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SOUND OFF 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB . 22 PRO & CON 9 EDITOR'S CORNER.. 4 AMERICAN LEGION NEWSLETTER 23 PERSONAL AFFAIRS. S SHOPPER 46 ABOUT BOOKS 35 PARTING SHOTS 56

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Nehru. . . . Next we'll want SI.95 for Comrade Tito, plus SI. 12 for GLIBBERISH Comrade

Gomulka. . . . Now w e're going to need dear, can you a single But, my name $1.65 for Sukarno, our good pro-com- MONEY IN BY thinking person who would rather munist ally in Indonesia, and exactl) ^2.00 THE 15th EARNS be dead than Red? for Toure, Nkrumah, and a few other It is us to show Union FROM THE 1st! up to the Soviet African neutralists. The tab for our good plans. must we have no aggressive We neighbors to the south will be a little take the initiative l>y destroying our higher from now on, ^2.50, and finally weapons. we'll need 89c for Fd Murrow so he can Granted, the Russians did commit some tell the world the awful truth about the excesses in establishing a communistic United States. society. look at their accomplishments But "What's that'.'' You object? How do under communism! you expect to win the war against com- Don't you see that Khrushchev is our munism?" greatest bulw ark' against the Chinese Reds who, after all, are the real threat? A WORRIED MAN What a terrible impression we must make on the Afro-Asians with our war- mysterious east is making Chester like posture! What a dreadful handicap The Bowles a disturbed man. As our dis- for poor Mr. Stevenson at the U.N. tinguished Under Secretary of State put What they're trying to do is make it Earn this high rate of dividend and it: appear as though the Administration's "I am worried. I am frankly very wor- get one of these valuable free gifts plans for social reform arc communistic; ried.'' all, . . . from this modern 53 year old After what danger is there from This state of mind was not brought on the handful of communists in this coun- Association. Save by Maii . . . and by rumors that he was going to be fired try? The real threat is from reactionaries we will handle all details for you. but by a diplomatic errand involving In- with their fascist ideas. dia's Jaw aharlal Nehru. Chester had been If we had not rebuffed Castro in the dispatched to New Delhi to enlist India's early stages of his reform, he would not PLUS GIFTS! support in the Berlin crisis, and apparent- have turned to the So\ iet for help. E\ try- ly rhe prospects did nor look very bright. one know s he w as an anti-communist. 1 he importance of this diplomatic mis- I think every print of "Operation Abo- POLAROID sion cannot be sufficiently emphasized. lition'" should be seized and destroyed. If CAMERA KIT Obviously, il India refuses to throw its represents a grave threat to cn il rights Free with support behind the West there is no sense and freedom of expression. $3,000 Account in tr> ing to hold Berlin. The keys of the Army officers have no business discuss- city should be turned over to Khrushche\ ing communism with enlisted men. Such without further delay so rhe communists discussion should be left to experts like can bring their vaunted prosperity to the Edward R. Murrow G.E. CLOCK Western part of rhe German metropolis. | Everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek : RADIO Where, after all, would we have been " | is a corrupt reactionary who was throw n K Free with in the Korean War if we had had to go out of China by the people because he If ii $1,000 Account alone without Nehru's help? In that tried to stop their agrarian reform move- conflict, you will recall, Nehru showed ment. .i touching gratitude for rhe hundreds of So Whittaker Chambers is dead! lie's millions of dollars we had given him by rhe horrible person who got Senator Mc- G.E. ALARM offering us the use of a field ambulance Carthy to destroy that brilliant \lger CLOCK unit, plus a small surgical unit. In case of » Miss and him out of public life. Free when < drive w ar with Russia, we might well need that opening account s \ But, my dear fellow , intelligent people for $100.00 or more. equipment again, as Mr. Bowles is well \ don't fall for patriotism any more. That aware. sort of chauvinism is for the kind of Skeptical people, thinking of the 2.4 bil- people who w ill sign loyalty oaths. • 1908-1961 lions of dollars we have given Nehru to We ought to be realistic, accept the than date (not to mention another billion on more 50 inevitable, anil stop trying to keep the the way) might argue that the price of Years off Service! mainland Chinese out of the U.N. How India's support is pretty steep. They may else can we gain their friendship? even say that we could buy out General But of course it's true; I read it in the Motors with those billions and make am- CITY SAVINGS New York Times. ASSOCIATION bulances by the millions. ON THE LINE But that overlooks the fact that it's the 1656 W. Chicago Avenue • Chicago, III. thought behind the gift that really mat- Hll GOODWILL PUBLISHING COMPANY of ers, and if we can't have nice thoughts ASSETS OVER $22,000,000.00 T:( iastonia, N.C., has an interesting way from Nehru it's something all right-think- of reminding its workers about the weight ing people ought to worry about.

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NEGLECTED Sir: I saw it televised on TV Station KSOO, Sioux Falls, S.D. Sir: I enjoyed "A Tribute to the 24th" Paul O. Pearson by Franklin Davis, in the M. Jr. Cottonivood, Minn. August issue. I have read some fine Apparently some individual stations stories on just about every outfit that telecast "Operation Abolition." How- was in Korea with the exception of ever, no one has reported seeing the one, of w hich I w as a member. I Ins film on any of the big networks. In outfit seems to have been the forgot- view of all the controversy that the ten men of this so-called police action. lilm aroused and the thousands of I am referring to the 187th Regimental words aired by the networks on the Combat l earn. This small group of subject, it is strange indeed that they paratroopers made two combat jumps did not let the public see lor themselves and was moved all over Korea wher- what the discussion was all about. ever a hole had to be plugged. I think TJie Editois. it is high time that someone remembers that we existed. Paul L. Davis NIGHT FISHING Liberty, Ind. Sir: We were pleased to read "Fish- ing's Best at Night" in the August issue. Both my husband and I are SENSE OF REALITY crazy about fishing after dark. We caught a big fish that we Sir: It looks as though Frank Harris, have many daytime. whose letter appears in "Sound Off!" could never find in the husband has caught an II- for August, is trying to rewrite his- eral public. Out here in Los Angeles Twice my pound catfish at about 11:30 P.M. tory. To describe Japan, Germany we hav e a I V commentator whose Our friends ask us how we do it and and Italy in 1940 as "the European name is Tom Duggan, and he has had and Asian bulwarks against world the courage to show the above-men- we tell them to fry fishing between dark and daylight. communism" is to lose all sense of tioned film twice on his program. Mr. Name Withheld reality. Rampant totalitarianism is evil Duggan, like the film, is controv ersial, Elkhart, lnd. whether it be of the left or the right, but he is avid fighter of communism.

whether it be communist or fascist. Betty L. Zotos APPROVE OF ANGER And let us never forget it, or in Pacoiam, Calij struggling against one tyranny we Sir: Your "Angry Old Man" should Sir: "Operation Abolition" has been shall fall victims to another. get angry more often. He certainly shown on Denver television. Rabbi Robert I. Kahn hit the nail on the head, in his article Greg Sharits Past National Chaplain "A Reply to the 'Angry Young Denver, Colo. " Houston, Tex. Men,' in the August issue. This has

Sir: I his film w as shown on WSUN, needed to be said for a long time, so St. Petersburg. thanks to you and Berton Braley for EXCEPTIONS ( luster L. Kuan coming our with if. St. Petersburg, Fla. Hal Chadwick Sir: In his letter in "Sound Off!' for Noel, Mo. August, M. J. Shcvlin states that the Sir: The film was broadcast over Sta- film "Operation Abolition," dealing tion VVBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tenn. Sir: I should like to commend you for with the San Francisco riots, has never G. W. T. Kearsley the excellent article "A Reply to the been shown on television to the gen- Oak Ridge, Tenn. 'Angry Young Men.'" It should be

AN ANSWER TO THE PROPAGj 5 PROMOTING DISARMAMENT not have an undeserved nationwide On August 5 a group of students at the In case you have forgotten, or never reputation as "the finishing school for University of staged less Wisconsin a dem- learned, it was the Japanese who crack-pots" if you would spend onstration to "call attention to the starred the w ar. time making "demonstrations" anil bombing of Hiroshima," and to "the Of course, at that time you "stu- more time attending classes in logic. wrong our country committed 10 years dents" w ere barely out of diapers and On second thought, if the activities of ago." In response (o this, Gordon Rose- would not have been called upon to do students like you are any indication, leip, Past Department Commander of the dv ing on the Japanese beaches. the university probably doesn't offer The American Legion, wrote an open Nevertheless, it is difficult to under- any courses in logic. letter which publish we herewith, as stand the tortured logic by which you I would nor be surprised to hear an reply eloquent to the propagandists have arrived ar the conclusion that it next that you "students" are planning who use (he Hiroshima bombing as an would have been perfectly "right and a "Pearl Harbor Day Demonstration" argument in their demands that we honorable" to sacrifice a million Amer- to awaken the American conscience to give up our nuclear weapons: ican sen icemen in order to spare the the wrong our country committed Sirs: The State Journal reports that a Japanese any casualties in an atom vv hen if w cut to w ar to defend itself. group of university students, led by bombing. While you are shedding tears for the your committee plans to make a War is admittedly ugly. And there Japanese ar Hiroshima, say a prayer

"march" on I ruax field in Madison is no method of killing in war that is for the thousands of Chinese women "to reawaken the American conscience any more "humane" than another. and children w ho w ere raped ami used to the wrong our country committed Japanese casualties are estimated to lie for bayonet practice by Japanese sol- 16 years ago" (in dropping the atom a million as a result ol our incendiary diers when they invaded China, give a bomb on Hiroshima). bomb raids on Tokyo and other large demonstration for the Americans who

I am writing to advise you there are Japanese cities. This, apparently, w as were tortured and died during the

at least I million Americans w ho dis- too unspectacular to arouse your con- Bataan death march. agree w ith you. These are the million sciences. \nd offer a word of thanksgiving

Americans who it is estimated would Every American serviceman who to the hundreds of thousands of Amer- have been casualties on the belches of died on virtually every island across icans who have died in the past to pre-

I lonshu and I lokkaido if our country the western Pacific w as just as dead as serve for you the freedoms you now had been forced to make an amphibi- the Japanese who died at Hiroshima. abuse by denouncing your country for ous attack on the main Japanese Islands Have you no tears for them? defending itself, with stupid demon- in order to win the w ar. The University of Wisconsin would strations like the one you are planning.

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Sir: I doubt that I've ever read anything more refreshing and truthful than "A Reply to the 'Angry Young Men' " in your August issue. Hurrah for the author and hurrah for you for publishing such an article. Walker Y. Worth Raleigh, N.C.

Sir: Thank you for your wonderful article "A Reply to the 'Angry Young Men.'"' You voiced the opinion of many Americans w ho become angry with constant degrading of everything in the United States. Mrs. O. M. Nilson Sioux- Falls, S.D.

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THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: Should the United Nations be Moved Out of the U.S.A.?

(PRO) There are many glaring (CON) as its foremost city. New drawbacks in having the seat of the York is a symbol of the principles for United Nations located in New York which America stands, and these are City. These drawbacks, some of which also the principles of the United Na- have become evident in recent months, tions. The presence of the U.N. serves outweigh the advantages. I propose two great purposes: it provides a home that consideration be given without for a world body dedicated to freedom delay to the idea of moving the U.N. and law in the "capital" city of the free headquarters to some neutral nation. world; and it serves as a vital re- The resolution I have offered in the Congress calls minder to Americans that their own peace and free- upon the President to instruct the U. S. delegation to dom can only be preserved while they are committed take such steps as may be appropriate to provide for to the advancement of world peace and freedom. such a study. Prime advocate of removal of the U.N. from Ameri- The principal benefit to be derived from shifting the can soil is Premier Khrushchev, who contends that the U.N.'s base of operations would be to remove the dele- U.N. cannot be neutral so long as its headquarters re- gates from the tensions and pressures which are bound main in New York. The removal of the U.N. to another to assail them as long as they reside in the largest city site would constitute an admission that the U.N. on of one of the chief protagonists of the cold war. Nothing American territory cannot act as an impartial agency would be gained by moving to Moscow, London or for peace. Such an admission not. only be false; Paris. would it would be a paralyzing blow to the U.N.'s integrity As a matter of fact, it has always been the policy, up and inflict on the United States a humiliating diplo- to the advent of the United Nations, to have these in- matic defeat of epochal proportions. ternational peace organizations in a neutral country. Anyone who has ever visited the magnificent Palais The contention that the UN cannot be "neutral" des Nations in Geneva will appreciate that this is an while its headquarters remain on American soil is ideal place for any international organization. altogether specious, refuted by the record of the past In New York City there are many groups which are 15 years. Witness the freedom with which Khrush- vitally and bitterly interested in the deliberations of chev and Castro played out their macabre game dur- the United Nations. The city has a vast number of ing the General Assembly session of 1960. Would there foreign language newspapers and magazines that take be greater "freedom from pressure" in Geneva, or the strong, and obviously prejudiced, stands on much of Hague, or New Delhi, to say nothing of Moscow? I do the work being carried on by the delegates. This be- not think so. came abundantly clear last year when the City of New York was obliged to furnish Premiers Khrushchev and Do we want Khrushchev and Castro and their ilk in Castro with what amounted to an armed guard in striking their grandiose postures New York? This order to keep some semblance of order. is the other principal argument put forth by those who like this In some quarters it has been suggested that this would to see the U.N. moved. What really resolution shows opposition to the United Nations. means is: Are we afraid of having the leaders of world This is, of course, utterly absurd. If the United Nations communism on our soil? With our unshakeable com- were moved to Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Den- mitment to the principles of free government, we Americans are the last people in the world have to mark or any other suitable neutral country it could who perform its task with more efficiency, and certainly be shielded from ideas and propaganda, even of the most hostile with more dignity. Of course, it might not receive quite nature. Those who would remove the as heavy a subsidy from the United States taxpayers, U.N. from American soil for fear of the corrupting in- fluence which would be all to the good. It certainly would save of communist propaganda are greatly under- the City of New York millions in police protection. rating the depth and profundity of the commitment of This study, and that is all that the resolution pro- our people to democracy and freedom. vides, is long overdue. If the United Nations must stay in New York City, let us know of a valid reason. If not, let it go in peace, to a neutral zone. p.

Katherine St. George (R) John V. Lindsay ( R ) Member of Congress from the 28th District of New York Member of Congress from the 17th District of New York

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 • 9 By HENRY P. CHAPMAN

~|T~ \ke any gi with overseas service

/ and hash marks on his uniform, -^"^ Sgt. Harold Douglas had heard "Shoe shine, Joe?" yelled at him as many

times as "Chow!" He heard it again when he arrived in Pusan with the 2nd Song Yong Logistical Command on a slushy March night in 1952. But the Korean shoeshine hoy whose voice begged the familiar question was different. How a group of GI's helped a Korean kid to walk He had no feet!

on his own two feet and become an upstanding American.

fortable at his own warmth. He looked stand English. He answered with smiles, down into eyes empty as gunbarrels, at shrugs and bursts of "OK's" that fit the tar-black hair soaked by snow and questions like square pegs in round holes. tangled by the wind. He saw little hands When the troop train gasped into the flutter, like a brace of cold and dirty Pusan station, Sgt. Douglas flipped the sparrows, into the cozy coops of the kid a half dollar. The Korean flashed kid's armpits. He thought of his own a smile and snapped off a salute. Artil-

^ Song Yong Cho as he appeared on a radio program in 1953. Father Wegner at left.

Song at hat. Despite his handicap he In May 1960 Song, then 19, became Richard played bast-ball well enough to make Douglas Cho, and also an American citi/en. a Boys Town team as second baseman. The document brought the familiar grin.

Ragged, and smudged with a rusty-red children, stateside in Hattiesburg, Mis- shoe stain, the sprig of a boy sloshed sissippi, all seven healthy, well cared for, on hands and knees through the wet loved. snow, sliding his wooden shoeshine box "Yeah," said the sergeant, thumping ahead of him. His tiny face was half a combat boot on the kid's box. "I sure

grime, half grin. need a very No. 1 shine."

"Shoe shine, Sargic? Very No. 1 job!" Kilowatts of cheer recharged the kid's Bundled in his heavy overcoat, the grin. While he shined, the sergeant asked stocky sergeant suddenly felt uncom- questions, but the kid did not under-

10 The next day Sgt. Douglas was back with a GI buddy who could speak Korean. Between mouthfuls of chocolate and smiles, the kid answered questions. He was Song Yong Cho, 10 years old. Hometown, Seoul. Some of the questions snuffed out the smiles with a gulp. Mother and father'.' Missing — GHO captured or killed by communist soldiers during the evacuation of Seoul in AND THE December 1950. No brothers, sisters or known relatives. Sgt. Douglas produced another chocolate bar. The sunny grin returned. Glancing down at Song's half-emptj trouser legs, the GI interpreter paused uneasily in his questioning. "Frostbite," SERGEANT said Song before being asked, pleased at having remembered the word. He had

heard the doctors in Seoul use it that freezing winter of 1950. when they ex- amined his shriveled and blackened feet. After the amputations. Song had been evacuated to an orphanage in Pusan. Like many other children, he ran away to prowl the streets as a shoeshine boy. The story belted Sgt. Douglas with the force of a tank blast. He later re-

peated it to his commanding officer, and requested permis- sion to bring Song into the enlisted mens' quarters. Song and his bat- tered shoeshine bo\ moved in the following day. Then he had the first shower bath of his

life followed by something else he Harold Sgt. had never had be- Douglas fore — all the food he could eat. Be- tween the sheets of his own GI bed that night. Song could not think of anything else to wish for. Song Yong Cho became the outfit's

mascot. His smile warmed everyone it glowed upon; his electricity sparked all who came in contact with him. He made gripes obsolete in the sergeant's outfit. "How can a guy gripe about a No. 10 detail." said one GI, "or at not having seen his family for a couple of years, when there's this Korean kid crawling around without feet and grinning from The sergeant looked down and saw that the little shoeshine boy had no feet. east to west like the ball never bounced foul for him?" lery barraged inside the sergeant as he out feet came crawling up. Song was happy and healthy. Plenty

watched the kid drag himself through After a very No. 1 shine, Sgt. Douglas of GI chow, and love, put flesh on his icy slush shouting in pursuit of another took the kid to a restaurant, where the bones and a sparkle in his eyes, yet Sgt. GI customer, "Hey, Joe! Shoe shine? kid ordered himself a bowl of kim chee Douglas and the other soldiers were con-

Very No. 1 job!" (pickled vegetables) and bean cakes — cerned about him. Someday Song would

A few weeks later, Sgt. Douglas was twice. Then they went shopping, and, have to leave, and it he went back to assigned to a unit in Pusan. He returned when the sergeant left, the kid was sur- the streets on his hands and knees he'd to the railroad station. Barefooted shoe- rounded by his shivering and tattered end up the way the Sarge had found shine boys flocked around rattling their pals as they admired the gloves and him. If only there were some nay of boxes, parroting the call of their brood. clothes the sergeant had bought him. putting Song on his feet - literally! But The sergeant waited until the kid with- ILLUSTRATED BY W. BUEHR (Continued on page 39)

I TING THE DROP ON AN

By Maj. HOWARD STEVENSON

Today's army is totally mobile. It uses the air as well as land and sea to get its men and weapons to critical areas in the shortest time. Because technological developments have closed the time-space gap on strategic planners, hours are vital, days crucial.

Still tops with Army planners in meeting a crisis is the airborne

division. All of its men. most of its vehicles and some of its heavy weapons can be dropped by parachute and readied for action in minutes after touching ground. Considering past lessons and contemplating future operations, the airborne fighting man and his parachute will be in business for some time. Although today's paratrooper has changed little, compared with his World War II predecessor, great progress has been made in effecting heavy equipment drops. Where formerly mortars and bazoo- (Continued on page 38)

Hard-hitting, fast-moving, this 90-mm self-propelled gun is readied for action soon af ter being dropped; its three man crew can shoot and scoot.

• Vehicles and weapons mounted on an improved heav) equipment "drop kit" developed by the Army's Quartermaster Corps make possible mass airdrops of heavy loads with speed and accuracy. Bulldozers, trucks and other large items (top) are part of a 352-ton equipment drop — the largest airdrop in airborne history — staged by STRAC forces.

< Construction items such as this bull- A Hastily emplaced and camouflaged, this 155- dozer enabled airborne Engineer mm howitzer can hurl shells at enemy forces troops 10 carve out a 2,500-foot by 60- miles away. Lashed to a lightweight, dispos- foot runway in 33 hours. It was de- able platform, it can be safely dropped to signed by Engineers for airdrop use. artillerymen, saving hours of overland travel. READY FOR ACTION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Combat packed, always ready. STRAC paratroops prepare to load into waiting aircraft for a simulated combat mission.

Thousands of combat-equipped paratroops, dropped on an objective within minutes, can effect surprise, panic enemy forces and place a concentration of firepower on pie-determined targets.

Air resupply drops provide front-line troops with ammunition, food and oilier items, enable them to maintain their effectiveness.

A 214-ton truck is "special-delivered" by a cluster of six parachutes about to open (top) to waiting troops. Infan- Dubbed the "invisible infiltrators," specially trained men ol trymen remove rigging and drive the vehicle to combat. The Arim's Spe« i.il Fort es can parachute silently, a<< uratel) behind enenn lines, carry out their mission and disappear.

