., also throws out winter lUCKIES by the case ping and w hile lie was filling it up with fishing help. "I've found that bacon fat gas tw (J of the hunters got out and said: brings them in," he says. "I dip a length of TAX-FREE (LESS THAN "Shot the darnedest looking animal in the line rvvo or three feet working from the woods a few miles from here. None of us hook back into the fat, and I've taken in is able to identify it." the frost fish, flat fish, snapper blues, and PACK) for The gas station attendant did. It was a even eels when flshcrmcn sitting within fine, big, male Afghan hound. ten feet of me weren't even getting a shipment to one or There's still too much careless sht)oting nibble." going on. The States are doing ex erytliing all of the following they can to insure safety in tiie wocjds, A HERD OF 116 musk oxen is reported but they can't lead the hunter out by the on in a survc\- made !)>• Fish and \Vildlife hand and tell him what not to shoot. But Service taken on Nuni\a'< Island, .\laska. service groups: it has been proved that a large part of the These slow-breeding animals have been answer to shooting safety and know -how imder obser\ ation for 25 > ears. Due to the lies in early training. unpredictabilit>- of the animals, gentle one V.A. HOSPITALS minute and vicious the next, plus their ir STATE HOSPITALS AND tendency to break down fences, all hope of domesticating them has been abandoned. SIMILAR HOSPITALS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA THIS MONTH the Westminster Kennel Clul) w ill hold the largest indoor dog show ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY in America at Madison Square Garden, AND MARINE HOSPITALS New York City, on February 8 and 9; 2,572 dogs of all breeds are entered. Sports- -k U.S. ARMED FORCES IN men flock to this dog do from all over the KOREA countrj' to view the sporting dog exhibi- tions showing various kinds of pointing and Cases available in two sizes: retrieving dogs at work. • 500-PACK CASE.. $3930 One of the best books we've e\ er read • . . $786 on the proper indoctrination of a shooter "TO PREVENT the heels of socks from 100-PACK CASE . (Price subject fo change without notice) is the Handbook of Small Bore Rifle Sboot- w earing out w hen w orn with rubber boots, ii/if, written by Col. 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Y^ which I may provide TAX-FREE Luckies by the cose for shipment tO: THE FEDERAL CARTRIDGE Company Checfc those desired) ) Veterons Administration Hospitals has good reports from hunters on its new Army, Air Force, standard magnum shells. That's the 2^4- ) Navy & Marine Hospitals inch shotgun shell with many of the ad- PETER WELCH, 49 Gillette Road, Fair- ) U. S. Armed Forces in Korea vantages of the 3-inch magnum. In 12 haven, Mass., opines: "When you are out ) State Hospitals and Similar Hospitals in gauge it contains the equivalent of 4 drams hunting or Ashing in an isolated spot and The District of Columbia of powder and l',. oz. of shot. Similar find that >'ou need lubrication on the sec- comparisons on 16- and 20-gauge shells. tional joints of your fishing rod, on your Your Name Hunters say they get better shooting, more reel, or on gun parts, anil ha\ e forgotten Address kills, and fewer cripples with these new your oil can, then look to \ our car for the standard magnums. Federal Cartridge at answer. Just reach under the hood and City or Town l''oshay Tower, Minneapolis, Minn., will use the motor oil gauge rod, and drop the State A.L fill you in with further information. Ask oil off the end just where you want it." for free booklets on game shooting. ( Contiimed on page 63) 25 • THE AMERICAN LE(i ION MAG AZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 ^^^^^^^^^^^ '1^,:. Luckies taste better- cleaner, fresher, smoother! ©A. t Co. PRODUCT OF l/Ac i-^l^rwtican lyo^^xjcco-^^nyuin^ AMERICA S LEADING MANUFACTURER OF CIGARETTES — Write for Colorful New 1956 EMBLEM CATALOG Features many outstanding values of up to the min- ute selections for individual use, gifts, prizes and favors. Send for Your Free Copy Today. COMPLETE PACKAGE UNIFORM The bargain that yoti ha\c been waiting for — at a price that you can afl'ord. A complete American Legion imiform. Ideal for Post Officers, past officers, members, drill teams, color guards, musical and drill units. 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Current Membership Card Serial Number 27654 $1.00 ; CONNECTICUT & DELAWARE PAYING KOREA Michigan (March 7, 1957); New Hampshire (no deadline); BONUS; DELAWARE REOPENS WW2 BONUS South Dakota (July 1, 1956); Washington (Dec. 31, 1957). PAYMENTS: By acts of their 1955 legislatures, the States of Connecticut and Delaware are now paying bonuses for WW2 BONUS STILL BEING PAID BY THREE military service during the Korean emergency, and STATES: has reopened payment of its bonus to eligible Delaware WW2 Besides Delaware (see above), WW2 bonus applications veterans who failed to collect during the original period are still being honored by Pennsylvania and New York. . . . established for its payment. Pennsylvania deadline is Dec. 31, 1956. . . . (Adjutant The Connecticut Korea bonus was authorized by Public General, Harrisburg, Pa.) . . . New York has no set date each month of active Act 218 of 1955 .... It pays $10 for (New York State Veterans Bonus Bureau, 1875 North 1953— military service between June 27, 1950 and Oct. 27, Broadway, Albany, N.Y.) provided service totaled at least 90 days during this * * * period .... A dishonorable discharge disqualifies. . . . Per- sons still on active duty may apply. . . . Maximum payment PENSIONERS MUST ANSWER VA INCOME is $300. . . . Certain survivors of servicemen who died on QUESTIONNAIRE: active duty or as a result of service are eligible for the Persons receiving pensions from the Veterans Admin- $300 maximum. . . . Domicile in Connecticut for one year istration should have received their annual income ques - immediately preceding entering service is required for bonus if tionnaires by now. . . . Pension payments may be stopped eligibility. . . . All applications must be on file by July 1, questionnaires are not returned, properly filled out, within 1957. . . . Write for applications to: Veterans Bonus 30 days of receipt, VA reminds pensioners. . . . Question- Division, Office of the State Treasurer, 189 Church St., naires have been sent to 556,000 veterans and 457,000 Hartford, Connecticut. widows and children of deceased veterans on VA pension Delaware's Korea bonus, authorized by House Bill 151 rolls. of 1955, is in the amount of $15 a month for stateside Reason for questionnaire is that pensions are only service (up to $225) and $25 a month for overseas duty payable if the individual's other income is within certain (up to $300.). . . Active service must have been between limits, and VA requires the info in order to retain authority June 25, 1950 and Jan 31, 1955. . . . One year's residence in to make the payments. . . . The questionnaires do not apply the State of Delaware immediately before entering service is to persons who receive compensation for service-connected required. . . . Veterans with a service-connected disability disability or death. of 60% or more are eligible for the maximum payment of In reporting income, payments from the VA for dis- $300 regardless of the time served Certain survivors ability or death need not be reported , nor need the proceeds may be paid the maximum award of $300 if a serviceman of GI insurance be reported. ... In reporting dependents, died or dies as a result of the Korean conflict. . . . Deadline veterans may only report their wives and/or their minor for having application on file is Jan. 1, 1957. . . . For applica- children . children. . . . Widows may only report minor tions write: Executive Chairman, Veterans' Military Pay Payments from non-VA sources, including gifts, Commission, Wilmington, Delaware. . . . State that you earnings. Social Security, commercial life-insurance pro- want Korean bonus application. ceeds and retirement benefits must be reported as income. By another act Delaware reopened payment of its WW2 If such income is expected to increase in 1956, this bonus and appropriated $90,000 for that purpose. . . . should be reported on the questionnaire. . . . And such Original WW2 bonus deadline for filing was in 1951. . . . New increases in income that become apparent later in the year applications will now be honored if filed by Jan. 1, 1957 should be reported promptly, VA warns. at the address above, where applications may be had. Delaware's WW2 bonus conditions are substantially the same as the Korea bonus terms outlined above. . . . LEGION PENSION BILL FOR OLDER VETERANS Service dates that count are from Sept. 16, 1940 to June 30, INTRODUCED: 1946, with total of 90 days service and non-dishonorable discharge. ... 90 days not necessary if discharged for The American Legion's "Age and Need" bill to make service-incurred disability. it easier for veterans over 65 to qualify for non-service- Action of Connecticut and Delaware brings to ten the connected pensions was introduced in the House of . . . let 65 year-old- number of States that have authorized a Korea bonus. . . . Representatives on Jan. 3. Bill would Others, and their deadlines for filing, are: veterans qualify for pension without showing permanent . . . Age, plus Massachusetts (no deadline) ; Vermont (no deadline) and total disability and unemployability. Indiana (June 30, 1956); Louisiana (Dec. 31, 1956); limited outside income would determine eligibility. . . . 29 : New pension bill is in line with recent Legion Convention policy, but converted it to a permanent policy and assumed and Executive Committee actions. . . . Details on bill in that the beneficiary would remain the same, without so next issue. saying in writing when you took out the new contract. * « * * All vets have the remedy for these and other such mis- SEEK FORMER 84TH ENGINEER BN. MEN: haps close at hand. ... Be sure you know who is on record The 84th Engineer Battalion (Construction) seeks to as your beneficiary. ... If there is a doubt, write this brief contact former members for the purpose of getting informa- letter to Director of Insurance, at the VA office to which tion for a history of the battalion now being prepared. you pay premiums. . . Write: Headquarters, 84th Engineer Bn. (Construction), Dear sir: name is My NSLI policy number is Fort Ord, California, Attn S-3 Officer . My Please tell me the name of the beneficiary of record. WILL YOUR SERVICE INSURANCE BE PAID TO Sincerely, THE RIGHT PERSON? (Sign your name) More than 20 years have passed since this magazine (Print your name and address.) first urged veterans to make sure that the VA has a clear NSLI is WW2 insurance. If you ask about WWl records of who is to receive the proceeds of each veterans insurance substitute "USGLI" for "NSLI." service life insurance. . . . Cases continue to come up in which Attach the answer to your insurance records. a veteran unexpectedly dies, leaving doubt as to who should If you want to change your beneficiary write this brief get the settlement of his service life insurance. . . . Often letter to the same person there is little doubt that the person who finally receives the Dear sir: proceeds is not the person whom the veteran would have I designate (give name of new beneficiary in full, preferred to get them at the time of his death. . . . Often, the and state relationship to you; if a married woman, give right person gets them only after prolonged red tape. her own first name, thus, my wife, Mary Elizabeth Jones, There is one sure way to prevent this, and that is for not Mrs. John J. Jones.) to be the beneficiary of my NSLI the veteran to know who his beneficiary of record is at all policy number Please send me change of bene- times, and to positively state his desired beneficiary in ficiary form. writing, to the VA, over his signature, at any time that there (Sign your name) is a change in the nature of his policy, or at any time that (Print your name and address.) he may wish a change of beneficiary. the letter Commonest cause of a beneficiary louse-up has proba- ( Date ) bly been the vet who named nobody as his beneficiary . . . * :t: :!= or who named a close blood relative but later married and TOTH DECISION REQUIRES NEW ACTION intended to change his beneficiary to his wife or children FROM CONGRESS: but never did. When the U.S. Supreme Court vindicated the position of Another common case has been the one where the GI The American Legion in the Toth case on Nov. 7, a real married a gal, named her as his beneficiary, then the mar- civil liberties issue was properly decided . ... At the same riage broke up. . . . He may then have intended to name a time, a void was created in the cause of justice which the close relative or a new wife, or new children as beneficiary Congress must remedy with constitutional legislation. but never did, and on his death the earlier wife got the Court found that Robert A. Toth is not subject proceeds, contrary to what he would have wished. Supreme martial the Air Force. . . . Toth was a civilian Louse-ups and serious questions occur in many other to court by in Pittsburgh. Pa., having been honorably discharged, when ways. . . . Some policies are now challenged because the vet he was placed under military arrest by the Air Force and who went back into service since 1950 let go his WW2 flown to Korea to stand trial for a capital crime alleged to insurance to be covered by free indemnity while in service, have been committed when he was earlier on Air Force duty then picked up his earlier insurance again after being dis- in Korea. . . . The Supreme Court found that that part of the charged. . . . He may have thought that his beneficiary would Uniform Code of Military Justice of 1950 by which the remain the same automatically during these changes, and military may try discharged men is unconstitutional . failed to state or restate the beneficiary with each change of The American Legion Dep't of Pennsylvania and the policy. . . . Yet in some cases this failure results in the earlier beneficiary not being honored. nat'l American Legion had supported the position finally Nor are vets safe, in such a case, if they assume that taken by the high Court, and had acted as amicus curiae on the beneficiary under the first policy will get the money behalf of Toth, because of the principle involved. under later ones because there isn't anyone else who could Toth decision negated all trials of discharged persons . . . in freeing logically claim it. . . . In such cases the proceeds might go by the military, under the 1950 Code. Resulted into his estate and eventually go to the right beneficiary from court-martial liability some dishonorably discharged through his will, but be reduced by taxes levied on the estate Korea "turncoats." ... It leaves no ready avenue for the which are not levied when the insurance proceeds are paid application of justice in many cases where a person suspected directly to a stated beneficiary. . . Or fail to go to the bene- of a crime in service manages to secure a discharge before ficiary he would prefer because his will distributes his charges focus upon him. estate to others (and the insurance with it), he having The Supreme Court implied, in the Toth decision, that written his will that way in the belief that the intended bene- this vacuum in the cause of justice could be constitutionally ficiary would get the insurance. filled by act of Congress empowering the Federal Courts The same things may happen if you once held a term to try such cases. 30 — NEWS ofThe A.merican Legion and Veterans' Affairs .«]1Q[QS cational recruiting campaign for the American Legion & Army To Join Ready Reserve in the schools and homes of our country." In Recruiting 6- Month Trainees RFA Trainees While the Legion and the Army were busy with plans for further recruiting, vantages In mid-December The American of the 6-month training pro- the training of young men was alread\' Legion and the S. began plan- gram Legion speakers, U. Army (2) accompa- under way. The first of the 6-month ning for spring recruiting pro- nied an early by members of Army Reserve or men had begun training at fi\e Army gram. object: to encourage young Selective Service, will The who address posts on October 1. men to enlist in the Arm\ 's new 6-month meetings of other civic, patriotic or By the end of 1955 some 5,000 were plan. religious organizations active duty training (3) Post Com- in various phases of the Army training The Reserve Forces Act of 1955 manders or their representatives, who program. The Army meanwhile geared passed last that will eligible stu- August provided young speak to high school itself to train 8,300 men per month 17 to I8/2 years of age may volun- dents at assemblies or in men conference in 1956 in order to reach its goal of 6- teer for 6 months of active duty train- groups to explain advantages of 100,000 men per year. ing. The remaining years of their month training. The Army — in its own terms — was military obligation is to fulfilled be by interested in "stockpiling" recmits. It service Joint Effort in the Reserve. wanted to have men signed up now to The Reserve Forces Act while not as In addition to heliiing to supply begin training immediately after grad- far reaching as legislation the Legion speakers, the Army has provided the uation from high school in June. The had sought was hailed as a step in the Nat'l Security Commission with 600,000 Legion's recruiting program would help right direction. At the 1955 Miami Con- copies of the booklet Yoi/ and Tlw New get the Army as many men as it could vention The American Legion promised Army Reserve for distribution by Posts. handle. full support for the \oluntary program A new booklet designed specifically to Volunteers — 17 to I8/2 years old which the act pro\ided. It continued answer the questions of teen-agers is can select either local National Guard meanwhile its long-time fight for leg- now being prepared by the Army and or Army Reserve units in which to islation to train a\\ qualified young men. is expected to be available when the enlist. They then report to one of fi\'e Overall planning for The American recruiting drive begins. training centers for 8 weeks of basic Legion in recruiting the will teen-agers Success of the program will depend training. The centers are: Fort Leonard be handled the Legion's Nat'l by largely upon support and work of local Wood, Mo.; Fort Knox, Ky.; Fort Jack- Security Training Committee, chair- Posts. In authorizing American Legion son, S.C.; Fort Bliss, Tex.; and Fort Granville manned by Ridley (Tenn.). cooperation in recruiting for the new Ord, Calif. The committee will serve as the coor- program. Resolution 614,37th (Miami) Basic training is followed by 2 weeks dinating body with other national or- Nat'l Convention pointed to key areas leave, after which men get 8 weeks ganizations. where Legion efforts would have effect advanced individual training and 6 Department Security chairmen will when it said . . all departments and weeks of unit training. They then re- the work with heads of military dis- posts are requested to conduct an edu- turn to the Reser\ e or National Guard tricts and State Selective Service direc- tors to furnish speakers familiar with the details of the Reserve Forces Act. NATIONAL JUNIOR BAND CHAMPIONS Army recruiting experts and Legion officials agreed to place major emphasis on explaining the advantages of Re- serve Forces Act training to the parents of potential volunteers. Experience has shown that men entering the Armed Services are influenced to a great extent by fathers and older brothers who have seen service. Legionnaires will have a decided effect upon eligible members of their own families and those of friends and neighbors in acquainting them with provisions of the new law. Actual "selling" of the program will come at the Post level. Basicalh it will be a three-part plan. (1) Legion-spon- The j>icture above coiii|)Ietes our listing of National Contest winners whose pic- sored meetings, at which Army Reserve tures have not l>een |)iiblislicd belore. This is the Champioiishi]) Junior KaiicI of unit commanders will explain the ad- Post iMihvaukec, Wis., on the bandstand in liavfront Park. Miami last year. