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POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 LEGION The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue Magazine New York, New York 10019 Publisher, James F. O'Neil

Editor Robert B. Piikin Contents September 1967 Art Editor for Al Marsliall Assistant Editor John Andreola Associate Editors HOW THE ATOM IS CHANGING THE WORLD 6 Roy Miller James S. Swartz BY R. B. PITKIN Assistant Art Editor A quick look at what atomic energy is doing to ordinary life Waller H. Boll in this 25th year of the "atomic age." Production Manager Art Bretzfield Copy Editor Grail S. Hanford ST. GEORGE, UTAH—THE MORMON DIXIE 12 Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson BY ALDEN STEVENS Indianapolis, Ind. Advertising Director A travel article for today's motorists on St. George, long the Robert P. Redden "Southland" of Mormon Utah. Thirty-seventh in Chicago Sales Office the series "Seeing Historic America." Raymond W. Welch, Jr. 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago, 111. 60601 312 CEntral 6-2401 A PLAN TO RESCUE OUR OLYMPIC BEGGARS 16 BY IRVING JAFFEE, AS TOLD TO HAL BOCK CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Our Olympic fund begs and commercializes to send teams abroad, Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Ofhce Form 3578. Attach, old address label and while the rest of the world is surpassing us in sports programs {jive old and new addresses with ZIP Code for youngsters. Here's a simple proposal by an Olympic number and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant, champion to end it all at one blow. The American Legion Publications Commission James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. (Chairman); SHOULD THE U.S. SUPPORT THE GENOCIDE TREATY? 20 Howard E. Lohnian, Moorhe ad, Minn, ( Vice Chairman) ; Bob Whittemore, W atertown, S.D,

TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION ( National Comma rider's Representative ) ; Lang Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. pro: sen. EDWARD W. BROOKE (R-MASS.) Booth, Huntington , (( . Va.; Adolph F. con: rep. JOHN R. RARICK (D-LA.) Bremer, Winona, Minn.; John Cicero, Swoyer- title. Pa.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.;

Paul B. Dague, Downingtown, Pa. ; Raymond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; Chris Hernandez, THE STORY OF THE AMERICA'S CUP 22 Savannah, Gn.; George D. Levy, Sumter, S.C.; Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, loiva ; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N.Y.; Morris Meyer, Stark- BY JAMES S. SWARTZ ville. Miss.; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, La.; The tale of how we have held onto the America's Cup in yachting Robert Mitchler, Oswego, III.; Harry H. Schaffer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bradley J. Stephens, since 1851 amidst frequent controversy and in spite of all Los Altos, Calif.; Wayne L. Talbert. Delphi, Ind.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; challenges—with a glimpse, too, at the Australian Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville, Ala.; E. Meade Mulberry, Fin. yacht. Dame Pattie, which will try to relieve Wilson, ; Edward McSweeney, New York, N.Y. (Consultant) us of The Cup this September.

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"Maior Roberts has produceil a H9M 75( fini-class book. ..to curb ttis tions and management are leadership. Al- corrosive anti-American influence ways for better or worse. the 'liberal estabtishment.' of EDITOR'S American Negroes have suffered worse than anyone else in this summer's vio- CORNER lence. What did leadership do for them? TV has leadership. How well does it exercise it when it gives a Stokeley Car- VICTORY A PANORAMA TO PONDER michael or a Rap Brown prominent plat- forms THIS MONTH we give you a breather. We on the people's airwaves? have no major article on any of the This question is not as easy to answer great problems that saddle this weary as you may think. There are many sides world with disaster, real and looming. But to it. Had we not seen them on TV, many DENIED of us would not know what they have we'll be back. We have nothing on the Israeli-Arab mess, nothing on the sad been up to. ...WHY YOUR events in our great cities, nothing on the But we are of the personal opinion that SON FACES continuing struggle in Vietnam. The TV has not exercised leadership in weigh- DEATH IN American Legion will hold its national ing just how much of the sedition of the convention in lawless it should lend a hand to. It has 'NO-WIN Boston after these pages are closed. The delegates will be as hard overplayed them, and in overplaying them WARS" put as the rest of the country to come up has supported incitement to violence. With- with expressions that are apt to be guide- out so much press and TV attention lines to any real quick solutions virtually a guaranteed world platform any BY to these and other ills of the world. A special six- time he decides to make an appearance MAJOR teen-page section next month will report many a lawless leader would not be a na- ARCH E. both the lighter and soberer doings of the tional figure. ROBERTS convention. TV and some of the press, in our opin- On Vietnam, we expect that there will ion, abandon leadership any time they be considerable opinion at the convention have something that is "good show." We to urge that the Vietnam war be concluded need new leadership in journalism in this WHY as rapidly as possible, by providing what- country which places the public good over IS VICTORY DENIED IN VIET NAM? ever is needed to bring a conclusion con- good show. What of the Congressmen we WHO sistent with the aims of the U.S. in Viet- have seen in committees quietly listening witnesses DENIED US VICTORY IN KOREA? nam. to promising a "long hot sum- WHERE The Legion has always supported the mer," then soberly discussing it with them as if law order something WILL OUR SONS NEXT FACE DEATH aims of this country in Vietnam, and we and were you tried to negotiate hopefully? IN A NO-WIN WAR? think—but we do not know—that it will "Under this new conception, we are be the temper of the convention that if We are all familiar with the clergymen, required in the midst of deadly war to you go to war in pursuit of certain aims educators and scientists who have given soften our blows and send men into there follows an absolute necessity to put moral support to "activists"—their soft phrase for inciters to lawlessness. The battle with neither promise nor hope enough into it to achieve those aims. The ringleaders are incurable. They are com- of Victory." general dougias macarthur prolongation of war simply by adhering to mitted to a cult that either doesn't under- aims without making sufficient effort to VICTORY DENIED stand or doesn't care for civilization. Their WHICH MUST achieve them has always seemed defense- PRESENTS THE LEGAL ACTION influence is in their voice. need other less to us. We BE TAKEN TO RESTORE TO OUR VA1.IANT voices in their fields to swell up loud The Legion will have a good deal to SONS THE PROMISE OF VICTORY. enough to drown them out, if possible say about the violence in our cities. It will shame them down. ". certainly say, as it always has, that law . . reveals much about the celebrated 'muz- We need brave politicians to tackle the zling' of the military." and order are the keystone of any civiliza- ^^^^^ Edwards, slum problems. It takes bravery and lead- TODAY tion. BOOKS ership, for the slums are very much a The Legion will certainly take a strong creation of successful politics. Existing ". the United . the United States, through stand for law and order. The trouble is welfare, as New York Commissioner Gins- Nations, could be called to fight on the side that such stands are needed and necessary, of its enemies." berg has had the courage to say, is a prison but not sufficient. The Legion has no more Howard Adelstein, that keeps the slums what they are. He immediate remedy that we know of LOS ANGELES HERALD-EXAMINER — did not say that they were prisons created than has anyone else. Last year the con- by politicians. But one aspect of the slums ". Constitution." . A campaign to return to the vention pointed out the need of a positive Walter Trohan, and ghettoes is that politicians want them program to bring more of the nation's CHICAGO TRIBUNE PRESS SERVICE in welfare bondage as a source of votes leadership together to create, through lead- for the machine that delivers the welfare ". ership, more respect for law and order. . shows what we citizens can do to stop check. Many of the ghettoes didn't exist " this subversion. These are not empty words. The exer- until they were politically created by of- T. David Horton, Esq. cise of leadership is not mere statement, fering too-easy welfare to attract and hold DEFENDERS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION it is action—and it involves judgment, re- their slaves to votes. Once created, the de- straint and responsibility. We would hope YOU SHOULD READ pendency is not easily removed. If there (though we exercise no influence over VICTORY DENIED is a solution, leadership of a high order is them), that the Legion delegates would needed, including the courage to say the

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DATELINE WASHINGTON CITIES SWALLOW UP COUNTRY. TRACKING THE TAX DOLLAR. CASTRO-ORGANIZED SUBVERSION.

Washington has another population explosion to worry- PEOPLE AND QUOTES about —urban growth , A tremendous study in depth— 979 pages —by the National Planning Association, a research DOCUMENT NEEDS organization here, has come up with the following "I think it is not only fair, predictions for 1975: but necessary, to require for- Seventy-three percent of the nation's population, 164 eign countries to document million people, will be living in metropolitan areas. their needs and meet sound re- Sixty percent of the citizenry will be concen- quirements for aid." J. W. trated in 25 of the largest metropolitan areas. Keener, President, B. F. Good- The three out of five who will be metropolitanized rich Co. will share an even larger proportion of the nation's jobs and income. KNOWLEDGE LIMITED The big city complexes will keep getting bigger as "The history of science cau- the populace keeps streaming in from the countryside to tions us to be humble in our the urban centers seeking employment and opportunity. approach to the universe we How to keep them on the farm? live in. We really know so little yet." Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern University. Rare is the seer who can read the riddle of the U. S. annual budget a massive compendium requiring the MORE AND SURE year's labors of an army of civil servants, which ( in "We want more money and theory at least ) documents the President ' s requirements we want it guaranteed." Walter to keep the federal engine running. P. Reuther, President, United Among the select few is Maurice H. Stans Budget Auto Workers Union. Director during the Eisenhower Administration. He looks into the not - so - crystal - clear 1968 budget of President SIGNS OF TIMES I mind peo- Johnson and sees bi g g overnment getting bigger. Among "Actually, don't Stans' findings: ple carrying signs for peace Since 1960, U.S. population has grown 10%; but federal we've been trying to get it for bureaucracy has increased its personnel by 25%, its years. Secretary of State Rusk. payroll (including military) by 75%, total spending by CONSUMER I.Q. 83%, non-defense spending by 97%. "To know fuUy what he is Some taxpayers are getting part of it back. Approxi- getting, today's consumer mately 42 million Americans now receive regular checks should ideally be a mathema- from the federal government, according to Citizen tician, chemist, mechanic, nu- Stans. tritionist, accountant, electri- cian and—sometimes, I think Concerned with Communist war in Vietnam, bewildered a Houdini." Mrs. Esther Peter- with Red Guard motions in Communist China, piqued by son, former Special Presiden- Russian actions in the Mideast, the U.S. public has been tial Asst. for Consumer Affairs.

merely bored by Castro nearer home . VIET WAR KEY But while Fidel fiddles a lot, he is also fueling the "Whether we like it or not, fires of guerrilla war in four Latin American the nation is committed in Viet- countries : Venezuela Colombia , Guatemala and Bolivia . , nam. The issue before us now For the moment Castro's fires appear to be under is the origin of our involve- control, but more Cuba-organized subversion is sure to not ment in that conflict, but bring- come, reports the House Subcommittee on Inter- it honora- American Affairs. ing to a conclusion,, bly, and hopefully, peacefully." Most of Castro ' s support comes from the USSR , the Asst. Senate Minority Leader subcommittee says , but adds that several U. S. allies Kuchel, of Calif. and beneficiaries of U. S. aid are making trade credit available to Cuba, among them the United Kingdom, DOMESTIC WORK FOR WOMEN France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Japan, "We are the first society that Morocco and Egypt. Also Canada. has ever demanded that women, Such assistance not only improves Cuba's economy but regardless of rank, education also furnishes Castro with extra resources to expand his and sensitivity or talent, must revolution through Latin America, the subcommittee all do domestic labor." Anthro- warns. pologist Margaret Mead.

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plant from 1936 to the end of WW2, and at the time of the record flight, I was LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 24, not 22. My speed record had nothing to do with Hitler or the Luftwaffe, although it was utilized and stirred up to propaganda advantage by them. And it Letters published do not necessarily ex- (thus "riding the [truss] rods"), but not press the policy The American Legion. should be made clear that Prof. Messer- of brake beams, which extended from Keep letters short. Name and address must schmitt designed the Me209 as a civil be furnished. Expressions of opinion and wheel to wheel, paralleling the axle. requests for personal services are appreci- and not a military plane. F. Howard ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or W. Fritz Wendel answered, due to lack of magazine staff for Annandale, Va. these purposes. Requests for personal serv- Augsburg, Germany ices which may be legitimately asked of The American Legion should be made to sir: "Brake beams"—Whew! Wendel, still holder of the world speed ymr Post Service Officer or your state (Department) American Legion Hq. Send James W. Mann record for piston engine planes, got our Letters, The letters to the editor to: Columbia, S.C. issue American Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave- May from Kenneth Crouch o£ nue, New York, N.Y. 10019. Bedford, Va., a former American Le- SIR: Mr. Nelson's story on hoboes placed gion Boys Stater, who sought and got me in Davenport, Iowa. I live in Burling- Wendel's and Messerschmitt's auto- VIETNAM AND AFTER — ton, Iowa, on the Mississippi, and would graphs. Wendel's letter reaffirms that his sir: complete absorption I have correction. With like a record was set in a special Me209. We just finished "The World After Vietnam" Myrtle French had been advised that former Luftwaffe (July). This is one of the best, if not the Burlington, Iowa pilots here insisted that the record was best, statements of goals of foreign policy Myrtle French was named Queen of the set with an Mel09 fighter plane. not just until the end of the Vietnam Hoboes at the 1966 National Hobo Con- war, but for the peace that we hope lies vention. EXPOSING THE "UNKNOWN" ahead. My congratulations to you. Pro- sir: The article, "Our 'Unknown' Lung fessor Frank Trager and Frank Barnett. WENDEL'S AIR SPEED RECORD Disease" (June), is one of the best that This should be required reading for SIR: "Willy Messerschmitt's Amazing I have ever seen on the dangers of his- doves, hawks, TV commentators and Speed Record" (May) is the most de- toplasmosis. You are to be commended anti.- Vietnam war demonstrators. for publishing it, and the work of Neill M. Coney tailed and objective description of my Ray- Chapala, Mexico speed record I have ever read. It also mond Schuessler, the author, speaks for illustrates the present situation about air itself. It is evident that a tremendous speed records in a most interesting way. amount of time went into the article be- SIR: . . . An outstanding article. A few things, however, are not quite cor- fore publication. ViNCE W. Crary rect. I was not a Luftwaffe pilot and was Robert D. Bosch, President Fargo, N. Dak. never given Lujtwaffe test-duties. I was Rid-A-Bird, Inc. a civilian test pilot at the Messerschmitt Muscatine, Iowa SIR: I have just reread "The World After Vietnam." It is one of the finest and most comprehensive appraisals of the entire picture of the Vietnam situation that has \ . . it's the kind of work appeared in print. Father Edward L. Lew Davenport, Iowa we used to send out sir: The interview with Prof. Trager and Mr. Barnett is tremendous and very, / to the printer. . . very informative. These chaps answered Facsimile the questions beautifully. Halftones Frank T. Priest Wichita, Kan. Paste-Up Layouts SHARKS AND SHINY ARTICLES Ruled Forms sir: I find your department, "Life in the Outdoors," not only educational but also Price Lists entertaining. In the July issue, however, I think there is some advice concerning a sheath knife as part of a skin diver's equipment which might prove dangerous. It is my understanding that shiny Gestetner Introduces 'jn-Office' Printing or bright equipment is very attractive to such fish as barracuda and shark. I • GESTETNER, with its printer's style paste ink, similar subjects that may now go to costly out« think the sheath knife is a very impor- dual cylinders and automatic controls, is office- side services. If you can afford the old style tant part of a diver's equipment, but it girl operated. If should be finished in either dark blue gives you the matchless advan- mimeo you can afford a GESTETNER. or black. Otherwise, the diver may lose tages of a complete in-plant printing department Send for portfolio of facts. a piece of his thigh or calf. — at mimeo cost! Economical and swift, whether <3> Robert L. Gerling used for simple copying purposes or quantity runs. Boston, Mass. GESTETNER CORPORATION Electronic stencils (Gestefax) permit reproduction 216 Lake Avenue, Dept.L-9 Yonkers, N. Y. 10702 of halftones, type, clippings, paste-up layouts and THE VANISHING HOBO, FOR SURE Send descriptive literature. sir: Bill Nelson's article, "The Vanish- Name . ing Hobo" (July), intimates that "riding the brake beams" was once the accepted Firm , mode of hobo travel. I would hate to try Address it . . . mincemeat! Truss rods, which GESTETNER City . were used to support the car's body, yes State -Code- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 5 By R. B. PITKIN The atomic age will be 25 years old this Decern

WAS 25 YEARS ago, on Dec. 2, 1942, ITthat the first nuclear reactor pro- her, and the bomb is only the beginning of the duced a chain reaction with controlled fission of enriched uranium-235, under the grandstands of the U. of things that it has already produced. Chicago's Stagg Field. With that event, nuclear science, in the which began in 1896. ushered 5. Operate an unmanned radio beacon the oldest known fossil man, thought to reactor, "atomic age." The first made at the bottom of the sea. be a million years old, is twice that age. under the direction of Enrico Fermi for Individuals can be identified from a 6. Light your home (millions of the U.S. Manhattan Project, was a war- strand of their hair. people around the world who don't real- time secret. The news that it worked was ize it are using atomic power every time 15. Make a detergent that will break flashed to other scientists with the mes- they flick a switch at home). down in sewage systems and rivers after sage that "the Italian navigator" had use. entered "the new world." 7. Sound an alarm if mass-produced In 25 years, atomic energy has gone The first dramatic product was The sheet-rubber (or paper or what-not) far beyond any simple notion of it as a Bomb, two of which were dropped on coming off a production line should vary source of great power. Energy, whether Japan about IVi years later. None has ever so slightly in thickness. fast in a bomb or slow in a reactor for been used in anger since, but with a *8. Produce millions of gallons per a city electric plant or other use, is only quarter century behind it, the atomic age day of fresh water from sea water a small part of the story. Yet atomic has run up quite a history of its own cheaply. power production is quite a story. The without using any more bombs. atomic age began with power, so perhaps A simple catalog of the things that 9. Tell where opium seized from a we should begin with it, too. atomic energy in various forms is doing, dope peddler was grown. Last January, the U.S. Atomic Energy can do today, and is on the verge of 10. Preserve a piece of ham at room Commission (AEC) put out a 23-page doing, could hardly fail to amaze any- temperature for half a year. list of nuclear reactors "built, being one, though a mere listing would run built and planned" in the U.S. as of Dec. right out the end of this magazine. Here's 1 1 . Eradicate a selected species of in- 31, 1966. Eighty, mostly test reactors, a small sample of the variety such a list sect pest. were already dismantled or shut down; would contain. Items with stars {*) are 12. Find and identify a deep tumor, 296 were operable; 77 were being built, deemed possible by some experts now. giving the surgeon an exact picture of its and 41 (not counting test devices to The others have already been done. size and location—and cure some cancer drive rockets through space) were 1. Tell how much blood a wounded without surgery. planned. Around the world the score is soldier has lost, and if he needs plasma much greater. Britain, France, Canada, ^13. Break up millions of tons of ore or whole blood. Italy, India, the Soviet Union, Belgium, deep in the earth for mining, or shale both Germanics and Japan are only a ^2. Safely blast a new canal through for the extraction of oil in it. few of the countries with busy nuclear Panama at a fraction of the cost of any 14. Reveal previously unsuspected or reactors. Great Britain last year produced other excavation method. unverified facts, almost, it seems, without more public power with atomic energy 3. Tell how old an Egyptian mummy limit. Some green plants can be fertilized than all the rest of the world put together. is, or date a piece of rock to a billion through their leaves or bark. Napoleon Only a few years ago it was felt that years ago. was loaded with arsenic at his death. The atomic energy would never cornpete in 4. Find a leak in an underground pipe. earth is about 4.55 billion years old and cost with coal and oil for public power

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A Sketch of the first atomic reactor, which went into operation The great government atomic research center at Oak Ridge, Tenn. under the grandstands of Stagg Field, in Chicago, on Dec. 2, 1942. Built In secret as part of the "Manhattan" bomb project in WW2, it A wartime secret, no photographs exist of the world-changing device, was later taken over by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 How the Atom is Changing the World

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . SEPTEMBER 1967 7 LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY

CONTINUED How the Atom is changing the World

production. The AEC, working with local power companies, helped put 14 public power plants in operation as "prototypes," to try out different designs and hang the cost. Pittsburgh's Duquesne Light Co. got the first in 1957. (Britain had one going a year earlier.) Others followed for U.S. cities and rural areas from San Juan, P.R., Rowe, Mass., and N.Y. City to Eureka, Calif. Today, nobody would say that atomic power hasn't arrived commercially. U.S. power firms and agencies were building nine new plants and 23 others were planned, without AEC money, at the time of the last published report. The total under contract has since grown to 55. Some of the firms that got the trial plants are leading the pack. Among them, Chicago's Commonwealth Edison will build two more reactors at Morris,

III. New York's Consolidated Edison is putting up its second at its Indian Point installation on the Hudson. Philadelphia

Electric is going for two more for itself, Atoms as excavators. This is a test crater made by a hydrogen reaction. and planning a big one jointly with three other power firms. stance yet found in nature that can be power plants may be the standard de- Two Southern outfits that never had made to fission—that is, break into two sign. atomic power are starting off with two lighter elements in an instant and release The world's first large "breeder" public reactors at once—Florida Power and the great energy that goes "boom" in a power plant is the Enrico Fermi plant on Light at Turkey Point, Fla., and Duke bomb or (with manmade brakes on it) Lake Erie, near Detroit. It started to de- Power Co. at Clemson, S.C. The TVA produce the slower heat of the power re- liver about 70,000 kw for Detroit Edison plans three at Decatur, Ala. actors. Uranium itself is not exactly Co. in 1965, while making plutonium in The early power plants proved that as plentiful. On top of that, in 1,000 pounds the process. Future design will probably

long as there's a market, the bigger the of natural uranium only 7 pounds of it be based on experience with it. "Bugs" in

reactor the cheaper the power. Of the are the kind that you could call "hot," it have arisen, and it is presently shut nine private plants now being built, the while 993 pounds are "cold." Having a down. smallest will produce more than half slightly different atomic structure, the When the early plants proved in op- again as much electricity (for Rochester, "cold" uranium will not fission. eration that the bigger the reactor the N.Y., Gas & Electric) as the biggest of The visible solution to the threatened cheaper the power (to the limit of the the test plants, while the largest will turn scarcity of "hot" uranium under such local market for electricity), that opened

out more than three times as much conditions is one of those things in the a great new possibility in another field. (872,900 kilowatts for New York's new world of the atom that is wholly at odds For years, the AEC—and agencies in unit). Even Rochester's "small" unit will with our ordinary experience. It is pos- other lands—explored the idea of dis- exceed the power production of the sible for reactors to make more fuel than tilling great volumes of fresh water at low Bonneville Dam on Oregon's Columbia they use! cost from the sea. using heat from re- River. At the same time that "hot" uranium actors to evaporate the brine. The im-

But of the units now planned, at least is producing power, it throws off atomic portance to our Southwest, and to arid five will produce more than a million kw particles that can be made to turn the seaside areas around the world, is ob- each. much greater bulk of "cold" uranium vious. Cost is the key. Anyone can desalt These present plants are not very into the manmade element called plu- sea water with an open wallet.

efficient in their use of uranium. In the tonium. And plutonium will fission as In our Southwest, it would be reason-

future it may be said that they squan- readily as "hot" uranium. So there is an able to provide fresh water at about 33(5

dered it recklessly, endangering the total ideal possibility of getting hundreds of per thousand gallons. In the early 1960's, world supply. There are two serious pounds of hot atomic fuel for every 7 a pilot oil-burning desalter was built problems here, but not without solutions. pounds that are used! Another element, at San Diego. It produced 1.400.000

Problem 1 : The inefficiency of exist- thorium, may be turned into hot uranium gallons of fresh water a day from the ing reactors. in the same way. Thorium is much more Pacific. But the cost came to about $1 Immediate solution: New reactor de- plentiful than natural uranium. per thousand gallons. It was three times signs, not yet in commercial use, that are Reactors that make more fuel than too costly. It turned out to be a good in- already far more efficient. they use are called "breeders." Twenty vestment, anyway. When Castro shut off Problem 2: Uranium is the only sub- or thirty years hence, "breeder" public the water at our Guantanamo Bay Naval

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SE PTEMBER 1967 LAWRENCE RADIATION LADORATORY and enough fresh water for 750,000. While sheer power is only one of many facets of the atomic "new world" that we entered 25 years ago, there is one more energy story that only awaits suit-

able projects big enough to use it. At the time of the Suez crisis of 1956 a new canal through Israel was thought of. When that crisis petered out the canal was forgotten for the time being. But the AEC started study and experiments in large-scale earth-moving with atomic explosions. Craters, underground caverns and trenches were blasted. Small uranium reactions and two huge thermonuclear fusion (hydrogen) underground explosions were studied. Large-scale experiments were also run with TNT and other chemical explo- sives, while the AEC observed Defense Department nuclear weapons tests underground.

