The American Legion Magazine [Volume 50, No. 1 (January 1951)]

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Peter Van Scozza, this month's cover artist, Contents for January 1 95 admits that his painting won't excite too much comment in the warmer parts of the WARHORSE MULDOON AND THE VETERAN U.S.A. For those who live where the snow VOTE (fiction) flies, however, it will BY B. M. ATKINSON, JR 11 be only too realistic. Snow-belters know What happens when an ex-major runs for office. that the next picture in the sequence would DID THE A-BOIVIB DO ANY GOOD? show chains being put on, clothes getting BY GRETTA PALMER 14 snow-soaked and tem- Two men who were at Hiroshima give their answer. pers getting shorter. A fine way to end a New Year's Eve Party. WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT BASKETBALL GOONS? POSTMASTER: Please send copies returned BY FORREST C. ALLEN AND NAT HOLMAN .... 16 under labels Form 3579 An argument in print over the tall fellows. to Post Office Box toss. Indianapolis 6* Indiana. WHY YOU BUY BOOKS THAT SELL COIVIIVIUNISIVI BY IRENE CORBALLY KUHN 18 The American Leqion How the reds manipulate the book publishing business. Magazine is the official publicotion of The Ameri- can Legion and is owned THE WAY THEY PUT THEM UP! exclusively by The Ameri- FEELtfia difference can Legion. Copyright BY HANNIBAL COONS 20 1950, Published monthly Lakewood, Cal., shows the world how to build houses at 1100 W. Broadwoy, in a hut iy, in yours(aIp-SEE the difference Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for moiling at speciol rate of postage provided for in THE DEATH OF THE HOUSTON in your hair 1 Section 1 103, Act of Oct. BY J. KENDRICK NOBLE, JR 22 3, 1917, authorized Jon. For years the end of the cruiser remained the mystery. What a wonderful wake-up glow in your scalp 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- — when you use "Live-Aclion" Vitalis and the tion, $1.50. Entered as A THEATER IN YOUR HOME famous "60-Second Workout!" second class matter June

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The Legion's Tide of Toys is now under way. It should be completed before this January ends. You Can't Build Your Post Commander should have detailed information from the National Commander telling how it works, and by A Better Mousetrap! now your Post's participation should be well along. But just to play safe we'd like to give the ABC's of Tide of Toys right here letters can get lost, things can 'They're not the best-looking boarders because get fouled up, sometimes the word doesn't a man ever had," Hack Turner said get passed, and perhaps somebody came in late for one reason or another. Yet one day, ''and they've got awful tem- every Post should be in the act. Tide of Toys is Legion-sponsored. But pers. But Fve found it pays to have it is your Main Street's little Marshall *em around." Plan. We are going above the political friendship abroad on j level and sending Hack was talking about a family the human level. In short, we are sending toys, mostly from America's kids, to the of barn owls, nesting in his silo this kids of the war- torn countries of Europe year. Some folks believe those little and the Philippines. (West Coast States are also sanding clothes to Korea, and white-faced screechers kill chickens Puerto Rico's toy collection will go to and ought to be shot on sight. But needy kids right on the island.) We would like each American child Hack disagrees. who gives a toy to attach a message of friendship to the child on the other end. at State University they've "Up The position of your Legion Post in studied barn owls for years— and Tide of Toys is to supply the organization, the service and the information whereby never known one to eat a chicken. On the whole community can participate. The toys are not given by the Legion, the the other hand, a daddy owl will clean Legion serves the community so that it up around 300 mice a month. Farmers can give. Everybody who can help (be it in pub- that kill barn owls are throwing away licity, toy collection, hauling, packing or shipping) should be invited to serve and the best mousetraps known to man!'* made to feel an equal partner in the Tide, whether he is a Legionnaire or not. The From where I sit, when someone Legion initiated Tide of Toys last year, shows a prejudice against any group and through our service America sent 3 million toys abroad. The Legion accepts of animals or humans it's usually — the responsibility for planning and co- just based on misunderstanding. For ordinating and invites all to share the giving, the work and the credit. instance, some folks are plumb intoler- The way it works, each Post collects ant about those of us who enjoy an toys in its own town right after Christmas and sends them to a central U. S. shipping occasional quiet glass of beer. Get to point. really know us and you're liable to From there, the National Legion and CARE take over, along with ECA (the big find we're pretty good birds at that! Marshall Plan boys), and we mean they really put all the toys in the hands of the kids abroad who'll appreciate them most. If your Post does not have a copy of the National Commander's detailed instructions, by all means wire your De- partment Adjutant for all such information pronto. Packing and shipping must follow the one central plan. We can tell you a lot about collecting Copyright, 1950, United States Brewers Foundation the toys. Last year the schools were a g • The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 . .

great help. In thousands of schools a day was set aside for each child to bring a toy to school. Typically, a Legion committee simply asked the local superintendent of schools, or the separate school principals, to set aside such a day right after the Xmas holidays. Of course the prompt removal of the toys from each school building is an obligation of the Legion Post, which should supply a truck and handlers, or find a volunteer trucker and volunteer handlers, to haul the toys to your local toy-storage point (be it your Post or some other place) City-wide collection points were set up in many towns and cities last year. De- partment stores and police and fire departments served well. Some fire departments made a certain day early in January "open house day at the firehouse."

Each child who brought a toy and put it in the big collection box could examine the fire engines and the firehouse. Boy Scouts and Boys Clubs were en- listed in many areas last year to canvass for toys house by house. In many towns Legionnaires found merchants willing to give some unsold toys from their Xmas stocks to Tide of Toys, particularly those toys which were perfectly good but slightly shopworn. City-wide collections don't work too well unless local newspapers and radio stations are asked to cooperate well in advance, and are given detailed information as to methods and places of local collection. They did a grand job last year. Plenty of publicity has already been given Tide of Toys this year on the national level. Bing Crosby has been leading the way, as our honorary chairman, along with many of his colleagues in the entertainment world. But local publicity is vital. Folks who have heard Bing and his friends will be waiting for the local word. Here's Big enough for the job a check list of the major problems involved in a successful collection: 1. Publicity. 2. Collection points and methods. 3. Local central storage point, and haul- We live in a big country and it takes a big telephone age to it. to give service millions of people. 4. Crating and packing (in conformity system good to with national master plan) 5. Haulage to local shipping point, and The Bell System is equipped to handle today's more actual shipping. Pennsylvania led all Departments in toy important job because it has never stopped growing. It collection last year. New York was second. Any challengers this year? has kept right on building to make service better and

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ON BUYING VOTES The second statement, from the last para- graph, "In buying a freezer, get the big- I wish to congratulate you on the pub- gest one you can manage" is very much lication of the article in the November open to question. The Consumer's Re- number, / Saw Negro Votes Peddled, by Designed for industry, for professional search Annual Cumulative Bulletin, 1950- work, this light, beautifully balanced, Zora Neale Hurston. I think the story, orbital-motion, SpeedSander is rapidly 1951, says to buy as small a freezer as though in simple, everyday language, is . becoming a standard home appliance. possible to give convenience and to rent ji;'/y7 With its powerful electric motor and all- exceptionally well written, and is a most ball-bearing construction, anyone can the rest of the space at a commercial f-Jfyt^ powerful indictment of the damnable easily re-surface and refinish furniture, locker plant. There are many other / wJE^ woodwork, metal surfaces or walls. It practice, alarmingly on the increase, of ^ will quickly remove old paint, stain, or sources other than the manufacturer's buying votes with outright payment in enamel down to the bare wood or metal; will sand- sales books listed on page 41 of your paper to a "piano finish"; remove rust and corrosion cash, or in unfulfillable promises—whether or "feather edge" a scraped fender. It will burnish October issue, and they all tell a some- to Negroes, laborers, farmers, or any other pots and pans or with lambs wool bonnet, delicately what different story from the advertising polish fine furniture. It makes tedious, tiresome group. Also the main illustration tells the jobs fun — saves hands! In design, convenience and of some who are looking to sell a freezer. sordid story in a graphic way. . . . efficiency it is today's finest sander regardless of I would strongly advise Kitty York to price. Ask your local dealer to demonstrate it. J. V. Athey, M.D. pay a visit to the local public library, Bartlesville, Okla. WRITE FOR where there are on record the views of I have just read the article by Zora many independent laboratories that have \ Neale Hurston entitled I Saw Negro Votes looked into this home freezer business, y MANUFACTURING CO. Peddled, in the November issue. and found only one thing: that home 1868 So. S2nd Ave., Cicero 50, Illinois That this contemptible article is untrue freezers are luxuries for most, and a con- is not questioned for a moment by any- venience only, not a saving, to own. LIVE LONGER one who knows Miss Hurston's record Don Kuntz for lambasting her race. This included Logansportj Ind. her campaign on behalf of former Repre- Statistics show that annuity in- sentative George Smathers, who recently vestors enjoy greater life ex- COOK WELCOMES SHORT-CUTS pectancy. They have no fears defeated Claude Pepper in the Florida Who wants to spend five hours simmer- or worries. Regular Income Is race for the U. S. Senate, which was won ing green beans or a whole sim- assured. They are blessed by primarily on a platform of white su- yet day me!! per Mrs. participating In Christian work. premacy. mering soups? Not (as Oliver Sturgis, Belleville, 111., in Novem- Miss Hurston can be dismissed as rela- Trouble and hunger over the world tively unimportant, though one ber Sound Off!) Give me all the short cuts Is your opportunity. What better ad- wonders — all the "machine-mixed concoctions to ministrator of your bounty can be how any member of a group struggling as which you add water and slam into the found? The Salvation Army Is world wide. hard for acceptance as the Negro is forced oven" — the packaged mixes and by all Why not protect your money, save worry to do, could sink so low as to write such as well as tax and legal trouble, and means the pressure cooker and fryers, etc. despicable lies. . . . sweeten the remaining years of life by pur- (Name Witheld) Welcome, every one! The day has come chasing NOW a housewife is longer chained Tuskegee Institute, Ala. when the no

to the kitchen stove. . . . Don't we house- wives deserve a bit more than the tedious HOME FREEZER LOWDOWN SALVATION ARMY task of "baby sitting" for a pot of "sim- Kitty York, in the column Pack Up mered all day" green beems or soup??? Your Cooking Problems, has swallowed Mrs. R. J. Hatzenbihler some questionable propaganda put out by Center, N. D. Income Gift Contract freezer manufacturers, along with excellent information on the convenience of "THAT MAN BUDENZ" fnvesfigafe >h/s worthy, noble using frozen foods. plan. Mail coupon below. It Two main points are not in agreement I am not a veteran, merely a secretary, may mean many added years with the facts. It is inferred that there but my brother-in-law is a subscriber to of happiness for you. are big savings to be made by buying at your magazine and when he gets through the right season to take advantage of low reading it he immediately passes it on to prices. That is true only if the cost and me, knowing how much I enjoy it. THE SALVATION ARMY upkeep of the home freezer are entirely My reason for writing at this time is to Extension Secretary 7 19 N. State St., Dept. AM- 1 1 disregarded. The Department of Agricul- congratulate you on your recent article ChicaEo 10, III. In South: 54 Ellis St., Atlanta 3, Ca. ture, in Marketing Frozen Foods, Facili- That Man Budenz. I agree wholehearted- Please send me free Information on Salvation Army Income Gift Contract (Annuity) and free copy of Illus- ties and Methods, in the chapter "Home ly with the opinions and thoughts ex- trated brochure "City of Refuge." Storage Facilities," states that "there is a pressed by your reporter. I was just com- Name chance of the housewife offsetting month- menting to friends the other day that I Address ly power costs . . . and perhaps even was curious over the "hard time" they <-'ity Zone. amortizing the freezer through savings." were giving Mr. Budenz. Your article hit Lirth'Iay (Month, Day, Year) .... In other words, you might break even. me when I v/as feeling most strongly on

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the subject. Hats off to you for the cour- of brass-plated jokers who turn a good age you showed in printing the truth. principle into a bad use, not only through Nancy Lucian the person of Parnell Thomas, who NEW, MIRACLE Bradford, Pa. afforded Russia some wonderful propaganda, but through many other activities Clarence Woodbury's article on Louis of the committee. Budenz in the November issue of the ELECTRONIC EAR The issue of whether they have served Legion Magazine was very gratifying. The America well or not is at the very least, easy manner in which the article was highly debatable. You have presented it written bespeaks the truly objective HIDES DEAFNESS with the least objectivity I have ever seen approach Mr. Woodbury took on his in an article. It is flatly untrue that only (Special) amazing subject. CHICAGO, —An pro-communists criticize this committee. new electronic ear which hides deaf- It is most unfortunate that many per- The federal judge who sentenced Parnell ness and transmits even whispers sons, despite their high rank and educa- Thomas surely was not a communist. with startling clarity, has been re- tion have not learned, first and foremost, Rev. Ward McCabe vealed by a noted Chicago electronic fully inform themselves before they to Harrisonburg, Va. scientist. speak. The result, naturally, is that men He disclosed that this miraculous of Budenz's caliber have to suffer much new discovery has rendered old- HOW ABOUT THAT? style hearing aids obsolete almost abuse and slander. . . overnight, and brings new hope to Philip S. Lanasa It's nice to see that the ladies finally the 15 million persons in the United Clyde, N. Y. rate a spot in your magazine. There are States who are hard of hearing. Your November issue carried a story by thousands of us who are true Legion- He reported that this electronic with- Clarence Woodbury called That Man naires, so I'm glad we're getting a page ear enables the deaf to hear out any button showing in the ear Budenz. Mr. Woodbury undertakes to show each month. and without dangling battery wires. why of Valeria Hardy some the smears directed against To acquaint the hard of hearing Budenz are not justified. U.S.S. Jacob Jones Post readers of American Legion with In that regard he may be quite right, Washington, D. C. this new miracle electronic ear but it seems to me, he misses the point which hides deafness, full details are described in a fascinating book- of the whole story. For ten years, not only CIVIL DEFENSE PLUS UMT during the period of the People's Front, let, "New Discoveries to Help the Deaf Hear." It will be sent free in but also during the period of the Nazi- Referring to the article We Are Wide a plain wrapper to anyone who Soviet Pact, Budenz remained a loyal and Open To Attack, in the September issue requests it. Address: Electronic trusted of the Legion Magazine, by Commander communist party worker. He Research Director, 1450 West 19th can't excuse himself on the plea of ig- Craig, we all say "Amen." Street, 1051 Beltone Building, three living in norance, since he is an intelligent and We veterans our "bache- Chicago 8, 111. A penny postcard lors' apartment" are in agreement (for well informed man. . . . His loyalty was will do. to a foreign power all through the war once) that the realization of our imminent in which my buddies I danger should be conveyed to all, and and served. SELL I don't like a working Civil Defense instigated. AMAZING VALUE guys like that and smear or 21 for $1.00 ALL-OCCASION no smear, I don't see why he, or people We rest assured that "Our'" American GREETING CARD ASSORTMENT Legion will lobby unrelentingly to this like him, should be elevated to a high Take easy orders from friends. No place in or outside end. oxporicnce needed. Bi;; profits. the Legion. What's Bonus. Request FREE TRIAL out- more, if you want expertness on the com- If only all other citizens in our society, fit of Feature All-Otrasion assortments on approval, FREE samples munist party, you don't have to go to besides Legionnaires, could read this Name Imprinted Stationery, Nap- kins, Towels, FREE Scllin:; Guide article. . . . Budenz. Gitlow, Hook, Lyons, and the and Surprise Gift Offer. Act Now' NEW ENGLAND whole crowd of us who organized the Lt. (jg) T. O. Tostlebe ART PUBLISHERS North Ataington 412-J, Mass. Committee for Cultural Freedom against USNR-O (Pacific Theatre) both the commies and fascists in the late QMSl/c Robert Fulwiller VSNR V6 (Pacific) 30's did the same then. . job . . Sharpens Frank N. Trager S-Sgt. William A. Hurt ^ Riverdale Memorial Post Air Corps Reserve (ETO) MO^ Riverdale, N. Y. Ashland, Kentucky 1,000

