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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 The A merican

MAY 1963

Volume 74, Number 5

POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. LEGI0I The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., by The Magazine American Legion. Copyright 1963 by The American Legion. Second- class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single copy, 20 cents; yearly Contents for May 1963 subscription, $2.00. Nonmember subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. A DEFINITION OF AMERICANISM FOR 1963 12 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: BY NATIONAL COMMANDER JAMES E. POWERS Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind., using Legion Americanism has been challenged Post Office Form 3578. Attach old as being out date. Is it? address label and give old and new of addresses and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. MEMORIAL DAY 13 The American Legion BY RUSSELL THOMAS Executive and Administrative Offices A striking photo feature in remembrance Indianapolis 6. Indiana of departed comrades. James E. Powers, National Com- mander. The American Legion, In- dianapolis 6, Ind. A PREVIEW OF NEW ORLEANS 14 The American Legion Publications Commission: BY PETE MARTIN Edward McSweeney, Armonk, N.Y. (Chairman); Dr. Charles R. A mouth-watering image of the city where Logan. Keokuk, Iowa (Vice Chair- the Legion's 1963 National Convention will man): Lang Armstrong, Spokane. Wash.: Charles E. Booth. Hunting- be held in September. ton. W. Va.: John Cicero, Swoyer- ville, Pa.: Roland Cocrcham, Baton Rouge, La.; E. J. Cooper, Holly- wood. Fla.; Clovis Copeland, Mor- WHO WANTS THE SOVIET ECONOMY? 18 rillon. Ark.: Paul B. Dague. Down- ington, Pa.; Dan W. Emmctt. Oak- BY MME. SUZANNE LA FIN dale, Calif.; Raymond Fields, Guy- mon. Okla.; Chris Hernandez, Sa- A brilliant Frenchwoman exp sses the sad vannah, Ga.: Hcrschiel L. Hunt, El record of how the Soviet Union has failed Campo, Tex.; George D. Levy, Sumter, S.C.: Frank C. Love. Syra- to care for its own. cuse, N.Y. ; Earl L. Meyer. Alliance, Nebr.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss.; Robert Mitchler, Oswego, III; Harold A. Shindlcr, Lafayette, THE BIG ISSUE - PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS THE QUESTION: Ind.; William F. Taylor, Greens- ON burg, Kv.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.: Robert H. Wilder, "MASS TRANSPORTATION- A FEDERAL PROBLEM?" 20 Dadeville, Ala. pro: SEN. CLIFFORD P. CASE (R-N.J.) con: SEN. FRANK J. LAUSCHE (D-OHIO) The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue New York 19. New York HOW YOUR BODY CHANGES WITH TIME 22 Publisher. James F. O'Neil Editor BY LESTER DAVID Robert B. Pitkin A timetable of the norma 1 physical changes you may Art Editor exnect as you reach different milestones of life. Al Marshall Associate Editors John Andreola Roy Miller ORDEAL AT SEA 24 Editorial Production Manager BY KENNETH CROTTY Ralph Peluso A saga of 83 days on a raft following a Copy Editor Grail Hanford WWII torpedoing, as recalled by a Massachusetts Legionnaire. Contributing Editor Pete Martin Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson FIVE DAYS IN WASHINGTON, D.C 26 Indianapolis, Ind. Advertising Director What happened when more than 500 Legion Robert P. Redden representatives met with Federal officials in March. Midwestern Adv. Mgr. Ray A. Jones 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago 1, Illinois Departments Publisher's Representatives

West Coast LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 6 DATELINE WASHINGTON 46 Arden E. Roney & Assoc. Los Angeles & San Francisco, 10 BOOKS 49 Calif. EDITOR'S CORNER North west ROD & GUN CLUB 38 LEGION SHOPPER 54 The Harlowe Co. Seattle 1, Wash. PERSONAL 41 PARTING SHOTS 58 Southeast The Dawson Co. Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, Miami, Fla. & Atlanta, Ga. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material.

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THE: AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 5 that there is no way to augment my income except through trickery or lies, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR which I will not do. It would be help- ful if the Veterans Administration would furnish, with a notice of pen- sion suspension, a budget for a widow

to live on out of what remains. I have Letters published do not necessarily ex- VETS' BENEFITS press the policy of The American Legion. written Senator Edward Kennedy, sir: I am one who chose VA pension Keep letters short. Name and address must Senator Leverett Saltonstall and Con- under PL86-211 when I had a choice, be furnished. Expressions of opinion and gressman James Burke to hasten pass- requests for personal services are appreci- and now get less than what I'd have age of the Legion's bill, HR1927. I ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or been entitled to had I not so chosen. answered, due to lack of magazine staff for urge others to follow suit with their I asked for what I got. As you pointed these purposes. Requests for personal ser- own representatives in Congress. vices which may be legitimately asked of out in your February issue, I just didn't Winona Torrey to The American Legion should be made know what it was I asked for. your state Brockton, Mass. your Post Service Officer or W. K. Wells (Department) American Legion Hq. Send letters to the editor to: Letters, The Amer- Orting, Wash. sir: I am in full accord with the Le- ican Legion Magazine, 720 5th Avenue, gion's pension position and delighted New York 19, N. Y. sir: As a veteran of the Rainbow Divi- to read the details in iMarch of the Le- sion in WWI, may I compliment you gion bill HR1927. I am one of the wid- DR. DILLON AGAIN for your forthright articles on the pen- ows in the class you referred to in your sir: Regarding the article '"Veterans sion question. We are behind you in articles. I wrote the chairman of the Medicine in your fight for a just pension for all Hospitals: Government Veterans Affairs Committee in Wash- Dillon, in the veterans. Will you please give me the Action," by Dr. Richard ington in behalf of amending PL86-211. .March issue of Reader's Digest, I am names of the Congressmen on the I received no reply. I'll be waiting for Legion would do something House Veterans Affairs Committee so sure the word to act on the Legion's bill and these conditions if the article is that I may acquaint them with my about I'll canvass the town and see that all grievances? true. If the good doctor is not telling widows write to their Congressmen. the truth, his story should not be pub- Pete V. Rogers Mrs. Harry Watson Brooklyn, N.Y. lished for people to read. Lancaster, Pa. C. E. RlNEY We suggest you write your own Con- Windsor, 111. gressman. Even if he tells you that the sir: I am another veteran's widow matter is in the Veterans Affairs Com- whose VA pension was stopped under patient in the mittee, he is your representative in Con- sir: My experience as a PL86-211 because of a few dollars in- Madison, Wis., hospital was not gress and almost certainly would want VA crease in Social Security. I could get to contact the committee with reference at all as Dr. Dillon claimed. no explanation or advice because the Service Officer to the welfare of his constituents. Bill Steward, VA office at Shawnee, Okla., was Post 676, Durand, III. closed out. Who is going to clean up sir: the present pension Under VA this mess? law, when my wife died in June my sir: It is my considered belief from ex- (Name Withheld) pension as I into perience in both private and Veterans $45 VA stopped, went Mand, Okla. Administration hospitals that there is the category of a veteran without de- finer, efficient or more com- pendents, for whom the annual income no more sir: I am a service-connected disabled than ceiling is $1,800 rather than $3,000. I petent hospital service anywhere veteran and am interested in legislation at Veterans Administration hospitals. think it was a lick below the belt. I had that would equalize compensation. I a $2,146 hospital bill, a $1,072 funeral I wish to cite my own experience at wrote Rep. Oiin Teague, House Veter- expense and owed $600 in doctor bills, Long Beach VA hospital where a can- ans Affairs Committee Chairman, and only some of which were covered by cer was removed from my colon in he replied to the letter but did not 1955. The operation restored my health insurance. I hope the Legion will se- elaborate on the question I put. I am and saved me from the lifelong misery cure legislation that will take care of rated 50 percent disabled, and if I got suggested this injustice. of a colostomy that had been 50 percent compensation I'd get $125 as necessary the private surgeon I Wayne McCoy by a month, but I only get $107. It makes Marshall, Okla. consulted. This is not the first time no sense. The American Legion Maga- And if Mr. McCoy was getting $45 as a that the Reader's Digest has carried ar- zine has given a clear picture of the married pensioner, his total income ticles critical of VA policies, and it issues relating both to pension and was not over $2,000. seems to me that it directs slanted arti- compensation. Is it true that Mr. cles and propaganda to downgrade vet- Teague was responsible for throwing sir: Let's all get behind Commander eran aid and veteran facilities at every compensation out of balance? opportunity. In my experience, I found Powers, to support all of the Legion's Andrew J. Beard 1963 veterans affairs programs. skillful doctors, efficient and kindly Hattiesburg, Miss. Rhys nurses, and a friendly atmosphere of Jones No. It was thrown out of balance under Edwardsville, dedicated service and careful programs Pa. the chairmanship of former Rep. John of treatment not duplicated elsewhere Rankin. The imbalance has been per- —all in the best ethical traditions of sir: My VA widow's pension would petuated under his successors. the medical profession. normally have dropped from $60 to Frank E. Clove $45 a month as of January, because of sir: I was shocked to read about the San Pedro, Calif. $71.80 a month Social Security. But it WWI veteran who, under Public Law Dr. Dillon's article downgrading VA already was stopped entirely for the 86-211, was required to add up $541.94 medical practice first appeared in last last four months of 1962 because of an insurance benefits on his wife's death November's Atlantic. In view of the inheritance of $1,695.74 that I received. as income that cut off his pension. VA's factual report of the nature of This had the result of forcing me to Ralph J. Salvati his evidence (which we summarized in eat into my little savings. I understand Middletown, N.Y. our January "Newsletter") we were that all of this is according to existing

somewhat surprised that Reader's Di- law, but it is not realistic in terms of gest Editor De Witt Wallace should costs. Social Security for a year for me THE GIDEONS

have republished it in March. It was is $861.60. Rent, without heat, is $720. sir: Thank you for your March article our expressed view that the public de- That leaves me $141.60 on the basis of on 'The Gideons and Their Bibles." serves a higher standard of criticism of which my pension is reduced. The Many folks do not know what the the VA. pension law has such rigid restrictions Gideons do, and this article should en-

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

lighten them. We pray that those who do see a Gideon Bible will use it when they are away from home. Roy H. Pearson, Jr. Galesbitrg, III.

sir: As a Gideon and a Legionnaire

since 1919, I read the article with great

interest. This is a factual, well-written article, and will do much to create in- terest in the Bibles and Testaments which are placed by the Gideons in the streams of public life. I am glad Miss Erdman made it clear that these are not "Gideon Bibles," but Bibles placed by Gideons. This article, in the interest of spiritual values, will do much to raise the standards of the Le- gion in its work for God and Country. A. A. Humphrey Lctntanct, Fla.

sir: Many thanks for the fine article on the Gideons. Sara B. Larson Philadelphia, Pa.

EDDICATED? sir: Permit me to congratulate you on the excellence of the March issue. The Editor's Corner piece on "Is Learning Coming Back?" deserves the widest Dictionary refers R. Ketchledge, Director of the Bell System's Electronic Switching dissemination in this era of regulated Laboratory, to faulty components in a model of the electronic switching system. conformity and superficial learning. It reminds me forcefully of the bumpkin who, on getting his sheepskin at gradu- ation, waved it aloft and shouted "Ed- dicated, by gob!" Amazing new telephone switching Charles Trimble Springfield, III.

system is its own "doctor" AN IDEA SPREADS sir: As Captain of the Cresskill (N.J.) Colonial Militia, I wish to thank The American Legion Magazine for its There are 6500 transistors and mercial Electronic Central Office February feature on our organization, "New Jersey Teenagers Bring Ameri- 45,500 diodes in the heart of a new which will begin operation in Suc- can History to Life." We have been Bell Telephone electronic switch- casunna, N. J., in 1965. contacted by many people who are in- ing system. terested in similar projects, and a few Bell engineers estimate that the days ago we were notified that we had Yet, if any components fail, find- system's dictionary will mind and won a national award from the Valley ing them is easy. locate 90% of all failures that Forge Freedoms Foundation. This sure was a surprise. That's because Bell experts have might develop at Succasunna. Richard Duffy given the system a mind which can This will assure the great relia- Cresskill, N.J. tell what's wrong with itself. bility needed for new, super-fast GOOD POST electronic telephone switching. What's more, the system can in- sir: If I'm not mistaken, the photo of dicate where the cure for the fail- the rescue squad of Post 35, Oklahoma Ingenuity to the nth degree is de- City (March, 29) also shows that ure can be found in a 1295-page p. manded for the extreme reliability this Post is a sponsor of an Explorer "medical dictionary" which it needed in today's communications. Post of the Boy Scouts, and has the authored itself! Explorers working on the rescue squad, It's a challenge we welcome in pro- which also would deserve good men- The Bell System developed this viding continually improving serv- tion. Were not those in the foreground new system for use in its first com- ice for you. Explorers? Lester Newberry Explorer Post Advisor American Legion Post 350, Bell Telephone System Monmouth, III. g|j We didn't have time to check with Post Owned by more than two million Americans 35, but they sure look like Explorers.

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 WWII SONGS sir: James Sites must not have been listening when he said WWII songs were virtually sterile (March issue).

I list a few: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition," "The Army Air Corps Song," "This is The Army." F. W. Hunt Pleasant Hill, Calif.

sir: Maybe it's corny, but I still get a catch in my throat at "Coming In On A Wing and A Prayer." Sterile?

J. R. Frazer Nashville, Tenn.

OLDEST LEGIONNAIRE? sir: Your newsletter in March noted that George W. McKenzie (who'd be 99 this May 28), of Post 719, New York City, N. Y., may have become the oldest living Legionnaire. We sub- mit Major William Wilkinson (99 in April) for this honor. A member of

Clearwater, Fla., Post 7, Maj. Wilkin- son now lives with his son in North Wales, Pa. An old Indian fighter, who was stationed as a private at Ft. Yates, he was one of four men, including two prisoners and a sentry, who buried Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890. Maj. Wilkinson says he has seen four different letters by four different men claiming to have made the coffin in which the last of the great Sioux chief- tains was buried. "He wasn't even buried in a coffin," says the Major. "He was wrapped in canvas, carried in a cart, and dumped into a big hole in the Post cemetery. I know because I was one of the four men who did it." Henry Goldberg, Historian Turner-Brandon Post 1 Clearwater, Fla.

WHAT'S GOOD PAY? sir: In a letter to the editor in your March issue, Russell Pettis of St. Paul, Minn., said that "a salary of $540 a month isn't even good pay for un- skilled labor." In my section of the nation unskilled labor doesn't make half that amount. Richard F. Baker Savannah, Ga. M Your sir: $540 a month not good pay for unskilled labor? I am a disabled vet- eran with four dependents and an in- Club... come of $192 a month. I think that it is thinking like Mr. Pettis' that is one of the causes of steady inflation. Dorsey E. Kelley Lamar, Ark. ENJOY LIFE Same Good Taste everywhere because it's brewed ONLY in HORROR MARCH WITH Milwaukee . . . naturally! sir: The craze for 50-mile hikes doesn't sit well with some of us. While with the 9th Armored Division I was cap- tured near Bastogne. Many of us walked from there across Germany MILLER to Stalag 8A, and then back to the vicinity of Brunswick. About 800 men died along the road in this horror march. I lost 90 pounds and was barely alive when liberated. HIGH LIFE James K. Garvin

Fmdlay, 111. MILLER BREWING CO.. MILWAUKEE, WIS.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 9 A LITTLE LADY vs. THE COMMISSARS tion, are not adequate with respect to ag- Dhe article "Who Wants the Soviet ing veterans. The VA is even favoring a Economy?" on page 18, is a devastat- policy of reducing (and has reduced) ing picture of the inefficiency of com- some of its domiciliary services, while the munism in producing goods, food and controlling men in Congress have yet slicker. We ran a whole article about shown no interest in raising the pensions Mine. Suzanne Labin, the author, in our of indigent veterans. This in a year when December, 1962 issue — called "Joan the average age of WWI veterans will of Arc of Freedom." A brilliant French- cross 70! The American Legion would woman, dearly hated by the communists, like to get far-sighted laws passed before

Mine. Labin makes it her main point that by the fact that we weren't supposed to there are too many more Wilmer Sum- "emerging nations" which turn to the get any at all. Imagine our surprise, then, mervilles. Will we again have to wait un- Soviets for economic help couldn't do when on one question, recently, we re- til headlines of tragic case histories stam- worse. Norbert Schmelkes, the Legion's ceived 305 votes. The assumption here is pede the legislature? Summerville was too Nat'l Executive Committeeman from that the feeling on that question runs helpless to live in a VA soldiers' home, Mexico, makes another point in a note to very deep. Here is the vote: Anti-trust but not helpless enough to qualify for us: The world cannot stand the growth laws should be applied to labor — 281. "aid and attendance," while his pension of the communist type of economy be- They should not — 24. Closest rival in was so small that he lived in the jail. cause, with the population explosion, the terms of unasked response was: All trade If he had come onto the pension rolls magnificent mismanagement of resources with communist countries should be ban- since July, 1960, his pension would have by the communists invites a disaster of ned — 80. Should not — 3. been $8.75 a month less, under the new nonproductivity should the red system law — PL86-211. We would like to hear continue to expand. DO WE WAIT FOR THEM TO DIE? the high-flown words in justification of 73-year-old blind WWI veteran, the present setup, and the ponderous GETTING THE FACTS H Wilmcr A. Summerville, died in generalities about the budget, that cover [HIe hope you will carefully go over the Rome, Ga., on February 15, and the last Summerville's case and the many more l£| l°ng report, "Five Days in Washing- months of his life were nothing for the like his that are looming if we don't get ton, D.C." starting on page 26. You will United States to be proud of. Because he action in this session of Congress. better appreciate the enormous pains that could not care for himself, the Veterans The Legion's pension bill, HR1927, and the guiders of American Legion policy Administration had denied him care in its bills to increase federal aid to state take, with full cooperation at the highest one of its soldiers' homes (called "domi- soldiers' homes, and its proposals on VA level of government, to make Legion ciliary homes" in government parlance). care for the aged are among its programs services and policies responsible and Five days before Christmas, Sheriff Joe of remedy. We will keep you posted on knowledgeable. It is interesting to stack Adams, of Rome, took pity on him and them, and hope that, backed by Legion- the facts up against some of the deathless let him stay in the jail, where he lived as naires everywhere, our final report on myths about Legion policymaking which a guest for 46 days. this session of Congress will be a good appear in print from time to time. Summerville was receiving a YA pen- one. sion (some $78.75 a month). Under a law "I CALL ON NEW ORLEANS" adopted a few years ago under the spon- ARE YOU MOVING? |2 ete martin wrote a long series of pro- sorship of the House Veterans Affairs Df you move, and fail to notify the maga- IB files of American celebrities in the Committee, when the VA heard that the zines to which you subscribe, the mag- Saturday Evening Post, under such titles old man was in jail it started steps to stop azines keep going to your old address. as "I Call on Bing Crosby," "I Call on his pension, should his stay there come to The Post Office can then end up return-

Marilyn Monroe," etc. He did it so warm- 60 days. When it learned that he was a guest ing them to the publisher with a charge ly and honestly and not a prisoner the VA halted that of 10^ each. Small potatoes? With multi- that he became a action and started doing its best for him. million circulation magazines like ours, celebrity himself, It examined the old man to see if he this can come to hundreds of thousands his readers looking could qualify for a VA "aid and attend- of dimes a year. Most magazines stop de- quite as much for ance" allowance. But being 73 and blind livery with the first return by the P.O., the name "Pete didn't qualify him, even though his inabil- and await word from you on your new Martin" as for the ity to care for himself barred him from address, in order to hold down the glamorous names living in a VA domiciliary home. enormous flow of dimes to the Post of his subjects. On February 6, Mrs. Christine Perry, Office. If you then belatedly send a With this issue, we operator of a nursing home in Cedartown, changc-of-address notice along, the whole welcome him a- Ga., heard of his plight through a VA rigmarole of getting back on the mailing

board as a Contrib- social worker and took him in free of list follows. Believe it or not, no magazine uting Editor to The Pete Martin charge. Nine days later all the problems with a large mailing list has yet found American Legion Magazine. For his first were solved as Wilmer A. Summerville out how to guarantee that you won't miss job, we gave him a city rather than a per- died of a heart attack. up to three issues once you're off the son to interview, and on page 14 he intro- We have received quite a few letters mailing list. duces us all to New Orleans, where the protesting the "cruelty" of the Veterans Moral: When you know you are mov- Legion's 45th National Convention will Administration with respect to Air. Sum- ing, send a change of address notice be held next September. merville, but as Edward D. Jensen, Serv- promptly to magazines to which you ice Officer of The American Legion De- have subscriptions. This is so important THE POWER OF LABOR partment of Georgia, noted to us in a that, every month, we provide all neces- Hur monthly "Pro-and-Con" page, in complete report of the case, the Veterans sary info in a block on our table-of-con- which Congressmen speak up on two Administration did exactly as the law re- tents page. sides of an issue, has a coupon at the bot- quires, and that is its job. tom, which readers are invited to use to But the case of Wilmer A. Summer- ATTENTION ARCHITECTS express their opinions on the question. ville puts an exclamation mark after the 13 even vets' organizations (including Readers are supposed to send these to insistence of The American Legion Re- CJ ourselves) and six gov't bodies, have their own Congressmen. But being as per- habilitation Conference in Washington in put their names to a plea to have buildings verse as editors probably are, every mid-March (see page 26); and after the designed to pose the least obstacles to month a few of our readers send their insistence of the Legion's Special Com- handicapped people. We know that's a votes to us. As a result, we get a complete- mittee on Problems of the Aging; and af- big order for architects, but we do refer ly unsolicited poll of opinion. On most ter the National Commander's testimony them to the American Standards Ass'n Facilities questions, what we get is something like to the House veterans' committee, that report: "Making Buildings and 9 for and 2 against, or 23 for and 5 against, the present laws, and the present policies Accessible and Usable to the Physically

a vote whose smallness is easily explained supported by the Veterans Administra- Handicapped." Rbp

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 H FOR YOUR INFORMATION A Definition of Americanism for 1963

BY NATIONAL COMMAND^^^^^ a.