By 1960, some authorities deemed it "feasible and safe" to atom-blast a sea level canal through the Isthmus of Pan- ama far deeper and wider than the present canal, and far cheaper than by conventional methods. Other projected uses growing out of the tests include: Stripping surface rock off deep mineral

Model showing how a new canal might safely be atom-blasted in Panama. deposits; Shattering shale to tap it of huge in- U.S. DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Base in 1964, the San Diego desalter was accessible oil deposits; moved there and has been watering the Breaking up large ore bodies deep in the base ever since. ground; lakes But how to get the cost down for Making harbors and where there never any; civilian use? An AEC scientific team at were Oak Ridge, Tenn., proposed in 1962 that Digging passes through mountain huge dual-purpose atomic plants could ranges; Collapsing make electricity in great amounts and canyon and mountain walls desalt sea water with the heat remaining to make dams; Altering watersheds to redistribute in the steam after it had powered natural water flow; generator ' turbines. The economy of great size, plus the double use of the Creating huge underground caverns energy, should produce cheap power for water storage; and water wherever (as in our South- Channeling seawater into below-sea- tap the west) there is a demand for the power level desert depressions to flow as well as the water. for water power; The AEC projected a vision of a pos- And releasing huge gas deposits that sible plant capable of delivering 4'/2 are locked in hard rock. million kw of electricity and a billion By careful control of the depth and gallons of fresh water a day. President size of explosions, by study of the under- Johnson's own Office of Science and ground material and layers, and by Technology looked into the idea with scheduling blasts in favorable weather, such favor that he asked it to team up it has been shown that the various with the to plan a program for such dangers from shock and radioactivity AEC Sterilized by atomic radiation, cattle-kill- desalting. In 1964, he told an interna- ing male screwworm flies are released by can be restricted to only a few miles and tional conference that the time was the Dep't of Agriculture to mate with wild short periods of time. females. When their eggs failed to hatch, coming when such plants will be a Operation HARDHAT was a small the pest was eradicated from our South. reality. Defense Department explosion in 950 The AEC has already designed a and water, so costs will vary from place feet of granite in 1962 with "no hazard- promising reactor that would get five to place. But cheap electricity and fresh ous radioactivity encountered." After times the energy from natural uranium water at 190 a thousand gallons is fore- that it was felt that what had been that present power generators do. The seen for some places by the 1980's! learned was "sufficient to allow indus- second test version of it will be in a dual- Where it happens it will be a revolution. trial scale nuclear mining." Another purpose desalter-generator. A proposal has been made for a test small explosion, DANNY BOY. at a Dual plants will be limited in economy plant in Southern California to produce depth of 110 feet, released only 4% of by the size of the local market for power enough electricity for 2 million people its radioactive material in the air, and

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CONSOLIDATED EDISON CO. OF N.Y. CONTINUE ° How the Atom is changing the World

dangerous fallout was limited to about two miles.

For many uses it was found that small explosions were better than big ones (a comforting thought), especially for surface blasting where big ones are most dangerous. Larger surface explosions wasted too much energy in useless shock waves. A series of small ones set off in a row at one time created beautiful canal-sized trenches with dirt neatly piled up in "levees" along each side. Today, the AEC quotes prices to industry that reduce to a few cents the cost-per-yard of digging that runs from 20(f to $5 by other methods. It expects that the limited situations in which giant atomic excavation can safely be carried out today will multiply in the future. AEC studies are steadily reducing the

danger factors. Meanwhile, it awaits customers with big enough projects to

take advantage of what is already "feasible and safe."

But if you think of atomic energy as Today, millions of people around the world use atomic power whenever they throw a switch deadly power, consider that another at home. This is New York City's nuclear power plant at Indian Point, N.Y. Now, after 14 test plants were put in use, U.S. power companies are building nine, planning 55 in all. version of it eradicated the cattle-killing screwworm fly from our South without, literally, killing a fly. Millions of the U.S. .ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

GENEKAI. DYNAMICS CORP.

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Atoms as detectives can identify people These two hams were kept in plastic wrappings at room temperatures from October from a strand of hair, say where opium to July. The one at left, still fresh, had been irradiated by exposure to atomic was grown, tell stories from invisible dust particles. "Atomic preservation" promises a revolution in fresh foods very soon. specks. In the test above, atomic analysis identified brands of ammunition used two there is more than one kind of uranium. weights. Carbon- 13 weighs one unit by "suspect" from dust specks on hands. Even so, science found to its astonish- more than Carbon- 12. (This much ex- males were bred in captivity, made ment some 60 years ago that there is plains the language of isotopes.) sterile by exposure to atomic rays, then more than one kind of atom of almost For a while, isotopes were just a

released to mate with the wild females any element, be it hydrogen, oxygen, scientific curiosity. But not for long. It

but produce no little flies. In only a few carbon, iron, iodine or you name it. was found that some very common sub- years the screwworm population fell off A name was needed for the different stances could be bombarded with atomic

to nothing, and the pest is now being kinds, and ''isotope" was chosen. There particles to make new and unnatural chased with atoms across the border into arc, for instance, two very common kinds isotopes that would be radioactive, the Mexico. of carbon atoms. Those of one carbon way radium, uranium and a few other The screwworm sterilization is the isotope differ slightly in structure and rare and expensive natural substances work of so-called "radioisotopes" and so weight from those of the other. (And are. You might say that the bombard- is a great deal of what follows. They are we'll tell you a little later of an interest- ment forces on an atom of, say iron, a

quite different from the stuff that bombs ing third isotope of carbon.) Isotopes new particle that it doesn't want to are made of. You will remember that were given numbers relating to their "digest," so that—even as you and I—it 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 —

OAKRIDGE NATIONAL LAH0RATORY

A dual-purpose atomic power plant of the future that may bigger the unit, the cheaper the power and water, hence huge make a billion gallons of fresh water from the sea a day, while units like this may prove to be the breakthrough in tapping the producing enough electricity for a city of 5 million people. The seas for vast quantities of fresh water at a reasonable cost.

U.S. ATOMIC El r,Y COMMISSION U.S. DEPT OF AGRICULTURE

An atomic powered buoy in Baltimore har- Linen wrappings from the Dead Sea Atomic "gauges" precisely measure the bor flashes ship warnings. Similar de- Scrolls containing the Book of Isaiah were thickness of thin substances. Above, an vices operate unmanned for years in shown by a so-called "atomic clock" to eggshell gauge which, it is hoped, will space, near the poles (where they trans- be just about 1,917 years old. Some rocks select hens that lay thick shells (less mit weather data) and on sea bottom. have been dated back a billion years. breakage) for future breeding. "Gauges" have already saved millions policing thickness of industrial products. tries to spit it out, and its "spitting" is could bombard atoms to change them.

atomic radiation. But in the "new world" of 1942 it be- mosphere as a result of cosmic rays from Such isotopes were called "radioiso- came possible to radioisotopes make by space bombarding Carbon- 13 atoms in topes." The "big things" about exposing the chosen to them are material the fly- the air. And here the wonders begin. that (1) each radioisotope, natural or ing particles in a uranium reactor. Then The tiny amount of Carbon- 14 taken artificial, has its own detectable radiation came a third advance. Tools to detect on by any living thing (including you pattern; (2) each has its own period of radiation became so refined that radio- and me) is fixed while it lives. But the decay back to a stable state ranging isotopes of — common and supposedly minute it dies—since the body doesn't from almost an instant to millions of "stable" elements were found to exist in take on or discharge anymore—the years; and unbelievably small (3) nature in tiny but telltale amounts. decay starts at a steady and known rate. amounts of radioisotopes are detectable. The third carbon atom—Carbon- 14 When half of it is gone, about 5,800 Those facts alone made things possible was found in nature, and it is radioactive. years have elapsed since death. A radia- that no one had dared dream, once the Half of any given amount of it stops tion counter can thus clue the age of any atomic age began. radiating in about 5,800 years. It is con- remains of a living thing. Carbon-14 In the 1930's, only huge machines stantly manufactured in our upper at- (Contiuued on page 50) THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 H -

UTAH TRAVEL COUNCIL (NORMAN VAN PELT) (Readers may find this series of value on future motor trips or of interest to students of American history. We suggest you clip and save each as it appears.) By ALDEN STEVENS Field Director, Mobil Travel Guide IN THE SOUTHWEST comer of Utah, 320 miles south of Salt Lake City, stands the historic Mormon town of St. George. The town was settled in 1861, in an area referred to as "Dixie" by the Mormons because of its long, warm summers.

St. George is on the main route from Salt Lake to Las Vegas (about 90 miles from St. George) and Southern Cali- fornia. Thousands of autoists pass by each year on U.S. 91 (Interstate 15) without pausing or seeming to realize St. George's place in history. Here the first Mormon Temple (1877) to be completed in the state was built. Here too are a handsome Tabernacle, Ja- cob Hamblin's unusual stone house (1864), the summer home of Brigham Young, mulberry trees meant to feed silkworms in an unsuccessful experiment and many other items of interest. Utah's Dixie is rich in history and scenery. Zion National Park, 40 miles east, boasts one of the most spectacular red sandstone vertical-walled canyons in the country. Bryce Canyon National The Mormon Temple (1877) in St. George was the first to be built in Utah. ST. GEORGE, UTAH THE MORMONS' DIXIE

17,000 tons of rock were brought in by He got along well with the Indians and Park, a colorful badlands area with ox team; an old cannon was used as a was partly responsible for bringing Swiss breathtaking formations, is 80 miles east pile driver; timbers were dragged from settlers to grow grapes. of Zion. Cedar Breaks National Monu- 80 miles away and men gave one day in Anyone interested in the Mormon ment is another spectacular badlands ten to building this gleaming white- pioneer movement will find this area re- area about 75 miles northeast of St. plastered edifice. warding; towns in the neighborhood bear George. Brigham Young spent a number of such intriguing names as Panguitch. The site of the Mountain Meadows summers here in the 1860's and 1870's, Parowan. Paragonah, Kanab and Kanar- massacre (September 1857) in which in a two-story house which has been re- raville, mostly derived from Indian Tribes about 125 California-bound Arkansans stored and is now part of Dixie State or leaders. were killed by Indians and whites, is 1967 Motel and Restaurant Info: some 30 miles north of St. George in Panguitch Very good—St. George Travelodge, 60 W. 100 Dixie National Forest, just off UTAH North, on U.S. 91. 39 A/C rooms, pool. 18. Restaurant. (801) 673-4666. Very good—Witt- wer Motor Lodge, 316 E. 100 North, on U.S. The warm climate at St. George led 91. 28 A/C rooms, pool. (801) 673-3541. Very good—Sugar Loaf Cafe, 309 E. 100 North, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of on U.S. 91. Open 6 a.m.—9:30 p.m., closed Latter Day Saints (the Mormon Church) Thanksgiving, Christmas. Specialties: Broasted chicken, steak. (801) 673-3471. (There are other to consider St. George an ideal location good motels. See Mobil Travel Guide to Cali- fornia in which to raise cotton, fruits, silks and and the West.) other products. Pioneers who settled here Your appreciation of any historic bravely bore the hardships of life in this place is greatly enriched if you read unfriendly, rocky country, as they did about it first. Milton R. Hunter's "Utah, everywhere they went. Park. Furnishings are period pieces and the story of her people" is recommended. The Temple was begun on ground there is a garden. Jacob Hamblin, whose "Utah," one of the American Guide which was later found to be over a hidden house still stands in Santa Clara, three Series, has a good piece about St. George. bog. To form an adequate foundation miles west, was a pioneer and explorer. Ask your librarian for other references.

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A PLAN TO RESCUE Our Olympic Beggars

After 72 years we still scrounge to afford an Olympic tions, and by practicing economies in Olympic expenses—economies that will include leaving some eligible athletes team, while we fail to develop our potentiality in many home.

That's how it has happened ever since I can remember. I was our fourth sports. Here's a plan to end all the begging. ranked speed skater in the 1928 Olym- pics. We were entitled to send a squad of 17 speed skaters to the St. Moritz winter Olympics in Switzerland. We By IRVING JAFFEE, THE MODERN Olympic games were prepared to send three. The ship was Olympic skating champion first held in Athens, Greece, in 1 896. in 1928 and 1932, They actually delayed in sailing at the last as told to Hal Bock. have been held every four years minute while a decision was made that since, except in the war years 1916, 1940 they could afford to send me after all. and 1944. The winter games were By the skin of my teeth I made the trip. added in 1924. The United States has participated from the start. When we go into the 1968 games our Olympic experience will have spanned 72 years.

Yet it is a foregone conclusion that it will be a crash operation to finance our t-^- it - 1968 team. let Undoubtedly our Olympic / Commit- tee won't go in the red. It will balance the books by a last-minute pleading for individual gifts, by swapping exclusive Olympic advertising endorsements for cash and equipment from U.S. corpora-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 17 CONTINUED tion at "clinics" to which any interested youngster can come. We have "Olympic A Plan to Rescue Our Olympic Beggars coaches," but theirs is chiefly an hon- orary job, involving the management To everybody's surprise, including my Versions of my own story, minus the and discipline of the Olympic team once own, I won the 10,000 meters. But my happy ending, could be repeated by tens it is chosen. pride in beating the best sicaters fielded of thousands of American boy and girl Until recently, there was not a single by the entire world has been watered by athletes and by thousands of adults who Olympic-size quarter mile or 400-meter an unresolved doubt ever since. If our have tried to help them. To put it briefly, racing rink in the United States. Now the fourth ranked skater could do that, per- I was bitten by the skating bug at age state of Michigan has built one at Flint. haps our fifth or 17th could have beaten 14, while living in a poor neighborhood Small wonder that while an American me. I'll never know. They stayed home. in New York's Bronx. I had to go to like Terry McDermott could win an

At the Millrose track meet in Madi- Manhattan to find a rink I could use Olympic short race in 1964, we are con- son Square Garden, just before the last (Roseland Dance City occupies those sistently left behind in distance skating. Olympics in 1964, the program was in- premises now). To pay for the privilege Our young distance skaters practice on terrupted while a sentimental plea was made by old-time athletes for ail the spectators to chip in for the Olympic fund when ushers passed among us rat- tling the cup. This begging to help the richest nation on earth send its squads to the Olympics makes me absolutely furious. But while I can contain myself, my wife can't. She wants to take it out on the only target available—the poor ushers who pass the tin cup. "Why aren't they planning something," she cries, "instead of embarrassing and humiliating our sports, our nation and our whole program?" She and I aren't alone. As a former Olympian, and as one who ever since has identified himself with the development of young American athletes,

I am often the target of a blunt question from others: "What the hell is the matter? Why do they have to put Bob Hope on a telethon to raise nickels and pennies, or enlist Bing Crosby in appeals to the public, or ask people to send in soap coupons with the promise that the manufacturer will give so much to the Olympic fund for every so many coupons?" They do have to do that, and our Our school varsity programs develop a handful, reject the rest, and omit many sports. 1968 Olympic team will need your support in every conceivable way in order of skating I swept the ice regularly. I ponds, rivers and lakes (when weather to make out. There's no chance of get- sold newspapers to earn subway fare to permits) or at undersized hockey rinks. ting out of the old rut in the little time the rink. I wore borrowed skates that When they enter a world contest it's like remaining. Maybe we'll never get out were too big for me. Stuffing the toes going onto the field for the first time. of it. Maybe the begging, penny-pinch- with newspapers I managed to win a The city of Moscow has ten 400-meter ing, commercialization and crash opera- medal in a novice race. A year later I rinks where the smallest children can tions will go on and on in the nation that won an important race, the New York practice under Olympic conditions. Nor- is reputed to have the greatest reservoir Daily News Silver Skates. I didn't even way has about 40, Sweden 30, Finland of management ability in the world. know what I'd done right, for I had 10—and so it goes. There's a simple and logical way to never been coached. After that, oppor- Many European nations have from 10 assure our Olympic team the money it tunities opened up so that I could have to 20 Olympic bobsled runs. In the needs in a planned, non-begging fashion coaching and decent equipment, thanks United States we have one—at Lake —with enough money left over to pro- to the interest of individual older skaters Placid. The State of New York and the vide some needed support for the better in a promising youngster. This doesn't town of Lake Placid foot the bill for development of amateur athletics in the exactly read like a program for the de- it. The winter athletes aren't the only United States. velopment of young athletes. ones who have little chance to develop

That is another sore spot. We do per- Things aren't exactly the same today, or get good coaching in the United haps the sorriest job of any major nation but there is still no trace of anything like States, but skating is my field so let me when it comes to developing young ath- a national program to give kids such as say a little more. letes. That could surprise you, since we I was a chance to get started. In Canada, France sends her most promising turn out many great champions. Truth the government hires top-notch coaches Olympic figure skaters to the United is, we do it the hard way, and we are in speed skating and figure skating. They States, with all costs paid, to be coached weak in many sports where we could travel the country and give mass instruc- by Pierre Brunet, now an American be strong. ILLUSTRATED BY WILLARD MULLIN citizen. In 1928, he, with his wife, won 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 the example of the late Frank Knox. Knox, former Secretary of the Navy, and a publisher of papers in Manchester, N.H., and Chicago, put up the first $5,000. The late Dan Sowers, of West Virginia, and other hard-working Le- gionnaires used Knox's gift as a base to solicit more from other publishers. The major leagues, whose rosters today are loaded with former Legion youth baseballers, eventually restored their guarantee. Readers of these pages well know what many of the individual Legion Posts go through in order to support the local teams in the program. The Post that plays host to the national finals

may find that it will make out very well — if a substantial committee of able men anticipates every detail and exploits every avenue of support a year or two

in advance. Otherwise it may struggle for another year or two to get out of the red. Unlike us, many foreign nations have national physical fitness programs. True, there is an element of deceit in some of them. They help to field well-trained "amateurs" in the Olympics who would be professionals by our standards. The Communist nations, of course, simply support and pay their "amateurs" to keep in training. They aren't the only ones. Ethiopia's great distance runner earns army pro- motions by winning international races. Sweden's definition of an amateur permits an athlete to capitalize on his reputation in any manner except coaching. (Continued on page 41)

are all familiar with the volunteer programs—the Little Leagues, American Legion Baseball, Babe Ruth Leagues, police athletic leagues, Boys' Clubs, Boy Scouts, and so on. Then there are purely the mixed-pair Olympic figure skating local sports programs conducted by a crown for France. park department or by willing adults We send nobody anywhere for the who earn a living from nine to five, then coaching that a top figure skater needs. turn out to help what youngsters they

And it costs plenty. If you have the stuff can. to be a figure skater in the United States, It is a tribute to such volunteers that you must have rich parents or some they have done as well as they have. private club or sponsor behind you in Their struggles to find playing space and order to develop. Either is a matter of equipment, uniforms, tournament costs, luck. adequate instructors or transportation Our own wonderful Carol Heiss and for the youngsters would curl your hair

Peggy Fleming lacked family wealth. if you knew the details. To put it bluntly, Fortunately, the New York Skating Club volunteers who are perfectly willing to sponsored Carol, while Peggy is a world train your child or mine usually have champion thanks to the backing of the to spend more time and energy begging Broadmoor Skating Club in Colorado for money or other needs (the way the Springs. Olympic Committee does) than they are European governments in general will able to devote to the youngsters. hire successful coaches—from abroad Our national American Legion Base- if necessary—to train their Olympic ball tournament nearly died in 1933 hopefuls. when the major leagues withdrew the In the United States, the development support that helped underwrite the na- TV thrives on sports features. It too should of young amateur athletes is carried on tional elimination contests. Newspaper plow a percentage into the development in the schools or volunteer adults. by We publishers saved the day. They followed of amateur athletic programs. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 19 —

Opposing Views by Congressmen on The Question...