TWO SIDES TO TRIBUTE TO SGT. YOUNGER per THE DRAFT Season I am a vet who was drafted just before I have just finished reading Known But the end of World War II. Regardless of To God by Mancel Talcott in the Novem- in spare time this fact I served 15 months with the ber number and consider it one of the fin- with the Army, 10 of them in Germany. est articles I have ever read. I have heard FOLEY II This June I was graduated from col- of the selection of the "Unknown Soldier" lege and now find it difficult to get a job from several sources among the officers LAWN MOWER SHARPENER because Congress is considering the draft- present at the time, but there was that "I have sharpened over 10,000 mowers in my Foley Lawn Mower Sharpener in the last 10 years — only ing of vets under 26. I "Little don't think it's Something" in this article seldom repairs needed were new belts." — Charles H. Smith. right. found in any publication. From Ralph Rand — "The first month's business paid for my machine." The Sergeant Foley sharpens all sizes and Richard L. Shaw Edward F. Younger, the rep- types of mowers in 15 or 20 minutes Beaver, Pa. resentative of the Army selected for the (with handles on). Prices run from $1.50 to $2.00 for hand mowers, ond $5.00 honor of designating the Sol- "Unknown to $8.00 for power mowers. This is the dier" way to moke money — 99« out of each DOESN'T LIKE THAT from the six selected prospects, was COMMITTEE dollar you take in is profit! one of the finest soldiers I have ever I have joined the Legion just recently. known. FREE BOOK — "How to Sharpen Power He served in my battalion (1st Mowers" wltti tile Foley Lawn Mower The Legion Monthly is a shock Stiarpener. Prices S97.50 to S159.50 — and a Bn., 9th Inf., 2nd Div., AEF) in 1917-18 easy payment terms available. FREE PLAN disappointment. For sliows how to start. Mail coupon today — example its story and afterwards was on duty at the Head- no .saiesman will call. The Men The Commies Hate Most. Just quarters of my battalion (2nd Bn., 50th what do .U.I.lWlj.JjJ.II.1.1 you take your readers for, any- Inf., A. F. in G.) at Mayen, Germany in how? All of us certainly agree with the 1920-21. A finer soldier could not have principle of genuine efforts toward com- Send FREE BOOK and FREE PLAN on the Foley Lawn been chosen for this honor. . . . Mower Sharpening business. munist control. But many of us feel that Albert T. Rich most of the members of the Un-American Colonel, U. S. Army, Retired committee have turned out to be the kind Maiden, Mass.

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American Cancer Society bals. And, friend, since you may run a veteran for office sometime, I'll tell you how these cannibals operate. FRIEND, veterans are fine people. I Joe Bradley and the organization love 'em. I'm proud of 'em. BUT boys can't get any of the old pros to —and I can't make this too strong run against Sam Gaines in the pri- — I don't ever want to run another one mary, so they draft my boy Major for Governor again. Muldoon. The major is a big lawyer, After what I've just been through a two-war veteran and doesn't really with Major Humphrey Warhorse Mul- have but one political drawback. He's doon, I would rather run Molotov for a notoriously honest man, which Mayor of Oak Ridge. The major and naturally gives Joe and the boys the I discovered something about our fel- creeps. low veterans we didn't especially care Well, as my public relations busi- for. Namely, some veterans are canni- ness always kinda dehydrates in the

1^ (continued) put away her brass knucks where Ed tell him about my chat with Red but Hicks (that's me) is concerned. he doesn't even quiver, so I start in Warhorse iil«1ooii About the third day on the road, on the list of things Red called him. And theVeteranVote though, I begin to think that maybe "Don't tell me," he growls. "Let me she's just having them replated. We're guess. I was a nasty, foul tempered at the Reid Hotel in Brownsville and power-drunk, rank-pulling, evil old summer time, I sign on as campaign I see that the Courier, the big state man. Right?" manager. With the machine Sam has, paper, runs its third straight picture "Well, translated from the original our only hope is to give Muldoon the of the Warhorse taking on feed. Not profanity that's what it boiled down warrior-statesman build-up. We label even Esther Williams looks good lun- to," I say. him the Warhorse and turn him loose. ging at a fork full of something, so I "Edward, I guess it really was a He's a natural ... a Patrick Henry, drop down to Red Daniel's room. He's shame the way I treated poor Red in twice as fat and four times as sassy. their photographer and making the the army. Before the war I think I He starts running all over Sam, aided trip with us. had maybe one drink with him. I some, of course, by the rumor we start I know how sensitive photographers bought. Four or five times a year we'd that Sam as Agricultural Commis- are about their art, so I am very deli- speak to each other on the street. Real sioner has twenty-five thousand dol- cate in my approach. He ain't the least bosom buddies, you know. Well, the lars of the farmers' money rustling bit delicate. He says he knows that war came along and Red wound up a in his rompers. the pictures make the Warhorse look private in my Guard outfit. The Times runs a poll about three like a bear pig just coming ofif a hun- "Then, just because I was a major, weeks before the primary that shows ger strike. That's the way he wants you know what I did? I made him the Warhorse off by himself and wing- 'em. He says he served four years stop callmg me 'Humpy.' Imagine that! ing. All we've got to do is make a under the Warhorse in the Army and I also told him that if he couldn't stoop two-week swing through the State he ain't figuring on doing a stretch to saluting me not to bother about blasting Sam to the farmers and we're under him as a citizen. waving at me. Or whistling at me in. I figure that Lady Luck has finally He says such nasty things about either. Now can you blame the boy him that the only way I can quiet him for resenting such cavalier treatment?" down is to promise to feed him that "Warhorse," I say, "this ain't any ." Brownie camera piece by piece if he joke. Those pictures . .

takes any more tonsil art with it. I "Edward, I love those pictures. They leave his five feet, six inches quiver- give me an earthy look. God knows, if ing with i-age and head for the War- I can carry the earthy vote in this horse's room. He's dressing. With 240 State that's all I ask." pounds to drape, it's quite a project. I That's the trouble with amateur

"MULDOON was too fat to get under the jeep; what stuck out got wounded"

If politicians. They're not sen- on a bad tube but he sitive enough. An old vote- finally breaks down. getter would have been "Mister," he says, "I was "foul" all over the in Headquarters Com- screaming ILLU&TRATED BY Gullet," pany for three years and place. "Okeh, Glamor JOnil McDERMOTT I tell him, "but let's get this it seemed like all I did /'' straight. This State is full of was dig foxholes for the your former followers. Do thej^'really fat man. I know majors had more im- love their old commander Ji'ke you portant things to do than dig holes said or are there more atjjsliome like but I was digging him five or six a Red?" / day every day. He had mole blood in He draws himself u|^**sucks in his him. And he wanted them holes cus- stomach and says y0y reverently: tom built too. 'Dig 'em deeper, Jack- "Edward, I was known as Golden Calf son, dig 'em deeper. They ain't near Muldooh. They worshipped me, boy." deep enough.' Well, Joe an# the Warhorse and I "Now he really wasn't a bad fellow are still wrangling over the pictures but just the sight of 'im up there made at breakfast, when George Lewis, our my po' back start aching all over ." sound man, comes in. He says some- again. I couldn't . . thing has gone wrong with his equip- "Jackson," I say, "here's the twenty ment. That really tones up my system. we owe you and an extra five to for- Greenburg, our next stop, is one of get all the excavating." Sam Gaines' strongholds and the War- "Thanks," he says. "I ain't told any- horse will have to have plenty of vol- body about it except Red Daniels, the ." ume to do any good. I call ahead and photographer. Him and me were . . tell our boys there to round up some- That's just dandy. I go over and get thing quick. in the car with Joe and the Warhorse. When we get there, a big, gawky, "Edward," he says, "just who was sandy haired kid in a G.I. shirt has operating that sound machine? Sam speakers rigged up in front of the Gaines' mother?" court house and a mike set up on the "Don't worry about it, Warhorse. top step. There's a big crowd on hand. You've really got the earthy vote tied "Now will you stop bleeding?" Joe up now." I want him the learn for growls. "Everything's lovely!" himself just how he stands with his Yeah, everything's lovely all right. war buddies. Warhorse's speech ain't anything but The first he knows about it is when a running fight with the sound equip- we pull into Hawkinsville around six ment. Every time he tries driving a o'clock. The kid peddling the evening point home there's a screech or a Times out in front of the hotel is roar in the speakers that drowns him screaming: "MULDOON, THE MOLE, out. PUT IN ANOTHER HOLE!" "And what did I tell the power com- It makes an awfully coy, awfully pany? I said wheeowowowV . . . "Elect nauseating little front page feature. me governor and I pledge you that I "By God!" the Warhorse roars, "By shall arroooowovooweeeee' . . . "So, God, a man risks his all for his coun- my friends, when you go to the polls try and they begrudge him a hole to remember to scrachwowoweeevoo- put it in. I needed holes. I needed wooooo! ' If Lincoln had swallowed a 10,000 holes. I needed a portable hole. whistle right before the They ought to build a Gettysburg Address, the subway for me!" result would have been "Why?" I ask him. about the same. "Why?" The Warhorse gets a "Edward," he says, great hand, though. The "You know Frederick J. folks think he's another Peabody, don't you? The Milton Berle. That's fine, most stupid, the most but who wants Berle for monumental ass of our Governor? While he goes time. Well, Lieutenant through his hand-shak- Colonel Peabody was our ing routine I drop over battalion commander and for a little chat with our he was positive that he sound equipment pixie. was going to be our regi- "Junior," I snarl, "just mental commander. He what outfit were you with "ALL I DID was 'dig fox had old General Wright, during the war?" holes for the fat man" our division commander, "Why, I was one of the completely buttered up major's boys," he stammers "Him and bamboozled. Well, one morning ." and . . the general jeeps into our area. He "By God, I thought so! What'd you says he's been looking the place over have to mess him up this way for?" and we've got to move farther up the He tries blaming all the screeching ridge. (Continued on page 42) '

When the flash came the plane was heading right into the sun, f^' but the liehtlight was soso<' blinding the sun was ; completely blotted out D0

Experts who never got within a thousand miles of the5 A-bombA-boii have been

answering this question since August 6, 1945. Here is an answer by

two men directly involved in this epochal event

By GRETTA PALMER

HERE WERE YOU on the evening Recently, in a New York hotel room, I of August 6, 1945? Where two men met for the first time. To the were you when you heard question "Where were you on the the news from Hiroshima? morning of August 6th?" they had I It is a question every American old the same answer to make: enough to hear the radio five years "Hiroshima! In the plane that ago can answer. Where were you when dropped the bomb," said Captain the A-bomb dropped? Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the his- 14 tolic B-29, the Enola Gay. "Hiroshima! Breakfasting in the Rectory of our church," said Father Hubert F. Schiffer, S.J., one of the few European victims of the bomb. FATHER SCHIFFER and Robert Lewis study a map of Hiroshima brought from "For five years I have looked for- Japan by the priest who, at the time of the blast, was only eight bloclis from its center ward to meeting someone who saw it from the ground," said Captain Lewis. "I have wanted for five years to meet someone who was in the plane," said Father Schiffer, a German Jesuit priest so badly injured by the explosion that he was able to leave his sickbed only after many months. "And you are all right now?" the American captain asked. "Oh, there are ten or fifteen radio- active glass splinters in my back they

lere was no warning, not even 1 the sound of the plane. Sud- denly the world went white

THIS IS WHAT the A-bomb did to that part of Hiroshima in which Father Schiffer lived. In the foreground can be seen the ruins of the Assumption of Our Lady Church

work in Japan. Robert Lewis is per- managei' Heide, Inc., sonnel of Henry Model of the shrine for the New York candy firm. Both, then, peace being erected at the are in the field of labor and its rela- center of the bomb blast. tions. Both of them have also strong convictions as to the need of peace in the world today, and both hope that the bomb itself will prove an instru- still don't dare remove," the young ment for bringing the dread of war priest shrugged. "Don't let that worry so close to statesmen's hearts that you." peace will be assured. "Well," said the pilot, "it doesn't But the two survivors of Hiroshima make me feel too good!" share smaller and more intimate The two men whose fates were so memories. That odd taste when the oddly linked are both in their early bomb went off, for instance. Neither thirties. The priest is here studying of them could describe it; neither of labor relations at Fordham University, them had found anyone else who preparing for his return to mission shared that (Continued on page 37)

15 \KAISE the Baskets I

says Forrest C. (phog) Allen

"Phog" Allen, basketball coach of the University of Kansas, has for years advocated raising the baskets to 12 feet. Here he tells why this should save basketball from the giants

Mhe beanpoles have captured the game of basketball! The seven-footers v^ho tower over normal-sized players like oil derricks above scrub pines find it so easy to dunk the ball into the basket that they are making a farce of a game that once demanded speed, agility and a Dan'l Boone shooting eye. If anyone has the delusion that tall players are not increasing the nation over, I suggest an examination of the rosters. Picking an example at random, I saw 19 players six feet, four inches or over who took part some months ago in the all-college tournament at Oklahoma City. Twelve of these men were six feet, five inches or more. I am advised there are 25 stand-out players in the nation this year who are six feet, eight inches or taller. Today the tallest team is usually the winning team. In basketball right now a little man has about as much chance of taking the ball away from a big man as Jack would have had getting to the top of the beanstalk if the rules had prevented him from climbing it. And right there is the chief source of trouble: The Rules. Now when it comes to the subject of changing the rules I'm known as a talkative, crotchety old geezer who yammers on for hours, like great grandpa telling how he chased the Bluecoats at Bull Run. Maybe so. I'm the first to admit that I get a little edgy when I run into the basketball mogul's pigheaded reluctance to experiment. But — crotchety old geezer or not — it is pretty obvious that basketball has come to a very unhealthy state when the most cele- brated players of the game don't even have to throw the ball through the hoop. They are second^story Peeping Toms who deposit the ball in the meshes like a man dropping pennies into a piggy bank. The remedy is simple: Raise the height of the basket. Make the big boys get in there and hustle for their points. Their height will still give them an advantage over the little boys, but it will not be the single most important asset in the game, as it is today. Of course, every time I make this ( Continued on page 48) 'NO/OpenUp i99 the Giame .

says Nat Holman

At City College of New York, Coach Nat Holman has consistently produced championship basketball teams with comparatively small players.

