The American Legion Magazine [Volume 55, No. 3 (September 1953)]

THE AMERICAN SEE PACE 14 . . SETTING THE STAGE FOR MOSCOW LEGIOjV Bv WALTER BROOKS MAGAZINE

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Cover by WALLY RICHARDS

Contents for September, 1953 GOMBED OBJECT, MURDER by Reuben Davis 11 THERE WAS ONLY ONE REASON FOR GOING HOME.

SETTING THE STAGE FOR MOSCOW by Walter Brooks 14 HOW THE REDS CAME TO RULE AND ALMOST RUINED SHOW BUSINESS.

CAN YOU AFFORD TO GAMBLE? by William J. Reilly 16 THE RISKIEST JOB OF ALL IS CHANGING JOBS.

HOW NOT TO MISS 'EM by Jack Denton Scott 18 A SCOPE CAN MEAN MEAT ON THE TABLE. HITS IN THE BLACK.

CAN THE KIDS TAKE TV? by Ruth A. Inglis 20 CHILDREN ARE DURABLE BUT THIS IS PRETTY RUGGED.

HOUSE BUILDING MADE EASY by Jule Von Sternberg 22 IF YOU CAN SWING A HAMMER THIS IS FOR YOU.

WILL THE IRON MEN COME BACK? by Gene Ward 24 THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS, THEY HAVE TO.

THEY TALK WITH THEIR BOYS OVERSEAS by R. B. Pitkin 28 THE LEGION SHOWS HOW MORALE-BUILDING SHOULD BE DONE. Features

SOUND OFF 4 PRODUCTS PARADE . . 8 NEWSLETTER 29

EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. .28 PARTING SHOTS . . . 64

Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included.

The Ar.-.criccn Lesion Mcgczinc is the official publication of The Aineiicon Legion and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyrighl 1953 by The American Legion. Pub- lished monthly at 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for moiling at special rate of postoge provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered as second class matter June 30, 1948, at the Post Office at Louisville, Ky., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Non-member subscriptions should be sent to the Circulotion Department of The American Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indionopolis 6, Ind. EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING WESTERN OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES 580 Fifth Avenue 333 North Mictiigan Avenue

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NO JUSTICE prising. As a member of the Legion I object to the action. It seems to me Sir: Frank Costello, Serge Rubinstein, that one of the basic tenets of our or- PREMIUM Joe Adonis, Harry Bridges and other ganization is the support of adequate IHE MIRACIE RIDE IIRE undesirables can defy our government national defense. As a member of the to deport them and get away with it. House Armed Services Committee, I Yet not long ago 1 read of a man am convinced that the policy behind whose name I forget who served our the new budget is not right. 1 think • FOUR EXCLUSIVES give safety, nation with honor in Korea, and is that our military leaders should par- now told lie will l)e deported—and no silence, comfort found in no otiier ticipate in determining the require- doubt will l)c. What in hell kind of tire. (1) Interlocking Safety Tread ments for adequate national defense. justice is that? Enter this country in for greater "hold" in all directions. In this case, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, any way, commit crimes even against as well as General Vandenberg, have (2) Silent Traction Design can- our nation and our government has vigorously objected to a reduction in cels out hum. (3) Intra-Tread one hell of a job trying to deport you. the 143 -wing program, in writing and Bumpers hold tread ribs apart, Nuts! otherwise. Frank C. Happe muffle squeal. (4) Uni-Cushion Harold A. Patten, M.C. Brooklyn Contour — more rubber on road House of Representatives Washington, D. C. for smoother riding, longer wear. PERCENTAGES UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED 3 YEARS! Sir: Amid all the hysteria about the Unserviceable tire will be replaced by com- J. parable new tire with full credit for the B. Matthews' article concerning sub- period of guarantee not realized. versive clergymen, a voice crying in the wilderness was that of Rt. Rev. TYPE LETTER OUTDOOR P. Makers o' James De Wolfe, Protestant Epis- Armstrong Pure Sir: While hunting one day I came to copal Bishop of Long Island. In a Foam Cushioning a big tree overlianging a river. There newspaper story he was quoted with were twelve ducks sitting on a limb approval as saying that 97 percent of

and I had only two shells for ni)' gun the clergymen he came in contact

so I pullctl up, split the limb on the with were loyal. That makes a lot of tree and the ducks got their toes in the sense. But it's too bad that some of the

crack. I took another shot, cut the columnists and commentators who

limb off and it fell in the river. I had have been complaining about The to wade in to get my ducks. American Mercury article don't know George H. Frizzell simple arithmetic or thc)-'d have found Chamting, Mich. out that Dr. iMatthews was saying the same thing. He spoke of 7,000 clergy- Looks as though George got more men. Since the records show that there than the legal limit, but we hope no are al)out 250,000 ordained clergj nien spoilsport game warden goes alter him. in the U.S., the percentages come out Editors about the same. D. R. Jones DEPLORES MEMO New York City Sir: The recent memorandum mailed to key people in The American Legion SEND EM TO TEXAS in support of the Administration's cuts Sir: I am a damyankee but I sure ap- in the Air Force budget, lending the prove of your editorial Stop Baiting support of tile Legion to the reduction Texas. I wish we could send some of in funds required for the 145-wing the commie-loving rats we have in program, is almost as surprising as if the north to Texas and let the Texans The American Legion came out in work them over. favor of a rctluction in hospital beds I. C. Grubbs in the "V.A. appropriations. As a Past Los Angeles Commander of the I^cpartnient of

^j^^jgf Armstrong's handy Arizona, I had thought that I knew Sir: I have just read your editorial * 88-page Road Atlas- something of the policies of The Stop Baiting Texas in the July issue. Radio Guide! Send 10< to cover American Legion, and this action of During WW2 I spent considerable postage. Dept. A-^. Armstrong our organization was all the more sur- time at Brownsville and I found

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Texans the most hospitable people in Russell, was then at its head. Writer the world. As a civilian I spent my James C. G. Coniff brings out the 1951 vacation in Texas and it didn't point that today the leaders of that in- make a bit of difference whether I fluential college are not red or com- TUfei4 ONE, was a civilian or in the armed forces, munist. I believe he is correct. Most the people didn't hesitate to do any- Teachers College leaders were not thing to help you. More power to pro-Communist, with the capital "C". Texas in general and Houston in par- BUT, they were, and many are, so- SURE, SAFE ticular, which is the nicest city in the cialist. I feel that Legion should put its greatest State in the Union. time and energy into opposing social- Harold Margerson ism as such—with the knowledge that to repair an innertube Cranston, R. I. such would include opposition to the Communism as planned in the U.S.S.R. CORRECTION Let us oppo.sc communism, with the small "c". Sir: Your June issue had an excellent Charles L. Hayward article on GI insurance, and the advice Minneapolis was timely as well as informative. (Do You Kiiov: Who Would Collect Your bisuraiicc? by Alarjorie Rea.) ACROSS THE STREET The statement was made, however, Sir: An erroneous cut line appeared that a change of beneficiary must be on page 1 3 of the June issue describing indorsed on the contract. This is not the plaque marking the historic Le- true. No beneficiar>' designation of gion caucus held in St. Louis in 1919. selection of optional settlement is It read, "A footnote to history—on a printed on the NSLI policy, nor will wall of Jefferson Hotel, the Conven- the VA indorse the contract with any tion Headquarters." It should have changes. The current practice of the been, "A footnote to History — on a VA is to make a photocop\" of the wall of Union Electric Building, di- designation, keep the original in the rectly across from the Jefferson Hotel, veteran's file, and send the insured the the Convention Headquarters." photocopy to file with his policy. Tt:e David H. Fleischer policy itself should never he sent to Executive Vice President the VA for any changes desired. 1953 National Convention Corporation Leo T. Tibensky, C.L.U., Chicago St. Louis Insurance Advisor American Legion Dept. of Illinois ANY SECONDERS? BOWES Sir: If cities can go all out on com- STUPID PEASANTS! mercial parades, such as the Alardi Sir: I think some of the articles in your Gras in New Orleans and the Pageant product are putrid. Kindly add my of Roses in Pasadena, they should con- Cketrii^ PROCESS name to those who consider McCarthy sider it imperative to celebrate Alemo- a disgrace to the Senate and his sup- rial Day, Armistice Day, the glorious porters as stupid peasants. Further, Fourth, and a day in honor of our Tube Repair Method your comments on Charlie Chaplin veterans, with similar festivities. Like- boor me. wise, radio networks are woefully lax • There are other methods of tube re- James L. Matherly, AEC in presenting programs of patriotic the "vul- San Francisco songs, militar> bands, etc. Flag Day pair ... the "cold patch" ...

should be spot-lighted by multiple dis- canized patch" . . . and ... in most cases plays of flags in communities instead GREETINGS FROM NORWAY they work but of being tendered only casual recog- Sir: As a member of Portland Post No. nition. The flame of love of our coun- 1, Portland, Oregon, I receive The try should be fanned more consis- If You Want the ONE American Legion Magazine every tently. month and I read every word in it. J. E. Osborne ought to glad to We be have an organ Springfield, III. like the magazine to fight against the SAFE, SURE METHOD commies. I send you, my dear comrades, hearty greetings and wish you ...Drive in Where You all good luck. Knute Lund Ovre Sirdal See This Flekkefjord, Norway BOJIIfES

WITH A SMALL C Emblem. THE VET IS THE GOAT Sir: I well remember the books recom- mended to high schools by Columbia's Sir: Every time Congress \\ ants to do Teachers College professors in the some saving the veteran is the one who early '30s, and their backing by teach- is tackled. And who is to blame for • When you go to a station that dis- ers trained at that College. Criticisni of this? one except the 15,000,000 vet- No plays the Bowes emblem, you are assured these books and teachings by Legion erans who, after serving their country, repairs by the Bowes Posts on Long Island brought forth did not think enough of their fellow of Sure, Safe Tube hundreds of lines of print in newspa- servicemen to join a veterans' organ- Chemical Process tube repair method. pers, and certain magazines, quoting ization. Were these fellows to join, our Don't take chances . . . look for the John Dewey, Rugg, Counts and other legislators would never think of pick- emblem and be SURE of SAFE leaders of Teachers College of Colum- ing on anything which benefits the Bowes bia University. The Trustees of Co- veteran. tire repairs. lumbia seemed to have no power over Louis E. Tepp BOWES "SEAL FAST" CORP., INDIANAPOLIS 7, IND. T. C. in this respect. The present Dean, White Plains, N. Y. BOWES PACIFIC CORP., RIVERSIDE. CALIFORNIA THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEIM li.MDtiR, 195,5 • 5 Norm Van Brocklin,

quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams and passing champion of the Na- tional Football League THAT BIG UN GRAVY TRAIN in 1950 and 1952. Norm completed 113 IT'S nice to know that the big wheels of of 205 passes for a the United Nations, who have done so mucii for in total of 1736 yards dur- peace our time, are being properly rewarded for their efforts. ing the 1952 season! Take that great global statesman Trygve Lie, who recently retired after a lengthy seven-year stretch as secretary general of the UN. Trygve during that period col- lected a total of $385,000 in pay and per- quisites. In addition, when he retired he was liandcd $20,000 as "terminal leave pay." Now, to make sure that he can struggle along in his old age, Trj^gve's going to receive a lifetime pension of $10,000 a year-tax free. Possibly you're working for the wrong concern.

THE ABC'S OF BOOK BURNING SOME of the most sanctimonious out- cries against "book burning" have been coming from strange sources indeed.

Probably the most hysterical voice is that of the New York Times, which has become as pathological!)' preoccupied with

"book burning'' as it has been with Sena- tor .McCarthy. However, even the Times doesn't try to prove that books are actually being

burned. The tcmi is a highly emotional lite hi figure of speech, covering the removal of Pido level books, written by communist and pro- communist authors, from tax-supported U.S. libraries abroad. The Times and a few other papers of the same stripe have been crying foul on this even since before President Eisenhower obliged with his own remarks on the subject. Why should the Times and certain Batleni counterparts take up the cudgels in behalf of notorious peddlers of communist

propaganda? Is it because, in many cases, those publications enthusiastically endorsed some of the same slanted books that arc now being removed from official

government libraries abroad? Or can it be because of an even cosier tie-up? The Times itself gives a clue in a July 1st news story about certain people uji be-

fore Senator McCartli\ 's Subcommittee: "Mr. Edwin Burgum was dismissed by New York University when he refused to tell a Senate Internal Security Subcom- off/ffSf/msmr mittee whether he \\ as or ever had been a communist. Me refused again today . . . MM IN NORMAl CAR USE fM Mr. Burgum testified that he had done !" 'from six to a dozen' reviews about five ... LASTS LONGER, TOO years ago for Tl^e Ne-iv York Times Book lievieiv." Prest-O-Lite Battery Company, Inc., Toledo 1, Ohio We migln aiid that this isn't the first SEE YOUR PREST-O-LITE DEALER FOR FREE PRO FOOTBALL SCHEDULES such incident. It makes one \\ oniler about 5 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 .

all this stuff we're being force-fed about "book l)urners" and "AlcCarthyisni." Somebody's ox is most assuredly being gored.

LOVE THOSE COMMIES! ONE of the sillier editorials w rittcn on the subject of "book burning" pro- pounds the theor\- that because this country is strong enough to stand up against any ideas, books by reds should be al- lowed to stay on shelves of U.S. o\ erseas libraries. It's a plausible argument to an\-one w ho

is ignorant of the w orkings of the communists, and the same kind of illogic can be used to excuse a lot of red activities. AX'hy worry about communists in the theater? Win- worry about communists on newspapers and magazines? Why worry about communists in tiie schot)ls and churciies? So long as tiiere are just a handful of these people, what harm can they do?

The answer is that there are two things that are as necessary to a commie as food ace Yankee hitter

and drink. One is money, and the other is prestige. They wax strong on tiiem, and without them they are ineffective. this Now, how does relate to "bt)ok burn- "No matter how good your shooting eye is— it's no ing"? Well, every time our go\ ernment good when brush deflects your shot," says Mickey bu>'s a book by a communist author, it puts a half-dollar or more into that red Mantle. "But my Marlin Cai. .35 Rem. slams through paw, by w ay of ro>'alty. \\'hen > ou con- brush and second-growth like a drive headed over the sider that books for our o\ erseas libraries fence. Hardest-hitting gun I've ever packed into deer were ordered by the hundreds, it means that the subversive authors got a nice or black Sear country. And I like the way you can piece of change from us taxpayers. It's snug a 'scope right down on the barrel." the kind of break most authors would like to get, but don't. Somehow tiie com- WORLD'S GREATEST BRUSH CUN^ Only the Marlin mies got on thnt board gravy train too. Cal. .35 Rem. combines the flashing speed of lever The other clement is at least as im- action with the smashing power of .35 Rem.—achieved portant. By putting into our overseas libraries books by ct)mmies w e built tiiem through Marlin development of new type round breech up in the minds of ever\ one using those bolt. Side ejection and low hammer spur permit low- libraries. So, if a character like How ard est possible 'scope sight mounting. Fast wanted to make a statement in behalf of still anotiier red cause, Europeans Now available in the three most-wanted models: Sporting and Asians listened to him respectfull> Carbine (Model 336-.35-S, illustrated) , $78.95t; Carbine because the U.S. Co\ ernment had helped (Model 336-.35-C), $78.95t; and Rifle (Model 336-.35- make him a big shot. A), $89.95t. Also in Cals. 30/30 and .32 Spl. See them How dumb can we get in building up at your Marlin dealer. addresses and subsidizing these Frankenstein mon- Write us for names and sters? of Marlin dealers in or near your town. Many Marlin dealers have a lay-away plan. Ask your

SURPRISE dealer about it. Marlin firearms also sold in Canada.

^Prices sli;^hlly higher west of the Rockies. IN our July issue w e made a prediction to tile effect that by midsummer the propaganda pressure would be on to " ac- 7] c»«rv"- Mickey's own force the Red Chinese into the United now. Published by Nations. urged ai We our readers to w atch ''''''countT^t^^'xT.^^^o^^^^of his lite where this $2.?0. pressure originated and how Henry Holt & Co., it \vt)uld be piped into the minds of our people. The prediction came true, but w e w ere mi GUNS actually surprised at the source. It w as our SmCi 1870 hunch that it would come from iMalenkov \Marlh or iMao abroad, and some of our high- placed communist moutiipieces at home. It ne\ er occurred to us that the big push r-4 would start from the British Co\ ernment, The Marlin Firearms Co« with the leaders of Her Majesty's Gov- Dept. AL-9, New Haven, Conn. VALUABLE COUPON -MAIL TODAY! Send me catalogue with informa- ernment carrying the ball in behalf of tion and photo -illustrations of the reds. It just goes to Name- show tiiat when Marlin Guns, plus new cartoon you come in contact w ith the likes of booklet, "More Fun With Your Aneurin Bevan, .22 Rifle." Also send me a pack the stuff is bound to rub Street- . Counly of (check preference) single off on \ ou. or double-edge Marlin Razor Blades. 1 enclose lOt for handling. City. -Sfofe- . Products shake it on Parade ^ .—-—-^ morning

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

SHELF-MAKING MADE EASY MAKE YOUR OWN BED Now you can make extra shelves with Something new to simplify the construc- little effort and no tools. Target Products tion of a Hollywood bed has been announced Company, Box 276, West Boylston, Mass., by Shelly Products, Vici & Coral Sts., Phila-

is marketing what they call JifFv" Shelf delphia 24. This is a line of heavy gauge

Makers \\ hich do the work for you. These steel legs which are mounted with several are 8-inch steel brackets which arc placed screws, permitting them to be attached to above or between present shelves and vir- wood spring frames easily, flatly and firmly. tually hold themselves in place with the There is no danger of splitting the wood as

new shelf. The trick is in a small tab at with the old type legs that use just one the top and bottom of each bracket which large screw. Finished to look like wood, they fits between the w all and the shelf board. are supplied in walnut, maple, and ma- The price is 98^ postpaid for two pairs. hogany, as well as aliuniniun. Available in stores or direct from the manufacturer at $6.95 postpaid for a set of six. every step HOW NOT TO MISS 'EM of the day On page 18 of this issue you will find an J article telling all, or almost all, about rifle scopes. Since that article was written wc received an announcement concerning a new QUINSAM FICHTS product of Chilford Arms Mfg., 24 Califor- nia St., San Francisco— a 4-powcr telescopic gunsight, called the Boone Scope. Unlike a conventional rifle scope, this type is only ATHLEnSFOOT SOMETHING NEW IN FILES a few inches in length and requires only a single mount. Mounts, incidentally, are A revolutionary new file, one which looks available for more than 80 popular guns in- like an ordinary file but which has a cutting cluding nine shotguns. Designed on the INFEOIOH surface that feeds from a coated abrasive same principle as the earlier 2 '4 -power roll, is being introduced by Minnesota Min- Boone Scope, the new model has a field of ing and Manufacturing Co., St. Paul, Minn., Not a part-time, night'time remedy! view of 28 feet at 100 yards and an eye re- and the Monarch Machine Shop, Inc., • lief of 2 Vz inches. The price is $48.00. Quinsana's full-time action fights athletes Madison, Wise. Called the Red Flash abra- foot all day long. Gives fast relief! out of 9 sive file, it is designed for deburring and 10 users report amazing results. other filing and finishing operations in the • 91 per cent of foot specialists interviewed nietalworking field. Featuring an 11-inch used QuiNSANA on their patients. Easy to stroke, the file holds a roll of more than use, and no nasty medicinal odor. six feet of abrasive cloth which provides a fresh surface for peak cutting efficiency. • At the first symptoms of athletes foot . . A burning, itching, cracks and peeling be- choice of abrasive grits is available. The price of the file in one-inch width is $2.95> tween toes . . . get QuiNSANA quick! Shake in li/2 inch width it sells it on feet. To help keep feet cool, comfort- and a for $3.78 able, shake in shoes. complete with roll.

HOW TO MAKE A RUG C, MPG SLIDE RULE A Norwegian device which makes An inexpensive slide rule which tells at a hooked rugs quickly and easily, the cools glance how much mileage your car is de- Magi-Carpet Automatic Needle, has been livering is being offered by MRMCO, 800 announced by Albin Enterprises, 1401 AA'. S. Ada Street, Chicago 7. Costing only 25c, Eighth St., Los Angeles 17. The mechanism it is small enough to be clipped onto the looks like an enlarged sewing niaciiine

sun visor so it can be used whenever you needle, with a handle for holding it and a

fill tank. It works moving the feet! your gas by crank which moves the needle up and side out to that part of a scale which shows down. It is heavy enough, of course, to how far you've traveled. By a glance at an- handle tlic yarns necessary in rug-making.

other set of figures you know at once how Vhc price is $5.95 complete with instruc- many miles per gallon you've been getting. tions.

When writing to manufacturers concerning items described here kindly mention that you read about them in The American Legion Magazine

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MuriMDiEi^

The boy knew that the only

sohition was to kill or be killed.

By JtEUBEN DAVIS

Jiving down the hot and winding road toward home, Alec II Lenione faced \\ hat lay ahead with both bitterness and relief. Letty's frightened letter had come at noon. Borrow- ing a horse and buggy from the man he'd been plantation manager for during these three years of exile from home and Letty, he had oiled his .38 revolver, put it in his pocket, and started. Shortly after good dark he stopped his buggy at the Smith gate, and saw Mr. Smith standing there. He stepped down, feeling light and active as a cat. While they shook hands he was looking up the walk for Letty, the bitterness of the mission he'd come on wiped out by eagerness to see his sister, his only kin. "I never was so glad to see anybody in my life, boy," Mr. Smith said. "Letty wrote me to meet her here," said Alec. "She's been here, waiting for you since she wrote that letter, until a couple of hours ago. Just before sundown (continued) MUJMDiE

she up and went back home. . . . She knew I'd wait for you." and gambling debts, and they're pressing him so hard he's A weakness struck Alec, and a pulse beat hard in the side promised to sell part of the Lemonc place and pay up. He's of his neck. The shock passed, and he turned back to the even said he'll see to it that you don't live to reach twenty- buggy, but Mr. Smith's hand on his arm stopped him. "It's one and claim your half of the property. He knew if he bad business going there after dark giving Gawsner the drop scared Letty bad enough, she'd send for you, and you'd on you. Stay here till morning, and I'll ride over with you." come quick and rough. That would give him his chance to "No, thank you, sir. Letty's expecting nie. But I would get rid of you, fix it so he won't need your name on any be mighty glad of anything you can tell me about what the deed. After that he can handle Letty to suit himself." situation is exactly." "Letty's ready now for me to stop him," Alec said. A "Bad," Mr. Smith said. "Too bad to have to fall on the doubt swept him. "You don't reckon she went back there shoulders of a boy, not legally a man yet." to make up with him? She hasn't changed her mind?" "Letty's all I've got," Alec said, "and I'm ready. Been ready Mr. Smith shook his head. "I know a good woman will for over three years." stick to a mean man till hell freezes over; but in this case,

"I know. There's no way around it. When you left home, I don't think it was that. Mr. Gawsner went too far \\ hen

I figured you were just a hot-headed boy, resenting Letty's he tried to make Letty do anything against your interests, marrying Mr. Gawsner and letting him take over the plan- son. She figured you'd get her letter today. It's my belief tation. You and Letty by yourselves had done such a fine she got scared >'ou'd be so fier\' mad you might go straight job of working it after your folks got killed. I thought to settle with Gawsner without stopping by here to sec you were just too fiery, and time would heal things. I know her. It's my belief she went home to be on the spot and make better now. When Letty came to us a few days ago she was sure you didn't get ambushed." so pitiful and scared and mad it made my blood boil. Alec stepped in the buggy and gathered up the reins. Gawsner had threatened to kill her if she refused to sign "Remember to be within the law w hen you act, boy. The

your name to a deed." Gawsners are politically powerful, and even if this one is Alec's hand on the fence twisted a picket so hard it broke a black sheep and not worthy of the Gawsner name— well,

loose from the railing with a sharp snap. when it comes to a tight place, blood is thicker than ^\•ater. "Take it easy, son. Letty's in no danger. I did some in- And remember I'm here if you need me." quiring around. It's you Gawsner's after. He owes whiskey "Thanks," Alec said and started down the last mile of the 12 road liDnie. A strange, unearthly clearness was in his brain. "How have you been getting along? Do you want some It was a clearness he'd felt once before, when, a boy of supper?" she said, still in that tight, forced tone. seventeen, he had first seen naked hate on a man's face, and Before he could answer, a chair was bumped against the know n that his sister Letty was married to a dangerous man, floor upstairs, and he heard Mr. Gawsner's voice. Letty's and had nobody but him, a boy, to look out for her. hand caught his arm. "I never know," she whispered. "He That summer day—the last time he had seen his home or might have slipped downstairs. They're playing cards up Letty— he had hap- there. Sometimes for two or three da>'s and nights without pened down in the stopping." field and come Alec started boiling inside. Letty, w hom he'd never seen across Mr. Gaws- scared of anything, was scared out of her wits. "I'll go up ner, in charge of and pay them my respects," he said, but she tightened her the plantation since fingers on his arm and was pulling him into the hall and

Letty married him down it. "You can sleep in \'our old room tonight." She a few months back, opened a door, found a lamp on the mantel and lit it. letting the plow Inside the room Alec, still holding to the knob of the hands he w a s door he'd closed behind him, said harshly, "What's got the watching plow so matter with him?" close to the young "Whiskey has run him crazy, I think," she said. One of cotton that they the shades at the long windows, draw n clear to the floor in were breaking the spite of the hot night, sw ung inward a little, and a spasm roots. Impulsively crossed her face. "He may be out there listening." Her Alec liad called his lips just shaped the words. attention to it, only "I'll go out and see," Alec said, but she w as beside him, to have Mr. Gaws- pushing his hand from the doorknob. "You're all I've got, ner jump down off Alec. Don't see him tonight. Sleep— please. Here in your ." his horse raging mad. "Shut up your mouth," he'd said. old room. But be careful. In the morning. . . She was "And go tell your smart sister she needn't be sending you gone, closing the door behind her. to spy on me. Lm running this place now." Confused and made helpless b\- Letty's strange behavior. Alec's brain had almost burst with shock and fear and Alec focused his eyes on the familiar room of his b<)\ hood. pity for Lett\'. Mr. Gawsner's quirt had caught him on his The mirror of the walnut dresser w as broken out and the hip and again on his upper arm and shoulder before he could oval frame swung empty betw ecn the two little top draw ers. move. He had left home that same day; because Letty said The split bottoms of the two chairs were ragged and broken. it had to be that way, that marriages were made in heaven, Only the spool bed looked the same. Suddenly he was that Alec was just a bo)', and things would work out. They dog tired. He blew out the lamp, rolled up the w indow had worked out to this—that maybe the ne.xt few minutes shades to let air into the stifling room, and undressing in the would mean the end ol either him or Air. Gawsner. The dark, lay dow n on the bed. Pulling the extra pillow down full horror of it struck him for the first time. about even with his hips, he shoved his revolver under it, This road, tiie cotton fields on either side, the big old in easy reach of his hand. thorn trees along the fence row with their long limbs clear in the starlight—everything his eye fell on was familiar to HE WOKE, gasping for air, and sat him from childhood and should be awakening pleasant rec- upright. Witii no idea how long he ognition in him. But nothing did. He passed the trees of had slept, he knew his sleeping was their o\\ n woods lot, saw the familiar bulk of the barn; all over. He felt exposed and the longed-for sights of home he had dreamed about at crowded. He pulled his clothes night, and grieved for in the daytime, were around him, but on in the dark, hating to put on still no sense of homecoming stirred in him. the hot coat, but he couldn't Beyond the shade trees in the yard, the dark bulk of the leave it off and let his re- house, big chimney at either end, stood out clear against volver show. Stepping the night sky. Only the windows of one upstairs room ough the window on showed light. No air stiiTed in the hot night; in the yard ) the side galler\-. he the big shade trees were motionless. Reining off the road stood listening. Light toward tlie hitching rail, he saw two saddle horses and shone from the w in- buggy tied there. At least four visitors were around the dow upstairs, and place somcw here. A man moved out of tlie shadows toward muffled talking him, and Alec, a hand on his revolver butt, jumped to the told him the ground. The man took hold of the bridle. It was the hostler, card game was but nobody Alec had ever seen before. "Put him up and still going on. feed him," he said, and went through the gate. The green He was climbing the high steps when Letty came out of Bermuda grass the dark hall. She didn't speak, just reached up and caught beyond the him around the neck and squeezed him so tight that it hurt. steps had a vel-

He'd forgotten how tiny his sister was — four years older vet >' bluish than he. The top of her head came just under his chin. He color that was held her close, and for an instant this seemed like home. But beginning to reflect light from somewhere. Looking up, he she released him and stepped back, saying in a high, un- saw the pitch blackness of the sky was thinning, and the natural voice, "Why, Alec, I'm so pleasantly surprised to stars were pale. Dav'light was coming. Hunting a cool place, see you." he took the old path into the orchard. Backing his shoulders Her words, plainly meant for other ears than his own, against a pear tree, he w atched the mules in the lot, some made him glance quickly up and down the gallery, and into of them still sleeping, others drinking at the w ater trough. the darkness of the hall. He saw nobody, but heard men Full daylight came, and he saw sunlight touch the familiar talking somewhere. (Continued on page 46) 13 Settiiig the Stage for

Miicli llial is wroii

|)liony go>eriunen( rcb'ef project lba( cost taxpayers niilJions.

