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Cover by H. C. McBarron, Jr. FORGET! Contents for February 1957

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 11

THE CAVE by John Edgar Webb, Jr 12 DEATH SEEMED TO BE THE ONLY WAY OUT FOR THESE ROW'S. You can provide

WHY TRADE OUR AMERICAN BIRTHRIGHT FOR A MESS . . . ? LUCKIES by the case by National Commander Dan Daniel 14 CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL, SOCIALISM MEANS LOSS OF LIBERTY. TAX-FREE (LESS THAN BASEBALL BY THE NUMBERS by Duane Decker 16 CALCULATING MACHINES ARE NOW A FIXTURE OF BIG LEAGUE BALL. 8< A PACK) for

RUSSIA'S ANGRY VETERANS by Vladimir Shabinsky 18 ONCE HAILED AS HEROES, RED ARMY VETS ARE NOW A PERSECUTED shipment to one or CLASS. all of the following

IS THERE AN ENGINEER IN YOUR HOUSE? by Edgar A. Grunwald. . .20 HOW YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER MAY FIT INTO THE SCIENTIFIC FUTURE. service groups:

THERE'S ONLY ONE WINNER (Nukufetau) by William J. Graham 22 A STORY OF A FIGHT OVER THE PACIFIC. * V.A. HOSPITALS

THEY LEARN TO LIVE by Irving Herschbein 26 ir STATE HOSPITALS AND TOUGH TRAINING WHICH PREPARES AIRMEN FOR EMERGENCIES. SIMILAR HOSPITALS IN NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 35 THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA * AIR FORCE, NAVY Features ARMY, AND MARINE HOSPITALS SOUND OFFI 4 PERSONAL AFFAIRS .. 8 ABOUT BOOKS ....28

EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. .25 NEWSLETTER 29 ^ U.S. ARMED FORCES IN PARTING SHOTS 64 KOREA Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included. Cases available in two sizes: • .53930 The American Legion The American Legion Magazine Midwestern 500-PACK CASE. Executive and Editorial & Advertising Offices Advertising Sales Office • 100-PACK CASE...?786 Administrative Offices 720 fifth Avenue Center and Monroe Streets (Price subject to change without notice) Indianapolis 6, liidioiio New York 19, New York Bloominglon, Illinois Please notify the Circulation Dept., Publications Div., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis today for your G, Ind., of change of address, using notice Form 22-S which you may secure from Send your Postmaster. Remove your address label from the cover of the magazine and Strike order blank paste it in the space provided. Give your latest membership card number and both Lucky your new and your old address, and notify the Adjutant of your Post. Mail this coupon

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Sir: .\s in past > ears 1 listeneil for the Astound your boss, your services at Arlington National (Jeme- customers, your friends with a tery over radio or T\'. I listened in \ a'm. At noon a new scaster in a very few words announced that the Presi- BETTER MEMORY dent \\ as too busj- to attend the services. Two small items in the daily AMAZING NEW METHOD papers stated: "At the President's personal request actor James Stewart OF MEMORY TRAINING TRIBUTE TO "BABE" would deliver the principal address." now available to you No one in the present Administration right in your oivn home Sir- I read > our article "Oilds .\gainst w as too busy when there w as a politi- the Clianips" in the Decenil)er issue. cal speech to be made. Is this all the Here are just a few examples of what this surprisingly easy course will help I lie article \\ as a \\ oiuierfiil anil a respect our bo>s v\h() gave their all you do \er>' inspiring stors" of courage, and are to receive for their supreme sacri- • Recognize people long after you that "never give up the fight" spirit. fice? There w as quire a to-do on U.N. meet them and remember their names. I do have one complaint against this I)a\-, w ith plent\ of speeches and cele- article • Remember telephone numbers, dates though. You o\ erlooked one of brating. I low come, Legionnaires- and figures without looking them the most courageous people in the ath- Florente 15. knlni up twice. letic world. • Remember every magazine or news- She was certainh' the Littrohc, I'iT. paper article you wish to keep in greatest woman athlete that the world mind. of sports has ever known. The late • Remember the wishes and even the ONCE AGAIN habits of your customers, friends or "l>al)e" Zaharias. Even though she employers. didn't win her battle o\er cancer on Sir: In jour Octt)ber "Sound Off!" a • Keel at ease and self-confident so- the third "go-round," she did over- letter from John J. Shaughnessy dis- cially and in public. come it long enougii to make a "come- cussed the failure of certain people to back" after two operations. mark articles for F.urope as gifts from DR. BRUNO FURST Nolccii LadiuT America. In the letter .Mr. Shaugh- proves that miy Bay St. Louis, Miss. nessy told how he was firetl w hen he average person can insisted that the packages be properly achieve tremendous WHAT PRICE GLORY? marked as prescribed by Congress. memory \\'hat has been done by the Legion Sir: Not long ago a fellow talking improvement. and other organizations about this about Arnn- decorations, the Purple failure to mark shipments and also Director, Member, National I leai t particularly, said that the>' School of Memory Home Study Council hat has been done about this firing and Concentration w Licensed by the coidil be bought in any dime store at New York. N. Y. of iMr. Shaughnessy? was re- State of New York Who and World-wide a "dime a dozen." As the holder of a Branches s|)onsible for this firing? Looks like Finple Heart won honestly on Sep- Regardless of your age or education we have some very strong anti-.\meri- tember 1918, in .\rgomie I'orest, ... no matter how poor your memory 29, cans with us and also some organiza-

is now . . . the Dr. Furst Bruno Course 1 w as somew hat let ilow n that re- by interested in doing in Memory and Concentration will help tions w ho are not mark. If this is a fact, who can tell you improve your memory until your anything to right these wrongs. How family and friends will say it's almost the genuine from the fakes? it? Can't anything be done or miraculous. The subject of feature ar- about (ami's E. Cainent ticles in such national magazines as should we just gi\ c up? Reader's Digest, Mechanix Illustrated Hcitj/iiii^, Mii/ii. Ehner V. Klaiber and many, many others, this amazing cour.se is sent to you by mail. The cost Medals issued by lliis tommy i>'id Ivdiai/apolis, li/J. is small, the benefits so great, you l<»rei!>n ooxeriniieiits arc often found simply can't afford to suffer the earnings loss that goes with a poor memory in stores caterins; to rolleetors, hiil on SOFTENING any longer. Write today for full de- no "dime a do/en" basis. .Such trallick- tails. There is no obligation whatsoever Sir: I wonder w hat historians w ill call and no salesman will call. iiii; is not illei;al even llioiii>h regret- immediately following table. Deeorations are not sold by the period send for descriptive II ami the present. The let;itimatc dcaler.s to those who cannot \\'orld War rliat had ever memory booklet now! show proper credentials. Editors greatest striking force been assembled had just delixered the DR. BRUNO FURST COURSE death blow to two ruthless enemies. IN SCHOOL SOLUTION MEMORY and CONCENTRATION In the background was one that was Dept. IB Sir: I transcend them. I'irsr came the Ber- 365 West End Ave.. New York 24, N. Y. beliexe the best solution to the to Please seM

ADDRESS let his parents choose. .\lso, if the diers enslaved. I hen came the Korean |)arents want him in a better school War when one of our greatest gen- CITY STATE then let them pa.\ the e.xtra moiie>' for ( Contimicd on page 28)

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our ivork affect the lives of many people. LESSONS IN THE NEWS We are printing them here because they AS ^ ()U rc;id tlic eyewitness accounts of the uprising in Hungarv, you scciii important to everyone who uses the w ere prohnhl)- struck by the fact that the telephone, everyone ivho works for the busi- gallant freedom fighters of that country had to face not one but two deadly foes, n<'ss, and everyone icho has invested in it." Russians and their own fellow country-

FREDERICK R KAPPEL, President men. There were entire divisions of Rus- Amenran Telephone and Telegraph Company sians, with tanks and artillery arrayed against pitiful groups of women and children. You have read how that much- \auntcd "invincible" Red Army was fought to a standstill until reinforcements We in the telephone business are servants of the pubHc. The from as far awa>' as Mongolia were services we perform are necessary to the people of the United States. brought in to help. The people of Hiuigary had no reason They are necessary to the building of our nation and to our national to lo\ e Klirusiiciiev's trained killers, but security. Clearly, we occupy a position of great public trust. e\ en more iiateful to them were many renegade Hungarians, especially the mem- We are also trustees for the savings of every individual who has bers of the A\'H, tile Secret Police. ^^'hen an\- particularh' dirty work had to put in the business. It is our responsibility that the business money l)e done, such .is slaughtering a mass of shall prosper. school children or women by machine- gunning them, tliese turncoat Hungarians did the brutal work w ithout compunction. We think it all-important therefore that we furnish the best It s notiiing new. History abounds with telephone ser\ ice it is in to provide a service high in our power — cases in w hich tyrants and dictators have \'aluc and steadily improving — at a cost to the user that will always been aided in their atrocities against nations l)y those who turned traitor against be as low as possible and at the same time keep the business in good tiicir own kind. And in their anxiety to financial health. please their masters these traitors did their work with such efficienc> that The success of the business depends on the people in it. To they've earned special niches in history and in hell. serve well and prosper, Bell Telephone Companies must attract Don't think wc don't have such people and keep capable employees. They must be well paid and have in this countr\-, potential liatchetmen for the Kremlinites. You've seen them — the ()])portt.uiity to advance in accordance with ability. And we must \ icious, arrogant wretches exposed in re- conlinualK- develop first-rate leaders for the future. cent years by various investigating bodies — .md we can safeh' assume that there are I-'inally, it seems to us that it is always our duty to act for the mure w lure that trash came from. long run. Sound financing, good earnings, reasonable and regular WAKING UP chvidends— these are all long-term projects. So is our continual THE terrible events in Hun- research to lind better means for giving better service. So is the MAYBE gary and the Middle East hav e iiad which good building of the human organization and character on something to do with it, but a loi of or tol- service depends. So is the training of leaders. In all our undertak- people who used to be apathetic erant toward communism are suddenly ings, the long view is essential. discovering that the reds in our midst arc not cvactK' house pets.

This is the way we understand the trust you have placed in This ciiange of heart was amusingh' il- lustrateii a few weeks ago when the I'und us. 1 1 is a trust that descrxcs. and w ill continue to receive, the most for the Republic breathlessly announced gi\'e it. painstaking care we can that the Communist Part>" in the United States was "still conspiratorial in nature and in certain of its activities. " \A'e don't Wording logelher fo bring people fogelher know if the keen students of the l-'und BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEIVl who made this amazing disco\ er>' notified Robert M. Hutchins of their findings, nor

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folks of rlic I'liiui lining up w ith Senators Jcnncr and McCarthy, Congressman Dies, and others such as Louis Budenz, Eliza- beth Bentley, and Herbert Philbrick, who have warned of the communist conspirac\ in the past. Still, wc think the current publicity is- suing from the Fund's offices would be more convincing if Hutchins & Co. would try to get back some of the ex- travagant handouts they've made to people who, through stupidit>' or worse, ha\ e aided and abetted the red conspirac\-.

CAMPUS REBELS REAOr-CUT NE\'1:R did think that all col- WE goldfish lege students fancied eating out of bowls, nor did we think they all HOUSES from AIADDIN took part in panty raids. However, campus publications it was evident that our an endless ENGINEERED our colleges \\ erc turning ARE TO SAVE stream of conformists. The kids seemed to hav e been persuaded to adopt certain YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS! rigid patterns of thought which they ex- pressed like parrots in left-wing cliches. But now it looks as though rebellion is BUILD IT YOURSELF!—Aladdin designed and manufactured beginning to smolder on American cam- the first Readi-Cut Home over 50 years ago. Tens of thousands puses, even as in Budapest, Bucharest, of people have discovered how easy it is to build an Aladdin. Prague, ^Varsaw, and Moscow. The stu- Our customers have saved thousands of dollars by doing part or dents obviously have had their eyes all themselves. The lumber opened by recent events, and they're be- of the work NOT PREFABRICATED— ginning to question the line they've been is cut to fit by precision machines, ready to be nailed in place. handed, lo these man\' years. Each piece is marked and shown on our erection drawings. organiza- As a sign of the times, a new QUALITY—All materials . . . lumber, doors, windows, flooring, tion called the Intercollegiate Societ\- of paint, hardware ... everything furnished are highest quality. Not with head- Individualists has been started, only do you save — your finished Aladdin Home will be a joy to Lafayette Building, Phila- quarters at 407 behold — beautifully designed and solidly constructed to meet the delphia 6. Set up for independent-minded highest building standards, CATALOG — Send for Aladdin's students who don't choose to join the handsome new catalog now and you will understand how Aladdin conformists who run in left-wing circles, to or on your new home. Mail the the ISI alrcad\' has chapters on sev eral can save you up 30 40% campuses. Coupon today. Recenth' an organization called 1 he Princeton Panel started functioning at that universitv' to help students and teachers understand the truth about American capitalism. At Colorado Springs, Colo.,

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Information that will help you with your everyday problems.

Most people do the bulk of their reading this time of year. But it's less than you think. Fewer than 20 percent of U.S. adults read books regularly, one reason being that so many of us read rather slowly—around 250 woi ds per minute, of which maybe 70 percent actually sinks in. Instruction in reading usually stops in the sixth grade; thereafter the average fellow tends to get stale and rusty. This can be a severe handicap in both your personal and business life. Now, however, a whole flock of courses, books, and systems is available to help you read better—500 words a minute or more. None of these aids emphasizes speed alone. That's as silly as learning to drive your car 90 m.p.h. without knowing where you're going. Understand- ing the written word is equally important. The new systems are based on the principle that your eyes—when properly trained—can catch a group of words simultaneously. The wider this span, the faster you breeze along. For example, if you're a passable reader, you'll absorb this line in three "takes"—that is, your eyes will hop thrice, catching about four words each time. If you're really good, you'll do it in two jumps. Badly handicapped readers will stumble along word by word, sometimes moving their lips, and occasionally back-tracking. Even if you can't go in for full-dress training in reading, there are some simple exercises you can do yourself. Here's one: Cut a standard column out of this magazine or newspaper and draw a line through it vertically. Now try to read the story by keeping your eye only on that vertical line—don't look sideways. Repeat this until your eyes get accustomed to seeing that big a span at once—and time yourself so you'll know your progress. Meantime, note any words you can't understand or pronounce. Make a habit of looking them up in your dictionary; then try to use them in conversation or letters so you'll remember them. Here are two other little stunts you can try (these won't take any extra time at all) 1) As window signs, street names, etc., flash by you while you're walking or on a bus, practice reading them as they cross your normal vision. 2) Read all the program credits at the start and close of TV shows. These are flashed on ultrafast and require a very sharp eye. Above all, get yourself interested in reading regularly— and read good, worthwhile things, even if they seem foi'bidding at first.

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What chance has your youngster of going to college? In a nutshell: The youngei- he is now, the tougher it will be. Money isn't the reason. It's lack of facilities. Already some 3,000,000 students are flooding campuses: by 1970 the figure will be double or more. Good secondary school grades—not cash—are becoming the determining factor foi- college admissions. Also, a sizable percentage of turndowns will be due to too much "snap" or "candy" preparatory work. Lazy, pooi'ly dis- ciplined kids may never see those ivied towers.

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Death was always close to the

prisoners huddled in the cave, but eventually there was an awakening.

over a frivolous incident which either Thomson had anticipated the need for By WEBB, JR. JOHN EDGAR he or I had to account for in a formal a particular passage. He beckoned for

report. As it turned out, I won the de- me to read it to him. It was the Seven- This \iory was laid tlic aiitliur by a wounded Gl in a hospital in Japan. bate and that left him with hard feel- tieth Psalm. I read it slowly and when

ings. I was ready to put myself on guard I finished 1 turned and saw tears in his T WAS IN in the JANUARY, second to his peculiar sort of sarcasm when I eyes. Strangely, even after he died a year of the Korean War. Crushing 11 noticed that he was badly wounded. The tear slowly rolled across his cheek. I put rociced explosions the earth. The left side of his head was open and gut- my jacket over his face and shoulders, air was flecked with flying metal, and, ted with deep gashes and was bleeding then turned away to forget, as 1 had as in every battle, there were screams profusely. tried to forget so many others. and shouts, smells of gunpowder and "Got a smoke?" he asked. We were captured that night. Our fresh blood, curses and prayers, and "I thought you weren't talking to ammunition was gone and with it went never enough medics. To our rear artil- me," I said as I scanned the area for a all our resistance. We were marched lery slammed salvo after salvo over our medic I knew wasn't there. north behind their lines. Enemy tanks heads. Besides the fifty-calibers, the "A man will do anything for a ciga- and trucks passed us often. People three-point-fives added their voice to the din. When the last cases of ammo fell empty to the ground, the men fixed their bayonets. I was in my foxhole nursing my 15 remaining rounds for my carbine. I had been trapped there for hours. My feet were swollen, wet and numb with burning pain. The dark clouds that had been shaping that morning in the north swelled and hung low over the scene of chaos and death. A hazy light was They counted us, then pulled the wounded out of ranks and shot them. settling over the surrounding hills. A cold wind blew, and now and then formed little spirals of sucked-up par- ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT yelled and threw stones at us when we ticles of dust that danced along the rette if he wants one bad enough!" he passed through small villages. I was hit ridge in front of me. They caught my snapped. I reached into my jacket in the face with a sharp stone, but was attention and I followed their purpose- pocket and pulled out a dirty, crushed too exhausted and frightened to feel the less path with my eyes. One spiral came pack and handed it to him. pain or wipe the blood away. close to my foxhole, then raced off" "Surprised to see you're still with Just before daylight we came to a across a ravine and came to a halt near us," he said, as he exhaled the smoke. halt. They counted us. argued about the the stump of a blown-out tree, then it He spit blood and coughed in a spasm count, and then shot the wounded. As zigzagged and crept over a dead soldier. while more blood trickled from his nos- they were pulling the wounded out of It caressed, gently, like an invisible trils. After several moments of silence, the ranks to shoot them, the man next hand, the dead soldier's clothing and I asked, "You're pretty bad oft". When to me began to cry. I did not know his tufts of hair, giving an illusion that the did it happen?" Thomson only looked name, but had seen him many times. body itself was moving. at me as he wiped the blood from his He was a young kid, new to soldiering. I looked again to the descending bearded face. His eyelids were drooping He babbled something about his father clouds. Then to the men spread out to as though he were drunk, and it was and a girl named Gloria. But he made my right and left, and to my rear. The evident that he was dying. no attempt to hide. I will never forget firing from our side had decreased con- "Anything 1 can do for you?" I asked, the scene. I watched with clenched siderably. We were too pinned down cautiously placing my hand on his back. teeth and pounding heart and cautioned and many were dead, wounded and dy- He did not speak, but slowly raised his myself to pray lest 1 be killed also. I ing. Now and then someone would hand attempting to bring the cigarette to was not wounded, but 1 had blood stains scream, stand or jump, then fall and lie his mouth. He took a weak puff and his all over my clothes. But a prayer did still. I felt a tug at my shoulder and head slumped. not come to me. Praying would not save spun around to see Sergeant Thomson. Moments later he made a gesture that them and if praying would not save Thomson and I had had some friction he wanted something from his hip pock- them, how could it save me? I watched Pitis seized the guard. The et. I reached inside and found a small as one after another was pulled to the Bible. I little face swelled, its eyes As cradled it in my hand it fell side of the road and shot. I listened to straining wide, mouth gasping. open to a marked page. It appeared that (Continitcd on petite 45)

13 The founding lathers established a way of life based on the principle that every human being is important. It never had to be imposed. (.corge Thomas Alexander James ^V'asIlin^^((m JeHcrson Hamilton Madison i

our American birthright

pressed will of its people, adopted a communist form of government. There are many who do not appreciate the What has happened to the downtrod- den people who have been forced to blessings bestowed on us by our Founding live under communism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satel-

Fathers. They wish us to have the regimenta- lites, in regard to their liberties and their livelihood? tion and the shared poverty that follow where Terror has always been the force by which the peoples of Soviet lands have Marxism is adopted. By DAN DANIEL, been kept in submission to the dictator- NATIONAL COMMANDCR OF THE AMERICAN LEGION ship over—noi o/—the proletariat. The hangman's noose and the firing squad are the ever-ready instruments to com-

I iTTLE MORE than a century ticians who run the government, is less pel acquiescence of the people in the ago, Karl Marx, the great than two centuries old. arbitrary decrees of the Soviet state. prophet of sociahsm, wrote the Americans, after careful deliberation, Nikita Khrushchev, the current boss Coniiiiiuiist Manifesto which became freely adopted the form of government in the Kremlin, has given a shocking

the ideological basis for the Bolshevik set forth in the Constitution. Under it picture of what life has been like in the Revokition, in the train of which has they prospered and grew great. Marx's Soviet Union for a whole generation. followed the enslavement of hundreds socialism had to be imposed, first on the On February 25, 1956, addressing the of millions of people. Russian people through a bloody revo- 20th Party Congress of the Communist Our own system of government and lution engineered by a handful of con- Party of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev

economics is not much older than the spirators, and then on 13 once-free said: "Arbitrary behavior by one person Coniiniiiiist Maiiijesto. Our Constitu- peoples through an international net- encouraged and permitted arbitrariness tion, granting man the right to be his work of conspiring bandits. No country in others. Mass arrests and deportations own master and the master of the poli- on earth has ever, by the freely ex- of many thousands of people, execution 14 TIiosc who liatdicd sodalisin advocated an all- powerful state ivliere tiie individual was sub- servient. Revolution and treachery advanced it. Friedrich Nikolai Joseph Engels Lenin Stalin KOHCTMTyUMH (OCHOBHOU MKOm POCCHiiCKOM COi?LTCKOM A planned economy is e;iepathbmom the opposite of a market economy. In a market c0uhaj1mctm4hck0i1 economy, or the traditional American PECnyBJlHKH economy, profit is the incentive for pro-

duction, and consumer choice is the final arbiter of prices and quality. In a planned economy somebody at the top decides what, how much, and of what quality is good for the ultimate consumer. There is no such thing as free

consumer choice to determine what is produced, /ww iiiiich is produced, or how well it is produced. All production is at the whim of the boss planners, which means the all-powerful political state. The inevitable result of a planned economy is noncompetitive, shoddy

>/'AMESS...?

without trial and without normal investi- the rights and liberties of the individual gation created conditions of insecurity, human being under Soviet socialism. fear and even desperation." With respect to the economic system of This one confession by Khrushchev the Soviet slave-state, the Russian people is a mere peep at the prevailing horror are under what is known as a planned of life in the communist state— a minute economy, which means shared poverty. fraction of the terrifying truth. The socialist system provides no curbs upon England's socialism is the absolute power of the socialist not the violent kind bureaucracy, as that system operates in but it too meant the .Soviet Union. The individual human spreading poverty. Moscow women are i)erniitted to share the in paradise. being has no rights which the totalitarian work that workers"

state is bound to respect. goods in scarce quantities and without What Khrushchev did not say is as regard to consumer preferences. Com- important as what he did tell his hearers; petition for consumers' votes, which is namely, that the socialist dictatorship, the only kind of economic democracy, by its very nature, bred and always will is out the window in a planned economy. breed tyrants who ffout every principle This is why consumers in the Soviet of decency and humanity. It represents Union must work hours to buy the same the reign of tooth-and-claw, but even amount of goods that American con- the law of the jungle is respectable by sumers get by working ininiites. comparison. As long as the communist The average consumer in the Soviet state exists, there will be other Stalins. Union must work four and one-half Life in the Soviet satellites has fol- hours in order to buy a pound of butter; lowed the pattern of the socialist father- while the average American consumer land—and in some cases more so. must work only 30 minutes. -So much for the total abrogation of (Continued on pcii^c 59) 15 .

BASEBALL by the NUMBERS

In modern big league baseball a calculating"

machine can be as important as a .300 hitter.

By DUANE DECKER Allan Roth ol the Dodgers was^ baseball's first tiill-tinie statistician.

SUNNY AFTERNOON at Ebbetts Field the Dodgers ONEwere playing a team they dearly— and notoriously— love to beat. Jim Hearn was the Giant pitcher. It was only May and everyone in the league was still a pennant contender. In the bottom ot the first inning the Dodgers loaded the bases and Gil Hodges stepped up. He was batting fifth today, which surprised the crowd; he had batted seventh all last year as well as this year— until today. He promptly carved a Hearn pitch into a majestic arc and the ball dropped deep in the left field seats. Boom! Four Dodger runs, just like that!