Recently, as your National Commander, I was challenged less than about our rights and freedoms. But we can only to give an adequate definition of what "Americanism" govern ourselves and preserve our rights if, as citizens, we means in 1963. Someone had written a book, I was told, voluntarily participate in public affairs without thought of which claimed that the meaning of Americanism had changed individual reward, and qualify ourselves to participate wisely with changing times, so that the ideals of Americanism which and constructively. What is there about 1963 which makes The American Legion founders had expressed in 1919 are this less fundamentally American than it was in 1919? now long out of date. "To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the I was told that the book's author claimed that by failing masses. We will oppose, and do oppose, any attempts to es- to provide a new, modern, progressive definition of Ameri- tablish an aristocratic government, or a dictatorship, or mob canism for 1963, our American Legion has lost whatever rule in the United States. This has been implied as funda- claim it ever had to leadership in things patriotic and in mental American doctrine since the Declaration of Inde- things beneficial to our country. pendence was adopted in 1776, and it has been official I like a challenge, but when I was challenged by an inter- American doctrine at least since Rhode Island became the viewer to come up with a definition of Americanism for 1963, 13th state to ratify the Constitution in 1790. No 'progress' I could only think that I would prefer a tougher challenge altered it as basic Americanism from the 1770's to 1919, and

' than that. I told him that I had not read the book c which I know of nothing that has occurred between 1919 and 1963 he spoke, but that no Legionnaire should have any trouble to change the picture. with the question. "To make right the master of might. I simply drew out of my pocket my American Legion mem- "To promote peace and good will on earth. bership card, turned it over, and answered about as follows: "Both of these ideals are, if anything, more difficult of "Here is the Preamble to the Constitution of The American achievement in 1963 than in 1919. For that reason they are, Legion. if anything, more important to uphold as ideals of Ameri- "It was written in 1919. canism in 1963 than in 1919. "It is recited as a part of the opening ceremony of every "To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of American Legion Post meeting. justice, freedom and democracy. I can read that forward and "It is printed on every American Legion membership card. backward, and see no part of it that some sort of modern

"Nobody should have any trouble finding it if he is inter- innovation in a changing world has consigned to the trash ested in The American Legion's view of fundamental Ameri- heap of outworn notions of what is American." canism. "It sets forth ten basic statements of Legion ideals. If it is words that we need to make Americanism clear in "One of them refers to mutual helpfulness between one 1963 — 1 give you the Preamble as an enduring definition. Legionnaire and another. But mere words are little more than a vain boast without "One of them refers to the memories of our war service. a record of living by them. So my real definition of Legion "One of them dedicates us to a 100 percent Americanism. Americanism for 1963 would be the living record of what "The other seven of them set forth the fundamental things Legionnaires do this year to improve community, state and that we mean by Americanism. nation in thousands of projects — what they do to give back-

"Let us read them one at a time, and see if there is any bone to law and order— what they do to oppose militantly trouble in understanding them, and look to see which may the endless drive to supplant our American way with a dic- have become so outdated that they are no good any more. tatorship— what they do to transmit American principles to "To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United posterity through our Boys States and Girls States, through States of America. Has progress of some sort since 1919 Boy Scout and Girl Scout sponsorship, through teaching hun- made this 'old hat'? dreds of thousands of youngsters the rules of fair play and "To maintain law and order. We are opposed to anarchy. teamwork on the baseball diamond— what they do to make We believe in a government of laws, not men. Surely this is the Constitution of the United States a familiar text to more American to the core. Has some imagined 'progress' now hundreds of thousands of boys and girls in our Oratorical made lawlessness the American ideal? contest— what they do to make whole the broken lives of fu- "To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the com- ture citizens through our Child Welfare program. munity, state and nation. Our constitutional government A full account of these deeds would be a definition of grants to us inviolate individual rights, and places in the Americanism so huge that it would fill an unabridged dic- people the power to choose its leadership. With these rights tionary all by itself. It is a definition that is modern, pro- and privileges go obligations, about which we usually hear gressive, fundamental and alive. Let's keep it that way.

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963

By PETE MARTIN

a s the jet dipped down over New Or- leans in the late dusk, I was struck J^dL by the singular beauty of America's only "truly continental" city. The curving patterns of colored lights along the streets below irresistibly brought Paris to mind. Ab- sent were the typical, practical checkerboard crisscrossings of so many American cities. Instead, these streets and the waterfront lay in leisurely loops and sensuous contours of luminous light; like the Seine, I thought. And, abruptly, as we slid down the long final approach into Moisant Airport — as if by some eloquent telepathy of spirit — New Or- When you think of New Orleans you think of good eating at just the right pace. An leans became Paris to me in mood and at- example of both the food and the pace is this view of genteel dining on the patio of mosphere. Commander's Palace restaurant, located in the Garden District of the city. The city clearly conveys its uniqueness even from the air, but when you step into its presence on the ground you feel yourself really caught up in its light, warmth and hos- pitality. New Orleans is redolent of Europe, and you can't help but feel that time — our

itch always to be on time — is no longer im- portant here. I remembered the first time I had come to New Orleans and found myself cancelling successive train reservations to prolong my visit — and the lazy, carefree, good time. New Orleans certainly must be the ideal convention city for any group. For The

American Legion it is especially so. It is cen- trally located and convenient to the main streams of Legionnaire population in the Middle West and along the Eastern seaboard.

Within its boundaries it offers just about everything any visitor may want to do, see or eat. Its old-world charm combines with its other attractions: entertainment de luxe, food guaranteed to turn gourmets into gour- mands overnight (and vice versa), history that leaps from the pages of school books and comes alive in your presence, and a sophistication that bubbles over and through

The main drag, Canal Street, is said to be one of the widest main streets in the world. everything. New Orleans has its own built-in Autos have the right and left, trolleys the center. It's a boundary of the French Quarter. attractiveness, its own special appeal to Sidewalk artists hold portrait sittings Santo and his jazz band exemplify the everyone. A good part of this lure was left in Pirates Alley, by St. Louis Cathedral. many places that feature nothing but jazz, y behind by the French and Spanish (in other words, by the Creoles) and has been care- fully, often fanatically, preserved. The fourth Legion Convention ever held was held here in 1922— the first three in Min- neapolis, Cleveland and Kansas City. Judge Bernard Bagert, president of the American Legion Convention Corporation set up to handle details of the 1963 Convention, told me that the Louisiana State Convention, held in New Orleans in 1953, was so successful that he and others like him had been working (Continued on page 16) A PREVIEW OF (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14)

ever since to bring the National Con- itors under its spreading wings with very vention once more to the city that lies little difficulty. And in the summer, very basking on the biggest levee of them all. little sweat, either. Air conditioning "Back in 1922," he said, "the Legion was pioneered in New Orleans and today brass apparently thought that New Or- everything — shops, stores, theaters, leans was the very next best thing to hotels, restaurants — is completely air- Paree." conditioned by man by day, by nature

Seymour Weiss, Manager of the at night. The city is surrounded by Roosevelt Hotel (the Roosevelt will be water and the heat of summer days ebbs the official headquarters for the 1963 away in the evenings. No doubt this cli- Convention) grinned as he described to matological feature has contributed to v me that first Legion Convention in New New Orleans' air of romance, but the :£ / Orleans. "When they came here in 1922, French Quarter probably has had an they wrecked every hotel they stayed in. even greater influence. They threw furniture out of the rooms, Its hard to imagine anyone coming to rode horses up and down in the lobbies, New Orleans without visiting the French A The old city is alive all evening with peo- cut up pillows and spread feathers all Quarter; there's nothing like it anywhere ple moving from one night spot to an- over town. But now the young bucks else. New Orleans is divided into two other. In general, prices are reasonable. who roared out Madeleine and Made- separate and distinct cities by Canal moiselle From Armentieres have slowed Street—the widest business thoroughfare a bit, and the World War II and Korean in the world. The French Quarter, Le Everyone stops at the French Market, veterans are less boisterous to begin usually for coffee and doughnuts be- fore retiring, or to rest during the day. with." Weiss, himself, is a Legionnaire | of long standing, yet, like most of the rest of us, he is obviously relieved by these changes over the years. My wife had never been to New Or- leans before, but less than an hour after we landed at Moisant she observed, "I get the feeling that there are fewer in- hibitions here, less worry and care, less straitlaced stuffiness than in any place I've ever been." It seemed to me that she was getting close to the essence (in

New Orleans cookery they call it "stock") around which every creole dish is created. It's an old-world city, all right; the only one I know that has succeeded in

maintaining its atmosphere.

Just don't call it old-fashioned. Orleanians are a constant delight. In-

stinctively, it seems, they're friendly,

hospitable, kind. As Weiss put it, "We're not only natural born people-likers, we enjoy it, too." Not many Southern towns and cities Vieux Carre as it's called, hasn't been bildo is right next door to St. Louis can match New Orleans. But then none defaced by the cubical ugliness of new Cathedral, second oldest Roman Catho- of them has the marvellously complex architecture, or any other building sac- lic church in America, and both face French and Spanish heritage— a heritage rilege, in nearly a hundred years. The onto Jackson Square where the actual that flourishes vigorously today, as you'll separateness of the French Quarter and real estate transfer for the Louisiana discover in September. For here in the the other side of the city fascinates most Purchase took place. Also on Jackson nation's second largest seaport, amid Americans, but let's spend a moment in Square are the Pontalba Apartments, growing industry, you'll find a city of the Quarter. the first apartment houses built in people who manage simultaneously to There is no lack of interesting, charm- America. (There's a long waiting list work hard, enjoy life, love conversation, ing buildings as Creole in flavor as cray- to get in.) balance new ideas and dear tradition, fish, gumbo and jumbalaya; for instance, Throughout the French Quarter, the and relish the preparing and eating of the Napoleon House. It was built by colors, sights, sounds and smells keep the best food in the United States. optimists who thought that Napoleon your senses busy overtime. And your of The combination is irresistible, as evi- Bonaparte would actually make it to eyes will not soon tire of the charm denced by the number of visitors and America from St. Helena and live there. narrow streets and the lacy black net- tourists who flock to New Orleans each It still stands; and Napoleon's death work of handwrought iron balconies.

mask is in the Cabildo where the pirate Your stay will be incomplete without a year, especially at Mardi Gras and Sugar — Bowl time. But New Orleans tucks vis- Jean Lafitte was imprisoned. The Ca- daytime stroll — or perhaps several

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 through this city's French Quarter. portant step being to shake each drink ture. Incidentally, I'm informed by my By night, well, this again has to be for several minutes. His business was favorite authority, Hermann B. Deutsch, experienced to be understood. New Or- sensational apparently, but then he died that the true Sazerac does not contain leans is a city that sparkles differently and prohibition put a crimp in all bar grenadine, and furthermore, that the at night. Even the drinks are different. business. Just before prohibition was re- Ramos Silver gin fizz contains no egg

Here is the home of the Sazerac and the pealed, Weiss contacted old Ramos' two yolk, only egg white! Ramos gin fizz, patented concoctions that sons and arranged for the Roosevelt to If New Orleans is beginning to sound

are now the property — and on the menu have the American rights to sell the expensive, don't brood about it or give — of the Roosevelt. I was puzzled at famous Ramos gin fizz. A royalty is still it a second thought. Everything you how a drink could be patented and asked paid on every drink, and the gin, a spe- might expect to be expensive turns out

manager Seymour Weiss just how you cially sweetened formula that is closely to be reasonable, and the things you'd

could "own" a drink. "You can't, really," guarded, is made up exclusively for the expect to be reasonable are ridiculous

he told me, "but we do own their names. Roosevelt in carload lots. Like so many . . . nickel newspapers, nickel phon; Anyone can serve a Ramos gin fizz, for other things in New Orleans, the Ramos calls, ten-cent rides on all public buses

example, but they can't put it on their gin fizz is a must on any visit. and streetcars with unlimited transfers! menus." So is the Sazerac, the only pure The streetcar named Desire has been re-

Ramos, I learned, was the man who whiskey drink "a lady may sip"! When placed by a bus named Desire, but it still discovered the drink and opened the bar you think of these two drinks, you have runs along the same thoroughfare, which

of the same name. His two sons helped to think of New Orleans, for both are is, of course, Desire. him mix his special gin fizzes, the im- intimately involved with its life and cul- Granted, there are perhaps three

PHOTOS BY JACK BEECH

At the 1922 New Orleans Convention, Vermont Legionnaires lived as at left. Now motels, as at right, await the traveler.

One of America's wonders is Lake Pontchartrain causeway, with 24 miles over water. levels of "expensiveness" at which a Legionnaire and his wife could spend their time and money here, but you can

live it up higher per dollar in New Or-

leans, I should judge, than in any other 111 city. Accommodations are easily classi- lliil fied this way: guest homes, from $9 to $14, motels from about $10 to $16 or $17, first class hotels up to a maximum of $19. But that would be tops. Your other costs will depend on how much you intend to buy, what kind of meals you want to eat, and where you go for entertainment. Legionnaires will find that food is more reasonable in New Orleans than just about anywhere else in the country. There's no question about the food be-

ing better — but it's hard to believe that the check can be so low. I had a beauti- ful luncheon at Brennan's — wine, bouil- labaisse and oysters on the half shell pre- SIB 1 pared and baked in three different ways (Continued on page 42) 17 WHO WANTS THE Soviet Economy?

Soviet missiles seem wonderful, but emerging

nations are warned that they can't eat Sputniks

s it true that the Soviet Union and By Mme. SUZANNE LABIN propagandists who throw dust in those communists generally are such tech- eyes. nological wizards that leaders of un- The "challenge" of communist "eco- derdeveloped countries are justified in nomic dynamism" is, in the end, actually seeking communist aid in order to help the challenge of the lie which asserts it- lift themselves up by their bootstraps? self in front of the truth which keeps A common remark often heard in in- silent. The challenge of the truth about tellectual and political circles throughout freedom is really the challenge dreaded the world runs something like this: by the Soviet leaders. "It is quite true to say that communism Actually, one needs no facts about establishes dreadful political regimes — production to see the innumerable mani- but one cannot deny that in the economic festations of the fear in which commu- field it shows an exceptional dynamism. nism holds the truth about its ability to 'it is the only regime capable of quick- provide for human wants. ly modernizing underdeveloped coun- First, there is the longing of the people

tries, and it is already challenging the of communist countries for the free " United States in the 'rush to happiness.' world, which induces them to flee from This way of looking upon communism their own lands in spite of danger, even

—as if it were the archangel of the kilo- at the risk of death. A strange reaction

watt — making up in efficiency and tangible results what it to any true material happiness! may lack in mercy — fascinates many leaders of underdevel- Second, there is the unconscious admission of the Soviet oped countries who are anxious to speed up the pace of their leaders that they are backward in technology when they shape

own material progress. their very slogan about it in terms of "catching up with the

Therefore, nothing is more important than an examination United States."

of the truth behind communism's claim that it knows better Third, there are the shocking, obscene red marks of actual than democracies how to build factories, and produce goods, communist inferiority visible to all who will see them: The food and housing, and is best able to make them bloom rapidly Iron Curtain and the Wall of Shame. even in the most undeveloped countries. I will present below a summary of enormous research into the actual facts of Soviet technological and productive achievements, a summary which shows their claims and the claims of their apologists to be nothing but a myth. Before getting into this overwhelming documentation, I must empha-

size that there is one area in which Soviet leadership is crush- ing in its superiority. That is in the area of propaganda. Here the communists are way ahead of the free world. Not in their capacity to build dams, but in their aptitude for creating mirages. As you will see, they establish hardly any kilowatts com- pared to the West. Yet, for each kilowatt set up, they recruit In the face of these alone, there should be no need for and enroll a thousand adepts, sympathizers, auxiliaries and research to kill the myth of economic challenge by the Soviets. fellow travelers. It is not so much that world opinion seeks to To those of our contemporaries who do not easily fall for the

have dust thrown into its eyes by communist claims of tech- jargon of the makers of systems and sophisms, it is only suffi- nological greatness, but rather that all over the world the cient to point out to them the Iron Curtain and the Wall to communists have thousands upon thousands of professional make them understand that a regime which confines its people

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 behind them is ashamed of itself — and that such a system, it already builds 100,000 a year, it must build 200,000 to show far from being one that proudly challenges, is certainly one the same rate. that fears both the challenge of truth and the challenge of Let's not forget that we are trying to discover the alleged freedom. special ability of communism to rapidly modernize underde- For those who need more evidence, let us now look at the veloped countries. In order to prove such ability and to en- facts of Soviet technology. hance the progress made by the bolsheviks, some people To substantiate its claims, communism naturally points to pretend that the Russia of 1917 was a "complete blank." This the space performances of the Soviets. But such performances is pure legend. The Russia seized by communism had already are not conclusive in themselves. Soviet totalitarianism ex- 40,000 kilometers of railways, a huge oilfield at Baku, a flour- ploits its people to such a degree that, even with a general ishing textile industry, and electricity in the big cities. On the efficiency considerably lower than that of the Western sys- whole, its standing was about the one reached by the United

" - tems, it may get peak results in certain favoured techniques States in 1 870. - on which it concentrates exceptional pressure; everything else Thus, the only valid frame of comparison between Ameri- being sacrificed to that gOal. Results achieved by these meas- can and Soviet dynamism would be one covering a 40-year ures are useful for propaganda, as we have seen by the propa- span taking the bolshevik regime from 1920 to 1960, and ganda use made of the Sputniks. But when so many innocents the United States from 1870 to 1910, that is to say, with the bestow on the communist regime the luster of the missiles same conditions at the starting point. With this basis of com- going to the moon and forget to notice that the tramways go- parison, here's how Russia's growth rate holds up:

ing to the suburbs of Moscow are antediluvian, they fall into Cast Iron — the United States multiplied its production, the very trap set up for them by the conjurers of the Kremlin. during its 40-year span, by 1 1.5 percent; the USSR, by 12 per- A true estimate of any regime requires that the whole bulk cent. of the economy be taken into account; and in the Soviet re- Steel — The United States multiplied its production by 200 gime, it is necessary, in addition, to compare its achievements percent, the USSR by 20 percent. with those of other countries. Power — United States production went 80 times higher, USSR's went 40 times higher.