13 8J- FIDEL CASTRO

ANOTHER LOOK AT

By EMILIO S. IGLESIAS zeal, there has been wavering. Indeed, in through her finances in any current or some cases caustic criticism has been eventual enterprise of this organization " Vn the 16 YEARS of its existence the voiced by those who were formerly the —or disorganization. United Nations has been the sub- most outspoken advocates of the world Even certain segments of the press ject of a tremendous outpouring organization. One of the most surprising which once looked upon any criticism of glorification. Indeed, a cult of U.N.- of these comments came from Dean of the U.N. as a form of heresy became worshippers has zealously preached the Acheson. Writing in the fall 1959 alarmed at the way the U.N. operated doctrine that only through the United issue of Orbis, the former Secretary of in the Congo. The New York Times, Nations can mankind be saved. Until State said: "The United Nations insofar the New York Herald Tribune and the recently this idea was widely accepted as it believes that by its votes and by its Washington Post sadly concluded that as gospel. At banquets and at PTA meet- debates it is accomplishing anything the U.N. was actually backing the com- ings, in schools and in churches, the could not be more mistaken.*' munists in the Congo. Stewart Alsop word went forth that the U.N. exempli- The first President of the U.N. Gen- voiced his disillusionment in a Saturday fied man at his best, using his genius to eral Assembly, M. Paul Henri Spaak, Evening Post article when he questioned create a better world, a world of peace not long ago expressed his disillusion- whether we ought to continue to sup- and brotherhood. ment with the U.N. by saying that he port the U.N. In the early years there were, of felt like "a deceived lover whose mis- Many Americans have been confused course, critics, people who pointed out tress has abandoned him." He went on by what took place in the Congo and by that among the architects of the United to say that not only is the U.N. in dan- the strange cast of characters that Nations were such people as Alger Hiss. ger but "it threatens to become a dan- moved on and off that chaotic stage. The These same critics also expressed fear ger to others." Russians, as usual, contributed to the that the U.N. would inevitably encroach Charles de Gaulle expressed his confusion by demanding that Dag Ham- on our own sovereignty and involve it- opinion of the organization caustically: marskjold be fired for the part he played. sell in our domestic affairs. But most of "The United Nations offers no more This caused many Americans to jump all they were skeptical of any organiza- than tumultuous and scandalous sessions to the conclusion that, since Khrushchev tion in which the U.S.S.R. and its satel- where it is impossible to organize ob- was against the Congo operation, it was lites were partners. This, they said, was jective debate and which are filled with ipso facto a meritorious action. Actually like permitting thieves and murderers to invective delivered by the communists it was not that simple. Khrushchev was become members of a police association, and their allies. The result is that in the satisfied with the U.N.'s performance with equal voting privileges. Congo the United Nations carries to the until his stooge Lumumba was captured Such expressions were ridiculed by spot its global incoherence. In these con- by anti-communists. Then, and only those who looked so hopefully to the ditions France does not see how she can then, did he turn on Hammarskjold. United Nations to achieve peace on take any other attitude toward the Which was unfair, in a way, since ob- earth and goodwill among mankind, but United Nations—or the disunited nations viously the Secretary General of the in recent months there has been a sig- —than that of the greatest reserve. In U.N. had done little to interfere with nificant change. Even among those who any case, she does not want to partici- Lumumba and his forces. once supported the United Nations with pate either through her manpower or Ideally, the U.N. force dispatched to

14 Some of its actions are causing many to feel that we should

UN not allow our foreign policy to be dominated by U.N. moves.

enraged anti-communist Congolese on several occasions fought U.N. troops. Chief target of the criticism was an Indian, Rajeshwar Dayal, sent to the Congo by Secre- tary General Hammarskjold as his personal representative. Admittedly the assignment was no easy one, but Dayal's pro-communist bias aroused such a storm of protests that he had to be removed. And his actions are understand-

able when it is considered that he is a protege of Krishna Menon, India's Minister of Defense who has shown little love for the West.

As this is written, the turmoil in the Congo has ceased, at least temporarily, while the leaders of the rival factions meet to discuss the for- mation of a coalition government, with the communists' current favorite, Gizenga. making unreasonable demands as the price of his cooperation.

The Congo crisis is only one of many U.N. actions that have caused deep concern over the implications of those actions. There are many who have excused and continue to excuse U.N. inaction by saying that the world organization does not have enough power to keep the peace. Charges of pro-communist bias by India's Gen. Dayal caused his recall Their suggested remedy is that the U.N. be from the Congo. Later India sent a large contingent of Gurkhas. Here given a more powerful army, usually referred one group is beingseenoffby Menon.The U.S. provided the transportation. to as a "police force." But now the disquieting thought arises as to how far the U.N. can be

trusted with the power it already has, let alone restore order in the Congo should have functioned without Tear or favor. greater power. Given a powerful body of troops,

That, after all, is the way idealists envision any U.N. police force. But would the U.N. use this force as it did in the in actual practice the U.N. force acted in a disillusioning manner. Troops Congo, tempering its vaunted idealism to the and leadership reflected the political coloration of the various countries political winds that blow in the halls of the U.N. of origin, and that coloration was predominantly red, or at least a deep Building, and bending to Russian threats and pink. Supposed to be neutral, the leaders of the U.N. forces seemed bluster? consistently neutral in favor of the Lumumba faction. Because of this. (Continued on page 41)

15 .

By GEORGE LAYCOGK may get lost. Take a few advance precautions, then go where the wilderness HENEVER THE WILDERNESS SCOUt calls you, where the big trout promise Daniel Boone was asked if he unforgettable excitement and the air is CO had ever been lost, he always clean, quiet and relaxing. had a ready answer. "Nope," Dan'l This is precisely what an ever-grow- would reply, "but I've been mighty con- ing throng of Americans are doing. fused for several days at a time." And People with more and more free time some Indian, name unknown, gained are venturing outdoors to find excite- famed with his remark, "Indian not lost. ment and relaxation. Some 25 million Teepee can't find him." go fishing every year. An estimated 5 These answers emphasize one of the million families go camping, and their basic shortcomings of outdoorsmen so numbers are building rapidly. Still more far back in history that there wasn't millions go picnicking, hunting, bird anything but outdoors; no one likes to watching, and violet picking. And, al- admit that he can get lost. The truth is, ways to their everlasting surprise, some

How NOT to Get LOST

Precautions that can keep you from getting into a dangerous predicament.

however, that there's not a man alive had stumbled by mistake in the dark- of them have to be rescued and led out who can't lose his way in the woods. It's ness, had his fields posted against deer of the woods. easy. And what's more, it's no disgrace. hunting. It can start innocently enough. Unlike the migrating mallard, man is There is no point, however, in stay- You're hunting deer and you follow a set not endowed with built-in direction ing home and moping just because you of tracks over the next ridge and deeper finders. Those wilderness guides who never seem to get lost, or even confused, are easily explained, too. They've been there TIPS TO GET YOU HOME SAFELY before. They know the landmarks and they have the area memorized. Put them in strange country and you'll see them bring forth maps and compass. They won't offer any excuses about it either. Experienced wilderness travelers know better than most of us how easy it is to get lost. In fact, they go prepared. The sooner all sportsmen adopt the same attitude of respect for the outdoors, the better off they'll be and the fewer hard- ships they'll face if they do get off the beaten path. When darkness conies on, find a Blaze marks on trees will help protected spot and a fire. guide you to your starting place. You don't have to invade the Western make wilds to lose your way. One dark evening, a few years ago, while hunting deer in northern Ohio farm country, a member of our party got lost in a large farm woods that was a mile or so across. The twisting creek with its multitude of ox- bow bends confused him. An hour and a half after he was supposed to meet the rest of his party he came out of it. Even then he was on the wrong side and made his way to the lights of a farm- house. This episode was made no happier by the fact that the farmer at whose door Oldtimers suggest that you fol- Sit down and give some thought to he knocked, and onto whose land he low a stream, but before you do . . the route you've taken. Don't panic! 16 things about yourself that you never guessed before. The next few minutes could be the most important ones you ever taced.

Panic is your enemy now. Fear is a normal reaction to such danger. But un- controlled fear can lead to temporary madness. Gripped with this panic strong men have been known to run through the woods until their clothes are ripped off, their flesh lacerated, and they fall exhausted and exposed to the weather. A few years ago, while elk hunting

in a northern Idaho wilderness, I real-

ized just before dark that I had lost my

sense of direction. I was no longer cer- best is a Experienced woodsmen carry whistles Your safeguard compass, and tain which way I should travel to return some practical experience in handling it. to let others know their whereabouts. to camp. I resisted the impulse to double-time in the direction that seemed right to me, and instead, sat down against a big tree to think and catch my into the woods. Eventually the tracks ably places his trust in a compass. To breath. are lost and you look around for some such a man, a compass is as important The small stream below me was the familiar landmark. You don't find it. as a gun. A compass is almost as impor- key to the puzzle. I thought over the The empty feeling you get is one rec- tant as some kind of map. It doesn't help direction in which I had followed the ognized by thousands of people who to know which direction is north unless stream from camp, how long I had have lost themselves in the outdoors. you know in which direction you want traveled and whether this had taken me It's what you do at that moment that to go. Know the direction in which you over any ridges and into a different classifies you as a woodsman or as one traveled out of the hunting camp and watershed. The direction in which I who exposes himself to unnecessary you can use your compass to head back. headed for camp was almost the oppo- hardship and danger. If you've taken There are good low-priced maps avail- site from the one in which I would have precautions, you can find your way out, able from the U.S. Geological Survey, traveled if I had followed my first im- or if you have no choice you can of Washington 25, D.C. For areas west of pulse. As an added precaution I made necessity live for weeks in the wilder- the Mississippi River write to Federal blaze marks with my hunting knife on ness. Center, Denver, Colo. the trees so I could return to the place As you might imagine in this elec- If you have no map, make your own where I first realized that I was lost. tronic age, somebody has invented a as you leave your camp. Record the time But the stream led me right back to gadget to help outdoorsmen. Now you spent walking in each compass direction evening guide told can venture forth electronically equip- and note the major landmarks. The camp. Later that the five hunters had gone into that ped to keep in touch with your com- more you do this, the more you notice of who It was panions. Latest version of the walkie- landmarks automatically. You begin to same wilderness 3 years before. 40 miles across to the nearest road. The talkie is a transistor sending-and-receiv- feel more at home in the outdoors. You five hunters still hadn't been found. ing set small enough to fit into your also begin to reduce your chances of first thing to when you get lost hunting-coat pocket. getting lost. The do think improving your situa- These tiny radio sets operated on Trust in your compass. Once you be- is to about tion. Stay where you are at least until citizen-band frequencies don't even re- gin to doubt its accuracy you may be you develop a plan for travel. Rescuers quire a license for use by members of a in real trouble. If it revolves freely, it's will far better chance of finding party -keeping contact with each other. pointing north providing there is no stand a you if you're not moving about. Three You and your deer-hunting companions, metal lying near it. But it is pointing out each equipped with such a transistor set, magnetic, not true, north and you need evenly spaced shots from your gun may be to tell them where you are. can communicate at distances up to a to account for this if you want to come enough mile and, in some terrain, considerably out close to your destination. In the Far Sporting-goods stores arc now carry- shell flare that will fit most further. Even if you're both lost you West the needle points as much as 14 ing a new have company. The two most popular degrees to the east of true north. big-game rifles and 1 2-gauge shotguns. three. of such units marketed sell at around $50 Providing the sun is cooperating and These come in packs of One will make each. By assembling such a unit from a your watch is accurate, you can substi- them fired from your shotgun fire- kit, you can save $ 15. tute your watch for a compass. Lay your a brilliant 1 0,000-candlepower red However, centuries before radio, watch down with the hour hand point- works display to guide companions to people had devised ways to keep from ing toward the sun. A twig held at the your position. getting lost. One involves the use of a edge of the watch will cast a shadow You may be able to do the same thing whistle. Many camping families insist along the hour hand. What does this tell with a smudge fire. Toss green evergreen that each of the children wear a whistle you? It tells you that south is half way boughs onto a hot wood tire. It's an old around his neck. He's taught to blow between the hour hand and the number trick that still works. it only to give his location and to blow 12 on your watch. By reversing this About the time you've made a it often if he gets lost. Many a family trick, you can even use a compass to smudge fire, shot your flares and tried has whistled itself back together. set your watch. to summon help by your transistor radio The experienced woodsman invari- At that moment when you admit that (all without success), you begin to take

I (.LUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LAWN you're lost, you may discover some (Continued on page 38) 17 \

By DALE SHAW

press these past few years Thehas been heavily laden with the name Kennedy. Out of several billion words has risen a curious impression

that President Kennedy is a crack athlete and scion of a family composed entirely of Olympic champions. But when

the Kennedy sporting proposition is ex- amined closely, we see in perspective the mainspring of a dynamic American family: unity and strength through sports competition. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of the President and eight other Kennedys,

put it this way: "Even in school games and races, we always took an interest. We went, and watched, and then talked

about it afterwards. If they didn't win. we tried to find out why." And there were plenty of games and races to keep track of. They played every conceivable sport from touch football to tennis, and they had horses to In this Kennedy family photograph the future President, then 17, is at extreme ride and boats to sail at the family sum- left. In the back row are Kathleen, Joe Jr.. Rosemary, Mrs. Kennedy and Ted. .Middle row: Eunice, Pat. First row: mer home in Hyannis Port. Cape Cod. Jack. Mr. Kennedy and Bobby and Jean.

Bobby Kennedy, with sister Jean, at Hyannis Port Eunice, Ken ned and Pat. The setting is believed to be England.

Father. Joseph Patrick Kennedy, "Joe and Jack were out in sailboats when homes in Brookline. Bronxville, the per- plunged his youngsters into athletic ac- they were so small you couldn't see their manent Cape Cod summer place, and tivity and plunged in with them. Today heads." later at Palm Beach. Florida. And they at 72. he still rises before 7 a.m. to play In a few years there were four little had boats, ponies, horses, tennis courts

I 8 holes of golf or ride horseback for a Kennedy girls watching the brothers sail and beaches. Just a high athletic activity? couple of hours. In those days he was a while they played and swam on the Actually, lather Joe Kennedy was carry- very nimble father; in his youth he had beach at Hyannis Port. They were Rose- ing out a program for child rearing. won the Boston batting championship mary, a quiet girl: Kathleen, sports lov- Once Joe got in a terrible argument for school boys and the varsity first base ing, yet considerate and understanding: with his sons Joe and Jack. "Let them slot at Harvard. As his family grew, peo- Eunice, vigorous and well coordinated: fight." he said later, "The important

ple remarked with some truth. "Trying and Patricia, considered today most thing is that they fight together. I can to raise a ball club, Joe?" For finally beautiful of the Kennedy girls, particu- take care of myself." Oddly enough, there were nine children in all, every one larly by her husband, actor Peter Law- the intense competitiveness developed willing to go to bat in a soft ball game. ford. among the sporting Kennedys led to a First was his son Joe. born as were all In 1927. Robert was born, a lightly triumphant, unshakeable togetherness. but young Edward in a bedroom of a built athletic fellow, followed 5 years Jack recalls, "When we were growing two-story house in Brookline. Massa- later by Edward (Teddy). Soon Bobby up. Dad played tennis with all of us chusetts. Then came John Fitzgerald and Teddy sailed, rode and played ball kids." A close observer recalls, "Joe (Jack) 2 years later. "We gave them together and against one another. would stand out in the yard and throw responsibility when they were young." All in all, a lot of Kennedys, and a lot the baseball with his sons, or watch them

says their lather Joe Kennedy today. of sports. They had room for it, too. ai closely as they played touch football."

18 THE COMPETITIVE

Sports competition is the mainspring of this dynamic family.

The 60-yard touch-football lawn, block on bicycles in opposite directions Once more Rose Kennedy whisked bounded by edge of beach, edge of —and collided head on. Jack needed 28 Bobby off to the doctor. He had a gap- porch, porch corner (goal) and "that stitches; Joe was unscathed. Bobby Ken- ing wound in his head. rose bush over there," was and is today nedy remembers hiding upstairs with his Joseph Kennedy, Jr. reached maturity the scene of many a wild scramble. The sisters while his big brothers fought on first, showed the makings of the ideal

tougher the game, the louder Dad the first floor. Yet it was Jack and Joe American. He played varsity football yowled his approval. who taught him to sail and play tennis and swam at Harvard, and graduated Bobby, now Attorney General, re- and confirmed his fierce love of sports. cum laude; his father would probably members racing his sailboat on Nan- Rose Kennedy would patch up her rank his achievements in that order.

Two Kennedys made the first team of Dexter School's Joe made a name for himself at Har- The President-to-be as a member football squad. Jack is at right in square. Joe is circled. vard. Jack tried hard to match it. of the Harvard swimming team.

tucket Sound under Jack's careful tu- children and send them back out to play When Joe entered Harvard to create a telage, while Dad splashed along beside (and fight). She never panicked at the legend of versatility and personality that them in his motor cruiser watching every sight of blood, was on very good terms still lingers there. Jack was entering move and offering advice. He was an un- with the family doctor. Choate, a select private school noted for happy father, however, when his boys An old family friend remarked, "They famous graduates. lost. Once, two brothers were sent away fight each other, yet they feed on each His Choate roommate K. Lemoyne from the table because they had not other. They're the most competitive and Billings, today a close friend of the gone all out to win a sailing race. at the same time the most cohesive fam- President and his family, remembers him Joe Kennedy boosted such intense ily I've ever seen." then as a thin not-too-strong boy with competition that games turned into Don- At times this cohesiveness seemed to an engaging personality. He remembers nybrooks. When he was away, there was dissolve. how Jack tore into half a dozen sports no let-up, either, because his son Joe Eunice was very lively and mischie- furiously and how disappointed he was happily assumed his role as authoritarian vous (she still is). Once she decided to that he never made the varsity. His and instructor. Jack says of his brother. decorate Bobby for bravery, rolled up coaches marked him off as eager, scrap- "Joe was the star of our family. He did the chocolate frosting off a layer cake py, yet reluctant to give himself in prac- everything better than the rest of us. Joe and threw the gummy missile across the tice. Billings feels that Jack just wasn't had a pugnacious personality. Later on dinner table at his face. She was rather strong enough, that he was giving too

it smoothed out, but it was a problem accurate. Bobby gave chase, cornered much as it was, spreading himself too in my boyhood." her and then charged like a bull, head thin. In their contests. Jack always came in lowered. Eunice stepped gracefully In his senior year, he wrote his father second. Once they raced around the aside. (Continued on page 36)

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By FRANK RIZZATTI with some regularity. In addition there were providing more than just the fare was a tremendous increase of interest in of glamorous warblers and popular 1960, the hi-fi and stereo craze all kinds of nonmusical records. People '"name bands." Inshot phonograph record sales to everywhere were once more becoming Although there is a bit of novelty in $480 million, with every indication aware that the phonograph and records all this, there is, strictly speaking, noth- that this figure would be topped by an appreciable margin in 1961. The best

seller list was headed by the popular singers of the day: Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte, Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson, Tony Bennett, Doris Day. « Connie Francis, Perry Como, the

* r»h«si: roc** Kingston Trio, the Everlys, etc. All of srcve tue> these, and others too, had made records that climbed well above the 100.000 Echo Magazine coi tains five flexible r sales mark; many reached 500,000. and cords in each issu more than a few crested the magic mil-

lion, a figure that is regarded with considerable respect in record circles. But something else was happening. Not all of the public interest centered on the popular singing idols. Fellows who couldn't sing a note— Bob Newhart, Shelley Berman, Dave Gardner and others— were beginning to make more than a slight impression. Their records Languages are easi Steam locomotive sounds fascinate many people. Here Audio-Fi- learned bv Iistenin were breaking into the best seller lists delity transcribes stereophonically the huffing and puffing.