I he Dodger fans present, as well as those looking in on TV, tlioughl then that shifting Hodges from seventh to fifth in the balling order had been some sort of a managerial brainstorm. Actually, the switch had come to pass because of one of base- 1 lie fii^iiics |>ii»\((I dial slum;ei Kov Clanipanella. was hall's latter-day additions: the club's ofiicial egghead, known hitting ..Vl'i, liati a lilctiiiie average ol against llhukwell. in the trade as a "statistician." In this case the egghead's name was Allan Roth. Detailed records that he'd kept the year before had revealed that Hodges had murdered Hearn every game he'd hit against him. Roth reported this discovery to Manager Alston before the game showed the figmcs that proved it. Hence the switch in the bat- ling order and hence the Hodges grand slam. Today, most big league ball clubs have an ofiicial, full-time slalistician— a job that didn't exist until 1947. Allan Roth of the Dodgers, the daddy of them all, is the man who created it. He, like all other eggheads in the business, goes far beyond a record of batting percentages, earned run averages and RBI's

( runs batted in )

"Matter of fact." he says, "when I first approached Branch Rickey in the winter of '47, one of my big arguments for the need of a baseball statistician was that RBI records meant very little."

little to "RBI records mean me," Rickey replied, "when I When ( hde king was a I)o

hit .350 11/7// men on bases. When I pointed this out to the front office, he not only got a bigger raise than had been expected, but he was batted cleanup the following year and— incidentally —went on to win the Most Valuable Player award." In the course of his duties Rolh writes down about 500. 000 hgures and symbols to study during the winter before he makes up his "book"' on the Dodgers for the season just completed. One copy of this book then goes to the front office,

a second one to the manager. It tells them little stories about the players that are sometimes mighty revealing. In cold, black and white figures a manager can see exactly how a ball- player hit against right-handed pitchers in contrast to how he hit against lefties. He (inds out how often a batter "pulled" the ball, how often he hit to the opposite field. He discovers which pitchers

The record book moves Gil Hodges, normally batting se\cnth, to fifth spot against Hearn. 12 I Jim

AT BAT BALIS STRIKES have been prone to stay ahead of the TEAMS I234S6789R HI TEAMS t 2 3 4 enemy hitters and which ones were con- im3200 2 4 0 stantly behind. He is clued in on which BKLYM 0 2 3 5 6 0 men do better at night than in the day- time, better at home than on the road. In short, he finds out things about his that don't know about them- BATTING OROf R UMPIRES PUTE team they selves. mm 9RF 7CF 8C Roy Campanclia was one Dodger BKLYN 19 2B who had something startling happen to J SS 4Cf 423B him because of the statistician's winter at \V hen Yankee records indicated tliat IVfaglie seldom threw a strike on the first pitch, book. In May of 1952 Campy was their hitters "took. " As the scoreboard shows, however, Maglie clianged his technique. his lustiest best, hitting .325. But one day Cincinnati came to town. Ewell "What does mean something." Roth reting out "extremes" (as Roth likes to Blackwell pitched for them. Campy told him, "is the record of the ball-play- call them) of player performance. found himself on the bench that after- er's opportunities to drive in runs against For instance. Jackie Robinson had a noon, a second stringer in action in his his success in doing it." fair year— for him— in the 1956 season. place. previous Rickey hired Roth and. in due time, He was well below the .300 mark all The reason was that the other big league clubs followed Rickey's year long, he had slowed down in every year's fxmk revealed that Campy had lead by hiring their own eggheads. Roth way due to his advancing years; yet in a lifetime batting average of .065 against figures he studied 20,000 pitches made most of the games he played Manager Blackwell. two singles out of 3 I chances by the Dodger mound staff and compiled Alston batted him in the cleanup spot. against the whiplike hurler. Naturally 25 categories of small but significant in- Back in his sophomore year, when he'd that information made him a bench- formation about the club during this been young and frisky and hit .296 for warmer for the day. past season. His player-breakdown not the season, he had batted second in the "And a very funny thing about that only changes batting orders sometimes, order. How come? Blackwell situation," Roth adds, "was hitter, but it has a lot to do with the players' "Well," says Roth, "it so happened that Don Thompson, a .229 next year's salary. The baseball statisti- that in poring over my records during batted over .500 against the guy." have to feel cian's work concerns itself less with the winter I discovered the rather start- But Campanella didn't keeping records than it does with fer- ling fact that though Robinson had hit (Continued on paf^e 44) 17 VETEM

How the men of the Red Army have

been exploited and persecuted by the ,j

very regime they fought to maintain.

Moscow went wild on .Soviet V-E Da), and soldiers were almost killed b\ kindness.

By VLADIMIR SHABINSKY for enrollment in schools and colleges, and all tuition was free. A veteran with (former Lieutenant Colonel of the Red Army) war decorations rode city trolleys with-

1. NEVER FORGET thc mass excite- from its beautiful out paying, and once a year received a I'l ment in Moscow on Soviet V-E roof garden. At the free railway ticket to any destination. Day, May 9, 1945. Five million hotel door stood a Each ex-soldier was promised a better Muscovites jammed the squares and crippled soldier, civilian job than he held before the war. streets, singing, dancing, shouting, and with the medals Postwar service in satellite East Ger- crying. Any .Soviet soldier within reach "Glory, " "For De- man} quickly disillusioned me. Instead was almost killed by kindness. The fense of Moscow." of being sent home to their families, crowd hugged and kissed servicemen, and "For Defense of Stalingrad" dang- hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers and even bounced them high in the air. ling from his faded shirt. As every well- and officers were demobilized into

In my lieutenant colonel's uniform, I dressed beauty passed by, he demanded U.S.S.R. slave labor camps. entered a small studio to be photo- a kiss in honor of victory. Obediently, Late in the war Soviet General graphed in honor of the great occasion. each lady yielded to his bewhiskered Vlasov, who had been captured by the

The aged photographer and his wife mouth. I taunted him: Nazis, formed an anticommunist "Lib-

fussed over me as if I were their own "Aren't you tired of kissing?" eration Army" among Russian POW's son. .Stubbornly they refused any pay, He looked at me scornfully, waved in Germany. To overthrow .Soviet ty- explaining that their own boys had been the stump of his amputated arm, and ranny, his troops fought alongside the killed in the war. replied: "One must take advantage of Wehrmacht against the Red Army.

When 1 returned to the streets, three the occasion. Our soldiers will receive Neither he nor his men expected post- elderly workers grabbed me, demanding nothing good from this victory!" war mercy from the victorious Kremlin.

that I drink from their bottle of vodka. .Somehow. I could not believe him. Vlasov and thousands of his followers

They didn't release mc until I complied. When the war ended, the Kremlin were executed. The remainder were Rich Muscovites flocked into the seemed greatly concerned over veterans sentenced to 15, 20, or even 25 years Moscow Hotel to watch the celebration welfare. Ex-servicemen had top priority of U.S.S.R. prison labor.

18 Hordes of ex-servicemen were shipped to Siberia. The revolts were suppressed, with tanks turned against the veterans.

But Vlasovites formed only a small quartered. He exclaimed: "Surely some talk with the American commandant! percentage of the mass Red Army con- capitalist lived here!" Demobilized .Soviet servicemen who version into MVD slave labor. Almost I asked the dispossessed German avoided imprisonment had their troubles all Soviet soldiers and officers who had owner what his profession was. His reply too. Many able officers tried to avoid been captured by the Nazis were rail- demobilization, since Red Army brass roaded from German to Siberian prison in peacetime live much better than most camps. It did not matter whether they civilians. But mere bravery and success had been hopelessly encircled, badly in battle did not save an officer from wounded, or even unconscious when dismissal. Only blindly devout com- taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht. After munists were permitted to remain in the war they were still punished as al- uniform. leged "traitors to the Soviet mother- During the war a tank colonel who land." was a national hero became infuriated Still other U.S.S.R. servicemen joined when his political commissar ordered the ever growing legion of military men tired troops to study Marxism just after in slave labor camps. Once the Red winning a battle. The colonel thun- Army saw East Europe, both soldiers dered: "Let my men rest. I need tank- and officers knew that Soviet propa- ists, not politicians!" ganda painted a false picture of capi- As soon as the war ended, the kindly talism. My own general, a former depu- colonel was demobilized. But his inhu- ty minister of the U.S.S.R. cabinet, was man commissar siayed in service. Tliroughout Russia, wounded veterans amazed by the beautifully furnished, In the U.S.S.R. peasants live almost begged for kopecks or something to eat. two-story German house where he was as poorly as prison labor. Most collec- was simple and direct: "Electrician." tive farms lack electricity, a radio, or

At first the Soviet general couldn't even a village store. Farm pay is miser- believe this un-Marxist truth. When ly; yet taxes are much higher than in finally convinced, he sulked for several Soviet cities. So millions of demobilized days. peasants refused to return to the coun- Any Soviet serviceman who didn't tryside, taking city jobs instead. conceal his admiration for capitalism Benign Bulganin, then War Minister was arrested and banished to Siberia. and today U.S.S.R. Premier, soon For merely marrying a German girl, one stopped peasant veterans from bettering Red Army captain was sentenced to their lives. During 1946 he ordered de- eight years in a concentration camp. A mobilization documents to be issued brief conversation with an American only by the local army office in the dis- army officer was often labeled "espion- trict where the soldier had previously .age," and was punished by 10 to 25 lived. In .Soviet Russia a veteran with- years of slave labor. No wonder out documents is quickly arrested. the first Soviet comman- Peasants demobilized thereafter had to dant of Berlin hid an return to their hated collective farms.

MVD sleuth in his When 1 first returned to Russia from cupboard, and a satellite Germany, I saw more veteran second in the ad- misery. At Brest, the Soviet border sta- joining room, be- tion, an armless man with war medals fore even daring to (Continued on page 50)

< The attendant threw the loaves to the armless, legless veterans. Is there an Engineer

YOU WANT to do youFself — and in yourHouse? IFyour nation ~ a big favor, show

your son ( and maybe your daughter) the ads at right. The companies who pay for this enticing literature are pretty

desperate; they mean it when they promise scientific and engineering per- Industry is searching^ desperately for engi- sonnel everything but a swimming pool —and sometimes even that, too. But don't be surprised if these ap- neers and scientists. Here is how you can help. peals leave your kids cold. Most youngsters have other ideas about getting rich

and famous. Elvis Presley has done it at By EDGAR A. GRUNWALD 21 with a quiver and a guitar, and favor of the so-called "candy courses"; Mickey Mantle at 25 with a hunk of so the supply and quality of math and ball. And maybe it's about time parents wood. At a comparable period in his science teachers is drying up according- got a little scared about the world of life an engineer or scientist should be in ly. Here are a few examples: tomorrow, too." a lab or behind a stack of books. In the A recent survey by the Educational The scare this man is talking about is mathematics of youth, it just isn't worth Testing Service (under sponsorship of Russia. Recently Dr. Lawrence R. Haf- it. the Carnegie Corp.) found that many That's where you come in. After a stad, director of research for General great deal of soul searching, worried in- Motors, warned: "Our choice is brutally dustrialists and government experts clear: We can either learn mathematics finally have convinced themselves that and science — or Russian."

it's primarily the parents and teachers The Thomas Alva Edison Foundation who turn the scientific faucet on or off (launched in memory of the great in-

in a democracy. Basically, of course, it's ventor) did some pretty exhaustive the parents. For in the last analysis their probing this year on where the western kids and their school money are the raw world stands vis-a-vis Russia in science materials. and engineering manpower. Its findings Industry and government meanwhile lend weight to Hafstad's gloomy ap-

are falling all over themselves to help. praisal : Russia is now giving engineering degrees to more than twice as many students as the U. S. Upwards of 20 percent of Russian engineers are women. On the other hand, when the U. S. graduated 22,300 engineers in 1954. women made up the unbelievably low total of 65. No matter how you slice the figures, Russia is giving the western world a race

that is getting downright hair-raising —

and all the more so because Russia is

still less industrialized than we are.

No nation in the western world is fixed comfortably for engineering and scientific personnel with the possible ex- One <»r tilt' more glamorous fields is rock- ception of Austria, Ireland, Italy, and >f et power, being pioneered b) Rocketdyne. Luxembourg. The rest — although the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation polite- The Air For|r sonic test being made by a CiE engineer. (:hr)sler (ioipoiation's lop man in eiigi- pected of being in such straits that they nc'i'iing, hut he has more than earned it. are stealing from each other. When you get through worrying about

"If it were only money," says one execu- Russia, you can find another good

tive, "that would be simple. But it isn't. source in the U. S. teaching situation — Scholarships, loans, high salaries — you particularly in mathematics at the sec- can get them in droves. That won't do ondary school level. But before you the job, though. The kids have to be blame the teachers, remember that they 'motivated' and inspired. We need stars are the victims of a sort of hereditary in engineering and science like in foot- disease — interest in math is dying in 20 MR. ENGINEER- there'saiobforyou 4s BIG AS YOU CAN HANDLE "fe^ trt" Mectx""*" 1^ , 4

O.C Wm"""*^ ."""^/^^ ^. I ENGINEERS interested in Radar Navigation andana Bombing Systems:/Oj^^,^ SAY WHEN- ^^tf^ wo'll phon e/

The tale•lit seaicli goes on endlessly as companies comj)ete lor new giads and old hands.

teachers not only are downright hostile to mathematics, but barely a step ahead of their own classes. Typical ot some teachers' inability to

understand math is the case of one who gave the class this problem: IOx-(-50y=^ 320 and x+2=y; solve for x. One bright kid immediately simplified this to x-f5 (\ + 2)=32. and the teacher, ap- parently unable to follow the kid's quick reasoning (which was 100 percent cor- rect), tokl him he was wrong. Some teachers haven't the remotest idea what happens when you break a magnetized needle in half, and an astounding number think the full moon appears once a week. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. who. among his many other jobs, heads up the atom-submarine projects, has said that "nearly half of our high schools

offer little or no instruction in physics, chemistry, or in mathematics beyond in- Ne\\l\ gr.idiiated engineers who will work on aloniii sub ,f troductory algebra." And while this design at General Dynamics learn the subject lirsdiand. statement has been criticized as being Hard, tedious work as well as glamor is the lot ot the engi- on the broad side, its general direction neer. Here an analyst studies flight conditions lor Boeing. is accurate enough. Relatively, these are waning subjects. Columnists and pundits of another frame of mind look on Rickover and his type as alarmists. Why. they argue, should our children be pushed into a sort of mental military training when the goal of a democracy is peace? What's wrong with the heavy emphasis these days on the liberal arts? Isn't life supposed to be pleasant? Listen now to as earnest a man as ever masterminded the building of an automobile-James C. Zeder. vice presi- (Conlimied on page 52) 21 THERE'S ONLY ONE WINNER

were on their separate ways. We drew By WILLIAM J. GRAHAM lots for them. Each plane was to fly a long narrow piece of pie, 1,000 miles UKUFETAU IS A coral reef with out edge, miles over the crust, ,_^^f-^ one 150 I a hole in the middle of it. If and return miles to the point. J LOOO JL Z, you look lor it at a point just Each sector was tangent to the other, below the equator, Latitude 8° South which would assure the admiral of com- and Longitude 176° East, you've got it. plete security. At this time even the top

It is one of several atolls comprising the brass in Washington was jittery over

Ellice Island Group. It is pronounced We arrived on the 12th of November. the task force principle. If it worked,

"Noo-Koo-Feh-Tow." If you depart Our skipper detoured by way of Funa- the quarterback was a hero. If it failed, from Chicago on a leisurely southwest futi and the admiral. He seemed a little the other team might win. heading, you are bound to run into it shaky when we assembled early the I remembered what Dugan Wengier- some 6,800 statute miles later. next morning. He told us only what we ski had said when we were assigned to

Funafuti lies 80 miles almost due had to know. For the first time in Navy this squadron. "I don't like it. These south. It too is an atoll, in the Ellice history. Navy policy had put all its eggs planes can go too darn far without re- chain, in the exact center of the Central in one basket and concentrated hun- fueling." Out of the 15 aircraft, six were Pacific. The chief difference between the dreds and hundreds of ships under one to fly on successive days, leaving three two islands in those days was that Funa- hat, and the term "task force" was born. grounded for the maintenance crews to futi had cold beer, Phihulelphia cigars, Even while we were sitting here. Task work on. and the admiral. Force X was but an hour's flight away. We were quite a mixture. Most of us "We" were a squadron of Navy There was also located just to the north- had been stuck in flight instruction lor search planes. The time was late in the west of us the Gilbert Islands, in Jap two years, piling up 1,500 hours, while year 1943. We were comprised of 15 hands with heavy aircraft concentration our students went on to the Main Event. aircraft — four-engine, land-based. We'd at a place called Tarawa. We were eager, experienced, and skilled been commissioned that siunmer in San "The admiral is nervous," said the —and hungry. Our eyes and actions Diego, and had been trained to a hair skipper. "He doesn't know where the bulged with crosses— largely Navy and trigger before swooping out of the sky Nip Navy is. The carrier planes have Distinguished Flying. Find that Jap one day to settle on Nukufetau. The found nothing within a .500-mile radius. Navy, we were ordered, and when we coral dust over the one runway still We arc to conduct single-plane search did, look out! hung in the air from the marvelous skills missions out to the 1,000-mile perim- Four of the six searches were called of the .Seabees. Their job was done; ours eter." "hot" sectors for the simple reason that was beginning. Within an hour our first six missions they involved single-plane flight on a 22 straight line laid down on the beehives When we took ofl'. we fairly waddled in It got to be a grim game, for keeps, of the Jap-held Gilberts and Marshalls. the air. As the flight progressed, our but nevertheless a game. Our record be-

It took between 14 and 15 hours to fly nose gradually came down, and the gan to mount. Immortal Tarawa canic each mission. We staggered our depar- plane would trim up as our and went. Our sights were shilled ture times every day so that we would gas burned ofl". No water to the Marshalls. We were not have a reception committee waiting supply on the hottest desert getting cocky. The Nip lighter for us. Our fuel capacity, including the was ever watched more planes no longer jumped us. bomb bay tanks, topped oflF at 3,300 carefully than our gas They would fly just out of gallons. We carried more than 18,000 gauges on those long range but wouldn't come in. pounds of gasoline. To protect ourselves flights. On December 1 , our crew we were armed with four gun turrets, We departed in day- bow, top deck, tail, and retractable belly, light. We returned dead plus two guns in the waist hatches. In beat in black midnight. the after bomb bays we carried two Every lec back was made 500-pound depth charges for sub attack.

We came out of our lasi cloud and vei v nearly slid underncalh Iicr.

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through equatorial thunderheads which drew a milk run, a "cold" sector, straight had a nasty habit of boiling up at night. out to Jaluit Atoll in the Marshalls with Unless enemy contact was made we were nothing in between but 1,000 miles of on strict radio silence and no lights were water. Our objective was a routine pa- allowed on the islands. We felt our way trol against enemy subs and shipping, home. Radar was useless until we were and to find out more about Jaluit — sup- within six miles of those low-lying sand- posedly a seaplane airdrome, but no bars we called home. land strips. Airborne at 0830, we had Dick Rice was three hours overdue a long 15 hours coming up. Thirty min- on his first flight. We had given him up utes out we ran through the routine when he limped in. Paul Hardy had to procedure of warming up all guns and ditch in the black water. We found him turrets, and pulled the lever which rolled and his crew eight days later bobbing up the after bomb bay doors. With every around less than one hour's flight away. turret whining, and ten .5()-caliber guns Wengierski was jumped by five Zeros whanging and bomb bay doors rotating, just oft' the Marshalls. His gunners we were a fearsome and lethal sight to splashed three and damaged the remain- behold. ing two, and he brought back pictures The tail gunner came in on the in-

to prove it. Hop's crew got a Jap Betty, tercom. "Two big splashes dead astern." medium-sized bomber. Two more Bettys We went back and circled the spot. also bit the dust in single-plane engage- Goodby depth charges. We were in the ments. Dick Daly came home cussing. plane that had used the emergency jetti- jettisoned to just yesterday. The release switch For four minutes the Jaj) ^uinier fncd He had everything trying son explosive shells from a hundred yards. catch another Betty; he lost it in a front. (Continued on page 62) 23 Marlboro

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WE WENT HUNTING black hear and SMITH AND WESSON, that venerable CARL A. OGRINO, O. D., 226 Fifth ilccr in \^crmont a while back, after first handgun company up Springfield, Mass., Street S., Glasgow, Mont., has technical checking with that genial gentleman u ay that has been producing superb weap- advice: "If you w ear glasses," he says, "and George Davis, director of the Fish and ons e\er since Buffalo Bill's heyday, an- find that perspiration runs down >'our lens Game Department. He recommended nounces that its 44 Magnum, the gun that when \ou arc afield hunting, you will be Pleasant \'iew Farm as our headquarters produces more shocking power than an>' interested in m\- homemade gadget to

in F/ast Dover. It's a classic old New Eng- other handgun produced commercialh' in eliminate the problem. I cut a one-inch land farmhouse high in the Green Moim- tlic w orld, is undergoing a buying boom. strip of my w ife's Dupont kitchen sponge

tains o\\ ned by friendly Air. and Airs. Far! The 44 .Magnum with the 6': -inch barrel which is about eiglit inches long. I glue it

Yeaw. has been going great guns for sometime, to a one-inch elastic band measured to fit We had wonderful food, three meals but now Smith and AA'csson is manufactur- my head, and place this around m\- hcati a day, and soft beds for seven dollars a da\-. ing that popular gun in the 4-inch barrel as a sweat band. It does the job perfecth

The Yeaws also billet skiers. Oh, > es, \\ c because of sustained demand. The 44 is the —clear glasses stay clear for better vision got our buck and black bear. Long to be effective handgun used by so many of our and shooting." remembered trophies of a fine, hospitable lawmen—the gun that "keeps the peace." State. NEW CATALOG on fisherj' documentary motion pictures for free use by Legion Posts is available. These films are produced by the Commercial Division of the United States Fish and AMIdlife Service, Depart- ment of the Interior, Washington 25, D. C. Such films as Outboard Fisherman USA, Shrhi/p Tips From Nc-zv Orleans, It's the THE MODEL F Aluma Craft boat looks Maine Sardine, and Fresl.t Out of the ^Vatcr like a good bet for sportsmen. It is 14 ft. THE NEPTUNA SPORTSMAN, a com are available. All films listed are 16 mm. long, strongly made, and is very practical bination trailer-cabin cruiser, is an interest- with sound, mostly in color. and seaw orthy. Can be used w ith outboanls ing land-sea craft especially made for fish- These films are of interest to the general up to 20 hp. M'eiglit 175 lb. Cost $362.00 ermen. It features welded steel hull, fiber- public and are particularly interesting to f.o.b. glass insulation, retracting \\ hecls, marine family groups. A catalog showing the Aluma Craft mahogany cabin comparable to e.xpenstve line in color free on request. Address cabin cruisers, built-in bar, w atertight slid- Aluma Craft Boat Co., 2633 27th Ave. S., ing \\ indows, catw alk on either side leading AIinneapt)lis, Alinn. to forward deck. Pow er and .steering while afloat is supplied by an outboard motor, THIS IS A bleak month; so let's swing 7 hp. ' 1 and up. Cost around S4,0()0 depend- off with a chuckle. Here's one that ap- ing on equipment. Dimensions: Cabin 15' peared in Diichs Unlimited Quarterly . A 6' 6' 6' X 10"; aft deck 7" .\ 10"; height \'outhful naturalist whose powers of per- inside 6' 2"; overall height on land (wheels ception surpassed his ability to spell pro- down) 7' 10"; overall height (wheels re- duced this descriptive gem. The youngster tracted) 6' 7"; draft 51:". For complete in- entitled his theme "And This Is What a formation and literature, write Ncptuna INGENUITY REARS its lovely head. Geese Is." Corporation, 723 Sonora Ave., Glendale 1, "\\ lien ready to hunting go one rainy day "Geese is a low, hea\ y set bird w hich is Calif. I had no w aterproof jacket and knew that mostly meat and feathers. His head sits on a raincoat w ould be too long and uncom- one side and he sirs on the other. Geese THOSE INTERESTED in an unusual guard fortable," sa> s Robert F. De\ erberg, Aim- can't sing much on account of dampness of dog for children ougiit to know about Haven Motel, U. S. Route 6, Tunkhannock, moisture. He ain't got no between-the-toes Perr\ Greene and his Chinooks up at Pa. "My wife solved the problem in a w ax- and he's got a little balloon in iiis stummick A\ aldol)oro, .Maine. Perry says he has the that kept me warm, dry, and comfortable to keep from sinking. only purebred Chint)ok breeding stock in all da\- in the woods. She took a large "Some geese w hen they get big has curls the world. They are beautiful, intelligent plastic bag, cut out holes for my head and on their tails and is called ganders. G'anilers dogs, tawny in color, weighing al)out 100 arms. I wore it over my flannel shirt, and don't haff to sit and hatch but just eat and lb. Eskimo type. Ears may be tall or drop- it reall>- did tiie trick." loaf and go swimming. If 1 w as a goose I'd ped. All female puppies that Perr>- sells are ratiier be a gander." spayed. No Chinook is ever shipped. Pur- FREE CAMPING CATALOG. Alorsan chasers must come to the kennel and spend Tents, 10-27 50th Ave., Long Island City 1, If yoii Ikuc a liclpliil idi;! llial perlaiiis at least 24 hours there. If Perry feels that N. \ ., offers its complete catalog on camp- to liiinliiig or fisliiii<;, send it along. 11 uc one of his dogs w on"t be happ>- w ith you, ing conveniences to all who write. Such ran use it, uc'll rctv.ird yon witli ;i hunting he won't sell you one. Write to Perry items as a wood-burning stove, candle lan- or fistiing actrssoi y. AfUli ess: Ontdoor I'.ditor, Greene at AA'aldoboro, .Maine, for a free tern, and an aluminum egg box are illus- Tlie .iinerirtm Lrt^ioii .Mat^dziiif, 72(( Filth copy of his Chii?ook Neivs. trated and described. Avenue, New York 13, New \'ork.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEKRUARY 1957 • 25 Inset, a student learns to use a signaling minor. Above, carrying Alaskan packs made Irom ihe j)arachiilc harness, a crew moves out on ilie trek.

IJees scanning in this dead tree brought one crew out to look for THEY LEARN TO LIVE honey. The face net is parachute silk.

Hunters and fishermen can learn from

the Air Force's realistic survival school.

our lines to become one of the lew By IRVING HERSCHBEIN U.S. airmen to evade capture. One of his listeners asked him

SI LAD AIK f ORCl UASIi. 12 what the toughest part of his experi- 9';miles northwest ol Reno. ences had been. The major smiled Nov.. a young Air Force and said. "Learning to eat fish Major was reminiscing recently heads." He had been fortunate .ibout his experiences in Korea. As a enough to catch some fish, but he lighter pilot he had been shot down soon realized that if he was to sur- over North Korea and despite two vive he would need all the food he iirokcn ankles made his way back to (Coiuiiuicd on p(ii;c 5-t)

A willow rod, paracliule shroud line, and a hook make I/aak AX'altons out of these two students who ho|)e to get some trout from this cold slream.

»• 4. ' *"^£;*:

Leit, an insiru((oi- dcmonstrares ra|)peling, a <|ui

1 ill, ;i |>oi( ii|)iiic, one of lour that this crew caught. I\i<;hl. an instriu tor uses a luniting knife and pole Id make a spear lor the volunteer, below, who jiliinl)e(l the tree alter tlie 18-pound porcupine.

Learning by doing. Leit above, a student makes a trap with a "figure 4" trigger — that will (at(h small game. Right, a student dispaldies a rabbit thai lie will now skin and cook.

Two students check on (heii "jerky" rack. The strips of meat hinig on the |)arachute shroud lines are being smoked so that ihev can lie carried. As|>en leaves gi\e the meal a delicate flavor.

Here the crew uncovers a steaming stew. A hot fire binned for several horns in a rock-lined pil and then the meat and ^egetablcs in tin cans covered with wet silk were buried in the hot ashes.