By WALTER BROOKS

THEATRICAL BUSINESS has bcen famous for its "angels"— financial angels, that is—those wealthy backers \\ ho put money into shows for reasons of their own. But did you know that THESE COMPETENT THEATRICAL LEADERS WERE BRUSHED ASIDE IN your Uncle Sam was the "sugar daddy" of them all—the FAVOR OF REDS, PINKS, STAGE-STRUCK HAMS AND CHISELERS. theatrical angel to top-flight all angels, even those with wings?

In 1935, \ ()ur Government allocated $4,800,000,000 for relief, and that was impoi tant money. The public had to stand back and point off, to full> appreciate ten decimal places. At that time, the theatre, as an institution, w as badh' in need of relief. For that matter, the theatre— the "Fabulous bivalid"— is alivays in need of relief. I5ut in the depth of the depression, there w ere man\' iionest people of the theatre who needed help. It was in that >ear that a delegation of important stage produceis went to W ashington to ask for Government aid, nor in the nature of relief, but as an official loan, to be used and |)aid back, on a revolving fund basis. It was proposed that

$ 1 ,()()(),0()() be provided for new production, and consequently, new emplo>-mcnt, in the two or three cities where the legiti- GEORGE AI. COHAN EDDIE DOW LING mate theatre has its source. The members of the committee, iieaded by F.ddie Dow ling, included (George AI. Cohan, Arthur Hopkins, Hrock Pemberton, John Golden and others, all trul\' representative of the theatre. They presented their case, ami aw aited dex ciopments. But nothing happened; at least, nothing remoteh" resem- bling an acceptance of their proposition. There ivits an ob- stacle, w hich w as not immediateh' apparent. Airs. Roosevelt opposed their plan, and she did this by successfulh* presenting an alternative plan of her own, to the President. Harry Hopkins, hatchet man and dispenser of the relief billions, carried out her ideas, w hich w ere so completely in s\-mpathy w ith his ow n. The Federal Theatre Project was one of 11,000 "projects" BROCK PEMKERTON ARTHUR HOPKINS provided through the National Fmergency Council for the spending of four billion, eight hundred miliion dollars. There 14 MOSCOW

Hallie Flanagan apparently qualified as boss ol the j)r()ject because she had been Eleanor Roosevelt's drama coach at Vassar. Another "angel" was the ubiquitous Hany Hopkins.

M That great thes- pian Orson ^Velles was turned loose on an u II s u s p e c t i n g world via the |)rojcct.

Elmer Rice jumped into the project with both Icet.and predictable results.

were also the Federal Writers Project, the Federal Arts Project and the Federal Youth Projects. It was said that Airs. Roosevelt "was interested in all the Art projects." And she w rote the plot for what happened to the Arts under relief. With orders from the White House, Harry Hopkins asked Hallie Flanagan (iMrs. Phillip Haldanc Davis) to become the head of the federal Theatre Project, although she had no connection with legitimate theatre. She had been for ten >cars director of the Experimental Theatre at \'assar College, and w as Mrs. Roose- velt's drama coach. Harry telephoned to Hallie, and a Project was born. She cites this sequence of events in her book. Arena—the story of the Federal Theatre Project, which was published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in 1940. Immediately, the Federal Theatre Project w as no longer theatrical business. It was purely relief, and there were many millions to spend. So, the Project w as set up in the forty-eight States, in spite of the fact that theatre arts were concentrated in one or two producing centers, such as New York and Holh w ood. The relief money was to go for labor—"as wages for people actually on relief roles"—regardless of their real or apparent affiliation with theatri- The revolutionary ardor of some of the ))ink hams burst out in cal enterprise. such things as strikes. Here part of a New York audience was Nobod)' knows how many unemployed theatre people there cauglit on a fire esca|)e while police battled the striking cast.

were. Actor's F.quity said 5,000, and they should know . The WPA estimated 20,000 to 30,000 in New York. The Equit>' figure was The President, it was said, wanted to make the near the truth. In any event, honest people of the theatre, who Theatre Project available to all comers, proving tliat had always taken care of their own, knew for sure that there was he had little love for the theatre, for his action ofH- no such fantastic number of professional people on relief, or in cially labeled the amateur theatre as legitimate, and need of relief, throughout the forty-eight States. vice versa. We'll all be pa> ing for that, forever. Elmer Rice, well known left-wing playwright, and Jacob Baker, Elmer Rice is quoted by Hallie P'lanagan as saying, mystery man insofar as the theatre was concerned, were made "How can you audition an actor? We'll take 'em on, co-administrators. It was said that Baker was a publisher of pro- —if they're no good, we'll throw 'em off." But he communist literature, and he has never been heard of, in theatre never seemed to throw them off, and the Project business, since the Project closed. Harry Hopkins guided the three became saturated with amateurs, aspiring actors and Administrators, with the advice and help of the White House. (Continued on page 61) 15 A now job often means risks. This tells lio\> to appraise them.

By " VERY MAN, at least once or twice in married, with two children, he was do- CAREER CONSULTANT his lifetime, stands at the crossroads, ing very well for himself managing a faced with a vital career decision Chicago hotel. During his peak earning that involves sonic kind of gamble. And years he had accumulated a substantial whether he decides to take road number nest-egg in sound securities. one and "pla>' it safe" or road number Meanwhile, a good friend out in Los WHEN YOU CHANGE JOBS two and "take the gamble," his decision Angeles, who was a chemical engineer, affects iiis \\ hole life, for better or for had been working for years on a new worse. process for cracking and refining petro- Dean Irwin was a garage mechanic in. leum that would greatly increase the a small town in Illinois. One afternoon value of petroleum products that could he got an emergency call. There was an be extracted from every gallon of crude automobile accident on the highway out oil. It certainly looked as though this of town. He arrived at the scene of the new refining process would be worth accident before the doctor did. Three millions of dollars when it was com- bodies lay strew n on the road. pleted, but the engineer had run out of Dean knew all about fixing the auto- funds and needed money to perfect the

mobile, but he knew nothing about help- process and market it. ing these unfortunate people. They all After considerable thought and study, died before the doctor arrived. the hotel manager gradually became As a result of that one agonizing ex- convinced that here was a chance for perience, Dean Irwin gradually devel- him to invest his nest-egg in a new proc-

oped an intense desire to become a ess, help his friend market it, and be all physician. But could he afford to take set as a partner in a profitable business the gamble? for the rest of his life. So he quit his job Get advice liom people working in the new Held. He was thirt>'-one. He was married. as hotel manager and moved his family He was making a good living as a gar- to Los Angeles, where he and the engi- age mechanic. He didn't even have a neer set themselves up in business. high school diploma. The safest course However, when the new process was was to go along as he was. Maybe he completed and they tried to sell it to couldn't make the grade in medicine. some oil refiners, they found that these

Even if he did, it would take \ ears to refineries had been quieth- working get his degree, and more years to work along the same line and had already up an>' kind of practice. perfected the same process. He decided to take the chance. The hotel manager, now in his late First, he made up his high school fifties and broke, had a tough time get- requirements for pre-medical school at ting back into the hotel business at all. night school while he continued work- And now, he's managing a small hotel ing as a garage mechanic. Second, he in Los Angeles and making about half entered pre-medical school and pursued w hat he made in Chicago. his studies during the da\' while he worked as a "night-call man" at a nearby HOW TO RETIRE AND KEEP WORKING garage. Meanwhile, his wife took a job in a women's hat shop. Eight years later, he graduated from lie sine get the job belore leaving the old one. medical school, and today he's a country doctor, living a full life of service I r,i\f the old job under pleasant ( irciinistant es. in a field that's nearer and dearer to him than any other vocation in the world. Now there's a case of a young man w ho took a big gamble and ever\ thing tui iied out just right. Bur there arc other cases in w hich men "took the gamble" and lost.

1 know a hotel manager who was very successful until he made one unfortunate career decision that cost him nearly everything he had. In his early fifties, A lorinei tai tor) superintendent makes a [i PHOTOS BY BENN MITCHELL living raising and selling English Setters. ^ )

the "prime of life" arc also shouldering their heaviest financial responsibilities in raising a family during this same period, and they cannot afford to gamble. In fact, it's just plain foolish for a

man in his peak earning >'cars to f^ii't around w ith long shots. That's the one period of his life w hen he'd l)ctter "stay

put" and "play it safe." However, there are at least two peri- " ods in most men's lives w hen they fir. that it is absolutely neccssar>' to take ' some kind of gamble if thc\' are to mal desired progress and reach desired goals: l.\A'hen you are young, before yc start raising a family, (or certainly before your family responsibilities

become too great), you may find it necessary to make bold moves—moves that put you in the line of w ork for which you are best fitted and which you love most; moves that promise to add to your education or your prestige or your salable background; moves that prepare you to make the kind of mone\' you want to make during y'our peak earning years when your responsibilities will be heaviest.

When you are young and when you are old the odds are in your tavor when you switch jobs. But be tareliil about any Now it's perfecth- true that \\ hen a average in making successful career de- changes in those golden middle years. fellow takes a long chance and wins, cisions, and save yourself from the com- he's a "hero," and if he loses, he's a mon mistakes that usually lead to dis- "bum." And it doesn't take many brains aster. 2. When your peak earning years are to criticize a person after you know he It's really surprising, for example, how drawing to a close, after your family failed, and why. man\' men hold the erroneous convic- is raised, if you are working for some- It's equally true that all life is a gam- tion that the best time to take a gamble one else, you know darned well that ble and there are no fool-proof rules or is when you're "at your peak" and in you will soon be displaced by a guides that a man can follow and be sure the "prime of life." And, offhand, you'd younger man and you ///nst make a that he's going to win every time. But say it makes sense that a man should be bold move and get into some kind of it is possible to learn something from the at his best if he's going to gamble and small business w hich you completely successes and failures of others and to win. coiitroJ so that no one can fire you. arrive at certain basic principles that The \\ hole trouble w ith this line of Let's consider tlic \-oung man first will help >ou to boost >our batting reasoning is that most men who are in of all. When George Harrison got out of the Army, he took an office job in the statistical department of a A\'all Street brokerage house. He w as getting along all right, but he wasn't particularly en- thusiastic about w hat he was doing or how he w as progressing. He liked people— all kinds of people, especially the underdog. He was always trying to find out what makes people tick, and he read everything he could get on labor disputes. A friend of his told him that he ought to get into personnel w ork and maybe w ind up in the field of negotiating union contracts. But there he was, twenty-nine, mar- ormer office manager solved his prob- An advertising copy vriter quit his job at ried, the first baby on its way, and he by starting a little printing business. age 53, then made more money than ever. (Coiitiinied on page 4S 17 miss* em

Whether you are a hunter or a

targeteer, a riflescope will make your

shots count for more.

This Sako rifle firing a .222 Remington makes a fine varminter when fitted with a K6 VVea\er.

HE YEAR was 1865, the scene a cul- who peered through the telescope and few people know the whys and where- tivated valley in a border State. It downed the officer, then had the blind fores of the scope. Don't let the gadget- was a quiet day with a heat haze just covered with canvas that had been look of the scope-equipped rifle scare beginning to build. Suddenly there was painted a natural green. So there was you ofi^. The day the genius sat down a shot, and a curl of smoke lifted as much more involved than peering and decided that the "spy" glass could light and innocent looking as a w hite through a telescopic sight and pressing be used on the rifle as easily and eff^ec- feather in the breeze. Across the wide a trigger. tively as in your hand, a whole new swath of valley, exactly one mile, one Today scopes are not the military vista unfolded for the shooting man.

hundred and eighty-seven feet distant, curiosity they were back in the Civil Now, exactly what is a riflescope? the man in the distinctive field gray W^ar days, but are more or less com- It's a telescope mounted on a rifle and uniform of the Confederacy staggered monplace items. However, relatively like any telescope it can be had in and fell dead. Aides rushed to his side. Confusion and pandemonium broke forth. Behind that long and fantastic shot that threw the heavy concentration of soldiers into a state of leaderless bewilderment, stood several impressive factors. The most important of these w as a 25-power telescope w ith so bright

and so large a field that it even then rivaled some of those made today. It had a scale on its rifle mounting that was adjustable both vertically and hori- Ky turning a ring this Bausch & Lomb scoi)e changes power from 2V2 to 4x. zontally and read in minutes of angle. Q External knobs change elevation and windage in this Fecker lOx target scojie. The rifle that hurled the bullet was 1^ of Stoeger demonstrates a Litschert Varmint Master attach- thirty pounds in weight, a muzzle- Q R. G. Sauer Arms ment. Replacing the objective lens ol a \Veaver turns it into a 6-i)ower sco|>e. loading percussion lock, target rifle, and J4 its maker's name, Abe Williams, was marked cleanly on the barrel. Behind that herculean shot was careful preparation. As Charles Winthrop sectional view of a Biishnell Scope- Sawyer reconstructed the scene in his This master shows how an internally adjusted Firearms in America series, bushes had sco|)e works. Turning the slotted screw been replanted to form a screen, and heads adjusts tor elevation and windage. a small cellar dug and floored. Sawyer believes that some fifty soldiers were used, bearing planks, scantlings, car- pentry tools, surveying instruments and the big rifle. Then a sturdy table was constructed on the flooring of the cellar; a lever-operated muzzle-raising device was installed. The sharpshooter US ride from the famous \V'in(hestcr Arms collection is (lie one des(ril>cd in the article. It was used dining the 18 Civil War. It weighs 30 pounds, and had a 25-j)ower scope. )

various "powers." This simply represents the magnification. For instance, when you talk about a 4- powcr (a 4X) scope, it means it magnifies the image four times. A lOX glass magnifies ten times, and so on. However, as anyone who has used a telescope or binocular knows, the glasses with the greatest amount of power or magnification are not necessarily the best. Vou run into certain optical laws which place limitations on what the scope can do apart from magnify. For example, unless you w ant to get into cumber- some and impractical optical systems when >'ou have a rifle scope of high magnification, you also have one whose field of view is relatively narrow. Also, the image it shows is not so briglit. So, knowing something about what is available, it is up to you to

decide \\ hich is best for your t\ pc of shooting. Fred Kiihn, one of the best small bore coin])etitors in the East, with a The following facts indicate what a scope can do: Remington .'!7 and a Unertl scope. The spotting scope is Bausch & Lomb. Correct focus. An\- object sighted with a scope is clear and distinct as well as being magnified in size. Brightness. Looking into a good scope reveals a bright image of game or target. A proper scope gathers most of the light coming dirccth from the target and eliminates reflections and stra\ light. Corrects faulty vision. Shooters w ith near- or far- siglitcd vision can adjust the e>epiece of their scope to compensate. Thus they can compete on an etiual basis for game or better scores. Easy alignment. The sighting member of the scope,

the reticule, is cas\' to place on game, and is in the same focal plane as the image. Positix c sighting w ith- out blurring. Less error. A telescopic sight remo\ cs one source of error in sighting—the limitation of the human eye

to discern small objects at long range. Thus, it is

more accurate than a metallic sight, as is pro\cd in modern competitive shooting. Matches best guns and ammiurition. The onh' way

to get the best from a gim and anuuimition is with a sight w hich is more acurate than cither of them — a scope sight. Corrects fault) sighting habits. (JantiiV-; a gun or movement w hile sighting is ciuickl>' noted with the A perfect combination for the deershtver in tliis Marlin ,'>,')6A 30 .'JO crosshairs of a scope and can be casih- corrected. caliber with a Lyman 4x Challenger scope on a GriHin Howe mount. Judging point of aim. Wlierc most long distance

( Contiiiiied on (iivj^e 40

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT RIFLE SCOPES MAY BE OBTAINED FROM:

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Leiipolcl &: Stevens John Unertl Optical Co. Instruments .".551-55 East St. Portland l;!. Ore. Pittsburgh 14, Pa. • '• R. A. Litschert \V. R. Weaver Co. Sco|)e-shooting at low cost is offered in this Mossberg outfit— .22 rifle Winchester, Ind. El Paso, Texas and 4x scope—selling for $33.90. The 20x spotting scope is also Mossberg. 19 TUFRF. ARF. too man\' gangster films, The House probing committee — the TV programming is much more horror movies, and gory crime Federal Communications Commission troublesome than radio programming plays with vivid and morbid de- Subcommittee of the Committee on at present. This should not be surpris- tails," said one West V^irginia parent Interstate and Foreign Commerce — in- ing. T\^ is new; it appeals to the eye in answer to a questionnaire. vestigated not only "whether improper with movement as w ell as to the ear; it

"\A^e do not advocate attempting to emphasis is placed in radio and televi- is easily accessible to children; and it rear children in a vacuum, but we do sion programs upon crime, violence, is growing more rapidly than its capac- object to their unremitting bombard- and corruption" but "whether radio and ity to produce suitable programs in suf- ment b\- radio and television programs television programs contain immoral or ficient quantity. characterized l)y sensationalism, cor- otherwise offensive matter." The latter Television is rapidly expanding. Al- ruption, trickery, mediocrity, and point included testimon\' regarding low most half of the homes in the United shodd\' hLunor," wrote Mrs. Newton necklines and other allegedly offensive States now have television sets. (Radio P. Leonard, president of the National dress, immoral pla\'s, "blue jokes," and coverage is 98%.) Even after the novel- Congress of Parents and Teachers, to a certain t\ pes of commercials. ty has worn off, people seem to devote Congressional Committee investigating Parental concern about the bad in- more time to television than they do radio and television programs last year. fluence of the mass media of communi- to radio. According to one competent

During the Committee's hearings one cation on children is as old as the media study, over four and one-half hours per average during of the members. Representative J. Edgar themselves. The current situation in day per home was the (Jheiiowefh of Colorado, declared, "I television and radio is not different from 1952, as compared to a little more than think tliere is serious, substantial, well- what the motion picture and comic three hours for radio. As a matter of founded objection on the part of an book industries have long experienced. fact between eight and eleven o'clock average reasonable American citizen to In fact, parr of the concern of parents on an average e\ ening, more people are the type of program that has been com- stems from the fact that children are \ icw ing television tiian listening to ra- ing into his home." exposed to all these media in our cul- dio, even now w hen man\' areas do not The Congressman w as pointing out ture; and the cumulative diet of crime, have television reception. No doubt

to one of the broadcasting industry's horror and \ iolence from all ot them is about it, T\^ is gaining. representatives, who agreed, that the potentially more effective than from Children are especially avid radio objections were not coming from any one alone. It is known that children and television fans. Pre-school young- "crackpots" or unreasonable people but reinforce their taste for A\'esterns or sters spend as much as five or six hours

from parents aroused about the qualit\' crime fiction by getting it from as many a day watching television. A census of of radio-T\' jirograms and their pos- sources as possible. the televiewing of two thousand six- sibly detrimental effects upon children. PHOTOS BY BENN MITCHELL year-olds in Los Angeles County pub- 20

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They spend more time on TV than they do on their homework. The solution may be lound in the knob marked "Off.'

lie and parochial schools in April 1952 programs as to those produced espe- graders. Eighty-five per cent and revealed that: cially for them. Two content studies by eighty-three per cent were regular fans 82';f watch every day. the National Association of Educational of Six Gun Theatre and Six Gun Pliiy- 30^ watch at least six TX programs Broadcasters show that only a small hoiise respectively. Televiewing mys- daily. percentage (10.31% in Los Angeles tery-crime shows by the children was would rather watch than during one week in Alay 1951, and 13% often an all-or-none matter. For ex- play outside, in New York City during one week in ample, those who watched Mystery ask their mother to buy things January 1951) of the content of tele- Playhouse on Sunday nights at 11:15 advertised on television, vision broadcasting is especially de- had, for the most part, already seen sing the advertising songs they signed for the child audience. Only a Famous Jury Trials at 10:30, Hands of hear on television, small proportion of radio broadcasting Mystery at 10 and Plain Clothes Man 30." 62' talk to their playmates about is of this type. at 9: TV programs, Children listen to and look at adult A rough idea of the extent to w hich dream about things they see on programs whether or not they are suit- radio and television programs are filled television, able. The Xavier study indicated that with violence, crime, and other mate- of the children report that TV" Westerns and myster>' crime T\^ pro- rial presumably unsuitable for children programs frighten them. grams were watched regularly by large can be ascertained from monitoring 33.3% are considered restless by their proportions of the sixth and seventh studies. Even though they may lack teachers. something in scientific reliabil- 38% have large vocabularies, ity, they underline the fact that

J :cording to their violence is all too common. Last teachers. winter parental groups in Chi- As children get older, school cago tabulated 134 television and homework cut into their programs broadcast on four T\^ viewing time, and the amount of stations during the last w eek in T\' listening goes down. Some December. Christmas week tlien do their homework with found ninety-three murders, the radio on. Even so, a recent seventy-eight shootings, nine Xavier University study in Cin- kidnapings, nine robberies, cinnati found that twelve- and forty-four gun fights, thirty- thirteen-year-old students spend three sluggings, two knifings, an average of 3.7 hours each three whip-lashings, two poison- school da>- in front of the T\^ ings, two bombings — a total of screen. Including Saturday and 295 crimes of violence. No \\ on- Sunday, they spend thirty hours der many parents thought that a week with television as com- George S. Kaufman might well pared with twenty-five hours a have sandwiched one more play- week in school; and it will be ing of "Silent Night" into this conceded by all their attention welter of crime. is less inchned to wander from Last fall six monitors recorded Most sponsors and advertising agencies are aware of the TW screen than in Miss Jane 852 crimes, including 167 mur- their responsibility to the j)ublic. Bob Foreman, left, Doe's classroom! ders, which were televised on vice president in charge of TV for Batten, Barton, By far the most outstanding 124 programs during one week Durstine & Osborn, Inc., scans script to eliminate result of all the surveys of chil- objectionable material. The agency is the largest in in the Los Angeles area. In real dren's listening is that they lis- radio-TV billing, with Ymir Lucky Strike Theatre, life, the whole United States ten as much or more to adult Cavalcade of America, the Groucho Marx Show, etc. ( Continued on page 43 21 HOUSE BUIUDinfO 3MAttMJ EASY

Starting with four walls and a roof, many people

are building tlieir own homes wdtli ready-to-install windows, doors, staircases and other components.

By JULE R. VON STERNBERG, A.I.A.

There's hardly a man-jack who hasn't assembles a relatively few factory- .It some time or another wanted to made units, or prefabricated parts. throw up a wall, finish an attic, build You now can buy prefabricated in a bookcase, or add a wing to the old walls, floors, windows, doors, stairs, chateau. Most of these dreams have kitchens, furniture, closets, fireplaces, gone a-glimmering when the lad learned chimneys, plumbing, sheathing, roof- he ing, cupolas, was not the combination carpenter- birdhouses—and dozens Packaged stairs come in one piece. architect-contractor-banker he should more. Most of these go together on Just heist into place and nail. be to undertake even a small construc- the job with very little skill. (All tion project. you need are simple tools and the A revolution is taking place in the ability to follow instructions.) Every houses at all was because the men who building business, however. Confronted one is a time-saver, too. And, for the put them together were low-paid crafts- by the success of assembly line tech- most part, they're better designed, bet- men. When Henry Ford, however, niques in other fields—and by an alarm- ter engineered, and more durable than started putting autos together on an as- ing shortage of building craftsmen—the the hand-made products they displace. sembly line, he could ofiter his workers building industry has started to adopt To give you an idea of the enor- higher wages. To keep up with his scale, mass production principles. The change mousness of the job that prefabrication other workers, including building trades- bodes well for every frustrated ama- has tackled, here is a simple picture: In men, were also offered more money. teur wood butcher; it means that he an average three-bedroom house, there Result: Everyone rode in an automo- now can do much of the work himself. are about 30,000 parts — not including bile, and building costs headed for the Skill, time and money have been expert- parts of parts. In the old days, each stratosphere. ly w rung out of many building opera- one of these 30,000 parts was nailed or To help bring dow n the high cost of tions at the factory. Instead of working screwed or poured or laid into place building, more and more parts of the with thousands and thousands of parts by men on the job. It was tedious work, house were put together by machine in necessary in a house, the builder now and the only reason people could afford factories. It's a trend that is still going

Even oak flooring boasts the prefabber's The factory made door jamb is virtually Insulation packed in batt or (ouch. It s now pre-stained and finished. toolprool. Shim it, plumb it. nail it. blanket form is easy to install. All in one roofing. Sheathing, insulation and roofing—combined in one material. Finished in copper, aluminum, asphalt. Annor Cel.

New prefabricated window is com|)lete with glazing, frame, hardware, storm sash, weatherstripiiing,itherstripping screen. Installation time: 5 minutes.

Prefab, one-piece zvalls. >Vall-wide panels, 8' X 18', are large enough to cover an entire strong. You know many of these pre- Here's how you can put that wing wall. Cut holes lor windows, doors. Uj)son. fabricated materials at first hand. Take together . . . vvallboards, for example. These big First, let's give it a floor. We'll panels have been around for years. A need joists to span the basement single 4' x 8' wallboard replaces three walls. Years and years ago, joists were dozen pieces of lath, a hundred or so first prefabricated at sawmills — di- nails, three coats of plaster ... at just mensioned, planed, and cut into about a fifth the cost. But even this standard lengths of two-foot incre-

phenomenal saving is being bettered; ments. This was a whale of an im- One manufacturer now makes a huge provement over the rough old tim- 8' X 18' panel that is large enough to bers that had previously been avail- cover an entire wall or ceiling. There able. The smooth surfaces and the are virtually no joints (cut out holes fixed dimensions meant less adz-work for windows and doors), the panel goes and sawing on the job. They meant, up faster, looks better, wears better than too, that thcre'd be fewer squeaky multi-paneled walls. floors, for flooring would lay tightly

But this is getting ahead of our story. on the planed surfaces of these new steel doors, left. Won't warj), Suppose, for example, you want to add joists. Because they were cut into Ready-made come complete with all hardware. Fenestra. a wing on the house. Now, you have standard two-foot increment length Factory fnefjlace, right. Connect to a chim- lots of land—but very little money. So (14', 16', 18', etc.), builders and ar- ney, and it's ready to burn. Heartli place. you decide to do a good part of the chitects started dimensioning their Handyman's flooring. Simply cement ch)wii work yourself, using as many prefabri- houses to take them without cutting. these lactory-finislied oak parquet tiles over cated parts as possible. The sawmill, in short, was one of old floors. In dark and natural colors. Parkay. Unfortunateh', foundations are not our first prefabricators. By develop-

yet prefabricated; it is still necessar\' to ing rigidly dimensioned lumber for

dig a hole, and line or fill it with con- framing and other purposes, it lifted crete or masonry, using old-fashioned a big burden of labor from the backs horny-handed labor. But once you have of the carpenters on the building

a foundation, virtually everything above job . . . made the job go up faster

it, from floor joists to rooftree, can be and stand up better . . . and made it bought partially or completely factt)ry- possible, too, to pay the workmen assembled—prefabricated, in short. more mone>' for the same time! PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO {Continued on page 51)

MR. AND MRS. ALFRED HANAK SEIOW HOW EASY IT IS TO BUILD WITH PREFABRICATED PARTS. TIio new siibstiditioii rules will abolish football's two-platoon system.

Specialists such as F vou (iLiMPSE your favorite college maneuvers of a real pass defense ace: former Yale star Billy Booe will he unem- football star pla\'ing strip-tease with You see, the legislators of the college ployed unless they can a brilliantly hued jersey on the side- game went back to limited substitutions do more than one job. lines this Fall, don't be surprised. If last January and no-one—not even those he slips a bright band around his arm who masterminded the or comes out of the game to sit on a end of the two-platoon bench apart from his teammates, like system — is quite certain the dunce in the corner, think nothing what the change will of it. bring.