Currently City College is undisputed national champion, having won both the NCAA and National Invitation tournaments. Holman admits tall men spoil the game under present rules, but disagrees with his friend, Phog Allen, on what should be done

Raising the baskets would seriously penalize the little fellow and would tend to accentuate the advantage in reach of the taller player. Why legislate against the small, or medium-sized, boys in order to restrict the maneuvers of the giants? That's cutting off your nose to spite your face. Maybe it's because the game of basketball was born here in America and is, strictly speaking, a home-grown product, that we coaches are constantly worrying about it and shouting for rule-changes "before the sport is ruined." We've been viewing with alarm for the last 25 years and, I think, the game is better for it. If we seem to over-magnify the game's ills, it's because we know we are the fellows who must cure them. The chief cause of coaching complaints and many frantic proposals at each meeting of the rules committee is the player with unusual size, the fellow who measures six feet, four inches or more in his stocking feet. We've even pinned a rather un- savory name on him — the "basketball goon." He's been our No. 1 target for nearly 20 years and we're still sniping at him. He's the fellow who gives us nightmares the evening before our team has to face him; he's the player we dream of having on our side. The tall man is not exactly a basketball phenomenon of the last two decades. I remember playing against Stretch Meehan, a six-foot, seven-inch giant, when I was with the Original Celtics in the early 20's. The Celtics' own Joe Lapchick, now coach of the New York Knickerbocker professional team in the National Basketball Association, was a tall player even by present standards. But no one talked of their ruining the game in the old days. They may have been able to control the center jump, used after every goal until 1938, but they were no problem around the baskets. They stayed away or got trampled on. Phog Allen, who started out in this { Continued on page 46)

17 Why you Buy books THAT Sell communism Books for Americans Working as editors or critics, or even just as salespeople, The commies have done their hest to keep these books out of your hands. commie-minded people manipulate the book business to promote Demand them, buy them, read them!

books written by their soulmates and kill off opposition books.

By IRENE CORBALLY KUHN on Monday. So of course she had ordered it. It must be a very important book, she continued, and she was DAY RECENTLY, Smith I NE John planning to read it hei-self. (a) went into a Manhattan John Smith could be anybody. These >tice bookstoi-e and asked for a two experiences have been duplicated copy of Seeds of Treason, the compre- with other books in other cities and hensive, objective study of the per- towns for a good many years now. jury trials of Alger Hiss. The clerk, They represent only two techniques without looking up, said they didn't in the communist master plan that carry it. Why? She shrugged her embraces every known means of in- shoulders. How should she know? fluencing and dominating the human They just didn't carry it. Not for sale mind. and not in the lending library. What In what that courageous long-time about that other book: the one by the fighter against communism, author fellow that Senator McCarthy got be- Eugene Lyons has called "The Red fore the Ty dings Committee? Decade" — the 1930's — the People's or "Oh, you mean Professor Owen Lat- Popular Front phase of communist timore's Ordeal By Slander. Sure. Just activity outside Russia achieved phe- a minute!" She fell over herself in her nomenal success. Our own American eagerness to haul out a fresh copy. Popular Front, though never officially "Such a wonderful man! It's a mar- in power as it was in France and velous book. You'll be so glad you briefly, in Spain, bored deep into the bought it!" federal government and penetrated in Smith was impressed by her sales- various degrees the labor movement, manship but after leafing through the education, the churches, youth move- book, he left without buying it. The ments, the theatre, movies, the arts, next day. Smith had some business in publishing in all its branches. At its a small suburban community. He highest point, about 1938, the Comin- wandered into one of those pretty little tern (it's now the Cominform), as the greeting - card - gift - shoppe bookstores international communist organization owned and run by a middle-aged was known, had mobilized the delib- widow, used to better days. The shop erately conscious or the starry-eyed is her complete livelihood and she has innocent collaboration of thousands of to buy carefully so as not to be caught influential American educators. New with a stock she can't sell. All this Deal officials, social workers. Social our man Smith learned quickly. He's Registerites, novelists, script writers, a friendly soul, the shop wasn't busy, directors, publishers, editors and the and the owner was glad to have some- literati generally. Each phase of one to talk to. American life and activity could be No, she didn't have Seeds of Trea- explored almost endlessly for proof of son, either. Why? Well, she depended the success of this sinister foreign on the book review sections in the propaganda that has but one aim: the New York papers, the Tiines and the destruction of free, capitalist society Herald Tribune, mostly — and the re- and the conversion of thinking, inde- viewers in those papers hadn't seemed pendent men and women into plodding to think much of the book. She guided mindless slaves. her purchases of books, especially re- It is with but one phase of this in- orders, by what the reviewers said. tellectual cuckoldry of the Kremlin She felt the "experts" those big im- that we can deal in this article — the portant newspapers chose to review penetration of the book-publishing for them knew more about books than field and its essential attribute, liter- she did. ary reviewing and criticism. And in John Smith listened. Did she have order to explore two sub-divisions of ' a copy of that other book — Ordeal By the master plan, we invite the reader Slander, by Owen Lattimore? Oh, yes, to return to John Smith and his ex- indeed, she had that in stock. The New periences with the clerk in the Man- York Times Sunday Book Section and hattan bookshop and the suburban the Herald Tribune both had given it widow. all of page one and space inside, too; Books are published to be sold as and both papers had reviewed it again merchandise, like shoes or sardines. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN POLGREN Ironically, (Continued on page 53) 19 DIGGER scoops out i'ouiulation in fit- FOUNDATION form crew follows ROW ON ROW of poured foundations await teen minutes, moves on to next site digger, cement mixer follows crew next wave of materials and building crews

The Way they

put them Up !

In the shadow of new credit controls California's a sudden nationwide demand for new houses that was so tremendous as to seem unquenchable. And the pressure Lakewood Park shows what liberal credit and mass proof this pent-up demand forced open the other doors. Credit restrictions duction can do to make homes for all. were loosened to make things the easiest in all our history for both builder and buyer. The building unions forgot many of their archaic By HANNIBAL COONS prejudices against labor saving methods. The resulting houses were so easily acquired that the buyers forgot their former stressing of individual A FTER A SLIGHT WAIT of Only 50,000 ways been by all odds a family's most whims. And the result was — houses. /\ years, we are finally beginning expensive purchase, and our insistence By the double jillion. to build houses as they must be on individuality has, more than any Our biggest example yet of this built if everybody is to have one — by other factor, kept houses expensive. revolution in housing is taking form the mass-production methods. And thus the vicious cycle of our at this very moment in a tremendous That is how we have long built our housing problem has gone on. former bean field on the southeast out- automobiles, our refrigerators, our Till now. Because since War Two skirts of Los Angeles. Los Angeles' radios, and practically everything else several things have suddenly con- new Lakewood Park is something to that we possess. If we had tried to spired to cause an atomic explosion in behold. build cars the way we have built our America's housing situation. First, We have already had Long Island's houses — first hiring a man to design with home building practically at a teeming Levittown, the vast projects one, then hiring other men to build it standstill during the war, but with of Paul Trousdale and others in Cali- almost entirely by hand — we would romance going forward at a merry fornia, and heaven knows how many still be going to work aboard a bicycle. pace, the end of the war found us with more tremendous spates of new homes A good part of our housing trouble has always been due to an odd per- versity. We are wildly happy to get a new car exactly like the one next EDITOR'S NOTE: Houses committed for parts of Mr. Coons' article seem to ignore construction before the the controls. door, but when it has come to a new new emergency new credit controls went into effect last The new controls will affect the 10,000 house, we have demanded that the October, could be sold after that date Lakewood houses still to be committed, closets be made this way, and the front without the higher down payments and for which there seemed to be a steady porch that way, as closets front and higher monthly installments required by demand under the old credit conditions. porches have never been made before. the new controls. In October there were What will happen to this demand and This attitude has been occasioned 2000 such houses at Lakewood. This is to low-priced housing in general under largely because a new house has al- mentioned for readers who may feel that the new controls remains to be seen. 20 EXACT AMOUNTS of lumber are stockpiled by each MEN with nailing machines SHINGLES, though nailed by hand, are home, and special gang throws up house frame lay floors in jig time stockpiled on roof by belt conveyor

about the country. But Lakewood dwarfs most of them as a dirigible dwarfs a cocker spaniel. With the first foundation poured only on February 24th of 1950, Lakewood already has 7000 homes either finished or under construction, and when the whole shebang is completed will have in this one shoulder-to-shoulder de- velcipment a total of 17,150 homes, housing a population of some 70,000 people. That is more people than lived, in 1940, in such long-established Ameri- can cities as Phoenix, Arizona; Lex- ington, Kentucky; Topeka, Kansas; Amarillo, Texas, or any city at all in the entire states of North Dakota, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming, or Vermont. Ljikewood (Continued on page 50) STEADY STREAMS of people come and buy Lakewood houses. 99 percent are veterans

SOME OF THE 7000 homes at Lakewood Park now ject to effect of new credit controls. Shopping area, cen- occupied or being built. Plans include 10,000 more, sub- ter, not yet finished, is dummied into photo from model .

There was a battle and nothing farther was heard from the gallant

cruiser. Then, iafter V-J Day, a pathetic group of bedraggled Americans staggered

from Japanese prison camps to tell an inspiring tale . .

By ENSIGN J. KENDRICK NOBLE, JR., USN

|liE Houston WAS NOT an old ship looking vessel, she was a favorite of as China Station vessels went. She President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In was authorized to be constructed on addition to serving him on numerous December 18, 1924, under the terms naval reviews and relaxing fishing of the Washington Disarmament Con- trips she carried him on an 11,783- ference. When it came time to christen mile tour of the Caribbean and east- this ship in September 1929, the United ern Pacific in 1934. States was officially at the height of Then in August, 1940, she became the prohibition era so that instead of the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. At the traditional champagne, a prosaic the outbreak of the war. Captain bottle of water from the Houston ship Albert H. Rooks was in command of channel in Texas was smashed over the Houston. Bom at Colton, Wash- its bow as the ship slid down the ways ington, he was still in his 40's — a fine into the water with none of the fan- figure of a naval officer. With clear, fare that usually surrounds the chris- penetrating eyes and a firm chin, sur- A SKETCH of the BatOe of Banten Bay tening of a man-of-war. Her name, mounted by a humorous mouth, he as drawn from memory by Rear Admiral in part prophetic, as her namesake old soon became the idol of his new men. Shoji Akira, of the Imperial Japanese Navy Sam Houston had 106 years before in It was indeed a fortunate choice that the battle of San Jacinto led his little made him the commander of a ship band of freedom-loving Texans that was about to endure the hell of against the overwhelming Mexican overwhelming enemy attacks.

army — and won. For they soon came . . . Two months later came the stock The Houston was anchored at Iloilo market crash which was followed by in the Philippines on that fateful the world-wide depression. The gal- morning of December 8, 1941. As the lant Houston settled down to a hum- largest unit of Admiral Hart's Asiatic drum existence. A comfortable, good- Fleet, she was (Continued on page 38) 22 The mystery of the Houston started with "Navy Department Communique No. 54"

Communiques never tell the real story— the drama — the tragedy — the heartaches — the heroism behind the news. They are, as a rule, notoriously clipped and dry. Of necessity, the officials charged with informing the world of military actions must restrict their loquacity to insure accuracy and security. And sometimes, because even the officials are not cog- nizant of the details, the message itself is cloaked in mystery and obscurity. Such a communique was "Navy Department Communique No. 54" which blazed across the front pages of the newspapers that morning of March 14, 1942. It left the American people, not yet recovered from the shock of Peaxl Harbor, in a cold sweat of apprehensiveness. Was this to be another case of "too little and too late"? The report curtly revealed details of the epic Battle of the Java Sea and the painful withdrawal of the tattered Allied survivors of the action. Among the remnants of the ABDA fleet were the United States heavy cruiser Houston and the Australian light cruiser Perth. The communique went on to say "Nothing has been heard from H.M.A.S. Perth or the U.S.S. Houston since an enemy report from the Australians at 2330 on the twenty-eighth of February." At that time, contact with an enemy force off Saint Nicholas Point was radioed to the Allied Commanders. "The next of kin of the U.S.S.

Houston are being informed accordingly." . . . There was no more! The next of kin of those aboard the Houston waited in vain for further word about their loved ones. But the days stretched into weeks, the weeks into months, and the months into years and still no word. The fate of the vessel and all on board could only be conjectured. It was one of the great mys- teries of the war. The Houston and the 1000 members of its crew had disappeared from the face of the earth without leaving a trace of information for the American people. It was not until after Japan surrendered in 1945 — more than three years later — that the first news of what had happened began to trickle through as bony, bedraggled men staggered out of prisoner-of- war camps from Burma to Honshu to tell their amazed rescuers of one of the most glorious naval actions in the history of the world. But by that time the war was over; this was "old stuff" to the Ameri- can public; and so, except for a few scattered tributes here and there, the battle was forgotten. What price glory! Here was one of the most heroic "last stands" in naval annals and not a single book had been written about it — not even a magazine had ever recounted the glorious deeds of Captain Albert H. Rooks and the gallant men of the Houston who went down with their ship rather than surrender. Here, for the first time, with the exception of an accoimt by Hanson W. Baldwin which appeared in the New York Times, is the complete story. SPEAKER is beneath TV set. The cabinets contain record players and FM-AM tuner

en- Here are some ideas for assembling radio, music audible; and a speaker closure to house the speaker and provide it with the proper baffle and air phonograph and television units so they not only space. To complete the home theater a television set may be included or pro- work v^^ell but improve the appearance of the room vided for at some future date. Also, you might consider a tape or disc re- corder to transcribe the things most By ROBERT SCHARFF enjoyable to your ear. These items, or components, are T THE TIME of World War I the an all-purpose console with TV, FM purchased individually, connected to- average living room or par- and AM radio and a phonograph that gether and built into closets, book- lor was one of the least used plays all three kinds of records. The cases or existing furniture, where they rooms in the house. In some home^ alternative is to use some ingenuity are out of sight but ready to give you pianos or victrolas made this part of in combining the components of a a full range of entertainment when- the house an entertainment center, good sight-and-sound outfit. Doing so ever you want it. but there was no great traffic problem will not only give you an attractive Such a custom-made job offers ob- in the average parlor. theater in your living room, instead of vious advantages from the standpoint By the late twenties, when the something resembling an appliance of looks, but more important is the homemade, attic-based wireless sets store; it can mean a quality of enter- greater fidelity of sotmd it provides. with goose-necked speakers had tainment that you didn't think possible. It isn't hard to understand why this evolved into "supersets" in cabinets What makes up such a home thea- should be so. Commercial radio sets, fit for the hving room, there was more ter? Basically, it consists of five items by and large, provide excellent serv- incentive for gathering there. Now, — a tuner which will pick up FM or ice and represent remarkable values. today, with radio, television and other both FM and AM radio broadcasts; a However, they are subject to certain electronic devices on hand, the living phonograph record player which will limitations. Physical laws make it im- room is without question the heart handle the three speeds of records possible for tiny speakers in small of most homes. available, 33V3, 45 and 78 r.p.m.; an enclosures to cover more than a frac- It is also likely to be the most amplifier to build up the broadcast or tion of the tones your ear can hear. cluttered, unless you are able to afford recorded music; a speaker to make the The result is that what you hear from

