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2 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 I For a Navy fainily

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La fies iSa vu I Trai ning Station, III. "Our trailer coach is more com- The Japanese Passed fortable and complete than any In a Blaze of Glory apartment ive^ve lived in or seen. It's our secontl TCMA coach." From the torn wrapping the Cap- tain extracted two small, bright- colored, cloth-bound volumes of Spanish grammar, and then a sheet of paper — an assignment of sen- tences to be translated from English into Spanish. He couldn't restrain a laugh. The Correspondence Course Division of Indiana State College was spilling its jiggers of culture into the jungle. He had nearly for- gotten subscribing to the course during the long lull in the fighting that had made any diversion seem attractive. Before he put the lesson and the books into his pack he had time to complete two sentences. Several days later, an American convoy was less than three miles from a small, jap-held island, north of New Guinea. At daybreak, the Captain's "B" Company hit the beach and drove inland. Later that day. Battalion Headquarters or- dered "B" Company to dig-in and hold the captured ground. That same night the Americans were forced to withdraw under a fierce banzai charge and during the as- sault the Captain lost his pack that "I DON'T HAVE TO SEND MY WIFE HOME whenever I'm transferred," says Chief Stevens. "My wife has a feeling of independence for with our trailer coach she always contained the Spanish books and has her own home . . . even if I'm sent overseas. Also we find community spirit is better lesson. in a trailer park. Our neighbors are friendlier and a better class of people." Several days later and after bit- ter fighting the Americans knocked PRICED FROM $1033 TO $4995, including out the last Japanese machine-gun furnishings, these new TCMA coaches nest that was fii'mly entrenched at provide attractive, reason- the crest of a hill. When the Cap- mobile and tain dropped into the sand-bagged ably-priced housing for members of the nest he saw three dead Japs — he Armed Forces, young marrieds, retired saw at the same time, tucked neatly couples, defense and construction work- out of danger, the bright little cov- ers. Make the TCMA emblem your guide ers of his lost Spanish grammars. As for the assignment — the remain- to quality and satisfaction. For the mem- ing eighteen English sentences, bers of TCMA are the leaders of the which he had left unfinished, were industry . . . pioneering improved de- neatly and carefully translated into signs, building to high standards. Spanish. The exercise was later submitted to the Indiana State Col- lege, correspondence division— with, of course, a note from the Captain SEND FOR FREE BOOK! "TRY TO MATCH the modern facilities explaining that he had received Complete information on TCMA at these prices!" says Chief Stevens. help on the paper. It was returned coaches. Write TCMA, Dept. A-51, "This complete bathroom is even in easy- due time with a grade of 92. Los Civic Opera Bldg., Chicago 6, lU. equipped with a shower and Japoneses espahol tambien! to-clean streamlined fixtures." — By James L. Holliday

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • JJ SOUND OFF!

Writers must give name and address. Name withheld if re- quested. So many letters are being received it is not possible to promise answers. Keep your letters short. Address: Sound Off, The American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y.

THE OVER-40 PROBLEM author of the article / Wa»it To Be A Dentist for their cowardly jibes toward Sir: I served in the Naval Aviation Corps essential profession. in WWI. I'm now 62 years old, and in the noblest and most good health, but they say I'm too old to Shame on both of you. work, though I'm not old enough for a Dr. I. B. Carolus pension. I have walked the streets for the Sterling, Illinois last two months looking for work. Every- thing is okay till they ask my age. When ANSWER FROM ARMOUR I tell them that they just shake their I see that I'll have to wear a disguise heads. What does a man have to do to and adopt an assimied name when next live in these times? Cosby O. Hill I have my teeth worked on. Strange, when Atchison, Kansas I once wrote a piece taking the dentist's side against some of his more annoying patients, that was published in The Sattir- day Evening Post and later reprinted in one of the professional magazines of dentistry. Richard Armour Claremont, California

TRUMAN BOOSTER NURSES NEEDED? Sir: I am very glad to have read last Sir: I wish to point out one reason for January in the most published paper in the shortage of nurses. I am 46 years old, Italy, Gazzetta Sera, the President Tru- a veteran of four years' service. I am man's life's story from his factory in Mis- working as a dispensary and first aid souri to the White House. In that pub- nurse in an industrial plant and attend lication is also mentioned Truman as a a class at Cleveland College. Now why Captain of the D battery who took part wouldn't I be qualified to work in a VA in the offensive at Saint Mihiel, Septem- hospital as well as in other hospitals? I ber 1918, and some time before in the have tried twice and each time I've been Vosges, giving me reason, while making told that since I'm over 40 my applica- to my neighbors a propaganda for Tru- tion nurses of cannot be accepted. Other man as a wonderful politician man, as a this age group report the same results. great soldier. Luigi Ferrati V.M.B., KN Varzo Novara, Italy Clei;ela?id., Ohio

QUERY

You get a big welcome when you smoke Sir: In view of the Fulbright and Kefau- a pipe. And your tongue will welcome ver investigations, isn't it time for our the cool mildness of crimp cut Prince viewers-with-alarm to start yapping about Albert — America's largest-selling smok- Fulbrightism and Kefauverism? When ing tobacco. Try flavorful P. A.— choice Senator McCarthy began prodding vari- WHO KNOWS THE ZODIAC? tobacco, specially treated to insure ous reds, their claque soon had a word Sir: I would like to have a question an- against tongue bite. for it. Remember? Homer Tomlison swered. How were the signs of the zodiac Fort Worth, E. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Texas supposed to influence human health? Winston-Salem. N. C. Elmo Jentsch DENTISTS VS. ARMOUR Braunfels, Texas

Sir: My attention was called to your I Having mislaid our Dr. Miles' Alma- Want To Be A Dentist, which of course I nac, we call on zodiac fans for an answer shall not waste time reading. To profes- to Mr. Jentsch. Etlitors sional men, to mothers who are trying to encourage their children for their health's TO AID THE McCULLOUGHS sake; in fact to any intelligent person, this Sir: Our group is interested in the plight kind of comics is the lowest form of of Mr. and Mrs. John T. McCullough of humor. Forest K. Pr.ul, D.D.S. Conn., and will what Indianapolis, Indiana Greenwich, we do we can to help them. In this connection we Sir: If I were a dictator of this nation I are gratified at what the Salem County would give a prison term for life in a Committee of The American Legion did padded cell to the publisher of The THB NATIONAL JOY SMOKE in sending the McCulIoughs $25 to help American Leyion Magazine and to the reimburse them for the $58,137 they had

4 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 to spend to defend themselves against WHAT MOVIES ARE RED? Paul Draper and Larry Adler. We hope Sir: In the past The American Legion that many Legion Posts throughout the Magazine carried notices of motion pic- country will join with the Salem County tures to see. They were good pictures Legionnaires to help combat subversion. and worth one's time. Lately there has R. Watson, Secretary been considerable comment on certain Patriotic League Civil Service of pictures that have been released. They Employees have been dubbed communistic in one New York City way or another. Is there any way that our magazine could release information LAKES FROM GREAT on such motion pictures? I have been Sir: Recognition in a national magazine checking the 1950 year book on motion is one of the best morale boosters any pictures in regard to the MPAA seal and command can have, and your article The notice that The Amei'ican Legion is not Men Who Will Man Our Fleet. March represented in that group which approves 1951, has served that purpose admirably or disapproves pictures for release. If we in the Recruit Training Command here. are not represented on that Board I be- The well known interest of The Ameri- lieve we should be. can Legion in military matters plus its Dr. W. W. Darr unusual competency to inspect and evalu- Truth or Consequences, New Mexico ate military activities combine to give Offhand we can't think of any Ameri- your article an impartial authenticity that can-made movie which openly advocated scarcely any other publication could pro- communism. Where the commies have vide. It has undoubtedly served to bol- been able to get in their licks they've ster public confidence in the soundness been more devious, sneering at Ameri- of Navy recruit training. I consider your can ideals and traditions and stressing series of articles to be an important pub- this country's worst features. The reds lic service. have also worked to get their comrades Captain J. S. Keating, USN the big starring roles. In return, these Commander, Naval Training Center stars have given money to commie Great Lakes, Illinois causes, and have lent their prestige to red fronts. Moviegoers should take an active interest in movie people who get into the papers because of their red ac- tivities, and stay away from movies in which these people appear. Editors

MAN THE ANTI-AIRCRCAFT GUNS GIVE A SAILOR ENOUGH ROPE Sir: It is not natural for a veteran to Sir: In your picture spread The Men Who stand around waiting for the enemy to Will Man Our Fleet in the March issue bomb his community and then go pick there's a photograph of a boatswain's mate up the pieces. A fighting man wants to showing recruits how to "splice a rope meet the enemy when he comes in and to suit the Navy." I thought what those make it hot for him before he drops his boys were working with in the picture bombs. Give the veteran an anti-aircraft was called a "line." Our idea of rope is and he will just that just as something used by any other organization gun do — the British veterans played an important part than the Navy except for the set>e?i ropes recognized by the Navy. in fighting off Hitler's Luftwaffe. Of course not all of us are trained anti-aircraft gun- Arthur Griffiths, PHM 1/c ners, in there Fresno, California but every Post are experi- enced men who can give the technical That's what happens when an ex- instruction necessary to train one or more infantryman writes photo captions. volunteer gun crews. If our thousands of Eflitors Posts were equipped with anti-aircraft weapons, manned by millions of trained HE'S AGAINST BUDENZ veterans, it should have a sobering effect on any potential aggressor. Sir: The self-confessed ex-treasonist Dr. F. P. Archer Budenz is appai-ently to continue indefi- Miami^ Florida nitely his racket of cashing in on every red angle that turns up. Since he helped to uncover Gerhart Eisler and Sam Carr

. . . all he does is climb on any red band- wagon that promises him more notoriety. His discredited testimony on behalf of smear-happy McCarthy and Owen Latti- moi'e is a disreputable example. SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE W. W. Campbell Sir: Thank you for Our Comic Opera Spy Portland, Oregon Set-Up in the February issue. I knew Mr. Campbell might find the article something about this subject but only a That Man Bndenz, in our November small percentage of what you reveal. issue, of some help in understanding What on earth is the matter with the U. S. what is going on in the world today. We'd Government these years since '32? There's suggest, too, that he read more about something rotten in the State and I don't Member Penn. Grade Crude Oil Assn., Permit No. ». Lattimore before he lets his opinions mean Denmark. Mrs. Anne F. Diemer PENNZOIL® MOTOR OIL AND LUBRICANTS about the gentleman jell. Editors Neio York City AT BETTER DEALERS ... COAST TO COAST

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AdfiertUement

From where I sit Ooooooe'

j^y Joe Marsh NOW WE ARE "BOOK BURNERS"

Leave it to those alert guardians of the Bill of Rights, Freedom, Liberty and Mother Love — the commies and their vociferous stooges! Now, because we dared to speak out against the left-wing warping of book reviews, The American Legion Magazine is getting the treatment. In some quarters there are loud, an- Right Under guished shrieks that we are muzzling a free press. (These cute characters natu- rally overlook the fact that they've been Our Nose! muzzling decent American writers and speakers for years.) Echoing their senti- ments, but on a more lofty plane, the Sometime back, we got word from self-professed liberals are keeping them- selves occupied writing letters and articles the Governor, asking if we wanted to that are no credit to either their honesty or their intelligence. use the State Fire Inspection Team— One such letter, emanating from Buf- a group of experts they send around falo, accused us of "playing fast and loose with the truth." The author took three to different communities to inspect pages to belabor a straw man, discussing only two of the 29 books mentioned in the public buildings. article. A book reviewer in the Provi- dence, R. I. Journal pulled out all the We sent a letter saying: "Okay! stops or squawks, including the familiar Give us the once-over!" They came "witch hunting," "guilt by association" and "scare stuff." Giving some indication down, all right — last week. of the turmoil in his soul, he forgot to charge us with "McCarthyism." A trade After the inspection, we got their paper of limited circulation but boundless zeal. Publishers Weekly, has been froth- report. Came out pretty well. Town ing at the mouth editorially at this threat Hall and the School were O.K. Post to freedom, or something. Now word comes that the Authors' League "hopes Office just needed more sandbuckets. to state the case against censorship of books in a thirteen -week series of radio In fact, everything got a clean bill of dramatizations." We're a bit nonplussed health, except— the Fire Station! at all the commotion, but maybe it's a good omen that most publications which have commented on the article have not From where I sit, we volunteer fire- been hysterical. Newsweek, for example, men had just been too blamed busy presented an extremely sane and clear account of the ruckus. In doing so it keeping everyone else on the ball — and added further food for thought by quoting not realizing our own firehouse was a statement made by J. Donald Adams, New York Times columnist, a couple of not up to snuff. Like the man who years ago in discussing John Dos Passos'

worries so much about his neighbors book Grand Design . . . "the unforgiv- able sin which Mr. Dos Passos com- about whether they work hard enough, has mitted in the eyes of those who pour about whether they can really afford vitriol upon his book is that he has parted company with the gospel according to St. their new car, about their enjoying a Marx." temperate glass of beer — that he for- GIANT COMMANDERS, TOO

gets to take a good critical look at Letters are pouring in to deny that himself now and then. &5Vi" Ferdinand Carstens, of Post 83, Branford, Connecticut, is actually the tallest Post Commander in the Legion (as claimed by his Adjutant, Henry McDer- mott, in our February Son7id Off!) Bill Curtis, Commander of Post 702, Wellsville, N. Y. testifies he is Q'GVa". Jack Rowett, Adjutant of Post 92, McCloud, California, points out that his Commander, Jim Klungness. is 6'6" even. W. B. Harrison, Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundation of Wildwood, Fla., says he's a Post Com- g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 mander who could "eat pie off damyankee Carstens' head," and offers to do it at the Miami Convention next fall. Harrison admits to 6'6Vi"- But the leading contender right now is offered by the boys of Alcoa Post 173, Vancouver, Washington. They practically yawn as they enter their Commander, Lawrence A. HoUet, in the beanpole derby. He's GlVz". Kermit Ehlinger, of Alcoa Post, suggests McDermott (see above) eat some crow.

THEY ALMOST GOT JOSEPHINE Not long ago the famous Negro enter- tainer, Josephine Baker, agreed to appear at a rally. Then she found out it was a commie hoopla, and declined. Promptly, Vito Marcantonio, Stalin's favorite ex- U. S. Congressman, raised cain. It's just another aspect of the way the reds are trying to dragoon the Negro. Read in next month's issue. Why The Negro Won't Buy Communism. TOO BAD DEPT. ''One of the conspicuous methods used by the I.W.O. to aid the reds is the plac- ing of large advertisements in the Daily Worker." From The American Legion Magazine, March 1951

"The Daily Worker, principal publica- tion of the Communist party, appealed yestei'day in a front page editorial to its readers for $200,000 in contributions to

pay a year's deficit . . . 'due to decline in circulation, to the harassment of our " .' advertisers . . From The Neia York Times, March 20, 1951

SHE DOESN'T CHEER LATTIMORE A few weeks ago a number of Balti- more students gave Owen Lattimoi'e an ovation when he appeared to address them. Lattimore, it will be recalled, is the little man who gets around, and who has advised our State Department.

It is probably a good thing that Elinor Lipper was not around when Lattimore made his appearance since Elinor might have given Owen a resounding Bronx cheer. Elinor Lipper is a young woman of German -Jewish parentage who, following the rise of Hitler, went to Russia to live. Like millions of others she was shipped off to a succession of Stalin's slave camps, among them the infamous Magadan camp in Siberia. It so happens that Henry Wal- lace and Owen Lattimore visited that camp, but their reports of what they found there differ greatly from those of Miss Lipper. They saw in the camp won- derful evidence of Soviet progress. She was more aware of the brutal guards, the starvation, filth and the degradation. "Since it cannot be assumed that Latti- more is naturally a poor observer," she reports, "he must on this trip have volun- tarily refrained from making use of his talent for observation. Instead of telling us what he has seen, he hands out un- exampled Soviet propaganda." You can read about it in Elinor Lipper's 1, OHIO exciting new book Eleven Years in Soviet CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY, TOLEDO Prison Camps, published by Henry Reg- nery Co. The Baltimore students should read it too. Tho American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • 7 Products Parade

A samplhig of items which are in process of development or are coming on the market. Mention of products in no way co7istitutes an endorsement of them, since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers.

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The fine old game of cribbage becomes Owners of TV sets who occasionally even more interesting with a new kind of want to see the picture but not listen to board called the Curtis Cribbage Counter, the sound can do so with a remote control being offered by Curtis Products. North hand switch being offered by Legionnaire Woodstock, N.H. Keeping score on this Fred W. Piper, of Empco Products Co., board is simplified by using sliding point- 340 St. Johns Place. Brooklyn 17. The ers and numbers instead of pegs and holes. acorn type hand switch is attached to a Each player or team has two pointers that 16-foot flat cable, and attachment to the are used alternately, just as two pegs are set is made by two plug-in connectors used. As each score is made, the back which in no way affect the adjustment of pointer is moved past the forwai'd pointer the set and can be installed by anyone in the given number of points. Total score a few minutes. Or. if you want to use it tu is visible at all times. The board is made kill both sight and sound, you can do that with a plastic top. solid back and rubber too. The price is $2.00 and instructions are footings in two colors, black and ivory. included. Pointers are made in contrasting colors. The price complete is $2.95. \'e\v Kind oC <'l«'sining Cloili

Spun rayon and plastic are processed together into a non-woven fabric that is TRY KENTUCKY CLUB excellent for car-cleaning, waxing furni- FOR A WEEK ture, washing dishes, etc. Called Kwik. the cloth absorbs \"> ater amazingly, has a Switch to Kentucky Club to- chamois-like softness, leaves no streaks, day. Try it for a week— and and washes out easily in warm suds. Of- notice how much better your fered by Kwikraft Mfg. Co.. 230 Fifth pipe tastes— how much fresh- Ave., New York City 1. the cloths cost a er your mouth feels. Choice dollar for a package of six. each of which white Burley is the secret. is 18 bv 30 inches. That's why Kentucky Club is Ligliicr Ar4»iiiid I lie Waist so smooth and mild. That's why it's the thoroughbred of A belt does double duty with a new pipe tobaccos. No, you don't gadget being introduced by Stanley Op- have to pay fancy prices for tical Co., 15 E. 47th St., New York City 17. Kentucky Club. Get a tin now. Now one's belt not only holds up one's pants, it also provides lights. That is, if Produced by the Makers you wear a Stanley Buckle-Lighter. This of Famous ingenious contraption looks like a con- MAIL POUCH TOBACCO ventional belt buckle except for being a Wheeling, West Virginia bit thicker, but that extra thickness comes from a cleverly concealed cigarette lighter Service to 3Ien in Service which can be removed from the belt in a Usually in this feature we talk about jiffy to supply lights. (No, the pants don't new products only. However, we have fall down when you're lighting up.) The been told about something in the way of price of this gadget is $3.95 postpaid, no service that w e think the public generally i federal tax. ought to know about. The company con- mmm cerned is Remington-Rand. Inc.. and thej- Wallets That Stay Put are doing a job for servicemen that other American manufacturers could well emu- Ljiiiii'"'"' New stitchless wallets formed of Viny- late. Briefly, their contribution is to repair lite plastic sheeting by new processes are now being introduced to retail for about free of charge any of their electric shav- a dollar. Available in various textures and ers owned by GI's overseas. If the shaver colors, the wallets have electronically is beyond repair it is replaced free of welded seams that eliminate threads charge. Still another Remington-Rand which unravel or fray with use, and the cantribution is to take care of shavers material resists perspiration, cracking, used by men in Veterans' Hospitals, just abrasion and scuffing. Made by Aristocrat as they do for men overseas. And, as a Fifth Avenue, 292 Fifth Ave., New York final note, they have supplied hundreds of City, they will be found in department electric shavers, mostly reconditioned and chain variety stores. trade-ins, to blind veterans. g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 ''Finest beer served . . . anywhere !' says burt Lancaster

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?EDaO t/ie Gambler

The smooth senor knew tricks with

cards and coins, but Jose knew some too.

By JIM KJELGAARD

JOSE jerked his .45 from its holster and fired at the monster.

iGHT CAME softly, like the slow, sound of his own singing, for it was a good careful draping of a rich velvet thing, a glorious thing, to have twenty-six mantle, and when it did, Jose goats. A man so rich need never go hungry Herrera put another block of wood on his nor need' he engage in the back-breaking fire. Within the circle of light his twenty-six labor of the fields. goats bunched together and rested comfort- Abruptly Jose stopped singing. The goats ably. had been quiet, but they had become even A night bird shrieked, a branch cracked, quieter. Jose's hand stole beneath his serape and out in the jungle a t'lgre coughed. But to the ancient .45 he kept there. Someone, the goats did not stir and Jose did not worry. or something, was coming. Goats were no fools. They knew perfectly A moment later Pedro Anaya rode into the well that neither the tigre nor any other fire light. harmful thing would come near the fire, and Though he came all alone, Pedro seemed they were safe as long as they did not stray to be accompanied by a roll of drums, and from it. Jose crooned gently to his flock a preceded by a smartly-dressed footman who repetitive, mournful little song. snapped to immediate and rigid attention, for "Quiet, my little ones. Quiet, my dears. The that was the way Pedro Anaya did every- tigre coughs but he will not harm you. Quiet, thing. For a moment he sat his horse, big my little ones. Be quiet and rest, for tomor- hat rakishly askew, fire reflecting from his row you must walk into the hills. Quiet—." flashing white teeth, and making the horse He continued to sing, improvising a tune prance a little. Then, as soon as he was cer- as he did so and pleasing himself by fitting tain that Jose had taken fullest advantage of lyrics to it. Jose swayed contentedly to the the smart picture ( Continued on page 49

11

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT

Where GURMIN Faus

Death and violence are common where east

meets west in the German border zone now ready to erupt.

By JAN VALTIN

ICY WIND swept across the Elbe after sunset. You are exploring the AN out of Stalin's Germany. The frontier?" frontier road that followed the "Yes." river between the villages of Nindorf "There isn't much to see. But that's and Katemin was narrow, paved with deceptive. What delayed you?" rough cobbles and flanked by freezing I explained my lateness. "An ox- mud. An oxcart ahead of me refused cart wouldn't let me pass." to pull aside. Hans Degen smiled. "Carts never I sounded the horn of my ancient get out of the way. This is forgotten rented Mercedes car. The peasant atop country, you know. A no-man's-land." the cart pretended to be asleep. I knew. A no-man's-land running Slowed down to the plodding gait of across one of the most densely popu- the Nether-Saxon ox, my engine lated countries in the woi'ld. stalled. I nursed it to life and shouted "Except for the official crossing for passage. points like Helmstedt or Hof," said The peasant stared at me out of Degen, "traffic that isn't local — black mocking eyes. "Wat wullt du?" traffic — moves in fog and darkness. Americans first learned of I replied in the same Low German People lock their houses and the Valtin a decade ago through dialect. strangers have the roads." his sensational book Oiif of "Road ends at Katemin," he "What kinds of strangers?" the Night which exposed growled. "Your automobile can't go "Smugglers. People running away communism abroad. So that way." from the VOPO and the SSD. And damning was it that many "Why not?" spies, of course." Americans refused to be-

"Because," he said with contemptu- VOPO meant Volkspolizei, commu- lieve it, and the commies did ous finality, "the Russian stands on nist "People's Police." And SSD stood their best to kill the book the other side." for Staats Sicherheit Dienst, the Soviet and disparage the author. German Gestapo. "Do many still come Indeed they almost managed Hans Degen, a former captain in the through?" I asked. to get him deported to cer- Wehrrnacht, had received notice of my "Many, of all kinds." tain death. Born a German, coming from the leader of the Lan- "How many?" Richard Krebs, he served in genrehm camp for homeless children Degen shrugged. "Nobody really the U. S. Army in WW II. escaped from the Soviet Zone. He knows. The reception camps get only For bravery in the South called back his two determined-look- a minority of the Grenzgaenger. Only Pacific he won the Bronze ing shepherd dogs and invited me in- those who voluntarily report them- Star. He died of pneumonia side his hut. A coal stove spread selves as refugees. Their official figure January 1, 1951, soon after warmth. A thick soup bubbled in a runs to about twelve thousand a month returning to this country pot. this winter. Multiply that by four and from Germany where he got "I expected you eai-lier," the Grenz- you're close to the truth." the material for this article. fuehrer said. "Around here, people "Fifty thousand? A half-million a with legitimate errands don't travel year (Continued on page 54)

13

« How to Play Better golf Without Practice

They say only endless prac- tice can better your score. But these guaranteed steps for duf- fers just call for using your head.

By OSCAR FRALEY SYD LANDl

It always costs strokes to hit with more power than .vou can control. Don't.

That's where most of us get off. For strokes. You, too. must have fretted we, the occasional golfers, the host of over those putts which won't stop haunted hackers, dubs and duffers, within bifocal range of the bucket, or just don't have the spare hours so go hooking wildly off to the side. Then necessary to the acquisition of fairway there are those terrorizing traps and finesse. The lad who dusts off his sticks the clutching rough which give you once a week or even more infrequently maniacal urges as j'ou kick away shot than that is a departed duck. Not only after shot. And are you. too, one of is he a gone goose of the greens but he those guys who can't suppress a de- is the forgotten man of the fairways. sire to "kill the ball?" The pros regard him as a hopeless If so. sit down here a few minutes case. There are, they insist, no ten- and I might just be able to improve second lessons of any value. But de- your game and your temper. r^J^VA RE YOU one of golf's Sunday spite my professional pals, I think I've First of all. your biggest trouble, if suffei'ei'S? got news for you. Even without prac- you are a duffer like me. is that you If so, pull up a chair and. while I tice, your case isn't entirely hopeless. try to hit professional shots. You have won't promise to put you in the 70's, Actually, cutting your score to an gone out and watched the pros shoot this just might clip a few strokes off appreciable extent is relatively easy. straight for the pin. wherever it might that miserable score which last week- Most of it is in your head; not your be. That cup may be perched high on end caused you to toss your clubs into aim. Some of it is in your ambition, a shelving green, perilously close to a the darkest corner of the closet with not your swing. Maybe the acquisition gaping trap, and they'll knock it up a furious thud. of one club, that "secret weapon" of the there to a biting stop scant inches You don't have to be told, of course, pro brigade, will whittle down your from disaster. The next time you play, that there is no short cut to the en- higher scoring mathematics, and may- as sure as taxes, you're going to at- viable art of smashing course records. be a few little "tips" thrown in will tempt the same thing. Any pro will lecture at the drop of a have a desirable effect. Don't try it! divot that there is only one road, a Certainly you have looked back Sure, the pros go for the pin. That's grueling road, to such a goal. "Prac- countless times over your most recent their job. to do things you can't, or tice, practice and then practice some round and bemoaned the "dumb"' you wouldn't be paying to watch them. more," they'll insist. shots which cost you, oh, so many But for the occasional golfer, the smart

14 TO GET MORE good luck, tempt bad luck less. The "unluckiest" golfer is the dub who always tries for par. He'll get fewer 7s, more 5s and 4s if he tries for a safe 6 all the way.

thing is to hit the shots you know you "I always figured the margin of ing just short of the green—and played can manage successfully and play the error," Hagen reveals. it safely to the faii'way short of the round wisely instead of gambling. It "Anybody can blueprint a course trap. can save you nearly a dozen blows. and shoot a passable game of golf, if Diegel was out of the trap with his One day a friend of mine who never he doesn't knock himself out taking third shot — but needed two putts. bad bettered 94 went out and played chances," he instructs. "Many were Hagen flipped his easy chip shot to every shot safe for eighteen holes, let- the times when I deliberately played within inches of the pin and knocked ting the caddy keep the score and keep short rather than go for the green." it in for a four which won the hole it secret. His final score was 83! "And One such decision not to "shoot the and squared the match. I didn't even try to make a 'good' shot works" won the P.G.A. title for the Diegel was exasperated, and his ex- all day," he said. swashbuckling Sir Walter, although it asperation helped him lose the next Let's say you are on a 400 -yard hole needed an assist from Hagen's per- hole, too, along with the coveted with no trouble near the tee, so you sonal brand of psychology. It happened P.G.A. championship. really unload on one with your best on the 35th hole of the finals against So remember. Bub, it isn't being Sunday swing. The ball goes 200 yards his old sparmate, Leo Diegel, who at closest that counts on the scorecaid. and now you are only 200 yards from that point in the match was one up on It's being safely in. Just hit your shot Hagen. wisely and you'll cut down your It was a medium-long hole and stormy weather. Not only that, but Hagen had outdriven Diegel by about you'll increase your luck factor, too. 40 yards. Diegel had a suspicion that Once when Hagen hit a shot to an Sir Walter's ball had kicked into the impossible lie, a spectator sympa- trees bordering the fairway but, as he thized: started to walk ahead for a look, he "Tough luck, Walter." saw Hagen whip out a brassie and take Hagen looked around and snorted: his stance in the edge of the rough. 1 -.. Diegel thought that Hagen had a clear shot to the green. So Leo acted

THE NUMBER of putts tumbles when target on long ones is imag- inar.y circle around hole, not cup

the green. But in front of the green is a narrow opening, with wide, inviting like a Sunday afternoon golfer. He traps reaching out toward you on both took a brassie, too, gave it all he had, sides. Nine times out of ten, it's going and dumped it into a huge trap be- to be take a chance, Charley. You just side the green. have hit it 200 yards, and you think Hagen then put the brassie back in of laying it up there on the carpet with his bag, walked into the woods where two putts for that elusive par. he had a hazardous shot straight to But what happens? That's right, you the green, but a safe shot to an open- "Tough luck? I put it there, didn't whale away and it rolls merrily into I?"

the trap. You're three or four out of it you'll see that you THERES a smaller Margin of Figure out and there — and maybe clean across the error in sand and deep rough if make a lot of your own luck— the good green and into the trap on the other you buy yourself a sand wedge. or the bad—on the golf course. Take side. So you two-putt for a five at best the 1935 Masters at Augusta when and more likely a six or a seven or Gene Sarazen fired one of the most an eight. famous shots in golf history. Sarazen How much better your score would had gone to the par five 15th hole have been, you think ruefully as you needing three birdies on the last five walk to the next tee, if that second holes to finish in a tie with Craig shot had reached the green. But you Wood. are thinking like a pro and hitting like And, as he swatted a 300-yard blast a hacker. That second shot should have from the tee, it started raining. Now been knocked up there short of the he was 210-yards away from the green traps and in front of the opening to with a water hazard in front of him the green. Then you could have played and the greens getting slick. His task a nice little pitch and run right up looked impossible. That's when to the wicket. It might have been a chunky Gene grabbed a brassie and four and almost certainly a five. slapped his most memorable shot into That's a sensible tip right from the rain and the mist. Walter Hagen, the old master. First there (Continued on page 45)

15 By SAM STAVISKY

Don't look now, but a law before Congress CA^ YOU PASS THIS <|LTIZ

would let Federal agencies write their own hiring

rules, as in 1860. Some say we "need" this law

^ to "get around" veterans preference. Do we?