As to Soviet roads, it would be better for Russia's claims makers not to mention the subject. From 1870 to the present, the American road network has been growing by 400 percent every 30 years. On the other hand, during 40 years of bolshevism, the Soviet road network has increased by only 60 percent and its quality remains the same as when described by Chekhov in 1891. The USSR, which is 40 times as big as France, today owns 60,000 kilo- meters of paved roads while France has 500,000 kilometers of tarred ones. There is nothing in Soviet expansion to compare with the Lately, great stress has been put on the rates of growth of striking development of railways in Western countries. Within Soviet industry since 1952, which were presented as "excep- 20 years, during the second half of the 19th century, 20,000 tional." rates in truth, been brazenly These of growth, have kilometers of rail were established in France, and 95,000 in inflated by guiles which were acknowledged by the Soviet the United States. Only 15,000 kilometers have been estab- economist Strumiline in 1960 and even by Khrushchev him- lished in the USSR during the 40-year period, of communist self in his famous outburst of March 1962, when, addressing power. the Central Committee, he shouted: "What we need is more corn and no more falsified statistics on the production of corn!" A large number of economists have succeeded in rubbing out the biggest trickeries from the Soviet figures and have been able to show that during the last ten years the rate of growth in Soviet heavy industry has reached 7 to 8 percent psr year,

and not 12 percent as had been claimed. That growth rate is not too bad, but there is nothing miraculous in it. France did better from 1952 to 1959. Germany and Brazil went beyond that level from 1950 to 1960. Japan beats it by 100 percent, having realized an industrial growth of 16 percent per year since 1954. The Union of South Africa keeps to 12 percent As regards the utilization of oil fields after their discovery, and "backward" Pakistan has reached 20 percent since 1955. USSR production has multiplied only eight times in 40 years,

It is quite true that the rate of growth in the United States while in Texas, for instance, it multiplied 30 times within 15 remains at 3.5 percent, but the United States is very rich and years. And Texas' rhythm of development has been outnum- realised its "big booming" much earlier than other countries. bered 100 percent by France in the Sahara.

If you start with almost nothing, puny production growth may Thus far we have discussed only heavy industry, which is look huge when expressed in percentages. an area mercilessly fostered by communism because it is use- If a country built one aircraft in 1962, it has to build only ful to the power of the State. Yet the fate of the masses de- two in reach rate" if 1963 to a "growth of 100 percent. But (Continued on page 47 )

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 19 PROCONWASHINGTON THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE: Mass Transportation-

facilities, limited to routes which were designated long before the change in commuting patterns. mo The need to keep essential transit services in opera- tion is vital in America's urban areas. To improve P. Case (R-N.J.) Sen. Clifford these services, to provide means of attracting com- muters to mass transit, to make it possible to relieve the parking congestion in down- policy of the Federal burden of traffic snarls and The three-year, government toward the town areas, the President has proposed a program for the rrodernization, rehabili- various modes of transportation $500 million tation and conversion of existing transit services. is, in fact, no policy at all. In- the program, Federal matching grants would stead of utilizing the inherent advantages in each mode Under available to qualified public agencies toward of transportation — water carrier, airline, trucker, rail- be made the purchase of rights of way, terminal facilities and road — the Federal government often finds its pro- new rolling stock required to make urban mass trans- grams in conflict, its agencies promoting the objectives portation systems capable of providing both essential of carriers they are supposed to be regulating, its goals satisfactory service. I am a co-sponsor of the legis- obscured. As a result, a system of carriers has grown and incorporating this program. which does not perform efficiently for the benefit of lation money alone is not the answer. Unless coordi- shippers, the general public or the taxpayer who pays But transportation plans for urban areas are de- untold billions in transportation subsidies every year. nated believe that a mass transportation These shortcomings have helped place many of the veloped, I do not will succeed. I have sponsored sep- nation's railroads at a particular competitive disad- spending program which has already helped comple- vantage. So, too, the changing patterns of urban and arate legislation Administration's program on this score, and suburban life have placed heavy stress on the use of ment the the private automobile at the expense of commuter will, I hope, accomplish even more. will mass trans- railroads and buses. At one time, people traveled chief- I am hopeful that Congress enact a will provide the initial cap- ly along high density corridors in and out of the central portation program which needed to strengthen passenger city. But, today, large crosstown traffic flows put heavy ital improvements the taxpayer the strain on existing mass transit facilities which are often service and, at the same time, give is wasted in a futile not equipped to meet this particular kind of stress. assurance his money not being highway A resulting decline in passenger patronage on the struggle for supremacy between advocates of older, traditional mass transportation forms has cre- and mass transit programs. ated a financial crisis of very real proportions for these carriers. The decline has struck particularly hard at those commuter services which are, because of fixed

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

big issue, tear out the ''ballot" on the facing page and mail it to him >

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 THE BIG ISSUES

A Federal Problem?

are: (a) national in concept — and national in interest; (b) engaged in interstate commerce; (c) primarily in CON a development stage; (d) of significance to national defense; and (e) able to achieve a level of self-suffi- Sen. Frank J. Lausche (D-Ohio) ciency after a given period of aid. (4) A Federal aid program to local transportation THERE ARE MANY FACETS to will cost an estimated $10 billion. This staggering the issue at hand which are amount will have a devastating effect on our ability to important in arguing against a balance the Federal budget. To get funds for this pro- program of Federal aid to local gram, the debt ceiling will again have to be raised or transportation. But in the interest of brevity, I shall an additional tax will have to be imposed on all tax- limit myself to the following points: payers — regardless of whether or not they benefit from (1) There is no "national problem" in urban trans- this program. portation. Witnesses appearing before subcommittees (5) A Federal aid program to local transportation were almost all from seven or so of the nation's largest will take the initiative and responsibility from local and wealthiest urban areas. These areas have programs and state governments. This will amount to another presently in effect to deal with local transportation giant step in the direction of ultimate Federal control problems which they will carry out even without over all their activities. No matter what is said about Federal aid. responsibility for the proposed program being placed (2) Local and state governments have been and are in the hands of local and state governments, in the final effectively dealing with the problems of local trans- analysis, all grants and loans must be handed out on the portation. Efforts to obtain capital to improve local basis of comprehensive transportation plans being transportation systems through bonding, special tax acceptable to an administrator of a Federal agency. assessments and other financial arrangements have Federal controls and regulations will increase as the been and are being worked out in many of the nation's political pressures to obtain aid are felt more and more. urban areas — San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Los (6) If enacted, this program will result in the even- Angeles are a few examples. tual demise of the nation's privately owned local car- (3) The argument that local transportation should riers. Private initiative will be throttled by Federal be given Federal aid because the Federal government controls and redtape, and operations will have to be- assists or has assisted interstate carriers does not hold. come municipally owned. Under the Constitution, the Federal government has jurisdiction over interstate carriers and does give them assistance — while generally imposing user charges to cover costs involved — because the carriers involved

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IN MY OPINION MASS TRANSPORTATION SHOULD I have read in The American Legion Magazine for May SHOULD NOT BECOME A FEDERAL PROBLEM the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: "Mass SIGNED Transportation - Federal A Problem?" ADDRESS.

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I THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 21 By LESTER DAVID

and BODY ford, the amiable wit HOW YOUR Coreyraconteur, was complaining a while back of certain subtle changes that were occurring all around him. Newspapers, he said, seemed to be printing their stories in smaller type than before, and people somehow were Changes ever talking in softer tones than they used to employ. More stairs were being added to each flight, hills were appreciably steep- er than they were years ago and, in some incomprehensible way, the blocks to the With Time

A sort of timetable of the physical changes that go on constantly in all of us.

railroad station from his house had doubled in size. The trouble, of course, lay with Mr. Ford, who was describing the classic symptoms of the old gray mare not be- ing what she used to be. The dew was no longer upon the rose, or putting it an- other way, the senses were not as keen, the reflexes not as sharp and the muscles less responsive to their owner's bidding than once upon a time. Mr. Ford cannot claim uniqueness in his plight. All of us, at some time or an- other, will make the same kind of rueful discoveries. We will note, as the years march along, that the human engine, for

all its amazing versatility, will undergo certain changes. It will, in short, start to show wear. Train a closeup lens on the subject and some intriguing questions arise. At what ages, for example, do our operating parts and functions, seen and unseen, start to give trouble? Do they all begin running down simultaneously or are some more durable than others? What kind of wear and tear can we expect as normal and what must we consider premature and perhaps even dangerous? And perhaps most important of all, what can be done to defer these moments of truth as long as possible and to repair the breakdowns when they occur? Medical science has some fascinating answers that should interest you regard- less of your present age. Here, then, are facts about your personal life schedule you may never have suspected, plus some valuable tips from the experts on how to keep the human motor running efficiently for many more years. Consider your vision. Generally, noth- ing of much conseauence happens in adulthood until we turn the corner of 40 and skitter along toward middle life. Then, some important changes start to

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 take place. Around that time, you'll be- you need is reading glasses or bifocals. ears. Up to the age of 40, the normal gin fussing a mite when you settle down And here's a phenomenon that can man will catch all the normal sounds in with the evening paper. Somehow, the scare the daylights out of people unless a normal way. He may not want to hear type will seem blurred. You'll adjust the they know what to expect. By the mid- some of them, but there isn't much he lamp, move the paper closer and then fifties, the lens of the eye has very little can do about his well-functioning appa- farther away, but it won't help much. flexibility left, and we must rely upon ratus beyond stuffing it up. After 40, Eventually, you'll head for the eye doc- glasses for focusing. Suppose, then, that however, he will lose some of his hearing tor. a man this age is wearing bifocals. The with each passing year. Not much, but

He'll explain that you've got presbyo- bottom lens is focused for reading, the some. pia and that virtually nobody can get upper part for viewing at a distance. The decline begins with the ability to beyond the age of 50 without exhibiting Now the reading lens doesn't work be- detect the higher pitched sounds, then some signs of it. Actually, it's an inability yond about 18 inches, while the distance spreads downward to the lower tones. to focus upon close work. Inside your one can only sharpen things several feet For example, a man moving into his six- eye is a tiny lens only slightly larger than away. Between these two points lies a ties will find it more and more difficult the rubber tip of a pencil. Its job: To per- blind spot. When a book is held some to distinguish tones above high C in the mit you to see objects clearly. 18 inches from the bifocals, the print will musical scale. This lens, a miracle of human preci- suddenly disappear from view. Brought Now here is a surprising fact. Men sion engineering, focuses automatically. closer, or held still farther away, it re- lose their hearing for tones of high fre- It's equipped with a number of equally appears. The experience can be unnerv- quency before women of similar ages — tiny muscles that alter its shape the in- ing if you come upon it without warning. but women lose their ability to detect the stant you move your eyes, enabling you Trifocals — glasses with three lenses — low tones earlier than men. Doctors can't to get a sharp picture of this page, or of can give you sharp focus in the in- figure out why, so don't you try. Inci- the person across the room, should you between ranges from 27 to 50 inches. dentally, the female decline proceeds at happen to look up suddenly. Incidentally, trifocal wearers report it's a slower rate than the male, therefore About the age of 40, these lenses start easier to get used to these glasses than on the average, women in the later years to lose some of their flexibility. They can- bifocals, because the change from one can hear better than men. not change shape as swiftly nor as effi- range to the other is not as sharp. At this point you may be wondering ciently as they once did. As a result, Here are some wise steps to take if you how you can spot a hearing loss. If it's there will be an increasing inability to want to preserve good vision according the normal kind, you can't. The ebbing change focus from far to near and back to Better Vision Institute: Give yourself is so gradual that you simply don't real- again, plus a gradual blurring of closeup an "eye break" every once in a while to ize it is occurring. Only a skilled special- things. relax your optics. Read and work in ist using an audiometer — an instrument Presbyopia and its manifestations adequate light. Get a good eye checkup that measures hearing — can tell. come after many years during which at least once every two years if you are But hear this! Experts point out that your eyesight has altered very little. between 20 and 40, and once a year you can test yourself and determine if

Many persons, not realizing what is hap- thereafter, so that new glasses may be your hearing loss has progressed beyond pening or why, suspect something is prescribed if necessary and any trouble the normal to the point where you ought seriously wrong. Be assured that the caught in time. to seek help. Check yourself on the fol- stage is perfectly normal, as inevitable as Now let's move from the eyes to the lowing: first-of-the-month bills. Generally, all ILLUSTRATED BY BOB BUGG (Continued on page 39)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 23 By KENNETH CROTTY

nightmare started for Basil Izzi of TheSouth Barre, Mass., a member of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard crew of the former Dutch luxury liner Zaandam, exactly 21 years ago next November. You can search the records and you'll find very little to parallel it in the annals of the Navy. At 4:30 on the afternoon of November 2, 1942, the Zaandam, en route from Capetown, South Africa to New York City, took two torpedoes from a German sub- marine. She went down less than an hour later. The Zaandam at that time was over 300 miles off the Brazilian coast (see map). She was in use as a combination merchant and transport ship at the time and carried 400 crew members and pas- sengers. Many of the passengers were United States sailors who had survived previous torpedoings. Basil Dominic Izzi was 19. He had recently graduated from South Barre High School where he had been the star second baseman on the school's baseball nine. He was a short, rugged youth who had been in the Navy only a brief time. His dark good looks bespoke his Italian ancestry. Seaman Izzi was the pointer of the ship's biggest gun. It was a re- sponsible position, and he had won the respect of his gun crew officer, Ensign James Shaw Maddox. When the torpedoes hit, Basil Izzi leaped from the stern and for three days wallowed about in the sea, keeping afloat by clinging to whatever wreckage drifted within his reach. On the evening sea, but he has never gotten over of the third day, he clambered onto a aversion to salt water, although he small raft with four others. For the fol- mits today that a boat trip to Bermuda lowing 80 days Basil Izzi drifted aim- might be nice. lessly on that raft, until January 24, He is called upon to recount his ex- 1943, when the raft was sighted by a periences before civic and patriotic like them apples?" United States patrol boat. During that groups. He has no great objection to re- How do you "Okay," Izzi said, "so we'll be off time the raft had drifted more than telling his story. He has told it hundreds again before Christmas. scram." 2,200 miles. All food and water had long of times. He will undoubtedly tell it So It 4:30 now and Izzi and his com- been gone. Two of the five men aboard countless more times in the years to was panions were still playing cards. His pal, the raft had died. come. But there are certain parts of his Joudy, of Lawrence, Mass., was This year Basil Dominic Izzi will be story which he prefers to forget, even Emile in the head taking a shower. Then, bam, 40. His hair has whitened prematurely, after 20 years. the roof started to fall in on them. but his wiry body hasn't added much It was a pleasant day at sea aboard "Holy cow," said Izzi, jumping to his weight. He runs a Flying A gas station the Zaandam on that afternoon in No- feet, "we've been hit. Right under us." in his native South Barre, right on the vember. The sun was bright and there They rushed up on the deck, forget- main street and just past the mill. He was a soft breeze on the forward deck. ting Joudy, who was still in the shower. does a thriving auto repair business. He Although these were dangerous waters, Izzi wearing only a pair of shorts has never married. He lives in the same the war seemed far removed. Izzi and was ducked into house on Powder Mill Road where he a few of his mates were below deck when the tin fish struck. He the ship's laundry which was nearby and left his mother and dad and the rest of playing gin rummy. The boys weren't grabbed the first shirt he saw. It was the the Izzi family to join the Navy in 1942. playing for money. They were saving A Past Commander of the South that for their leave in New York, so it captain's. before Barre American Legion Post No. 409, wasn't much of a game. The second torpedo struck Izzi got topside. The word "torpedoes" Izzi is serving his third year as a select- At 4:15 that afternoon a radioman just an expression to most people. It man in South Barre. His neighbors like named Lorenzo stuck his head in the is of does not get across the terrific blast, the him. He is a quiet, well-adjusted fellow cabin. "We're 300 miles off the coast blinding sheet of flame that accompanies whose face will break into a quick smile. Brazil," he told them. "That means we'll bulkheads and mangled The years have erased some of the black make New York before Thanksgiving. it, the shattered memories of his nightmare on the open ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN BUCEMA bodies.

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 A survivor of 83 days in an open raft looks back on his wartime ordeal 21 years later.

The bird teased the shark and the men.

"Funny," says Izzi, "the things that pop into

your head at a time like that. I ran up through

the bedlam and the mess and all I could think of was that line in a poem I'd learned in school —'the boy stood on the burning deck'." Izzi raced to the stern. There, by the sheerest luck, he found his pal Joudy, who had managed to get out of the shower. The Zaandam was al- ready sinking by the bow. The stern was rising higher and higher out of the water. Izzi debated a moment whether to jump from the stern, which was now some 35 to 38 feet above the sea, or scramble forward and walk into the water. A shudder from the ship's innards decided him. He yelled to those below to watch out, then grabbed a life preserver from the deck and jumped. A shipmate jumped behind him and landed The survivors on board the Navy Patrol Craft that rescued them after 83 on top of Izzi in the water. days on the South Atlantic. Left to right: van der Slot, Hoogendam, Izzi. (Continued on page 51)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 25 benefits program Rep. W. J. Bryan Dorn, S.C., acting Chmn, House Veterans Affairs Committee, Nat'l Commander's presentation of the 1963 Legion vets poses against a background of Legionnaires gathering on March 12 for the in the Old House Office Bldg. Committee Chmn Teague, Texas, was absent.

FiveDaysin WASHINGTON, D.C

From March 10 to 14, Legion officers, advisory Sen. Wayne Morse, Oreg., (left) and Sen. John G. Tower, Texas, appeared before the Legion's Foreign Relations Commis- bodies and service staffs swapped views and infor- sion. They offered divergent views on what should be done about the Soviet mili- tary and the Castro regime in Cuba. Morse, experts. cautious; Tower, militant. For other mation on basic programs with top U.S. briefings of the Legion's Foreign Rela- tions Commission see photos on page 33.

the U.S. Congress. See also color cover photo. Rep. Carl Vinson, Ga., dean of The U.S. House of Representatives, has spotlight at Legion's March 13 dinner to

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 . .

American Legion National Commander James E. Chairman of the 3-man U.S. Civil Harold Cummins, III., takes notes while Arnold Powers completed a hectic week in robust form. Service Commission, John W. Macy, Swanson, N. Y., listens intently during meeting Jr., preps Legion EconomicComm'n of Legion nat'l Legislative Commission of which on vets' jobs with Federal gov't. both are members. More Legislative pix, p. 32.

photos here, and on the next nine pages, give a who work directly with veterans on their personal problems Theglimpse of the huge annual American Legion Washing- and legal rights, quizzed and were briefed by top officials of ton Conference held in Washington, D.C. March 10-14, the U.S. Veterans Administration (bottom photos on page 28) which was actually not one conference, but dozens of different At the same time six of the standing national specialized pol- events, all going on at the same time. icy commissions of the Legion conferred on their own subjects Social highlight of the meetings was the Legion's enormous with top national experts and policymakers: The Foreign Re- dinner to the Congress of the United States, at the Park Shera- lations, National Security, Legislative, Economic, Finance and

ton Hotel, Wed. March 13, so well captured in our color cover Rehabilitation Commissions. It is their duty to provide the photo by Chase Studios, of Washington. Legion with the best possible information and advice in their Another major event was the presentation of the Legion's fields, both for Legion policymaking and for rendering Legion veterans' benefits legislative program for 1963 to the House services. Veterans affairs Committee (photos top left, facing page, and At the same time, special committees of the Legion also top photos, page 28) met, such as the Special Committee on Problems of the Aging,

Yet another event on a big scale was the annual Rehabilita- headed by Milton Applebaum, 111.; the National Commander's tion Conference, at which hundreds of Legion service officers, Advisory Committee; The American Legion Insurance Com-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 27 constant changing of minds about

weapons is, in effect, disarming us, ie: switching from one plan to another so that production plans are repeatedly halted, and (3) is taking into the hands of the civilians of the Defense Dep't centralized control of professional mili- tary matters. Even ahead of the recent protests over this matter in Congress, the Le- gion's 1962 Convention had voted to "call to the attention of the Secretary of Defense that it was the intent of the Nat'l Security Act of 1947 to establish the Department of Defense as a coordi- The Legion Rehabilitation Commission, watchdog of veterans benefits, met briefly before and after the nating body, not to merge the services briefs the Comm'n. much larger annual Rehabilitation Conference. Here Rehab staff chief John Corcoran nor take over the operating functions of the separate services in the Depart- ." ment of Defense . . John S. Gleason, Jr., Administrator of Veterans Affairs, told the Legion's Re- habilitation Conference that, with re- spect to the reopening of WW2 and Korea life insurance for one year, "The Veterans Administration will go right down the line with the Legion this year and fight for passage of this most neces- sary bill." The insurance bill was wrecked in the House under a surprise gag rule last year. Gleason's pledge is taken as that of the President, whose representative in veterans affairs he is. Chairman Olin E. Teague was absent March flanked as Nat'l Commander Powers presented Nat'l Commander Powers as he testified to the House Veterans Affairs Committee 12, Vinson, Ga., to by Legion Rehabilitation Comm'n Chmn Robert McCurdy, Calif., (left) and Rep. Carl the Legion's platform for veterans the introduce fellow who took leave of his chairmanship of the House Armed Services Committee to House Veterans Affairs Committee. reforms, the com- Georgian, Commander Powers, here. Powers stressed the need for vets' pension committee congratu- and Korea Members of the pensation of war disabilities in proportion to their severity, a one-year reopening of WW2 lated Powers on the balancing by the life insurance, and a better break for widows of war-killed vets. Legion of the public interest in its re- FIVE DAYS IN WASHINGTON Among other highlights of the Con- quests for veterans legislation. (Continued) ference were the following: b Veterans jobs were the main concern Commission. mittee, headed by Judge Levi M. Hall, Sen. Barry Goldwater told the Le- of the Legion Economic federal and state Minn.; a special committee on publica- gion's Nat'l Security Commission of During the past year received more than tion of an American Legion history; a doubts shared by many members of the employment offices veterans job applica- special committee on Pershing Hall, in Armed Services Committees of the 1,526,000 new were from dis- Paris, France; and other special groups House and Senate about the manage- tions, of which 129,000 veterans. An increasing number of seen in the photos. ment of the U.S. Defense Department abled personnel are going into Meetings of the Department Adju- under Defense Secretary Robert Mc- retired military market because of the diminish- tants, and the Department Service Offi- Namara, who, claimed Sen. Goldwater, the job ing value of their retirement income. cers were held during the same five day is (1) placing an over-reliance on the problems of aging and dis- period. concept of a pushbutton war; (2) by a The job

manifold problems of making vets' benefits better available Left, one of hundreds of Legion service officers who VA medical panel at right) on the problems in processing veterans' claims, and on the need for met in the Hotel Statler for three days to quiz panels to veterans, on administrative times. Aging veterans got top attention at Conference. of experts from the VA Central Office (such as the changes in vets' facilities with changing