27 BRIEFLY About books oUi" Books and pamphlets that may interest uou (Continued from page 4) The FBI Slory, by Don W'hitclicad. famous comedian gives some trade se- KANDo.M iioLSK, $4.95. Concerning the crets w hile discussing his career. crals w as siiminaril>- dismissed because I cdcral Bureau of Investigation, famous lie tiic • • • w ould not conduct that w ar in cases it lias handled, and how it operates. way a soft government in A\'ashing- The White Nii^hts, by Boris Sokoloff. ton wanted him to. Then came tlie • • • nr.viN-ADAiR, $3.75. True stories of in- Suez Canal. Before this is settled, 'ive trigue in the days of the Russian will pay ships of all nations to sail llalUc H\mn. by Dean I',. Hess; Revo- lution. around the Cape of Good Hope. Our \ic(;KA\v-Hn.L, $3.95. The st<)r\- of an • • • tax dollars have been spread all over Ohio minister who became a fighter the world w ith the vain hope that they (lilot. He fiew 300 missions in \\'A\'2 A Hide to I'liiiinunjoni. bv Duane will make friends for us. All they ha\ e and Korea and is helping to raise a lot Thorin. ni NR-i ri.(;m£R> c*)., $4.00. A done is to develop countries for Rus- of Korean orphans. no\ el based on what happened to sia. Where is The American Legion Americans in Korean prison camps. that closed ranks against tiie recogni- • • • tion of Russia? The voice of the • • • Legion is becoming more feeble w ith iituiica (It the (.lossroads, by Francis eacli passing year. Legion arise, and H. Buffum, CAxroN printkrs, $1.25. A Tiventy Million Tons Under the Sea, by become again the force you should comparison of the American Way vs. Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, U.S.N. be for God and country. the Soviet S\'steni. For ever\' Legion- Hi'NRv rkcnerv CO., $5.00. Our subma- C. E. Ziegenliiss naire. rine war in the Atlantic, including an Pittsb/ir'^h, Pti. • • • account of the capture of the CJernian LJ-505. Man ill the Sky, by Richard Hiibler; • • • FINDING GOOD BOOKS DUKI.I., SLOAN & PKARCK, $4.50. A nOVcl article "Beiiind tlie Pink of a fl\ ing soldier of fortune and his at- My Forty Years with Ford, by Charles Sir; In >()ur Academic Log," published in June, tempt to find out w hat was real. E. Sorensen. w. w. NORroN & c;o., $5.00. >'ou mentioned Dr. Hobbs' hooks The A story of Henry Ford by a man w ho • • • f'isioii and the Constant Star and So- was closely associated w ith him. cial Prohleins and Scientist. I tried to Sound the Guns, of by Fairfax Downey. success. Belic\ ing • • • hnd them without DAMi) & CO., MckAv $5.50. The stor.v of tiiat others among \ our readers might Satellites, the American Artillery b\- a distin- Earth by Patrick Aloore. w . iia\ c had the same experience— it seems

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• • 2^ im \NU RICAN I FC.ION MACiAZINF I tURUAR^ ]'>57 A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

PENSIONERS SHOULD FILE INCOME that there must have been cartoons or other published STATEMENTS PRONTO, VA WARNS: notices referring to "Kilroy was here" long before June

Mailing of annual income questionnaires to all who of 1945 . . . Any readers in possession of such clippings prior to that date, or who can make a specific reference to such a draw VA pensions was completed by Jan. 2. . . . VA warned that continued receipt of pensions depends upon prompt clipping, would do "Newsletter" and researcher Ward a big favor forwarding to: . by same "Newsletter," The (within 30 days) filing of the fiUed-out questionnaires. . . Questionnaires went to all who draw VA monthly benefits American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York

19, N.Y. . . If any are forthcoming, "Newsletter" will return for disabilities or death that are not service-connected. . . . Eligibility for all such benefits depends upon the recipient them to the sender if asked to do so. having a limited income, so an income statement is an

continued receipt of pension. . . . All annual necessity for NEW U.S. COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES told, questionnaires went to 1,200,000 veterans, widows and REFLECT TROUBLES HERE AND IN RUSSIA: point above children. . . . Those whose income increases to a U. S. communist party is reacting to its own difficulties the pension limits during the year—after filing of the initial here, and to both current troubles and future planning in report—are obligated to file a supplementary report on their the Soviet Union ... As usual, the American commies own initiative when such income increases becomes known have an answer wrapped up in a package to look like to them. something else.

Russia is beset with enormous internal problems

KANSAS VET FINED FOR FALSE "ABILITY TO PAY" of which the Hungarian mess is only one reflection. . . . STATEMENT ON VA HOSPITAL APPLICATION: Leadership in the Soviet Union is not powerfully and fully

According to wire-service reports in December, WWl centered in one strong pair of hands. . . . Unrest is widespread.

vet John Petrick, Caldwell (Kans.) farmer was fined $2,499 . . . For all the anti-Stalin talk, aim of the Soviet leadership

by a U. S. District Court for falsely stating that he was is to restore a new Stalin-like hold on the people, since not unable to pay for non-service-connected care at the Wichita even the Russians will stick with the communist idea

VA Hospital. . . . Petrick is reported to be the first person unless it is shoved down their throats.

to be successfully prosecuted under such charges. . . . To Big program of educating Soviet scientists, of which enter a VA hospital for care for non-service disabilities, a we hear so much, has inescapably boomeranged politically vet must file a statement of inability to pay for the care by educating more skeptics inside Russia.

privately, and a summary of his income and assets. . . . Problem of holding the Soviet together firmly takes

Petrick was reported to have admitted holding property and all attention and energy now, and puts world revolution

cash worth $55,000. . . . Initial accounts do not state clearly activitites in back seat for now. ... So the mission of the

whether he was charged with falsifying his income and net commies in the U. S. is to forget the revolution worth statement or whether he was found guilty simply for the time being and instead apply all energy to for asserting his inability to pay after correctly stating his rebuilding their size and influence against the day when

worth. . . . Fine was assessed by visiting Judge W. R. Wallace another Stalin will be at the helm and the revolution of Oklahoma City, in a non-jury hearing for violation of the may proceed again.

U. S. Civil False Claims Act. . . . For nearly 30 years non- U. S. commies are now ready to do anything to help service-connected care in VA hospitals has been available rebuild, even to pretend to disavow Moscow and praise Wall

to vets who state their inability to pay, if beds are avail- Street, if that will win them new friends and suckers

able. . . . Claims that a significant number of veterans have additional in the U. S. . . . Hungarian atrocities bring

falsified their ability to pay have never stood up under contempt to U. S. commies, making it most desirable to indefensible cases tie-in investigation, a . small . although number disavow Moscow for now. . Even worse, the Moscow have persistently occurred. of the party helps prove Smith Act conspiracy charges against commies in courts, and also makes them liable to heavy penalties for not registering as foreign agents IS THIS TRUE ABOUT KILROY? with the Justice Dep't. Was Kilroy "here" during WW2 or only after the war? So expect the American commies to adopt a new constitution at their February convention making (1) a . . . Dr. Clyde H. Ward of Detroit reports to "Newsletter" that in many months of trying to find a published reference paper "Declaration of Independence" from Moscow, and to "Kilroy was here" the earliest one submitted to him is (2) "outlawing" conspiracy in their ranks. Later, look for commie sea lawyers to use such a a clipping dated June 26, 1945. . . . Dr. Ward is now beginning to feel that as far as being recognized in print. "Kilroy constitution as "proof" that they aren't foreign agents and was here," was a post-war, and not a wartime, phenomenon. should no longer come under the Smith Act And watch commie recruiters use the same piece of paper to . . . "Newsletter" can't prove otherwise, but feels certain 29 seek the trust of a new generation of commie fronters. Many in Washington expect the GI interest rate to be

Watch for the February communist convention also hiked to 5% soon. . . . That would require legislation, to expedite the rebuilding program by coming out as a since 4^/2% is the present legal limit on GI loans. . . . Many repentant sinner, now 100% American and only interested lenders, anticipating a jump in the GI rate, have queried

in the common good. . . . This will mark the big drive to VA about negotiating vets' loans which could take

grow in size again, against the day when a big U. S. party advantage of a future increase in the interest rate. . . . VA will help the Stalin of tomorrow. advised it would recognize loans which stipulated the You may expect commies to: interest rate as being the "maximum permissible at the

(1) Infiltrate U. S. groups on a big scale, especially time the loan is closed" provided this had been agreed to labor unions and Negro groups. as a tentative arrangement by the veteran borrower. . . . (2) Knock off the world revolution line, and pretend It would not apply to loans already committed, the VA to be interested only in the aims of the infiltrated groups. warned. (3) Confess past errors of the party and blame them on A special American Legion committee met in Stalin. Washington early in December to make recommendations (4) Speak harshly of Russia and kindly of America. on what the Legion policy should be regarding the shortage

Aim of all this pro-American, anti-Soviet camouflage of private funds available for GI loans. . . . Report of the will be to gain a position of strength for anti-American, committee was submitted to the Nat'l Executive Committee

pro-Soviet missions of the future. . . . New line is not for a mail vote shortly after Christmas, so that the very different from the highly successful pattern of the 30's. Legion position could be made known in the probable event

. . . Whether it will win new suckers will depend on of early Congressional hearings on the subject.

how much America has learned the lessons of the 30's. . . . It will probably have some success, but the commies may NELSON DECISION WILL SPARK be surprised how many victims are watching them more ATTEMPTS TO MODIFY SUPREME COURT: closely than they did 20 years back. Watch for more efforts in the Congress than ever before

to curb the Supreme Court, at least to bring it "back" to LEGION CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION what many Congressmen feel it was always "supposed to IS LOGICAL RECIPIENT OF MEMORIAL GIFTS: be". . . . The Steve Nelson decision by the Court will be

Persons, Posts or Units wishing to memorialize a cited often as a reason to bring the Court "back to earth". deceased Legionnaire or other veteran have an excellent . . . Court reversed Pennsylvania conviction of Nelson for avenue for a memorial gift of lasting value in the subversion, arguing that in passing the Smith Act, Congress

American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. . . . Last intended to take over complete control of subversion, there- Nat'l Convention resoluted specifically that the Foundation fore wiped out all State anti-subversion laws, including

is a nationally approved recipient for memorial gifts. . . . naturally the Pennsylvania law under which Nelson had

The Foundation, only a few years old, is not to be confused been convicted. . . . Rep. Howard Smith (Va.), author of the

with the Legion Nat'l Child Welfare program. . . . The Smith Act in 1940, last year asked Congress to state whether

program is a continuing Legion activity, which chiefly that was its intention. . . . He got no action last year, may

alleviates current distress in American children. . . . The be expected to keep pressing the question. . . . Not the

Foundation goes beyond what the Legion is qualified slightest doubt that Smith never intended his Federal anti- to do itself, and steers Legion-raised funds into specialized subversion law could reasonably be used to free Nelson. outside programs for the prevention of distress among Seventy bills to modify the Court were in the hopper children, all carefully screened by Legion child welfare last year, including a Constitutional amendment to clearly experts. ... In a few years time, the Foundation has made state some powers inherent in the States, and a bill to make grants of t-fiis sort amounting to more than $56,000. Justices retire at a definite age. Memorial gifts should (a) be made out to American Ages of present Justices are: Frankfurter, 74; Reed, 71; Legion Child Welfare Foundation; (b) be sent to Secretary, Black, 70; Burton, 68; Chief Justice Warren, 65; Douglas, American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, P. O. Box 58; Clark, 57: Harlan, 57 and Brennan, 50.

1055, Indianapolis 6. Ind.: (c) state name of person or The American Legion has protested the Nelson decision, persons in whose memory gift is made: (d) state name acted as amicus curiae on behalf of Pennsylvania when of person or group making the memorial gift. Nelson case was being heard by the Supreme Court.

TIGHT MONEY MAKES GI LOANS DWINDLE: PUSHES FOR SENATE VETERANS COMMITTEE:

New applications from lenders for guarantees on Senator Charles E. Potter (Mich.) announced on Dec. GI housing loans hit a two-year low in November, 30 that he would introduce a resolution in the Senate to and were expected to drop off even more rapidly when create a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, comparable final figures for December are in. to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. . . . The a Tight money depressed GI loans throughout 1956. . . . American Legion strongly supports creation of such Total applications for the year were 22% under the all-time committee, and a number of Senators in the past have

. . . Senator high of the previous year. . . . November applications attempted to create one, without success to date. were 17,357 fewer than the previous November (37,817 Potter correctly pointed out that the two committees of the as against 55,17 !)• Senate that now handle vets' affairs have other pressing Increase in FHA mortgage interest rates from 412 to business that takes up much of their time, resulting in long 5% in December was expected to steer lenders and builders periods of inaction on important veterans' bills that have away from GI housing into FHA housing even faster. cleared the House. 30 There is an important job waiting for you back in service

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Enclosed is check for $ Ship C.O.D. for $.. Q Please rush a 1957 Emblem Catalog. JACKET (not included with Economy Uniform) Please rush delivery of the following: Made of 14-ounce, nylon-blend gabar- dine to match trousers. Crease and stain resistant. Eisenhower style. Elastic in- serts forextended waist-band. Gold stripe 1/2 inch wide forms a sleeve culf. W hen ordering give chest and waist measure- Name ments along with height. (Chest sizes Street 36-44 immediate dolisery from stock. All City State. other sizes, add $5.50 and allow 5 weeks for delivery.) A'.-. 7j $l«.95 Current Membership Card Serial Number . NEWS °fneA^merican Legitton and Veterans' Affairs

ized a special "Ask Your NeigIil)or" Nafl Cmdr Urges All Posts membership campaign to be conducted by Posts from January until the Legion's Keep Big Membership Increase birthday, March 15-17. Daniel stressed that during the winter months, non-

member veterans should l:)e given access Paid-up ineinbersliips in The Ameri- A total increase in 1957 of an average to membership by personal invitations can Legion for 1957 ran a half miUion of 12 members per Post would achieve to join from their American Legion ahead of the corresponding date a year the three million mark, and it was to- neiglibors. earlier in mid-December, getting 1957 ward this goal that Commander Daniel The "Ask Your Xeigliljor " drixc was membership off to the best start in his- announced by Commandei' Daniel in t()r\'. And National Commander Dan the January American Legion Magazine, Daniel (Va.) immediately took steps to and on December 16 Commander maintain the momentum. Daniel called National Membership Early ii^ December, Pennsyh ania ran Chairman Churchill T. Williams, of more than 88,000 members ahead of the Iowa, and the fi\e National \'ice Com- same date last year. Illinois more than manders into National Headquarters in 37,000, and the national total was more Indianapolis to plan the mechanics of than 598,000 ahead. North Dakota, as the "Ask Your Neighbor" campaign. usual, had exceeded its 1957 year's To coordinate the special campaign quota by December 6. at the Post level, each of the National In the critical world situation that ^Villiaiiis Daniel \'ice Commanders undertook to cairy preceded World War II, Legion mem- directed a special mid-winter nation- the planning into the Departments in bership hit its highest levels in the 20- wide membership campaign. He ex- his respectixx' national area, by working odd years of its existence up until then, pressed confidence that the leadership with the l])epartment Commanders. Ad- a rise that began in 1936, saw the great- qualities of the 1957 Post Commanders jutants and membership chairmen, who est Convention parade display of all are equal to the three million challenge, in turn would be asked to carry the uni- time in 1937, and kept rising to hit new and that they have the resolution and fied national program to the districts membership records successively in perseverance to meet it. and Posts in their Departments. 1940, 1941, and 1942. Commander Daniel speedily organ- Meanwhile, a national mailing to all While an unmeasurable part of the huge 1957 early increase was attribut- able to early payment of dues to get in 'ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR" under the December 1st deadline of the increase in national dues, many Legion and non-Legion analysts attributed Are You a Veteran? more of it to the critical world situation (as a result of which more veterans are seeking to identify themselves with the May I Take Your American Legion's realistic attitudes ) Early in December, National Com- Application for mander Daniel urged the Departments of The American Legion to be awake to Membership in The the trend. He asked them to make sure that the Legion's 17,000-odd Posts did American Legion? not discourage a new rush of veterans into the Legion by closing down their membership activities as early as in Will You be my Guest at normal years; to assure, in an organized our Next Post Meeting? way, that in every community where there is an American Legion Post every eligible veteran who would join would be given an opportunity to do so. Recognizing that the entire early increase in membership was not a true total increase, but in part reflected an earlier-than-usual re-enrollment which would cancel out later. Commander Daniel set his sights on total membership lor 1957 of three million, which would require holding 204,0 10 of the initial 598,000 increase throughout the year. Theme of special niid-winic iiinl)frshi|) drive.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • I EBRUARV 1957 • 35 Posts of broadside literature detailin;j; naments leading up to the Little World Below are listed some of the previous-

the mid-winter membership campaign Series ha\ e not yet been completed. 1\ unpublished life memberships that was scheduled for early January. The The finals of the American Legion have been reported to the editors. They literature stresses the theme of seeing National Oratorical Contest will be held are arranged b\' States. that all veteran non-members are invited in the Waterville High School audito- E. C. MerrHt (1956). Post 7. Welumka. Ala. William B. Noia (1946). Post 161. Antioch, to join The American Legion (See pic.) rium, Waterville, Maine, on April 11. All Calit\ Bessie Carr Noia (1946), Post 2.15. Stockton. to effectuate the four finalists will compete at Water- Area assignments who Calil. "Ask YoiH- Neighbor" plan in the con- \ille. in an attempt to give the best Emmons H. Boedeker (1956), Post 171, Victor, Colo. tinental Departments were: oration on a subject dealing with the Harr.v Abbott (1952), Post 86. Wilton. Conn. Eiiuene C. Flester R. Ari- Constitution of States, will (1951). Post 17, Washinjiton, Natl Vice Cmdr Carl Mosen the United D. C. zona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Mon- (jualify for American Legion college James F. Kehoe (194X). Post 23. Washincton. D C. tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, scholarships. The winner will make off Arthur R. Borint: (19,16) and Mike Sansone (1949) and Osiar Ba.>nard with a scholarship. E. (1952). Post 26. Plant Utah, Washington and Wyoming. $4,000 Cilv. Fla. Natl Vice Cmdr George T. Lewis, The four finalists will be the survivors VVilliam E. Doolittle (1955), Post 262, Weirsdale, Fla. Jr.: Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Geor- of Legion-sponsored oratorical contests Demetrios K. Caltchas (1949), Post 1. Athens. Greece. gia, Louisiana, in schools all in Mississippi, Oklahoma, high o\er the country, Dr. David Bokhof (1948) and Clarence B. Tennessee and Texas. which roughly 3()(),0()() students will Molter (1950). Post 1.19. Freeport. 111. Edwin C. Chilcutt (1952). Post 316. Chicago. 111. Natl Vice Cmdr Gaylor M. Broun: participate in the first round. J. L. Dohert.v (1955), Post 342, St. Charles. HI. H. Edward Almbers (1925) and Carl L. Ander- Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michi- At present 17 former prize winners son (1930) and Leonard A. Walsh (1931) and gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska. in the National Oratorical Contest are Thomas R. Preece (1932). Post 422. Berwvn, 111. Carl Malcom (1952). Post 42. Indianapolis. Ind. North Dakota, South Dakota and Wis- still in college, of whom 13 have not yet Gean M. Smith and E. L. Van Fleet (both 1955). Post 4X8. North English. Iowa. consin. exhausted the scholarship funds they Thomas McGee Fleming; (1946) and Frank J. Stranb (1954i. Post 7. Frankfort. Ky. Natl Vice Cmdr J. Edward Walter: won by placing in the top four. Robert J. Beauregard (1955). Post 22. Lewislon. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Nortli Since these scholarship prizes were Maine. Oscar G. Eckard and H. Cameron Elgin and Carolina, started in $122,()()0 South Carolina, Virginia, West 1938, of American Richard D. .Stonebraker and Samuel J. Cohen (all Virginia and District of Columbia. Legion prize money has been distributed 1956). Post 42. Hagerstown. .Md. Edward P. White (1946) and Albert Leveroni Natl Vice Cmdr John F. Stay: Con- in scholarship awards to oratorical con- (1950) and Mervin E. Wrisht (1955), Post 128. Mattapan. Mass, necticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New test finalists. Daniel W. Harrinuton (1952) and Peter S.vper Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, (1955) and Peter E. Pappas (1956). Post 130. Palm- Makes good er, Mass. Ohio, PennsyK ania, Rhode Island and At 31 years of age, the youngest Mortimer .1. Coakley and Charles J. McCartv 1950). Post 250. Boston. Mass. \'ermont. (both jnember of the new U. S. Senate is Frank I. ouis C. Lamoureuv (1951) and Henr.v J. Tes- sier (1953) and Arniand E. Daviau (1953) and F. Church, Jr., of Boise, Idaho, former William J. Blais (1554), Post 275. Chicopec Falls. AMERICANISM: Legion Boys' Stater and winner of The Mass. William Killifer (1919) and Fred Bernard Man American Legion National Oratorical ( 1953). Post 68. Paw Paw. Mich. Plans lor 1957 Nate V. Keller (1954). Post 239. Virginia. Minn. Contest in 1941, when he was a high Prescott M. Bucklev (1954). Post 45. Hinsdale. N. H. Sites and dates for important, major school student in Boise. Harry Ho,vt (1944) and George A. Karibjanian American Legion Americanism events Church, who treated the National (1946) and Salvatore Gallo, Jr., (194K) and .An- have thony Luisi and Milton H. Taylor (both 1950). been announced by the National Convention to his winning oration in Post 4, Vincland. N. J. Ale\ Bulloch (1956). Post 318, Demarest, N. J. Americanism Commission. 1941, went to Stanford on his American Blaude R. .Slireve (1955). Post 241. Glassboro. The 1957 Boys Nation will be held Legion scholarship winnings, left college N.J. William H. Sutton and William P. Van \len July 19-26 on the University of Mary- in his freshman year to serve in WW2. (1953). Post 242. Pompton Plains. N. .1. Hu'ie'l D. Murray and Joseph R. Buvkley and land Campus at College Park, Md., 15 After the war, to he returned Stanford, Frank Kupper and William J. I.oughran (all 1953).

miles out of Washington, D. C. got a law degree and opened a practice Post 272, Kockawav Beach. N, . Walter W. Schnell (1950) and G. Austin J. Approximately 2(),()0() high school in Boise, where he married Miss Bethine Schmidt (1951) and ,\rthur J. Ackernian (1952). Post 665. Biilfalo. N. ^'. juniors will participate in American his Clark, boyhood sweetheart and William E. White (19541 and William M. Purcell Legion Boys States before then, and daughter of former Idaho Go\ernor (1955). Post 725. Brooklyn. N. Y. two boys from Joseph Gallo (1955). Post 1174. New York, each of the Boys States Chase Clark. N. Y. will be selected by their youthful col- Church joined John Regan Post 2, James T. McKeel (1955). Post 15. Washinnlon. N, C. leagues to attend Boys Nation. American Legion, in Boi.se in 1948, and Eyerett J. Jones (1956). Post 23. Gastonia. N.C. The Boys Nation delegates will "legis- Voiture 311 of the 40&8. Dr. Robert D. Camiibell (1950). Post 6. Grand Forks. N, Dak, late" in the old Su]ireine Court chamber He ser\ed as vice commander and James J. Morris (1952). Post 5. Dayton. Ohio. in the Capitol building, visit the Presi- judge ad\'()cate of the Post, and as judge Paul W. Brown (1956). Post 51. Hubbard. Ohio. E. M. Kennel (1950). Post 150. O.Mord. Ohio. dent at the White Hou.se, hold their own advocate of the Department of Idaho. Adam J. Reay (1948 1 and Peter J. Horyath elections and set up their own national In 1955 and 1956 he was a member (1952). Post 674. Windham, Ohio. Russell Charles R. McCann government during M. Bonghter and the designated of the Legion's Nat'l Law and Order and Robert H. Kline and Fred M. Evans (all 1945). Post Rcadini;. Pa. week. Delegates will come from 47 Committee. Last year he tossed his hat 12. Milton E. Miller (1948) and Charles G. Cook States and from the Panama Canal Zone. in the ring as Democratic candidate for (1949) and John A. Weiler (1950). Post 153. Phila- delphia. Pa. The Little World Series, finals of the Senator from Idaho, and won a U. S. .\le\ander Currie and Robert E. McMaster (both 1957 American Legion Junior Baseball Senate seat on Election Day, last No- 1954) and Clarence J. Wilson and I.eo F. Mc- Donald (both 1955). Post 332. Philadelphia. Pa. tournaments, will be fought out by the vember, 15 years after winning the Arthur A. Want.v and Earl E. Want.v (both four surviving boy baseball teams spon- 1948). Post 449. Fin) Grove. Wis. Legion's Nat l Oratorical Contest. sored E. R. Felter (19S4) and Charles Earner (1955), by American Legion Posts, at Bill- Post 22, l<:iwlins. Wyo, ings, Montana, September 5-9. Site of LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: Post Commanders or Adjutants arc the Series to determine the National The citation of an indi\ idual Legion- asked to report life membership awards Champion Juin'or Baseball Team will be naiie to life membership in his Post is a to "Life Memberships," The American Cobb Fiekl, home of the Billings Mus- testimonal b\ those who know him best Legion Mtigazine, 720 5th Ave., New tangs of the Pioneer League. that he has ser\ ed The American Legion York 19, N. Y. Date of award is re- Full details of the elimination tour- well. quested in all cases.

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1956, the international Mixed Board on the U. S. board member in J 955 when there has been nothing you could call Clemenc)' and Parole released Col. Dietrich was released. He was "trans- German pressure, specifically on bclialf Peiper — as the same board had paroled ferred" to otlier duty when a storm of of Pcijier. Also, duiing the Dietiicli

Gen. Dietrich a > car earlier — after he protest followed Dietrich's parole. Then, affair, the (ierman Foreign Office trans- had served less than a third of his twice- U. S. Senator Robert Upton (N.H.) was mitted to us a letter from Fran Peiper, softened sentence. appointed. He resigned last June 30, asking for clemency." Dietrich and Peiper, arrested b\' the aTid Phenix replaced him.