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 3J unit with which they will serve out sion, who represented the Legion said, at the Hotel Statler and sub committee their 732-year reserve obligation. in presenting the check for $4,000, and advisory board meetings will be All training is the same as that for '"We make this modest grant (and wish held in The American Legion building men who are inducted for two years it were larger) because we believe at 1608 K Street, N.W. or who enlist in the Regular Army. For that your organization has been, is, and The annual rehab banquet will take the 8 weeks of basic training, RFA will be instrumental in preventing dis- place on Thursday, March 1, at 7:00 trainees are kept in separate units, but tress, especially among children." p.m. at the Statler Hotel. they take their advanced individual The National Society announced that and unit training with regulars and the funds would be used to distribute Commander's Comments draftees. visual aids needed to help teachers In early December a speech and a v/ork with children who are able to see statement by Nat'l Addington Next Cmdr J. Step only partially. At present only 8,000 of Wagner contained information of inter- the 68,000 youngsters who have partial The American Legion Natl Security est not only to Legionnaires but to the Training sight receive the speciaUzed assistance Committee in its report to the nation generally. 37th Nat'l Convention cited passage of they need. On Dec. 4, speaking before the Ken- the Reserve Forces Act of 1955 as a tucky Mid-Winter Conference in Louis- step toward the Legion's 35-year goal Preventive Assistance ville, the Commander reiterated the of universal military training. It noted Tracing the history of The American Legion's longtime stand against un- that the provision for training young Legion Child Welfare Program from American influences and particularly men for 6 months and then assigning its inception in 1925, Col. Demarest against communism. them to the Reserve accomplished pointed out that the more than $125,- He warned, however, that there were many of the policies long advocated by 000,000 spent on children was for alle- many who wished to see the countr\^ The American Legion. viation of distress. confused over the issues involved. The With Resolution 128, the same Con- In this work, the Legion often found communists, he said, "seek to divide us vention mandated the Legion to look that much of the distress would have by sowing doubt and indecision and for strengthening of the law. The reso- been prevented if "specialists had been fear—anything to break down our trust lution urged legislation on four points: available at the right time with the in self-government and our fundamental (1) Compulsory National Security right tools." For that reason the Legion unity as Americans." Training, (2) Universal training, (3) several times sizable contri- had made Cmdr Wagner went on to point out Strengthening of the Class A Reserve, butions organizations to working to that there was another "small but pow- (4) Restoration of functions and pow- prevent illness striking. or disease from erful group of Americans who peddle ers to the President's National Security Two years ago the Child Welfare hate and bigotry under the pretense of Training Commission in place of its Foundation came into being to put fighting communism." present limited advisory powers. such support of preventive agencies on He referred to an almost daily bar- a permanent basis. The grant Not All Rosy $4,000 rage of mail he has received which seeks said Col. Demarest "is the very first to set Americans against Americans. He The new military reserve program of grant of The American Legion's new specifically mentioned, the "type of ma- which the 6-month active duty plan is Child Welfare Foundation — but it will terial put out by such people as Gerald but a part has not had smooth sailing. not be the last. We are in the preven- L. K. Smith. You can appreciate how Critics have complained that the pro- ti\ e business for keeps." this literature, if it can be called that, gram, which was designed to provide a is serving the best interests of com- 2,900,000-man ready reserve by 1960, REHAB: munism." is lagging. The training of the 6-month The dangers of such attempts to di- recruits had barely gotten under way \\ asliiiigtoii Conference vide the nation are in Cmdr Wagner's when newspaper stories called it inade- The Nat'l Rehabilitation Conference words that "the communists will have quate and stated that enlistments were will be held in Washington, D.C., from won a major victory if the bloodstream far behind quotas. Feb. 28 to March 2. The Insurance of America is infected with the deadly Washington somces indicate that Advisory Board will meet Feb, 25 and poison of racial and religious bigotry Congress will look into operation of the 26, the Medical Advisory Board on and hatred. Certainly the security of program soon after it reconvenes. House Feb. 26, and the Nat'l Rehab Com- our nation will be in jeopardy if we, the Armed Services Committee will proba- mission on Feb. 27 and again on American people, can be propagandized bly call Defense Department officials to March 2. into substituting suspicion for trust in find out how well the Army is doing in Speakers at the conference will in- each other, intolerance for understand- procuring recruits for the program. clude: Nat'l Cmdr Wagner; Nat'l Presi- ing and hatred for recognition of the CHILD WELFARE: dent of the Auxiliary Mrs. Bowden D. God-given dignity of our fellow man." Ward; Chairman Teague of the House On Dec. 7 Nat'l Cmdr J. Addington "A Modest Grant'^ Committee on Veterans Affairs; and Wagner commented on the statement The first grant of The American Administrator of Veterans Affairs Har- of Henry Ford II concerning activities Legion Child Welfare Foundation was vey Higley. of the Fund for the Republic. Cmdr made on December 15 in New York There will be panel discussions on Wagner said that The American Legion City to the National Society for the many subjects concerned with rehab agrees with Mr. Ford's assertion that: Prevention of Blindness. work. These will include claims, ap- "No public trust can expect to fulfill The grant had been authorized by peals, insurance, VA medical and hos- its responsibilities if it does not respond the Foundation during the 37th Nat'l pital matters, and reports on special to intelligent and constructive public Convention in Miami last October. Col. governmental committees and commis- criticism." James V. Demarest; Chmn of the Le- sions. Cmdr Wagner said that Mr. Ford in gion Nat'l Public Relations Commis- All conference sessions will be held issuing his statement had "made a 32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 necessary and commendable mo\e in the right direction." Malniedy Murders American Legion protests against the release of German Army officers con- nected with the Malmedy Massacre were renewed on Dec. 22 a^ter news- paper reports from Bonn, Germany, said that a four power international tribunal in Germany was considering freeing Col. Joachim Peiper. Peiper was identified as the "trigger man" of the WW2 Malmedy, Belgium, massacre in which 160 unarmed Ameri- can soldiers were shot down. Peiper had personally directed the shooting which had been ordered by Nazi Gen. Sepp Dietrich. When announcement of Dietrich's re- lease was made last year, Nat'l Cmdr J. Addington Wagner had demanded that the American member of the Interna- tional Parole Board, Edwin Plitt, be re- moved from the board. He also warned at the time that "the Dietrich release may be used as an excuse for freeing other German officers convicted of key roles in the Malmedy murders." Cmdr Wagner protested the reported release of Peiper on Dec. 22 to Secre- tary of State John Foster Dulles in a telegram in which he said "The Ameri- can Legion prayerfully hopes that this report will not be borne out." A State Department aide replied, ". . . neither the Departments of State nor Defense have any information to substantiate news report that mixed Board of Clemency and Parole is about to release Col. Peiper." "Completely amazed" by this reply, Spirit of Cmdr Wagner in a second telegram sent The Service ". Dec. 26 said . . a qualified govern- ment representative" had told him on that on Growing Dec. 23 that such action was under Keeps consideration. Both Gen. Dietrich and Col. Peiper There is a heritage of service that spiration that have surmounted fire had been sentenced to death by a U. S. is passed on from one generation of and flood and storm. Military Tribunal at the end of WW2. telephone people to another. Dietrich was freed in October, 1955. We, the telephone people of today, Peiper's death penalty had been re- It had its beginning far back in are vested with the responsibility of duced to a life sentence in June, 1951 1875 when Alexander Graham Bell carrying on this trust. and further reduced to a sentence of 35 years in 1954. gave the world its first telephone. It We will make mistakes, for it is has grown as the business has grown. human to err. But in the long run, Legion Higliwav Many times each day and night how we do our individual job and Two automobile caravans—one start- this spirit of service is expressed in how we bear our individual responsi- ing at the Nebraska border and the some friendly, helpful act for some- bility, will determine how we fulfill other at the Oklahoma boundary—met one in need. our trust. in Great Bend, Kans., on Nov. 29 for formal ceremonies which marked the The courtesy, loyalty and team- For our business is above all a busi- naming of U. S. Highway 281 as the work that telephone people put into ness of people ... of men and women American Legion Memorial Highway. their daily jobs are a part of it. Out who live and work in countless com- Dedication ceremonies had been held land. in each of the ten other towns on the of it have come the courage and in- munities throughout the highway which have American Legion Posts. The celebration and parade in Great Bend marked the climax of the action THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 33 Lines DC-6 air coach. Returns to Los Angeles 8:30 a.m., September 3. Com- plete price including tax is as low as $441.43. This includes round trip air fare, all ground transportation, hotel reservations, and meals eaten away from the hotel. The ten-day tour includes air \ isits to the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii. 2. Departs Monday, August 27 from Los Angeles and returns September 2. This "Waikiki Holiday" offers seven days and six nights in Honolulu with sightseeing and swimming at the con- venience of the guest. Price: $299.50. Post Convention Tours 1. Departs September 6 from Los Angeles via LTnited Air Lines air coach DC-6 returns September 12. Price $299.50. Details of this tour are the same as for pre-convention tour #2. 2. Departs September 7 for a nine- day vacation and returns September 16. This tour includes visits to the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii. Prices start at $435.43. ten-day Kansas Dep't Cmdr Keith Sebelius immediately after unveiling new route mark- 3. Departs September 7 for a ers designating U. S. Highway 281 as American Legion Memorial Highway. vacation and returns September 16. In- cludes visits to Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai. taken Ijy the Kansas Legislature at the beginning of the year announced six Price: $474.04. urging of the American Legion Dep't planned tours to the Hawaiian Islands. 4. The air-sea cruise departs via first of Kansas. Walter Rugan, director of the The tours have been so planned as to class DC-7 Mainliner flight on Septem- Kansas Highway Department, repre- allow Convention visitors a chance to ber 8 and includes trips to Oahu, sented Governor Fred Hall at the dedi- enjoy the hospitality of the Pacific Is- Hawaii, and Maui. Passengers depart cation, and thanked The American lands before the Convention or after- the Hawaiian islands on September 17 Legion for bringing attention to the im- wards. Dr. Philip M. Corboy, Nat'l Ex- \ ia the SS Lurlinc, arri\ e at Los Angeles portance of the route. ecutive Committeeman from Hawaii, on September 22. Price, including air Kansas Dep't Cmdr Keith Sebelius, speaking before the NEC meetings in and sea transportation, hotel, and meals of Norton, officially dedicated the road November last year, promised Legion- aboard ship and plane, is $537.73. as a memorial to departed comrades by naire visitors to the islands "an open Those planning to take advantage of breaking two bottles of water over the house and warm hospitality." the Convention tours are reminded that new route marker in Great Bend. The Two of the tours are arranged to give no passports or vaccinations are neces- water came from Hardtner and Leba- Legionnaires a pre-Con\ention Ha- sary, and that there are no duties im- non, the most northern and southern waiian vacation of se\ en or ten days and posed on goods brought back to the Kansas communities respectively on the return them to Los Angeles in time for Mainland from the islands. road. the opening-day parade on Sept. 3. Four The Kansas American Legion Memo- of the tours are scheduled for post- LEGISLATIVE: rial Highway is a portion of a 1,806- Convention travel and will offer the Write a Law mile road which is the shortest route buyer a • choice of vacations ranging In 1951 the Journal the Na- from Canada to Mexico. Blue reflectors from seven to fifteen days. One of these March of tional Education Association published, with the Legion emblem printed in gold tours is a combined air-sea cruise using in cartoons and text, an easily read and will mark the route through Kansas. the services of United Air Lines DC-7 understood explanation of how a bill Other .states along U. S. Highway 281 Mainliner Deluxe flight to Hawaii and becomes a law. are expected to follow the Kansas action returning via the Matson Lines steam- ship SS Liiiline to Los Angeles. Titled "How a Bill Becomes a Law," in naming the highway. It has long been the well-presented story has been wide- Following is a summary of the six so named in Texas. reprint. cartoons tours for those who want to start plan- ly distributed as a The intricate procedure by which CONVENTION: ning their 1956 vacation early. More de- trace the tailed information and a colorful bro- a bill travels through both Houses of the I folidiiy Tours chure describing the tours, rates, and Congress and finally ends up on signature. Hawaiian sights can be had by writing to: President's desk for his Legionnaires and their families going Nat'l Official American Legion Hawaii Tours Last year The American Legion to the 1956 Los Angeles Convention 5959 South Cicero Avenue Legislati\e Division, with the permis- Sept. 3-6 ha\ e an umisual treat in store of the Nat'l Chicago 38, Illinois sion and cooperation Edu- for them Ijcfore and after the annual cation Association, decided to expand conclave. United Air Lines—which has Pre-Coiivent ion Tours the original story. As Part I of a new been "Official folder, the Legion's addition to designated American 1. Departs Frida\ , August 24 from six-page Legion Hawaii Tour Operator"—at the Los Angeles, 8:45 a.m., via United Air (Continued on page 36) 34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 WHO'S ON FIRST? —YOU ARE! You've completed one full hitch a generous retirement income, .and permit you to in the Armed Forces. Now's your chance to continue retire at such an early age. "around the bases" with the skills the Air Force needs Free Booklet explains the Prior Service Program of and build a career where you are most wanted. the U. S. Air Force. This program offers you grade The new Career Incentives Act provides for a gener- commensurate with your skills, and helps you cash in ous pay raise, increased bonuses and allowances, and on your know-how. You owe it to yourself — and your extended retirement benefits for men who make the family — to investigate the Air Force Prior Service Air Force a career. Few other occupations offer such Program. Do it today . . . Enjoy security tomorrow. Talk to Air recruiter, your Force AIRMAN INFORMATION BRANCH. V-13-AL or write for FREE BOOKLET BOX 2202, WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO TODAY AND TOMORROW, YOU'RE Please send me more information on the Air Force BETTER OFF IN THE Prior Service Program. Name. U.S. AIR FORCE Street. City- State — -Years Separated- (Continued from page 34) seeks: (1) Increase in income ceilings Act; opposed changes in the security tlie story shows what has occuned be- for those getting disability pensions; regulations governing the Refugee Act for tlie bill was intioducfd in Congress. (2) increase in payments for those over of 1953; sought reinvestigation of tax- Part I uses the same technique of car- 65 or those disabled for ten years; (3) exempt fomidations by Congress; and toons and text to trace a law from its declaration that any veteran of age 65 opposed federal aid to general educa- beginning as an idea in the mind of a is totally and permanently disabled for tion. Legionnaire. employment purposes. The NEC voted priority to the For- The folder uses the "GI Bill" as a Other rehab resolutions of ec|ual im- eign Relations statement of policy made case history, and follows it from a Post portance deal with: Support and revi- at the Miami Convention. This state- meeting where it became a resolution sion of the Hardy bill to revise benefits ment included support of Constitutional to be submitted to a Department Coii- for survivors of servicemen; an increase amendments which coincide with pro- \ention. The next step shows how the in VA payments for those not coxered posals in the Bricker Amendment. resolution came to a National Conven- by the I4ard\' bill or by NEC Resolution tion where, upon passage by the dele- 7; opposition to any eliange which could HOSPITALS: gates, it became a legislative mandate adversely affect benefits provided veter- Books OH (lie (leiliug of The American Legion. ans, dependents, or beneficiaries; op- At this point the original N.E.A. position to Bradley Commission report When Eugene Power was confined to presentation is reprinted to show the if it proposes to take away existing bene- bed with a severe leg injury several years path of the bill through the House of fits; placing of widows and orphans of ago, he was bored by just lying on his Representatives and the Senate. WW2 and Korea \eterans on death back and looking at the ceiling. He The new folder, which includes a pension parity with those of WWl; re- thought that there might be some way handy list of definitions of key terms, storation of insurance