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 News media made big play of Conference. At left, above, TV cameras film Sen. Goldwater's talk to Nat'l Security Comm'n. Right, above, Russ Ward tapes on NBC Monitor radio show with William Doyle, N. J., Legion Nat'l Security Chairman. At far right, the Legion gave a tip of the hat to the more responsible press as Nat'l Cmdr Powers gave a Legion citation to Lyle Wilson, v. p. of UPI, March 11, for 40 years of upholding American journalistic traditions.

abled veterans are especially acute. Digging into these problems with the Commission were numerous government experts, including the entire 3-man U.S. Civil Service Commission, its Executive Director, Walter B. Irons; and top Labor Department experts. The chief area of discussion at meet- nursing care and nursing homes, the ings of the Legion's Legislative Com- changing responsibilities of the Veterans mission was the reconstruction of Amer- Administration and changing needs of ican Legion legislative machinery from veterans legislation brought on by the The whole Civil Service 3-man U.S. Commis- the national level to the Posts, in order impact of increased age levels in the sion visited with the Legion Economic to bring the influence of the full Legion veteran population. Comm'n, guardian of veterans' employment. Civil Service Chmn Macy is shown on p. 27. membership behind important proposals On this same subject, Nat'l Com- Commissioner Frederick J. Lawton is seen before Congress. mander Powers testified to the House above, right, with Legion Vet's Preference The Special Committee on the Prob- Veterans Affairs Committee: "The plight Chmn Ray McEvoy, Mass. Below, Commis- lems of the Aging, a joint Legion body of the aged veteran is obvious. He be- sioner Robert E. Hampton is introduced to the Legion group by Dr. Almo Sebastianelli, made up of members of the Economic comes ill more frequently and for more Pa., Legion Economic Chmn. Vets' employ- and Rehabilitation Commissions found prolonged periods than his younger ment in U.S. Civil Service was the subject. itself immersed, in its second year of comrades. His diseases are more likely activity, in an enormous subject. to be chronic and debilitating. He is less It heard a host of witnesses on such able financially to bear the cost of medi-

a range of subjects as housing for the cal care. . . . The facilities available to aged, medical problems of the aged. him are frequently below any accept-

Staff chief of vets' services for the Civil Serv- servicemen, and Hugh W. Bradley (near left) is head of its vets' re-employment rights bureau. ice Comm'n is Edward Bechtold, Jr., (far Labor Dep't also heads a nationwide employment service for veterans, and in photo above, left). The U.S. Labor Department watches Edward L. Omohundro, chief of the Veterans Employment Service of the Labor Dep't, talks with over the rights to their old jobs of discharged Legion Economic Commission, which represents vets in appeals related to their job rights.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 29 Cancer victim Lewis K. Gough, Calif., a Past Nat'l Cmdr, (left) urged the Rehabilitation Conference to support cancer research. His life despaired of in 1959, he said he expects to die of old age. People-to-People, Inc., cited him for work on its veterans committee throughout his illness. With him are Mrs. Gough and National Adjutant E. A. Blackmore (right).

Cape Canaveral blockhouse briefing. At the close of the Conference, Guests of honor at the dinner to Congress at the Park Sheraton Hotel Nat'l and Gen. a large group of Legionnaires flew to Cape Canaveral, Fla., under were Rep. Carl Vinson (left) eulogizing Cmdr Powers, sponsorship of the Nat'l Security Comm'n. Here they are briefed Lewis B. Hershey, head of the U.S. Selective Service System (right). in a blockhouse at the big missile center. See photo on p. 36 also.

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FIVE DAYS IN WASHINGTON (Continued) able minimum standards." A summary of the scope of the studies of the major Legion Commissions at the Conference follows Rehab Conference The annual National Rehabilitation Conference, a huge meeting of American Legion service officers, met for three days in the Presidential Room of the Hotel Statler. Here, service officers from nearly every state, whose daily work is assisting veterans in legitimate claims, met on a question-and-answer basis with a series of panels of government experts, mostly from the central office of the U.S. Veterans Administration. Among those appearing before the gathering of service officers were: U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk chats with Nat'l Commander and Mrs. Powers at a reception Commission. A 22-man panel, headed by John S. Glea- held by the Department of State for the American Legion's Foreign Relations son, Jr., Administrator of Veterans Affairs, including all 12 Veterans Administration department heads, three Deputy Adminis- trators, the Chairman of the Administrator's Advisory Council, the Deputy Chief Bene- fits Director, and his five executive, special and confidential assistants.

A three-man panel headed by P. J. Budd, Director of the Department of Data Man- agement, Veterans Administration. A two-man panel, headed by James W. Stancil, Chairman of the Board of Veterans Appeals, Veterans Administration. An 8-man panel headed by Cyril F. Brickfield, Director of the Department of Outstanding youths in Legion Americanism programs were guests at the dinner to Congress. Left, Nat'l Cmdr Powers presents H. Pettus Randall, Jr., 1962 Boys' Nation President. Right, Veterans Benefits, Veterans Administration, Patricia Ann Turner, Okla., Nat'l Legion Oratorical Contest $4,000 scholarship winner in including his Deputy and his Controller and 1962, with Daniel O'Connor, N. Y., Chairman of the Legion's national Americanism Comm'n. the heads of the VA Departments of Com- pensation and Pension Service; Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Service; In- surance Service; Loan Guaranty Service;

Dr. Garland Murphy, Ark., Legion Wives weren't taboo. Here Mrs. Harvey Hull Child Welfare Chmn, chats with Thomasville, Ga., listens at a Commission meeting Mrs. James E. Powers at dinner. with her husband and Geo. Osborne, Ga. Adjt.

A pilot Federal fallout shelter in the Legion's Washington Hq was dedicated March 11 by Seen at the Legion's dinner to Congress were, left to right, William Driver, second in com- Steuart Pittman, Ass't Secretary of Defense, mand of the Veterans Administration; U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, of Georgia, and Air right, inspecting shelter with Cmdr. Powers. Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay.

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FIVE DAYS IN WASHINGTON (CONTINUED) and Guardianship Service. A 10-man panel representing the Veter- ans Administration Department of Med- icine and Surgery, headed by Acting Chief Medical Director Dr. H. M. Engle. Special individual appearances before the Rehabilitation Conference included: National Commander James E. Powers. Past National Commander Lewis E.

Gough, Calif. ( See photo & caption page 30). Clarence C. Horton, Ala., Chairman, American Legion Legislative Commission. Above, Clarence C. Horton, Ala., and Doris Anderson, Texas, T. O. Kraabel, former American Legion respectively Legion and Auxiliary nat'l Legislative Chairmen. Rehabilitation Director. Alvin M. David, Director of the Division Left, James Rule, of the American Society of Composers, Au- of Program and Planning, Social Security thors and Publishers, introduces the entertainment program Administration. dinner to Congress in provided by ASCAP at the Legion's Mrs. L. D. Johnson, Chairman, Rehabili- the ballroom of Washington's Park Sheraton Hotel, March 13. tation Committee, The American Legion Auxiliary. Economic The Legion's Economic Commission, chiefly concerned with veterans' employ- ment problems, met for 3 days, under the chairmanship of Dr. Almo Sebastianelli of Pennsylvania. Joining in its study of veteran's job problems today were The whole U. S. Civil Service Commis- sion: John W. Macy, Jr., Chairman, and Commissioners Robert E. Hampton and

Frederick J. Lawton. Edward H. Bechtold, Jr. Chief, Veterans Service Staff, U.S. Civil Service Commis- sion.

Marion Williamson (Ga. ), Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee of the Inter- state Conference of Employment Security Agencies. Edward L. Omohundro, Chief, and Mar- shall C. Miller, Assistant Chief, Veterans Meetings of the Leg ion's Legislative Commission open with a progress report from Nat'l Employment Service, U.S. Labor Depart- Commander James E Powers on a revitalized nationwide Legion legislative organization. ment. (Continued)

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Consulting to get Gl insurance reopened for a year. A group of Legionnaires from Tennessee is seen here as they called informally on Legion Legislative Director Clarence Olson, seated The Russians bugged this U.S. Seal with a center, and Legislative Chairman Clarence Horton, standing center, to discuss reopening microphone while it hung on our Embassy of WW2 and Korea Gl insurance for a year. The Tennessee delegation took special pains with wall in Moscow. Here, State Dep't Security the subject because a Tennessee Congressman, Rep. Robert A. Everett, heads a subcommittee Officer Kenneth Knauf shows the bugging to of the House Veterans Affairs Committee handling veterans insurance matters, and all action the Legion's Foreign Relations Commission. on it in the House would begin with Representative Everett's insurance subcommittee.

32 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 B. K. Nehru, left, India's Ambassador to the U.S., and M. Masood, Minister of Pakistan's U.S. Em- bassy, briefed the Legion's Foreign Relations Com- mission giving them a thorough insight into the out- look of their countries on international affairs.

Members of the Legion's Foreign Relations Commission entering State Department.

Laboring on the Legion Foreign Relations agenda and report are Chairman Iglesias and Warren Mac- Donald, Legion Research Director who doubles as the Foreign Relations Commission's staff director.

W. Averell Harriman, Ass't Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs: Allyn Donaldson, of the Legion's Inter-American Committee and Director of the State Department's Special Consular Services; Emilio Iglesias, Legion Foreign Relations Chmn, and Past Nat'l Cmdr Erie Cocke, Jr., (Ga.) in earnest discussion at the State Department.

Past Nat'l Cmdr Perry Brown, Texas, outlines a plan for an improved ROTC program in a special report to the Legion National Security Commission.

The Conference met during The American Legion's Nat'l Commander Powers inspects an Americanism Commission display of photo- 44th Birthday Week, and this big cake, with 44 graphs of American Legion youth programs which attracted universal attention. candles, was a reminder of the 1919 Paris Caucus.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 33 Among experts who met with the Legion Nat'l Security Comm'n were (I. to r.) Maj. Gen. James Cantwell, N. J., president of the association of state adjutants general; Carl Hulschuh, exec v.p., Sperry Rand Corp., and Alexander Purdon, exec v.p., United States Lines (shipping).

FIVE DAYS IN WASHINGTON (Continued)

Hugh W. Bradley, Director, and W. J. R. Overath, Deputy Director, Bureau of Veterans Re-Employment Rights, U.S. Labor Department. William McCauley, Director, Bureau of Employees' Compensation, U.S. Labor Department. William P. McCahill, Ex- Frank Johnson, editor, Washington Report of the American Security Council, ecutive Secretary, President's Committee on Employment of the takes a question from Ed Wysocki, N. J., of the Legion's Aeronautics & Space Committee, during talk to the Legion Nat'l Security group. Handicapped, U.S. Labor Department. P. J. Maloney, Ass't Director for Construction & Evaluation, Veterans Administration. Legislative The Legion's National Legislative Commission, headed by Clarence C. Horton, Ala., convened for three days to deter- mine and review procedures for the forwarding of the Legion's desires in the field of national legislation. During the meetings, the following appeared before the Commission: National American Legion Commander James E. Powers of Georgia. Doris Anderson, Texas, Chairman of the National Legis- lative Committee of The American Legion Auxiliary. Rabbi Albert M. Shulman, Ind., National Chaplain of The American Legion. Harvey V. Higley, Wise, former head of the U.S. Veterans Admin-

The Legion's Security Commission is briefed at the Pentagon by Arthur Sylvester, who, as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, is the information boss of the United States Department of Defense.

In a staff room at Langley Field, Va., Hq of the Tactical Air Command, Legion's Nat'l Security Commission members pause in the midst of Legion defense specialists get a report on U. S. airpower from Gen. Walter intense briefing on national defense for a much-needed coffee break. Sweeney (back to camera), among the Air Force's top planners.

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istration. Hon. George C. McGhee, Undersecre- chairmanship of William Doyle, N.J., John S. Patterson, former Deputy Ad- tary of State for Political Affairs, who, short- held regular meetings and in addition ministrator (under Higley) of Veterans ly afterward, was nominated to be U.S. had a briefing at the Pentagon and at to West Germany. Affairs. Ambassador Tactical Air Command Hq, Langley Corcoran, Director, American Roger Hilsman, Jr., Director of the State John J. Field, Va. After the main Conference, Legion National Rehabilitation Commis- Department's Bureau of Intelligence who, the Commission, joined by others, flew sion. shortly afterward, was named Assistant to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to inspect the Warren MacDonald, Director, Research Secretary of State for Far East Affairs. Division of The American Legion. Kenneth W. Knauf, Special Assistant to big U.S. missile and satellite launching Foreign Relations the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for installation there. Security. Experts with The Legion's Foreign Relations Com- who met the Commis- His Excellency, B. K. Nehru, India's Am- sion included mission met for 3 days, under the chair- bassador to the United States. U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, Ariz. manship of Emilio Iglesias of Vermont. Mr. M. Masood, Minister of the Embassy Carl Hulschuh, Executive Vice President, Sessions included a briefing at the U.S. of Pakistan. Sperry Rand Corp. State Department and a reception given Teodoro Moscoso, U.S. Coordinator for John Ford, Congressional Editor, Army the Commission by the State Depart- the Alliance for Progress (Latin American Times Publishing Co. aid program). ment, attended by Secretary of State Frank Johnson, Editor of the Washington Dean Rusk. Guest speakers at the Com- Nat'l Security Report of the American Security Council. mission's meetings included: The American Legion's National Se- Alexander Purdon, Executive Vice Pres- U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon. curity Commission, delving into the ident, United States Lines. U.S. Senator John Tower, Texas. problems of national defense under the Maj. Gen. James F. Cantwell, N.J., Pres- LEGION COMMISSION MEMBERS AT TOP LEVEL DEFENSE BRIEFINGS

Left to right: ex-Senator Edward Martin, Pa., ice System, both term members of the Nat'l Secur- Mo., chm'n, Law & Order Committee; John and Col. Frank R. Kossa, Ind., ass't chief, ity Comm'n; Col. Edwin R. Bentley, Fla., chm'n F. Keenan, N. Y., member Military Affairs Administrative Division, U. S. Selective Serv- Military Affairs Committee; Elmer W. Kuhlmann, Committee of the Nat'l Security Comm'n.

Left to right: David Aronberg, Ky., chm'n Civil Defense Committee; Maj. Gen. George O. Pearson, Wyo., and John E. Davis, former Governor of North Dakota, both term members, Nat'l Security Commission.

Left to right: Past Nat'l Commander Seaborn Conniff, Wash., and his son William, Jr., all but and Rear Adm. Maxwell G. Wells, Fla., term Collins, N. Mex.; Emmett G. Lenehan, Wash., Conniff, Jr., term members of the Nat'l Security member, Nat'l Security Comm'n. William chm'n, Naval Affairs Committee; three-man Comm'n; Mrs. Opal Glynn, Iowa, Chm'n Nat'l Se- Conniff, Jr., was the guest of his father at group — George W. Fisher, Calif., William J. curity Comm'n of The American Legion Auxiliary; the five-day Washington Conference.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 35 FIVE DAYS IN WASHINGTON Louis E. Squire (1962), Post 836, Chicago, 111. John O. Banks (1950) and Earl B. Young (1952) (Continued) i i COMRADES IN DISTRESS and Glenn Shrontz (1961), Post 313, Fairmount, Ind. i J Peter Lamp (1962), Post 174, Charles City, ident of the Adjutants General Association Readers who can help these com- Iowa. (of state adjutants general). rades are urged to do so. W. K. Crummett and Dudley K. Dickinson and Notices are run at the request of Harold H. Thomson (all 1962), Post 370, Over- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director, U.S. The American Legion Nat I Rehabilita land Park, Kans. Selective Service System. tion Commission. They are not ac- M. Bijur O'Sullivan and Solon F. Russell and William E. Unterreiner (all Louis- Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of cepted from other sources. 1962), Post 15, ville. Ky. Readers wanting Legion help with Defense for Public Aft airs. Raymond S. McCubrey (1962), Post 129, Wood- claims should contact their local serv- fords, Maine. Lawrence C. McQuade, special assistant ice officers. Arthur A. Beaupre (1962), Post 303, Swansea, to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Service officers unable to locate Mass. Russell C. Killion Post Cambridge, International Security Affairs. needed witnesses for claims develop- (1962), 442, ment should refer the matter to the Mass. Norman Paul, Assistant Secretary of De- Roy C. Cohen and William V. Jackson (both Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission Detroit, Mich. fense for Manpower. 1963), Post 1, through normal channels, for further Carl H. Nolde (1961) and Ewald T. Nuss (1962), Maj. Gen. Abbott C. Greenleaf, Manage- search before referral to this column. Post 61, Sutton, Nebr. William R. Nissen (1962), Post 148, Plainview, ment planning office, Defense Department. Nebr. Henry E. Glass, Economic Advisor, Office William E. Thomas, last known address in Knox- William J. Loughran and Charles R. Ruf (both 1962), 28, South Ozone Park, N.Y. of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. yille, Tennessee, who served in Italy in WW2, Post is sought as a witness to the hospitalization of Fred Hart and James P. Ludlow and Martin Vey Steuart Pittman, Assistant Secretary of Arthur E. Brown in Italy in 1945, to assist in (all 1962), Post 231, Clayville, N.Y. Allen R. But.heri (1960) and Walter C. Andres Defense for Civil Defense. establishment of a claim. Contact: Kenneth E. Post Trublood. Service Dep t. American Legion of and Herbert G. Myers (both 1961), 264, Maj. Gen. William K. Martin, Air Force Indiana, c/o Veterans Administration, 36 S. Tonawanda, N.Y. Lloyd Chasey (1962), Post 333, Nunda, N.Y. Information Chief. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis 4, Ind. C. Edward R. Carney and Rudolph Hoffman and Gen. Walter Sweeney, Tactical Air Com- 3rd Indiana Infantry, Co. K, WWI-Floyd Wesley John J. Kelly (all 1960), Post 391, Brooklyn, N.Y. Arthur E. Welsher and Dr. Herbert L. Wilson mand. Moore of this outfit is sought to assist in estab- lishment of a claim. Contact: Earl Mortorff, 109 and Albert W. Woods (all 1961), Post 410, Lock- S. 1st St., Garrett, Indiana. port, N.Y. Leo J. Poitras and Harry E. Potter and Leon R. Guam, Saipan, 777 Army Air Corps Base Unit — Reynolds (all 1962), Post 922, Painted Post, N.Y. Arthur Devaney and Adolph Salmirs CAPE CANAVERAL Anyone who served with Corp. Stephen P. (1958) Scovic of this outfit (147AACS Squadron), please (1959) and Robert H. Block and Andrew Cheuces contact his widow: Mrs. Stephan P. Scovic, (both 1960), Post 1072, Brooklyn, N.Y. 3333 Harry Lee Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. William J. Miles and Walter Zdrojewski (both 1962), Post 1322, North Tonawanda, N.Y. Guam — Naval Operating Base. The following men Harry L.Ries and Arthur J.Steusloff and Homer Benjamin (all 1962), who served at this base in 1945 (with last known P. Werner and H. Wyant Sylvania, addresses) are sought to provide info that will Post 468, Ohio. Stanley Willever and assist in a veteran's claim handled by The Howard C. Whitner and G. (all Easton, Pa. American Legion: George Leroy Willett, Long Herman D. Wolff 1962), Post 9, Daniel J. Brennan and Beach, Calif.; William Leon Scanlon, Detroit, Albert J. Berrett and Pottsville, Pa. Mich.; William DePinto, Bronx, N. Y. and William C.Green (all 1959), Post 67, E. Reddon and Cedric Danielian, Highland Park, Mich. Con- Ralph B. Norton and George John L. Springsteen (all 1963), Post 86, Susque- tact: Charles W. Fritz, 803 Coolidge St., New Cumberland, Pa. hanna, Pa. Harold J. Miller and Charles Vought (both