U. S. Army in J 945, were both sen- The State Dep't reports that its re- CONTESTS: tenced to death in 1 946 for their butch- sponsibility ends with the appointment SoiiH'diiiig ery at Malmedy. There followed five of the U. S. member. Phenix was not \ow years of review.s of the U. S. Military instructed on U. S. policy toward con- Now you can give a $10,000 college Court findings, as a result of which both \ icted Nazis, because, said a State Dep't scholarship to some youngster of your sentences were commuted to life im- representative, the Mixed Board is sup- choice (maybe). Anyway, you have a prisonment by Gen. Thomas Handy, posed to act on its own, without instruc- chance to. The firm of Johnson and successor to Gen. Lucius Clay as Cmdr tion or responsibility to a higher au- Johnson (makers of familiar bathroom in Chief, European Command. thority. medical supplies) and Mutual Benefit

Meanwhile, the Bonn Convention Thus, in efiect, U. S. policy is to sup- Life Insurance Co. have put $75,000 in established an interim board on parole poit the Mixed Board and give it a free a schohusliip fund kitty, to be split up and clemencN', on whose recommenda- hand. It was U. S. leadership in the in 49 diftcrent ways to buy insurance tion Gen. Hoge, then European U. S. Bonn Convention which created this policies that will pay off when the kid Army Chief, shortened the sentences of weird international board made up of who gets each scholarship has his eight- the two butchers to 35 years, in 1954. members with no responsibility to their eenth birthday. Instead of J & J deciding In May, 1955, the permanent Mixed own governments, and in theory not what lucky kids will get the money Board was set up, and by Christmas of su]oposed to act upon or even know of (biggest scholarship is $10,000) they

that year it paroled Gen. Dietrich. \\'hen an\- national policy. \\ ill give \'ou and you and yon a crack the board followed suit with Peiper this But did the U. S. member act with- at it for free. All you do is write a 50- last Christmas, both Mahned\' murder- out reference to U. S. policy, or was his word essa\' which completes the state-

ers were free, 12 yeais after the official "independence " a means for him ment "A good education is important .", Massacre. to carry out informal instructions to sup- because . . with those six words not

J. Addington Wagner (Mich.), Nat'l Cmdr of The American Legion last OUTSTANDING LEGION PROJECTS: Florida winter when Dietrich was paroled, personally made Legion protests to the State Dep't, sought clarification of what la\' behind the parole and asked if Peiper would be next, without getting any clear answers. Following Peiper's recent parole,

Nat l Cmdr Daniel said in an open letter to families of Malmedy victims: "1 pledge to you, in what must be a moment of heartsick disgust and despair — that The American Legion will not rest until Spencer Phenix [American member of the Mixed Board from Cho- AMERICAN LliCION HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN at .St. 1\ t( rslnirg, corua, N. H.] and all other government Fla., is 30 years old tliis month. Founded as a projec t of .St. Pctcrshiir

TUB AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINi; • I tHRl AR^ l'>57 • ^-7 plane- i;5-plane "Marianas turkey shoot." counting toward tlie limit of fifty words. ers: Little, Brown and Co., 34 Beacon Sicihj, Salerno, Anzio. Covers Costs you nothing, except postage, St., Boston 6, Mass. Vol. IX. to date: the U. S. Naval actions in the Atlantic ink and paper, and \ ou don't even ha\ e The ten volumes published and the Mediterranean in connection to send in a Band- Aid wrapper. If you \'ol. I. The Battle of the Atlantic. with three campaigns named in the will a prize you can designate what Covers U. S Navy in general between the wars, then S. Naval involvement in title, from Jan., 1943 to June, 1944. \ oungster will get it. U. Vol. X. Atlantic Battle Won. The Contest opens February 4, ends May 4. escort duty and defense of British sea The finallv' final gaining of control of the sea lanes For full information write: John M. lanes before we were at war, and in Mediterranean, Frencli, Executi\e Director, National the battle against German U-boats in the Atlantic and from Youtli Scholarship Committee, 130 E. the Atlantic into 1943. May, 1943 to May, 1945. York N. Y. Vol. II. Operations in North African 59th St., New 22, AUXILIARY: Waters. Naval actions in connection WAR HISTORY: with the campaign that put Allied Tliey Fight TB troops ashore in Africa, from Oct., 1942 in 2 One stop that is always on the sched- The Navy W W to June, 1943. ule of annual visits of the President of Since 1947, additional volumes of TIic Vol. III. The Rising Sun in the Pacific. The American Legion Auxiliary is the Ilistonj of U. S. Naval Operations in Briefly covers Japanese expansion, and site of one of the 8&40's major national \V\\'2 ha\ e been coming off the presses. conflict with the U. S., from 1920 to projects in Denver. To date, ten volumes ha\'e appeared, Pearl Harbor; then details Naval and The 8&40, special service group of The v\'ith four more to come. Of the present Marine action— U. S. and Jap—from the American Legion Auxiliary, has since \ olumes, six co\er the Pacific War— Pearl Harbor raid in Dec. 1941 to the up 1932 had a special nat'l project aimed through the Marianas operation—and Doolittle-Halsey carrier-based B25 at care and prevention of TB in chil- four cover the Naval warfare in the At- strike at Tokyo in Apr. 1942; Jap con- dren. A major effort of this prograin has lantic and the Mediterranean. quests of the Philippines, Guam, Wake, long centered around the Nat'l Jewish Unlike the Army's huge series of Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Northern Hospital at Denver, Colo., free, non-sec- \\'\V2 histories, the Navy history is pri- New Guinea and Rabaid, all with at- tarian (in spite of its name) TB hospi- \atel\' written, privately published, and tendant Naval and Marine warfare from tal for children from all over the coun- is "imofficial." San Diego to the Indian Ocean. try. There, the 8&40 provides a host of Nevertheless, the author. Harvard Vol. IV. Coral Sea, Midicaij and Siih- volunteer services and fund activities Prof Samuel Eliot Morison, was com- marine Actions. Covers the Naval ac- related to the care of tubercular kids. missioned in the Navy in 1942 to do tions in the title, as well as the Jap land- Of many helpful activities, 8&40 the job, and partook of numerous Na\ al ings in the Aleutians, and submarine stresses finding and referring to the hos- actions for the sole purpose of writing actions in the Pacific into 1943. Ends pital children in any part of the countrv- history after the war. with the landings on Guadalcanal, after- who might benefit from its care. Some- A 1st) unlike the Army histories, these math of Coral Sea. times, in urgent cases, the U. S. Air l)ooks limit their theme to Naval opcia- Vol. V. The Struggle for Guadalcanal. Force airlifts children to Denver—as was lions. This is not story of recruiting, Details Naval and Marine action ashore the done with 10 Eskimo children two years training, procurement, supply. Naval and afloat in the Guadalcanal campaign ago, of whom all but one have now been i)ases, logistics. It is the story of com- from Aug. 1942 to Feb. 1943. Tells discharged bat, laid out in each volume to follow dramatically the bitter sea actions that When Mrs. Carl W. Zeller, 1957 Nat'l area campaigns and actions. lined Ironbottom Sound and the Slot Auxiliarv' President, \ isited the hospital The reader gets plenty ot excellent with so many sunken Allied and Japa- recently, bringing a gift of a goldfisli non-combat Na\al background to nese ships smaller craft. fm- and bowl for the young patients, hospital nish the needed understanding of the \'ol. VI. Breaking the Bisnuircks Bar- officials once again assured her of the shooting rier. campaigns but never a story Picks up the Solomons campaign important work the 8&40 was doing (it logistics, supplv, etc. for their own after Guadalcanal and follows sea ac- through its assistance program. sake.^ tions in Bismarcks- Solomons -Papuan He gets the figiiting war afloat, in all waters from 1942 until Rabaul was cut PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: its — detail from battlewagons and big off and the Admiralties were secured in WALTER J. KRESS, Past Dcp't Cmdr carriers to PT's and LCI's. And Prof May, 1944. of Pennsylvania (1936-37) and Past Morison's style is generally a popular Vol. VII. Aleutians, Gilberts and Mar- Chmn of The American Legion Reha- account, easily read, thoroughly familiar .shaUs. Covers Pacific Naval and Marine bilitation Commission, named Executiv e to the men of the \'VW2 Navy, and as actions outside the New Guinea, Solo- Director of the Nat'l Tax Associatitm, accurate as \()u please — carefully mons theater from June, 1942 until with offices in Harrisburg, Pa. checked against enemy accounts avail- April, 1944 - Attn, Kiska, Makin, THOM.\s H. HAYDEN, for 33 vears Ad- al)]e after the war. Four volumes are Tarawa, Majuro, Kwajalein, Enivvetok. jutant of Dep't of Kentucky, resigned still to come, covering the Pacific Wai The beginnings of large-scale amphibi- effective Jan. 31. from Le\te on, and the Eurojiean War ous actions and fast carrier strikes JOHN J. CORGORAX, legal consultant Irom Normandy on. against the Japanese. to The American Legion Rehabilitation Even to list the ground covered in Vol. \TII. New Guinea and the Mari- Commission, resigned. tlie l,()()()-()dd pages of the first ten vol- anas. Covers Pacific Naval warfare from FRED CLOUGH, JH., Past Nat'l Execu- umes is too much tor this space. Suffice March to August, 1944. The sweep up tive Committeeman from Maine, ap- it to sav that who reads one volume the northern New Guinea coast from pointed Commissioner of Industry and will want to read moie. Milne Bay to Biak-Sarmi; carrier plane Commerce for the State of Maine. All the first ten volumes are still in smashing of Jap air power in the Caro- JOSEPH HOLZKA, member of The print, the earlier ones having been re- lines, Marianas, Palaus, Bonins and American Legion Economic Commis- vised. They can be ordered at $6 each X'ogelkop-FIalmahara areas; battle of sion, elected \'ice President of the U. S. at most bookstores or from the publish- the Pliilippine Sea with its amazing Savings and Loan League.

• Mil- AVU KR AN rrxnoN magazine • Fr.nRUAR^ 1457 Died: CARL SKr;ui.\', Historian of tlie Dcp't of Iowa; at Iowa City. EUGENE N. noucK, Past J)ep"t Cmdr of Michigan (1952-53); suddenly.

ROLLE MILTON SC HUDEH, SR., Jr. Dcp't \'ice Cmdr of Georgia; in Atlanta. CHARLES E. ROCHESTER, retired president of the Lexington Hotel in New York, N. Y., and longtime member of The American Legion Nat'l Distin- guished Guests Committee.

NAT L OFFICERS: Dudley lletires On December 31 Henry H. (Hank) Dudley retired after 20 years' service with Nat'l Hq of The American Legion. For eight of the 20 years he was Nat'l Adjutant, the Legion's top administrator. Dudley joined The American Legion in October 1919 before he was discharged from the service. He became Adjutant of Post Nebr., in 1, Omaha, More . . . and more . . . and more 1926, and was named Dcp't Adj't of Nebraska in 1930. In 1936 he joined the ECHO SPRING answers the call nat'l organization as a Field Representa- for truly smooth tive. In 1941 he became director of the Nat'l Defense Division, and for 18 Kentucky Straight Bourbon months during WW2 served on loan No finer bourbon ever came Kentucky Bourbons. For a from the Legion with the U. S. Office of out of Kentucky. And yet truly smooth bourbon call for Civilian Defense as head of that agency's Echo Spring: comes to you at Echo Spring' ag'ain...and

xeterans section. He left government a price lower than most other again . . .and apain. service in 1943 and became director of STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. . .86 PROOF... ECHO SPRING DISTILLING COMPANY, LOUISVILLE. KY. The American Legion Field Service. He then served as Ass"t Nat'l Adju- tant for approximately 5 years, and on May 3, 1948, was appointed Nat'l Ad- jutant. Dudley was the sixth man to fill Each Doily C. F. the number one administrati\'e slot in Capsule Contains: The American Legion. Vitamin A He held this ^..^OO USP Unlls Vitamin D office until July 1, 1956, when he re- 1 000 t'SP Units signed. From that time until the day of Vitamin C 75 niK. Vitamin Bi 5 mK. his retirement he remained on the staff 30 DAYS SUPPLY vitamin B2 2 5 mi;. Vitamin Bo 0.5 mc. as Consultant. Safe High-Potency Nutritional Formula Vitamin B12 1 mcs Niacin Amide 40 m;;. At Nat'l Hq on December 17 employ- Calcium Pantothenate 4 mc. ees of the nat'l organization tendered a Vitamin E 2 1. 1!. Folic Acid 0.5 mc. farewell party in his honor. Present at Calcium "5 mg Phosphorut 5.S mg. the party were — appropriately — Past VITAMINS Iron 30 me. Cobalt 0.01 Nat'l me. Cmdrs James F. O'Neil (who had MINERALS AND AMINO ACID Copper 0.45 niR. Manganese 0.5 mg. appointed Hank as Nat'l Adj't) and Molybdenum 0.1 J. proven ingredients — niK. 25 Iodine 0 075 mu. Addington \Vagiier (who had acce]:)ted 11 Vitamins (including Potassium 2 mg. his Zinc 0 5 mg. resignation and had requested him Blood-Building B12 and Magnesium 3 mg. to remain as Folic Acid), 11 Minerals, Choline Consultant); each paid him Bitartrate 31.4 mg. Choline, Inositol, and Methioni tribute for his Inositol 15 mg. many years of devoted dl-Methionlne to mg. service to the Legion. Past Nat'l Cmdr NOW YOURS Compare this formula with O'Neil presented Hank with gifts from any other! Yes, -we want to send you FREE, a 30-day supply of Hq staff members. high-potency Vitasale C.F. Capsules (a $5.00 value) VITASAFE CORP., Dept. 8 so you can discover for yourself how much healthier, 43 West 61 SI Street, New York 23, N. Y. happier and peppier you may feel after a few days' trial! Each capsule supplies your body with well over Please send me free a 30-day supply of the proven BRIEFLY NOTED: the minimum adult daily needs of the 11 important VITASAFE CV (Comprehensive Formula) Capsules, vitamins, plus 11 minerals, choline, inositol and and full information about the VITASAFE plan. amino acid. I am not under any obligation to buy any additional ^ The American Legion Child Welfare vitamins, and after trying my free sample supply, Potency and Purity Guaranteed I will ACCEPT OR REJECT the benefits and Foundation gave $3,500 to the National You can use these Capsules confidently because strict substantial savings offered by the VITASAFE Plan. XJ. S. Government regulations demand that you get Association In any case, the trial month's supply of 30 for Mental Health. Past exactly what the label states — pure ingredients VITASAFE Capsules is mine to use free. whose beneficial effects have been proven time and Nat'l Cmdr Paul H. Griffith (Pa.) made time again! I ENCLOSE 25' (coins or stamps) to help pay for packing and postage. the presentation in Washington, D. C. Amazing New Plan Slashes Vitamin Prices In Half With your free vitamins, we will send you complete Nome details of an amazing new plan that provides you with a 30-day supply of vitamins every month for Dep'ts which have amateur radio just $2.00 — 60'; less than the usual retail price. Address But remember — you're not obligated to buy from us networks or which are participating in now or ever! The supply of free capsules is limited City Zone Sjute — so mall coupon today! some amateur radio program are re- This offer Is limited to those who have never before VITASAFE CORPORATION ta^en advantage of this generous trial. Only one (Cnuliinicfl on iic\l jMi'^f) trial supply per family. 43 West 61st St., New York 23, N. Y. ^

THli AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • I EBRUARY !y.S7 39 BRIEFLY NOTED scheduled basketball games throughout age to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at Con/in iictl) ( the nation. Springfield, 111., on Lincoln's birthday,

quested to advise the Nat'l Adj't of this Feb. 12. . fact. Write Nat'l Adj't E. A. Blackmoie, Chicago, 111., has been chosen as the P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. site for the 1958 American Legion Na- ^ Mel Tanasse, Cmdr of the 6th Dis- tional Convention. trict of Washington, has started a series ^ Nat'l Security Division requests of cooperative ads in the Yakima Herald Dep'ts which have blood donor pro- ^ The Sullivan County, N. Y., Ameri- which any Post can adoj^t for its mem- grams to report details of the programs. can Legion designated Sat. and Sun., bership promotion campaign. Ads were Address Nat'l Security Div., P. O. Box Jan. 19-20, as special days of prayer to sponsored by local business firms. His 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. ask God "to give the President of the success with one-column, illustrated ads U. S. the wisdom and guidance neces- has emphasized how Legion Posts can ^ Rifles for ceremonial purposes are sary to carry out the duties entrusted to obtain worthwhile publicity at no cost. available to Posts which have not pre- him by the people." Clergymen and viously received them. Requests will be newspapers of the county were asked to ^ During the 1919 victory celebration filled in order of receipt, and Posts participate in the movement. in France, Marshal Foch invited an should not request additional rifles nor American bugler. Hartley Edwards, to write follow-up letters seeking speedier ^ The situation in the Near East has return to France and play Taps at a fu- shipment. Requests for rifles should be prompted U. S. Dep't of State to warn ture Armistic Day celebration in Paris. addressed to: Major Item Supply Man- that American citizens who serve in the On Nov. 11, 1956, Edwards, now a agement Agency, Letterkenny Ordnance armed forces of any foreign countr\' member of Post 62, Denison, Tex., Depot, Chambersbiug, Pa., Attn: without written authorization from the donned his WWl helmet and played ORDSM-KMS. Secretary of State and the Secretary of Taps twice on his WWl bugle at the Defense face loss of U. S. citizenship. Arc de Triompbe. ^ Reports of Veterans Day celebrations by Legion organizations outside the ^ Wakefield, Mass., has a husband and ^ In Dec. Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel sent continental U. S. indicate that the wife team serving as Post Command- a telegram to President Eisenhower ex-

world's largest veterans organization ers this year. Daniel C. Stewart, Jr., is tending the assistance of The American conducted impressive ceremonies hon- Commander of Post 63, and his wife Legion in the Hungarian refugee relief oring the nation's war veterans abroad Ethelyn R. Stewart is Commander of program. Shortly thereafter the Legion as well as in the U. S. The observance Post 376. Daniel C. Stewart, Sr., is a had bought all the Hungarian-English by the Dep't of Panama was significant Past Cmdr of Post 63. Dep't Adj't Leo dictionaries that were available in the

l)ecause: (1) it was the largest ever Anderson believes this is the first in- U. S. and was presenting them to Hun-

held in Balboa; (2) it was the first time stance in his Dep't where husband and garian refugees at Camp Kilmer, N. J. President de la Guardia of the Republic wife have commanded Legion Posts in Earlier, in late Nov., the Middlesex

of Panama appeared in public in the the same year. County, N. J., Executive Committee Canal Zone; (3) special guests were adopted a resolution beginning — in Los Soldados de la Independeiicia, the ^ Hermann A. Wenige, Adj't and Ser\ - Hungarian — "£;:

gium, Post 1, Kaiserlautern, Germany, ceeded its previous year's membership Ind., started a project to repair and re- and Post 1, Frankfurt, Germany, were each year for the past 11 years. Last decorate toys for needy children. Project represented. year the 75-year-old Wenige enrolled has now grown into a year-round pro- 522 of his Post's 1,373 members. gram, and local merchants and non- Legion groups may now view a static Legionnaires also take part. This past disijlay and hear of the opportunities The American Legion Veterans Em- Christmas distribution crews worked and requirements for admission to the ployment Committee serving the Oak- into the small hours of Christmas morn- service academies. The Air Force Acad- land, Calif., area has distributed lO.OOO ing to deliver toys to hundreds of needy emy will send a static display unit and pocket calendars urging people to noti- homes, and the Madison Courier de- representatives to address interested fy a Legion Post Employment Officer scribed the Legionnaires as "Santa Glaus persons in order to encourage young men of job openings. Committee reports im- in an overseas cap." to seek careers in the Armed Foices. usual success in finding jobs for vets. a AS OF DEC. 1956 Post 426, West Legion Dep'ts wishing more information Liberty, Ohio, munbered 92 members, about this activity should write to: Maj. ^ In early Dec. the VA announced that although its cpiota is .51. One reason: James D. Hunter, Director of Admis- more than 10 million \ ets have recei\'ed Post has a membership-getting Adjutant sions, Hq, Air Force Academv, Denver, training under the Legion-sponsored GI in Ross Mcllvain who has signed up 91 Colo. Bill and its Korean War counterpart. The of the 92 members. Post now aims to schooling program for WW2 vets has double its quota. Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel has accepted ended except for a few hardship cases ^ AMONG POSTS wliicli liavc topped appointment as Nat'l Chmn of "Points among the disabled. In general, vets of their last gear's membership mark is for Polio," a new national project of the the Korean War have until 1965 to com- Post 97, Dan\ille, home Post of National Foundation for Infantile Pa- plete their training. Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel. As of \'eterans ralysis whereby March of Dimes volun- Day Post 97 had enrolled 525 members teers will accept pre-game pledges ^ Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel will lead the —three more than on the same date last of so much money per point at regularly annual nat'l American Legion pilgrim- year — and thereby won a national Cer-

40 • THi; AMliRICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 B ; . —

tificate of Most Distinguished Sei\ic('. ^ EIGHT MEMBERS of Post 82, Millvi]l(>,

N. J., were among the first in the State to take the CiviHan Defense heavy duty rescue course offered by the N. J. State Police. U FOR MANY YEARS Post 11, Frederick, Md., has provided the flags w hich have flown over the grave of Francis Scott Key, composer of Tlie Star Spangled Banner. Now Post 11 has taken on another flag program: to give flags to all schools in Frederick County. f[ THE 250 MEMBERS of Post 97, Adamsville, Tenn., are a good bunch of "cotton-pickin"' Legionnaires. They raised and marketed four acres of cotton to obtain money to build a Post home. Post can also point with pride to its membership accomplishments: every Now fishing fun is family fun eligible war veteran within five miles of

Adamsville is a paid-up member of Post . . . especially with a Bronson Spin-King! 97. Fishing's

Write for your FREE booklet on spin fisliing, f[ POST 20, Galveston, Tex. sponsored "Spinning tlie Bronson Way." the ninth annual Shrimp Bowl football Bronson Bronson Reel Company, Bronson, Michigan game in that city on Dec. 8. The con- FI!>HI\G REELS Div. Higbie Mfg. Co. test, which pitted the Generals of Boi- ling Air Force Base, D. C., against the Tankers of Fort Hood, Tex., honored the shrimp industry, especially the Gal- veston producers. Eight thousand fans BUY DIRECT FROM MILL & SAVE ON LABOR COSTS saw the Air Force team win 29 to 14. You can assemble ony of the 57 designs from easy- noils, roofing, gloss, etc. Sterling Homes ore modem to-follow plans. Every piece marked, easily iden- designed for modern living. Plons sold separarely. There were 15 former college All- Ameri- tified, ready to erect. No measuring or cutting. It's FIVE EASY PAYMENT PLANS - MONTHLY PAYMENTS cans and pro stars on the two service all done economically by precision machinery (not prefabricated). Save high squads. Among them: Ralph Guglielmi, labor costs and material wc contractor's profit and overhe Bernie Faloney, Don Shannon, Billy Complete with hardware, pa Reynolds, Minnie Mavraides. ORDfR JODAY SAVE UP TO40°/o H POST 1242, New York, N. Y., lias developed a program to fight juvenile delinquency by recognizing worthwhile SEND 75c activities of xoutlis who are not delin- Color catalog In- INTERNATIONAL MILL & TIMBER CO., BAY CITY, MICH. DEPT. Al 27 cludinn Floor Plans - quents. Post has done this hy presenting the American Legion Merit Award MAKE YOUR FORTUNE Medal: to four boys who helped save a Sell famous Spring-Step Cushion Shoes. Earn up to MINK 525 S» $25.00 doily plus Cash Bonus ond Retirement In- sightseeing boat from further damage ome with amazing 2-minute demonstration that BRED FEMALES FOR sells on sight. Big repeof business. Full or after it APRIL DELIVERY had rammed a bridge (boys spore time. America's Biggest Selection of Book: Domestic Mink, $1.00 were also treated to a day's outing at Shoes forall thefamily. Free outfit given No investment ever. Write today. HARRY SAXTON'S MINK RANCH Jones Beach and dinner and a show ) Point, N. Y. ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO., Inc. Bcmus to three boys who aided State Police to 3072 College Ave., Salem, Va. capture two youthful thieves; and to a 800 PAGES FIX ELiaRIC REFRIGERATORS UAW TO WASHERS boy who, though beaten by oung hood- soo RANGES ) ILLUS DRYERS TOASTERS VACUUMS lums, prevented their wrongful entry BROILERS IRONERS FREEZERS Many other GAS & ELECTRIC APPLIANCES into a school cafeteria. Here Is a Practical Realty Reference tor Electric Mechanics t Dealers. Coven f[ POST 305, Chicago, 111., presented ti Gas Servicemen. the American Legion Medal of Hero- Service t Repair. How to locate Troubles, Ho* to Test. Reassem ism to Fireman Harold J. Proliaska for ble I Connect, Wiring Diagrams. rescuing four people from burning 1000 Facts. Easy to Read. ANSWERS YDUR QUESTIONS. buildings. Post al.so conducted a Clirist- — AUDEL. Publishers mas party for 30 orphans. 49 W. 23 St.. New York 10. N.Y, : Mall AUDEL8 HOME APPLIANCE SERVICE OUIDE It ••<< • on 7 d>yi lr«« trial. It O.K. I will rtmit SI in 7 tfayi POST Y., a I will rtturn It. C 1174, New York, N. gave : II monlhly until t( It paid. Otliarslit. Christmas party for 200 mentally re- A HOW TO DO IT BOOK tarded children. LEARN MORE COMPLETE PAY $1 A MO. : TO GET THIS ASSISTANCE FOR • ((Uinliiliiril on next I'ligc) YOURSELF SIMPLY FILL IN AND S EARN MORE 6 MAIL COUPON TODAY. Employed by. —— IHU ,\.VIER1CAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 41 RECENT POST DOINGS months later Post dedicated a new home