1. QUESTION: Do veterans in government jobs have preference in promotions? Ia youthful veteran recently walked it is no more than a lift in obtaining into a regional office of the Civil or retaining a Federal job he is quali- ANSWER: They have none at all. Even so approximately half the promotions Sei vice Commission and asked for a fied to perform. last year were earned by veterans. Federal job. What kind of job was he Veterans preference is NOT a guar- seeking? the ex-GI was asked. "Why, antee of getting "any good govern- any good governvient job," responded ment job." It is NOT a vested right The philosophy of veterans prefer- the veteran. Couldn't he be a little to a government job for life. ence is deeply rooted in the American more specific, the ex-GI was asked, The basic ideas behind veterans tradition. The colonies practiced it in because he knew, didn't he, that he preference are (1) to give all war vet- one form or another, and the custom would have to take an examination? erans a small reward for services ren- naturally was adopted by the new- "Take an examination!" exclaimed dered, (2) to realize a larger obligation born republic. The principle was writ- the young veteran, reacting as if he'd to disabled war veterans, and (3) to ten into the law nearly a century ago, been kicked in the teeth by a recoiling give the citizen who has served in uni- in 1865, when Congress gave prefer- rifle butt. "What for? I thought I rated form during years he might have been ence to veterans with service -incur- veterans preference!" advancing in government employment red disability. Since then the national He's right. He sure rates veterans an even break with the non-veteran policy has been broadened, deepened preference. He earned this benefit by in Federal job competition. The and strengthened by law, executive service in wartime. healthy veteran gets a few extra points order and regulation. In 1944, after But he has an entirely wrong slant added to his civil service examination seven years of persistent effort by on veterans preference in getting and grade for hiring purposes, and he is veterans organizations, led by The keeping a government job, a slant partially protected against being let American Legion, the hodge-podge of which has been played up and peddled out during a layoff. The disabled vet- statutes. White House directives and to the public down through the years erans, their wives and mothers in Civil Service Commission rules were by the foes of preference, and which some instances, and the widows of streamlined and unified into a single all too often has been mistakenly held servicemen, get a better break, as we law, known as the Veterans Prefer- by ill-informed veterans. shall see later. There is no veterans ence Act. While veterans preference provides preference in promotion in govern- In the words of National Legion an ex-serviceman with a helping hand, ment jobs. Commander Erie Cocke, Jr. the Vet-

16 erans Preference Act is one of the government employment is contained After many weeks of investigating most important of all veterans bene- in the Hoover Report on Personnel the opposition to this proposal at the

fits. Commander Cocke, himself a Management and the proposed laws request of The American Legion I can badly wounded veteran of World War to put that report into effect. The report that the veterans organizations II, believes the ex-GIs owe "a debt Hoover Commission wrote 19 reports take a very dim view of its probable of gratitude" to the ex-servicemen of recommending changes throughout the effect not only on veterans preference, previous wars who fought for and ob- Federal Government, and the veter- but on the quality, efficiency and even tained the preference law. ans organizations have opposed four the integrity of all government em- The American Legion's young lead- of those reports, of which the Per- ployment. er speaks sense. Today, approximate- sonnel Management report (dealing No less than three times, since last ly one-half of the Federal Govern- with the Civil Service) is one. spring, new versions of the proposed ment's 2,000,000 jobs are filled by The most drastic item in the Civil law have been introduced in Congress, ex-servicemen. Service package, as prepared by the each superseding the other, and each It took a long, bitter struggle to Citizens Committee for the Hoover containing — among other things — the achieve the Veterans Preference Act, Report, is a proposal to let each of 400 proposals to decentralize government yet the men who fought the hardest distinct governmer -agencies, with hiring to the separate agencies and to

to attain this goal are today keenly about 2,000 lesser ,, operate its let the agencies set up their own clas- aware that the most crucial battle of own hiring activities, hat is, to take sifying systems if they wish. The latest all — to save the act from legalistic the qualifying of government em- version is HR 2748, introduced in the sabotage — is still to be won. The ploye out of the hands of the Civil House of Representatives on Febru- younp men now fighting in Korea, and Service Commission, where it is now, ary 10th of this year. the hundreds of thousands more now and turn the Commission into a police "The free-rein gimmick" is what one being mobilized for nobody yet knows force to watch how the agencies and Legionnaire calls the proposal to let what duty, stand perilously close to their branches do their hiring. agencies classify job applicants by

ABOUT VETERANS IX GOVERXMEXT JORS WITHOUT PEEKING AT THE ANSWERS?

QUESTION: In a goveriiineiit layolY do 3. QUESTION: Is government service loaded 4. QUESTION: John Doe, a vet- agencies have to fire satisfactory non- with veterans who couldn't qualify without eran, got to the top of a Civil veterans in order to keep unsatisfactory veterans preference? Service register by virtue of his veterans? 5 points veterans preference. survey showed ANSWER: The only known Must an agency, hiring from Absolutely not. Unsatisfactory that more than of the veterans on the ANSWER: 95% that register, hire John Doe? veterans must be let out ahead of any register had qualified without benefit of satisfactory employes, veteran or other- their preference. ANSWER: No. The agency may, wise. with reason, take any of the top three men. If it hires Wil- In theory, each of the 2,000-odd liam Brown or Joseph Johnson, being the first generation of American bureaus, agencies and offices would Bob White then moves into soldiers who may find no veterans respect the civil service regulations. third, and the next agency may be preference in government service at In addition, each agency (except the hire White. John Doe may passed over until the register all at their homecoming. Post Office field service) would have is declared dead and new There's been an unceasing attempt the option of setting up a classifying exams are held. to chip away piecemeal at the Vet- system in which each agency could, erans Preference Act since it was with the approval of the Civil Service methods made up in the agencies. passed seven years ago. Now, however, Coynmission, classify government joh- Legion officials say bluntly that "the there's a concerted drive to pull the seekers into favored and unfavored gimmick" is one of the most loaded, rug out from under the benefit in the groups without any legal restriction on dangerous and naive proposals ever name of more efficient and economical how they would do it. to be proposed seriously in Congress. government. This big attack combines, This would be a revolutionary Ralph Lavers, Director of the Legion's in a single potent sales package, claims change, since for over 70 years the National Economic Commission, ex- for good government, tax savings and Civil Service Commission and most presses open amazement that "the a boost in veterans benefits. No won- agencies have been bound by law to many distinguished men of the Hoover der the men who battled for veterans exercise certain fundamental safe- Commission and the Citizens Com- preference are alarmed! Those are guards against favoritism, patronage mittee for the Hoover Report could be mighty popular arguments to all of us. and corruption. This new law would so innocent of the facts of political The newest proposition to arrange free them to use such safeguards at life." a set-up that would do away entirely their own discretion. Lavers reports that he and his with legal preference for veterans in ILLUSTRATED BY DON LUND Legion col- (Continued on page 41) 17 1106

How to WIN A CONTEST

Each year they give away more than $200,000,000.

Here a master contest-winner tells how you can get yours.

ESTHER HAMEL of St. Ignatius, .Alon- tana, is a consistent winner. Slie once copped a $25,000 prize, but that is just one of many awards she has won.

WILLIAM SUNNERS exhibits proof of liis prize-wiiiiiiiig ability in this car he won in a contest. His winnings total §50,000 and he has written books on contests.

BY WILLIAM SUNNERS as told to LESTER DAVID

//^^ NE MORNING John Van Sant, a Mrs. Pauline A. Lacy, a housewife L^^B Boston shoe clerk, opened his of Salisbury, Md., collected a cool mail box and took out several $25,000 for neatly typing just one word advertising circulars, a letter from a on a card. A big company had wanted friend in California and a long, thin a name for a beautiful zinnia. Mrs. envelope which he glanced at curious- Lacy dubbed it "Majorette" and of Kirk- ly. He turned it over in his hand, copped the jackpot. MRS. GURNEE WILLIAMS wood, Missouri, has reason to smile. shrugged and tore it open. A slip of William Crisman, a Baltimore, Md., That's a $7,500 Borden prize check. paper fluttered to the ground. Van clerk, won two automobiles and a Sant picked it up, then let out a whoop check for $50,000 for solving only two 000,000 in cash and merchandise is which woke the entire house. He had puzzles in a contest sponsored by the distributed each year throughout the won first prize in a nation-wide con- Disabled American Veterans. country to the statement writers, test for writing a series of 25-word By now you're getting the idea that jingle makers and puzzle solvers? statements about a brand of cigarette. there's big money in prize contests. Thousands of competitions get un- The slip of paper was a check for Exactly how big will stagger you! derway annually, with prizes ranging $100,000! Did you know that more than $200,- from $5 to a whopping $100,000. The 18 C^H PHIZES/

Amvets, DAV and the American War long standing whose list of prizes was winners work. These are our tricks of Orphans Scholarship sponsor $100,000 climaxed recently by a $12,000 home the trade — they may help you to out- contests each year; the food products, for a succinct description of a brand distance the competition. soap and apphance companies are con- of flour. There are three all-important rules stantly sending out checks from Here's another little secret: Most which all winners follow and which $25,000 down to winners, and thou- contests bar experts from competing you must heed if you want to dip into sands of newspapers and magazines if they have won a specified amount this huge jackpot: offer $2 to $30 regularly for quips, ranging from $200 to $1,000 in previous 1. Organize your material. bright sayings, inquiring - photogra - contests. Consequently most experi- 2. Follow the contest rules to the pher questions and other topics. enced entrants participate in the letter. Added up, it makes a fabulous bo- names of proxies, who are either rela- 3. Never quit. nanza dangled before the American tives, friends or sometimes even paid Let me explain these in detail. First, public, so is it any wonder that the agents. on organization. nation has gone contest-happy, with In 25 years of competing, I have won A ready source of reference mate- more than 20,000,000 persons trying 250 prizes either under my own or rial relating to every conceivable prod-

their luck each year? another name, all the way from a 10 ( uct is an invaluable aid in helping you Now here's a secret you may have war stamp to $4,000 in a picture puzzle to compose a prize letter or statement. svispccted but probably didn't know contest, three automobiles, a flock of Clip and file away all prize-winning for sure: $1,000 and $500 checks and a collection entries from previous contests, and Contest winning is a specialized art. of rings, radios, watches, bonds, and any eye-catching phrases you see in The great majority of winners are ex- household appliances. I even have sev- the newspapers and magazines about perts who have perfected this art after eral sets of golf clubs which I don't an advertised product. You will then long training. They are specialists in use — they are stored away in the have a storehouse of information, clas- the correct word, the perfect twist, attic of the Brooklyn home I was able sified and ready for use. Thus, if you the knock-out verbal pvinchline. They to buy from my winnings! are entering a contest which asks you know where to go for elusive answers With the cost of living spiraling to praise somebody's shoes, you will when they are stumped. They know higher and higher, I can have an envelope containing how to win and proof of the pudding think of no more pleas- all that has been written on is that they do — and frequently. ant, and easy, way to get the subject. Your material will Take, for example, Ralph J. Satter- that needed refrigerator help you avoid fatal repeti- lee of Mvmcie, Ind., who has won hun- or broiler or television tion, show you the type of dreds of prizes in a variety of contests. set than to cudgel the contribution which has won Or Mrs. Esther Hamel of St. Ignatius, brain and come up with in the past and give you in- Mont., who won $25,000 recently for a a winner. Do you want valuable hints for your own 25-word statement about soap. She is to learn how? Let me inventive twists. a consistent contestant. Or Mrs. Ed draw aside the curtain And now organization of a Wolden of Twisp, Wash., an expert of and show you how the dif- (ContinxLed on page 60)

HELEN KING, above, is famous as a judge of contests, with HERE is one point in the judging contest. At the office of K. L. Polk & Co.. offices at Cranfoid. N. J. Below are some of judges witli one of the largest judging concerns, each entry is rated according to a chart. Reuben H. Donnelle.v Corj).. also important in the field. DANIEL STEIN, left, and Hans Tobler check the blueprint of the new Fir>>t Army insignia against the embroidered patch.

THE FIRST STEP in mass producing embroidered patches is the creation of a blueprint six times larger than (he original. During WW II. the Stein- Tobler Embroider.v Co. often made original designs for shoulder patches.

MASS-PRODUCED Here's a company that turned out 72,000,000 shoulder patches, probably those you wore.

PATCHWORK COLORFUL and distinctive shoulder jjatches worn by THE the men and women of the Armed Services can be i^on AfETVuv umronM traced directly to the 81st Division of World War I. Historians point out that their ancestry can be traced even farther to the scarves and plumes worn by the knights of the Middle Ages. In the American Armed Forces, the first

PERFORATED rolls such as this one THIS "15 YARD" Schiffli machine is embroidering Air Force Staff Sergeant patches. All machines being rewound ran the machines which of this type in the United States are Swiss-made. The machine embroidery industry in this country produced 72.000.000 patches in WW II. was brought here by the Swiss, famous for their lace and embroidery work throughout (he world. THE PANTAGRAPH device shown here translates the blueprint into a "punching" HERE a perforated roll is compared to the patch similar to the old fashioned player piano roll. At the intersection of lines on the blue- which it will reproduce. Technicians can "read" print, the embroidery needle will enter the cloth on the machine with the correct thread. the rolls for possible errors in spacing or design.

use of a distinctive unit insignia was PHOTOS BY BERNARD NEWMAN in the Union forces during the Civil FROM THREE LIONS War where crude cloth patches and some enameled metal badges were THE FINAL operation at the Stein Tobler factory in Union City, N. J., is the inspection worn on the hats. and hand cutting of the large sheets. This sheet of First Army patches was turned Shoulder patches of Divisions, Corps out on a "10 Yard" machine which produced 3,876 identical patches in one operation. and Ai-mies as we know them today began as unauthorized insignia. Like so many other items of equipment and uniform, the shoulder patch began with one unit and after spreading to other organizations, was finally adopted officially. In 1918 the 81st Division arrived at the embarkation port of Hoboken with the troops wearing a cloth patch on the left shoulder of the uniform. The in- signia showed a silhouette of a wildcat. By the time the Division arrived in France there had been enough talk to bring the matter to the attention of GHQ which ordered the patch re- moved. Later, recognition of the im- portant part the insigne played in the morale and spirit of the Division led to an order to all units of the A.E.F. to devise their own shoulder sleeve insignia. During World War I and in the peacetime years that followed, shoul- der patches generally were used to identify units of Division size or larg- er. With the beginning of World War II and since, the patches have been used not only for larger units but for small, specialized organizations and to distinguish semi-military and civilian personnel serving with the Armed Forces. the end Water expert Jim Abbott was welcomed by industrialists wherever he went.

For the fellow who wants to go places and

do things, there are opportunities galore in Latin

America. But make sure you have something to offer.

By WILLIAM LaVARRE

for rayon; a dozen smaller factories, producing hardware, plumbing sup- FRIEND Don Rafael had many some of his millions, bought machinery plies, building equipment, chinaware, MYthings to admire, for he was a in the United States, built a network shoes, rubber goods, refrigerators, very wealthy man. He had in- of little factories in Colombia — and radios, machinery, and glass bottles. herited vast agricultural estates in made several new millions producing But the possession he admired most beautiful highland valleys of Andean in his native land products which paid was his new canning plant where he Colombia. When World War II cut his no import duties in Colombia, or taxes was canning the choice vegetables, country off from most of the things in the United States. fruits and meat of the Andes for his that formerly were imported, he didn't He was able, when I visited him, to countrymen who would never again sulk, as many of his countrymen did, take time off from his industrial pio- have to import such food supplies from over the failure of U. S. manufacturers neering and show me the things he the Colossus of the North. to continue exporting to their old cus- already had created: two sprawling He had just finished escorting me tomers in South America. He took textile mills, one for cotton and one through the new cannery and we were

22 big cigars over little cups of smoking BOB LEARNED about farm machinery in JULES KNOWS how to run a swanky black coffee in his sumptuous office. Kansas, then found out that Brazilians hotel. So he travels South America A secretary entered and said that a would pay well for his special knowledge. working on a percentage system. traveler from the United States was in the outer office with a suitcase and wanted to talk with Don Rafael. ence. The slices out of Don Rafael's water — but your tin cans haven't," the "Show him in, certainly!" Don Ra- can were broken, were limply green visitor said. "But I can build you a fael told her. instead of firmly yeUow. chemical purification system that will She returned with a young man who "You can see the difference and give you perfect water and Grade A limped across the thick carpet with taste the difference," the visitor said. products. Five thousand dollars what seemed to be an unusually heavy "Your pineapples are better before down," the young man added, "and suitcase. "My name is Jim Abbott," you put them into cans than they are twenty thousand when I finish the he said in newly learned Spanish. "I when the cans are opened!" job!" am a chemist. I have studied your "Be seated, please," Don Rafael said, Don Rafael whistled dramatically. I product — the canned goods this fac- again smiling. He stirred the crumb- thought he might next reach for his tory is making. I can show you what's ling product of his own can with his uninvited visitor and give him the wrong with it!" finger and watched the slices fall bum's rush across his oriental carpet. Don Rafael studied him quietly for apart. Then he tasted the slices from North of the Rio Grande a young man a few moments, a little humorously I the U. S. cannery and compared their so rash as to walk into an industrial- thought. Then he grinned pleasantly. crispness with the taste of his own ist's office for the purpose of criticiz- "Is there something wrong with it?" product. ing a tycoon's product would get pretty he asked. "We are selling it as fast as "It is as you say, young man," Don impolite treatment. But the South we can make it!" Rafael grunted. "I can see the differ- Americans are not yet dug in behind "Oh it's edible," the young man said ence and taste the difference. So a facade of red tape or industrial quickly. "You have nice new machin- what?" mass-production protocol. Don Rafael, ery. The farms supply you with fine "So," the visitor said, "I can show who could buy and sell many North quality beans, tomatoes, pineapple, you how to can your pineapples so American autocrats, rose slowly from meats. But," he added as he stooped they will look and taste better than his leather chair, held out a huge paw to open his suitcase, "after you put imported pineapple — and your vege- — and shook the young man's hand. your excellent produce into your good tables and meat too. Will you pay me "Bueno!" he chuckled. "If you are cans — well, look at your pineapple!" a fee of five thousand dollars?" that kind of a magician, it's a deal." He quickly took a can of Don Ra- "A lot of money!" Don Rafael said To make a six-months record short, fael's sliced pineapple out of the suit- jokingly. He tossed that much away this young stranger in a new land not case, set a glass bowl on Don Rafael's many an evening on a single spin of only gave the Colombian industrialist desk, opened the can with a fancy the Bogota roulette wheel. a chemically pure Grade A canning pocket opener, poured the contents "You ai-e using river water that plant but the wealthy Colombian be- into the bowl. ruins the products you can," Jim Ab- came so entranced with the younger Then he took another glass bowl bott said. man's technical knowledge that he en- from the suitcase and another can of "I've been drinking it for years!" gaged him for another job, that of sliced pineapple ~ made in a U. S. Don Rafael grimted. "doing something" about the water cannery— slit open the can and dumped "Your stomach has a chemical lin- used in the new rayon plant on an- its contents into the second bowl. Even ing that isn't at the mercy of impure other rivei' producing weak instead of from my chair I could see the differ- ILLUSTRATED BY BOB KUHN strong fiber. (Continued on page 39) 23 PVT. RONALD J. FORD of Hartford Conn., gets his second boot haircut from Earl Lane, civilian barber. Boots are called "skinheads." The NEW Marine Corps

PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS

The story of boot training, THE RECRUITS scrub their own clothes on the wash rack. Each boot is issued his own pail, brush and bar of soap. He supplies his own elbow grease. initiation into that elite body

of fighting men, the United States Marines.

A D.l. from P.I.

MARINE CORPS recruit train- ing at Parris Island, South Carolina, takes eight weeks. It is an initiation into the proudest and most colorful military organization in the world. Esprit de corps is high in the Marines. They are "trained and equipped for the pui-pose of engaging and defeating the enemies of our country," and instruction is aimed at that objective. In short, Mai'ines are trained to fight. The recruits are carefully chosen. A great deal is going to be expected of them when they are given the title "Marines." Discipline is considered fundamental. Wherever Marines are trained they are taught that discipline means the exact execution of orders resulting from intelligent, willing obe- dience. It does not mean strict regula- tions, punishments, a state of subser- PVTS. WIBERT L. MILES, of Baltimore, James E. Nicholson of Salem, vience or obedience based on fear. Indiana, and William O'Connor of Buffalo get their quota of Marine togs. 24 MESS COOKS Donald MedchiU of Grantsburg, Wis., and Dell Wilson of Lawrence, Kans., prepare a hot lunch for hungry boots.

PVTS. RICHARD JOHN FORD of the Bronx, N. Y., and Robert D. Zelt- man of Strasburg, Ohio, collaborate in writing home about Farris Island.

SGT. ERNESTO Y. GALLARDO of Tucson, Ariz., shows Pfc. Lewis A. Porter of Elkin, N. C, how to clean an M-1. Porter had previous service as a Navy submariner, likes rugged duty. LEARNING first aid, Pvt. James E. Horst of Rock Island, 111., applies dressing to the right leg of Pvt. Walter F. Jones of Detroit, a simulated casualty.

POLICING the area, to remove all trash such as cigarette butts and scraps of paper. Note the pails. A colony of pyramid tents is in the background.

25 PVT. JOHN J. BRADLY of Camden, N. J., prone, levels on the target. Pfc. Ben S. Borowsky of Bound Brook, N. J., coaches.

IN THE BUTTS, where targeU are scored. Target about to go up and Pvt. John E. Stoody of Fort Wayne, Ind., gets ready with the marker. Pvt. David T. Gueldner of Ponchatoula, La., watches. I<3

EXTENDED ORDER maneuvers. Pvt. Russel Knots of Clay, W. Va., engages Pvt. Robert P. Fitzgibbons of Buffalo in simulated bayonet fighting. Note scabbards on bayonets to prevent accidents. continued The XEW Marine Corps

Boot tiaining isn't easy. and blister by blister. In the beginning Boots are put through a the boots go to bed tired with sore RIFLE LECTURE in the barracks. Corp. George E. Waggoner of Louisville, junior drill instructor, uses stiff course of ti'aining from muscles and aching joints, but as the a chart to describe the M-1 rifle. The recruits take notes. the moment they first "get days go by they get toughened up; the the word" from their drill healthy outdoor life, regular hours, Teamwork is stressed early and insti'uctor or D.I., as they get to call good food and congenial companion- continuously and the recruit (or boot) their teacher, taskmaster and living ship blend into a happy pattern and is made to realize a sense of responsi- example, until the proud day eight everyone benefits. The boot goes bility to himself and to his comrades. weeks later when they step out on the through a carefully planned course He is taught that the other, fellow de- Parade Ground to pass in review. that a top flight, tradition-minded pends on him and that it is high trea- Boot camp is a school, where les- group of experts have laid out for him. son to let his buddy down. sons have to be learned step by step The training is intended to teach him

26 PVT. BERNARD M. PORTMAN of Savannah, Ga., prepares to drop a shell A CLASS in the .30 caliber water-cooled heavy machine gun is in- into a 60 mm. mortar. His partner is William K. Weitknecht of AUentown, Pa. structed by Pfc. Donald E. Post of Morgantown, W. Va., range coach.

RECRUITS al>out to graduate step out on the parade ground in their greens. Marine training shows in their bearing.

He gets knapsack, blankets, poncho, and of course "rifles, belts and bayonets." A rigorous daily schedule follows which keeps the boys busy. There's no time to get homesick or to woi-ry. Simple infantry maneuvers are taught, and the use of combat equipment and natural camouflage. In the maneuver area the men leain how to live under KOREAN VETERAN Lt. Philip J. field conditions. Garm inspects rifle of Pvt. Ernie M. Many hours are spent marching on Foy of Lilburn, Mo. Lt. Garm has the the drill field or standing the numer- Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts. ous inspections necessary to thorough disciplining. When time permits, a to fight so he will have his best chance recreational program designed to THE WOMEN Marines relax in barracks. An to live. strengthen bodies is put into effect. impromptu band concert just before "lights out." Initial processing the with Marine D.I.'s encourage seasonal sports and IN THEIR sixth week of training. The women Corps is similar to other services. The organize teams within their platoons, Marines always march smartly and proudly. boot gets close -clipped haircuts which companies and battahons. are kept that way the whole eight Marine training stresses use of weeks, clothing issue, and other items weapons. The ranges at Parris Island essential to health and comfort. He is are extensive and the men spend three assigned to barracks, Quonset huts or weeks there learning the use of the pyramid tents for living. He finds a M-1 rifle, the Browning Automatic foot locker at the front of each bunk. Rifle, the (Continued on page 60) -

A Guide lo Iho World -, Beil BooVi, Unknown even to the publish-

M~>vi» oixl YOU should Ho- 10 f iivJ er, some poisonous pages were Volume. trlono.n.no or«) UW^l know about slipped into this book, of which two million copies have THIS BOOK been printed.