. Post Catawissa, Pa. NAS, Pensacola, Bronson Field, Dec. 1944 — Any- 1962) 541, (1958) and James B. one stationed with Clifford Rhodes or having Thomas W. O'Connor Haldeman and H. Blaine Lee and C. Lewis Spare knowledge of an auto accident in which he was (all 1962), Post 602, Spring City, Pa. involved at this base and date, please contact Gilbert O. Peterson (1961), Post 771, Erie, Pa. him in connection with a claim. Write: Clifford Paul S. Dawson, Jr. (1962), Post 785, Glenshaw, Rhodes. P.O. Box 214, Weaver, Ala. Pa. Ricardo P. Rantilo (1960) and Harold Griffe (1961) and Kenneth J. Forshay (1962), Post 10, Manila, P.I. Louis R. J. Malo (1962). Post 2. West Warwick, LIFE MEMBERSHIPS R.I. Raymond Crompton (1951) and Frederick M. The award of a life membership to a Browning (1955), Post 15, East Greenwich, R.I. Legionnaire by his Post is a testimonial George Price (1962), Post 259. Roscoe, S. Dak. by those him best that he who know Don B. Campbell and Robert L. Couch, Sr. and has served The American Legion well. Thurman J. Davis and Robert L. Finchum (all Below are listed some of the pre- 1963) , Post 43, Tullahoma, Tenn. viously unpublished life membership Post awards that have been reported to the editors. They are arranged by Life Memberships are accepted for States or Departments. publication only on an official form, which we provide. Reports received Ned Mallory (1961), Post 4, Forrest City, Ark. only from Commander, Adjutant or James Cooper Riley and Claty Guy Wagster Officer of Post which awarded (both 1962), Post 79, McGehee, Ark. Finance Earl D. Young (1958) and B. H. Athenbach and the life membership. Earle B. Bartlett and W. R. Bennison (all 1963), They may get form by sending Post 105, Julesburg, Colo. stamped, addressed return envelope to: Ralph T. Newlin and William R. Shipman and "L. M. Form, American Legion Maga- Canaveral, following the Smith (all 1963), Post 69, Robinson, III. At inspection of Cape Oden F. zine, 720 5th Ave., New York 19, N.Y." Richard P. Hansen and Sam H. Hatfield and meetings, four prominent Legionnaires study On a corner of the return envelope Fred Heiser and Daniel E. Hilgartner (all 1962), a Saturn moon missile. I. to r., Ex-Gov. Davis, the number of names you wish Post 348, Chicago, 111. write N. Dak; Daniel Foley, Minnesota Nat'l Exec Joseph J. Polak and John Polanski and Herman to report. No written letter necessary Committeeman; and William Doyle, N. J., and N. Rosenberg and Adelbert A. Rusch (all 1959), to get forms. Post 419, Chicago, 111. Bob Bush, Iowa, chm'n and former chm'n Glenn A. Stromberg (1962), Post 775, Chicago, of the Legion's National Security Commission. 111.

More Legion defense experts. Left: Norman Lyon, Calif., Aeronautics Space Committee, and a founder of civil aviation in the U.S. Right: & Space Committee; Granville Ridley, Tenn., chm'n Legion Nat'l Henry Parke, N.Y. (chm'n), Charles Booth, Calif., (member), and William Security Council, and Col. Roscoe Turner, Ind., chm'n Aeronautics & Mitchell (vice chm'n), all of the Legion Merchant Marine Committee.

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 ^'IIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIHI'A' Louis Goldberg, 1032 Parkview Dr., New Ken- Lee, 210 Union Bank Bldg., Bellevue, Ohio sington, Pa. 1620th Med Sec Hq Co (Camp McCoy, Wis.)- 83rd Inf Div— (Aug.) Harry Lockwood, 43 Oakland (July) William O. Haldy, 6435 Medicine Lake OUTFIT REUNIONS St., Jersey City, N. J. Rd., Minneapolis 27, Minn. 88th Div, Co D, 313th Ammunition Train (WWI)- Fort Robinson, Nebr., (Former Personnel)— (July) ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiinii^ (June) Mrs. Clark Harris, Idana, Kans. Ed Bieganski, Rte 1, Box 23, Chadron, Nebr. Reunion will be held in month indicated. 103rd Med Bn & Reg-(Sept) Harold H. McBurney, K-9 (Fort Robinson, Nebr.)-(Aug.) Floyd Hissam, 347 Sunset Dr., Bethel Park, Pa. Crawford, Nebr. For particulars, write person whose address 105th Field Art'y (WWI)-(June) John W. Nicklin, MP (Los Angeles)— (Aug.) Ross Scoggins, Rt. 1, is given. 110 West 42nd St., New York 36, N. Y. Sperry, Okla. Notices accepted on official form only. 132nd Gen Army Hosp—(June) John J. Schoeph, Original 120 (WWI)-(Sept.) Mrs. Fred C. Samble, For form send stamped, addressed return 907 N. 18th Ave., Melrose Park, 111. 203 East Longmeadow Rd., Hampden, Mass. envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion 190th Field Art'y (WWII)-(July) Mel Sober, P.O. WAC-(Aug.) Miss Isabel Slack, 49 Kimball Beach Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y. Box 361, Sunbury, Pa. Rd., Hingham, Mass. 2I5th CAAA-(July) Al Hallanger, 517 S.W.8th St., Notices should be received at least four NAVY Faribault, Minn. months before scheduled reunion. writ- 3rd Special Seabees— (July) R. B. Anderson, P.O. No 216th AAA Gun Bn-(June) Walter F. Rahn, P.O. ten letter necessary to form. Box 882, Lake Wales, Fla. get Box 377, Clarence, N. Y. Earliest submissions favored when vol- 25th Special Seabees-(Aug.) Clyde F. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 37 replace the goldfish with regular bait min- nows or shiners, and lower the plastic

water-bag until it hangs near your baited hook. The minnows will swim around in ROD €r> GUN %l the bag and the big fish will try to get /f® CLUB them. They won't succeed, but they'll get the one on your hook. Incidentally, the goldfish work better than minnows. it For Fishing? FIREBALL is the accurate title of a new Rules'' handgun and cartridge being made by Rem-

ington, which is getting back into the small firearm business after many years. It's liter- catching of fish tage of a short shell which will enable its Attempts to reduce the ally the hottest cartridge to date, .221 cali- to rules of science seem, after hundreds of chambering in the Model 88 and 100. ber which is a shortened version of the .222 nothing more than years, to have produced Remington, well-known for its amazing notions, not rules. A HOOK SHARPENER should be in every accuracy. The handgun is single-shot and angler's tacklebox. Experts claim half of all There is one notion that is absolutely has a bolt action like Remington's Model fish fish missed strikes are due to dull hooks. Point true. To catch you must where 722 rifle. This action in a handgun is a them until they prick your finger at a fish are. This is so ABC that it hardly ranks major revolution. lose hone, as a scientific discovery. But it is such total touch. When you forget or your use the suggestion of Wilfred Beaver of truth that study of where the fish which NIGHT-LIGHT SHOOTING of raccoon or Chicago, 111. Sharpen the points with the you seek are apt to be, at any particular bobcat treed by hounds seems easy but it in- abrasive paper on paper book-matches. time, is the most fruitful application of isn't. The bright light is held on the animal telligence as a substitute for luck in fishing. but there is none to illuminate the rifle's IRON CURTAIN HUNTING is for cap- There is a notion that you must fish for sights so you can align them. If the light is italistic bank accounts. In Czechoslovakia, your fish when they are feeding. There is reports Rattray in the East Hampton no such rule. Salmon do not feed on their E. T. (N. Y.) Star, a party of 12 hunters can bag spawning runs, but nearly all salmon taken pheasants for bear costs on Mies are taken then. They strike for rea- 1,500 $2,200. A $1,300 if you get him; $600 if you hit and sons of their own, but to feed is not one of lose him; $100 if shoot and miss. them. Few freshwater gamefish are apt to you Wood- cock cost $50 each. In Hungary, geese are strike in clear, shallow water with the sun price-tagged at $15 each. Deer are priced high, but may be taken in the same water according to the weight of their antlers; when they come in to feed with the sun one with 25-lb. antlers costs $3,050! Need- low or down. Yet if you can find them in less to mention, with such a deal spikehorns dark places, under lily pads or rocks or logs are illegal. If you shoot a deer, wound it or in deep water, you just never know held behind you, then the sights become and it gets away, you pay $500. If you miss, w hether they will or won't strike at high too bright. As a result, the desirable quick it costs only $50. In the good old U.S. a noon. They certainly will, sometimes, clean kill isn't always possible. But William hunter, after shooting, quickly yells, "I hit though they are not foraging for food. The Fasce of Manchester, N. H. has a remedy him!" Over there its smarter to yell, "I chief reason why they don't strike in clear, he developed for fast shots at darting rats missed!" It's cheaper. shallow water at high noon is that they sel- at night around the town dump. He fastens

dom are there then, unless they are spawn- a flashlight under his rifle, shimming it until INTERCOM ON WINGS is the latest wild- ing or brooding. Most of them don't like his bullets strike dead-center in its light life gadget. If you shoot a Montana sharp- to be in the bright light. beam at 25 ft. Then he just centers his light tailed grouse next fall and discover it's lug- There's a notion that your lure should on a rat (or 'coon or bobcat) and fires ging a tiny transistor transmitter, don't call imitate the food the fish are feeding on. without looking at the sights. He can't miss. the FBI. It's part of a state project to track W hat a fish will strike at is up to him. the birds and discover their preferences in Lures which look like nothing that any fish DIGGING WORMS for bait, according to terrain, cover and food. ever ate have caught such whoppers that David Horner of Hanna, Ind., is old- this notion has no semblance to a rule. fashioned. Mix warm water and detergent SELF-STABBED SPORTSMEN arc among There's a notion that the lure should be as though you were going to wash some the outdoor casualties every season, and presented naturally. Trout have struck flies dishes, then pour it over a likely patch of this type of accident isn't as rare as you moving upstream, bass have taken cast lures worm-ground and let it sink in. After about think. For the outdoorsman who wears his out of the air, perch have grabbed worms five minutes the night crawlers will come sheath-knife on his belt either forward or jiggling up and down as no worm can steamin' up for air. We'd like to add that a rearward of his hip, Patrick Mulcahey of jiggle. mixture of water and chlorine-bleach or Columbia, S.C., suggests following a safety The most successful fishermen do not household ammonia will work too. Wash have any pat rules that they could read to the worms in fresh water afterward. you out of a book. Instead, they have a gen- eral understanding of fish and their habits, ROLLING TARGET for rifles, handguns and of the particular waters that they fish, and shotguns is suggested by Gene Zim- auto- that is far too complex to boil down into merer of Lindsay, Neb. Take an old tire, circular of any neat 1, 2, 3 order. mobile cut a piece card- board to fit its open center, and paint a

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handsome with engraving, a single selec- Carry your sheath-knife on your belt di- of shots at it as it bounces down. tive trigger and a ventilated-rib barrel. rectly in the center of your back. Then Price is about S250. Winchester has two should you fall, you won't get stabbed. (At If you have a helpful idea for this feature new calibers, too: a .300 Winchester Mag- least, not where it's serious.) send it along. If we can use it we'll pay you num that ballistically beats the current .300 $5.00. However, we are unable to acknowl- Holland & Holland Magnum, and a .284 FISH DECOYS will help you catch more edge contributions, return them or enter Winchester. correspondence concerning them. Ad- The former will be chambered fish, says R. J. Nicholson of Greensfork, into in the Model 70. The latter, similar ballis- Ind., and they're easy to set up. Stores sell dress Outdoor Editor, The American Legion tically to the .270 and .280, has the advan- goldfish in plastic bags full of water. Just Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y.

38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 HOW YOUR BODY CHANGES WSTH TIME -(Continued from page 23)-

Do you: you can spot fine little wrinkles on the Prefer the television set turned up a upper and lower lids of the eyes. Peek little louder than anyone else in the room at a young child and you won't see them, Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, likes it? then study the face of a teenager. In the Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, Find that you constantly are asking early twenties, small fan-like wrinkles Nervousness, Tiredness. people to repeat words or phrases in show up in the corners of the eyes. Just If you are a victim of the above symp- closeup conversation? about this time, the following lines will toms, the trouble may be due to Glandu- Have trouble determining where a appear on the face: A deep fold run- lar Inflammation—a constitutional Dis- ease for which it is futile for sufferers sound is coming from? ning from the exterior of the mouth to to try to treat themselves at home. Hear better in noisy places than quiet the nose, horizontal wrinkles on the In men of middle age or past this the ones? forehead and vertical lines between type of inflammation occurs frequently. Find that harsh, loud noises actually eyebrows. It is often accompanied by despond- seem painful? Dr. Martin Gumpert, in his book "The ency, emotional upset and other mental and nervous reactions. Neglect of such Discover that at one moment you can't Biology of Aging," tips you off on what inflammation may cause men to lose seem to make out what someone is say- to expect in the decades that follow: their vigor, grow old prematurely and ing to you, and the very next moment In the forties — these main wrinkles often leads to incurable conditions. notice that he seems to be shouting? of the face will deepen and enlarge more. Most men, if treatment is taken in Habitually turn one side of your nead In the fifties — the skin of the neck time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- toward a speaker? will become increasingly flabby, lacking mation. If the condition is aggravated Pucker your brow and scowl— perhaps the taut look of earlier years. by lack of treatment, surgery may be without realizing it—while straining to In the sixties — a network of wrinkles the only chance. catch what people are saying? will develop at the back of the neck.

Find it hard to hear at the movies, in By the age of 50, the skin on the back NON-SURGICAL TREATMENTS church or other public places when of the hands has lost a good deal of its The NON-SURGICAL treatments others don't seem to be having trouble? former elasticity. Here's how you can used at the Excelsior Medical Clinic If you answered yes to two or more of check to see if your skin is aging on are the result of discoveries in recent years of new techniques and drugs plus the questions, it might pay to consult a schedule or is younger than your years: over 20 years research by scientific physician. can be done medically Pinch a fold of skin on the back of a Much technologists and Doctors. to halt further deterioration of hearing. hand, then watch what happens. In a Men from all walks of life and from In addition, remarkable advances have man of 50, the fold will stay upright for over 1,000 communities have been suc- been made in hearing aids that are far a fraction of a second, then descend at a cessfully treated here at Excelsior Springs. cries from the cumbersome ones ot a tew tairly slow rate. In younger people, the They found soothing and com- forting relief and better health. years back. In the past half-century, these fold will drop instantly. devices have increased 300 percent in How about your dental timetable? EXAMINATION REDUCIBLE power, while their size has shrunk until Civilization has played a dirty trick on AT LOW COST HERNIA now they are so any that they can be all of us. Actually, our choppers were When you arrive is also amenable to at a mild Non- Surgical worn in eyeglasses, tie clasps and other intended to last an entire lifetime. Ex- the clinic, our treatment available doctors — who have here. items of jewelry, virtually defying detec- perts point to the powerful protection — years of experience RECTAL-COLON tion. with which nature has provided them in this field — make DISORDERS Recently, a patent was granted for a the hard layers of dentine, an ivory-like a complete examina- Are often associated tion. hearing aid concealed in a man's pipe. substance forming the body of the tooth Your condition with Glandular in- is frankly explained flammation. When a man wants to hear more clearly, — layers which are covered by even and then you decide Either or both of he puts the pipe between his teeth — and harder layers of glistening enamel. if you will take the these disorders may be treated at the he at can smoke the same time. One But nature goofed. She could not fore- treatments needed. same time you are laboratory is now working on a device so see that, to tickle his palate, man would Our treatments are receiving Glandular so mild, hospitaliza- Inflammation treat- small that it will fit into a back tooth! concoct tasty vittles which would bathe ments. tion is not needed. Want more facts about your hearing his precious teeth in sugary and acid Write Today For timetable? Your ears function different- substances that would literally dissolve Our % Our ly at different times of the day, reports the enamel, eat through the dentine and New Free Book gives facts that may the American Hearing Aid Association. lay the entire tooth wide open for infec- save you painful, ex- Studies show that hearing is keenest tion. pensive surgery. Tells HOW and Explains around 7 a.m. and dullest shortly after Nor did nature, in all her wisdom, WHY NON-SURGICAL noon. There's a definite falling off of figure that man would use his teeth less treatment methods are so successful today. hearing ability right after meals, and and less for survival and rely more and Write today. No obliga- you'll find your ears more acute on days more upon tools his brain would think on. when you eat lightly. up. If you were a rhesus monkey, you'd Light exercise heightens your hear- have no dental problems. You would XCELSIOR MEDICAL CLINIC ing, while a strenuous game of handball have absolutely perfect tooth structure Dept. B-l 151 or similar exertion lowers it. Your emo- because you would depend upon your Excelsior Springs, Mo. tions, oddly enough, can influence teeth to stay alive. You'd crunch, bite, Gentlemen: Kindly your send me at once, your J New FREE Book. I am interested in full hearing. Hard of hearing tear, rip, J persons report and exercising them so con- information (Please Check Box) an extra loss on days when they are ner- stantly that they would remain strong Hernia Rectal-Colon Clandular 8 Inflammation vous or upset. Grief and fright often re- and powerful as long as you needed f

sult in a sharp hearing drop in persons them. NAME_ I with ear defects. i But since you're a Homo sapiens ADDRESS- I Your skin follows a timetable that's who'd rather eat tasty chow and cut TOWN- almost as accurate as the New York down a tree with an axe instead of your STATE— Central's. As early as the second decade teeth, you must resign yourself to losing

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 39 a number of your teeth as life goes on. trouble right away and get regular check- youngsters like to exaggerate their sexual What's in store for you, dentally ups. drive, while oldsters joke about its com- speaking? Judging by national averages, For his part, the dentist has many new plete absence. The oldsters, too, are ex- men at the age of 24 have seven teeth weapons. He has longer-lasting filling aggerating. in what dentists call the DMF category materials at his disposal and new:r, A man's sex drive naturally diminishes

— that is, decayed, missing or filled. By stronger substances with which to build with age, though not as drastically as the time you hit the retirement age of crowns and bridges. He can save more many believe. 65, you can look forward to having 26 abscessed teeth than ever before by the The sex drive in men is strongest in of your standard complement of 32 teeth use of antibiotics. New medications give the late teens and it tapers off very grad- D, M or F. him much better odds on saving teeth ually with age. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's The American Dental Association through root canal work. And if he famous study showed that moderate sex-

says that the usual prospect is that five catches it in time, he can cure periodon- ual activity in men in their mid-fifties is teeth are lost by the time an individual tal or gum disease, the largest cause of the rule, while Dr. Mary S. Calderone, reaches his 21st birthday. After that, ac- tooth loss in adults. one of the country's foremost authorities

cording to Dr. Louis I. Dublin, the Now for the hair. Nature lets you on sex and marriage, notes that: "Many famed statistician of the Metropolitan keep the color of your locks until you men continue an active life until they are Life Insurance Co., he can expect to part slide into the forties. Thereafter, for 20 60, 70 and over." with one tooth every 2Vi years. years, they steadily lose pigmentation People who wink about a young wife's If you're interested in determining until, by the early sixties, all color is gsn- supposed infidelity when they read oc-

whether you're ahead, behind or keeping erally gone. However, the timetable is casional news reports of men in their even with the national average dental frequently upset by some lucky — or un- seventies or eighties begetting children timetable, consult the following chart lucky — individuals. On the one hand, a are not on the solid ground that their which we have drawn up, based on the few will keep their hair color until an taste for gossip may lead them to believe. above figures. Count crowns, jackets and advanced age, while still others will start Most men first notice the decline in

filled teeth as your own. The table is looking like gray-haired men of distinc- the sex drive in the decade between 40 based on broad general averages and you tion in their twenties. personally may be way above or way There are two major kinds of bald- below the estimate given here: ness — premature and the kind that