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Whatever your interests, you are certain to find records dealing with them. 20 ing new. The very first thing to be re- ber of the family pounded on the un- guessed it) "Some Of These Days." corded when Edison invented the complaining upright. Radio changed all that. The wonder phonograph, if history is correct, was a After supper the machine would be of the "air-waves," the sensation of lis- nursery rhyme, "Mary had a little lamb," wound up and the show was on. "Good tening to "live" performers, the wide recited in reedy tones by the inventor Morning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip," "Over variety and constant newness of the ma- himself. In fact, before the turn of the There," "Vesti la Giubba," "Believe Me terial—all this combined to relegate most century people were holding their sides If All Those Endearing Young Charms," phonographs to attic storerooms. Need- listening to all sorts of novelties in re- "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," less to say, the phonograph wasn't really corded entertainment. A man named "Poet and Peasant Overture," some dead—just struck dumb. Soon the same Russell Hunting, an immensely popular Sousa marches, and countless songs by techniques that provided electronic am- Irish monologist, made a record called John McCormack. "I Hear You Calling plification for the tiny signals that came 'The Steamboat," in which he per- THE GOOD OLD DAYS formed in 10 different voices and pro-

vided all the sound effects besides. Re- member that this was during the time when phonographic sound came from cylinders and you listened through rubber ear tubes! Another chap, Dan Kelly, made a record imitating the antics of a politician up for election, making the extravagant promises of an early-day Senator Claghorn. This famous spoof would undoubtedly be a howl today, even though dated. Politicians, at least this type, don't change much. Later on, in the days of the morning- glory horn and before advent the the of In the days of the morning-glory horn, humorous recitations were highly popular. orthophonic victrola with its extended bass, the record business did not depend entirely on Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri, Bert Williams and Nora Bayes. Some of the best sellers of the era were such items as "Cohen on the Telephone," a dialect piece that would hardly be permitted today, and "No News, Or What Killed the Doe." a lugubrious piece in broad Negro dialect. Another, "The Three Trees," was a curious recitation about a hunter and

his adventure with a beautiful little rabbit and three trees, "one there, one there, and one there." Playing records such as these today would elicit little more than looks of puzzlement from listeners. But they were played countless millions of times in the good old days, to the intense de- Sarah Bernhardt was one of many This Blackfoot Indian chief held great actresses who made records. a recording powwow for palefai es. light of groups gathered in the nation's parlors. The times themselves provide Me" was undoubtedly heard an over- "over the air" were used to reproduce the explanation. Motor cars were cer- powering number of times by every pair and amplify more realistically the tainly not plentiful, and nickelodeon of ears in the land, and no less a musi- sounds produced by the wiggle of the flickers, although popular, were once-in- cian than Mischa Elman played "I'm needle in the groove of a record. Here awhile entertainment. The family per- Forever Blowing Bubbles." For those was a real revolution. However, the

force spent a good deal of its time at people who were interested in some new Great Depression came along, and it home, and the phonograph offered a unusual music there were recordings by was years before the phonograph again

more professional kind of entertainment the "Original Dixieland Jass Band" and could raise its head. than was forthcoming when some mem- the young Sophie Tucker singing (you (Continued on page 33)

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21 However, that is just one of many features of this attractive, reasonably priced, 12- gauge pump gun. It holds six standard 2% -inch shells or five 3-inch magnums. You have your choice of six barrels. Four of these are conventional barrels which cost $19.95 each; but you can get one with a C-Lect-Choke, or one which handles magnums for $25.95 each. Each gun comes with a rubber recoil pad and has an automatic disconnecting trigger w hich makes acci- CLUB dent "doubles" impossible. Prices start at $73.50, for the standard model. for the man with an interest in the great outdoors. TO TRAIN YOUR DOG to retrieve "MR. AVERAGE HUNTER" emerges stove polish should be used instead of oil properly, Sonny Harris of Fort Valley, from a survey conducted by Dr. Tony after the bluing has set. Two thin coats of Ga., recommends the use of balloons. Fill Peterle of the Ohio Research Unit as a stove polish rubbed to a deep shine will a balloon w ith water and have the dog re- craftsman or laborer in the middle income make the gun look like new, in addition to trieve it. If he tightens his mouth too much bracket. Of the hunters studied by Dr. providing further protection to the surface. the balloon w ill burst. This will scare him to take next Peterle, 40% had a farm background, and enough make him it easy the 50% said that bagging game was not as im- time he tries. portant to them as being outdoors. Legion- naires will be interested to know that 46% EXPERIENCED SHOOTERS are likely to of the hunters had served with the Armed know which is their master eye. But in case Forces. you do not know this very important bit of information about yourself, George D. THAT OUTBOARD MOTOR can be Phelps, of Rivcrton, Nebr., tells how to find out. Take a sheet of paper and tear a hauled w ith less likelihood of damage if you hole the size of a in the middle it. follow a suggestion made by Greg Reidel, dime of of Knoxville, Iowa. He recommends that Hold it at arm's length, and with eyes open look through the hole, focusing on an you place it on a partly inflated automobile TRAILBLAZING the modern way calls object from 12 to 15 feet distant. Then, inner tube when you transport it. This for a stapler. When Robert Baumer, of w ithout moving the paper, close one eye cradles it on air, so that rough roads won't Cromwell, Conn., goes into the woods he and then the other. The eye that keeps the cause dents or throw it out of adjustment. doesn't blaze a trail w ith an ax. He carries object in view is your master eye. This will strips of white material, 2 inches long, help in aiming jour w eapon. Anyone dipped in fluorescent yellow paint. As he who is unable to shoot with eyes open walks through the woods, he fastens these both should use his master eye. to trees with a fair-sized stapler, strong enough to bite into the bark. The staples, he points out, will not damage the trees, and the pieces of material can be spotted even in poor light.

WITH COLD WEATHER coming on, our idea men keep coming up with ways and means of starting fires and keeping warm. One, which seems to have merit, comes from Dick Olivier, Danville, Kansas. He YOUR OWN POND to attract ducks maintains that if you boil chunks of char- can be made with big sheets of thin plastic, coal in paraffin for a half-hour you will says Harv Escher, of Eden, Wise. The big have sure-fire igniters that will burn in rain, sheets, of the type used by contractors for snow, and strong wind. Two chunks, he covering cement, are merely placed on the says, will burn for about an hour, and if GRASSHOPPERS can be poured out of ground with a few decoys scattered on enclosed in a small can they will provide a salt box if you follow the plan submitted them. Wind rippling through the plastic enough heat to cook a meal. by John E. Crozier, Phillipsburg, N. J. All causes a wave-like effect, and if there are you have to do is cut the top off the box. any ducks around they'll show interest in puncture holes in the lid, and put the grass- your "pond." hoppers (or crickets ) in the container, tap- ing the lid back on. When you need one WE ARE OFTEN ASKED if we know of of the insects you merely open the handy any method of touching up guns w hose pouring spout, and out w ill hop one, not bluing has worn off or which have be- your entire collection. come rusty. Conventional bluing methods call for expert handling by gunsmiths, hut FOR SAFETY'S SAKE, Paul Patton. of

Ed Agramonte, Inc., 41 Riverdale Ave., I [untington, W. Ya., reminds us that every- Yonkers, N. Y., has developed a formula one who goes into the w oods should carry which anyone can use. Called Ed's Own LEAD SINKERS can be easily molded in a small first-aid kit. Basic ingredients, he Super (old Blue, it is a liquid which is an old pipe. William G. Jordan of Floma- says, should be a few matches, a razor rubbed on, allowed to stand for a day, and ton, Ala., who advances this idea, says that blade, several aspirin tablets, some anti- then rubbed off with an oiled cloth. The you first melt the lead in an old frying pan septic, Band-aids, adhesive tape, bandage, result is a rich blue sheen. Although most and pour it into the bowl of the pipe, in- and 2x2 gauze pads. gun owners use it for touching up worn serting an eye made of wire w hen the lead spots or darkening sights, an entire gun can starts to harden. The pipe handle permits If you have a helpful idea that pertains it along. If we be blued with it. The price is $2 a bottle. you to manipulate the "mold."' to hunting or fishing, send can use it, we'll reward you with a rherk for A FINISHING TOUCH for those who THE SAFETY IS ON TOP of Mossbergs $5.00. Address: Outdoor Editor, The Fifth go in for gun bluing is suggested by George new "500" shotgun, just announced by the American Legion Magazine, 720 Piskorski, of Ord, Nebraska. He says that well-known Hartford, Conn, concern. Avenue, New York 19, New York.

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HOUSE COMMITTEE SCUTTLED REOPENING in the House, had taken to adding insurance OF VETS INSURANCE: reopening as an amendment to other vets The House Veterans Affairs Committee has bills passed by the House... This includes "put off" action on reopening vets life the House bill to increase compensation for insurance, by voting not to bring it on the war disabilities .. .Both issues were thus floor. . . It is the second year in a row that stymied at presstime. . .A personal feud was the Senate passed a reopening bill to have developing between Teague and Sen. Long it die in committee in the House. . .Every (La.) , chief insurance-reopening proponent year that goes by will make new insurance in the Senate. more expensive to vets who have less than the $10,000 gov't insurance ceiling, or N.J. TAX "METHOD" CHANGE none at all, if it eventually is reopened... SOCKS VETS MILLIONS: "Newsletter" suggests that the many veterans The state of New Jersey is on the last who are interested in the reopening had lap of reassessing all real and personal better start making a lot of noise to their property for community tax purposes. . .The Congressmen if they want the bill passed change is supposed to be a reform of assess- next year— or at all... Key to the situation ment method, done administratively by the appears to be to make more noise than the communities under court order. . . . Citizens organized commercial insurance opposition have been advised that it is not a general to the bill... The vets are far more tax increase numerous, but apparently don't appreciate But it will cost the state's war the power of their own voices... The insur- veterans* tax increases which are difficult ance is valuable and well thought of in the to calculate, but which are somewhere highest circles .. .President Kennedy still between $5 million and $20 million a year. carries his, but many vets with less money What has happened is that property were forced to drop theirs after discharge, assessments in most N.J. communities have only to have Congress shut off renewal privi- stayed at the level of pre-WW2 values , but the leges without any advance warning in 1951. . state Supreme Court has ordered all commu- Suggestion: if you want it reopened, write nities to reassess at modern, inflated actual your Representative every three weeks or so market values. . Theoretically the reform all winter and say so... Most Congressmen would hit nobody with a real tax increase would have voted yes if the bill had come except those whose assessments were found out, but it is now apparent that if it is to have been out of line with prevailing ever going to get on the House floor it will community assessment standards all along need not only favor, but emphasis ... Leave . . .Communities will drop their tax rates your Senators alone. . .They've passed the under the new "inflation assessments," to bill without qualm twice running. collect the same amount of tax in the average Resistance to reopening veterans insur- case under the new system as they would ance in the House of Representatives was have under the old. paralyzing legislative action on other im- But few New Jersey war veterans will portant veterans legislation at presstime. escape an unlegislated tax increase under

Core of the resistance centered in Rep. the new scheme of things . . . The state has Olin E. league, (Tex.) chairman of the House failed to adjust the state war veterans' tax

Vets Affairs Committee .. .He recently exemption to the new plan of valuation. . advised the Senate Finance Committee that To the degree that a war veteran * s assessment no bill passed by the Senate which includes is inflated, his veteran's exemption a reopening of veterans life insurance will be deflated. would be acceptable to him. Reason: Vets exemption is based on a flat The Senate, overwhelmingly in favor of $500 of his assessment, which now becomes the insurance reopening in spite of inaction a much smaller part of his whole assessment

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAG AZI N I • < )( IOHER 1961 • 21 , in most of the state's communities. vets groups that the city's single commu- Example: A vet's house, previously- nity fund drive will not allocate funds for assessed at $4,000 is reassessed at $20,000 veterans' service work after the first of

... If his community previously taxed at a the year. . .Nor may contributors to Detroit ' s rate of $8 per $100 to get $320 in taxes from community fund specify that their gifts the property, it would now drop the rate to may go to veterans service work. $1.60 per $100 to get the same $320 from that Vets organizations in Detroit have property, with its new $20,000 evaluation. supported a single citywide fund drive for Under the old assessment, the vet was all charitable purposes since 1926... Then, exempted from the tax on $500 at $8 per $100, as the Community Chest, the fund organiza- or $40 of actual tax. . .But with the assess- tion asked the vets groups to drop their own ment raised to $20,000 and the tax rate separate fund drives and join the single reduced to $1.60 per $100 in order to keep pro j ect ... Since then, four vets organiza- the tax "the same," the vet's exemption is tions have supported the United Foundation only $1.60 per $100 on the same $500 . . .His and received allocations for vets ' service exemption in actual tax in this example from it . . . They are : United Spanish War becomes $8 instead of $40, and he has a real Veterans, American Legion, Veterans of tax increase of $32 a year in an operation Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans. advertised by the state as being an adjust- At a joint vets organization meeting ment of method not a tax increase. last Aug. 14, the affected Detroit groups Queries by "Newsletter" fail to reveal determined that the United Foundation action any plans in the legislature so far to required them to initiate independent remedy the tax-increasing effect on New fund drives again. Jersey's 700,000-plus war veterans of the The joint meeting called on donors to the so-called assessment reform. United Foundation to reduce their gifts or payroll deductions by whatever amount they SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT AT 62 wished to give instead to service work for NOW POSSIBLE FOR MEN: Detroit's war veterans and their families. In case you missed it in the newspapers, the Social Security Act was amended during DEATH AND DISABILITY the summer so that men could receive retire- EN ROUTE HOME FROM DISCHARGE SERVICE-CONNECTED: ment benefits at age 62, instead of 65. . .For NOW several years, women, but not men, enjoyed A veteran who suffered death or disa- this privilege of getting SS retirement bility while en route home from military benefits at 62. . .What an individual can get separation, prior to 1957, may now be awarded by retiring at age 62 depends, of course, service-connection under a new Act of on his particular coverage and can be learned Congress. . .The rule had already applied to by a review at one's local Social Security dischargees since 1957, and the new law office, or, in some rural areas, from travel- backdates it... The rule acknowledges that ing Social Security representatives at normal travel home from separation is of appointed times and places. . .The new amend- military origin... It will make certain ment is embraced in Public Law 87-63. . .The veterans and survivors eligible for service- law also slightly liberalizes how much you connected benefits for the first time, in can earn and still get Social Security such cases ... It does not apply automatically retirement benefits between ages 62 and 72 . . . Cases that fit the ruling will be . . .After 72, there's no earning restriction adjudged on the basis of new claims f iledA

. . .New formula is : You can earn up to $1200 and get your normal Social Security retire- CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL WINNERS $100 AT 50: ment benefits. . .From $1200 to $1700, $1 of VOTED A MONTH Social Security will be withheld for each The United States has increased the

$2 earned. . .Over $1700 earned, $1 will be pension payable to Congressional Medal of withheld for $1 earned. Honor winners ten-fold— from $10 a month to

$100 a month. . .At the same time it has DETROIT VETS ORGANIZATIONS lowered the CMH pension age by 15 years, AT ODDS WITH FUND: COMMUNITY from age 65 to age 50. . .Payment of the new

The United Foundation (community fund) $100 pension is not automatic. . .CMH winners of Detroit has withdrawn its financial may receive it on application any time after support of the service work of veterans age 50, under the new law—which was signed organizations. . .The Foundation told the on Aug. 14 by President Kennedy.

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went to Buckey Staley, leading pitcher Legion Little World Series lor the Phoenix team. His record in the series was 2-0, and for the year, 12-0. Ken McEwen, Omaha pitcher and Won By Phoenix, Ariz. Team outfielder, won the batting title for his .548 average in the scries with 17 hits out of 31 times at bat. An inspired and artful group of young nati entries were left, and Cincinnati This year's series — the 35th in Legion baseball players from Phoenix, Ariz, was the only undefeated team in series history since the first played in Philadel- won the 1961 American Legion Base- play. But Phoenix won this game 2-0 in phia in 1920 — received the benefit ol ball "Little World" Series title at Hast- a thrilling battle for the first shutout perfect weather for the 15 games. Total ings, Nebr., the first part of September. of the series. It was also the only error- attendance for the series was 26,140, a The team was sponsored by the Frank less game of the series. slight decrease from last year's figure ol

Luke. Jr. -John G- Greenwav American The Labor Day final (and 15th game) 29,000. Top game attendance was 3.522.

Legion Post 1 of that cilv . saw Phoenix and Cincinnati again bat- for the 13th game of the series on Satur- It was the first American Legion tling it out. This was the payofl game day evening. Sept. 2. between Omaha Basc4>all National Championship for and they were playing for keeps. Each and Cincinnati. Phoenix. team has lost one game ... to each The 1962 American Legion Little It was not until the fourth game ol other. World Series will be played in Bismarck. the series that the new champs got the Cincinnati went into an early 1-0 lead N.D. chance to show their stuff. They were in the second inning. From then on un-

pitted against the Billings. Mont, entry, til the eiphth inning both teams played Big Preparations the pre-tourney favorite. Phoenix won scoreless ball. But the excitement ol the 8-team 5-3. breaking a 27-gamc win streak for Then in the Phoenix half of the 8th play-offs for the Legion championship the Billings team. inning, the Arizona champs scored 2 w as not the only excitement in Hastings The champs lost their second game runs on a single and two triples. They in connection with the "Little World 5-3 to Cincinnati, Ohio for their only again scored 2 runs in the 9th inning Series. luss of the series. on a walk, passed ball and a single to The city had been preparing wicks

In the l()th game of the series. Phoe- wrap up the game 4-1 . . . and the cham- in advance to host the event for the nix again met the Billings club and again pionship. Both teams had made 7 hits third consecutive year. It took a lot ol emerged victorious with a 5-4 win. Tin's and 1 error in this final game. pulling together for the residents of this eliminated Billings from the series. The 1961 American Legion Baseball town of 24,000 in order to secure their For its third series win, Phoenix elim- Player of the Year went to Jim Gerber, first Legion national baseball champion- inated the Brooklawn, N.J. team from outstanding shortstop for the losing Cin- ship playoffs in 1959. tournament play with a 4-3 victory in cinnati team. The award is given an- And then it took a lot ol work since the 12th of the series games. nually on the basis of good sportsman- then to obtain the repeat performance By the time the 14th game had rolled ship and general attitude. in 1960 and again this year. This was around, only the Phoenix and Cincin- The Legion Sportsmanship Award the first time that any eitv had hosted

Buckey Staley, Phoenix pitcher, slides in to home plate to Cincinnati's Ron Pinsenschaum, is picked oil 3rd base in pick up the fifth and final run lor his team against Billings, game against Jackson, Miss. The Ohio team, series' runnerup,

Mont. It was the first de feat (.V.'i) lor Billings in 27 starts. won game 1 1 -3 with 20 hits, almost a Set ics single game record.

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the series three consecutive years. New Hampshire: Henry J. Sweeney Oklahoma: Havens-Cannon Post 24, During the month of August, special Post 2, Manchester. Anadarko. caravans of people traveled more than Maine: Ralph D. Caldwell Post 129, Colorado: Women's Metropolitan 2,000 miles to advertise the series in Portland. Post 206, Aurora. Hastings. The barnstorming tour eov- Massachusetts: Post 452, Chicopee Hawaii: Kau Tom Post 11, Honolulu. ered Nebraska and parts of Kansas. Center. Idaho: Lewis-Clark Post 13, Lewis- Former major leaguer, Johnny Hopp, Rhode Island: Post 2, West Warwick. ton. who onetime was a Legion ball player Vermont: Hartford Post 26, White Kansas: Casper J. Middlekauf Post in Hastings in his early days, spread the River Junction. 173, Hays. baseball gospel for Hastings in various Region 2: Wyoming: Floyd-Minch Post 44, speeches and personal appearances at New Jersey: Post 72, Brooklawn. Worland. breakfasts, luncheons and dinners Maryland: Francis Scott Key Post 11, Region 8: throughout the state. Frederick. Arizona: Luke-Greenway Post 1, Hastings business men spent thou- Delaware: Lawrence Roberts Post 21, Phoenix. sands of dollars to promote the baseball Wilmington. Nevada: Mineral County Post 19, affair . . . but believe that the money District of Columbia: Washington Hawthorne. into the put event was well worth the Gaslight Co. Post 44, Washington. Alaska: Jack Henry Post 1, Anchor- effort and expense. Netv York: Arthur Carmine Post age. Items sold in promoting the series in- 1367, Staten Island. California: Charles P. Rowe Post 30, cluded window posters, roadside post- West Virginia: Fort Mullens Post 94, Pomona. ers, baseball caps, glow bumper strips, South Charleston. New Mexico: Joe Quesenberry Post wooden nickels, miniature wooden bats, 10, Las duces. Region 3: large plastic bats, ribbons, aprons and Oregon: Umpqua Post 16, Roseburg. Virginia: Post 284, Colonial Heights. matching headbands, vests, pennants, Utah: Holliday Post 71, Salt Lake South Carolina: Thomas Raysor Sum- banners and ties. City. mers Post 4, Orangeburg. Over 50,000 paper napkins imprinted Washington: Post 71, Richland. Alabama: Gen. Walter E. Bare Post with the baseball series message were 43, Birmingham. used in local restaurants and carried Modern Stars Florida: Pan-American World Air- across Nebraska by one of the com- Long before he was a threat to Babe ways Post 140, Miami. mercial airlines operating in that state. Ruth's homerun record, Yankee slugger Georgia: Post 30, Albany. The new Hastings telephone directory, Roger Maris was a Legion junior star North Carolina: Beaver-Pittman Post as well as milk cartons, also carried the for Gilbert C. Grafton Post, Fargo, N. 115, Kannapolis. series advertisement. Local business Dak. In the two major league All-Star Region 4: firms used over 10,000 envelopes with games last summer, 34 of the 50 top Mississippi: Henry H. Graves Post 1, the series emblem. players in the first game, and 39 in the Jackson. Top support for the series in Hastings second game were onetime Legion Arkansas: Marvin Watson Post 60, even came from Nebraska's State Capi- ballplayers. Younger pros from Legion Walnut Ridge. tol building in Lincoln. Governor Frank ranks are counted on to be tomorrow's Louisiana: L. Barkdull Falk Post B. Morrison issued a proclamation 13, regulars by the majors — such as the Monroe. which set aside the period August 26- young pitcher, Al Downing, called up Panama Canal Zone: Panama Canal September 4, 1961 as American Legion by the Yankees in midsummer, who got Post 1, Balboa Heights. Baseball Week In Nebraska. his start with Post 93, Trenton, N.J., Tennessee: Post Memphis. On the distaff side of the series, Miss 1, and Brian Dye, former player for Post Texas: Arthur O. McNitzky Post 71, Barbara Goble, a 22-year-old Omaha 70, Wadsworth, Ohio, signed by the Denton. school teacher was selected as Miss Le- Athletics for a $28,000 bonus in July. gion World Series of 1961. She reigned Region 5: A few months after the 1960 series, over the entire tournament and at the Ohio: Edward C. Gehlert Post 554, Dave McNally, ace pitcher of last year's Ford Motor Company banquet held the Cincinnati. Billings, Montana team (sponsored by night before the series opener on August Illinois: Post 145, Highland Park. American Legion Yellowstone Post 4) 26. Indiana: Jenkins Post 254, Rockport. was signed up by the Baltimore Orioles 51 Top Teams Kentucky: James L. Yates Post 9, for a reported bonus in excess of To get to Hastings, the eight finalists Owensboro. $100,000, the second highest ever paid had to survive regional tourneys against Michigan: Buick Liberty Motor Post by the Orioles. The Billings team w as the youthful champions of 51 American 310, Flint. the runnerup in the 1960 series and was Legion Departments, including those Missouri: Annheuser-Busch Inc. Post favored to win this year. They were ol 49 states (Pennsylvania is not in the 299, St. Louis. eliminated in their first two games. national American Legion Baseball pro- Region 6: Here are th? former Legion ballplay- gram) plus The District of Columbia Nebraska: Post 1, Omaha. ers who made major league All-Star and the Panama Canal Zone. Wisconsin: Westfield Post 48, Bcloit. rosters last summer: Here are the Department champions Iowa: Hanford Post 5, Cedar Rapids. National League — Cardinals, Bill that competed in the regional tourneys Minnesota: Minneapolis Richfield White, Stan Musial; Braves. Frank Boil- alter surviving the competition of thou- Post 135, Minneapolis. ing, Eddie Matthews, Warren Spahn; sands of teams in their own areas. The North Dakota: Lloyd Spetz Post 1, Dodgers, Maury Wills, Don Drysdale, first two listed in each case are the re- Bismarck. John Roseboro; Pirates, Smoky Burgess, gional winner and runner-up. South Dakota: Post 22, Rapid City. Ron- Face, Dick Stuart; Giants. Mike