rights of WWl to project books on the ceiling so that has been distributed to each subscriber and WW2 vets taken away in 1951; persons who could not move nor hold of Tlie National Legislative Bulletin. In and increase of hospital facilities for a book might read. After he recovered, addition. Legion and Auxiliary Depart- mentally ill veterans. he pushed the idea into the back of his ment Headquarters ha\ e received suffi- Two Economic Commission resolu- mind and did nothing about it until cient copies to make distribution to De- tions were given priority. One advo- 1942 when he saw wounded persons in partment officers and to Posts and Units. cated extension of the WW2 home loan Britain lying in hospital beds with noth- Because the folder clarifies the some- program to 1960; the other opposed the ing to do. The idea came back and times baffling procedure of law-making, proposed curtailment of veterans' pref- Power decided to do something about it. the Nat l Legislati\ e Division is anxious erance which has been proposed by the He did. Unable to work out a ma- to get it distributed as widely as pos- Hoover Commission. chine to do the job himself, he turned sible. The Legislati\ e Di\ ision hopes to Americanism resolutions given prior- the problem over to Argus, Inc., manu- place the folder in schools, libraries and ity included the following which: op- facturers of cameras and optical instru- Boys and Girls' States. posed weakening of the Immigration ments. After two years of experimenta- The complete folder Ilotv TJioughts and Nationality (McCarran-Walter) tion, a satisfactory answer was found: a Become haws can be used by Posts as a practical contributif)n to their Ameri- PROJECTED BOOKS IN ACTION canism programs. The cost is only $3.00 per hundred. Posts and individuals can order the folder from The Nat l Legisla- tive Commission, The American Legion, 1608 K Street, N. \V., Washington 6, D. C. Priority The Nat'l Legislative Division will have more than 200 measures on which it will ask Congressional action in the Second Session of the 84th Congress. In the Nat'l Legislative Bulletin for December 12, Director Miles Kennedy pointed out that in order to get support for legislati\e projiosals some order of priority and emphasis is necessary. The Nat l Executi\e Committee at its November meeting set up a list of those measures which it felt should receive earliest and greatest support by The American Legion. At the same time it emi)hasized that "an order of priority in no way diminishes the effect of any ol the Cotnention resolutions."' Here is llie NEC list of "greatest need" mandates: U.S. Army PhotoRiaph rehab Under NEC Res. 7 (consolidat- Pvt. ^VilliaIll A. Ma/.urkiewicz. of Cleveland. Ohio, was a steady customer for Pro- ing Miami resolutions 40, 70, and 528) je 3g • IHLAMLKICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY I'JSfi ) 6 projector that would throw a printed RELIGION: organizations in the Spartanburg area. page clearly on the ceiling and woidd Post distributed more than 600 of the work at a mere touch. Annual TV l^rogram placards. Power became a trustee of Projected The 1956 American Legion "Back To C[ Post 178, Van Wert, Ohio, joined with three other local organizations to Books, Inc., a nonprofit organization God " program will be telecast over the for the which was set up to distribute and in- National Broadcasting Company net- sponsor an appreciation treat 102 members of the local high school stall projectors and microfilmed books. work on Sunday, Feb. 5, from 2:30 to the Fort Toda\ there are 4,000 machines in serv- 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. band. The treat: attendance at of the Scots ice throughout the country, and ap- Wayne, Ind., appearance Nat'l Cmdr J. Addington Wagner and Guards Band and Pipers. proximately 3,000 of them are in vet- Nat'l Chaplain Rev. Joseph MacCarroll Post 78, Milton, Fla., (208 mem- erans' hospitals. They have all been will appear on the telecast which will C bers) gave $100 to the local stadium purchased by public subscription, and originate in New York City. Crip- the books are furnished on the same fund and $100 to the Pensacola pled Children's Home; paid for opera- basis. Many of the machines have been RECENT POST DOINGS: tions for three indigent children; erected ijought b>' American Legion Posts and f[ When Carl Milley was installed as to dead; and helped Departments and by the Legion's aHili- a memorial war Commander of Post 241, Glassboro, ated organizations. For instance, the sponsor a crippled children's clinic. N. a "first" was established for the Ohio, pre- Dep't of Texas bought one projector for J., U Post 211, Avon Lake, Dep't of New Jersey (and perhaps for sented a check for $61.95 to the local the U. S. Navy Hospital in Corpus the entire American Legion) because civil chairman for the purchase Christi during WW2. Results were so defense Cmdr Milley is totally blind. gratifying that Texas American Legion of a siren for the village, Post 618, Williamsport, Ohio, spon- Post Montross, Va., opens its Posts collected funds in order to buy U fj 252, sored the first all-Ohio tractor-pulling the youth of the com- projectors for military and veterans' hos- Post home to contest. It was held at the Pickaway munity for use as a recreation center pitals and some civilian hospitals. County Fairgrounds, and approximately each Friday and Saturday. Legionnaires The projectors are equipped with 50 contestants took part. and Auxiliares serve as chaperones in three buttons, one of which turns on ([ Post 50, Daytona Beach, Fla., has the center. the power, another advances the film, erected safe-driving signs, bearing the Post 8, Winter Haven, Fla., spon- and the third reverses the film if the ([ Legion emblem and dates of Post meet- sored a concert by the U. S. Marine reader wants to go back to a page he ings, on highways entering the city. Band, and divided the more-than-$90() has read previously. At Brooke Army Post 28. Spartanburg, S. placed proceeds equally between the local Medical Center (see photo), Fort Sam C C, placards bearing the Pledge of Alle- high school music department and the Houston, Tex., the librarian switches on giance in all public school classrooms American Legion Hospital for Crippled the projector, and the rest is up to the and also presented them to several ci\'ic (Continued on next page) patient. The patient is left to shift for himself because medically the idea is to make him do something for himself even though he is almost completely im- IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT mobilized and can exert only a little pressure with a finger, a toe, or his chin. (One patient was paralyzed to the ex- tent that she could not even use her chin to work the buttons, but she wanted to operate the machine without being dependent upon anyone. So the company found an electrical specialty concern which made a microswitch head yoke which enabled the woman to run the machine by moving her head slightly to the right or left. Medical men like Projected Books WANT AROMA WITH A LIFT AND IT PACKS SO NEAT because they keep the patients' minds MAN, here's how IT RATES A BOW occupied and frequently give them their first incentive to renewed physical ac- tivity. Maj. Gen. Martin E. Griffin, of Fitzsimons Army Hospital says: "The IT StAOKBS SWEET IT CAnV BITE! will to recover is as important the in SIR WALTER RALEfSH'S rehabilitation of a helpless soldier as is BLEWD OF CHOICE KENTUCKY the medical treatment. Projected Books BURLEVS IS EXTRA-AGED TO furnish incenti\e to do and to think. GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. They are valuable adjuncts to medical treatment." The list of titles available for use in FREE! Projected Books machines is impressive, 2^-PASE BOOKLET runs from cartoons to the Bible. Posts ON PIPE CARE . or other Legion organizations wishing JUST WRITE TO: more information about Projected Books SIR WALTER or about how to obtain the machines RALEIGH, it's the pipe-blend champ can get it upon request from Projected DEPT. A you AAUST ALLOW Books, Inc., 313 N. First St., Ann LOUISVILLE, KY. Arbor, Mich. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 195(i • } RECENT POST DOINGS Ground Observer post for skywatching. Post executive board, suggested that (loillitltlCil / ([ As part of its Americanism program Post Cmdr Walter C. Bohland confer Post 223, Davie, Fla., presented six with the superintendent of the Gillette Cliildien, located at St. Petersburg, Fla. U. S. flags to the Davie Elementary State Hospital for Crippled Children, in f[ Post 180, Georgetown, Ohio, pre- School. St. Paul, to find out what program could sented an oxygen tent and equipment f[ Post 26, Mayfield, Ky., sponsors a be worked out by the Post to ser\ e the tor its operation to the Brown County forum type program which deals with interests of the \'oung patients. General Hospital. the Constitution and democracy. Pro- Bohland did, and learned that the fl Post 28, South Ozone Park, N. Y., gram features a speech by some mem- children had the best in toys and play sent packages containing cigarettes, ber of the community, such as a lawyer equipment. After super\ising play handkerchiefs, socks, candy, flannel or minister, and a question-and-answer groups for a while the Legionnaires de- shirts, playing cards, shaving cream, period in which questions from the au- cided to specialize in filling the one need toothpaste, razors, blades, etc., to liospi- dience are answered by a well-informed not already met in the institution. They talized veterans, and contributed to the panel. Prayer and songs are also in- decided to supply personal attention. Queens County American Legion Com- cluded in the program. At first members of the Post simply forts for Hospitalized Veterans Fund. More than 100 Legionnaires attended ealli'd nil the patients and chatted or Total expenditure: $469.15. C[ the annual coon feed held by Post 79, For the third consecutive year Post f[ Montgomery, Minn. 65, Salt Lake City, Utah, stuffed and Post 451 (composed of sealed more than 10,000 envelopes for H women), San Diego, Calif., has provided a scholar- the annual seal drive of the Utah Tuber- ship which will provide tuition culosis and Health Association. and most of the books and supplies required for C[ Post 514, Willard, Ohio, is continu- Miss Young Ja Suh, of Seoul, Korea. ing its three-year program of making Miss Suh will study at San Diego State hospital equipment available free to in- College. valids of the area by adding two new "I to walkers and five sets of crutches to its f[ am proud be an American be- ." "bank." The hospital bed, two folding cause . . was the theme of the twenty- wheelchairs, and two sets of crutches first annual essav contest conducted bv which the Post already had have been Post 496, New York, N. Y., for pupils used approximately 1,500 days by area in the public and parochial schools of residents. the Chelsea neighborhood of that city. %[ As part of its Back to God program C[ When Post 461, Round Lake, Minn., Post 360, Huntington, N. Y., presented burned the mortgage on a building ad- a framed poster of the Ten Command- dition on Dec. 9, its membership stood ments to Hon. Stuyvesant Wainright at 110. Post, located in a community of Under the watchful eye of Instructor Bevan, of Post 599, St. Paul. Minn., who represents the Post's Congressional 435 persons, expects to exceed its 1955 Jay Inez Welch (wheelchair) gets the sight District. membership of 121, and has grown picture as Terhark acts as spotter. considerably June C[ Post 206, Chicago, 111., claims that it since 1947 when its quota was 15. has sent more boys to Boys' State than played games with them. But this was any other Post in the country. Since ([ The drum and bugle corps of Post not exactly the right dish of tea for 1937, Post has sponsored more than 1060, Brooklyn, N. Y., was organized some members. Al Pitz, for instance, 260 boys; .since 1942, Post has sent 20 last June, is made up of boys aged 8 found that showing movies suited his to and boys each year. Boys are selected from 16, has 15 majorettes. During the interests better, and it also pleased the underprivileged homes, and Post pays Christmas holidays it entertained more youngsters. the entry fee, pays for the transporta- than 3,000 children at three different Then members ot the Auxiliary Unit tion, and gives the boys spending parties: The Post's annual Christmas and girls at the nearby Minnesota Min- money, and buys whatever equipment Party for children; a party for children ing and Manufacturing Co. heard about is necessarv'. from various orphans homes in Brook- the Post's program. They organized a d Post 701, Columbus, Ohio, presented lyn; and at the Mount Loretto Home on Thursday evening beauty shop for the U. S. flags to six Cub Scout packs of Staten Island. Of this last party. Father crippled girls, and a third part of the the communit\'. Kenny, of Mount Loretto, said: "Not program was under wa\'. Business firms only f[ Post 53, Dallas, Tex., presented five did they give of their time and invited by the Post to participate pro- copies of The Turning, Point, a novel by talents, but each boy and girl brought vide rides for the girls who work in the Dallas author Tob\ Koon, to the library a gift for one of our children. I have beauty shop. of the Dallas VA Hospital. Much of the seen many things happen at this home, But the most unusual part of the l)f)()k's action is set in the Dallas VA but never a more charitable act on the program — and certainly the one with Hospital where the author was a patient. part of children. The men of the Post the biggest bang—was evolved by acci- should indeed be proud." f[ Fifteen members of Post 36, Berlin. dent. It happened this way: Robert N. H., helped raise money for the Peterson, director of a high school rifle $10,000 fund drive of the Berlin Com- ACTIVE POST: club, began taking a few patients to a munity (Mub by growing beards. They Happy Kids St. Paul armory for rifle shooting. The were among a group of 104 who volun- kids found this so fascinating that Mrs. teered to go without shaving for 31 days In 1953 Post 599, St. Paul, Minn., Hall, the recreation director at the hos- provided money was donated to the was looking for a way to help children, pital, asked Post Cmdr Bohland to set Community Club at the rate of one dol- but the Post wanted to undertake some- up and supervise a rifle range in the lar a day for each bearded man. thing different from sponsorsliip of Bo\' basement of the recreation hall. So Scout or Korea \et Tom Qua\le and Peterson C Post J 70, Wadsuorth, Ohio, has Troops School Patrols. Then donated a yid'w ol binoculars to the local Harle\ Braaten, a former member of the and Mrs. Hall got together and drew up • THE AMUKICAN LEGION MAGAZINK • rEBRllARY 1956 specifications for an armored bullet trap which met Nat'I Rifle Ass'n standards. The hospital had the necessary equip- ment built, Post 599 furnished rifles and ThisAIADDINRedi-Cut House supervision, and the rifle-shooting phase of the four-pronged program got its delivered to you start. Children who participate in the shoot- ing are carefully screened, must be more than 14 years old, must have a doctor's certificate indicating that they are fit, *1985 and must have their parent's written slightly Higher West of Missouri River permission to take part. In many cases rifle shooting is a sub- BUILD IT YOURSELF and SAVE! stitute for some more active sport which All Aladdin Houses come to you with lumber cut to HXACT size and each piece plainly the patient enjoyed before being hos- marked. You get easy-to-understand drawings and instructions so you can't go wrt)ng. It's fun to build, and you SAVE up to 50% on the cost. Aladdin has been manufacturing pitalized. And the kids love it. Some of readi-cut houses for 50 YEARS. Only the finest materials are used and all lumber is Rifle them work toward meeting Natl guaranteed THOROUGHLY DRY... 120 plans to choose from in 5 to 8 room Ass'n qualifications. And Recreation Di- modern styles. rector Mrs. Hall says that every boy and girl in the hospital would like to join the club. 50 YEARS Terrapin Derby HOMEBUILDERS Four thousand people including Gov- TO THE ernor Orval Faubus of Arkansas wit- nessed the 2()th running of the Terrapin NATION Derby sponsored by Post 26 of Lepanto, Ark. Oct. 5, 1955. The Derby and the election of a "Queen Terra of the House YOU SAVE UP TO 30% ON LAB0R--18% ON WASTE! comes to you ready to nail logethL-r spent in measuring and cutting. And the Aladdin of Legion" serve as a unique method of Your ALADDIN —you don't waste time measurins and cutting each Readi-Cut System eliminates waste. 1 here are no fund raising for the Post. piece of lumber. All that has been done by precision short ends left over that cost you money. No wonder machines at 9ur mill. That's why it fits together per- thousands of people WITHOUT any carpentry ex- The unusual race is just a part of a fectly —why it takes less time and labor to build. perience whatsoever have built their own Aladdin Even if you hire a carpenter to help, his time is not Homes and saved thousands of dollars. day long series of activities in which the entire community participates. A din- WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF READI-CUT HOMES ner at the Legion Post home and three WHAT READI CUT MEANS The tedious work of measuring, ALADDIN ARE PREFABRICATED dances on the evening of the race fol- HOUSES NOT sawing, mitering,and fitting has low a parade in which local industries been done in our mill, assuring you of a perfect fit of all parts. contribute materials for floats. Aladdin Houses are designed to meet the most exacting building The Terrapin Derby started in 1931 standards. Our expert designers with 100 entries. In 1955 more than and engineers never offer a home to the public until every 2,400 terrapins "raced" for the finish construction detail is carefully checked. Aladdin Homes are line. terrapins, The which are raised modern in design and plan ar- near Manilla, Ark., are brought to Le- rangements. Write for your catalog today. panto and given identifying numbers. Any person can then "buy" an entry for BUY DIRECT $1. The terrapins are placed inside a from the Manufacturer large circle, and the first one to leave SAVE the circle is the winner. A speedy entry Agents' & Dealers' Profits named Martha won the 1955 race in less than ]0 minutes, and brought $100 IMMEDIATE DELIVERY to her "owner." Second place was worth when THERE'S AN ALADDIN HOUSE NEAR YOU- $50.00 and third place $25.00. WHAT YOU GET YOU BUY AN AlADDIN HOUSE WRITE US FOR THE ADDRESS In addition to the money raised by • AUTHELUMeERaccuraltlycvllem. the derby, the election of a "Queen" marked end numbered reody leered without use of o tow. contributes to the Legion fund. Votes proctlcolly • SIDING • MOULDINGS are sold for one dollar apiece and then • MILLWORK • HARDWARE • FIOORINO • PAINT cast by the buyer for his favorite girl. • WINDOWS • GIASS The terrapins serve worthy causes • DOORS o NAIIS • TRIM • ROOFING after their brief moment of glory. They • COMPUTE DRAWINGS » INSTRUCTIONS are returned to the terrapin farm and EXCITING NEW HOME DESIGNS FOR 1956! later shipped to market to end up as MAIL THIS COUPON TO turtle soup or to California where they EM 11 I are used in medical research. SEND 25^ THE ALADDIN CO. PUBLIC RELATIONS: BAY CITY, MICHIGAN for Beautiful, "For God and Couiihv" New, Full Co/or Nam*. Nat'l Cmdr Addington Wagner J. 72 Page Slre«l_ and Secretary of the Army Wilbur M. Catalog Brucker recorded the first program of Cify_ . S»a»e. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 39 The American Legion's new radio series Colmery, President of the Fund at The 46 recommendations, supports 31, and For God and Country in mid-Decem- American Legion, P. O. Bo.x 1055, In- has no position on the remaining 237 ber. With radio commentator H. R. dianapolis 6, Ind. because they are outside the field of Baukhage as moderator, Cmdr Wagner For those who wish to make a be- veterans' affairs. and Secretary Brucker discussed the quest in a will the following form is A breakdown of the recommendations nation's new military reserve program. suggested: which the Legion opposes shows 16 Distribution of the first recordings to "I hereby give, devise and bequeath dealing with Federal medical services sponsoring Legion Posts throughout tlie to the American Legion Endowment and 12 relating to personnel and civil country was scheduled to be made in Fund Corporation, incorporated under service. early January. Twelve more programs the laws of the State of Delaware, the The American Legion has already dealing with the Legion's story of serv- principal office of which is located at gone on record that it will appear be- ice in many fields are being prepared. 700 North Pennsylvania Street, Indian- fore Congressional committees on those The 15-minute transcriptions are so apolis, Ind., the sum of recommendations which require legisla- $ , prepared that time is left for the Post or the following described real estate tion or Congressional approval of plans of reorganization Commander or his representative to located at , of government agen- present his message personally. The the same to belong to the said Ameri- cies. Biggest problem for the Legion will programs themselves are keyed to the can Legion Endowment Fund Corpora- be the recommendations which require work of Legionnaires in their commu- tion absolutely and in fee simple." only administrative or executive action nities and offer an inexpensive and to put them into effect. In these cases interesting way of bringing the story AMERICANISM: the Legion will vigorously present its to a general audience. views to the Federal officials concerned. Future programs will include a dis- New Awards cussion of antisubversive security prob- The American Legion and 57 other Bradley Study lems with Senator Karl Mundt; a com- national organizations representing 30,- The Nat'l Rehab Commission is parison of U. S. and Soviet air power 000,000 Americans cooperated in pick- studying some of the questions raised by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. ing the winners of the first National by recent actions of the Bradley Com- Nathan Twining; and the story of Media Awards of the Thomas Alva Edi- mission which is looking into veterans' American Legion Junior Baseball, with son Foundation which were announced pensions. In order to get data not other- Ted Williams and Yogi Berra as par- on Dec. 13. wise available, the commission has re- ticipants. The purpose of the awards is to en- sorted to the use of two questionnaires The 13-week series is available for courage mass media productions (radio, which are being sent directly to the Post sponsorship on local radio stations television, films) that: (1) Make mean- veteran. for five dollars per 15-niinute program. ingful the values of American tradition; One is being distributed to 12,000 Posts interested in bringing the series (2) present heroes and ideals worthy of veterans in 400 counties by the Census to their communities can get additional emulation by children; (3) interest Bureau. The second is going directly information from John Neubauer, Nat'l young people in science; and (4) elimi- to six-tenths of one per cent of the serv- Public Relations Division, The Ameri- nate unwholesome elements. ice-disabled veterans now on compen- can Legion, 1608 K Street, N.W., Edward Lyons, Clifton, N. J., vice sation rolls. Approximately 18,000 vet- Washington, D.C. chmn of the Legion's Nat'! Americanism erans will receive this questionnaire. Commission represented The American Endowment (Corporation Legion on the selection boards. Hospital Cut Bauued Television award winners were You The end of 1955 marked the 3()th The Veterans Administration on Jan. Are There, Let's Take a Trip, and Mr. year of operation of the American 1, rejected a series of recommendations Wizard. Motion picture award winners Legion Endowment Corporation. The made by the Hoover Commission which were A Man Called Peter, The Great would have serious efteet \ et- corporation was set up in 1925 to pro- had upon Adventure, and The African Lion. In erans benefits. vide funds for the treatment and care of radio, Famihj Theater and Adventure veterans and their children. In a report sent to the House Veterans in Science won awards. TV Station In its report to the National Conven- Affairs Committee, the VA turned down WBNS-TV of Columbus, Ohio, and tion at Miami last year, the corporation Hoover Commission suggestions that Radio Station WTIC of Hartford, Conn., reported that it held assets totaling (1) It close 19 VA Hospitals, (2) au- were named as having best served youth $7,154,336.14. Under the original trust thority and money for new hospitals be in 1955, and each was given a $1,000 agreement, the earnings of this sum are rescinded, (3) the GI insurance pro- scholarship to award to a high school used in Rehab and Child welfare work. gram be reorganized so that it would senior in its community. In 1955 the Rehab and Child Welfare pay its own administrative costs, and Divisions each received $79,580.61 (4) the VA \erify the \eterans state- REHABILITATION: from the interest earned by the corpora- ment of "inability to pay" for hospitali- tion. Qnestions and Reports zation. To provide more money for the work The VA agreed with some of the with which it is concerned, the corpora- As the year ended American Legion Hoover Commission proposals, took no tion looks to individual becjuests or experts were watching carefully two stand on others, but took firm exception grants as the source of its funds. Over studies whicli touch on \eterans bene- on nearly all the major recommenda- the years many individuals and groups fits. One was the 2nd Hoover Commis- tions. have made such gifts in the names of sion's 19 reports and the other was the On the matter of hospital closings the departed comrades as a form of living study, still under way, by the President's VA said it "is not by any means pre- memorial. CommissionunderCen. OmarN. Bradley. pared to indorse the wholesale closings Sucli gills slionld be made out to Tile Legion's recently completed recommended by the Hoover staff the American Legion Endowment Fund analysis of the Hoover Commission re- group." Insofar as rejecting funds for Corporation and sent to Harry W. ports showed that the Legion opposes new construction was concerned, the • I HI AM1.UI( AN I EC.ION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 ' V'A pointed out that this would stop the the beginning of the Department to any Blue Crutch fund raising program in building of two new 500-bed hospitals time after the 1952 Department History December and January. They sponsored in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, Contest. the Blue Crutch program in 25 of the D. C, both of which "are necessary and The second category is restricted to 48 States, selling miniature blue are located in areas of large patient supplements to a history already pub- crutches in a one or two day drive as a demands." lished provided it includes the period prelude to the annual March of Dimes Proposed changes in the GI Insurance where the earlier history ended and drive against polio. In four other States, program, the VA pointed out, would covers at least ten years. the Legion Departments assisted the figlit in s. undoubtedly be ruled unconstitutional All entries must be submitted to Nat l l^olio other wa\ by the Supreme Court since the law Headquarters, The American Legion, States in which llie Legion and/or the provides that the Government bear the Indianapolis, Ind., with a letter stating Auxiliary handled the Blue Crutch pro- administrative costs. Any change would that both text and illustrations are to gram were: Alabama, Arkansas (with violate the "contract" between the indi- become the permanent property of Junior Chamber), California, Connecti- cut, vidual and the U. S. Natl Headquarters, The American Delaware (with VFW and Junior Legion. Chamber), Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Ken- The old bugaboo of abuse by veterans , tuck\\ Maine, Massachusetts, Missis- of the hospitalization privilege for the POLIO: sippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New nonservice-connected got a cold, statis- Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, tical answer. The VA said that out of Greatest Legion Effort North Carolina, Rhode Island, South a group of more than half a million ap- American Legion and Auxiliary "co- Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wiscon- plications it found only some 200 cases operation with the March of Dimes on sin (Boys' State and Girls' State), and where the veterans appeared to have the State level this year, is unsurpassed Wyon^ing. been able to pay his own way. in the history of the March of Dimes The Department of Maryland ran a conclusion: "It is believed that VA reports the National Foundation for In- Peanuts for Polio sale. The Department the relatively insignificant number of fantile Paralysis. of Texas held March of Dimes Dances, questionable cases . . . does not justify In addition to the thousands of Posts and featured Dime Boards at all func- of the apparent views the commission in all Departments who worked once tions. The Department of Virginia held that the present system is subject to again to carry on the raising of funds to "Kickoff Bonfires" on Jan. 2 for the widespread abuses." fight polio, the Foundation emphasized March of Dimes drive. early in January an unprecedented job The Legion in Indiana sponsored a Department Histories done by the Legion Departments in spe- "Marines March on Polio," with 467 The 1956 Dep't History Contest will cial efforts this year. Posts raising dimes to move contingents close on August 15, 1956. This year's American Legion and American of marching U. S. Marines along high- contest covers two categories. One is for Legion Auxiliary Departments became ways to Indianapolis. The Marines pro- histories covering the entire period from the biggest sponsors of the Foundation's ceeded at the rate of 10(^ a foot. I lltll"**. ^ BeforeRpforp you go after varmints and farm pests, remember they're experts ••HI-SPEED" long Rifle: 22 at getting away. You'll need all the the supersonic-speed 22 1 "breaks." And here's where Rem- ington really makes a difference! Shoot any Remington varmint 222 REMINGTON: ideol • ammunition and see what loaded-to- Remington Model 722 varn the-Hmit POWER is like! See what LONG-RANGE performance means. Discover BULL'S-EYE Rem- ington accuracy and the exclusive 244 REMINGTON—New! For ranges up to 500 yards! 75 and 90 grain bullets. world-famed "Kleanbore" priming A special Model 722 rifle is made for it. that keeps your barrel bright and clean. Once you do, you'll want this extra-performance ammunition 257 ROBERTS: new 100 gr. pointed soft every time. for Remington . . . point bullet hos high remaining velocity. Ask for results! Check your local game laws before hunting. Kgmingtoti (dEPlJ REMINGTON 'EXPRESS"; the extra- Kleanbore," ' Express ' ore Reg. U. S. Pot. Off. by power, extro-long-ronge shell! Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport 2, Conn. Other varmint end pest-shooting favorites: Remington 218 Bee, 219 Zipper, 22 Hornet. 220 Swift and 250 Savage. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 4J MILITARY: Never have been married, be physically donors — Schneider has made his last qualified for flying, and be residents of donation. The xeteran letter carrier, \('\\ W Capons the geographical area from which they who has been called the "Champion The constant teclinological advances are nominated. blood donor of the 103.000-member being made by the Armed Forces were Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers," has con- BRIEFLY NOTED: reemphasized as the \'ear ended witli tributed approximately six times the en- announcements of new and fantastic For the second year the Dep't of tire quantity of blood in his body since Calif, a weapons in being or being l)uilt. has granted $1,000 Memorial he began making donations in 1940, and Medical Scholarship. This scholarship The Army told of a drone phme con- has probably established a record among was awarded to John Mumma, of San trolled by radio which it will use to take Legionnaire blood donors. Schneider, Francisco, a vet, who is the father aerial still or motion pictures. WW2 who now devotes part of his energies to of five girls, and is in his last year at Contracts for the second stage of a ci\'il defense, urges Legionnaires, their Univ. of California School of Medicine. families, to three-stage rocket to project "Van- and neighbors take part Dep't of North Dakota Auxiliary in the blood program and the ci\'il de- guard", the rnan-made satellite, were thinks that it set a record when all 214 fense awarded to a California firm. Contract program. of its Units contributed to The Ameri- of Bel- for the launching \ehicle has already Dep't Iowa won the Frank N. can Legion Child Welfare Foiuidation. been awarded. grano Trophy for having rendered the Contributions totalled $1,001.90. most outstanding service to the program Department of Defense announced The body of Maj. Samuel Woodfill, of the Boy Scouts of America during the that it has held a secret patent on a Congressional Medal of Honor winner past year. flying submarine for se\eral years. The proclaimed by Gen. John Pershing to Three lumdred and filt\ children new weapon was said to be in the "think- J. have been "the greatest soldier" of the from the Oliio Soldiers and Sailors Or- ing stage." First World War, has been jeburied in phans' Home went on the biggest group While looking to future weapons, the Arlington Nat'l Cemetery only 50 feet Christmas-gift-buying spree in Ohio military was still hard at work with the from Gen. Pershing's grave. Woodfill when they roamed through a Xenia de- proven arms needed toda\ . The Navy died of a heart attack in 1951, and was partment store selecting their gifts them- announced that it would build the fifth buried in a rural gravevard in Indiana selves. Kids had been furnished $2,250 Forrestal class aircraft carrier in a New where only a weather-beaten slab marked in scrip money by 14 organizations Jerse\' shipbuilding yard. The Air Force his identity. Two Madison, Ind., news- which pooled their donations for the began to get delivery of the F-lOO papermen discovered the grave, and project which the Ohio American (822.f35 m.p.li. record holder) from a Pentagon officials arranged for the re- Legion handles. Biggest contributors to second source of production, and also burial at Arlington. the fund were the Legion, which gave annoimced the first flight of the F-f05A All records of the Library War Serv- $700, and the Ohio Dep't Auxiliary, which exceeded the speed of sound on ice with the A.E.F. in WWl have now which gave $500. The Citizens Na- its maiden flight. been collected in the Library of Con- tional Bank of Xenia (where the money Air Force Academy gress, and are available to historians. to redeem the scrip was deposited) took Burton E. Stevenson, noted literary fig- on the task of redeeming the scrip, and The closing of nominations for the ure who founded the American Library made no profit on it. And clerks at the second class at the new Air Force Acad- in Paris in ]9i8 and who became Euro- Montgomery Ward store had instruc- emy on Jan. 31, 1956, was a warning to pean Director of the Library War Ser\ - tions to "forget" marked prices when a potential applicants for future classes ice, handled some two million books child's allowance didn't stretch quite far that they should begin ^^reparations as which were made available to the enough. soon as possible. American troops. More than 100,000 of During the Christmas holida\'s The The 1956 class, which will be adinit- the books were salvaged after the last American Meiciinj magazine supplied ted in July, was originally scheduled to American soldier returned from the free copies of that magazine to patients have 400 Air Force Cadets. Delays in Army of Occupation in Germany after in VA hospitals throughout the United construction of the permanent site at World War I, and were distributed to States. Post Hospital Chairmen who Colorado Springs, Colo., made it neces- small public libraries in the U. S. know of patients who would welcome sary to reduce the number to 310— all Mr. Mae Hunnicutt (Okla.) Chapeau interesting reading matter can arrange that can be accommodated at the tem- National of the 8&40 presented a $2,500 for subscriptions by contacting Tlie porary facilities at Lowry Air Force Base, check to Nat'l Cmdr J. Addington Wag- American Mcrciirtj, 250 57th Street, Denver. W. ner at the annual Area "D" Child Wel- New York, N. Y., for details. Appointments to the academy will be fare Conference in Indianapolis in De- made after competitive examinations. cember. The check was a gift from the LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: The nominees for the 310 vacancies will S&40 to The American Legion Child Tlie citation of an indi\ idual Legion- be drawn from six sources. They are: Welfare jirogram, and will be used to naire to life membership in his Post is Congressional appointees, 265; Presi- pro\ ide direct aid to tubercular-contact a testimonial b\' those who know him dential appointees, 13; Vice Presidential children of \eterans. best that he has serv ed The American appointee, 1; appointees from the Regu- John T. Brady, Sr., who has been a Legion well. lar Components, 13; apointees from the member of Post 31, Kewanee, 111., for Below are some of the life member- Reserve Components, 13; and from 22 consecutive years, was awarded The ship citations in 1955 recently reported among sons of deceased veterans, 5. American Legion Medal of Heroism b> by Post officials: Each Senator and Representati\ e is Post for his successful efforts lo sa\ e his Miir. 31: Jack Berry. Post 28, Absecon. N.J. authorized to nominate ten candidates. seven people from drowning. Apr. 2S: Harry (U'rdes, Post 913, Armingtoii, III. These candidates will compete among ^ In mid-December Simon Schneider, June 9: Harold Ffaffenheruer and John E. Wanfz, Po.st 190. Dctroil, Mich. themselves for vacancies in their State. of Post 678, York, N. Y., donated New Aim. 10; Fred C. Wander, Post 11, St. Joseph. Ajiplieants must be at least 17 years his 80th pint of blood to the American Mo, Sept. 1.3; Edwin A. Bird, Post 396, St. Joseph. ol age, and less than 22 on the date of Red Cross. Because he will soon be 60 Mo. Sept. 27; Edward Eaton, admission lo (he H. Post 127. DeSoto, acadcmw The\- must; years old — the upper age limit for Mo. 42 • III! AM1.K1CAN rUCUON MACiAZlNl- • FEBRUARY 1956 Oct. 1: CUirencc A. Wilson, Post 184, Jennings, Nelson J. <;earv (1954), Post AshCihiila. 