SHOULD THE U.S

THE Genocide Treaty should definitely be supported American people. by the United States. Next year, 1968, has This United Nations Treaty is designed to prevent been designated by the by international law the mass annihilation of any group General Assembly of the of human beings and to prevent the mass destruction UN as International of entire populations. The Genocide Treaty, which was Human Rights Year. transmitted to the Senate by President Truman in Twenty years of effort by 1949, has already been ratified by 69 other countries, the UN in the field of with the United Kingdom soon to join. It has not been human rights will be com- ratified by the United States. memorated at that time. I Our nation is regarded as a leader of the free world. strongly urge that the Gov- We desire to share our way of life, our ideals of ernment of the United Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) democracy and individual freedom, with the nations States begin to think now of the world. We believe that moral example and in- about what can be done to ternational cooperation are more effective than force make that year a landmark in the recognition of uni- of arms in achieving these goals. But we tend to assume versal human values and the promotion of the rights that the principles for which we stand are self-evident of men. to the peoples of the world. I sincerely urge my colleagues in the Senate to ratify This is most decidedly not so. Other nations are the Genocide Treaty. strongly critical, and justly so, of our refusal to ratify We need not fear that this treaty will represent an this treaty. The Soviet Union and its allies point to our infringement of our national sovereignty—it embodies position as "proof" that we are not genuinely interested ideals to which we already subscribe in our Constitu- in individual freedom and self-determination. tion and in our laws. Our ratification of this treaty It is more than our image abroad which is damaged and all human rights' treaties—would lend further by these charges. Nations which are allowed to doubt support to the validity of the ideals which they contain our own commitment to the principles which we as guiding principles in our modem world. espouse find further justification in our failures for In conclusion, as an indication of our good faith and their own violations of these rights. If we wish to en- dedication to the principles of justice and freedom, we courage to the fullest the development of democratic should encourage the Soviet Union to join with us in societies, then our own commitment to democratic stating a mutual commitment to the achievement of principles must be unequivocal. those ends. We must begin now to consider the Genocide Treaty in committee, to discuss it on the floor of Congress, to promote discussion and encourage support among the

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

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SUPPORT THE GENOCIDE TREATY? "NO" OUR FIRST DUTY is to Safe- Even if the United States were to ratify the Treaty guard the protection with express reservations that no interpretations of individual liberties as would be accepted which would deny our individual provided in the Constitu- liberties, the Treaty contains the provision that: "Dis- tion of these United States putes between the contracting parties relating to the and the Bill of Rights by interpretation, application or fulfillment of the present Convention (Treaty) including those relating to the preserving the sovereignty , of the United States responsibility of a state for genocide or for any of the rights and privileges which other acts enumerated in Article III shall be submitted would be infringed if the to the International Court of Justice at the request of Genocide Treaty is ratified. any of the parties to the dispute." Rep. John R. Rarick The Genocide Treaty The effect of this phrase is clear. The United States (D-La.) was designed to outlaw and its citizens would submit without reservation to 6th District any mass extermination of the full jurisdiction of the International Court of Jus- any group of humans because of their national, ethni- tice. The Connally Amendment, which reserves the cal, racial or religious classification. As Americans sovereign right of the United States to determine for there can be no question of our abhorrence of genocide its people whether a matter is within the domestic against any peoples or of our desire to prevent such jurisdiction of the United States, would be nullified. action. But we must stand eternally vigilant so that We must stand guard against every act which leads our emotional reaction to such crimes against humanity to piecemeal overthrow of American sovereignty. Free does not blind us into surrendering the basic liberties men don't, with full understanding, trade in their of our heritage as free men. liberty because of sugar coated appeals to join an or- The wording of the Treaty would grant discretionary ganization to prohibit acts they have never committed. powers and is far too vague in its definitions. It in- Our responsibility is to perpetuate the liberties of cludes as an act of genocide "causing mental harm" unborn generations under proven American principles. and makes "complicity" in genocide punishable as a Ratification of the Genocide Treaty will betray to our crime. people the gift of liberty they entrusted to us as their Further, the Treaty would extend to acts of private stewards. citizens—acts, domestic in nature, but which could be brought under the jurisdiction of an international organization and foreign jurists. I shudder even to consider the stricture of such basic tenets as freedom of speech, religion, press, petition and assembly by nationals of a foreign country whose laws and customs have never permitted the open discussion or individual freedoms which our citizens have historically enjoyed. i have read in The American Legion Magazine for August the arguments in PRO & CON: Should The U.S. Support The Genocide Treaty?

IN MY OPINION THE U.S. SHOULD SHOULD NOT SUPPORT THE GENOCIDE TREATY.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 21 MORRIS ROSENFELD The Story of the America's Cup

For 116 years we've held onto the most coveted

and controversial cup in yacht racing. Now it's

the Aussies who'll try to make off with it.

The America's Cup fruitless efforts to take it away from the If the September races go the way New York Yacht Club, located on Man- they always have The Cup will stay in hattan's West 44th Street. Since 1870, Manhattan, either as a result of a sound By JAMES S. SWARTZ England, Canada, Scotland, Ireland and victory by an American yacht, or (let's challenged American hope not) as a result of a great big rhu- OLD-FASHIONED "cUp" in the Australia have winning The barb over the rules or racing conditions. THEpicture above has been one of yachts 19 times without It is hard to imagine how the American America's prized possessions for Cup. yacht- defenders will feel if Australia walks off 116 years. Melted down, it should have This September, an Australian with it. Maybe they'll seek refuge in Uttle cash value, and, being bottomless, ing syndicate will race in Newport Sound Pat- Australia. you can't even drink from it. But in with a sleek, 12-meter yacht. Dame Pattie The proper name of The Cup is The yachting, it is The Cup. tie, for a 20th effort. The Dame America's Cup. The schooner America More than thirty million dollars has is considered one of the speediest chal- sailed to England in 1851 and won it, been spent by foreign yachtsmen in lengers yet built. simply as a one-shot trophy, from a field MORRIS ROSI NFKI.L of 14 English racers. That's why it is The America's Cup. When the owners got home they put

it up as a challenge cup for want of any-

thing better to do with it. While- they

were at it, they wrote out a set of rules that were mighty tough on challengers. Those rules led to many of the extremely unpleasant affairs that grew out of some later attempts by foreigners to take it away. But to all complaints the New York Yacht Club could say, in the end, that the rules for taking it away didn't make the odds any worse for a challenger than the America faced in winning it in 1851.

Probably it has been those mean, mean rules that really made The Cup such a challenge to foreign yachtsmen over the years. They were often as much a challenge as any American yacht. A tendency to relax the rules in recent years makes us look more sporting, but perhaps it also diminishes the challenge that made the cup "The Cup." The America's owners may have been intentionally nasty when they wrote the original rules. They had wanted big bets prizes they usual. or substantial cash when Sir Thomas Lipton's 1901 challenge in N.Y. Harbor, with spectator craft a danger as 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 BROWN IIROS.

Vanderbilt's Ranger runs away from Sopwith's Endeavour, 1937. The meeting in 1934 created bad feeling.

raced the English yachts in 1851. But tions were so radical for the times that an "ordinary cup." British excitement the English sportsmen, having seen one British yachtsmen remarked on see- vastly exceeded British cash. The har- something of the America, would put ing her that, "If she be right, then all of bor at Cowes—the Isle of Wight's port up hardly anything more valuable than us are wrong." —was jammed with spectator boats on that bottomless bit of hardware. Stevens accepted the invitation. He the morning of August 22, 1851. The For some time prior to 1851. British noted pointedly that no challenge to race 15 contenders drew up in two lines to shipbuilding circles and yachtsmen had was made, but the probability of large await the start of the 5 3 -mile race over been alerted to the strides Americans cash wagers on special match races did a course that a London Times reporter were making in the boatbuilding field. not escape him. If his group could recalled "notoriously one of the most un- Britain had long ruled the waves. Could trieve the cost of building the America, fair to strangers that can be selected . . . the barbarous Americans challenge this so much the better. It does not appear to be a good race position? Britain wanted find to out. After sailing the Atlantic, Stevens ground for anyone, inasmuch as the cur- When word reached the commodore made the mistake of informally racing rent and tides render local knowledge of of England's Royal Yacht Squadron that a fast British yacht into the anchorage more value than swift sailing and nauti- some Americans planned to sail their as he arrived—and running away from cal skill." It was an open race—no time jointly owned America to Europe, he it. After that, bets or big cash racing allowances to compensate for variances wrote to Commodore John Stevens of stakes could not be found in all of Brit- in the design of the contending yachts. the New York Yacht Club, a part-owner ain. Stevens showed the ship off unoffi- The America was permitted to "boom of the America. Would Stevens drop by cially for some time, while every chance out," contrary to usual rules, and a regu- the club on the Isle of Wight? There to negotiate a worthwhile challenge lation that prohibited entry in a regatta was no invitation race, to but the English faded out when it came to putting British of a syndicate-owned vessel was waived. commodore did say that he would be cash on the line. She was the last to get off, but in less glad to avail himself "of any improve- About the time he was ready to return than 12 miles she overtook all but four ments in ship-building that the industry home, an official regatta was coming up. of her rivals. Then she got a break that and skill of your nation have enabled The other America owners persuaded created the first rhubarb in a series of you to elaborate." Stevens to race in it, though the winner races that would produce many others. The America's design and sail innova- would take only a small cash award and Instructions were given to the America THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 23 BBOWN BROS.

In 1895, England's Lord Dunraven (left) entered his Valkyrie III protests, cries of foul and charges of fraud shook the world's (leading yacht, right) against the U.S. Defender. He lost, but sporting circles and nearly finished America's Cup matches.

during the next 17 years, but none was CONTIN UED The Story of the America's Cup accepted until, in 1868, the Sappho, "the best Clipper America had to offer," ven- to pass between the Nab Light and the in the annals of sports was to become tured abroad to be beaten by the British Isle of Wight (a shorter route). Differ- better known, to be more often revised Cambria in another race off the Isle of ent instructions—and this mix-up was or to arouse greater controversy." Wight. Cambria's owner felt that at last never explained—were given to the four Briefly, it stated that any foreign coun- a chance was at hand to bring The Cup yachts leading the America: Pass out- try could challenge for The Cup with back to England. side the Nab. With a good breeze, the one yacht; that arrangements for So, on August 8, 1870, off Staten America took the lead and wasn't threat- matches be by mutual consent; that an Island, and on a course of about 38 miles ened thereafter. advance notice of six months must be that was as inhospitable as that around When Queen Victoria and Prince Al- given, and that the size and name of the the Isle of Wight, the Cambria chal- bert, who were on the royal yacht challenging yacht must be stated. The lenged 23 U.S. schooners, including the moored near the end of the run, were U.S. defenders could enter as many America, which was entered because of told by a signalman that the American yachts as they pleased. They need issue "public sentiment." boat had been sighted, the Queen re- no advance information, and could The race was won by Magic. Cambria plied "Oh, indeed! And which is sec- change entries at starting time. finished eighth. The America, again the ond?" After sweeping the horizon with Invitations to challenges were made last to leave the line, finished fourth. his glass, the signalman reported back BROWN BROS. to the Queen, "I regret to report that there is no second." It was later rumored that the America had a concealed pro- peller. It didn't seem possible that "one vessel with sails alone" could go so fast. The "ordinary cup" was brought home to New York and for the next few months it rested on the mantels of the America's owners' homes. No one seemed to know quite what to do with

it. It was suggested that it be melted down into small medallions. But before this desecration could be committed it was turned over to the New York Yacht Club, along with a document called "the original deed of gift." This laid down the provisions for future challengers for the cup. Said Jerome E. Brooks, in his book, Skipper T.O.M. Sopwith, Sopv(/ith's Endeavour (above) and Vanderbilt's Ra'mbow (r) raced "The $30,000,000 Cup," "No document England's 1934challenger.

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 BROWN BROS.

Sir Thomas Lipton (above, at helm). The gallant, sporting Irish- He tried five times to take The Cup and failed, but in doing so man restored the gleam to The Cup after the Dunraven affair. endeared himself to Americans who hated to see him lose.

James Ashbury, the Cambria's owner, moored on the course or between the United States had won four out of five, was not now about to give up. He simply ship and land. Columbia was told to the challenges were over. went back to England and had a new pass between. Livonia didn't inquire, as Ashbury figured difl'erently—he schooner built the Livonia. He chal- it was the rule — in England to go around. claimed that the second and third were lenged again, and a match was set for Owner Ashbury protested and requested his, thus it was three to two, and he pre- October 1871, best four of seven races a rerun, which many felt should have pared for the sixth and seventh races. to decide. This match would pit one been granted, but the New York club When no one showed up to race him, he boat against one boat in each race, not refused it. Columbia then lost the third claimed The Cup by default. He didn't one against 23 as before. The New York match, standing in for the Dauntless, get it, and returned to England a bitter Yacht Club entered four yachts, to sail which was to race the third but lost some man. Controversy then raged with such any one it chose in any given race. That of its headgear through carelessness. invective that the New York Yacht Club was later to cause hard feelings and in- Columbia had to put together a make- prevailed upon the Royal Squadron to timations of questionable fair play. shift crew, since her permanent crew put an end to Ashbury's campaign The Columbia, one of the four de- was recovering from the previous day's against the American club's actions. The fenders, won the first two races. The victory celebration. Not unexpectedly, fact that the Americans had four differ- second of them created a ruckus. Like she got into trouble and finished 1 9 min- ent yachts, any or all of which they could the first race in England, there was a utes after Livonia. But Sappho won the use against Ashbury's Livonia, was not misunderstanding as to whether the next two races for America, the and lost on the press. It sniped at the New schooners should pass around a ship New York club announced that, as the York club for taking an unfair advantage MdKKIS RdSENFELD as holder of The Cup. It was this race that put an end to multiple U.S. entries in The America's Cup races. Hence- forth, one yacht against one yacht in all races. But The Cup was tarnished as a result of the club's seemingly one-sided

decisions in the Ashbury matter, and it would be years before the gleam would be restored. Canada next entered The Cup picture in 1876, with a challenge issued by the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, located at Toronto on Lake Erie. It was accepted, though no one had given any thought to any challenger other than the English. The Countess of Dufferin would challenge one U.S. yacht in a best two out of three races. The Canadian press said

that the Countess "'sits most gracefully the closest cup match in the water," is and, briefly, odds favored English to win Skipper H. S. Vanderbilt, "as handsome a yacht America's 1934 defender. as we ever saw," that she has "remark- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . SEPTEMBER 1967 25 MORRIS ROSENFEl.D AUSTRALIAN NEWS AND INFORMATION BUREAU

Australia's entry in 1962 (her first) witli Gretel shook the Americans when she set a In September, Australia returns with Dame record for Cup speed. She failed to win, but the buoyant Aussies said they'd be back. Pattie. She outsailed her speedy Gretel.

best two of three, were to take no more CONTINUED The Story of the America's Cup than 7 hours to cover a 40-miIe course. 20 out and 20 back. The repaired Puri- tan took two straight. The Americans able speed." The American viewers That was not to be. The New York had been impressed by Sir Richard's fine found her "a freshwater fisherman" with club, stung by criticism that the recent sportsmanship in not accepting the race a "hull as rough as a nutmeg grater." match was laughable, decided to over- because of the Puritan's foul, and by the Some wondered why the New York club haul the challenge rules. It did. Now fact that he offered to pay to have the would pit the Madeleine, a champion, no club could challenge unless its home Puritan s damages repaired. But they against such a poor challenger as the waters were on the ocean. Inland waters, were overjoyed that The Cup was still

Countess. (In an unofficial trial run of however large, wouldn't do. The chal- in American hands. Now it would be 275 miles—from Sandy Hook Lightship lenger must get to the match under its the Galatea's turn to challenge in 1886 to Narragansett and return—the Count- own sail, as the America had gone to and the Americans chose the Mayflower ess got in so late that the race commit- England. No vessel could challenge to defend. tee had gone home.) within two years after a defeat, unless The Galatea was owned by a Lieuten- After delays to try and put the another race had intervened. These ant Henn, whose wife sailed with him "frowzy" Countess in shape, the race changes pointedly poleaxed the Cana- (potted plants, draperies, table orna- was completed, as expected, in two runs. dian ambition for an 1882 challenge. ments, leopard skin rugs, several dogs The second was a dull race. Madeleine Canada has not tried since. and a monkey). Henn and his captain simply ran away with it. Thirteen years after the sour Ashbury and crew enjoyed a leisurely life on the The Canadians, eager for a battle to incident, the English felt tempted again. Galatea. They arrived in America seme olTset the drubbing they took in 1876, They offered two notable cutters, the time before the race was to be held and were back again in 1881 with another Genesta and the Galatea. If the first lost cruised the coastal waters, not using challenger—the Atalanta. The Ameri- in 1885. the second would try in 1886. much sail and seldom giving any indica- cans accepted and chose Mischief to de- The advanced design of the two chal- tion that the Galatea was a real challen- fend. The New York club was to suffer lengers made the Americans wary of ger. This led to the suspicion that Henn a couple of embarrassments as a result their ability to hold on to The Cup. When was deliberately concealing the Galatea's of this match. Final work on the Ata- no other U.S. club offered a defender, real capacity for speed, which height- lanta was delayed. The Canadians fi- the New York Yacht Club settled on ened interest in the race. But she came nally rushed her down from Lake Erie Puritan. After seeing her perform well in 12 minutes and 40 seconds after May- by way of the Erie Cc;nai. through part in trials, American hopes buoyed. But, flower in the first race and 29 minutes of which she had to be towed by mules. during the first race, the Puritan com- and 48 seconds after Mayflower in the The New York club would have to do mitted a foul and suffered damage. The second. That ended the sixth challenge

something (and it did) to stop challen- win was offered to the English. Sir Rich- for The Cup. gers from being towed in by mules! The ard Sutton, the English owner of For some years, Thames racing rules match, in which the Atalanta was badly Genesta. refused the offer. He wanted had prevented a vessel built along the trounced, was denounced as a "stupid a race, not a sail over. So repairs were lines of the classic American defenders comedy." But the Canadians hinted that made to the Puritan and. a week or so from entering British races regulated by they'd be back in 1882. later, a new race was run. The races, {Continued on page 55)

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • S EPTEMBER 1967 ware and auto stores. Apply in a thin coat;

when the cleaner appears runny, wipe it off LIFE IN THE OUTDOORS with a clean cloth. It won't hurt the finish or cause a glossy appearance which scares birds.

Foot Comfort for Outdoorsmen FOR SPORTSMEN'S BANQUETS, the Cortland Line Co., of Cortland, N.Y., offers free place JAUNT IN favors—colorful little fold- THE outdoors—Camping, hik- Kurka of Fairfield, Iowa. Tie them on gent- A ers containing fishing tips. Cortland will ing, fishing, hunting—isn't much fun ly. They'll make a difference. also furnish fly lines and monofilament, when your feet hurt, and foot comfort de- pends contestant tags, etc., for youngsters' fishing upon the right footgear, say podi- TO PREVENT LURES from chipping or events. Contact Dick Jennings at above atrists. Socks are important. Wear heavy scratching in your tackle box, line the bot- address. ones always, Tell 'em we sent you. cotton in warm weather and tom of each tray with a thin piece of Styro- woolen in winter, to cushion skin against foam, writes Keith Barstad of Littlefield, MAKE chafing. And be sure YOUR OWN inexpensive sleeping they're large enough. Minn. It's inexpensive and available in any bag from a woolen blanket or quilt, suggests Stretch socks are too tight, deform toes and 5-and-lO. Douglas Foster of Wakefield, Mich. Fold it eventually make them sore. Socks should fit loosely in half, sew together along the two long and be an inch longer than your NEW HUNTER'S SEAT by the Wood- sides. the foot to leave for Do same with a sheet and insert room your foot's expan- stream Corp., of Lititz, Pa., is a comfort to it as a liner. Your homemade bag will be sion when you walk. Allow for shrinkage, varmint and waterfowl shooters who must warm enough for also. In winter, to keep nippy nights in spring and your feet warmer, sit patiently in a blind till their game ap- wear a thin cotton sock over fall. a heavy woolen pears. Made of sturdy plastic, it has a form- one to absorb perspiration that soaks SUN GLASSES for through the wool. Socks with bulky seams eye protection are a necessity for all hunters except will soon have you limping. And you'll soon — waterfowl shooters in a blind. Reason: repent wearing darned socks or ones with reflection from holes. their lens surfaces will spook incoming ducks and geese, making them veer off. Low-cut iaceless shoes or moccasins, If your eyes require glasses, be sure to hide fleece-lined, are recommended only for your face completely until you're ready to camp wear after a day on your feet. But shoot. for woods walking, you need high boots for ankle support, with no torn linings, exposed THERE'S A SECRET to quail shooting inner stitching or worn insoles. Leather that hunters soon learn. A rising covey may uppers should be soft, soles flexible, toes contain a lot of birds, but there's lots more rounded for room, and heels broad for sta- air space between them. The sight of so bility. Composition soles are best; leather many targets confuses the novice quail soon becomes slippery in dry weather, and shooter. The trick is to concentrate on one snow will ball-up on them in winter. Rub- bird, ignoring all others. Not until you drop ber, both in soles and boot feet, causes ex- him, should you swing on the next one. cess perspiration and often skin irritation. Sounds simple, but it takes will power. The exception is the insulated rubber-footed boot-pacs recommended for very cold HANDY HANGER for your camp flash- weather. And don't buy boots by your shoe light is suggested by Fred Murray, Jr., of size. Try them on while resting your full Butler, Mo. He uses a small flat piece of weight on your feet. Allow an inch from Woodstream's steel with two holes drilled in it so he can the end of your big toe to the front of the handy hunter's seat. nail it to a convenient tree. And his flash- shoe, and a finger-width between the side fitting top and a large compartment under- light is the kind which has a magnet fas- of the shoe and your instep. neath to hold shells, lunch, a Thermos, etc. tened to its side. The magnet clamps the New boots should be broken in gradually Run a strap through the handles and it can light to the steel plate, and he can angle it by wearing them a few hours every day at be carried on your back or over the shoul- so the beam shines in any desired direction. home, treating the leather often with saddle der. Price: $12.95. soap to soften it and speed the breaking-in RUBBISH CONTAINERS at camp sites process. Old-timers say they break in new BIRDS IN OUR LIVES is the title of a book fill quickly with empty cans and boxes, boots by soaking them in water and then about birds and their relationship to people. we're reminded by H. K. Skinner of Dallas, wearing them till they're dry, but podiatrists Produced by the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fish- Tex. To allow such containers to hold more, are skeptical of this method. Leather boots eries & Wildlife, the 576-page factual story step on cans to flatten them before disposal, can never be made completely waterproof. features 372 photographs, 80 wash drawings and either burn empty cartons in your camp When wet, stuff dry newspaper or warm and is the work of 61 international experts fire or tear them into flat pieces. pebbles into them, including the toes, and on birds. Available for $9.00 by check or let them dry slowly at room temperature. money order from the Superintendent of NEW HUNTING BOOTS are hard on the When dried rapidly before a fire, they lose Documents, Gov't Printing Office, Wash- ankles. Make them more comfortable, ad- their shape and will never be comfortable ington, D. C. 20402. Ask for vises Dick Daugherty of Boston, Mass., again. "Birds In Our by Lives" (Catalog No. I 49.66:29). cutting each lace in half and lacing the bot- Arch supports can be fitted to your hunt- tom three or four eyelets of each shoe with ing boots if you have fallen arches. Have DON'T BE DISCOURAGED if your bea- one piece, and the top four eyelets with the corns and bunions taken care of before your gle pup doesn't seem interested in hunting. other, skipping the center ones. This ar- trip. If your feet hurt at the end of the His instinct just needs prompting. A good rangement will give your ankles more free- day, heat some water over your camp fire, way, say the experts, is to get a tame rabbit dom until the boots soften up. dump in a cup of salt and soak them in it and let him chase it, then encourage him before turning in. In the morning, they'll be to trail it when it hides. Don't let him catch rarin' to go. it and hurt it, of course. If you have a helpful idea for this feature send it in. If we can use it we'll pay you IF YOUR FAVORITE $5.00. However, we cannot acknowledge, bass plug isn't HAVING TROUBLE getting the mildew re- catching fish, try streaming a few four-inch turn, or enter into correspondence concern- off your waterfowl decoys? It's easy, claims sections of those ing contributions. Address: Outdoor Editor, silver Christmas-tree Ed Szrom of Hammond, Ind. Use one of The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth "icicles" from its rear hook, suggests James the waterless hand cleaners sold in hard- Ave.. New York, N.Y. 10019. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 27 .