( Coil I ill lied ) on the same site. \'a., conducted f[ POST 10, Weirton, \\ . POST Haverstraw, N. Y., had ex- ^ 46, a forum to discuss veterans problems. its membership quota by ceeded 1957 Speakers were Nat'l Field Rep. G. E. early 1956. Ainong the mem- December Heller and W. \'a. Dep't Adj't Tommy tlie town supervisor; all eligible bers: E. Jones. members of the town council; all eligible members of the village board of trustees; village fire chief and all eligible OUTFIT assistant chiefs; all eligible members ol the town and village police departments; REUNIONS tlie only eligible postmaster in the town- Stiul notices to: Outfit Reiuiioiis, The sliip; and several State emplo\'ees. Aineiicuu Legion iMiigazine, 720 Fifth .Ave- f[ MEMBERS OF POST 1, Denver, Colo., nue, New York 19, Nc\v VorK, will licld in month indicatctl. elected to public office in the last gen- Kciinioii be For paitii\ en. Congressman, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Justice of the State Supreme Army Court, Secretary of State of Colorado, 2nd Armored Div-(Au!;.) R. F. Perry P. O. Box Alexandria. Va. of State 172, and numerous members the I4th Armored Div, CC B, Hq Co-(July) Clarence Legislature. But Post members were ac- E. Anderson. Kennedv. N. S'. 14tli Engrs (AEF)-(May) David E. Brooks, 37 tive in otiier fields as well. By Christ- Park Ave., Squantum 71. Mass. 16111 Armored Div— (Auy.) James E. Austin. 100 mas time they had collected 17,000 to\'s Dec Drive. Linwood. N.J. Van Horn, for distribution in Denver orphanages. 16th Sis Operations Bn-(July) W. H. Jr., 1009 Edwardsbury Ave.. Elkhart. Ind. HwHEN THE NEW Post Office buildiug 60th Enlisted Ord Corps INat'l Army (WWD- (Feb.) Karl N. Pollard, 2713 Sterick Bldy.. was dedicated at Raytown, Mo., Post Memphis. Tenn. 113th Cav-(Mar.) The Red Horsers. 614 Boston of tliat coiumunity sent greetings to 596 Ave.. Des Moines. Iowa. .\at'l Cmdr Dan Daniel on a king-sized 148th Inf, Co K and Hq Co, 3rd Bn (WW2I- (May) Harold Voyel. 501 N. Elm. Coldwater, postcard. Card was 56 in. by 40 in. and Ohio. Moore, carried 100 two-cent stamps. 190th & 200th FA Bns-(Julv) William A. P. O. Box 97. Du Bois. Pa Gun Bn, Bfry-{June) S. Belak. f[ POST 139, Reese, Mich., has donated 216th AAA Hq G 12-4 Clifton Park. Wilmint;ton. Del. the use of its Post home for the kinder- 307th Inf, Co. IM (WWl)-(Mar.) "Henry Ringen. 85 Vermilvea Ave.. New York 34, N. Y. garten class of Reese public school. 438(h AAA AW Bn, BIry A-(July) Donald E. POST 310, Minneapolis, Minn., gave Jarrell. Bouckville. N. f[ Nat'l Connter InlelliKence Corps Ass'n— (Auy.) a station wagon to a special school at- Arthur F. Stitl. n43 St. Elmo NE.. Canton 5, Ohio. tended by children afflicted with muscu- ir dystrophy. Navy FUSE DESTHOYEi) the hoiue of Post f[ 88rh Seabees-lSepl.i H I. Tuchman. 221 N. Port- afie Path, Akron 3. Ohio. 1 38. Hamilton, Ohio, in 1955, l)ut 15 HMS Tnscania Survivors (WWl)-(Feb.) Edward T. Lauer. 803.5 Slicknev Ave.. Wauwatosa 13. Wis. LISS Barton (WW2)-(May) P. M. Shore. Jr.. 9915 THE AMERICAN LEGION Dickens Ave.. Bethesda 14. Md. NATIONAL HEAD({UAKTEUS CSS Gladiator-! Feb ) Don Weslerlund. Meno- monie. Wis. NOVEMBER 311. 19.-) fi USS Leviathan (WWl Crewl-(Apr.) R. L. Hed- ASSETS lander. Box 22. Cireeinvich. Conn. USS South Dakota (WWl (-(Apr.) Carl Haggland, Cash on hand anil on deposit S 914,!j02.7S 2519 NE. 59th Ave. Portland 13. Greg. Receivables .3:51,9fi2.19 Inventories .514,5.50.81 Relax-and be content Invested Funds 859,1 152. fiO Trust Funds: and HALF GIVES YOU Overseas Graves Decoration COMRADES HALF . ONLY Trust Fund . .$ 258,561,1'? COMPLETE CONTENTMENT Employees Retirement SUCH Trust Fund . . . 2,099.68:i.58 2.:J58.244.75 IN DISTRESS Real Estate 978,24:?.(;5 permit nolitcs to coiilaci Relax-and be content. Enjoy the pleasure Furniture and Fixtures, Space docs not less Depreciation 215,062,79 pcr.sons for any pin|)osc except to assist in of a bowlful of aromatic HALF and HALF. Defen-ed Charges 14O.S06.29 establish ill!;; a claim lor a veteran or his de- Each puff of this matchless tobacco brings Sii.ari.iios.si pendents. Slalemenl lo that ellect should

. . ii e. you deep-down satisfaction . helps you LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE accompany not .Send notices to: ( omi ades in Distress, feel at ease. Even the aroma carries content- AND NET WORTH The A met icon Legion Mog7 Funds: being. HAIF AND HALF in the pocket tin- Trust Buy Overseas Graves Decoration Army today ! Trust Fund . . .$ 2.58,561.17 4lh Armored Div, 24th Armored Kncrs, Co C — Retirement Empli>vees Need to hear from anyone who served with Tru.st 2.099,681.58 2,:55H,244,75 Fund me in France in Oct. and Nov. 1944. especially Net Worth: the batlalion doctor and medic (called Freedie Reserve Fund .$ 2:{.852,.30 or Freddie) who treated me tor kidney trouble.

Restricted Fund . . 19,0:56.80 1 also suffered from back and slomacii trouble. Real Estate 978,24:i.65 I recall Sgt Anderson, Sokial (or .Sopial). My Reserve for Washington nicknames were "Old Dobbin" and "Eagle Building 18,ij29.37 Eye." Write me, Roosevelt Hensley, Closplint, Reserve for Reha- Kv. Claim pendiuf;. hilitation .371,821.61 4th Div. 47th Inf, Co F (WWl) - Need to con- Reserve for Child tact anvone who served with me in France Welfare 8.143.17 or who was in the Red Cross Hospital in $1,419,626.90 Paris; especially need lo locate Abraham side when Unrestrictefl Crews, of Va., who was by my Write Capital 82,482.04 1.502,108.94 an exploding shell covered both of us. me. E. R. I.ivlncston, R.D.I. DuHield, Va. $6,:U2.605.81 Claim pendini; 5th Armored Div. 34th lank Bn, Ser Co and ©The AniericMii Tobncco Company

• I LIIRUARY 1957 42 • THF. AMURICAN LEGION MAGAZINE IVIaiiit Co — Need lo licar lioni anyone who (Ala.), Oran M. Tharp (La.), Balbus Lewis Write me, Roy F. N an Horn, P.O. Box 476, recalls Ihat I was cliecked for hiyh blood (N.C.), Bruno Phillip (N.Y.), William H. Jamestown. N. Dak. pressure while serving with Maint Co, 34(h Miller (Pa.), and anyone else who remembers Tank Regl at Camp Cooke, Calif., in 1942. Kollin Fairrloth, of Ocala, Fla. He served Navy Write me, INornian Brott, .lanscn, Ncbr. Claim in the Army from Mar. 29, 1944, to Nov. 21, Small Landing — pending. 1945, at Fort Sill. Okla.. (where he was Craft Salvage (;r<>iip #2 Need tth Div, 60th Inf, Co F (1947-48) - Need help on treated for hip and back condition), in France lo hear Irom anyone who saw the mine ex- plosion elaim from arnone who remembers my late and Germany, and at Camp Blanding. Fla. al Omaha Beach. France. July 4, husband. Kdnard i. Croshj, formerly of Chel- He suffered tumor of the stonuich and fro/en 1944. Write me. Robert Niles Macke.'), P. O. sea, Mass. Write me, Mrs. Edward J. Crosby, feet while in the EIO. Write Thomas E. Box 57, Marion, Ohio. Claim pending. IJSS Otis — to 26 Campbell Ave., Revere, Mass. Hooker. County Service Ollicer, Ocala, Fla. Need contact Dental I echnician J. 2"»tli Field Hosp — My back was injured in Bel- Claim [lending. Parker and the dentist who worked on my leelli in I remanllc. .Australia, in 1942 and gium in 1944. Need help on claim from any- 308th Inf, Co M-About Oct. 17, 1918, Pvt Mariiis 1943. Write me, C. J. one who remembers me. Write me. Marion C. ^lortcnscn was wounded and gassed. Need Newman, Star Route, llatlield. Ark. Claim pending. I>. Ireland, Co. I, Camp White, Orey. help on claiin from anyone who served with CSS President Hayes — Before the invasion of 29th Gen Ho.sp (W>V2) - I served with this outfit him. Write K. Klemmetson, Dept. Service the Solomon Islands on Aug. 1942, the on New Caledonia. In order lo establish claim, Ollicer, The American Legion. 620 University 7, 5-inch gun v^as lired as I was coming up the I need to hear from anyone who remembers St., .Seattle I, Wash. me. Write me, Alton Googe, Dotter Fill- ladder headed lor the laiitail. I had just en- c/o 329th Inf, Hq Co — Need to hear from anyone Abbeville, tered the hatch when the concussion knocked ing .Station, Ga. who was with my late husband, Victor W. - me unconscious and back down the ladder. I SXth Inf, Co M (WWl) Need help on claim Jacqnot, during the Battle of the Bulge in from anyone served with late hus- was taken to sickbay where I stayed lor more who my Dec. 1944 and who remembers Ihat he re- than a week with an injured back. Need lo band. I'^t Howard R. Postcn, in France, or ceived shrapnel wounds. Write me, Mrs. V. W. learn the name of the doctor who was abroad Irom anyone who recalls that he \\'as gassed .lacquot, 1419 Cottonwood, Casper, Wyo. S. the ship and to locale him. Write me, Kd- or wounded. Write me, Mrs. Rena Posten, Claim pending. Shoemaker Ave., West Wyoming, Pa. ward Vernon Bryant, Jr., 741 Center St., El 444th AAA Bn, Btry B - Need lo locate Lt 65th Chein Warfare Co — Need to hear from AW Segundo, Calif. Claim pending. Bardolph and Lt MacBierney under whom I LISS anyone who served with me in France or William T. Powell — I was a loader on a served at Camp Haan, Calif., and Camp Belgium in 1944-45. Write me. John Lehet, 2()-min. gun, and I was injured during firing Davis. N.C. Write me, (former Pvl) Robert 911) E. 2.'9th St., Euclid 23, Ohio. Claim practice in 1944. I was ordered lo close the F. Irish, ]^ Delaware Court, Watervliet, N. Y. pending. ready box, and a 3-inch gun was liring near- C laim pending. by. 1 fell down a ladder to sleeping quarters I28th Inf, Co B — I was gassed and suffered sur- 267Sth Rect ,\llied Commission, 2nd Co - In the hurt back. lace burns from gas; I was sent to Base Hos- and my One of the gunners on pital 19, Hilter Hotel, and was one of the spring of 1945 1 had a inolorcycle accident the 3-inch gun was Boatswain's Male 2c f. Ci. at in Italy. lo lirst patients to arrive at the Hilter (about an intersection Modena. Need Leath (who may have been from Spartan- hear from anyone the acci- Aug. 6, 1918). Need to hear Irom anyone who who remembers burg. .S. C). Need to hear from anyone who remembers me. especially from the doctor and dent, especially: Capt Edward L. Bimberg; remembers me. especially from Lyons who the two nurses who treated me. Write me, Sgt Joe Blasko; Sgt Needham: Sgt Walker; was on the 20-mm. with me. (He was from Jepth.v Irhy. ?I5 Missouri Ave., Borger, Tex. Pfc Cadara; Pfc Warner; the driver of the around Spartanburg. S. C, and he h:id a Claim pending. truck involved; the two MP's who look me twin brother on the ship; both twins iilayed to the hospital. Write me. Harry C. Collins, ihe guitar.) Write me. James Ahboll, 141st Port Co, Camp MeKaj, Boston, Mass. - Roy 167 Orchard Drive, Danville, Va. Claim pend- R.D. 1, Gatlinburg, Tenn. Claim pending. Need to contact men who served with me in ing. 1944-45, especially: Capt Edwin Rice (the Travis, (Feb.-Scpt. 1918) CO), 1st Lt Anthony (Adj), 2nd Lt Woods. Camp San Antonio, Tex. Air — eslablish claim, 1 need to con- 1st Sgt .lames C. Gaines (of Detroit), Co In order to 346th Bomb Grou|>. 461st Sqdn — Need to locate laci anyone who worked in the Personnel Clerk Herbert Barnett (N.Y.). S/Sgt George Cpl Manuel Leon Eros to pro\ e that I received Davis (Cincinnati). Write me (former mess Otiice. Copying Department. Particularly re- medical attention in service. He was in Calif, sgt. known as Hendy"). George W. Hender- call an Indian boy from Okla. who worked (probably Los Angeles) in 1946. Write me, typist. son, Apt. 2, 2.M9 E, 6Ist St., Cleveland 4, there as a My nickname was "Pee Ernest N. .Muller, R.D. 2, Forestburg. Tex. Ohio. Claim pending. Wee." Write me, George E. Criswell, Ackerly. Claim pending. 176th Gen Hosp — My ankles were injured at Tex. 383rd Air Serviie Group, 607th Air Materiel Sqdn—

l a Haye-du-Puils, France, in 1945. Need to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Post Stockade — In I was injured in a truck accident. Now need locale Pfc Martin A. Fields, of Texarkana, order to establish claim, I need lo learn the to hear from anyone who was stationed with Tex., and Cpl Gilbert Chavez, of Tex. Write whereabouts of Cpl Gilbert Hansen (thought this outlil at Krapuir, India, in the summer of iTie, Mitlard Highley, 2406 Vermont St., Mid- lo have been from 111. or Ind.) who was a 1945. particularly Raymond Pickett and Nor- dletown, Ohio. Claim pending. stockade guard while I was a records clerk man Hadley. Wrile me, Howard P. Hooks, 232nd FA Bn, Btr.v \ and 666th FA Bn, Btry C- about 1952 or 1953. I may be remembered 444 S. Wayne St., Milledgeville. Ga. Claim Need lo contact John Mack (Pa.), Leo Combs as the man who was hit by a bus downtown. pending.

VETERANS . What would you say to these boys facing service?

BOB wants to be a draftsman. What does the Army offer him?

JOE wants to work with guided missiles. What does the Army offer him?

ART wants to travel overseas. What does the Army offer him?

Young men constantly look to experienced veterans like you

for straight facts on Army service. Sometimes it is difficult for you to keep up-to-date on Army opportunities, and the Army would like for you to know three important facts that meet the needs of young men like Bob, Joe and Art.

For Bob: choice of job training. many more — they name it and High school graduates can it'sgi^ara/j^ccc/beforeenlistment. choose their Army training For Art: choice of travel. Under before they enlist. Over 100 the new Unit Rotation program courses are offered drafting, — he may plan his overseas serv- mechanics, photography, elec- ice — whether in Europe, the Far tronics, practically everything! East or Alaska. This Army And it's guaranteed before en- travel is guaranteed before en- listment. listment. For Joe: choice of branch. He With these facts you can show can enlist directly into the Army young men that they will get Antiaircraft Command for the choice, not chance, in the Army. work he wants. This option lets For further details on various young men pick their spot. In- Army programs available to fantry, Armor, Signal Corps, them, why not direct them to Engineers, Artillery, Airborne, their local Army Recruiter?

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too put out about his Blackwell blind lists in his winter Dodger book is how FREE spot. .Stan Musiai, terror that he is, was well a hitter does with two strikes shown by the statistical breakdown to against him. It turned out that the av- HIGH-POTENCY be almost impotent against a second- erage batter hit an even ,200 under such line Dodger pitcher of the time, Clyde trying circumstances. But Campanella MITAMINS King. Where many mediocre batters thrived on the rugged life in 1951—he murdered King, Musiai couldn't hit him hit 1 1 home runs when he was down to Includes "Red" Vit. B12 and other stimulants for the growth of for sour apples. his last swing. lath VImatrIn RED CELLS Copsufa Contains BLOOD When Roth first created this newest The biggest worry of the baseball egg- \(IU IllU.V liilVC, aliMiliifclv it- A. 6000 units I H i-. .1 lull 2,"i-(lav .suppiv c.l 600 post in baseball, he had been doing head is the same one that worries egg- Vil B'I2 3 Mill aniaziiiK VIMATRIN. the lic» Folic Add 0 25 Mg. VITAMIN-MINERAL FOR- much the same thing in hockey for the heads in all fields: that his "think-work" VII. 81 4 Mg MULA, comparable to l)rantkMl VII. 8.2 3 M(. piiidui l.s lhat ictail to $7.!i.'. Montreal Canadiens. Actually he started really Vil. B.6 H i Mg. up will annoy the people who are Cii. Ptnlo 5 Mg. P< i lull. We iia.v tile e.xpense N. AmKe 25 Mg. t)t this .sensational otter . . . keeping baseball statistics for the fun doing the job. He makes clear, once his VII. C 50 Mg. not just a token sample, Init a Chollng 25 Mg. lull . it. Inositol 25 M|. 25-day supply . . because of statistical findings have brought some Vlt. E .3.7 we're sure this trial will pro\e Cilelum .2IS Mg. to you that you, too, like iiian\ "I always hated statistics." he says, small, important measure of success to Phoiphorut .IS5 Mg. thousands of others, may ex- iodint .... .O.IS Mg. health. in field sports. in Iron .12 Mg. perience a new t'eelin;^ of "except the of And Magnoiium 3 Mg. \(mth and well-beinj;, a new PeUliium 1.5 Mg. /est f(u- life. 3'^ach easy-to-take baseball they can be fascinating," Coppor I Mg. CAPSULE supplies your body Manginaio I Mg. uith K! vitamins and 12 min- Once he joined the Dodger organiza- Zinc I Mg Molybdenum 0 2 Mg era Is in new liiKlier potencies Fluorino 0.1 Mg eiiual to, or e.\ceedinti, the tion, the first of his breed in the base- Cobill 0 15 Mg miuiiiuim daily recjuirements, and ineludinK 3 nics. of the ball world, he watched the games and Ited" Vitaiiiiii r.lli aloiiK with Folic acid important lactois in BLOOD BUILDING. .Mso FREE the famous compiled his records from a seat direct- VitaMiin-Qiu>la (iuide Book. Answers perplexing vitamin duestions and shows how to SAVE UP TO 50% on flie ly behind home plate. For five years he .same vitamins your doctor advi.ses. All absolutely FREE, no obligation to buy anythins, no miuifhly purchase plan made his devastating hen scratches from Siijiplv limited. Only one to a family please. Enclose 2."" to cover cost of paekinK and mailiUE. Send for your sup there, but by this time the word had got plv todav. VITAMIN-QUOTA. Dept. T-(ll!t, 880 Uroad wav. New York X. Y., or Dept. T-fil!l. 112.'T Crenshaw around to the sports broadcasters and I,ns .Xngeles 111. Calif. I-.lvd . writers that this was a good man to have MEN! WE FIT in your corner. So, he moved upstairs to FEET! the press bo.\ first, then to the broad- W-I-D-E casting booth. Today almost any TV or E to EEEE Only radio commentator that you listen to in Sizes 5 to 1 either league could not possibly sound Ileal coinfoit at last for w-i-d-e tcet We spt'ciali/e in wide sizes and otter so well informed baseballwise without you styles you like to wear but cun'l lind in tlie widtli you need. Fine,. the help of the club egghead. Uies-^ shoes, work shoes, casual siiiart hand-sewn genuine moeca ramifications of the job are many. sins. Top (luality. Popular ijnces. The Money Back Guarantee The baseball statistician not only puts in Not sold In stores. Write for FREE FREE c.'italotr today. So ol'IiKatlonl No] CATALOG :i'_'irit will fall. an eight-hour day right around the cal- HITCHCOCK SHOES, Hingham, 5-B, Mass. Write Today endar digging up dope for players and

front office, he is the Information Please Amazing 100-Year-Old Gypsy Bait Oil Ed, While I man for the fans. If you have ever called "The Blakes arc toiiiing over, get the cliiLdren to bed you go and Ntraigliteii up the offices of a big league ball club MAKES FISH BITE ""^^^ up the living room." to settle a bet with a friend about, say. .\.MKKI< ,\N l.i:<;IOV AI.\

are your call is diverted to the statisti- —not to him. cian's office. He has to attend 'to the And statistics do have a way, some- answering personally because no one times, of backfiring—especially if the else knows how to put the finger on the other guy becomes aware of how you're information except him. trying to use them. You only have to go ".Somebody calls up," Roth says, "and back to the 1956 world series when Sal asks what Joe Gesundheit batted in 1949 Maglie beat the Yanks 6 to 3 in the and how many two-base hits he made. opener. According to the Yank book PICTURES PROVE IT REALLY WORKS ! Look at 12SS lbs. fish, those big hard to c^tch smcK - feeders landed by Roy Martin It would take just as long to tell a on Maglie, he seldom got the first pitch party. Destm. Fla. Gypsy Fish Bait Oil used on all bait. Hundreds me of pictures like these on file. secretary or an assistant how to locate in the strike zone. As a result, Yank hit- Mystery Scent Makes Smell Gesundheit's 1949 record as it would ters kept taking that first pitch without Feeding Fish Go Crazy take to do it myself. Longer in fact. So lifting bat from shoulder. I'ishiiic Scicii I ist JU^t l.ritniiiL' wlisil w :i Ml I er iniT Ci.Vpsirs

i,i;.r-\ c,t I l.sli , loo.st kn..>% IIKI v.;tis . l.ui.ls fhe But somehow, through an unnamed sm h ;is .;lth^h. hiilll,. :.^U nrioliera, are "sinell" f.-cilers. I am on the phone quite a lot when I'm (I.VIwic K invel.lcil tin iin ( .n- ,r..iil,.(l oil forlMulii lliiil exc ite.s Maglie had got wind of this fact. thexe h>li llmHijrh lli.' tlinu,:iii.Knf I iiiy miicll orKiiiis eovri inc in the office," friend, th. ir l."

tir . . . still tuiit . . lish lakes, rivers, ereeks, iifHids, the ocean well aware that when Jackie Robinson pitch in and proceeded to do so most lish with imle and l>(.l>l>er. east, troll or spin ... if yours isn't the hi^trest eateh in the entire party, your money baek. Say of the time. Consequently he had a gift w<.'re era/.v. He skeptical as you like. But let, lis send you the comes up with men on base and nobody IIOIJHI.H .STRKNC'I II CVl'.SY KI.SIl U.\IT OIL to try al our risk. out. he's pretty sure to bunt, where a strike on most Yankee hitters every time Catch 300 Big Fish or Money Back Snider is apt to hit away. The big rea- he faced them.