103. youngest ei to hold Mo. Ohio. becoming the man e\ Oct. 27: Itradley R. laylor. Post 7, Rliinelander. Dr. Frank L. Martin (1951). Post 89. Mullins, that post. Wis. S.C. Nov. 10: Charles R. Harms, Post 90, Mamaro- Archie Lee Shuler (1946) and W. J. Deer (1948), Died: neck, N.Y. Post 127, Ellorec, S.C. Nov. II: C. R. Waters, Post 14. Kinjiman. Ari/. Charles P. Moriarity (1925) and Walter Baum- Samuel James (Jimmii) Thom])son Nov. l.S: Alfred Grayshnn, Post .366, Pliiladel- gartner (1426) and Robert .S. MacFarlane (1926), (Va.), a Director of The American piiia. Pa. Post 1. Seattle. Wash. Nov. 28: Charlie Rochester, Post 209, New Legion Endowment Fund ('ori)oration, Yorl<, N.Y. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: .suddenly, following a heart attack. Among the many life memberships Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, USAR, ret., Mijron E. Bristow, Past Dep t C^mdi awarded to Legionnaires, now living, appointed Chmn of the President's Nat'l of Virginia (1932-33). before they were regularly listed on Security Training Commission. Dtcite Scliaffner, WVVl Congressional these pages are the following: Lt/le F. Mtiri)Iiy. appointed Rehaliili- Medal of Honor winner and Past Cmdr Ralph E. Olson (1944) and John W. .Spillard tation of (1946) and C. R. Van Sant (1947). Post 399. San Chmn of Dep't of South Dakota. Post 19, Akron, Ohio. Jose. Calif. Enniu'tt Ciiiidii McConrtick, retired Maj. Horace T. Jones, of The Ameri- Edwin W. Balderston (1947). Post 97. Paonia, Colo. as Cliild Welfare Offieer cjf Dep't of can Legion Rehabilitation Division. Herman C. Garrison (1953), Post 147, Marion. Illinois. 111. •lames S. Gwaltnev (1954). Post 167. Harrisburg, John B. Ryan, Jr., Past Dep't Cmdr 111. COMRADES Harold D. Eldred (1951), Post 296, Sterling. III. of New York (1954-55), named Acting William Harold Dowden (1954). Post 753. High- Director of Veterans Affairs for the wood, III. IN DISTRESS Dewey Kern (1953), Post 81, Collins, Iowa. State of New York, succeeding Leo V. .1. I,. Ritchell (1954). Post 214. Centerville. Iowa. Space does not pciiiiit notices lo toiiliicl William Fardy (1945) and James MclVlahon Laiming, American Legion Nat'l Execu- (1950). Post 5. Waterville. Maine. persons for any purpose except to assist in ti\'e Committeeman from York, Leon .Solow (1953). Post 94. Cadillac. Mich. New eslablisliinn; a claim lor a veteran or his de- Charles W. Miller, and Richard Tonlant and resigned. petideiits. Statement to that cllett should Elmer G. Korn (all 1950) and Leo C. Navarre accompany notice. (1953) . Post 319. Ecorse. Mich. John L. Sullican, Past Dep't Cmdr of Rev. John R. Morgan (1954). Post 208. Man- Send notices to: ( oiiu ades in Distress, chester Mo. New Hamp.shire (1937-38), and former The iinerican Li'tiion Mai>aziiir. 720 Filth ^'est R. Ewing (1952) and James B. Kerrigan Secretary of the Navy, a director named Aveinie, New \otk 19. New \oik. (1954) . Post 340. Kansas City. Mo. Dr. Herbert R. Booth (1952). Post 2X5, Hamil- of Loew s, Inc. ton. Mo. Army Fred Merrill and Leander G. Pvnn, Sr. (both Sam Rorex, Past Dep't Cmdr of Ar- 1952). Post 33. Meredith, N,H. kansas (1936-37), appointed Chancel- 1st General Hospital (Paris, France)— In order to L Edward Liftman (1954). Post 104. Atlantic establish claim. I need to hear from anyone City. N.J. lor of the Pulaski First Division, who served with tliis hospital unit when it was Homer J. Wright (1953). Post 140. Millbiirn. N.J. bombed in Sept. 1944. Especially need to hear .Samuel E, Dribhen (1954), Post 263. New York. M^altcr E. AJe.s.stinclroni, American Irom Williams and Lassitor. Write me. Charles N.Y. Legion Nat'l Executi\ e Committeeman Iman, 4530 Shepler Church Road, Canton, Dr. Nathan Masor (I94X). Post 1296. Slaten Ohio. Island. N.Y. from Pennsylvania, elected \'ice Chan- 851h Div, 85th Recon Troop-In early 1944 Cpl Miss Gertrude M. Burke (1954). Post 1711. Lev- Norman F. Ward was treated for a skin in- iltown, N.Y. cellor of the Philadelphia Bar Ass'n. tlms (Continiwd on next pane) VETERANS He's counting on advice about Toda y's Army. ..can you help him? Young men naturally look to you. the experienced veteran, for straight talk on Army service. Your guidance carries a lot of weight. That's why if s so important that your counseling be based on what a youngster can expect in today's Army. Before answering his questions, you should be aware of the changes that have been iriade since you served. Here are some important facts about today's Army that you may not be familiar with: • Qualified hi'f^h school i^radiiates may • Young men wlio enlist or re-enlist rww choose their Army training before with Unit Rotation may now choose a enlistment. unit and stay with it for tlie full hitch. • The Army now offers a choice of over 150 valnahle technical courses— • Young men who enlist or re-enlist everything from radar to medicine. with Unit Rotation outfits may also choose their overseas .service. • Young men may enlist right into the branch of their choice— the one that • Today's Army requires more sliilled offers them the most career benefits. specialists than ever before and con- • The Army now offers the opportunity secpiently is offering the finest oppor- for a completely planned and balanced tunities for technical education in its tour of duty through Unit Rotation. history. Yes, they're important changes, all right— but one thing remains the same in today's Army. It still needs intelligent, able young men of the highest calibre to become the cadre of leaders the Army needs—the kind of young men who look to you for their Army guidance. With these facts about today's Army, you can show them that more than ever the Army is oflering great career opportunities. For further details on the various Army programs available to them, direct them to their local Army recruiter. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 43 COMRADES IN DISTRESS Beck, of Tex. Write me. Frank J. Borowitz, R.D. 4 (Wooddale Ave.), Green Bay, Wis. C.oiiliiiurd ( ) APO 86, Hq & Hq Co, Iwo Jima-When the am- munition dump blew up, my head and ears fectioii by IVlaj Crosby, of 85tii Div Co. .BIG MONEY Hq were injured. In order to establish claim. I ' wlio was tlie doctor for the 85th Div Special now need to hear from men who served with spare or full Troops. The outfit was undergoing amphibious me from 1945 to Mar. 1946. Especially need trainins; in Africa. Ward now needs to con- to hear from: Robert Baxter, of Wis.; John- time at home ! tact Maj Crosby or someone who Icnows his son, of Idaho; Robertson, of Mo.; William whereabouts. Write Clyde Pooler, Director, Baden, of Md.; and Hillems, of Mo. Write Veterans' Service Agency, Elizabethtown, N.Y. INDUSTRY me. Mike Palodichuk, Box 902, Sidney. Mont. A NEW HOME Claim pending. Fort Sill, Okla., Enlisted Motors Course No. 39- Unlimited opportunities are now 130th TD Tng Bn, TDRTC, Camp Hood, Tex.- Need to hear from Paul Smith. Harvey P. possible to every ambitious per- The late John J. Sweez.v served with this out- Mathews. C. I. Crouch, F. K. Hanneman, or son. Make Gears, Fishing Lures, fit as a private in 1942 and 194.'!. In order to from anyone who attended this school with Jewelry, Gems, Handles (knives establish claim, his widow needs to hear from me in 1943. Write ine. Alvin H. Heese, Page, and tools) Dials, Statues, Figur- the following men or from someone who Nebr. Claim pending. ines, in your spare time at home! knows their present addresses: Gen Brouse; Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa.— Need See how extremely easy and Capt Gereald Brietling; Sgt R. H. Wallace, to hear from anyone who served with me at PROFITABLE it is to make beau- Cpl Henry Van Den Akker. of Camp Hood. this installation on detached service from tiful and useful things out of Te.x.. TDRTC, l.Wth Bn, Co D; Lt R. T. Wad- Louisville, Ky., from Nov. 1945 to Mar. 1946. LIQUID PLASTIC, LIQUID dini;ton. and Lt F. T. Slamon, 1.10th TDT Bn. Those of us on detached service were discharg- MARBLE, LIQUID IVORY, TDRTC; and S/Sgt Jack Goodwin, HD Del, ing Army Air Forces personnel. I particularly LIQUID GLASS, CERAMICS Sth Tng Reg't, Camp Hood. Write her, Mrs. recall Sgt Ed Brenneman and Sgt Ken Czin- with and without a kiln, etc.! . . . John J. Sweezy, 321 N. College St., St. Mar- ger. Write me. Robert G. (Hap) Hoover. Car- It is as easy as pouring water out tinville. La. rolltown. Pa. Claim pending. of a glass! Make novelties, jew- 314th Ammunition Train, Co E—George IMiirgich, Sub Depot #10, QiMC, Service of Supply-While elry, gifts, artware, toys, tools, of Madison, 111., served with this outfit. He stationed at Sable sur Sarthe in June 1919 I dies, gadgets, ceramics, etc. A needs to contact the following men or anyone contracted severe dysentery. I now need to million useful things! who knows their present addresses: Valerian contact someone who recalls this fact. I es- We supply everything you need Amann, of Littleton. Colo., Co E, 314th Am- pecially recall: Mikkelsen. of Nebr.; Pace, of - MATERIALS and INSTRUC- munition Train; George Pilg, of Tombstone. Miss.; Jennings, of Pa.; Pendergrass, of Ala.; TIONS. Send only 25(' for big 98 Ariz., Co F, 3I4th Ammunition Train; Louis and Turner, of Tex.- Write me. George J. page catalog of casting materials, Mokovich, of Tombstone, Ariz., Battery B. Landkamer, 416 Duffield, Hebron, Nebr. Claim molds and accessories and we will 340th Field Artillery; Joseph Rukovina. of pending. include free of extra cost a re- Omaha, Nebr.. Battery E, 340th Field Artil- WAC, WW2-Need to locate Dorothy P. Wagoner, nee Sayre, or someone who knows her where- markable book . . . "THE WON- lery; Samuel Cuka, of Pueblo. Colo.. Battery DERS OF LIQUID PLASTICS" D, 341st Field Artillery; Adolph Klein, of abouts. She served in the WAC in WW2, en- listed at Rantoul, 111., Dec. 2. 1943; discharged . . . that will open your eyes to Kansas City, Mo., Battery F. 341st Field Ar- marvels you never dreamed of! tillery; John Pavlovich, of Omaha, Nebr.. Co at Fort Sheridan, III., May 24. 1945. Her se- Send 2$t today— this may be the B. 341st Machine Gun Bn; Emil Massier. of rial number was 611115: her last known ad- lucky coin that will start you on the most fas- Wakeeney, Kans., Co A, 353rd Inf. Write dress was 1116 E. 67th St.. Chicago. III. Write cinating and profitable phase of your entire life! Illinois Veterans Commission, City Hall Build- Donald W Long, Service Officer, Common- ing. Granite City, III. wealth Edison Post 118, The American Le- gion, 72 W Adams St., Chicago 90. III. PLASTICAST COMPANY 336th Engineers and Station Complement, Camp Riiclier, Ala., 1942-43-My late husband, N. Clark St., Dept. PC-211, Chicago 26, III. 6612 Stanley M. Demaradzki, injured his foot on Navy an obstacle course while serving with the NAS, Pensacola, Fla., Emergency Defense Guard 336th Engrs. was hospitalized, and when He (Commando Unit)— In order to establish claim released from the hospital was assigned to the for back injury suffered in judo training. I Station Complement. He then had a limp, and ^ WHOLESALE! need to contact Hoyt Hall, William Grimes. was a projectionist at one of the camp thea- 06"^ Start a Buying Service al HomO James Gill, or anyone who was assigned to ters. In order to establish claim, I need to iiO TO (Sf^tl'Me.GEI BlO-NftWfc MtdtMANDi'^e FOR-e this unit in 1944-45. Write me, Robert W. 1 '^^l/f,, pELP AND CUIENTS UPT040% LXSS THiN BtO hear from anyone who remembers him. Es- ^OLtb EAST, AS toy CANC.i*£ !.ietA6l.£ / CDF (Bob) Griffin, 411 S. High St., Mechanicsbure. ^U%1 E I pecially need to hear from Casimir J. Mro- r^cC \Di«£)UNTS.STill MJ^KE FAT COrrtMiSSlONS. / VJ.\ Pa. ghowski, Harry J. Kane, and Robert Lee SS Horace Luckenbach— In Sept. 1943 1 suffered Thomas, Jr. Write me, Mrs. Stanley Dema- an injury while serving aboard this ship. I radzki, 72 Amherst Road. Sunderland, Mass. now need to hear from the following men Hertel Station, Dept. AL, Buffalo 16, N. Y. 363rd AAA Searchlight Bn, Battery B-While par- who served on the Horace Luckenbach with ticipating in a mechanized parade at Camp me in 1942 and 1943: Lt (jg) CofTman; Bruce Davis. N.C.. in the summer of 1943, I was Harris; Johnny Greer; Seaman Halton; Sea- thrown from a truck to the pavement and suf- man White; and Seaman Klingerhoffer. Write Men Wff/IM-OJor practice fered a badly bruised right knee. In order to me, Orval Hughes, Box 246, Oak Hill. W. Va. establish claim, I need to hear from anyone Claim pending. who remembers me and from the following HEW! GROOVE YOUR SWING AT HOME! USS Achelous—Need to hear from inen who served named men or someone who knows their aboard this ship, especially those who served DEVELOP FORM • CORRECT HOOK AND SLICE! whereabouts: Sgt Charles O. Large, Knox- during the period from Dec. 1945 to May 1946 ville, Tenn.; T/5 Bill Seekins, Maine; Pfc and who know of the amnesia and the facial Edmund Gregory, Ky.; T/5 James Cochran, difficulty suffered by M 3c William Burke Wis.; and Pvt Frank Lisowski, Mass. Write Langston, Jr. Especially need to hear froin me. Rohert E. Doll, 21 Curtis Ave.. Walling- Dr. J. C. Godwin, Dr. Pierson, and CO W. ford. Conn. H. Lundell (believed to have been from 537th Field Artillery Bn—While serving with this Minn.) Write Douglas G. Pearcy. Hendry Service Officer. outfit at Camp Carson, Colo., in Oct. 1950 1 County P.O. Box 1250, Clew- PCS. was injured when some gunpowder blew up. iston. Fla. Claim pending. USED BY PROS I now need to hear from someone who knew USS Arthur Middleton— Need to contact any U.S. Coast was attached to this No bof/ fO (host! Simply push into ground and hit. Returns to me at that time. Especially need to hear from Guardsman who position after club swing. Hooking, slicing, or topping is indicated Billy Baker, of West Haven, Conn. Write me, ship and who was waiting at Dutch Harbor by action of Wham-O Practice just 5 minutes o day with our Elvin C. Russell, Box 256, Cogswell, N. Dak. between Jan. and July 1942 to return to the instructions and ploy lOO^o better on Sunday! Folds to 8" for golf States. Write me, Charles Ben Hogan, Jr., 763rd Tank Bn, Co D— In order to establish claim. bog. Use to warm up at starting tee. Tough ptioble plastic, ash 108 Charles Ave., Portsmouth. Va. Claim I need to hear from anyone served hardwood stock, 5" steel spikes. Withstonds violent abuse. Only who with pending. $1.95 complete. Guoranteed, Ideal for gift. A) dealers or send to: this outfit on Okinawa. Especially need to hear USS Cone— In order to establish claim. I need to from men who were in Sgt William Hasty's WAMO MFG CO., Box 12 - G Son Gabriel, Calit. contact: Lt (jg) Whaley; BMC Henderson; crew. Write me, William E. Lewis, 814 Wilson Pipefitter 2c Hill; or any of the three strikers Ave., Bristol, Tenn. who was in the R Division and who reinem- 774th Tank Bn-In 1945 and 1946 Regis Edward bers the trouble I had with my feet during ARTHRITIS-RHEUMATISM Raible served in Europe as a tank driver. He the last part of 1950 and the first part of 1951. suffered from shock, and practically all his Write me. William Shanabarger, Route #2, hair fell out. Now he needs to hear from Philippi, W. Va. VITAL FACTS EXPLAINED anyone who served with him. Especially re- USS Farenholt— I need to contact Pharmacist's calls Oliver Young, of Iowa. Write FREE DESCRIPTIVE BOOK Raible's Mate Brassi. who treated me for a ruptured wife, Mrs. Margaret Raible. 4415 How cripplint; (lelcprinitios may he avoided. Thi.s .iniazinc Jetferson right eardrum, and Pharmacist's Mate Love- FUEE liOOK explains why ordinary niethods uive only Drive. Homestead Park, Pa. Claim pending. land, who was in charge of sickbay aboard temporary relief— if tiiat. Describes a dmKle.s.s metliod 3384th QIVI Truck Co, Cherbourg, France-In or- this ship in 1944. Write me. Hugh \. Barbee, of treatment successfully noplied in thousands of cases. der to establish claim, (former Cpl) Leon Frier R. D. 1. Stevenson, Ala. Claiin pending. Wrifii lor this 44-pai;c FT5EE BOOK tndav. No oMiKation. BALL CLINIC. DEPT. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. needs to hear froin those who served with USS Milwaukee— In order to establish claim for him in June and July 1944. Especially needs injury (caused by gunfire) to eardrum. I need to hear from T/5 Monroe Phillips and Pvt to hear from anyone who .served aboard this William McDaniel. Write L. W. Lockhart, ship during maneuvers at Guantanamo, Cuba, County Service Otficer, Room 109, Court- about Mar. 1927. The ship proceeded to China house, Wharton. Tex. in 1928. I particularly recall W. W. Stepenson, Fort Lewis, Wash., Engineer TS, 4th Bn, Co A- of R.I. Write me, W. S. Grindle, 214 E. Mon- During a field problem in Sept. 1945 I suf- roe Ave.. Alexandria, Va. fered an eye injury; the company commander cleaned my eye. In order to establish claim, I Air No investment, no experience need to hear from anyone who remembers needed. Just show mogic cushion the incident; especially recall Harry Bean, of 808th Engineer Aviation Bn— I was injured while comfort to friends, neighbors, co. Calif., and Red Brannigan, of Tex. Also need operating a rock crusher in Japan shortly af- workers. Advance commissions to to hear from anyone of Co F, WDPC, Fort ter the end of the war. I now need to hear $4.00 a pair, plus Cosh Bonui. from anyone who served with me. Especially. Paid Vocation, $25 00 Reward Lewis, who recalls an experimental flu shot need to hear from Charles Nicklos. then of Offer. Outstanding values for men, we were given one night. The shot laid me up Oslosky. women, children. Money bacl- for a few days. We were told that anyone Calif. Write me. Henry S. Box 613. guorontee. Shoe somples suppliL-d who was allergic to dairy products or eggs Export. Pa. Claim pending. without cost. for Write TODAY TREE could not take the shot. I especially reinem- 923rd Signal Co Depot Aviation— In order to es- new page cotolog ond full detail', bcr: Dennis W. Armstrong, of Farmington, tablish claim. I need to contact Ainzi B. Far- TANNERS SHOE CO., 694 BROCKTON, MASS^ Mich.; Peter V. Bondy, of Wyndotte, Mich.; rington, with whom I was in the hospital in 44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 ) Calcutta, India, duriiiy May and June 1945. Write me. Millard M. Brown, Bo.x 62, Liv- ingston. Tenn. Indiantown Gap IMIIilar,v Reser^atioll, Pa.—Need TO SAVE 30% to 40% to hear Irom an\onc who ser\cd wjtli nie at fjlffi/li this installation on detached ser\ice from | Louisville, K)., from Nov. 1945 to Mar. 1946. Those ol us on detached service were discharg- WHEN YOU BUILD A HOME ing Army Air Forces personnel. I particularly recall Sgt Ed Hrenneman and Sgl Ken Czin- ger. Write me. Robert G. (Hap) Hoover. Car- rolltown, Pa. Claim pending. BUILD A READY- CUT ''LIBERTY" HOME! 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ASSETS Cash on hand and on deposit ...$ 718.164.57 Receivables 407,361.64 Inventories 443,341.86 Invested B'unds 859, .510. 52 Permanent Trusts: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 257,748.35 Employees' Retirement MEAT CUTTING Offers YOU Trust Fund 1.929,299.62 2,187,047.97 Real Estate 973.972.65 Furniture and Fi.xtures. less Depreciation 237,498.58 Deferred Charges 70,298.37 SUCCESS And SECURITY $5,897,196.16 In The Best Established Business In The World • PEOPLE MUST EAT! LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE AND NET WORTH TRAIN QUICKLY in 8 short weeks for a bright future with security in the vital meat Current Liabilities $ 342,989.99 business. Trained meat men needed. Big pay Funds restricted as to use 43,213.52 full-time jobs, vear-round income, no layoffs Deferred Income 1,770,022.00 Permanent Trusts: -HAVE A PROFITABLE MARKET OF Overseas Graves Decoration YOUR OWN! 