Because you had better be prepared Some say it will ruin for anything and everything from the the sport both for the crewcut clan on the gridiron in this players and the spectators. Others claim change-over year of 1953 when the it means a return to the "grand old coaches, those sideline Svcngalis who days" when men were men—Iron Men, liave been pulling the strings as they that is to say—and only a broken leg or pleased, suddenly find that their Tril- some such crippling injury brought re- bys cannot respond as before. The act moval from the game. This latter group has a \\ iiolc set of new rules. happily hails the end of the two-pla- In addition to the shenanigans on the toon era with its constant shuttle sys- sidelines, designed to .separate the eligi- tem of units to and from the benches. bles from the incligibles, you may ex- Fielding (Hurry Up) Yost's first pect a comedy of errors, both on of- point-a-minute Michigan team boasted fense and defense ... a slower style of only a 14-man squad when it massacred play . . . le.ss forward passing . . . and the Stanford Indians in the Rose Bowl lower scores. There w ill be occasional of 1902. jMinncsota stopped Red Grange Columbia line-backer, Jerry scenes of chaos on the battlefield as in 1924 and substituted only one guard Hamj)ton. %vill become a center the new substitution ruling catches a in bringing off the upset. x\nd ten years in order to kec]) him playing. linebacker attempting to make like a later, Columbia accomplished one of the hip-swiveling halfback or a T-forma- great post-season surprises of modern tion quarterback suddenly finds himself times—a 7-0 defeat of Stanford in the groveling in the dirt as he tries to imi- Rose Bowl of 1934—with just 15 players, tate the intricate and unaccustomed two of whom entered the fray in the 24 final two minutes of a titanic upset. Actually, this breaks down into six But the most recent set of Iron Men separate periods. The first one is of did their moleskin marathoning with 15-minutes' duration; the second, 11 the Iowa team of 1939, led by the late minutes; the third, four minutes. After and great Nile Kinnick. And the high- the half-time intermission, the fourth light of the Hawkeye campaign that period thus runs 15 minutes; the fifth,

season was an upset of Notre Dame in 1 1 minutes; and the final four-minute IROJV the sixth period. which only 13 Iowa players were used. segment becomes Kinnick was not particularly fast or A little complicated? Well, compli- rugged. He stood 5 feet 8 inches and cations are what college football will scaled 173 pounds, and yet that season have plenty of, at least until coaches and he played 360 consecutive minutes players smooth out a system of keep- against Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, ing positive check on who has and who MEN Purdue, and Minnesota. hasn't been in the game. There will be Notre Dame He had all-around ability, a certain flair some mighty embarrassing moments, for doing the right thing at the right and a few of these incidents will prob- time which made him an adept opera- ably lose games, for each illegally sub- come tive either on offense or defense. stituted player costs his team a 15-yard As things stand right now, moving penalty. into the 1953 campaign, there isn't a Oddly enough, as originally written big league coach in the land who the new substitution rule was one of wouldn't trade away his backfield spe- those ambiguous bits of legislation cialists—the T-quarterback who never whicb plague officials. It provided for back? has got his plastic panties dirty; the only a five-yard penalty and while it punting and was understood the offending pla>er .-^.v place-kicking and would be ejected for the remainder of kick-off artists; or the period in which the violation oc- By GENE WARD the end who is curred, nothing in the rule book actu- good for nothing ally said so. At a special meeting in July but catching the rules committee plugged this gap passes— all of them and increased the penalty to 15 yards. for a Nile Kinnick Some experts, however, still believe that or an Ace Parker, tossing the player out of the game would the former All really insure against violations. American from Most of the maestros have been busy Duke, or Stan- bees since spring, evolving methods of handling the situation. Ray Eliot, of Illinois, is the one who worked out the idea of a red bench to seat the ineligi- There isn't a coach in the bles as they leave the field of pla>'. He the country this year who tried it out in the intra-squad game last wouldn't like to have a spring it seemed a success, though player of the caliber of and the late Nile Kinnick. it still has to be tested in the pressures The all-around player is due for reju- of big-game combat. venation now that the rule-makers Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd plans to have eliminated the two-platoon system. have the untouchables wear slipover shirts of varied hue and keep them on until they again become legally useful specimens. A number of other coaches, notably Red Dawson of Pittsburgh; Jess Hill, of Southern California; and Frank Howard, of Clemson, also have been toying with the idea of separate Here's one way the coach will be able to keej) his benches. At Notre Dame, Frank Leahy bench straight. However, with the rules providing is delegating one coach to do nothing only a five-yard penalty for illegal substitution, but keep tab on substitutions. some experts feel deliberate violations may occur This unscrambling of the substitu- if it enables the coach to use a valuable player. tions, however, is only the beginning, a mere drop in the old water bucket at ford's Bob Reynolds, who played every which many a mentor will be spending minute, 180 in all, of three consecutive a lot of time this Fall soothing jangled Rose Bowl games. nerves. For no longer can the specialist Before you call this statement too be. called on for spot duty; no longer drastic, you had better take a look at can a phalanx of offensive or defensive what the rulesmakers have done to the stars be rushed into battle when the ball game. In a nutshell, the new legislation changes hands. on substitution states that a player, once Supposing some of the die-hard ex- removed from action, cannot re-enter ponents of two-platoon play still at- the contest during the same quarter ex- tempt to continue its operation. A sud- George Hardeman, Georgia Tech star, may cept in the final four minutes of the den fumble deep in your own territory, ihave trouble getting in the line-up this year. second and fourth periods. (Contimied on page 54) 25 \ \\\

They talk with their boys OVERSEA!^

The Legion, radio stations and llie Siultlenly mail from her son in Korea stopped coming lo Mrs. Grate Mid- idea. diewood, ol Livonia, Mich. On Moth- Armed Forces team np on a great er's Day, the Livonia Legion Post invited her to send a tape-recording.

By ROBERT B. PITKIN as oae incident in a broad program by w hich The "can Uegiorr is ferrying very special messages across weeoÎs and their families and friends at home, AGi ten months out of the States in a forward Korea area wTth tjîend^s coy[3eration from the Armed Forces and got a little cardboard box at mail call. Curious, he U. S.^dio sjration^ squatted on a shell-blasted tree stump, removed his hel- Ovcrse^ tap^recoi^(mgs Me one important phase of a met and opened the box. Out came a clear, plastic spool national Tegionproa^m c^/red Hometown, U.S.A. It is the liolding a roll of brown, cellulose tape. It was a tape re- Legion's ovm appli^tion^md exMnsion of a national Legion cording, i)o.stmarld^Ko kee^the messages rolling That e\ cning, thanks to guidance from a Special between Ijîe -.u-jjT our q0c million servicemen Services sergeant and a bumpy jeep ride to a rear in 24.< area ser\ icc club, the tape was phn ed to him. He There i^nothii^^fictioi^r about the tears heard a familiar voice sa>': "Hello, son. This is of Tne ( JlJIn Korea^ hen h^heard his ." _\ our mother talking . . motliii^ voic(^)n a I^cion H»mc- Unashamed tears welled in the GI's eyes as he listened to his mother's voice for nearly three minutes. Her final words were: "Ciod bless The Ameri- can Legion for making it possible to talk to >ou so far aw ay. We'll be counting the days until w e hear >'our \oice too. Clod keep \'ou, son." The b()\' play ed the message over and over and over again. Next morning, the same tape flew out of Korea,

/Michigan-bound, with a new message on it that

began: "Hello, Mother—and Dad too— this is your ."' son talking from Korea . . In a linle Michigan town, a few days later, the tape with its new message was once more played Bud Middleu'ood had lost an arm in a mortal l>last and couldn't

i- o\ i ;ind o\er again and there were more tears. write . From a Japan hospital he sent 6 minutes oi voice to his folks. 26 Post in the state with details and specific suggestions for doing the job. The District of Columbia was activating a Department- sponsored tape-sending drive at this writing. The Legion in Alaska, with reverse English on the ball, has sent more than 1,000 tapes to continental U. S. that originated with the servicemen stationed in Alaska. This program was kicked off by Alaska's National Executive Committeeman, John H. Van Horn. The tape recordings are but one half of the Legion's Hometown, U.S.A. program. In an entirely different phase of the plan, a national Legion desk in Washington, D. C. gets direct, written requests from GIs overseas. Within five hours of the time they are opened, these requests are forwarded by the Legion to the serviceman's hometown radio station. Shortly, the radio station plays a tune request and reads a message from the GI to a loved one at home. First the station notifies the interested hometown person of the time of the broadcast. James M. Condon heads up the Hometown, U.S.A. activity under the Legion's National Public Relations Commis- sion. Condon programmed a "Stateside Calling" program from an Armed Forces Radio station in the Philippines in WWII. Now, his Legion desk is perhaps the biggest single target for personal mail from overseas in the nation. Between March and mid-August of this year, more than 33,000 tune requests and messages from men overseas crossed Condon's desk, and the trend is dizzily upward. The requests town, U.S.A. tape. Every aspect of Hometown, U.S.A., of were broadcast by more than 2,100 U. S. radio stations from coast. which the tape recording program is one, is supercharged coast to Condon's small staff gets help in the huge sorting and \\ ith emotion. The Legion's National Public Relations Commission mailing job from relays of volunteer workers from the started Hometown, U.S.A. in August, a year ago. The De- District of Columbia American Legion Auxiliary. count during the second in showed 468 partment of New York kicked off the program when it A week May sent the first batch of tapes overseas from booths set up in different tune titles requested in 1,600 letters from over- Times Square at last year's National Convention. In that one seas during that week. Mother's Day made it a big week. operation 2,750 voice messages from home went to overseas But 1,400 letters in a week is not uncommon. servicemen. By then, the tune-requested program had run its full Soon after that, various Posts, getting the idea from the circle many times. GIs overseas had heard from their wives, Times Square recordings and from National or Department mothers, sweethearts or other loved ones that "Station XYZ literature, began sending tapes overseas on their own, while (Continued on page 58) the state Legion organizations began considering the slower job of statewide drives. Nobod>' has bothered to count the number of tapes Legion Posts have already sent to GIs abroad. It may exceed 30,000 by now, and the program is still getting up steam. As summer began, so many Hometow n tapes were arriving at overseas units that the demand for tape recorders on the overseas end was beginning to overrun the Armed Forces' budget for such items. The national Legion began seeking dona- tions of additional tape recorders to place in enlisted men's service clubs abroad. Hawaii posts have been sending tapes overseas continu- oush' since last November. Alabama Posts have sent more than 1,000 tapes (nobody has tallied how many more.) Indiana Posts have sent more than 1,000. Maryland Posts have sent more than 2,000. Vari- ous Posts are known to have gone ahead on their own without submitting figures. They include Posts in Ohio, Cali- fornia, Maine. Kansas, Washington and other states. New Jersey Posts have recorded and sent a large number without an organized statewide drive. These were just the beginning. The Department of Michigan was the first Legion organization to send taped voice recordings to GIs, from their friends and families, on an organized, statewide basis. As a result, Michigan Legion Posts sent upward of 5,000 voice messages overseas in March and April. On July 5, the Legion Department of Pennsylvania started a highly organized statewide drive to have Posts in that state Day's mail at the Legion desk where GIs' requests and send tapes overseas. A broadside announcement went to each messages are relayed to their local radio stations. 27 c

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.Suniiiiei's gone and clone it again. Sneaked By JACK DENTON SCOTT Although public pheasant shooting away anii us. lUit all isn't h)st. A (|uick check Incidentally you target shooters, varmint that wily and fast flying bird to your heart's xvilh )our fishing calendar will set your shooters and plinkers should know that content. Many of the game preserves open inin«l at ease. Bass, perch: most of the pan Remington has just hit the market with a September f5th and offer unlimited bags. If fish, and nearly the whole list of salt water new .22 caliber cartridge. Over live years of you arc in doubt about preserves in your lish are still yours for the catching. In many research went into its making and its de- area, write to the Department of Conserva-

ways September is the superior fishing sign is a radical departure from the con- tion in the capital city of your state. They month. The sun isn't quite as hot and this ventional style bullet. More than 70 alloys can tell you where the preserves are located month there'll be kind of an air conditioned were given the test before the final bullet and when they are open for shooting.

feel to the breeze. composition was chosen. It is said that the

new .22 bidlet's shoulder profile gives it in- If you like to tinker, have a boat and like creased acciaacy through greater wind sta- to fish maybe W. C. Rush's design for a Benny Leonard, bility and a more uniform center of impact light boat anchor that you can make m ith who has something over a long series of shots. The Remington little trouble will appeal. to do with t li experts tell us that the new .22 whainmy Rush says that you need three or four Grace Lake Resort gave them a thousand consecutive X's. (depending upon your choice) short auto- on the east shore of mobile spring leaves approximately twenty Grace Lake in Be- Thousands of fishermen on the eastern inches long, one piece of iron rod about niidji, Minnesota, coast knew Jack Brawle\' as one of their twenty-four inches long and threaded t\\ o has an idea that best. (Jack was the hunting and fishing edi- inches on one end, and two nuts to fit the may make fishing a tor of the N. Y. joiiriial-Aiiicriciiii.) AV'hen threaded end of the rod. little easier this he died carh^ this year a few of them tried month. It's a float to think what tliey could do tiiat would rliat will mark the have pleased Jack most. spot in a lake where Their plan may give others some ideas. \ ()u had a strike or Here it is. w iicre fishing has They got together a complete set of fish- been good. iMr. ing tackle, had a handsome oak box made Leonard says to for it, and put it in custody of the Long empty two beer Beach Memorial Hospital out on Long cans of the cap Island, New York. The hospital has offered \ ariety the easy a pier which it to o\\ for the way. Then place happens n use of disabled veterans in the area who like rhe cans neck to to wet a line. Since Jack, in addition to his neck and tape them interest in fisiiing, was a very proud \ eteran with friction or ad- of AVorld Wat I and an active Legionnaire, hesi\e tape so tlv.it they arc as waterproof there's little doubt he would have liked the as possible. Better \'et, solder them together. idea of such a thought in his memory. Now take a cord that is longer than the Jack's friends also set up a small trust The anchor is assembled by placing the distance in depth that you want to mark fund to support annual cash prizes for the spring leaves on top of each other, running and tie one end around the neck of the best catches reported by the \ eterans who one nut up on the threads of the rod and beer can; on the otiier end attach a heavy use the tackle. But the prize for him would then putting the rod through the center lead weight. A\'rap the cord around the have been the look in the eye of each fel- holes of the spring leaves. The second nut neck until you are up to the weight. Place low as he landed his fish. is then placed on the rod. While in trans- the w hole business on the boat seat beside (lorr, the leaves of the anchor arc lined up you and toss it overboard when you have and this makes the w hole thing into a light, a strike. The v\ eight will go to the bottom; With .Scptentber upon us remember to compact anchor, easily stored in your car the cans will float. For plainer marking, think about your hunting dog. Don't leave or boat. When in use, the spring leaves are paint the can contraption a bright red or him in the kennel luitil the clay before spread so as to form the spokes of a circle. orange so it can be seen from a distance. shooting opens, then take him out and expect miracles. He needs [iractice and polish, just as any athlete—just as you do. If you If you have an unusual idea that pertains l)i

28 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953

TT I'.' i ' 4:1 Jii J\*. ITT VETERANS

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WRICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

K-BILL CHECKS SCHOOL CHEATING special low tuition rates to them . . . Legion has not yet had Taxpayers' dollars are saved (and used better) as result a chance to check whether there are gimmicks in some of of Korea-GI-Bill education law improvements over these offers, such as "other charges." Tuition is only a name,

WW2-GI-Bill education, according to all observations . . . and a school can charge enough "extras" to give vet no real When 1st GI Bill passed, racketeering talents of educators break at all. A K-vet should check this possibility before and pretended educators were unsuspected . . . K-Bill was signing on dotted line— if economy is his motive for choosing based on more experience in this field. school. He should check, too, for a phony "reduced tuition"

Racketeering schools now find K education gravy bowl that is no lower than in comparable schools, or is based quite narrow for their snouts . . . Simple requirement that on jacking up tuition charged non-vets to make an apparent they can't qualify to teach vets on Uncle Sam unless they "reduction." However, some pretty good schools are show 15% non-GI enrollment is baffling store window offering bargain tuition to K-vets.

universities . They have hard time finding 15 non-vets who Actually, evidence of K-vets shopping for low tuition will pay own way for phony or frivolous education, for above all else shows only a small drift that way so far. every 85 vets sought. U.S. Office of Education survey comparing K-vets with five Milder rackets of more distinguished schools were also year trend of non-vets in higher education, shows a drift stalled at end of K-Bill's first year. Letting the vet manage toward public colleges of only IV2 K-vets per school among the money is doing the trick . . . Back when the schools 1859 schools, public and private. passed out all the books to the students and billed the gov't, Meanwhile, total K-vet enrollment is still small. Legion even some of the ivies peddled excess books, written by will definitely not support any basic changes in K-education profs, sold by compus bookstores. It was dough the vet before an appraisal of new school year enrollment trends wouldn't get for any other purpose, and that Uncle would is at hand. pay on school's say-so. Now, gov't sends students fixed sums to help meet their MANY K-VETS VAGUE ON CAREERS, VA CAN HELP school expenses. An unneeded book is that much less the average, K-vets applying macaroni in Joe Vet's stomach, and alma mater's bookstore On for job training seem more vague about what career to choose than were has hard time selling him five dictionaries in one language. WW2 GIs, says a VA survey. Chief reason seems to be applicants so far are younger. But K-GI Bill demands student have SCHOOLS WANT K-VETS ANYWAY more definite aims before job training is OKd than did Colleges are scrapping among themselves to get legit WW2 Gl Bill.

says this survey has put it its to its K-vets' expenses . . . Although the scrapping shows its sordid VA on mettle make side mostly, the bigger picture of schools eager for vets is counseling service top-notch. Young vets who are vague training they should take full healthy . . . Now, some higher-tuition schools complain that about the want advantage

K-vet s pass them by, to seek out no-tuition public schools, of VA counseling service. It doesn't tell vet what to study, where they can use the money they don't pay for tuition for but gives him skilled help in making up own mind. better living— or bank it against graduate school years. There is some agitation for schools to collect the tuition from the gov't, even raise the ante to whatever tuition differentials MORE DENTAL LASH-UP LIKELY require, provided vet doesn't handle the increase. A rider to the 1954 VA appropriations bill put new In another angle of schools eyeing coin in vets' pockets, restrictions on certain VA dental care. The rider applies to some public, no-tuition colleges speak of charging K-vets vets who seek dental care for service-connected dental a tuition fee, though non-vets accepted under same rigid disabilities that are rated less than 10% disabling. It applies academic selection would continue to get a free ride on city to out-patient care (where you get treated without spending or state ... If such proposals get pushed hard there will be the night.) It says such vets seeking such care must prove some excitement. Neat rationales don't obscure basic they had the disability when discharged. Therein lies the proprietary attitude toward Federal moolah. making of several lashups.

Schools that try to get control of money away from vets 1st . . . The law applies to Spanish War, WWl, WW2 face awful hurdle . . . They had it that way once. and Korea vets. Many a vet will have a hot time proving anything about his dental condition at discharge. WW2 dental records aren't much. WWl dental records are worse. CUT-RATE SCHOOLS APPEAR There aren't any Spanish War dental records.

Another segment of education has its own special 2nd . . . There are 270,000 claims for such care now outlook on the vet's control of his education money, and on pending, with 240,000 already approved under the old the belief that K-vets will price-shop for learning . . . Direct conditions. At press time. Congress had done nothing to mail advertising from some schools to K-vets now offers prevent all of them from being re-worked to fit the new

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 29 AUTOMATIC RENEWAL FOR INSURANCE conditions . Legion and House veterans committee were trying TERM to exempt the 270,000 to spare gov't expense of a sweet pile In Public Law 148, Congress has removed a sword from of paper work. The new restrictions came from an appro- over the heads of vets with gov't term insurance. PL 148, priations committee seeking economies, and by-passed Legion-sponsored, makes renewal of vets' gov't term insur- the House veterans committee. ance policies automatic when they reach end of their five-year

3rd . . . The restrictions are tied to the use of 1954 VA terms. In the past, if a vet failed to write into VA for a appropriations, and thus are only effective for one year renewal before the term expired, the policy halted and

as now written—which leaves permanent dental policy couldn't be retrieved. Vets can still drop policies on their in a vacuum. own initiative. As before, the rates for each new five-year

term go up a little. VA MEDICS READIED FOR BIG YEAR Estimated saving of administrative costs under auto-

With bigger medical operation budget, VA will put matic renewal is $600,000 a year . . . Altogether, 4 million about 6,00 0 more hospital beds in use in 1954. On July 15, policies of WWl, WW2 and Korea vets, are affected, of which VA med chief Admiral Joel Boone alerted all hospitals to get 270,000 WWl and WW2 policies have a term expiration

ready to do bang-up job of increased care for vets. In his coming up this year that will be automatically renewed . . .

orders to hospitals to get humming, Boone emphasized Legion Nat'l Executive Committee called for law last May 1. sharpening the care and understanding of diseases of the It was introduced in Congress June 11, became law July 23.

aged. Geriatrics (health problems of the aged) is worth ^ ^ ^ special VA attention, because vet population is a fixed group, 28 GILA RIVER FARMS OPEN TO VETS growing older. VA medics will increasingly handle geriatrics 28 farms have been opened for settling by vets on the cases in larger proportion than other MDs, said Boone, and Gila River project, 45 miles from Yuma, Ariz. Farms range they should become leaders in geriatric medicine. from 117 to 158 acres, and from $481 to $3,845 in price. :H -i^ ^ Veteran settlers must have a priority of application for 3 IKE SIGNS FLAG ^ILL months ending Nov. 25, and have served in WWl, WW2, Pres. Eisenhower, on July 10, signed a new law pro- Spanish-American War or Philippine Insurrection. Two years hibiting display of other flags above, or equal to the flag of farming experience, good character, and a rock-bottom fund the U.S. Law does not apply to official displays by the UN. of $5,000 in cash or assets are required. Application blanks Query initiated by Newsletter to Justice Dep't as to enforce- and more info from District Mgr., Region 3, Bureau of ability of the law's fine and imprisonment penalties outside Reclamation, Boulder City, Nev. of D.C. drew advice to seek official ruling from Att'y Gen. ^ ^ t'fi :^ Newsletter didn't. * * * * WILL DEATH CLAIMS BE DECENTRALIZED? H-VETS CAN GET FED JOBS BACK Legion rehab experts say that under the "Gray plan" of VA reorganization, effective Sept. 7, there will be less Civil Service said, on July 29, that it had just regulated reason than ever to process claims, resulting from the death to the effect that any K-vet who left a federal job for military of a veteran, in high VA echelons only. VA failure to "decen- service can have same- job or its broad equivalent back if he tralize death claims" has long been a sensitive point among wants. He must apply within 90 days of discharge. Such veterans service workers—who have felt it has caused needless rights applied only to "permanent-type" Civil Service jobs delays in handling some types of claims. until July 29, now apply to "indefinite-tenures" too. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ :: :Ii ^ COST OF VET PROGRAMS KEEPS DROPPING KOREA NOT A WAR District Judge H. D. Evans ruled in Marengo, Iowa Total VA budget approved for 1954 is under $4 billion (July 28) that U.S. has not been at war in Korea. In this case, (3.9). It is a significant figure. High point in VA budget was Iowa Life Insurance Co. lost battle not to pay double in 1947, when it nearly hit $8 billion. New budget is 53% of indemnity for death of Marine Ervin' Langlas, a Korea 1947 budget, or 47% less. This year, last year and each casualty. The policy excluded double payment for a war year since 1947, VA budget has gone down, though nation death. Judge ruled it wasn't a war death, that only Congress has been busy making more veterans since 1950.

can declare war and Congress hasn't . . . Different courts Year-after-year figures don't tally with the laments, still have ruled differently on different questions from time to heard, that "mounting costs" of vets benefits are driving time, regarding Korea conflict as a war. nation to the wall. In presence of facts, "mounting costs" Hi ^ ^ ^ are pure fiction. Actual falling costs are tribute to the way huge sums ARMY TELLS FINAL WW2 CASUALTIES allocated since WW2 were spent. No suggestion to "save After 6Vz years work, Dep't of Army has released a

money" by eliminating or hamstringing vets programs has 118 page volume of final casualty figures for period Dec. 7, stacked up to the long-range economy value of spending 1941 to Dec. 31, 1946 (WW2 official hostility era.) Army money in ways long endorsed by responsible veterans casualties added to 936,259 (Army and Army Air Corps) of themselves. Unstinting programs to restore vets to health 10,420,000 in those services. Nine percent of Army personnel and self-sufficiency, regardless of short-range cost, have cut were casualties. Dead were 318,274, of which 234,874 were long-range cost, helped drive veterans and nation not to combat-caused and 83,400 were not. Balance were captured, wall, but to prosperity. injured, missing in action. 24,098 of the missings were Legion unsuccessfully opposed some items of past dollar eventually returned to duty, while 6,058 of them were cuts, but they were a mere ripple in ebb tide. Legion also declared dead in Public Law 490, 77th Congress. 592,170 of promoted many items of saving, such as Public Law 148, all casualties were wounded in action, with 383,196 returned (next item.) to duty in theater where wounded.

3Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 SEPTEMBER 1953

pressed interest, cited its social and Legionwide Bravos Show For hobby program for 850 residents over 65 years old. Oomph in Community Service Post 1 (Portland, Ore.) cited circus tickets provided for 9,000 under-privil- eged children. Legion program (announced by of the National Economic Commission. The Post 1487 (Uniondale, N. Y.) told of Nat'l Lewis K. Gough, June 15) Larson attributed most of the esteem Cmdr. welcoming fact-sheet about Uniondale for long-term nat'l emphasis on more in which Legion is now held to the sum it provides to all new residents. and better post community service proj- of past and present services "to com- Post 240 (Prospect Park, N.J.) proud- ects, drew Legionwide support — as a munity, state and nation." He added that ly sent a sampling of its over-all activity. program and as a continuing campaign the more Legion gives emphasis to such The sampling was typical of what many —by Aug. 1. services, the better will it help "build posts do, even more of which is sought Nat'l reported: that sound America" that is a common Hq. under national program. Post 240's sam- Backing of the program for next year aim of all Legionnaires. ]> ple was a mountain of news clippings of each of 4 leading candidates for Nat'l Collins emphasized that the strength by Post's many doings in standard and im- Cmdr., if any one of the four is named to and character of America and the Le- provised Legion programs, nearly all of gion are inseparable from the strength Legion's top post at Nat'l Convention which have hometown meaning. in St. Louis, first week in Sept. and character of the towns that make the posts that the ]^ A flow of reports from state Legion America and make leaders, endorsing special new emphasis Legion. on community service, announcing they were pushing it personally in their states. State Leaders Push Plan More and more requests from posts and districts for nat'l literature on ways, Response was as quick to come from means and examples re: accentuated Legion state-level echelons. community service. Examples: James Whitfield (Adjt., It was too early for posts to report Mo.) advised he'd push community achievements actually inspired by the service in the Sept. issue of Missouri new national emphasis, but many cited Legionnaire. Eugene Houck (Dep't past community projects and their bene- Cmdr., Mich.) reported Michigan weigh- ficial results as reasons for their ap- ing set-up of state committee to deal with proval. community projects only. Nat'l Exec. Quick to cite the program as an aim Committeeman Peter Thaanum (Me.) they'd push in 1954 were declared can- pumped for program at Maine Dep't didates for Nat'l Cmdr. Seaborn Collins convention. William C. Doyle (Dept. (N.M.); Arthur Connell (Conn.); Law- Cmdr., N. J.) made community service rence Fenlon (111.) and Charles Larson emphasis a highlight of all talks to N. J. (Wis.). It was a natural for all of them Legion groups. Perce F. Brautigam because (1) Community service is a (Dep't Cmdr., 111.) promised Illinois bedrock Legion principle and (2) All would go "all-out" to step up hometown four have long been personally identified improvement programs. with the theory that realistic hometown do-gooding is in fact the footing of de- Have Done and Will Do sirable national strength and character. In addition, they spoke up in other ways Posts, units, districts, voitures would for more and more community service. have to do the job, and that would take Connell emphasized that the good longer. They wrote, asking for more will of Legionnaires' Main Street friends info, approving, telling what they had passing of is "a bulwark" in Legion's perpetual been and were already doing. Examples: Little girl's smile and story Legion Hospital for striving on behalf of unfortunate com- Post 797 (Yermo, Cal.) wrote Gough: helps tell of Crij)pled Children, St. Petersburg, Fla. rades. "We're with you," and cited community Hand (right) of Paul Porter passes check Fenlon pointed with just pride to pio- social center and public rodeo grounds for $300.14 raised by Voiture 218. to neer work of Legion Nat'l Economic just finished. ($5,500) hand of hosj>ital head E. A. Roberts. Commission in Legion-inspired com- Post 55 (Ashford, Ala.) ordered 150 Started 26 years ago by Post 14, big hos- munity overhauls. Example: "The Story "Help Build Your Commimity" posters j)ital was rebuilt in 1950. Legion units of Bumet, Texas," Am. Leg. Magazine, from Nat'l Hq. all over Florida chip in toward 14 -mil- Jan. 1950. Fenlon is longtime Chmn. 40&8 Club (Springfield, Mass.) ex- lion-dollar yearly cost. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 3^ .

WASHINGTON: thousands of our young men have not reorganization. It may work out OK, but yet assumed any military obligation to Higley inherits low morale among VA A Lively Summer their country." (Three weeks earlier, folks worried about their personal stand- Nat'l Cmdr. Lewis K. Gough had pub- ing under big shift. He also faces usual July, a theoretically dead month on licly revealed the inequities of the pres- VA critics, and a new Hoover report. the lawmaking and administrative front, ent manpower law on these pages. Asked Higley is pleasingly sociable. He is was well spiced with Washington news Gough: "Will the veterans fight the next also: of Legion and \eteran interest. It pro- war too?") 1. Well versed in management, public duced . . . Besides Atherton, Ike named to his and private. An official (1919) Ansul

]i A new VA administrator (Wisconsin's new UMT commission one new member Chemical Co., in Marinette. Its presi- Legionnaire Har\ey Higley). and one old. Other newcomer is the dent, 1938. Its Board Chmn., 1948 to '} A new VA budget (basically good on N. Y. Times' pro-UMT Gen. Julius Ochs date. A leader, in Marinette, of many the vital hospital and medical front, Adler. Old hand, reappointed, is pro- public commissions and activities—bank- tricky tor some veteran dental cases, UMT Dr. Karl Compton, ex head of ing, parks and recreation, commerce, nebulous regarding construction of some Mass. Inst, of Technology. Holdovers education and public health, city plan- needed new hospitals, conceivably are Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain (ret.) ning. treacherous in area of pensions and com- and Adm. Thomas C. Kincaid (ret.). 2. Backgrounded in veterans affairs.

pensation ) Past Nat'l Cmdr. Atherton, notified of 1st Lieut., Army chemical warfare, } A brand new Hoover Commission his appointment in Stockton (Cal.) where WWl. Member, Wisconsin Legion Post (undoubtedly once again to be headed he is an attorney, said: "I hope I will be 39, Marinette. Commander, Wisconsin by member Herbert Hoover) with more able to help in giving this country an Legion Department, 1941-42. Legion powers than the earlier one, which efficient, economical and equitable sys- Nat'l Executive Committeeman, 1943- might or might not again provoke a con- tem of national training." 44. Chairman, Marinette County Selec- troversy in vets' affairs by the time it tive Service Board WW2. Chairman, Committee hands in its final gov't reorganization Gets a Boss Legion Nat'l Retirement ideas in 1955. VA New 1943-1948. One of his five children, } An order out of the blue from Pres. President Eisenhower on July 17 Kenneth E. Higley, was killed while Eisenhower for a recheck by the Admin- named a Wisconsin Legion Past Dep't serving in Navy in WW2. istration on the idea of bringing UMT Cmdr., Harvey V. Higley, to be Admin- Higley is also: A Republican, an Epis- into being. istrator of Veterans Affairs. Higley, 60, copalian, a Kiwanian, an Elk, a 32nd i> Evidence— coming as a blessing in dis- a resident of Marinette, Wis., succeeded degree Mason and a Shriner. Bom, — Public guise that many in Congress under- Gen. Carl R. Gray, Jr. Cheshire, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1892. stand veterans affairs better than ever as Gen. Gray, a Truman holdover, rail- schooled in Glen Ellyn and Wheaton, a result of the five-month VA budget 111. Grad., chemical engineer, U. of Wis., battle. 1915.