24 model boasting equivalent equipment. You should be able to install a complete AM-FM radio and record-player, together with amplifier and speaker, for anywhere from about $150 to $600. Typical prices of AM-FM tuners are from $70 to $140. When cost is a major consideration, then an FM tuner alone is recommended. A unit of this type may be purchased for as low as $35 and you will not miss too much by not having an AM tuner because most major stations broadcast their AM programs simultaneously over FM, THIS WALL SHELF conceals a speaker covered with grille cloth too. Moi-eover, FM transmits high fidelity and is virtually free of static. However, FM stations usually can be heard for only about 50 miles. If you live in a "fringe area" or at a greater distance from FM transmitters you should select a tuner with high sen- sitivity. Adequate custom amplifiers can be purchased for $40. An excellent one costs $150. (Continued on page 44)

COMPONENTS THAT MAKE UP A HIGH FIDELITY SYSTEM

THIS CABINET offers the easiest method of obtaining the best results with small size. Heavy plywood is recommended and the cabinet should be glued and braced to prevent vibration. The inside should be partly padded

TUNER, to receive broadcast signal. It most radios is only an approximation The human ear can encompass sounds can be had for FM-AM or FM alone of what the music was originally. The from the lowest rumble up to 20,000 ear accepts the usual ersatz music be- cycles per second— considerably high- cause it is easily accustomed to dis- er than Lily Pons or a piccolo player tortions; but a person who is privi- can reach. Yet most sets don't reach leged to listen to truly high fidelity above 5,000 cycles. sound reproduction immediately The cost of high-fidelity in such in- senses the vast difference. stallations as are shown here is sur- It isn't just a matter of opinion. The prisingly low when compared with difference can be shown scientifically. the retail price of a modern console

THIS IS AN attractive way of mounting a radio-phonograph in an existing cabinet. Speaker may be placed inside or it can be located elsewhere in room AMPLIFIER, to build up the signal that they got the hoes so they could work for the Russians. After that Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskof and his boys did all right for about 30 years. Nearly everyone does aU right in CaUfomia. The Czar's stooges collected some cattle and horses. Then they collected all the Pomo and Miwok Indians they could round up and started an Indian labor camp. It looked good until they began calling their ranch "Russian America." Then everybody back in the States, even the Senators, started getting mad. Senator Thomas H. Benton of Mis- souri organized himself and opened up around 1821 with what must have been about the first one-man, Un- American Activities Committee in history. They think he was the fellow who wrote a piece for the St. Louis En- quirer, and he sure raised a fuss about the Russian Fifth Colurmi out in Cali-

fornia. He didn't like it. Neither did Same Old Russians! anyone else in the States. Right away the other Senators got the idea and they started to debate the whole thing, the way Senators do Here's the way history ought to be written. when the people think something ought to be done. They made a lot of An account of some Russki shenanigans on the West speeches about the Russian Peril on the Pacific Coast and made a lot of Coast than more a hundred years ago. headlines.

California itself wasn't standing still. In April, 1822 it declared itself inde- By DELOS "PAT' O'BRIAN right, so after they staked out their pendent of Spain and for the next claim at Fort Ross, they turned right twenty -six years it considered itself

I HE RUSSIANS have landed on the around and bought it. a province of the Republic of Mexico. California coast! Of course the Spaniards owned Cali- Don't grab your musket or fornia then, and they told the Rus- EVERY schoolboy knows that we pur- phone the F. B. I. This happened in sians they didn't want to sell any real chased Alaska from Russia in 1867, March, 1812, but the men from Mos- estate. but few Americans have heard of this cow had ideas about this country just That was a big laugh, sneered the Russian penetration of California, the same as they do now. Russians. Who did the Spaniards think which lasted to 1841. The Czar in the They didn't come ashore on the they were anyway, putting out that early 1820's issued a ukase that denied California coast to look for caviar. old fascist propaganda. Everybody to vessels of other powers the right to They came to stay. knew the Indians owned California navigation off the West Coast of North The Russians have always been a (that was the official line in those America north of the 51st parallel. great people for figuring everything days). Monroe's Secretary of State, John out. They figured this one out this So Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskof, the Quincy Adams, not only refused to way. They said they had to land at commander of the Russians, went accept this, but in addition served no- Bodega Bay up north of San Francisco right out and proved it. He just made tice on all the Powers that they must and had to start up housekeeping at a trip into the woods and got an In- not set up any new colonies in the a place they called Rossiya because dian. He got the Indian to get some Western World. And in December, they were thirsty. Later the place got of his Pomo tribesmen. Then Kuskof 1823 Monroe sent to Congress the to be known as Fort Ross. had the Indians admit that they owned famous message we call the Monroe It seems once before when they all the California land the Russians Doctrine, not only backing up Adams' stopped at San Francisco the Spanish wanted. statement, but warning Europe we Mayor refused to give the Russians The Indians were "persuaded" to meant to see that the newly -created any water. He must have been a pretty give Kuskof a piece of birch bark South American nations remained in- smart Mayor at that, because if you which said something like this, "Me dependent. give a Russian a drink, he claims he givem all land Russia wantum, for About this time Kuskof and the boys owns your well. what Russia wantum givem me." at Bodega and at Fort Ross weren't Suppose the Russians were thirsty— All the Russians were very pleased doing so well. The redskins began to they still seem to be — so they grab a with this deal, so they were very gen- get the idea that "Russian America" hunk of California and start a ranch. erous. They gave the Indians three wasn't so good for them either and The Russians have always been a blankets, three pairs of breeches, two they quit working. So the crops didn't great people for appearances too. It axes, three hoes and a bag of beads. get hoed and the cows didn't get was their idea to have this deal look The redskins found out right away milked. (Continued on page 49) 26 . . : . . . Veterans Newsletter

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

January, 1951

THREE STATES VOTE WW2 VET BONUS: the January 1. 1951. deadline for filing applica-

tions has passed by. . . .Hoosier vets will not be paid Three States -- Montana. Oregon and West Virginia for at least another four years. . . Best guess is --voted strongly in favor of a bonus for war vet- that payments will start late in 1955 or in 1954. . . erans the November, election. . . .A fourth at 1950, Legislature provided for payment by a special bonus State -- Louisiana -- approved an aonendment to the tax, with stipulation that the entire amount must existing bonus law, extending the deadline and be collected before any payments are made. . . .First liberalizing the measure to permit payments to sur- year of tax ending June 30, 1950, saw collection of vivors. .. .All related to WW2 vets except West approximately $25,000,000. .. .Bonus cost is esti- Virginia where a bonus was voted 4 to 1 to include mated at $110,000,000 .... If business remains at both WWl and WW2 vets. . . .Vets eligible to receive present level, it will take another four years' the payments are warned that approval by the voters taxes to accumulate the fund.... With all applica- simply gives the authority to pay -- machinery for tions in and processed, Indiana officials will know payment emd the meams to meet the checks must be set in advance just how much cash to raise to pay the up by the various State Legislatures. . . .Due notice obligation. will be given in this Magazine when the various States are ready to distribute the required appli- STATE BONUS DEADLINES: cation blanks. Montana: Proposal approved calls for payment of WW2 vets are again warned that deadlines have been $10 per month for domestic service; $12 per month set UP in most bonus-paying States. . . .Here is a list of the eighteen States and two Territories, with for overseas service, with a maximum of $400. . . .An additional cigarette tcix was authorized to provide time fixed for filing applications: the necessary revenue. Connecticut, expires June 30, 1951; application Oregon: On second trial, voters of Oregon approved forms from Treasurer, Veterans' Bonus Division, a proposal calling for $10 a month for domestic Hartford 15, Connecticut. service in WW2; $15 a month for overseas service, Illinois, expires June 30, 1951; applications from Service Recognition Board, 301 W. Adams Street, with a maximum of $600. . . .Eligibles must have served more than 90 days between September 16, 1940, and Springfield, Illinois. Michigan, expires March 1951; applications June 30, 1946. . . .Bonus to be financed by sale of 20, from Adjutant General, Bonus Section, Lansing 1, special bonus 20-year bonds. . . .Oregon voters defeated a bonus measure in 1949. .. .Dissatisfaction Michigem. with eligibles listed is claimed as chief cause of North Dakolaj. expires February 17, 1954; applica- def eat ... .That proposal ruled out National Guards- tions from Adjutant General, Bismarck, North Dakota. men called into service prior to the outbreak of WW2. The following bonus-paying States and Territories West Virgini a: Unique among the bonus-paying have no fixed deadline Massachusetts, New Hamp- States, the voters of West Virginia authorized a shire, New York, Vermont, Washington, Alaska and bonus to both its WWl and WW2 vets at one and the Hawai i same time.... Cost is estimated at $90,000,000.... Time for filing applications has expired in: Bond issue authorized; bonds to be retired "by addi- Delaware, January i, 1951; Indiana, January 1, tional taxes. ".. .Proposal provides for payment of 1951; Iowa, December 31, 1950; Louisiana, January $10 a month for home service; $15 a month for over- 1, 1951; Minnesota, December 31, 1950; Ohio, June seas, with a maximum of $300 for home service and 30, 1950; Pennsylvania, July 1, 1950; Rhode Island, $400 for overseas or combination of home and October 31, 1949; and South Dakota, June 30, 1950. overseas Louisiana: Amendment to Louisiana bonus law BURIAL OF WW2 UNKNOWN POSTPONED: approved by the voters extended the deadline for Defense Department has announced that selection filing applications to January 1, 1951 (already and burial of a WW2 Unknown Serviceman has been post-

. . . . expired) .This was for the protection of vets who poned indefinitely. . . "Arrangements for paying did not get their applications in line for payment homage to the Unknown are not considered appropriate under the previous December 1, 1949, deadline. . . . at the present time," said the announcement, pre- But of more was provi- far-reaching importance the sumably because of the fighting in Korea. . . .This sion eliminating the "dependency clause" for sur- decision is in line with Resolution No. 427 adopted vivors. . . .Under this amendment parents are no longer at the Los Angeles National Convention of the required to prove dependency on the serviceman or Legion, asking postponement and reconsideration of veteran at the time of his entry into service in the plan to burrow into the tomb of the WWl Unknown order to be eligible for the $1,000 bonus. . . .This Soldier to make a place for the Unknown of WW2. provision, according to Joseph L. Golsan, Director of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, MARYLAND LOYALTY OATH LAW UPHELD: directly affects several thousand Pelican State Maryland's strict ant i -subversive Ober Law re- WW2 vets or their survivors. quiring loyalty oath from public officials was upheld by the people of the State on November 7th and INDIANA BONUS FUND IS ACCUMULATING: by the Supreme Court of the U. S. on November 13th. . . Though the voters of Indiana approved a WW2 bonus Maryland voters in a referendum decided that it in 1948 and the Legislature provided the machinery should be kept on the books. . . .Supreme Court refused and the method of payment in 1949. . .and even though to review the law, particularly that requirement

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that candidates for State office take a loyalty a representative, but must furnish the accredited oath. .. .Refusal to consider the anti -subversive representative esserttial information to speed the law's oath requirement meikes final a Maryland Court process. .. .The Legion or other representative will of Appeals ruling that the controversial law is need: (1) Vet's first, middle and last najnes. ... (2) valid. .. .However, this action on a special appeal Dividend application number which appears on VA does not foreclose future appeals against provisions acknowledgment card.... (3) Mailing address when for office oath, nor for loyalty oath requirements dividend application was filed, and present ad- for teachers and State employees. dress.... (4) Date of birth.... (5) All insurance numbers, whether NSLI or USGLI....{6) All service VOLUNTEER VA HOSPITAL WORKERS INCREASED: serial numbers. ... (7) All dates of entrance into Volunteer workers who are serving sick and dis- and separation from active service, with branch abled veterans in VA hospitals increased in number of service during which the vet was insured. by nearly 11,000 during the last year.... For the 12 months the average number of volunteer workers HEAVY DROP IN GI STUDENT ENROLLMENTS: per month was 71,363, compared with 60,412 for the A drop of 33 percent in the number of WW2 vets preceding 12-month period. . . .Average monthly work attending colleges under the GI Bill is reported hours for the sajne periods increased from 309,312 by the Federal Office of Education. . . .A smaller to 319,937. drop was also noted in enrollment of nonvets, a

decline of 6.6 percent. . . .Annual survey of institu- ARMY BANDSMEN TO TRAIN AT USN SCHOOL: tions of higher education revealed 1950 Fall enroll- Navy will provide necessary funds and training ment of 575,000 vets in college, compared with facilities for the training of Army bandsmen at the 856,000 last year ... .That 's a goodly number in U. S. Navy School of Music, Washington, D. C... school five years after the end of the shooting First Army class of 150 selected men will report for war ... .Overall survey disclosed that the total

training January 10, 1951. . . .School was established enrollment in all the States and the District of in 1935 for specialist training of Navy and Marine Columbia was 2,295,000, compared with the 1949 peak Corps musicians. of 2,456,000.

MEDAL FOR KOREAN SERVICE: K-9 CORPS BEING REBUILT BY ARMY:

Presiden t Truman has established, by executive The famed K-9 Corps , which dwindled to almost

order, the Korean Service Medal . . . .This will be nothing after the end of WW2, is being strengthened

awarded to all servicemen who have served in Korea by the Army. . . .The Corps now numbers nearly 900 of since the invasion started on June 27, 1950. the finest dogs available ... .At peak strength during WW2 some 10,000 highly trained dogs were in CITIZENSHIP FOR AMERICAN INDIANS: service ... .Demobilization hit hard, but the need Voters of Rhode Island and Idaho voted on pro- for dogs to carry out many duties in the occupation posals for citizenship of American Indians at the areas and particularly since the outbreak of the Korean "police action" became pressing. .. .So the November election. . . .Rhode Island approved a proposal to give voting privileges to Narragansett Army is getting its K-9 Corps back in shape as an

integral part of our military forces. . . .Training is Indians. . . .Idaho voted heavily in favor of granting full citizenship to Indians. administered from the Fort Monroe, Virginia, headquarters of the Army Field Forces. STATUS OF UNPAID 1950 NSLI DIVIDENDS: LOW INCOME FAMILIES GIVE MOST: NSLI "Oper ation Dividend" is nearing the end, but as of November 1st there remained approximately Charitable donations in the S^ increased from 68,000 claims (or applications) to be disposed of. $1,200,000,000 in 1929 to $4,000,000,000 in 1949, -- says the Russell Sage Foundation. .. .Low income . . .These are the problem cases some are duplicate applications, some claimants never had NSLI con- groups contributed more than 60 percent of the tracts, some have no entitlement to checks because total .. .bearing out the common belief that "them the dividend was used to liquidate overpayment of as has least, gives most. "...The survey disclosed that most of the charitable dollars come from living other benef its . . . .But a large number of cases are simply confused accounts which require additional donors

information from the Army and Navy. . . .VA estimates CALIFORNIA EDUCATION AID TO VETS: that of the 68,000 applications in the delayed file, yets have received California only about 25,000 checks will be issued. . . .A very More than 20.000 WW2 considerable number of these accounts will require State assistance in completing their education. the expert attention of Legion or other Service reports D. J. Callaghan, Jr., Director of Veterans Officers. Affairs .... "Explanation is simple," he says. "More WW2 NSLI policy-holders who know or think them- and more student veterans are exhausting their en- selves entitled to a part of the two billion, eight titlement to Federal assistance under the GI Bill. hundred million dollar dividend are getting a bit They are turning to the 'Cal-Vet' program to com-

impatient. . . .Many have already asked the Legion's plete their studies, usually in professional and National Rehabilitation Commission for help in graduate f ields. ".. .Eligible veterans may receive getting their applications speeded up for process- payment for tuition, books and supplies, plus an

ing, or to clear up the road-block for final action. allowance of $40 a month under the State program. . . .