Age Teeth you should comes with aging. The premature type is have left the most common, and worrisome, to a 21 27 man. It occurs during the twenties and 23.5 26 thirties and is not accompanied by any

26 25 known disease — it just happens. The

28.5 24 hair is lost in a characteristic pattern; it 31 23 starts to recede over each eye and at the 33.5 22 same time begins thinning on top. The 36 21 receding and the thinning continue un- 38.5 20 til one day you toss away your comb. 41 19 If the men in your mother's family 43.5 18 were prematurely bald, your own hair 46 17 will be voted most likely to recede. That's 48.5 16 because the tendency toward premature

51 15 baldness is hereditary, and is handed 53.5 14 down through the mother. How can you 56 13 keep your hair as long as possible? Ex-

58.5 12 perts tell you to wash it regularly, brush 61 11 with a moderately stiff brush and mas- 63.5 10 sage daily for five minutes. If you have

66 9 a normal scalp, you can wash it as often "Pull the plug! Pull the Plug!" If you found you aren't doing too as you wish. Oily scalps must be dried THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE well, cheer up, for this is one timetable thoroughly while dry scalps should be you can slow down. The American Den- washed only every two to three weeks, tal Association declares that dentistry followed by drying and application of a and 50 — probably because it is about has made such rapid strides in recent bland oil or ointment. then that sex is no longer the master that years that you should be able to keep The second type of baldness accompa- it once was, and is approaching the more the teeth you have for the rest of your nies advancing age. Thinning generally easily controllable level. life. occurs in the fifties and sixties and affects Some men panic when they notice this, For your part, watch your diet and both men and women. You should know fearing that they are about to become your brushing. Eat liberal amounts of that the oldest drug prescription on rec- sexually bankrupt overnight. It isn't true, food rich in vitamins, minerals and pro- ord is for the loss of hair and that the and the tendency toward unreasonable tein. Be sure to include the following in American Medical Association has stat- worry about it is a danger to good mental your daily diet: milk and milk products, ed that "little more is known today about health. meat, fish or poultry, eggs, butter or for- the actual cause, control or cure of bald- At about what age can you expect to tified margarine, fruit and vegetables and ness than was known then." Therefore, begin to creak a mite in the joints? Your bread and cereals. These are not only the best course is to follow the advice joints are engineered to perform well good for your teeth but excellent for the in an A.M.A. publication: "Take care of and painlessly for a full half-century. rest of you. Brush your teeth right after your hair while you have it — and forget After that, they may wear a bit. The re- eating, rinsing when brushing isn't pos- about it when it's gone!" sult: Some aches, soreness and stiffness. sible. Brush upper teeth downward, low- While the majority of people are This is osteoarthritis, also called "every- er teeth upward and surfaces with a pretty closemouthed on the subject of body's disease" because it comes to virtu- scrubbing stroke. Finally, take care of sex except among close friends, many (Continued on page 42)

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 41 How Your Body Changes With Time last depending on your inheritance and and most receptive." (Continued from page 40) your way of life. There's nothing much How did Dr. Owens come to this con- you can do about the former, but you clusion? One day he chanced upon the ally all of us in some form or another certainly can control the latter. Eat sen- results of an intelligence test taken at the about the age of 50. Fully 97 percent of sibly, exercise daily, rest adequately, college by 179 freshmen. He located 127 persons over 60 have it in some degree. work hard and cultivate a serene dispo- of those former freshmen, now middle- In many cases, the ailment isn't serious sition. These are the golden secrets that, aged people, and administered the very and produces extremely mild symptoms when applied, can keep your internal same test over again. — a twinge, a minor discomfort here and machinery chugging comfortably along. The results? The men did better the there — but occasionally it can become Finally, we come to your mental acu- second time around! "Nowhere," reports severe. Overweight and poor posture ity. What's the time schedule here—when Dr. Owens, "was there any sign that tend to increase the wear and tear upon do you hit the zenith of brainpower and brains had grown rusty." Other investi- the joints, especially upon those that bear when do you hit the thinking skids? Most gators have discovered that intelligence the weight of the body. When it involves persons are thoroughly convinced that can keep improving until the seventies the knee and hip joints, osteoarthritis can the human mind, like the human body, and even the eighties. become crippling. must show the wear and tear of the pass- Add all these facts about your body's There's no known cure, but the ail- ing years. New studies, however, have timetable and they simmer down to this ment can be treated by physiotherapy, exploded this belief. conclusion: dietary regulation, the use of aspirin to These studies show that your thinking As the human engine rolls through relieve pain and occasionally by surgery. ability doesn't rust as you grow older, life, it will inevitably cough, sputter and The Arthritis and Rheumatism Founda- but actually sharpens! Dr. William A. wear at some points in the road. Perhaps tion stresses that frequently nothing Owens, head of the Psychology Depart- now you can understand a little more more drastic than loss of weight will ment at Iowa State College, declared fol- clearly what to expect, when to expect greatly relieve the painful symptoms. lowing a study: "Most people are smarter it and what kind of overhaul will seem As for your organs, organ systems, at 50 than at the brink of maturity, when necessary. Happy motoring. tissues and blood vessels, they'll wear or we usually think of brains as being agile THE END

A PREVIEW OF NEW ORLEANS (Continued from page 17)

— and the tab was in the $5 neighbor- whether they grow on land or in the water. restaurant known for something entirely hood. Much to my surprise, there were Antoine's is the grandpere of haute different. And you can always drop in a number of $1.50 and $1.75 luncheons cuisine. Well over 100 years in existence, at one of the dozens of oyster bars for on the menu of this deservedly famous it is under the management of the last further directions and nourishment while restaurant, one of the best five in New surviving male member of the founding you make up your mind. Orleans. Brennan's is the creation and Alcitore family. Since the French Food, food, food, wherever you go! proud possession of an attractive young Quarter is already on your "must" list, Yet Orleanians are no fatter than the woman, Ella Brennan, whose two plan your tour to include this storied inhabitants of other American cities. younger brothers, Pip and Dick, es- restaurant for one luncheon at least or Just better fed and, apparently, happier. corted Mrs. Martin and me on our sub- dinner at best — and one might almost They have a reputation, too, for not sequent tour of Bourbon Street. add "of course!" raising prices during the height of the

I asked the Brennans where they got Pittari's is outstanding. La Louisianne seasons of Mardi Gras and the Sugar their oysters and was informed that I delighted us. Kolb's on St. Charles Street Bowl game — or during conventions! was eating "Louisiana Oysters." (They is an epicure's heaven. The Roosevelt Even though the Legionnaires may fill deserve a capital "O.") This variety is has a French chef and a staff of 40 the town and the meetings in the New smaller and, I think, more delicious cooks. The Candle-light will make you Orleans Auditorium to overflowing, I than the Eastern oysters from the colder linger over each bite, while the food at was informed quietly but proudly by a waters along the Atlantic seaboard. In Manale's and the Bali Hai will help to number of people that you'll be treated a way, they bear the same relation to hasten your return to New Orleans. as courteously and generously as if you their cold water cousins as baby beef Masson's Beach House, outside of New were there on an off-season weekend. does to mature beef, for these tender Orleans proper, was unforgettable — for Bill Miller, who for six years has been little bivalves grow from spat to ma- some reason everything seemed to come arranging national conventions for the turity in just one year in the warm Gulf. together there to create the finest meal Legion, assured me that there will be A Chincoteague or Tangier oyster takes I've ever savored anywhere. plenty of accommodations. September three years, while farther north along But these names just barely scratch happens to be a sort of tourist lull be- the east coast, it takes oysters up to the surface of the most extraordinary tween Labor Day and Thanksgiving, and seven years to grow up. As I said, the group of restaurants this side of the the Crescent City can more than handle Louisiana oysters are different, especial- Eiffel Tower. Ask around when you're the 50,000 to 60,000 people expected to ly as prepared in this "cordon bleu" there. Explore. You'll find that food and be present when the Legion marches in. restaurant. drink are a topic of conversation that Bill told me also that they expect some

New Orleans is lucky in having three few New Orleans residents will hesitate 40,000 participants in the Legion parade, sources and kinds of shrimp at hand. to expound on at great length and in in which they now anticipate 40 drum There's the tiny river shrimp that some fascinating detail. Everyone seems to and bugle corps, about 100 high school people say has a remarkable flavor, like to discuss food, no matter what his bands, together with the Legion bands though I didn't try any curing my stay. background or occupation. The bar- themselves. Legionnaires may expect Then Lake Pontchartrain nearby con- tenders know marvelous little places, the that John F. Tims, publisher of the New tains a medium size variety. The Gulf passers-by can reel off lists of favorites Orleans Times-Picayune, will see that the shrimp are huge, as might be expected, while you're pausing at a streetlight, and 1963 convention gets outstanding daily

I suppose, of all the things that grow in the cab driver is apt to tell you his par- newspaper coverage. New Orleans' semi-tropical environment, ticular at-home specialty en route to a Conventions are different in New Or-

42 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 leans, I learned; the womenfolk can't after midnight), Pat O'Brien's Place, Going Fishing, involved! If Pepe's Bar, Pizza Bar (jazz), and Pres- help but be interested and Hunting or Camping? you're having a convention in Cleveland, ervation Hall (blues), where you can or Detroit, or Chicago, a wife might say sit from 9 p.m. to midnight and see to her husband, "Go ahead. Have a old-timers with an urge to blow a blue good time. Come back soon." But they note step up and take over for a while. are not about to let their man go off to The Hall doesn't sell drinks — it doesn't CAMPER COACH is New Orleans alone. They want to come sell anything. The only fee is whatever along, not just to keep an eye on him, you feel like dropping into the hat when First Choice the World Over! World's largest mfr. offers but because of the sights, sounds and it's passed. I also remember tapping my MORE models & interior designs. Ruggedly built for any season, any road, yet exotic air of the city, its antiques and big flat foot to the slow, solid beat at designed with the "gals" in mind. gardens, stately homes and strange The Famous Door as the combo belted Revolutionary s» / / foods, patios and quaint streets. For out The Birth of The Blues, a song called TRAVEL TRAILEflS* C^^?^^ these reasons — all of them of particular Kansas City (not the classical K.C. Only trailer made for COMPACT CARS & STAND- to nearest Factory for FREE Bro- interest to the distaff side, the total num- Blues, but a K.C.-is-the-place-I-want-to- ARD SIZE. Write chure, name of Dealer. ber of convention visitors in New Or- be-type), and a roof-raising version of HONORBUILT TRAILER MFG. CO., INC. leans is usually larger than to the same When The Saints Go Marching In. A convention when held elsewhere. The couple of blocks away, you can hear 19940 HANSEN AVE., LAKEVIEW, CALIF, wives come in droves to this disarmingly old-fashioned Dixieland and jazz at the or MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS lovely city, fascinated by what they've Paddock Lounge. 22616 Pacific Highway So. 6 Cornwall Street Midway, Seattle, Wash. Springfield, Mass. heard about it. They are content to I've mentioned that Pip and Dick Waldeck Avenue Dealers Write Milmay, New Jersey browse and putter through the Garden Brennan were our Bourbon Street es- District — built largely during the 1830s corts. They couldn't have done better by WW II SURRENDER DOCUMENTS — and the antique shops, while the men us. They took us in and out of places NOW AVAILABLE TO LEGIONNAIRES are meeting. But at night, they put on where Legionnaires can go and enjoy Obtainable for the first time-2 authentic true-size parchment paper reproductions: 1) INSTRUMENT the kind of clothes that bring a sparkle themselves without being exposed to OF SURRENDER bearing signatures of ten world unconditional surrender docu- to the eye, and persuade their husbands more skin than their wives might like military leaders of the ment by Japan as signed aboard the USS Missouri, to go out on a town that is really some- to see. The tab ran high — drinks were Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay and 2) THE ACT OF MILITARY SURRENDER of Germany signed May thing to go out on. built around a miniature heavyweight 7, 1945, at Rheims, France which brought an end to Naziism. These two actual-size 16" by 20" docu- Bourbon Street is a name no less than half-ounce shot glass at a buck and a ments, ready-to-be-framed, are lasting souvenirs of magic. On it there are probably 50 night- half. But the entertainment was free, so American participation in the final victory commem- orating the history of our century. A must for every clubs packed together on both sides of we didn't feel pressured at all. We ac- Post, decorative for the office, den and instructive documents that should hang in every school class- the street. You can zigzag for blocks, cepted this as a fact of life in such places, room. Valuable as gifts. $1.50 each or both for seeing shows, having a drink while you and were honestly glad next day that $2.00 ppd. watch goggle-eyed, or just listen, in one the drinks had been small. There's too AMERICAN DOCUMENTS after another of these clubs, with much to do in New Orleans to waste Box 6415, San Diego 6, California scarcely a break in the entertainment. the better part of a day nursing a big Some of the shows are considerably head. The Jada is a stripeteria that's ACCORDIONS s% OFF! longer than others, depending on the possibly all right for wives who haven't Sate up to H oil retail prices of comparable accordions! crowds, the performers, and the mood been overly sheltered. The Gunga Den S-DAY FREE TRIAL Buy Direct from world 's Largest Dealer! HI Compareotir low Importer-to- You prices! of the evening. There's no cover charge, had a feature gal performer. W$ See how you save! Over 30 models— rin- gs est genuine Italian makesl New, easier terms! I if Bonus Gifts Free. Rush name and although several spots will charge you asked the Brennans how you could address for FREE Color Catalogs and Direct Importer - to -You prices. Write more for the first drink in lieu of this. judge the level of a Bourbon Street place. | Accordion Corporation of America Thereafter, all drinks are no less than They told me that one of the warning 2 2003 W. Chicago Av., A-53, Chicago 22 a dollar even. No matter whether you signs is the barker outside who gives you have a soft drink, a bottle of beer, or a the bit, grabs your arm, and tries to pull EAT ANYTHING scotch, the price is the same, a kind of you inside. Watch out here. At this writ- — WITH minimum a wonderful kind. I doubt ing, New Orleans is clamping the lid on FALSE TEETH

if many visitors could find it in them- fast and loose night spots. But this is one

selves to object to such treatment. After area where New Orleans is like most all, this is the birthplace of Dixieland other cities, as anyone who travels jazz! You'll revel in the sounds as you knows. So far, the city has shut down sashay along, awash in the solid beat several of the really high pressure places, Trouble with loose plates that slip, rock or cause that comes from all directions. which makes it better all around. sore gums ? Try Brimms Plasti-Liner. One applica- tion makes plates fit snugly without powder, Among the nightspots you'll find Legionnaires wives will find paste ups and or cushions. Brimms Plasti-Liner adheres perma- and downs, highs and lows. Some of Bourbon Street fascinating. A part of nently to your plate; ends the bother of temporary applications. With plates held firmly by Plasti-Liner, them are strip joints, others are mag- life thrives here that has taken root and YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING ! Simply lay soft strip of Plasti-Liner on troublesome upper nificently or lower. operated and offer the most grown practically nowhere else in the Bite and it molds perfectly. Easy to use, tasteless, odorless, harmless to casual dropper-in a jazz session he'll al- world. It's nourished by a music that you and your plates. Remova- ble as directed. Money-back guarantee. At your drug ways remember, one to judge his hi-fi has taken hold and flourishes best in just counter. $1.50 reliner for 1 plate;$2.50,for 2 plates. Plasti-Liner, Inc., Dept. 1075 Main Street, p.7 ', recordings against when he gets back this one place. Don't miss it. Buffalo 9, New York. home. Al Hirt, considered by many But there are plenty of opportunities BRIMMS PLASTI-LINER America's greatest trumpet player, has for fun that are free—or next to it. Sim- THE PERMANENT DENTURE RELINER a place there. You'll probably want to ply touring the waterfront is pretty great. hear Pete Fountain's combo. Some spots, After all, some 5,000 ships a year pass The All Purpose' Oil like the 809 Club, specialize (American through this port, which makes for the

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 43 ended the War of 1812 had been signed British lobsterbacks from behind bales been there a long time and has its own abroad! The battlefield lies only a few of cotton and hastily dug trenches. variety of authentic pieces. The shops miles south — a ten-cent bus ride — and Prowling the battlefield is particularly along Royal Street are not little, they're you can wander among the half-filled fascinating. I was spellbound by some big; and they're packed with lovely trenches by the levee where one of the of the stories, some of the history, some things to put in your home. You can most decisive 12 battles in history was of the magic of the city's past and pres- putz around in them all day if you like fought. wonderful old plantation A . ent . . like tales of the bygone Quad- and no one will snarl at you. On the house still stands on the site. The British roon Ball, where the young creole bloods contrary, they obviously enjoy answer-

General Sir Edward Pakenham died in- annually selected their next mistresses. ing your questions and, above all, dick- side its ancient walls. I loved Bourbon Street. I loved going ering and bargaining — remember, Or- Lake Pontchartrain is not only worth down to the river front and the French leamans are "people-likers." Antique seeing, it's free, too. You don't have to markets and having a cup of coffee with dealers who welcome your coming in leave the city to view it, because it forms doughnuts before bed. I loved seeing to look and poke and chat are as pleas- one of the boundaries of New Orleans. the homes in the Garden District, and ant a surprise as I've encountered in In fact, it lies within the city itself. Beau- even though these will not be open in many a day. tifully landscaped, there's a lovely drive September, there are no walls to pre- Another surprise came when it along its margin — the Lakeshore Park- vent you from driving there and walking dawned on me that you don't have to way, complete with seawall — a glowing past. Like the parks, they bloom year rely solely on restaurants with a big palette of trees, shrubs and fountains. round. The climate sees to that. The reputation for fine food in New Orleans. Driving along the Parkway, you'll be landscaped boulevards are lined with The first-class hotels can hold their own unable to take your eyes from the gor- semitropical flowers and vegetation there with almost any of the dining geous homes set back from the shore. whose names I can't even pronounce, establishments. Take a tip from the One of them had a garage with space let alone spell. Huge oak trees tower Martins, try your hotel dining room — for eight cars. I counted them, fas- along the way in stately rows; each wears in New Orleans they're extraordinary, cinated. a sweeping mantilla of Spanish moss in to say the least.