A Slii iing for UMT Boomerang

UMT seemed dead. It had hardly In the long battle over 1954's VA been mentioned since Election Day. The budget, the new federal administration Executive said nothing. The Legislative was hit hip and thigh with all the usual said nothing. Now and then the Penta- cliches aimed at smearing the nat'l vets' gon said: "Not now, maybe later." program. Aim: to pressure new hands— Somehow, word got around that there and old hands with new powers— into was no point bringing the matter up. cutting off' the VA program at the Treas- Not just now. ury doors. Meanwhile, reser\ists served twice The propaganda campaign—exagger- and were available for a third go at ac- ating sour notes and brushing off serious tive duty. All draftees were tossed into problems — largely boomeranged when the reserve pool too. Double military its steamroller stirred legislators and key duty for some, no duty for others re- administrators to look closer at vets' pro- mained the order of the day—a dubious gram than ever before. Out of the new standard for the defense of equality in look came new understanding, as many human rights and responsibilities. Marinette's Higley ... A new job Congressmen saw the alleged abuses But on July 23, without warning, and the over-all picture in better pro- Pres. Eisenhower broke the silence. He road expert and sometime whipping boy portion than ever. from made three fresh appointments (includ- for VA critics, resigned June 1, effective Many on Capitol Hill switched ing Legion's Past Nat'l Cmdr. Warren June 30. worrying how to get rid of vets to worry- In Atherton) to his five-man Nat'l Security Senate quickly confirmed Higley 's ap- ing how to take care of them better. of Training Commission, and asked it to pointment. On July 22 he relieved H. V. June, the House asked \'A how much leport to him on the feasibility of UMT Stirling, VA career official and acting a medical program it could run next year much not later than Dec. 1. VA head since July 1. if money were no object, and how ". it would cost. VA measured its plant, its Said Ike, . . It is the will of this na- Vet leaders and legislators voiced tion that the responsibility for its de- general pleasure with the President's personnel problems and its other head- fense should be shared as equally as choice, expected Higley would be what aches, named its top-capacity 1954 ." operating cost and got a House OK for possible by all its citizens . . He pin- Dr. ordered in hardbottomed, exposed pointed today's double-duty law that VA hotseat. the full sum for the first time in history. sticks returned Korea vets with six more Higley will preside over the taking In July, the Senate came through years of unasked reserve liability "while effect, Sept. 7, of the "Gray plan" of VA with OK of basic House version of VA

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 medical operating figure, though it made would make an inconsistent, 48-headed frightened allegiance to the 1949 report. changes elsewhere. vets program, with individual vet's Vets recalled too that when the first At first, the Senate nixed all but $2.5 rights hanging on pot luck of which state Hoover commission passed out of exist-

million of a House figure of $48.8 mil- he lives in. ence in '49, it left behind an improbable lion for new hospital construction — to There was no sign that PL 109 would legacy—a pressure group, using the com- include long-awaited new hospitals at tend to shift the vet's program to the mission's name, that sought to force San Francisco and Topeka. Finally, in a states, but the possibility was there and Congress to legislate 100% of a report compromise with a House committee, a vet leaders made note. that Congress had paid for as a mere

figure of $15 million went through for j> PL 108 was a different-colored horse. guidepost for its own deliberations. VA hospital construction. It would be It set up a new commission to recom- Total result then: rejection of the

enough for VA to start work if it can get mend changes within federal agencies commission's recommendations in vets new building under way ne.xt year, and themselves, one of which is VA. The affairs. served as symbol of Congress* intent to commission would make its last report to In July, 1953, facing a new Hoover go ahead. Congress and expire in May, 1955. Commission, vet leaders wondered, du-

A rider in the final VA budget put Within a few days of the law's passage, biously, if history would repeat itself. new restrictions on many applicants for Pres. Eisenhower named 79-year-old They hoped not, but it was too early to

VA dental care for one year (details in ex-Pres. Herbert Hoover to the new tell. Newsletter, P. 29). The Legion and the commission. It was a foregone conclu- House veterans committee were unsuc- sion that Hoover's fellow members CHILD WELFARE cessful at presstime in efforts to exempt would elect him chairman. Check No. 35,000 from the new restrictions 270,000 den- Here was a brand new Hoover Com- tal claims aftected which have already mission, with broader powers than the Summer was in the air, and the com been filed and partially or wholly proc- last one. Throughout veterandom, raised showed its green shoots against the rich, essed under the old law. Could be the eyebrows asked mute questions. Vet black southern Minnesota earth. The paper work of rehashing all 270,000 leaders were quick to recall the treat- family cash was in the crops. Then the

claims will cost as much as a major part ment of the veterans' program by the farmer, WW2 Navy veteran X" , was of the treatment applied for. Hoover Commission that reported to killed. Tractor accident. The Legion's Rehab Commission meanwhile warned service officers to keep an eye on the way another 1954 VA budget item will work out. $300 million were knocked off the amount asked to pay pensions and compensation. Le- gally, VA sticks to no budget ceiling here—instead, pays fi.xed amounts to all who meet fixed eligibility standards. When the slashed budget falls short.

Congress should restore whatever is needed. But Legion Rehab warned workers afield to watch for signs that VA may be pressured to make the lower sum stick by heaping technicalities on pension and compensation claimants.

Above is architect's sketch of new $100,000 brick and tile home of Texas Post 25 and New Hoover Coiiiniissioii Arkansas Post 58. Long a dream, but now finished, home will serve also as a community center lor bi state town of Texarkana, on Texas-Arkansas border. Two laws that passed Congress July 10 made veteran leaders think twice. They are Public Laws 108 and 109. Congress and expired in 1949. Widow X could not run the farm, Both have desirable stated aims (im- Then, when the commission turned its scarcely even keep up the farmhouse

proved gov't management ) , but have a attention to veterans affairs, its "study" without her man. The older child was flavor that has soured easily in the past. was made in comparative secrecy, with- 2/2 years, the younger I/2 months and Each law authorizes a commission to be out benefit of testimony from leading not even paid for. Final installment on appointed to study the functions and vets' organizations. the baby used up the last of the cash re- operation of the federal gov't and recom- Its final recommendations called for serve. Without help, the wealth out in mend broad changes. decentralization of authority and re- the fields would vanish. Without help PL 109 aims to discover and cut out sponsibility in vets' affairs not unlike the family would not hold together until overlapping of jobs done by both the that which made chaos for the indivi- harvest, even if there were a harvest. federal government on one hand and by dual vet right after WWI. A veteran's children were concerned. the states and smaller gov't units on the The old Hoover report showed little In the past, 34,999 checks drawn on other. Possible danger sign seen by vet understanding of the vets' program at Nat'l Legion Child Welfare funds had leaders was a potential to pass the fed- the human level, suggested a manage- been given for similar emergencies. eral veteran program down to the states, ment "ideal" that might hum in pon- Now, the only thing that made this in whole or part. derous, decentralized, contented paper case different was the number of the Legion position, not different from shuffling at the bureau level, but play check. In Indianapolis, on July 15, Nat'l present federal policy, calls for adequate "now you see him, now you don't" with Legion Child Welfare employe Fred vet program placed in national gov't. the lone veteran. Kuszmaul dropped an outgoing letter The position stands on two sturdy legs: Details of the 1949 Hoover report in the mail basket, addressed to D. E.

( 1 ) Vet program is based on individual's grossly exaggerated factual statements Misfeldt, Minnesota's Legion Child services to the federal gov't. (2) State of trends and aims of the vets' program, "The Legion does not publicly identify, on its own assumption of basic federal debt to vets thereby scared uninitiates into blind. initiative, recipients of Legion Child Welfare aid. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1953 • 33 Welfare chairman. In it, a check for Then he checked. Yes, Michigan's Mer- officials of 58 dep'ts to a pre-conv ention $119 for Widow X. rick Potter Post 566 (Memphis, Mich.) huddle on '54 membership at St. Louis' It was the 35,000th check from Nat'l had already sent in 63 paid-up cards for Jefferson Hotel, Aug. 29-30. Object: to Legion Hq. for emergency rehef involv- '54, an increase of 9 over last year. Alex- give incoming Nat'l Cmdr. a running ing a veteran's children since the start of ander yelled. But not loud. His entr\- start on membership. Annual member- the Legion's Child Welfare program in had also come in on July 7. Post 66 ship campaign sometimes sputters din- 1925. (Tenn.) and Post 566 (Mich.) had nm ing yearly change of Legion command. In the Minnesota farm community, a dead heat to be '54's earliest birds. Included in early-bird national kick- the local Legion post had already given off meeting are talks by outside guest $100 of immediate aid for Widow X and Jerry and Paddy experts in selling; discussions of 1954 her children before soliciting Nat'l for membership by key Legion officials; more. The men of the post had promised Coming Fast presentation of membership tools and to harvest the widow's corn. The Legion techniques keyed to campaign; Pikeville and Potter posts could feel 1954 Auxiliary unit was seeking a house in and a series of panel discussions, with hot breath on their necks from an ir- town for the mother and her children. Qs and As, by Nat'l and Dep't specialists regular entry. Jerr)- Sternberg wasn't a The speedy $119 from check 35,000 in membership, public relations, pub- post, he was just one gu\'. On June 24, would keep the family together during lications administration. he had already signed 100 members for and the inevitable lapse while the local wel- E. Powers, Nat'l Membership 1954 in Post 36, Savannah, Ga., to be James fare agency finished its investigation, and Post Acti\ ities Chmn., will preside. the first one-man-gang to scoot past the arranged for continuing aid. Speakers will include Nat'l Cmdr. century mark for '54. Jerry accounted Child Welfare checks out of Nat'l Gough and at least one Past Nat'l Cmdr. Hq. for 400 members last year. run between a '54 campaign has already been $50,000 and $100,000 In Little Rock, Ark., Paddy Driscoll The year. As check in the mail. out on the national level. One 35,000 went was one of many who eyed the likes of mapped ac- Child Welfare's annual report was in the Sternberg, except that Paddy delegated feature is a flip-page presentation to making. It showed 1953 hit an all-time company a talk, suitable for district high in total aid for veteran's children, cmdrs. or membership chmn. to use in with an all-Legion dollar figure of $10,- talks to posts. One to a district ma\ be 250,000 (10)^ million). Of this, Nat'l available, after the convention, from the direct aid was but a drop in the bucket. Nat'l Membership and Post Acti\ities Where did the rest come from? Division at Nat'l Hq. in Indianapolis. In miscellaneous, non-typical child re- They will be supplied, on request, to lief, post, unit, district and department district officials indicated by depart- treasuries spent two million. In typical ments. direct cash grants they anted another million. Auxiliary poppy money pro- '53 Closing Upward duced 1/4 million. The 40&8 and the 8&40 gave another million. Legion serv- On July 30, membership for 1953 was ice officers and child welfare workers up 52,872 over last year. Total then, obtained four million in the interest of 2,772,426. July 28, Arizona became the needy children from other agencies. And 4th dep't to hit an all time high in '53. on all le\'els, the Legion gave another Arizona's new record is 16,716. As of million for child relief to other agencies. June 30. Omaha Post I, Denver Post 1 The dollar measure was the only and Memphis (Tenn.) Post 1 ran 1, 2, 3 yardstick. The total human story was among posts in size, with 12,284 for invisible. Most of it happened, case by Omaha, 11,150 for Denver and 6,774 case, in the more than 17,000 communi- for Memphis. ties where Legion posts and units are. Most Legion help was for temporary aid NAT'L CONVENTION: only, to keep economically broken families together pending permanent relief Big as L siial from regular agencies, which have mush- roomed since 1925 with Legion support. Driscoll and Tinka of Little Rock The 35th Nat'l Convention (St. Lovus, Aug. 31 -Sept. 3) seemed well in hand at the eyeing to Tinka. Paddy got 350 presstime, and too big, as usual, to pre- members for Post 1 in Little Rock last MEMBERSHIP: digest in detail. It loomed as another year, was ready to better that for '54, serious meeting, and as St. Louis' big- Alexander Veiled between his visits to VA hospital pa- gest meeting of one group e\ er. tients. Tinka is Paddy's seeing-eye dog. Lisle Alexander (Mich. Dep't Adjt.) Other highHghts: didn't yell too loud, but he definitely 1> Speaker's roster (always subject to Gongh at it Early. Too yelled when he read that Post 66, Pike- last minute changes) included Vice- ville, Tenn. was 1954's earliest bird. Nat'l Cmdr. Lewis K. Cough and can- President Richard M. Nixon. accepted Pikeville's name led all posts on the didate-to-succeed-Gough Arthur Cou- ]| For first time in history, CIO roster of speed in handing in '54 mem- ncil (Conn.) weren't letting membership in\ ite, and its president, Walter Reuther, bership in excess of '53. In fact, Pikeville grass grow underfoot either. Connell, was set to speak, Sept. 3. George Meany, previous did that on July 7, when Tennessee on a European trip earlier in year, came AFL President, is scheduled Dep't. Hq. got 275 paid-up cards for back with Clark Gable signed up. day. Meany's predecessor, William '54 from Pikeville—37 more than in '53. Gough meanwhile readied national Green, addressed many Legion conven- Alexander, in his office overlooking organization for '54 membership regard- tions. the Detroit River and Canada, sat up. less of who succeeds him. He invited Drum and Bugle Corps competition is

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1953 again predicted to be biggest ev er. Last year's, in N. Y., set record with 108 outfits. Time to SWrrOH to By mid-July, announced candidates for Nat'l Cmdr. in 1954 included, alpha- betically. Seaborn Collins (N.M.); Ar- thur Connell (Conn.); W. C. Daniel something BETTER? (Va.); Lawrence Fenlon (111.); Charles

Larson (Wis.); J. Addington Wagner (Mich.).

]j Although the convention was expected to have the serious, well-deported behavior of every all-Legion confab in recent history, Cmdr. Cough issued a re- minder, July 20, "to avoid any action or appearance that would be offensive to good taste, thereby bringing discredit to our organization." Cliche that Legion conventions are rowdy lives on in face of opposite fact— as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York and Miami can testify. Lady Legionnaires will hold a $1.50- a-plate breakfast, at Famous Barr Co., 6th and Olive Streets, Monday, Aug. 31. For reservations and other info on lady Legionnaires' activities contact Chmn. of Women's Activities Lola A. Kuss, Apt. 306, 4497 Pershing Ave., St. Louis.

]> Arabic-speaking Legionnaires will find an open house held for them at Louie's Bar, 1011 South 18th St., by Jo-So-Na Memorial Post 526, St. Louis. The post members are of Lebanese ancestry. At the last St. Louis Convention (1935), 65,000 marched in the parade. The figure may be doubled this year. The parade will be on Tuesday, Sept. 1.

]> Dave Fleischer manages the conven- YOU'RE in the same boat as the FREE WHISKEY TASTE TEST KIT! tion arrangements as e.\ec. v. p. of the IF guy on the left—ready to make a Contains 2 glass jiggers, instructions Convention Corp. Twelve hundred St. change—we'd like to say this: and "Whiskey Expert" cards. Write Louisians work on 28 committees in big Calvert, Room 1321 AL, 405 Lexing- job. to switch Maybe it's time for you ton Avenue, New York 17, N. Y, ]\ St. Louis was the site of Legion's or- to a better whiskey ... a whiskey (Offer not good where local regula- ganizing caucus. May, 1919. like Calvert that is made in a mod- tions forbid.) ern million dollar still and blended AMERICANISM: to the new modern taste of most Americans. Compare Calvert with The 27th American Legion Junior your present brand like this: Baseball World's Series will be held in Sniff a sample jigger of Calvert Miami, Fla., Sept. 1-5, with Harvey W. and your present whiskey for pleas- Seeds Post 29 the sponsor. ing aroma. Taste each whiskey criti- With all games scheduled at night, cally to judge flavor, smoothness— the Junior Leaguers are expected to and freedom from bite. Choose the draw capacity crowds to Miami Sta- one that really pleases you more! dium, home of the Florida International League Miami Sun Sox. See if it isn't time for you to Tickets for the games and information switch to something better—a better can be had from Jim Barney, ticket man- tcliiskey like Calvert! ager for the series, with offices at 615 S.W. Second Ave., Miami. Miami's Joe H. Adams, Legion Past Nat'l Vice- Cmdr., is chmn. of 1953's American Compare,, ^ and you II Legion Junior Baseball Committee, a part of the Nat'l Americanism Commis- sion. Subversion: July 26 Nat'l Cmdr. switch to Calvert Lewis K. Cough named Arthur Wayne Murphy, 40, of Kokomo, Ind., as Ameri- canism Commission's research specialist CALVERT RESERVE BLENDED WHISKEY-86.8 PROOF-65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. in subversion. Murphy replaces Karl CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., NEW YORK CITY THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 35 — ——! ,

Wovi Baarslag, who resigned in June. New had 1438 last year. Post serves wide appointee is a grad of Butler U., a for- area.

mer Indianapolis and Nogales (Ariz.) ]) Readers Digest in August has sum- high-school teacher, now completing mary of case for UMT, by Dr. Karl mismn PhD thesis at Georgetown U. on com- Compton. munism in U.S. Merchant Marine. He Gallup survey, which for years has is a former chmn, Indiana Dep't com- shown huge majority of general popu- keep hair neat mittee on subversive activities, and was lation in favor of UMT, has now sur- a Naval communications officer in WW2. veyed how people listed in Wlw's Wlio Boy's Nation: The Stli Boys Nation in America feel about it. Answer was all day/ took place in Washington, D.C.. Julv same— a big majority for UMT. 24-30. Robert Langford, Bismarck, N.D., ]^ Dep't of Texas has mo\ed into its and Joe Blake, Denver, Colo., were brand new home in Austin. elected President and veep, respectively. Dep't of West Va. has been temporar- All told, 92 boys from 46 Legion Boys ily homeless. States took part, met Ike (who in 45 3rd edition of guide to college finan- minutes shook hands with all), formed cial help for veterans' children, "Need a own Senate, got first hand view of work- Lift?", now available through Nat'l

ings of federal gov 't and heard from top Child Welfare, Legion Nat'l Hq., P.O. leaders in executive and legislative. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. James F. Daniel (Greenville, S.C.) and Harry Gambrel (Kansas City, Mo.), chmn. respectively of Legion Nat'l ^^ inners Americanism Commission and its Boys Legion Contest State Committee were on liand for whole Continued from our August issue program. Remaining names of winners of Tele- chron Electric Clocks in Legion Puzzle PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Contest are listed below. Names of all New jobs & honors: Maj. Gen. Wil- other prize winners were given in the

liam }. (Wild Bill) Donovan, member August issue, page 37. (from N.Y.) of 1st Legion Nat'l Exec. S. iM. Hageman, Detroit 26. Mich.: Mrs. Mabel Committee, named by President to be Halyerson, Los Angeles 6, Calit.; Fred I. Hammer, Fremont, Ohio; Margaret Harrington, Walcefield, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, July 29 Mass.; George T. Harrison, New Haven 13, Conn.; • aid gives New-formula grooming A. J. Hart, San Miguel, Calif.; R. Hartney, Bristol, . . . Past Nat'l Cmdr. Raij KeV'cy, De- Conn. hair naturally - neater look . . . troit, named member, federal Railroad Mrs. H. L. Heisser, Miami 37, Fla.; Eldon C. without gooey grease or cream! Heitman, Nauvoo, 111.; Graydon O. Herod, Terre Retirement Board . . . Past Nat'l Cmdr. Haute, Ind.; Jolin T. Higgins, Maynard, Mass.; Hill, Jose 12, Calif.; Roy W. Hill, • Removes flalcy dandruff ...makes Lynn U. Stamhuugh (N.D.), named James M. San Chicago 40, 111.; Clinton Holt, Jefferson City, Mo. scalp feel better, more refreshed chief deputy, federal Export-Import Mrs. M. I. Hosmer, Birmingham 8, Ala.; Alfred C. Huffer, Jr., Boonsboro, Md.; Eugene W. Hun- Bank . . . Past Nat'l Cmdr. Warren ter, Tampa, Fla.; Gritfis F. Jenkins, Sidney, Ohio; follow Whether you go hatless or not — Lyie A. Jolson, Warren, Minn.; Montz S. johnsen, Athcrton, Stockton, Gal., named by the lead of many an outdoor man. Staten Island 14, N. Y.; Jacob C. Johnson, Black- Invest seconds a day and keep hair President to Nat'l Security Training shear, Ga. — Oliver Joneson, Los Angeles 18, Calif.; John neatly groomed all day! Free of flaky Commission . . . James M. Ross, USNR, Just, Detroit 3, Mich.; Claire Karambelas, East Orange, N. J.; Ed. E. Kieffer, Cincinnati 11, Ohio; dandruff, too! member. Naval Post, Chicago, promoted Mrs. J. W. Kent, High Point, N. C; R. P. Kessler, See the neatest hair trick of all — as to be one of few reserve Rear Admirals Canajoharie, N. Y.; Mrs. A. J. Killorin, Clinton, Iowa. Fitch Ideal's new, secret grooming . . . Roger L. Dell, member. Post 30, Maxime Kolkmeyer, Fond du Lac, Wis.; H. H. Kreider, Lebanon, Pa.; Paul M. Kulhamer, Fuller- agent... noi a grease, oil nor cream... Fergus Falls, Minn., named Chief Jus- ton. Pa.; Elizabeth Langley, Harvey, 111.; Samuel makes thin hair look thicker — thick LaVerde, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; James R. Leidy, tice, Minnesota . . F. Supreme Court . hair stay slicker! Buffalo 15, N. Y.; Mrs. Phyllis Lentz, Amherst, Seriously ill: Gen. Hanford MacNider, Ohio. Homer Leonard, Vanderlip, W. Va.; Ellis W. Ideal also relieves dry, itchy scalp Past Nat'l Cmdr. (1920-21), stroke, at Lesiuk, Elkton, Md.; A. E. Letsinger, Crown Point, also removes loose dandruff while it Mason City, Iowa. Ind.; Henry C. Lewin, Key West. Fla.; Mrs. C. H. works its grooming miracles! Lien, Merrifield, N. D.; Mrs. Marilyn Lilly, Hen- Died: June— Maj. Gen. Roy Hoffman, derson. Ky.; Marguerite Linn, Long Beach, Calif. Feel its new tonic action, too Fred Lofquist, Biwabid. Minn.; Elvira M. Lord, 84, Past Dep't Cmdr., Okla. . . . July- making your scalp tingle with invigor- Hartford 5, Conn.; C. A. Lovejoy, Glastonbury, Ottis E. Mercer, Nashua, N.H., head of Conn.; John Luhtala, Cleveland 8, Ohio; Clair ating freshness! Note — there's no Lund, Byron. Minn.; Orrie W. Maasz, Warren, nat'l 40&8 in 1945 . . . Mark lingering, tell-tale odor! McGee, Pa.; Bruce MacCollom, Seattle 6, Wash. Past Dep't Cmdr., Texas (1924-25), Ray A. Mangieri, New Kensington, Pa.; Frank Start tomorrow. Just seconds A. Marino, Clearfield, Pa.; Paul Marshall, Good-

Fort . . land, Kan.; M. L. McBride, Newman, Ga.; W. W. hair scalp with a dash Worth, Tex. , Bert A. Weston, massaging and McGhee, Clarksville. Ark.; Edw. J. McDonough, of new Fitch Ideal — will pay off all Wendell, Idaho, ex-member, Nat'l Exec. Shreveport, La.; John S. Mclsaac, Beaver Falls, Pa. . . . can count on Fitch Committee . . day because you John R. McNeil, Miami, Fla.; Loretta Miller, Ideal for that smart, natarally-neateT Madison 3, Wis.; Major Irwin Milligan, Jackson- Fla.; Sally June Mines, New York 33. look of the man who's going places! ville Beach, BRIEFLY NOTED: N. Y.; Mrs. J. L. Mitchell, Fort Stockton, Tex.; At all drug counters — also ask Barbers Larry Mock, Robinson, 111.; H. \. Monerud, Ro- seau, Minn. for professional applications. ]) Legion overseas tape-recording pro- Msr. C. O. Mouness, LaCrescenta, Calif.; E. J. gram "Hometown U.S.A." shouldn't lag Morrison, Portage, Wis.; Fred G. Morse, Seattle 5, Wash.; Bettie L. Mortensen, Flushing, L. I., N. Y.; with Korea armistice. May be more vital James L. Murphy, Chicago 39, 111.; Anne Murray, Get new than ever with comparatively idle troops Washington 7, D. C; Clayton Nelson, Midland, S. D. kept abroad. Jean P. Nickels, Arlington 6, Va.; Howard P. Nielsen, Castana, Iowa; Carl T. Nomeland, Gran- Post 38 (Gary, W. Va.) is driving for ite Falls, Minn.; Nels Olson, St. Paul 6. Minn.; more members in '54 than the popula- Cornelius F. O'Neil, Northampton, Mass.; E. M. Osgard, Detroit 6, Mich.; Janet Owens, Fort FITCHc^^ tion of Gary. Gary's pop. is 1500. Post Myers, Fla. HAIR TONIC 36 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 !