. . . . .But VA has set up another hurdle - -a mere letter The maximum expenditure for any one vet is $1,000. .

requesting such help is not sufficient. . . .Power of Educational aid may only be extended to native attorney is required, and here's the rub: VA Insur- California veterans or those residents of the State ance Service will not accept Form 2-P-22, which is at time of entering service who had at least 90 days' used by the Claims Service as the proper authority active duty in WW2 prior to January 1, 1947. for accredited representatives, but requires an entirely new Form 9-4337, which was adopted in "WHEN DO I GET PAID?" EX-POWS ASK:

September, 1950. . . .Form 2-P-22 is accepted by In- War Claims Commission advises that processing surance Service only when there is a claim for ex-POW claims has reached a steady pace of 1,000

benefits under an insurance contract ... .New Form per week. . . .Claimant with a number below 30,000 has 9-4337 is available in VA field offices. a good chance of having his claim processed before WW2 vets who need help to straighten out their ac- January 1 Numbers in the 55,000 series will counts not only must file the new form designating probably be reached by June 1 28 The Xatioival ^| Lecioivnaire

National Executive Committee Reviews Programs And

Affairs Of Legion In 3-Day Meeting At Indianapolis

Rehabilitation, National Security and Americanism Named stricted plan of Universal Military Training, the Committee voted to op- Major Legislative Program for 1951 — Fight for Universal pose the wholesale conscription plan. Military Training Will Be Pressed Vigorously in Congress In a resolution prepared by the Na- tional Security Commission and pre- Rehabilitation, National Security and principal objectives for 1951, but with- sented for consideration by Chairman Americanism, three basic programs of out special preference for any one phase Bruce Henderson of Ohio, the Commit- The American Legion, were designated of the major program. Chairman Cox tee advocated continued use of the Se- on an equal basis and without prefer- stressed that no legislative mandate of lective Service System to induct neces- ence as the priority legislative program the Los Angeles Convention will be neg- sary manpower during the present for 1951 by the National Executive lected or ignored, but that the three emergency, but only as a "temporary Committee at its regular fall meeting subjects, traditional first objectives of expedient." Power to terminate induc- at Indianapolis on November 17-19. A the Legion, will have the major em- tion into the Armed Forces should re- complete examination of the affairs of phasis. main with Congress, the resolution said, the Legion and its programs was effected A new plan of conscription of every and all-out support of the Legion's UMT in a busy three-day meeting, which in- 18-year-old boy into the Armed Serv- plan was pledged. cluded one long night session. ices for a one-year period was attacked The Committee tabled a resolution, The regular meeting, presided over in vigorous debate as a "path into the sent up for approval by the Conference by National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., way of Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins." of Depai'tment Commanders and Adju- followed a three-day conference of the Reiterating its advocacy of the more re- tants, calling for the removal of Dr. Department Commanders and Adjutants from all continental Departments, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Mexico, COMMANDER COCKE HAS TALK WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN Canada, Philippine Islands, and other outlying Legion bodies. The meetings were held in the spacious new National Headquarters building constructed by the State of Indiana for the use of the Legion national organization. The long sessions were devoted to the business of the Legion and of hearing reports from the Commissions and Com- mittees on the varied concerns and programs of the organization. Principal guest speaker was Adrian S. Fischer, Washington, D. C, General Counsel of the State Department, who reported on the state of the nation in an off-the- record address. His speech was followed by a question-and-answer period generally covering matters of foreign policy and particularly of the current crisis in Korea. Past National Commander Ray Kelly, of Detroit, Chairman of a special sub- committee, submitted the text of the proposed amendment to the Legion's Congressional Charter which will open the doors of the organization to veterans of the Korean War in service from June 25, 1950, to the declared end of hostilities. The text of the amendment was approved and the necessary bills Unqualified Presidential endorsement of the new, all-professional Legion-sponsored will be prepared and introduced in Con- musical revue, "Red, White and Blue," and a promise to attend the production when gress. Amendment to the Legion's Con- it reaches Washington were given National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., by President stitution contingent upon passage of the Truman at their first official meeting at the White House on November 14. Proceeds amendment to the Charter was made at from the stage show now touring the country will be used to further the Legion's the Los Angeles Convention, therefore rehabilitation and child welfare programs. "Red, White and Blue" will open at the measure will become effective imme- Chicago's Civic Opera House on New Year's Day for a six-weeks run. The President diately upon Congressional approval and and Commander Cocke are shown above examining the "Red, White and Blue" the signature of the President. souvenir program. In setting up the priority legislative Commander Cocke, during the course of his visit, briefed the Legionnaire Presi- program, reported by Committeeman dent on 1951 action programs of the Legion as outlined by its 32nd National Con- Guy M. Cox of Michigan, the three vention at Los Angeles. The Chief Executive reiterated his support of Univeisal points of Rehabilitation, National Se- Military Training and praised The American Legion's effort to extend coverage curity and Americanism were made the under the GI Bill of Rights to the servicemen now fighting in Korea.

The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • 29 1 !

Paul B. Magnuson, Medical Director of tary service for those who subsequently nism, democracy will fall throughout the Veterans Administration, and Dr. served in the WACs. Asia. Immediate aid, he said, would in- Richard L. Meiling, of the office of the A lively discussion followed presen- volve only a fraction of the cost of re- Secretary of Defense. The top medical tation of the report of the Americanism capturing it; money and equipment is men, it was charged, were not in sym- Commission by Chairman James F. needed at once to save the country. A pathy with the program of medical and Green of Nebraska, opposing commu- resolution supporting Judge Advocate hospital treatment of veterans, particu- nism in all its forms and supporting the Quasha's plea was adopted unanimously. larly in their opposition to expanded principles of the new Subversive Con- Indignation of Puerto Ricans at the hospital facilities. trol Act. The Executive Committee recent assassination attempt on Presi- In another action, however, the Com- called for a complete review of the dent Truman was expressed in a letter mittee spoke strongly against the VA Amerasia case; asked President Truman addressed to the Committee by Depart; and others who have been opposed to the to make public all information about the ment Commander Juan H. Citron. It was hospitalization of non-service-connected case, and for a full and complete investi- read by Vincent Reyes Fitzpatrick, war veterans. Approval was given to a gation in order to get at the true facts. Puerto Rican member of the National continuance of a campaign for the build- A thorough investigation of subversives Executive Committee. ing of 16,000 beds deleted from the hos- in our Government was insisted upon. Puerto pitalization construction program by Other resolutions called for the re- Rican Affairs executive order of President Truman in moval of murals- in the Rincon Annex The letter said in part: "The unfor- January, 1949. Postoffice Building, San Francisco, "be- tunate events . . . are the work of a hand- cause they cast a most derogatory and Automatic Insurance Recommended ful of fanatics, inflamed by a miscon- improper reflection on the character of ception of ideals. Their (communist)

The Rehabilitation Commission the pioneers . . . (and are) definitely party followers are between 400 and through its Chairman, Robert M. Mc- subversive;" and recommended that Le- 500 persons out of a population of over Curdy of California, recommended that 2,000,000. A good many of them already tended to all selectees and volunteers have sacrificed their lives for their from the time of entry into military wrong ideals of liberty." service. OCTOBER 15-18 The train wreck which killed 32 ii DATES SET i| Committeeman Fitzpatrick called at- members of the Pennsylvania 28th Na- tention to the economic plight of the ii FOR MIAMI NATIONAL MEET ii tional Guard Division when enroute to Puerto Ricans and introduced a resolu-

I i Camp Atterbury, Indiana, was cited as ! The 33rd annual National Conven- tion calling for Legion support of eco-

; tion of The 1 American Legion will an example of the need of such a law. be \ nomic measures to relieve the situation. held at Greater Miami, Florida, on Other resolutions relating to insur- I; The resolution provides:

1 October 15-18. The place and dates ance called for preservation of the NSLI 1 |; <' < were approved the "The American Legion will lend its and USGLI contracts, and that oppor- by National Ex- effort

1 under the five-year term plan was a 1 ollections of the conclaves of 1934 facts and figures on veterans hospitali- Vice Commander Joe H. Adams is u island sugar industry. zation, need for additional beds, man- il President, has not been dissolved <| Miscellaneous resolutions presented it left z power shortage and medical teaching I; and will take up just where and approved during the course of the off after the 1948 Convention with institutions throughout the country. At | three-day session covered a number of plans to put on at Miami and Miami |i the same time authority I subjects, mostly relating to the internal was given to ' ' Beach the greatest and most colorful continue the Legion's study of the VA 1 affairs and administration of the or- i'. national gathering ever held there. <1 budget and funds allocated for VA ganization. These were concerned with operation. Representatives of the Legion a change in the membership card sys- were also authorized to appear before tem, visual aids to stimulate member- Congressional Committees in behalf of gionnaires extend financial aid to the ship and Post activities, "National adequate funds for the VA in the in- McCulloughs of Connecticut in their Radio Meeting" for the Legion's birth- terest of prompt service to veterans and fight against a $200,000 libel suit filed day observance, provision for Area their dependents. by a couple of entertainers, "supporters Membership Conferences, and fixing of a long, line of communist-front or- three days (instead of four) as the Right of Review ganizations." minimum guaranteed housing period at Other resolutions approved relating To step up the fight against commu- National Conventions. to rehabilitation asked legislation guar- nism a new National Committee on Un- The Executive Committee protested anteeing the right of review by the American Activities was created, headed the handling of the trial of Robert A. Board of Veterans Appeals of all claims by Past National Vice Commander Vogeler and six others in a Hungarian involving rights, privileges and bene- Walter Alessandroni, Philadelphia, court on charges of espionage, to which fits administered by the VA; to con- Pennsylvania, with a membership drawn they reportedly were forced to confess; tinue Legion support of established and from every part of the country. requested Congress to create and main- recognized blood banks; to re-establish Immediate military and economic aid tain a permanent memorial to the 1,174 the Legion's morale-building program for the Philippines was urged. The ac- sailors and Marines whose bodies are for amputees resulting from the Korean tion followed an appeal and warning by still locked in the hull of the Battleship War; to make veterans classified as William H. Quasha, Judge Advocate of Arizona, which was sunk in the initial

"enemy aliens" in WWl who were given the Legion's Department of the Philip- attack upon Pearl Harbor ; thanked the a blue discharge, and who later became pines, who flew from Manila to Indian- State of Indiana and the Indiana War naturalized citizens, eligible for VA apolis to attend the meeting. Quasha de- Memorial Commission for the "magnifi- benefits by issuing a certificate of hon- scribed the Philippines as the "show cent new National Headquarters Build- orable discharge, and to make the time place of democracy" in the Far East, ing," which was occupied about October spent by WAACs count as active mili- and warned that if it falls to commu- 1st and in which all national Legion

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 ;;