By BURTON RASCOE ture, unstable or impressionable IRST CRACK out o£ the box, in (though innocent) minds might well this corner of your maga- mittee on College Reading and its become permanently warped and as zine, I want to warn you Advisory Board"? Is not the Commit- dangerous to American community about an attractive and impressively tee made up of a formidable list of 42 health as any other infection-carriers. sponsored thirty-five cent, pocket-size professors and instructors in colleges Right now, before we go any farther, book, called Good Reading. of high standards of education? And I wish to exculpate and absolve Dr. Nearly two million copies of Good is not the Advisory Board made up of Kurt Enoch, president, and Mr. Victor Reading have been sold and dis- what is called a "big name" Ust of such Weybright, chairman of the board, of tributed. You will find it nearly much-publicized personages as Mentor books and Signet books — everywhere — on the shelves of public Thomas Mann, Clifton Fadiman, Lin under whose New American Library libraries, college libraries and mili- Yutang, Carl Carmer, Norman Cor- of World Literature, Inc., Good Read- tary training camp libraries; in base win, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Stuart ing is issued — of any blame for, or hospitals, in veterans hospitals; on Cloete and Thomas Craven, some of even knowledge of, the germs of cor- newsstands and in the racks where whom have practically made a career of ruption secreted within this otherwise cheap reprints are on display in cigar getting their names on "sponsor" lists commendable publication. stores, drug stores, stationery stores of organizations cited by Congression- The onus for the corrupting and and bookshops. It is to be found listed al committees investigating subversive objectionable pages and lists in Good on bulletin boards of libraries among activities as communist "fronts"? Reading must be borne by the entire the books helpful to students and About 96 percent of this book is so membership of the Com.mittee on Col- adults in preparing papers on cur- meritorious that I would recommend lege Reading and by the entire mem- rent affairs, foreign policy, economics, that part of it to anybody, unquali- bership of the Advisory Board, labor, philosophy, trade relations, po- fiedly, as a standard, pleasant, in- whether they be of the Left or the litical ideas and government. formal, unacademic introduction to Right, or just pinko politically, or mere If you have a child of high school or general literature and as a guide to mutton-headed joiners who will put college age, he or she may be using pleasurable and informative reading their names to almost anything that the recommendations in Good Reading among the classics and the near- seems designed to add to their no- for source material for term-papers classics, from the Bible and Homer toriety. on Soviet Russia Today, Freedom oj down to the present day. Their responsibility, in this instance, the Press, The Problem of China, or In fact, if you tore out (or ignored) is grave; for, whether carelessly or The State of Capitalism in the Mod- about ten pages of the book, you would deliberately, they have not only given ern World. Librarians and teachers still have more than your thirty-five their okay to books, pamphlets and (entirely innocent, most of them, of cents worth, in the way of tips on inflammatory matter that has all the any aim or desire of propagating com- good reading which you may have earmarks of communist propaganda, munism, state socialism, or one- missed hitherto, and in the way of but they have also given their okay worldism schemes for abolishing our suggestions for repairing the gaps in to blacking-out, from certain lists of national sovereignty and scrapping your education. Many college presi- recommended "best books," writings the Constitution) urge upon students dents and department deans could read by worthy authors offensive to the and clubwomen the "helpfulness" of a few of the basic books hsted in Good communists, and of expressions of be- the Good Reading lists in preparing Reading to the general improvement lief, opinion and reasoning from facts for classroom or club-room discus- of their minds and to the vast improve- which would allow the searcher after sions of vital topics of the day. ment of their written and spoken truth to weigh the arguments and ar- And why not? Doesn't Good Read- English. rive at his own conclusion about them. ing bear on the title page the august But four of those ten pages in Good Let us take the section on "Politics." and reassuring words, "Sponsored by Reading are loaded to the gunnels with for which Holland D. Roberts of the the National Council of Teachers of deadly microbes of mental blight, California Labor School wrote an in- English"? Does not the title page fur- straight from the Marxists' labora- troduction and prepared a list of the ther say that the lists were prepared, tories of psychological wai-fare. And "best books" on the subject. We may the books described and the sugges- several more pages are so heavily even ignore for the moment the fact tions worded "as the result of edi- infected from the same source that, that Mr. Roberts was cited in the torial discussions between the Com- when exposed to the infection, imma- Tenney report (Continued on page 52) 28 The IVatioival ^pLEGioxiVAiRE

WHO IS LETTING OUR GIs DOWN? By Erie Cocke, Jr. National Commander, The American Legion

In the light of such distractions as armies a way of saving some of the 250 wartime when the enemy tries to kill basketball scandals and crime investi- American lives that are being needlessly you you are entitled to pursue him till gations, the public seems to be forget- sacrificed each week because certain you've caught him and done away with ting that we are engaged in a war. Not furtive people expound that Chiang him. The influential meddlers who keep a "police action" as certain propagan- isn't the right sort of person, and there- maneuvering our men into untenable dists would have you believe, but a full- fore we cannot accept his aid. Our fight- positions don't seem to understand this, blown, bloody war in which we have a ing men are not impressed by these possibly because they've never been re- quarter-million soldiers committed, and false prophets because they haven't for- quired to face danger themselves. To have already suffered close to 60,000 gotten that these same people not long them, this sort of impasse is something casualties. ago were lauding Mao's murdering to be placed on the agenda of the United Apart from the South Koreans them- hordes as "agrarian reformers." Nations, to be argued at leisure in com- selves, most of the men fighting this war For the life of them — and "life" is fortable surroundings. are Americans. We can kid ourselves all meant in a very literal sense — they Agents of the Kremlin, sitting in the we want about this being a great United can't understand why our State Depart- councils of the United Nations, in Wash- Nations offensive, but as usual in these ment and the United Nations make it ington and elsewhere, must laugh up vast international projects it's th« necessary for them to be slaughtered by their sleeves at our utter idiocy. But you American people who are carrying the red armies which swarm down on them may be sure that our GI's are not burden, and. South Koreans again ex- from territory which our own heads of amused. They see the picture as clearly cepted, it's our boys who are doing most Government make sacrosanct. Our fight- as the Soviet agents do, but, unlike our of the fighting and dying. I know be- ing men have the simple idea that in stateside leaders, they see the results of cause I've just seen much of the Korean this criminal skulduggery in the blood battle front. they shed and in the mangled corpses I've found out something else. The of their buddies. men overseas are beginning to get the !: COMMANDER COCKE TAKES t What they cannot understand, though, idea that someone or something is sell- LOOK TROUBLE SPOTS is the strange apathy of the people back ing them out. They feel they've been A AT home. As they listen to radio reports I j forced out on a limb and the limb is In his hurried trip around the of what is happening thousands of miles J> being sawed off. Isn't the American public aware of what '< i] full year of observation into a brief is going on? Don't they i-ealize that Contrary to the notions of some of our six weeks. In Tokyo, in conference ![ s their sons and husbands and sweet- heavy thinkers safe in the States, our with General MacArthur and in in- J> hearts are fighting a ruthless enemy 'i spection of U.S. Troop installations; men in Korea do know why they are 1| who has them at a terrible disadvan- of battle [' fighting. fact, it u in Korea on a tour the In they know a lot tage, thanks to stupid or traitorous ad- !| lines, where he suffered battle-front |> better than some of our self-styled in- visors and inept diplomacy? !; injury when the jeep in which he was 'i tellectuals at home. Since it is a matter riding with E. _ i| J| Major General Frank of "kill or be killed," thei/ arc fight hi g Must Shake off Apathy Ji Lowe, (Past National Vice Comman- their lives. It's for just as simple as i> der), overturned, leaving with him || that. In Korea I saw many caskets, waiting i', a wrenched back. The Commander to be moved on the first lap of the long In this respect they're one up on the saw the American soldier at his grim u he formed some very definite con- to lay their lives ought to give the murdering Chinese |; more boys have down <| elusions. Read what he has to say |> reds a place in the United Nations, and needlessly, before an aroused public de- > in his article "Who Is Letting the <'> who deplore any attempts made to curb mands that our fighting men be given

',\ bribing vious fact that the communist is out to |> Quirina at Manila, with stops and is deplorable that crooks are kill Americans, individually and collec- i', inspections in between. In all in the ',• basketball players; no one wants to take I; hurried passage, all air, |i tively. The GI has learned this the hard by he man- the public's attention away from graft- way. aged to get a first-hand view of most >'< ing politicians and syndicates of gang- of the trouble spots in the East. l', The GI is a step ahead of these people J| sters; and let's not' overlook transac- \> In Europe, he stepped off the Tide in another tions involving pastel mink coats and way. Knowing that you can't u of Toys distribution in France, Ger- || argue with a communist, and being well fancy fees for influence. But let us not u many, Italy and other countries; ;>

<> be diverted from the fact that our num- aware of the treachery of reds gener- !| made inspection of troops and troops ally, as Citi- '<', ber one today is a struggle for he is disgusted that so many of our !; quarters a member of the problem

\> zens of the leaders have permitted themselves and Committee Department !| our existence.

Government officials, and attended |> down by parliamentary Lilliputians in to be mixed up by those masters of con- !; some dozens of receptions and cere- u the United Nations. fusion who got us into this mess. Re- J| monials given in his honor and in ^ Our present-day Benedict Arnolds gardless of diplomatic niceties, we are |> honor of The American Legion. t may glibly argue that it is necessary to at with Soviet Russia. The simple ''i In Germany he found time to pay 7 war keSp Chiang and his armies blockaded u a brief visit to the little town of and undeniable proof of this is that the J on Formosa, but these arguments make 1; Oberwilzinghen, where in 1945 he X Kremlin could stop this bloodletting to- faced a Nazi firing squad, "ex- i no sense to our soldiers, sailors, airmen J> was morrow, if it so desired. Russia is using and marines who have to do the fighting s eeuted" and left for dead. the Chinese, the North Koreans and | and dying. They see in Chiang's vast others to do her fighting for her. In our

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • £9 own United States Stalin has thousands job we have to tackle here at home. I of stooges doing his bidding. These can assure you that our military leaders people are working as diligently for the I NEW MEXICO PICKS BOB know their job, and so long as they are murderers of the Kremlin as any units allowed to fight the war without restric- i; MARR AS NEW ADJUTANT \ of the Red Army or the Soviet secret tions imposed by stupid people, traitors

i'> Robert M. Marr, who has served politicians, all right. police. \\ or they'll do Fur- Aiding these unspeakable traitors is u as Assistant Director of Membership \> ther, they'll do the job with the least a much larger group. Some of them ai-e and Post Activities at the Legion's s cost in American lives.

I National Headquarters at Indianapo- s almost but not quite full-fledged com- I But so long as the stateside busy- lis for some years, has taken up new I', munists; others are poor, deluded people bodies continue their meddling, the best > duties as Department Adjutant of ',\ who fancy themselves as intellectuals, we can expect is a stalemate. Maybe, New Mexico. He succeeds Earle \' liberals or what have you. Some of these into pri- for reasons of their own, our busybodies 1 Stark, who resigned to go |' 1 it characters maintain that they abhor ',\ vate business after several years in 'I want that way. But patriotic Ameri-

'<', communism, but by their confused think- |> the position. cans ought to begin asking themselves is ing and acting they serve as the com- |> Department Adjutant Marr, 26, !| what about it. Their sons and brothers '! one of the youngest men ever to hold munists' best friends. Indeed, in some |; in Korea are certainly asking them- il that office in the country. vet, ways they ai'* even more dangerous WW2 selves a lot of questions, and I for one '> !; he joined the National Headquarters than admitted communists since at least would not want to have to answer to staff on February 1, 1946, coming <', we know where the communists stand. them at some future date. from the University of Oklahoma, i| These are the people — the avowed I' 'I where he was an organizer, Past ',\ communists and their feather-headed <] Commander and Adjutant of Thomas |l friends — who have got us into the most C. Reynolds Post No. 303, the first s WHAT TO DO ABOUT VA LOAN |i dangerous predicament in the nation's WW2 campus Post chartered by the -I Legion. l! IF CALLED INTO SERVICE history. And not only have they got us 1 1 into jeopardy, they keep making our The Loan Guaranty Service of the position worse. Now anyone can under- VA ofi'ers some good pointers and sound stand why the out-and-out communists US who have injured this country far advice to veterans who have been re- do this - whether they be Mao's brutal more than Benedict Arnold, and from called to military service, who may have "agrarian reformers" or the traitors segments of the soft-headed public these trouble with GI loans. call themselves "American com- who traitors actually get ovations when they The holder of the mortgage — or their munists." But what few Americans can make a smirking appearance before the agent, as the case may be — should be' understand is people who presum- why very people they've sold out. informed of recall to military service ably are not communists continue to Expose False Prophets and the effect, if any, on ability to con- peddle a line that has proved disastrous, tinue the payments required by the sent of Americans to and has thousands Curiously, the mental make-up of mortgage contract. If the borrower fails their deaths. It is even harder to under- such sell-out artists is such that they to do this, the loan may be in default if stand these people when it is considered will never concede that they were wrong. continuing payments are not made. The that they have worked themselves up to So they keep bulling their way through, loan will not be in default with the high positions in government, teach in shamelessly trying to explain the unex- mortgage-holder while you are in mili- universities, write for impor- our great plainable. But after all, it isn't their tary service, if payments are made ac- tant publications and have the facilities neck. Let more thousands of American cording to an arrangement. The part of great radio networks at their dis- soldiers, sailors and marines be sacri- of the regular payment which the bor- posal. ficed, so long as the ego of these un- rower is unable to make will be post- Confused Thinking speakable characters is not damaged. poned until after discharge from serv- Since these people haven't the sense ice, and at that time he should again It would be foolish to say that all or or the grace to stop their meddling, I see the holder or the agent and make even most of these people are commu- call on Americans generally to demand arrangements for a repayment schedule. nists. But it would be equally fallacious that they be thrown out of any place The Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief to believe that, because they are bur- where they can exert any further in- Act of 1940 makes it possible for the dened with Phi Beta Kappa keys and fluence on the conduct of the war. If courts to prevent foreclosure of loans academic honors, they are equally they are in government, or if they are while the borrower is in service and for loaded with honesty or common sense. still advising those in government, the three months after discharge, provided In many cases they are befuddled folk public must raise such an outcry that his income is so reduced that the re- who are educated far beyond their ca- even the most apathetic politicians will quired payments cannot be met. But it pacity, but they are looked up to as have to take action to break their death- does not forgive the payments and any "experts" and "advisors" by others who grip on their jobs. If they are poisoning part which is postponed must be made should know better. In some cases these the press, the speakers' platform or the up after discharge. Thei-efore it is wise people have a fuzzy notion that the airwaves, they must at the least be an- to pay as much as possible so that it will world's problems will be solved if we swered, point for point, and those re- not be a hardship to make it up when scrap our own system of government sponsible for giving such people a forum the time comes. and turn ourselves over to an all-power- must be held strictly accountable by the If already in military service and loan ful world government. Others feel that American people. The time is long since is in default, the wife or some other we can make some sort of deal with past when we can afford the luxury of member of the family should go to the Stalin, if only we let him have his way. listening to false prophets, fools or trai- mortgage holder (or his agent) and Still others — and there is quite a school tors. make the arrangements for deferred of this thought — are convinced that we The GI has been let down not just by payment. should defer to the British Foreign Of- those characters in high places, but by Ordinarily it will not be necessary to fice in our dealings abroad, and ought to all the rest of us who have tolerated see the VA in regard to such a loan. ape the British by establishing a social- them and permitted them to become However, if assistance or advice is istic government at home. powerful. Now it is up to us. It is time needed, a letter may be directed to the The best you can say for such people to let the war be fought by our military VA office which issued the guaranty of as this is that their patriotism is of a people, not by politicians in Washington the loan. Address the letter to "Loan negative nature. or the United Nations, or by others who Guaranty Officer," and give the follow- Years ago, in the time of our Revolu- have axes to grind and influence enough ing informatiory Full name of borrow- tion, another American gave his alle- to get themselves an audience. er(s); rank and military service unit; giance to a country overseas. The name If we can keep these erstwhile experts present mailing address; name and ad- of that man, Benedict Arnold, is now out of the present war long enough for dress of holder of mortgage, or agent reviled and scorned by American pa- the United States to win it, we can con- to whom payments are made; address triots. But today, theie are many among sider ourselves lucky. That's the first of mortgaged property; loan number.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 :

New Attack onVeteran Benefits By Citizens Committee; Bills in Congress; 5 of 18 Proposals Opposed by Legion

tion is in being, but does not explain how Measures Call for Establishment of Department of Health this is accomplished. The bill is appar- ently conflicting as to the distribution in Place of "United Medical Administration"; Transfer of and maintenance of the huge VA opera- VA Functions to New Groups; Also Weaken Vet Preference tion of veterans' case files. The crux of the bill is contained in Section 9, where- in it is stated that one year after the en- In the 82nd Congress, the Citizens ence in job retention rights; and would actment of the bill, a plan for the con- Committee for the Reorganization of probably call for a larger appropriation solidation of the Public Health Service the Executive Branch of the Govern- to cover administrative costs. and the so-called Veterans' Medicine and will ment has continued its activities de- Surgery Service be incorporated To Create An Insurance Corporation signed to bring about the dismember- into a single unified professional health ment of the Veterans Administration; to S. 1138 (H.R. 3317). Referred to the and medical career service. With such a curtail veterans' benefits; and to weaken Senate Finance Committee and to the provision in the bill, it is pure specula- the Veterans Preference Act of 1944. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. tion to say what will be done in the pro- posed of Eighteen bills prepared by the legis- This is a bill to create a Veterans' In- Department Health. lative draftsmen of the Citizens Com- surance Corporation. The bill would The VA Hospital Construction Service mittee were introduced in the Senate confer broad powers upon the proposed by Senators McClellan, O'Connor, and Corporation. The Co^'poration would S. 1143 (H.R. 3309). A bill to effect of Aiken, March 15. These gentlemen were select officers and employees without re- recommendations the Commission on joined by other Senators of both parties gard to the provisions of any of the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government relating to the De- in introducing the bills. The right to civil-service laws. There is nothing in of Interior. Referred propose amendments, modify, or oppose the language of the bill to indicate how partment the to the legislation was expressed by the improvement of services to veterans in the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depai'tment and to the sponsors at the time the bills were placed administering USGLI and NSLI would In- in the Senate hopper. be accomplished. The implication is that House Committee on Interior and of In the House, companion bills were by the creation of a corporation subject sular Affairs. One recommendation introduced by Representative Hoffman to the provisions of the Government the Commission would transfer the VA March 19. Corporation Control Act, the adminis- hospital construction service to the De- Interior. Five of the eighteen bills are designed tration of all forms of veterans' govern- partment of the The VA hos- to accomplish recommendations of the ment life insurance would be better. No pital construction service has more ex- in field other Commission on Organization of the Ex- proof of this is offered in the bill itself. pei-ience this than any ecutive Branch of the Government as It will be recalled that the Comp- agency of the Government. There is contained in that body's reports on Per- troller General of the United States in little to indicate how efficiency and sonnel Management, Veterans' Affairs, discussing a proposed Veterans Insur- economy in the VA would be accom- Department of the Interior, and Medical ance Corporation in 1949, had the fol- plished through such a recommendation. Activities. lowing to say Reorganization of the VA "It does not necessarily follow that Would Weaken Veterans' Preference merely by transferring the insurance S. 1151 (H.R. 3316). A bill to provide As directed by action of the 1950 Los activities to a corporation better admin- for the reorganization of the VA. This Angeles National Convention, The istration will be obtained. A vigorous is the first appearance of such proposed American Legion is opposed to the fol- and responsible management, clothed legislation. In the Senate the bill was lowing five bills: with the authority and duty effectively referred to the Committee on Expendi- S. 1135 (H.R. 2748 and H.R. 3311). to direct the program entrusted to it, is tures in the Executive Departments; in Referred to the Senate Committee on prerequisite." the House, referral was to the Com- Post Office and Civil Service and to the mittee on Veterans Affairs. like committee in the House. This bill To Create a Department of Health This bill proposes internal VA would weaken the Veterans Preference S. 1140 (H.R. 3305). Referred to the changes in administration. The bill con- Act of 1944 by making it more difficult Senate Committee on Expenditures in tains a provision that the Administrator for veterans to secure Federal employ- the Executive Departments and the like ment; would weaken veterans' prefer- Committee in the House. This bill bears little resemblance to the Hoover Com- i WALTER NAUGHTON DEAD; i; mission recommendations or to the pre- MAY 24 DATES vious proposals to create a United Med- i; LONG IN LEGION SERVICE I FOR NAT'L I ij ical Administration. The bill would i; i; EXEC. COMMITTEE 1 Walter Naughton, 55, for 29 years MEETING || create a cabinet-rank department em- 1 on the staff of the Los Angeles Ex- || '', The regular bracing the services of the U.S. Public spring meeting of the '} 'I aminer and chief of the Los Angeles

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I; mittee will be held at National Head- 'I Medicine and Surgery, and certain med- !| lie Relations Division from 1945 to !| quarters, I Indianapolis, on May 2-4, !| died diabetes hospital I ical of at a and hospital services of the Depart- 1 1948, 1 ||

according to a call issued |i by Na- |; in Los Angeles on March 7. A Legion ment of Defense. It does not specify that || I J The executive sections of a num- s served as Department Historian of men. Specific provision is made for hos- '<', !| ber of major Standing Commissions 1; California for 14 years. He had been pitalization of veterans with service-con- u and Committees will '<', meet before the I; a delegate to every National and De- I; opening session of nected disabilities. No provision what- 1 the national gov- 1; partment Convention since the or- 1 1 1 || s erning body, beginning on April 29. ever seems to be made for veterans with |; |> ganization of the Legion, and had \<

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of Vetei-ans Affairs shall use recom- Department of Defense. Though unifi- mendations of the Commission on Or- cation of the Department of Defense 1; CHAMPION MEMBER GETTER ;| ganization of the Executive Branch had been hailed as one of the chief ac- of the Government in making such SPARKS A COUNTY RECORD i; complishments (such unification was I changes. supported by the Legion) , the vastly in-

!; Harold DeHaan Post No. 19, Fort II Sec. 7 (a) of S. 1151 calls for an creased expenditures due to the Korean Morgan, Colorado, held a Victory I; independent management engineering I I fighting and the general expansion of dinner to celebrate an all-time high survey of the VA. The firm of Booz, I' || the Armed Forces had eliminated im- 'I in membership. National Vice Com- [> mediate over-all Allen and Hamilton has been engaged >', mandcr Felix Pogliano was there to economies. first in such a survey since the of Jan- !| do the honors — but Legionnaire u The Situation in Congress uary. It is the belief of The American I; Scott Bradford was the hero of the I| Neil an- Legion that action on S.1151 should be I' evening. Commander Dyas 1| Hearings had not been scheduled by [I nounced that Legionnaire Bradford postponed until the report and recom- || any of the Congressional Committees in of the |i mendations of Booz, Allen and Hamil- h had personally brought 284 regarding the five Citizens' Committee II Post's 310 members. Then Depart- 'i and Wiggins — had already enrolled \> supplemented the report and recommendations of s more than 50 percent of the total <> by special bulletins, will be used by The

Booz, Allen and Hamilton should be eligibles and that Legionnaire Brad- <| American Legion's Washington office to

ford, consistent I| forthcoming early in 1952. I; who has made a keep the membership informed on a \i membership record over the years, |; week-by-week basis. Future issues of Tactical Operations Unchanged '1 is sparking the splendid county en- [> The National Legionnaire will contain s roUment. '> Publicity for the legislative proposals additional information on the status of of the Citizens' Committee continues the these Citizens' Committee proposals. method that has been in operation since Members of The American Legion the original reports of the Commission a clean typewritten copy of the contract will recall that the 1950 Los Angeles on Organization of the Executive Branch provisions the university wanted in- National Convention adopted resolu- of the Government were published. cluded, such an instance never would tions opposing the recommendations of Examples are cited by the Citizen's have been created. the Commission on Organization of the Committee to show bad operating con- Neither does the Citizen's Committee Executive Branch of the Government, ditions in the Federal government. give a clear explanation of the manner as contained in Reports 2, 9, 14, and 16. Sometimes the full story in relation to in which the proposed legislation (S.1151 The five bills discussed in this article such examples is not printed. Then a -H.R. 3316) would change the Federal were derived from such recommenda- bill is prepared for introduction in the requirement that contract interlinea- tions. Congress. No clear demonstration is tions, changes, erasures, must be ini- Let's continue to keep faith with the provided to show how the proposed leg- tialed. veteran by upholding the rights we have islation would correct conditions obtained for him in over 30 years of the Economies Are Not Documented cited. organization. Two examples of this method will in- In a published symposium discussing dicate what is done: the work and recommendations of the SANTA MONICA POST JOINS In one case the Report on Medical Commission on Organization of the Ex- Activities contained this statement: "On ecutive Branch of the Government, IN NATIONAL VET ART SHOW June 30, 1948, there were only 155,000 Charles Aikin, Professor of Political Plans for the 5th annual National patients in Government hospitals hav- Science, University of California, and Veterans Art Exhibition, co-sponsored ing a capacity of 255,000." The impli- assistant to Commissioner Dean Acheson by Douglas Airci-aft Post No. 523, Santa cation is that 100,000 hospital beds wei-e (vice chairman of the Commission on Monica, California, and the Santa vacant at a time when a new hospital Organization of the Executive Branch Monica Art Association are well under construction program was in operation. of the Government) stated: way, according to Charles V. Livesay, It was not until May 1950 when the "Savings to the extent of billions serving his fifth year as director of the Senate Committee on Expenditures in would have to cut deeply into the sub- exhibition. the Executive Departments published stance of these (Federal) programs; The show will be held in the Santa Document 174, 81st Congress, that a they could not be realized from the rela- Monica Library Art Gallery during the listing of all Federal hospital facilities tively small percentage of the appro- month of June. It is a part of the re- showed that most of the vacant beds priations spent on administrative per- habilitation program for veterns car- were in World War II temporary hos- sonnel; e.g., with the Veterans Admin- ried on by Douglas Aircraft Post. pitals that were closed when the war istration, it is six per cent of the five The rules are simple. Any honorably ended. billions spent each year for veterans' discharged veteran or member of the The Citizens' Committee makes no benefits." Armed Forces on presentation of serial clear case to show that such a condition In March 1951, the Citizen's Com- number is eligible to enter. Media this would be changed, or bettered, through mittee issued a news release stating year will be oils, water colors, pastels, the enactment of S.1140, which would that the recommendations of the Com- prints and drawings, photography, dismember the Veterans Administration mission on Organization of the Execu- sculpture, commercial drawings and il- in order to create a Department of tive Branch of the Government already lustrations. Health. adopted "should produce savings of well Entry blanks may be obtained from In the second case, in March 1951, over $2 billions, some of which are al- Herbert M. Foxwell, 1720 Pine Street, responsible officials of the Citizens' ready being realized." Santa Monica, California. Committee cited the case where a uni- In December 1950, the Senate Com- versity contract with the VA covering mittee on Expenditures in the Execu- Young Korean Vet Initiated use of the university's courses in the tive Departments published a report Vocational Rehabilitation and Educa- showing, from the statements of the Firebaugh (California) Post No. 346 tion program of the VA called for an Federal Departments and agencies di- staged its first mass initiation of 30 new excessive number of signatures and ini- rectly concerned, what economies had members, with the initiation team of tials. been effected up to that time. States Center Post of Fresno conduct- The Citizens' Committee did not point According to the Expenditures Com- ing the ritualistic services. Among the out that the form of the contract is a mittee's summary, twenty-five Depart- Legionnaires inducted were Don Scott, standard form approved by the Bureau ments and agencies had saved approxi- 16, a young veteran of the Korean war, of the Budget; nor did it state that if mately eight millions of dollars. Such and Eva Ballester, former WAG, the the university in question had submitted estimates of savings did not include the first woman member of the Post.