Walter J. Paddock, Buffalo 20, N. Y.; Charlotte M. Paine, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Carl B. Parks, Des 579th CBMU - Reunion, Sacramento, Cal., Sept. Moines 15, Iowa; H. L. Patterson, Chicago 111.; 10, 5-6; Manhart Post 391, American Legion. De- H. W. Pedersen, Columbus Junction, Iowa; Charles OUTFIT tails from C. B. Hammond. Box 164, Mineral, Pekar, Altoona, W. Pa.; Mrs. Edward Persen, For- Cal. estville. Conn. REUNIONS 2487th 0. M. Truck Co. — 5th annual reunion, Joseph Ffeider, Forest Hills 75, N. Y.; Dorothy Wichita Falls, Texas, Sept. 5-7; Holt Hotel. Phelps, Jacksonville, N. C; R. J. Pitcher, Ray- Info, from Jim Jones. 3404 GarHeld, Wichita mond, N. H.; James H. Pye, Chicago 39, III.; Falls, Texas. Homer A. Quinn, Salem, Ore.; Ann Rath, Morris- Army town, N. J.: H. L. Rej'croft, W. Hartford 7, Conn. Co. C, 17th Tank Bn., 7th Armored Div. (WW2) Walter IVIichael Rhoten, Hampstead, Md.; Wil- —6th annual reunion. Rock Island. 111., Sept. 91st Div.-"Powder River Outfit"—35th annual re- liam L. Riley, Baltimore 7. Md.; Mrs. Mary Ritter, 6th; Home of Herbert Clauson, 540 23rd Ave., union, Seattle. Wash. Sept. 26th; Seattle Streator, 111.; Rhodes T. Runner, Logansport, Ind.; Rock Island, III. Chamber of Commerce Building, 215 Colum- Mrs. Mary D. Ryan, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Edgar H. S6th Reg. C. A. C. (A.E.F) — 35th annual reunion, bia St. Details from H. G. Oakley, 3458 Flo- Ryniker, Brooklyn 3, N. Y.; Mrs. E. W. Sampson, Stamford, Conn., Sept. 6. Write C. H. B. An- rence Court, Seattle 2. Wash. Philadelphia, Pa. dersen, 28 Fara Drive, Stamford, Conn. .^19th Engineers Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion Los Herman Sanders, Hillsboro, Tex.; Mrs. Anne N. 42nd and 77th Evac. Hospitals - 6th an- Angeles, Cal., Aug. 29th, Roger Young Audi- (WW2) Sauve, New York 61, N. Y.; Stanley S. Schaefer, nual reunion, Statesvillc, North Carolina, torium. Info from Col. C. W. Otwell 14,444 6; Lambert, Magnolia Blvd., Van Nuys, Cal. Sept. Vance Hotel. Contact Edd Route 6 or Lee Fincannon, P.O. Box 332, 26th Engrs. AEF— Annual reunion, St. Louis, Mo., Stalesville, N. C. Foeckler and $10,000 check Aug. 31-Sept. 3. Contact secv. A A. Fricke, 1136 W. 6th St., Los Angeles 17, Cal. 284th F. A. Bn. (WW2 E.T.O.) - 7th annual re- National Organization of World War Nurses—Re- union, Washington. Pa., Sept. 6; 2Xlh Div. union breakfast St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 2; Armory. Reunion Chairman Lloyd Koglin. 250 Edgewater Club. Info and reservations from Tyler Ave., Washington, Pa Lola A. Kuss, Apt. 101, 4616 Lindell Blvd., 605 T. D. Bn. — Reunion Lake Lansing. Mich., St. Louis 8, Mo. Sept. 6; Lake Lansing Park. Details from Al Co. G. 152nd Inf. 38th Div.-Reunion New Castle, Bachelder, 804 W. Jefferson St., Grand Lodge, Ind., Sept. 4-5; New Castle Armory. Details Mich. from John W. Trout, Jr., 1837 Cherry Wood, Battery B, 326 F. A. (WWl) - 14th annual re- New Castle,' Ind. union, Louisville. Ky.. Sept. 6; Chateau of 114 Construction Bn., Co. D and CBMU 629 - Forty and Eight, 617' : So. Fourth St. Contact Reunion, New York City, Sept. 4-5. Contact Chester Brown, Box 112, Cynthiana, Ky. Jess Newcomer, 142 Maple St., Manchester, 61st CA (AA) and 634th, 635th, 184th Bus. - 5th Pa. annual reunion. Highland Park, III.. Sept. 6; 137th Ord. Maint. Bn., 16th Armored Div. - 7th American Legion Hall, 1957 Sheridan Road. annual reunion, Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 4- Info, from Melvin James, 1032 Springfield 6. Info, from W. A. McBroom, 3007 Fifth Ave., Deerfield, III. Ave., Chattanooga, Tenn. 223 Combat Engr. Co.— Annual picnic, Albert Lea, 613th O. B. A. M. Bn. — 7ih annual reunion and Minn., Sept. 6; Edgewater Park. For details convention, Milwaukee, Wise. Sept. 4-7; Am- write Ralph Slattler, Kerkhoven, Minn. bassador Hotel. Details from Le Roy C. Stei- 319th Field Signal Bn.— Annual reunion Sept. 6 at ner, 1924 No. 39th St., Milwaukee, Wise. Sunset Park. Route 44 between and 3S21st Ord. (MAM) Co. — 1st reunion, Jackson, Canton Miss., Sept. 5-7; Heidelberg Hotel. Write Mor- Alliance, Ohio. Secretary J. W. Robe, 605 ton C. Stewart, P.O. Box 1884, Meridian, Miss. River St., Newcomerstown. Ohio. 2S6th Engr. (C) Bn. WW 2 - 4th annual reunion 342nd Field Artillery Band— Reunion, Marysville, South Bend, Ind., Sept. 5-6; Hotel LaSalle. Kansas. Sept. 7. Write Richard Hover, Marys- Ten thousand dollars first prize in Le- Contact John G. Inman, Pres., 2008 6th Ave- ville, Kan. gion's Puzzle Contest saved Frank nue, Beaver Falls. Pa. Military Police Companies, 88th Div. (WWl)-16th 2nd Bn., Hq. Co., 165th Inf., 27th Div. WW 2- annual reunion, Brainerd, Minn.. Sept. 12-13; Foeckler from selling his Washington, Reunion, Monticello, Ind., Sept. 5-6; Lake Graen Lodge, Gull Lake. Details from Albert Shafer. Write Earl Bretzinger, Brook, Ind. J. Meyer. Cumberland. Iowa. D. C. home. The 57-year old WWl vet, after five years in hospitals, is due for discharge in October from VA hospital, UIVCLE WALTER Swannanoa, N. C. With wife and six kids to support, finances were big worry. IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS R\OHT Now he looks forward to return to Navy Yard job and buddies in Washington, D. C. Post 31.

Detroit 2. Mich.; George G. Schaeffer, Inglewood 3, Calif.; George Scboonmaker, Larchmont, N. Y.; Lois A. Schweitzer, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Mrs. F. W. Seelon, Cranston 9, R. I. Mrs. B. W. Shaw, Waunakee, Wis.; James P. Sheehan, Denver 18, Colo.; Harvev A. Shook, Du- luth 5, Minn.; William F. Sbollenberger, Girard, Pa.; C. P. M. Simpson, Wescoesville, Pa.; Charles Sjostrom, Valley City, N. D.; James F. Somers, El Paso, Texas. George M. Speed, Dora, Ala.; Alfred P. Smith, New York 16, N. Y.; Blake Smith, Jr., Brooklyn 16, N. Y.; Theodore S. Smith, Waccabuc. N. Y.; Mrs. Roy Steurt, Hemet, Calif.; Estelle Stewart, Glendale 7, Calif.; Mrs. Jean R. Steele, Bluefield, TAKE ONE WHIFF! PACK YOUR PIPE _ Va. (for. THIS YOU'VE YEARNED') NOW YOU HAVE EARNED Ray Stivers, Kansas City 3, Mo.; Philip M. Sut- ton, Elmira, N. Y.; Bonsall Sykes, Clintwood, Va.; Kenneth J. Swanson, McPherson, Kan.; Mrs. N. S. Tanner, Pine Bluff, Ark.; George Teresinski, St. \T SMOKES SWEET IT CANT BITE Joseph 32, Mo.; Pat Testa, Southington. Conn. James P. Thomas, Albuquerque. N. M.; Wallace A. Tompkins, Thomasville. Ala.; Kathryn J. SIR WALTER RALEIGH S BLEND OF CHOICE Thompson, Asheville, N. C; Mrs. Alan Thompson, (CENruCKY BURLEYS IS EXTRA-AGED TO Tucumcari, N. M.; Marvin W. Thompson, Toron- to, S. D.; C. Lawrence Toney, Peru, Ind.; Mrs. GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. AND SIR Mary Totzke, Detroit 3, Mich. WALTER (iA\.^\GH NtVER LEAVES A SO(56Y Mrs. Goldie Trisler, South Gate, Calif.; F. A. Turberville, Prescott. Ark.; K. Urquhart, Tucson, HEEL IN YOUR PIPE. STAYS LIT TO Ariz.; Nicholas Vandor, Long Beach 4, Calif.; Miss Lucy T. Vash, Baltimore 29. Md.; V. E. Virrick, THE LAST PUFF. Miami 43, Fla.; Clarence M. Waite, Greenbush, Mass. Edw. F. Weber, St. Louis 16, Mo.; Donald E. Welch, Bartlesville, Okla.; Hermann A. Wenige, Jeffersonville, Ind.; Chas. D. Wilson, Stark City, Mo.; Craig Wills, Thomaston, Ga.; Dwight L. Wil- son, Swannanoa, N. C; Milo F. Winchester, Mil- lerton, N. Y. James L. Winfrey, Williamsburg, W. Va.; Dar- rell S. Winters, Fallon, Nev.; W. Rodney Wishard. Western Springs, 111.; Edwin C. Wood, Durant. -HAPPINESS FOR ALL CONCERNED! Okla.; J. C. Woods, Park Ridge, 111.: Laura Wood- rlck, Elroy, Wis.; O. Wormsted, Calexico, Calif. Mrs. J. Hillard Yeager, Ringtown. Pa.; Alexan- der Youngerman, Miami Beach 40, Fla. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 37 II.I.IB.'IJI.L4

33rd Field Hospiial— Annual reunion. Indianapolis. 97th & 108th Sea Bees-Reunion, Kansas City, Mo.. Ind.. Sept. 12-13; Lincoln Hotel. Write E. W, Sept. 5-7. Contact Tom Sawyer. 3203 Cedar, Code, 847 So. Tremont Ave., Indianapolis. Independence, Mo. COMRADES Ind. North Sea Mine Force Assoc., Inc.— 12th annual re- Slst Pioneer Inf. — 30th annual reunion, Catskill, union. New York City, Oct. 8-10; Hotel New N. Y.. Sept. IN 13th. Write Sec. Otto Rauch, 186 Yorker. Info, J. DISTRESS from J. Kammer, 54 Walnut Adams St., Delmar, N. Y. Ave., Floral Park, L. I., N. Y. Batter.v A, 281 F. A. - Reunion, Louisville, Ky., L. C. I. (L) 192-Reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. Sept. 17-19; Hotel Seelbach. Info, from R. J. 10-11. Details from R. C. Ewans. 73 Grove Army Droppelman. 1309 Ellison. Louisville, Ky. Ave.. Maywood, N. J. I9tli C. B. Vets. (WW2l-Annual reunion, Boston, 1st Marine Aviation Force Vet. Assoc.— Reunion. Lee, Va. Mass.. Sept. 17-19; Hotel Bradford. Contact Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 6-8; Hotel Peabody. Camp (WWl) 155th Depot Brigade, 3rd Bn., — K. R. Pike. 965 Broad St., W. Lynn, Mass. or Write Charles A. (Dixie) Price, Chrmn., 640 Training 10th Co. Will anyone who served with G. Winterling. 23 E. Orange St., Lancaster, S. Highland Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. me in the summer of 1918 please contact Pa. U.S.S. Solace (WWD-Annual reunion, Philadel- me. Particularly remember Andrew Milo, then of Jeanette, Pa. help 729th Railwa.v Operating Bn.-4th annual reunion, phia, Pa., Nov. 7. Contact Dr. R. A. A. Kern. Need estab- Kansas City. Mo.. Sept. 18-19; Hotel Phillips. Temnle University Hospital. 3401 North Broad lishing claim. Write Andrew Fillak, Albion, Details from A. H. Colello. Sec, 1426 1st St., Philadelphia 40, Pa. Pa. Ave., Altoona, Pa. CASll.8, VR-10, VR-12 - Reunion, Los Angeles, 22nd Infantry, Co. C (WWl)-Want to contact Pvt. Julius Simon. Pvt. Costurka and Cpl. 4lh Cavalry Assoc. -Reunion. Chicago, III., Sept. Dec 30-31. Write for reservations to Rex C. Adams. to establish 18-19; Hotel Congress. Write Myloe J. Loberg. Tulloss, Hay Springs, Nebr. Needed claim. Write H. Honig, Annandale. Minn. Box 1175. Grand Central Station, N. \'. City. Co. G, 410th Inf., 103rd Div.-Reunion, Chicago, 76th Field Artillery, Bat. D. (WW1» - Comrades III., Sept. 18-20; Hotel LaSalle. Details from who remember Theodore Beatty, better known A. .1. Thoetning, 2512 Burr Oak Ave., Blue Air as "the Kid", being gassed at Chateau-Thierry Island, III. about Aug. 8, 1918 need to be heard from rela- 166th F. A. Rest., and 938th and 939 Bus.-6th an- 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group— Re- tive to establishing claim. Write American Legion Service Officer, P.O. Box 3198, nual reunion. New Providence, Pa., Sept. 19. union. Chicago, III.. Sept. 5-7; LaSalle Hotel. Hono- lulu, Hawaii. Contact Charles H. Rehni, New Providence. Write R. W. Killian, 906 Talma St., Aurora. Pa. 111. 6960 Reinforcement Depot, 6961 Reinforcement 36th Tank Bn.— Annual reunion. New York City, 5S5th Red Devil Assoc.— 10th anniversary reunion, Bn., 2946 Reinforcement Co. (WW2>-Want to hear from former comrades served with Sept. 19; Hotel Astor. Write Alexander .T. Washington, D. C, Sept. 5-7. Chrmn. J. T. who me. Statements needed to establish service Woehrle. Ill Van Schoick Ave.. Albany, N.Y. McQueeney, 5603 Hamilton St., Hyattsville. Batteries B & C Assoc., 156th F. A. (WW2l-5th Md. disability claim. Write William T. Heit, Bed- annual reunion. Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Sept. 372nd Aero Sqdn. (WWl»-24th reunion. Vallejo, ford. Pa. A. P.O. 19; State Armory. Reservations from San Ciof- Calif., Nov. 7. Inquiries to John H. Parker. 248, Hq. & Hq. Co., Exchange Section (WW2)— Urgently need to fi or Les Trebly, N. Y. State Armory, Pough- 1209 Ohio St., or Jos. E. Valencia. 820 Marie hear from men who served keepsie, N. Y. St., Vallejo, Cal. with me and knew of my nervous con- Co. A, 109th Engrs. (WWl )-Reunion. Des Moines, dition. Especially Major Umstead and Staff Iowa, Sept. 20(h. Write G. Whitmore. 6507 Sgt. Pat Tee. Claim pending. Write Marshall Delmatro St.. Des Moines 11, Iowa. Shepherd, 175 25th St. PI., S.W., Hickory, 7Slst Tank Bn.— 5th annual reunion, Dayton, Ohio, N. Car. Sept. 25'27; Biltmore Hotel. Info, from R. 510 MP Bn. (WW2) - Contact with man named Liebold, Chrmn., 4216 Cleveland Ave.. Day- White, who crossed English Channel latter ton. Ohio. MISSING part of August. 1944 on (Jueen Bertha, needed 316th F. S. Bn.— 35th annual Argonne Day Dinner, to establish claim. Write J. G. Weiss, Marsh- San Francisco. Cal., Sept. 26; Montclair Res- field, Wis. 99fh Div., 395 Regt., Co. A (WW2)-Would like to taurant. 550 Green St. Reservations from R. IN KOREA Howry, 351 Turk St.. San Francisco, Cal. hear from buddies who served with me and 313th Inf., 79th Div. AEF (WWll - 35th reunion remember last night on the lines (May 2, 1945 near Munich). Statements needed for disability dinner. Baltimore, Md.. Sept. 26; Lord Balti- 24th Inf. Div., 19th Inf. Regt.-My son. Pvt. Eniil claim. Write Kenneth L. Walker, 418 Perez more Hotel. Open house Montfaucon Post all E. Wallace was reported missing in action July day. Info, St., Las Vegas, New Mexico. from Carroll Jone. 302 Gittings 16, 1950, and two years later declared dead. Ft. Francis E. Warren, Wyo., 3rd Q.M.T.R.. Co. Ave.. Baltimore 12, Md. Will any buddies who were with him, or know Vet. H—Need to hear from Dr. A. C. Felburn who Gnard Battery B, 112th H.F.A. - Reunion. what happened to him please write his moth- treated me for a hand injury on July 7, 1942 Camden. N. J.. Sept. 26th; Kenney's Restau- er? Write Mrs, Gertrude Wallace, 773. Box at 3rd Dispensary, and from any others who rant. 531 Market St. Contact M. L. Atkinson, Ontario, Ore. knew of my hand injury. Statements needed Sec, 1020 Linwood Ave., Collingswood, N. .1. 15th Inf. Regt., Co. G-I would like to hear from to establish service connection. Write Henry J. 796th AAA AW Bn. (SP»-lst reunion. New York anyone who served with Pvt. Charles Haste, City. Sept. 26; Brass Rail Restaurant, Fletcher, 223 S.W. 14th St., Oklahoma City. 7th Ave. reported killed in action. June 15, 1953. He and 48th St. Okla. Write for reservations in advance was stationed at "Outpost last Harry" when 490th A.A.A., Bat. C (WW2) and 5th Div., 46th to L. Davidson, 53-41 205th St.. Bayside 64. heard from. Write Miss Mickie Stover, 130 Bat., Co. A. and 783 Field Artillery, Bat. B- N. Y. Oak Creek Terrace. Corvallis, Ore. 3038th Ord. Base Auto. Main., My ear condition in service, well known to 140th Ord. Bn.- 24th Div., 21st Inf. Regt., Medical Corps—My son. 10th anniversary many buddies, has resulted in prolonged and reunion. New York City, Oct. Charles L. Andrews was reported missing in 2-4; Hotel serious illness. Service medical record doesn't New Yorker. Details from M. Klein, action July 12, 1950. Last seen five miles north show it, and VA requires statements from com- 10 Berkeley Ter.. Irvington, N. J. or Chockiwon, South Korea. Will anyone hav- rades to establish service connection. Will any Ice Plant Co., No. 301-Reunion, Chicago, III., Oct. ing information concerning him please write comrades it write. I 3; Furniture Club, 666 Shore Drive. who remember please Lake Con- Mrs. Ethel Andrews. 106 North St., Glovers- tact E. E. Telford, R. R. #1, Gassville, Ark. was at Camp Stewart. Ga.. Camp Davis, N.C., ville, N. Y.? Camp Polk, La., Camp Robinson. Ark., Camp 252nd F. A. Bn.—6th annual reunion, Chicago, III., 3Sth Inf. Regt., Co. F—Will anyone who has infor- Bowie and Hood, Texas, and Camp Campbell, Oct. 3; 3204 N. Kostner Ave., Info, from H. mation about Cpl. Joseph Kisela please write Ky. Write to former gunner and squad leader C. Zien, 5246 W. School St., Chicago 41, 111. his mother? Cpl. Kisela reported missing was Raymond A. Livezey, 432 E. 23rd St., San 2nd Bn., 129th lnf.-5th annual reunion, .Toliet, III., in action Nov. 27, 1950, in vicinity of Unsong. Angelo, Texas. Oct. 3; Cantigny Post 367 V.F.W. Write W. Write Mrs. Vera Kisela, 542 Troutwine St.. 179th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance E. Mau, 714 South St., Lockport, III. Centralia, Pa. Co. (WW2) Philippines, Luzon-Widow of Jo- 328th Inf. Regt., 26th Inf. Div. 21st Inf. Regt., 1st Bn. (Task Force Smithl-Any of (WW2l-Reunion, seph W. Behrend needs to contact men who New York City, 3-4; his fellows who know anything of Harold A. Oct. Hotel Woodstock. knew him in service for information required Contact Johnson, reported missing shortly after Task Father Bransfield, Holbrook, Mass. to stablish widow's pension. Write Mrs. Joseph Force Smith landed at Pusan July 1, 1950, Artillery Hdqs. Btry., Americal Div. — Reunion, W. Behrend, Parkston, S. D. New York City, Oct. 10. Details please contact his father. Write Andrew F. from L. Ka- 7th Div., 56th Inf. Reg., Co. I (WWl) - Need to pit. Chrmn., 195-06, Johnson. Route 3, Waynesboro, Miss. 47th Ave., Flushing 58. contact Major (Med.) Charles J. Muru, (then N. Y. I9th Infantry Regt., Co. A—Will anyone who knew PFC Larry D. Dunn, known as "Catfish", who of Newark, N. J.) for statement that he treat- Battery B. 68th Regt. C. A. C. (WWl (-Reunion, 1 was wounded, and others was reported missing in action in retreat from ed me when who .loliet. III., Oct. II; V.F.W. Post 367, Horse- remember wound: Capt. Moody (Co. 1), Kum River, July 16, 1950. please write his my shoe Drive. Write J. C. Kehm, Mendota, 111. mother? Write Mrs. Amon Dunn, Grandview, Salem, N. C, Lt. Cissel (Co. Kl. Tipton, Md., 201st Inf. Regt.— Reunion, Morgantown. Va., W. Washington Co., Ohio. Capt. McGuire (Co. L), N. Y. C, Capt. Wol- Oct. 10-11. Details from Richard Davies. Box fley Charles, former 31st Inf. RCT, Co. C-Would appreciate any infor- (Co. M). Lake La. Write 201, Morgantown, W. Va. mation of our son. Cpl. Robert K. Mathis, Cpl. John M. Byrne, V A. Center, Biloxi, Miss. S52nd Ord. Co. (H. Tk.)-8th M. annual reunion, missing in action Oct. 14, 1952 on Jane Rus- Fort Warren, Wyoming (WW2) - Would like to Allston, Mass., Oct. 17; 406 Cambridge St. sell Hill. Write Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Mathis, contact dental officer who extracted my teeth Reservations and info, from J. Woods, 35 Mt. Woonsocket. South Dakota. in the post hospital late in the summer of Everett St., Dorchester 25, Mass. 2Sth Inf. Div., 35th Inf. Regt.-Parents would like 1942, or anyone who knows the circumstances. Co. D, 148th Inf., 37th Div.-Reunion, Oak Har- to hear from anyone who knew our son. Pvt. Records lost and statements needed for claim. bor, Ohio, Oct. 17-18. Write .lohn Nagy, 322' b Donald Lee Schaefer, who was killed some- I was post Chaplain then. Write Frank R. " East .St., Live St., Third Port Clinton. Ohio. where on the Pusan perimeter, July 29. 1 950. His Myers, 802 Oak Coleman, Texas. 309th Heavy F. A. Vets of WWl-Armistice"Din- chaplain was killed on the same date, so we Louisiana Maneuvers (1940): Jefferson Barracks, ner, Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 7; Doud Post have never had details of our son's death. Mo., 6th Infantry, Co. H— Suffering prolonged Memorial Home, 898 Buffalo Road. For reser- Please write Mr. and Mrs. Laneer J. Schaefer, after-effects of malaria contracted on maneu- vations write R. C. Welter, Chrmn., 64 Long 907 S. Buchanan St., Marion, 111. vers but records don't show it, and statements Acre Road, Rochester 21. N. Y. 24th Div., 19th Inf. Regt., Co. K— In two years since needed from buddies and medical personnel. he was killed in action we have never heard Can I hear from following; Capt. Tax (med. from anyone who knew my brother, Cpl. Rob- officer who treated me); corpsman (name un- ert W. Manly. He was reported killed June known to me) who rode with me in ambulance Navy and Marines 27, 1951. near Chokkun-San, North Korea. and set up tent for me at night; ined. officer Will someone who knew him in Korea please at Jefferson Barracks who treated ine six U.S.S. Monnt Vernon Assoc.— 35th annual reunion write Mrs. Mary L. Duras, 172 Rosehill Drive. weeks and had my swollen joints X-rayed; and dinner, Boston, Mass.. Sept. 5; Motel Chicago 26. 111.? Capt. Sullivan, dentist there; 1st Sgt. Ruark; Lenox. Contact L. A. Sands. 18 Symmes St.. 31st Inf. Div., 3rd Bn., Hq. Co. - Parents would Sgt. Beckmeyer: Sgt. Chas. A. Tucker; Cpl. West Medford 55, Mass. like to hear from service comrades who knew Wm. Davis; Sgt. Chas. Walker; Sgl. Banister 63rd Sea Bees-6th Reunion, Chicago, 111.. Sept. PFC Howard E. James, missing Nov. 28, 1950 and Sgt. G. G. Genda. Write Oscar L. Pem- 5-7; St. Clair Hotel. Write L. H. Clausen, at Chosan Reservoir. Write Mr. and Mrs. broke, Navajo Mission School, Holbrook, 2932 Bleden Ave., Chicago 47, III. Bryce James, Box 404, Dunbar, Pa. Ariz.

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CBMl' 530 and CBMU 524 (WW2)-Will anyone who remembers my stomach trouble on Ewa, Oahu and Midway Islands in 1944-45 please write, as 1 need statements lor a claim. Par- ticularly Hank Warburg, Tacoma, Wash.; Don From where I sit Lane, San Diego; Pat Patterson, Klamath Falls, Ore.; Pat Nagel, Bob Stevenson and Bill Keating, all of Mass.; John Cardiello, Tom Seaman and Curly Artman, all of N. J.; Tiny Bussman, Santa Rosa, Cal., and George Cald- Joe Marsh well, Dennison. Texas. Write Joe Meehan, Jr., .^71) Kearny Ave., Kearny. N. J. U.S.S. Black Douglas. Pier 91, Seattle, and Naval Rec. Sta., Bremerton, Wash. (WW2)-Robert Struthers GM2c was killed in auto accident April 1942. Will anyone who knew if he carried insurance please write Betfv Struthers Thomas, Rt. 2, Box 69, Raymond, Wash.? Midway Island Submarine Base, E & R Shop (WW2)— Wish to hear from Lee McLaughlin. Charles Maggs. Herbert Garcia, Jimmy Spoils. Donald Rieser. or any others who knew me at Midway Island in 194.^ or 1944. Need statements to prove claim. Write Edward J. Dumas, 921 West Arnold St.. Marshfield, Wis. SS Lookout Mountain (WW2)— Need to contact H. E. Murphy, who was Lt. (jg) on the Lookout Bad Case of the ^'Ztutters^' Mountain in 1945. Statement needed for claim of William E. Sheppard. Write Robert L. Dendy, County Service Officer, McCormick, S. C.

Our copyboy here is out sick. So the Air editor (me) is taking over some of his 1126 MP Co. AVIN (WW2)-Need to locate Joseph Pucciarello (N. J.); Virgil Strawn (Okla.): this include run- John Wilkinback (Detroit) and Rob't H. Lewis chores week — which (Charlotte, N. C.) to obtain statements needed for service connected disability. Will they, or ning the addressing machine on anvone knowing them, write Wilburn L. Allen, Rt. .1, Clarksville. Ga.? "maUing-out night." 49th Air Depot Group, Hq. & Hq. Sq. and 38th Air Depot Group (WW2»-Will anyone who served with Paul L. Phillips, of Russell, Kan- But yesterday I discovered that I sas, while at Nichols Field, Manila, or in Aus- tralia during WW2 who has any knowledge of any hospitalization, medical attention or dis- didn't have the usual number ofpapers ability he might have received, please write? Pension for widow and three small children left over for sale at the office. Couldn't depends on such information. Write Mrs. M.vrtle Phillips, .121 Pattie Ave., Wichita, Kan. AAF Pilot School, PAAF, Pecos, Texas (WW2)- figure what had happened—until Chub Anyone who knew Lt. John P. Mazan in 194.1, 1944 or 1945 please write. Information needed Zimmer called to ask why he'd gotten to establish disability claim. Write Mrs. Law- rence Mazan, 120 State St., Rutland, Vt. 56 copies. — THE AMERICAN LEGION Then I reahzed "Zimmer" is the NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS JUNE 30, 19.^3 last name the machine prints. Guess

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Cash iin hand ;inil on deposit. ... $ .'')94,:i!):i.57 all Receivables 2ti2,431.10 kept grinding out Chub's name on Inventories 350, 774. .39 Invested Funds 1,0.';6.641.28 the remaining copies. That machine Permanent Trusts: Overseas Graves Decoration just didn't know when to stop. Trust Fund $ 2.54,6.59.64 Employees' Retirement Trust Fund 1,2(>K,255.60 1,522.915.24 From where I sit, people are like Real Estate 973,972.65 Furniture and Fi.xtures, less Depreciation 271,063.02 that machine sometimes. They often Deferred Charges (;4,X40.19 tS. 097, 031. 44 don't know when to stop. Like those

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HOW NOT TO MISS 'EM FEET BURN? (Continued jrom page 19) shots taken with metallic sights are Lean toward the coarse crosshair, the Get FAST REUeTN guessed as to point of aim, a scope *'pin kind that can be seen instantly and lined with this MEDICATED^ points" the area being aimed at. up even in dim hght, yet not so coarse Powder!,^*"^ Safety. A man never looks like any- that the reticule itself tends to obscure thing but a man through a scope. Posi- the target. No unmeiiicaled powder can relieve sore and burning feet tive identif??:ation of game is po.ssible. You will find these reticule patterns as Ammens Powder does! Trophy shooting. Before bringing in the two basic kinds of scopes—those For Ammens contains down game, the conditions of hide and with external adjustments and those three famous medicinal in- horns can be determined before shoot- with internal adjustments. The first

gredients—gives 3-iray med- ing. Sportsmen who are trophy hunters type is a straight tube which is held in icated skin care: (1) It soothes, relieves and appreciate this. mounts which are adjustable for ele- Its extra softness helps heal irritated skin. (2) On the simple basis of magnification, vation and/or windage. The second protects and cushions sore skin, and so pro- rifle scopes fall into three classes: (1) type is fastened to the rifle with fixed motes healing. (3) Its extra fluffy texture gives The target scope. This is one with a mounts, and adjustments for elevation cooling relief. For real wediuited skin care, get genuine Ammens Medicated Powder wherever high magnifying power and a small field and windage are made by turning knobs fine drug products are sold. of view. These usually run in power which change the position of the reti- FREE tri.il-size c.in. Wrire tod.iy to Dept. L-93. Bristol- from lOX to 25X. (2) The big game or cule. The movement can be made side- Myers Co., Hillside, N, limited to J, (Ofier U.S.A.) hunting scope. This type has a some- ways for windage and up and down for ® what low magnification and a wide field elevation. and runs from 2V2X to 4X. (3) Small This matter of adjustment also brings Guaranteed by *<• game scope. This is the in-between cate- facet into focus: /Mountings. Good Housekeeping , AMMENS another gory for the person interested in var- The actual mounting of the scope on MEDICATED POWDER mint shooting and medium to high your rifle is important. It must hold the SHORTHAND in magnification. But the target object, scope in a fixed position, and also some- such as the wily woodchuck or crow is times provide for adjustments for lin- A Weeks at Home sometimes fast moving, consequently a ing up the scope and the rifle. There are wide field of view is of mounts which are ^^^^^^m Famous Speedwriting Shorthand. 120 wpm. needed. This scope a couple of types No symbols; no machines: uses ABC's. usually runs anywhere from a 4X to a most commonly used. The kind with Easiest to learn, write and transcribe. Low cost. 150.000 taught by mail. For business and Civil Service. lOX. the convenient, quick adjustment fea- Also typing. 30th year. Write for FREE booklet to: So actually, there isn't an\ thing too ture, the other where the adjustment technical involved in selecting a scope. may take as long as ten or fifteen min- You know the type of shooting you utes or one hour and fifteen minutes. are interested in. Have your rifie Most shooters today demand that the mounted with that type of scope and vertical and horizontal adjustments for you're in be built right inside the SAVE $1.00 business. their telescopes Scope men toss plenty of high-sound- tube itself. But there are good scopes

Reserve Your Own Copy of ing terms around. Eye relief is one. that have the windage and elevation ad- You could call this the picture you get justments in the mount. One that I Offfc/al The through the scope \\ hen > ou bring your know is excellent has only two moving rifle to your shoulder. A simple test is parts on the mount: One-piece steel AMERICAN LEGION the ability to bring up the scope to a double cones adjust for both windage distance of anywhere from two to five and elevation. And the scales are cali- READER inches from your eye and immediately brated in the simple scale of one divi- NOW see the full field of view. If the field sion to an inch at 100 yards. Lock narrow s when you make this test and a screws and adjustments are operated by

black ring grows around it, the scope a coin. The manufacturer, Bausch & The Best Fiction, may not be the right one for you or for Lomb, claims that there is nothing deli- Cartoons, Articles, Humor from the Legion's Own Magazine that particular rifle. However, before cate about this mount-adjusted sight, c'dll.'cii'il idi' ilii' lii^i I'roiri ihf of Tlif llcTv, time tcim's you rule out any scope get the advice of that it retains zero and that any blow AiiiiMiciin l,( 'ji.in .\I:i',;azini'. i-i llii' hist wnrk iif sucli (lis- tiTlt'iiislicil cnntrihulcMS as; Ciilri-lli'i' ItuiliUKton Kellaml, an expert. The trouble may lie in the that would throw the rifle off^ zero Will Diuiinl, Cralithinil Iticc, Allicrt, I'avson Tcrliune. IWMitli TarkinKlnn. Alexander WooUentt and many others. way the scope has been mounted. The would have to be severe enough to dent Scleited liy Victor I.nskv, these jireat .stories, ariieles and cartoons aijpear in a t)iii. haiulsoine. inoie tlian ."iflll paue point is to avoid having to place your the barrel of the tough aluminum- scope. hiKili dcsiiiiicd to i;ive yon itian>'. many liouis of reading Dieasuie and tlic liisaest lioine lilirary \allle over. eye at one fixed point for every shot. So, actually, you can take your

Special Pre-Publication Offer to Legion Another point to consider is the reti- choice. But regardless of the type ad- Families Only! Act now — Save $1.00 cule pattern. When >ou look through justment, some scopes aren't too accu- AVe want to malic sure that every Let^ion taliiily uets a copy 01 ihis tremendous antlioloKy — so we are making a scope you see a pattern superimposed rate in their movements. I suggest that yon tins nlnisna! oiler! Mail the attached coupon with your name and address to reserve your copy — when the on your target. Some scopes have cross- you try a scope before buying, especial- hook aiiivi's in Noveniher. pay nothioK. Kxaniine it tor 10 days at otu' expense, and then, only if yon are ftiUy hair wires strung across a metal frame, ly if it's one of the higher priced jobs. satisfied. i)a,\ the low pre-pnhlication price of $.'J.95 (instead of the rcKular price of ^X.'.tTA plus a few cents although there now seems to be a tend- Here's one way you can test its ac- postauc. Otherwise return the book and owe us nothint;. This otter expiri's Sept. ,'iillh, so mail this coupon TODAY. ency to use simple engravings on the curacy:

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it con- to show the shotgunner the exact point ( Coiniiiiied fro/// page 40 must do anything could for the etiual to one inch at 100 yards), or the\' venience of the shooter. He manufac- where the center of the shot pattern are equipped with the cHck method, tured a medium priced rifle, and during will strike. The important factors of u here each cHck is a fraction of a min- that year, came out with a telescopic swinging and leading are also aided ute. sight that could be attached to the rifle. with the Kl, says \\ eaver.