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out, and "The Big Swingers" is the result. Burroughs' life as a writer didn't get started until he was in his mid 30's. but

once it began, his output was tremendous. Manv of his stories were first serialized in magazines, then published in book form and, finally, made into movies. He wrote 26 Tarzan stories from 1912 to 1940, as well YOU CAN'T STEAL FIRST BASE, by fewer sore anns and other ailments, due as some 41 other books of adventure and Jimmie Dykes and Charles O. Dexter. perhaps to the strenuous practice sessions romance. B. PHIL.\I)ELPHIA that players went in for, in part to warm up, Fans of the Tarzan books, as well as movie J. LIPPINCOTT CO., , PA., $3.95. in part to amuse early-arriving spectators. enthusiasts, will be delighted with this tale life was at times as Jimmy Dykes started playing baseball in Currently, the game is short of players, so of the man whose own of his Preston, Pa., at the turn of the century, when for any yoiuigster who doesn't mind hard, colorful away from the jimgle as that csh he was hardly more than a toddler. 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Putnam's sons, new york, n.y.. were lollowed by years witli a niunber of in this book, a "you are there" accoimt of S5.95. different teams as manager or coach, and three X'ietnam battles, the battles of Bn Gia A report on Unidentified Flying Objects, included the ups and downs, good years Map, \'inh Thanh and Tuomorong. more bv a writer who believes they could very and bad that are all part of a lifetime in familiarly known as campaigns .\ustin 6, well be interplanetary spaceships under in- baseball. Crazy Horse and Hawthorne II, which took telligent control and that the massive No- Jimmie tells about the game's great days place in the spring and earlv sinnmer of vember 1965 Northeast blackout could have in the twenties—with its inunortal stars— 1966. been caused by such UFO's. and its bad days in the wartime forties. 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Our men are left not always return to the senders requests to purchase that earlv plavers were healthier, with knowing iiow manv of the enemy they have books that are sent to this magazine, editors

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VETERANS A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH NEWSLETTER ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU SEPTEMBER 1967 THERE'S A "SMOKESCREEN" AROUND THE certain dependents despite sources of TRUTH ABOUT VETS BENEFITS. BUT WHOSE? other income." . . . The statement "Newsletter" has been reading over would be correct if the word "cer- and over an editorial in the New tain" also appeared in front of York Times of June 6, entitled "How "other income." . . . There is no

Much For Veterans?" . . . This is serious proposal to remove the "needs" always a good question and one we provision from pensions for veter- have been interested in for half a ans' dependents, as the Times makes

century . . . Here is a quote from it appear, but to exclude certain in- the Times: come from cutting back a pension for "(Veterans organizations) are pre- either a veteran or his dependent paring for another raid on the treas- . . . This will become clearer when ury under a smokescreen of patriotic we consider the next Times comment, emotionalism. to wit: We aren't preparing for "another "There must be a fresh awareness of raid on the treasury" under a smoke- the need to integrate benefits for screen of patriotic emotionalism veterans 65 and over with the extended . . . Are you? benefits under Social Security Here's another Times quote, refer- and Medicare available to all ring to "booby traps" in a proposed citizens. bill: There has already been "over-inte-

gration" of . . "A preferential old-age pension such benefits . for all 26-million living veterans Social Security income and other retirement benefits simply for having been in service (is already reduce VA pensions or disqualify veterans and proposed.)" . . . Proposed by whom? their dependents from getting them. . . . There is no bill receiving It is surprising, since serious consideration in Congress, it has been true for many years, that the Times nor seriously proposed by anyone in doesn't yet know that the only VA a position of influence known to us, beneficiaries who are eligible for to grant an old-age pension to all pensions are those whose minimum 26-million living veterans . . . needs are not met by the programs Existing veterans pensions are paid "available to all citizens." ... We only to those veterans who are - seri have full "integration" of welfare ously disabled and possessed of programs with veterans pensions . . . less income than is usually put forth But the "integration" is more than as the "poverty level" for welfare full . . . When Social Security bene- . . . The chief pension proposal now fits are periodically increased being seriously considered in Con- every few years the net result is gress is one proposed by the Presi- that many pensioned veterans and wid- dent and Congressional leaders (as ows receive a reduction in total in- well as ourselves) to extend such come . . . Their pensions are cut limited pensions to any Vietnam vet- more than their Social Security is erans who should be unfortunate increased . . . Meanwhile, the Times' enough to qualify ... We could "all citizens" get a true increase make a good case for the justice of a . . . (Not really all , but those now more general pension, but the Legion getting Social Security, etc. ) . . . has long agreed that the projected How much "integration" of veterans cost poses insurmountable problems benefits with others does the . . . What the Legion is interested Times want? in now, and the President has voiced The leading proponent of relief of similar but not identical opinions of this situation is the President of his own, is in raising veterans pen- the United States, who asked earlier sions at least somewhat above the this year that Social Security in- level of general welfare, without in creases be prevented from reducing any way—under the present circum- the income of pensioned veterans . . . stances —abandoning the principle Now you can better understand the that need and disability must be a proposed exclusion of certain income condition so long as the cost of in considering eligibility for VA a broader pension looms so large. pensions, though in view of the Again, says the Times, it is pro- President's position you may wonder posed that "pensions would go to at the Times' claim that such changes

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 29 " "

CONTINUED VETERANS NEWSLETTER are being pushed as a "treasury and ask Congress to up the rates VA raid" by veterans organizations would pay . . . Per diem cost in "under a smokescreen of patriotic VA general hospitals is now near $36 emotionalism. a day, and the VA payment to pri- The Times thinks we need a commis- vate homes for nursing care of its sion appointed by the President to veteran wards may automatically go to recommend an overhaul of veterans $12 from the present $11.50 . . . benefits . . . One has already been But, said Corcoran, "this increase appointed, but the Times doesn't like will not be sufficient to encourage it, because "it is heavily weighted the nursing home operators to sign on the side of veterans organisa- contracts with the VA. tions. " That is to say, on the side of those LEGION URGES VETS EMPLOYMENT who know what they are talking about. SERVICES BE KEPT UP TO STRENGTH: From January to March 1967, there SPIRALING COSTS SABOTAGE were 506,000 veterans who applied for VA NURSING CARE PROGRAM: job assistance at local public em- The skyrocketing cost of medical ployment offices, an increase of care, hospitalization and nursing 206,000 over the 300,000 similarly care is one of the exceedingly seri- applying in the same period last year ous problems, among the many problems . . . During that time there was no of our seemingly befuddled nation comparable increase in veterans

. . . "Newsletter" is of the opinion employment representatives of the De- that something is going to bust wide partment of Labor to service the open in traditional medical and hos- job-seekers . . . Citing these fig- pital practices if present cost ures and others Austin E. Kerby on of trends continue . . . This is as ob- June 29 urged a subcommittee the vious in veterans medical care as Senate Appropriations Committee to elsewhere . . . Only a few years ago approve staff increases in veterans the Congress authorized the VA to employment representatives . . . give nursing care, and to pay a per Kerby is the Director of the Legion's diem allowance to state and pri- National Economic Commission staff vate institutions that would give . . . He also cited Veterans Admin- nursing care to eligible and helpless istration projections that the Post-

disabled or aging veterans . . . Korean veteran population will rise This was a sensible economy measure to 7 million by 1972, of whom a por-

. . . It enlisted state institutions tion will require job counseling to share in some of the federal re- and aid to get back on their feet in sponsibility and cost, to the degree civilian occupations . . . VA projec- they were willing, and sought to tion is based partly on Department utilise private facilities too. of Defense estimates that there will

. . . It also allowed the VA to give be 600,000 separations from the mili- nursing care itself in less expensive tary this year, 750,000 next year, space than general hospital facili- and 900,000 in 1969. ties. Recently, the Legion's Rehabilita- NBC SEEKS WW2 VETS STILL IN FAMILIES: tion Director, John J. Corcoran, CONTACT WITH ENGLISH reported to a subcommittee of the The National Broadcasting Company House Veterans Affairs Committee that seeks information from WW2 veterans spiraling costs were sabotaging this who were in service in England

program before it was fairly begun just before D-Day, 1944 , and who were

. . . The going rate for nursing care then friendly with one or more Eng- in many areas has passed the maximum lish families and are still in

the VA may approve . . . State homes contact with them . . . This in con- can't keep their personnel, as nection with an experimental TV show private institutions charging higher projected for next year, based in rates outbid them ... At the same England and on the relationship of time families with people who need GI's with English civilians during

prolonged nursing care can be bank- the war . . . Vets who fill the bill

rupted by the cost . . . Corcoran had and wish to cooperate with NBC should no alternative when speaking for the write John Lord, NBC, 30 Rockefeller Legion but to get on the bandwagon Plasa, New York, N.Y. 10020.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 OF THE NEWS AMERICAN LEGION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 1967

Texas Youth Wins Presidency 1967 Nat'l Membership Already Higher Than Final 1966 Totals of The Legion's Boys' Nation As we went to press, national Le- gion membership for 1967 was at Alan Keyes, 1967 Legion Oratorical Champ, is elect- 2,568,049 — 14,267 enrollments more than the final official member- in 50-49 vote; is first ed close youth Negro to ship of 2,553,782 for all of last year win both Legion Nat'l Americanism championships. recorded on Dec. 31, 1966. This was the earliest date to record a gain

The 99 high school delegates to The tion President. That feat, too, was a first. over the previous year since 1946. Thirty-four al- American Legion's 22nd Annual Boys' McCoy was 1 8 years old in 1 966. departments had Nation have elected Alan L. Keyes, a When the youths arrived at Boys' Na- ready exceeded their last year's final 16-year-old Negro youth from San An- tion, they were arbitrarily separated into membership and perhaps nine or ten tonio, Tex., as their 1967 Boys' Nation two equal-sized political parties, the more would do the same before President. "Federalists" and the "Nationalists." year's end. The race for the presidency took place Keyes, running as a Federalist, defeated Four departments had already es- during the youthful delegates' week-long 17-year-old Howard David Burnett of tablished all-time membership highs (July 21-29) government symposium at Pocatello, Idaho, a Nationalist and the for 1967—Minnesota (see story p. the University of Maryland, just a few winner of his own state's Legion Ora- 33), Maryland, Mexico and the miles north of the nation's capital. The torical Contest. Philippines. vote was close, 50-49, and was remarka- President Keyes, whose father is a ca- Daily membership returns were 20- ble when viewed against the background reer Sgt. Major in the U.S. Army pres- consistently running between of racial riot and strife that gripped more ently on duty at Chu Lai, South Viet- 30,000 ahead of the same date last than a dozen U.S. cities and kept lights nam, is a senior at Robert G. Cole H.S. year and it was possible to say that burning far into the night at the White in San Antonio, where he lives with his 1967 might end with a gain of about House during that period. mother. Keyes has been President and 25,000 over 1966. Remarkable too was young Keyes. In Vice President of the Student Council, winning, he registered a fantastically im- Vice President of the National Honor this time they broke tradition and went probable double. He is now the only boy Society and President of the Choir. He is solidly Federalist, electing Douglas B. to win two national American Legion also interested in track. He was spon- Kamerow, 17, of Alexandria, Va., as the Americanism program championships in sored by Business and Professional 1967 Boys' Nation Vice President. He the same year, having won the Legion's Men's Post 10 of the American Legion defeated James R. Higgins, 17, of Wes- 1967 Nat'l Oratorical title in April at in San Antonio in all of his Legion ac- sington Springs, S. Dak., by a vote of Lincoln, Neb., along with the $4,000 col- tivities. At Texas Boys' State, he was 56-43. lege scholarship that goes with it. Alderman and State and County Party Kamerow, a senior at T. C. Williams He is now also the youngest boy to win Convention Delegate. He plans to attend H.S. in Alexandria, was President of his both championships and the first of his Harvard University to study law. Freshman and Sophomore classes. Vice race to have won either of the national Alan will be presented to the National President of the Key Club, President of titles. Convention at Boston as representative the School Inter-Club Council and of the No youth has ever before won both of two Americanism Divison programs. Student Cooperative Ass'n. He belongs honors in the same year although the Normally, the Boys' Nation Senators to the Nat'l Honor Society and is inter- 1966 Nat'l Oratorical Champion, Ron split the ticket and elect the opposing ested in basketball and music. He was McCoy, had earlier been 1965 Boys' Na- party's candidate for vice president. But sponsored by Alexandria American Le-

At White House, Pres. Johnson addresses group with Pres. Keyes Harold Eaton (cap) is at right. Vice Pres. Humphrey gets Boys' (I) and Vice Pres. Kamerow at his side. Boys' Nation leader Nation pin from youths as Civil Service Chmn Macy watches. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 31 —

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gion Post 129. At Virginia Boys' State Nat'l Cmdr At USS Arizona tional right-to-work law, (f ) self-govern- he was Mayor of Eisenhower City and ment for the District of Columbia, (g) Chairman of the Nationalist City Cau- help for the farmer, and (h) urge Ameri- cus. He plans to attend Harvard, Yale can support of Israel's right of free ac- or Wesleyan to study law. cess to the Suez Canal and Gulf of Highlight of the Boys' Nation week Aqaba. was their visit to the White House on Nat'l Cmdr John E. Davis, Nat'l Adjt Wed., July 26. President Johnson met E. N. Schmit and Nat'l Americanism with the youths in the Rose Garden and Commission Chmn Daniel J. O'Connor though he made no specific reference (N.Y.) were among those who addressed to the racial riots then rocking some the group during the week. American cities, he nevertheless had the President Keyes' Cabinet appoint- troubles foremost in his mind. ments for the 1967 American Legion Telling them it was their birthright to Boys' Nation are: Sec'y of State, Howard be reformers, he noted that responsibili- D. Burnett (Idaho); Sec'y of Treasury, ties went along with that role. He said: Sec'y De- James R. Higgins (S. Dak.) ; of responsible. "To be a reformer is to be fense, James F. Capalino (N.Y.); Sec'y wrecker It is to be a remaker—not a of Army, Stephen M. Corriher (N.C.); of what man has made. It is to be a re- Sec'y of Navy, Ronald W. Woerpel storer—not a destroyer of truth and (Wis.); Sec'y of Air Force, George S. else, to respect the good. It is, beyond all Rear Adm. Wm. A. Sutherland, Jr., DSN, Tyson, Jr. (S.C.); Att'y General, David laws of society—to rebuild society by Commandant, 14th Naval Dist., and M. Hall (N.C.); Postmaster General, Legion Nat'l Cmdr John E. Davis, display changing law, improving law, using the A. Deatley (Va.); Sec'y of In- the memorial wreath Davis placed at the Craig law, lest we accidentally or willfully USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor on terior, William Francavilla (Mass.); bring weaken the foundations of law and behalf of The American Legion in June. Sec'y of Agriculture, Martin E. Creas- all that we have achieved crashing down man (Tenn.); Sec'y of Commerce, Tim- upon our heads." Hawaii plus one delegate from the Dis- othy C. McLaughlin, (N. Dak.); Sec'y Lincoln, saying: He quoted Abraham trict of Columbia. Part of their task was of Labor, John C. Candon (Vt.); Sec'y remember that to violate "Let every man to elect from among themselves a Presi- of Health, Education & Welfare, David the law is to trample on the blood of his dent, Vice President, form a sen- Transporta- and a A. Yepsen (Iowa) ; Dep't of the character of his father and to tear ate, and debate on two bills. tion, WiUiam E. Berry (Ark.) and Chief own and his children's liberty." One of the bills was S.J. Res. 2 which Justice of the U.S. Owen R. Brown Boys' Na- The President also asked the calls for direct election of the President (Calif.). tion Senators to consider careers in gov- and Vice President of the U.S. The other ernment or public service. He said: "We bill was S.J. Res. 126, which seeks a Legion Ballplayer Honored need young people who care—who are four year term for Members of the American Legion's Baseball Play- willing to work for something more than House of Representatives. The Year for 1966 was honored at a paycheck—for profits measured in hu- During the week the youths also er of the Baseball Hall of Fame and man happiness, human health and hu- toured the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the National Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., on July man dignity." He shook hands with many Arlington National Cemetery, the F. B. I., ceremonies in which Charles "Red" of the delegates and was presented with the Smithsonian Institution, the State 24 at Poison" Waner a Boys' Nation T-shirt and pin. Department, and various memorials and Ruffing, Lloyd "Little Branch Rickey were in- Following the White House meeting, monuments. Most of the boys had meet- and the late ducted into the Hall of Fame. the boys visited the U.S. Civil Service ings with their Senators or Congressman. 1 Commission, and were greeted by Chmn The Federalist party platform on William C. Parker, Jr., a 5-ft., 1 -inch, Ala., John W. Macy, Jr., L. J. Andolsek and which Keyes won included the following 160 lb., youth from Tuscaloosa, University Robert E. Hampton, Commissioners, planks: (a) support our fighting men in now 19 and a freshman at the the Le- who had prepared a program for them. Vietnam in a winning effort, (b) stream- of Alabama on scholarship, won at its However, a surprise was in store for all line welfare to an effective plan of real as- gion's top national baseball title S.C., in the person of Vice President Hubert sistance and use some funds to interest World Series held in Orangeburgh, H. Humphrey who gave an inspiring ad- business in slum clearance and job train- in August 1966. dress on citizenship. ing, (c) lower deficit spending, (d) call Parker's photo will be mounted on a The racial troubles in the cities were for new copyright laws, (e) call for na- plaque and placed in the Hall of Fame also obviously on his mind. He decried the theories of " 'black power' or 'white power' or any other kind of power except citizen-power." In an emotion-charged speech, he an- alyzed and reaffirmed the Pledge of Al- legiance for the delegates, telling them there was full meaning in the words "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice, for all" that should be understood and lived, not just memor- ized by rote and mechanically uttered. Boys' Nation, which annually studies federal government workings, this year During pause in Hall of Fame ceremonies, BasebaliCommrEckert (I) poses with Legion had delegates from every state except Player of the Year Bill Parker and Nat'l Americanism Comm'n Chmn Dan O'Connor.

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New Jersey Legionnaires Give Bingo Party For Hospitalized Veterans

Bergen County (N.J.) Legionnaires recently threw a Bingo party gram. Prizes distributed were books, T-shirts, games and for hospitalized veterans at East Orange VA Hospital as part Canteen books. Afterwards, entertainment was provided by two of their regular hospital visitation and rehabilitation pro- Bergen County girl folksingers while refreshments were served. along with other Legion Players of the Waner, who follows older brother Paul There are only six other states now Year. The tradition goes back to 1950 into the Hall of Fame, made 223 hits his boasting membership of over 100,000. when the 1949 winner was saluted at first year with Pittsburgh in 1927, then They are: Pennsylvania, New York, Abner Doubleday Field, just down the had 200 or more hits in three later sea- (both over 200,000) Illinois, California, street from the Hall of Fame in the quiet sons and wound up with a lifetime bat- Ohio and Indiana. At one time, the Le- village of 2,500 people. Parker is the ting average of .331 and 2,459 hits. gion had nine departments at the rarified 18th player to be so honored. Branch Rickey will be remembered for six-figure level with Iowa, Massachusetts Among Legion dignitaries attending his major contribution as the developer and Texas filling out the group. How- the ceremonies were Nat'l Americanism of the farm system concept which was ever, the last three named departments Commission Chmn Daniel J. O'Connor copied by every other baseball club. He have not recorded such enrollments in (N.Y.), and Ass't Americanism Director started baseball empires in St. Louis, recent years. George Rulon, who is in charge of the Brooklyn and Pittsburgh. With Minnesota ranking only 17th Legion's National baseball program. Many of baseball's top names attended among the 50 states in total number of Bill, who throws and bats right- the ceremonies and watched Baseball veterans eligible for Legion membership handed, played left field and batted .325 Commissioner William D. Eckert unveil the feat take on added significance. It for Farley W. Moody Post 34 of Tus- the plaques of the three members. new is also interesting to note that this de- caloosa when he garnered his laurels. Only a few of the notables were: Warren partment has set three successive all-time Post 34 was beaten in the final game of C. Giles, President of the National highs and nine new records in the last 1 the Legion World Series by Captain Bill League, Joseph E. Cronin, President of years while garnering nearly 10,000 Erwin Post 337 of Oakland, Cal. the American League, Ford C. Frick, more members than in 1947 when na- Legion Player the is se- The of Year Bill former Commissioner of Baseball, tional Legion membership was at its peak. lected from among the players on the Terry, Robinson, Jackie Ray Schalk, Dep't Adjt Frank Momsen was asked eight teams which reach the Legion Na- Lefty Grove, Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. to pin down the reasons for Minnesota's tional Finals. He is symbolic of the thou- Mel Ott. success over the past ten or 1 1 years. sands of young men annually playing in The Cincinnati Reds of the National He quoted no magic formula but the program all over the U.S. and must League and the American League's Bal- ascribed it to a solid also be playing in his last year of Legion broad and mem- timore Orioles played the traditional baseball. bership enrollment program. Said he: Hall of Fame Baseball Game, 25th of in The selection is based on the follow- "We have been fortunate having a suc- the series, with the Orioles shutting out ing: playing ability, integrity, mental at- cession of good district and department Cincy, 3-0 in a game abbreviated to eight titude, cooperation, citizenship, sports- officers who have entered the member- innings by rain which had sprinkled manship and general good conduct. Se- ship program vigorously and objectively. throughout the entire day and threatened lecting is a committee of five who are Each seems to have set realistic goals to several times to force the ceremonies present at the National Finals. They rep- reach and in most instances have been completely indoors. resent the Hall of Fame, The American successful in their quest. Probably a lot Legion, the Nat'l Ass'n of Professional of our success can be credited to having Baseball Leagues, the Baseball Writer's Minnesota Tops 100,000 Mark a constructive program going and I am Ass'n of America and the American For the first time in its 48-year history sure you are aware that once you get