22 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 CHILD WELFARE MEETINGS MAJ, GEN. HARRIS DEAD; JUNIOR BASEBALL AIRED BREAK PREVIOUS RECORDS HEADED EDUCATION PLAN IN "ITS A HIT" SERIES

Attendance at The American Legion's Major General Peter Charles Harris, It's A Hit! 1951 Area Child Welfare Conferences retired, WWl Army Adjutant General That familiar cry rising from sand- broke all previous records with a total and for more than 20 years National lots, school diamonds, and professional of 1,382 persons registered for the five Director of the Education for Orphans baseball parks all over the country is meetings. Area child Welfare Confer- of Veterans program of The American also the title of a Silver Anniversary ences have been held by The American Legion, died in Walter Reed Hospital, Series of 10 transcribed radio inter- Legion every year since 1928. Washington, on March 18 at the age of views to be released early in May by the Area Conferences were held in: Bil- 85. American Legion Junior Baseball Sec- lings, Montana; Minneapolis, Minne- Founder of the Education of Orphans tion. These interviews will be offered to sota; Columbia, South Carolina; Ni- of Veterans program in memory of his local radio stations for use in regular agara Falls, New York; and Man- only son, Captain Charles D. Harris, sports programs. chester, New Hampshire. killed in the Meuse-Argonne Battle in Such top stars of the diamond as Record-breaking registration at these 1918, General Harris helped thousands "Casey" Stengel, manager of the New Conferences indicates a revitalized in- of orphans of veterans to receive a col- York Yankees; Eddie Sawyer, manager terest in The American Legion's Child lege education. He was Chairman of the of the Phillies; Al Rosen, of the Cleve- Welfare Program, according to Randel Legion's National Committee on Educa- land Indians; Roy Campanella, of the Shake, National Child Welfare Director. tion of Orphans from 1930 until 1950. Dodgers; Dom DiMaggio, of the Boston "Two factors have brought Child Wel- He served as Adjutant General of the Red Sox, and George Kell of the Detroit fare responsibilities to the immediate Army from 1916 to 1922. His service Tigers, made the records. attention of Legionnaires," Mr. Shake career, which began with graduation Others in the series include American says. "First there is an ever-growing from West Point in 1888, spanned a 34- Legion Junior Baseball Player of 1950, number of children of veterans in the year period. J. W. Porter; J. A. Robert Quinn, Di- nation. Children of veterans of World Funeral service and burial were held rector of the National Baseball Hall of Wars I or II have already passed the at Princeton, New Jersey. A 12-man Fame and Museum; J. G. Taylor Spink, 50 per cent mark and will reach 60 per firing squad and bugler from Princeton publisher of The Sporting News, and W. cent in another eight to ten years. Post No. 76, with of!icers and members A. Williams, Vice President of the Ford "Second, our current Mobilization and of the Legion unit, paid the last honors. Motor Company. Defense Programs are creating new The Rev. W. L. Tucker, Post Chaplain, Top baseball announcers conduct the problems for American families, and it officiated. interviews. These men are Mel Allen, is going to be necessary to give increas- Gene Kelly, Larry Allen, Red Barber, ing attention to the effects of the rapidly Curt Gowdy, Van Patrick and Harry changing social and economic picture on Caray. the lives of children and youth." OLD EAGLE SCOUT PINS Resolutions and recommendations DEEP SEA RODEO PLANNED made by the Area Conferences were BADGE ON NEW EAGLE reviewed by the Executive Section of the BY GULFPORT, MISS., POST National Child Welfare Commission at The Third Annual Mississippi Deep its meeting in National Headquarters Sea Rodeo sponsored by Gulfport's Joe in Indianapolis April 5-7, and will be Graham Post of The American Legion, reported to the May 2-4 meeting of the will held 1-4. The prize fish in- National Executive Committee, be July clude: Tarpon, the silver king of the sea, lemon fish, king mackerel, Spanish LEGION PRESS ASSOCIATION mackerel, dolphin, bonita. Jack fish, speckled trout, red fish and black fish. OFFERS CARTOON FEATURE Grand awards consisting of outboard motors and fishing equipment will be Legion Post and Department publica- given for the largest fish caught of any tions throughout the country have re- of the above species during the entire cently introduced a new feature made rodeo, and in addition daily awards will available to them through the American be presented for the largest fish caught Legion Press Service. Gag cartoons and of any of the above species during the cartoon reminders of Legion programs entire rodeo, and in addition daily and drives have been provided by the awards will be presented for the largest National Cartoon Service of New York fish of of the above species caught City. any on any day of the fishing festival. The cartoons and "Legion-Aides" as Regulations require that the fish be they are called are the work of profes- caught from a boat, with the wide-open sional cartoonists whose work has ap- Gulf of Mexico the fishing area. The peared in national magazines and news- catches will be weighed daily at the papers. The Service supplies 12 cartoons rodeo headquarters. a year. Selection of the material to be used is left entirely to the editor who can make his choice from six cartoons Legionnaire To Be Ordained sent him each month. Roland William Veillette, member of Offered only a short time ago, the William H. Jutras Post No. 43, Man- service already numbers among its sub- While on an official visit to Utica, New chester, New Hampshire, will be or- scribers the publications of such out- York, National Commander Erie Cocke, dained to the Catholic priesthood at St. standing Posts as Omaha Post No. 1 Jr., who earned rank as an Eagle Scout Joseph's Cathedral, Manchester, on May and General Gorgas Post No. 1 of Bir- with his Georgia Troop, took time out to 19, by Bishop Matthew F. Brady. A re- mingham, Alabama and Department participate in a Boy Scout ceremony ception at the Post home will follow newspapers of Minnesota and Wisconsin. when two Scouts were invested with the and Father Veillette will sing his first Distribution of the cartoons is made badge of Eagle Scout. Above, National solemn mass at St. Marie's Church, in directly to the publications. Editors in- Commander (Eagle Scout) Cocke pins the his home town, on Sunday, May 20. terested in making contact can do so badge on Curtis Richards, Junior Assis- Father Veillette had three and a half through the Legion Press Association at tant Scoutmaster of Troop 1, Rome, New years' service in WW2, three years of National Headquarters. York. which were spent overseas.

The Ameiican Legion Magazine * May, 1951 • symposium was Louis B. Nichols, Assis- AU-American Conference Parley Speeds Up tant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "The FBI," he said, "is competent to investigate reports of sub- Fight On Communism; Vote For Wider Field versive activities. We don't want any vigilantes taking hasty and unadvised action — such A general rally of the Ail-American loyalty and good common sense, their action can ruin months of careful Conference to Combat Communism, with ability to distinguish between truth and work by FBI agents in pene- delegates from some 50 member organi- falsehood." trating to the inner ranks of communist zations participating, was held at the Other speakers at the general sessions and communist front organizations." Adelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, on March were Colonel W. R. Kintner, author of He advised anyone having knowledge of subversive activities to communicate 9 and 10. The meeting was a business The Front is Everywhere, who delivered session as well as a rally to consolidate a warning that the communist danger with the FBI. "The FBI is as near you as your telephone," he said, "but we and co-ordinate the forces opposed to is immediate; Gretta Palmer, author don't idle red communism. and columnist, gave a graphic word pic- want rumors or gossip." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, Chairman, key- ture of her experiences in both Asia and Washington, D. C, was selected as the holding next general noted the purpose in his opening ad- America, with illustrations of commu- place for the meet- ing of the Conference at in dress. "We have just one thing in com- nism as a creeping menace and as an some time the early fall. mon — our fight against communism. We arrogant force. are a unity, not a uniformity. On many Rabbi Andhill Feinberg, Director of issues we oppose each other, but our the Community Service Program of the RED RIVER CAGERS RETAIN common cause makes us one in support American Jewish Committee, told what CHAMP TITLE IN TOURNEY of freedom and democracy." religious forces can do to combat com- The Conference has operated from of- munism. Stacy May, Assistant Director The basketball team of Red River fices in Washington, gathering, analyz- of the Point Four Program, E.C.A., Post No. 118, Coushatta, Louisiana — ing and circulating facts on communism gave a world-wide view of the march of 1950 National Champions — successfully among the dues-paying member-organi- communism and what is being done, in defended its title in the 5th annual zations, which include most chartered an economic way, short of actual war- American Legion Basketball Tourna- veterans' organizations. Catholic, Jew- fare, to check it. ment held at Natchitoches, Louisiana, ish and Protestant agencies, the Amer- At the Saturday night dinner, with March 29-31. ican Federation of Labor, National Ed- more than 100 delegates present. Rev. Bobby Lowther, former Louisiana ucation Association, a dozen fraternal Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., Vice President State University star, was awarded the organizations, and civic groups repre- of Georgetown University, said that National Sportsmanship Award, spon- senting a true cross-section of American Russia hopes to weaken the West by sored by National Commander Erie citizenry. In all, these organizations forcing the United States into a piece- Cocke, Jr. Lowther was also the player have a membership of some 80,000,000. meal defense of democracy. He pointed who sparked the Coushatta champs to out Korea as an example of "how we a first-round victory which ate up two Widens Field of Action can fight all around the world without over-time periods before the Red River By formal vote, the Conference au- meeting the real enemy face to face, team nailed Beaver Falls, Pa., 50-48. thorized a broadened scope of activities except in the shape of bootlegged Rus- In capturing the 1951 National Bas- as a fact-finding and service force. Al- sian tanks, planes and guns." It was ketball Championship and its second most immediately following, after the his conclusion that Russia is husband- consecutive crown, the Coushatta team report of Past National Commander ing forces against the hoped-for day won four ball games. The vanquished George N. Craig, provision was made when the piecemeal defense of democ- included Department champions from for raising the necessary funds to carry racy will exhaust the United States. Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Jones- on the work. A fund-raising campaign The closing speaker at the two-day boro, Louisiana. with a goal of $1,000,000 was author- ized, which will be carried on under the BOOKER WASHINGTON COIN SALE FOR ANTI-RED DRIVE direction of Elmer W. Sherwood, of In- dianapolis, who is the Financial Secre- tary. Robert W. Hansen, Milwaukee, editor of The Eagle, official publication of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, was selected as Executive Director, to direct the Con- ference activities from the Washington office. W. C. "Tom" Sawyer, former Na- tional Americanism Director of The American Legion, now Vice President of Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, will continue a Secretary to the Conference and the Executive Council. Rabbi David Lefkowitz, Jr., Shreve- port, Louisiana, National Chaplain of The American Legion, told the delegates that communists posing as "liberals" must be unmasked, but without smear- ing innocent persons or denying civil rights. "The most futile way of combating i-eds would be to imitate them," he said. A Booker T. Washington memorial half-dollar was authorized by the 79th Congress "Campaigns of character assassination, to assist in raising funds for the perpetuation of the ideals and teachings of the attempts at censorship, intimidation and great leader and educator. Combating communism among Negroes is the drive's suppression of opinion are police-state principal objective in 1951. A mounted replica of the new 1951 half dollar was pre- tactics, which create the very climate in sented to National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., by Representative O. K. Armstrong, which communism and fascism thrive. of Missouri. Participating in the ceremony were (left) James B. Lomack, Past Com- We must have faith in the native intel- mander, and Douglas C. Richardson, Commander of James E. Walker Post No. 26, ligence of our native Americans, their Washington, D. C.

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Adjt., 27 Wilson Terrace, Livingstone, N. J. 45th Seabees — 5th annua] reunion, Chicago. 111., OUTFIT REUNIONS June 29-30; Hotel LaSalle. Contact Ray Nesbitt, COMRADES IN DISTRESS Secy.-Treas., P. O. Box 3, Oak Park, 111. 554th Ordnance HM Tank Co. — 5th annual re- union, Birmingham, Ala., June 16. Details from Society of the 1st Division — Annual reunion, Harvey A. Summerhill, 1040-4 Court West, Bir- Weapons Co., 5th Marine Regt., 1st Marine J., Sept. 14-16. Write C. M. Division, (Italian Legation, Peiping, China) — Atlantic City, N. mingham 4, Ala. Eymer, Box 188, San Diego, Cal. U. S. N. Hospital Corps, Falmouth, England Urgently need to locate Pfc. Otho Mitterer and Division Assn. — 30th annual other members of 2nd (Indian Head) — Reunion, Chicago, 111., June 23-24; Stevens Pfe. Charles DiPasquole and reunion, Philadelphia, Pa. July 26-28. Informa- Hotel. Write Leo Klonawski, 688 No. Schuyler Co. who were with me when 1 was knocked from Headquarters, 2nd Division injured. Richard H. Moesel, tion from National Ave., Kankakee, 111. fuel detail truck and Assn., 116 N. 3rd Street, Camden 2, New Jersey. 754th Tank Battalion — 2nd annual reunion, Box 42, Stillwater, Okla. 4th Armored Division Assn. — 5th annual con- Cleveland, Ohio, July 20-22; Carter Hotel. In- Fort Meade Station Hospital-Will Major Clark, vention, Chicago, 111., July 6-7; Sherman Hotel. formation from Ed G. Levinson, 188 W. Randolph M.C., this station in July, 1945, please contact Secy.-Treas., P. O. Box Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn, Info from Albert Rosen, St., Suite 1400, Chicago, 111.; Daniel R. Donvan, Winifred EUia, 806 247, Madison Sq. Station, New York 10, N. Y 104 Lincoln Ave., Carteret, N. J., or Col. R. J. N. Y. Need help to establish service-connected Division Annual 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry — Wallace, Bldg. 110. Fort Hayes. Columbus 18, claim. reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Labor Day week end. Ohio. Battery A, 2nd AARTC Bn., Camp Stewart, Info from Frank Mulvaney, Natl. Secy., 1023 S. Co. E, 176th Infantry (WW2) - Reunion at Ga.-Will S/Sgt. Fred W. Derleth, or anyone who Farragut Terrace^ Philadelphia 43, Pa. Hopewell, Va., June 2-3. Contact Lt. Joseph O. knows his present address please write. He was Division 5th (Patton's (ihosts) Armored — An- Rickman, Sr., P. O. Box 777, Hopewell, Va. a patient in Lawson General Hospital, Septem- nual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 5-7; William US Naval Armed Guard — Annual reunion. ber, 1944. Claim pending. Write John M. Dennard, Rubel. Middle Penn Hotel. Info from Charles 885 New York City, Saturday evening, June 2. For 310 N. Bayard St., East Point, Ga. Road, Pittsburgh 34. Pa. all details write Bill Monnot, Chairman, 324 E. Co. L, 346th Infantry—Will anyone in this out- — re- 6th (Red Star) Infantry Division Annual 143rd St., Bronx 51, New York City. fit who knew Ernest H. Saclcau please write. union, Milwaukee, Wis., July 26-28; Wisconsin 643rd Tank Destroyer Bn. — Annual reunion. Help needed for claim. H. V. Andrews, Service Hotel. Info Scholl, 1425 N. 14th from Elroy E. Providence, R. I., May 19-20; Crown Hotel. Write Officer. Titonka, Iowa. St., Milwaukee 5. Wis. Russell J. Littlefield, 38 West Water St., Rock- USS Santee and USS Wasp-Will shipmates 6th (Super 6th) Armored Division — Annual re- land, Mass., or John A. Wesenberg, 23 Linden please write: need help to establish claim for union, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2; Deshler- Blvd., Brooklyn, N. Y service injuries. Roy Harold Miller, 208 Cherokee Wallick Hotel. Write William E. Rutledge, Jr., Co. H, 307th Infantry — Annual reunion at St., St. Louis 18, Mo. Secy.-Treas., P. O. Box A, Yadkinville, N. C. Michels Restaurant, Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, 25th Aero Squadron, (WWI)— Will anyone who 8th Division — (Pathfinder) Infantry 4th annual N. Y, Saturday evening. May 19. Contact Bill served with F. W. [BUD Roll please write. Need reunion with attached units. Macon, Ga., Aug. 31- Benjamin, 215 4th Ave., New York City, or James information as to hospitalization at Nancy, Sept. 1; Hotel Dempsey. Write B. L. Kersey, Jr., R. Cavanagh, 2 Charles St., New York City. France; records lost. Pension claim pending. Mrs. Executive Scy.-Treas., 488 First St., Macon, Ga. 613th Ordnance Battalion — Annual reunion, Marion Roll, 1420 Lehigh St., Easton, Pa. 26th (Yankee) Infantry Division — re- Annual Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Complete details Hdqrs. Co., 363rd Inf., 91st Div.—Need to con- union, Portsmouth, N. H., June 7-10. Info from from James L. MuClintock, 727 Gaywood Dr., tact men who served with me in 1942 and 1943, Albert Shepard, Convention Secy., P. O. Box 845, Pittsburgh 35, Pa. especially 1st Sgt. Carnes, S/Sgt. Cross, W. O. Portsmouth, N. H., or H. Guy Watts, Natl. Secy., 1082nd Guard Squadron — Reunion. San Angelo, Allen, Sgt. Fife, Curley McDonald. Write Ernest 200 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. Texas, June 16. For information- and details Dungey, 438 E. 3rd St., Mesa, Arizona. 28th Infantry (Keystone) Division — National write P. O. Box 846, San Angelo, Texas. Luther Groce— Information wanted as to where- convention, both WWs, Bethlehem. Pa.. June 27- Persian Gulf Command — 4th national get-to- abouts, home at Indianapolis when discharged 30. Inquiries to A. W. Frymyer, Gen. Chairman, gether. Las Vegas, Nov., June 23-24; Last Frontier from Army in 1945. Settlement of estate involved. RFD 2, Bethlehem, Pa. Hotel. Reservations from William Bierley, Jr., Sam W. Groce, Byrdstown, Tenn. 29th (Blue and Gray) Infantry Division Assn. Box 657-B, N. Las Vegas; other info from Willis 808th Engineer Battalion—Need to hear from (Department of Virginia )— Annual reunion, Cowan, President, Box 61fi, Tempe, Arizona. or have present address of Col. William J. Ellison, Hopewell, Va.. 2-3. June Contact Capt. Harry R. 749th Rwy. Operating Bn. — Reunion, Denver, CO. Write O. L. Fallart, P. O. Box 5. Bayard, Maifield, Sr., Hopewell Armory, 200 N. 9th Ave., Colo., June 28-29; Argonaut Hotel. Write Don Neb. Hopewell, Va. Gothard, Secy., 84 Dana Ave., Columbus 8, Ohio. 96th Balloon Co., (WWI) -Will officers and men 30th (Old Hickory) Infantry Division-5th Co. E, 115th Infantry, 29th Div. - Reunion, of this outfit please write, especially Lt. Whitney annual convention, Cleveland, Ohio, July 4-6. both WWs, Elkton, Md.. June 23-24; Elkton and L. King of Colorado, also men who went to Write 30th Inf. Div. Assn., P. O. Box B, Bergen Armory. Write Paul C. Dennis, 104 Stockton St., Machine Gun School at Camp John Wise in fall Sta., Jersey City, N. J. Elkton, Md. of 1918. Statements needed badly. G. C. Kauffman, 33rd (Illinois) Infantry Division Assn. — An- 714th Rwy. Operating Bn. — Reunion, Chicago. RD 2, Melrose, N. Mex. nual reunion, both Chicago, 111., 22- WWs, June 111. .June 23-24; Midland Hotel. Make reservation Co. D, 414th Infantry, 104th Div.-Urgently 23; Morrison Hotel. Write George D. Radcliffe, direct. Details from M. H. Sullivan. President, need to locate 1st Sgt. William L. Friedman and Secy., Room 508, Morrison Hotel, Chicago 2. 111. 805 N. Lincoln St., Casper, Wyo., or W. H. Noble. others who knew Robert Louis Allison in service. 37th (Buckeye) Division Vets. Assn. — Annual Secy., 778 Rosamond Ave., Akron, Ohio. Insurance settlement. Write George Flood. 805 reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 1-3; Gibson Hotel. Fleet Postoffice, New York — 6th annual re- Arctic Bldg., Seattle 4, Wash. For information write Headquarters, 1101 Wyan- union. New York (iJity, Saturday, May 26; Cornish 345th Service Sqdrn., 310th Service Grp., 12th dotte Bldg., Columbus Ohio. 15, Arms Hotel, 311 West 23rd St. Info from Max AAF— Will Joseph C. Anchals and doctors who 69th (Fighting 69th) Infantry Division Assn. Hammer, Box 388, General Postoffice. New York served in hospital at Cagliare, Sardinia, in sum- — 4th annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, August 1, N. Y mer of 1944, please write. Disability claim pend- 24-26; Hotel Hollenden. Info from Banquet Com- 129th Ambulance Co., AEF — Reunion, Chicago. ing. Leonard E. Clover, 8725 Wickham Dr., Ber- mittee, 69th Infantry Div. Assn., 135 Broadway, 111., May 20-21; Sherman Hotel. Info from Sigurd keley 21, Mo. New York 6, N. Y. M. Berg, Secy., 515 S. Edison Ave., Elgin, 111. USS Underbill (DE 682)-Will anyone who Combat Division Reunions — Info about the fol- Co. 400, Motor Transport Corps— 16th annual remembers concussion I received while serving lowing scheduled reunions can be had by address- reunion, Webster Lake, North Webster, Ind., aboard in 1944, please write. Particularly Jack ing the Division Association, care Division Asso- July 14-15; Yellow Banks Hotel. Info from Fred Phelps, Oklahoma, and Peeler, Jacksonville, Fla. cations, P. O. Box 1111, Washngton 13, D C: J. Warren, Secy., 731 Jefferson St., Muskegon Jesse C;. Pigg, 2735 Lee Highway, Florence, Ala. 65th Div., June 22-24, New York City Heights, Mich. Fred Horton (or Frederick), outfit unknown— 99th Div., June 29-JuIy 1, Pittsburgh, Pa. 45th Evacuation Hospital — Reunion, English- Urgently need to hear from anyone who served 63rd Div., July 6-8, Cincinnati. Ohio town, N. J., May 27: Molly Pitcher Post No. with this veteran in WWl, or anyone who knows 103rd 434, Div., July 13-15, New York City American Legion. Info from Walter Cycak, RD of his injuries sustained in U.S.A. while on 11th Airborne Div., July 20-22, York New City 1, Englishtown, N. J. maneuvers. Home was at Battle Creek, Mich. 102nd Div., Aug. 24-26, Pittsburgh, Pa. 325th Field Artillery Assn., 84th Div. (WWI) Please write. N. Uliana, 19 Bethany Rd.. Monson. 87th Div., Sept. 14-16, New York City — Annual reunion. West Frankfort, III., June 24. Mass. 80th (Blue Ridge) Infantry Division Assn.— Write Paul Moore, Secy., 802 (A) West Poplar 18th and 15th Recruit Cos., Jefferson Barracks, 32nd annual reunion, Akron, Ohio, Aug. 2-5; St., West Frankfort, 111., or Richard E. Horn, Mo.—Need to hear from George Bauer, Alfred Hotel Mayflower. Info from Harry J Collette, Pres., Eldorado, 111. Allen (or Allison), or anyone serving in outfits Resident Secy., 302 Plaza Bldg.. Pittsburgh, Pa. 6th Anti-Aircraft Battery, (WWI) -Annual in September, 1918 who remembers me. Claim • 82nd (All American) Airborne Division Assn. reunion. Poplar Bluff, Mo., Aug. 4-5; Dunn Hotel. pending. Raymond Guy, P. O. Box 330, Danville, — 5th annual reunion, Chicago, III., July 1-3; Write R. B. (Jack) Frost, Grubville, Mo. 111. Hotel Sherman. Write John S. Lynch, 9115 S. Co. 17, GLNTS — Reunion and picnic. City Base Hospital, Camp Stewart, Newport News, May St., Chicago 20, 111. Park, Marshalltown, Iowa. August 26. Details Va., and Base Hospital 8, Camp Meade, Md.- 94th Infantry Division Assn. -2nd annual re- from W. R. (Skeet) Powers, School for Urgently need to locate Head Nurse, Miss Mason, union. Chicago, Blind, III., June 15-17; Hotel Sherman. Vinton, Iowa. (Atlantic City), Camp Stewart Hospital in De- Details from Div. 94th Assn., P. O. Box 1111 1330th Engineers General Service Regt. — 4th cember, 1918, and also Nurse Margaret McEl- Washington 13, D. C. annual reunion, Gary, Ind., Sept. 1-3. Contact henny (or MacElhenney) of Chicago, at Base 99th (Checkerboard) Infantry Division — 2nd McKinney Miller. 125 N. Dewey St.. Philadelphia 8 in January, 1919; also other hospital personnel annual reunion. Pittsburgh, 1- Pa., June 29-JuIy 39, Pa. who remember me being under treatment for William Penn Hotel. Info from John R. Gavin, Co. H, 349th Infantry, 88th Div. -Reunion to severe leg injury from bomb explosion. (Returned Secy., 130 Oneida St., Pittsburgh 11, Pa. be held August 18-19. Write William I. McConnell, from France on Hospital Ship Susquehana). 91st Seabecs-2nd annual reunion. Cascades Secy., P. O. Box Seymour, Iowa. Edgar N. Danielson, 511 Third Ave., Audubon, Park, Jackson, 142, Mich., May 26-27. Details from 21st Engineers Light Railway N. J. N. P. Society, (WWI) Sercomb, 514 N. Milwaukee St., Jackson, — Co. H, 2nd Ind., 1885th Unit Hdqrs., Mich. 30th annual reunion. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. Camp 28-29; Hotel Gibson. Write J. H. Brooks, Secy., Howze, Texas-Will officers and men who remem- 309th Engineers Assn. and Auxiliary - 27th an- 2410 S. Harrison, Fort Wayne. Ind. ber me, particularly Lt. Riggon and Nurse (Lt.) nual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 31-Sept 1. 611th OBAM Bn. (2nd Bn., 304th Ord. Regt.) who took care of me at Army Hospital, above Write George Stoner. Secy.. 333 Sherman St.. — 5th annual reunion, Buffalo, N. Y, 21-22; station, when suffering from back injuries. Elmer Gallon, Ohio. Sept. Hotel Statler. Write L. Jenkins, 370 St. Lawrence C. Boone, c/o Dahl Apts. No. 20, Watertown. S. Battery B, 58th Artillery (WWI) - Reunion at Ave., Buffalo 23, N. Y. Dak. Scarsdale, N. Y, June 23; American Legion home. 184th GH, and 684th GH Complementary Co. 4002nd Trucking Co., QM-Urgently need to ^"^"^ w'te Sgt. , ""^P "Pop" Roeder, — Reunion, Boston, Mass., Oct. 12-13; University hear from men who knew of my injuries when 161 Boulevard. Scarsdale N. Y Club. Members write Francis Delia Rocca, 432 my truck ran over a mine near Cherbourg, 601st Ordnance Battalion -2nd annual reunion, Quincy Ave., New York 61, N. France, in July, 1944, especially Cpl. Meadows. Morton Grove, Y 111., May 12-13; American Legion American Ex-Prisoners of All records lost; statements to prove claim needed. ^ost War- Annual con- No. 134. Info and reservations from Carl Felix A. Bowers, 632 East Maitland Ontario, Eckhart, vention, Chicago, 111., May 3-6: Congress Hotel. St., Morton Grove, III. John H. Walker, Cal. 639th AAA. Commander USN, 1502 Arling- AW Battalion - Annual reunion. ton Annex, Washington, Base Hospital 18, Hdqrs. Hospital Center, APO New York D. C, National Com- City, May 5; 71st Regiment Armory. mander. Reservations direct to 731, France, (WWI) -Will anyone who knew Michael hotel. J^nte N. Venezia, 308 6th St., Brooklyn 42nd (Rainbow) Division Veterans — 33rd Na- my late husband, Cpl. Melvin James Richard, tional annual reunion. especially Lt. James B. Thompson and medical 310th Birmingham. Ala., July Ambulance Co., 78th Division (WWI) 12-14; Tutwiler Hotel. Info from Lindsay L. Cox, and nurse personnel please write. Need help to 25th anniversary reunion, Trenton, N. J., June Reunion Secy., 107 Hermosa Drive. Birmingham, get service-connected pension. Mrs. Bonita G. 9; Hotel Hildebrecht. Write Frank V. Rusling, Ala. Rickard, Jayhawk Motel, Florence, Oregon. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • 25 LEGION POST BUILDS WHEEL KENTUCKY LEGION RECRUITS WHAT TO DO TO ORGANIZE CHAIRS FOR CRIPPLED KIDS PLATOON FOR U. S. MARINES A BAND, CORPS OR CHORUS