.Scn.l r<.r the new Dlitilil.lO S T It I :X C: T I i (iVI'SY I'ISII It doesn't boomerang that way too l(.\i r on, (doubl,. si/el for SI.'.IK or :i for »1.!1K. On .arrival son for it is that Roth's records revealed deposit vour inonev plus ('.().l). postase thru postman. is Cash ordi-is si-nl pr -paid. If .vou don't ealch al least .tllll that Robby has an 89.5 percent certain- often though. Baseball statisticking an sinell feedinK Itsh (bii; ones too) before ;ill the (l.vpsy is used up return empt.v bottle for money Imek, I'KIOl;! ty of moving those runners along with art that's only nine years old, and though Iland.v water-resistant lisherman's pouch tt>r matches, lunch, tobacco, etc. includeil free to keep even if y..u Snider's certainty is much, the eggheads are still feeling their way, return ejnply bottle. .\<'Cc|.l this fri.-ndly challcML-.-. a bunt, while Wnlc to.lay t.. much less. it looks as though they're in the national WALLING KEITH C H E M I CALS, I N C. that pastime to stay. the end DEPT. eS-B BIRIVIINGHAM 1. ALABAMA One of the 25 cateiiories Roth

• 1 • 1957 44 llh .AMI KIC .\N I LdlON M.\(1AZ1NE rEHRUARY :

THE CAVE "I'M MAKING ((.oiiliiiiifd from l>ii!!,e II)- their cries and watched their bodies fail- was nothing we could do lor them but MORE THAN ing, jerking, and twisting on the ice- watch them and try to ease their pain

I them eat, sit, and crawl. covered ground. That is the first time by helping nOOOa Month remember challenging God. All my After three weeks in the cave these HAVEN'T TOUCHED BOTTOM YET!" ideas, suppressed, came into wounded were pretty badly off. Wounds so long — reports Charles Kama, Texas, one of who are "cleaning up'' with orders focus. I hated the idea of God with all had become infected, sapping already many for PRESTO. Science's New Midget Mir- YOUl my heart that early cold dawn. exhausted energies. Several of the men acle Fire Extinguisher. So can Amiizin^'new kunl iil" lirt'extin^juisher. Tiny After the wounded had been sub- had blood poisoning. One, a Corporal "I*resto"does joi) of hulky extin^rLlislleIs tliat co.st 4 times as much, arc 8 times as iic.-ivy. our ranks, we were counted Whitehead, had been shot in the but- Knils fires fast as 2 scoonils. Never i-orrixics. tracted from Guaranteed for 20 yearsl Over 2 million again. Then we were forced up the side tock. The bullet had entered low and sold! Sells for only $4.95. Show it to civil defense workers, owners of homes, cars, boats, farms, etc., and to stores of a steep hill and into a cave. It was a upon emerging at the thigh, inflicted a f or ri -make pood income. H. .1. Kerr reports $20 a day. Wydallis$l,).2(lan hour. Sales Kit. No obligation. deep cave with a small opening. The serious wound in his groin. The pain Wm. FKKK Dept. P'^^ night MERLITE INDUSTRIES, guards settled themselves outside the was obviously excruciating. One PRESTO DIV., 114 East 32 St., New York 16, N.Y. Canada: Mopa Co., Ltd.. 371 Dowd St., Montreal 1, P.<3. cave and began digging gun emplace- at the beginning of the fourth week, just ments. when he seemed somewhat better, he Make $5 an Hour CASH PROFIT crawled over to me, and told me he was All that day I lay with the others on THE DAY YOU START! the cold, rocky floor of the cave and afraid he was going to die. Start your own busi- I thought tried to collect my thoughts. I saw a He was breathing hard and ness at Home . . . Sharpen Household, sergeant praying. He was moving his his heart would burst, for I actually Garden and Shop lips and swaying to and fro as he sat could hear it thumping. I put my arm Tools in Spare Time. with his eyes closed. We were prisoners, around his shoulders to support him. Turn spare time into Big Cash Profits with new Belsaw Sharp-Ail. No experience needed to sharpen l

Nunaka Valley, Anchorage , Alaska would be killed after being questioned I could not get the idea of death out of and found not to possess any military my head. The worst way of dying, I .1 Was information. However, we were never thought, was to be hit, live on and die Nearly asked a question. And when two weeks slowly, knowing all the time you were Itch... Itch Crazy had passed without the slightest contact going to die, that nothing could pre- Very first use of soothing cooling, liquid D.D.D. Prescription positively with our captors, we decided we were vent it. I saw many in this pitiful con- relieves raw red itch- caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- going to be used for bartering. had dition. There was a Master Sergeant by We ing — other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. heard before we were captured of a the name of Buitticci. He was another 43«! trial bottle must satisfy or money back. Ask your druggist for D.D. n. PRESCI'IPTION. "prisoner exchange" operated on a mass of the wounded the Gooks had over- basis. looked. He had a hole in his head. You $4,000.00 FOR Sc Several guards were always at the could see where the bullet had entered immediate entrance of the cave. We just below his ear and where it had OLD MONEY were not allowed to come to within ten emerged at the base of his skull. It was feet of them. The cave, as I mentioned, strange that this wound did not affect was very deep, and because of the cold him any more than it did, until he was WANTED weather we kept to the rear, conserving near death. -l.iiillL'iii r„r llli;; I.ihiTly Jli^.l .Ni.kcl. rin-in-iil;ili'rl our energies and body heat by crowding The strain of watching those in acute dmii^iis 1X114 to is:!!), isns-s, i:)(i:;-o uav ."Kiii.dii .«5.iiiHl.(lll. (Vrtain dates- — .'^niall Ci'nts biMorc lill.") — .?;;2r,.l)l); Dhne.s before 101 7 — .$2,111111.011 (liiallers before in a group. Once a day, around noon, pain was unbearable. The deaths of the ; 1!)24 — ?l,nO(l,UO; Jlalr Dollars before 1!)(I5 — $1 .00(1.(1(1 2e pieces-~.'f00.00 we got a rice and water ration, meager, men were not as hard to take as were pieces—$70.00; ; llalfdimcs—.$500.00. Hundreds of otIuTs- worth $10.00 — $1,000.(01. Canadian but life-sustaining. some of the incidents that predisposed Coins — 1021 — .''le Silver, .$.'")0.00. IS.SO — Dimes — $2,'i.0(l. ],S75 Qiiaiters.— $.S(l.n(l. 1021 — ."iOc — $200.00. Warned- Some of our wounded were over- them to their deaths. I learned how a 20e I'ieees. (!old Coins. Paper Money, etc. Our Large IllustraTed (iuarantee Uuvinc — Selling CataloKue. Oivinji looked at first, and we kept them as man's whole past, everything he ever Complete Alle()in lufoi-mation — Send $1.00. Purchase I'atalogue before sendinu otins. Wortliyeoin Coi-poration. well concealed as was possible. There did and believed, would itself Leaders Nuuiisniatic (Juoialions K-2,s2-C, Bo.ston S. show un- Massachusetts. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 • 45 der such circumstances. His chances for could be done, except for some minor being pulled out, I became enraged. I survival depended upon everything he trivialities that helped to alleviate some stooped and picked up a rock. Those had done and would do. And also a very of his hardships. He whispered to me around grabbed me and in so doing

important thing I found was that a per- that he had heard us talking about him, saved my life. A single rock hurled at son must look out for his fellow-prison- and said he was going to turn himself the head of Kelley's guard would have ers as he looks out for himself. The over to the guards, since he did not want signed my death warrant. combined efforts of a group of men far anyone else to catch what he had. The night Kelley died I fell asleep surpass the individual's self-centered de- In his determination to get up against with his death scream ringing in my sire for survival. my restraining arms, his voice became ears. I was not asleep long when I was One day, after we had been in the loud and echoed throughout the cave. disturbed by a slight commotion within cave several weeks, Corporal Kelley The guards heard the commotion and the cave near where I slept. It was Pitts came over to me and said he was cov- two entered and saw me bending over and Smith. It turned out that Corporal ered with red spots. I was not sure how him as I hurriedly began wiping his face Smith was attempting to quiet Pitts, who diphtheria looked, or chickenpox. Still, with my glove in a feeble attempt to was babbling something I could not unit was evident he had a communicable hide the spots. I was pushed away and derstand through the clouds of sleep disease, and I told him so. He said he was helpless as I watched the disclosure still shrouding me. had had the first and also German mea- of the spots on Kelley's skin. "Damn it, man! KICK the can, KICK sles. This led me to think he had scarlet The guards took one look, pulled his THE CAN!" I stared hard, trying to fever. His head was hot and he said he head up to the light and then ran make out the scene in the darkness of was nauseous. We made him lie down screaming out of the cave. We watched the cave. Others awoke and raised up in a far corner, away from the rest of them form around the entrance, shout- to see what the yelling was about. Pitts us, and managed to bundle him up with ing. kept repeating the same phrase over and clothing donated from his friends. We We waited with pounding hearts for over. "The can, kick the damn thing," knew what would happen if the guards the action the soldiers were sure to take. he yelled. Then, with a hysterical giggle, discovered him in this condition. They Kelley seemed oblivious to his predica- he kept yelling at the top of his voice. would not endanger their own health ment. He stared at the roof of the cave I crawled to Smith and we cautioned because of one of us "rotten Ameri- as though he were studying, pondering, Pitts to be quiet or the guards would be cans." Therefore, placing him out of preoccupied — as though he had been aroused. Pitts paid no attention, and sight of the guards, we told him to keep asked some serious question and was while I debated with Smith what we his face covered. searching for an evasive answer. Sud- should do with him, Pitts kept up his Kelley groaned most of the night, denly the commotion of the guards own conversation with whatever phan- letting up an hour or so before the first ended and one of them made his way toms were disturbing him. "What started rays of sun gleamed from the roof of inside. He stopped after several steps him?" I asked Smith. the cave. Snow, carried into the cave and drew his pistol. Then he advanced, "I don't know, I just woke up and he by the frequent visits of the night wind, glancing at each of us as he moved to was pulling my nose," said Smith. "I'm blanketed the floor of the cave and the where Kelley was lying on the ground. going to clip him." sleeping men, curled up in jackets, over- Pulling his belt off' he slipped it around I heard Smith's arm swing through coats and, here and there, a ragged Kelley's legs and tied it. Then he pulled the air and the smack of his knuckles quilt. It was a startling sight. The men him toward the entrance of the cave. against Pitts' jaw. Pitts fell limp in the covered with snow appeared as rocks, As Kelley passed us I noticed several arms of those holding him. We covered part of the cave floor, detached from men move in close. Kelley's hands were him up, and after a short talk we settled the living. The snow formed crystals and at his face, the fingers pulling at the ourselves again. We talked for an hour transparent patterns everywhere. Look- flesh of his cheeks. His eyes were pressed or so, then as words became monoto- ing at Kelley, I was overcome with pity shut and his mouth was partly open, nous and sleep closed heavy eyes, all was and frustration. There was nothing that exposing clenched teeth. As Kelley was quiet. My sadness for Pitts faded as I lay on my back staring up at the cold winter's moon. My thoughts eventually turned to God. As I lay there with my

arms propped under my head I won-

dered if I could ever believe in God, until as invariably happens when one

thinks about that subject, I ran into a

stone wall of questions. I fell into a kind

of coma and I awoke as the sun was just peeking over the faraway hills. Little wisps of smoke were curling up here and there from soldiers' fires. Oitr

soldiers, I reverently hoped. However, I didn't have much time for reverie. Pitts started shouting, waving his arms, and pacing to and fro. He looked wild and moved about the cave as though he were expecting some sudden calamity. Suddenly he yelled: "All right, you lunkheads! Rise and shine! Hit the

deck!" I looked at Smith and we called to Pitts, but we were immediately interrupted. "You!" he screamed, "On your "I hope tlicy don't Imild soiiicthiiig tliat will spoil tlie natural beauty ol the tountrysidc." feet, let's go, damn it. Damn it, let's go!" AMIOltlCAN LKCION' MAflAZINi: Pitts advanced toward me. "You're new

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 here, eh?" he said to me. I threw a hur- caps askew, with one or two forms out ried glance at Smith and here and there of line in the rear rank. "At ease, damn amongst the other men and saw the re- it!" repeated Pitts, raising himself on his eASY CASTS flection of my own blank, puzzled face toes, as though to look over the imagin- QUICK in their eyes. ary front ranks, to see who was violat- AS A FLASH

It was evident Pitts had completely ing the command. He made an about- lost his reason. He had gone back in face, saluted, and reported the company . . . with time to the years he was a tough master was at parade rest. I turned myself and sergeant, and he demanded immediate with my back to Pitts came also to pUSH- BUTTON recognition of that fact — or else. My parade rest. / first thought was of the guards. If they "Lieutenant!" I said to Smith who became curious and entered, what was in front of me. "Come here." would Pitts do when he saw them? "Yes, sir," answered Smith, throwing

Meanwhile, Pitts was glaring at me. me a highball. I stepped a little closer to Suddenly he gave a yell and kicked my him and whispered. "What the hell do leg. I searched into his gleaming face we do now?" lor a hint of sensibility but saw none. Just then 1 was interrupted by Pitts.

He was a stranger and past all control 'Captain. I believe the inspecting party

I'd ever had over him. is approaching." he said, throwing a Several of the men were still lying thumb over his shoulder toward the en- down, too weak to rise, staring at the trance of the cave. One of the guards scene with wide-eyed interest. Pitts came was coming into the cave toward us. He up to me again. Pushing his face inches stood eyeing us in our peculiar positions from mine he bawled: "You no good of parade rest. Then he left and returned No. 1775 goldbrick. Git soap and water and GI with another guard. They stood there WONDERCAST this damn barracks. If there's anything talking it over, then suddenly proceeded $19.95 I can't stand, it's a motherless, dirty, toward us. I knew I had to act swiftly, slapeyed, fatheaded goldbrick. Well? but the two guards jerked their pistols

Are you going to get with it or not?" out and pointed them at us. Pitts was Smith came to my rescue with an intently eyeing them. His face took on amazing bit of play-acting. No Shake- a frozen, hostile look. His jaw muscles spearean student ever mouthed his lines quivered. The presence of the guards pUSH- BUTTON more sincerely. "Look, Sarge," Smith took place so suddenly I had no time to began, walking up to Pitts with a smile. invent an order that might have gotten "It's really my turn to GI. He Gl'ed yes- Pitts out of the picture. I held my breath W6nderCast terday. The roster is all wrong. I'll do as one guard grabbed Pitts by his it." Pitts turned and punched his fist shoulder and attempted to spin him loudly into his open hand and began to around. The other guard came toward ^^Fishin' Fun" rip into Smith with verbal explosions. me, motioning with his pistol for me to FOR Suddenly Pitts grabbed Smith by the move toward the entrance of the cave. collar and started bouncing him against I kept my eyes on Pitts, going as slowly Everyone! the rocky wall. Smith offered no resist- as I dared, yet not so slow as to antag- ance, looking at me with hunched onize the guard. shoulders as though to say, "What do other men were watching in The Just a push of the buttoii" we do now?" An idea came to me and silence. I suppose the guards had de- and a s-w-i-s-h of the I sprang behind Pitts and yelled loudlv cided we were acting out a plan of es- rod — presto — you're push-button fishing. into his ear, "ATTEN-SHUT!" He im- cape. Four or five of them were standing Combines the advantages mediately snapped into a frozen posture, at the entrance with their rifles pointing of bait casting and spin- a natural reaction of his soldiering back- at us. Pitts, on being grabbed by the ning. Ask your dealer about Its rugged construction, ground. Continuing the experiment 1 put shoulder, flew around to face the guard. machined gears. Smootfi my mouth close to his ear and yelled. his around the guard's Locking arm adjustable "safety" drag . . . "REPORT!" I spoke distinctly and neck he pulled him to him. The sur- non-reverse crank and other outstanding features. moved around and stood directly before prised guard gave a grunt that was fol- L.xpert or beginner, you're him. lowed by a dull snap. His lips reddened ready for more fishing fun! "Company C ail present and ac- with blood and his face assumed a pat- No. 1775 (with 125 yds. 6-lb. monofilament) counted for, sir," he reported, saluting, tern of agony. We later found out Pitts ^ 95 staring straight ahead. I returned his had broken his neck. There immediately salute, as I thought of my next com- followed the crack of a rifle, and Pitts" 5 BRAND NEW mand. How could I ease the tension, neck responded to the bullet with a FISHING BOOKLETS .'in. AND CALENDAR somehow quiet him down or guide him splash of blood. Blood gushed from out FREE\\-}^gK l-.Uts[ in fishing tips .ind into a frame of mind more conducive to as leaped in the air and his mouth he tricks by ihe experts. Covers our control? " Give the men parade rest, dashed forward, grabbing the guard who spinning, b.iii casting, push- button, fly ,ind salt water sergeant," 1 ordered in my most authori- had been moving me along. fishing. Send today! tative voice. He brought his arms down over the "Yes, sir," he answered, making an guard's body and pulled him close, in a SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Dept. AL-2 Kalamazoo, Michigon about face, "Parade rest!" he cried to bear-hug. The little yellow face swelled, Please send me your 5 brond new fishing bool

calendar, free I the men. "At ease, no talking," Pitts its eyes straining wide, its mouth gasping then commanded. Obviously his imag- for air. Then the eyes closed tight, and NAME ined troops were as real to him as his the mouth opened, baring teeth. Pitts ADDRESS. memory dictated. He saw them as four strained to maintain his balance. His ranks of white-faced, young soldiers, face, too, showed effort and strain. The CITY -ZONE -STATE_

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 • 47 WILL YOU SMOKE MY blood from his wound had covered his cooking utensils, and its shadow formed upper body, soaking his shirt and jacket. a perfect cross. To me, this seemed to KIND NEW OF PIPE The enraged guards in the background be a sign. I had been wondering what 30 DAYS AT MY RISK? aimed their rifles at Pitts, and there was I might do to help myself. Perhaps I had the crack of a rifle. Several more reports not trusted enough to religion. I mar- I'm not a pipe manufacturer. I run a successful printing machinery ioliowed in rapid succession as Pitts veled at the sudden revelation, then I

business. I am a crank on pipes. crumpled to the ground, his head shat- clasped my hands together. I prayed a

Sunil me your name today. A postal eard will do. I'll send tered with bullets. He lay still, then long time that night, then I fell into a ab.soliitelv free complete trial ofrer so you i-an decide whether or not my friends are riyiit when they say the jerked quickly in convulsion and was deep sleep. Clarey Pipe is the greatest smoking invention ever patented. As one pipe smoker aiiorher. still to I'll pnaranteo you again, for all time. The next morning I awoke feeling the siirpris.- of your life. free. Write toifay! E. A.Carey, 1920 Sunnyside Ave., Dept. 33. B, Chicago 40, Illinois The guards rushed into the cave and something long gone had returned to dragged out the bodies of their dead me. something that gave such strength to DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS comrades. We waited in silence with my weary body that I was almost cheer- I'uiop has l.iJlil u.se.s. Vp to H: 4o(J GI'H 8(1' high; or 1M(H) pounding hearts for them to return and ful. I kept to myself all that day, deliber- ,m 25' well. Use 1/6 to 3/, HP Coupling Included free. 1" in. kill all. I us was more certain of being ately avoiding conversation. I outlet. Stainless shaft. Won't sat alone loir i7.95 shot than the others, for I I thought had and thought. I asked myself, in what pointed a been out as ringleader. There manner could I save us all from this

was much yelling and commotion among painful existence? I figured there was ^^^LABAWCO PUMPS, Belle Mead 56, N.J the guards outside the cave, and several one way God meant us to be saved, OLD LEG TROUBLE times they came into the cave to look and that one way was that we should Easy to use Viscose Applications around. No one talked. We looked at save ourselves. Then, for reasons I can't heal old leg sores due may many each other and saw the same look reflect explain, I began to think of forest crea- to venous congestion of varicose in each others' eyes. An hour went by tures and beasts of the jungles and how veins, leg swelling or injuries. and the guards entered under the cover Send today for a FREE BOOK and they lived by their senses. NO -COST - FOR-TRIAL -plan. of several raised rifles. They pulled out I realized that I had been making no L. E. VISCOSE COMPANY Pitts 40 North DC Chicaso 2. Illinois and threw him over "dead man's use of these gifts, these neglected senses. tailgate," as they had the others. It all They were all the tools I had in this - LoiiipleieCoiiipleli; line ol supplies ; happened so quickly not one of us could BINGO extremity, and I decided I would con-

: SPEEDMATIC gather our senses. sat mute, silent, We centrate on using them. I spent the ALL ; METAL CHUTE paralyzed by our thoughts and still-sim- whole day listening and looking intently.

r I JUST PRESS I BUTTON mering emotions. CAGE And I heard and saw many things I had FORTOURNEXT C*ME That night they • Regular speci;ils. did not bring us our never heard I to 1500 & 3000—series. or seen before. listened ; • Laptoairls — Plaslic Marlidrs ration of ri'-e. decided that Aijriiissioii Ticiiets. We would the odd little noises that came from in

I • Blnweis Flaslilioirils — Allloiiialic Carlls, be our punishment. We felt they would ; elc and out of the cave. A foot nearby FBFF :H. a. SULLIVAN CO. kill Catain; R not us. The guns sounded clearer grinding the dirt as it passed. The guards ; LAWRENCE, LONG ISLAND. N. Y. than ever before. Our forces were get- talking. The metallic rattle of the guns. ting closer, no doubt about it. But was I looked at every object and listened to People 60 to 80 a fresh red force on the way? If the every sound, seeking a sign or clue, Gooks were not expecting fresh troops, something to be used in a plan of escape. why were they waiting APPLY FOR OLD LINE LEGAL around? We had And I reminded myself that the obvious no proof they were surrounded. We just was sometimes most obscure. Then, find- LIFE RESERVE INSURANCE took it for granted. ing no sign or clue by the utilization of

That night I lay awake. I was unable both my eyes and ears, I focused my at- If you are under 80, you can to get the tragedy out of my mind. tention on my sense of smell. .still apply for a $1,000 life in- Down at the bottom of "dead man's tail- .surance policy to help take care I smelled the air. It was cold, it held gate" were the cadavers of men who of final expenses without bin-- the smoke from the guards' fire. I were not long before sitting next to me. dening your family. watched it as it curled into the entrance talking, explaining situations, laughing. You can handle the entire of the cave. It dispersed after coming Would I join them? What could prevent transaction by mail with OLD inside, then hung low over the ground. my death •if the guards had decided that AMERICAN of KANSAS CITY. Then I noticed something else. The my elimination was necessary? Wasn't No obligation of any kind. No smoke did not remain stagnant, but kept there something I could do? Anything? one will call on you! on moving ever so slowly toward the As I turned my eyes from the roof of rear of the cave. The smoke was moving Write today for fi ee informa- the cave, I thought I saw the shadow of tion. Simply mail postcard or to the rear of the cave! In a cave with a cross on the ground at the entrance letter (giving age) to Old but one entrance or opening, smoke, of the cave. I was startled by this image, one would suppose, would not move American Ins. Co., 1 W. 9th, and raised up on my arms to assure my- into the interior of the cave then Dept. L257M, Kansas City, Mo. and self I was seeing what I thought I was. to the rear of the cave— unless— But per-

Yes! Beyond doubt there was the shadow haps it circled and left at the sides of

of a cross, clearly outlined and perfectly the cave opening. I investigated this pos-

lormcd. I turned my eyes from the sibility and found that was not the case.

^Iv iMine is .hilin Winters and "nerves" life ground to made m.v miser- the opening of the cave to see I watched the smoke as it moved slowly able — th.1t simple, evcry-day kind of nervousnfe^s which can cause such untold anguish. So compare my suffering with youra the origin of this startling vision. There to the rear of the cave, and it seemed to and ho prepared to hear the happiest news In years — for lioth at women and men. I was jumpy, jlilery. Irritable, couldn't the entrance of the cave was a wooden disperse there. I moved to the rear of sleep, almost frantic al limes. No onn seemed to understand. 1 was crowing older, full of fears and anxieties about my Job. structure built to shield the guards from the cave and sat down. It was dark in family affairs, heallh I read Ixwks on how to conquer "nerves" the bitter as it t lorik vitamins, tonics, even powerful sedatives whh-h I haled. wind blew around that that portion of the cave, and I could Then one day a famous doctor lold me about the new discovery o( a remarkable "safety facfer", now compounded In a formula corner of the hill. not see very well. After sitting a few of highly approved mcdital v.ilue for both men and women This new medicine calms and Iranqulllzes the nerves end Is Ihis structure had a piece of wood moments, I felt a slight movement of never habil-formlng. I am so happy I want everyone who suf fiTS to know about this wonderful way to help you feel calm all protruding upward bracing a small hori- air rush across my forehead. I snifl'ed. day. sleep well at night— to feel free from the fear of "nerves". I'.iil the story Is loo long to tell here. Please send your name zontal cross member that the architect The smoke was moving out of the cave. anil address and I'll send you the most welcome news In year.s. .inliii hat! fashioned to serve as a rack for The implication of this made my head Whiieis. :;i:; i,a>i .'..'jiii si.. 4(111:;. .N. ^ . .\ ^

• 48 THE AMERICAN LEGION MACIAZINL I hllKllAl<\ wyi swim with excitement. There must be pressed my back against the crack,

some crack, some opening! I crawled straining to see who it was. along the floor at the rear of the cave 'What have you been doing so long on my hands and knees, and ran my back here?"

fingers along every inch of the rocky I sighed in relief to see Corporal wall. My fingers became cut, and bled .Smith's haggard, bearded face before from the constant contact with the rough me.

" New HOME PLANS and jagged rocks. Suddenly my fingers Boy! I'm glad it's you. 1 thought you Gnrl in^houso new plan hooks sh In ])lans from whlfh to sclvt:t your All tlirou^'/i I said. pushed a slight crack, low in the were a guard," i :ind styles printt'ti from uv. lual photos and colored /Int^s wilh door plan ;;nd tit!'scrlption. wall. air to that crack "Ha!" said Smith. The moved and Choice Selected Homes. 82: designs, featuring 12 nc-w splll-ievfls. 2 and 3 Ificdi-oom sizes. 32 li. full through it, for 1 felt its coolness caress "What if I showed you something folor soe Ranch & Suburban. 125 p l.in.s most practical for town anil country. Many in fuM color soe my sensitive fingers. I scratched at the that would mean us getting out of here?" Plans for New Homes. 84 very desirable homes. Vuriod >^tylfs and sizo.s. 32 in color soe crack. It widened to where I could insert 1 asked. plcle workiiiK ptans. si>eciliiLMiions. lumber anti mill avallahlo for evci y dt-slgn a,t LOW C*>ST. These i)lan my whole hand. "I don't get it," he said, puzzled. hosi in\usiint?nt si nee yoii know in advan»*e till old inid: costly misunderstand- That night 1 moved my bedding to "It's a joke," I said. "A hole is noth- All books for ah books postpaid. that crack and kept my body against it ing, and that's what I'm hiding." 3 $1.00.