Ass'n of College Baseball Coaches. the Minnesota Department of The Amer- the ball rolling, it is not nearly as diffi- Ruffing, Waner and Rickey now join ican Legion has gone over the 100,000 cult to keep it rolling as it is to regenerate the other 104 all-time great baseballers mark in membership, thus becoming enthusiasm once the speed has been immortalized in the Hall of Fame. Ruf- only the tenth department in national lost." fing, a right-hander, earned most of his Legion history to reach that level. Then Momsen topped his remarks off 273 pitching victories for the N.Y. Yan- Before June was done Minnesota had with: "We try to employ new ideas and kees plus seven more in World Series already recorded 100,032, was 2,769 up new gimmicks each year. However, we competition during the years from 1924 over the same date last year, and was still use the good old basics of personal through 1947. still climbing. touch and personal solicitation." THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 33 NEWS WYOMING LEGION SPONSORS STATE

TWENTY-ONE STATES, ranging from Wisconsin to Louisiana and west- ward, are members of the National Championship High School Rodeo Ass'n, and hold annual state high school rodeo championships each year. In one of them, Wyoming, The American Legion has sponsored the state finals as a regular program since 1959. This year, the Wyoming Legion held its State Championship High School Ro- deo July 7-9 in Frontier Park at Chey- enne, Wyo. The contestants weren't lean, Bareback bronc rider Tim Westbrook of Laramie takes a header into arena mud. rawhidy professional cowpunchers riding bucking broncos or wrestling wild- in six-inch-deep mud brought about by bronc riding while the girls did break- eyed steers. These were teenagers, just the heaviest rainfall in the area for many away calf roping, clover-leaf barrel rac- like you'd find anywhere in America. years. The first night's performance (Fri- ing, the cutting horse contest and the The Wyoming rodeo attracted 144 stu- day) had to be postponed and a sched- pole bending race. Twenty-one girls also dents (91 boys and 53 girls) between uled Sunday night Awards Banquet had vied for title of Queen of the Rodeo. the ages of 14 and 20 who competed in to be transformed into a Monday morn- One former Queen, Paula Carmin of 11 different events for over 100 prizes ing Awards Breakfast in order to com- Orin, Wyo., who reigned in 1965-66 and worth $6,500 including five trophy sad- plete the entire rodeo schedule. was also All-Around Cowgirl, was doing volunteer clerical chores behind scenes Top Winners in Legion High School Rodeo Championships at this rodeo. In response to questions about her experiences in Legion rodeo and the expenses attached to competing,

she replied: "Well, it was a wonderful opportunity for me. I was pretty lucky. The rodeos were held near my home

when I competed, so it didn't cost me as much as some of the kids. But many easily spend over $200 just for entry fees, motels, feed for mounts, travel, clothes and meals and things." Rodeo Queen: Debbie All-Around Cowboy: Mark All-Around Cowgirl: Jane Now at the University of Wyoming Asbell, 17, Casper. Fitch, 16, Gillette. Christian, 14, Buffalo. as a four-year merit scholarship winner, scholarship to dies and college scholarships to the Uni- So beautifully and professionally did Paula also won a rodeo which she had versity of Wyoming, Casper College and they ride and perform it was hard to be- two-year Casper College Sheridan College. The trophy saddles lieve these were high school kids. But to turn down. went to Ail-Around Cowboy, Ail- all were certified members of the Wyom- While these are the top high school Around Cowgirl, the runners-up in those ing H. S. Rodeo Ass'n and covered by rodeo athletes in Wyoming, many of two categories and the Queen of the health and accident insurance before them are also some of the best students Rodeo. being allowed to enter. in the state and leaders in extra-curricu- About 4,000 persons watched the com- Boys competed in bareback bronc rid- lar school activities and outside clubs petitors and their educated cowponies ing, bull riding, calf roping, the cutting such as Future Farmers of America and go through their paces most of the time horse contest, steer wrestling and saddle the 4-H Clubs. 34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1967 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGH SCHOOL RODEO

Bullrider (I) set to come out of bucking chute. Out in arena, the clown will divert bull if rider is thrown and helpless.

Also working without pay because they believe so strongly in the worth of high school rodeo were two of the top rodeo announcers in the West—Jack Hunter of Ardmore, S. Dak., and Monty Hopkins of Laramie, Wyo.,—along with a host of Wyoming Legionnaires. Prior to the finals, the contestants competed in local high school rodeos. They entered the finals as individuals and in teams composed of three, either two boys and one girl or vice versa. Teams were sponsored by Legion posts around the state. Individuals paid their own entry fees though some Legion posts grabbed part or all of the tab for them. Posts having winning teams also received trophies. Cowgirls did clover-leaf barrel racing (left) and breakaway calf roping. The Wyoming Legion's motivating idea was to promote the development of education. Only 49 contestants showed sportsmanship, horsemanship, citizen- up in 1959. But the growth has been ship, good character and conduct, and steady and strong over the last nine years to encourage students to continue their during which the rodeo skipped from cowtown to cowtown finally landing rent-free this year in world-famed Fron- tier Park, home of Cheyenne Frontier Days, a Wild West event seen annually the last week in July by almost 100,000 persons. Frontier Days Committee Chmn Gus Fleischli was asked what he thought of the youthful rodeoers. "They're great," he said admiringly. "I'm amazed at the Rodeo Entrepreneur: "Chic" Madia, Wyoming Legion Dep't Adjutant. competence and professionalism of these kids." Said he: "About $8,000 and close to State rodeo finals are held under the 30 days of department staff time—but overall rules of the National Champion- worth every penny and every hour be-

ship High School Rodeo Ass'n, and the cause it gives our kids a healthy energy top three contestants in each state final outlet and keeps them out of trouble." event are eligible to compete in the Nat'l How important a program is high Champiohip H.S. Finals, held this year school rodeo in Wyoming? Madia told in Elko, Nev. the story of one boy who had already S. J. "Chic" Madia, Wyoming Legion dropped out of school and who later Dep't Adjt, and the guiding hand on the went back to complete his education. reins behind the unique program, quoted He couldn't bear not being able to Mud marred rodeo performances. figures on what it takes to run it. compete in the program!

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 35 NEWS.

Legion Honors Nation's Lawmen Rotary Club's Award for Valor. The ci- tation read: "Upon his arrival at the scene of a robbery in progress, Patrol- man Gilbert leaped from the Zone Car, and advanced toward the store. As he reached the door, two men emerged, guns in hand, and began firing at the patrolman. He returned the fire, killing one robber and wounding and capturing the other." Post 95, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., honored, with a Certificate of Achievement, Patrolman William E. Kenneth Larsen, Cmdr, Post 159, Brook- Tobin of the St. George Precinct. Rich- lyn, and Julius Simon, L&O Chmn, donate mond County Cmdr Pasquale Bifulco flag to 66th Precinct's Capt. J. Hunt. Cleveland Police Chief Richard R. Wag- schools, and has given out the ner pins Rotary Club's award on Le- "Maintain gionnaire Patrolman William Gilbert. Law and Order" bumper stickers which are available from Legion Nat'l Hq. The Dep't of Missouri has estabHshed Post 888, Bronx, N.Y., staged a pa- the Commander Charles A. Barron rade and gave plaques to two police cap- (1966-67) Law & Order Award. The tains while honoring the patrolmen of police officer recipient of the special the 48th Precinct. Post 159, Brooklyn, plaque and $100 Savings Bond will be N.Y., presented to the Police 86th Pre- cinct a new flag for its station house. Post 111, Tampa, Fla., sponsored a Big Three charity ball, honoring the Tampa Police Band and its director, Al- bert F. Ford, Jr., and the Fire Depart- ment. (In the past year, the band's services to various organizations have Post 888, Bronx, N.Y.: Post Cmdr Charles .... . rGa-owi»is tpnou mti Heffner, Capts. Chas. Miller, G. Wilson. 5!! as rut Cm' bwa Sum Dt A«!sir»l, SID OSKS.W tO!TEI! mP- presented the award to the officer, a <* m«m m cai mkM M mmm WW2 vet of the Battle of the Bulge with m xicans

1 I 1 sent 80,000 books to servicemen in Vietnam.) (Cont'd on opposite page)

JOE MARTI.N, AMERICAN VETS PRESS

At a joint ceremony on Flag Day, June 14, Posts 78 and 58, in Englewood, N.J.. gave recognition and awards to two members of the Englewood Police Dep't, which Police Chief John J. Madden (extreme left) said would go into their records and remain there "as long as the records exist." Cited were Patrolman Samuel James and Detective Wilbur Jacobs (holding certificates). James was cited for recovering 20 stolen cars in a year, Jacobs for an outstanding record in securing convictions via fingerprints. Post 78 Cmdr Post 123, Chicago: Legionnaires in front Arthur Fick (white shirt) made award to Patrolman James. Post 58 Cmdr Humphrey row are (I. to rt.) PC John Moore, Post Stanard (rt. foreground) tendered honors to Detective Jacobs. 123 Cmdr John Jaeger, and PC H. Drake.

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nam from June 1963 to May 1964 as an advisor at Bien-Hoa AF Base. In the Americanism program, he aided the es- tablishment of a Softball team for Viet- namese boys. Upon leaving Vietnam he all f gave his clothing except uniform items to a needy Vietnamese, and also gave a bicycle. Since his return to the United States, he corresponds with vets of Vietnam and sends packages to a New Jersey Legion honors educator. South Vietnamese family, shows home movies from Vietnam, is on call at any Among his awards was the New Jersey time to any family in his neighborhood American Legion Teachers award. Mr.

to render assistance while the father is Krenicki has served as president of the Post 122, Methuen, Mass.: Post Cmdr serving in Vietnam, and has counselled Montclair State College Teacher Vet- Robert Bell, Sr.; Police Chief Christopher servicemen prior to departing for that erans Assoc. and of the N.J. State T-V Devine; Rev. John Manning of St. Monica's area on what they can expect and how Assoc. In the photo above are (1. to rt.): to conduct themselves. Dr. Thomas Richardson, president, Montclair State College; Dr. Bernard A busybody named William Pace writes Donovan, New York City Supt. of from Vietnam, where he has involved Schools; Mr. Krenicki; Fred Munger, himself in the war on the side of the N.J. Legion Dep't VC; Fred Branca, United States Air Force, after having NJEA Field Director; and Louis Cirig- been similarly involved in WW2 and nano, of Post 359, Award Dinner Chmn Korea: "Shortly after arriving in Viet- and Past President, Montclair State Col- nam I said to myself. Why not an Ameri- lege T-V Assoc. Post 234, Souderton, Pa.: Souderton can Legion post right here in Vietnam? Police Chief Paul Wolf gets award from I found 15 men interested in forming a Six Dep't of Maine Dirigo Boys' State Post Cmdr Carl Andrews. Looking on are post and sent off to Dep't of Hawaii to- participants were awarded "Institute Franconia Police Chief Paul Hunsberger, gether with the dues and one transfer, Fellowships" which enabled them to at- Jr., and Telford Chief Charles Miller. as I was a member of Tokyo Post 38 tend the annual New England Managers in Japan and a Past Cmdr. Membership Institute. They were financed by the cards were sent and we signed up about Maine Town and City Managers Assoc. 80 members and some transfers. Our through the continued interest of former post has donated 80 cases of C rations Maine Boys State Director Prof. E. A. to an orphan home at Da Nang, made a Mawhinney, head of the Political Science swing for the kids, and plans hospital Dep't at the Univ. of Maine. visits. I retire from the Air Force on Sept. 1, 1967 (my birthday) and plan to Left-handed pitcher Warren Bogle, of

Post 459, Grand Rapids, Mich. (I. to rt.): head for sunny Florida and start a new Lyndhurst, N.J., who played for Lynd- Jr. VC Chet Butkiewicz, Post Cmdr Richard post there somewhere." hurst's Post 139 Legion baseball team Tinney, Officer M.J. Shippy, and Grand William A. Pace, Post Cmdr two years ago in the final round at Aber- Rapids Police Supt. William Johnston Monkey Mountain Post 44 deen, S. Dak., has been signed by the Da Nang, Vietnam Kansas City Athletics. The 6-4, 230- pounder has also pitched for the Univ. Don Conley, manager of the Le- of Miami team, batting .350 this season moyne, Pa., entry in Pennsylvania Le- with four home runs. gion Baseball, is enjoying his return to the diamond sport. He's been in Viet- The young state of Hawaii got an award nam. Don, a helicopter expert, volun- from The American Legion for its out- teered to go to Vietnam to show our standing record in stimulating the em- Post 56, Glastonbury, Conn.: Police Chief helicopter mechanics new and quicker ployment of older workers, especially Terrance McKaig; award recipient. Officer methods of servicing and assembling war veterans. In a recent 16-month pe- John Peragallo; Post Chaplain Pete Schev- their equipment. An engineer-gunner on riod, 19% of the new hires were in the ola; Post Cmdr Wm. McAuliffe; Don Potter. a B-17 in WW2, with 20 missions over older worker category. In the photo Giving certificates to police Europe, he recalled to were Post was duty as a below are, 1. to rt.: H. S. Kuniyuki, Vet- 123, Chicago; Posts 58 and 78, Engle- B-29 crew chief during the Korean War. wood, N.J.; the Dep't of Massachusetts He was in Vietnam for six months and (to Boston and Norwood police chiefs) that, he says, beats anything he ever saw Post 56, Glastonbury, Conn.; Post 122, elsewhere. "The VC," he says, "are al-

Methuen, Mass., which gave a Legion ways blowing something up . . . Some of 48th Birthday Dance; and Post 136, the GIs didn't look any older than the Salem, Ore. boys I have on my Legion team."

BRIEFLY NOTED Alexander J. Krenicki, of Post 359, Pas- The Dep't of Delaware awarded the saic, N.J., a teacher, was honored at a V-Team pin to Herbert E. McClary, a dinner recently for his "outstanding serv- District Vice Cmdr, who served in Viet- ice and dedication to all peoples." A Legion award to the State of Hawai THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 37 NEWS erans Employment Rep. for Hawaii; J. Rodeo, a six-day, 10-performance run. Fushikoslii, State Older Worker Program They have built the rodeo up during the Spec; Dep't of Hawaii Rehab Comm years, putting profits back into the show Chmn W. Cummings; Gov. John A. and giving much to charity. Headlining Burns; Dep't Cmdr ('66-67) J. Lockhart; the 1967 rodeo was Fess Parker, star of PNVC W. Cottrell; Mrs. Edna Taufaa- the TV series, Daniel Boone. The photo sau, State Dir. of Personnel Services. (below, center column) shows some of the principals in the 1966 show. From POSTS IN ACTION left: Taylor Faulkner, owner of the win- =1 ning horse. Royal Okie; Post 128's Betty Roberts; Linda Noel, 1966 Rodeo Queen, Post 30, Albany, Ga., to Saigon children. Russ Cleek, Post 128 Cmdr; and jockey Maj. Dave Vining, of US Army Hq Area David Whited. Command, toured Children's Ward 30 at Saigon's Cho Ray Hospital and was The South Carolina Legion, and Post 6, shocked to see the crowded rooms, chil- Columbia, in particular, are boosting dren in need of clothes, shoes, soap and R.S.V.P.—Rally Support for Vietnam sanitary facilities. Many children were Personnel. This is a statewide effort of war victims—one nine-year-old girl had the South Carolina Jaycees and the Le- lost both legs to a Viet Cong grenade. gion. The TV program, ABC Scope, in A visitor with a vital message Major Vining wrote to his parents in Al- several telecasts described the activities bany, Ga., asking them to enlist the aid of thousands of people in South Carolina A forceful message was delivered to of his Legion Post 30, Albany, to im- who are working through some 107 dif- 150 veterans at the Third Annual Dinner prove the situation. Post 30 responded ferent civic clubs, church groups, busi- of the Korean Last Man's Club of Post to such an extent that Children's Ward ness firms, schools, colleges, and profes- 314, Lehighton, Pa., by Hyun Chul Kim, 30 has been renamed in honor of Legion sional associations that have "adopted" Korean Ambassador to the United Post 30. In the photo above. Major Vin- 26 different military units of the 1st Air States. The Republic of Korea is "whole- ing, right, delivers Post 30 gift boxes of Cavalry Div., the 85th Evacuation and heartedly committed to the anti-com- children's clothing to Cho Ray Hospital's 2nd Surgical military hospital units, and munist effort and is proud of its role as chief nurse, Le Tuan Ans. Assisting is the 213th Aviation Co. the principal ally of the United States PFC John H. Green, of Logan, Ohio. in South Vietnam," said the speaker. His Post 40, Springfield, Ore., determined to country is carrying the torch against Legionnaires of Post 128, Sidney, Iowa, jolt local citizens out of their lethargy Communist aggression in the free world have had a strong hand since 1925 in toward veterans, worked with VFW Post out of gratitude for United States assist- 3965 and built a veterans memorial. (See ance during similar aggression in Korea, photo below.) One of the several bronze he said. Korea, said the ambassador, has plaques says, "Flag flying today in honor already sent 56,000 "well-trained sol- of " The memorial diers and technicians to fight side by side qualifies to fly its flag at night (24 hours with Americans against Communist ag- a day) . At night. Post 40 keeps its memo- gression in South Vietnam." In the photo rial brilliantly lighted. above. Mayor Albert Koch of Lehighton (left) examines a copy of the Lehighton Centennial Book with Ambassador Hyun Chul Kim (center) and Maj. Gen. Pil Sang Kim, as Clifford Semmel and Nevin Snyder (right), secretary-treasurer and Post 128, Iowa, presents rodeo winners. president, respectively, of the Korean War Last Man's Club of Post 314, look supplying the entertainment and a gen- on. eral boost for the Sidney Championship

Marines stand at salute after flag raising at new Post 40, Ore., memorial. At right rear, the firing squad fires its salute.

Spearheading an "I Am A Loyal Ameri- can Day" in Middletown, Ohio, on July 4 was Post 218. Also participating were Post 231 (also of Middletown); Post 72, Withamsville-Mount Carmel; Butler County Council; and Ohio's 4th District. Purpose of the event was to demonstrate nd ^mk^\' support for our American servicemen UeTfRAns A and women, "especially those in Viet- Mnm " —Ill— " nam." Plans are being made for a bigger Everybody here has something at stake—some of the watchers at the Middletown, '68 left). Ohio "I Am A Loyal American Day," sparked by Legionnaires, already planning for 1968. and better "Day" in (photo 38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 NEWS

Post 304, Jim Thorpe, Pa., sponsored Post 505, Mich., presents character, citizenship, beauty. for the sixth year a community "Stay At Home Independence Day" program, fea- turing games, rides, contests, and a fire- works display, and providing relief from the hazards of motor travel. Events for youngsters included bicycle races, pie and watermelon eating contests, bag and potato races, and peanut scrambles.

These girls, chosen for their good character and citizenship, were presented to society by Mexican-American Post 505, of Detroit, Mich., at a debutante ball. At left is Post Cmdr Isa Rodriguez. At right: PC Alberto Pulido, Entertainment Chmn, who has repre- sented the post on several mayoral committees—Anti-Poverty, Housing, etc.

spray gun is Tom Leach. Vito Lanza ment's First Aid, a Past Cmdr of Post keeps the hose from twisting. "Super- 134, its Blood Donor Chairman, and vising" are Ed Faker, Ed Parker and member of the Post Rifle Squad. Post 138, Wash., cleans headstones. Mike Davies. Photo below at left shows a portion of the Civil War section after Post 209, New York, gave $1,500 to Members of Post 138, Tacoma, Wash., cleaning. the Bedside Network, plus another $50 cleaned 356 Civil War headstones at gleaned from a raffle at the presentation Oakwood Cemetery. Beforehand, one luncheon. could scarcely read the inscriptions on the moss-covered marble. In the photo Post Genoa, Ohio, is sending eight above, operating the high pressure water 324, boys to the Philmont Scout Reservation in New Mexico this year at a cost of $150 per boy, not including cost of equipment.