Region 1 Region 7: McCormick, Ed Bailey, Stu Miller; Connecticut: Hayes Yelhage Post 96, Montana: Yellowstone Post 4, Bill- Reds, Joey Jay, Bob Purkey, Ed Kasko, West Hartford. ings. Frank Robinson; Phillies, Art Mahaffey;

26 • I HI AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER I9M Cubs, Don Zimmer — 20 players. were: Michael Hayden, Pack 65, spon- the battle situation tli.it the operators American League — Yankees, Roger sored by Green-Chobot Post 52, Coven- can think up, wind, weather, terrain, Maris, Bill Skowron, Tony Kubek, Yogi try-Mansfield, Conn.; Trig Culp, Troop troop dispositions; the sighting and tim- Berra; Indians, Johnny Temple, Don 50, sponsored by Post 143, Twisp, ing ol weapons lire, and the character- Romano, Barry Latman; Orioles, Brooks Wash.; and Richard Krum, Troop 121, istics ot the weapons and ammunition Robinson, Hoyt Wilhelm, Jac kie Brandt, sponsored by Knox-Helms Post 554, used. Jim Gentile; Tigers, Frank Lary, Jim Morley, Mich. The computers then spit forth the Bunning, Al Kaline; White Sox, Hoy results that that ammunition fired from Sievers, Billy Pierce; Senators, Dick • Ten $1,000 Tuberculosis Nursing that weapon in that manner would have Donovan; Twins, Harmon Killibrew; Scholarship awards have been approved produced on that enemy disposition, on Athletics, Dick Howser — 19 players. by the Eight and Forty, an organization that terrain, in that weather. ot American Legion Auxiliary members, The Army Ordnance Special Weap- A.L. Baseball Night to assist nurses in furthering their edu- ons-Ammunition Command gives a On August 26, the Washington Sena- cation. This is the fifth year the Eight single ammunition item as many as tors inaugurated the first annual Amer- and Forty has awarded scholarships to 1,000 tactical-situation "tests" in this ican Legion Baseball night, as a salute help eliminate personnel shortages in manner—which is no great strain on the to The American Legion for its impor- this important area of nursing. IBM 709/1401 computer system that tant contribution to the national pas- does the figuring. It can handle 42,000 time via its baseball program. • The 41st observance of American additions or subtractions a second, and Annually, over 20,000 teams — repre- Education Week, sponsored by The turn out written reports at 600 lines per senting some 400,000 boys — play American Legion since 1921, will be minute. Arsenal workers call the Pica- American Legion baseball. The goal? held Nov. 5-11, 1961. tinny computer room the "binary battle-

. . . the American Legion "Little World" field," in honor of the binary system ol

Series . . . and fame! NAT'L DEFENSE: numbers that computers use in place ol the common decimal system. BRIEFLY NOTED: Binary Battlefield Apparently a day's "fighting" on the • Four American Legion Posts have The War of the Machines is now rag- binary battlefield at Picatinny can tell been cited by the National Recreation ing in New Jersey. At Picatinny Arsenal, as much about the practical use ol a

Association for outstanding service to near Dover, N. J., a set of computers is given ordnance item as many years of recreation in local communities. Hon- being fed a steady stream of figures field maneuvers. Provided, we would ored were: Post 193, Louisville, Ky., which represent the firing of various add, that the operators anticipate all the Post weapons and projectiles in tell 39, Roebling, N. J., Post 42, Evans- battle situa- weird things that any GI would you ton, 111., and Post 24, Aberdeen, S. Dak. tions. will crop up in the field. Anybody got a The computers get all the "facts" of machine that'll do that? • The Fifth Uniformed Groups Con- gress, an extensive workshop covering all facets of American Legion pageantry, will be held under the auspices of The American Legion Nat'l Hdqs, Oct. 21- 22, 1961.

• By Aug. 23, 1961, the Sons of The American Legion membership had already exceeded its 1960 official enrollment of 13,766, with a figure of 13,837, or 100.52 percent of the 1960 total.

• The best all-around publication for 1960-61 in the annual competition of The American Legion Press Association was The Oregon Legionnaire, official publication of the Oregon American Le- WHERE BATTLES RAGE. Army Ordnance computer room at Picatinnj Ar ee story. gion, edited by R. Harold Schillios. Sec- ond place honors went to The Minnesota ECONOMIC: servance of NEPH Week and the state- Legionnaire edited by Stephen Steele. wide Essay Poster Contests. The Ohio Legion News edited by M. M. Jobs For Disabled During this period The American "Boots" Carothers won third place "National Employ The Physically Legion will make its national authorized honors. Handicapped Week" (NEPH) will be citation to the outstanding employer ol observed this year Oct. 2-8, 1961. each American Legion Department w ho • The Mississippi American Legion an- At the 41st annual national conven- has done the best job in employing nually has a Past Department Com- tion of The American Legion held in physically handicapped persons, espe- manders' Luncheon at its Department the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, cially veterans. Convention to honor and inspire a con- a resolution was passed that the (Le- Applications for citations should be tinued interest in the former leaders of gion's) Nat'l Economic ( oinmission consent to the National Employment Com- The American Legion in that state. tinue its activities in suport of the Presi- mittee, The American Legion, 1608 K dent's NEPH Committee and that the St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C., with • Three Boy Scouts of American Legion Legion at department level exert special the name and address of the employer sponsored troops were recently pre- effort in support ol the Governors' Com- and a brief summary which proposes to sented honor awards for exceptional mittees and local committees in such earn him this award. heroism by the National Court of Honor programs as may be conducted through- The experience of past years has of the Boy Scouts of America. They out the year, especially the annual ob- proven that handicapped employees

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 • 27 POSTS IN ACTION measure up very favorably in regard to educational benefits as well as most Items from our 16,753 posts: Those of most trainability, observing company rules, national organization programs pro- interest and widest geographical spread general safe behavior on the job, attendance, viding scholarships for students to are selected, with apologies for the hundreds productivity, and labor turnover. further their education. The scholarship of others that are so kindly reported to the editors. Through the Legion's efforts, em- information relates not only to the chil- ployers can be continually educated in dren of veterans but for all children in- Old Sponsors - Post 17. Collingswood, the advantages of hiring the handi- terested in planning for education be- sponsored a 50-year old Boy capped. Many Departments continue to yond high school. N. J., has Stout Troop continuously for 35 years participate each year in this worthwhile In his book "How to Be Accepted by (since 1926). program which helps to overcome dis- the College of Your Choice," Dr. Ben- crimination in employment due to jamin Fine, noted education writer, Civic Night -Post 127. Glendale, Calif., physical disabilities. calls the guide "a superb compiliation." annually sponsors a Glendale Civic Says Dr. Fine, "I know of no better Night for all of the officials and em- EDUCATION: place to begin investigating (college) ployees of the City of Glendale in ap- Legion School Aid financial aids." preciation lor their continued coopera- Copies of the guide may be obtained tion to the post. Perhaps one of the most informative from: Education and Scholarship Pro- guides to career planning and scholar- gram, The American Legion, National Refreshing Water -Post 399, Dresden, ship sources published in the United Americanism Commission, P.O. Box Ohio, sponsored and dedicated a new States today is that guide "Need A 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. The price — community swimming pool — the only Lift?" published annually by The Amer- fifteen cents per copy (includes print- one in the area. The $35,000 pool was ican Legion's Education and Scholarship ing and postage costs) or seven copies financed by the sale of $100 interest- Division. for a dollar. bearing bonds — $10,000 of which were The 11th edition of the 84-page IN purchased by post members. handbook has just been released to PEOPLE THE NEWS: American Legion posts throughout the Jerome F. Duggan, St. Louis, Mo., Brother Hero — Post 95, Delevan, Wise, country for further distribution to high chmn of the Legion's Nat'l Legislative aw arded The American Legion Heroism schools and public libraries in each Commission, unanimously elected hon- Medal to 14-year old Terry Wilson of community. Sample news releases have orary Past Dep't Cmdr of the Missouri that city whose quick thinking saved also been distributed to the posts so American Legion at the Department's the life ol his 6-year old brother who that information concerning the booklet convention in July. was drowning in nearby Mill Pond. may reach the citizenry through press, Arthur J. Connell, past Nat l Cmdr radio and television. of The American Legion (1953-54), re- CD Team - Post 210. Waupun, Wise, With the cooperation of 176 national elected chmn of the Connecticut Vet- has had an organized civil defense team organizations interested in providing erans Home and Hospital Commission. in operation since WW2 days. Reorgan- career and scholarship information to He has held this position since 1955.

counselors, parents and students, the W. C. "Dan" Daniel, past Nat l Cmdr ized in 1 955 under the State Civil De- fense laws, the team of post members 1961 edition of the guide also contains of The American Legion (1956-57), have since donated over 200 hours of a summary of State Laws which offer named chmn of the new statewide Nat l their time to various types of civil defense training measures and programs.

Bedside Network- Post 209, New York, N. Y., furnishes car drivers lour nights a week lor the teams of some 400 advertising men, actors, writers, directors, engineers, and musicians who volunteer their services to aid in the rehabilitation of hospitalized veterans. The vol- unteers arc all members of the Veterans Hospital Radio and Television Guild, popularly known as the "Bedside Net- work."

Tribal Dance - Post 86, Ethete, Wvo., (a post on the Wind River Indian Res- ervation whose members belong to the Arapahoe and Shoshone Tribes) lor a number ol years has sponsored an annual major community event for the sur- rounding area known as the Legion In- dian Dance. Dressed in colorful tribal costumes, the members dance to the tra- ditional heal ol old war dances. Many other tribes, some traveling great dis- davs during the recent Mid-South Fair in Memphis. Clianey, a Korea Marine vet. and his tances, now participate in the event. wife and children here inspect the shelter before moving in. It was a Civil Defense project The post, organized 12 years ago. also of Chaney's Memphis Post 1. American Legion. Showing the famil) its "home" are has an active Post Jester. Auxiliary Unit. Memphis CI) chief J. F. Somers (left) ami Legion CD Chairman Mack

2$ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 acknowl- Security Council of Virginia. The Coun- of the Iowa American Legion (19 5 1 Receipt ol names cannot be cil has been set up to increase the pub- 35); on May 23. He was also vice chmn edged. lic's awareness of and participation in of the Legion's Nat'l Inter-American Life Memberships in Maryland, Ohio nat'l security. Committee (1952-54) and had served and West Virginia are only accepted if

l the Adjutant, Charles J. Arnold, Arlington, Ya.. re- on the Nat Veterans Preference, Law received via Department cently retired U.S. Army Lieutenant and Order, and Distinguished Guests in conformity with state Legion policy. Colonel, appointed Nat'l Director of Committees. Below are listed some of the previous- Public Relations of The American Le- John O. Williams, elected Dep't ly unpublished lite inemlieisliips that gion by Nat'l Cmdr Burke. Just prior to Cmdr (posthumously at the department have been reported to the editors. They his new appointment, Arnold was Di- convention July 1, 1961) of the South are arranged by States.

rector of Information, Office of Army Carolina American Legion; recently. Ovilla F. I'errin (1956), Post 120. Bell, Calif, J. Hvans Albert E. Scott and Harry Reserve and ROTC Affairs, in the Pen- Ed Viehman, well known Minnesota Curtis and H. StaH'ord (all 1961), Posl 552, Los Angeles, tagon. Legionnaire and public speaker and Calif. Chester M. Cotton and John E. Wentwortb public relations ot the Warren H. MacDonald, Bethesda, former chmn (both I960), Posl 482. Ojai, Calif. Md., appointed director of the Legion's Minnesota American Legion; on Aug. Edward I>. Warrek, Sr. (1961), Posl 11. Hridye- porl. Conn. Nat'l Research Division in Washington, 14, in Rochester, Minn. Viehman will be Austin Phillips (1961), Post 17, Naugatuck, Legionnaires as Conn. D.C. by Nat'l Cmdr Burke. MacDonald, remembered by many John F. Coughlin (1961), Post 104, Pinellas who has been an employee of The the principal speaker in a film put out Park. Fla. Cletus I . Matthews (1961), Posl 616, Hardin, American Legion since Oct. 1945, was by the Department and Post Member- 111. Ralph E. Klare and Harry E. Ridgewaj (both ass't director of the Nat'l Rehabilitation ship Activities Committee some years 1961). Posl 55, Indianapolis, Ind. Division prior to his new appointment. ago. Russell E. Hester (1953) and Harry Wolf (1956) and Gerald N. Fuller (1458). Posl 72. Crawfords- ville, Ind. Died: Henrv A. Hansen (1461), Post 145. Highland LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: Park, 111. Edward E. Goodwyn, past Dep't The citation of an individual Legion- Rod Beamgard U4M). Post 46. Atwood, Kans. Wallace C. Dunbar and Wilton H. Morrison Cmdr (1922-23) and Nat'l Executive naire to life membership in his Post is a thoth 1961). Post lis. Stoneham, Mass. E\ Elmer A. Young (both Committeeman (1923-25) of the Vir- testimonial by those who know him best Carl Virchow and 1959). Post 225, Wrentham, Mass. ginia American Legion; recently. that he has served The American Legion Frank Spaford and Edward Steele, Sr. and Carl Scbaible (all 1960). Posl 117. Manchester, Mich. Irving R. "Bob" Snyder, vice chmn well. L. A. Marks, Sr. (1461). Posl 28. Clarksdale, of the Legion's Department and Post Post Commanders or Adjutants are Miss. Glen F. McNahb (1961), Post 244. Lucerne, Mo. Memberships Activities Committee asked to report life membership awards Edwin Johnson and Harold MeCulloimh and Harry Rockniaker and l>r. Francis Stroehoefer since 1949 and a past Dep't Cmdr of the to "Life Memberships," The American (all 1960). Post 19. Bayonne, N..I. California American Legion (1945-46); Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave.. New Clarence J. Herman (1959) and Samuel L. Glickman (I960). Post 186. Hammonton, N.J. on Aug. 7, in Tujunga, Calif. York, N.Y. Post number, location and David Klamelt and Harry Condon and Peter Crayello and William Dempsey (all 1961), Post William C. Rathke, past Dep't Cmdr date of award is requested in all eases. 199. Hawthorne. N.J. colorfor with the touch of truth USE ANSCO COLOR FILMS

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 • 29 LIFE MEMBERSHIPS The Extension Institute course is the (Continued from page 29) ideal way of gaining this necessary John F. Lafferty (1959) and Robert C. McAnal- len (1960) and Alex R. Willy (1961), Post 372, knowledge. SPECIAL OFFER Haddonfield, N.J. The content of the course of study Michael Paladino (1961), Post 419, Jersey City, N.J. consists of two basic units on the in- Edward K. Anderson, Jr. (1961), Post 44, Mal- to readers of verne, N.Y. ternal organization of The American Harry Reilly and Fred Wagner (both 1960) and Legion and four units on the programs Anthony J. Minei (1961), Post 272, Rockaway Beach, N.Y. and objectives of The American Legion American Legion Sylvester O'Haire and Henry Vincent (both (Americanism, Foreign Relations, Reha- 1954) and Roger Frenva (1955), Post 326, Lake Placid, N.Y. bilitation, Legislative, Economic, Na- Augustus Scott Lee and Albert Leskowitz and Herman L. Lutz and Sam Ocean (all 1961), Post tional Security and Child Welfare. 543, New York, N.Y. Tuition fees for the course have been William J. Costigan (1961), Post 886, Woodside, N.Y. set as follows: 1-4 enrollments — $6.00 FREE Everett V. Silvesiro (1961), Post 907, Candor, BOOK each; 5-9 enrollments — each; N.Y. $4.00 10 Thomas W. Smith (1959), Post 1058, West Win- or more enrollments — $3.00 each. helps end misery from tield, N.Y. Cuthberl J. Behan (1961), Post 1059, Brooklyn, Remittances should be made payable N.Y. Charles Mefford (1961). Post 1792, Scottsburg, to the National Treasurer of The Amer- N.Y. ican Legion and mailed to: The Amer- ARTHRITIS, Carl S. Andrew and E. R. Lancaster (both 1961). Post 129, Stillwater, Okla. ican Legion Extension Institute, P.O. Charles Ray and Lawrence Scharffenberg and Glenn Simmons and Robert Sipe (all 1960), Post Rox 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. 10, Albany, Oreg. RHEUMATISM Fred A. Houdenshield, Jr. (1958) and C. Russell Welsh, Jr. (1959), Post 27, Harrisburg, Pa. NAVAL HISTORY: Gus Hantzes and Raymond Heckman and Rob- remarkable new free book describes a A ert Jones and Carl Kozloskie (all 1960), Post 544, specialized system of treatment that Minersville, Pa. Slaughter Ofl' Savo works wonders for folks who suffer from Artyur A. Vengels (1961 ), Post 738, Philadelphia, Pa. In the arthritis, rheumatism, neuritis, sciatica. dark early hours of Aug. 9, Ramon R. Guas (1961), Post 1, San Juan, P.R. This non-surgical, non-medical treatment James L. Carter (1961), Post 6, Columbia, S.C. 1942, the U.S. Navy took its first sur- brings blessed relief to those who tried face action licking in history, at the end other remedies without success. It bene- HOME STUDY: of the second day of the landings on fits many who had given up hope of ever being free from pain. Learn By Mail Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. It was the Rattle of Savo Island, in Since WW2 some 53,000 veterans which Japanese Rear Admiral Gunichi have participated in The American Le- Mikawa's cruiser force caught our flo- gion Extension Institute — a correspon- tilla with its pants down. dence course for Legion leaders. Few if any U.S. military experiences The deadline date for enrollment in rank with the Savo disaster in its com-

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SAVO ISLAND and Ironbottom Sound - SO named lor the mass o! ships sunk there. U.S. destroyers on WW 2 patrol maneuver in tribute to dead below. U.S. Navy official foto.

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Astoria, Yincennes), badly damaged his thanks to readers ol this magazine learned from their loss what we must another (USS Chicago), crippled two for their personal accounts ol both the do. Newcomb's account spells out that destroyers (USS Ralph Talbot, Patter- USS Indianapolis and the Savo disasters painful experience in vivid detail. son), killed and wounded nearly 2,000 which they gave him in response to re- SAVO. The Incredible Nm al 1)< hade

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When sound recording and reproduc- racing and sports car events. The lure equipment. In addition there are "Air- tion went "electric." records not only of the track has been almost irresistible plane Instruction" (Aero 1, 2, 3) rec- sounded better, but were easier to make. since the very beginnings of the auto ords lor the serious student who wants No longer was it necessary to bunch the age. Even if men don't dream, Mitty- to learn how to get into the wide blue performers around a horn. Microphones like, of driving in the great races of the yonder. could be placed anywhere, and many of world, a great many long to be there, The scope of recorded instruction in the previous limitations regarding the as spectators, when they're run off. One the old days was rather limited, but to- scope of recordable material magically company, Riverside Records, has pro- day the hunger of the public for infor- vanished. Especially benefited and im- duced 35 different records, the total sale mation on nearly all subjects, combined proved was the recording of events out- of which is shooting rapidly past the half with its willingness to pay for easily side the studio. The coming of the tape million mark. They say that the dedi- assimilated, conveniently packaged recorder removed the rest of the bonds, cated racing and sports car fans can knowledge, has sparked a whole series and the record makers now could go actually tell the number of cylinders a of "How to-" "Hear how-" and similar anywhere and record anything. Present motor has from its sound when the records. Hardly any field is left uncov- day record catalogs such as Schwann's car flashes by. The truly knowledgeable, ered, from folksinging, guitar playing, must be issued on a monthly basis in it is said, can tell what gears are being and concertizing, to reducing, investing, order to keep up with the flood of new used when the shifts occur. baby-raising, dancing (three dozen vari- material, some of it from faraway For airplane and jet enthusiasts, and eties), card playing, house and garden places. Many contributions come from for railroad buffs, records are available pursuits, golf and even skiing. (No, you traveling recordists who frequent the to bring all the thrills of their charac- don't have to slide down a practice slope places where Mr. Average Man himself teristics sounds, right into the living toting your portable phonograph with would like to be, if there is something room. With the volume turned up, some this one—"How to Ski" (Libraphone \ going on. The capitals of the world, of these records (notably those pro- 116).) The following is a small samp- musical and otherwise, famous sporting duced by Cook Records) can reduce a ling of the offerings in this "how to" places, etc., are favorite stamping sensitive listener to quivering jelly. For field - "Golf Album" (GA33-332), grounds of the men with recording the ardent sound-for-its-own sake fan- "Ballet Instruction" (Artia 110), "Bowl equipment. cier, a new series of fantastically accu- Your Best" (Epic LB2700), Good A particularly striking example of rate "sound-effects" records has just Housekeeping's "Sporting Way for Re- "location" recording is found in a Col- been released by Audio Fidelity, the out- ducing" (Harmony 11009), "How to pix disc in which the listener travels in fit that brought the first modern stereo Plan a Perfect Dinner Party" (Carlton the submarine Nautilus to the North record to market. Such records are per- HH 14), "Sophisticated Investor" (ABC Pole. There is an entire category of auto fect for those who love to show off their EX 1000), Sports Aficld's "Bass and