offices and operations at Indianapolis Fitzpatrick, Chicago, 111., and F. H. Sharkey, of San Francisco, California. are centralized. Baird, Ohio. Trop'.ies, Awards and Ceremonials A memorial tribute was paid to the Economic Commission — Chairman, Committee — Chairman, Clyde E. Ran- J. Fenlon, Chicago, kin, late Al Jolson in appreciation for his Lawrence 111.; Vice Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice Chairman, D. Chairman, Seymour Heilbron, New York Trotter Jones, Birmingham, Ala. interest in servicemen and to veterans, City. Membership and Post Activities Com- in hospitals and in civil life. Agricultural and Conservation Com- mittee — Chairman, Francis R. Heher, mittee — Chairman, H. McGehee, Committees Appointed Clyde Henderson, Nevada; Vice Chairmen, Vicksburg, Miss.; Vice Chairman, Harry James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. ; W. I. The final report of the busy three-day V. Groome, Riverton, N. J. Brunton, Scottsburg, Ind.; Arthur R. session was that of the Committee on Employment Committee — Chairman, Choppin, Baton Rouge, La. ; John P. Committees, presented by Chairman Spencer S. Boise, Bismarck, N. Dak.; Arnold, Shawnee, Okla.; Irvin R. Sny- Tom Miller, of Nevada. The Commission Vice Chairmen, John B. Brock, Adairs- der, Tujunga, Cal., and Louis Nagy, ville, and Committee members — comprising Ga. ; Thomas Plummer, Paoli, Pa.; Monongahela, Pa. the several groups that will direct the John L. Connors, Hartford, Conn., and Pilgrimage Committee — Chairman, Legion's varied programs during the Salvatore A. Capodice, North Holly- James J. Murphy, Washington, D. C. year — were approved and their appoint- wood, Cal. Vice Chairman, Dr. William B. Adams, Labor Relations Committee—Members, Rockville, Md. ments confirmed by the National Execu- — tive Committee. This list embraces some Isadore A. Levine, LaPorte, Ind., and National Legislative Commission thousands of names. The Chairmen and A. D. Gausti, Los Angeles, Cal. Chairman, Jerome Duggan, St. Louis, Vice Chairmen are as follows: Veterans' Preference Committee — Mo.; Vice Chairman, George L. Cleere, Americanism Commission — Chairman, Chairman, Raymond R. McEvoy, Montgomery, Ala., Lynn G. Peterson, A. Luke Crispe, Brattleboro, Vermont; Stoughton, Mass.; Vice Chairmen, Paul Los Angeles, Cal., and Charles M. Black- Vice Chairmen, Robert R. Wright, Iron- Sine, Perkasie, Pa.; Norman D. Dun- burn, Kentucky. wood, Michigan; Dan C. Hartbauer, Publications Commission — Chairman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Herman John Stelle, McLeansboro, 111.; Vice Lark, Steelville, Missouri. TIME MARCHES ON! Chairmen, Dan W. Emmett, Ventura, Accident Prevention Committee — Cal., and Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Neb. Chairman, Ralph A. Johnson, Richmond, Start the New Year with a resolu- Public Relations Commission — Chair- Va.; Vice Chairmen, George J. Kaiser- tion to give your family the protec- man, Herman P. Luhrs, Birmingham, att, Farmington, Minn.; Ben T. Wat- tion of a National Service Life In- Mich.; Vice Chairmen, Rev. Father Ed- surance policy! It is saf- ward J. Carney, O.S.A., Lawrence, kins, Macon, Ga. ; Eugene W. Biscailluz, the world's Los Angeles, Cal. est investment. The cost is small — Mass.; Robert Attkisson, Clermont, Fla., Boys' State Committee — Chairman, only a few cents a day will purchase and Frank J. Becker, Lynbrook, N. Y. Charles Morgan, Nevraan, Ga.; Vice a thousand dollar policy. All who Rehabilitation Commission — Chair- Chairmen, Taylor P. Reynolds, San Fer- served between October 8, 1940, and man, Robert M, McCurdy, Pasadena, nando, Cal., and Frank E. Gwynn, Al- September 2, 1945, and are in good Cal.; Vice Chairman, John H. Walsh, lentown. Pa. health can secure GI insurance. Waltham, Mass. Marksmanship Committee — Director, Think it over. Act before it is too Rehabilitation Insurance Advisory George Sweeney, Atlanta, Ga.; Vice late. Board — Chairman, Milo J. Warner, To- Chairman, Abraham Shelley, Steelton, Write or contact the American ledo, Ohio. Pa. Legion Service Officer or the VA Rehabilitation Medical Advisory Board Un-American Activities Committee — Office nearest your home for forms — Chief Medical Adviser, Dr. Leonard Chairman, Walter E. Alessandroni, and additional information. Do it G. Rowntree, Miami, Fla.; Assistant Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice Chairman, J. E. Chief Medical Advisers, Dr. Charles W. Martie, Reno, Nevada. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., and Brig. Gen. Sons of The American Legion Commit- Louis H. Renfrow, Washington, D. C. tee—Chairman, J. B. Koch, National Security Commission—Chair- Norman, bar, Los Angeles, Cal.; Willard W. Okla. ; Vice Chairman, Joe Kise, Moor- man, Bruce Henderson, Warren, Ohio; Smith, Caliente, Nevada, and J. Pat head, Mil- Minn. Kelly, Valdosta, Ga. Vice Chairman, Frank L. Greenya, Child Welfare — Miller Ainsworth, Commission Chair- Finance Commission — Chairman, Wil- waukee, Wis.; H. man, David V. Addy, Detroit, Mich.; Luling, Texas, and Patrick P. Petrone, liam J. Dwyer, Cortland, N. Y. ; Vice Vice Chairman, 111. Dr. A. H. Wittman, Chairman, James Lane, Huntsville, Ala. Chicago, Philadelphia, — Chairman, Pa. Emblem Committee—Chairman, Julius Aeronautics Committee Education of Orphans of Veterans Roscoe Turner, Indianapolis, Ind.; Vice Levy, Uniontown, Pa. ; Vice Chairman, Committee — Keegan, River For- Chairman, Amos 0. Dee Holder, Los Angeles, Cal. Chairmen, Barney Hughes, Albuquerque, ; Vice 111., B. Gardner, Mansfield, N. Mex. Investments Policy Committee— Cha'ir- est, and Roy Chairmen, George O. Demke, El Reno, man, Albert E. McCormick, Mountain Ohio. Okla.; W. R. Looney, Nashville, Civil Committee — Chairman, Tenn., Lakes, N. J. Defense and Hart Snyder Spokane, Wash. Overseas Grave Decoration Trust — Niel R. Allen, Grants Pass, Ore.; Vice Convention Commission — Chairman, Hon. J. Strom Thurmond, Chairman, Erie Cocke, Jr., Dawson, Chairmen, Vincent A. Carroll, Philadelphia, Pa.; Columbia, S. C, and Albert J. Mills, Ga. ; Vice Chairman, George N. Craig, Vice Chairman, George H. Stott, Larch- Brazil, Ind. Key West, Fla. mont, — Chair- N. Y. Foreign Relations Commission— Chair- Merchant Marine Committee Y. Contests Supervisory Committee — man, Donald R. Wilson, Clarksburg, man, Henry C. Parks, Brooklyn, N. Chairman, J. Earl McCurdy, LaPorte, Vice Chairmen, Ray O. Garber, Des W. Va. ; Vice Chairmen, Rogers Kelley, E. Prince- Ind. ; Vice Chairman, Norton R. Ganger, Edinburg, Texas; Charles Moines, Iowa; Merle Schaad, A. Gonser, Lake Miami, Fla. Spokane, Wash., and Leon Happell, ville. 111., and Milton G. Boock, Distinguished Guests Committee — Stockton, Cal. City, Minn. — Chair- Chairman, A. L. Starshak, Chicago, 111.; Inter-American Committee — Chair- Military Affairs Committee Vice Vice Chairmen, Nathaniel Spear, Jr., man, Warren H. Atherton, Stockton, man, Ed J. Zoble, Casper, Wyo.; Douglas, New York City; John Hale Hackley, Cal. Chairmen, Frank E. Moore, Chicago, 111.; Earl Coffman, Palm Internal Affairs Commission — Chair- Ariz., and Seaborn Collins, Las Cruces, Springs, Cal.; Edward J. Barrett, N. Mex. man, William J. Lowry. Hartford, — Springfield, 111.; Col. Jacob Arvey, Conn.; Vice Chairmen, Harry K. Naval Affairs Committee Chairman, Vice Chicago, 111.; Jerry J. Brown, Charles Frantz, Enid, Okla., and Max R. Brents, Arthur F. Duffy, Jamaica, N. Y.; Rochester and Gen. Frank Schwengel, El Centre, Cal. Chairmen, Lisle W. Smith, Haines City, New York City; Dr. Martin Spellman Constitution and By-Laws Committee Fla., and Emmett G. Lenihan, Seattle, and Glenwood J. Sherrard, Boston, — Chairman, Samuel R. Birnbaum, New Wash. Mass.; John Ford, Hollywood, Cal., and York City; Vice Chairmen, Turner M. National Security Training Committee > John J. Wicker, Jr., Richmond, Va. Rudesill, Rapid City, S. Dak., and Rob- —Chairman, Granville Ridley, Murf rees- Transportation Committee— Chairman, ert K. Wise, Columbia, S. C. boro, Tenn.; Vice Chairmen, Van H. William C. Farricy, Washington, D. C.; Graves Registration and Memorial Pinney, San Francisco, Cal.; Jack A. Vice Chairmen, Milton Kidwell, Musko- Committee — Chairman, Mancel Talcott, Porter, Tulsa, Okla., and J. K. Evans, gee, Okla.; Frank Roark, Seattle, Waukegon, 111.; Vice Chairman, Jack L. Washington, D. C. Wash.; William P. Erxleben, Albuquer- Newman, Jr., Ponca City, Okla. Law and Order Committee— Chairman, que, N. Mex.; Frank M. Wilson, Jack- Resolutions Assignment Committee — Col. George Mingle, Columbus, Ohio; sonville, Fla.; Paul Brown, Shreveport, Chairman, Charles W. Griffith, Man- Vice Chairman, Richard York, Hono- La.; J. T. Garbett, Pittsburgh, Pa., F. G. ning, S. C; Vice Chairman, Edward J. lulu, T. H.

The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • the next car was Atlanta's Mayor Wil- Celebration For New liam B. Hartsfield and Mayor W. W. Jay Colorful Homecoming of Dawson. Governor Talmadge, of Georgia; Governor Fuller Warren of Florida; Governor Jim Folsom of Ala- National Commander Overwhelms HomeTown bama and Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a delegation of 25 or Overwhelmed by a tidal wave of some mander under National Commander Al- 30 Generals and Admirals, U. S. Sena- 20,000 visitors coming from all parts of vin Owsley away back in 1922-23. tors, Congressmen and high Legion the United States and foreign countries, Moving on to Dawson, a reception at dignitaries left their cars at the review- Dawson, Georgia, on November 24 t)ie Davis-Daniel Post served as a rally- ing stand and thrilled to the inspiring staged one of the most colorful and spec- ing point for the visitors. For more than spectacle of the marching thousands. tacular homecoming parties ever ac- an hour the youthful National Com- On the sidewalks and curbs the people corded a National Commander of The mander stood at the head of a receiving were massed eight to ten deep to see the American Legion. The home town of line, shaking hands with friends who parade, and hundreds of others found National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., a had gathered from far and near to share vantage points on roofs and from the small city of some 5,000 population, in his homecoming. Fresh and vigorous windows of business buildings. For turned out en masse to do honor to the from a cross-continent automobile tour, nearly two hours, in steady column and 29-year-old WW2 veteran who was se- speaking several times each day, and without a break, the marching columns lected at the Los Angeles Convention with hardly a day of rest since his elec- passed along Main Street and gave their in October to lead the world's largest and tion on October 12th, the Commander salute to the young National Com- greatest organization of war veterans. had a pleasant word of greeting for mander, who stood on the reviewing Not only was it a Dawson holiday, each one of his home town's guests. stand between his mother and General proclaimed by Mayor W. W. Jay, but a The parade, staged with all the color George Marshall, flanked by the galaxy Georgia day — Governor Herman Tal- and animation that Georgia and half a of military and official "brass," includ- madge was there at the head of a con- dozen sister States could muster under ing 15 Army officers above the grade of tingent of high State dignitaries to the skillful direction of W. L. (Bill) Brigadier General. make the welcome official on the part Jennings, Parade Chairman, and Ben. The Fort Benning Band, band of the of the State. Governors of neighboring T. Watkins, Macon, Grand Marshal, 14th Air Force, the Marine Band from States, highest ranking officers of the was the show of the day. Heading the Parris Island, high school bands in pro- Army, Navy and Air Force, Legion- parade as far as the reviewing stand, fusion — including the nationally known naires from New England to California, with General Marshall, National Com- 148-piece Jordan High School Band, Co- Senators, Congressmen, and thousands mander Cocke rode in an open car, lumbus, Georgia, runner-up in the na- — of just plain John Citizens were there seated high on the back and responded tional contest at Chicago last summer to make the day the greatest in all of to the cheers as the car moved down Legion bands and drum and bugle corps Dawson's history. the street. Marching alongside as a from Georgia, Florida and Alabama; 46 It was Erie Cocke's day. The tre- guard of honor was a squad of Marines colorful floats, nearly a score of the mendous outpouring of people and the in their impeccable blues. Following in South's 40 and 8 engines and boxcars, magnitude of the reception attested the pride of Dawson and Georgia in the home town boy who has made good — COMMANDER'S HOME POST SIGNS RECORD MEMBERSHIP Georgia's first National Commander of The American Legion and the youngest man ever to hold that high position. City Brightly Decorated AMERICAN LEGION Gray clouds and a chill breeze failed to dampen the spirit of the occasion. DAVIS DANIEL P0ST-NO.m Extra police from Atlanta, Albany, Americus, Macon and a dozen other Georgia cities, bolstered by a score or more of the crack Georgia Highway Pa- trolmen handled the situation most ad- mirably — and there was not one unto- ward incident to mar the festivities of the day. Bright decorations and gay banners adorned the business buildings from end to end of the city, and on homes and roadside buildings for miles on the highways leading into the city. The festivities of the day began with a breakfast given for National Com- mander Cocke and some hundreds of visiting Legionnaires at the Radium Springs Hotel, at Albany, sponsored by Albany Post 30 of the American Legion and toastmastered by Past Department Commander DeLacey Allen, Albany. Meanwhile, General George Marshall, Though busy as bees with plans and arrangements for the mammoth Homecoming Secretary of Defense, and a plane-load celebration for its most distinguished member, Davis-Daniel Post No. 133, Dawson, of high Army officers was being greeted Georgia, had a record membership to present National Commander Cocke on Home- at Turner Air Base, nearby, by Erie coming Day. Using a signboard system, with names of veterans in the community, Cocke, Sr., and a delegation represent- Post member-workers signed up 205 members in one day; 237 in five days to break ing Dawson's Homecoming Committee. an all-time high record. The membership totaled 249 on Armistice Day, and when National flavor was given this recep- Homecoming Day arrived — November 24th - there were 281 members enrolled. In tion by the father of the National Com- the picture above are, left to right, Past Commander W. L. (Bill) Jennings, who mander who is a charter member of doubled as Parade Chairman; Post Commander Allen Arnold; Julius Hamlin; new Dawson's Davis-Daniel Post No. 133, member J. L. Powers, Jr., being signed up by 3rd District Commander T. L. (Doc) and who served as a National Vice Com- Jennings, who also doubled as General Homecoming Chairman, and Henry Jennings.

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and marching men and women by the hundreds passed by. All in all, it was "Red, White and Blue' Opens At Chicago On a parade that would have done full credit to most any Depai'tment Conven- tion held in the largest cities. January 1st For An En: agement Of Six Weeks The two-mile line of march ended at the Terrell High School Stadium for Hailed as one of the greatest musical grams. All profits deriving from the speeches by General Marshall, who in- revues in the history of the American show will be strictly applied to these troduced National Commander Cocke. show business, The Legion's star- purposes. The outdoor meeting with grand-stand spangled "Red, White and Blue" will Typical of tjie rave notices given the filled and an overflow on the field was open a six-weeks run at Chicago's Civic show by drama critics is that written by presided over by Department Com- Opera House on the night of January Corbin Patrick of the Indianapolis Star: mander John Brock, of Adairsville. 1st. The all-professional show, with Scheduled to appear in Indianapolis on Overcast skies and threats of rain cut talent drawn from the best in all sec- December 5-8, Patrick flew out to the outdoor meeting short, but there was tions of the country, will move into Topeka, Kansas, to scout the show. On time for the introduction of a long list Chicago from Detroit, where it will play his return to the Hoosier capital he of distinguished guests^ including Major during the holiday week between Christ- pulled out all stops, writing one of the General Anthony C. McAuliff'e, Chief of mas and New Year's. most glowing, gratifying and quotable the Army's Chemical Corps and hero Moving eastward after a gala premier reviews of the season. Says Critic Pat- of Bastogne who hurled the scornful and a two-weeks' run at Los Angeles, rick, in part defy of "nuts" to von Runstadt's de- the gigantic revue has won rave notices "Fresh and exciting . . . it's probably mand for surrender. General McAuliffe from critics representing the local as the most lavish show of the revue type paid a high tribute to the Commander, well as the metropolitan press. New sent on the road since the golden days whom he termed "one of the best in- talent will be introduced at the Chicago of Ziegfeld. . . . It's a dazzling spec-

talent. . . . dividual soldiers I saw during the war." showing. tacle. It has youth, zip and