Capt. Leroy J. Alexanderson, master of Superliner United States, receives plaque marking his promotion to Commodore of the entire U.S. Lines' fleet of 45 ships from American Merchant Marine Post 945, New NOW: Civil War headstones can be read! York City. Presentation was made by Don- ald Uber, Post Cmdr and Chief, Food Sec- COMRADES IN DISTRESS tion, Service & Supply, U.S. Lines. L. to rt.: PPC John de Value, PPC Yvon Guilliume, Readers who can help these comrades are urged to do so. Comm. Alexanderson, Mr. Uber, PPC Rob- Notices are run at the request of The Ameri- ert O'Donnell, Capt. John Green, Marine can Legion Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission. They are not accepted from other sources. Superintendent, United States Lines. Readers wanting Legion help with claims should contact their local service officers. Service officers unable to locate needed A pleasant day it was in Morton Grove, witnesses for claims development should refer the matter to the Nat'l Rehabilitation Commis- 111., when Post 134, through Post Cmdr sion through normal channels, for further Jerome Berthier (right in photo be- search, before referral to this column. De 15th Air Force, B-24 shot down over Vienna. low) gave a check for $6,000 to Fire Jan. 15, 1945—Need information to help Post 314, Lehighton, Pa., gave priceless Chief Christ Hildebrandt. The money John W. Ingram establish a claim. He gave 135-volume Civil War history to Memor- up his oxygen mask to help Robert Leven- will go toward the purchase of an ambu- ial Library. Only other similar sailor, then lost consciousness and suffered two known from anoxia. Desire to hear from 2nd Lts lance. At left is Tad Kimura, a former books exist—one in Library of Congress. Jerry D. Elsemore, Vernon Jackson, and volunteer fireman, a of the Charles J. Lindstrom, F/O Jerome V. Glee- now member sing, Cpls. Valton A. Monkres, Frank E. paid force and in charge of the Depart- Kudlacik, Robert K. Levensailor, Edward A. Jones and Clifford Grodd. Please write to Charles Zeglin, Dep't Service Officer, The Lewis Russell Newgent, of Indianapolis, American Legion, Liberty Pitts- 1000 Ave., Ind., Past Dep't Adjutant (1920-21), burgh, Pa. 15222 who Capt. Earnest K. Jacobs, Lt. Julian C. Lowe, attended the St. Louis Caucus. and F/Sgt. Foy W. Hall: Your present addresses are needed by Ffc. Clarence G. Mc- Elroy, 784 AAA, Fort Bliss, Texas (late 1942), Aaron James Halloran, of Springfield, who needs information in filing a claim for compensation. Write: Richard C. Mallery, Ohio, Past Dep't Cmdr (1947-48) and a Veterans Service Officer, Hamilton County Veterans Service Office, Court House, Nobles- Nat'l Executive Committeeman in 1950- ville, Ind. 46060 52. Tolosa, Leyte, P.I., U.S. Naval Base, Anchor Section 3964 (1945) —Need information from comrades who knew Russel K. Neher, Y 3/c, to support his disability claim. He was as- Richard Hood, Jr., only son of R. Elmo signed to the OD office nights for about eight Hood, of Winter Haven, Fla., a member months. Also made piggy banks as a hobby. Write: Russell K. Neher, c/o George Wright, of the Nat'l Legislative Commission, Veterans County Service Officer, 402 County Office Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. Post 134, gives Fire Dep't $6,000. killed in action in Vietnam. He was THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 39 NEWS

graduated from West Point in 1966. John J. Burkhard and Howard O. Schulz 301st Trench Mortar Bat— (Oct.) Walter F. (both 1966), Post 84, Monroe, Wis. Welch, 213 Gwen Rd., Meriden, Conn. Herbert J. Hasslinger and George Kinzinger 302nd Bn, Co A, Tank Corps— (Nov.) AUen J. and William T. KoUath and John A. Lacey (all Erne, John P. LeFevre, of Dover, Del., Past 31 N. Parkside Ave., Chicago, 111. 60644 1966), Post 294, Hartland, Wis. 308th Inf, Co L— (Oct.) Roy Mannering, 567 Dep't Cmdr (1920-21) and Alternate Merl Swan and Foster Tess and Paul Van Valin 92nd St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11209 (all 1966), Post 375, Mukwonago, Wis. 314th Eng (WWl)— (Nov.) William S. Friese, Nat'l Exec. Committeeman (1920-22). 3444 Crittenden St., St. Louis, Mo. 63118 Life Memberships are accepted for publica- 315th Inf (WWl)— (Nov.) Roman A. Wojczyn- tion only on an official form, which we provide. ski, 600 E. Street Road, Apt. C-112, Trevose, NEW POSTS Reports received only from Commander, Ad- Pa. 19047 The American Legion has recently char- jutant or Finance Officer of Post which awarded 325fh Field Art'y (WWl)— (Oct.) Jesse G. the life membership. Dorsey, 247 Edgeland Ave., Sellersburg, Ind. tered the following new posts: North- They may get form by sending stamped, self- 47172 addressed return envelope to: 449th AAA Bn, Bat (Oct.) George E. Colo.; AW B— glenn Post 22, Northglenn, Del- "L.M. Form, American Legion Magazine, 720 ElUott, Jr., 199 Karen Lee Rd., Glastonbury, tona Post 255, Deltona, Fla.; Edward 5th Ave., New York, N.Y." 10019. Conn. 06033 On a corner of the return envelope write the 504th AAA Gun Bn— (Oct.) Myron E. Schmid, Mines, Jr. Post 1967, Hines, lU. number of names you wish to report. No Rt. 1—1965 Fixler Rd., Medina, Ohio 44256 written letter nece.ssary to get forms. 550th AAA Bn— (Oct.) Sal Lioy, 32 Carman Ave., East Rockaway, N.Y. LIFE MEMBERSHIPS 701st MP Bn, Co D (1941-45)— (Sept.) David J. OUTFIT REUNIONS Hendrickson, Rt. 2, Hubbard, Iowa 50122 The award of a life membership to a Legion- 710th Tank Bn (WW2)— (Oct.) Bernard J. naire by his Post is a testimonial by those who Reunion will be held in month indicated. For Hughes, 3530 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx, N.Y. know him best that he has served The Ameri- particulars, write person whose address is 745th Tank Bn— (Oct.) A. G. Spencer, P.O. Box can Legion well. given. 206, Marseilles, 111. 61341 Below are listed some of the previously un- Notices accepted on official form only. For 816th Avn Eng— (Oct.) Frank J. Braun, Jr. published life membership Post awards that form send stamped, addressed return envelope 5219 Horrocks St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19124 have been reported to the editors. They are to O. R. Form, American Legion Magazine, Base Hosp 111 (WWl)— (Nov.) Charles S. arranged by States or Departments. 720 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019. Notices Cieloha, Rt. 2, Porter, Okla. 74454 should be received at least five months before Retreads (WW1&2)— (Oct.) Oliver J. Troster, Merrill C. Windsor (1967), Post 8, Casa scheduled reunion. No written letter necessary 74 Trinity PI., New York, N.Y. 10006 Grande, Ariz. to get form. S. Guy Morrow (1967), Post 68, Madison, Fla. Earliest submission favored when volume of NAVY Orlando F. Alford and Melvin F. Fuller and requests is too great to print all. Alexander M. McDaniel and John Mcintosh and 50th Seabees— (Oct.) Wm. Lamont, 9017 Mem- ory Trail, Wonder Lake, 111. 60097 Charles M. Miller (all 1967), Post 115, Bunnell, ARMY Fla. 59th Seabee&— (Nov.) Joel P. Rhoads, P.O. Box 1st Army Art'y Park, Bats A,B,C, August Wampler (1967), Post 132, Flat Rock, (WWl)— 565, North Platte, Neb. 69101 (Nov.) Ernest Valerio, 47 Stanyan Bl., San 111. LST 118 (WW2)— (Dec.) Rudy A. Klein, Fults. Carl R. Eckhardt and Raymond F. Leusch and Francisco, Cahf. 94118 III. 62244 3rd N.J. Inf, Nat'l Guard, Co (Nov.) Ernest Sta, Arnold J. Lindemann and Russell G. Walllser H— Naval Radio Chatham, Mass. (WW2)— Knierim, 510 Staffa St., West Allenhurst, N.J. Fisher, (all 1967), Post 134, Morton Grove, 111. (Nov.) Edward J. Sr., P.O. Box L 8th Div (WWl)— (Nov.) Henry M. Buckley, 510 Bamum Sta, Bridgeport, Conn. 06605 Herman J. Krohm (1965) and Frank J. Meder Bryant St., San Francisco, Calif. 94107 SPARS— (Nov) Eleanor L'Ecuyer, 7913 Ashton (1967), Post 502, Millstadt, 111. 11th Eng (WWl)— (Nov.) Joseph V. Boyle, 326 St., Alexandria, Va. 22309 Granville Allen and Harvey James and Sam York St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302 USS Brownson (DD868)— (Nov.) E. A. Mills, W. Russell and John Thomas (all 1964), Post 88, 17th Gen Hosp (Oct.) Norman D. Nigro, M.D., Jr., P.O. Box 116, Killington, Vt. 05751 Isle, Maine. — Presque 7815 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich, 48214 USS New Mexico (BB40)— (Nov.) Frank Slavin, Floyd H. Austin and Frank H. Finnerty and 27th AAA (AW) Bn & 63rd AAA Gun Bn 214 Termino Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Lewis M. Watson (all 1966). Post 142, Peaks (90MM, Germany 1951-53)— (Nov.) F. Calan- USS Plymouth Survivors— (Oct.) Thurman C. Island, Maine. driello, Jr., 34 Garfield PI., Red Bank, N.J. Wade, 1024 Woodvalley Rd., Baltimore, Md. Bartholomew Sirois (1966), Post 186, Clinton, 07701 USS Saratoga (CV3)— (Oct.) Art Nelson, 3013 Maine. 27th Div, 105th Inf, Cos G & M (WW1&2)— Antonio St., Torrance, Calif. 90503 Frank A. Plebanek and Norris A. Simpson (Oct.) Frank Scafariello, 20 Hawk St., USS Sellstrom (DE255)— (Nov.) Adriano Ga- (both 1967), Post 126, Seat Pleasant, Md. Gloversville, N.Y. 12078 lassi, 4448 N. Sacramento Ave., Chicago, III. Robert S. Kirk (1965) and Homer J. Bulling- 38th Sta Hosp (WW2)— (Oct.) Travis R. Dur- USS Wright (CVL49) V-1, V-2, V-3 Div (Oct. ton, Sr. (1966) and Benson D. Conrad (1967), ham, 111 N. Houston St., Comanche, Texas 1950-July 1953)— (Oct.) Robert D. Pinette, 52 Post 252, Pasadena, Md. 52nd Pioneer Inf (WWl)— (Nov.) Thomas E. Medway Rd., Millinocket, Maine 04462 WilUam JefEway (1967), Post 224, Easthamp- Sinton, 2257 University Ave., New York, N.Y. ton, Mass. 55th CAC (WWl)— (Oct.) Walter E. Jones, 15 AIR Winthrop St., Maiden, Mass. 02148 Frank Dewhirst and Renton Dewhirst and 217th Aero Sqdn (WWl)— (Oct.) W. J. Cain, 64th Chemical Depot Co— (Oct.) Don Downs, Henry Dusseault and John J. Flanagan, Sr. 906 Massena Ave., Waukegan, 111. 60085 814 Pearson Dr., Joliet, 111. 60435 (all 1967), Post 248, Groveland, Mass. 367th Ftr Gp, 392nd, 393rd, 394th Ftr Sqdns— 66th Field Art'y Brigade (WWl)— (Nov.) Raymond D. Devlin, Jr. (1964) and Michael J. (Nov.) Philip Beckerman, 5502 14th Ave., Richard Martin, 12105 S.W. 72nd Ave., Port- Flanagan (1965) and Roland J. Remy (1967), Brooklyn, N.Y. 11219 land, Ore. 97223 Post 303, Swansea, Mass. 496th, 497th Aero Sqdns (Old 200, 201, WWl)— Knipe, 28-05 43rd William L. Strout and Carl B. Stuart and John 77th Div— (Nov.) William J. (Nov.) William F. Mussig, 474 W. 238th St., St., Island City, N.Y. 11103 H. Stuart and Ignazio TenagUo (all 1966), Post Long New York, N.Y. 10463 373, Baldwinville, Mass. 90th Div (WWl)— (Nov.) M. H. Watts, 703 I Foggiani (WWl Flyers Trained at Foggia, Howard Garner and Clarence Mayo and Gay Beacon Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. 74103 Italy)— (Nov.) John M. Davies, 3226 Valley Willbur (all 1964) and Van George and Edward 104th FA, Bat D, New York Nat'l Guard (WWl) La. (Ravenwood), Falls Church, Va. 22044 Logeman (both 1965), Post 29, Jackson, Mich. — (Nov.) Nathan Freedman, 1 Tennis Ct. Apt. Henry Zech (1954) and M. L. Dilley and 6B, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226 Walter Eidson and Joseph Ewalt and Allen Gar- 106th Inf, Anti-Tank Co— (Oct.) Margaret C. American Legion Life Insurance land (all 1967), Post 85, Berrien Springs, Mich. Roe, 41 Greene St. Catskill, N.Y. 12414 Month Ending June 30, 1967 W. H. Magee (1966), Post 41, Crystal Springs, 107th Ambulance Co (WWl)— (Nov.) Wm. Miss. Rich, 200 Cranford PL, Teaneck, N.J. Benefits paid Jan. 1-June 30, 1967 $ 652.682 Malvin Matteson and G. W. Rankin and 108th Inf, 2nd Bn— (Oct.) James M. Wilson, 95 Benefits paid since April 1958 4,704,619 Alfred Sundby (all 1967), Post 69, Galata, Mont. Dunbarton Dr., Rochester, N.Y. 14618 Basic Units in force (number) 150,502 William A. McElhinney and Francis Mclntyre, 109th Eng Reg't (WWl)— (Oct.) H. S. Seymour, New Applications approved since Nebr. 68102 Sr. and Charles W. McLean and Roy McMuUen 708 Kilpatrick Bldg., Omaha, Jan. 1, 1967 6,089 (all 1967), Post 92, Waterville, N.Y. 114th Evac Hosp— (Sept.) —Ken Lewis, 49 Syca- New Applications rejected 706 Irving Baff and Frank Brucato and George F. more St., Belmont, Mass. 02178 Cornell and Fred G. Hoffritz and Fred Mahoney 116th Field Sig Bn (WWl)— (Dec.) Wm G. American Legion Life Insurance is an official (all 1967), Post 272. Rockaway Beach, N.Y. Clark, 6210 E. Greenlake Way N., Seattle, program of The American Legion, adopted by Paul E. Trostle and August H. Wagener and Wash. 98103 the National Executive Committee, 1958. It is Eldred H. Walker and Frank M. Willems (all 121st FA Bn & 632nd TD Bn— (Oct.) Robert reducing term insurance, issued on application 1966), Post 445, Rochester, N.Y. Johnson, 1420 13th, Green Bay, Wis. 54304 to paid-up members of The American Legion Rudolph Bruns and Hiram L. LaDue and 127th Inf— (Sept.) Hilbert Neilson, 631 N. subject to approval based on health and em- Francis M. Matt and George D. Walker (all Water St., Manitowoc, Wis. 54220 ployment statement. Death benefits range from 1966), Post 625, Utica, N.Y. 128th Field Art'y (WWl)— (Nov.) David A. $11^500 (full unit up through age 29) in reduc- Henry L. Marino (1966), Post 957, Jamaica, Corrigan, 322 S. Old Orchard, Webster Groves, ing steps with age to termination of insurance N.Y. Mo. 63119 at end of year in which 75th birthday occurs. Peter Chiovitt (1967), Post 972, Long Beach, 137th Inf, Co C— (Oct.) Murrel Phillips. Burl- Quoted benefit includes 15% "bonus" in excess N.Y. ington, Kan. 66839 of contract amount. For calendar year 1967 John J. Harris and Albert J. Miller and Stan- 139th Inf, Co L (WWl)— (Oct.) Elmer Marchus the 15% "across the board" increase in benefits ley E. Wanglund (all 1967), Post 1060, Brooklyn, Holt, 415 N. Washington, Wellington, Kan. will continue to all participants in the group N.Y. 67152 insurance plan. Available in half and full units Chas. B. Bealin and Nicholas S. Casillo and 143rd Inf, Co C (WWl)- (Nov.) M. P. Stewart, at a flat rate of S12 or S24 a year on a calendar Harry J. Chille and Louis Cohen and Sam 1475 Cartwright, Beaumont, Tex. 77701 year basis, pro-rated during the first year at Glowatsky (all 1967), Post 1221, Brooklyn, N.Y. 144th Field Art'y (WWl)— (Nov.) Irving $1 or $2 a month for insurance approved after Herman Beckman (1964). Post 14, Jamestown, Barnes, 3481 Pierce St., San Francisco, Calif. January 1. Underwritten by two commercial N. Dak. 161st Inf, Cos K,L,M, Calif. Branch (WWl)— life insurance companies. American Legion N. S. Phillips and Clarence Ricketts and E. G. (Nov.) Jack Blum, 5631 Buena Vista Ave., Insurance Trust Fund Is managed by trustee Stephens (all 1967), Post 49, Garrison, N. Dak. Oakland, Calif. 94618 operating under the laws of Missouri. No other Lawrence J. Lemieux (1966), Post 16, Mur- 162nd Inf (WWl)— (Dec.) Joseph Albert, 2126 Insurance may use the full words "American freesboro. Tenn. N. Skidmore Ct., Portland, Ore. 97217 Legion." Administered by The American Legion John N. Toxey, Jr. and Trevor J. Williams 164th Inf— (Oct.) Bernard A. Wagner, Box 872, Insurance Department, P. O. Box 5609, Chicago, (both 1967), Post 36, Norfolk, Va. Valley Citv. N. Dak. 58072 Illinois 60680, to which write for more details. 40 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 •

A PLAN TO RESCUE OUR OLYMPIC BEGGARS wouldn't be necessary. Or perhaps (Continued from page 19) they could achieve a great deal more with the backing of a national fund. Amateurs make out so well financially them for use of children in the city parks. They fit into our most powerful ama- that professional sports are all but un- The whole thing fell through in a mass teur sport—men's track and field. Did there. By contrast, if 1 should of red tape. But my point is that this is known you ever wonder how some of our track check hats at a skating rink in this coun- typical of the kind of improvising and stars manage to keep in training after try I could be declared a professional. wheeling and dealing that takes place on college (if they went to college); who Deceitful rules allow the top athletes behalf of kids in your town as well as coaches them; where they run or jump in in many lands to support themselves mine. Money is always at the heart of it. practice; who enters them in meets and through their sports while reaching their Raffles and bingo used to support many sees that they have uniforms; how they peak of performance, as professionals volunteer youth programs, but most travel to meets? Remember, if they do here. But there is nothing deceitful states have clamped down on them. aren't well-to-do, they have to go to about the facilities and instruction that Commercial sponsors are often appealed work at something else. help young boys and girls to develop in to. Thousands of local businessmen in nations that have genuine physical fit- the United States put up money or uni- SOME it is easy. They live near ness programs. From Japan to Europe forms to support teams in this or that, FOR their old college, perhaps, or they are there is mass opportunity for exposure, for the privilege of the words "Goode's graduate students, and their old coach training and competition in a broad Grocery" or "Smith's Hardware" on the welcomes them. They are invited to join spectrum of sports for young people, athletic shirt. This too is hit-or-miss, and one of the prosperous clubs, such as without forcing hit-or-miss volunteer it's a form of begging to ask for it— The New York AC, or the Los Angeles adults to beg and improvise. though I don't know what would happen Olympic Club.

But not all of them. In New York there were so many fine athletes of poor origins that a group of prominent citizens formed the Grand Street Boys many years ago to sponsor good athletes who needed help if they were to stay in training and get to n eets without hitchhik- ing, sleeping in flophouses and nibbling potato chips on the eve of a national championship. The Grand Street Boys have sponsored many an athlete who would otherwise have had to quit. Then, 30-odd years ago, the New York Pioneer Club came into existence in New York. Its strong point is coaching good athletes who are no longer in school. You can look all over New York and you won't find the New York Pio- neer Club anywhere. It is Joe Yancey, a Negro employee of the Internal Revenue Service. Yancey is a crackerjack track coach. He gathered in many of the graduated trackmen of N.Y.U., Manhat- tan and other city colleges, and many 'He went to the drugstore to get something for tine heartburn he got during his coffee-break." non-college runners, and established the is Joe THE AMERICjVN LEGION MAGAZINE Pioneer Club. The club wherever is standing on the running track in Mc- We do have a national physical fitness to sandlot sports in this country without Combs Dam Park, N.Y. In winter, he dis- program in the United States—so-called. the local business sponsor. perses his teams to the armories or the Stan Musial was named to be its first di- Commercial sponsorship is sometimes board tracks of the city's colleges. Some rector by President Kennedy. It wasn't too commercial. A friend of mine lives of his athletes, picked off the streets, won Musial's fault that his chief duty was to in a town where the local Babe Ruth college scholarships after he developed talk to adults, for it is only a paper pro- League tied a fund-raising deal in with them. Joe works full time for a living, gram. There's no money in it with which a newspaper's circulation promotion. but so do most of his athletes, so the Pio- to achieve anything. Begging, borrowing The last two years running the paper's neer Club gets into swing at the end of and improvising is our way. solicitor phoned him to say that if he New York's business day. Yancey's men A deal I tried to pull off; in New York would subscribe, it would help the ball have won national crowns for him and in- a few years ago would be unthinkable team. Each time my friend said he didn't ternational crowns for America. He has in Sweden—and so would its failure. want the paper, but would be glad to send put together some fearsome relay teams There was a chance to let thousands of a contribution to the team if the news- —which his athletes, on their own, could city kids skate in rinks in the parks sys- paper would tell him who to send it to. hardly have done. This year New York's tem for a dime or so. I was concerned To this day he hasn't been told. The in- Mayor Lindsay has named him to coach about the many poor boys and girls who terest of the solicitor is in newspaper cir- New York's entry in the U.S. Youth wouldn't have skates or the money for culation, and plainly not in the ball team. Games in August. them. I approached an athletic club with If we had a solid, national plan to New York is my city. I haven't the a proposition that it work with depart- develop sports programs, as many lesser least doubt that the story of the Grand ment stores to collect "trade-in" skates nations do, perhaps men like Joe Yancey Street Boys and the Pioneer Club could from well-to-do customers, and issue or clubs like the Grand Street Boys {Continued on page 42) THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 41 a

A PLAN TO RESCUE OUR OLYMPIC BEGGARS They wouldn't need more than that (Continued from page 41) small sum from a Garden audience at a track meet, a hockey or basketball be repeated in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Sports Development and Olympic game, or a boxing Angeles and elsewhere. Fund.) match, if there were a 50 ASDOF "tax" on all sports admis- What such individuals and groups It would be sustained by a cut from sions everywhere. have done is inspiring. But the situation the gate and from TV receipts in all that leaves it up to them hardly reflects U.S. sporting events, amateur and pro- Last year there were 135 million ad- well missions to college and pro football, pro on such a great country as ours. fessional. For all I care— if it were so ad- Nor are they able to baseball, horseracing and trotting. do more than ministered as to prevent cheating—it scratch the surface. Thousands of young- could be a small surtax added to ticket Simply from those three, a 50 ASDOF sters in the United States who aren't prices, so that no promoter could cry contribution per admission would yield lucky to enough get the minimum op- that he couldn't afford it. The whole $6,750,000 a year. In the four-year portunity to develop as champions in American sporting public could quite Olympic span that alone would provide many sports are as frustrated today as painlessly foot the bill—^and gladly, I $27 million painlessly. were youngsters in my youth. think. Throw in auto racing, boxing, track, For many years requests for me to In WW2, a 10% tax was slapped on hockey, basketball, swimming, skiing, help young skaters, to speak to sporting sporting goods and amusements. Now, skating, golf, dog races, jai alai, and so groups, or to lend my time and my Olym- 22 years after the war's end. we're still on, and there would be millions more. pic reputation to fund-raising activities paying some of those taxes. ASDOF We'd never have to prostitute our Olym- and charity affairs kept me from having dinner with my family more than two nights a week. I've had thousands of requests to coach youngsters, and though

I'm a fulltime businessman I do what little I can. I finally had to discourage requests for public appearances by charging $100—to go to charity. I had no other choice if I were to have any private life at all. Occasionally, I go on TV to talk to boys and girls about skating. Then floods of letters pour in from parents whose children have interest and ability but nobody to guide them. I'm only in a minor sport. Imagine what the demands are on the big name athletes in the major sports. What could we do in the United States to assure our Olympic and Pan- American Games teams of all expenses, without begging and commercialization of amateur sports, and at the same time find more money for the development of young athletes? I am sure we don't want to professionalize our amateur sports, ?" and I am equally sure that we don't want "Which do you prefer—the roast suckling pig or the pheasant under glass— Uncle Sam to run our sports programs THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the way the Communist governments do.