W itli the scope held motionless in its As a matter of fact, all Alossberg guns Hensoldt, known throughout the

\ ise, an\' sligiit movement of the w ind- were tapped and drilled for scopes. If world for the excellence of its optics, age or elevation should bring forth a a person didn't want the reasonably has five scope models on the market, hke movement of point of impact at priced scope with the rifle, dummy the most powerful of w-hich is their the target. The movement in the scope screws were inserted in the drilled holes Zeil-Dialyt 8X, running down to the must be extremeh' sensitive to be effec- and no harm was done. Since 1946 all Duralyt 2%X. These scopes are a prod- tive and worthwhile. If tiie movement Mossberg rifles have come from the uct of the Western Zone of Germany. has backlash or is ierk>- in either w ind- assembly line with a simple grooved Incidentally, some excellent scopes age or elevation, then the adjustment slot for the scope. are beginning to come out of Japan. is bad. Now try moving the windage O. F. Mossberg worked his scope line D. P. Bushnell & Company is importing and see if it makes a change in eleva- out on a practical basis. Reasoning that a line which is sold under the trade name tion, or try the elevation and watch a 4-power scope brought the target or of Scopemaster, and these come in ZMX, for change in the w indage. If this hap- 4X and 6X. pens, _\'ou are realh' in trouble and you Leupold & Stevens Instrument Com- have a bad scope. For a setup like this pany of Portland, Oregon, have come is apt to change the gun's zero setting up with the slogan, "always a clear

\\ hen the gun is fired. shot," with their nitrogen processed

Vd say play it safe and get one of hunting scopes. They claim that their tlie good rigid mounts and the scope scopes are without the normal moisture- with highly sensitive and dependable laden air and the tube is filled with internal adjustments. These t\ pe mounts inert nitrogen gas, which effectively can take it and, if properly fitted can prevents Leupold scopes from fogging be depended upon for a good man>' due to moisture, changes in atmospheric \ears. conditions or altitude. The scopes range

In selectuig a scope there is an ad- from the 2/2-power class up to an 8X. vantage in the kind made of aluminum Texas seems to have a small corner or aluminum alloy. They bear up well on scopes, with the Stith Scopes and under gun recoil and are lighter to Mounts people in San Antonio giving pack along. Weaver a run for their money. They Now let's get a trifle technical and manufacture the Bear Cub series run- suggest that you make sure the optics ning from the Bear Cub 2/4X Double or the lenses of your scope are hartl to the Bear Cub 6X Double. They spe- coated. Sometimes called "lens coating" cialize in hunting scopes and handle it is a process for applying a thin, trans- only internally adjusted models. parent film of magnesium fluoride to "Okay, Mugg.sy, we're comiii' in The John Unertl Optical Company the surface of a lens in order to reduce AMEItKAN Li:f;iON MAC^AZINE of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have two tlie reflection of light, as well as to in- scopes I like, the 2/4X Falcon, and the crease the transmission of light coming hunting object four times nearer the 4X Hawk, both hunting scopes. They thr(»ugh the lens. The fllm of the hard- shooter, he pointed out to his custo- also have a 6X Condor which seems to coated lens is about four one-millionths mers that his internal, coin-adjusted be working out w ell. of an inch in thickness. For example scope could be bought for under ten R. A. Litschert of Winchester, Indi- this page > ()u are reading is about 800 dollars and that the scope would pay ana, has an interesting accessory called times thicker than the coating on the for itself in shooting pleasure, accuracy a Spot Shot attachment, which fits many lens of \ our scope — a coating that and meat in the pot w ithin a few days. of the various makes of hunting scopes. greatly increases the accuracy of your Shooters found he was right. It's an install-it-yourself operation. With shooting. The Army and Navy used The Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, the Spot Shot device you can change this during the last war, marked it top which considers itself dean of scope >'our low power hunting scope to a secret, coated all military camera, bi- manufacturers, puts about fifteen dif- fine varmint scope up to 8X. This nocular and rifle scope lenses and got ferent absolutely top scope models on means that with the expenditure or top performance from all three. Not to the market, ranging from IVi power to twenty dollars more or less, and a few mention submarine periscopes and ar- 30 and has carefully mapped out a pub- minutes of your time, you can have a tillery rangeflnders. lic relations program on wh>' it pays scope that will suflicc for practically Walter L. Picrson, Executive \'ice to use a scope. any hunting need. The attachment lines

President and Treasurer of O. I'. Aloss- The W. R. Weaver Company of El up perfect!)^ on \ our present scope, due berg & Sons, Incorporated, the first Paso, Texas, is another manufacturer to a new Litschert installation principle. company in the United States to manu- that realizes that an inexpensive scope Bausch & Lomb, famous for their ex- facriue the low-priced scope, tells me is a good investment for shooters. Their cellent optics, are featuring the Balvar that his company has run a test in retail scopes run from less than ten dollars to 2)2 to 4X, a variable power scope and sport stores throughout the cf)untr>- just under sixty and come in several the Balfor 4X and Baltur 2MX, both fixed and come up with the fact tiiat three ranges of power. Their new K4 (the power scopes. shooters to one buy the rifle that is numeral representing the pow er or mag- The scopes' future is indicated b\' the scope-equipped. Once the improved nification) scopes are among the best on phenomenal increase in their popularit> \ ision is pointed out to the shooter, he the market, as are their K6 and K2.5. It is significant, too, that many of the sells himself. It seems that back in 1935, Weaver even has a Kl, a unique scope recent converts to scope shooting used O. F. Mossberg, the founder of the firm, for use on a shotgun. The reticule has to insist scopes were no good for their developed the idea that his compan\' a large aiming dot, w hich is supposed type of shooting. the end

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 CAN THE KIDS TAKE TV? ( Conliiitied from page 21 )

n\ craged less than this number of criminal homicides per week. Eighty-five percent of the crime shows were on the air before 9 p.m., by which time children used to be in bed.

The Los Angeles situation is complicated by the difference in time zones w hich brings Eastern-originated shows three or four hours earlier than in New- York. Another factor is that Los Ange- les has seven TV stations—too many for the networks to supply—and they fall back upon old films for program material. The National Association of Edu- cational Broadcasters study, already mentioned, revealed that ninety-seven percent of all w estern and crime drama telecast in Los Angeles was on film. The use of old movies is the source of much of the complaint against television. As one parent said, "I'd like to sec all Class B pictures removed. We \\ ouldn't pay to see them ten or fifteen

> ears ago — now w e are plagued with them daily."

This is a situation which is likely to THE O'SULLIVANS AT HOME. Clarence M. O'Sullivan, construction foreman with thirty- become worse before it improves. Now four years' experience; daughter-in-law Marilyn, clerical assistant for five years, and that the Federal Communications Com- Mr. O'Sullivan's sons: Don, a telephone installer with seven years' service, and Clarence C, mission has lifted the freeze on televi- cable repairman with thirteen years' service. sion applications, many new and independent stations are coming into operation. In order to maintain their licenses, they must broadcast at least twelve hours a week after the first six months Fifty- nine Years

Live programming is expensive on a local level; and not all licensees can arrange for network shows. Consequent- When Clarence M. O'Sullivan They have a total of lifty-nine ly, they fall back on the use of filmed started to work for the telephone years' service. material, some of it especially for company, back in 1919, he started made A recent U. S. Government sur- television, but much of it the diegs of a family tradition. Since then two vey gives some interesting figures motion picture productions of the last sons a daughter-in-law have and on the length of time men and fifteen or even twenty years. Some are also decided on telephone careers. women have served with their incredibly bad. Some recent pictures present employers. of quality are available; but they are more costly to the television station. By comparison, the length of In recent years, union agreements with service for women in the Bell Sys- the motion picture studios require that tem is twice the average for women creative film personnel receive a royalty in other industries. For telephone on televised use of their pictures. What- men it is nearly three times the ever the merits of the case, hikes this average for other industries. the cost of more up-to-date pictures to broadcasters. This longer length of service, indicates job satisfaction, The television broadcaster does not which have to persuade an advertiser to spon- also has a value to the telephone sor old film trash. He makes money on user. It helps us give better serv- it by selling what the trade calls "spot TELEPHONE MAN OF 1970. Clarence ice to everyone. announcements" w hich may be inter- C. O'Sullivan's son, Mike, likes to spersed anyw here during the day's tele- pretend he's a "telephone man." And Bell Telephone System casting. If some spot-announcement ad- he will be when he grows up, if he vertisers saw what comes before and follows in his family's footsteps.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 43 after the "pitch" for their products, American Bar Association's Committee they might be as horrified as the parents. has sought financial support for such The more stations there are in a com- research to be carried on in universities munity, the more acute this problem is or other research organizations with hkely to become. Television uses up en- high standing, completely independent tertainment at a terrific pace. It has been of either the media of mass communi- pointed out that all of the feature films cation or their vociferous critics. Whatever your size, large or produced by Hollywood during 1951 The aim is not to remove all crime small, look to Knapp! Over 100 smart styles. Dress, Sport and totaled only 648 hours of entertainment, portrayals from the movies, broadcast- all with famous Work Shoes, and would last television stations only ing, or comic books. Violence and WRITE Cushioned Comfort. Factory- direct prices. Write today for free, about six weeks. No wonder the reli- colorful style folder and the name of ance on old movies is so great. During STYLE FOLDER your local Knapp Shoe Counselor. one week in April, more than 150 mov- KNAPP BROTHERS SHOE MFC. CORP. ies (including thirty Westerns) were DEPT. S6A Brockton, Massachusetts televised in the New York City area. LIGHT The television networks also rely on SAVE 5100 PLANT movies; but their quality is somewhat PUSH BUTTON START 600-700 watts — 115 v. GO eye. AC better. The networks, at least, review Powered by a ru^ped 2 hp easy start irm Brifrers gas enerine. No wiring nee pictures before they are put on the air. cssarv, just plug in and operate. Plont; current for any oil burner, freezer official ooder. pump, emergency lights, etc One network testified before lich require up to 7(K) watts. Idea f Fire Dept., trailer & camps. Com the House Committee last fall that, of i'WlQ with voltmeter and built-in wind inij to charge G v. auto batteries. B« 6750 films reviewed, 186 were rejected. prepared If storm knocks out_powei lines. Fully guaranteed. Regularly $275. OO The 186 probably showed up on some value $143.50 7O0-80O Watt Plant (Item 44) same as abo ^ local stations! but witli larger engine — 25 % greater output $169.95

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I> < wHti ur.h i — Bis Factory Catalog 10c. I.r.ind new broadcasting on children is not easy to i'ri,-. - f n I. I:, .(MTV, MnU''^ (.-..I.. ,^ „ .r.u.I.i ud r|i,.,.k or M. O. Master Mechanic Co.. Dept. 99C Burlington, Wis. assess with any scientific certainty. Many parents believe that when their children become restless or suffer from nightmares cither the number or type of programs has been harmful. James MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITY V. Bennett, director of the Federal FOR YOU WITHOUT INVESTMENT! Bureau of Prisons, has cited cases of No experience nee^ied to act as our Local "Good morning, Miss Lawton. I've often Dealer for Master W'>rkUni form ^armentd. juvenile delinquency in which the pat- Every business concern a prospect. Adver- wondered why I never see yon come in late." tising' embroidered on jrarmentsisa bigsalea tern of crime was provided by criine feature. Storescan'tcompete. You can easily AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE earn up to many thousand:^ of dollars yearly. fiction. The young delinquent probably We supply all Sales Equipment FREE. Write GEO. MASTER GARMENT DIV. already was on the road to crime; but 449 WATER STREET LIGONIER. INDIANA that is no excuse for providing the stim- crime is a part of life and of the great Earn ^500 Cash ulus or the map. Although most >'oung literature of the world. In part, the pur- plus 24 wood cord people seem to be able to take a con- pose of the projected research would be double tables, plus 48 centrated diet of violence and crime to determine the structure of programs decks of cards for your without undue immediate effects, some which permit healthful or harmful iden- Legion Post I No risk. Nothing to pay. For "just can't take it." tifications on the part of the immature write F. W. details And, who knows w hat the k)ng-range audience. In such fiction, at the end of MATHERS, Dept. A.L., effects may be? Never before has a is usually pun- Mt. Ephraim, N. J. the story the criminal generation grown up in which murder, ished for his crime, but do children cruelt\', and brutish aggressiveness were realize what this means? Are they in- brought to life vividly in the home with fluenced more by the bulk of the story sound and pictures that move. Are we which glorifies the criminal and makes weakening sensitivity to human values his life seem exciting and attractive? Before you ctioose, be sure to GET and rearing a crop of emotionally cal- stories provide a healthy outlet THE FACTS obout Sctioit mobile Do the homes. Write or wire Dept. 5009 SCHULT TRAILERS loused citizens? for normal aggressiveness, as .some ps>'- SCHULT CORP., Elkhart. Ind. Unfortunately, the answers to these chiatrists claim? Do they inculcate false LEARN FASCINATING and other questions which torment values about marriage, work, and law? Leathercraft thoughtful parents must await further These are questions regarding which broadcasters and critics alike Make your own bags, belts, wallets, scientific research. Many experts have honest etc. learn fascinating, profitable many answers, but they do not agree. would welcome accurate and detailed in spare time. Send 25c leathercroft Since 1948, the American Bar Associa- information. Certainl>' one cannot make for valuable Catalog, has over 200

' photographs, (refunded first purchase). tion, in its Section on Criminal Law, useful or valid generalizations about effects all programs on all chil- BURTONS LEATHERCRAFT under the leadership of Arthur J. the of GLENDALE BLVD., LOS ANGELES 26, CALIF. DEPT. AL-9, 1727 Freund, has had a committee wkh rep- dren. Both the programs and children SUFFER resentatives of the motion picture, radio, vary. Research and intelligently con- DO YOU television, and comic book industries to structive criticism must deal \\ ith spe- new inquire into the adverse effects of these cific cases. RHEUMATISM? mass media of communication. After Common sense supplies some of the ARTHRITIS? NtURITIS? SCIATICA? many years of disagreement among answers. All radio and television sets themselves and experts with varying come equipped with little knobs by wlilch rcvcils why drugs and ^'^^^i^^^^^^^'-^^^^^^^ medicines give only tempor.iry relief opinions, the need for objective scien- means of which the indignant parent B and fail to remove causes; explains a specialized B non-surgical, non-medical treatment which has tific research of a constructive nature can either tune in a more w holesome M proven successful for 35 years. Write today. was decided upon. Joining with the program or, as sometimes seems to be BALL CUNIC. Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs, Mo. American Medical Association, the necessary, turn off the set. Parents can-

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not delegate to commercial interests the lished a Television Code Review Board casting is supported by advertising, and ultimate responsibility for their chil- which welcomes letters of criticism. everyone in the business is eager for as dren's welfare. Write to them at 1771 N Street, N.W., large an audience as possible. The in- The Xavier study found that bed- Washington 6, D. C, giving the day dustry is highly competitive; and those time rules and habits are changing. and hour and the name of the show and who control it tend to be preoccupied Parents allow their children to stay up describing w hat you consider offensive. with a specific network or series or to see the late television shows. Fifty- Your criticism will be sent to the sta- program. Letters from individual lis- eight percent of the nearly one thou- tion involved. Be specific; blanket con- teners, which criticize a specific pro- sand sixth and seventh graders reported demnations do no good whatsoever. If gram in concrete terms, are considered watching a regular late movie telecast \'ou do not note improvement, write very seriously by broadcasters. Ralph from 11:05 p.m. until well after mid- again and send a copy of your letter to W. Hardy of the National Association night at least once a week. (This may the Federal Communications Commis- of Radio and Television Broadcasters, prepare them for night-clubbing or sion in Washington, D. C. Although the testified in Washington, "I have person- work on a morning newspaper.) Thir- FCC cannot censor programs, it must ally seen legitimate protests circulated teen percent \\ atchcd fix e times a week. periodically renew broadcasting li- across the tops of all important desks Another clcx cn percent watched other censes. A file of adverse criticism at the in a station, with an accompanying note late shows. Parents who complain about offices of the FCC is embarrassing to from the general manager, pulling the their children being tired or restless the station, whose legal responsibility it staff up short to avoid any recurrence have no one but themselves to blame. is to operate in the public interest. of the incident that justified such com- Aside from turning off the set, what All broadcasting is regulated by the plaints." He goes on to note that criti- can a parent do about objectionable Federal Communications Commission, cisms upset broadcasting people, who radio or television programs? but Section 326 of the Communications "are well know n for their high incidence

The leaders of the radio and te]e\ i- Act of 1934 specifically forbids FCC of ulcers." sion industr\' rcali/.c that the broad- censorship of programs. The laws of In the final analysis, though, it is the casting of objectionable programs can the United States (18 U.S.C., Section sponsor who has the most to gain or only bring harm to the industr>' itself, 1464) make it a criminal offense to lose by his program, and therefore he is and are trying to correct the abuses. broadcast or televise anything obscene. the logical person to write to when his In 1948, a radio code was adopted, and Very few, if any, programs have been show displeases. To make sure that your a similar one for televi.sion was put into judged obscene by the courts; but citi- letter doesn't go astray, make it a point effect on March 1, 1952. Both contain zens have recourse to the courts when to address it to the President of the positive affirmations of the broadcasters' necessary. company, iMr. Big himself. Once a com- responsibiiitx' toward children. The broadcasting industry is one plaint gets into his hands, the chances The National Association of Radio w hich is peculiarly sensitive to public are that action of some sort will be and Telcx ision Broadcasters has estab- opinion. In the United States, broad- taken. the end

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 1953 • 45 OBJECT, MURDER (Continued jrom page I))

treetops of the woods lot beyond the "You were expecting to see Aggie," barn. But nothing he saw made an im- she said. "Aggie's been gone for over a pression any further back in his head year. Except for his friends, Mr. Gaws- than his eyes. Nothing had any reahty ner won't allow anybody in the house

but the horror that lay ahead of him. but me." She said it w ith a proud lift of Suddenly he straightened. Voices, her chin like she w anted him to think

tired and thick-tongued, came from the she was flattered to have it that way, direction of the hitching rail. Looking and the horrid thought struck Alec toward the house, he saw the card game that maybe her mind was touched. was over and the visitors were leaving. "When he comes down," he said harsh- Mr. Gawsner was not out there. He was ly, "will that be the time to settle it?" in the house somew liere. Little shivers, "I don't w'ant your hands stained with A Lift Without a Letdown like things crawling under his skin, another's blood, Alec," she w himpered. Before Fatigue "creeps up" on you ran up and dow n Alec's sides and back. With a long-handled fork she turned take a NoDoz Awakener. Helps you The work cut out for him today \\ ould the meat frying in the skillet. She drew become your normal, alert self in minutes. Keep a package handy in start soon. a deep breath, looked him straight in your car ... in your desk ... at home. He caught sigiit of smoke coming the eyes, and said in her natural, com- At your druggist. from the kitchen flue. Aggie was get- posed voice. "Alec, I'm past knowing. USED AND APPROVED BY MILLIONS SINCE 1933 ting breakfast. Cook in that kitchen I've pra) ed there was some other way yON THE HIGHWAY since Alec was a bab\', Aggie would than to send for you. Times I've THE JOB ^ON tell him e\erything about Mr. Gaws- thought if it was just me stood in his V AFTER HOURS ncr's bciiavior, and Lctty. Prf)vided he way, he was welcome to kill me. But got that far witliout running into it's the land he's crazy for. Half the Ask for AWaKEMERS Economy Size trouble first. At the edge of the yard land is yours, and it's your right to fight HARMLESS AS COFFEE he Iicsitated. Tiie kitchen door was for it. You knew what he was, long be- closer. His head was sw imming a little, fore I did, but you've got to suffer for and his heart acted strange. He shook my mistake." She brushed her forehead With Sensational New NAME-IN-SiLVER his shcnildcrs like he was throwing off w ith the back of her hand, still holding '65 CHRISTMAS CARDS! something heavy, and headed for the the fork, in a gesture that almost closed front. Scared or not, he wasn't going his throat with pity. "But don't rush You earn big money in spare time easily, with new and different "Name Imprinted to go sneaking in the back door of his into sin. Alec. Let him make the first in Silver' ' Christmas Cards that sell on sight. You make$65on 65 boxes! Up to 100% prof- own home. move. He will; just be ready." I it on Assortments. Write for Assort- .._ $1 All tlie doors into tiic hall were Siie started spofiiiing the ham and ments on approval, FREE Name-Imprinted Samples. SOUTHERN GREETINGS.478 N. Hollywoail,Depl. 44 C,Memphls 12,Tenn. closed. He w alked safely past them, past eggs from the skillet into a round, shal- the stairw a\', the cistern, down the back low dish, and suddenly, without a galler>', and in the door of the kitchen, sound, Mr. Gawsner was in the door tt', looked like ance a gentleman, he wore no coat that flat black disks, and her face was e\ en would conceal a weapon in his hip Sufferers fnim Asthma and the discomforts of drawn pinclied-looking than pocket. the front of his shirt excessive secretions in the nasal passages associated more and And was with Hay Fever have, for over 50 yeare, found quick, last night, but she tried to smile. smooth, show ing he didn't have a shoot- temporary relief by smoking PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleasant, inexpensive. At leading drug stores. Consolidated Chemical t'o., !SU7 Cherry St, Grand Rapids G, Michigan '

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4^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 ing iron snuggled inside his belt. His owlish e>es, arrogant and sly, roamed over the kitchen, settling on nothing.

"This is a handsome duet, I must say, enjoying your little secrets this fine day." The remembered, sneering voice flew over Alec like hot grease, but he forced himself to say, "Good morning." In reply Air. Gawsncr looked him over carefully, and said in a taunting voice, "I gather you've been plowing all summer with your coat on, or you wouldn't be wearing it this hot morning." His voice hardened. "You are here, I sus- pect, by \\ ritten request," his cold eyes flicked towards Letty, "to protect your sister from licr brute of a husband. A Hne cock-and-bull talc that nobody will believe. I will accommodate you, however, within the hour, and 1 11 get off scot-free afterward. But first, since my loving wife did not sec fit to bring my coffee up to me this morning, I'll have it now in the dining room. " He turned around and walked toward the table. Suddenly, with the challenge in the open now. Alec's head was clear and his nerves steady. A numbness of some sense or other wiped out his fear; he felt surrounded by an almost visible layer of air that would protect him from physical pain if luck should go Distilled against him in the fury that was coming. The accuracy of his eyes and hands, LondonDry the speed of his muscles, w ere in dead- ly, focused readiness. Gin The colTee pot in one hand, the dish DISTILlED£.BOTTl[OINIHEUSABY of meat in the other, Letty said steadily, THt DISTILLERS COMPANY IIMITED

. M i but her eyes imploring him franticall>', iJ^iisMPagwr. r- w V "Come on. Alec." It seemed more than 'mms mi ummi L.mm m . he could do to sit at the table with Air. (iavvsner, but he couldn't afford to let him out of sight. He followed her through the door, and almost bumped against her. Stopped short, she w as star- ing blankly at the doorway into the hall. Air. Gawsner w as not in the room. It was a trick. He would be back, armed, and aiming to do the devilment before Letty's very eyes. Alec could at least spare her that. Quick as a cat, he stepped out onto tile side galler\', followed it on tiptoe around to the front gallery, and there in the empty sunshine, his back against the wall, he stopped, ears straining, eyes quick in their sockets. There was no telling w here Air. Gaw sner would show- up from.

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going dow n the hall toward the dining still, damn you," Mr. Gawsner said, and Why let a tough job room. He thought Alec was still back kicked him viciously in the belly. His there. The footsteps were coming back. back to Alec, he shifted his weight from give you a chronic Pulling his revolver, Alec faced the one foot to the other, and the muscles doors. of the horse's shoulder rippled with Mr. Gawsner, still wearing no coat, fear. ACHING BACK? but with a .45 revolver strapped on his "If you can't mount, lead him to the hip, came coolly out on the gallery. block," Alec said sharply. So far luck Ever wonder why hard work makes back muscles ache and throb night after nights (It didn't when "Stand still," Alec said, his revolver had been with him, but the flash of an younger!) The reason is simple. As your you were aimed. Mr. Gawsner's hand moved eye could change things. muscles get older, they no longer support you

midsection can get " properly. Without support, your maybe a half inch toward his hip. "I can mount all right, Mr. Gawsner too strained and tired to "snap back" as it once did. easy, So you iichc. Fortunately, howeyer, there's an "Leave it alone," Alec said. said mildly. He took a firm grip, his left

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Attached Tube-weave leg getting sassy, was to throw Alec off under his left arm still on the saddle or detachable pouch models— each with convenient surgi- fly front. $3.95 and up at drug, men's wear, guard for just the fraction of a second horn. cal supply stores. Get your Bracer today! A4r. Gawsner would need to draw. Alec Alec heard his own revolver speak, f REE BOOKIET For additional (acts, write today tor tree boolt- knew he ought to finish this dangerous saw the horse lunge forward, bring up le( "Fee( Better, Loots Better." Bauer S Blacl<, 309 W. Jacl' on the QUALITY j anything else, obeyed, Alec following ground, dirty and limber. DRESS PANTS a couple of steps behind him. At the Alec knelt beside him. The face was SPOT & WRINKLE RESISTANT WATER REPELLENT hitching rail he stopped just far enough quiet. On the temple was the deep print • Full cut. H f|i fly away so Mr. Gawsner couldn't reach of a horse's hoof. His clothes showed • I. rjth finish holds shape, g^lves ear. Brown. him with a lunge. "Get ready to ride," hoof prints, but no bullet holes. Alec's Blue. Steel luf. Grev. Green. Waist he said. "Take the road, and if you ever fear-tightened muscles began to relax i/A's 28 to 42. (Sizes 3(i 1 5(1. plain front. Skipper luc. Brown. Grey— 50e per set your filthy feet on this place again, a little, and he stood up on quivering air addmonnl.) I'll a WEAR 10 DAYS FREE! blow > ou to kingdom come." legs. He knew now. that shooting at ;ush name, address, waist size. 1st. 2nd. ;jrd color With surprising docility, Mr. Gaws- man was different from shooting any- choice. Pay postman purchase price plus jjostatre and ner untied the reins, threw them over thing else. He had missed, Mr. Gawsner C.O.D. fee. Or enclose pay- postage ami save lent plus 3.5^ the horse's neck, and laid a hand the had missed. The horse was the killer. l-TtorWcor ' .O.D. cost. If not loo*--; satisfied on ifUr I'l fiavs. return for full refund. BUCKS MFG. CO. * YARDLEY t4, PA. saddle. 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Save money by sending to take the chance. sistant industrial relations manager for If »1.50—we pay postage C.O.D , ONLY postage extra. MONEY BACK His first step was to take some night the same company. He has more than GUARANTEE. $150 SPORTSMAN'S POST 152 courses in personnel administration doubled his income. The second baby 366 Madison «vc.. New York 17. Postpaid while he held on to his job in Wall is on the way. His future looks bright. Street. After pursuing this course of There are, of course, other sound study for a two-year period, George reasons for making a bold move or two I'll Send You This Handsome learned from one of his professors about w hile you're young. 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• • 1953 I Hb AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER, 4J{ peak earning years, and he's got to move around every few years while he's young in order to get the required experience. Sometimes a man has got to move to a bigger company with a well known name in order to get better training. However, no matter what your reason is for changing jobs, here are three important rules to follow in making the shift:

1. If you think you'd like to change your line of work to a new field, be sure to test out your desire first in your spare time by talking with some of the people who work in this field and finding out what you've got to do to

get into it, so that you will be well prepared for the change.