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Every now and then I moved my fingers of light fell from the crack to Smith's to the crack to assure myself again of feet. He stood amazed as though I were Getting Up Hights my discovery. I was almost beside my- a magician and had performed an in- If worried by "Bladder Weakness" (Getting Up self and fought hard to suppress a desire credible feat. "My God!" he cried, fall- Nights or Bed Wetting, too frequent, burning or to shout the news to the other men. As ing to his knees and peering out the itching urination I or Strong Smelhng, Cloudy Urine, due to common Kidney and Bladder Irri- dawn showed its first faint rays, I bent crack. "I'll be damned!" tations, try CYSTEX for quick help. 30 years use prove safety for young and old. Ask druggist for down and kept to for think of that?" 1 an eye the crack, "Well, what do you CYSTEX under guarantee of money-back if not if 1 should see light through that little asked, kneeling beside him. satisfied. See how fast you improve. hole, J told myself, we could soon be "Do you really think we can get out I'll free men. An eternity passed as the dark through it?" asked Smith, his voice Send You This Handsome shadows in the cave grew shorter and shaking with excitement. SAMPLE CASE- FREE shorter. I had been straining my eyes so "It depends. First we must make it and Show You How to Make long without rest that I was not sure larger. Then we'll have to a I much make Up to $30.00 in a Day

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 • 49 such a discovery. Not that they would the black hole, and when I was again

inform the guards, but that they might inside the cave I told Smith what I had become hysterical and present problems observed. We sat huddled, making plans. when all our energy was needed for the Duties were assigned the most physically

preparations. So, as the first light ap- fit. It was decided we should not wait peared, we placed a shirt over the hole another day to flee, since our exit would AT HOME and secured it against becoming dis- surely be discovered when the guards STUDY lodged while we were up near the front made their morning trip for water and We guide you step by step — furnish all of the cave. Smith and I spent the day rations. text material, including 14-volume Law Library. Training prepared by leading sleeping in turns so that one of us would I was the last to leave the cave. I law professors and given by members of have the tunnel under surveillance. That joined the rest of the men, and we slow- the bar. Degree of LL.B. I^w cost, night we finished digging and paused ly, cautiously crawled down the side of easy terms. Send for valuable Free Book, after the last of the dirt and rock was re- the hill. It was still pitch dark after we "Law Training for Leadership," today. LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 2361L moved. "I'm going to see what it looks had been walking for an hour. The hill Correspondence institution Cliicago 5,111. A like out there," I whispered to Smith. was far behind us and every now and

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confident and therefore in great num- States I thought of those black months .Makt It Easii I bers, compared to the enemy holding in the cave. I thought of the men who 'TALL-Ouasion GREETING CARDS

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If you are the talented author RUSSIA'S ANGRY VETERANS of an unpublished manuscript, (Coiili)iin(l from pfigc 19) FREE let us help gain the recognition Booklet you deserve. We will publish your BOOK—we will edit, design, on his chest begged: "Comrade lieuten- cow bedded veterans who had lost both on print, promote, advertise and ant colonel, help a veteran of the Battle arms and both legs. Instead of feeding Publishing sell it I Good royalties. Write lor FREE copy of of Stalingrad." the patients by hand, the attendants Your How To Publiih Your Book I gave him ten rubles. But I soon threw them whole loaves of dark bread, COMET PRESS BOOKS, Dept. AL-2 Book realized that funds hopelessly which the cripples had to gnaw like wild 200 Varick St., N. Y. 14 my were inadequate to aid the beggars of Brest. animals. When relatives of the patients Everywhere in the city there were protested, the hospital director replied: crippled veterans—stumbling, sitting, or "Those n ipples are unnecessary people." crawling, and forever begging. During 1947 several hundred disabled Brest was no exception. Throughout veterans in the Black Sea port of Odessa

Russia I saw the same sad sight. Arm- surrounded the local army commissar- less, legless, mutilated, or blind veterans iat, demand ng better treatment and begged for kopecks along highways, on larger pensions. The police drove them city streets, at markets, in trains and away. In a few hours thousands of war RHEUMATISM trolleys, at restaurants and bars. Often cripples and their wives rioted and two police stations to the ground. NEURITIS • SCIATICA • LUMBAGO • ARTHRITIS they sang songs about war, dead mili- burned Wliy continue to suffer agonizing pains when tary comrades, or the bitter fate of a Special MVD troops rushed in, defeated usual remedies have failed. Learn how thousands have been successfully treated by cripple. Women listeners wept, and all the cripples, and made hundreds of an amazing new method which is fully ex- little could arrests. plained in our New FREE Book. Don't wait. passers-by gave what money Write todav. No obligation. be spared. This was no isolated case. Disabled Excelsior Institute, Dept. C8606, Excelsior Spgs., Mo. The pension of a disabled veteran was veterans also rebelled in Rostov and

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w.ldhic nmid scenic would die. often I saw a war invalid riding on the

ci[)' prcisiires. Prepare now, spare-time. I i.ivcm.iiingl Enjoy pood pay, security, prestige Were there no veterans hospitals? A roof or steps of a railway freight car, No special schooling or cspericnce required - 17- terribly ov; clutching a huge shapeless bag. These Opcnmgslor men Ill I P I ILI. DI iMAND few existed but they were IN vol 1< ARI A' Vi rile no« -;o,/ay,' were the wounded veterans too proud HOME STUDY EDUCATORS Dept. AL-2 crowded and reserved for the most III.IM I,:i llK'.l, I. OS AiiKi-li-s 111, Calif. S. helpless cases. Even there Soviet bureau- to beg. Instead, they gambled on the rfnCC SEIECT.A-JOB CHARTllili )gii milcli schoolini, inliicsls. ilc. atiiml fill "iin) mitiloor hospital near black market. A "bagman" would \ 1 jobs. Willi loila) lir riEE "Sucnss Plin" inil ctirl diliils! cracy was cruel. A Mos-

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his sack with sunllowor seeds in the War II, taking all credit for Red Army Ukraine, ride the rails to Moscow, and victories, veterans sometimes pelted the sell the seeds tor twice the purchase movie screen with rotten eggs. Great price. Then he bought cheap cotton sympathy was felt for Marshal Zhukov, cloth stolen by a Moscow textile work- the real architect of Soviet victory, er, and peddled the scarce cloth to whom Stalin demoted to minor Odessa Ukrainian peasants. Such deals earned and Ural commands. Throughout the twice as much income as the average U.S.S.R., ex-servicemen whispered: pay of a Soviet engineer. Many unin- "Our war heroes arc being purged." jured veterans were black marketeers But U.S.S.R. veterans were powerless too. to resist oppression. They had no or- Both disabled and healthy veterans ganization like The American Legion to often turned to crime. In their opinion, protect them. The Kremlin forbade ex- belter to be a thief than work for slave servicemen to unite. Communism fears wages in a state sweatshop or collective its veterans who were military buddies, FACTORY TO YOU ^79.95 srrr:nSHOI' offers you a preri^inn-built farm. Just after the war city streets were who hate red tyranny, and who are re- loniplete povvci' tool uoiksliop. l>all ))'-arinK. RUGGED. Accurate. IJin capa- unsafe at night. Pedestrians were robbed vered as heroes by the Soviet masses. tity. 15 day FllLE trial. Mom-y hack miarantee. Mail postcard for FREE caia- and stripped; even policemen were The Politburo dared not form even a loB- Buy on easy pay plan. beaten up. In rural villages the homes communist front "legion." 1292 Yates Avenue POWER TOOIS, INC. VERTICAL Beloit, Wisconsin DRILL PRESS of collective farm chairmen and Com- Still U.S.S.R. veterans were not en- munist Party members were attacked tirely passive. During wartime many GOVERNMENT 40 ACRE and looted of all valuable possessions. army heroes were forced to join the Famous throughout Russia was the Communist Party. Refusal meant trans- OIL LEASE $100 Act of Congress gives citizens equal rights with Oil "Black Cat" gang, which robbed state fer to the most dangerous frontline duty. Go's, to obtain Govt, leoses. You do no drilling, yel nioy share in fortunes mode from oil on public lands victory, these "war stores, government banks, and the apart- After communists" (Payments if desired) Licensed & Bonded Oil Brokers. Free Information & Maps of booming areas. Write: ments of Soviet officials in many cities. were often appointed as collective farm NORTH AMERICAN OIL SURVEYS Their special targets were Red Army chairmen, factory managers or local

8272-1 SUNSET BLVD , LOS ANGELES 46, CALIF. generals who sent or brought home for- government officials because of their eign luxuries from East Europe. I knew party membership. They sympathized their with veterans who were workers or LOOK army wives who begged husbands not to send packages from Germany, peasants or cripples, and secretly tried for Rupture Help for fear of armed attack. Finally a com- to help them. munist colonel recognized one of the During the first postwar years these Try a Brooks Patented Air Cushion appliance. This mar- Cat robbers as a former air force otlicer. same "war communists" caused trouble velous inventionfor mostforms of reducible rupture is GUAR- within the Communist Party itself. At The MVD made a special investigation, ANTEED to bring YOU heav- aiid caught most of the Black Cat gang. local party meetings they openly openly comfort and security day and night — at work and They were former aviators working for posed harsh Kremlin policy. For fear of at play—or it costs you NOTH-

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rrunvu>€ fdldind glory. The dead dictator, who once used to subvert the veterans organiza- BANQUET claimed credit for all Red Army vic- tions of democratic countries. Obvious- tories, is now blamed for all U.S.S.R. ly, veterans organizations of the United

military defeats. History is being re- States will be the main targets. Fore- written to give long overdue recognition shadowing this, the Soviet veterans or- to the field commanders and brave ganization is now seeking to join the troops who actually won the Soviet- World Veterans Federation, which The German war. American Legion refused to join prin- Possibly as part of the "new look" in cipally because of its previous experi- Soviet diplomacy, Khrushchev and com- ence as a member organization of an If you are on the board of your post, school or church, or on the house or purchasing commit- pany are permitting the formation of a international group known as FIDAC tee of your chib. you will be interested in this modern. Folding Pedestal Banquet Tabic. Soviet veterans union. But this union (Federation Interaliee des Anciens Write for catalog and special discounts. will undoubtedly be under the control Combattants) Monroe Co., 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa of the Central Committee of the Com- Perhaps these mild concessions will munist Party— like all the labor unions satisfy some Soviet veterans. The rest in the Soviet Union. are a potential fifth column, hating com- A TEXAS OIL COMPANY You may be sure that the Soviet vet- munism, loving freedom, and continu- Wants a Man Over 45 erans union will be used by the Soviet ally worrying the Kremlin leadership

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Four years of college are a very mini- a scientist or engineer should have. The TENSE NERVOUS mum tor engineers, and more usually is student who automatically shuts ofi' his necessary for scientists. On the campus Bunsen burner when a whifT of rock 'n' HEADACHES the engineer can occupy his time with roll drifts through the lab window is not call for loads of mathematics and physics, plus likely to become another Newton. The a mixture of mechanics, electricity, scientist-engineer must look on research STRONGER Yet SAFER metallurgy, chemistry, etc. and knowledge as exciting. And he must The fact that a college degree usually be able to gallop his brain along for a isn't enough to make an engineer or considerable length of time without ANACIH scientist immediately valuable to his first tiring. Won't Upset The Stomach employer shouldn't scare him. College Where do the girls come in? The sad Anacin® not only gives stronger, faster headache, but is also textbooks tend to be a couple of years answer is that they don't. It isn't that relief from pain of safer. Won't upset the stomach and has behind the times, for one thing; for an- the young ladies aren't mentally no bad effects. You see, Anacin is like a other, there's a considerable ditTerence equipped to do the job (they are). It's doctor's prescription. That is, Anacin contains not just one but a combination of between a college lab and, say, the that tradition is against them. Until re- medically proven, active ingredients. Sci- Chrysler plant. cently, particularly in engineering, the entific research has proved no single drug For that reason many employers give physical environment was discouraging. can give such strong yet such safe relief Anacin. Biiy A7iacin Tablets today! the newborn engineer some extra train- Setting off dynamite and smearing as ing at their own time and expense. Thus grease on machines was not the gals'

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causes consternation among their busi- leading; they really mean what they say. consult his teachers. Do this as early as ness or lawyer friends, but should not Engineers and scientists, to be sure, possible so that he won't skip any of be taken seriously. still have their gripes. They complain the courses he should take. There is some scattered evidence that that they are assigned to jobs, like draft- And don't be frightened by the high scientists and engineers do their best ing, where much of their valuable edu- cost of education. Loans, scholarships, creative work early in life— in their cation is not needed. And they feel that etc., are growing so plentiful that help thirties, perhaps. The moral of this, if they aren't called in on enough manage- is almost sure to be available if you

it's really true, is that the scientist has ment problems, nor given the responsi- really need it. Your high school either so little time between graduation and bilities and respect they should have. has full information on this subject or

inspiration that he should start his aca- Here again, though, the trend seems can get it for you ( the list is too long demic hitch as early as possible. What- definitely in the other direction. More to print here) ever the facts, it's a good general rule and more engineers are rising to the Above all, find out how gifted your

anyhow. top and are welcomed there. child really is. One big flaw in our pro- Where do they wind up? Buried in Forty years ago Oswald Spengler pre- fessional recruiting system—not only for .some lab? Or skimping along on relative- dicted in his The Decline of the West scientists, but for doctors, lawyers, etc., ly low pay after years of expensive edu- that "There have been fears of the ex- as well— is failure to spot children with cation? haustion of the coal fields. But so long high ability and encourage them. You can stir up quite an argument as there are worthy technical path- Moreover, as the scientific and engi- on that. It is true that in the past the finders, dangers of this sort have no neering professions move ahead, they engineer often was regarded as a kind existence. When, and only when, the are plowing a wide path for literally mil-

of doubledome luxury and paid accord- crop of recruits for this army fails . . . lions of jobs that don't require quite so ingly. The fellow with the practical shop industry must flicker out in spite of all much education yet often pay well- know-how, regardless of forma! training, that managerial energy and the workers technicians, inspectors, instructors. You was considered a superior all-round can do." might want to take a look at some of value. All this has changed, and will The best way to tell whether your these yourself. It's never too late. continue to do so. Those ads aren't mis- child is eligible for this "army" is to THE END

THEY LEARN TO LIVE (Coiiliniied froin l>fige 26) could get. The fish were small, and he instruction in how to use a parachute, around survival techniques and equip- had to eat oil of each of them—includ- inflate a Mae West and liferaft, and ment. They learn again how to handle ing the heads. crank a Gibson Girl radio, the operation a parachute, to use emergency radios, to

Tough? Perhaps, but the major was of the Air Force's survival school is a fire rifles and pistols, and how to make standing in the headquarters of a unique revelation. such interesting things as gill nets from military school which is trying to teach In essence the school teaches its stu- parachute shroud lines, footwear from men to be that tough. Operated by the dents how to survive by making them the harnesses, and tepees and sleeping Air Training Command of the U.S. Air bags from the silk canopy.

Force, the school's function is to teach The students learn that many things flying personnel of all the Armed Forces are edible. If it's an animal and has fur, to eat many things even more unpalat- they can eat it. They learn what plants able than fish heads and to do other dis- to avoid eating and what fish to catch. tasteful things so that they may live. The experts explain the little tricks of The 3635th Combat Crew Training nature that will provide water and food

Wing (Survival) at Stead is the direct in seemingly barren areas. descendant of an earlier unit formed in As tough as this phase of the train-

1950 by General Curtis E. LeMay, Com- ing is— and it starts early in the morning manding General of the Strategic Air and runs into late evening— it is still be- Command. General LeMay stated at ing done at a fairly comfortable base. that time that the highly skilled, expen- There are three good meals a day and a sively trained crews that flew the big place to put a weary head at night. bombers were more valuable than the Just about the time the crewman gets nuiltimillion-dollar aircraft. adjusted to the routine and figures he help your heart The general knew that despite the can keep up with the grind, he discovers elaborate safety equipment and despite that the real survival training is about the most painstaking precautions there to begin. Early in the morning of the would be times when his crews would sixth day the crews together with their have to abandon their aircraft. This is survive a tough course of instruction instructors are taken to Plumas National true not only in war but in peacetime that puts pressure on them in many Forest, 8,000 feet up in the Sierra training flights as well. For SAC, with ways. Every two weeks students—rang- Nevada Mountains, just over the Cali- its worldwide operations, it meant that ing in grade from young aerial gunners lornia line 60 miles northwest of Stead. these priceless crews might find them- to older, experienced pilots and navi- Here they find themselves in a forest selves floating on an ocean, marooned gators ranking as high as colonel— ar- area that is as rough and primitive as on a de.sert, or bogged down in a tropi- rive at the base which lacks all the anything in the United States. While it cal jungle. General LeMay wanted a niceties of home and even of other mili- has some game and fish it is not over- school to train his men to live under tary bases. abundantly supplied with either. The any of these conditions with whatever At the base officers and men are as- crews set un static camps—semi-perma- equipment they might be fortunate sembled in crews of 1 5 and assigned to nent bases-where they spend three days enough to have with them. their living quarters, which are tents and getting acclimated to the elevation and

To veterans of World War II whose sleeping bags. For the next five days to living in the woods. survival training was little more than they live in a world which revolves (Conlinited on pa^c 57)

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Now! TWO different full-hour Lawrence Welk Shows each week on TV! "Dancing Porly " and "Top Tunes and New Talent — ABC:-Tv. (Continued from page 54) rabbits serve a double purpose: they en- from the nylon cords of the parachute The field operations are controlled able the instructor to teach the men shroud lines tied to a willow pole and by a Task Force Command Post which how to kill and skin game, and they hook.

is set up in a central location. The staff provide a little more food for the crew. The same parachute provides the ma- consists of a chief warrant officer who is The rabbit meat, heavily salted, together terials to make an Alaskan pack (in the task force commander, a master ser- with the vegetables is put in tin cans which the student can carry his gear), geant who is the liight leader, and a covered with wet silk, and buried in a mukluks or shoes if needed, a belt and technical sergeant who is the assistant rock oven. This is a rock-lined pit in sheath for his knife, a hat or mosquito flight leader. which a fire has been kept burning for net, and other items. The airman soon Chief Warrant Officer W. S. Smith several hours. The heat of the rocks un- learns that if he bails out of his plane and his two NCO's M, Sgt. Fred Shaver der a blanket of dirt makes a simmering this parachute is the one thing he can and T/Sgt. Henry Kent, of B Flight, are vegetable-game stew in a few hours. be sure he'll have when he lands. all World War II vets and typical of the The hungry crewmen seldom object to His knife may be lost in the descent; instructor and supervisory personnel the fact that a little dirt might have his shoes or boots may pop off from the that make the school click. Mr. Smith is gotten into their dish in the process force of the chute opening; his clothing an ex-paratrooper who served with the of cooking it. may be torn when he lands, but the 11th and 101st Airborne Divisions, Ser- Since water is fairly plentiful in this parachute will be with him when he gets geant Shaver is an ex-Navy petty otlicer area of the Sierras it is the shortage of on the ground. who switched to Air Force service, and food that creates the tension and gives On the fourth day in the woods the Sergeant Kent is an ex-Marine who the crews a realistic idea of the difficul- crews break camp. They now start out won the Silver Star while serving with a ties of survival. The pound and a half on the trek fairly well adjusted to the Marine Raider Battalion. of meat is obviously not enough to keep elevation and lack of food. The trek is In static camp the crews quickly learn a man going for 10 days, so a pemmi- a planned exercise in which the crews what was meant when they were told can ration is also issued. Pemmican is move from their drop-off point to the that their parachute was their best a mixture of dried beef and rendered pick-up point approximately 25 miles friend. From its shroud lines, harness, fat, made up in quarter pound bars. The away. The terrain they traverse is rocky, and silken canopy the downed airman mixture, another item the American In- broken by large areas covered with im- can make all sorts of useful and life- dian once used, is so rich that many men passable manzanita bushes, mountainous saving items. The first order of business find it unpalatable. as only the Sierras can be, and cut by is to make a tepee, using the silk canopy. The school provides five boxes of five streams and soggy meadow areas that Copied from the animal-hide tepee used bars each for three men, together with bog a man down. by the American Plains Indians, the Air 2 fruit bars, some soluble coffee and The instructor's role at this point

Force experts consider it to be the best tea, and eight cubes of sugar, and some changes. His instruction is less direct; it type of shelter than can be improvised chili powder. The chili is the trick to gives the crew members more freedom in the field. making the pemmican palatable. When to act on their own. And the instructor The crews start fires and begin boil- it's boiled and the chili powder added, becomes a more exacting observer. He ing water for drinking and washing, and the student finds he has a pemmican has given the crew all the training he can settle down for a three-day stay. They dish remarkably like chili con carne. both at the base and in static camp, and begin immediately to learn the problems The students soon learn, however, now it is up to the crew to put it to use. of survival. While they have a sleeping that if they want to eat better they'll It is on the seven-day-long trek that bag, shelter in the form of a tepee, and have to catch their food. The instructors many of the amusing and grim experi- sufficient clothing for the local tempera- teach them to make snares and traps ences occur that underline the value of ture, their food supply is far below what from material on hand or the ever-useful such realistic training. One point that they will need for a ten-day stint, and parachute. They make fishing tackle ihe instructors emphasize over and over the chilly mountain air adds a little bite to the situation. The students are given a pound and a half of meat per man and the same amount of raw vegetables. The meat however is "buck" meat. It contains gristle, fat, and bone; the edible portion is much less than the total weight. The instructor generally suggests that the students use some of the meat and some of the vegetables for one meal and that they make "jerky" of the remainder to get them through the trek that is to come.

Jerky is a primitive form of smoked meat used by the Indians. It is made in a small tent of parachute silk in which thin strips of meat are hung on parachute shroud lines and all moisture re- moved. A smoky fire is kept burning under the tent for 12 to 24 hours. The smoked meat, which generally has the flavor of the leaves which are used to make the smoke, will keep almost in- definitely. Usually at this time the instructor provides two rabbits for each crew. The

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Become an lose weight and snap at one another. Then he watches to see where the extra

food is coming from. In one case it was nnouiiTniiT- several days before the student caught his field jacket in a barbed wire fence Auditor -C, P,A. Chapla and tore it so that the rice he had stuffed Tlie demand for skilled accountants men who really in the lining came pouring out. know their business— is increasing. National and stale legislation is requiring of business much more in the Corner Often the instructor has to contend way of Auditing, Cost Accounting. Business Law, and Income Tax Procedure. Men who prove their with an incident which will break up a qualifications in this important field are promoted to By Reverend responsible executive positions. crew that has flown together for years G. H. "Bud" GILLILAND SEND FOR FREE BOOK without a harsh word being spoken. One Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train you North Glendale Methodist Church such incident was an argument between from ground up, or according to your individual needs. Low cost: easy terms. Chaplain, Post 127, Glendale, Calif. a captain and lieutenant over who owned Send name and address on the lines below {or free a canteen of water. The instructor illustrated book describing the LaSalle Accounting "O Ciod, Creator of this good training and the opportunities in this highly profitable smoothed out the bickering, but then held. land, help us to be worthy of citi- EXTENSION UNIVERSITY divided the 15-man crew into groups of lA^AIir zenship in our nation. Bless our three to avoid more fights and sent them out on their own to make their way to 417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 2361H, Chicago 5, III. c()untr\' w ith io\ al people and dedi- the pickup point. cated leaders. Cluard us from un- Name . . Despite their frequent complaints, Address lawful acts and cowardly fear. A\'e none of the students ever suffer too also ask blessing the vet- City .Zone ... .Slate Thy on badly from the lack of food. They may erans of our nation and grant that claim that they're weakening fast and LEARN The American Legion nia\' always haven't the strength to go on, but the record of thousands of students shows MEAT CUTTING do Ths' w ill. Amen."

Train quickly In 8 sliort weeks at To that this isn't so. ledo for a bright future with securltj In the vital meat husine.ss. Blf? pav, On the average the students lose six full-time jobs — HAVE A PROFltAULK MARKET OF YOUR OWN! Pay after Kraduatlon. Diploma given. Job Iielp- or seven pounds in the course of the Thousamls of successful crafluate-- is that the leader of the crew on the trek ve.ii! Send now for bipr. new illustrated FRr:i trek. The record for losing weight was <> obligation. G.I. Approved. should not necessarily be the aerial navi- ATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING established recently by a heavyweight Dept. A-76. Toledo 4, Ohio gator. For some reason the navigators student who managed to lose 31 excess who can take a jet bomber halfway New Color Catalog of Italian pounds. fREEh around the world at 600 m.p.h. at high ACCORDiONS altitude can manage to get hopelessly The experience of walking over rough I OillfC Cn

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The situation gives an aircraft com- WHY TRADE OUR AMERICAN BIRTHRIGHT FOR A MESS . . . ? insight into mander a good what makes -I hilled jroiii />ngt' li)- his men tick. The good old joe who is For a dozen eggs the Soviet consumer are the fruits of the American constitu- the clown of the crew back at the home must work more than three hours; the tional form of government, with liberty base may turn out to be a chronic com- American consumer only 32 minutes. always taking precedence over — but plainer when he has to go without food For a pound of coft'ee the Soviet con- never in conflict with — prosperity. In for a while. By the same token, the sumer must work almost nine hours liberty alone the creative energies essen- quiet little gunner who doesn't have (531 minutes); the American consumer tial to prosperity are released. much to say may turn out to be a latter- only 32 minutes. The Founding Fathers, at whose work day Dan'l Boone who finds the survival For a pound of rice the Soviet con- "liberals" are accustomed to sneer, set course something like a paid vacation sumer must work an hour and a half; up a form of government with strictly and leads his crew to good fishing waters. the American consumer only six min- limited powers and functions. The first Sometimes it's the aircraft command- utes. ten amendments to the Constitution, er who presents a problem. It may be What is true of the amount of work usually referred to as the Bill of Rights, that he doesn't exercise sufficient control required to purchase foodstuff's in the were designed to protect the individual or leadership. Then it is up to the out- Soviet Union is also true with respect and the sovereign States against en- instructor to suggest diplomati- ranked to other consumer goods such as cloth- croachments by any police power of the cally that other crew members get a ing. And, of course, automobiles and Federal Government. These amend- chance at leading the crew for "prac- telephones are luxuries quite beyond the ments constituted a Bill of Restrictions tice." reach of the average Soviet consumer. upon the powers of the Central Govern- It's not ail trials and tribulations, Such things are for the commissars only. ment as well as a Bill of Rights for the however. Some of the crews turn out to When politics rather than free con- protection of the individual. be excellent foragers and come up with sumer choice rules production, amusing In recent years the American public enough game and fish to live well. One as well as tragic consequences some- has become thoroughly aware of the typical class at Stead turned up with the times follow. At the peak of Stalin's Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, following record of game and fish to brutal tyranny, the Soviet Cosmetic through the frequent appeals of com- add to their diet: 112 trout, 31 frogs, Trust — a state monopoly — marketed a munist traitors to its protection. It may, 40 fresh water mussels, 16 porcupines, perfume called "Stalin's Breath." Suffice however, be doubted whether very many

684 crawfish, 1 squirrel, and 8 snakes- it to say that that particular item has Americans are equally familiar with the all of which were eaten. been discontinued. Tenth Amendment, the amendment of Like all things, even the seemingly By contrast with the Soviet socialist "reserved powers." The Tenth Amend- endless trek finally comes to a finish system, what has happened under our ment "reserved to the States respective- when the crews reach the pickup point. own American way? ly, or to the people" all the powers not The trucks take them back to Stead for Liberty and prosperity have been and delegated to the United States by the a shower, clean clothes, and a good meal. Even this last sometimes proves a *2 problem. The younger crewmen, not be- WILL YOU SPEND lieving that their stomachs have shrunk, occasionally gorge themselves on the GI chow and then find that they can't hold it. TO SAVE YOUR HAIR? After two more at Stead, taking days How many hard-earned dollars MONEY BACK your hair? DOUBLE exams and being graded on their con- have you spent to save How many hair tonics, gadgets, GUARANTEE restorers, electrical devices, have duct in the field, the crews get their In seconds, Formula kills the you tried in the last few years Ward's three parasitic re- with no success? How many times germ organisms diplomas and return to their home bases. tarding normal hair growth. This after an unsuccessful hair-grow- has been proven in scientific tests Survival training in the Air Force ing attempt have you sworn not world-famous testing labora- to spend another cent on an- by a report sent doesn't end with the diploma however. other hair treatment? tory (copy of laboratory Yet, you buy the next prod- on request ) . Ward's removes infecti- There are survival training lectures and uct that comes on the market ous dandruff, stops scalp itch, brings with hair-growing claims. hair-nourishing blood to the scalp, demonstrations and, from time to time, tends to normalize very dry or oily scalp. In brief Ward's Formula cor- tests at their bases. One such test con- CAN YOU GROW HAIR? rects the ugly symptoms of seborrhea, hair loss it causes. Ward's Doctors who have spent a life- stops the sists in taking the crew members right Formula has been tried by more than time studying hair and hair growth ? nothing now 350.000 men and women on our famous from the airplane when it lands after have concluded that known can grow hair on a bald h Double - Your - Money - Back Guarantee. these and women a training mission, trucking them out to head. So, if you are bald, prepare Only 1.9% of men to spend the rest of your life that were not helped by Ward's and asked for an open area, and leaving them for three way. Accept it philosophically and their double refund. This is truly an amaz- quit spending hard-earned dollars on performance. Treat your scalp with days. ing With only the equipment they car- hair growers. Ward's Formula. Try it at our risk. In only If you can't grow hair —what can 10 days you must see and feel the marked ried in the airplane to sustain them, the excessive hair you do? Can you stop improvement in your scalp and hair. Your loss? Can you save the hair you still crews are realistically— that dandruff must be gone. Your scalp itch must reminded— have? Can you increase the life expec- stop. Your hair must look thicker, more attrac- tancy of your hair? Probably. Please read survival knowledge may be needed at tive, alive. Your excessive hair loss must every word in the rest of this statement care- and stop. You must be completely satisfied—in only 10 any minute. fully, since it may mean the difference to you between saving your hair and losing the rest of it days—with the improved condition of your scalp and to eventual hair, or simply return the unused portion for Double Advanced training such as is given at BALDNESS. Your Money Back. So why delay? Delay may cost Stead is now a regular part of Air Force your hair. Ward Laboratories, Inc., 19 West 44 Street, HOW TO SAVE YOUR HAIR N. Y. 36. N. Y. © 1956 training for flight crews and for Navy Itchy scalp, hair loss, dandruff, very dry or oily scalp, are symptoms of the scalp disease called sebor- ^Ward Laboratories, Inc. Dept. L ; and Marine Corps fliers too. Crews in are often warnings of rhea. These scalp symptoms 19 West 44 Street, Nev/ York 36, N. Y. approaching baldness. Not every case of seborrhea re- ' SAC are expected to take such training Rush Ward i Formula to me at onre I fnuM lie completHv saliified sults in baldness, but doctors now know that men and in only 10