The lakefront has an amusement park soft folds over its branches. We asked for and received several that includes swimming pools, Ferris Royal Street hypnotized both my wife out-of-this-world recipes during our wheels, assorted rides, games, picnic and me, for on it are located about the visits to some famous restaurants and tables, and green grass. Boats may be widest assortment of antique shops, big dining rooms. Of course, there are cer- rented for just dawdling-around-in or and little, we'd ever come across. New tain dishes that are highly secret, but if for serious fishing. You have an excel- Orleans has what appears to be an end- the host or chef or maitre d'hotel turns lent chance of landing pompano or red less supply of antiques. The city has you down with a regretful shrug on one snapper on the lake. request, he'll probably offer you some-

You can cruise the Mississippi itself, thing else in its place. In which case, free, on a city-owned yacht called The don't look this kind of gift horse in the

Good Neighbor that accommodates mouth, take it gratefully and be pre- about 65. Or, for a small fee, you can a pared for the unusual when you get embark on a three-hour cruise on a large home and can try it. excursion steamer that offers music, Prayer Women, it seems, are prone to take dancing, and a first-rate look at the home a lot of New Orleans foods, sea- whole port. sonings, and candies that are simply not New Orleans has two outstanding FOR MAY to be found elsewhere. The best-known parks, City Park and Audubon Park. By G. Harley Fisher food for the sweet tooth is probably the The latter possesses a fine zoo right pecan praline, a delicacy of maple sugar Dept. Chaplain across the street from Tulane and and pecans, though some varieties are Missouri Loyola Universities. For golfers, City Dept. of laced with chocolate. From New Or- Park offers three public golf links, and is Almighty and everlasting God — cre- leans also comes a variety of prepared noted for its handsome driveways. It ator of the universe and all things and packaged sauces— especially for sea- contains the Delgado Museum, whose therein, we humbly ask Thy Divine foods—as well as canned gumbos, and art collection recently was expanded blessing upon our United States of jumbalayas. Unfortunately, one New considerably by gifts from the Kresge America — still a beacon of light in a Orleans delicacy, the Buster Crab, can- world that abounds in darkness. Touch family. not be exported. It must be eaten on the the hearts and minds of our leaders Again, for a modest fee, you can spot. This tiny soft-shelled crab is fried with Thy wisdom and love, that they spend a leisurely day on a guided tour whole and served in stacks like minia- may guide us safely and wisely through of antebellum plantations and upcoun- ture hotcakes the size of a silver dollar. the troubled times in which we live. try just right homes. Depending upon how many Bless the American Legion and the Oysters also are smallish and

are open to the public at the time, you high purpose and ideals for which it to savor in the dozens of ways they're will get a first-hand look at from five to stands and especially we would ask served here. Crayfish are another gour- eight historic and beautiful establish- Thy blessing upon those of our com- met's delight. These lend themselves to ments. There are any number of other rades whose bodies have been broken being made into a bisque, a thick, highly sightseeing tours available, both inside in the service of their country, and to seasoned soup. The complications of this whom all of us owe so very, very much. and outside the city. recipe may keep you from trying it at Mindful of our weaknesses and our One of the things I enjoyed, that home, but the odors of cooking are shortcomings, give us so to live as might come under the heading of sight- enough to start the gastric juices run- Americans, in a spirit of righteousness, seeing, ning in one's mouth as you was conversing with residents. one with another, that other nations overtime If you're not shy about asking questions seeing, may wish to emulate us rather catch a whiff and start wondering if the and can summon up a smile to go with than destroy us, and may peace reign stomach can hold another meal so soon them, you're in for a treat. I'm a bug everlasting in a brotherhood of men after the previous one. on history, and loved inquiring about Amten. G> Legionnaires and their wives will find the place where Andrew Jackson teamed it impossible, as we did, to decide just up with Jean Lafitte to stand off the what was the most fun, the best eating,

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or the greatest entertainment in New Or- chopped greens and anchovies. Sim- leans. There are too many high spots to mer, covered, 20 minutes. Remove Now! Life Insurance be able to differentiate among them. The cover, stir in absinthe and cook until city is like that, sweeping you up into thickened. Birth to Age 80 its affectionate regard within minutes of Place half shells (6 per serving) on your arrival. In the warm embrace of hot rock salt. Fill each shell with an First such charming and open-handed hospi- oyster. Put sauce in a pastry bag and 30 Days tality, your spirits start climbing and cover each oyster. Bake in preheated ONLY 25

2 cups mayonnaise 1 teaspoon chopped parsley

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 rolled filet of pompano (or 2 teaspoons freshly ground trout or any white fish) * RUPTURED horseradish poached in salted water — BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY 3 tablespoons creole mustard (about 3/a pound) Surely you want to THROW AWAY be rid of 1 tablespoon tomato catsup Fold a 20" square of parchment TRUSSES FOREVER, Rup- — ture Worries. Then Why put up with Grind very fine : paper in half and cut a large heart. wearing a griping, chafing and unsani- 1 celery cup This will be your papillote. tary truss ? For there is now a modern Va cup onion In a 9-inch skillet over medium Non-Surgical treatment that is de- signed to correct 1 shallot heat, melt butter and saute onion rupture. These Non- Surgical treatments are so dependable 2 tablespoons green pepper until tender. Blend in flour thorough- that a Lifetime Certificate of Assur- 1 tablespoon parsley ly. Cook slowly about 5 minutes, ance is given. Combine with mayonnaise mixture. stirring constantly; do not brown. Re- Write today for our New FREE BOOK that gives facts Chill well and serve with shrimp, move from heat. Blend in fish stock, that may save you painful, expensive surgery. Tells crabmeat or other seafoods. Can be until wine, salt and pepper smooth. HOW and Explains WHY NON-SUR- stored for week or two in refrigerator Blend in egg yolk thoroughly. Return GICAL Methods of Treating Rupture in air-tight jar. to heat and gently cook over low heat, are so successful today. Write today (From Kolb's German Tavern, stirring constantly about 15 minutes. Dept. H-1135 New Orleans, La.) Add shrimp, oysters and parsley and Excelsior Medical Clinic, Excelsior Springs, Mo. heat through. OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER On center of one inside half of

1 cup chopped shallots parchment "heart" place half of V2 cup chopped parsley above mixture, and place rolled trout, IV2 cups chopped young spinach white fish or pompano on the sauce V2 cup flour mixture. Top this with the other half

1 cup melted butter of the sauce mixture. Fold the top

1 cup oyster water half of the paper over and starting at 2 cloves garlic, minced the arc (opposite point) fold the two V2 teaspoon salt ends of the paper together like seal- Va teaspoon cayenne ing pie dough. Continue this folding Va cup minced anchovies seam around to the tip. Pinch the last 4 ounces absinthe fold tightly. Place papillote on shal- 3 or 4 dozen oysters low baking dish. Bake in a preheated Fill a pie pan with rock salt for each oven 350° (moderate) 10 to 15 min- serving. Place in oven to preheat salt. utes or until paper is golden brown.

While salt is heating, make sauce by 1 serving. putting shallots, parsley and spinach *One 2-lb trout will render through food chopper. Stir flour into two 3/4-lb. filets after clean- POLIO * BIRTH DEFECTS * ARTHRITIS melted butter and cook 5 minutes; do ing and boning. Save head and THE SALK INSTITUTE not brown. Blend in oyster water, and bones to make fish stock. garlic, salt and cayenne. Stir in THE END

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Here ' s how the United States is going about putting an "There is an intelligence gap. American on the moon The gap is in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing 1. Project Mercury, our first step in manned exploration the secrets of the intelligence of space... Its objective — to determine man's capabilities operations of the United States ." in space, to develop the technology of manned space Government. . . Rep. George Mahon, of Texas, chairman flight... To date, 21 space flights have been conducted in H. of House defense appropria- this program, including five successful manned flights... tions subcommittee. One more Project Mercury flight is scheduled—a one-day CHINA orbit around the Earth. .. Spacecraft to be manned by ". . . is no major Astronaut Gordon Cooper. there today people or group of leaders who 2. Project Gemini... Its goals are to gain operational are in the true sense more ig- proficiency in manned space flight and to develop space norant of what is going on in the outside world than those in rendezvous and other advanced techniques ... Gemini Peking. Surrounded by a pop- spacecraft will carry two astronauts, be equipped with a ulation greater than that of the paraglide landing system, and work out methods of making Soviet Union, the United States craft contact with other space vehicles in orbit. and all the countries of West- ern Europe combined, they are Project 3. Apollo is aimed at a landing on the moon... With smugly sitting in Peking dis- the information learned from Project Gemini, the Apollo daining the rest of the world, program plans to send a three-man spacecraft into lunar except insofar as they look for- orbit, at which point the mother craft will drop a two-man ward to its being brought under Chinese suzerainty, with en- "shuttle" to the moon for exploration. . .The shuttle then voys again bearing tribute to returns to the mother-craft for the return flight and Peking." U. Alexis Johnson, re-entry to Earth, at a specific site ... Getting our Deputy Under Secretary of spaceships and astronauts back from the moon—not to the State for Political Affairs. moon is the all. — toughest problem of RIGHTS ", . . while the rights and in- The United States has signed an agreement to send wheat terests of labor and of business cotton and tobacco to Red Poland for $51,600,000 in must be respected, the rights zlotys ... Since 1957, the United States has sold and interests of the public de- serve at least equal considera- $477,000,000 worth of farm products for zlotys .. .Mean- tion." Bernard M. Baruch, while, the United States extended to the Poles dollar elder statesman and adviser to credit of $61,000,000 for purchase of U. S. products... Presidents. State Department: "Shipments of these items have con- YOUTH tributed directly to an improvement in Polish diets and "A whole new Lost Genera- medical care, and they have been accepted by the Polish tion is growing up in our coun- people as material evidence of the continuing interest try, with no skills and little and friendship of the United States for Poland." hope. Many of its members are turning to crime to get the things other youngsters get by Only one in ten Americans has no access to a local public hard study and work." Attor- library, President Kennedy disclosed in his recent ney General Robert F. Ken- message on education. nedy.

The typical U. S. public library building of 1963, he said, TAXES is characterized by advanced age, lack of space, and lack "I firmly believe that the of modern equipment. The Carnegie funds which created American taxpayer is the most a system of free libraries ran dry 40 years ago. The honest in the world. He bears an enormous burden and with President has asked Congress to authorize a three-year good grace." Mortimer M. Cap- program of grants to build new libraries and improve lin, Commissioner of U. S. In- old ones. ternal Revenue Service.

46 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 WHO WANTS THE SOVIET ECONOMY? If You Want To •(Continued from page 19)-

pends much more upon light industry what Russian technology is able to give STOP SMOKING and agriculture, which provide consump- its people. In short, one has to observe tion goods and on which all peoples of that although the communist economy Airline Pilot Tells How! underdeveloped countries count to light- maintains a decent, though not excep- en their poverty. Let us consider what tional, face as regards concrete and steel,

the communist economy has been able to it appears miserable as regards shoes, realize in that field. houses and consumption goods. Compared with American industry, In the field of agriculture, communism which produces one private auto for remains in a state of permanent slump. every 2.2 inhabitants, and French indus- I was dubbed a systematic anti-commu- try, which produces one car for every six nist when I asserted in 1950, in my book men, Soviet industry after 40 years of Stalin's Russia, that the Soviet people's communism and after entering the field feeding standard had fallen lower than when all the technical problems were under the tzars. Then, in 1954, in his solved, produces only one private car for famous speech at the 20th Congress of 450 persons! In 1960, the USSR pro- the Communist Party, Khrushchev him- duced only 140,000 cars, half of which self acknowledged that fact. This did not Capt. Roger Don Rae flies jets. He says: "We were for export, while the United States, prevent my being called a systematic know that smoking impairs your ability to see at night. When flying, or driving an automobile, with 40 million fewer inhabitants than anti-communist again when I observed, this is something to think about. Bantron helped Soviet Russia, produced 6.5 million cars, in 1956, that Soviet cattle had decreased me stop smoking almost without noticing it. I it friends." of which 1 17,126 were for export! since the time of the tzars. Then, in 1962, recommend to my Within 50 years, the available surface Khrushchev himself acknowledged that Bantron is a safe, new product, developed for housing (living space) in the United fact before the Central Committee. at a great American university, that has helped thousands stop smoking. In a series States passed from 15 to 36 square collectivization Since its compulsory of clinical tests, published in a leading Med- meters per inhabitant — square meters of 1928, agriculture has been in a state ical Journal*, scientists reported that 4 out of 5 men and women who wanted to quit fitted with every modern comfort. In 40 of deep crisis in Soviet Russia, in spite smoking stopped within 5 days when they years in the USSR, it went from eight of all the self-criticism, counter-reform, took Bantron. square meters to — eight square meters — super-decrees and inter-shootings. The And the Bantron way is so easy and pleas- ant! Bantron does not affect your taste, is having dropped to four square meters in most spectacular misadventures could not habit forming. It acts as a substitute 1937, "the space for a coffin" the Rus- not be hidden: the loss of half of the for the nicotine in your system and curbs your desire for tobacco. sians would say. And the square meters crop of corn in 1959; the failure of Taken as directed, Bantron is perfectly in the USSR were of a very poor stand- "operation cows" in 1960 (the cows safe. Just take 3 Bantron tablets a day, after meals, for four days. Then only ard. stopped giving milk as soon as they were 2 a day until all desire leaves you. 807o are Regarding electricity domestic for use collectivized) ; the death, through want "Free" in 5 to 10 days. Now at drug stores without prescrip- — which gives the best illustration of the of proper care, of five million cattle in tion. Price $1.25. living — standard of a population elec- 1961; the constant deficiencies of tractor Also available in Bantron trical production in the is Canada. United States centers, and lack of spare parts; the fer- oannu vry about 1,900 kilowatt hours per person, tilizers gone to waste near railway sta- Smoking Deterrent Tablets * Copies available per year; 850 in France; and 210 in the tions; the lack of meat, eggs and potatoes to doctors on request. Write Campana Corporation, Batavia, III. USSR! These figures give an excellent even in Moscow shops during the 1961- over-all comparative idea of the living 62 winter; and the total failure of the LEARN standards in the three countries: in the huge, loudly propagandized operation of MEAT CUTTING United States it is nine times higher, and reclaiming virgin lands by some millions Train quickly In 8 short weeks ae Toledo for c bright future with security in France, four times higher than in So- of young people who were sent there, In the vital meat business. Big pay, full-tlm jobs— HAVE A PROFITA RLE viet Russia. MARKET OF YOUR OWN! Pay after whether they liked it or not, and who graduation. Diploma given. Job help. Thousands of successful graduates. Our The mediocrity of Soviet 40th year! environment suffered intensely and in vain. , Send now for big, new illustrated FREE catalog. No obligation. G. I. Approved. in the human field can be glimpsed from NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING The terrific famine which has been Dept. A-36. Toledo 4, Ohio remarks made by Parisian workmen who devastating Communist China for two Now . . . Blessed Relief From went to Moscow in 1961 to work in the years took place at a time when, (as French Exhibition. Their Soviet col- Japanese observers confirmed) no sig- ARTHRITIS leagues thought that the suits they were nificant differences reigned in climatic Without Drugs or Surgery wearing had been lent to them by their conditions from those of former years. — If you act promptly, an amazing employers or by the French govern- This immense human tragedy is entirely illustrated new FREE book that ment — in order to "show off" in front of due to the communist regime and results may change your whole life will the Soviet workers. The Russians would from the madness of establishing popu- be rushed to you by return mail. it — not believe that it was possible to buy lar communes. Peiping was compelled to Send for today and dis- freely cover why drugs give you only any goods in France. In Moscow, acknowledge the famine, which is only temporary relief. How to elimi- those French workmen found it impos- alleviated today by mass supplies sent nate the cause of your aches and sible to get film for their cameras, nails by democratic countries which Mao de- pains, without drugs and without surgery, a proven non-medical for carpentry, or anything else without scribes as being decadent and selfish! way. How to avoid years of need- tickets which were given only to people The most criminal inefficiency of com- less agony and deformities that who were permitted to buy them on ac- munist agriculture is easily traceable to may cripple you for the rest of count of their professional duties. The communism itself. Consider the produc- your life. You owe it to yourself to first group of French workers could not tivity of the private enterprises of the send for this valuable FREE book make water come from the showers in commune farmers on the small "individ- without delay. No obligation. No their living quarters. ual patches" that they are sometimes al- agent will call. Write: The Ball Stories like these are limitless, and lowed. Farming 7.5 percent of Russia's Clinic, Dept. 3-560-M, Excelsior Springs, Missouri. point up the meanness and shabbiness of 500 million hectares of cultivated land A postcard will do.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 47 on a non-communist basis, they have still has a surplus. As for stock farming, States, as is shown by the fact that it re- produced the following percentages of the difference is even stronger. The rear- quires much less working time to pro- the Soviet Union's food: ing of cattle in Russia requires 14 times duce the same goods in the United States

48 percent of the meat; what the United States needs for the pro- than it docs in the USSR. As for quality,

82 percent of the eggs; duction of the same weight of cattle! The it is indeed quite different to produce 50 percent of the vegetables; and production of cereals, which was 8.2 100,000 pairs of good leather shoes, last- 48 percent of the whole milk. hundredweight per hectare in tzarist Rus- ing as much as two years, as is done in Who has not heard communism being sia, fell after the revolution and has only the United States, and, as in the USSR, lauded as the angel of agrarian reform? just reached the same 8.2 level of 45 to make 100,000 pairs of oilcloth shoes

That is, taking land from landlords and years ago! Let us recall that this output is which give way after three months, or giving it to peasants. Yet the whole story 25 hundredweight in France and 34 in rubber shoes made of such material that of agrarian reform under communism Australia. they "burst after ten days." The bad is probably the greatest demagogucry In fact, the average food situation for quality of Soviet goods is notorious and ever heard in all ages. The communists in the Soviet people has been, for 45 years, universally known. new lands sometimes do start by giving constantly lower than that of 1914! Dur- How much of an effort is it to do the land to peasants in order to be applauded. ing the big famine of 1 932^1934, which same job the communist way compared But as soon as they have well entrenched was the result of the compulsory collec- to the democratic way? themselves in power, they compulsorily tivization of the land, it fell to one- Let's take the case of power-stations. take back the land by enrolling these un- fourth! Only since 1953 has it started Establishing power-stations in the USSR, fortunate new proprietors in kolkhozes going up slightly, with many setbacks, which are no more sensational than or in communes, where they fall even until finally it again reached its 1914 those anywhere else, imposed an "ex- lower than before, to the condition ol level. It is this very recent and modest treme pressure on the muscles and bondsmen ordered by red tapists. So it raise which supports the whole myth of nerves" (so said Stalin) of the people of happened all over under com.uumsl rule, the "race to happiness" in which the a country which boasts that it is a para- in the USSR, in China, in Yugoslavia, in USSR is supposed to overtake the West- dise on earth. There was no limit to the Eastern Germany, and in Cuba. Every- ern World. The "big miracle" which it length of a day's work nor to the working where, the result was the same: famine. has realized in the nutrition field has norms. Payment was made by piecework. In Cuba today, three years after the been to draw the unhappy Russians out The big Soviet industrialization was real- tremendous boasting of Castro about the of the hollows into which the Stalin re- ized only by having secret police behind agrarian reform which, at first, won him gime had sunk them and to give them every pillar, factory courts to punish the the sympathy of so many advanced back the standard reached by their fore- slightest carelessness with heavy penal- minds, the Cuban peasant is no more fathers under the power of that famous ties, Stakhanovism accelerating cease- than a forced laborer in his own land, autocratic sweater of labor: the tzar. lessly the rhythm of production, order- and the people have to struggle with How dare the communists, who have ing the death penalty for bad work, hateful ration tickets, which had never not been able, in 45 years, to solve the hanging a noticeboard of honor and no- been heard of in Cuba before. problem of starvation at home, offer ticeboard of shame on the walls of the Other statistics which point up the or- themselves as tutors to solve the same workshops, and keeping work record ganic incapacity of communist regimes problem in Africa and in Asia! Never, books in which the slightest defects of to feed their people are the compared until now, has such impudence been ob- the workmen were inscribed; in short, agrarian output in the USSR and the served. the whole apparatus of state terror. United States. In the USSR, one commu- How does the myth of Soviet "eco- In China, the price paid for indus- nized farmer can scarcely feed four per- nomic dynamism" stack up in the mat- trialization in physical and moral suffer- sons, while in the United States one farm- ters of efficiency and quality? Efficiency, ing — hard labor camps, mass deporta- er sumptuously feeds 29 persons, and of course, is much higher in the United tions, mass deaths through exhaustion

and starvation — is still more inhuman. One can read in the Chinese press that the workers of the dams and canals of Northern China and Sikiang are labor-

ing in water so cold that it would turn

to ice if it were not flowing; that they have to fight against blocks of ice car- ried by heavy currents or stop the mud with their own bodies. The builders of the power stations were housed in sheds

hardly fit for dogs; the orders were given

as if to dogs, they were fed with dog food, and pushed to work like cattle.