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2. Do not leave your present job until you have definitely secured the job you are after.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 49 John Anderson solved the problem a free-lance basis, serving three agencies this \\ a\'. He had been selling oil well and making more money on his own supplies to drillers for twenty-five years, than he ever did as an employ'ee. A AIR MOVES FROM HEEL TO lOE WHIN WALKING and liked it. But his company had a former office manager for a large cos- definite retirement age. So he could sec metic company solved his "control" the handwriting on the wall. problem by starting a little printing Several years before his time of re- business right in his own home with tirement arrived, John began to figure only a mimeograph machine and small out what he'd do when his company hand press. A former factory super- WALK OX AIR let him go. Time after time he had intendent who was always crazy about Here's quick relief for anyone suffering from cal- found one of his customers looking for dogs now makes a good living and has general luses, blisters, spur or bruised heels, or a second-hand derrick or some used a lot of fun in his declining years breed- foot fatigue. Albin Air Cush'n Innersoles give your wire or pipe, and he w as usually able ing and raising and selling English Set- feet immediate comfort. Just place in your shoes and walk. Air niovp-; thru a small channel gently to find some other customer who had it. ters and Beagles. massaging feet. Odorless, non-absorbent, almost This suggested to Anderson the pos- No matter what your experience or weightless. Order by men's or women's shoe size. sibility of his going into the business background may be, you can reduce Only $2.95 a pair (No COD's, please — money back of buying and selling second-hand oil the risks of going into business for if not d.-lighted). Albin of California. Room 109. well supplies. looked into it very yourself if >ou'll follow three rules: llOl-f).-, W. 8th Street. Los Angeles 17, California. He carefully and found out that, just among 1. Get into some kind of business that the drillers he alread> knew, there was y^ou really like.

a sufficient demand for second-hand 2. Let it be a business that's closely supplies to make it worth his while. related to what you have been do- For Calendars • Billboards * Magazines He also found that, instead of buying ing and know soiiiethhig about. Your child's pho.o m,y bring you ALL AGES • ALL TYPES as much as $200 from advertisers. used supplies and having to store them 3. iMake it a sinall business, so that Big demand for pictures of boys until he sold them, it would be better you can run it with ease for the anf* oirls 6 months to 18 years old Let your child, too, have thii to find out where used supplies were rest of your life. wonderful opportunity to be presented to the nation's leading ad- needed, locate some company that had No one can completely escape the vertisers. (Not a contest). Send tliem, close gambles of life—careerwise. Even when ONE small photo for our approval and then the transaction on (Only One). Print child's full name THIS IS BECKY HANF a commission basis. a man decides to do nothing, he's gam- and age and parent's name and Her picture has already address on back. Picture returned When the time came for him to re- bling on his present program and bet- in 60 d.iyi if not accepted. tire from his company job, he was so ting that it will hold up. SPOTLITE PHOTO DIRECTORY doggoned anxious to get started on his But if you'll just remember that the 5864 HOLLYWOOD BLVD. AL. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. ^ ^ own and he was so well prepared to one period in your life when you can Now Many Wear do .so, that he didn't even take a vaca- least afford to make bold moves is in tion. your peak earning years, and if you'll FALSE TEETH He has done very well. He's in his follow the three important rules given late sixties now and it looks as though for changing jobs when you're young With LiHie Worry he'll go on indefinitely. and getting into business for yourself

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ntantH and C. P. A's earn $4,lllm to $10,000 a year. Thousands of firms need them. We train you thoroly at home in spare time for <;. I'. A's examinations or executive accountinK positions. Previous experience unnecessary. Personal training under supervision of staff of C. P. A's. Placement counsel and help. Write for free book. "Accountancv. the Profession That Pays." LASALLE Extension University. 417 So. Dearborn St. A Correspondence Institution Dept. 9361-H, Chicago 5, III.

ORLON Work Uniforms Coining Money for Salesmen! The billion-dollar work uniform business is up forcrrab.s! Miracle OKLON UNIFORMS mak wool and cotton obsolete! Outwears wool 1; outwears cotton 5-to-l. What's mort ORLON is acid-proof, water-repellent, tfrease-resistant. Looks like wool, tai- lors like wool—but washes clean in soap and water. Urys out with ori^rinal factory press! Everybody buys— service stations, ^jaratrcs. fuctories, etc. Huge demand and hu^re prolits! ('ustom em- H^H^ ^ broiderv clinches sales. TIIPPV Write for ^'rpf".'^f//m7 I Ul 1 U 0)*f/f/, actual samples. Dept. S-509, ROCHESTER, INDIANA OWN FIXIT SHOP start s.'iw fillnK shop — either -spare or full time — in your ba,seinent or Rarape. No selUnp. Hardware stores get saws for you on commi.ssion hasi.s. Steady year round business. No experience neces.sary. Complete instructions furnished. Knsy payments. ¥100 .starts you. FnEE honltlet — MONEY "Now, Hist of all, you'll have lo stop paying ine with Confederate money.' MAKINt; FACTS — tolls liow. Nn obllKation. No salesman 'Vlll .Mil. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

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HOUSE BUILDING iVlADE EASY

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Oncc our joists arc in place, w e tackle the sub-floor. Here's where we show get him to modern progress. l"or t)ne of the easiqst, I can't ciuickest-to-lay sub-floorings on the wear his hat since market is one of our own new-day 4' x 8' sheets of plywood wonders: he discovered —a prefabricated material if ever there was one. Lay these big fellows down Wildroot Cream- Oil over your joists and hammer away;

\ ou'U beat the best carpenter's time w ith old fashioned diagonal wood sub- flooring by an easy half.

Next step is to erect the outer walls. First frame them with two-by-four studding set 16" on center (nothing and you're ready for ex- new here), CAN yOOR SCAIP PASS terior sheathing. Prefabricated sheath- THE FINGERNAIL TEST? ing panels have been on the market for Don't give dandruff and about 2 > ears or so. They're rigid, near- a chance to ruin 1\' inch-thick insulating boards that not dryness only replace the wood sheathing that the looks of your hair Keep all day ance was used, but also provide a sub- rt neat and natural stantial degree of house insulation. And wrfti Wildroot Cream -Oi up they go in a jiffy! AAade wrtii the heart of That point, incidentall>', brings us to Lanolin, 50 much like the a very important characteristic of most natural oil of your skin prefabricated parts and materials. Al- 29< 59* 79^ 98* most without exception, the>' not only do as good a job as the site-fitted mate- Get that successful look with) rials they supplant, but they also give

extra value to boot. Plywood sub-floor- America's largest selling Hair Tonic I

ing, for example, is not only an excel-

lent sub-flooring, but it makes the house stronger, more rigid than did conventional diagonal sub-flooring. Insulating AN AMAZING MONEY-MAKING OFFBR sheathing braces and strengthens the TO NEW CHILTON DEALERS liouse (much more effectivel>' than horizontal wood sheathing) and it in- sulates, too. All 3 Boxes of Famous So we come to the roof. One of the

neatest time-and-nioney savers is prefabricated wood roof trusses. These are Chilton Greeting factory-made, triangularly shaped units

that span from outer w all to outer \\ all (a sort of bridge construction), elimi- Cards Only nating ceiling joists, roof rafters, and

interior bearing partitions (the inside Golden Signature walls that used to help hold the roof $|oo "Prize" Assortment up). You and a friend can set up such 21 Christmas wishes. Colorful! Artistic! With trusses in a couple of hours— slash your "Gold Writing" Kit — sign your name in 23 kt. roof-building time by days. Gold! Box sells for $1.25. The w ing now needs windows. Years The ' Prize" All-Occasion 12 gorgeous cards with ago, all windows were made b\' hand. shimmering underlays, novel tip-ons. lavish em- An ordinar\' double-hung w indow had bossing and gold bronz- ing. Box sells for $1.00. parts, about 40 plus glue, nails, putty Starlites and paint. Making it was a production: Each of these 14 cards has metal frame of alu- It required the labor of several highly minum tinted in blue, green, cerise and silver. skilled men—men who knew only too Thousands Make $50 and More With This Plan 23 kt. Golden Signature There are $$$ and $$$ of CASH PROFIT waiting for you In incl. Box sells for $1.25. it well that in a few short years after these wonderful boxeS of beautiful Chilton Greeting Cards. It's a

GUARANTEED profit, too . . . you must make money just by had been put into a wall, it would rattle showing these cards to friends and neighbors, or you may • CHILTON GREETINGS CO. return the cards. Thousands of men and women are helping Dept. AL 9. Boston II. Mass. in ever>' w inter w ind, and balk tight the I 120 KinostonSt.. their friends and assuring themselves of extra money through 1812 Roscoe St., Dept. AL-9. Chicago 13, III. the famous Chilton "friendship plan," There are cards for minute the humidity of the summer I send the 3 boxes of Chilton every occasion — Christmas cards, birthday cards, anniversary, Please me (Greetings described above on free approval. get-well, friendship, congratulation cards You'll earn $10. $20. hit it. I nothing when the cards arrive. I and more, quickly and easily. And you need no experience! pay $50 understand the special price to Chilton Free Trial Offer! Your Profits Guaranteed! Well, you can now buy prefabri- Dealers is only $1 plus mailing costs and Send no money, pay nothing when your sample boxes arrive. that may return them without obligation ith Examine these cards and show them to your friends and neigh- I I cated windows that come complete w ' If not satisfied. bors. Unless they bring you immediate orders for many more casings, glass and prime paint. They'll boxes as an active Chilton Dealer, Just return the cards and I Name owe nothing. Or, If you prefer, keep them for your own use

Address i be packed in clean, dust-tight cartons, at the wholesale price. Llnjlted offer—mall coupon today. I City Zone State ready to be set in the wall opening and Kingston St., Boston I raiser for an organ- ^^^^^^j^^^l20 11, Mass. I If you are a fund I— I I izatlon please check here. 1812 Roscoe St., Chicago 13, ill. I THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER. 195.1 • 5J nailed fast—an operation that should most any construction job—from add- take no more than five minutes. ing a wing to finishing an attic or base- What's more, the sash will slide ment: effortlessly because it has been precisely First comes flooring. Hardwood strip fitted at the factory. It'll keep out the and parquet floorings are now factory- weather because of built-in weather- sanded, stained and finished—ready for stripping, it and will withstand the easy installation by any handyman. . . . ravages of rot because it's been treated New type vinyl plastic tiles have spe- with special preservatives. cial suction backs that hold them to the Comes winter, ror lorge dogs you won't have to floor without cement or nails. (Just lay rush out and have storm sash made to the tiles on an\" smooth base—wood or fit it; it comes with its factory- $4— PAID l^e^ bctmJrtUcai^ own concrete—and walk on them!) . . . Then Use this revolutionary, chemically treated mat fitted storm sash and screens. And win- there's a prefabricated liquid w ood floor on regular bed of pet. or separately — rids cats ter and summer, year in and year out, paste of fibers in a plastic or dogs of fleas, ticks, nits. Pleasant, clean odor —a hardwood counter-acts animal smell. Kennel-tested by vet- you'll find it an easy-gliding, silent composition that can be troweled over erinarians. Order today — money back guarantee! Check or Money Order. servant that performs durably and well. an\' firm base. The finished floor is

After completion of sidew all and roof cork-like in appearance, and it can be p. 0. Box 1143-16 V. F. GARRETT CO. DALLAS, TEXAS shingling (you can buy shingles now waxed, stained or finished just like real that have been factory-stained to save w ood. another job on the site), you'll have a Doors, too, have felt the prefabber's

complete house .shell, ready for interior genius. The latest development is an INTRODUCTORY SPECUL fittings and finishing. Of course, you all-glass door for interior use. The glass Bargain way to fry this great might have skipped this part of the is tempered and obscured, so that it is made-for-men deodorant I Send 15* in coin for regular 294 siie work, and bought a prefabricated shell. both tough as nails and assures privacy. —month's supply I Many prefabricators will make up com- ... If you dislike doors that stick, bind, MENNEN.BOX 1182 .NEWARK, N.J. : plete w all. fioor and roof panels to your warp, or just act up, you'll cheer the own plans—provide a complete house steel door and frame. It arrives at the shell, or w ing shell, that can be bolted job complete w ith hardware and prime PAYS eiC SEND FOR FREE.FREE, BIG. II together on your foundation. Many painting; ready, in short, to be set in ntial Start families I of all OKC^ are buying such shells; one big place. Nary a bit of fitting is required Iciiin easily Course covers Snle:^. Propertv ManattefTH-'iil. Appraisinfr, Loan.s. Mortdajjes. and producer on Long Island, New York, (you can't plane steel), and the one- related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in clas-^- room-; in hadin-,' cities. Diploma awarded Write TODAY for free book! No oblitration (The Housing Guild of Smithtown) piece door frame won't open at the Approved for World War II and Korean Veterans WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est. I9r^6> displays his whole line of models in a joints, list out of plumb, or be splintered Suite 300 Law BIdK. Dept. At Kansas City, Mo. kind of house supermarket olT well- by careless moving men. . . . Even the traveled Jericho Turnpike. Customers wood door shares the prefabricated can compare and pick and arrange to trend. It's now available in packaged LAW. have any one of the models constructed completeness—ready fitted, sanded, set CTIiny AT UnMp Legally trained men win higher posi- O I UU I n I nUITIL tions and bigger success in business on their own property. They then fin- for a useful life with a minimum of and pubhc life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. ish the interiors themselves. fussing on the job. More Ability: More Prestige: More Money ^epfy"step Ku can train at home darinK spare time. DeETe« of LL.B. We furnish all text material. incluiitnK 14-volume Law Library. Low cost, easy Prefabricated parts are a boon to such AVhen it comes to kitchen equipment, terms. Get our valuable 48-page " Law Training for Leadership" and "Evidenrf" bonk.s FRKK. Send NOW. people, for some of the smartest, most you'll undoubtedly choose prefabricated LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY.417 SOUth Oearborn Street A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 9361-1., Chicago 5, III. complete prefabricated units are in- kitchen cabinets (few can afi^ord cus- tended for use on the interiors of tom-built cabinets these days). How- \Mfoua2£R»a^LI(iHTER>^ houses. W e've already mentioned the ever, if you wish, >'ou can even buy a EVEROFFBRED allboards. are others; you'll completely prefabricated kitchen — a YOU'VE SEEN SIMIIAR giant w Here LIGHTERS SELLING UP TO find some or all of them helpful in al- complete unit w ith range, refrigerator. If this i.^n'l $|A00 the ^'reatest |U value YOU E\ KK SAW. return for full refund! Priced way beluw our bargain catalog prico to win in,(KKl new customers. Completely au tomalic, precision- made, pull - up windguard. heavy ^ chrome finish. You must be delighted or mune> back. IMeasc n rnit %\ ilh r)r(Ier, SIOUX FALLS SURPLUS STORE, SIOUX FALLS, S.Di NEW LOWER PRICES!

FOLDING CHAIRS OUTLAST ALL OTHERS!

Unequaled for strength, comfort, safety, convenience OVER 10 MILLION IN USE "Here'.s ten dollars— lie'.s accustoiiied to being paid Write today for complete facts! a little something to eat each meal." AMERICAN SEATING COMPANY, DEPT. 179 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 901 Broadway N. W., Grand Rapids 2. Michigan

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEP'TEMHEK. 1953 sink and cabinets all compactly as- out a chimney. If you have a spare them up against a wall to save decorat- sembled. It needs only connecting to chimney hanging around the house, ing and floor space. Prices start as low house utilities. These units have been fine! You can vent your prefab fireplace as $50 per unit. widely used in small apartments, sum- into it. But if you lack such a conveni- Dressers and vanities. Many pieces of mer houses, -and in basement and attic ence, you might look at the prefabri- furniture are now built into the house. fun rooms. cated chimney. This is a composition Such built-ins are usually cheaper than Heating equipment manufacturers are flue that comes in easily assembled sec- free-standing furniture—and they look relying more and more on prefabrica- tions. The complete prefab fireplace better, too. The list of available units in- tion. Only a few short years ago, the and chimney can be installed in an cludes, in addition to dressers and vani- heating plant was painstakingly as- average home in less than a day. And ties, bookcases, TV cabinets, game lock- sembled on the basement floor out of a the cost will be several hundred dollars ers, linen and china cabinets, and, jumble of gritty, gray parts. Now, it's less than the cost of an old-fashioned naturally, bars. Prefab built-ins—with a shck prefabricated package—so hand- masonry model. unexposed sides and tops—simplify some, in fact, that it often is put in the The number and variety of prefab- housework . . . save floor space, too. kitchen where its white enamel jacket ricated products for the home is almost M'ood paneling. This handsome hard- looks perfectly at home. Even the heat- endless; day by day the list increases. wood paneling comes in rich cabinet ing ducts are now prefabricated, thereby Here are more that the home-owner- finishes. You need only attach the panels cutting the cost and improving the effi- who-builds may find helpful: to the base wall—an easy, quick opera- ciency of one of the most complicated Stairs. Mill-built stairs are the rule, tion—and you'll have a wood paneled parts of a warm air heating system. rather than the exception in today's room to boast of. Planks of gypsum Have you ever wished you could add houses. A4any firms have stock flights wallboard are another new prefabri- a fireplace to your living room at a on hand—sized for standard eight-foot cated wall covering. These are made price that was within reason—and your ceilings. But even if your dimensions in three styles: plain (for painting and budget? You can— if >'ou buy one of the are out of the ordinary, any mill can papering), wood grain, or striated. To new prefabricated fireplaces now on the produce a prefab flight for far less than install, simply butter the backs with a market. One firm makes a beauty of if done on the job. special adhesive and press into place. steel that is hung on the wall. (It looks Wardrobes and closets. There's no Plastic-finished panels, in solid colors, something like an air-borne Franklin need to build closets when these slick or realistic wood grains and marble stove.) Another makes a line of more storage units are available. They're light, patterns, have come striding out of the conventional-looking fireplaces designed good-looking, and their wood-thin bathroom and kitchen (where they to fit fiat against a wall, or tucked into walls take up only a fraction of the floor were first used in place of costlier tile), a corner. space that clumsy stud-and-plaster par- and are now covering walls of living No fireplace, however—even a pre- titions require. Use them in batteries rooms and bedrooms. fabricated fireplace—can operate with- as partitions between rooms, or line Wallpaper. Pre-pasted wallpaper

Young Veterans! reconsider the Army advantages

IF YOU'VE received your Army discharge Your within the past 90 days, you've already had a taste of civilian life. You've had a valuable Army Career chance to compare.

Well, how does it stack up? Is it all you Benefits! expected? (Con you afford to This is just to remind you of your Army career advantages. They're still there—waiting for you steady lifetime income plus continuing mcdicii pass them up?)

• — if you re-enlist within 90 days after discharge. and dental care . . . and even legal counsel for • Opportunities for specialized Perhaps now is a good time to re-examine them yourself and your family? When add it up, you training and education from your new civilian point of view. the total is guaranteed security. And security • A pay raise every two years— these days is pretty hard to by. Take your Army training and education for come and increased promotion oppor- instance ... as an experienced soldier you now And remember! You are still eligible for your tunities have a better chance for special instruction in a re-enlistment bonus if you return to the service • A family allotment when married variety of fields. And that pay raise every two within 90 days. • A 30-day paid vacation every year years, with increased promotion opportunities So, examine your Army advantages carefully. • Increased responsibility with in- . . . how does that look? Compare them with what you are now getting or creased service And while we're talking benefits, let's not will be getting. Then see if you don't want to • And eventually, retirement with forget about retirement. Where else can you re-enlist. There's a lot of satisfaction in making steady income retire after only twenty years on the job with a your career one of service to your country!

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strong. Be it two-platoon or curtailed substitution, "them as has still gits." The pow erhouse teams will continue to win AMAZIN6 miHOl^a^ in 1953. There has been talk at Notre Dame SEA/SAT/ONAL NEW that Leahy will revive the famed shock- TiNG troop system which Knute Rockne in- augurated back in the 1920s. In other words, open the game and the second fOOTITCH half with a No. 2 team which has, as its objective, the wearing down of the - fi£6ULAR use HELPS opposition and the setting of the stage RELIEVE /rcWNG- for the regulars. SOOTHES SUR/V/A/e In the spring every Notre Dame player was being schooled to go both BEWEEA/ CRACKED PEEUNQ - ways, including Ralph Guglielmi, the . TOES A/DS HEAUNe T-quarterback who is slated to double AMAZ/NSLV/ as a defensive halfback this fall. The extra-point and kickoff specialists had disappeared, their chores being taken up by a regular w ho had siiown some talent in that direction. //V LA^ TESTS And thus it appears to be the end of USED - TING CREAM PROVED the line for specialists like Yale's cele- /A/ EFFECT/ V£ /// /C/LL/A/e brated Billy Booe, who never caught a HOSP/TALS SPEO/E/C TYPES OF pass or batted one down; who never NOIA/ AT/ZLEFES EOOT RCNO/ f threw a block or made a tackle. But the RELEASED five-foot, OA/ eO SECOA/D seven-inch, HH-poundcr from TO Shelton, Conn., was a mighty mite in the DRu&e/srs COA/FACr/ two-platoon era just the same, for he auARANTEED place-kicked 97 points as a member of tlie Eli varsity in four years of com- TINQ MUST petition ending in 1948. TING Oe£AM 7V/?AV/ YOU /A/ SAr/SEV A I Q

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has played pass defense. He worked at working the art of pass receiving as it it during Spring practice, however, and is practiced today. Dodd is hopeful. "I doubt that our op- But all these modern stars, these spe- Made-to-H/leasure ponents will throw many passes into his cialists, would have been equally lost territory," says Bobby, "because if attempting to go the route as Iron Men. CLOTHES * Hardemann picks oif the throw he can For they have not been conditioned or go all the way." trained to play both defense and offense FOR MEN I It may be causing the uninitiated and there, in capsule form, is the main SUITS OR TOPCOATS this ^ some wonder at point as to why reason why in this year of the great 50 $49-50 to $71 i a fine player like Hardemann or Gug- change-over, the situation is so fluid, I lielmi NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED / or Wisconsin's T-quarterback, so chockfull of potential surprise. %' NATIONALLY PRICED Jim Haluska, can't just step in and learn To add to the confusion, high schools pass defense. have been given the green light by the It is not that simple. A specialist is NCAA and other contingent ruling the product of constant polishing—long bodies to go merrily along with two- hours on the practice field working to platoon play under the old, unlimited :TAIL0RIN6 COMPANY attain perfection in passing or kicking, substitution ruling. running, playing safety and so forth. The now-retired General Neyland at CINCINNATI 2, OHIO Under the two-platoon system he did Tennessee brings out the point that

Inti hi none ol our EXCLUSIVE AUTHOKIZED AGENCY in youi locality ^^^^^^^^^^^^ so to the exclusion of all other facets two-platoon football had all but deci- of the game. If he can't adapt himself mated the ranks of young coaches. For physically and mentally to one-platoon a college star who wished to turn to play the specialist is a dead duck. coaching found that he knew only of-

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Line. Christmas Cards with Name i 50 for$1.50 up. New Glo-In-The- Ihirl platoon did their particular jobs far graduate. Tree Ornaments, Imorinted Matches, Stationery. 30 FREE Samples with better individuals Name; .'Several $1 Boxes on Approval. than the who made In recent years, says Neyland, he has iOYGREETINGS.Dept. S2.M up what was probably the greatest col- taught postgraduate football several 507.N. CARDINAL, ST. LOUIS 3. MO. to lection of Iron Men of modern times, aspiring former Volunteers. Without DIFFERENT STAMPS 25< the Brown University eleven of 1926. such a supplementary course, these men WHAT A IIIJYI The Brown team went through the simply found themselves lacking the The m.-iirnlf Icent MONACO DIAMOND SHAPED SPORTS season unbeaten, though it was tied by necessary qualifications to teach the SSUE, illustr.itlng Basketball, Soccer and Yachtlnfr. PLUS Albania's complete famous Colgate in the final game. The squad game even though they had been of Roosevelt Memorial Issue in beautiful birolor. PLUS the was of normal size for that time, be- All American calibre. They were in- new n.ition f)f South Moluc- as' f.,M ln,-.llnK issues of the UNITED NATIONS, U.P.U., tween 40 and 50 players. But the Iron complete specimens, half men, as it MacARTHUR S. MAP. INDO- NESIA BEAUTY. All these Men monicker was earned when the were, in the world of football. PLUS HUNDREDS of other unusual stamps ... a GRAND string TOTAL OF 311 ALL DIFFER- first went through Yale and Dart- In recent years Lou Little of Colum- ENT f..r ONLY 25c, as an In- tro. hi.'t inn l.> our BARGAIN mouth games without substitution. bia has been one of the have-nots in the approvals. FREE: 40-Pagc STAMP DICTIONARY Finally, with the score standing at department of manpower, and his Lions STAMPEX CO., II6-IVIG Nassau St.. New York 38, N.Y. 14-0 against Harvard, the combination of a year ago had no less than five Iron was broken up by the spot substitution Men who played through without sub- FALSE TEETH of six men, with the result that another stitution to the final minutes of almost KLUTCH holds them tighter touchdown upped the count to 21-0. every game. Don't think for a moment It was only after a victory over the Lou wanted it that way. He just didn't KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion; holds dental plates so much firmer and snugger that one can eat Eli that the sports pages ballooned the have capable substitutes. But against and talk with greater comfort and security; in many cases almost as well as with natural teeth. Klutch fact that Brown had used the same the teams which could throw the full lessens the constant fear of a droppins. rocking, chafing plate. 25c and 50c at druggists. ... If your eleven men from start to finish. And force of two-platoon operation. Little's druggist hasn't it. don't waste money on substitutes, but send us 1 Oc and we will mail you a this gave the group a high morale, an Iron Men finally crumpled. Four games generous trial box. esprit de corps carried it KLUTCH CO.. Box 5352-1, ELMIRA. N. Y. which through were lost in the fourth period. the rest of the season. For the season coming up Little sub-

GROW MINIATURE TREES It is interesting to note the reason scribes to the Dodd theory of keeping fRBC! SEED PLAN ^jaJiMJJ & why their coach, Tuss McLaughry, now your best offensive player in action as Now fascinating IIOIUiYI $ $ $ $ at Dartmouth, finally sent in some long as possible, hoping that he will be (H*iM)UTl'NITY I Ileal LIVING ".MiiiK" Tiffs — Beauliful elm. oranpe. oak. <-yijrcs.s— any kind! Full grown but subs in the closing moments of an al- able to handle the defensive assignment. miniature. Help us fill huge demand from Interior Deoorator.s, Offices, ready cemented triumph over Harvard. One of Columbia's best running backs is llntt-l.s, etc. FKICK Seed and Plan write: "Quite a few of the second-string play- Bob Mercier, who is even shorter than NATIONAL NURSERY GARDENS, Dept. AL9 8463 So. Van Ness, Inqlewood 4, California ers were getting disgruntled," he said, Hardemann. But Little is going to give

"and I did it for the morale of the en- him a whirl at two-way operation. '1 was half crazy tire squad." "I'd still like a tall guy back there," Georgia Tech's Hardemann un- Lou says, "when the other team starts from torture and pain doubtedly is a far fancier ball-carrier filling the air with passes." And yet the Columbia coach, former until Pazo gave relief!" than any back on the Brown Iron Alen. head of the American Football Coaches Bays Mrs. A. W., Engletcood, N. J. Wisconsin's Haluska and Notre Dame's Itching of simple piles drive you mad? Is Guglielmi probably can throw the ball Association and chairman of the agonizing pain daily torture? Amazing better than Dave Mishel, the Brown coaches' Rules Committee, still is in- Pazo* acts instanlly to relieve such misery Soothes inflamed tissues. Lubricates hard- tailback who collaborated with Hal clined to view the change-over with reduce ened, dry parts. Helps heal cracking, Broda on the aerials. And Broda, as optimism. swelling, soreness. Don't suffer needless agony from simple piles. Get Pazo, get real good as he may have been, probably "Call it optimism with reservations," comfort, right away. Ask doctors about it. couldn't lace on the brogans of a Bernie he says. "If a coach is lucky enough to Suppository form — or tube with perfor- find himself with a all-around ated pile pipe for easy application. (Purdue) Flowers or a Tom (Texas) good *Pazo Ointment and Suppositories® Stolhandske when it comes to really player that man will do a satisfactory

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job. Of course, he will not measure up Style 84337 to the specialist at any particular phase of the game." Little is eyeing a plan whereby he'll use his best men for seven or eight minutes, then relieve them with second-stringers while, at the same time, For Injun Summer... holding the first-string group for action in the next eligibility period. "But there's a catch to it," adds Lou. "Because its workability depends on having a capable third man as insurance. He is an absolute necessity in case of injury to the member of the second unit."