In October, 1948, when Lincoln Vil- When the Legion of Kentucky offered Is your Post ready to organize a band, lage Post No. 833, Long Beach, Cali- to recruit a platoon for service in the drum and bugle corps, color guard or fornia, was still operating under its U. S. Marines the offer was quickly ac- chorus? If so. National Headquarters temporary charter, it was confronted cepted. In jig time, 75 young men who has just issued a series of four instruc- with a child welfare problem where all met all the high Marine standards — tion pamphlets giving just the informa- conventional agencies had fallen short brought in from all parts of the State tion needed. of meeting the immediate need. A 3- — were assembled in the home of Shaw- The four guides, "Building Your year-old child, paralyzed from waist nee Post No. 193, Louisville, where on Legion Band Today," "Start an Ameri- down — the ailing mother not able to lift the evening of January 25th in a color- can Legion Bugle and Drum Corps," her or care for her — needed a wheel ful ceremony they were given the offi- "You Can Have an American Legion chair. None was available. Out of that cial oath of enlistment. Chorus," and "American Legion Color need developed a Legion program that Governor Lawrence Wetherby made Guard" contain not only the operating has been of untold help to other crippled a special trip from the capital at Frank- procedure and suggestions but have children almost nation-wide in extent. fort, accompanied by State Troopers handy tables of supply houses and man- Post members discussed the case, then who served as color guard during the ufacturers with estimates of cost to moved into a hobby shop to design a ceremony. The oath was administered equip a musical or marching unit. suitable wheel chair. By midnight the by Colonel Frank M. Reinecke, native The guides were compiled by For- design was agreed upon and early the Kentuckian, commanding the Marines rest McAllister, member of Harwood next day welders, carpenters, fitters and recruiting division in Chicago. Under Post No. 5, Joliet, Illinois, who had a painters, all members of the Post, put special arrangement, the men will be hand in training the five-times national the first chair together. Including spe- kept together after completing boot champion Harwood Post Band. He was cial features, such as a removable per- training at Parris Island, South Caro- for some years with the American Music ambulator for out-of-door use, the chair lina. Conference, but is now connected with proved so usable that several others The School Musician, of Chicago. were constructed for use in the com- Servicemen's Center The pamphlets are sent out only on munity. And that led to calls from other request — no general distribution will be communities — the unit earned a new Highland Park (Illinois) Post No. made. Send request to Don White, Sec- 145, a Chicago recently name for itself. Wheel Chair Post. suburb, com- retary, Contests Supervisory Commit- pleted a - The Post has set up its own shop with $150,000 Memorial Home and tee, The American Legion, 700 North just in time. jig saws, tools, materials and the man- A large section of the Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, Indiana. power within the membership of 65 to ground floor, some 4,000 square feet, construct the chairs. Other Posts may has been set apart for use as the High- land have problems similar to the one that Park Community Servicemen's LEGION COMMITTEE AIDS Center, with club and recreational fa- gave rise to this special appliance for INDIANA FARM VETERAN cilities. handicapped children — the address is The great need is to furnish a place Wheel Chair, Post No. 833, The Ameri- for the thousands of servicemen Vincennes (Indiana) Post No. 73 has can Legion, 22029 Embassy Avenue, at the nearby Fort Sheridan and Great organized an American Legion Agricul- Lakes Naval Station. General Long Beach 10, California. William tural Committee which has given invalu- H. Wilbur has been named by Mayor able assistance to farm veterans of Robert F. Patton to head the Committee. YEOMENETTE GROUP WILL Knox County within the short period it has been operating. The Legion Com- HOLD SILVER JUBILEE MEET THE AMERICAN LEGION mittee is under the direction of Legion- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS naire L. Virgil Held, Farmers Home Plans are well advanced by the Na- INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Administration Supervisor. tional to hold a Silver Jubilee Yeoman F FEBRUARY 28, 1951 The plan of assistance, according to June 16. This will at Washington on ASSETS Post Commander Hugh Williams, is anniversary of the celebrate the 25th Cash on hand and on deposit....? 694.940.70 both educational and advisory. County Receivables founding of the organization of tlie 966,637.23 meetings are held in the Legion Home Inventories 434,539.34 served as F, U. S. women who Yeomen Invested Funds 667,477.23 at Vincennes, with attendance of farm- Naval Reserve, in WWl, according to Permanent Trusts: ers running to for discussion Overseas Graves Decoration up 250, Mrs. Estelle R. Ruby, who has been Trust Fund $ 256,353.20 of problems, and with a headline speak- Employees' named General Chairman by Mrs. Mae Retirement er. At a recent meeting when Ralph C. Trust Fund 1.217,392.54 1,473.745.74 E. Shuttleworth, Commander of the Phillippe, State FHA Director, was the Real Estate, less depreciation . . . 730,023.73 National Yeomen F. Furniture and Fixtures, speaker, his address was not only given less depreciation This organization, so closely associ- 304,933.68 full coverage by the local press but was Deferred Charges 54.887.51 ated with the Legion that it is often $5,327.185.25 broadcast over the facilities of WAOV, mistakenly considered as an affiliate, The services of the Legion Committee LIABILITIES, DEFERRED was brought into being at the Legion REVENUE are open to all farm veterans, which NET WORTH National Convention at Philadelphia in AND works very closely with the FHA. Current 1926. Since the organization meeting the Liabilities $ 197,232.15 Funds restricted as to use 475,289.21 National Yeomen F has held its national Deferred Income 1,349,149.48 Hospital with the Permanent Trusts: Bank Post Has Program meeting and reunion each year Overseas Graves Decoration Legion National Convention, wherever Trust $ 256,353.20 National City Bank Post No. 1674, Employees' Retirement held. However, as an independent group New York City, recently passed its fifth Trust 1.217,392.54. 1,473,745.71 it operates under a charter granted by Net Worth: birthday, but it has made its years Congress in 1936. Restricted Capital: count. Commander William H. Siddons, Reserve Fund 23,464.13 At its peak, the yeomenettes numbered Restricted Fund.. 16,798.04 Jr., was able to report to his member- 10,073 in WWl service. The membership Reserve for construction of ship at the end of 1950 that in its wel- Washington Hospitals Le- of the Yeomen F numbers about 1,000, office 786,568.67 fare activities at VA and with membership scattered throughout Real Estate 80,000.00 »06,830.81 gion Infirmary and Camp, $16,842.78 Unrest ]icted Capital: In addition steak dinner the whole country. Surplus 246,188.00 was spent. a Former members of this service group Excess of Income over and Broadway show party for 17 long- Expense 2 is given once may get information and details of the months 678,749.83 924,937.83 hospitalized veterans a Silver Anniversary Jubilee from Mrs. 1,831,768.67 month, girls from the bank acting as Estelle R. Ruby, General Chairman, $5,327.185.25 hostesses. Charles Spangel is Chairman 5423 30th Place N.W., Washington, D.C. of the Hospitalized Veterans Committee.

2g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 . : . . Veterans Newsletter

A digest of events which are likely to be of personal interest to you

May, 1951

SUSPEND VET BENEFITS URGES ANTI-VET GROUP: the July 25, 1951, cut-off date (when new courses may not initiated) applies to WW2 vets discharged Spiritual heirs of the old National Economy League be before July 25, 1947. . . .For those few discharged of the 1930s, now organized under the name of afterwards, the cut-off date is four years from Committee on Federal Tajc Policy, have made recom- date of discharge. mendation to Congress to suspend for three years the GI Bill of Rights progreim and all other Federal WAR DEAD RETURNED FROM THE KOREAN THEATRE: progreuns under which veterans receive cash benefits. Initiating a new policy in return of war dead, the Roswell Magill, New York, . . .Committee is headed by bodies of 50 American servicemen killed in Korea (WWl vet and Undersecretary of the Treasury in started on the long trek to the homeland for perma- mid-Roosevelt administration) . . . .His suggestion, nent burial on March 11 . . . .Taken from the icy mud of baldly put, was that Congress suspend payments and Korea to Japan, they were trans-shipped at Yokohsuna that the Bureau of the Budget submit a "clean slate" where appropriate services were held. . . .Top Generals budget in order to effect a $10 billion cut in the from American and allied forces, and diplomatic proposed expenditures for 1952. .. .Magill recalled representatives from several nations joined in the Roosevelt used this "clean slate" that President 30-minute farewell ceremony ... .National Commander it notorious approach to Congress when passed the Erie Cocke, Jr., and Major General Frank E. Lowe, Economy Act of 1933. . . .History seems to be repeating (Past National Vice Commander and now President itself. Truman's personal representative in Korea) , repre- EXTENSION OF TIME FOR POW CLAIM FILING: sented the Legion at the ceremony. . . .Army has evacu- ated all cemeteries south of the 38th Parallel in When the deadline of March 1 was reached some Korea, transferring the bodies either to Pusan or to 30,000 eligible persons--prisoners of war, civilian mortuaries in Japan. . . .All will be returned as soon internees ajid survivors- -had failed to file claims as trauisportation facilities allow. . . .This is the under the War Claims Act. . . .Many of the "missing" first time in history the nation has returned its claimants are widows, children or parents of deceased dead from an active theater of war; in other wars the prisoners of war who are not aware of their rights .... return has waited until the cessation of hostilities. To cure the situation Senator Chavez, (New Mexico) introduced a Joint Resolution granting extension MONTH OF SPECIAL DAYS: of time to file. . . .Senate passed the Resolution May is a month of special days --days set apart for fixing October 1, 1951, as the deadline date. . . special observance and for remembrance ... .Mother 's

House amended, inserting March 31, 1952. . . .Resolu- Day falls on Sunday, May 13th. . . .Armed Forces Day, tion has passed both houses of Congress, but because set apart to pay tribute to the Armed Forces as an of difference in deadline dates it must go to a integral and independent part of the total and Committee of Conferees to reach an agreed date. spiritual power of America, will be commemorated

on Saturday, May 19th. . . .Sunday, May 20th, has been WW2 VETS IN SERVICE MAY RESUME GI TRAINING designated by President Truman as "I Am An American WW2 vets now in active military service attending Day," for special recognition to those of our youth school under the GI Bill during their spare time, who have attained their majority or foreign born who will be able to resume their courses after the July have become citizens within the past year. . . .The 25, 1951, cut-off date if forced to interrupt studies Legion's Poppy Day will be observed on Saturday, because of military duties or transfers. . . .VA says May 26, when the disabled veteran-made Flanders Field they will be allowed to resume training within a red poppies will be worn throughout the whole country reasonable period after their release from active in remembrance of those who have fallen while serv- duty. . . .In fact, when they do re-enter GI Bill ing in foreign lands. . . .Memorial Day falls on training they may step up the part-time training Wednesday, May 30th, when all will pause in memory taken while in uniform to full-time courses. . . . of the departed, both military and civilian. However, under present rulings, a vet taking a GI Bill correspondence course may not switch to class- "ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY": room training. . . .Similar post-deadline procedures Fifth Congressional Medal of Honor awarded for apply to vets who started GI Bill studies as civil- service in the war in Korea was granted posthumously ians, then interrupted to return to military or to Corporal Gordon M. Craig, Elmwood, Massachusetts, naval service. . . .They also may resume training 1st Cavalry Division radio operator ... .He saved the within a reasonable period following release from lives of four comrades by falling on a live grenade. service, should they return to civil life after . . . Sixth award of the Medal of Honor was to Sgt July 25, 1951, and before July 25, 1956, the wind-up Willieun R. Jecelin, 20, Baltimore, Maryland, for of the program. . . .Vets whose training is interrupted an almost identical self-sacrificing deed. by military service must meet three requirements if they expect to return to training after the cut-off APPEALS FROM REFUSAL TO EXTEND PATENTS: date. ... (1) Conduct and progress in GI Bill course Under Public Law 598. approved June 20, 1950. must have been satisfactory. ... (2) Period of train- extension of patent rights is granted to persons who ing which may be obtained after they get out of served in WW2 . . . .The law also provides that when uniform will be limited to remaining GI Bill entitle- extension is refused by the Commissioner of Patents, ment. ... (3) And their course may not extend beyond appeals may be taken to the U. S. Court of Customs the final deadline on July 25, 1956 Under the law, and Patent Appeals. . . .In order to expedite such

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in 1951. . . .It appeals, the Court has informed the Patent Office extend to the corresponding date all whether kept alive, termi- that it is willing to dispense with the printing of applies to policies, records and briefs (saving considerable money out- nated, or permitted to lapse during that period. . . .

, all forms of policies, term or lay) in such cases, and to hear them as early as Also it applies to has indicated its permanent plan. .. .Don't write VA about your divi- practicable. . . .The Patent Office willingness to provide photostatic copies of papers dend; check will come along as soon after anniversary which accompany the appeal in such number as may be date as the working system permits. . . .Checks for required. the dividends on policies with anniversary dates in January, February and March started to flow out in ILLINOIS HOLDING WW2 BONUS CHECKS: April two Illinois ffW2 vets have bonus One hundred and KPREAN WAR RIBBPNS ISSUED: checks waiting for them if their present addresses The new campaign ribbon authorized for the Korean can be found. . . .These are the fellows who moved and left no forwarding address after filing application War has a field of blue with white stripes at each end and in center ... .A simple design, easily recognized. for the bonus . . . .Benjamin 0^ Cooper. State Auditor of Public Accounts. Springfield. IllinoiSj^ will be . . .First three wearers of the ribbon are 1st Lt more than glad to deliver the checks if the vets will Howard W. Cardoza, Jr., 29, Greenville, Pennsyl- simply forward a change of address affidavit, and, vania; M/Sgt. Andy Partin, 27, Clearfield, of course, offer some proof, Serial Number, etc., Tennessee, and Pfc. Francis Phillips, 19, Ashley, that they are entitled to the check. Pennsylvania, all wounded in Korea. . . .Presentation was made at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, by HOLD ON TO "E" SAVINGS BONDS. Secretary of the Army Frank Pace and General J. Lawton Holders of Series E Savings Bonds that will mature Collins, Army Chief of Staff. this year --ten years old--will do better to hang on KOREAN WAR CASUALTIES: to them instead of cashing them to buy new bonds. . . . New Act of Congress becajne law in March, before Announced United States combat casualties in Korea the first of the $34,650,000,000 outstanding E Bonds ran up to a high total of 54,649 by March 14. . . .A mature on May 1 which will allow holders to continue cumulative summary through March 9 put out by the accumulating interest by retaining their bonds an Defense Department listed 8,101 killed in action, extra ten years, or any part of that period at a 36,108 wounded and 10,440 missing in action. . . .The wounded include 937 who later died. .. .Also, 85 higher rate of interest. . . .No endorsement or vali- dation is necessary; just keep the bonds in the old among the missing are known dead, raising the total of deaths to 9,123. sock. . . .Extended-maturity bonds will accumulate interest at the rate of percent for the first 2}^ VETS BORROW TO BUILD HOMES: seven and a half years, then the interest rate will be stepped up to average out, at the end of ten years, More than 2 . 447 . 000 WW2 vets had obtained GI guaran- teed and insured loans up to a value of nearly $14 at 2.9 percent, compounded semi-annually. . . .There is nothing in the law, however, to keep anyone from billion by the end of 1950. . . .Ninety percent of the

cashing an E Bond that is more than 60 days old from loans were for homes ; the remainder were for farms and businesses. time of initial purchase . . . .Also, the holder may not report interest for income taxes until the bonds WAIVERS RE-UP FOR BAD DISCHARGE HOLDERS: are cashed. . . .Interest on an E Bond is not collected until it is cashed. Holders of undesirable -discharge certificates who seek to re-enlist in the Army must obtain a ORIENTAL WAR BRIDES GET OKAY: waiver from the Adjutant General of the Army. . .

President Truman , on March 22. signed a bill Recruiting officials cannot accept their enlistments

(H. R. 1090) allowing "racially ineligible" wives until the AG reviews the case. . . .Request for waiver of WW2 vets or servicemen to enter the United States should include full facts about the discharge, Army Serial Number, and place of separation, present for the next 12 months. . . .The bill is a one-year date Extension of a previous law which expired in naime and address, and the Army Regulation under

. . for February. . . ."Ineligible" brides are members of which released from service. .Requests waivers certain Oriental races normally barred from perma- go to Ad.iutant General . Department of the Army nent residence in the United States. Washington 25. D^ C^ DIVIDENDS ON USGLI AND NSLI ARMY CALLS 1,500 FIELD-GRADE OFFICERS: Both WWl and WW2 vets who have held on to their Army has ordered 1.100 Ma.lors and 400 L ieutenant insurance are due for a dividend in 1951 ... .No appli- Colonels in the Reserves to report for active duty

cations are necessary in either case. . . .The dividend by June 29. . . .This is the first broad-scale call for checks will be sent out in regular course of opera- field officers; they will join 40,000 company-grade tional procedure, coming near the anniversary date Reservists--Lieutenants and Captains- -already in

of the policy. . . . "We ' ve had a favorable mortality service .... Infantry, artillery, armor, signal experience," saidH. W. Breining, VA Insurance Chief, corps, engineer corps and chemical corps officers

--a death rate considerably lower than anticipated. are embraced in call. . . .Army said they could expect

. . .WWl vets will split a 16-million-dollar dividend to stay in uniform for 21 months. on USGLI, which will bring the total insurance dividends paid on this type of insurance to VET BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE:

$225,000,000. . . .But that is ony a drop in the bucket Bills of veteran interest passed by House and sent

compared to the astronomical figures of NSLI of WW2 to Senate just before the Easter recess include. . . . with some 20 million policies involved, a potentially (1) WW2 vets overcharged on GI homes allowed to bring higher rate at the start, and an even more favorable treble damage suits against all parties concerned,

death rate. . . .Last year VA distributed a special even though they received no part of proceeds, and $2,800,000,000 dividend to all policyholders, lapsed to permit Government to sue if vet fails to bring ones and live ones, to the anniversary date of the charges .... (2) Provides that NSLI dividends after

policy in 1948. . . .That operation wiped the slate January 1, 1952, be credited toward premium payments, clean for those who did not carry their NSLI policies unless vet orders otherwise. ... (3) Amends NSLI Act after discharge or who have failed to renew or rein- of 1940 to increase monthly disability benefits from state. . . .New NSLI dividend declared this year-- $5 to $10 per $1,0P0 of insurance. ... (4) Authorizes amounting to $685. OOP. OOP --is to be paid on all poli- VA to transfer tract of land in Macon County, Alabcuna, cies in effect since anniversary date in 1948 to to Tuskegee Institute. 38 '

Go South For Fun And VroUt fContiTwcd jrom "page 23)

Jim Abbott, traveling chemist, has dis- scores of new industries are springing up, feel that here was an experienced man covered a career that contains a great and booming, in places where factories they could get to work for them without nugget of new opportunity for hundreds never existed before. The South Ameri- salary — practically for nothing. But he of other men who would like to travel cans, importing our machinery and me- lived very comfortably in two establish- through peaceful places, in our own chanical techniques, have wide-open ments, during his first two years in South hemisphere, and make their fortunes at doors for travelers with know-how. America, and took away a nest egg of the same time. He had graduated from Hundreds of ex-G.I. specialists, with over fifteen thousand dollars from each a chemical engineering school, survived more than their share of battles behind hotel — the owners of which were sorry the Jap jungle-murder raids of World them, can travel very profitably in the to see him leave. War II, had his mortar-shredded leg republics south of the Rio Grande. Chem- "If I had taken the only postwar hotel healed rather than amputated. Two years istry is one specialty for which there is job I could find in New York," he said, of war drama had made him restless, too a vast horizon with golden opportunities. "I wouldn't have made half the money, restless for a routine desk or laboratory But there are many others. and look at the way I live here — like a career. He had taken his army savings Ex-mess sergeant Jules, we'll call him millionaire!" and bonus and started out to see Central here, was a Swiss-American whose father It's a long way from an officers' mess in and South America; an article in a chem- had been one of the famed hotel operators war- torn Italy to the skyscraping scenery, ical trade journal had given him the of Geneva and the Alpine lakes before peace, and comfort of southern Chile, but basic idea — new chemical plants were the war. As soon as the U. S. Army dis- Jules had skipped elegantly from war to being sold to South Americans, it dis- covered Jules' special training it took him peace. "Emperor Jules!" I jokingly called closed, and he might find an exciting out of the front lines in Italy and made him the last time I saw him, in white rather than routine job. him mess sergeant at a Division Head- flannels, brass -buttoned blue jacket and "The chemistry of water," he explained quarters — so the high brass could eat yachting cap, stepping into his lake cruiser when we had become good friends, "is well. In time the Army appointed him for a sunset skim over the emerald lake my specialty. There's water, water steward of several officers' clubs. Now he to his fishing lodge. "What king lives bet- everywhere," he laughed, "but often, in is down in the scenic lake district of Chile, ter than you!" South America, not a drop fit to drink the managing director of one of Chile's "Nix!" he laughed. "Just an inn-keeper or for industrial use. I can find water most famous resort hotels; has polo — dressed up this way because the Chile- problems — and profits — in all the most ponies, a fast lake cruiser and fishing ans like it. Nice people! It's fun to work interesting places!" lodge at his beck and call. with or for them!" He had begun by solving the prob- Jules has been traveling and working The desire of South Americans, now lems of small Central American canner- in South America with what he calls his that they no longer spend most of each ies where the mineral content of native "percentage system." His specialty: He year in Europe as they did before the war, water was an unrecognized industrial knows how to administer a swank hotel to have their own fine hotels, swank clubs liability. He had, by the time he reached or club, how to please people, especially and restaurants, is another widely spread the rich Andean highlands, developed people with plenty of money who think opportunity for North Americans as well quite a technique — for combining travel- they are V.I.P. He picks out a place he as Europeans who know how to produce ing with money-making. When he wanted would like to live in, goes to the managers and manage them. Jules is an expert at to move on to a new place he bought of a well-built but mismanaged hotel or assembling, training and directing a staff native products canned there, analyzed club and says: "Senores, I am an expert of highly efficient hotel or club employees; their water contents and the effect chem- Swiss-American hotel and club director. he knows how to use, profitably, all the ically impure water or steam had had on I will run your hotel (or club) on a per- modern U. S. hotel equipment and serv- the tinned product. The small fees he had centage system: 5 percent of the net ice systems. asked in the beginning of his travel had profits plus 10 percent of the increased I have another friend who, before the now been increased to give him not only gross business, semi-annually." war, was an assistant manager of a small all current expenses, but provided quite Since his studies showed him that most east side Manhattan hotel. His war ad- luxurious living and a handsome monthly of the swank hotels or clubs had little if ventures made him want to keep out of profit. any profit, this often made his listeners a desk-to-bed job in a big city. He sat To many other men the step from chemical warfare into a pleasant and <>E]VERAL MISCHIEF By S. B. STEVENS profitable touring of South America might seem impossible, but Jim Abbott — with only one good leg — had pioneered one

excellent blueprint for doing it. "The best decision I ever made," he told me, "was not to take that job with the big Wilmington corporation when I took off my uniform. I can make five times more money traveling — and look at the fun I have!" There was a secret ingredient to this "fun," however, which is important to stress. Jim Abbott is a sj)ecia.list. He is an expert. He could smell impure or chemically imperfect water and had the necessary scientific knowledge to know how to rectify it. He traveled, but he had a bag of tricks with him. He had skill, and he took his skill traveling with him. The parable of the rolling stone gather- ing no moss is, in fact, very much out of date in South America. The right kind of rolling stones can gather plenty of gold. The South Americans, though they may often lack dollars for consumer imports, have plenty of native capital — more than ever before in many instances — and

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • down and tried to figure out how a hotel cans how to use and take care of the Smart North American ex-G.I. special- auditor could travel — and keep on travel- machines. But the Europeans and the ists are today to be seen in many Central ing. A newspaper story gave him the Africans, he soon decided, were not going and South American communities, earn- answer. to become machine -minded on their farms ing a pleasant living, putting aside sub- It was only a small item in the back right away, and his future, once the U. S. stantial savings — savings that are usually pages but it said that an airline company taxpayer became fed up with giving farm tax-free. Only a few years ago, with their was starting to build a chain of small machinery to foreigners, didn't seem very war service over, they thought adventure hotels in South America for the conveni- secure. He stopped off in Brazil on his was all behind them. They, in fact, are ence of its international passengers. airway home from Africa, "just to see the new pioneers — going south now be- "That's it!" he said to himself. "Get a job what Brazil looked like" before he re- cause there is no more wide open West in with someone like that — who has hotels turned to his Kansas home. It will be a their native land. They will be the pio- in many places!" long time before he again sees Kansas. neers of an industrially expanding West- The ex-G.I. who wanted to get away The tropical rains have torn down his- ern Hemisphere — to the South. from New York is now traveling super- torical farm contours and rich topsoil in Some of these ex-G.I. specialists are visor of the hotels and clubs which an many of Brazil's richest agricultural dis- creating, for instance, new banana estates expanding airline has built throughout tricts. Bob, today, has not one but four in Central America, new cocoanut groves South America. A week here, two weeks mechanization and soil preservation proj- and plantations of recently discovered there, he is constantly going places and ects ahead of him in different parts of medicinal plants. In South America they seeing new things, swooping up into the Brazil, where wealthy Brazilian farm and are discovering and developing new skies before any one place bores him, ranch owners are eagerly awaiting his mines, restocking and improving sheep, alighting again far away among new arrival. Oxen and peons are not as effi- alpaca, or llama ranches; growing long scenery — and new faces. cient, Bob easily proves to the BrazUisms, staple cotton which produces more profit "It's the change of faces as well as scen- as tractors and machinery. than any cotton they could grow in the ery I like," he told me recently. "I never "Bom, Senhor!" the Brazilians welcome United States. Ex-G.I. specialists are have too long a time with the same people him. "Welcome to my ranch, make my helping to build modern automobile high- or places to get fed up with them!" home your home, make my farm rich ways, modern automotive service sta- Seeing South America profitably is also like the farms of the North Americans!" tions, motion picture theatres, radio sta- another ex-G.I., a former Kansas farmer. The Latin Americans, in contrast to the tions, even copies of modem U. S. depart- For three years he has been traveling as North Americans, like "rolling stones." ment stores. Others are helping to build a "mechanization and soil consultant." The North Americans, whose ancestors or operate little factories to make things That's a title he invented, he admits, but were all "rolling stones," rolling ever which have historically been imported it has opened a lot of nice doors for him. westward, have now become quite seden- from the United States or Europe. There are some very big farms and tary. But the South Americans still have Writers of how-to-be-a-success books ranches in South America, big as some vast areas of jungle, savanna, pampas, new forget one of the great facts of our past U. S. States, run unsystematically, with farms and sites for big cities to roll into, history when they advise against being a primitive tools little better than those of and through. Both ranch owners and in- rolling stone. America was founded and the Aztecs or Incas. The desire, however, dustrialists, and in many instances com- developed by men who refused to stay for machinery and modem soil conserva- mercial businessmen, are eager to cap- put. From Columbus to the modern trans- tion knowledge is increasing. Bob, raised ture any new "rolling stone" talent that port pilot our advancing strength has on a small but in time highly-mechanized rolls their way from North America. You been based on things we accomplished by Kansas farm, knows farm equipment and don't have to knock hesitatingly on many not staying home. We have been a con- how to contour land with modern ma- doors in this continent where pioneers tinent of men constantly going places and chinery to stop the rainy season's con- are active; you will be grabbed quickly doing things. stant erosion. by some eager host who wants your The greatest protagonists, in fact, of our Bob's fii'st postwar job was with a large knowledge — who will pay generously for present industrial supremacy have been U. S. manufacturer of agricultural ma- it and share his new profits with you. the traveling salesmen of the United chinery who sent him to Europe and "I have a gringo expert with me now!" States. They took their sample cases west- North Africa with a shipload of machines I have heard South Americans pridefully ward through North America as terri- exported under the Marshall Plan. His announce to less fortimate neighbors. tories became states, then across the job was to show the Europeans and Afri- "Watch what we do!" oceans to Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of the great fortunes of the future will be made by men who start out as travel- ing salesmen specializing in the South American market. One of these men has already pioneered a fortune. He "traveled in cutlasses," as the commercial travelers say. He disliked the idea of staying in one small U.S. city for the purpose of managing his father's small drygoods store, so he got a com- mission job with a manufactvurer of machetes and crossed the Texas border some twenty years ago with a suitcase of samples and a nice new order book. The machete or cutlass, in those days, was a combination all-purpose tool and weapon, a constant companion of mil- lions of Central and South Americans — who imported them most often from the steel factories of England. My friend thought that gave him an opportunity — for seeing Latin America and making some money at the same time. His trail lengthened out from Mexico, through Guatemala, Honduras, San Sal- vador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; then through South America from Colom- bia to Patagonia. And a now famous U. S. trademark went constantly with him —