I think we have already gone too far, could put millions of dollars into the pics to advertising again or pass the tin for to me it is repulsive that the Olympic support of amateur athletics, from cup around. Committee is in the business of soliciting Olympics to sandlot, with far less. The cost of our last Olympic and Pan corporations for help and giving them I've thought of 1% or 2% for ASD- American teams was $1,398,1 15.30— exclusive advertising endorsements in OF. Perhaps it would be more con- huge amount under our present horse- return. venient to think of a flat nickel for and-buggy funding, a drop in the bucket ASDOF for each paid admission of $1 under the ASDOF idea. THE ANSWER CAN surcly be found right or more to a sporting event—with a We should then immediately spend at hand, by simply adapting a finan- nominal cut on some other basis from more on the Olympics, for we should cial principle laid down years ago for the TV too. never again fail to send full squads. We disposal of any profits from the Olym- What a wonderful feeling it would be have entered full squads in Olympic pic Games themselves. Such profits to know that every time you go to a games held here, but we have never sent "must be applied for the promotion of sporting event you'd be helping your full squads abroad, when travel costs be- the Olympic movement, or for the de- country's amateur program. When I pay came an important item. velopment of amateur sports." $6 to see a track meet at Madison The squads are usually cut in our

I would like to see a fund, easily paid Square Garden, I'd cheerfully pay an weaker events, where it can be said that for by sports fans in a systematic way. extra 50 ASDOF "tax" when I buy my those we leave home wouldn't have to support our Olympic and Pan Ameri- ticket. What a relief if they should in- much chance anyway. That's one of the can games, and at the same time further terrupt the program not to beg, but to things that keeps us weak in them. There the development of amateur athletics in announce: "Attendance tonight is is little incentive to train for a spot on an the United States. 15,875. Your gate receipts have pro- Olympic squad if the position isn't as-

Call it anything you want, but "ASD- vided $793.75 for amateur sports in sured even if you qualify. Once full OF" would do for now. (American America." (Continued on page 46)

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A PLAN TO RESCUE OUR OLYMPIC BEGGARS (Continued from page 42)

squads are guaranteed as ASDOF responsibility and organize activities. If your group wants — — could easily guarantee them—you can Short-distance runners carry over use- expect fiercer competition and better per- ful training from football and basketball, to raise money... formance in the many Olympic events and can come close to their peak in the in which we are weak. brief school track season that we allow This free booklet can be Over each four-year period an AS- them. But our typical short school train-

worth its weight in goldl DOF surtax, if it were 5(f. a paid admis- ing season is of little use to distance run- sion, could probably raise more than $30 ners. The natural result of locking them Here are the inside £acu million above what our Olympic and out for most of the year is reflected in about fund-raising , . . how to make the right choice Pan American teams need. That would our record in Olympic distance races.

. - the 3 keys to successful money-raising. Also includes put muscle in the late President Ken- We absolutely dominate the shorter runs handy check list to evaluate nedy's dream of a national physical fit- and most field events in the Olympics, various plans and offers. Foi your jree copy of this valu- ness program, where now there is only and we have won more than our share able booklet, rush your name and address No obligation, paper and talk. in the Olympic half mile (800 meters.) of course. ASDOF could help support any local But we haven't won an Olympic mile group that would meet specified condi- (1,500 meters) since Mel Sheppard tions to operate various sports pro- turned the trick in 1908. In 70 men's MARION-KAY COMPANY DEPT. D 218 grams making it easier to provide fa- Olympic races longer than a mile that Brownstown, Indiana 47220 — cilities, equipment, supervision, coach- have been run since 1896, we have won ing and tournaments. five—and two of them before 1912. Do FALSE TEETH ASDOF could start spotting major facilities around the country—such as GYMNASTS AND wrestlers are given a Rock. Slide or Slip? all-year running tracks; Olympic skating short season in our school programs Many wearers of false teeth suffer embar- rinks and bobsled runs; gymnasia too, where there is any program for them rassment because their plates drop, slip or equip- wobble at just the wrong time. Don't live In ment and space for wrestlers, gymnasts, at all. Typically, they have to move out fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH, the alkaline powder, on etc., in addition to our present wealth of when basketball moves in, and most your plates. holds false FASTEETH teeth firm- basketball playing space. gyms are closed to them for the summer. er so they feel more comfortable. Helps check denture breath. Dentures that fit are essential Probably our great weakness in the Few school systems can afford to keep to health. See your dentist regularly. Get FASTEETH today at all drug counters. Olympic distance running events can be gyms open when school is out. Typically, blamed on the unavailability of thou- they lie idle while we wonder what to Make Rubber Stamps for BIG PAY sands of existing running tracks to track- do Vv'ith boys in the streets. Most high except for a few weeks of the year. schools have no program at all for Need more money? Earn »60-t7B men

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candidates even in practice. The nature improve on their winning Olympic times. of varsity programs permits nothing A few things about such a fund as else. A few students in a large student ASDOF. It certainly should be run by bodj' get all the practice. They get the a top board of outstanding citizens best benefit of the coaching, and they who are not part of any sports associa- dominate the use of the facilities. AS- tion, to keep it above such senseless DOF, by broadening the facilities and quarrels as the AAU and the NCAA are the teaching, could give the slow learner now waging. It should be as far above a chance. Many of our great champions suspicion as Caesar's wife. A nation that have been slow learners, eventually sur- can run a Red Cross or a March of passing some of the natural athletes on Dimes has the management savvy to their own initiative, in private struggles make it work. Sports fans, I think, would against the present system. be delighted to support it. ASDOF could provide more oppor- Sports promoters who pay professional tunities for the school dropout, for the performers and entertainers have been taking in big gates for amateur sports Your gift speaks for America when you for years, without doing very much for feed hungry people with $1 Food Cru- amateur sports in return and—of course sade packages through CARE, New York —without paying the performers. Most of our professional sports feast ment of its most attractive performers. off amateur sports. We are all familiar The greatest value of ASDOF would with pro football and pro basketball not lie in Olympic medals. They would divvying up the top college stars among simply be the frosting on the cake. By far them every year. Pro baseball scouts tour its chief importance would lie in the op-

the country looking for amateur talent. portunity it could provide for all the boys To them the best amateurs are found and girls who want to achieve some- gold. It is time they cooperated to help thing, but whose elders say they "can't

develop the talent that is the source of afford" this and "can't afford" that. It

their riches. And it would be good busi- would also lie in the help it would give ness, too. to those volunteer adults who are buck- Television's sports shows are its best ing "the system" in trying to do what drawing card. TV too should be very hap- they can for such boys and girls. py to make a contribution to the develop- You take it from there. the end WILL YOU SMOKE MY "The job qualifications are very simple. Have you ever oiled a computer?" THK AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE NEW KIND OF PIPE college graduate, for the kid on the street who yearns to excel in something but 30 Days at My Risk? finds most doors closed. By E. A. CAREY ASDOF could send top coaches All I want is your name so I can write around the country in their olT-seasons and tell you why I'm willing to send to hold clinics for youngsters who don't you my pipe for 30 days smoking with- know what to do with their right foot out a cent of risk on your part. or their left hand—as touring coaches, My new pipe is not a new model, not a new The claims I could make for this new principle in sponsored by the government, do in style, not a new gadget, not an improve- tobacco enjoyment are so spectacular that no pipe Canada. smoker would believe them. So, since "seeing is ment on old style pipes. It is the first believing", I also say "Smoking is convincing" and pipe in the world to use an There are associations governing or ENTIRELY I want to send you one Carey pipe to smoke 30 days PRINCIPLE for giving unadulter- promoting most sports that could spell NEW at my risk. At the end of that time, if you're willing ated pleasure to pipe smokers. to give up your Carey Pipe, simply break it to bits — out far more that could be done to widen and return it to me — the trial has cost you nothing. I've been a pipe smoker for 30 years opportunity and develop Please send me your name today. The coupon or a amateur ac- always looking for the ideal pipe— buying postal card will do. I'll send you absolutely free my tivities in their fields, if a fund such all the as disappointing gadgets — never complete trial offer so you can decide for yourself ASDOF offered them a running start. finding a single, solitary pipe that would whether or not my pipe-smoking friends are right smoke hour after hour, day after day, when they say the Carey Pipe is the greatest smok- I would like to hear our top skiing without bitterness, bite, or sludge. ing invention ever patented. Send your name today. leaders say what they As one pipe smoker to another, I'll guarantee you would do with a With considerable doubt, I decided to work out the surprise of your life, FREE. Write E. A. Carey, something for myself. After months of share of such a fund for development. experiment- 1920 Sunnyside Ave., Dept. JJii-K. Chicago 40. Illinois insr and scores of disappointments, After suddenly, almost 52 skiing contests for men in by accident, I discovered how to harness four great Ce. a. CAREY, 1920 Sunnyside Ave., I laws Olympic history, we are still looking for natural to give me everything I wanted in a pipe. DEPT. 246-K, CHICAGO 40, ILLINOIS It didn't require any "breaking in". From the first Please our first gold medal. Only two Ameri- send facts about the Carey Pipe. Then I will puff it smoked cool — it smoked mild. It smoked right decide if I want to try it for 30 Days at YOUR RISK. cans hold Olympic skiing gold medals, down to the last bit of tobacco without bite. It never Everything you send is free. No salesman is to call. has to be "rested". AND it never has to be both women. Since Gretchen Fraser and cleaned! Yet it is utterly impossible for goo or sludge to reach your Name. Andrea Lawrence won slalom races for tongue, because my invention dissipates the goo as it forms! us in 1948 and 1952, German, Swiss, You might expect all this to require a complicated I Address. French and Canadian women (but no mechanical gadget, but when you see it, the most sur- I prising thing will be that I've done all this in a pipe City Zone. American women) have come along to that looks like any of the finest conventional pipes.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 49 HOW THE ATOM IS CHANGING THE WORLD radiation counter gives the surgeon a (Continued from page 11) portrait of a small tumor at a precise point inside the patient's skull. "dating" has fixed the age of the Dead both with his right hand, using Peters Sea Scrolls at about 1,917 years; and ammunition once and Western ammuni- A radioisotope of chromium, for some sandals in an Oregon cave at about tion once. which the red blood cells have a liking, was used at field hospitals in the Korean 9;000 years. It is useful to date remains There's so much more to say that—to War to tell how much blood wounded of plants or animals back 50,000 years. keep our tale to size—we leave it to your Clues from trace amounts of many imagination that "activation analysis" soldiers had lost, and if they had lost so other radioisotopes in nature can date tells stories that have thousands of uses. many red cells that they needed whole many phenomena back millions of years It spots the tiniest impurities in products blood, or so few that just plasma would do. —when a rock was last molten, when hot and raw materials. It measures pesticide rock last cooled to various temperature residues in food. It detects slight ab- Excess radiation can kill living cells. levels, when crystals were formed. In normalities in human blood or cells. It It kills new cells more readily than old some cases uranium clues can date a serves uses of great importance through- ones (i.e.: with a smaller dose). So new rock-cooling to a billion years ago. out science, industry, medicine, law, etc., cancer cells can, in the right circum- But isotopes also do modern and an- that may have little meaning to you or stances, be destroyed with radiation that cient detective work; make long-lived me. doesn't kill the surrounding tissue. And batteries; diagnose and treat diseases; germ cells can be destroyed with radia- preserve foods; measure flows in pipes tion that doesn't kill the whole being. and rivers; control the thickness of in- Thus the male screwworm flies were dustrial products without stopping pro- sterilized rather than killed. But we must duction; measure the wear in a running leave medicine with most of the story engine, and so on almost endlessly. untold, for tracers alone have hundreds

It is hard to read any scientific or in- of other uses. dustrial journal without coming upon ingenious new applications of them and TRACERS OUTSIDE of medicinc work their radiation. much Hke those in medicine. They tell In 1964, there were 8,000 users of what you can't see, and without taking radioisotopes in the United States, a third anything apart. Sewage from one of of them in industry. And if you are many houses on a hill was leaking into a worried about the danger of swallowing pond. Each day a radioisotope was a radioactive isotope to help your doctor flushed down the drain of a different in a diagnosis, the usable amounts are house. When the pond showed radioac- incredibly small. The AEC makes most tivity, the last house tested was guilty. of the radioisotopes for all uses in this Industry sends one fluid through a country, and its annual production is pipeline, then switches to another with only a fraction of an ounce. a tracer at its head. When radiation shows through the pipe near the delivery DETECTION USING radioactivity in point the second item has arrived. Time what is called "activation analysis" to switch the outlet to receive it in a fresh almost passes belief. Many of the ele- "We have a clogged drain. Send out an tank. Oil firms also do this to show own-

F. B. I. agent, guard, security clear- ments in any substance, even if they are a a ership of petroleum that they take turns ance expert and a plumber!" in such tiny amounts as gold in human sending through the same pipelines. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE hair, can be made to reveal their precise How fast is a piston in a new engine amount. Bombardment with radiation design wearing out? Don't take it apart. Now come the "tracers." An example makes such elements radioactive even if Put tracers in the piston metal, run the of a tracer serves better than an explana- only for a few minutes. Their typical ra- engine, drain the oil and check the radiation. Your doctor suspects you may have diation tells highly sensitive instruments tion in the oil. Older methods take ten an overactive thyroid. He feeds you what they are and how much. A chart of days of engine operation to show meas- something with a fantastically small and truce elements in one of your hairs will urable wear. Tracers do it in minutes harmless amount of a radioactive isotope differ from those in another's hair. Opium with 50 times the sensitivity. One large of iodine in it. The thyroid gland grabs grown in, say, northeastern Turkey will firm making about 600 engine-wear tests iodine from the bloodstream. A radiation give a chart of trace elements different a year saves $2 million annually using detector near your throat tells how soon from opium grown elsewhere, due to the tracers. and how fast your thyroid snatches up slightest soil differences. Bits of mud Oil companies put tracers in chemicals the radioactive iodine isotope, and that on the tires of a bootlegging truck in used to help refine heavy oil in huge clues your doctor to the activity of your New York traced it to the soil of a equipment operating at high tempera- thyroid. Such things in medicine alone known still-site in Georgia and got a tures. The stories that radiation tells — are now out of this world. Many other conviction. Identification of hair frag- about where the chemicals are going, body cells are noted for selecting certain ments in a suspect's hands helped secure what they are doing and when they need elements from the blood. A man with a a conviction in California recently— it to be replaced have saved millions of dol- chronic headache is given a little bit of was the murder victim's hair. King Eric lars. This operation gives a hint of how a radioisotope of technetium.* Brain IV of Sweden, legend had it, was poi- little is needed of an isotope. A hundred tumors snatch it up. In a few minutes a soned with arsenic four hundred years thousandth of an ounce of tracer mixed ago. "Activation analysis" of his remains in 500 tons of the chemical will give a * Science has plagued us with names like recently revealed the arsenic. It also re- "technetium" for elements, and even worse reliable radiation count from a quart of ones, such as protactinium, praseodymium and the vealed unsuspected arsenic in a bit of Na- so on. We'd have less trouble if they'd use the mixture. An oil worker, says simple words like "iron." Nobody is going to poleon's hair. In a test, a man fired two AEC, could be harmed by radioactivity discuss nuclear science at cocktail parties if shots with a revolver. "Activation analy- they don't clean up the language. Have a if he breathed or ate "several tons" of the martini and say "molybdenum." Say it without sis" truth, fired tagged chemical. confirmed the that he a martini, if you can. Six times, fast. 50 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 —

Tracers help out with soap for you or constantly while in production. The way ocean. Radiation improves some wool, for space. Soap companies soil clothes the radiation reflects tells instantly if helps plastics hold their shape under

with "tagged" dirt, then wash them. Ra- there has been the slightest change in heat, and what it is doing to preserve diation from the dirty water tells how thickness. An early investor in such foods is way out. much dirt the soap removed. The small- gauges was a large group of paper com- The Food and Drug Administration est amounts of a burnable substance panies. They realized a net saving of has rightfully been slow and cautious in such as grease—fouling the oxygen lines nearly $3 million in one year—after in- approving irradiated foods for public of a spacecraft is extremely dangerous. vesting $370,000 in atomic gauge equip- consumption, so the experimental work A missile manufacturer deliberately ment—by decreasing waste and saving is far ahead of official approval for mar- fouled some oxygen lines with the kind raw materials. keting. Irradiated bacon, potatoes and of contamination that might get in them, The Department of Agriculture has wheat products have already been ap- and tagged it. He washed the lines with pioneered isotope gauge measurement of proved. We show you with this article a

various soaps and solvents and found the thickness of eggshells. With it, farm- photo of two hams kept at room tem- that a $2-a-gallon solvent cleaned the ers may one day breed hens to produce perature in airtight plastic wrapping pipes best. Result, cleaner oxygen pipes thick-shelled eggs (less breakage in han- from October through July, one irradi- and $600,000 a year saved off the cost of dling and shipment). No need to break ated, one not. Our understanding is that $5-a-gallon solvents. the eggs to see which hen is consistently the irradiated ham was about as good as We must leave tracers, with yet an- laying thick-shelled and which thin- it looked. Fish, even on ice, lose some other tale hardly begun. shelled eggs. Just scan them, note the quality very rapidly. That's why, even "thick-shell" hens for future breeding, with the airplane and refrigeration, you Let's peek at atomic '"measuring and send the unharmed eggs on to mar- just can't get the seafood in Chicago, j gauges." Accidental changes in the ket. Kansas City or Dallas that you can in thickness of materials coming off produc- Radiation makes subtle changes in the Maine, San Francisco. Boston or New tion lines can have serious consequences chemistry of many substances. Now and Orleans. A few hours makes a difference, for industry. In the old days, a harmful then some industry gets hot on the trail frozen or not. The word is that irradiated or wasteful change might be so slight as of a change that solves a problem. Thus fish have been kept from one to three to be undetectable. Or production con- the Esso labs are using radiation from months. Potatoes have kept fresh and trol might discover a change by sampling isotopes to change detergents so that bac- have not sprouted, berries have kept the product some hours after tons of ma- teria in the sewage will destroy them without first one, then two, then four, terial of the wrong thickness had been after use. Detergents from your house then the whole lot going bad. This is a turned out. and mine have previously stubbornly re- whole new thing. It's too big, again, for

Now many branches of industry use sisted purification in sewage plants, to our brief space. Let's close it with an isotope "gauges" that scan the product foul rivers and streams all the way to the (Continued on page 52)

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 51 HOW THE ATOM IS CHANGING THE WORLD bomb." If you read sometime that this (Continued from page 51) has happened, you will know you are

reading something so big that it will mark AEC quote: "Sterilized cooked ham- tention, to obey sound signals from the entry into another "new world." burger held at room temperature for over surface. They're too weak to run drills The hydrogen reaction has a decently a year does not appear to differ from and too expensive and heavy for you to short name, "fusion." It is quite differ- fresh-cooked hamburger." By "steril- put in your car, but they can transmit ent from the breaking down of uranium ized" they mean with atomic radiation messages and turn switches and valves into lighter elements, and different again in safe amounts. on and ofi". For such services, $12,000 from the radiation of radioisotopes. In For the last six years the atomic age a year is dirt cheap for many other pos- fusion, two atoms of hydrogen unite to has been pulling yet another trick, for sible industrial uses. form one atom of the heavier substance, which its "teammate" had been waiting The generators themselves are quite helium, and once again release a lot of 150 years. That's how long ago a Ger- small, having the light weight needed for energy in the process. man named Seebeck found a way to turn spacecraft. But when used on earth they heat directly into a weak electric current, come to several thousand pounds be- HAS two blessings and one with no moving parts. A second method cause of the heavy shielding of their ra- FUSION curse. The first blessing is that hydro- was later discovered. In case you're in- diation to make them perfectly safe in gen is about the cheapest and most plen- terested, the names of the two methods the event of any foreseeable accident. tiful atomic fuel to be had. 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But the radiation of some of the "hot- The curse is that while a fusion reac- ter" radioisotopes offered something new tion will give you far more power than —a steady source of heat for long pe- you put into it to make it happen, it still riods of time, needing no attention. Even takes a lot of power to make it happen. the weak current of the "thermocouple" So far we only have one thing to trigger might be useful with these new fuels, for a hydrogen blast, and that is a uranium it was seen that it might produce usable or plutonium blast. Every hydrogen power for years—without attention—if bomb yet tested was set off with an "or- put out in space, at the bottom of the dinary" atomic bomb, and it was the ocean, at the poles of the earth or afloat that caused most of the famous on the ocean waves. "trigger" fallout, not the hydrogen bomb itself. Of course, that means that any use of fusion 1 96 1 , THE AEC left a thermocouple, IN today has to be ^7^. You don't trigger powered by an isotope of plutonium, something small with an atom bomb. for a two-year test on Canada's bleak Now what they want is something Alex Heiberg Island, 700 miles from the small, and something less deadly than an North Pole. At the end of the two years "I lost my job today, but the boss said I could continue bowling with the company atom bomb, to trigger a small, controlled the lonely little mechanism was still team as long as I wish." hydrogen reaction. And they are looking faithfully transmitting temperature, hard, you can imagine, since it is clearly wind and barometer readings every three THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE seen that controlled fusion can supply hours from the lifeless and icebound is- all the energy that man could conceiva- land. A second one repeated the job in deep-water sound beacon, audible to ship bly want on this earth for any conceiva- Antarctica. The Navy put another one and submarine gear for 20 miles, that ble time into the future. afloat at sea, then designed an under- won't even use electricity. The isotopes Perhaps something like the laser water beacon to run for two or more will simply boil water whose steam will beam, which can make intense heat at a years 15,000 feet down in the At- run a gadget that blows the underwater small point using nothing more deadly lantic. The Coast Guard put two in Bal- equivalent of a whistle. than light, just might be the key to un- timore harbor, one to serve as a Such is the taste of the tale of what lock the door. But so far there's no an- lighthouse and the other as a floating atoms have quietly been doing in the 25 swer. THE END navigational buoy, both flashing warn- years since Fermi's first chain reaction of ing lights to ships. All had a minimum uranium in Chicago. And it's only a life of two years without any attention. taste. 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The In 1887, the British rules were revised, Thistle's poor showing in The Cup match Royal London Yacht Club and the Yacht and left designers free to ape the best to a probable fault in her design. Racing Association, to which all major American features and still enter British The New York club was miffed at the European clubs belonged, felt "that the races. secrecy that had surrounded the building terms [were] such that foreign vessels It should be noted that the early chal- of the Thistle. It was none of its business, are unable to challenge." lenge races had all been considered to be actually, but the members did feel that a test of British design against very dif- UT, FOLLOWING somc modifications ferent American design. But henceforth in the rules and the passage of five the successful American principles were years, the Earl of Dunraven issued a chal- to rule on both sides of the sea. The lenge with his Valkyrie II for a race in races ceased to be a contest between 1893. The American defender was the fundamentally different types of craft. Vigilant. It introduced machinery, in the So now came the Scots, with the form of powerful lifts for raising and Thistle, sponsored by the Royal Clyde lowering her board, to a sport that had Yacht Club. The New York Yacht Club previously relied entirely on the skill was told that Thistle would be 85 feet and muscle of crews for shiphandling. long. She was built under wraps, follow- Vigilant and Dunraven's Valkyrie II ing a design of George L. Watson, some- met for the best three out of five races times called "the father of scientific yacht off Sandy Hook, N.J., in October 1893. architecture." Watson had closely Vigilant took the first two. The third studied the American defenders in pre- was the best race yet in the history of vious races. Thistle was the first British The Cup, but Vigilant came through in challenger planned and built with the what the N. Y. Times called "probably sole purpose of bringing home The Cup. the greatest battle of sails that was ever The New York club commissioned fought." Edward Burgess, who had built the May- But when Lord Dunraven got home, flower, to turn out the Volunteer, a steel he complained bitterly about spectator sloop, to defend against the Scots. Amer- boats, including excursion steamers, in- ican yachtsmen were worried. Watson terfering with the race. This was only had been designing the fastest boats in "I don't think just climbing that scale an indication of things to come when British waters, and his Thistle was beat- once a day is enough exercise." he challenged again with Valkyrie III ing every boat she met in races in Britain. TIIK AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE against the American Defender in 1895. As expected, the Thistle created quite a Best three of five races was again the stir in New York. Her owners arrived the defenders should henceforth have rule. on a steam yacht outfitted with a band of better knowledge of what the challenger The first race was bad enough. Twenty bagpipers and plenty of Scotch—to drink would be like. So the rules were again yachts tried to keep the course clear of toasts to America, Scotland and all con- changed. the biggest crowd of spectators in all nected with the races, before they would Now a challenge must be issued ten yacht racing history. More than 60,000 sail for home with The Cup. months in advance, rather than six. The people lined the rails of 200 steamers club challenging must present a docu- and many smaller craft. The race was BUT THE Volunteer raised American ment, along with the challenge, giving completed with Defender beating Val- hopes. The two yachts, very much exact data about its yacht. As usual, a kyrie III by 8 minutes 20 seconds. That alike in concept, were the fastest single- single yacht was to defend, but the club night Dunraven issued the only charge masters yet built, and a close race was holding The Cup did not have to name (Continued on page 56) predicted. But there was almost no race at all. The finished Thistle was 1 .46 feet longer than the announced 85 feet, which created a stir in the New York club far The Painkiller. out of proportion to the small matter. Threats to cancel the match were heard. For hemorrhoids that hurt. However, an arbitrator ruled that no at- tempt to deceive the defenders had been You have probably heard of Nupercainal® intended, and that a time allowance ac- Suppositories and Ointment by now. Nuper- cording to the rules of handicap racing cainal is the most effective and longest would be given. Thistle actually got the lasting painkiller of the leading products available allowance! It was only a few seconds, without prescrip- tion. It is over eight times stronger but she needed more. It was said that than the most commonly used topical the Scots bagpipers had more wind in anesthetic preparation. Doctors have their pipes than the Thistle had in her been recommending Nupercainal for sails. She lost the first race by more over 33 years for hemorrhoids that hurt. than 19 minutes and the second by 12. Over 8 times more pain-killing power than A nasty rumor was started in Britain the most commonly used topical anesthetic. that the Thistle's skipper, John Barr, had