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See students in training. salesman will call. Approved for Koiean Veterans. .11,502,951.36 Read what graduates are doing and earning. Unrestricted Capital: See meat you cut and equipment you work Excess of Income with. No obligation. Send coupon in envelope Name Age. over Expense. 50.971.32 1,553,922.68 or paste on postal cai'd NOW! G.I. Approved. Address 155,897,196.16 NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING, INC. City State Dept. A-64 Toledo 4, Ohio THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • necessary to patronize the Soviet Zone if IT DOESN'T WORK HERE you want a single lens reflex camera since (Continued from page 17) there are at least three excellent makes which come from this side of the Iron As one experiment after another Curtain. One is the AlPA, made in S\\ itzer- proved a failure, the leaders, grasping land; another is the RECTAFIEX, made in Italy; and still another is the CONTAFLEX, at straws, fell back upon the practices product of a Zeiss plant in Western Ger- of capitalism. One of the most curious many. All three are beautifully made, in and complicated of these was the Time contrast to some of the East Zone stuflf. Store set up at New Harmony. On the wall hung a clock and beneath it a dial. When a customer entered, the store- keeper set the dial to check the time. The merchandise was sold at cost and paid for in cash. The storekeeper was A s(nni>Ung of items whicli are in process of dei^elopment or are coming on the market. paid for the time he spent on showing Mention of products in no tcay constitutes an endorscTnent of them, since in most cases they the merchandise and making the sale. are described as represented by manufacturers. He was not paid in money, but in "labor notes." These were printed promises that the bearer would do two hours of work for him or bring him 12 pounds of corn. "Change" for these notes M as not dimes and quarters, but A new kind of glass cutter, which meas- small tickets representing five, ten, and ures as it cuts, is being marketed b>' Arrow 15 minutes of labor. Products Co., Box 52, Dayton, Ohio. Sell- The Time Store was established to ing for a dollar postpaid, the ZIP GLASS do away with inflation and to make CUTTER has an adjustable guide measure, sure that labor was paid for with labor. and is made of heat-treated, high-carbon It closed, its founder complaining of chrome. the difficulties of the arrangement and of the lack of common honesty among the customers. A FOLDING WORLD GLOBE which c;in be in- The founder of the North American flated is being to 18 inciies in diameter Phalanx was Albert Brisbane, an able introduced by C. S. Haniniond & Co., writer, who in 1840 had published The A'laplewood, N. Made of strong plastic, J. Social Destiny of Man. Brisbane was a it looks like a fine glass globe costing two disciple of Francois iMarie Charles or tiiree times as much. It fits into a stand Fourier, the French creator of a wliicii permits it to spin freely, and globe com- and stand retail for $19.95. munistic system which became known as Fourierism. Brisbane's book caught the interest of religious, liberal, and antislavery groups and was the fount of much social-revolutionary excite- Gardening is simplified with a new edg- ing device which utilizes two cutting discs ment. to do the job. Called the EDGE-MASTER, it The experiment got under way as a has a concave cutting disc which rotates result of Brisbane's promotion, and it against a horizontal guide disc, to slice hung on to life for about 12 years. Old away anything that comes between the members left, and new members were discs. Offered by Mastcrline Products Co., recruited; but the group never attained Box 385, F"resno, Calif., it sells for 5j5.95 the size its founders envisioned. It final- at stores or direct. ly broke up because, one member wrote later, "it lacked the faculty of agree- ment" and lacked management—men with the abilit\" to lead, to organize, and to keep production at high levels Now you can smoke your own meat, through the enthusiasm of members. fowl and fish with a portable electric Bronson Alcott found Brook Farm smol Products, 1640 N. 16th St., Quincy, 111., proached, members left on one pretext it comes completely assembled for S19.95. or another, and \\ ith the first frosts the famih", according to Bronson's # « # Alcott A HOT WATER BOTTLE that's good and hot famous daughter, Louisa May, was left The /lincriccin Legion .\\a;j,aziiie has rc- on one siiie but jiist comfortably on warm without food or fuel. So Bronson lieatedK referred to such cameras as the the other has been developed by the B. F. loaded his household goods and his I'.xakta, l".\a, Praktiflex, Hcxacon, Penta- Goodrich Co. It resembles the conven- family into a borrowed wagon and con, etc., which come from the So\ ict tional hot water bottle except in one de- \\ ent back to Concord. Zone of Cjerniany. All these arc single lens tail. One side has a ribbed pattern, permit- reflex types, the reds having concentrated ting air to circulate and keeping that side The Amana Society in Iowa and the on that kind of camera. However, it isn't ten degrees cooler. The jiricc is $3.29. Oneida Comnuinity in New York State 45 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAG.AZINE • FI :UARY 1956 ^ still survive, but both turned from communism to capitalism when their common efforts for equal rewards failed. Each communistic group had some distinguishing feature. Oneida stood for complex marriage and an experiment in eugenics, altliough it was not called eugenics. The Skaneateles Comnuinit\ held the orthodox view of marriage and encouraged normal family relation- ships. The conununists of Ephrata, the Rappites, the Snowbergers, and some others required lives of celibacy. The Zoarites and Jacobites might marry or More . . . and more . . . and more ECHO SPRING answers the call for truly smooth Kentucky Straight Bourbon No finer bourbon ever came Kentucky Bourbons. For a out of Kentucky. And yet truly smooth bourbon call for Echo Spring- conies to you at Echo Spring again. ..and a price lower than most other again . . .and again. KY. . LOUISVILLE, STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. ..86 PROOF . ECHO SPRING DISTILLING COMPANY, "Never iiiind, dear, I found a jar right here." Sensational New AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Miracle DACRON DRESS PANTS n(Jt, as the> chose. 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Write for FREE CATALOG NAME_ The only way, it was pointed out, COUNTRY SQUIRE TRACTOR CO ST. & No_ that a communistic P.O. Box 107-P-2 settlement could Muskego Wisconsin CITY _STATE_ THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 47 even appro.xiinarc pr(jdiiction equal to but a piece of dirty, capitalist propa- bare living standards was 1)\- force, by ganda!" coiiipuhsion, by spies, by fear, by liqui- A communistic experiment in the dation. l^akotas would not last out the year. WANTED If Khrushchev were given enough The Non-Partisan League is evidence land and people in the United States of that, although it only got its feet ^\ et MA/\f WfTH CAH to equal the population and area, say in the practices of the Kremlin. of Iowa, and permitted to organize it The American members of these NO TIME LIKE NOW TO after the modern Russian pattern— make communistic experiments again and GET IN McNESS BUSINESS it 100 per cent communistic— it would again deserted their ideological islands not work. 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Itch rigid barrier to information from capi- group described the failure of that Very first use of soothing cooling, liquidSD.D.D. talist countries. Hence incidents like short-li\ed communistic experiment: Prescription positively relieves raw red itch- this; "The industrious, the skillful and the caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- ing — other itch troubles. Greaseless. stainless. A Polish-American sent a Sears Roe- strong saw the products of their labor 43«! trial bottle must satisfy or money back. buck catalog to his mother and father enjoyed by the indolent, the unskilled Ask your druggist for O.D.O. PRESCRIPTION. in the old country. They passed it and the improvident. ... It was useless around the communit>' and it caused to remiml all parties that the common RUPTURED so much astounded and incredulous labor of all ministered to the prosperity BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY comment that the police paid them a of the Communit)'. 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You feature over 150 fast - sell im' styles cessful frontal attack upon us by the indress.3[jort , work shoes forme Wn'fe fo Depf. AL-1 ior full details including beautiful Nylon mesh shoi- protagonists of communism. The case with Air Cushion innersoles. Also spe- cial kinds of shoes for different occu- histories pations. Amazing range of sizes and of America's communistic ex- j widths. Kit customers stores are un- periments show clearly the impractic- able to take care of. Start now by seil- UNITE WORLD to friends, inp neighbors, relatives. ai)ility of so-called coexistence, the emj ICvr ntone is your prospect. Send post- ' card To'Iay for FREE Sellivg Outfit/^ li 1445 Park Ave., New York 29, N. Y Mason Shoe Mfg. Co., Dept. MA-914, Chipewa Falls. Wis. THE AMERICAN LECJION MAGAZINE • J EBRIJAR^ 19S6 • ! Forces Trc'ac\', the iioroiious iind for up as an authority on art it has gone the Republic, and sucli characters as too far. Aly only alternative to having Hiss, Lattiniore, W'iiitc, the Rosen- this printed is to sound off at our next hergs, Robert "I'd hire a Communist" tad local meeting, and sound off I will. I Hutchins, Xehru, Alcnon, Tito, et al. probably shan't have a chance to be I'inalh", it goes without saying that an adjutant again, hut at least while the majority of the books in the off/* I was a lot of w orthless Legion litera- hbrar\' dealing w itli contro\'ersial ture went into File 15, where I think tt)pics w ere heavily slanted to tiic left. the Magazine belongs also. For instance, the onh- books dealing ( Continued from page 4) Berenice de Luca Palmer \\ ith General AlacArthur and the FBI Solvang, Calif. w ere \ icious smear books. I feel that Sir: Your article on art or what com- something constructive shoulii l)e done said that Bellamy was the author, placent Americans accept and pay for about this sordid situation and the there are sworn affidavits from nine as art, should arouse every member of sooner the better. other editors who were on the staff the Legion. It is long past the time Robert ^V. Van de Walle at the time, and who have since passed when idiots with twisted minds and Culver City, drlif. on, stating that U[)ham was unques- tionably the author—making the score morals and high standing in commu- nistic groups siiould be tolerated as 9-1 against Bellam>\ (3) A resolution TO THE BOATS! artists remunerated for lousing up naming Upham the author was passed and our public buildings w ith atiieistic and Sir: According to a front page news by Congress and included in a lengthy meaningless splashings that are drooled stor\' in The New York Times, date- explanation of why Bellamy was not over by long-haired men and short- lined Gene\a, I read the following: the autiior in the Congressional haired women who call themselves "U.X. court bids UNESCO reinstate Record of Dec. 19, 1945. (4) The critics. For God's sake let's start some four U.S. Risks . . . for the first time, United States Flag Foundation recog- kind of organized opposition to asi- the tribunal gave a definite ruling that nizes Upham as ha\ing been the " nine art ninnies w would brain- 'lo> alf\ to the United States was not author. Also, why did Francis Bellamy by ho wash America with their cultural swill. a reciuisite for members of United wait until 17 years after the passing L. A. Moore Nations organizationsw ho were United of Upham, and almost six years after " Anchorage, Alaska States citizens If that's the story, I the Youth's Coiiipaviov itself gave the think it's about time we told this out- credit to Upham, to advance his claim? Sir: I hope you are planning to run fit, for the most part international Archie B. Birtwell reprints of "Art for Whose Sake?" I free-loaders and court jesters, to pack Maiden, Mass. formerly worked for the Federal Se- up and take to their boats. curity Agency and suffered for two Bill Haininer, Jr. ROCHESTER REMEMBERS and a half years from having to look New York City at these communist propaganda pic- Sir: I enjoyed the article about Francis tures all over the w alls of this govern- Bellamy in The American Legion GOOD USE FOR FLAGS ment building every day. The author Magazine for October. However, I of the article missed some good ex- Sir: 0\cr the many years that I have proud sa\' am to that the author of amples. She should look over some of been a member of The American the Pledge of Allegiance is not ever>'- the filth which adorns the walls of Legion and \'crerans of Foreign A\'ars where "virtually or forgot- unknown" Federal Sccurit\', now the bloated escort for military funerals, the ten. At the University of Rochester, Health, Education & \\'elfare Depart- United States Government has pre- Bellamy in where graduated 1876, ment. Considering the radicals who sented a flag to the next of kin. This there is a prominent plaque immortal- occupy key spots in this agency the flag is standard size. I suggest that the izing him his work, in and mounted pictures are probably right at home. recipients of these flags could put the Student Union Building. In the Name Withheld them to a very good use b>' donating Rochester chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, Baltimore, Md. them to the various cities and towns, oldest social fraternity on the campus, Sir: In your October issue you showed churches, schools, etc. for use on every initiate is required to know the called canvas to their flagpoles. If this were done and life history of Francis Bellam\-, an what you a blank illustrate aspect of modern art. the idea given support, I predict that Alpha Delta brother of whom they one b\' next Memorial Day there would are very proud. That, my boy, shows two angels hav- be a new flag flying from c\er\- flag- John Crawford Robinson ing a snowball fight. pole throughout the country. Kinland AFB, N. Mex. Elvin H. Ritter Gust Westriiiii Ca/nas, M'ash. Albert Lea, Miini. DOUBTER WANTS BETTER CARS Sir: Please refer to >'our December CREDITS UPHAM Sir: Currently much is being written issue, page 52, second column, second about safety features in the 1956 cars. Sir: The article on tiie authorship of ". paragraph: . . my wife, shooting a ^^'hile safety is important to all of us, the Pledge of Allegiance b\- Harold Winchester Alodcl 70 Hornet with the following is equally important— Heifer, carried in your October issue, open sights, killed ten woodchucks and building stares that Francis Beilani)- the matter of designing was the with ten shots at a paced 250 j ards— author, cars for more economical maintenance. and implies that it has now all liead shots." I do not believe it. Certain car makers are so wild to out- been agreed b\- all that the credit be- John Held, Jr. produce one another that car quality longs to him. To the contrar\-, it is Eureka, Mo. it is getting less and less generally agreed that James Bailey as we know in some cases. I am sure that man>' car Upham was it is the author, and MODERN ART definitely agreed that the Uphani- owners w ill agree that shoddy work- manship, sloppy asscmbh' methods and Bellamy controversy is far from over. Sir: As a former adjutant in the lack of adequate assembly inspection In iMr. Heifer's article, I would like to Legion, I read w ith horror your criti- the increase. ask why the follow ing most important cism of modern art in the Oct. issue. are on R. Blagdcn facts were omitteil: (I) Youth's Coiii- This is the last straw! Tiic Legion East Hampton, Conn. paiiioii magazine, w here the Pledge is has decided to play God just once agreed by all to lia\e been originated, too often for me. It has come to the in not publislied an article on the origin of point w here the Legion tells us how Letters published Sound Off! do necessarily represent tlie policy of The the Pledge in its Dec. 20, 1917, issue, we should vote, whom we should American Legion. Name iiiithheld if re- Address: and told how Air. Upham was the purge as conuiiunists, how we siiould quested. Keei> your letters short. Sound Off. The American Legion Maga- author. (2) While one former editor worship—but w hen it tries to set itself zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y. • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 a . — WHAT GENEVA MEANS TO US ( Cotilinued from [xi^e IT) bombing bases in North Africa and the BUY DIRECT PROM MILL & SAVE ON LABOR COSTS airfields we are rushing to completion You can assemble ony of the 57 designs from easy- noils, roofing, gloss, etc. Sterling Homes ore modern to-follow plans. Every piece in Spain. The latter will be especially marked, easily iden- designed for modern living. Plans sold separately. tified, ready to erect, tio measuring or cutting. 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Resistance to com- munism has always been especially But, after an honest trial, if you're strong among the peasants. In East at all like the other men to whom I've Germany and the nine Soviet satellites told my strange plan, you'll guard it with your last breath. in Europe the Russians have had to Don't jump at conclusions. I'm not a manufacturer of a gold mine. Because with this method you can fish with- cope with powerful and unceasing re- any fancy new lure. I have no reels or lines to sell. I'm in a hundred feet of the best fishermen in the county a professional man and make a good living in my pro- and pull in ferocious big ones while they come home sistance from the overwhelming anti- fession. But my all-absorbing hobby is fishing. And, empty handed. No special skill is required. The method quite by accident, I'vediscovered how to go to waters is just as deadly in the hands of a novice as in the communist majority. as in Here, Rus- that everyone else says are fished out and come in hands of an old timer. My method will be disclosed only sia, the peasants play a key role— with a limit catch of the biggest bass that you ever to those few men in each area who will give me their saw. The savage old bass that got so big, because they word of honor not to give the method to anyone else. passive role, to be sure, but a most were "wise" to every ordinary way of fishing. Send me your name. Let me tell you how you can This METHOD is spinning, trolling, casting, try out this deadly method of bringing in big bass from effective one. A large food supply is NOT fly fishing, trot line fishing, set line fishing, hand line youi^ "fished out" waters. Let me tell you why I let essential for the Kremlin's huge army, fishing, live bait fishing, jugging, netting, trapping, you try out my unusual method for the whole fishing seining, and does not even faintly resemble any of season without risking a penny of your money. Send industrial workers, and bureaucracy. these standard methods of fishing. No live bait or your name for details of my money -back trial offer. The peasants, therefore, have sabotaged prepared bait is used. You can carry all of the equip- There is no charge for this information, now or at any ment you need in one hand. other time. Just your name is all I need. But I guar- food production, if only by loafing on The whole method can belearnedin twenty minutes antee that the information I send you will make you — twenty minutes of fascinating reading. All the ex- a complete skeptic—until you decide to try my method! the job. result The is that in countries tra equipment you need, you can buy locally at a cost And then, your own catches will fill you with disbelief. Send your name, today. This will be fun. where food should be plentiful, there of less than a dollar. Yet with it, you can come in after an hour or two of the greatest excitement of your ERIC G. FARE, Libertyville 4, Illinois is an acute shortage. life, with a stringer full. Not one or two miserable 12 or 14 inch over-sized keepers — but five or six real That, then, was the situation the Eric G. Fare, Libertyville 4, Illinois beauties with real poundage behind them. The kind | that don't need a word of explanation of the profes- Soviets faced in Europe a year ago. Dear Mr. Fare: Send me complete information I sional skill of the man who caught them. Absolutely I I without any charge and without the slightest ob- in state. Abroad they were confronted with the legal, too— every ligation. Tell me how I can learn your method of I catching big bass from "fished out" waters, even . unity and growing strength This amazing method was developed by a little of < NATO. group of professional fishermen. Though they are I when the old timers are reporting "No Luck." At home within their empire they en- public guides, they rarely divulge their method to their patrons. They use it only when fishing for their own Name.. countered rising anticommunist resist- tables. It is probable that no man on your waters has ever seen it, ever heard of it, or ever used it. And Address. ance and economic frustration. In their i I when you have given it the first trial, you will be as ..Zone. closed-mouthed as a has suddenly discovered City ..