4Q • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 millions of U. S. machetes which, in many be your portable specialty down yonder? they had heard of as experts but it is still primitive jungles and pampas, be- Next, go to the public library and read usually better to pack your bags — and came the primary tool of a dawning in- back through the trade and technical specialty — and travel southward on yoxir dustrial civilization. John today, as his journals of the industry which uses that own capital until you encounter them in commissions accrue, has bank accounts specialty; you will find in them many the midst of their problem. If you write in 20 cities south of the border, from items of that industry's exports to or ex- letters to industrialists south of the Rio Mexico to Buenos Aires. When he accu- pansion in the other American republics; Grande, write them in English, attaching mulates what he considers to be too much what U. S. companies are sending what, a Spanish translation. Though many Cen- cash dinero in any one country he moves or doing what, in Central or South tral and South Americans speak and read his headquarters there, into one of his America. Write the export managers of English a letter from you to them in many fine casas and spends it. His new these firms for further details. If you are Spanish — or for a Brazilian in Portuguese plan is to use his millions of pesos for a photographic expert, for example, sur- — is a courtesy that's quickly reciprocated. creating small hardware factories. vey the photo industry trade journals for If you can cut loose and have a few Here is something to remember: Every news of the exporting of photographic thousand dollars saved up, as traveling time a new invention is hatched any- equipment or laboratories to Central or capital, you can do as Jim Abbott, travel- where in the 48 United States of North South America — or the Caribbean. The ing water chemist did — go to the first America, a brand new highway of travel export managers of such equipment man- place you want to see, pick out your own southward is opened for live-wire, expert, ufacturers, if you explain your interest, prospects there, call on them and sell at U. S. traveling salesmen. The Latins love will usually give you many valuable de- least one of them the idea of engaging you gadgets, as well as deep freezers. They tails as to the southern purchasers. as a consultant or manager. The fact that buy Mickey Mouse watches as well as Many U. S. export managers will wel- you do not know Spanish, or Portuguese, radio stations. come you with open arms for they have need not be a mental hazard; but take Scores of ex-G.I. specialists, though two problems: the task of selling their along several good grammars, language they may not realize it, have the whole equipment, and the problem of having it guides and a dictionary. In the beginning Western Hemisphere south of the Rio operated properly, so that one satisfied a nice smile bridges the language gap; Grande waiting for them. Just "latch on" Central or South American customer but it is a greater asset to learn your to something new and useful which our leads to another. Many U. S. maniafac- prospect's language as soon as you can. inventors or factories are beginning to turers, if they know that an expert in the Using the cheaper travel routes, such produce, but which hasn't been exported use of their product is traveling from as buses, freighters, cargo planes, or your south of the border; get a good lawyer country to country, will frequently have own jalopy, you can do a lot of traveling to draw up a squeeze-proof territorial consulting jobs they, as well as the pur- southward with a thousand dollars. If rights percentage franchise for Central chasers, want you to undertake. An ex- some people tell you that traveling for and South America, and go south with pert tractor operator and repairman, re- profit is too much of a gamble, remember your samples — traveling for fun and cently, foxmd that there were jobs for instead that scores of other men are find- profit. Traveling salesmen, with their him in every new community — where ing it increasingly possible, even easy. the S. tractor manufacturer bags of exciting inventions from the U. he had The era of many new fortimes is just be- talked before leaving the United States, are received with special with States had ginning, south of the Rio Grande. hospitality south of the Rio Grande. complaining customers or buyers who I like the philosophy of good living For men wanting to travel south needed expert on-the-groimd advice. with which you find among the hospitable their own special knowledge, rather than When manpower is tightening up in the people of the republics to the south of bags of manufactured samples, here are United States, fewer and fewer U. S. man- us; they have a nice slogan, in this the basic procedures for success: First, ufacturers can keep roving service man- troubled world, which guides their daily select the one thing you know most about agers in Central and South America. That lives: "Health, wealth — and plenty of and at which you can now, or soon, really can be your traveling opportunity and time to enjoy them!" call yourself an expert. This calling profit! ex-G.I. friends in Central and South may be in the industrial fields of chem- The third step is to take your specialty My enjoy, also, something else istry, mechanics or engineering, or in south to the man who needs it. This can America can some of the other sciences or techniques sometimes be done by writing ahead to that has disappeared in the United States which are needed in new or expanding the list of prospects in Central or South — very low taxes. South of the border factories and agricultural or commercial America. I have known of South Ameri- you don't have to give most of your projects. First, in other words, what will cans to fly to the U. S. to talk with men profits to the tax man. the end

Does Veterans Preference Cripple Our Civil Service? (Continued from page 17) leagues first raised their eyebrows at the would let the bureaus make their own amination system, would bring back the "free-rein gimmick" in the line of duty. rules for hiring government job seekers, rotten spoils system prevalent before the It would permit a government agency, would be dangerous not only to veterans, passage of the Civil Service Act of 1883. when hiring men and women for gov- whose preference could be ignored, but In those days, government jobs were ernment jobs, to ignore the Veterans to all goverrmient job applicants of the bought and sold. A year's salary in pay- Preference Act even while it remains the "wrong" race, religion, family, politics, ment for a four-year appointment was law of the land. The Veterans Preference sex, habit of thought or social group. Im- common practice. The appointee who had Act depends on the open -examination partial Washington observers agree that to pay for his job replenished his wallet, and point system in Civil Service for even under present legal restrictions some of course, from the public treasury or by its enforcement, and the proposed law agencies go so far as to specialize in em- accepting bribes. Veterans preference and expressly permits agencies to ignore the ployes of one or another religion today. merit were supposed to be in effect, but examination and point system. 2. However irritating clearly written preference and merit in practice got lost Says Lavers, "It didn't require a sec- laws that define hiring and firing in the in the ruffle- duffle of political shenanigans. ond look to see that there's enough dyna- Government may be, such laws protect Of all the laws written into the books, mite in these proposals not only to wreck the best kind of administrators. Their the most effective one in stopping that veterans preference, but to undermine the offices would become unusually attrac- historic monkey business was the law re- whole structure of the merit system in tive to ambitious and corrupt men if quiring agencies to hire according to civil service." bureau chiefs were granted broad, ar- points earned in open examinations for Lawrence J. Fenlon of Chicago, Chair- bitrary powers to set up a patronage sys- jobs, conducted by the Civil Service man of the Legion's National Economic tem as of yore. Commission. Commission, is quick to itemize the two Competent witnesses have testified be- Opening the doors to the old spoils sys- gravest dangers to the entire nation that fore Congressional hearings that dispersal tem in our hugely expanded 1951 bureau- he and his colleagues see. of government job recruiting, and classi- cracy could, warns one Legion student of 1. The "free-rein gimmick," which fying applicants outside of a definite ex- the Hoover report, "invite a putrefaction

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • beside which the deepest cesspool of 19th sonal politics in the Departments. . . . doubt that the agencies could do a better century intrigue would seem like the Similarly, Democratic Rep. George P. job under less legal restrictions, history purest lily. In the old days they just didn't Miller of California said: "I am inter- says they wouldn't. First to go, in the have the billions to play around with to ested in taking steps to guard against stampede for patronage, could well be corrupt the government properly." any head of an agency building up a per- many of the most honest officials. Regarding the proposal to turn the Civil sonal empire or kingdom through per- What does all this have to do with vet- Service Commission into a corps of in- sonal favoritism, which has been preva- erans preference? ." spectors to keep the agencies in line with lent in the bureaus. . . The fears of Veterans organizations officials have told their new-found freedom, the same vitri- the Congressmen are justified. The very me, almost to a man, that not only wotild olic commentator remarks: "In the name kind of abuse to be expected from any the Hoover proposals wipe out veterans of economy and efficiency this one pro- plan of scattered recruitment for govern- preference, but that veterans preference posed law provides that we make our- ment jobs is demonstrated in the trick- is a widely circulated "reason" for kill- selves a big mess we don't have now and ery uncovered in the Coast and Geodetic ing the point system for good in civil then buy ourselves a police force to Survey in the past year. service. straighten it out." Although the Civil Service Commis- Legion officials say that, consciously or On a more factual basis, the Legion's sion is in charge of all recruiting, it does unconsciously, the new proposals reflect Mr. Fenlon reports that a survey of the make scores of exceptions to permit spe- a sympathetic response by the Hoover probable economy under the proposed cialized units to hire their own personnel. Commission to the constant resistance it change was recently made in conjunction Last May the Commission belatedly dis- found, within agencies, against hiring with the Civil Service Commission. The covered that through slick juggling of and firing men and women according to findings of this survey are not apt to the register, 50 illegal appointments had strict rules of law. make taxpayers sleep more soundly. Ex- been made in the Coast and Geodetic Agency heads who had long chafed amining boards for government job-seek- Survey. Only after a recent internal against the restrictions of the compul- ers, according to this survey, would be housecleaning has that agency regained sory merit system had little on which to increased by as much as 2,068. The cost the right to hire its own personnel. If base a plausible complaint until veterans of examining government job applicants such flim-flammery can take place in preference was solidified into one clear could rise from the present six million Washington, right under the nose of the law. dollars to over 57 million dollars a year. Civil Service Commission, imagine what As soon as the Veterans Preference Act What the additional cost of policing the the bureaus scattered around the country became law, howls began to be heard agencies would be is a matter of guess- could do to the Civil Service Law once from many agencies that this preference work. A number of civil service experts, they were all given free rein to hire on made it far too difficult to hire good men including one member of the commis- their own. and women. sion, have admitted to me that it would What kind of thinking is behind the Today, after seven years of clearly- require hundreds, perhaps thousands, of suggestions to "progress" by turning the defined veterans preference, the irrita- civil service inspectors adequately to en- calendar back 70 years in government tions of the 70-year-old compulsory point force civil service rules under the pro- hiring? system have been so thoroughly pinned posed system of scattered hiring. None Some of it is sincere. to veterans preference that a brief pause of these Washington-wise officials be- Proponents of the new proposals stake is necessary to see what veterans pref- lieves for a minute that Congress would their case chiefly on a belief that an erence is and what it is not. provide ample funds to create such a honest and capable man, hiring for a Under present law, most agencies must huge auxiliary police force. government agency, can do a better job hire new employes from the top of a reg- Legionnaires also feel that there is if he is free of legal restrictions. But po- ister compiled by the Civil Service Com- serious question whether any number of litical realists point, out that while this mission for the kind of job to be filled. inspectors could prevent final corruption thinking may be sound in a business, The candidates are listed in order of the if our agencies are not bound by law to where administrators rise and fall ac- examination grades they have earned — definite hiring procedures. cording to judgments that produce a profit with the exception of veterans, as noted During the Congressional hearings on or a loss, government is not business. below. this issue. Republican Rep. H. R. Gross Power, not profit, is a prime personal mo- Veterans have no preference at all in of Iowa commented: "I think that one of tive in government, say Washington hard- promotion. A veteran's preference comes the greatest vices in Government is per- heads. They add that while there is no in being hired in the first place, and in keeping his job in time of layoffs. In hiring, no preference is final. All new civil service employes, including vet- erans, are on probation for one year. To increase his chance of being hired for this probational period any veteran en- joys a five-point boost in his examination grade. A disabled veteran, his wife if he is too disabled to work, the widow of a veteran, and in some cases the mother of a dead or disabled veteran, rate ten points preference. Those veterans, wives, widows and mothers in the disabled category, but no others, rise to the top of the register if they pass. However, this last does not apply in professional or scientific jobs paying $3,000 or more. Among themselves, the disabled who have gone to the top of the register are listed in order of their earned grades. An agency is not compelled to hire the man at the top of the list. The rule of three permits an agency to hire any one of the top three men on a register, so tliat the agency may have some discre- tion of its own: except that it must give reasons for passing over a veteran to select a non-veteran.

^2 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 The nile of three has long been used Such practices are not rare in govern- score. But the sound of the cries seems and abused. It is undoubtedly a good ment service today, and they are not out of all proportion to the actual situa- rule in spite of the way many a good used against veterans alone. They give tion. A recent check of one register — man at the top of a register has been agencies leeway to use good judgment, and not a hand-picked one — indicated passed over for personal or political rea- and they work equally well in favor of that over 95 percent of the veterans on sons. The proposed new law, in addition "pets" eind against anyone an agency it had earned a passing score without to letting each agency exercise a good head doesn't like. their five or ten points preference. deal of its own judgment to make up the Which isn't to say that all agencies are Even so, the Disabled American Vet- register in the first place, would also ex- unprincipled, but does show the kind of erans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, pand the rule of three to a rule of five. abuse that happens even under present in a move to eliminate this focal point Today, in actual practice, a govern- restrictions. Such abuses are scarcely an of attack by foes of veterans preference, ment official bent on violating the spirit ad for a free hand in the agencies. recently proposed to change the certifi- of the law can even get around the rule The proposed new law specifically cation regulations so as to give a veteran of three by various subterfuges - such as would wipe out all veterans preference his preference points only after he had ignoring the register and filling in the in job retention by redefining layoff pro- scored 70 in his civil service examination. open job by borrowing an employe from cedure without regard to the Veterans Legion specialists have debated going another agency, or shifting jobs around Preference Act. In addition, the recom- along with the 70-points-for-all idea. within his department so that the new mendations of the Citizens Committee But when it was called to a convention job is filled from a different register. for the Hoover Report would make the vote it was rejected. Some Legionnaires Pi-obably the most xmderhanded dodge present reduction-in-force (layoff) pro- point out that this particular suggestion of all is this double -deal: An official in gram more complicated and create a few depends for its force on the assumption Agency A wants to hire a man who is more loopholes. It's all highly technical that veterans preference compels the Civil tenth from the top of the register, for Service Commission to qualify men and reasons best known to himself. He gets women who are actually incompetent. friendly hiring officials in Agencies B, C But examining boards can, should and and D to call for three men each, and usually do make exams tough enough to while these first nine are supposedly assure that the veteran who passes with imder consideration. Agency A hires the a grade of 60 or 65 is a reasonably good tenth man on the list-now "first." Later, bet for the job. Nothing in the prefer- the first nine, against whom there is some ence act requires the boards to place prejudice in Agency A, learn that Agen- incompetents on the register. If 70 were cies B, C and D don't need any one of required of all, the veteran would be them. done out of his legal preference in the So much for hiring. bottom-passing-grade level by an argu- Veterans also have preference in time ment that pretends examining boards of layoffs. don't know in advance that veterans could But those who think this means that pass with 60 or 65. every non -veteran must be fired before Because veterans preference crops up any veteran goes have been misled. Vet- again and again as the justification for erans preference in a layoff simply means the "free-rein gimmick" the public needs that, all other preferences being equal, a straight answer on how veterans pref- the veteran gets the break. There are a erence actually works. great many other preferences for job- Does veterans preference really ham- retention, such as seniority-on-the-job, string agencies? Is it a reason for abolish- seniority - in - the - agency, performance ing the compulsory merit system, or is it an excuse? rating, etc. "You men have probably heard your Members of the Legion's National Eco- Between two men with the same per- friends speak about this organization." formance rating who are doing similar nomic Commission have some ready AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE work in the some pay grade in the same answers. First, they say, there is a bright agency, the veteran should stay if one side to the picture. Veterans preference must go — according to the spirit of the stuff, but here's one example: Competi- has worked admirably where it has been Veterans Preference Act. It is simply not tive employes are now in two perform- tried best. true that every non-veteran must be let ance categories, satisfactory and unsatis- The experience of the Farmers Home out in order to keep every vetersm. A vet- factory. The Citizens Committee would Administration is a case in point. Dillard ercin who is rated "unsatisfactory" must create five separate performance groups. B. Lasseter, FHA director, made a whole- be laid off ahead of a non-veteran who is Preference in layoffs is measiu-ed only in hearted effort to put over preference. rated "satisfactory." terms of your own competitive group. To the heads of his 1600 field agencies It has been said many times that vet- With five groups to juggle, agencies Lasseter wrote: erans preference hurts the career servant would have far more room to use good "If there is any doubt whatever in your in government employment. Of course judgment, and as much more room to interpretations on any point in the pro- veterans and career employes are not shuffle the favorite sons into "safe" cedures or regulations, you must decide

two different groups. Veterans themselves groups, then make the layoffs from a in favor of the veteran. . . . are career employes as well as are non- framed-up "stinker" group. It is not just "I am determined that this organiza- veterans. In a lay-off, a career (perma- cynicism, but the black history of gov- tion not only meet its legal obligations nent) employe has higher retention rights ernment hiring of a century ago, that to the veterans, but that we meet our than a temporary employe, even if the justifies extreme caution toward pro- moral obligation, which extends far be- latter is a veteran. posals which could bring the old abuses yond the mere limits of our legal and Some agencies make use of two loop- back in full force. No newspaper reader regulator^' obligations. ..." holes in the present law so that a veteran or television spectator can believe that Today there is no question that FHA will be first to go in a reduction in force. corruption is not still looking for an has done one of the best jobs in Govern- (1) The veteran's performance rating opening. ment in the application of veterans can be lowered to "tmsatisfactory," there- A passing grade in a civil service ex- preference. by effectually eliminating his preference. amination is 70. At the same time, this agency has per- (2) He can be drastically demoted by Foes of preference have for years formed its functions so well, that Speaker changing his job description under the raised a hue and cry over veterans with of the House Sam Raybum, of Texas, weis guise of reorganizing to promote effi- less-than-70 earned examination points recently moved to describe the Farmers ciency in the service. The demotion could getting on the register, and, in the case of Home Administration as the best admin- be severe enough to drive him out of the disabled veterans, getting to the top of istered agency he has known in 38 years agency. the register, despite a "substandard" in Washington.

The Ameiican Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • 43 Experiences like that give cause to 'These are the young men and women their jobs when the government began wonder if the complaints against the Vet- who, apart from the calamity of war, to reduce personnel.

erans Preference Act have not been would be entering the civil service. . . . This charge is an out and out phony. greatly exaggerated. Most of them will return with capacities Such instances of bumping were rare ex- Agencies like FHA find actual benefits unimpaired and with a sense of responsi- ceptions, and usually done deliberately

for themselves in veterans preference. It bility . . . inspired by their wartime ex- by some government officials who wanted is a legal preference which may be sub- periences and by a deeper appreciation to get rid of the non-veteran and then stituted for personal preference and the of the values of the American way of life. blamed the Veterans Preference Act. bad morale that goes with it. There's no "With them we can build, if we are Every Washington official knows that race, creed, color, sex or politics in vet- wise enough to do it, a public service when an agency really wants to retain a erans preference. finer than any we yet know." non-veteran, it finds a way to do so, vet- All agencies know that the oft-mouthed The psrofessor's suggestion certainly erans preference notwithstanding. charge that veterans as a group are less seems worth the very best try. There have been some remarkable competent than non -veterans is strictly Yet it is certain that the Veterans Pref- cases of deliberately bumping an old hokum. erence Act has never been fairly tried hand by demoting or transferring him to In recent months at least half the pro- throughout the Government. From place a competitive spot where "veterans pref- motions in the government have gone to to place it has got a good deal, a fair deal erence will get him." veterans, although veterans have no pref- and a raw deal. It was doomed to rough There are reasonable-sounding argu- erence in promotions. A more graphic treatment in some agencies because the ments against the present law which lets illustration of the competence of veterans "ins" saw it as a threat to their security all disabled veterans who pass, however narrowly, rise to the top of many of the registers. Although the Government has thus far recognized an obligation of tre- mendous morality to help disabled vet- erans earn a living, nobody could applaud a vision of thousands of disabled veterans, who just squeezed in with a grade of 60, filling all the choice spots on the govern- ment job registers. Between the clear moral obligation and the alleged dangers to good govern- ment service a balance must be found. And that's one rub. Nobody has come forweird with any figures to show to what extent agencies have been compelled to hire disabled vet- erans with low qualifications. Congress could make a specific and fair decision on the disabled veteran issue on the basis of accurate figures. On this point, Legion Economic Chair- man Fenlon (who was also chairman of the Legion committee that presented the Veterans Preference act to Congress in 1944) says: "The disabled veterans pref- GAl/ALC( erence is not something to be tossed aside lightly. "There are, today, 142,000 seriously dis- abled veterans in government jobs. Not "Well, you can't take it with you either, McEvoy . . . and the answer is still 'no'!" slightly disabled, but seriously. The Gov- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ernment has invested huge simis in re- habilitating them. But the end result of is shown in the operation of the govern- at the hands of the returning veterans of rehabilitation is employment — to put the ment's intern program, designed to dis- War Two, who were out, and who had injured man back on his own feet and let cover and develop administrative talent. been removed from competition for gov- him earn his own living proudly. We all Although this program is conducted ernment jobs by war duty from 1941 to have an investment in the 142,000 re- on a non-preference basis, with each of 1946. habilitated men in government jobs, and the candidates undergoing the most rigid There have been deliberate efforts to in the newly rehabilitated men who are and severe tests and exams, six out of make veterans preference fail, and some and will be applying for such jobs. And every ten employes chosen for the pro- of the severest criticisms have come from they have an investment in us. We have gram since it was started in 1945 have sources which devoted at least as much not yet broken down the unreasonable been veterans. In 1949, of 30 successful energy to getting around veterans pref- barriers against hiring the disabled in candidates 22 were veterans; last year, erence as to making it work. private employment, and there remains 33 out of 43 were veterans. "The veter- When the Veterans Preference Act was a deep prejudice against the disabled in ans are simply showing better perform- first passed there was little-veiled oppo- hundreds of government offices. ance," comments Franklin G. Connor, di- sition by those agency chiefs who didn't "Meanwhile, nobody has even hinted rector of the intern program for the Civil want to be bothered with the extra work that he can make a case against our moral Service Commission. required in fairly administering the law. obligation to the disabled veterans. Yet Back in 1944, Leonard D. White, pro- One administrator even asked the Civil this latest bill, HR 2748, would - like its fessor of public administration at the Service Commission to relieve him of the earlier versions — wipe that moral obli- University of Chicago and a former mem- restrictions before he learned that the gation off the books." ber of the Civil Service Commission, preference procedure had been put into In any event, even many of the men in speaking of the veterans who'd be com- law specifically to make officials like him government agencies who heartily dis- ing home from the war, said: toe the mark. like disabled veterans preference agree "In this body of 15,000,000 young men One attack on veterans preference is that by no stretch of the imagination can and women are to be found the best the oft-repeated charge that after War the complaints about veterans, disabled minds, the most indomitable energy, the Two, veterans with one or two years of or otherwise, justify the Hoover proposals needed aptitudes and skills, and the fin- government experience bumped persons to give government agencies a free hand est character of the American people. with 20 to 25 years' experience out of to write their own rules. the end

44 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 iiotv To rUty Better HELP.'' CRIED THE BOY. "OVER HERE! HELP!" Golf Without Pt'actiee (Continited from page 15) was a cheer from the gallery near the green, indicating that the ball had cleared the water hazard. A second later there was another and louder cheer, which meant that the ball had hit the green. This was followed by a roar, indicating that the ball was rolling close to the hole — and then suddenly there was an erup- tion around the green and hats were thrown into the steaming Georgia air. "I must have holed the damned thing," Sarazen grinned. He had. Gene thus picked up his three birdies on one hole, with a double eagle two on the par five laj'out. He finished the last three holes with pars to tie Wood — and won the playoff. But it's that double eagle they remember. "If that shot had stopped eight inches from the hole," Sarazen insists, "it would have been remembered as a great shot. Instead, they call it a lucky one." Sarazen will tell you that he simply hit a shot he knew he could hit. It ?i'as lucky that it went in the hole, but Sara- zen wasn't pressing his luck, he was mak- ing it. You can make yours, too, if you'll play it smart. The surest way to increase your luck is to give your luck a chance by playing within reason. If what is rea- sonable for Sarazen is preposterous for Telephone lineman braves icy water three times. Other members you, you'll score better if you don't try to be Sarazen. of construction crew help in rescue and resuscitation. Another frustrating bugaboo we Sun- day sufferers encounter is when we final- ly do reach the green. Figure up the It was a cold winter afternoon and a toward a smaller hole, i'ne or six feet number of times you have three -putted, telephone construction crew work- away. a common catastrophe for the occasional was hacker, and you'll get what I mean. ing along South Road in Bedford, The ne.xt few seconds seemed like Remember, despite all the other shots, Massachusetts. years, for he was out of sight. Then exactly one-half of a round of par golf Suddenly they heard a boy's voice suddenly there was a splashing in the is composed of putts. On the perfect card, from a nearby creek. open water. It was Foley, and he had the allowance is for 18 tee shots. 18 ap- the boy in his arms. "Help! ...... proaches — and 36 putts. And here is a over here help!" Immediately Jolm F. Fitzgerald, the spot where you can be just as good as the Robert B. Foley was the first tele- pros, and without that endless practice foreman of the construction crcv\' — phone man to reach the bank. A f rantic they preach. trained lor first aid in emergencies — boy told him that his buddy, Donald In putting, there is no universal stance started to resiiscit.ite the boy and had King, had fallen into a hole and was and just about anything goes. I know him breathing by the time the police under the ice. one duffer is to his locker- who known and firemen arri\cd with an inhalatoi. room mates as a demon putter — and he Foley crawled over the surface flat 1 herc s a postscript to the story that uses one hand. This gent for years had on his stomach to distribute his weight been persecuted with a left-hand com- you might like to hear. and keep the ice from breaking. lie plex. His left hand was turning the club; In recognition of their deed, Robert got to the hole and without hesitating it was just plain in the way. So he took Foley and John Fitzgerald were gi\en let himself down in the water, clear the hand out of the way completely, \'ail Medals, the traditional awards to out of sight. helping to steady himself by placing it telephone people lor meritorious acts on his left knee. Then, to increase his one- He went down twice without finding public ser\ ice. Robert handed touch, performed in the he stripped the wi-apping Donald. Then the boy on the bank from the handle of his putter so he could Folex' also was aw .irded a bronze medal yelled . . . feel the clubhead weight better. by the Carnegie I Icro Fund. Malcolm "No, not that hole. The one over Yet his real secret is figuring on two S. Gate, Jr., Harold G. Nelson, John T. putts instead of one, which means that there." Gochran, IIo^^ard G. Roche and James he rarely takes three! He envisions an im- Down went Foley for the third time, II. Lucas, the other members of the aginary circle around the cup and shoots pushing himself along under the ice cre\\', recei\ed Company Citations. to stop the ball in that circle on his first putt. Quite a number of times his ball crosses the middle of that circle, which HELPING HANDS—This is just one of many stories of the skill, courage means he has one-putted. By never try- and resourcefulness of telephone men and women in times of emergency. ing to sink the first putt, unless it is al- . . . Not all of them tell of the saving of a life. But there is scarcely a minute most a "concede," he seldom three-putts, that someone in trouble or urgent need does not turn to the telephone for help. often one- putts. "Not only has this idea proved itself a No matter what the hour of the day or night, you know that telephone proper plan for putting well under 36 per people will do everything they can to be of ser\ice. And do it willini;ly

all possible . . . round," he says, "but it also gives me a and courteously, with speed. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM The American Loqion Magazine • May, 1951 • 45 psychological edge over the fellow who tance is the most important thing in ap- expects to be perfect. A fiinny thing about proach-putting." us duffers is that any Sunday you'll see To most of us Sunday sufferers, how- more of us blowing up because our good ever, distance isn't the only problem on shots aren't better and because our ter- the shorter putts which might mean a rible ones are what they are, and that coveted par. That's the spot where if the goes for all the strokes in golf. We'll take ball strays oft' line just a fraction of an to the woods on the big slice quite phi- inch the sun quits shining for the after- losophically. But let us blast a long, noon. straight one at the green and if it stops Jug McSpaden, who with Byron Nelson two inches off the carpet we'll die a thou- composed golf's "Gold Dust Twins" of sand deaths because it wasn't right up to 1945 and 1946, has a word of hope hero. the pin. If we don't take ourselves in hand And McSpaden hereby passes along a tip these good shots of ours will throw us off guaranteed to help your putting, and with our game entirely — and that's where my but a minimum of practice. putting plan pays off mentally. "The greatest trouble in sinking short "Say I have a forty-foot putt. I shoot putts is pulling the ball off line, to one to stop the ball in a ten foot circle cen- side or the other," he insists. "Well, the tering around the cup. That's a nice, big next time you play, get out there a little target all of which is within five feet of early and try this on the putting green: the cup. The ball dribbles past the cup "Turn your left hand as far under as and stops three feet away. Even if the possible, so that the left thumb is flat on next guy up does exactly the same thing the left side of the shaft. Overlap your I have the edge on him. I'm happy and right hand with the right thumb doubled confident because I did what I tried to, squarely on top of the shaft. It might feel while he's shaken and sore at his near awkward at first, as any change does, miss. In fact, the closer he comes on his but you'll find that you just can't hook the long putts the more he's rattled because ball." they don't drop. Result? I step up and Next Sunday, show up a half hour early tap my three -footer in, while he may for your match and give it a try on the flub his because of his mental state." practice green. It works, amazingly. There you have one successful Sunday Now how about sand traps? There are golfer who figured out for himself the very few duffers in the occasional golf

ai''* identical putting theory which has helped class who don't get the hacking horrors ground „:.;ceot make Lloyd Mangrum one of the bright- when they see that little white ball trickle scenery V est professional stars. tragically into a sand trap or hide itself Uin ^ don't think it a great deal of in near the green. For those Drama, "I makes deep rough tT'lndian difference how you grip the club in put- of us in this grumbling group there is a ting," us. swing valuable stroke-saver no farther away -Unto These Mangrum consoles "Just the ball up there. I don't pay a great deal than the nearest golf shop. a ne V/heie ^^^^ of attention to the line on long putts. The terror of the golf course long has moloxmg in g^uE What I mean is, that isn't nearly as im- been that explosion shot, whether from portant as the distance. If you stop to sand or deep rough. The question for remember, any time you three-putt a most of us using the nine iron or the nib- mountains green it isn't because are at side lick is whether the ball is going to stay ^^'*^'test you one or the other on your first. It is too long or in the trap or ride clear over the green, Eastern i„ too short. in all probability into another trap. The