It fills with life and color. . . . Morton Downey, noted Irish tenor, Virginia Mayo, Warner Brothers star the stage There's a rapid-fire succession of rous- flew down from New York with his who played the lead in the recently re- numbers, top-notch troupe to put on a Broadway and Holly- leased "West Point Story," and Michael ing ensemble specialty acts, excellent singing and danc- wood show at the open-air stadium O'Shea, noted stage and screen star, will ing, comedy that rings the bell. And it meeting and later in the high school join the revue when it opens in Chicago. sets a new high in cleanliness for a assembly hall. In addition, David Rose, composer of musical revue — you can take the family A barbeque followed the stadium "Holiday for Strings," will conduct the and never have to blush. Instead of the meeting, held and an executive council which is al- |[ Conference of Commanders and Ad- 'i Chinese Guerrillas Active ready at the plans for action work on \> jutants at Indianapolis in November !| Dr. Poling asserted that there are to smash menace of imperial- ''i the Soviet calling for a ^campaign to urge all !| four guerrilla armies in South China il Legionnaires to their ism here and abroad. wear button at || alone which are constantly in action. Dr. Poling, who presided at the two- 1| all times. Tell the world that you \> belong to the Legion! 'i The army which Chiang Kai-shek has day sessions, emphasized the "unity, 1 1 \< At the same reso- not uniformity" of the Conference, and meeting another (I assembled on Formosa is the best trained |> lution stressed the importance of !| army, of it was apparent throughout the meetings outside the former Japanese 'I using the Manual of Ceremonies in that none of the constituent organiza- \\ forces, that the Orient has ever seen. <', the conduct of Post meetings, the \< tions Commenting on the charges of corrup- was giving up its freedom of ac- installation of new officers and the tion in any respect, even in this great tion leveled at Chiang, Dr. Poling de- 1 initiation of new members. 1 crusade against the red menace. Each scribed the Generalissimo as a com- of these organizations is entitled to pletely honest, conscientious leader who three delegates and Conference action was "surrounded by intrigue and dis- is submitted to each of the constituent Jack B. Tenney, Los Angeles, Califor- loyalty" while operating on the main- bodies for its ratification or negative nia, The American Legion; Paul Wams- land. Despite this, his armies had the vote. ley, Buffalo, New York, National Edu- communist forces in the valleys and was cation Association. ready to destroy them when "the cease Craig Honorary Chairman The Conference authorized its Exec- fire order came." George N. Craig of Brazil, Indiana, utive Council to expand the services and "I am not advocating sending divi- Past National Commander of The personnel of its Washington office, and sions to China to aid Chiang," Dr. Pol- American Legion, whose invitation to a adopted a minimum budget of $65,000 ing continued. "Because here is a man group of American organizations for the year to effect this expansion, who asks for no divisions. He asks only brought the Conference into being last which envisages an information service that the Chinese fight for their own January, was named Honorary Chair- on communist activities which will be liberty. That's all he asks. He wants man by the Buffalo meeting. The Legion given to the constituent organizations. supplies, not our sons. Where in all the had shown its confidence in the validity The Executive Committee was given Far East is there another opportunity of the Conference by contributing $1000 authority to meet at intervals through- like that? to the program in addition to the $100 out the year and to fix the time and "Why did we not take the 30,000 men a year it pays as one of the constituent place of the next annual meeting. It was Chiang offered us for Korea? You would bodies. And at the final session James F. also empowered to add a limited number have had Chinese then aiding our sons. Green of Omaha, Nebraska, as the per- of associate members to the conference If we had heeded the advice of Gen. sonal representative of National Com- — individuals who have no affiliation MacArthur, Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, mander Erie Cocke, Jr., brought word with constituent organizations of the Gen. Claire Chennault and Congress- that the National Executive Committee Conference, but who have shown them- man Walter Judd, American blood of the Legion had voted an additional selves to be devoted to the aims and would not have been spilled in Korea. $5000 to the Conference, payable Janu- program of the organization. "If only we had followed their judg- ary 1st. The highlight of the Buffalo meeting ment our sons would not have died and W. C. "Tom" Sawyer of Valley Forge, was the banquet on Saturday night, at be dying for their fathers' mistakes." Pennsylvania, secretary of Freedoms which the delegates heard a first-hand Dr. Poling said his information from Foundation, was again named Confer- report from Dr. Poling of his recent all sources in the Far East where he ence Secretary, and J. George Fredman trip to the Far East, including seven has spent many years, is that there are of Jersey City, representing the Jewish days on the island of Formosa and a an estimated 300,000 to 1,250,000 armed War Veterans, was continued in the visit with General MacArthur in Japan. guerrillas on the China mainland. He post of Treasurer. Vice Chairmen named Dr. Poling visited the Korean front, said about one-third of these men are were: Lewis G. Hines, Washington, conferred over a period of several days extremely loyal to Chiang. D. C, American Federation of Labor; with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa. The "Communism," he said, "is as foreign Rev. John F. Cronin, S.S., Washington, only other speaker at the banquet was (Continued on page 36)

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national finals have been given to a COMRADES IN DISTRESS Michigan city. OUTFIT REUNIONS Omaha, Nebraska, has been the site of the past two finals, under sponsorship USS Montgomery, (DM 17) -Will MM3/c Harry 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Division — Annual of Omaha Post No. 1. In both series the D. Dowdy. (ex-Pasadena, Cal.), or anyone who reunion at Philadelphia. Pa., Labor Day weekend. knows his present address please write. State- team representing Capt. Bill Erwin Post 1951. Information from Frank Mulvaney, National ment needed to establish claim. F. G. Cashmore, No. 337, Oakland, California, emerged Secretary, 1023 S. Farragut Terrace, Philadelphia (Fl/c). Box 653, Trinidad, Colo. 43. Pa. 29th Battalion, IRTC, Fort McClellan, Ala. — as national champion. 26th (Yankee) Division— Annual reunion, Ports- Urgently need to hear from officers and men at Detroit has never produced a national mouth, N. H., June 7-10; Albert Shepard. Con- this station in July, 1944. who remember my foot vention Secretary, P. O. Box 845, Portsmoutli; trouble, particularly Sgt. Beck, Goff and Lt. champion team—but in two tournaments or, H. Guy Watts. National Secretary. 200 Hunt- Maughn. Leo D. Huddleston, Francis, ington Ave., Boston 337 N. came close to the goal. In 1937, Mass. Picher, Okla. Hal 80th (Blue Ridge) Division Veterans Associa- Army Nurse, North Africa — Need to locate Newhouser, current pitching star for tion— 32nd annual reunion, Akron, Ohio, August Mary Bethel Africa, 2-5; headquarters. Hotel Information Toon, ANC. stationed North Detroit Tigers, hurled the Roose-Vanker Mayflower. 1943. Statement for claim. Thomas B. Nilan, 722 from Harry Collette, Resident Secretary, 302 West 4th St.. Red Wing, Minn. Post team into the semi-finals at Char- Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Anti-Tank Company, 389th Inf., 98th Div. - USS Leviathan Veterans Association—28th an- lotte, North Carolina, before losing to Will comrades who recall Pfc. Harold W. Webster nual reunion dinner, WWl crew, Saturday eve- reporting to dispensaries on Oahu and Kauai, San Diego, the eventual champions. And ning, April 15, Dunhall's Restaurant, 40th St. T. H., please write. injuries, and Broadway. City. reservations Suffered back now again in 1950 the team of Beaudry Post New York Send slowly becoming paialyzed. Statements needed. to R. L. Hedlander, Box 22. Greenwich, Conn. Write John J. Comellas, 742 Union Dr., Union- No. 126 advanced to the finals of Sec- USS Oklahoma — 1951 reunion being arranged, dale, N. Y. (Adjt.. Post No. either with Legion National Convention, Miami, 1487). tional C at Bloomington, Illinois, before SS Green Mountain— Will shipmates of Anthony Fla., or in New York City: shipmates express Santucci who served aboard with him going to bowing to St. Louis. preference. Write I. J. Hetherington. 601 Finance Casa Blanca in 1943 please write Arthur F. Hoff- Bldg., Philadelphia 2, Pa.; John C. Oakes. 919 man. Service Officer. 107 Parkway. Rochelle Park, WEAR YOUR LEGION BUTTON Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa., or Robert B. An- N. J. . derson, 506 Paramount Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. Medical Detachment, 42nd Tank Bn., 11th Florida Convention in April USS Woolsey — Planning 1951 reunion; ship- Armored Div., Camp Cook, Cal. — Anyone who mates write Floyd C. Gibbens. Rt. 3, Box 285, remembers Joe Wall, (particularly Capt. Farrell), Leading the Department Conventions Parkville, Mo. or recalls his knee injury are requested to write in 1951, Department Commander Don 1st Co., 3rd Ots, Camp Custer, ("77") -Annual Eugene G. Brewer. Service Officer, Randolph Area reunion, Macatawa, Mich.. September 7-9; Hotel Post, American Legion, 41 Monroe Ave.. Dover, Carroll has announced that the Florida Macatawa. Write Lester C. Batdorff, President, N. J. Help needed to complete claim. convention will be held at Tampa on 312 McKerchey Bldg., 2631 Woodward, Detroit 1, U. S. Navy— Will shipmates of John Pisarczyk, Mich. Friday, in service July, 1942, to November, 1945, please Saturday and Sunday, April WEAR YOUR LEGION BUTTON write. Help needed to complete claim. Vet treated 20-22. Under the new Constitution, the for illness at Solomon Island. Maryland. Robert T. Kerin, Service Officer, Post 1G6, American Legion, officers elected at this conclave will not RADIO RELIGIOUS PROGRAM 54 Main St.. Fairhaven, Mass. take office until September. 431st Signal Bn., 12th and l.'ith Air Forces SPONSORED BY LEGION POST Urgently need to contact Capt. Alders, Lt. Pruitt, -WEAR YOUR LEGION BUTTON Mess Sgt. Harvey Hilliard. (Fla. ), Oliver Scision, (N. Car.), or anyone else who Cumberland Post No. Fayetteville, remembers Wil- Salute Rifles Not Available 3, liam Otis Rumley. Stokesdale, N. C. Vet suffered North Carolina, has launched a radio from arthritis while in North Africa. Write Rum- An order issued by the Chief of Ord- ley, above address, or Grover C. Bodenhamer, religious program, the first of its kind Service Officer, nance, Department of the tem- John T. Ring Post No. 36. Ameri- Army, in can Legion. the Tarheel State. Arrangements Lock Box 146. Kernersville, N. C. porarily suspends donation of rifles and Battery B, 9.55th FA Bn.. (WW2) - Need to were made with Radio Station WFLB locate buddies other ordnance equipment for ceremo- who served overseas with me and for a spot 8 to 9 every Sunday morn- know of my fall from Army truck, especially nial and trophy purposes as of August "Breezo," from Missouri. Write Carroll G. Comer, ing, which is used for a non-sectarian P. O. Box 957, Del Paso Heights, Cal. 18, 1950. The order was made necessary — religious service broadcast from the Post LSM 48 Urgently need to locate shipmates; because of increased requirements for need help to complete claim. David J. Weaver, home. The program is under the direc- (EM3/c), military 22 Goldstrohm Ave., Dravosburg Pa. materiel as well as the in- tion of the Post Chaplain, Rev. Ken- U. S. Navy Hospital 10. Ward P-l-Will anyone creased workload at the ordnance depots. who was in the hospital with me. please write. neth M. Linder. Statement needed for claim. Herbert Lexie Truett, The purpose of the program, says Rt. 1. Hornbeak. Tenn. Battery C, 935th FA Bn. - Commander Layton McGugan, is to re- Need help to estab- THE AMERICAN LEGION lish a claim; will anyone in the outfit please write mind people of their obligation to the Frank Pysczynski, 2618 W. Charles St., Grand NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Island. Neb. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA church and to urge everyone to attend 49th Ordnance — Urgently need to hear from 31,1950 Sunday School and the church of his anyone who served with my late son, Joseph OCTOBER Bussone, or anyone who choice during the day. The radio hour knows of his injury ASSETS while in service. Medical officer's statement lost; need has met with very favorable response statement from medical officer or comrades Cash on hand and on deposit 339.038.00 to $ establish service injury. Write his mother, Mrs. Receivables 800,114.66 from the public and commendation from Catherine Bussone. Box 35, Thayer, 111. Inventories . . . 313,673.95 Co. A, — the churches. Naval Training Station, San Pedro Invested Funds 665,992.87 Urgently need to hear from men this unit in late Permanent Trusts: Post 3 has another broadcast called fall, 1917. who know of my injury in a fall, strik- Overseas Graves Decoration "American Legion at 3 p.m. from ing a stanchion, while on Hour" guard duty, especially Trust Fund $ 253,266.61 CPO Vic Hagadorn. Write A. W. Wallenius, 611 Employees' Retirement the same station. On this program South St.. Glendale 2. Cal. Trust Fund 1,211.659.85 1,464,926.46 Legion activities and objectives are ex- Real Estate, less depreciation... 494,010.97 WKAR YOUR LEGION BUTTON plained and matters of pai'ticular in- Furniture and Fixtures, less depreciation 294,615.77 terest to veterans are discussed. Deferred Charges 182.479.33 DETROIT AWARDED LITTLE WEAR YOUR LEGION BUTTON $4,554,852.01 WORLD TOURNEY FOR 1951 Chinatown's 1,000 Member Post LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE The national finals of the 1951 Ameri- AND NET WORTH Benjamin Kim Lau Post, Canal can Street, New York City, has enrolled Legion Junior Baseball Tournament Current Liabilities $ 228,510.69 will be staged at Briggs Stadium, De- Funds restricted as to use 402,972.68 more than 1,000 members, all Chinese Deferred Income 944,768.14 troit, all veterans. The Post was Michigan, August 26 to 31 as a Permanent Trusts: and WW2 part of that city's 250th birthday festi- Overseas Graves Decoration named for a Chinese-American Air Trust 253,266.61 $ killed in the val. Announcement of the selection of Employees' Retirement Force Captain who was Deti-oit was made in mid-November by Trust 1,211,659.85 1,464,926.46 South Pacific. Net Worth: the National Americanism Commission YOUR LEGION BUTTON Restricted Capital: rWEAR after considering the bids of three cities. Reserve Fund ..$ 23,464.13 Indicative of the strong interest in the Restricted Fund 15,313.68 County Commander Gets 'Em Reserve for construction of Little World Series, bids were received Washington Lester C. Osier, Commander of the from such widely separated cities as office 1,036,805.84 Essex County, New York, Legion, is a Real Estate 80,000.00 1,156,583.65 Yakima, Washington, and Miami, Unrestricted Capital: member-getter, according to a report Florida. Awarded to Detroit, host for Surplus 97,680.98 received from County Adjutant Louis J. Excess of Income over Expense the 1951 classic will be the Detroit Dis- 10 months . 260,409.41 358.090.39 Morett. In addition to his duties as tricts Association of American Legion 1,513.674.04 County Commander he has found time Posts. This will mark the first time in $4,554.852.01 to sign up 115 of the first 135 members the program's 25-year history that the of his own Post.