^atc aggressive drive on Europe the old man who I THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • stratagems no longer worked. Threats entered the situation. Our British allies, cooperation," the "cessation of the cold and power plays merel\- drew the long favorable to a "summit meeting," war," the "new horizons opened up," NATO countries closer together and really turned the heat on us. What and what have you. A weary world effected a strengthening of their mili- swung our decision was the election public swallowed the whole thing, tar>' buildup. So what did the Soviets campaign then under way in the United hook, line, and sinker. For the publics dor What any astute quarterback Kingdom. On one side were Sir An- of our allies, especially, a new golden would do— call for time out and devise tliony Eden and his Conservatives, era had dawned. Suspicion of the So- new strategy. That stratcg\' had worked committed to NATO and cooperation viets was lulled by the conviction that when they called for a truce in Korea. with the United States. On the other now things are different. If gains could no longer be made side were the Socialist leaders, at best They are! through the line, why not use the for- rather uncertain in their relations with I recently returned from Europe ward pass and trick plays? us, plus Mr. Aneurin Bevan and all the where I saw how different things are Diplomatic activity in the Soviet and appeasement - minded, anti - American, from a year ago. On this annual survey "neutralist" blocs suddenly began to and pro-Soviet elements in British po- I talked w ith government leaders, army increase significantly. That w as the first litical circles. It was to the interests of officers, journalists, businessmen, and hint that some new grand strategy was the United States, and indeed of the the rank and file of the populace. From in the making. Tito, Prime Alinister free world, that Mr. Eden and his col- what I heard and observed, I can report Nehru of India, and Prime Minister U leagues be retained in power. To help that the Big Four Conference has Nu of Burma began exchanging visits. retain him, we consented to take part worked in favor of the Kremlin and Mr. Nehru went to Aloscow, and Bul- in a "meeting at the summit." against us. ganin and Khrushchev paid a call on So the Soviets got the conference for The charm that the Kremlin turned Tito. Along w ith this diplomatic activ- which they had long been angling. on at Geneva represented no basic ity there began a heightened Soviet- They- got it, it should be stressed, change in its divide-and-conquer strate- neutralist propaganda campaign for a through the machinations of the neu- gy. It simply masked the old tactics Big Four conference, a "meeting at the tralists and the deluded publics of of splitting the free world's ranks. The summit." "To the Soviets," someone Britain, France, and the Scandinavian affable Red leaders operated subtly, of has said, "a conference is a poker game countries. The Geneva Conference was course. In the rosy "Geneva atmos- where they pla>' with other peoples' held in July, amid worldwide propa- phere" one NATO member was set- money." ganda huzzahs about the smiles, toasts, against another. Traditional French We in the United States did not want and simulated good w ill of the Soviet suspicion of Germany was nurtured. such a confab. Unless the Soviets had delegates. "Peace, it's wonderful!" ran British and French sensitiveness about changed their policies completely, we the siren song of Bulganin, Khrushche\', American leadership was encouraged. saw nothing to be gained by the par- and Company. And the world public Europe was given the impression that ley, much to be lost. Both the White fell for their hoax. Probably never in the United States was selling it out. House and the State Department dur- history' w as so much written about so And, mark this well, since Geneva the ing the Truman and Eisenhower ad- little in the way of accomplishment. Soviets have been trying to drive a ministrations opposed demands for the Thus was born the "Geneva spirit." wedge between President Eisenhower Big Four meeting (i.e. the British, In the months since tlie four delega- and his co-workers and between the French, Americans, and Russians). We tions left Lake Lcman, millions of President and the American people, a vetoed the project time after time de- words have been written and read matter I shall explain later in this spite rising demands by the Soviet, the about the accomplishments of the article. neutrals, and even our allies. Geneva Conference—the "service to Propagandawise, be it understood, the In the spring of 1955 a new factor peace," the "Soviet demonstration of Soviet has a colossal advantage over us. In every country in tlie w orld there are Communist Parries and communist front groups that fanatically follow- the Kremlin's orders. /Moscow can turn a propaganda offensi\ e on or off like a spigot. Unfortunately, there are no pro- American groups abroad to give our side of the case. As a result, w e steadily get the worst of it in the Russian- American propaganda struggle. In \\'cstcrn Europe, under the cir- cumstances, the public has been com- pletely taken in by the "spirit of Geneva " propaganda ballyhooed by the Soviets and their neutralist friends. Let me give you an example of the popu- lar state of mind there. In September I returned to ^^'estcrn Europe from a trip that took me right up to the Iron Curtain on the border of Red Hungary. There I had a closeup of tile barbed wire entanglements, the minefields, and the Soviet w atchtow ers. The latter are spaced about a mile and a half apart and stretch along the frontier of the Soviet empire. At one point in my inspection a red soldier suddenly emerged from a cornfield, his burp-gun aimed at niy 52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 a companion and mc. W'e were on Aus- trian soil, but \\c ducked just the same to avoid being shot. When 1 told intel- ligent Western Europeans about the experience, they invariably replied: "Why, I thought that the Geneva Con- ference put an end to all that." The most obvious consequence of the "relaxed tensions" inspired by Geneva is the deterioration of NATO. This has gone so far, indeed, as to cause alarm among the so-called "professionals"— army and air force chiefs, diplomats, and government leaders, men who un- derstand what is happening. The psy- chological letdown among the NATO nations has put an almost intolerable burden on General Alfred iM. Gruen- thcr, the American military leader who has the gigantic responsibility of hold- ing the military alliance together. From the beginning his job was a tough one. He had to plan and build a defense for the 4,000-mile perimeter that extends from northern Norway to eastern Turkey. That would be a pro- digious task, even if he got all-out co- operation from every NATO country. But ever since the "At ease!" sounded at Geneva, there have been demands to cut NATO armaments. Some of the member countries are indicating indif- ference, if not downright hostility, to the NATO concept. No wonder Gen- eral Greunther makes the grim under- statement: "We are in for a very diffi- cult period." Take, for instance, the situation in the ^Mediterranean today, as contrasted with a year ago. The trouble has been aggravated by the free world's com- placency that was born of Geneva's sweetness and light. Our allies, the Greeks, Turks, and British, have been engaged in a bitter quarrel over Cyprus. There have been bloody and destruc- tive anti-Greek riots in Turkey. Greece, distilled embittered by Turkish and British op- position to her claims on Cyprus, has LondonDry been threatening not only to quit the Balkan Entente— Greece, Turkey, and Gin Yugoslavia-but to get out of NATO altogether and enter the neutralist camp. Whereas a year ago the Greek- Turkish bastion constituted a formid- •««tOl»« able defensive shield for the free world, TO ikT .nil it is badly dented now. At best it will be a long time before the former close liaison between these strategically situ- ated neighbors can be restored. This is, of course, just what the Kremlin doc- tors ordered. It is a lush Geneva divi- dend for the Soviet. There's no gin Now let us look behind the Iron Curtain and see the effects of the "sum- mit meeting" there. The people of the captive nations have been sustained in their resistance to the communist en- like GORDON'S slavers by their confidence in the moral support of the United States. As long as the Kremlin is opposed by nearly 100 94.4 PROOF. 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. GORDON'S DRYGIN CO..LTD.,LINDEN,N.J. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . FEBRUARY 1956 • 53 million people in the satellite countries, slavia, and the Soviet bloc in the United excuse for lessening the defense burden. it w ould be a terrific gamble, with com- Nations last September and vote for Certain French politicians are trying to munication lines necessarily running the admission of Red China. capitalize on the public's optimistic at- through the slave states, to launch an Germany, w ith its central geographi- titude. This is the background of the aggressive war against Western Europe. cal position, great industrial complex, French move in pulling some of their It has been Kremlin policy, therefore, and hard-working, disciplined people, best troops out of the NATO defense to aim at breaking this spirit and end- is the grand prize for which the Krem- line and sending them to North Africa. ing the hopes of the enslaved peoples. lin is playing. Here the Soviet rulers Italy, probably the most pro-Ameri- What could more speedily help gain are trying to achieve two major ob- can country in Europe, had no part in these objectives than accounts—truthful jectives: keep Germany out of NATO, the "meeting at the summit." But the ones, at that—of the Geneva Confer- and make a deal that would ally Ger- "Geneva spirit" has worked against the ence? The smiles, toasts, and fraterniz- many with the Soviet empire. The main anticommunist parties in Italy. All the ing between the Western leaders and stumbling block has been the able octo- communists have to do to argue their the S()\ iet hierarchs are invaluable grist genarian Cliancellor, Konrad Adenauer. respectability is to point to the smiles, for the Kremlin's propaganda mill. A The Cieneva Conference, unfortunately, toasts, and compliments exchanged last Pole or a Hungarian can hardh' doubt undermined this staunch anticommu- July on the lovely shore of Lake Leman. the evidence when he sees the buddied- nist leader. If the British and Americans And what have the Soviet fifth col- up Conference pictures widely dis- fraternize with the Russians, asks the umns been doing since the "summit tributed by the Soviet behind the Iron German public, why should not the meeting"? The Kremlin's agents have Curtain. No wonder recent escapees Germans too? There is, consequently, been just as busy as ever stirring up with whom I talked report disillusion- increasing neutralism in German\' and troubles in Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, ment and disma>' among the captive grow ing danger of another Russo-Ger- Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Malaya, peoples who had believed in us. They man deal. Laos, South V^ietnam, Indonesia— in fact, fear that we are abandoning them to Britain, enjoying an economic boom, in every part of the world. There is no their fate. is actual! V' facing serious economic diffi- peace in Korea or tlie Formosa Strait. A quick look around Western Europe culties. Even in government circles, Nowhere have the reds let up in their shows what has been happening there according!)', tliere is powerful support drive to take over the world. Commis- since Geneva. Beginning in the north for reducing defense expenditures. sar Khrushchev, in a frank post-Geneva there has been an acceleration of "neu- Geneva, according to (Cliancellor of the moment, boasted that the Soviet Uni- tralist" sentiment. The Kremlin, of Exchequer Butler, brought "a feeling versal State will eventually "gain the course, cleverly exploits this "neutral- of spring after a long winter of discon- upper hand." ism." The more the neutral area ex- tent." And Cieneva would seem to ra- As for Soviet strategy toward the pands, the greater the strength of the tionalize Prime Minister Eden's early United States, three instances indicate Soviet empire in relation to the west- September statement that the cold war the trend of the Kremlin's tactics. The ern alignment. Neither Denmark nor is over. He surely knows better than Russian press has warned that while Norway, members of NATO, will al- that. He has only to look at Britain's President Eisenhower is a friend of low the United States to establish air- Malaya and Singapore to realize that peace, his policies are being sabotaged bases on their home soil— airbases, it Geneva brought no diminution of tlie by the Vice President and the Secre- should be emphasized, to aid in their Kremlin's fifth column and revolution- tary of State. Dictator Tito, follow ing own defense. Since World War 11 ary warfare. the communist line, proclaimed in a there has been a great deal more anti- France, beset by econoniic and po- speech that Mr. Eisenhower is "a wise Americanism in Scandinavia than the litical problems at home and revolu- statesman w ho w ishes to preserve v^eace American public has realized. It was tionary troubles in her colonies, would in the world and w ho disagrees with undoubtedly the "Geneva spirit" that naturally welcome an end of the cold some people [the 'warmongers,' of emboldened Norway, Sweden, and w ar. The French public snatches at the course] in the United States." And the Denmark to line up with India, Yugo- illusions of the "spirit of Geneva" as an Prague radio, referring to the Presi- dent's Geneva statement that the Soviet satellites should be freed, charged that he had been forced to say this "on orders" of a Senate committee. These are illustrations of the effort not only to sow suspicion between Americans but also to picture the United States as a warmongering country and the Presi- dent as a well-meaning puppet of an "aggressive ruling class." Above all, the Kremlin is trying to drive a wedge between Europe and America. The strategy aims to destroy NATO, SEATO, ANZUS, and all the free world's defense alliances. The ulti- mate goal is to isolate the United States. Geneva was a step toward the goal. Unless we are gullible to the point of idiocy% we will stay alert to the strategy that would destroy us. Geneva not- withstanding, the Iron Curtain has not turned into velvet. 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Yet in many Stomach and Gastro-intestinal ailments often ure has given many Americans a false cases these people never allied them- lead to spastic and ulcerated conditions of ter- feeling of security. To them this is selves with the Communist Party tech- minal tract that may undermine health. New 130-page gives latest medical facts. proof positive that there aren't enough nically, and scream indignant denials if FREE BOOK Write today. McCleary Clinic and Hospital, C266 left communists in this country to anyone dares to hint that they are actu- Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs 5, Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • 57 . ally comnuinists or pro-communists. not from communism but from the Frantic These subversive characters have as Kremlin's particular brand of commu- Almost from devoted allies another type of person nism. who can best be described as a collec- Overlooking the fact that the all- DRY SKIN ITCH? tivist. Such an individual is a commu- powerful totalitarian state inevitably First applications of Zemo — a nist of a sort, in that subscribes to a state, dream — he means police these people doctor's soothing antiseptic certain tenets of IVlar.xian doctrine of Utopias in \\ hich everyone \\ill be relieve itch of surface skin and without going all the way as a doctri- taken care of from cradle to grave by a irritations. stops scalp Zemo naire communist must. In some cases a benevolent and all-wise government. As scratching and person of this sort may even oppose prime movers, they will of course have so aids healing. zemo the Russian variet\- of Mar.xism as a important roles to play in this brave thing to be bitterly deplored. new world, but they will undertake this Still, this does not keep the coUectiv- because of their great love for the com- RUPTURE-EASER ist from joining hands with the com- man man \\ ho so needs their guidance. (APiper Brace TVuu) ® munist M hen the chips are down. 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I conhlii't stand the thought of all McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON the people who are diligently trying to Registered Patent Attorneys those little rodent skins on me!" 1469 Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE bring about a world government. Like EASY MONEY man\' coUectivists, these people really SELLIIVG JIM RICHARDS the chips are likely to be down when believe that their globalistic nostrum EXCLrSIVE ROOT LIIVE any individual or any organization does will cure mankind of all its ills. But in Now for the first time available. Be first In something \\ hich w ill hurt communism. their headlong rush toward the millen- your territory part or full time to show these ium blitheh' overlook realities. famous quality boots. Free sales kit, sam- Shouting loudly that they hate com- they oles. No obligation. Jim Richards Shoe^ munism, the collcctivists move in a And one hard reality is that their one- Co., Dept. L-2, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. body to annihilate their hated enemies, world would be achieved largely at the 91 years of Craftsmanship behind our Famous Wellington the anti-communists. Psychologists may expense of our United States. That this DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; offer a better reason for this strange fact does not trouble them is evident IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS phenomenon, but it could arise from in the way they persist in whittling OrtKln.Tl Type P Pump h.