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• The American Loqion Magazine • May, 1951 With such delicate precision necessary, very few of the Sunday sufferers are con- sistently successful in such shots, prin- cipally because we don't have the prac- tice time necessary. There's an equipment lesson here. Get yourself a sand wedge, that "secret weapon" of the pros, and, take it from Toney Penna, the 1948 North-South champion, you'll lose those sand shakes. "Whether it is heavy grass or sand, the wedge will do the trick," insists Penna. "In tournament play, the traps are al- ways deep. But even if the traps are hard, as they are on many courses where the average golfer plays, the wedge works better than the thin bladed clubs." The wedge is a blasting blessing which has won a lot of tournaments. One for which it can take full credit is Mangrum's victory in the 1946 National Open. Lloyd was leading Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi by only one slim stroke when they went to the 615-yard 16th at Cleve- land's Canterbury Club in a second 18- hole playoff for the greatest prize in American golf. But his slender lead was threatened there when he knocked his brassie second into almost knee-deep rough some sixty yards short of the green. It was raining the proverbial bucketsful, making any shot a delicate one. Yet Mangrum, even under those con- ditions, walloped a wedge shot stiff to the pin out of all that drenched alfalfa for a birdie which clinched his triumph. Another tip for the casual clouter is one that comes under the heading of mental equipment. Everybody loves to knock the cover off the ball. It's a natural desire. But if there's one particular fault which completely flattens the Sunday golfer, it's trying to send one a country mile.

So quit trying to kill it! The greatest object lesson in this de- partment is Jimmy Thomson, who knocked the ball farther and won less than anybody in the top brackets of golf. Jimmy became a power hitter, one such as you picture yourself to be when you wind yourself into a knot on Sunday afternoons and try to smack it completely out of shape. Yes, Jimmy could really belt it. He once knocked a ball 442 yards in a tournament at the Engleside Golf THESE days smart tire buyers want building better passenger, truck and Club in San Francisco and, in one British 'em rugged. And they don't come tractor tires, is your assurance that Open at Muirfield, he drove the 375- any more rugged than Armstrong Armstrong tires are tough as they yard 11th, the ball rolling between Ed tires, the only tires in the world made come. See your nearby dealer display- Dudley's legs as he was about to putt. with Rhino-Flex construction. That's ing the famous Armstrong "Tuffy". The question when Jimmy hit it, though, why tiiey're uiiconditiuncdly gitiimnteed You'll be glad you did. Armstrong was where it was going to go. He would for 18 months against all road haz- Rubber Co., West Haven 16, Conn., hook one time, and fade it off the next,

, Export: and after either shot he was likely to be ards. This guarantee, backed by Natchez, Al/ss. Des Aloines, Iowa. as far away from the green as when he Armstrong's 38 years' experience in 20 East 50th St., New York 22. teed off. Spanning three fairways, to left or to right, is no feat for the likable Jim. As a matter of fact, his powerful driv- ing got him into so much trouble that he used a four iron off the tee a number of times in winning the $25,000 Melbourne Centenary Open in 1933. They weren't short holes, either, which gives you an idea of how little confidence he had in his driver. In the Melbourne event, Jimmy, by playing it safe, had carved out a terrific lead when he reached the tee of the 450- yard final hole. He was in the happy po-

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • FAMOUS sition of being able to take a nine and That, of course, is getting into the tech- PLAYER still win the championship. nical end of golf, which can be real fun "But there I wanted to give the crowd if you have the time and the inclination. EQUIPMENT a drive they'd remember," he grins in ret- Any dufler who finally gets his shots rospect. "So I really unloaded on that straightened out, and then would like to — for better ball and dumped it in the woods." learn how to bend them at will, can have Does that sound familiar, you Sunday a right good time getting his pro to teach sluggers? him how to hook or fade on purpose. It play "When I found the ball," Jimmy con- is an art in itself, and a useful one. tinues, "I just couldn't do anything but Jim Ferrier, the amiable Australian, play straight back toward the tee to reach can tell you that. A deliberate hook with the fairway." a five iron won the 1947 P.G.A. cham- That left Jimmy about 200 yards from pionship for him from Chick Harbert at the tee in two, and still 250 yards away Detroit's Plum Hollow Country Club. from the green. An octogenarian could They were going to the 21st hole, the have been exactly even with golf's great- burly Australian and his long-driving est slugger by hitting two feeble five iron opponent, and they were all even when shots straight down the middle. it happened. Harbert had blasted his drive "Well," Thomson recalls with a haunted 275 yards right down the middle and look, "I unloaded again on a brassie shot. Ferrier, with the heat on, pushed his My heart almost stopped, I'll tell you, drive off to the right on the 442-yard hole. when that also headed for the trees. But The ball rolled into some bushes, just then the ball kicked out onto the fairway inside the out-of-bounds fence, and onto and there I was, only about 60 feet from a tarpaulin which had been hung between the green with six shots left to win the two bushes. The tarpaulin was removed tournament." and the ball dropped without penalty — Jimmy relaxed then, and swinging but now Ferrier was in a real spot. smoothly chipped into the cup for a The ball was resting so close to the Wilson Official League Bate- really scrambled four! bushes that it would be impossible to balls are built exactly to major leogue specifications. Used in ' So listen to Thomson when he says shoot toward the green. If he hit safely more professional leagues than that driving a ball low, straight and hand- back to the fairway it would be tanta- any other ball. some is a real thrill but you'll save your mount to conceding the hole to Harbert. ulcers from having ulcers if you sacri- But then the hours of long practice, fice distance for ease and accuracy. which a pro must spend in learning how There are, of course, shots where you to hit a controlled curve for just such should unload the power at your com- emergencies, paid off. mand (never more than that) and, in There was a powerful wind blowing many cases, they leave a lot of us Sunday across the fairway from the left. In a golfers feeling pretty futile. desperate gamble, Ferrier figured that if Without going too mechanical on you, he could hit just the right kind of hook here's a thought on that power problem into the available opening he might play from Ben Hogan, a little man who hits out of bounds, over the fence and a near- Famous players in every major 'em like a giant. by barn and hook back in somewhere sport including such baseball — "A common error which I see 95 per- near the green. greats as Ted Williams and Bob cent of the players making," Hogan as- The ball rose swiftly, cleared the fence, Feller use — and recommend serts, "is that they point the left elbow soared over the barn and then turned Wilson sports equipment today's — out away from the body on the back- head-on into the wind, which checked its modern equipment for today's swing. This is absolutely incorrect and forward flight and lowered it straight fast modern play. They the player, besides not generating any onto the green and dead to the pin. In- say "Play Wilson power, will probably either push or fade stead of losing the hole, Ferrier won it and play the fin- the ball. The left elbow must be turned with a brilliant birdie and went on to est". Sold by toward the hip." take the title with a 2 and 1 decision. leading sport- ing goods dealers every- where.

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( Sold for much higher ) . 10 day monev-l>ack guarantee. SEND CHECK or MONEY ORDER FOR not seen a crocodile in this pool. Assured- $3.98 and we prepay postage. Or send (f rom July, 1935 A.L.M.) C. O. D. and you pay postage charges. $3.98 ly there was one now, and it was a big DOMAR SALES CO. one, Jose turned to comfort his fright- 480 Lexington Ave., Dept. P-2, New York, N. Y. ened goats, only because there were three pesos he "It is all right, my little ones," he said had not won and if he had not been able as they pressed anxiously about him, "It to sleep it was for thinking about them. Many Causes of is all right, my dears. All of you are safe, Pedro took a deck of cards from his and for that I praise God," pocket and shuffled them with one hand. Chronic Ailments Jose sat down at a safe distance from "Here I have cards," he said. "A good the river bank. His goats, sensing the fact deck of cards. Now if you care to choose FREE BOOK On Colon Troubles that they had been threatened by some one and I care to choose one—." And Constipation terrible, sinister thing, remained very "No," Jose said. I came only Many facts about colon disorders, headaches, close to him, Jose curled an arm about "Be not angry, my friend. constipation, nervousness or stomach, liver and the neck of his favorite nanny, because I wish to make restitution, and bladder contJitions are explained in a new 40-page FREE BOOK. Write today. Thornton & Minor Hos- "What are we going to do?" he asked. I am agreeable to any suggestions. If you pital. Suite 587. 911 E. Linwood. Kansas City 3. Mo, The goat bleated uneasily, and Jose do not like cards, perhaps the dice—." could come up with nothing better. He "No!" must get to the Santa Rosas, and to get Pedro let his charm go full blast. "Jose, there he must cross this pool. He could you shrivel my heart! You drive me in- LOi/E IT TOO ... TH€ OmS not possibly risk such a crossing until he sane! I wish only to give your money knew more. back!" Had his shot killed the crocodile? Or "Then let us have a fair bet," Jose said, was the monster still in the pool, waiting "with none of your trickery. I will bet to drag down the first thing rash enough you three pesos that I can swim across to attempt a crossing? Certainly it was this pool and back before you can." Soros hungry, or else it never would have been Jose started to remove his clothing, but lying in wait for food, with a happy shout Pedro Anaya raced Jose got up to pace about and ponder down to the pool and plunged in. With the dilemma that faced him. He might long powerful strokes he swam to the throw one of his goats into the pool, and other side and turned to come back.

it. If walked up beside Jose. 4 BOOKS see if the crocodile came up to get Dripping, he "I have won BACH different! it did, if it had food, the monster would "I have won!" he chortled. surely be occupied for the time being and before you were even ready!" might not oppose a further crossing. If "Yes," Jose smiled as he paid. "You it did not, Jose would have proof that it have won," was dead. "You are not angry?" Pedro Anaya But which goat, which pet, should he seemed puzzled, I MOHIY BACK OUAHANTtl expose to a fate so horrible? Jose had "Why should I be?" Jose called his reared every one of his flock from kids. goats down to the pool and started them He knew their little whims, their man- across, "Where can I spend money in the ners, their likes and dislikes. He loved Santa Rosas?" the end

5Q • The Ameiican Legion Magazine • May, 1951 —

Vets with IDEAS Hoiv other veterans are making good icith unusual business projects

HOMESPUN AUCTIONEER the price. As a result, with the help ol Bud Hays his partner, who was a lieu- professor of auctioneering would tell A tenant of engineers in the Pacific, Bob Ind., you that Bob Morrison, of Thornton, sold, not one, but 20 sets of wrenches. breaks all the rules of the game, that he The future looks bright to "Bargain is the poorest auctioneer in the country, Bob" and his partner. They've hit on a and that no one could sell anything the homespun method of merchandising that happy, and Bob has found way Bob goes about it. On the fust two keeps people if customers are happy they'll points he might be right and Bob would that his spend their money. — George Laycock agree with him, but that last point is something else again. Bob Morrison sells EYES RIGHT truckloads of merchandise ranging from wash cloths to tool chests each year in A chance assignment while still in the what is probably the most unusual mer- army led to an unusual and satisfying chandising venture in Indiana. business of her own for ex-WAC Beatrice After he returned from European serv- Lawrence. As owner of the Ocular ice as a captain in the Quartermaster Laboratories, 45 Bay State Street, Boston, Get away Corps, Bob decided to go into the army she makes and fits false plastic eyes. surplus business. He had three thousand Since she opened her laboratory, Miss dollars saved. But more important, he had Lawrence's patients have ranged from from it all! a new idea about how surplus goods could generals to derelicts, from a two-month- be sold, and sold in quantity. He wanted old child to gi-eat great grandparents. PLAN TO PACK UP AND HEAD FOR to auction his merchandise off at sales. In 1945, when the then Corporal Law- He purchased a high body truck and rence returned from overseas duty first loaded it with surplus goods. On the sides in Africa then in Italy, she requested a of the truck he had a sign painter letter hospital assignment near her home in in big letters "Bargain Bob from Boone Richmond, "Va. She was sent to McGuire County." Bargain Bob then started hitting General Hospital just at the time a new the county fairs, horse shows, etc. type eye replacement program was start- Wcdcmm/ Standing before the microphone on the ing. It seems that a plastic eye, perfected Leave the noise and platform he had built behind his truck. by three army dentists, proved so superior worries of the workaday Bob showed Hoosiers how to save money to the old glass eyes that the army was world far behind dealing with him, and the they scale for battle casualty by more using it on a large while you and your saved the more he made. Then the sur- replacements. family relax in plus goods disappeared and it looked for Because she dabbled in art as a hobby Wonderful Wisconsin! a short time like curtains for "Bargain and, in such a new field, there were no Be a kid again as Bob.'' But if he could do this thing with technicians or schools to train artists. you enjoy boating, fishing, swimming at surplus, why couldn't he do it with reg- Corporal Lawrence was assigned to paint- ular their best. merchandise? ing the irises for the new eyes. Conscious Majestic scenery, Today he handles about a hundred of the far-reaching effect her work had historic sights items, coffee makers, screw drivers, wash on the future lives of her patients. Cor- —exciting sports and cloths, toy building sets, and television poral Lawrence learned everything she recreation— friendly sets — to name only a few. In addition to could about eye replacement. As she sat wildlife in cool forests his traveling auction house, he has pur- with a wounded soldier, painting the small — plus fine accommodations to chased a large building near Indianapolis plastic disc that would eventually be his suit just you—all and in this building he holds auction sales eye, she was able to talk with him about combined in a perfect before packed houses every Frrday, Sat- his future and answer his questions. vacation you'll olways urday and Sunday evenings. Within two months she learned the rest remember— in Bob thinks the secret of his success as of the procedure — the initial fitting of the Wonderful Wisconsin! an auctioneer is due to the fact that he false eye, the several steps of molding and never tries to pressure a buyer. In addi- baking the structure, and the final fitting. tion he is an honest merchandiser. "I'll Following her discharge from the army, Send for tell you if it's good," he says, "and I'll while working for the 'Veterans' Admin- /^3J?f •#^1 also tell you if it's bad. And some of this istration, and later for a large pharma- planning kit now stuff I have isn't worth a durn." ceutical company, a dream persisted in He set up his mobile shop on the In- Beatrice Lawrence's mind. She wanted to Wisconsin Conservotion Department, Room 72 diana State Fair Grounds recently during open her own laboratory. Recreotional Section, Stote Office BIdg., Modison 2, Wis. the International Dairy Exposition and Early in 1950 that dream was realized. Pleose send my FREE COPY of your vocation drew crowds bigger than the famous cow On an original investment of grit, deter- planning kit. Elsie in the next building. He is fond of mination and $1300 cash for equipment selling merchandise for less than was bid and space, she went into business. Seven Name on it. .He ran lab con- the bidding on a set of months later her one-woman Address- wrenches up to $1.65, only to explain that tained more than $3000 worth of equip- _Stole_ he sells them every day in his store for ment and is still expanding. City Zone_ a dollar and this is not the time to raise — P. N. Aldcold

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NOW! TO THE READERS of AMERICAN LEGION loir Hhould Know About This Booii (Continued fr om page 23) AMAZING Mo Time Limit for alleged subversive activities. Mr. allies in the last war, or that any pro- Roberts makes no attempt whatever to American and anti-communist writers HOSPITALIZATION PLAN appear impartial; his tone and suggested on the problem in Asia existed such as SOLD ONLY GOOD ANYWHERE reading lists would bear the hearty ap- George E. Sokolsky, Gen. Patrick Hurley, BY MAIL IN THE UNITED STATES proval of the American Politburo of com- W. H. Chamberlin, Arthur Steiner, Freda munist agents, directed from Moscow to Utley, David Dallin and Albert Witt- Protects You and Your Family undermine morale and prepare the way vogel. in case of SICKNESS or ACCIDENT for the violent overthrow of our gov- In the departments of Anthropology, ernment. Sociology, Economics and International COSTS ONLy 3({ A DAY Accidanlal Daalh and Polio Covorogo Includad "Here in America," writes Mr. Roberts, Affairs, of which Prof. Linton^ J. H. A remarkable value' More coverage! Less cost! Individual "George Seldes breaks a window through McKee and H. Wetworth Eldredge are in or entire family eligible, birth to age 70. Policy pays Hos- charge and of Philosophy, Alain pital Room and Board Benefits as long as you remain the iron curtain of our finance -dominated where confined. NO TIME LIMIT! (rest homes, sonitariums. newspaper oligarchy in Lords of the Press Locke is the guide, the list is very heav- Gov. Hospitals excluded). You get Cash Benefits for 74 and bluntly attacks reactionary elements ily to port. The philosophers Hegel and Surgical Operations . . . Lump Cosh for Accidental Death

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cial POLIO protection . . . plus other valuable coverages and Marx himself included. Maternity Rider available at slight extra cost. and Fascism." He heartily recommends are touted; Locke, No waiting period! We pay CASH DIRECT TO YOU! the libelous, pretty thoroughly dis- Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer are Only 3c a day for adults; 1 Vic a day for children to age 18. Sold direct by old, reliable company. credited, cheap-jackery of John Roy snubbed; Marx is acclaimed as having Don't delay. Send for FREE BOOKLET. a Carlson's The Plotters as "first-hand data prophesied the "inevitable" collapse of No oblieation. No agent will call ! ^ on attempts to organize hate, fear and capitalism. Books advocating state social- NORTH AMERICAN MUTUAL INSURANCE CO^ anti-democratic extremes." He hails Dept. 551 -AE Wilmington 99, Delaware Seldes' hymn of hate for capitalism and capitalists, 1000 Americans, as a "docu- BE PREPARED IF ^jiZTJi°ji^ o mented study of how a few men control S/lirC RATIONING COMES press and politics," a manifest absurdity AMAZING inasmuch as the men listed by Seldes TRY GAME ONE FREE didn't even exercise any control over the NEEDLE IN YOUR CAR! happily-now-dead In Fact, a smear-and- y;-i.-.iiMM.-i.-!-v.'ii.'iinii hate sheet published for several years MANY GANE NEEDLE USERS RE- PORT up to 25 in. ire nil leatje. FREE by Seldes, of whom Louis Budenz, for- l.i.u-r pkrlc-u|). easier siartlny; and -.r-HKither Idling. Auio Economy Manual merly one of the Culture Commissars of NOW TEST A GANE NEEDLE IN Tc-n.s save YOUR CAR for ten days, then com- the communist conspiracy in America, pare your mUeape and perform- ance. Jf satisfied, send $1.50 per many new economy said in signed affidavits, "He (Seldes) is needle (8 cyl. cars take 2) . If pr miles away"— C. H. Smltli. No can- mittee — all favoring the Chinese com- and almost incoherent rehash of stuff vas.slnff— no experience needed. FREE BOOK "INDKPEN- munists and denying that the China reds from Seldes's 1000 Americans, Brandeis' DKNCK AFTKU 40" shows liow to .start at home In are influenced by Russia. essays on corporate control and Lund- spare time wUh small in- vestment. Write today — You would never know from Good berg's Sixty American Fainilies: commu- no salesman will call, FOLEY MFG. CO. Reading that there were any arguments nist-slanted novels and fictional biogra- S39'l Foley BldR-. Minneapolis IS in favor of the Chinese Nationalists, our phies of the admitted card-carrying com-

52 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 munist, Howard Fast, are ranked among the great books of the world: and the re- CONCERNING CORWIN \ the port of the Hutchins Commission on A partial record of Norman Cor- 5 Freedom of the Press, which even the win's affiliations with pro-commu- s Luce publications, which financed the nist activities as issued by the Com- ^ venture to the tune of $200,000, dismissed mittee on Un-American Activities s as superficial and inconclusive, is recom- of the U. S. House of Representa- S mended whereas even such a sound and fives follows: | representative work as Lee's History of Citizens Committee of Independent ^ Journalism is ignored. American the Arts, Sciences and Professions Incidentally Frank Hughes' recently World Congress of Intellectuals published Prejudice and the Press is a held at Wroclaw, Poland, Aug- fully documented utter refutation of the ust 25-28, 1948 Hutchins Commission-Ernst-Seldes con- Win the Peace Conference tentions and a sensational disclosure of Progressive Citizens of America the real purpose of the Commission, American Youth for Democracy which was to provide arguments for leg- China Aid Council islation to bring the press under the whip Committee for a Democratic Far of a clique of state (and later interna- Eastern Policy tional) commissars for "regulating" and Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee "disciplining" the press and our other Committee channels of information. League of American Writers The corrupting of Good Reading at a Peoples Radio Foundation, Inc. vital spot seems to be another achieve- Peoples Songs, Inc. Get FAST RELIEF with ment by the devious and subtle methods Stage for Action of the Politburo's Culture Commissars Voice of 'Freedom Committee this MEDICATED Powder! in America, whereby they spot a good In addition to these listings Red No uiniiedkated powder can relieve your chafed thing and work to get those who are Channels lists the following affilia- and burning feet as Ammens Powder does! pliable, or sympathetic to communist aims, tions for Corwin: For Ammens contains three famous medicinal into key positions for the spread of ideas National Council of American- ingredients — gives !)-u'ay medicated skin care: favorable to communism. Good Reading Soviet Friendship (1) It soothes, relieves and helps heal irritated grew out of one of the most popular Russian War Relief skin. (2) Its extra softness protects and cushions courses ever inaugurated in an American American Soviet Friendship Rally sore skin, and so promotes healing. (3) Its extra college — the course established by John Scientific and Cultural Conference fluffy texture gives cooling relief. For real medi- Erskine at Columbia in 1920 for the en- for World Peace cated skin care, get joyment and discussion of 100 basic genuine Ammens Medicated only a par- The above constitutes Powder at any drug counter today. classics. The plan was adopted elsewhere; tial record of Norman Corwin's pro- additions to the lists were suggested by communist activities as given in FREE trial size can. Write teachers and pupils until there were over Bristol- i public documents. today to Dept. A-51, 600 titles culled from the suggestions of Myers Co., Hillside, N. J. 1,638 students and teachers in 55 colleges. (Ofjcr limited to U.S.A.) Corwin, who, as an advisor to the Good The stuff was all standard, time-tested Reading Committee on Collegiate Read- and ageless until the hey-day of the Pop- ing, shares with his fellow -members the ular Front when it was profitable and responsibility for the Marxist AMMENS popular to be a "parlor pink" or a starry- shocking taint of the book, is now Chief of Special eyed devotee to "The Cause," — a situa- Projects of United Nations Radio at a cM^^^ tion which the Culture Commissars fos- Powder salary and a fat budget— all of tered and made use of in calculating and handsome of pocket, sir, as sinister fashion, especially after Hitler which comes out your taxpayer. Campaigning for the release of broke the pact with Stalin, whereupon the Hollywood writers jailed for contempt (as Budenz wrote) "the war effort was of Congress, Corwin has recently an- to be played up," publicity campaigns for radio and TV were to be organized to exploit sympa- nounced his contempt nothing, he says, thizers and fellow -travelers, as well as audiences who want except low-level mediocrity, citing as an party members, as "great novelists," FISH BAIT the popularity of Arthur God- "great brains" of radio, movies and the example frey, sneered at as "garrulous theater and to blackout, with calumny, whom he GUARANTEED TO CATCH FISH at the very time when Com- lies, whispering campaigns and economic Godfrey" FASTER THAN LIVE BAIT OR Godfrey, at 47, was testing jet pressure every writer or performer in mander RETURN IN 10 DAYS AND in maneuvers to qualifj^ for com- the arts who could not be used by the planes GET YOUR MONEY BACK bat service in spite of his age. commies or was opposed to them. 7 ft. of magic worm-like bait. about the nearly like One of the "great brains" who was Nothing can be done Squeeze out of tube tooth ingredient attracts 2,000,000 copies of Good Reading now in paste. Secret suddenly shot into prominence by the fish faster than live bait. Keeps for others to spread freeze or melt, organized ballyhoo in newspapers, maga- circulation except indefinitely, won't on hook in running stream the warning to teachers and librarians stays zines and over the air, was Norman Cor- or long cast. Used with rather vital 4 percent of the book success by thousands win, the wonder-boy of radio, soon more that a of fishermen on all is loaded with anti-American and Marx- publicized than those other miracle-men, types of fish. Ab- ist poison. The publishers are ordering a solutely harm- Orson Welles, Paul Robeson and Archi- SQUEEZE JUST less. No mess revision of the text and lists in compli- bald MacLeish put together. Alleged to FROM TUBE or bother. already received; Carry in tackle have foregone a "fabulous Hollywood ance with complaints AND APPLY box or pocket. edition cannot be ready for TO HOOK. offer," Corwin joined the Office of Facts but the new CUP THIS AD and Fi gures (later the O.W.L, under nearly a year. Meanwhile I do hereby AND MAIL Elmer Davis) as scripter of pseudo-poeti- formally accuse the Board and the Com- cal "patriotic" dramas in which "our mittee of gross negligence of their public with only SI. 00 to receive tube of responsibility, in failing to detect and noble ally, Russia" was hymned with FAST-BITE, postoge ecstatic praise and the causes of Earl screen out the inflammatory viruses. If prepaid, o:) 10 day money bock o''fr. Browder and Harry Bridges were iden- their sponsorship of the complained-of IlllNOIS MERCHANDISE MART Dept. 7128-A tified with the causes of the signers of matter was not wanton carelessness, their 1227 LOYOLA AVE. CHICAGO 26, ILLINOIS the Declaration of Independence. action is deliberately subversive, the end The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 • 53 THIS LIGHT Where The Curtain Falls Continued page HtTS THB C from 13) "You could call that a slow year, really." "Machines," said Degen, "optical instru- I closed my eyes a moment, trying to ments, meat, sugar, ores, textiles, fertil-

visualize the stark, obscured drama of izer. People, too . . . trainloads of prison- SPOT! thousands of human beings, uprooted, ers about twice a month. And once a Aim its 800-ft. beam at any driven by fear and haggard hope, stealth- month a trainload of German children." spot— stays put. 360° swiv- ily crossing each month this bleak divid- The Fernbrigade trains roll eastward as el. Uses 6-volt dry bat- tery. At hardware, ing line that meanders on haphazard far as Brest-Litovsk, where the European sport and elec- courses from the Bohemian Forest to the tracks change to the wider tracks of Rus- tric stores. / Delia... Baltic Sea. sian railroads. Prisoners reload the loot Hans Degen put earthen bowls and from Germany into Russian trains. REDDY///£ spoons and knives on a table near the "These prisoners are of many national- ELECTRIC LANTERN blazing stove. I watched him ladle soup ities," Degen told me. "Poles, Hungari- and chunks of meat into the bowls. He ans, Italians. Some Chinese and a few DELTA ELECTRIC COMPANY, MARION, IND. was a short man, broad-shouldered and Frenchmen. But mostly Germans. In the erect, with gray hair, and pensive eyes region of Brest-Litovsk, late in 1950, I in a scarred, nervous face. could spot three camps of former German Extra Money! "The meat is wild boar," he said. soldiers doing slave labor." We ate. The Grenzfuehrer brought out SELL! Made-to-Measure SHIRT! a bottle of cognac. We talked. His was a WALLY Make big re oi lull t.me eafningt* Sell \. booming new profession in the heart of Packard d-to-ftt dress and spoil shirls direct to Germany. Grenzfuehrer is = «cl1ent Imc (or tailoring salesmen and others A a frontier cash I take accurate measurements Quick guide. Such guides are available in al- hen vou show large variety of quality shirtings • low prices Satis- est patterns amaiingty Send for most every town and village on both sides ::u3ranreed or Money Back Thousands o( >rd Shirt customers>rTiers everywhere Send no of the Zonal Border. For fees they con-