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Trout Fishing" ( Sports-in-Sound LE battle in the old mission, where 185 men ings of the Library of Sound Education. 904). Incidentally, a different kind of desperately fought a uell-equipped Leif Erickson heads a large cast in pre-

record is "Chinese Health Exercises" Mexican army of 7,000. John Wayne's senting the best-loved stories of the Old (Colpix 413). Special "participation" motion picture, in which he plays Davy Testament. records are available which permit you Crockett, runs for "Wi hours and cost One reason for the growth in popu- to play or sing along with a musical $12 million. A 45-minute recording, nar- larity of records such as these is a re- group—one instrument or voice part is rated by Claude Rains, was produced action to certain aspects of television.

left out tor you to fill in. In addition for $3,000: "Remember the Alamo" Much TV viewing is not as productive

there are play-a-part records in which (Noble NOM 102). They are two dif- of good as it should be, and the wise you play opposite famous actors and ferent media, of course, but the record parent seeks to interest his child in more actresses; scripts are provided of course. tells the story well. wholesome pursuits. Records provide

It should be pointed out that records, "Speaking" records were always avail- one answer. The fare is quite varied and like books and home movies, need not able in variety even when recording fa- always wholesome. Nearly every cate-

always be purchased. Many local libra- cilities were extremely limited. But the gory is covered: song and story, dra- ries and other agencies lend them with- old 4-minute record was itself, perhaps, matics, music, painting. Junior language out charge or rent them for a nominal the greatest stumbling block in the way courses, folk tales of faraway countries, fee. Some record dealers maintain a of progress in this area. Now, with to- even fairy tales in foreign languages. All renting service, and often transactions day's 25-minute LP side, even the most the favorite stories are available, such can be handled by mail. One large mail- ambitious projects are being handled as "Johnny Appleseed," "Little Women," order rental agency is l.ibraphone. Inc., with ease. Complete plays, dramatiza- Andersen's "Fairy Tales," "Alice in Long Branch, N. J., who deserve men- tions with sound effects, speeches, de- Wonderland," "Pinocchio," "Gulliver's tion because of the extensive coverage bates and lectures, as well the techni- Travels," "Huckleberry Finn," etc. of their catalog. cally simpler poetry and prose readings Especially interesting instructive records Language instruction, via records, has —these are all grist for the LP mill. In- are "Let's Look at Great Paintings" been with us a long time. The "Cheaper cidentally, the Caedmon Record people (Cabot 4024), which comes with a book By the Dozen" man, Mr. Gilbreth, ex- deserve a special commendation for the of color reproductions. "Child's Intro- posed his 12 children to the sounds of job they have done in bringing even the duction to the Orchestra" (Golden 1), foreign languages each morning while shyest and most elusive of authors to "Magic of Music" (Cabot 4022), and they were washing their teeth, 'way back the microphone to read from their own "Conduct Your Own Orchestra" (Gold- in 1912 or thereabouts. He used records, works. Something rather special is added en 47), which comes packaged with a of course. Nowadays language instruc- to a favorite poem or prose piece when real baton. "Let's Put On a Play" (Libra- tion is available in variety, not only for you hear the author himself read it. phone J 228) is a delightful potage of

English-speaking people but also for the Getting back to plays, it must be ad- four scripts and comes with complete foreign born who wish to master our mitted that listening to a dramatic work instructions for costuming and staging. tongue. Special. low-cost language is hardly to be compared with spending There are also a great many records courses are available now in a new rec- an evening in the theatre. Still, records containing and identifying the sounds of ord form. A thin, highly flexible plastic provide a good way to extend your animals (domestic and zoo), birds, in- material is used, and the records are knowledge of fine plays. It is doubtful sects, and even sea animals. loosely bound together, like the pages whether record companies make much Many records of animal and outdoor of a book (Modern Language Project money offering recorded plays, and all sounds are designed for adult ears too. of Boston ) too many plays are not available on Cornell University issues a continuing

The same idea is used in the publish- discs. Among those that are obtainable series of nature sound records. Try ing of a new magazine called Echo. are such good things as "J.B." by Mac- "Dawn in a Duck Blind" for a touch of Each issue contains five records. These Leish (Victor LDS6075). "Don Juan in the real outdoors. This is now being sold usually cover a famous news event, a Hell" (Columbia OSL 166), Miller's in many stores dealing in firearms, as an scintillating talk, an on-thc-scene sports "Death of a Salesman" ( Decca DX aid to hunters. affair and the dramatization of an ex- 102), and "Murder in the Cathedral," Professional lecturing also has taken cerpt from a best-selling book. There is performed by the Old Vic Players on a new dimension, thanks to records. no telling how far the use of this kind (Angel 3505B). These are complete In the old days the seeker after knowl- of recording will extend, for the records plays. In the old days dramatic records edge had to hie himself out, often on a are cheap, light, and easy to mail. One consisted merely of the skimpiest ex- bitter night, to listen in some draughty company, the Americom Corporation, cerpts. hall. Now he can listen to world famous produces these records at pennies apiece, Another kind of subject that the old authorities in the slippered comfort of in quantity, which makes it possible for 4-minute record couldn't handle ade- his own home, via records. Many of to- them to be used in advertising or as quately was material from good books. day's best known speakers, whether inserts in the pages of an ordinary mag- Nowadays all the classics are well rep- philosophers, educators, scientists or azine. resented, and it is a particular pleasure just educated humorists, offer choice Conventional records will, of course, to hear them in this form. Many people items from their repertory. Noteworthy: continue to occupy the center of the feel that they get more out of listening Ritchie Calder, "Science in Our Lives" stage for most people. They are sturdy, to a skilfully told story than they do (Folkways 6101), Margaret Mead. virtually unbreakable, easily stored and, when they have to read it themselves. "American Character" (Libraphone S as made today, capable of almost (law- Elderly people, whose failing sight and 105) . Dr. Ashley Montagu. "The Na- less reproduction. Besides, measured in lessening patience make reading a chore, ture of Human Nature" (Libraphone S terms of content, they're getting especially this Bergen Evans, Things" cheaper appreciate type of record. 106) , "Of Many all the time. For instance, 20 years ago The best known book of all. The Bible, (SW 106-9). Other records include ma- a minute ol classical music cost about is a steady favorite with all ages. Famous terial on psychology, business, politics, 50 cents; today, it's 10 cents or less. Bible stories are available in many re- religion, investments, physical well-be-

A further interesting comparison of corded forms, from simple readings to ing, music appreciation, etc. There is costs occurs in the telling of the story complete dramatizations with lull casts hardly a laugh in most of these, but they ol the Alamo. You will remember that and sound effects. A good example of are intensely interesting all the same. this is the story ol the famous 13-day this latter type is contained in the offer- Capitalizing on laughter was a secret

' 34 THE AMERICAN I EGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 " known to the earliest record makers, as of conversation at a time, unobtrusively Shrinks Hemorrhoids has already been pointed out. However, scanned the room, picking up choice record bits while the highly informal meeting it was only very recently that the New Way Without Surgery makers of today rediscovered the fact of the Society was going on. will money to its channels that people pay good Stereo, because of two Stops Itch -Relieves Pain laugh. As proof of this, comedians such with left and right speakers, has added For the first time science has found a as Bob Newhart, Shelley Berman, Dave a new dimension to recorded humor. new healing substance with the astonishing Gardner, Orson Bean, Alan King, Two examples will serve to illustrate: ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve — Buddy Hackett, etc. are hitting the best "Cartoons in Stereo" (Audio Fidelity pain without surgery. In case after case, while gently relieving seller lists with surprising regularity. DFS 7008) and "Sounds/Funny" (Epic pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. Even the " 'way out" comics such as BN 598). A short skit from the first Most amazing of all — results were so thorough that sufferers made astonishing Phil Foster, asking for Phyllis Diller, Jack Douglas, record begins with someone statements like "Piles have ceased to be a etc., are winning considerable attention. a match. Immediately after the match problem! The secret is a new healing substance You can, in fact, get humor of any type is scratched (one channel), the fire (Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of a world-famous on records, from easy-going Sam Leven- spreads into a roaring conflagration over research institute. This substance is now available in sup- son to '"sick" Lenny Bruce, mad Theo- both channels. To all this terrifyingly pository or ointment form under the name dore and even weird Zacherley. On a realistic sound is added the clamor of Preparation H®. Ask for it at all drug counters. different literary level you can get Hal the fire engines as they race up with Holbrook's masterful performance as sirens tuned to highest pitch. In the sec- Mark Twain (Columbia OS 2030), ond record another short skit has some- HEALTH INSURANCE HANDBOOK Prof. C. Northcote Parkinson explaining (left speaker) answering a tele- one 24-page booklet by the Health In- "Parkinson's Law" (Libraphone B 104), phone. "Joe's Hilltop Diner," he says. surance Institute explains clearly what you can expect from present- S. J. Perelman (Spoken Arts 705) and At this point the listener hears a giant day health insurance. How it How to guarantee income others. These are immensely entertain- landslide breaking loose, traveling from works. when you're disabled. (0NLI pro-— ing, and some are also thought-provok- left to right. There is another call (right vides up to $500 per month for as little as daily bus fare.) ing. speaker), and the answer: "Joe's Valley Why you may need to add an individual policy to group coverage. Brand new is a record that demon- These skits are funnier in Diner." much Basics of insurance for hospital starts what modern equipment can do. sound than they appear here, indicating care, surgical, general and major medical expenses. Plus a check It was recorded at the annual meeting that a new comic technique has been list to measure what your present insurance covers. Write for your free copy, no of the Benevolent Society for the Preser- discovered. It's a safe bet that there will obligation. Offered as a public service. vation of Ancient Rhymes and Limerix be more of this kind of deviltry in the THE OHIO NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. (Cook 1074). Special microphones, de- world of sound. And more record sales PO BOX.237-K, Cincinnati 1. O. signed to "focus" on only one speaker as a result. the end

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 • 35 THE COMPETITIVE KENNEDYS (Continued from page 19) that he and Lem Billings had "definitely he'd suffered the summer before. Given Jack's determination led to a reveal- decided to stop fooling around. I really time to think. Jack decided to come to ing scene. Jack was a sophomore and big do realize how important it is that I get grips with the Kennedy Harvard tradi- Joe a first-string senior. Joe kept an eye a good job done this year. ... 1 have been tion after all. on Jack, gave advice, but saw the im- bluffing myself about how much real Jack's close friend and roommate at possibility of Jack's footballing ambition. work I have been doing." Harvard was Torbert MacDonald. a fine One day after practice he walked up to Jack buckled down, edged into the athlete and Ail-American football play- his brother, who was with MacDonald, upper half of his class and graduated er. "Torby" knew more than anyone else and said, "If you want my opinion you'd 64th out of 112. He was voted "most how hard Jack tried. be better off forgetting about football. likely to succeed." Once Jack was confined to the infir- You're going to get yourself banged up." Lem Billings had begun spending mary with grippe and a high fever. At MacDonald got his dander up. "Come summers with the Kennedys at Hyannis that time competition was open for a off it Joe," he said. "Jack doesn't need Port. As crew in sailing races to Nan- any looking after." Suddenly Torby tucket Island. Billings, a huge boy, found found himself on the receiving end of a himself hanging out on the rail to keep tirade from Jack. Jack told his room- the boat from keeling over. Hour after mate off for butting into a family affair! hour the icy seas swept him until he The rival brothers, husky and slim, asked to be relieved. The Kennedy went down to Hyannis Port together that brothers shook their heads. He stayed. summer and teamed up to win a sail- "They ran a tight ship," he recalls. "You boating championship off Cape Cod. made a mistake, boy, you caught it. But Joe had accurately foreseen Jack's that was forgotten a minute after the football injury, however; it came in the race." form of a back injury that seemed to Every one saw that there was no jeal- yield to care and rest. Jack graduated ousy in their competition. Each Kennedy cum laude in political science, class of took pride in the achievements of the 1940, all in one piece. The thunder of other. Each would rather win the ap- WW2 sounded, and he enlisted in the proval of the family than of outsiders. Navy, became a PT skipper in the Solo- Those summers at Hyannis Port soft- mon Islands campaign. ball games between the "Barefoot Boys" At midnight. August 2, 1943. he was •'He's coon clog, (Kennedys) and the "Pansies" (neigh- a why?" cruising slowly under blackout west of bors) were savage. They fought it out New Georgia when a 30-knot Japanese THE AMEIUCAN LEGION* MAGAZINE each Labor Day on the Kennedy lawn, destroyer cut his boat cleanly in two. and Jack usually pitched. The games Kennedy was slammed down hard, and continued through the years. At first spot on the swimming team. "He was on his back went out again, badly. Two men little Bobby and Teddy stopped rollers a light diet because of his fever and this were killed instantly. The survivors, two in the outfield. When they had grown worried him," MacDonald says. "He was badly injured, stayed with the wreckage larger, they became pitchers. afraid he wouldn't be strong enough to until it sank, and then Jack took the life- During his summers at Hyannis Port win the swimming trials. So he made me jacket cord of a burned shipmate in his with Jack, Lem Billings noticed that smuggle malted milks and steaks into teeth and began a heroic 5-mile swim to spirited sport was accompanied by much the infirmary. Then he'd get me to help an island. He crawled up the beach ex- ribbing and verbal give-and-take. How- him disappear for an hour. He would hausted and. after sodden sleep, swam ever, at table, although the spirit lasted, rush to the Indoor Athletic Building, many miles in search of rescuers. Finally the subject quickly switched to serious swim several laps, and, before the nurse he brought help through friendly natives matters of politics or world events. No came around to take his temperature on another island. small talk or talk of money has ever and give him his medicine, he would be Jack was cited by Adm. Halsey for been allowed at the Kennedy meals. back in bed." Richard Tregaskis, who courage, endurance and leadership. His

Conversation flowed on an intellectual made it instead, later became a famous old Harvard swim coach said. "Jack was plane, oriented somewhat toward the war correspondent and wrote "Guadal- not a great swimmer at college. Jack was lather's participation in important events canal Diary." a great swimmer only once — when it (he became U.S. Ambassador to Bri- Harold Ulen, Jack's swimming coach, meant something." tain). Each child. Billings noticed, was said "I had Jack on my teams for 3 years, A year later. Kennedy was at Hyannis encouraged to express his opinion and I remember him very vividly. He Port alter recent release from Chelsea strongly and to be well informed. Each was a fine kid, frail and not too strong Nav al Hospital where he had undergone had the spirit and confidence to do so. but always giving it everything he had. extensive treatment for his back injury Jack's confidence was a little shaken, He was more of a team man than an and for malaria. With weight (he had however, when he left Choate for Har- individualist." gone down to 127 pounds) and spirits vard and saw first hand the record big Team man he was, and he would stick returning, he like his family was rocked Joe was setting. Grimly he dug in to set with a sport even though he never got by the news that Joseph Kennedy, Jr. his own mark. out of junior varsity. had been killed in action flying a danger- Jack actually tried so hard at Harvard Roommate MacDonald watched Jack ous volunteer bombing mission against he damaged his health. At 18, he was a grind away at football practice. "He was German V-2 pens on the Belgian coast. tall, thin boy with a slender lace and a good athlete," MacDonald remembers, For months afterward, Joe's father wiry build. He was not as husky as big "hut Jack would not be considered a would spend most of each day sitting Joe. Perhaps because he wanted to get topnotch varsity player because he alone listening to symphony music. Then out from under the dominant Joe, he en- lacked weight. He made the most of his gradually the dynamic family started to rolled first at Princeton, but had to pull natural talents and was very determined, rally from its grief. Following the fa- out alter a recurrence of the jaundice however." ther's lead, they started a book called "As

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We Remember Joe." In it eaeh member Teddy risked his life. of the family would write his recollec- During the Wisconsin primary cam- NO NEED TO WEAR tions of the dead flier. paign Ted was so overcome by loyalty Eunice explained to Teddy, who was at a Madison ski jumping rally that he 12, what he should write. She told him Hew off the high icy chute before 10,000 A to say how wonderful and strong and spectators, swerved to a stop at the mi- TRUSS calm Joe was. crophone to make a rousing address. "But Joe wasn't calm," Teddy said. "I'm here to help my brother," he FOR RUPTURE "One day he threw me in the ocean!" panted. The cheering throng didn't know That Kinds, Cuts, Gouges, Slips and Does Not Hold Teddy wrote: Teddy had never been off a ski jump If you must wear a Truss for Rupture, ". . . We had our sails up just as before. don't miss this. A Post Card, with name and the gun went for the start. This was If Jack thought that was reckless loy- address is all you send to W. S Rice, [nc, I) mt. 8M. Adams. N. Y.. to get FREE, and the first race I had ever been in. We alty, he must have been astounded when without obligation, the complete moderni/.ed were going along very nicely until Teddy campaigned in Miles City, Mon- Rice Plan of Reducihle Rupture Control. Now in daily use hy thousands who say they told pull in the jib. tana, by riding suddenly he me to a rodeo bucking bronco. never dreamed possihle such secure, depend-

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fell < in the old rose bush that marked can. They also play "prisoners' base" E9f|f|lf CARLTON PRESS I • : t MMWWIm 84 Fifth Ave., New York 11. N. Y. goal line. with "two people if." During Senator Kennedy's marriage For Joe Kennedy, though he has a ceremony to Jacqueline Bouvier, a few son in the White House, nothing has Ik Borrow BY MAIL perceptive persons noticed scratches on changed; family, games, competitive- Per , 0nth Jack's cheek. He had indulged in a wild ness. P32« Re;ays $600 bit of scrimmage the day before. The President John F. Kennedy Nor has Enjoy the thinRS you wai ". NOW with a confidential rose bush had scored again. Jacqueline father's view. . . When changed in his .OAN-by -MAIL — get any to $600.00. Fay tried touch football, broke her ankle and he uses the apartment, he still takes my amount, $100.00 back in small monthly installments Amount 24 Monthly to fit your paycheck. Take as long swore off. socks if I have some new ones around." ol Loan Paymenti as 24 months. No co-makers. Every- $ioo Touch football games gave way to the Having spoken these words, the elder ling private. No matter where you live, rush this coupon. Loan Order Blank mailed S300 fight for the Presidency. The entire fam- Kennedy mounted his horse at his Oster- Fre« in plainenvelope. Noobliftation. Act! $400 Bldg. SSOO ily pitched DIAL FINANCE CO.. 410 Kilpatrick into the campaign, while the ville, Mass., farm and rode off on a long, - DEPT. K-92 OMAHA 2, NEBRASKA $6QO parents remained on the sidelines cheer- trail, disappearing at a trot, strenuous I CO., Dept. DIAL FINANCE K-92 NO AGENT I ing. Sisters I 410 Kilpatrick Bide., Omaha 2. Nob. CALL Eunice, Pat and Jean enter- embodiment of a tradi- ' I WILL | alone, at 72 the PleaseDl rushU FREEI?UL'L' Loan— Ordern>Ju iilank.lri.«^ tained and addressed women's groups. tion that has produced a president.