-is 1,001 u-ses liouse. g.'»rden. farm. Pumps 3,00(> at national sovereignty, I GPH; 450 GPH 80' lilEti; or 1.800 the fact that communism and the ide- away our but GPH from 25' well. Use 1/6 to 3/4 HP motor. Motor coupling Included have need hardly point out that The Ameri- 1" Inlet: -t:," outlet. St.nlnless steel ology espoused by these people haft. RUST! WON'T CLOGI WON'T can Legion is not going to sit idly by fi>stj..-ikl If casti wltli order. (West common roots. AVhen anyone strikes at c.f Miss, .idd 50C ) MONEY BACK and Gear GUARANTEE Centrifugal communism he is bound to hit a raw while such pet)plc try to persuade the lABAWCO pump's,' Belle Meod 56, N. J nerve in the collectivist anatomy. American people that national suicide Thanks in large part to such people, is in their o\\ n best interest. Nagging Backache we have committed one folly after an- This is not to say that w e should be- other in our foreign relations and in come isolationists. That is neither de- our domestic affairs. The\' arc the kind sirable nor practical in our present Sleepless Nights who in the 1920's and 19.?0's became at world. There are two billion people on N.-iprsing backache, ht adache, or muscular aches ami least emotionally involved \\ ith the bol- this earth, and \\e must learn to live pains inay coine on with over-exertion, emotional up- shevik revolution, and propagandized with them. Indeed, we are learning; and sets or day to day stress and strain. And folks who eat and drink unwisely sometimes suffer mild bladder this countrj' into making its greatest I dare sa\' that Legionnaires, thanks to irritation. ..with that restless, uncomfortable feeling. If you are miserable and worn out because of diplomatic blunder—the recognition of their service in the Great Wars and in these discomforts, Doan"s I'ills often help by their Red Russia. of these people Korea, had an unusual vantage point for pain relievinn action, by their soothing effect to ease Many bladder irritation, and by their mild diuretic action eventually recognized their error, and their lessons in international living. Be- thr ough the kidneys — tending to increase the output cause this advantage, which unfor- of the l.^> miles of kiilney tubes. wanted nothing further to do with Rus- of So if nagging backache makes you feel dragged- sian communism. But even so, a great tunatch' man>' one-worlders lack, we out, miserable . . . with restless, sleepless nights . . don't wait... try Doan's Pills... get the same happy many of tiicm changed their ideolog\' discovered a highl\' important and basic relief millions have en.ioyed for over 60 years. Get in only one major respect. They turned fact. From practical experience we Doan's Pills today ! 58 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 know that this countr\' ami tiic citizens organizations operatmg in manners of this country can count on being re- detrimental to our country's welfare. spected only as long as the United For thus daring to discuss communists Shaky States remains strong. We know from and collectivists The American Legion bitter experience \\ hat happened to our has even l)een denounced as subversive ? prestige after \\'orld \Var II ended and and un-American! However, that is just table it began to appear that the United another indication of the fact that it is States \\as no longer the same might\' high time Americans started pulling Build short leg with nation that had won victories around together to fight the powerful forces up New Plastic Wood. Makes a permanent fix— won't the globe. That is just one reason, but that are arrayed against us—the forces chip, crack or peel. New Improved a compelling one, why we as citizens of communism, collectivism, and one- Plastic Wood has a finer grain — mini- and veterans are unalterably opposed \\ orldism. mum shrinkage. Takes stain. to those foolish people who want to \Miat should our strategy be? weaken this nation's so\'ereignt\" and Bear in mind that these three forces limit its power in their do-good at- sometimes operate independently of tempts tf) promote world government. each other, sometimes the>' w ork as a — However, we know w hat we are up team, and on some occasions they seem Handles like putty hardens against in opposing these people be- to be pitted against each other. How- into wood. cause we have learned of the power ever, they show remarkable harmony OWN a BUSINESS they possess. 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As a re- way will we stop the constant probings washing that is constantK being prac- sult we ha\e been easy marks for our and humiliations practiced on us b\- the ticed on them 1)> tiie communists, the enemies and a source of dismay to our Kremlin bosses, and end the doubts of collectixists, and the pi'oponents of friends. If w e intend to w in the present our friends and allies. world go\ ernment. cold w ar, it is essential that w e get o\ er But first w e must pick up w here we l'"or the past few \ears we have been this w eakness and develop some faith in left off a long time ago, and show some suffering from a growing inferiorit)' ourselves. As the next step w e must ex- patriotism. complex of international dimensions. press that faith b\- showing the world THE END CATCHING MORE FISH WITH AN OUTBOARD (Coiiliiiiietl from l>(ii^r l'>) face, thereby giving their location v'ou're alwa\ s faced with the problem One of my favorite w ays of fishing awav. So we trolled— and unsuccess- of handling the boat, and fishing at the is to cast a shoreline for bass, and be- fully. same time. And when you're fishing cause of the problems involved I've Changing our technitiues, ue put on big lakes, the additional problem of spent years learning how to do it from low-friction lures (lures capable of wind is usually present. a boat. moving at high speed w ithout bouncing The easy way out is to anchor the But to do this properly, it is necessary out of the water) and opened up the boat over a weed bed and start casting. to hold the moving boat a constant dis- 5V2 horsepower motor tf) a half- But regrettabl)-, this isn't the best way tance from the bank while working a throttle setting. Our approximate speed to catch fish. Keep on the move. If a shoreline. I tried drifting downwind, in the big boat was seven to eight wind is present, utilize it—put it to holding the boat in position with the m.p.h., almost three times the normal work for you. There are several meth- oars or paddle, but this didn't work. trolling speed. ods of doing this. When I got a strike, it was always at We starfeti to get action immediate- One method is to "drift fish." If the moment I w as making a stroke with ly. W hite bass slanuned into the fast- you're fishing a weedy bay for bass, an oar. The bass threw the hook before moving lines with such frequency that crappie or northern pike and it isn't 1 could set it. we couldn't travel 50 >ards without necessar\' to maintain a constant course, And then the wind usually couldn't getting a strike. To make matters more this method is particularly effective. be counted on to cooperate. Atore than confusing, largemouthed bass and wall- Simply determine which way the wind likely it blew other directions than eyes likewise fell prey to the racing is blowing, and use your motor to parallel to the bank I wished to fish. lures. I can explain the white bass hit- place \'ourself upwind of the section of Later I became smart enough to use ting the rapidly trolled lures because water \'ou intend to fish, (^nce \ ou've my outboard to fish w ith. I headed into they are a fast-sw imming, hard-striking done this, shut off your motor and cast the wind this time, and sat on the fish. Frankh-, I still iia\ en't been able to as >'ou drift. To cover a larger section motor, guiding it b>' shifting my body understand the Lmoi thodox action of of water with your casts plan >'our from side to side. This left both hands the largemoiifhcds ami wallcves. But drifts so that you cover a different free to fish w ith, and it was an immense that's fishin'. stretch of water each time. Utilizing improvement over trying to handle the When you're fishing from a boat, the w ind thus is an excellent method of boat with oars. But this technique had particularh" when x'ou'rc by yoiuself. fishing a w eed bed or shallow bay. its disadvantages too. I was following the boat's bow, and it proved to be an erratic weather vane. The wind would catch it, throw it off course, and before I could compensate with the slowly moving motor, 1 was either too close or too far away from the shore to make accurate casts. My course up the shore- line looked like the patii of a snake through the sand. l inalb', however, I hit upon a solu- tion to all m\ prctblems, and I'm passing it on 10 you for w hat it s worth. All I did was turn the boat around and use the reverse gear of the motor. I, in turn, faced the transom of the boat, and proceeded backw ards up the shore- line into the w ind. This technique had a ninnber of advantages. Xo longer did I have to worrv' about the bow of the boat. I was standing b>- the outboard motor, pivot point of the bt)at, and I could thus maintain a constant course up the shoreline. If the bow swung in or out, it had little effect on m\ posi- tion. Since I was going backwards, the bow was follow ing, not leading me on a weaving patii. This techniiiue bad one other ad\ an- ^j) • Tin; AMEKICAN LEUION MAGAZINE • EEliRUARV 1956 — t;ig<.'. Since the stern of a boat is less time on a number of the large Mid- streamlined than the bow, the motor western lakes. There, a 25- to 30-hp. This'lOSales had less pushing power at slow speed. motor was commonly used for fishing, 1 found I could go slower at a uniform and I soon learned the reason wh>'. 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Ready for you NOW! units as hsiiing rigs until 1 spent some \\'hen in doubt, troll. This is an e\- BROOKS APPLIANCE CO., 3G5 D State St., Marshall, Mich. THf, AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 195f. • j ccllcnt way to find fish when xou're up in the stern of the boat to steer it. And remember this, if \ou"re going not sure where to fish. \\'hen \ ou catch Choose your boat and motor with to catch fish, w hether you use a pair one, stop and fish the spot thoroughly. an e>'e on the type of waters you in- of oars, an outboard motor, or a wind- Use your motor to fish with. Drift tend to fish. If a big motor is necessarx' filled sail— you have to fish. \\'ith the wind across likel.v looking for the kind of fishing you intend to A feller once said, "A man can't ex- weed beds or bays, and fisli shorelines do, consider a second smaller motor for pect to catch man\' fish on a i/;_v plug." by reversing your motor and standing the actual fishing. And he was right. the f.M) FOR GOD AND COUNTRY (Continued front page 25 Few national programs of The seas by Armed Forces Radio Service. was being formed at the same time by American Legion have met with such The main principles of the "Back to thinking men of serious purpose. The>' enthusiastic response as the "Back to God" program are publicized by the were led by the late Bishop Charles God" program. In 1954 National Head- Legion nationally and through its Posts, Brent, Chief of the Chaplains" Service quarters offered American Legion Posts on billboards and smaller signs, and in of the A.E.F. an opportunity to buy Grace Before letters to editors. Posts are urged to Bishop Brent w ent to the Paris Cau- Meals cards for Posts to distribute in provide religious speakers at Legion cus of The American Legion to see restaurants and other public places at meetings, and to have their chaplains what w as going on. Post expense. bring the idea of the "Back to God" At the first meeting committees w ere Within a year and a half, American movement to other groups. Legion- assigned, including one which was to Legion Posts had bought nearh- one naires are urged to cooperate with their draw up a tentative Constitution for the million of the cards from National local churches in augmenting church Legion. Headquarters in Indianapolis. attendance, and in sponsoring special At the second meeting, on March 17, Starting in 1952 the Legion, in co- "Go to Church Sundays" with their 1919, the report of the committee on .sponsorship with all major radio and churches. constitution was read. It might have TV networks, arranged a radio and tele- The importance of moral and spirit- said man>' things. Actuall>', it was a vision "Back to God" broadcast on ual principles was recognized at the statement that contained the essence of Four Chaplains Da\- in February. Presi- very founding of The American w hat is now the Legion's famous Pre- dent Eisenhower appeared on the pro- Legion, as it is today in the Legion amble. grams in 1953-54-55, along with promi- Preamble and the major Legion pro- The minutes of the Caucus say that nent religious leaders. grams of comradeship and unselfishness. an unkn()\\ n "delegate from S.O.S. Base More than 100 million people arc Had it been otherwise, the infant Section 4" m()\ cd that the report of the estimated to have seen and heard these American Legion that was born at two committee on constitution be adopted. programs over CBS, NBC, ABC, and meetings of a caucus of soldiers in Paris Bishop Brent then arose and asked MutLial T\^ and radio outlets. In addi- in 1919 might never have endured. that he be permirtcti to second the mo- tion, rebroadcasts were beamed to the The American Legion was not the tion. free world and behind the Iron Curtain only veterans' group proposed b\' He was happ>' to note, lie said, that in many languages by the Voice of World War I servicemen then. An- the constitution proposed to state the America, and to L'. S. servicemen over- other, known as Comrades in Ser\ice, principles which tiie Legion would serve. He had feared that the Caucus might create a "mechanism" without clear purpose. ShouUI the Legion fake such a path, he saiii, tiien Comratles in Scrxice would "become a rival to \ ou." But he approved the Legion's dedi- cation to moral, spiritual, human and American ideals of the loftiest sort. "W e are entirely lo\ al to >()ur prin- ciples," Bishop Brent announced. Com- rades in Service, he added, w ill "ask all w ho come in w ith us to be prepared to throw in their lot w ith this organization when it is perfected in the L'nited States." Bishop Brent's seconding speech thus joined in serious purpose all elements seeking to unite \A Orld \\ ar I \ eterans as a peacetime force. And, in the histor\ of Fhe American Legion, his w ere the first ixMuarks e\ ei" from the floor of an American Legion meeting w hose exact w ords are record- ed in the minutes. That is a happ.v piece of historx for an organization which ilcdicates itself first to God, and then to count !>•. THE END ^2 • I hi: AMERICAN EBGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 ROD AND GUN CLUB MERCURY OUTBOARDS' 1956 line is out. Fishermen sliould pa\' particular atten- (Contiiiitcd from piii^e 26) POST EXCHAIVGE tion to the Mark 6 which is aimed at thcni. BUSINESS-MONEY MAKING OPPO R TUNI TIES it weighs 42 lb., has two alternate firing TED HOUSER, Box 175, Ashley, 111., MEN—WOMEN! 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"It will mend most anything," STAMPS and Wildlife Service, Department of the he says. "Seal a cut, waterproof a leak, First U.N. Set. Among World's Prettiest. Only 10c. Approvals. Welles. Box 1246 New Yo'k Citv 8. Interior, AVashington 25, D. C. GK. mend a glass, insulate a short circuit, and WANTED TO BUY is a big help in starting a fire with damp WANTED TO BUY— QUICKSILVER, STERLING, scrap precious met- als. Immediate payment. Write. MercTjry Refiners, Norwood. Mass wood when you're out in the timber." ROBERT W. TOEPFER, 3307 No. 58th Street, Milwaul THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1956 • " Sans Bono and Hair thought that I d better tell \ ou that your wife just drove in here to have the car OIJ Mother Hubbard n-ciit to the cup- re- ." board, paired and . . "All right," interrupted the with At rationiuii she %i\is careless. husband a sigh, "go ahead and hx the car. I'll pay When she got there the dog ^ivas bare, For he ivas a Mexican hairless. for it." — Carlton Buck "That isn't exactly what I'm calling about," said the voice, "\^'ho's going to pay to fix the garage?" Ono 1%'ay of Doinj^ It — Harold Helper A visitor to a section of the country u licTc lakes abound was standing in front Caterer of a small lake nestled in among some high Almost any matt »s a/V/jJig to cater to the mountains \\ hen a guide spoke to him. u'hini!, a sylphish u otnau. "There's a glorious echo around of here," — said the guide, "but you have to shout very Imogene Fey loud. Now, \ ou just >"elK 'Tw o bottles of beer! Strategist The tourist shouted, and then listened claims, hoieever troublesome, intently. He He takes tomorroirs as they come. "I don't hear an\" echo," he said, at last. Oh, 'ivhat a fine, courageous view — "Oh, well," replied the guide. "Here there ivere much else to do.' comes the bartender with the two bottles As if Parting — Dewhurst of beer, ain w ayl S. H. — Dan Ben.nett Shots C'ool-iieaded View A friend called upon a guest at a hotel, knocked, and asked him to open the door. the back and complained, "I don't like to "Can't." bring this up. Sir, but tiie laces are now "Why not?" fifteen cents." "Door's locked." — Jack Herbert '\\'ell, unlock it." "Can't — have no key." Si(£ht iiNcvn I "Great Scot, man, w hat will > ou do if Milady shops both far and near, there's a fire?" Spends titiie and spends a pretty penny "Can e go." For nylons so extremely sheer — Joseph Charles Salak That it appears she hasn't any. — Berton Bralev He's tile <»ne Checkmate: Spouse who pays the bills. Fair Plav — |()HN Raymond If children make deductions for you, you must make allowances for them. Tabled Manners — Raymond Duncan For sl>eaking up at the table We reprimanded our lad. That's Difforont It ivasu't the moiilhjul lie said. "iMr. iMarston," said the v oice over the But rather the moiillifiil he had. phone, "this is Harry's Garage, and I — Richard Ar.mour 'They're jelly beans; I wear them till they get sticky, then I eat them." Pass tlie Dessert To those who preach "Diet!" Whenever I dine, I say, "Yon j^o your weigh. And I will go mine." — I'. G. Kernan Tlie Tie Tiiat Binds The only thing henpecked husbands who are treated like dogs hai'e to look forward to is a lu'w leash on life. — Mont Hukst An Ki'unoniist A man, who was down on his luck, posted himself in front of an office build- ing w ith a tra\' of shoe laces, which he peddled to the passing crowd. One execu- tive matlc it a habit of giv ing the unfor- tunate a dime daih , but he never accepted the laces. This went on for weeks, until — one da\' the peddler, upon receiv ing the 'Don't ask questions. 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