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And some are killers, like Rudolf Pleil, illustrated book "RHEUMATISM" fully ex- who in Brunswick prison confessed to plains causes and effects . . . tells you WHY Why did the Grenzfuehrer, who had a drugs and medicines afford but temporary relief. murdering along lonely frontier paths a Delay may be dangerous. wife and children living in the British score of women fleeing the Soviet terror. LEARN ABOUT SPECIALIZED TREATMENT Zone, risk his liberty and life smuggling Send for FREE Book today—a postcard will Hans Degen poured cognac. "It is an fugitives out of Russia? do. No obligation. Write today. unpleasant trade," he said. "People ask A shadow moved over his face. "I'll tell BALL CLINIC, Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. you to help them and you're never sure you," he said. "The first time one of those it's not a trap laid by agents from the ragged young men came to my locomo- East." He gazed at me intently and went tive and begged me to take him along it^oiiX^l^OOOAMONTH? on: "I would not talk to you at all if the west, take him home, I was frightened. I railroad office in Hannover had not prom- said no to him. He kept on begging and Tti.it 's wUM Stiinley Hyman made ised me another locomotive." sclliiiK the (imaziiiK new Presto Fire I said no. Half the night he begged. When Extinguisher! M.in\ others ' i lc.mliiK "You are a railroad man?" up so cnn you! Amazini,' tiny new exUnirui.sher we finally were unloaded, and started for . [ids fires last as 2 seconds. Guaranteed for 20 years! Sells for only $3.98! Write for Free sales "I used to be a teacher and the Wehr- I' kit. No obligation, n/lerlite Industries. Inc., Dept. home, he threw himself under the 295, 201 East I6th Street. New York 3. N. Y. macht made me a transport officer. After ( If vou want a re;;ular Presto to use as a dem- wheels." onstrMagdeburg, Berlin and wind outside the hut. plus 24 wood card Brest-Litovsk." tables, plus 48 double "Now this is a terrible thing to hap- I asked what had made him quit. decks of cords for your pen to a man," he finally said. "They caught me smuggling prisoners Legion Post! No risk. Kamerad, take us along, take us home. Nothing to pay. For of war out of the Soviet Union." Thereafter, whenever he heard these details write F. W. "They?" MATHERS, Dept. A.L., words whispered from the shadow of his Mt. Ephroim, N. J. "The MVD — Russian police." locomotive, he did what he felt he must "The Soviet Government's statement do. He let them ride home — two, three, LEARN RADIO that the last German war prisoners had four men at a time. He let them creep been returned is not true?" into the water tender of his locomotive — TELEVISION "That statement," the Grenzfuehrer and he would leave the little air hatches said, "is a murderous lie." open so the stowaways would not suffo- Train at Home-Moke Good Money cate as the train traversed Poland. Get Aclual Lesson and Cl-page book — holh IfltEE. See how I train you AT HOME for good jobs and a bright I listened while Hans Degen told of his "Except for one who drowned in the future in America's fast growing industry. You get last trip as chief engineer of Fer7ibri- tender weak," Degen PllACTICAL E.XPBltlENOE buildini; Itadio. Tester etc a because he was so with many kits of parts I siinl Make cMra money flxini; gade train. Fernbrigade means long dis- recounted, "all went well through the Kadios in spare time while learning .Send Couinjii \OVVl tance brigade, a crew of ten one disap- V.fJP.?.^NS!.APPRqyED_U^^^^ CLBILL men conduct- summer, until of my crew ing a train loaded with "reparations peared in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder and a • MR. J. E. SMITH, t'res.. Dept. lEHl goods" from ; Nat'l Radio Inst., Washington 9. D. C. Soviet Germany across Po- new man was assigned to my brigade. ! Mail me Sample Lesson aud book FREE. land to Soviet Russia. Two hundred such This man was a spy. The 'tenth man.' The ! Name Age brigades are employed by the Russians tenth man in a Fernbrigade, if he is new, Address in Germany. They haul to Russia week is always a spy.'" City. Zone State. after week anything that East Germany On his last trip as brigade chief, Hans n Checl< if Veteran produces and the Soviets want. Degen's train carried two stowaways hid-

54 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 den in a cave beneath a stack of firewood. woods, each man to go westward on his The train reached the Soviet- Polish bor- own." der at night. There, as always, it was "Did all get through?" forced to halt in a glare of floodlights, Instantly I realized the foolishness of while Russian police agents made a this question. The GrenzjtLehrer's eyes thorough search. They found nothing seemed to say: How should anyone know? amiss. The train proceeded across Poland. How can anyone ever understand the The next search was made by VOPO men mysteries of this frontier? at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder after the train "Germany," he said in a low voice, "is had passed from Poland into Soviet Ger- a country where order has always counted many. Again Degen received clearance for more than liberty or anything else. to proceed. Now this line runing through the middle The hidden prisonei's from Russia had of sixty million people, all of whom speak meanwhile been supplied with old rail- the same language, is a line of disorder.

waymen's uniforms. As the train moved A familiar place to us . . . and yet the slowly through the rubbled outskirts of strangest, most lunatic, most uncertain Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, both stowaways boundary anywhere. Tell the people who leaped of? and disappeared. What Degen read what you write there's only one did not know at the time was that the thing that's dead certain about this tenth man of his brigade had also dis- frontier." appeared. "What is that?" I ALWAYS rely on "God was with us," the Grenzjuehrer "It cannot last. It is going to explode. said simply. "On the open road outside One way or another. And the explosion Alka-Seltzer to relieve Fuerstenwalde a man was madly waving will be much bigger than Korea." COLD Misery a red flag. I stopped the train. The man - ALWAYS for came running up to tell me they received We parted at dawn. My investigation Remember, Afka-Seltier FIRST, FAST and Relief of Ihete Common Ailments. Get a potkoge today a telephone order to arrest my brigade of the Zonal Border led me from Luebeck at the next station." on the Baltic Sea to the bare, windswept & I9SI Mil«t Lab<»aiof>«(, Inc. ^^^B^^" I said, "What did you do?" Rhoen Mountains. Much of the way was "We ran," said Degen. "All of us, in- over country roads orphaned by the cluding the fellow with the flag. We let nearness of the boundary. In many of the train stand and we scattered in the these regions a ramshackle Mercedes had ALKA-SELTZER AIL DRUO STORES U.S. and CANADA APPENDECTOMY

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pair had been seized for "illegal activity" a boy from the village warned them that while en route from West Berlin to VOPO men had raided his home and Bremerhaven. seized his wife. Straight from the field, horse, the peasant Leaders of the Communist Party of with son, wagon and West Germany are active henchmen in made a nine-day trek to the frontier. across-the-frontier crimes. For example, Among the next arrivals were a stu- The student in the city of Hannover, communists in- dent and a newspaperman. Einstein School at Pots- filtrated key positions in the Public had attended the town. Health Office of the West German state dam, a red army garrison On May of the school were told THE RICHARDSON of Nether Saxony. Among them were a Day all members to march with red carnations in their 37 -feet of luxurious, comfortable living. See the certain Dr. Horst, a Dr. Elfriede Paul, in a parade. This stu- new Richardsons for '51 at your neorest dealer and a man known as Karl Abel. Dr. Horst lapels communist or write tor free folder carnation instead. became disillusioned with the Commu- dent had worn a white arrested the same night. A week nist Party. He wanted to quit, wanted to He was later he was transported to the dread COACHES be a human being again in his own right. TRAILER concentration camp, But he knew too much about the com- Sachsenhausen Richardson Trailer Mtg Co, Inc. Box 100. Elkhart, Indiana munist apparatus in the West. One night whence he escaped. had been the seventh a strange car stopped in front of his home. The newsman chief editor of a newspaper in the Soviet Housework Next morning Dr. Horst had disappeared. The auto was later identified as an offi- cial Russian car bearing civilian German Easy Without registration plates. Information leaked out from headquarters of the Communist Nagging Bacl(aciie Party in Hannover that "the G.P.U. has taken Dr. Horst and questions about it function slows down, many folk.s com- When kidney are not in order." Authorities now began plain of nagging backache, loss of pep and energy, headaches and dizziness. Don't suffer longer with to pry into the murky crimson back- kidney function is get- these discomforts if leduceil ground of Dr. Horst's colleagues, Karl ting you down— due to such common causes as stress and strain, over-e.'certion or exposure to cold. Minor Abel and Dr. Elfriede Paul. But by this due to cold or wrong diet may bladder irritations time both of them had skipped eastward cause getting up nights or frequent passages. Don't neglect your kidneys if these conditions across the frontier to new jobs in the Try Doan's Pills—a mild diuretic. Used bother you. communist administration of Branden- successfully by millions for over 50 years. 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53 • The American Legion Magazine • May. 1951 his mother had been chased two kilo- West; and of hope, too, that by American meters by a VOPO patrol. magic thirty-five divisions will somehow Of the 2,014 women in this group of appear in time to form a wall of steel to Best for refugees, 1,563 were housewives, and 73 supplant the present weak frontier fence were deserting employees of the Soviet formed by three scattered Western divi- German administration. sions. Softball TooW Among the 3,020 men who had fled "When that happens," a former colonel "Pieckasia," as the German Democratic in Marshal Kesselring's staff argued, Republic (Soviet Zone) is popularly "everything will change. Germans will called, there were 1,146 mechanics, 123 stand and fight with the West. But any- men who had lost their own businesses, thing less is an invitation to European 82 teachers of Soviet Zone schools, 180 suicide." civilian employees of the government, 30 People along the Zonal Border speak VOPO men, and 143 doctors, lawyers and with a sort of weary resignation about the CtUISVILLE artists. There was also a group of more increasing infiltration of communist prop- than 100 hard-bitten young men who gave agandists, informers, saboteurs and intel- SLUGGER "soldiering" as their profession; they had ligence agents into Western Germany. A come to volunteer to fight communists in ranking customs officer at Hornburg — Korea, Indo-China, or anywhere else in crossing point from the Soviet Zone to BATS the world. the Watenstedt-Salzgitter industrial re- An analysis of the political affiliations gion—estimated that every fourth Grenz- H&B SOFTBALL RULES of this typical contingent of more than gaenger is a member of the Fifth Column FOR ARE READY 6,000 German frontier-breakers showed vanguard with a mission to prepare for Get your copy at your dealers that 278 or less than 5 percent had be- a red conquest of the West. or send 10c direct to us longed to anti-communist resistance For each red saboteur or spy who is (stamps or coin) to cover groups; and that 1,626 had been mem- caught, a hundred other agents cross the mailing. Hillerich & Bradsby bers of Soviet-sponsored organizations, Zonal Border unchallenged. The Iron Co., Louisville 2, Kentucky such as the Free German Youth. A cer- Curtain across Germany is more like a tain grim comic element was introduced wide-meshed sieve than a curtain. Out- In this breakdown by scores of Grenz- wardly tranquil, its long reaches more gaenger who carried cards of membership lifeless than any other border between in several mutually antagonistic political countries of Western Europe, it is a place SLUGGER BATS parties. of knavery and conspiracies, and of thou- FOR SOFTBALL 8 BASEBALL "We do this for reasons of personal sandfold anxiety beating secret paths insurance," a former East Zone business- through brushland and forests. man explained. The West German Government is train- The fear of just such a "Panzer prom- ing thousands of new frontier policemen enade" is a numbing reality in the day- to stop the vast seepage of agents from • • • to-day lives of ^TlinV AT UflMP I eRa"y trained men win hiaher posi- people on both sides of the East. 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Under such remember that many Marines sport "professors" the boot learns how to shoot. marksmanship medals on their jackets Then there comes Qualifying Day when such as "Expert," "Sharpshooter," and the boot shoots "for the record." "Marksman." Marine tutors, themselves Shooting "for the record" starts as the best rifle shots in the world, give the soon as there's daylight and by eleven THIS DECEPTION instruction and it's an education to watch o'clock it's over and the boots are march- By Hede Massing them in action. They give lectures in the ing back to quarters. Some have made The vitally important story of the communist barracks, and at sunrise under the sheds "Expert," some "Sharpshooter," and some mind at work, told by Hede Massing, on ex- at the range in "salty" Marine terms. "Marksman," but they're all good rifle communist agent and former wife of Gerhardt mock-vips other They use charts, and shots. The day may come when the boot Eisler who went through the ordeal of escaping visual teaching aids and they hammer will pick off an enemy sniper out of a organization on that allows no resignation. A away at the boots day after day until even personal story of a system which demands the tree at five hundred yards who's killing the densest in the class thoroughly un- body and soul of its subjects, which binds the his buddies. He's learned how to do it. derstands. The Marine Corps teaches idealists in a quasi-religious brotherhood sup- So goes boot training at Parris Island. that it's easier to return from posedly working for all mankind, snares home war which Reveille, clean the barracks, drill, bay- the undercover agent in a social and economic a hero if you can shoot straight. onet practice, skirmish lines, firing on net from which there is little hope of escape. Considerable time is spent by the boot letters from home, lights out. $3.50 aiming, learning to hold his breath be- the range, fore firing, figuring windage and eleva- . . . All to an end. THE COMMUNIST TRAIL IN AMERICA tion, and how to squeeze the trigger, be- To build first-class fighting men, may- By Joacob Spolansky fore he is taken out to the targets for be some day to go overseas and vanquish actual firing. an enemy, so that in the future we may Mr. Spolansky, at one lime an Army Intelli- He fires from the two hundred yard, enjoy the peace that we all long for and gence and F.B.I. Agent reveals how the Kremlin's agents in this country work to forward the world three hundred yaid and five hundred dream about. the end conspiracy of their foreign masters. We learn how the communists encouraged the "hunger marches" of the depression, how they spurred on How To Win A Contest the sit-down strikers, exploited racial prejudice. Continued page 19) The frail leads through the thirties, reading ( from often like o detective thriller, but bluntly pre- ferent kind — belong to one. There are adopted to weed out the majority of con- senting the inside details of a story no intelli- hundreds of contest clubs dotted all over tenders, hence these girls are instructed gent American can afford to ignore. $3.50 the country in which the members dis- to look sharply for infractions and elimi- cuss the judges, products, sales points, nate all which do not measure up. Get NEITHER FIVE NOR THREE methods, slants, analyze prize winners this — from 60 to 65 percent of all entries By Helen Maclnnes and criticize losers. You can learn a lot fall by the way side in this large room! at just one meeting. Why? Because they failed to follow sim- This is the most important novel Helen Mac- In 1937, a number of contest experts ple instructions, plainly given. lnnes has done— and in suspense equals her first formed the National Contesters Associa- Thus, if the rules specify 25 words or success. Above Suspicion ... I found the book tion, which now has more than 1,000 ac- less, don't write 26. It will make you a absorbing and challenging from first page to last, as the devious methods of communist pene- tive members. It holds annual conventions candidate for the waste basket. If the tration into the fields of public relations ore at which contest judges appear and an- rules say neatness counts, a blot on your revealed, and the terrifying network of commu- swer the scores of eager questions hurled entry will eliminate you. If the rules want nist affiliation is convincingly recorded. Helen at them by tip-hungry entrants. And if you to enclose a wrapper or box top, to Maclnnes has done some of her best writing in you don't think that even the vaguest this her best book. It deserves serious considera- hint dropped by a judge isn't of top im-

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histories of both World War I and II the Publishers Products Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Maleta Beck of Ft. Morgan, Colo., Order NOW: Cash or C. D. puts out a publication called Top-por- I O. tunity. The Freese family of Upland, Ind., AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE I edits Contest Magazine. And the National 734 15lh St., N. W., Washington 5, D. C. I Contesters Association issues a regular I Gentlemen; bulletin from its headquarters in Port Please send me the books indicated. I Chester, N. Y. I enclose $ Send C.O.D. I The second rule — study and follow the I contest regulations right down to the smallest type and the most minute detail. To impress you with the importance of this, let me describe what happens in a judging office when a million or so en- I Name (please print) tries are received. I The sacks of mail are sorted by a batch I Street 'Couldn't you limit until it stopped^ of preliminary readers, from 5 to 50 girls,

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The American Legion Magazine many times. There are six important My wife s become a dinner belle." objects, then add or subtract letters as qualities that a prize-winning letter has Or these lines from a jingle about soap instructed until he arrives at the solu- to have: flakes: tion. The correct solution to a rebus 1. It must have an ''eye-stopper" open- "Takes T from PAINFUL, leaves a puzzle depends entirely upon the correct ing and closing. PANFUL bright. identification of the pictures given. Ob- An eye-stopper is a crackling, pungent Takes 'RUB' from scRUB and leaves viously, the puzzle editor makes it as phrase, so original that it holds the at- me right." tough as possible by picturing little- tention of the preliminary judges. One Sometimes, however, the judges look known animals, tools, flowers, fishes or good example which won a $10,000 prize: for a bit of human simplicity, as witness what-have-you. "As a housewife, I have no Social Se- the prize-winner which won a completely In just one instance, I was working curity number in Washington. But I have furnished home and two automobiles for on a rebus where I had to identify a type a social security number of my own. It's the person who completed this rhyme for of fish. I wasn't certain of the correct the number on the front door of my very the American Heart Association: name, so I went to the aquarium, showed own home." "While your heart beats strong and the curator the picture and got the cor- 2. It must be sincere. true rect designation. At other times I visited 3. It must be timely. There's something great you have to storekeepers, garage mechanics, scien- 4. The contents must be arranged for do. tists, teachers and museums to obtain ." quick and easy reading. Fight heart disease, help find the key. . correct identifications. An important ref- 5. It must reflect the personality of the From the hordes of entries, the judges erence work for the rebus solvers is Web- writer. picked this simple line: ster's New International Dictionary, with 6. It must be written simply. "Let heart and hand help readily." In jingles and limericks, the big test is The puzzle type of contest is a brain- cleverness, and in some cases simple, teaser, requiring patience, a storehouse warm humanity. In the great majority of of knowledge and the know-how of where winning entries, the last line of a jingle to find the information you need. has invariably contained a play on words. Consider first the rebus, those puzzles Consider these: which contain perhaps a dozen or so pic- "Oh, blank-blank's peanuts taste so well tures. The contestant must identify the

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02 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1951 ary at your elbow. The (rick is to use as viously greater. Several times in my early many twists as possible which wouldn't years of contesting I took summer jobs occur to the average contestant. Read the with agencies to learn from the inside instructions carefully and learn what is what was wanted, what entries fared best admissible and what is not. Usually and why, what was rejected and why. I plurals are ruled out, but you would be learned some important things: AUTO permitted to use biblical endings such as The New York branch of the Donnelley SEAT COVERS -est, -eth, and -st, past tenses of verbs and firm prefers simple statements which all degrees of adjectives. Can you employ stress sales points in a product; the LEOPARD SKIN to rules? If so, you office leans cleverness dialect, according the Chicago toward Let's go native! Smart look- can add a hundred more words to your and verse, while the west coast branches sy sliding. Lool< ond feel like real Leopard. list. coined words specifically barred? give the nod to plays on words and humor. Are Custom tailored Complete If not, a whole new vista opens. A good On the other hand. Prof. Herrold looks Jet—front and rear $32.95. slunt in this arduous type of puzzle is to for uniqueness — something special, like ZEBRA HIDE Call of the wild! Gey stripes divide the work among several members coined words, which stand out above the mean a gay fellow . . . the of a group to get as many brains cudgeling others. For example, he once awarded a ladies love 'em! Satisfaction guaranteed. as possible. big prize to the contestant who wrote that Custom tailored, complete set— front ond reor, A few hints: a shoe had "style-age, mile-age, smile- $34.95 1. Write the total number of words in age." Most makes, Most models the upper left-hand corner in large, firm Helen King also seeks originality and Send $ 1 .00 deposit,BalanceC.O.D, Pay in Full save and postage. figures. suitability, with emphasis on word play. — CCD. .BODY, 2. Use heavy, large paper. Remember And Polk, like the New York Donnelley, that your entry goes through a dozen wants simple, direct phrases and sen- SHORR'S Dept C-351 hands and a dog-eared entry doesn't stand tences. 10600 Grand River, Detroit 4, Micti. as nmch chance as a clean one. But how are you to know who is judg- 3. When a word-building contest is an- ing in order to slant your entries the Auto Spark Intensifier nounced and a series is contemplated, proper way? Gets ROCKET Performance submit your list the very first week, when Trick: The rules tell you where to send entries aie generally lewest. your letters. It's usually to a postal zone. ^MORE POWER i> BETTER MILEAGE And now the judges — who are they, New York 8 and 48 means Donnelley is IGNORE SPEED QUICKER STARTING what are they seeking, how can you please handling the contest. Chicago 77 means Ih.- IJJ.« I'HOMC srAHK INTKN.-^lllKU them best? either Donnelley or Herrold. To distin- I- .Ml L-flK-loiit. .scientlficaily devflni.ed Jill 1 iim. live device which can he easily tliL- ilis- Contests are judged by special agencies guish between the two, Herrold generally iii-^i ,1 1 IimI in Ihe center hole of liiliui..r cap of all autos, trutks and iia.iurs In sixty seconds. By boosting under contract with the sponsor. These inserts the fact that "uniqueness" is ihe hlKli voltage current passing throufrli the dlstrltmtor. it gives a "hottei' spark"

handle — . . agencies the entire affair receive wanted. King and Polk can be anywhere. porniiltiiifT a wider spark gap . thus r.-iiii. iiiv^ 'mlsfirine:. ring and cyliiuier all entries, sort them, judge them and So there you have them, some tricks of \:>.n Mill .(Mowing all-around better 1 (111,1.,. I'REE TRIAL, send .'S'J.OO present the winners to the sponsors. the trade which I have picked up in my 1 [i. IK < K or nionev order ... if not tLill\ ,,ii iM.i alter m day trial, relurn More than 75 percent of all contests in many years of contesting. They have paid t.ti iiiini.-.ii.ac refund the country are judged by the Reuben H. off handsomely for me, and given me an ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT CO. Donnelley Corp.. which has offices in absorbing hobby in the bargain. They can DEPT. AL-5 LOS ANGELES 34, CALIF. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San do the same for you. Francisco. Other important judges are You see, I like contesting because it Prof. Lloyd Herrold of Northwestein Uni- means a new car, a down payment on a U P T U versity, the R. L. Polk Co. of Detroit and house and money in the bank — and fun RELIEF.. .OR YOUR MONEY BACK Helen King of Cranford, N. J. besides. Simple, easy to wear truss If you know what the judge is looking And there are just 25 words in that last made by old surgical house. nothing. Write for for, your chance of copping a prize is ob- statement! the end You risk free booklet. Don't delay.

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SEAT OF THE TROUBLE REPRIEVE We bought seat covers for the car. There's nothing so gratif.ying, They hr'iyliten its interior. When a cop's siren stops you dead, The only trouble is. t/iei/ are As to have him go by you eyeing Too slick for uiy posterior! Some car that's up ahead. facturer informed his listeners that ne — S. Omar Barker — Tom Talman had decided to deliver the hosiery direct wives. AUDIBLE SIGNPOST to the Immediately an excited group con- After intermission, a man and his wife verged upon the speaker, each individual were returning to their seats. The man with a breathless request for a revision, asked a lady sitting at the end of the row: sounding somewhat as follows: "Did I step on your I foot as went out?" "Change my wife's size from eight-and- Expecting an apology, the lady sternly a-half to ten!" — Adrian Anderson replied: "Yes, you did." The man turned to his wife. LOOK FOR NINE GRAVES "Okay, Mabel," he said, "this is our To me, it occurs, through the annals of row." - F. G. Kernan time. That the "Boston job" ranks as the most PRIVATE NOTE ON PUBLIC chicane crime. DRINKING FOUNTAINS A hiindred grand offered, and no one Hoivever greut may he i/our thivst. conies through: Let others drink at fountains first. With ten men involved, I can only say, You'll be polite, be thouqhl a charmer — "Pugh!" And drink the colder, thei/ the u armer. It doesn't make sense if I fc?iow hitman — Richard Armour meat; That thieves can assemble loithout some QUICK-CHANGE ARTISTS deceit. A well-known hosiery manufacturer And so iLiith "assumptions" I tender yon recently spoke at a meeting of influen- mine: tial mid-west business men. Desiring to 1 think one, a smart boy, has buried the gain their good will, the speaker nine. — James H. McCarthy offered "Hardest tvorking employee nie hare. to bestow upon each gentleman present Always in there pilchinff, taking col- a pair of nylons for his wife. SOUND REASONING lections for wedding presents, fare- After each listener ." had volunteered his It was just after the honeymoon and well parties, raffles, punchboards . . wife's size, and it had been duly recorded the bride had prepared her first home- by the visitor, a change in the arrange- cooked meal for her beloved. A few mo- CAREER-MAN ments was announced. The nylon manu- ments after he started to eat, the young During mj' college days one of the "highlights" of Homecoming Week was a series of lectures by members of the alumni who were making their mark in the world. Usually, these were informa- tive affairs followed by a social hour for the visitor and the graduating class. During one of these socials the speaker was discussing the qualities necessary for success with an intimate little group. However, the session didn't go over so big, because of the constant interruptions of one of the seniors. He continually dis- agreed with what the speaker was saying. Finally the speaker asked him what line of woi'k he intended to enter. "I don't intend to do any work," the senior an- swered. "I'm going to be a gentleman." "I see," answered the speaker, slightly miffed. "When do you intend to start?" — Stanley J. Meyer

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