I N/ (Rosemary had been invalided by men- Not really alone. For it can truthfully ADDRESS ingitis. Kathleen died in a 1948 plane be said that wherever Joe Kennedy goes, CITY crash.) Bobby served as Jack's campaign he has his "ball team" with him. STATE I Amount you want to borrow $.. manager, worked an 18-hour day. But I III END |

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 37 GETTING THE DROP ON AN ENEMY (Conliniif

kas were the heaviest weapons to be air- a 2, 500-foot by 60-foot runway was ing long-distance movement of heavy dropped and the jeep was the largest completed, ready for use. loads. The C-123 and C-130-B are two vehicle that could be airlifted, now 2V2- Achievements of this kind are the re- which have greatly improved the Army's ton trucks, 6-ton howitzers, and a whole sult of teamwork between the Army's capability to accomplish strategic and family of engineer construction equip- combat arms and technical services tactical moves by air. ment, including roadgraders and bull- which have developed newer, lighter Today's Army has two ready-line air- dozers, are paradropped on a routine weapons, vehicles and construction borne divisions — the 82nd and 101st — basis. equipment, improved cargo parachutes both veterans of World War II, whose For example, 2 years ago, 333 men of and platforms and rigging methods, and men are trained to the letter and ready the 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion modified parachute dropping techniques. to "stand up and hook up" on call. They and 40 loads of heavy construction The net effect — safer, more accurate form the main thrust and punch of equipment totaling 352 tons were deliv- airdrops. STRAC (Strategic Army Corps). They'll ered in what is the largest mass air drop To meet increased Army cargo re- go by plane when and where needed, in airborne history. Thirty-three hours quirements, the Air Force has developed prepared to land on their objective by alter the last piece of equipment landed. aircraft for airborne operations involv- parachute. the end

HOW NOT TO GET LOST (Continued from page 17)

stock of your situation. This is the time build yourself a small fire. Well ahead of turn in the other direction on the road when you wish for some things you darkness collect enough dry wood to last and you can be relatively certain you're didn't bring along. The Air Force cre- you through the night. headed for your car. ated a survival vest containing all kinds This plan was put to good use during Big-game hunters who get lost often of needs from compass to emergency ra- a recent Wisconsin deer season. David have to camp out in snowstorms and tions. One manufacturer recently put Waggoner, wildlife law enforcement near zero weather. Some months ago, such a vest on the market for civilian supervisor with the Department of Con- while on a mid-January trip into north- outdoorsmen. Once tossed on your own servation, heard about a lost hunter at ern Quebec to field-test outdoor equip- in the wilderness you tear the vest 9:30 one evening. Snow had fallen ment, I had long talks with arctic ex- pouches open and come up with such steadily since 4 o'clock that afternoon. pert Art Reid about keeping warm out-

prizes as fish hooks, rations, first-aid kit. It had covered all tracks within a half doors at low temperatures. compass, matches and knife. hour. During the next 6 hours 4 inches Art as a boy accompanied his father

For many years I have carried a fell. By midnight the weather turned on trips for the Hudson Bay Co. Since pocket emergency kit of my own de- bitterly cold. The lost hunter had gone his childhood he has spent many winters sign. You can pack an amazing amount into a wooded area 6 miles long and 2Vi tramping through the arctic snowfields of highly useful items into a tin tobacco miles wide. No one knew whether or in temperatures too cold to seem real. can. There is room for matches dipped not he was equipped to protect himself Art is now the leading designer of win- in paraffin, a couple of razor blades, a against the blinding snowstorm or the ter field equipment for Canada's armed small compass, adhesive bandages, a bitter cold. forces. "People need to forget some of metal mirror for signaling, a whistle, During the evening a nearby village the things they've learned about cold," fishing line, hooks and flies, lead foil for sent out its fire truck to join others driv- Art said. "You don't rub frosted fingers sinkers, pencil and paper, halazone tab- ing around the area in an effort to guide and feet with snow unless you want to

lets for purifying water and even a few the man from the woods. But snow cut freeze them more. The best thing is to bouillon cubes and a little waterproof off the lights and wind drowned out the try to warm them by holding them pack of salt. siren. The rescuers fought the elements against the body or immerse them in No outdoorsman should venture into all night. water brought to body temperature. the wilderness without matches and a Shortly after daybreak the hunter "You'll also hear," says Art, "that if knife. If the country is especially rough came out of the woods in good condi- you go to sleep when you're cold you or if he is hunting big game, he should tion. How had he managed it? As soon may freeze to death. If you're that cold also carry a small coil of nylon rope as he realized he was lost, he made camp. you won't go to sleep. You're better off strong enough to support himself. Al- He was carrying a supply of matches so if you do sleep because that way you ways lucked away in my hunting coat he built a fire and stacked enough wood stay inactive and save energy." arc a couple of chocolate bars and some to keep it going all night. Then he cut If you're lost for very long, food be- flat foil packs of tea or coffee. evergreen boughs and built a lean-to to comes a problem. But the wilderness Another new outdoor gadget thai I protect himself from snow and wind and offers many edibles. Hunger is the like to carry in my coat pocket is an reflect some of the heat from his fire. mother of invention. You can catch food aluminum stove hardly bigger than a He slept snugly except for the times with traps, snares and deadfalls. All pack of cigarettes. It burns solid fuel when he had to add fuel to the fire. birds and mammals and nearly all fish tablets with enough heat to make coffee "When daybreak came." Waggoner re- are edible. So are reptiles, and this is no or even cook a small meal when you calls, "the storm had passed and he was time to be choosy. can't find dry kindling. able to tell directions and walk out of If you don't know what nuts, fruits Any seasoned guide will tell you that the woods." and plants to risk, try them only in small if you're still lost when it begins to gel Most hunters have come out on a quantities at first. Foods that mammals dark the thing to do is make camp. Get country lane or logging road and not eat will seldom harm humans. You as comfortable as you can for the night. known which way to turn to reach their might even rob a squirrel's cache of Stumbling through the woods in the parked cars. Instead of aiming directly winter nuts if you can't catch the squir- darkness can be foolhardy. Find a spot at your car, try coming out purposely rel himself. protected from wind, rain or snow and some distance to one side of it. Then Traveling should be limited to the

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Back to campaign also had a rousing victory on Lemon Juice Recipe begging, scrounging for food, sleeping the home front. Father Wegner had so- Checks Rheumatic wherever exhaustion felled the little licited the help of Nebraska's Senator body? Hugh Butler and Congressman Roman and Arthritis Pain The sergeant considered the possibil- Hruska. They introduced a special bill If you suffer rheumatic, arthritis or neuritis ity of adopting Song, but with seven in their respective houses to facilitate pain, try this simple inexpensive home recipe that thousands are using. Get a can of RU-EX children of his own, well—. "But wait a Song's admission into the United States. Compound, a 2 weeks supply, today. Mix it with GI minute!" he brainstormed one eve- To pay for Song's passage on a com- a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. It's easy! No trouble at all and pleasant. You need ning. 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THE AMERICAN • • LEGION MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1961 ^9 the haberdashery to go with it, and a tutoring and help from Boys Town citi- He had to stand fully dressed on shore, pair of new shoes. zens, in addition to his regular classes, disrobe, enter the water, swim 30 feet D — for Departure, Day was Friday, Song caught up to his age level in grade to a "drowning" person, make the cor- May 22, 1953. At the Pusan airport. school within a year! rect approach, and then tow the "vic- Song laughed and cried as enlisted men, Games and sports that stressed foot tim" to shore— all within 1 minute. That officers and civilians swamped him with and leg agility attracted Song. Boys was less time than Song had always goodbyes and gifts. At the top of the Town buzzed in the fall of 1955 when taken just to remove his artificial feet, gangplank he turned and lit up his fa- he signed up for one of the intramural which were attached to his legs with miliar smile. "So long, Sargie!" football teams. In his first game Song elaborate harnesses. "So long, S-Song," Sgt. Douglas' voice scored a touchdown, and even the rival But when the starting whistle blew. cracked. His eyes filled with tears. team cheered. The following winter he Song's persistent practice sessions paid

"Everything's going to be very No. 1 played on an intramural basketball team, off. He had his clothes and the harnesses for you now!" and, in spring 1956, Song was second off in seconds! Quickly he slid into the Four days later. Song's new shoes baseman on one of the Boys Town base- water and the piston-like strokes of his were walking on American soil at the ball teams. muscled arms raced him to the "victim" Omaha airport. Father Wegner greeted He qualified -for the Boy Scouts of and back. The timekeeper blinked tears his new, and 900th, citizen and they America and earned merit badges in out of his eyes. Song had completed the drove west toward Boys Town. After 1 I camping, cooking, swimming, nature, lifesaving demonstration in 45 seconds! miles, the car entered the small com- personal fitness, public health, safety, In the following months. Song added munity and passed a statue of a boy car- firemanship and first aid. He flabber- other merit badges to his Boy Scout sash, rying a younger lad on his back. The in- gasted officials of the Covered Wagon until he had a total of 21. Then he scription says: "He ain't heavy, Father Boy Scout Council at Camp Cedars by topped them all by earning the Eagle

. . . he's m'brother." Song Yong Cho was applying for a merit badge in lifesaving. Scout Badge, the highest rank awarded home. The officials advised against it. They by the Boy Scouts. He also learned to Snuggled in his bed that night, in told him frankly that with his handi- play the drums and joined the Boys quarters housing boys his age, Song cap they doubted he could pass the diffi- Town high school band. marveled at all the wonderful things that cult demonstration tests. Song said he Song made a trip to Hattiesburg, Mis- had happened to him. He also won- realized the tests were extremely diffi- sissippi, in 1958, for a reunion with the dered: Would the others accept him as cult—that was why he wanted to take man who changed the course of his life. one of the boys? He was Korean. He them. The officials were stumped. The only thing Sgt. Douglas recognized couldn't speak their language. He had Reluctantly, they scheduled him for about the handsome and husky teenager artificial feet. the lifesaving tests. Song began prac- slapping him on the back was the radi- In the morning, Song found the an- ticing with the same tenacity and pluck ant grin. He knew of Song's remark- swer under his pillow— a pair of Genuine that had kept him alive when he had to able accomplishments from letters they

Wild West six-shooters! A very No. I crawl around Pusan on his hands and had exchanged, and if admiration were way the other boys had of breaking knees. He did not count his handicaps- a Pfc. stripe, the sergeant would have through the language barrier to say he counted on his blessings. His strength been a zebra. Song had also saved a "Welcome, brother!" was concentrated in well-developed couple of surprises to announce in per- When the homecoming excitement arms, shoulders and chest— and in his son. He was going to apply for U.S. citizenship! subsided, Song started school. At 1 1 he heart. And, in gratitude for what had never been in a classroom before. On the day of the tests, Song amazed Sgt. Richard Gormanson and Sgt. Doug- His English vocabulary, spoken by rote, officials. He successfully demonstrated las had done for him. Song would then extended a few phrases beyond "OK" one requirement after another. Then change his name to Richard Douglas and "Shoe shine, Joe." With special came the most difficult test for Song. Cho! Two months after his March 17, 1960 birthday, 19-year-old Song Yong Cho of Korea, became Richard Douglas Cho. citizen of the United States of America.

The following month, on June 5, he received another significant document when Father Wegner handed him a Boys Town high school diploma.

Today, Richard Douglas Cho is an assistant director and trainer at Boys Town, and a student at the Boyles-Van Sant Business College in Omaha. He

can't speak a word of Korean and is as American as a home run with bases loaded. When asked what he thought of his adopted country, he flashed his electric grin, "The U.S.A. is OK!" Does Richard Douglas Cho look back on the days when he dragged himself around Pusan? "No!" he says. "I look

where I am going, not where I have been." He realizes no one expects re- quital for what they had done for him;

however, it is a debt he intends to repay. *i shall do unto others as they have done unto me." THE END

• • 4() I MF AMERICAN LECilON MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1961 — Keep America Fit By ANOTHER LOOK AT THE U.N. '(Continued from [tuge J5) m Keeping Fit Yourself

It's easyl It's fun! A daily 5 minute conditioning break on a lincolnwood This thought is especially disturbing for the general U.N. budget; 84 million Belt Massoger wakes up tired muscles. when it is considered that the United dollars for the Congo; 20 million dol- The deep massaging action helps you States can no longer count on the sup- lars, for UNEF. feel alive— full of zest. Enjoy a healthier action-packed life. Stay in shape. port it once had, a fact that was demon- The U.S. Committee for the U.N. strated in the closing session of the Gen- came up with some different figures, say- eral Assembly on April 22. On that ing that the U.S. had given 192 million occasion the United States suffered a dollars to the U.N. in 1960. BELT serious diplomatic defeat when the U.N. Things became a bit more confused decided that the Cuban controversy when the American Association for the MASSAGER should not be referred to the Organiza- U.N. reported that the total budget for tion of American States. At the same the U.N. and ten of its agencies for 1960 session, and with characteristic open- was 128,2 11,450 dollars. handedness, this country agreed to pay Whichever figure you choose, it is Write today tor tree literature. 47 million dollars, or nearly half of the obvious that running the U.N. calls for entire cost of the Congo operation for much more than "cigarette money," as 1961. some would have you believe. Up to now the United States has But that is only part of the picture, \JmJ health EQUIPMENT CO. • III. shown a curious compulsion to under- and American taxpayers are beginning Ill 3637 W. Touhy Ave. Chicago 45, write far more than its share of U.N. to realize that they are paying far more LEARN operating costs, on the assumption that than this. They know that one reason we are paying for peace and getting it for the billions being given to other na- MEAT CUTTING Train quickly In 8 short weeks at at a bargain price. Pro-U.N. lecturers tions in foreign aid programs is to pro- Toledo lor B bright future with security In the vital meat business. Hip pay, and writers plug this idea by saying that will in the form of votes in full-time Jobs — HAVE A PKOFITARI.K mote good MARKET OF YOUR OWN1 Pay after tv graduation. Diploma given. Job help. the cost of the U.N. is equivalent to the United Nations. Even those who feel J_i Thousands of successful graduates. Our 38th yearl Send now for big. new the price cigarettes per per- life call Illustrated FREE catalog. V«> obligation, r,. t. Approved. of a pack of that the realities of international NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING

- 1 Ohio ln-pt. A 7 . Toledo 4, son per year. This is so if you take one for such vote-buying are beginning to stopped set of figures, but if you use those figures feel that a large proportion of the billions w wmgm u in a jiffy you are likely to be greatly misled about voted for foreign aid since WW2 has m mm back how much the U.N. really costs. And been money poorly invested, and this or money first use of soothing, cooling liquid D.D.D. what the U.N. costs no one seems to antagonism is evident in public reaction Very Prescription positively relieves raw red itch know, including organizations that deal to the administration's latest demand for caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- in information about the U.N. It may more billions for giveaway purposes. ing— other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. 45f" trial bottle must satisfy or money back. be for this reason that attempts to get There is no doubt that this reaction Ask your druggist for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. specific information on U.N. finances was caused in no small measure by the met with a certain amount of vagueness actions of many of the nations that were and equivocation. beneficiaries of money taken from the Following are figures supplied by American taxpayer. An example of this U.N. Press Information on the organi- can be found in the action of India, zation's 1960 budget: Yugoslavia, Ghana, Guinea, the United Monuments—Markers— Direct to you Satisfaction or money back — Lowest last General Budget: Arab Republic and Morocco. In the Prices— Freight Paid. Free Catalog. U.N. cost $58,347,514 fiscal year the United States gave those ROCKDALE MONUMENT CO. .Dept. 817, JOLIET, ILL. U.S. gave 18,953,330 countries 400 million dollars and in ad- Easy, fast dry, trouble-free U.S.S.R. " 7,940,460 dition arranged to give them 500 million Albania " 23,320 dollars in surplus food. As a measure of WOOD FINISH " Bulgaria 93,280 their appreciation, these six nations vot- The complete interior clear in Byelorussian S.S.R. " 274,010 ed against us in the U.N. more often can. Wherever points ore sold. " Czechoslovakia 507,210 than with us on such crucial issues as the FREE flnlshim chart (older.

" Delt. Boi 2216 Cal. Dept. L Hungary 244,860 seating of Red China. Torrance. . Poland " 798,710 Our leaders persist in referring to such Rumania " 198,220 nations as "neutralists," and this fallacy Ukrainian S.S.R. " 1,049,400 is reflected in our continuing efforts to DON'T MISS UNEF (Emergency Forces) give them whatever they want that might (Middle East) Budget: keep them friendly. At his meeting with Cost 20,000,000 President Kennedy in Geneva, Nikita EXCLUSIVE U.S. gave 6,497,064 Khrushchev proved himself to be far U.S.S.R. 2,721,932 more realistic when he said that today BENEFITS (not paid) there are no neutrals. Certainly if they Congo Budget: are neutralists, they are, like the U.N. FOR Cost 48,500,000 forces in the Congo, pretty consistently U.S. gave 15,745,211 neutral on the side of the Kremlin. Des- U.S.S.R. 6,596,425 pite this, the aid goes on. In May it was LEGION (not paid) announced that the administration was However, the U.S. Mission to the going to lend India another billion dol- FAMILIES U.N., quoting "a Congressional docu- lars in the next two years "to help meet ment," reported that the total cost of all the foreign exchange requirements of the U.N. for 1960, including assessments India's third Five-Year Plan." Complete- SEE AD for the U.N. "family," was 344 million ly overlooked was the annoying fact that dollars—of which 53 million dollars was in the last session of the U.N. India vot- ON PAGE 33 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 • 4] ed with us only six times and voted with manner in which we antagonized a de- the United States. This money would go the Soviet Union 50 times. pendable ally, Portugal, by siding with to Asian, African and Latin American In the early days of the U.N. the the Soviet against her over Angola. countries with no control whatsoever by United States could count on enough If there is any common denominator the United States. Soviet Government would cer- support to provide some sort of control in all this, it may be found in our highly The in that body, but now control by the irrational and emotional aim to woo the tainly never put up with this sort of West has ended, and the balance of pow- new nations. We have contributed hand- thing. Never, in its 44 years, has it er is held by the neutralist nations of somely to the establishment of these na- shown any willingness to permit an im- Europe and Asia, and the new nations tions, and already we have seen how partial tribunal to pass on any of its of Africa. This is evident from some they have repeatedly turned against us actions. Khrushchev on July 11th con- statistics. There are now 99 member na- in the U.N. But despite this, we con- ceded this when he said: tions of which 17 may be considered tinue to seek to curry favor with them. "Even if all the countries of the world democratic while 1 1 comprise the com- This would be bad enough if it just adopted a decision which did not accord munist bloc. However, the latter group meant that we continued to bribe them. with the interests of the Soviet Union is buttressed by such nations as Ghana, It is reprehensible and foolish when we and threatened its security, the Soviet Guinea. India, Indonesia, etc., who usu- betray trusted allies to gain their good- Union would not recognize such a de- ally side with the communists. This will. But probably worst of all is the way cision but would uphold its rights, rely- ." united front, helped out by the new na- in which we permit our fetish for these ing on force. . . tions, poses a serious threat. Next year primitive countries to determine our The Soviet has made liberal use of it is expected that this coalition will vote foreign policy. What earthly reason, for the veto in the U.N. to forestall any for the admission of Red China, which example, is there for worrying about action it considered antagonistic or even will mean a showdown. what the pro-communist politicians of critical. Meanwhile, we have permitted

On the subject of China, Americans Ghana, Guinea and Mali think when it the U.N. to make many moves inimical have made their position unmistakably comes to decisions concerning our own to our national interest because we dis- clear, and their attitude is reflected in security. Specifically, why should we al- dained to use the veto power. But now Congress' stand against admitting Red low these people to determine the fate Khrushchev has come up with a new China to the U.N. The reasons for of a loyal and trusted ally. Nationalist weapon for use in the U.N. and else- American opposition to Red China are China? Yet there are rumors that that where. This is his famous "troika" pro- readily apparent. That outlaw nation is precisely the strategy being readied by posal. A troika is a Russian sleigh conducted a bloody, ruthless and unde- our global diplomats. We will, diffident- pulled by three horses, and the term clared war against us, a war in which ly, step back and let the U.N. decide "troika" in Soviet terminology means a tens of thousands of Americans were whether Red China will be admitted. triumvirate. Khrushchev wants his rule killed and hundreds of thousands The Reds plus the neutralists will vote of three applied to the implementation wounded. Its brutalities against Ameri- to admit the outlaw, and we will accept of Soviet foreign policy. The importance can prisoners of war violated all the the decision like good sports. that he attaches to the application of the rules of warfare, and its arrogant refusal This raises another point that is troika principle in the U.N. is evident to account for Americans it still holds troubling many Americans. If Red from the way he pounded his shoe for has bred a deep resentment in all Ameri- China gets into the U.N. it will be large- emphasis when he expounded it, calling cans. To cap all this, Red China is still ly because of the one-nation one-vote for Hammarskjold's dismissal at last at war with the United Nations. policy of the world body. It is probably fall's U.N. session. Yet despite all this, strong pressures safe to say that most Americans have To run the U.N., he wants a troika are being exerted to admit Red China never heard of such new nations as Up- instead of a Secretary General, and this into the U.N., and certain American po- per Volta, Somalia, Chad, Dahomey, 3-man committee (one communist, one litical figures are said to be conniving in and Gabon. But each of these has as neutralist, and one pro-Westerner) the attempt. Most discussed of the ma- much voting power in the General As- would operate under a rule of unani- neuvers is a so-called "Two Chinas" sembly as the United States. This, to mous consent, meaning any member gambit which will offer representation many, is as unrealistic as permitting could veto any action. How it would to both Red China and Nationalist Russia to have three votes to one for the work in the U.N. is evident from the China. The promoters of this irrespon- United States. Indeed, years before the way this Russian principle has stymied sible action argue that Red China will United Nations was founded. President any action in Laos and at the Geneva surely refuse, in which case the West Franklin D. Roosevelt discussed a new disarmament sessions. In the case of will be in the clear. This may be, but by "League of Nations" in which the small Laos, the neutralist nation was India, conceding that Red China is worthy of nations were to have no voice whatso- with Krishna Menon running the show. a place in the U.N., we have gone a long ever. The idea of giving small nations In view of Menon's record, what hap- way toward destroying at least the an equal voice with the big ones was, pened was predictable. Indeed, in view morale of a faithful ally. Nationalist he said, ridiculous. His plan was to have of the way most of the Afro-Asian na- China, one of the few dependable friends a league made up of four nations, the tions have been voting, the use of the we have left in the Orient. The rest of United States, the Soviet Union. Great troika principle would come close to the world would certainly interpret our Britain and China. This may have been giving the Kremlin a two-to-one vote on acquiescence in the "Two Chinas" ges- an undemocratic proposal, but it makes any issue—with the veto power to back ture as notice that the United States is as much sense as the present system. it up if necessary. abandoning Nationalist China. For that Our lack of control is also causing Another move by the Soviet bloc to matter, the fact that some of our politi- concern in view of growing demands load the dice in its favor is the current cal leaders even talk about the possibil- from African and Asian nations that the demand for more jobs in the Secretariat. ity or the "inevitability" of Red China's West give them huge grants of money A U.N. committee recently recommend- recognition has hurt us immeasurably for their internal development. The most ed the assignment of 100 more key by showing our allies, and neutrals, how ambitious scheme, called the Special positions to communist-bloc personnel, undependable we often are. United Nations Fund for Economic De- jobs now held by U.S. and other anti- Other actions in the U.N. have cer- velopment, or SUNFED for short, calls Red personnel. You may be sure that the tainly made that point previously. The for 55 billion dollars, over a 10-year per- people who get these jobs will be full- most dramatic recent example was the iod, 70 percent of it to be contributed by time employees of the Soviet Union,