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Constitution nor prohibited by it to the tatorship over the proletariat in a mo- LUBRIPLATX^ States. The Founding Fathers were de- ment. KEEPS TOOLS LIKE NEW \ termined that there should never be an We remember the Russian school

PREVENTS RUST , all-powerful Central Government. teacher who jumped from the window TOO! J) AND LUBRICATES Our forefathers were not only wise of the Soviet consulate in New York with respect to the fundamentals of good City, risking almost certain death, rather government and human liberty, but they than return to her prisonlike homeland. possessed a profound understanding of There was also the young Polish pilot human society and human nature. They who. against almost insuperable odds, believed that there were unchangeable flew his plane to freedom, dreaming of values and truths which the state had a new life in America. no right to abridge or annul. These were but two of the more dra-

TRY lUBRIPLATE! Notanold fash- The idea uppermost in the minds of matic instances of the hundreds of thou- ioneJ oil tliat runs oft or gets gummy. the men who founded the United States sands who have fled from the slavery

LUBRIPLA'IE IS .\ new, white and clean, was that each and every human being behind the Iron Curtain, their ultimate semi-fiuid lubricant that stays put. were convinced pointing toward the liberty • In handy 25', 50* and Sl.CO tubes at was important. They hopes always Sporting Goods, Hardware, Marine and that the importance of the individual and prosperity which are America. Auto Supply Stores. did not come from any grant of state. There were the unforgettable and tragic • Dealers write to Lubriplate Division, It did not come from any position he mass suicides of the Russian soldiers Fiske Bros. Rctinin« Co.. Newark 5, N.J. had achieved nor from any power he who at the end of World War II chose LUBRIPLATE had acquired nor from any wealth he death rather than forcible repatriation ^ THE MODERN LUBRICANT had accumulated. They knew the im- to the Soviet Union.

portance of man came from the very That you and I, heirs to this great SHORTHAND in source of his life. Man was made in the gift of our Founding Fathers, are the F.imous SPEEnWRITlNG shorth.inrt, 120 image of God. And because he had a envy of millions all over the world must words per minute. No .symbol.s: no m.iclilnes. Uses ABC's. K.isiest to learn, write, tr.nn- con- S'-ril>e. Lowest eost. Over n.'in.(Mif) (rr.uhi- destiny to achieve, he had the unalien- be obvious to any who will stop to at.'s. T.vpin!,' av.ill.ihle. :!Uli Year. Write f.ir FRKIO booklet lo: able rights and the inherent freedom to sider. More than 80 percent of all

achieve it. That is the basic idea of our European and Asiatic countries each way of life. Discard that central thought year oversubscribe their permitted U. S. and there is no meaning to our Declara- immigration quotas. Foreigners who are tion of Independence, there is no valid- able to cross the oceans on vacation Ejg BR OK ity to our Constitution. choose America eight to one as their PAYS BIG! SEND4>END FOR FREE,FREE. BIG,Rin ILLUS-IL1 The "increasing misery of the work- vacationland. < TRATED CATALOG NOW! ; la.liiaU-.-'^ ifp.Mt niakinti .suh-'^^taiitial incomes. Start and run ymir ing class" under capitalism a fun- Liberty own business quickly. Men, women of all oRes. was For generations the Statue of learn easily. Course covers Sales, Properlv Manaf^emcMit, Appraisinc. Loans, MortRapes. and how// damental tenet in the thinking of Karl has beckoned millions to our shores. related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in cla-^^s- rooms cities. Iiiploma in leading awarded. Mar.x. The market economy of Ameri- It is understood the bases of Write TODAY for free hnokl No oblisation. time we Approved for World War II and Korean Veterans can capitalism has provided a smashing our liberty and prosperity in order that WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est. n. :.; 2020A Grand Avenue Kansas City. Mo. refutation of this Marxist dogma. we may better preserve and defend them. With every advance in productivity Neither luck nor natural resources FOLDING CHAIRS under the capitalist economy of the can explain the miracle that is America. InSteelorWood ^ United States the consumer's welfare— Nature is stingy and hostile and does FOLDING TABLES not his misery—has steadily increased. not yield up her treasures willingly. A WRITE FOR CATALOG J The final conquest of poverty is the solid The natural resources of the Soviet Wand LOW DiRiCTPRiccs ( promise of the American way of life. Union are more abundant than those of J.RRedington&Co. The whole world is beginning to under- the United States. If natural resources DEPT. 197 SCRANTON 2. PA. stand this. were everything, Iraq would be prosper-

Although it is true that man shall not ous; and Egypt would be the garden UPTURE live by bread or gadgets alone, never- spot of the world, for nowhere else in theless the physical comfort and con- a comparable area is the soil more fer-

veniences of modern mechanical civili- tile or water for irrigation and power zation do give him the leisure to pursue more plentiful. Indonesia has physical FREEDOM/ ENJOY NEW , values. It is, there- calculation, and ol ixtion, peace or nilml ana ''-i lENTIRELV DIFFERENTi cultural and spiritual wealth which defies

foreign governments to keep it from progress to date. bankruptcy. Prosperity is the result of the way in whole world, given which man's efforts to exploit his na- MACHINE SAW FILING pays up to »3 or tS an hour This is known. The all hu hand ai t. tural resources arc organized. Those clniilar saws,,. liasy a free choice, would take our system. no eyestrain,a. Make^ cut like new. world who settled America were willing to FREE BOOK "Money Indeed, most of the peoples of the FACTS." .Shows how : risks, to endure hardship, and, .sC.rt In would desert their countries and flock take ho vlth oslinent and bnll'l participate in our liberties and above all, to let each individual reap and repeat cash biisl- here to ;s. No canvassbu: his toil. The no experience our wealth. And, equally true, the keep the product of own '(led. Write totlay resources in I'r. Ilo communist domination land was rich in natural vUl peoples under era during which the Indians had it FOLEY MFG. CO. would, if they had the power, murder the it remained a barren 239 7 Foley Bldg., Minneapolis 18. Minn. their tyrants and put an end to the dic- to themselves; yet I 60 IME AMIiRlCAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1957 i '

— and still undeveloped — wilderness. and more government controls, more The distinctive American conception and more government intervention in Almost Frantic from ot government is that the state exists to the economy— all to be bolstered by the serve, not rule, the people; to encour- politicians' cynical device ol tax and age, not stifle, their initiative; to protect, tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. DRY SKIN ITCH? First applications of Zemo — a not seize or redistrihute, their wealth; It is not the American way; it is the way to guarantee, not restrict, opportunity of of the brain trusters. doctor's soothing antiseptic — relieve itch of surface skin and the individual to achieve according to America has no need to mend its scalp irritations. Zemo stops his ability. Despite all these things, there capitalist structure by importing either scratching and are those who would like to see us fore- British Fabianism or Swedish monopo- ^f^i(W([\ so aids healing. Mj^Um\m\3 go some (not all they insist) of our listic cooperatives. liberties and adopt some kind of Middle Anticapitalist Americans who profess Way. We will not, of course, have the hatred of the profit motive have long nasty Russian variety of communism or doted on Sweden's Middle Way. They become Marxian socialists like other less offer, as one item of proof of the superi- 2 Top Vcta tell us. We'll ority of the Swedish over the American Opportunity Fields. enlightened peoples, they ' nin uri full Size equipment at Coyne —

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MACiAZINE • TEHRUARY 1957 • cept under a delusion." The great de- the plight of the poor. On the contrary, finding: "Emphasis in sociology texts is lusion which threatens our freedom he was a cold-blooded, calculating sta- markedK critical of private competitive

today is statism, with its endless appetite tist. An important aspect of the delusion enterprise and of capitalistic economy."

tor more and more government controls of the Middle Way is the increasingly One widely used sociology textbook and more and more government inter- serious menace of taxation which, as declared that business enterprise was

vention. The danger is not that we shall one of America's greatest jurists said "actually the perpetuation of ancient suddenly embrace statism in all its full- long ago. is the "power to destroy." To- forms of piracy and brigandage." An-

ness, but that we shall drift into it day, in the United .States, Federal, State, other textbook stated that our economic

gradually. and local governments are spending 1 10 system had "tied our hands, paralyzed

It was because the Founding Fathers billion dollars a year, which is more our activity, until we are poor in the realized that most politicians were ever than one-third of all the money earned midst of riches, destitute in a land of ready to accumulate power in their own by all the people and all the businesses plenty." Yet another described individu- hands and to perpetuate themselves in of the country. This gigantic tax bite— al competition as a myth and asserted:

office that they made provisions in the or much of it— is justified, according to "The nearest approach to individualism

Constitution against these temptations. the planners of the Middle Way, by the that is opposed to collectivism is found To the Federal Government they said, needs of social welfare. in certain types of insanity." in effect, ""thus far and no farther shalt When the planners are allowed to Dr. Ralph Robey made an examina- thou go." tinker and tamper with the free-enter- tion of more than 600 social science

Karl Marx thought up the idea of the prise structure, they always load it down textbooks and came to the following Middle Way as a gradual assault upon with such a weight of collectivist curbs conclusion: ""A substantial portion of

the capitalist system, and included it in as to make the going tough and eventu- the social science textbooks now used a ten-point program in his Coniniimist ally, they hope, to bring about its col- in high schools tend to criticize our form Manifesto. Long before the final over- lapse. of government, and hold in derision or throw of capitalism and the complete Sooner or later the question of the contempt the system of private enter- triumph of communism Marx envi- attack upon individualism and free en- prise." Thus American public opinion sioned a number of steps which could terprise goes back to education, into the is poisoned at its primary source. and would have a crippling efTect on the tens of thousands of classrooms across We stand in the shadow of those who

capitalist system, including a steeply the nation. What is being taught in our pledged their lives, their fortunes, and graduated income tax. schools with respect to our economic their sacred honor to bring forth on this The fundamental purpose of Marx's system? continent a new nation dedicated to the

graduated income tax is usually over- In hundreds of sociology, history, and proposition that citizens shall control looked. It was designed to expropriate economics textbooks the validity of pri- and dictate to the government, not a

and, therefore, to destroy venture capi- vate enterprise is attacked, and some government dictating to its citizens. We

tal. With the consequent destruction of form of statism or collectivism is advo- would be less than honorable if we

private risk-taking capital—which is the cated. From educational programs, these failed to speak up fearlessly against con- lifeblood of the capitalist system—argu- doctrines which are alien to the Ameri- tinued and increasing governmental con- ments for transforming the state into can genius and the American way of trol of our rights.

the monopolistic capitalist would be- life spread into popular expression and We would be traitors indeed if we come more convincing. Marx's tax ultimately influence government policy. now deserted the tenets of the Founding scheme was not a share-the-wealth con- A recent survey of sociology text- Fathers which have brought us so suc- trivance. There is no evidence that Marx books used in high schools and colleges cessfully into our great American herit- was a do-gooder who seriously pondered resulted in the following rather startling age. THE END

THERE'S ONLY ONE WINNER (Couli)iiied jrom page 23)

doors had rolled up, the racks were eye. "Combat stations, everybody." We Cook, our copilot yells over. "What the

automatically released. The whole flight circle for three minutes before visual heck is she doing out here?" I wonder,

was still in front of us. strictly over contact is again made. We identify it as "What the heck are we doing out here?" enemy waters, and no depth charges if a Jap Emily, 4-engine flying boat. It is The guessing game goes on as we are we saw something. Go back and land flying through the tops of the broken slipping in and out of the clouds trying with 3,300 gallons of gas in our belly? clouds about 4.000 feet over us. to see our foe who is doing the same Not on your life. If we do make sub What to do? We are seven hours out. thing. Wc see here twice more with the contact, we can throw coffee cups at almost to our terminal point. This means sun glinting on her. Now she is about her. we have enough gas to get home plus a half a mile ahead and perhaps 1,500 feet

As the day wanes in the Pacific, small two-hour reserve in case we need it. above us. We break out on top with the

white clouds start to form. From widely Jaluit is less than 30 minutes ahead. If sun gleaming on milk-white clouds solid scattered positions they march together we intercept the timily, she will radio enough to walk on. until they are almost solid. Their bases for help and we ma\ wind up in a real The Emily has leveled olT about a arc at 2,000 feet and they top ofT at scrap. If she sees us. she can walk away quarter-mile ahead. We again drop down 6.000 and up. Procedure for conducting from us. We know from our briefings into the tops of the concealing clouds. the patrol varies. Today we elect to fly she is faster by 50 miles per hour. We We increase to full power, and I imagine just inside their bases. We have good decide to go after her. four open, gushing fire hydrants are out cover, either to hide in or to come out We alter our course and throw Mix- on the wings in place of our engines. of. The day is sunny and warm, and we ture Control into Full Rich. There goes We have 5,000 horses pulling us closer. are mighty, mighty alone. There is noth- our precious gas, and we are going still We come out of our last cloud and very ing, nothing but water and sky. At I.'i30 farther away from home. The problem nearly slide underneath her.

the intercom crackles, "Tail to pilot, is to climb through the clouds without She looks enormous but beautiful, bogey at seven o'clock high, estimate losing sight of her and without falling with a graceful hull and a tapering wing five miles." behind. While we are climbing, the .lap with the Red Suns of .lapan painted on

The search plane becomes one big pilot is starting his letdown. Ensign either wingtip. Our position is perfect.

^2 • 'III AME.RK AN ITCUON MAC;,\ZINE • FEHRU,\R^' are being hit along the fuse- We can bear five murderous, ripping .50- other. We that hits POST EXCHAIVGE her. can't get o\er lage. Vou never see the one caliber guns on We For advertising rates write Combined-Classified, from the side, through 1227 Chicago 26 came Loyola Ave , ihe silence of her menacing tail turret, you. Mine the skin of the plane. Catching me in the BUSINESS-AAONEY-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES unmanned guns pointed skyward: we MEN— WOMEN! "START MONEY-MAKING PLASTIC LAMINATING in seat. BUSINESS at home in spare lime. Material ttiat costs He In this business, vigilance legs, it spins me half around my ,ue that close. brings back $2.58. No canvassing or selling but mail orders Four minutes of constant firing by the bring in $20 a day. Write for full particulars FREE. Rush name is the price of life. We reduce our on postc ard t o WARNER, Room 4-B , 1512 Jarvis^ Chicago_26,JII. from 100 to 300 feet away. Where $50" throttles, and lower our flaps a hair to clock EARN TO DAY as spare or full time Claim Adjuster for airlines, insurance companies, railroads, are the boarding nets'? government offices. Urgent keep from floating by. 'Gunners, fire at need. Tram at home. Placement counsel. Free book— Now! No obJi^gationÛNIVERSAL SCHOOLS, BoxJ202, DaljasJ, Texas. turret. Ensign Cook took over the controls. will!" Little Rhine is in the bow MAKE MALTA FAMOUS ALMOND COOKIES. Samples, Particulars flaming Emily was just entering a 20c. Jox 83,_El8in,JII. Brunncr is in the Martin top deck. Pol- The FREE BOOK. "Grow Mushrooms. Guaranteed (Market, IVIUSH- spiral to the right as she disappeared be- ROOMS, Dept. 204. 2954 Admiral Way. Seattle. Wash. lard is manning the port waist. low us into one of those lovely clouds. EARN EXTRA MONIy Selling Advertising Book Matches. Free What a racket! The whole plane Simple kit furnished. MATCHCORP., Dept. EX-ie, Chicago 32, many and llhnoi^ five dis- Who was in her? How shudders. We can actually sec START BIG-PAY BUSINESS AT HOME in spare time. No cxperf- our gun where were they from? Obviously bound cnce needed to operate little table-top machine for bron!ing baby tinct lines of tracers from shoes. Make $5.46 profit on every pair. Full particulars FREE. refuel. But her crew made Jarvi s, 4 Chicago III. for Jaluit to Send postcard to tÂSON . 1512 Room B, 26, muzzles lace into the Emily. Normal the mistake of relaxing. They were al- lOANS BY MAIl firing procedure is to fire in quick bursts. BILLS! BILLS! BILLS' Pay them quickly with cash loan by mail, stream. The most home. 5100 00 to $600,00, Repay in small monthly installments over 20 Not here. This is a steady months. Your payment may run ','2 less than now; have money down from We beat our way back in the night. left over to spend. Loan Order Blank mailed FREE in plain en- empty cartridges cascade velope. Advise amount you need. State Finance Co., 323 Securi- ties BIdg. Dept. J-239, Brunner's guns into our seats. For every , Omaha 2. Nebr. BORROW $50 to $500. Employed men and women ever 25, eligible. tracer we can see we know there are Confidential— no co-signers— no inquiries of employers or friends. Repay m monthly payments to fit your income. Supervised by two more slugs in between stitching into State of Nebraska. Loan application sent free in plain envelope. Give occupation. American Loan Plan, City National BIdg., the Emily. In the pilots" seats we are try- GIVE 'EM THE WORD Dept. AC-2, Omaha, Ne braska, FOR INVENTORS ing to maintain a steady platform for Most noii-Ltiîoiinairi-s*li;i\c- liltif uiuU-r- INVENTORS— If you believe you have an invention, you should find out how to protect it. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet our gunners. We fire 50 seconds by the standint; <>l The Aiiuritaii Lc'i>i<)n. "How to Protect Your Invention" and "Invention Record" form. instrument clock before anything hap- Miuli tiilitiMii (>r our <>ri>ani/a(ion is due No obligation. McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON, Registered

Pat ent Attorneys , 14 6-W Victor B ui Iding. Washingto n D. C. to tliis. 1, pens. Inventors write PATRICK D, BEAVERS, Registered Patent Attor- \<)ii tan (oiintcr this l)y !>cttiii<> (opics ot ney. 822 Columbian Building, Washington 1, D,C, fire has been concentrated on Our T)te Aiiu'iicaii Leoio)i Matifniiie into as AGEN TS - S ALESMEN W ANTED the wing roots of the Jap, where the many hands as possible. $1,000.00 a month for making dramatic 3-second demonstration of amazing lightweight Presto Fire Extinguisher, New chemical wings fare into the hull. We have been A year's subscription costs only .lil.50. .A-> them. I wonder what the book says to P.O. IJox 1 New Holstein. Wise Will wear suits do when and if one whole Emily ex- Indianapolis (i, Indiana you new and topcoats without one penny cost and agree to show ttiem to friends? You can make up to $30,00 plodes in your face. in 3 day even in spare time, without canvassing. Pioneer Tailor- mi; Co,, C ongress 8, Throop Sts,, Dept, D-1225, Chicago 7, III, It is a strange thing happening up MAKE EXTRA MONEY— Cash commissions. Easy-to-sell ADVER- TISING BOOK MATCHES. UNION LABEL. Full or part time. Power- here, with the weather being a bonus house selling kit free. Superior Match, Dept. J-257, 7530 Gree nwood, Chic ago sky failed to ran 19^ day right out of heaven, and two We make Nukufetau. We If ynu're interested in making money in selling, see the hundreds trucks making like fighters on the tops into heavy rain and lightning. had of exceptional opportunities in Salesmen's OPPORTUNITY MAGA- We ZINE, Send name for your copy, absolutely free. Tell us what of the fairyland clouds. We possess this laid a course for Nanoumea, 200 miles you're selling now, OPPORTUNITY, 848 S. Dearborn, Dept, 43, Chicago 10, Illinois. beautiful stage all to ourselves. Sudden- to the north. We were ten minutes past PERSONAL MISC ELLAN EOUS BOOK MANUSCRIPTS CONSIDERED For national distribution. All ly the Emily stands on her nose. It is so our estimated time of arrival for Nanou- subjects welcomed. New authors encouraged. Atten; Mr. Hender- ".on. Greenwich Book Publishers, 489 Fifth Ave,, New York City. abrupt that you can only imagine the mea and went on Square Search, work- FREE. Complete Illustrated catalog, Leathercraft kits, supplies. havoc inside. Little Rhine begins on her ing in ever-expanding square patterns J, C. Larson Co,, 820 S, Tripp, Dept, 6330 L, Chicago 24, Want your book published? Send for free booklet CC. Vantage, nose and walks 500 slugs right along to find a base. We did not have enough 120 West 31, New York. ' the hull up to her tail and meets Brun- gas and had to find Nanoumea. We ners fire coming down the hull. The broke radio silence and begged for a .lap pilot levels off. bearing. We were flying at 300 feet in What do they make these Emilys out drumming rain so loud we couldn't hear India rubber? Her tail turret opens our engines. In a flash of lightning we up, and we can see the Jap gunner set- saw surf. The gauges read empty, but tling to his job. He is throwing balls of we had 15 more minutes before ditch- fire at us; they are coming in pairs. His ing. fire does not come as a straight line be- We received confirmation for our vic- tween two points, but in a wicked curve. tory, which we had entered as a "prob- He is firing explosive shells with con- able" not having seen her all the way tact fuses. down. A Navy task force was right un- In the pilots' seats we are flinching der the clouds and had us on their radar and trying to duck under the cowling as as two bright blips. There were cheers the balls of death flash by us. Brunner when one of the blips with Red Suns is down to one gun, the other must have hurtled hissing into the sea. melted, but Rhine is going crazy. Long lines of ominous black smoke trail from MY WIFE came into the garage. the number four engine of our foe. A "Whatever are you reading?" I had been bright ball of red fire instantly envelopes cleaning up, and found among other the outboard section of her starboard things my lost Navy Log Books. The wing. She cocks to the right and goes entry under December 1, 1943. read up into a gentle wingover, and we glue as follows: in right behind her. . . "Patrol—Nukufetau to Jaluit . and Legionnaire Retailers! We are frankly afraid to let go. There return to Nanoumea. Tvpe of Machine Use this handy coupon for your can be only one winner in this - Duration of flight - contest. PB4Y1. 16.2 FREE membership in the R.A.C. The tracers are still eating through each hours." THE END

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 1 EBRUARY Iy57 ^3 "

convenienced taxpayers who complained. THE VALENTINE An elderly native collared the foreman on the main street one afternoon to demand:

"What are > ()u and the city council going to do about that overgrown pond in front of my house wiiere the road's supposed to be?" "Oh, that," exclaimed the foreman. "Well, the council held a special meeting

on it, Clem, and it's all been settled. AX'e're

going to bu>' \ ()u a duck." — Dan Bennett

Aflcrllioii^lii

Because the Large Lady lacked foresiirht Her hindsight astounds peoples' eyes; Her slacks are so tight, that ifs evident, quite. She never did try 'em for thighs. — Howard W'inley

lli'tter Than Kver Television has certainly progressed since the days when we watched old movies on a seven inch screen. Now w e watcii them on a tw ent> -four inch screen. — Maurice Sci nER

IlijShway ltliyiiiiii<>l«>;>y

Road Map — t flii)ig my ifife imjolds lo shoiv Tlic turn I )iiisse(l ail hour ago.

Speed Limit —.1 sajc. sane rale lo guide me WJien squad cars tire beside me.

Superthi iMvay — .4 road icliere the scenery Consists of a beanery.

Cloverlcaf — A clex'er, curving intersection That points me in the ivrong direction.

- Lo> I) RoSI NEIEI I)

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Most viodern girls can dish it out — but the\ can't cook it. Russell Newkoi i)

<'aiM'fiM'«' T«nlay ... Dam lli^lit "Hmmmmmmmppppffff," snorted tiie Nevus Note: Fly noiv, pay later plan stimu- wife. "W ho's afraid of mice?" lates airborne vacations. Motarhts, by tl.us /i/css\iiic — Haroi.i) Hei fer I hope yoiiHl be enriched: Clothes, meals, hotel, transporlalioii. He who weaix's throus^l? ii\Tj]ic All oil the md for my vacalioii. May veiiid up beiui^ stitcheJ. .Ia4'k aii«l .lill Today Through iiislalliiuiil buviiis; my holiday — Neei.y Luke .//// /oo/f o liil> jelled To Uctio ami hack. And off llcw I, debt propelled. Nojc Jfick has tiolliiug - .MoutLMER I L Morris l*oi»r Triliiilt' Kill Jill has jack. — Lucille Ki.eist troiiblf with ham attois is lliat they The .lii.st f«»r Fiiii ( aii't he < iind. — Cv N. Peace A lli^ llt'lp Tile tow n liar w as called as a w itness in accident case and w as asked to take Like many |)laces in tiic LTnited States a traffic l'ii anything once." had the right sigh, replied, "Okay, I'll try clared loildh-, "\ <)U re yoing to bring out foreman of the department _ Jack 1 Ierrert ay the w rath of the in- rile beast in me! idea for turning aw

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