And still, this only concerns the work supposed to be "free." Nobody denies any more that there have been in the USSR, and still are in Communist China, some millions of unfortunate people doomed to forced hard labor. It is with garlands of corpses that the "famous" achievements of the Canal of the White Sea, the Turksib railroad, the gold mines of Yakutsk could realize their leap for-

ward. It is through the kind of horrors associated with Hitler that the Magnito- gorsk and the Dniepropetrovsk dams (Continued on page 50)

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Who Wants The Soviet Economy? gebra was not even taught in the country. of living and culture met with in Japan. An old Shogunal law forbade inventions In all these countries, modernization (Continued from page 48) — except, amusingly, "for the staging of has been achieved without work-record were erected. It is true to say that such a play." There was not a yard of rail or books, flogging, concentration camps, atrocious deeds have been eliminated a watt of electricity in the country. Then, shedding of blood, and universal spying; from the USSR, though some millions of 35 years later, Japan was covered with in brief, without communism. young people are still bound to compul- factories, power stations, railways, and So far, we have considered only the sory work in the virgin lands, but in had a new fleet which was built entire- conditions of economic growth in com-

Communist China they are still going on ly in its arsenals and which succeeded in munist countries. Now let us have a look at a terrible scale. routing, at Port Arthur, the venerable at the present level reached by Soviet On the whole, by integrating all the Russian fleet that had been so well taken production. As Mr. Khrushchev is al- periods of hell and purgatory of bolshe- care of for 200 years. And all this was ways boasting of "catching up and over- vik domination, one can conclude that realized without communism. taking" the United States, let us compare there is one angle — and only one — under But Japan's case is not the only one. Soviet production with that of the United which progress attributed to communism Today, Borneo is a world leader in the States in 1962. Reckoning our calcula- is unequaled. That angle is the price development of housing projects. In tion per head, we find that United States it's cost in human suffering. From the Venezuela and Brazil, oil plants, steel production is: point of view of human efficiency, that factories and even big cities spring from 2.5 times higher for heavy industry. between the is to say the proportion the earth in record time. On the Ivory 2 times higher in scientific capacity, the efforts in- achievement reached and Coast, under the leadership of M. Hou- taking into account all fields of life proportion and vested by the workmen, a phouet-Boigny, and in Senegal and not only one aimed at spectacu- cri- which constitutes the only valuable Congo-Brazzaville, under the tolerant lar enterprises. terion of the "quality" of a regime — governments of Mr. Leopold Senghor 10 times higher for the light industry communist industrialization is the last and President Fulbert Youlou, assisted of necessary articles for housing, in the world. by democratic France in both places, we clothing, medicaments, lighting, ed- Of course, there are those who are so can see a direct, smooth transition from ucation, etc. immune to compassion that they quickly the tribal age to the industrial one. In 120 times higher for the production of excuse all this barbarity with the only Malaya, where a respect for human non-essential articles (cars, domestic argument that may be dreamed up — rights is maintained, economic and social apparatus, telephones, roads, enter- namely, that a backward country must landscapes, which are hard to distinguish tainment, traveling articles, etc.). sacrifice a generation or two of human from those of Essex, are emerging from beings to slavery because, they say, there the jungle. South Vietnam has launched 3 times higher in nutrition level. is no other way to modernize and indus- its magnificent revolution of "agro- 7 times higher as to global standard trialize. towns." On the small island of Formosa, of living (food and manufactured But there are innumerable examples 10 million Chinese have realized an goods) of countries which have not been ruled agrarian reform infinitely more human Finally, one must muse on the well- under the whip of communism and which and efficient than the one promised (but known fact that, little as communism has have still modernized themselves faster never fulfilled) by Mao in Communist done, much of that is not its own. The than the USSR or China. China when he sought power. They have birth-pangs of the industrial revolution Japan is the most outstanding case. done the same with remarkable school were suffered chiefly by England, Ger-

When it decided to industrialize in 1870, and sanitary reforms, and within 12 many, France, the United States and it was really starting from nothing. Al- years have reached nearly the standard tzarist Russia in Europe. The bolsheviks, like Japan, came on the scene so late that, as Japan proved, a truly dynamic econ- omy need do little more than copy in order to move forward at a remarkable pace. The record of the Soviets is a rec-

ord of how poor their method is even for apers! In addition, today, even as they brag

of its dynamism, the Soviet economy

only holds its present pathetic level by feeding like a hookworm on the slave states of eastern Europe which Russia took as booty of World War II. On seeing such results we are dumb- founded to observe that in the Western World there are so many right-minded persons—besides the wrong-minded ones —who are supposed to be reliably in- formed, who are still talking of the "eco- nomic challenge" of communism to the Free World. In reality, the supposition that the USSR could reach the United States level, or even Western Europe's level in the near future, by any means

but conquest or colonial parasitism, is simply delirious. It proves the bottom- less gullibility of many democrats in the face of communist boastfulness. THE END

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Ensign Dress, sport, work, safety shoes for men, women. Make $10 to $75. as larger bamboo raft floated by Izzi and Maddox had left them the second night much as $200 monthly just in spare time. No investment. Send card to- Maddox. Two frightened men, who to cling to another bamboo raft. day for FREE SELLING OUTFIT. Mason Shoe, Dept. H-673 t Chippewa Fall, Wise. couldn't swim, were clinging to it. Late in the afternoon of the third day, Just before dark settled, Izzi got one a bigger raft floated by with men on it. AMAZING of his biggest breaks. His pal Joudy Izzi and his companions thought that floated by with another member of the their friend Lorenzo, the radio man, was Armed Guard crew, Satterwhite. aboard, so Izzi, who was the best swim- Joudy, to whom Izzi was to owe his mer in the group, decided to swim over. PSORIASIS life a dozen times during that first night The bigger raft was drifting in a cur- in the sea, was destined to lose his own. rent. Halfway over, Izzi felt he could STORY Darkness fell fast. never make it and he panicked. Then he Jan. 10, 1960 -Pittsburgh, Pa. "Doctored for "It was sunlight one moment and swam desperately to get in front of it so psoriasis 30 years. Spent much money to no black night the next, and lonesome as it would bear down on him. Fins of avail. Then used GHP Ointment and Tablets for 2 weeks. Scales disappeared as if by magic. hell," Izzi remembers. sharks cut through the choppy waters all In 6 weeks skin completely cleared and clean. Izzi saw no sharks that first night. But about him. The raft suddenly turned and First time in 30 years. Thanks for your mar- velous products." This much abbreviated report agonized screams all about him told him bore down on him. Someone extended tells of a user's success with a dual treatment that others had encountered them. One him a hand and he was pulled aboard. for the outward symptoms of psoriasis. Full by one the stars of the South Atlantic The bigger raft held Ensign Maddox, information and details of a 14 day trial plan from Canam Co., Dept. 300C, Rockport, Mass. were turned on. They were enormous who had been picked up earlier; George and looked close enough to touch. Beezley, an American sailor; Cornelius About midnight things began to hap- van der Slot, an oiler on the Zaandam; FALSE TEETH pen to Izzi. "I had swallowed a lot of sea and Nicko Hoogendam, a 17-year-old KLUTCH holds them tighter water, and things began to change. Once Dutch sailor who had been a passenger KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion; holds dental I looked over and there was a great big on the Zaandam. Both Beezley and Hoo- plates so much firmer and snugger that one can eat and talk with greater comfort and security; in many wall I could and hear the waves lapping gendam had been torpedoed before. cases almost as well as with natural teeth. Klutch against it. I reasoned, where there's a For three hours the men on the bigger lessens the constant fear of a dropping, rocking, chafing plate. ... If your druggist doesn't have wall, there's land. So I left the raft and raft tried to steer their craft near enough Klutch, don't waste money on substitutes, but send us 10C and we will mail you a generous trial box. started over. Joudy pulled me back." to the smaller raft so they could take the KLUTCH CO., Box 307E, ELM I R A, N. Y. Throughout the long, dreadful night others aboard. The currents defeated Izzi was tortured by Lorelei fancies their waning strength. Keep Your Guns which have lured countless men to their As night fell, Izzi saw Joudy for the deaths on the open sea. Once he imag- last time. His friend waved goodby from Gum-Free, Sure-Firing ined he was back in a little restaurant in the bamboo raft, now barely visible. clean, lubricate, prevent rust with South Barre where they sold hamburgers Fawks was still riding his wooden hatch and cokes. Another time he distinctly saw cover, brandishing his shark pole. 3-IN-ONE OIL the stern of a huge ship ahead of him. He Basil Izzi remembers crying just three SUPERFINE-WON'T 'GUM UP'

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1963 51 ORDEAL AT SEA At night they stood what they thought others dangled their legs over the side. (Continued from page 51) were two-hour watches. Sure enough, along came a small shark times during his 83-day nightmare. That Once an hour at night the watch would into the noose and Maddox had made night on the big raft he broke down and circle his light on all four sides, just in his first catch. cried as the shadows carried Emile Joudy case a ship was within seeing distance. They hauled the creature up on deck. off for the final time. Izzi and van der Slot suffered the most It was about three feet long and fighting Izzi knew only one of his new com- from sunburn during the first few days. mad. They jammed one of the oars down panions. That was Ensign James Mad- All were bleeding from open wounds. its throat and got the scissors into the dox, his Armed Guard officer. The others Izzi had only his shorts and the captain's soft belly. he didn't remember having seen before. shirt and both were soon in tatters. Mad- "Maddox asked for the heart," Izzi

In a way, they were an oddly assorted dox, too, had shorts and a shirt. Beezley remembers, "and we gave it to him. We crew. Maddox was married, a midwest- had dungarees and a shirt. Hoogendam tore into the liver ourselves. It was gray erner, and he had been a schoolteacher had a pair of dress trousers, a shirt, socks and ugly looking, but it didn't taste too before joining the Navy. Van der Slot and shoes. Van der Slot had dungarees bad. We cut a couple of big steaks off the was an experienced sailor in his mid- with shorts beneath thzm and a shirt. sides and stowed them in the old food thirties. Beezley, a young fellow, was a Hoogendam continued to wear his container. The next day we opened the rough-and-tumble sailor from Hannibal, shoes even after they dried up and shriv- cover. What an aroma! We tossed the Mo. Hoogendam was a teenager recently eled on him. The others kidded him steaks into the water. They were there turned sailor. Izzi was an athletic kid about the shoes. a few seconds and then other sharks from South Barre, Mass. "Those shoes hurt him like hell," says came along and bolted them. Regular The raft was a crate, eight feet by Izzi, "but he'd wear them just the same. cannibals." nine, built over two watertight steel Said he'd paid $7 for them and he wasn't Thanksgiving Day, 1942, was a grim drums attached to each end. There were throwing that kind of dough away." day for the survivors. They had hoped ledges about two feet wide on each of the The raft's four high ledges on all sides to be in New York by then. They kept four sides. In the center there was a small made it impossible to stretch out on the thinking how their folks were sitting deck about four by five feet. A hatch in deck to sleep, one man would sit down down to a big turkey dinner. the middle opened into the water. The first with his neck propped against one On Christmas Day they sang carols raft was made of slats but it rode well, ledge and his feet against the other. His and talked of home. By now all five were and was sturdy. It seemed like heaven. knees would point up to the sky. The skin and bones. Their water had run out An inventory showed two flashlights, second would face opposite him and as- but they were in the Gulf Stream. It a larger light which could be used as a sume a similar position. And so on. If rained quite a bit and they could catch running light, a big yellow canvas, a one moved, they all moved. the rain water in the canvas. Christmas medical kit, a can of matches, a pair of At night frequently, bitter, senseless afternoon a good-sized bird swooped scissors, nine cans of evaporated milk, quarrels broke out among the five. No down on the raft and Izzi made a lunge a two-pound can of chocolate, a few one could remain in such crowded com- for it. He missed. The bird settled on the dozen hardtack biscuits and ten gallons pany for so long and not occasionally water just out of arm's reach. Hoogen- of water. There were also two oars. despise his neighbor. dam wanted to plunge in after it. They While the rations held out, this was At first they had hope of being rescued finally held the Dutch youngster by the the daily menu: In the morning a cup of quickly. heels and he lunged for it. He fell half- water with a piece of cracker, a half-cup Recalls Izzi, "The mornings seemed to way into the sea but he got the bird. It in the afternoon with a little evaporated go fast. The afternoons were like years. was about the size of a full grown chick- milk, and at night, a full cup of water, a We all waited for sundown and that mis- en. They divided it up and saved the in- piece of biscuit and a bit of chocolate. erable little piece of chocolate." testines for bait to catch small fish. At first there was resentment against At night they covered themselves with Izzi had long since learned to eat even Izzi for enlarging the crew to five, since the yellow canvas. The last man down the bones of everything they caught. the raft and its food were meant for two. had the job of lashing it down. It was a "I got rather fond of them. At night And there were to be bitter quarrels. rugged job. Pain griped their unused I'd chew on them and they'd make the

Maddox was Izzi's champion and even- muscles. Sun blisters and running sores saliva come and it tasted something like tually the resentment wore off as the five stabbed like knives. the pretzels you'd get at the beer parlors settled down to the grim task of surviving. The food ran out November 18, the back home." "Those first few days on the raft were 16th day; the men began to look wist- Beezley and Maddox wouldn't eat the like the dreams you had as a kid," Izzi fully at the multitude of birds which bones. It may have been a coincidence, says. "Dreams of drifting down a sunlit soared overhead. Maddox, remembering but they were the ones who died. Beez- river to the sea on a raft, like Tom Saw- "The Ancient Mariner," said it would be ley went first. yer and Huckleberry Finn. Beautiful bad luck to liquidate a bird. But a hungry He had been sick since Christmas. days, wonderful sunsets, stars at night." man soon forgets about bad luck. The raw birds and the raw fish upset him. At first Izzi addressed Ensign Maddox There were sharks about at all hours Sometimes he would lie in a cramped po- as "Sir." After that he called him "Mad- of the day and night. Each man spent a sition for hours at a time. dox"and this made the naval officer a lot little time every day in the water with a Then he would rally for a day or two. more comfortable. Eventually Izzi called rope tied about him. In this way they Finally he became blind in one eye and Maddox "Jimmy" and a fine understand- were able to get some exercise as well as began to lose his hearing. The sight in the ing developed between the pair. bathe, and also collect edible snails that other eye went. He began to accuse his The sun beat down on them relent- attached themselves to th; under side of companions of holding back cigarettes lessly. Izzi is dark by nature, but three the raft. When the watch spotted a shark, from him. On the 66th morning when days in the salt water had bleached his the bather was hauled in fast by means Izzi awoke, he looked at Beezley. His skin and softened it. He burned terribly of the rope. The baffled shark would con- hands were out in front of him and his at first, as did the others. tinue its way under the raft. teeth were showing and he was stiff. The They had no timepiece, but they set Ensign Maddox came up with a bril- others watched him for several hours to up a lookout schedule. Daytime watches liant idea. Why not lasso a shark? Mad- see if he would move. He didn't. So they were set at 15 minutes, the longest a man dox mad; a lasso of rone and dangled took off his clothes and in the evening could look into that dazzling seascape. it under the raft between the slats. The they gently rolled him into the sea. They

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didn't look in the direction of his body. found it difficult to take up his former Ensign Maddox had a premonition pursuits again. His sleep at night was MARTINS FLAGS that he was going to die next. He devel- punctuated by wild dreams. It took a i DISPLAYS FOR memories of oped the same symptoms as Beezley's. long time to erase the black IBS i ORGANIZATIONS- He talked continually about his wife 83 days on the open sea. But time heals TOWNS-SCHOOLS-FAIRS Prompt shipment. Ask for our last wounds. It finally healed Izzi's. back in the Midwest. During the many colorful WHOLESALE Catalog No. 63-A days of his illness, he turned to Izzi for Today, at 39, Basil Dominic Izzi is an MARTIN'S FLAG CO., FORT DODGE. IOWA comfort. Then he began coughing up average businessman. His neighbors in blood. On the morning of the 77th day, South Barre are accustomed to seeing Izzi discovered Maddox trailing his hand him around. His garage and filling sta- ITCHING Torture in the water with all his teeth showing. tion are thriving. He likes to roam the They didn't wait until evening to bury pleasant Massachusetts hills around his Stopped like Magic and misery of Maddox. They took off his clothes and home with his dog. He has found time to Here's blessed relief from torture rectal itch, chafing, rash and eczema with a new- his wedding ring and rolled him gently serve in his native town as a town father. amazing scientific formula called LANACANH. This fast-acting, stainless medicated creme kills harmful off raft. This time they watched. The a term as commander of the the He served bacteria germs while it soothes raw, irritated and Stops scratching and so speeds body, with its long hair trailing in the South Barre American Legion Post. He inflamed skin tissue. at druggists healing. Don't suffer ! Get LANACANt waves, floated about the eddying water likes a quiet beer with his friends. something with the two for a few moments. Then He has held no reunions DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; jarred the body, the long hair fluttered surviving men who shared the raft with IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS Type P Pump has l.OOl uses. Stainless momentarily in the greenish-blue waters him. He has lost sight of Cornelius van shaft. Won't rust or clog! Use 1/6 HP motor or larjrer. . . 34 HP for up to 2,400 80' 1,800 GPH Izzi heard of GPH : 450 GPH high; or and then the body abruptly disappeared. der Slot entirely. The last Ifrom 25' well. 1" inlet; 3/4 " outlet. Coupling included free $7.95 This was the second time Izzi cried. in Amsterdam. Nicko Hoo- Heavy Duty Bali-Bearing Pump. Up to him, he was " 5.200 GPH: U/4" Inlet; 1 outlet .$ 12.95 Back is in Postpaid If cash with order. Money He cried a third time when a third ship gendam he has seen. The latter now Guarantee. Also other sizes, types. [not of the first three service. Occasion- passed them one the Merchant Marine IfpLABAWCO PUMPS, Belle Mead 56, N.I. ships that passed them showed the least ally, when Hoogendam is in the United sign that they had spotted the raft]. States, he and Izzi get together. Their Basil Dominic Izzi and his two surviv- conversations are generally small talk. FALSE TEETH BREAK? ing companions were rescued January to forget the bitter disap- Now repair them Izzi prefers GOOD r$198 24, 1943. They had drifted 2,200 miles pointments; the equally bitter quarrels, ucu/c at home in 8 min. | L "° P, Amazing PLATE-WELD repairs clear and over an 83-day period. Their food and the pain and the tragedy of the long od- pink plates and replaces teeth. Simply flow on — put water were gone. Their beards and hair yssey aboard that eight-by-nine-foot raft. together. Works every time — holds like new or money back. At Dnin Stnresor send $1.98 plus22c handlingto had grown wild. They were so weak they likes to recall certain phases of his Dept.l5A Bakersfield, Calit. He Home Dental Aids Co.. Box 1731 , couldn't stand to wave to the U.S. patrol experiences, however. He still remembers boat which spotted them. They had to be those glorious sunsets at sea and how big carried aboard. Izzi weighed a little more at night. HOW TO PUBLISH the stars looked Join our successful authors in a than 50 pounds, nearly one-third his nor- He'll assure you there was much to complete and reliable publishing program: publicity, advertising, mal weight. admire in the South Atlantic. YOUR handsome books. Speedy, efficient Izzi is eternally grateful to Earl Car- "I remember how I used to pass the service. Send for FREE manuscript _ report & copy of Publish Your Book. penter, the Navy lookout aboard the Pa- time watching the fish fighting, great If fill If CARLTON PRESS Dept. ALQ trol Craft boat which rescued them. It green fish that looked like dragons. Y DWn 84 Fifth Ave., New York 11. N. was only Carpenter's persistence which Sometimes the sharks would fight the persuaded his commanding officer that dragon fish. It was wonderful to watch. there was life aboard the tiny raft. They I can still remember one great blue fish \re you miserable with pain and aches of leg suspected a trap at first. that leaped clean out of the water at least ilcers, swelling, itch, rash due to deep venous

I congestion or leg swelling of bulged veins or in- Izzi's skin was so toughened by ex- 20 feet." I juries? Find out about proven VISCOSE that posure to the elements that he had to be Another recollection is that of a small I works as you walk. Easy to use. Money-back (guaranteed trial. Send for FREE BOOK todav. operated on in order to be fed intra- bird which bobbed up and down on a L. E. VISCOSE COMPANY venously. They couldn't get a needle into piece of flotsam for a number of days. 100 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago 10, III. his arm. The three survivors were put "That bird would tease the sharks into a U. S. Naval dispensary in Brazil. which floated up on their backs, mouths

Medics declared they would not have open, to gulp it down. It would wait until PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG, ILLUS- lasted more than another day or two. the last moment, and then flutter up just TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report making substantial incomes. Start and run your Thus ended one of the longest survival out of reach. When the shark had passed, own business quickly. Men. women of all ages, learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property Management. Appraising, Loans, Mortgages, and stories on record. down would come the bird again. It was related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. Izzi and his two companions made a a regular comedian. But if we could have Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. Approved for Korean Veterans (Est. 1936» good recovery after a false one. Two caught it, that would have been the end WEAVER SCHOOL OF BEAU ESTATE 3521 A Broadway Kansas City, Mo. months after being rescued, Izzi was of our bird, too." flown to Washington and thence to Mas- These are the things Basil Dominic sachusetts where he received a hero's Izzi likes to recall about his long, har- LOOK FOR welcome. The Navy sent him about the rowing experience. He would like to for- country selling War Bonds. Nightmares get some of the other things — those two THIS EMBLEM haunted him. A book was written about nights in the water, the goodbyes to his exploits. It was published just at the Emile Joudy and Jimmy Maddox. But time Eddie Rickenbacker's story of his they're there in the back of his memory. It is displayed only in a ordeal in the Pacific came out. Ricken- He hasn't been on a ship since the PC

backer's book became a best-seller. Izzi's boat rescued him. Legionnaire-owned store . . . created only a minor stir. Izzi finished "I toyed with the idea of taking a trip a member of his term in the Navy. The kid who made by sea to Bermuda, and maybe I will

survivor history finally made But I still prefer the feel of Coxswain. someday. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE When the war was over he went back good solid ground beneath me," he says to South Barre and to his old life. He with a quick smile. the end RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL

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