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 and working solely for U.S.S.R. in- tions in that unfortunate country, and Smoke for Relief terests, even though the United States he became disturbed at the way the will be paying the largest percentage of Hungarian situation was being used by ASTH MA- HAYFEVER their salaries—approximately a third, the politicians of the U.N. In his efforts contrasted with an approximate 13.62 to keep the report on Hungary from try them FREE percent by the Kremlin. being sabotaged, he aroused the antago- Sufferers from Asthma and the dis» things in the history of the high U.N. officials, including Few U.N. nism of comforts of excessive secretions in the caused so strong a reaction against the Hammarskjold, and was suspended. nasal passages associated with Hay Fever have, for over 60 years, found organization in this country as the Red Some time later he was called on to quick, temporary relief by smoking PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleas- circus that the nabobs of communism turn over to the Secretariat some docu- ant, inexpensive. staged last August when they descended including a list the anti-comments of For free samples, write on New York City en masse to meet at munist Hungarians who had given him Consolidated Chemical Co., the U.N. But disturbing in the extreme to information with the understanding that 835A Cherry St., Grand Rapids 6, Michigan"" many Americans was the realization that their names would not be divulged. SEND FOR FREE SAMPLES the rulers of the communist conspiracy, Fearful that this information would find including some of the most despicable its way to the Russians, with foreseeable Miracle Cushion criminals in the world's history, could consequences, Bang-Jensen refused. The come without bidding to shores our to lists were subsequently burned by him, Holds False Teeth stage a mammoth Red demonstration. To in the presence of witnesses atop the add insult to injury, Americans had to U.N. Building. On July 3, 1958 the Tl§llt "~ Eases S° re G ums spend millions to guard these monsters Secretary General notified him he was Snug® brand Denture Cushions, a sen- whose crimes against humanity made being dismissed for misconduct. sational new plastic re-lining, keep wob- them logical targets for thousands of ref- bliest plates firmly in place. Ease sore gums, When his body was found less than a give perfect comfort. Eat, laugh, talk — ugees plates "stay put". Applied in minutes — who had good reason to hate them. year later, the case had all the earmarks last from 2 to 6 months. Stay soft and This, plus the realization that this motley of a cloak-and-dagger thriller, and many pliable. Harmless to dentures. Peels right out when replacement is needed. No daily crew can return at any time it suits their still believe that he was murdered by So- bother with adhesives. 2 liners for upper fancy or whenever it will help or lower plates $1.50. Money-back guar- advance viet agents. The manner of death is rela- antee. Get Snug brand Denture Cushions the cause of world communism, caused tively unimportant. The significant point today! At all druggists. many Americans to start using the slo- is that Bang-Jensen was ignominiously gan "Get the U.S. out of the AUTOMATIC U.N.; Get thrown out of the U.N. because he re- 'WINDOW WATCH the U.N. out of the U.S." fused to compromise his principles. fc\ NO HANDS ... NO DIALS It is also irritating to know that, thanks What troubles thoughtful Americans nil Unusual, Handsome and Excel lent time- to American hospitality U.N. officials III piece. One window shows the Hour, the even more than all the foregoing is the III other, the Minutes Guaranteed from Iron Curtain countries are permit- '// Jeweled Precision Swiss Workmanship. way in which our own government has / NOW ONLY $9.95 — 2 for $19 ted to go where they have no business, /SPIEGEL OF N. Y. Dept. 3U7-AL permitted the United Nations to formu- St., New York 36, N. Y. engage in actions that are reprehensible, 107 W. 43rd late U.S. foreign policy. This peculiar and when caught they are turned loose kind of diplomat lunacy, which inci- unpunished because of so-called "diplo- as TAX EXPERT dentally is bipartisan, takes many curi- matic immunity." students earn as much as $3,000 ous forms which require us to subor- 3 short months preparing income .„.c returns in spare time —also operate sinister The methods of Soviet agents dinate our own best interests to the in- lucrative Business Tax Service yield- ing steady monthly fees of $10-$5O in the HOUR United States have been demon- terests of other nations. Through some per client, year round. Enjoy professional standing in dignified home-office business. strated time and again. The case of Mme. strange process of reasoning our State No experience necessary. We train you at home and help you start. Write today for free literature. No Oksana Kasenkina, who risked death in that, agent will call. Approved by New Jersev Dept. of Department goes on the assumption Education. UNION INSTITUTE OF TAX TRAINING, escaping from the Soviet Embassy in to be good, a policy must have U.N. en- Lakewood, 17P, New Jersey. New York 13 years ago, dramatized an- dorsement. Keeping in mind the minis- other facet of communism. And every- trations we can expect from the Soviet RUPTURED one is aware of the Soviet's operations bloc and the treatment we are likely to BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY in the you want to THROW AWAY field of blackmail, bribery, and get fr im such neutralists as Indonesia, Surely TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rupture Wor- general corruption. However, despite wearing a griping, India, Ghana, and Guinea, it is difficult ries Then Why put up with unsanitary truss. For there is now a this, Americans were shocked at the chafing and to see much logic in this, but there it is. new modern Non-Surgical treatment that is de- strange death correct rupture. 1 liese of a top U.N. diplomat An interesting example was the resigned to permanently Non-Surgical treatments are so certain, that a and at the callous proceedings that led cent vote concerning; Angola. Portugal's Lifetime Certificate of Assurance is given. to his death. Write today for our New FREE Hook that African territory. Siding with the Afro- expensive gives facts that may save you painful, may again The man was Paul Bang-Jensen, a Asian bloc we twice voted to condemn surgery Tells how non-surgically you play, love and enjoy life in the man- Dane, whose body was found work, live, H-U0». on No- Portugal for "repressive acts" there. As ner you desire. Write today—Dcpt Mo. vember 26, 1959, in a park near his a result we have alienated one of our Excelsior Medicol Clinic, Excelsior Springs, home at Lake Success, N. Y. The au- NATO allies, and one that had proved I 1 CAN PUT YOU IN A topsy report gave the cause of death as highly dependable. A POSTCARD . I J F|NE BUS|NESS "Gunshot wound of the head; suicidal." Curiously, on the same day that we Rush Card TODAY for FREE OUTFIT Some maintained that he did not com- went on record for the second time Get into highly profitable, repeat-order sho ness! Sell new line of Air-Cushion comfort s mit suicide since he had written a note against Portugal's colonial policy, the to friends, neighbors, folks at work! Over!: dress, sport, work, safety shoe styles foi to his wife in which he had said that men, women. Never sold by stores. Just 2 easy newspapers carried another story date- orders n day-in spare time- brin* von J2W extra H nd "under jnromen month' No invest merit . Kush mime no circumstances whatsoever lined United Nations. In this case we address TODAY for FREE SELLING OUTFIT would I ever commit suicide." But prob- were accused by the United Nations of MASON SHOE, Dept. G-857, Chippewa Falls, Wis. ably more important is the way he had an unsatisfactory colonial policy in our been treated Fill Cracks And by U.N. officials prior to handling of Micronesia, the Pacific Is- his death. Bang-Jensen was Danish lands that we have had on our hands Holes Better Deputy Secretary of the U.N. Special since we drove the Japanese out during Handles like putty. Hardens like wood. Committee on the Problem of Hungary. WW2. The complaint was that we had In this capacity he had compiled a mass not done enough for the islanders. PLASTIC WOOD of material dealing with the Soviet's ac- Another example of our undue and The Genuine - Accept No Substitute. THE AMERICAN IEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 • 43 unrealistic concern for the new members much bargaining power to cope with the There is another reason why Khrush-

of the U.N. is said to have been the realists and the opportunists in the chev is not likely to order his robots out reason the attempted invasion of Cuba United Nations. Our politicians have a of the U.N. The Russians made that by Cubans turned into a fiasco that made strange compulsion to give our wealth mistake once before, in 1950, when they this country ridiculous in the eyes of the away, and the idea of demanding some- walked out in a boycott aimed at getting world. Those who took part in that ill- thing in return seems repulsive to them. rid of Trygve Lie. When the North fated mission say that promised air cover For example, as one of his last official Koreans then swarmed over the border which would have given them a fighting acts as President, Dwight D. Eisenhower into South Korea, the matter was pre- chance was withheld at the last moment. appeared before the U.N. and assured sented to the Security Council and

It has been reported, and it has not been members of U.S. aid without any strings neither Russia nor any of its satellites denied, that this action was taken at the attached. More recently, and indica- were around to exercise the veto and behest of our Ambassador to the United tive of the fact that such overwhelming thus forestall action against the Reds. Nations, Adlai Stevenson, who told the generosity is bipartisan, Adlai Stevenson The communists quickly came back but President that such action would be of- told representatives of the African na- too late to reverse the action that had fensive to the Afro-Asians and therefore tions that they could have American been taken. embarrassing to us in the U.N. Why should they leave the U.N.? Mr. Stevenson, with his talent for the Through the political instrumentation ready quip, once made a speech about of the organization they can accomplish the United Nations in which he referred many things. While they were not pres- to the postponement of disarmament ent to stop the United States from initi- talks as "a considerable achievement of ating action in Korea, it may logically a negative sort." It would seem that this be assumed that the communists in the would apply also to Mr. Stevenson's U.N^ were not inactive when our mili- contribution to the Cuban situation. tary leaders in Korea found themselves On the subject of Cuba, not long after being hamstrung by U.N. meddling. the failure of the invasion, and while Some of this was doubtless of a high-

Americans were still indignant over that level nature, but much of it could well inexplicable performance, the United have come from lower echelons. During Nations approved the expenditure of $3 the Korean War a committee of the million to help Castro with his agricul- Senate and a New York grand jury tural problems. This scheme, concocted started studying Secretariat posts allotted by the governing council of the United to citizens of the United States to see Nations Special Fund, called on the how many communists held those jobs. United States to contribute $463,000. Some 200 Americans employees of the

Attempts to learn from the U.N. if the U.N. suddenly resigned and were not !" United States had paid or was going to "After this. I'll get the frozen foods mysell required to testify. Seventeen who were pay this money were unproductive. If a THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE brought before the Committee refused guess may be hazarded — we will pay. to answer questions about Communist The case of Red China was mentioned help but they had to show "initiative." Party membership, and. under pressure, earlier, and reference was made to pres- Unless there has been a drastic change Trygve Lie dismissed them. But in 1953 sures being exerted to seat that nation in of policy, however, this means only that the U.N. Administrative Tribunal ruled the U.N. It is no secret that much of the they will have to show enough initiative that they should not have been dis- pressure comes from Great Britain. Lord to ask for help. missed; it awarded them heavy damages, and Home not long ago laid it on the line Since our foreign aid is dispensed on ordered them rehired. when he advised us to wake up to "the the premise that we do not insist on any- There may be some question about facts of international life" and accept thing in return, the beneficiaries can. these people and what they were doing the inevitable by allowing Red China and do. feel at liberty to take any posi- at the time of the Korean War. but the into the U.N. Certainly no one can action they choose in the U.N. They know record speaks for itself concerning what cuse the British of letting idealism in- they are going to get American money, the U.N. has not done about Korea since terfere with "the facts of international regardless, and if they happen to swing the war ended. At the time the commu- life" when trade and other matters im- over to the communist side they are nists attacked, the U.N. resolved that portant to the British are concerned. A likely to come up with something from North and South Korea would eventu- thriving trade exists between Red China the Kremlin to boot. However, the ally be reunited. Today, 1 1 years later, and Great Britain, and only recently it Soviet drives a harder bargain, Mr. the country is still divided; Red China was announced that Canada, also ex- Khrushchev being about as philan- is still at war with the United Nations, tremely tolerant of Red China, had thropic as a pawnbroker. and the Soviet Union, which organized, agreed to sell that famine-ridden country It might also be pointed out the wily directed and armed the invading red million $362 worth of grain. An addi- Mr. K. is also a good actor. Advocates armies, has not even been reprimanded. tional quantity of grain worth more than of the U.N. point to his shoe-pounding Later there was the Hungarian revolt million $100 was being sold to Red act in that body as proof that he is try- against communism. While the U.N. China by Australia. Obviously, what the ing to destroy the organization. As a stalled, doing nothing while the Hun- nations of the British Commonwealth do clincher they cite his demands that Dag garians won their revolution. Khrush- is their own business, even though the Hammarskjold be fired. If you study chev waited to see what the United grain deal helps to prop up a communist pictures of Khrushchev as he banged his States would do. We in turn waited to regime that is in difficulties because of shoe, you will find that he was having take our cue from the United Nations. its inability to feed its own people. How- no tantrum, as some seemed to think, When the U.N. did nothing, Khrush- ever, some skeptics cannot help but but was obviously enjoying himself. This chev brutally struck down a revolt for think that the U.N. figures in some of was not the action of a man calling for liberty that could have proved a turning these British deals, as another aspect of the end of the U.N. but of one who point in history. "the facts of international life." was expressing his contempt for the or- For more than a decade the United

Unfortunately, we no longer have ganization and the people in it. Nations has been passing resolutions or-

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1961 dering Israel to return to holders estab- sovereignty are the World Federalists It does not seem to worry those who lished the by U.N. -without result. It If our aim is national suicide, then are pressuring to push these measures also a resolution adopted calling for Is- the National Council and the World through that the World Court is headed rael to internationalize Jerusalem. This Federalists have the right prescription. by one Bohdan Winiarski, a jurist from

brought from David Ben-Gurion the re- That is evident from the way the votes Red Poland. Nor is the presence of tort: "Jerusalem will be international- are lining up against us on issues that Philip C. Jessup on this lofty bench re-

ized over our dead bodies.*' In 1 948 the have a powerful bearing on our national assuring. Jessup. it will be recalled, U.N. called on Israel to permit Arab security. At the present time, an insidi- played an important role in the mal- refugees driven from their homes in ous move is under way to give the U.N. odorous Institute of Pacific Relations. Palestine to return, but the reply was the power to intrude into our domestic If we expect to maintain our exist- a flat no. Nor are the Arabs any more affairs by extending the jurisdiction of ence, let alone our position of leader- amenable the to U.N. Nasser was or- the International Court of Justice or ship, it is high time that we stop taking dered to stop his blacklisting of Israeli "World Court," an organ of the U.N. the United Nations as seriously as we shipping in the Suez, but to date he has Only 38 nations automatically accept have up to now. We should rccogni/e. paid little attention. as the Soviet does, that the U.N. has its

When the Red Chinese moved into uses, and we should make use of it when Tibet, slaughtering its peaceful citizens its facilities can serve to advance Ameri- without cause, the U.N. viewed this bar- can aims. However, we should not per-

barism with the greatest equanimity. mit it to formulate U.S. foreign policy, And the dispute between Tndia and and we most certainly should not allow

Kashmir still goes on. it to get a foothold in our domestic af-

Little wonder that the U.N. is increas- fairs bv such devices as repeal of the ingly looked upon as an international Connally Amendment. debating society and a forum for mak- Since the beginning of the century, ing propaganda rather than as an effec- we have been embroiled increasingly in tual means of settling disputes. While world politics and conflicts. In helping this view may not be shared by speakers to establish the United Nations, our hope at PTA gatherings and at women's clubs, was that through this organization there it certainly seems to reflect the view of would be an end to conflicts. But while first-string diplomats since they usually the cry has been peace, the world has

ignore it when there are important prob- had a succession of blood baths, thanks lems to be solved. to the same communist clique which Soon after the U.N. was founded, in now sits in the conclaves of the United

1948. Stalin precipitated a crisis over Nations, and which is able to inject it- Berlin. At that time the West took the self increasingly into our affairs through

problem to the Securitv Council. Tt is that organization.

doubtful that the U.N. will even be called There is a basic fallacy in this which, on in the current Berlin crisis even if understood, provides a clue as to what

though Hammarskjold long ago made it "He's wobbling!!" we should do. It is assumed that the

clear that the U.N. wanted to be con- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE United States is so strong that it can not sulted. In the Laos crisis, too. the U.N. only defend but subsidize half the world.

had no part. Nor was it called on to This is obvious from the demands that participate in the nuclear test negotia- are made on us for military help and tions conducted at Geneva. that court's jurisdiction while the other economic aid. Yet we ourselves make

Since every possible avenue that might members of the U.N. may be made par- it appear that we are so weak that, un-

lead to peace is being explored by Presi- ties to World Court litigation only with less we are propped up by the United dent Kennedy, and was explored by their express consent. No Iron Curtain Nations, we are helpless. President Eisenhower before him, their country has accepted the compulsory The time has come to show that we actions would indicate a definite lack of jurisdiction of the court, even with res- not only have the strength and decision confidence on their part in the ability of ervations. The United States has up to necessary to assume once again the ini- the U.N. to do much good. Why a suc- now safeguarded its right to decide tiative in the world, but that we know cession of summit meetings on questions whether any case affecting American in- how to use them. We have seen the dele- that are the province of the United Na- terests shall be admitted to adjudication gates to the United Nations in action,

tions? Why did we send our diplomats by the court. Our safeguard has been in and it certainly is not chauvinistic to say to Geneva, at the instigation of the Bri- the so-called Connally Amendment. But that this nation can provide better lead- tish, to negotiate in a 14-nation confer- the internationalists are now working ership than seems to he available from ence on Laos when we had the U.N. diligently to repeal this amendment, that assemblage of global politicians here in the United States? A third ques- which would permit the World Court to This is not to say that wc ought to cut

tion, flowing from these is: If the United inject itself into our affairs and force loose from the U.N. and go it alone. Nations is not capable of doina the job. compliance with its decisions. At the To repeat, where the U.N. can serve our why bother with a United Nations? present time four measures arc up for national interests, let ns use the U.N.

Advocates of the United Nations consideration by the Senate Foreign Re- But let it not he the other way around,

answer this by saying that the only waj lations Committee which would serve to as it has been, with the U.N. using the in which the U.N. can function properly have the United States surrender sov- United States as a pawn. We can and

is to give it more power, and subordinate ereignty to the World Court. Two of must act like leaders, establish policies ourselves still further to the global body. these are Resolutions. One. Senate Reso- based primarily on what will be in the Such a view is currently beins advocated lution 39. is sponsored by Senators best interests of the United States of by the National Council of Churches Humphrey, Morse and Javits. Another. America— and then follow through on which, incidentally, also favors the ad- Senate Resolution 136. is sponsored by those policies without fear and without mission of Red China to the U.N. Also Senators Javits. Humphrev and Joseph compromise. in favor of giving still more of our Clark (D. Pa.). THF P.ND

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HOW I TAUGHT LAW EnforcemenT officers! SELF-DEFENSE AND | PRINTED ATTACK METHODS NAME & - 25' 500 ADDRESS LABELS 500 gummed economy labels printed in bhtk with TITANIA JEWELS are man-made gems that ATTACK AND DEFENSE tac tics as taught ANY name and address, 254 per set! In two-tone sparkle and glitter like the thing, real but by the author to law enforcement officers are plastic gift box, J54 per set. 5-day service. only cost $12 per carat. in 1-carat Titania shown in an easy picture way, complete with DE LUXE GOLD-STRIPE LABELS-SOO FOR 50c 14-kt. gold setting, 1-carat ring, S27; man's lifesize dummy. Shows how to protect your- Superior quality paper with rich-looking gold trim, $35. Write for ring size chart and name and address in black. Thought- 72-page self against an attacker. $1.98 ppd. Order printed with ANY color catalog. Regent Lapidary, gift; perfect for your own use. Set of 500, Dept. AL- from Informative Publications, Dept. LE-10, ful, personal IO, 511 East 12th, N.Y. 9. 504. In two-tone plastic box, 604. 48-hour service. 20 Branford Place, Newark, N.J. Walter Drake Two-ro/y/E nylon SEAT COVERS PULL HAIR DON'T FROM NOSE For that NEW LOOK in your car Alar Cause Valal liifc tlioii • EASY TO tOQfl Vst the Rotating INSTALL $ #30 ea. Kl IPFTTF • ppd- DURABLE, im KM U.S. PAT. OFF, WASHABLE or CO D. You can cause serious In Dresses up your car's in- feet ion by pulling hair So Simple! terior. Washable, gives • i from nose. Ordinary Just turn end. Surplus your upholstery long- sors are also dangerou hair comes out easily, and Impracticable. No lasting beouty & protec- gently. better way to remove tion. To install, simply fj hair from nose and eat slip over seats. In navy than with KLIPETTE Made from fine surgi- INSTANT GLAMOUR WIG will make it blue, green, tan and white combinations. Smooth gentle, safe, cal steel. Chromium efficient. Rounded easy for the gals to get ready quickly for any $2.98 for front split, or front or bock solid. Set $5.75 plated. Add 25< postage or sent CO D. points can't cut party. It's made of soft eelanese acetate, looks prick skin. Guaranteed to Satisfy or Money Bock like real hair. Platinum, White, Pink, Ice 10 DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE Blue, Grey Streak, Blonde Streak. Specify H0LLIS CO. 1133 Broadway, New York 10, N. Y. • Dept. K l Dept. J 1,2 31 SECOND AVE., Enclosed Is Sl.ou fir KLIPETTE. If 1 am not entirely choice. Each, S5.95 ppd. Guild. Dept. AL- eatlslied, I may return It within 10 days for refund. Novel Mfg.Corp NEW YORK 3, NEW YORK 101, 103 E. Broadway, X. Y. Name Address

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New Table Top Invention Puts You In . . PROFITABLE RUBBER THE STAMP BUSINESS Home Operators now make $9.20 AN HOUR in Busi- American ness once monopolized by ; a few big companies Special rubber stamps brinir high ^ prices — cost only pennies to make i on new, low-cost table top machine. 1 Take 27 cents worth of material, make perfect stamps, the kind businesses and offices now buy by the dozen at $1.80 each. Makeup to $9.20 an hour. Start in spare time in your own home. Run machine is fun for the en- machine on kitchen table using ordinary electrical outlet. LIE-DETECTO Make any kind of stamp. We'll Bend you free information tire family. It electronically registers emo- without obligation about this established, highly profitable tions, feelings and reactions just like a real business. We'll even help finance your start. For free information send name and address today on a postcard to: polygraph machine. Questions and instruc- with batteries, Rubber Stamp Div., 1 512 Jarvis Ave., Dept. R-8-L Chicago 26 tions included. Complete $13.45 ppd. Parade Fashions, Dept. AL-10. ~? OPERATING 1313 W. Randolph, Chicago, 111. LIVE-STEAM ENGINE • Safe dry fuel HOME SHOE SHINE STAND - mount • Educational— and fun brackets of this aluminum shoe holder to any surface and you'll be able to give your own tk. This precision made live-steam brogans a quick, neat, professional shine. engine will add Complete and ready to mount, it'll save you realistic power to money. $2.98 ppd. Jackson Products, Dept. any operating model. It develops a strong AL-10. 509 East 80th, N. Y. 21. l/30th h.p. at 1800 r.p.m. Boiler is drawn brass and fittings arc inly 8 solid bronze. Has hand- throttle steam whistle and grooved pulley wheel (easy to hook up power for your models) . Operates off safe dry fuel HISTORY COMES ALIVE as your child re- and stands some 10". German -made, and with fuel for creates great Civil battles this initial run. $S.I)5 ppd. Additional fuel —3 boxes for $2. War with complete Centennial Army Kit. Includes cannons, CHABON SCIENTIFIC confederate and union soldiers, 2 general's Dept. AL-3, 122 East 42nd St., N.Y. 17 caps, flags, etc. $9.95 ppd. Steves Toys, Dept. AL-8, 2500 Lightfoot Dr., Baltimore 9, Md. ACCORDIONS 'i OFF

S>V£ UP TO ' j OF F RETAIL PRICES OF COMPARABLE ACCORDIONS

importer 1 5- DAY FREE TRIAL T0Y0U! Buy DIRECT from world's largest GIANT DESK CALENDAR comes in black accordion dealer! Low Importer-to- or ivory leatherette case, gold-stamped with You prices. Over 30 models — finest Italian makes. New easier terms. your name. 12 months' calendar measures

1 1 Small down payment, 6 Day Home- 1 1 " x 9", keeps whole month's schedule play trial. Free Bonus Gifts tor State and color. $1 promptness. Trade-ins welcomed. always in view. name Mail coupon for FKKK colorcatalog! ppd.; 6 for $5 ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL- lOO Satisfaction Assured IO, 602 Spencer Bldg., Atlantic City, N. J. Corporation of America. Dept.A-lTP GET $1,000,000 CASH in authentic repro- Chicago Ave.. Chicago 22, III. ductions of Confederate money and a Col- color catalogs; lmportor-to-You Prices, onel's commission in the Confederate Army with I.D. card to prove it. Light cigars with $20 bills, be a big tipper, have lots of fun. $1.25 ppd. Confederate Mint, 364-A Main.