As Little sees it, a lot of coaches are

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going to be living dangerously this fall, himself included. He too emphasizes the series of intricate adjustments and re-adjustments which will be needed for smooth play under the new rule. As an illustration, take the 6-2-2-1 defensive alignment, a set-up familiar to most fans. One of the two lineback- ers now must be a backfield man capable of offensive duty. He must have Besfbr^nd... bar none! speed or he hobbles the attack. The lincbacking acc at Columbia last season was Jerry Hampton. But he liasn't the speed to handle an assignment as an offensive back. So he has been converted into a center. This move touches off a chain reaction through- of Distinction for Men out the squad, since Columbia is not by Peters Shoes deep in manpower anyway. Club shoes . . . heap smart All these adjustments under limited City appearance and plenty perfect comfort. substitution thus mean a return, in price, too! effect, to football as a team game rather Most considerate than as a squad game by platoons. $895 to $1595

Lou Little speaks for many coaches some styles slightly higher

. . . and to tave your Bucks when he says, "It may turn out for the i you will be happy and best that we have gone back and started proud to carrv this beautiful Tri-Tone Moneyfold. over. We have seen the two-platoon Exceptionally durable won't bulge in pocket. Send system in operation with its assets and 3 5(( in coin to City Club Dept. AL9, its liabilities. Now, in a couple of years, Moneyfold. Box 5738, Chicago 7, 111. we should know which system is best." But the change-over, fans, really should be something to see! the end Diviiion of Inlcrnalional Shoe Compony « St. Louis, Mo. Style 84382 Style 84348 Petert, THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE « SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 57 THEY TALK WITH THEIR BOYS OVERSEAS (C.onthuied from page 27)

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gg • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 Pentagon where the problem is ana- Tenn. Add more than 2,000 others to lyzed and a solution is worked out. get a full picture. The blanket coverage and painstaking Tune requests and messages tend //flWfeSOOMEN cooperation by independent radio sta- overwhelmingly to be serious and sen- tions in the U. S. has been noteworthy timental, reflecting the nostalgia of the TO TEST SMOKE since the inception of Hometown, overseas GIs. Occasionally, one is amus- Amazing New Cigar U.S.A. Every request and message is ing. broadcast. Recipients of servicemen's Corporal Joe Topping of New York, AT NO RISK! messages are not only phoned in ad- with the 48th Surgical Hospital in vance, of the broadcast of a Gl's re- Korea, filled out the form as follows: SMOKE 10 CIGARS "Please play Wish You Were Here, or AND PAY NOTHING (alternate tune) The Man I Love. For, If You Don't Say They're The Any Male of Draft Age. His relation MILDEST You Ever Smoked! to me My Replacement. Topping's Extra Mild! — New Flavor! choice of messages to his replacement For giving me you your frank opinion on was "The best of everything to you the retail value of my revolutionary new kind of big. 5 -inch Perfecto Cigara I am today and always. The hospitality of offering to send a few men this box of 100 cigars on an amazing Test Smoke No- Risk the people here is wonderful, they're offer. You've never smoked anything like this special new strain of extra-mild to- just like the folks back home." bacco, never enjoyed the rich, satisfying flavor and aroma of this thriUing Havana Orland Gaithe, with the 35th Infan- Blend. IT'STHE MILDEST CIGAR EVER PRODUCED and entirely different from try Regiment in Korea had a special anything you've smoked before. problem. His family was in Managua, Smoke 10 Cigars Nicaragua. However, a Managua radio ... As My "Gift" station. La Voz de Nicaragua, picked We've set aside just 500 boxes of fresh- packed factory samples to send to veteran up the request from the Legion and cigar smokers for trial at the SPECIAL SURVEY PRICEof only $5.55 per box. All played Rotation Blues for Leon and we ask is that after trying them, you fill in a simple form with your frank opinion Rosita Gaithe, the soldier's father and on MILDNESS, FLAVOR, and whether you think they're worth lOc each or 2 for stepmother, and said hello to Orland's 25c. Test smoke 10 cigars — then, if you're not delighted with them, return the bal- girl friend. hadn't ance of the box in 10 days for 100% cash He been home in 2V2 refund. You're the judge and the jury. BUT AS QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED. years. MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY. Sgt. Luis Espinosa, combat infantry- Fill In Coupon and Mail Today man with the 7th Infantry Division, sent "1 a long list of request numbers to be ^^^^^ WALLY FRANK, Ltd.. Dept. 816 ISO Nassau St., New York 38, N. Y. I this is very tonight—or perhaps played for his wife over a long period "Now good I'll test smoke your cigars, and O. K. | ." give you frank opinion. Enclosed find i you'd like . . of time, explaining: "I am going to the my the 100 cigars described above, $5.55. Send | AMEIUCAN LEGION MAGAZINE front lines and am quite sure I will not postpaid, on your Money Back Guarantee. i PLEASE FILL IN NAME AND ADDRESS I have access to these forms. ... If my wife is not able to hear from me for quest, but some radio stations send a periods of time, she can always know- that I am thinking of her through these representative to make personal calls on L: them. Sometimes, a mother or sweet- requests." heart is invited by a station to come in Capt. George Chalfont wrote: "After on the broadcast, whether in person or 1 3 years of military life I am homesick. 100 WAYS by transcription. I'll have been overseas a total of 76 In New York, one of the cooperat- months when this tour is completed. TO MAKE ing programs has been Ted Husing's Please play Dolores by a sweet-playing $1QQ Bandstand, on WAIGM, which gave an band for my wife, Dolores." SELL WETMORE IW hour a week to re- Lt. of Hometown, U.S.A. Ruth Reeves, Army Nurse, SUGDEN V\*|l^ *5» quests until Husing went on an ex- Shreveport, La., wrote a long letter to CHRISTMAS CARDS tended vacation in June. The Legion's Hometown, U. S. A., 100 thrilling money makers that can make you $100-$200-MORE. FREE Disc jockeys, early bird which said in part: . . . "for the past programs, Two 21-card $1.00 Christmas As- Imprint Sample night owl broadcasts and mid-morning fifteen months in Korea ... it has given sortments. EXCLUSIVE imprint Assortments cards 50 for $1.25 up, gift novel- on approval record programs give voice and music me pleasure to nurse lots of our fine ties, 120-piece EXCLUSIVE gift wrap ensemble, imprint notes, sta- to Hometown requests in every corner >-oung men from the battles over here, tionery. Everyday cards. Big 5% - Guaranteed by of the nation. A small sampling shows and I have yet to meet one who has cash bonus — V^rite today Good Housekeeping; , WETMORE & SUGDEN, INC. Hometown, U.S.A. requests broadcast given up faith or lost his courage . . . 582 Monroe Ave. Rochester 2, N. Y. by "The Musical Alailbag" on KBLF in each mother back there in the good ole Red Bluff, Calif.; two shows on WIA'IA, U. S. A. can smile between her tears and EVERY BUSINESS, EVERYWHERE Lima, Ohio; the Jack Rockwell pro- be proud of that son or daughter over Uses BOOK MATCHES gram on KFJI at Klamath Falls, Ore.; here. May I offer the sincere thanks of Earn biq daily WENK's Hank in the guys and gals stationed over here Huggins show CI Id represenia Union City, Tennessee; "The Alarm . . . your programs have been splen- the world s larqesi ." exclusive UNION Club" on WMFR in High Point, N. C; did . . LABEL Book The Smokey Rogers and Howard Gar- The tape recording part of Home- Match manu- tacturer Pios- land shows on San Diego's KFBA4; Jack town, U.S.A. has to be done by Legion pects evety- Powell's wh«T« Featare Glamoui Girls. Hillbillies, "The Ol' Nite Owl" on posts on the local level. No national teenies and doiens ol other styles— Regular — Double Booka — lumbo Books — nearly 100 WOWO, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Legion office can get the voices of the WJAG's coloi combinations New. biqgei portfolio "Mailbag," Norfolk, V^a.; "John's Web" families of servicemen in America's makes this tastesi selling line a real piolil makei lor you. Write TODAY loi lull details on KDCK, Junction City, Kansas; three thousands of towns—but there is scarce- programs on WJAM, Marion, Ala- ly a town in the country without a bama; and three on WMPS, Memphis, Legion post.

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In a classic instance of the service of ing that has to be seen to be appreciated, the tape program, one of the 5,000 voice and the transition from plain hard work BIG6EST messages sent by Legion posts in Michi- to the end result is deeply moving. gan's statewide tape-sending program Suppose, for instance, your Legion SHOTGUN went, on Mother's Day, to 20-year-old post decides to send taped voice mes- Howard "Bud" Middlewood, in Korea. sages to overseas servicemen from their VALUE! ^ It came from his mother, Mrs. Grace families and loved ones in your town. Middlewood, of Livonia, Mich., and his Maybe you don't want a lot of 100 3-shot repeaters father, a Livonia building inspector. tapes. You seek a broken lot at 45^ per with C-LECT-CHOKE Bud Middlewood had enlisted in the tape through your District or Depart- Marines in 1950. He had been injured ment. Anyway you have to get some Any choke desired, instant in action once. March 13, 1953 he tapes. They'll play for three minutes. ly, by a twist of the fingers On Settings are positive and received his second injury in combat Then you have to get the use of a visual, like a micrometer. in Korea, with many wounds and the tape recording machine. If you want an "extra". You YOUR MOSSIEte NOT loss of his right arm. He was hit with to buy one, National Emblem Sales can buy gun and C-LECT- DEALER WANTS TO a mortar blast that killed a buddy. get you a $235 Revere T-10 for $155 CHOKE installed SHOW YOU THESE at these amazing The fact, but not the extent, of Bud's delivered, for this program. But for the Drop in and have a look. prices— and the You'll be delighted with injuries was forwarded to his folks via use of a recorder for a good cause, lo- beauty, quality and is no finer varia the the Defense Department. Letters from cal record shops, radio stations, depart- ble choke. fine balance of the#I85K and #190. Bud, who had written three times a ment stores and individual tape-record- week, stopped, and both parents were er owners have lent them to posts. You N0.185K No. 190 Send lor desperate for more information. Then, have to get the use of a tape recorder, M«..$29'' U9..»31'5 mtc on A4other's Day, the Legion arranged whether you buy it or borrow it. It catalog (S30.95W.ifiliickit3) (132.95 N.eftoekiu) for them to send Bud a voice message has to play at a speed of IVi inches a No so/et al Prices above ore with C-IECT- 4aclort CHOKE and ventilated barrel. on tape from Detroit. second, that being the speed of the — -— When the tape arrived at Bud's out- Armed Forces machines in the radio HUNTER'S BEST FRIEND fit, he had been shipped to Japan on a stations and service clubs overseas that'll

Beit friend the hunter hai It the Danish hospital ship. His outfit chap- play your tapes back to PFC Joe in property owner. Good huntert are lain forwarded the tape to the hospital Korea or Lieut. Frank in Saudi Arabia. careful and considerate of the property on which they hunt.' in Japan, and within a few days the The same tape can be used over and Middlewoods in Livonia had the tape over. Each time a recording is made back. on one, the older message is erased. Both sides of it were filled with things Sometimes people wish to keep the mes-

their son had wanted to write, told in sages. Then it is the custom to have his own voice from his hospital bed. them have a disc made at the local 39909 St. John St., New Haven 5. Conn. He couldn't write because he'd lost his record shop, and return the tape. right arm. A mother in Alichigan came to a Organization of a working Home- Legion post every single day to have ^Wcwscoe Folding town, U.S.A. tape-recording program the tape her boy had returned played in a Legion post is pretty much a mat- back to her. Now she has surrendered TABLES / // ter of extra-hours detail work by vol- the tape, which is busy carrying mes- unteers. The end results have a mean- sages overseas for others, while she has Direct Prices And Discounts To American Legio Clubs, Lodge Societies

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a platter of the message which she deeply emotional. Characteristically, Conditions plays on her home record player. families have trouble talking to the im- The basic Legion service is entirely personal microphone at first. Then they free. Posts pay the IHif airmail postage warm up. to send each tape abroad. "Hello, son. This is your mother talk- as it grooms! With the tapes and use of a recorder, ing. Did you get my birthday card? it doesn't take a lot of ingenuity to fig- Your Dad is here beside me and he ure out that all you need now is a place misses you too. We're all waiting for ." to make the recordings, someone to see you to come home . . that they are made, a time to make "Hello, darling. This is your wife. them, and a way of contacting the Guess what. You're going to be a father. ." families of servicemen in your town. What do you think of that? . . Each post can figure its own answers When an initial audition is over, it —there being as many answers as there has often happened that the emotion and of the mothers, wives, fathers are posts. The J. L. Hudson Department gratitude Store in Detroit set up a booth and and sweethearts of men overseas is in- some lounge space for a two-day expressible. One Legionnaire who CONTAINS LANOLIN! Relieves 'shampoo- Hometown, U.S.A. tape-sending drive. worked on a tape-sending reported: Ory" hair and dry scalp! Keeps your hair in place. ..lustrous and well-groomed, all day! It was sponsored by the Hudson store's "They stand around and seem to want to say something that doesn't come out own Legion post. A few spot radio an- Fitch Rose Hair Dressing now gives this nouncements in the store's own adver- right. 'Thanks' is too weak and seems amazing double-action care for your hair: tising to stick in their throats. The feeling program, plus notices posted 1, FITCH keeps wild, dry hair sleekly around the store, attracted several hun- gets across to you. You made it possible groomed all day! dred mothers and wives of servicemen for them to speak to hhn so far away. 2. FITCH conditions dry scalp as you in the two-day program. (A photo of When they finally drift away, and you groom your hair. Contains lanolin. stick- year. the J. L. Hudson display in its lounge are addressing the containers and 20,000,000 bottles sold every Get appears in the illustrations of this arti- ing the airmail stamps on them, you get Fitch Rose Hair Dressing at toilet-goods counters everywhere. cle). the feeling that you are sending some- At the other end of the scale, in thing miraculously alive overseas. smaller towns, one post member has You've seen smiles and tears and happy handled the machine and the tapes, and bewilderment, and people who are F I TCH JH^M^ made personal appointments w ith fami- grateful beyond belief. It makes you lies of GIs in town—making one record- feel part of something big. ROSE HAIR DRESSING ing at a time. In one instance, a one-man "Then you see it all over again, only- and BRILLIANTINE committee sent fifteen tapes in a week, more so, when the echoes come back and had the first one back from over- from overseas. \Vhen people come up Also Famous Fitch Hair 00—10^ seas just as the last was sent. "It was to you—or let you hear a tape message Mrs. Jones," he said. NEW 1954 "When she heard —saying 'God Bless The American £Ogg her son's voice she cried like a baby." Legion for this program' it makes you wt%CC 4-Color Catalog That is a common experience. The feel a little silly, but unbelievably Hometown, U.S.A. tape program is proud." THE END MIDWEST TELEVISION SETTING THE STAGE FOR MOSCOW (Continued from page 1!) and RADIO Raceiyers plain frauds. The real people of the on in New York." Lee Shubert, of the theatre will be paying relief to these fabulous Shubert office, said he was in pseudo-thespians for the rest of their favor of the Theatre Project— "because lives. One smell of grease paint, and I have theatres for rent." Sometimes an actor is made, whether or not he Lee and Jake are also frank and earn- ever finds theatrical employment. I re- est, if you'll pardon the pun. All-Channel call one Broadway beachcomber who Eva Le Gallienne, speaking at Town Reception was on the Theatre Project from the Hall in the formative days, said, "Frank- start, and who has been on relief for ly, I was terrified by large sums of sixteen years since. The Welfare De- money being gi\ en by the Government partment recognizes his profession, to the theatre." In her recently pub- 30 DAYS even if the theatre won't. He'll never lished book ]Vith A Quiet Heart she TRIAL go back to his humdrum employment, refers to that experience. Her contact which was without glamor, for he's w ith the Civic Repertory Theatre in- A brilliant n«w lln« of mosnlflctnt l«ng-dlstan<* EASY TERMS 21" end 27" Itltvltlon rtctlvtn In beautiful doing ail right, as an established vet- terested the New Dealers. She was contuli. tflbia modtli and camplttt chntb to marii MIdwtst'i 34 ycon at Uodtnblp. Itw eran of the relief rolls. called to the White House, to lunch Fattonr Frktl. Hallie Flanagan, to her credit, says w ith the President and Harry Hopkins. she protested against spending money The President, she says, was primarily in the theatre on a non-professional interested in the project for relief pur- basis. Harry Hopkins asked her, "Can poses and w anted jobs provided regard- you spend money? It's not easy, and less of the abilities of the beneficiaries. $[N0 THIS MIDWEST RADIO & TEIEVISION CORP. don't forget that whatever happens, She disagreed, and he became slightly COUPON Dept. A'lO V09 Iroodway, CiiidnnoN 2, Ohio you'll ON J< fOST be w rong." John Golden entered irritated. Harry Hopkins said to her, CAHO fO« a mild protest w ith the declaration that on leaving, "If you w ould learn to play NtW 1954 FREE 4 COLOR "most new productions would be put politics, you could get millions out of MIDWEST CATALOG . lONt STATI. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 • 61

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ever came of it. Newspaper made no contribution to The Project was launched with the theatre arts, but it was hailed by the blessing of the theatrical unions—the left-wing press as something wonderful. Dramatists Guild, the Actors Equity, Triple A Plowed Under—One Third the International Alliance of Theatrical of a Nation—Fower (the TVA story) Stage Employees (the powerful stage- were typical Living Newspaper produc- hands' union) the Brotherhood of tions, all with stages filled with "actors" Teamsters (very important in theatre of no previous experience. But they business). Theatrical Agents and Mana- played their parts with conviction—the gers, the Bill Posters Alliance, the cowering underprivileged, the top- Wardrobe Attendants, the Costumers hatted "villians" of a capitalistic world, Association and all the rest. But the and the shining knights in armor, ar- unions had a neat, tongue-in-cheek atti- riving from Washington with dramatic tude that was most effective. Under the news of the New Dealers, and their RICHARDSON MOBILE homes relief laws, no one could draw more earth-shaking economic changes. Ethi- Richardson offers you more living space for your dollar, along with oil the furnishings and utilities than a maximum of $92 a month. But opia was one production that the De- finest homes. found in the of union labor insisted, and got, their full When you buy a Richardson, it Is a COMPLETE livable, mobile home — nothing more for you to daily scale. Thus they could draw the buy. Write today for the name and address of the legal maximum for two days' work a fiichordson dealer neorest you, also for literature week, at the prevailing $11.25 scale. DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND on oil Richardson models. "Remember, there's a Richordson Model for every size fomily and* Only the dubs had to show up six days who ought to have a subscription to the pocketbook.' a week to get their ninety-rsvo bucks a Legion Magazine? If you send $1.50 to- RICHARDSON gether with his name and address to — month. "Work" consisted, for the most TRAILER mFG. CO. INC. part, of making appearance and signing The American Legion Magazine Dept. AL the book. Circulation Department Elkhart, Indiana The League of New York Theatres 700 North Pennsylvania Indianapolis Indiana $10,000 A YEAR NET INCOME CAN BE YOURS put their weight behind the Project, for 6, OWN AND OPERATE YOUR OWN obvious reasons. They had theatres for it will bring him a year's subscription. WESTINGHOUSE LAUNDROMAT® rent, also. At that time, Eddie Dowling had a show at the Biltmore, and 1 was Equipped Half-Hour Laundry its press agent. Big Hearted Herbert Localiont now available was a good comedy, with lots of laughs, partment of State felt obliged to sup- Become independent, get future security, own your own business. Westinghouse which were made unfunny by what press, "because it reflected on the head Laundromat-equipped Half-Hour Laundries are a public service business that have be- happened. He had rented the Biltmore of a foreign state." The curious Ballad millions come sensationally popular— use on a "four walls" basis, which meant he For Americans with its strange over- them. You can own and operate one with a minimum cash outlay. Financing up to 80*;; paid all operating expenses and fur- tones of "the brave new world" was on equipment. Help in getting started. Good business. Simple to run. Many good locations nished the staff. The show ran for five the theme song of this type of produc- are available now in big cities and small months, with sufficient income to keep tion, sung in chorus and with off-stage towns. Write, wire or phone immediately. going, even to the extent of paying a effects and special dialogue to fit various ALD, Inc., Box L, 3549 N. Clark St., duplicate stage crew, who played occasions in current political history. Chicago 13, III.; Phone DIversey 8-3874. pinochle in the prop room. Eddie was Horse Eats Hat and Sing for your

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For bookkeepers, accountants, salesmen | figuring commissions, cost, etc.), farmers, housewives, etc. For people to laugh. (And did yoit ever try and could alwaj s do well with a gov- Armed Forces highly important. Men's most useful tool. Easy to calculate instantly. Multiplying;, propor- five to tions, division, roots, etc. "High Vision" Clear View to give away 200 tickets a day, for ernment grant or the opportunity Slide. Full 10" Rule. A. B. C, O, CI and K scales. COtK 28-page instruction book on how to get cor- months? ) But things went on, and every spend other people's money. Select any ^KCC rect answers instantly without pencil or paper. Gene Loewy, 545 5th Ave., N. Y. 17 week the company and house staff, of list of pro-communists in Holh wood, Dept. 45-A Limit three rules to each coupon about fifty, were paid their salaries. That or elsewhere in show business, and

is, until the Federal Theatre Project you'll find a list of those who gradu- Hotels Call for Trained Men stepped in and outbid us for the theatre, ated, as Orson did, from the Federal " and Women offering the o\\ ners twice w hat \\ c had Theatre Project. They went to Holly- walls." wood, they went into radio, they went You can qualify at home, in leisure been paying for "four Natur- time, for a well-paid i>osition in ally, we closed, and a thing called the into television, and the new arts ac- hotels, clubs, and essential housing. Thousands of Lewis graduates, both Living Newspaper moved into the cepted their "professional" standing as and niatiue, "making good" young subsidized the taxpayers. gospel truth. <\irywhirc. G(>t into this fast- theatre, by growing Hold ofliTing sound, sub- This \\ asn't theatre business, nor, for The Federal Theatre Project spent si. njli.il opportunitii's, fine living, luxurious sur- roundnigs. I'rtvious experience proved \ninccessary. that matter, was the Living Newspaper an aggregate of fifty-five million dol- Registration in Lewis National Placement Service Book. a theatrical attraction. Nor was it cha- lars in approximately fifty-five months, FREE of ( \tra cost. Send today for FREE Course opproved for Att Veteran Training. rades. It was a propaganda play, pro- until it w as killed "By Act of Congress" LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOL "mgssmij duced in the Russian manner, and the on June 30, 1939. That is a quite differ- Room WO-4749, Washington/, D.C. ^^ 62 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER, 1953 —

ent total, and a quite different result, personnel of the Federal Theatre Proj- from \\ hat the real people of the theatre ect. During the da\ s of the occupancy MEN! Amazing New solicited in their own behalf. And the of the Biltmorc Theatre, we saw the final sum was sunk without a trace of mimeograph machines begin to hum BODYGUARD anything really professional or practi- in backstage rooms. We saw political cal as a contribution to theatre arts. It meetings conducted on theatre prop- ended because Congress decided the erty under lease to the Government, SAVES YOUR BACK! Federal Theatre Project was a political and consequently against the law, both issue, and not a proper relief measure. then and now . Is it any wonder that it improves Your Posture — Your It ended, incidentally, with loud wails aroused intense bitterness on the part Appearance — Your Health! from the Left. of real Americans, w ho recognized this Does your back feel "busted" The great weakness of the Federal snide operation for what it was? It was after a day's work? Does It ache when vou stand, when you turn, Theatre Project was the mistaken poli- a closed corporation, for insiders only, when you bend, because you've been working all day without cy of taking it to the forty-eight States and those who resented it or reported proper back support? Well, cheer up—here's the back support you to fortify political fences, instead of anything unfavorable to it were apt to may need! It so, you're going to feel better — fast! And to con- providing honest relief for honest be treated as they are inside Russia. The vince yourself we ask you to try the sensational new 2-in-l people of the theatre, in the legitimate barriers were up, unless you were com- BODYGUARD— actually wear It 10 days FREE! centers of theatrical production. Eddie munist or for the commies. None others BODYGUARD acts like a strong friendly hand Dowling was close to the Administra- need apply, nor be guilty of criticism. bracing your back, straightening your shoul- tion, and he repeatedly asked for help During W orld War II the same gang ders, throwing out your chest, relieving strain for individuals whom he knew to be operating the same gimmicks moved and fatigue. Yes, the BODYGUARD will en- in need. Like many others who have into the Office of War Information — courage you to walk more upright, breathe more better, have risen to prominence and a degree of and all to the same end. From this, it deeply, work a new spring to your financial success in theatre business, he was merely another chronological step step. See If you're not full of pep and zing day's work list "as of to the of America and infor- after a full had a long as your arm" Voice the — ready to enjoy your and family, ready It mation of home those he was privately supporting. programs of the Department to step out and have fun! well-know actor State. was an axiom that no n Supports Your Ba" a grateful public who saw | could spend postage, with the understanding that It Includes my . pouch. In 10 days if not satisfied I will return I this money for amateur theatricals? She and appreciated the job that he was do- Iree Bodyguard to you. and you will refund full purchase | price. I told ing. < was she could, and did. You can inspect almost any names Mv waist measure is (Send string the si2c of your waist If no tape measure is handy). It has taken years to see and under- in the news, in the field of theatre arts, | .stand how thoroughly the infiltration and draw a conclusion as to loyalty, Name I I of Hollywood, of radio, and more re- and a measure of their honesty of pur- Address | cently, television, and the continuing pose as real people of the theatre, City and Zone State | communist tinge in the Broadw a\ thea- their attitude towards the red curtain. Save up to 65c postage. We pay postage If you . enclose $3.98 now. Full purchase price refund • tre, have followed the polic> and the THE END guaranteed if garment Is returned within 10 days. |

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMHER. 1953 • ^3 Soles Your Old Man judge. "But 1 don't see any marks on your He learned to saniba face." "Marks!" roared the woman. "What the At eighty -six, I marks. Fve got Proving yoii can teach devil do care about witnesses!" Old ''dogs" veil) tricks. Berton Braley Dan Bennett Birthdays To Ent Or IV'ot To Eat No More A woman stops telling her age when her Lunch counter: a woman who age starts telling on her. keeps track of the calories. F. G. Kernan Richard Armour Firsts S|»«'«*ialist When he got home and found his usually A fanioiis author wanted a maid. The calm young wife verging on hysteria he agency sent out a girl ncwh' arrived from put his arms around her and tried to find Finland. He asked her if slie couki cook. out the trouble. "Oh," she sobbed, "I never She said, "No." Scrub floors? "No." W ait want to live through another da>' like this! on table? "No." First, the baby took his first step. Then he "\\ ell tiien, w hat can \ ou do?" fell down and knocked out that first tooth Her face lit up, "1 can milk reindeer." of his!" Carl Ei.i.stam ," "Well, hone> he soothed her, "it s too bad, but he'll grow another one. Is that all that happened?" She shook her head and e>ed him accus- ingl\-. "After he fell down he also said his first word!" gave him a superior mother-in-law glance Mary Ai.kus and calmly took off down the road. Melvin Bender Alibi

Matter Of Taste / have a lovely garden; really siibliiiie; Said Sue: "So lo)ig, girls. It is It ivoiild better Pick tfie cherries— be even I'm going after Had my ivife ///ore time. Kenneth D. Loss Boys 'ii berries." Mark Morrow Manners

Rules Of Ev idence A lady pounced upon a grocer and said, "Give me a poiuid of cat food, quick." A woman from the hill countn' appeared Then, taking notice of the fact that another before the local judge, complaining that customer was being waited upon, she de- her husband had made a murderous attack clared, "I hope > ou don't mind my getting on her with a large pair of shears. w aiteil on ahead of ou." "Jcdgc," she bellowed, "that man rushed > " "Oh no, said the other lad> . "Not if at me with those scissors and he cut and you're that hungr) ." slashed my face to ribbons." HARt)i,D Helper The judge looked at her face, on which

leave tiiose Um'x, ones to me, [)artner!" appeared not the slightest mark of conflict. 'Just Itule Of The Itoad "\A'hcn did \ ou say this happened?" he inquired. He wiio hesitates hears "Only last night, Jcdgc," was the reply. horns behind liim. It4'la

Though I don't like to hoast. With my hn hand's rcdouhtable mother. And why is this so? She li>es on one coast,

W'aiiiii'i ji)r yiiitr sl.vl) to covic in is a iiooj -.rjv oj missing the boat. iMoNr Hurst

'B'rv This One A highwas- patrolman who had heard all the excuses and alibis sex eral times ox er w as inclinetl to give a break to traffic vio-

lators \\ ho came up w ith a new excuse. Recentl>', he flagged down a speeding car whose operator turncti out to be a grim-

\ isagetl woman. Looking reproachfully at

her captor, she tiemandeil, "Does \ ()ur w ife know you're out chasing other women?" T he patrolman, a happil>' married man with three children, gulpeil and |iocketeti his summons book. The offending motorist

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