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 55 THE STORY OF THE AMERICA'S CUP lenger. In four unexciting runs for the (Continued from page 55) best four out of seven, the Enterprise beat Shamrock V. of deliberate cheating in the history of mug" himself. He finally took five shots

The Cup. The Defender had added bal- at it over a period of 30 years. Such was Sir Thomas' popularity in last shortly before the race to gain an ad- Sir Tea's first three challenges pitted America that the N. Y. Times wrote, vantage, he claimed. His crew had no- Shamrock (1899), Shamrock II (1901) after his fifth try, that "It was not easy, ticed that she sat lower in the water. and Shamrock III (1903) against the it was almost a thankless task to defend He again protested the presence of inter- Columbia in the first two matches and the America's Cup when thousands of fering pleasure craft. Reliance in the third. He was defeated [Americans] were almost clamoring for The second race was a shambles. An in three straight runs in each match. failure." excursion boat crossed the paths of the But when, in 1920, he entered a chal- Ring Lardner wrote that The Cup ". contestants at the start. A reporter called lenge with Shamrock IV against the races . . invariably cast a pall of gloom the it the "most unpardonable interference American Resolute, he did what no chal- over American people" when Sir ever seen in American racing waters." lenger had done before. His yacht took Thomas loses. Will Rogers proposed in the that In the maneuvering to avoid the spac- the first two runs. Only one more win! Times "everyone send a dollar tator craft, Valkyrie clipped Defender, The third race turned out to be a dead apiece for a fund to buy a loving cup for which ran up a protest flag. Dunraven heat, but the Resolute's time allowance Sir Thomas Lipton. . . . Send it to a Lip- sailed on, however, so after hasty repairs gave her the race. Resolute won the ton Cup Fund in care of Mayor Walker.

Defender pursued, but naturally lost. . . . Let Jimmy buy it and present it with an inscription along this line: 'To pos- ARESAiL WAS recommended, but sibly the world's worst yacht builder but Dunraven claimed victory, refused absolutely the world's most cheerful a resail, said he hadn't seen Defender's loser.' You have been a benefit to man- protest flag, and would have run up one kind. Sir Thomas, you have made losing of his own if he had. Photos showed the worth while." Valkyrie had hit Defender, and not vice Sixteen thousand dollars was actually versa. So in the face of Dunraven's re- collected and turned over to Tiffany's, fusal of a rerun, the race was awarded who made up a masterpiece, inscribing to Defender on a foul. Lord Dunraven it in the name of "hundreds and thou- grudgingly accepted the decision but ab- sands of Americans and well-wishers." solutely insisted on guarantee of a clear Sir Thomas was deeply touched. When course for the third race. (His Valkyrie he received it, in 1930, he placed it in II had been sunk by a sightseeing boat in the star position in his collection of cups the English Channel.) Having little con- that had been won by his Shamrocks. trol of the open water, the New York When Sir Thomas died in 1931, Alfred club could only say that it would do Loomis, outstanding writer on yachting, what it could. wrote: "The amiable tea-vending Sir When the third race had just started, Thomas Lipton bridged a generation in Valkyrie III withdrew, for unstated rea- which American sportsmanship reached sons, while Defender sailed on and was maturity and wondered why it had been declared the winner. such a nauseating infant. . . . He helped "What's this called, dear?— In case I need The ninth challenge thus came to a an antidote!" us lift Cup racing from the level of a close with such bad feeling that future THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE barroom brawl and establish it as a con- Cup races were despaired of. But that test between architects, legislators, and wasn't the end of it. Dunraven waited fourth, and now the fifth race created sportsmen-sailors." until he got home to intimate that he had excitement that no earlier match had withdrawn because of the pleasure craft. achieved. THE NEXT CHALLENGE Came in 1933 He repeated his charge of a ballast-add- A record crowd lined the rails of ex- from England. It resulted in such a ing fraud in the first race. The outcry cursion boats and, for the first time, battle of protests that it undid much of was enormous. The Royal Yacht Club others looked on from seaplanes and dir- the good that Sir Thomas Lipton had ac- washed its hands of the affair, labeling it igibles. complished. Thomas Sopwith and his a personal matter of Lord Dunraven's. But his fourth challenge was all over yacht, the Endeavour, came close to get- But the New York club couldn't forget for Sir Thomas. The Resolute came in ting The Cup back to Britain. The de- it. A hearing was held in New York, 13 minutes ahead of Shamrock IV. fender was the Rainbow, whose syndi- with Dunraven and his counsel present. During the next nine years, challenges cate-owners included four Vanderbilts. In a 555-page report, following acri- were issued from Canada, Nova Scotia Trouble began before the first race on monious sessions, the committee con- and New Zealand, but nothing came of September 17, 1934. After Endeavour cluded that Dunraven had no basis for them. In May 1929, the Royal Ulster arrived in Newport, each yacht was in- his charges. Yacht Club issued Sir Thomas' fifth chal- spected by club representatives and mem- The Lord Dunraven affair was a blow lenge with his Shamrock V. The U.S. bers of each crew. Nothing contrary to to all international sports. When Dun- defender was the Enterprise. Sir Thomas' regulations was found on the Endeavour, raven kept on airing his charges long previous four challenges had cost him but her inspectors protested when they after the official hearings, it greatly dis- ten million dollars and he was ready to found that the Rainbow's cabin fittings tressed Sir Thomas Lipton, the Irish tea spend more in a further eft'ort for The had been removed, making her lighter. mogul. Sir Tea, as he was sometimes Cup, which some people now referred The Americans resented the protest, called, had many business friends in to as the "Lipton Cup." but the racing committee permitted En- America and he was a lover of good For the first time the runs were held deavour to be stripped of her furniture sportsmanship. He set out to restore off Newport, R.I. New York Harbor and other fittings, too. Immediately an- Cup racing to its high place in the sport- had become too congested. But the other complaint came from the challen- ing world by taking a shot at the "ould change would not help the Irish chal- gers. The "enormous and powerful

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winch" used to haul in the huge jib on the the rule that the challenger might be Rainbow was to be operated from below shipped over. Australia offered the Now Possible To the upper deck, which was an infraction Gretel in 1962 and she was met by the Shrink Hemorrhoids of the rules, they said. The charge was Weatherly. Interest fell off after Weath- never settled. Americans, and some erly took the first race handily. But And Promptly Stop Itching, Britishers, argued that there was no basis Gretel snatched the second by 47 sec- Relieve Pain In Most Cases. for the complaint, and since no formal onds, turning in the fastest time yet for Science has found a medication with protest was brought to the regatta com- a 12-meter yacht in a 24-mile Cup race. the ability, in most cases—to relieve mittee's attention, no action was taken Not since Endeavour beat Rainbow 28 pain, itching and shrink hemorrhoids. by them. With these differences voided, years earlier had a single race been taken In case after case the match was started. by a challenger, and the Australians be- doctors proved, while gently relieving pain, actual re- The British vessel won the first two gan to look dangerous. Weatherly took duction took place. The secret is Prep- races easily and. for the first time in the remaining races, two handily but years, odds favored a challenger. En- one by only 26 seconds, and the Aus- aration H®. It also soothes irritated deavour's hopes ran high. tralians said they'd be back. tissues and helps prevent further in- In the third race some expert bluffing In the meantime. England challenged fection. Just ask for Preparation H by Rainbow's skipper for that race, with the Sovereign in 1964, but she was Ointment or Suppositories. Sherman Hoyt, forced the Endeavour defeated so overwhelmingly by the Con-

into a calm. Rainbow came through, stellation that instead of acrimony, it was and American hopes soared. now boredom that threatened The Cup Rainbow then won the fourth race races. with Harold Vanderbilt at the helm, to Bill Robinson, of Yachting Magazine,

make it all even. But in doing so the said it was the greatest mismatch "since Automatic Cards, Marker ghost of the Dunraven affair hovered tiny Cumberland College faced Georgia Cards, Electric Blowers, Flashboards, roil NfEO FROM Ttirowaway Sheets or Tickets, Cages, Tech in football and lost 222-0." 'ONfSOURCfl dangerously over the ships. A near col- Balls, Etc. for any size Bingo Party. lision at the start forced both craft to FREE BULLETINS give bear off. Neither raised a protest flag, IT IS 1967 and the Aussies are you HUNDREDS of IDEAS (over Now 400,000 printed words) to help with the though each thought the other to be at back Royal Sydney Yacht you build successful BINGO PAR- fault. The racing committee had urged Squadron's Dame Pattie, ready for the TIES. WRITE TODAY FOR FREE INFORMATION... please include Vanderbilt not to protest any infraction 20th challenge this September. She's name and address of your Organ- in order to avoid unpleasant incidents. owned by a syndicate of Melbourne ization. But Sopwith believed that Vanderbilt businessmen. They shipped her over in The "BINGO KING" CO., Inc. DEPT 375 BOX 1178, ENGLEWOOD, COLO. 80110 had raised a protest flag and had done May, along with enough provisions for

it to make the committee think En- long weeks of summer sailing in Ameri- deavour was at fault when, in Sopwith's can waters before the races. Besides a view, Vanderbilt must have known that goodly load of wine and beer, they also Free Chair/Table _ Shipping , , his Rainbow had caused the incident. brought 120 bottles of champagne—for Points — The issue was never resolved, and it left after the races. Catalog! f BOSTON ATLANTA the fifth and sixth races to be run in an They think they'll drink the cham- BANQUET/MEETING CHICAGO FURNITURE unpleasant atmosphere. Rainbow won pagne in high spirits. Dame Pattie lost PiTTSBUJGH TENNIS TABLES 1 *^ L05 ANGELES the fifth handily, and the sixth, to keep two of 1 3 races in home waters—one to COAT/ HAT RACKS ediate Delivery! The Cup, by only 55 seconds. a broken mast and one to a ripped sail. She trounced the Gretel in five races, Adirondack 276-0 . SOPWITH CAME BACK in 1937 to race and it is the Gretel that holds the 12- Park Ave. So N.Y.C. 10010 his Endeavour II against Harold meter yacht record in The Cup races. Vanderbilt's $400,000 Ranger. Huge She won her last race in Australia, in DO YOUR crowds saw Vanderbilt win four straight the kind of light airs often found off DENTURES HURT? with astounding ease, Newport, by the while the times of what would be equiva- Even the best fitting dentures can hurt. Keep Endeavour II were among the lent of a six-touchdown lead in a football ora-iel®d handy for fast, long-lasting relief poorest from pain. Makes dentures feel „„„,,(«Fo««Mcf„ in Cup history. game. Her skipper, Jock Sturrock, ar- more comfortable ... soothes JL '% sore spots, .helps prevent It 21 rived in York in June .*GoodHousekeepln9*: would be years before another New and opined odor and mfection. Ask your \ cmumi ^ pharmacist for «'*'^^ Cup race was scheduled. During this that he thought Dame Pattie had a "good ora-jel® d o« .eflho to time, the yachting rules were changed. chance." Instead of the more costly yachts raced The American defender would be earlier, 12-meter boats—about 69 feet chosen in summer elimination races. LOAMS! over all—would be acceptable. Also, it The hopefuls were Intrepid, Columbia, SJmi no longer would be necessary for the Constellation and American Eagle. Now you may get the money you need . . FAST! Borrow $100 to $1,000 with Money- Pay As Little challenger to to Whichever one wins the honor a come Newport under her of de- By-Mail "Secret Loan" from Dial. Absolute As $5.00 privacy. No co-signers needed. AISOLUTCLY own sail—she could be brought over on fending the "ould mug" one more time NO MORTGAGES OF ANY KIND REQUIRED. a Month You use your own signature. Pay up old another ship. should keep a weather eye on that Aus- bills and have cash left over out of every Cnh 30 Monthly paycheck. (Special: Credit life insurance You Get Paymeiiti first 1 tralian champagne. available, at The of the 2-meter competitions the end nominal cost). Whatever you $1D4.S5 $5.00 need money for . . . get it FAST . . . and in was run in September 1958. England privacy by Mail from Dial. Write today. 293.02 14.00 No Obligation. 532.26 25.00 challenged with Sceptre. America de- CHANGE OF ADDRESS DIAL FINANCE CO., Dept J-092 Cnh 3S Monthly 410 KllpitrIcK BIdg., You Got Poymcntt fended with Columbia. This 17th match Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box Omilii. Nttr. BB102~ liilMJ $33.00 FdIAL finance CO., Dept. J-092 was another American runaway. Sceptre 1954, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206, using 40.00 Kllpttrick 1 410 am., Omaha, Nibr. Bt102 lost the first Post Office two races in light airs, and Form 3578. Attach old Please rush FREE Loan Order Blank. NO AGENT 1 I WILL CALL it was said she needed wind. address label and give old and new She got \ in addresses with zip code and current wind the next two and lost by larger I Addreas „^ membership card number. | margins. Also be City I StaU Zip Code ,„ sure to notify your Post Adjutant. j Now came Australia, encouraged by ^CTOunt you want to borrow $ _-.„_, I J THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 57 TALLorBIG MEN BUILDING BOOM! -ARROW- PROFITS ZOOM! goes Millions of new homes— every one an eager prospect for Stark DWARF fruit trees (they fit in .small areas), KING-SIZE roses, etc. Back-yard orchard adds beauty, value to

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Bond's knows every proportion, NEED TABLES? every detail, TALL L SAVE MONEY! A every comfort feature, needed Sbig to please a This section is presented as a special-size man. service to readers and adver- MEN tisers. All products are sold See this styling and fashion knowledge in with a money-back guarantee. the pages of Bond's new Fall/Winter catalog. Carefully-selected quality When ordering, please allow ORDER DIRECT FROM items made expressly for you. Suits, shirts, coats, jackets, sportswear, sweaters a reasonable amount of time and robes FREE cut longer and fuller through 4very important for handling and shipping. Be MONROE area of the body. Slacks have longer inseam, higher rise. Shoes are sized to 14EE. Wide va- sure to include Zip Code num- CATALOG riety of accessories too. Available thru the mail. ber along with your address. Why pay fancy prices for folding tables? Order More men wear Bond clothes than any other DIRECT from MONROE! Almost 100,000 customers clothes in save time, trouble and MONEY by buying tables this America. easy, low-cost way! Mail coupon now for FREE catalog! The MONROE Co. 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa 50054 — BOND'S Please send me your latest direct-price catalog. I WE KNOW Name _ YOU BETTER Address THAN YOU KNOW City _State_ _Zip_ YOURSELF :_J BOND'S IRRITATING EYEGLASS MARKS? TALL I UNCOMFORTABLE SLIP and SLIDE? &big! men's shop

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CREDITABLE QUOTE Too many consumers are charging in- PARTING stead of retreating. SHOTS Raymond Cvikota J.

SEPTEMBER SONG I greeted the day feeling clever and bright; Feeling sure that the world was never so right. In a voice that was steady, though heart palpitating, I called out that breakfast was ready and waiting.

At the children's glum faces, I felt no alarm; As they sat at their places, I served them, with charm. I held the door for them and told them, "So long,"

And though I adore them, I burst into song! Why do I feel so lighthearted and gay? I'll tell you the reason—school started today! BiLLiE McCoy

MATING GAME LONELY HEARTS CLUB: Meet market. Edith Ogutsch

"You've got the wrong number! And I've got more WHERE TO BEGIN important things to do than answer this phone!" Speaking of brains- Most kids have got 'em. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE To teach 'em to use 'em, Start at the bottom! S. Omar Barker

WHO S HARD OF HEARING ! ! ? ? The secretary looked up in alarm from her desk at the automobile show- BAD EGG room. Coming from the manager's office was the manager's voice, and a Continually getting into hot water can customer's, both shouting. Even more startling was the l)ehavior of the make anybody hard-boiled. salesmen, who were standing around the water cooler doubled over with Walter Streightiff mirth. "What's going on in there? Are they having an argument?" she asked. "No," one of the men replied, weak with laughter. "They're closing a deal on a new car. He," indicating another salesman, "told the customer

that the boss is hard of hearing, and I told the boss that the customer is." Nancy Mullins

"CHANGE OF PACE" The harassed mother of seven was asked by a friend, "With three

girls and four boys ... if you were to have another child . . . what would you want the next one to be?" "A grandchild!!" was the quick reply.

Lucille J. Goodyear

KNOWS WHERE HE'S GOING After an hour or so of strenuous exhortation and of breathing fire and brimstone, the young evangelist asked that everyone wanting to go to heaven raise his hand. A rather bimunish man in the back row was the only one not lo comply. "My good man," said the preaclier chidingly, "don't you wish to go to heaven?" "Nope," responded the loner. "Then " you must want to go to hell," retorted the preacher. "May I —and another thing, when we're going ask why?" anywhere, she's never ready on time!" "From what you say," returned the bum, "that's where all the action is." Flynn D. O. THE AMERICAN LEGION JLAGAZINE

60 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1967 popular Items

lor all Legionnaires

Alternate Uniform Navy Blue Blazer and Grey Trousers approved for wear on all occasions.

Blazer— lightweight "year-round" tropical, 55% dacron, 45% wool. Gold buttons, silk embroidered emblem on outside pocket. Sizes 36 to 50* in short, regular, long, extra-long and stout (portly). Give weight, height, chest, and suit size when ordering blazers. Lightweight "year-round" tropical, (No. 77150) $27.50 Trousers— All wool worsted regular weight Short Sleeve Blazer Sport Shirt. 'N Wear, Wash (No. 77100) or 55% dacron, 45% wool light- 65% Dacron, 35% Cotton. Washable ennfbroidered weight tropical (No. 77050). Unfinished bot- emblem on pocket. Small, medium, large or Extra toms. Sizes 29 to 46* in short, regular and Large In WHITE (No. 70360) or NEW light powder longs. blue (No. 70380) $3.95 In ordering give waist size and height. Trousers $11.95 Ties. Dacron blended with button-down feature. Four-in-hand blue (No. 70291) or gold (No. 70292) *For special size blazers or grey trousers, add or Ready-tied CLIP-ON in Blue (No. 70293) or Gold $3.00 service charge and allow 5 weeks (No. 70294) $1.25 delivery. Lariat Tie. Rope Tie for sport wear. Blue (No. 70296) or Gold (No. 70295) $1 .50 Bob-tail Tie. Clip-on, pre-tied satin ribbon shorty with gold-plated emblem. Blue (No. 70289) or Gold (No. 70290) $1.50 Rally Jacket. Oyster Parka Poplin, water repellent "Wash 'N Wear". Legion Blue and Gold Rally stripes with full front zipper. Two button stand-up collar. Small, medium, large and Extra Large. No. 70279 $6.50 Belt and Buckle. New stretch belt by Swank. Black, adjustable with silver finish buckle. Specify waist size. No. 74634 $2.50

^ r Hamilton Electric Watch. Only 8 mov- Flags. A "must" for the well ing parts. Run up to 2 years on replace- dressed male. Rhodium finished ably energy cell. Stainless steel case. virith hard fired enamel. Pin Back Shock-resistant, anti-magnetic and wat- No. 80098, Nail and clutch back terproof. No. 80099. Tie Tack and chain back No. 74201 $79.50 No. 80094. Member Ring. Sterling Silver, die Each $1.50 struck, dark highlighted emblem. Heavy- Flag Case. Memorial presenta- weight. Solid back. tion and storage case for flags. No. 74002 $5.00 Heavy weight vinyl with plastic Parker Custom T Ball Jotter. Stain- zipper. Holds 5 x 8 or even larger less steel flag. Ideal for presentation of flag Pen No. 74266 $2.95 to next of kin during American Pencil No. 74267 2.95 Legion burial. No. 72944 Courier by Amity. Wafter thin. Detach- Each $1.50 able money clip can be carried separate- ly from accordion style 16-photo-card case. Smooth Cowhide in Black (No. 74450) or Brown (No. 74453) $5.00 ON ALL ORDERS UNDER $3.00, ADO 25c POSTAGE AND HANDLING Harness Cowhide In Black (No. 74462); THE AMERICAN LEGION, NATIONAL EMBLEM SALES .s/ or Brown (No. 74463) $5.95 P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206

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