..stale . Curator W-26, East Orange, N.J. |

YOUR CHOICE! Exquisite "MASTERPIECE" Watch and Matching Accessory Sets for only $1095 complete! FOR EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN to introduce you to LEWIS CLARK, HIM INC., house of super values ! Magnificent golden-hued ONLY 2" LONG, this B-B Shot is a new and jeweled wrist watch with expansion band . . . memo pad powerful invention that shoots standard BBs. and pencil . . . ball pen and pencil set . . . deluxe lighter and size, it's always ready tie-bar cuff link set ... everything matches and is all yours Lightweight and pocket for $10.95. Your choice of gorgeous man's model or de- for target practice or to rout pests. Comes lightful lady's kit (instead of cuff link set, a charming and with dispenser, supply of BBs and target. practical key-chain flashlight for reading programs, find- $1.98 ppd., 3. $5. Grayson, Dept. B-35,

ing keys, makeup on darkest nights ! And 2 dainty ball 210 5th Ave., N. Y. 10. pens, glittering with sparkling simulated stones.) Watch backs of diamond finished stainless steel for long life,

comfort and quality ! Genuine Jeweled Swiss Movement watches guaranteed for 2 years against faulty work-

manship or materials ! free 10-day examination— refund if not delighted, limit four sets to customer - ideal

Christmas gifts !

LEWIS CLARK, Inc. DEPT. 210 Bush Terminal, Drawer 14, Brooklyn 23, N. Y. Rush postage-paid "MASTERPIECE" wrist watch sets.

I return in 10 days if not delighted for a full refund. Wrist Watch guaranteed for 2 years! MAN'S SET(S) @ $10.95 + $1.10 Tax-$12.05 ea* WOMAN'S SET(S) ®> $10.95 + $1.10 Tax-$12.05 ea*

$ . enclosed check or money order. RESTYLE YOUR OLD FUR COAT-Experl Name fur craftsman will restyle your old furs for Address just $22.95. Price includes remodeling, new interlining, cleaning, glazing and mon- City Zone State lining, "masterpiece" cift box of simulated ogram. Write for free illustrated style book COD'S: Send $5 deposit for each set ordered, pay $7.05 leather relief more than 40 different fashions to with genuine design of plus postal charges to postman on delivery. Same guarantees! showing magnificent beauty Morton's, Dept. AL-10, Washington 4, D. C.

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YOUR FAVORITE PHOTO REPRODUCED ON TILE SET IN WALNUT tepn J PHOTO TILES A NEW

GOLFER'S SCORIi CADDY is worn on FLINT LOCK TABLE LIGHTER is authen- your wrist, registers strokes for current tic replica of an 18th century dueling pistol. hole in lower u indow, total strokes for Pull the trigger and up comes a sturdy flame course in upper windows. Comes with to light your cigar or cigarette. Measures 10", • Book Ends pigskin band; gift-boxed in golden-tone has antique metal finish, black hardwood case. S2.98 ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL- frame. S6.45 ppd. Brownie House, Dept. • Jewelry Box IO, 602 Spencer Bldg., Atlantic City, N. J. AL-10, Ardsley, N.Y. • Cigar Humidor

Now, through an amazing new process, your favorite photograph, art illustration, children's drawing etc. can be permanently and faithfully transferred to ceramic tile, and the effect is remarkable. Try it, and it will become one of your permanent treasures! Send any negative, color or black and white photo, illustration etc. regardless of size. Tile is made and set into striking hand-rubbed, oil-stained walnut. Book Ends, 6 3Ax5", $35 pair; Paperweight, 3 3/4x3%xlV4", $15; Cigar Humidor, 10'/2x8x4V2", $35; Jewelry Box, 10x8x33/4", $37.50; Cigaret Box, 4V2x6x23'4". $20. All ppd.

LATEST IN A LINE of fine precision-made POCKET-SIZED home movie viewer is an CERAMI-GRAPHS, INC. is imported optics, this monocular small automatic 8mm viewer that gives 400X mag- Dept. AL-10, 1140 Broadway, New York 1 fit enough ( 2'V long) to into pants watch nification with standard batteries. Uses reg- pocket. No toy, it's a 10-power glass whose ular 50-ft. 8mm reels, has drop-in loading, size makes it ideal to pack on any trip. rapid rewind, self-lubricating gears, etc. Coated lens. $17.95 ppd. Arms & Weapons. Measures 8" x 4%" x 2". $9.95 ppd. Stuyve- Dept. AL-10, 125 East 41 St.. N. Y. 17. sant, Dept. AL-10, 130 West 42nd, N.Y. 36. MAGIC MAIL PLAN that comes with this Little Machine CAN MAKE YOU *522 AN HOUR Write today for free facts about the newest and operated busi- IlLUSTRATCD COUfCTGH S CUIDi most fascinating of all new home nesses. For the first time, a simplified machine brings the fabulous profits of UNITED STATES Plastic Sealing and Plastic Lam- inating within the reach of the small operator. Anyone can learn to operate it with a few minutes practice. Then —with our MAGIC MAIL PLAN—can get mail orders pouring in daily with cash in every envelope. BEST VALUES Ct :.: No Canvassing or Selling

Kill orders at home in spare time MONEY IN YOUR POCKET can be worth a lot more than its face value. What people don't to start. Then expand to full business. We even supply realize is that coins do not have to be old to be valuable. Thousands of dollars have been paid time to bring back cash The machine is turn- circulars for coins as recent as 1940 to 1956. For example, certain nickels issued prior to 1945 are worth for all ing out a job that will and orders. Rush name $6,000. certain dimes prior to 1946. $5,000, etc. Be careful not to spend pocket change that may bring operator $2. 58, the facts you need to start. A cost postcard will do. No charge. be worth more. The illustrated 1804 silver dollar is worth $9,985.50 and there are nearly 19,000 by mail. Material only 11c. of them unaccounted for. Is one yours? Catalog lists prices paid for all U.S. coins. $1 ppd. WARNER ELECTRIC CO. Best Values Co., Coin Dept. AL-10. 285 Market St.. Newark. N.J. 1512 Jar-vis. Dept. L S-L. Chicago 26, Illinois

Attention Electric Shaver Owners CLOSER SHAVES GUARANTEED TWICE AS FAST

Your electric shaver now works on alternating current (AC). PARKS SHAVER BOOSTER electronically converts AC to direct current (OC). For the first time, your shaver runs on full power. It's like using ethyl gas in your car. Shaving becomes easier and faster, with up to 88% more cutting FLEXIBLE SHOWER ARM — puts water PROTECT YOURSELF—Tiny Yoshie Ima- power! Fully Guaranteed where you want it. for Ideal showering chil- nimi says, "I can overcome a 200 lb. person The Perfect Gift . . . U%e with dren, eliminates the need of shower caps, yet I weigh only 93 lbs." Now she can show NORELCO • REMINGTON • SUNBEAM permits shampooing without showering. Use- you how with her secret Oriental system of SCHICK At shaver dealers or send $5 95 to 1 "1 for relaxing tired muscles, t its any regu- Yubiwa/.a in picture book form. Comes for 7421 Woodrow Wilson Drive lar shower. $5.95 ppd. Alexander Sales. Dept. $1.25 ppd. Precise Pubs., Dept. AL-10, 33 Hollywood 46. California — Dept. V AL-10, 140 Marbledale, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Lincoln, Livingston. N.J.

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1 10 regular 5 regular 1 10c centers. 15c centers Che American Xegion CIGAR SMOKERS

$ 33 WORTH OF OUR I $ j£ SMOKES BEST )

THIS IS A SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER! It's our way for you lo get acquainted with our big money saving cigar offers. You got $2.3S worth of our best smokes for ?1.00. These cigars are mild and highest quality selected tobaccos. One of these delightful smokes will surely be to your liking. These 4 handy packs include five regular 2 for r *J.jc Havana blend, five 15c and ten 10c cigars. You get a total of 'JO cigars for just $1.00. Try them and be convinced that here is top smoking pleasure combined at low discount prire. You even save state taxes. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE - We have been selling factory-fresh, cut rate cigars since 1919. If you don't enjoy them 100% return empty packs for refund of your $1.00. Send $1.00 today. We'll include our catalog too! ACT N'OW before offer is withdrawn. 12 GALGE SALUTE CANNON. This rugged CIVIL WAR wall map shows nearly 100 SILVER ROD SALES CO., Dept. 110 breechloader blasts out a terrific roar from a places, events and campaigns, gives complete 14 Journal Square, Jersey City 6, N. J. 12 gauge blank cartridge. Made in France of information on all. Brilliantly drawn, in 4 NOTE — Get Your Favorite Nationally Advertised Cigar at low discounted prices. FREE CATALOG lists them heavy iron, it's wonderful for starting races, colors, map has 8 side panels with paintings all. No matter what brand you smoke, save i up to 3rd. canonades, etc. Can be mounted on any car- depicting such as Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, YOU CAN GET $59 riage. 7" long. $8.45 ppd. Alexander Sales. etc. Measures 28"x32". $1. House of Maps. Dept. AL. 140 Dept. AL-10. 122 East 42nd St.. Y. 17. FOR ONLY 59 LINCOLN PENNIES Marbledale, Tuckahoe, N.Y. N.

is COIN COLLECTING is POCKET CALCULATOR figures for you, 4-PIECE LUGGAGE SET made from lols of fun and ma\ pay oft! never makes a mistake. Adds, subtracts and pressed chipboard, a new versatile and inex- This Lincoln penny album (SI) is worth $59.00 or multiplies to 99,999,999, helps keep cheek pensive material. Has laminated modern print more when properly completed. Some cents arc eas> book, expense account etc. Accurate, noise- inside, is light weight. Vanity ease is 8", to find, others harder to come by. till ALL ARE AVAILABLE! Eill 59 spaces with pennies (dates and less, lightweight, made of steel. Each, 98e; personal valet 10". overnight case 12", family marks found in album). Save other sets worth hun- 3 for $2.79 ppd. Spencer Gifts. Dept. AL- size 14". Complete $3.61 ppd. Honor House dreds of dollars. All information sent with 1st album IO, 602 Spencer Bid'.:.. Atlantic City. N.J. Products. Dept. VC-97. Lynbrook. N.Y. Send St to: HOBBIES UNLIMITED Box 488, Dept. AL-10 Hempstead. N. Y.

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with emblem labels ASPIRIN NEW 50 STAR FLAG T»8UTS 10 for $1.00. Postpaid A 1 CARAT DIAMOND costs $1000, yet a comparable selected 1 carat Capra is These self-adhering 2'/2 "xl%" colorful flag emblems Gem stick instantly to metal, leather, paper, wood, plastic, only .$27. Skillfully hand cut and hand pol- can easily TREMENDOUS SAVINGS on household etc. be removed without harm to property. ished, Capra Gems arc as dazzling as dia- Just put them on autos, luggage, bicycles, booK drugs are yours when yon buy direct from covers, house doors, gift packages. No glue necessary. monds. Priced within reach of all! Write for SEND CASH. or Foods Plus. Foods Plus buffered aspirin is CHECK MONEY ORDER tree booklet and easy pay details. Capra Gem, PROMPT DELIVERY only 49( per 100 (a nationally advertised SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Dept. A-101. Box 5145, Philadelphia 41. Pa. P.O. BOX 147 buffered aspirin sells for $1.23 per 100). MASAR CORP. R OCKVILLE CENTRE. L.I.. N.Y. Free catalogs. Foods Plus. Dipt. A-AL-1, 62 West 45th St.. N.Y.

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—1962 CATALOG AND DIRECT FACTORY PRICES GET INTO IMPOKT BUSINESS at home - To Churches. Schools. Lodges and all organizations. MONROE Folding Banquet Tables are nu n and women, can build up a profitable home import-export business. Free book. unmatched for quality and durability. New automatic locking, 20-year guaranteed leg "How to Import & Export." reveals how you assembly. WRITE FOR YOUR 1962 MONROE CATALOG. 40 pages in full color. Shows full can buy bargains ( see above ) abroad for line. 94 models and sizes of folding tables. Also chairs, choral and platform risers, table 400% profit sales to friends, stores, mail ordei and chair trucks, portable partitions. Our 54th year. Write for book to Mellinger, Dept. T310, 1717 Westwood. Los Angeles 24. Calif. THE MONROE COMPANY 69 Church St. COLFAX, IOWA )

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I he Talk of the Country — You can now buy diamond jewelry by mail direct from one of America's Well Known Diamond Cutters. Any ring mailed direct lor FREE 10 DAYS INSPECTION without

any payment, if references given. Even appraise it at our risk. Send lor FREE CATALOG. Over 5,000 styles $50 to $100,000 EMPIRE DIAMOND CORP., DEPT. 1-9 * Empire State Bldg., New York 1, N. Y. < NAME ADDRESS WEATHER PROOF COVERALLS are made of tear-resistant, light vinyl, give complete GROWS FAST — BLOOMS INDOORS protection against water, chemicals, dirt, etc. Slips over clothes in a jiffy. In small, medium BLOOMING TRAILING and large sizes with handy fold-away case. $4.48 ppd. Alexander Sales, Dept. AL-10, VINE 140 Marbledale Rd., Tuckahoe, N.Y. MADEIRA HANGING GARDEN KOCK 'EM — KOLL KM TOY can be a tun- 5 ael, a racing car, a seesaw, almost anything a Fast Growing Blooinimj Size Ma- imagination conjures up. 35" long, it child's deira Bulbs Already $J.49 provides action and exercise along with sta- Planted In Attractive Basket Complete bility and safety. Perfect for a rainy day. $2.98 ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL-10, For a lowly "greenhouse" of living color send for ttiis styrene 602 Spencer Bid"., Atlantic City, N.J. hanging basket that's already planted with 5 .small flowering size Madeira bulbs (Boussingaul- % tia .lust water rt Baselloides). mid 3 watch it grow ... indoors. (luick- the lovely tropical vines spill

, «. ...it almost to very floor with Afln0Y*l?AV'j Hi '"asses >.r heart-shaped green I'. nr.. 9fl*P7 r*»l -v' ->3 -1"^* BlOOmS with clUS- • " ls ot small, gay white fragrant * * ' v, Howls. I '.lightens' every home, ttf- tices, etc. Comes complete with bracket ready to hang. A tremen- SEND NO MONEY FRONTIER CABIN is constructed ot water- clous value at only $i.4!i. tally guaranteed. proof plastic, has sloping root, imprinted I'lNAL OFFICII to OUK readers. Order as many HANG- windows, shingle walls, nameplate that fits ING GAKDKNS as you like for only $1.4!) each or 2 for S2.89 . . . complete. If C.O.D. postage extra. Cash orders on door. Interior is approximately 23 cu. It., add 35c and we ship postage paid, lie satislied on arrival and it's big enough for 2 kids to play in. or return within 10 days for purchase price Any PERSONAL MEMO PAD lias 200 sheets of refund. S1.25 bulb not growing replaced free (year limit , 1 ppd.; 5 for $5.25 ppd. Novel Mfg.. crisp white bond paper, size 4 i"x5 i;", w ith MICHIGAN BULB CO.. Dept. FA- 1403 Dept. F-AL. 31 Second Ave.. N.Y. 3. Minr name and address at the top. Bound in Grand Rapids 2, Michigan handy pad form, it's wonderful for short notes, memos, orders etc. Just $1 .25 ppd. per pad of 200 sheets. 5 pads (any name or names), $5 ppd. Memo Pad. Box 591-A, Lynn, Mass. RUPTURE-EASER ft m (A PIPER BRACE TRUSS) / NEED I NEED TENDER TENDER LOV/NG Makes Life Worth Living LOVING CARE CARE FOR MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN T.M. Reg. U.S. Pat, Off. T f Pat. No. 2606551

I NEED TENDER LOVING CARE-Protes- sors teach it, doctors prescribe it and this zippered jacket of white fleece-lined cotton proclaims it loudly in wash-proof blue letter- Enjoy new freedom to run, swim, dance, ing. If you feel you need it, wear one. Sizes lift thing's! Work, play, sleep, even bathe wear- S, M, L. ppd. Greenland Studios. S3.98 ing Rupture-Easer. Soft, flat, groin pad holds reducible Dept. AL-10, Miami 17. f'la. inguinal rupture in place without gouging. No steel or leather bands! NO FITTING, merely adjust hack lacing Right or and leg straps, snap in front! Give measure around lowest Left side part of abdomen, state right or left side or double. Postage prepaid except C.O.D.'s. Delay may be dangerous! Order today. 10-Day Trial—Satisfaction or Money Back if returned postpaid in 10 days. $495 MILLIONS OF SATISFIED USERS PIPER BRACE COMPANY Dept. AL-10! 811 Wyandotte • Kansas City 5, Mo.

PIPER BRACE CO., Dept. Al l 01 , 811 Wyandotte, Kansas City 5, Mo.

Please send . . . RUPTURE-EASERS by return mail. Right Side $4.95 Left Side $4.95 Double $5.95 BOTTLE POLRER takes the guesswork out Measure around lowest part of my abdomen is INCHES of mixing drinks. Called "Auto-Magic," it's Enclosed is: Q Money Order Q] Check for $ Q cosh a precision-built unit that automatically dis- Send COD We Prepay Postage Except on COD's penses a 1-oz. shot every time. Adjusting Double (Note: Be Sure to give Size and Side when ordering) screw permits you to vary the size of the shot. $1.98; 3 for $5 ppd. Murray Hill $5.95 NAME House, Dept. AL-10, P.O. Box 251. Beth- ADDRESS page, N.Y. CITY AND STATE f MONSTROUS ! MENAGERIE %ht 2mcrican Xcgion

Spectacular collection of genuine, all different foreign postage stamps picturing weird and fascinating animals from Borneo. Russia, Sarawak and other far corners of the world. An exciting STAMPede of man- eating tigers, mammoth pachyderms, powerful bison, ferocious boars, leaping kanga-

roos, Arctic polar . . bears, savage gorillas . many others. Everything from alligators to zebras in this exotic display of wild animals. EXTRA! Big Bargain Catalog; information- packed Collector's Guide; other attractive ABSOLUTELY weird assort- IMPOKTED SCALE of stamp offers for free consideration. Send CRAZY-This MODELS Mercedes- 4" 10c for mailing. ADULTS ONLY! ment of pipes will actually pour a drink. Just Benz ( top ) and Ferrari racers are only attach it to your liquor bottle and causi a long, yet go 20 mph. Beautifully detailed, H. E. HARRIS & CO. Dept. L107, Boston 17, Mass. commotion when your friends see you really cars have micro-sensitive adjustment and dif- Rush my FREE Monstrous Menagerie stamps etc. pour through this involved plumbing. Loads ferential for precision steering, brake, free-

I enclose 10c for mailing expenses. of laughs, $2.98 ppd. Greenland Studios, wheeling, crash absorber, etc. $2.95 ppd. Name & Address Dept. AL-10. Miami 47, Fla. each. Set, $5.75 ppd. Lee Products. Dept. AL-10. 103 Park Ave.. N. Y. 17.

DASHING CONTINENTAL FLIGHT BAG ft IMPORTED WATER BUFFALO LEATHER

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Hoy, Where** My Order! word in. Suddenly she grimaced and an- "Hardy Softie" nounced that she had just bitten her tongue. Of waitresses I often state / love to watch the football champs, "My," cut in another member, "how did Without too much truth—stretching, And no rough weather spasm you ever catcli it? That though their beauty may be great, Of sleet or blizzard ever damps — F. G. Kernan They're still not very fetching! My icild enthusiasm. —S. S. Biddle I don't mind bitter winds that bloiv On Being !»«! iiiqnenf On rooters in the stadium Because my spirit is agloiv The reason why there are so many juve- As /though lit up by radium. nile delinquents in America today is because No wintry chills can make me quit their dads didn't burn their britches behind them. Before the game's decision; As bravely, dauntlessly I sit — Les Anderson And watch—on television. —Berton Braley Feminine Fury It takes an awful lot of time, What's My Line? At least a couple of hours or more, And then there's the guy who went into For her to get out all the words business himself. a She says that she's too angry for. for He bought tow truck —Curtis Heath and got a contract with a drive-in theater as the bouncer. —Lee J. Borden

flic Eternal Spiral Sweet Home If inflation isn't halted, what this country

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