The American Legion Magazine • January. 1951 • 35 JOHN LEWIS SMITH, LONG Practical Plan Of Instruction Of Service LEGION LEADER, IS DEAD

. John Lewis Smith, Sr., 73, died on Men Adopted By Monroe County, N.Y., Legion November 9 at his home at Washington, D. C, following a long illness. The Legion, in Monroe County, New to each departing serviceman at Roches- Veteran of the York (Rochester area) has developed a ter also outlines job rights, insurance Spanish-American and World War 1, he was a Past program to train young men going into rights, civil relief provisions, disability Commander-in- Chief of the United service to be veterans right from the compensation fundamentals, service al- Spanish War Vet- erans and had given more than 30 years start. This is one of the most useful lotments and allowances, and tells what of service to The American Legion. services American Legion Posts and The Legion is doing to extend veterans' Member of George Washington Districts can perform for new inductees. benefits to servicemen in the present Post No. 1, of Washington, he had served as And the program outlined by Command- conflict. De- partment Commander of the District of er Roy Duffus of the Monroe County It lists the names and addresses of Columbia, member of the National Ex- Committee is one that other Posts and local Legion Service Officers and Chap- ecutive Committee and was a member Districts could well copy. (Quite -a few lains, and invites inductees to communi- of the National Finance others do have similar programs.) cate with them while in service regard- Commission from 1935 until ill health forced his In the Rochester area every departing ing personal problems which may retirement in 1947. draft is met at the station by a Legion require expert attention at home. In active law practice since 1903, he delegation, and every new inductee re- As new information becomes avail- was associated in practice with son, ceives from the Legionnaires a 254 able the Monroe County Legion brings his John Lewis Smith, Jr., at the time of paper-covered novel to read on the train. out new editions of its advisory sum- his death. He was also Chairman of the Folded in the book is a three-page mary for departing servicemen. Board of The National Tribune, pub- mimeographed summary of important The 254 books given to the inductees lished in the interest of veterans of all rules, regulations, laws, entitlements, are, of course, an additional service. wars. references, rights and advice which Each man in a draft of 75 inductees re- Legionnaire Smith had served as affect the inductee or his family per- ceives a different title to read on the President of the District Bar Associa- sonally. train. On arriving at camp the 75 titles tion and as Vice President of the Ameri- Valuable warnings include this state- become in effect a circulating library can Bar Association. ment: "If you are ever ill or injured for the entire draft. Funeral services were held on Novem- while in service, jot down the place of Any Post or District Commander or ber 13, followed by burial in Arlington treatment and the date. If you are not Service Officer may receive a sample National Cemetery. He is survived by treated at a hospital be sure to have copy of a Monroe County "Bulletin for his wife, son, one daughter, Mrs. P. L. the names and addresses of two or three Departing Service Men." Just print Sadler, and six grandchildren. witnesses. . . . The future of both you "Monroe Bulletin" and then print your and your family may depend on follow- name and address, and your Legion po- ing these simple instructions." sition on the back of a penny postcard. QUIZ KIDS WIN BATTLE OF The advice also warns servicemen up Address the postcard to DEPARTING for discharge not to conceal any dis- SERVICE MEN, AMERICAN WITS WITH 5 LEGIONNAIRES ability in order to hasten the discharge. LEGION MAGAZINE, 580 Fifth Ave- Five prominent Illinois Legionnaires How many veterans have lost compen- nue, New York 19, N. Y. Sorry we can lost a battle of wits on the evening of sation rights this way? only extend this service to Commanders November 5th — but they didn't mind The summary given by The Legion and Service Officers. losing at all. They met defeat at the hands of the Quiz Kids in a radio panel. can scene college professors, ALL-AMERICAN CONFERENCE among Final score: Legionnaires, 95; Quiz newspaper and figures in (Continued from page 3i) proprietors Kids, 120. not the entertainment world who are The Legion panel lined up to out- to the Chinese as it is to the American members of the party. He recalled that smart the youngsters was composed of people. There have been evil ridiculed fellow travelers many and he was by Department Commander Lawrence J. wrong stories told about Chiang and his during the war when of a list of U. S. Fenlon; Martin Finstead, Cook County wife when she visited here recently. government workers totalling 1124 Council Commander; Frank Kelly, Pro- They are our comrades and they are our names he furnished the F.B.I, in 1941 fessor of Speech at the University of allies. only two were dismissed summarily. A Notre Dame; Leon L. Butler, Past Com- "God pity America if we ever recog- great many of those on that list, he said, mander, James G. Brophy Post No. 195, nize Red China. We must keep Red have been shown in the past two or three and Harry H. Harmon, Chairman of the China out of the United Nations. It years to have been engaged in espionage Illinois Boy Scout Division. would be moral disaster and a technical and sabotage in behalf of the Moscow Front row in the cheering section was blunder if we recognized them. It would warlords. Department Commander Fenlon's fami- open the door wide for a of debacle Karl Baarslag of the Legion's Ameri- ly of ten children — all rooting for the freedom and democracy." canism Division, an observer, spoke of Legionnaires. The spirit of the question Turning to General MacArthur and the pitfalls and booby traps set up by session was all in good fun. Quizmaster criticism leveled at him for being absent the commies to trap innocents. He gave Joe Kelly's team ranged from 14-year- from the U. S. for so long, Dr. Poling the delegates a list of books and pamph- old Joel Kupperman down to little Millea declared, "MacArthur is incomparable lets which illustrate these methods. Levin, 8, with 12-year-olds Naomi in battle. There is no other instance in The Legion delegation to the confer- Cooks, Mike Mullen and Sally Ann Wil- history where a conqueror has gained ence was made up of Edward damage helm completing the junior panel. the full confidence of those he con- of Chicago and James F. Green of quered. Omaha. State Senator Jack B. Tenney "There are among our people those Legion Post Gives Scholarships of Los Angeles, the third member named who would smear him. But there have Under scholarships granted by Jack- to represent the Legion, was unable to been no ticker tape parades for him. son-Perks Post No. 71, Charles Town, be Then there are those who say he has present. The American Legion Aux- West Virginia, Walter Painter, Charles been out of the country too long, 14 iliary delegation consisted of Mrs. Willis Town High School graduate, and Robert years. That's not his fault. It has all C. Reed of Vinita, Oklahoma, National Bartles, Harpers Ferry High School, been in the line of duty." President, Mrs. Marie Sheehe of Rock- entered Shepherd College for a full Dr. J. B. Matthews of New York told ford, Illinois, immediate Past President, four-year course. The college scholar- the Conference about the allies that and Mrs. Rae Ashton, Vernal, Utah, who ships are provided for by a special fund communists have found on the Ameri- is National Americanism Chairman. set up for that purpose by the Post.

36 • The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 Did the A^Bomb Do Any Good? (Continued from page 15)

memory until now. And they had other should develop en route. Three weather be able to give the message to the Blessed

things to talk about. . . . ships had taken off an hour ahead to scout Mother before I do." Captain Lewis had prepared for the the three targets chosen as possibilities: So he set out for the river. A few him- Hiroshima drop for years; since Septem- Nagasaki, Kokura and Hiroshima. They dred yards from the rectory he collapsed ber of 1944, when he was secretly alerted reported — only 40 minutes before the and lay there for twelve hours — until for the "biggest project the Air Force Bombs away! — that the weather was help could be brought from the Jesuit will hc.ve to do" and was briefed at a best around Hiroshima. It was that slight novitiate three miles outside the town. hush-hush conference in Utah, on how matter of air currents and wind that thus Then the wounded man was put into a to fly a bomb which the Army officials determined the destiny of 400,000 people hand cart and jounced over the rutted expected to end the war. The captain, — including Father Schiffer. roads for an agonizing trip. At the novi- even then, was an expert on the new The priest's preparation for the event tiate there were no doctors, no nurses. B-29's, which he had been test-piloting of August 6th had been a great deal less It was the rector who looked at Father for many months, along with his com- elaborate than the captain's: he expected Schiffer's back and said, "Why, man, mander, Colonel Paul Tibbets. Captain just another day. A German-born mis- you're full of glass!" Over a hundred glass Lewis met with scientists who told him sionary, he had been studying in Tokyo splinters had lodged in his back, and of the mystic symbols "U235" when only since 1935 and had only recently been these the rector cut out, without anes- a handful of high government officials ordained. The living conditions in Tokyo thesia or proper surgical instruments. knew what they meant. He was trained at that time were difficult; nightly bomb- That night more than a hundred Japa- to drop the bomb before the bomb was ings made sleep a near impossibility and nese patients were also brought to the even made. the young priest was sent, by his superi- novitiate, one by one. Some of them were The preparations for the historic flight ors, to the "quiet" town of Hiroshima for kept as patients for a year or more, and began in Wendover, Utah, at a flying field a rest. Here he was to work at the Jesuit fed out of the Jesuits' own scanty war- whose security precautions were almost Church of the Assumption of Our Lady. time rations. Some of them had been neurotic in their exactitude. The town On the morning of August 6th, Father picked up and added to the hand-cart chosen had more Army intelligence men Schiffer was quietly reading a Japanese caravan that brought the priest himself. in residence than its peace-time citizens newspaper at his breakfast table when "Half a dozen times on that ride," he (only one-hundred men and women, be- the world went white about him. said, "I begged the bearers, 'Let me die wildered to know what on earth was go- ("It happened that way up above, too," here. It's hopeless.' They answered, 'No. ing on) . No more than two atomic sci- said Captain Lewis. "The glare when the We have orders to get you back for a entists were allowed out of Wendover on bomb burst was so brilliant it made the decent Christian funeral. If we leave you any of the experimental flights; certain sun seem pale.") here you'll be mixed up with all the scientists were judged so valuable they The next thing the young priest knew other corpses.' The other corpses were all could never fly at all. When secret flights he was lying down, recovering conscious- around us where the road should have were made — to Los Alamos, N. M., cer- ness and very wet from his own blood. been. tain Air Force officers wore false insignia He could neither see nor hear. That "I know now," the priest added gravely, and took a roundabout route to and from frightened him, for in a bombing such as "quite enough about what hell looks like the towns they visited. he had known before, there should have to make my meditations on that subject The 509 Composite Group was the hush- been much noise. Then he realized that with no prompting from the spiritual hush outfit's final name; it was activated he was deaf, and also that he was blind. books." in December of 1944, trained in Cuba and A few moments later, his senses re- All these details of the effects on the in California. The ship herself came from turned and he gasped at what he saw. earth below were a secret from the the factory labelled 6292, but was given The walls, the windows, had been shat- Americans in the B-29 until last month, the more glamorous name of "Enola Gay" tered into strange, irregular designs. The when the meeting between the two men on her fateful mission. furnishings of the room had crumbled occurred. Captain Lewis has a vivid So Captain Lewis had a pretty good idea to dust. His own clothing had been swept memory of all that happened in the air of what he was going to be doing early away. His feet were bare. And he was in after the target was reached, after the in August of that year. "There were great pain. Bombs away! times," he said, "when I wanted to go A voice from above, the voice of his "Then," the captain recalls, "we made back to Piper Cubs. The scientists couldn't pastor, called to ask, "Father Schiffer, a sharp turn to the right, as the scien- tell us V/hether the bomb dropping would are you living?" (It was an odd question, tists had warned us to. We were flying explode the plane or not. They 'thought' he thought, even then: "He would ask Lf manually by instruments at above 30,000 a safe distance would be three and a half I were wounded unless he half expected feet. Forty-three seconds after we had miles away. Half of them — only half — me to be dead.") dropped it, the A-bomb exploded, 1800 expected the crew to survive!" The pastor and two other priests, who feet above the groimd. My God! I felt a

Where was President Truman on August had been upstairs, rushed down to join flash through my whole body . . . the sci- 6th? He had just left Potsdam where he the gravely injured man. No one under- entists later said it was the 'ozone effect.' had been in conference with Marshal stood yet what had occurred. The rectory Then there were two distinct slaps at the Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was earthquake proof, and its walls held. ship about 20 seconds after the flash. and later, Clement Atlee. The President But the church next door had utterly "The light was at my back, but even weinted the Potsdam warning to Japan to disappeared. And as for the town — so it stunned me. It was fiercer than the be dramatized by the dropping of the "There is a doctor down that street," sun on that bright and sunny day. Yet bomb on August 2nd. Weather conditions the pastor said, and then his voice was by that time we were maybe eight miles caused four days' delay. But every morn- still. There was no street. There was from the explosion. We had to get away ing for those four days the crew of twelve scarcely any city. There were only the fast to avoid the bomb effects ourselves. men were alerted at dawn; every day until horrible sights of ruination where men But later we could loo'^ back and see the the 6th the weather closed down. On that had lived their lives a few hours before. mushroom. morning, however, the skies were clear. Father Schiffer was obviously going to "It looked as if the whole city were The Operations officers reported good die; the pastor spoke accordingly. covered with boiling smoke. In three conditions ahead. The big flight was on. "You will soon see the Blessed Mother minutes it got up as high as 30,000 feet. There were three planes in the group in Heaven," he told him. "Please tell her We could see the flames below crawlirg that took off at 3 A.M. that day: the bomb that we will rebuUd her church on this up the moimtains and covering the bridges ship, an instrument plane and a photo- spot as soon as we can." and tributary rivers. It seemed impossible graphic plane which followed them sev- Father Schiffer moved a bit. to comprehend. eral miles behind. The planes arranged "Father," he said to his superior, "I "I thought, 'My God! What have we to rendezvous at Iwo Jima, where a sub- think I have a chance of life if I can crawl done? If I live a hundred years, I'll never stitute plane was awaiting in case trouble to the river and get some water. You may be able to get this moment out of my

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mind.' I guess I never will. We thought a very hot day. But when I regained my nantly Buddhist. Well, these men ap- the Japanese might have surrendered by sight, I looked about and tried to count proached our rector and asked if we the time we got back to our base. It the fires . . . there are always fires in those would build a 'palace of prayer' for peace seemed like something out of Buck wooden cities of Japan. I counted sixteen right where the A-bomb fell. He was also Rogers. in the first ten minutes. By that time it asked if he wovild supply lecturers to

"Oh, I'd dropped bombs before . . . 10,000 had become very cloudy, but I didn't speak in Buddhist monasteries nearby. pound bombs. But at 30,000 feet they look up or see the mushroom. Conversions to Christianity are soaring make tiny little puffs of smoke when they "There was too much to hold my eyes and the 'palace of prayer' is to be built. explode. This was different. This was aw- to the earth: blood in the streets and The Tokyo newspaper Asahi recently ful. Back at the base I slept for 20 hours. flattened houses with no living men about. conducted a contest among architects for But later I didn't sleep much. I'd lie awake It didn't look nice." the best plans for this memorial shrine, thinking, 'What if the bomb had gone off "I went back to Japan after the war," and some of Japan's foremost architects in the plane? What if we had lost a wing?' said Captain Lewis, "And the Japs in competed for the honor of designing the Only half the scientists ever expected the Tokyo had the damnedest reaction to the structxire. Construction shoiald be under crew to survive, remember. Yet none of bomb you ever heard. They seemed grate- way by the time this article is in print. us had even combat fatigue. It was a small ful for it. They called it 'God's Wind' and Flags of all the countries engaged in sacrifice to end a war ... on the wirmers' said it had saved many lives by bringing World War II will be placed on the altar part, anyway. Nobody connected with the an end to the war." and prayers will be offered up twenty- bomb had to lose his life. Father Schiffer nodded. four hours a day not only for the future "But of course the loss of life in that "I know," he said, "We thought we knew peace of the world but for all the dead city was terrible. We had picked it be- the Japanese psychology well after fifteen and woimded of the war. Names of cause it was an important Japanese head- years, but their reaction at Hiroshima Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant and Jew- quarters . . . the Second Imperial Com- amazed even us. The survivors there felt ish veterans are already being inscribed mand was there." their city had been given a unique honor in a Golden Book of Prayer which the

"Yes," said Father Schilfer gently. "But . . . that of suffering in order to bring Franciscan Adoration Monastery of that was just on paper. Hiroshima was a peace to the world. They look upon their Cleveland is preparing for the slu-ine, debarkation point for China, with about 200,000 dead as willing victims, as heroes scheduled for completion on August 15, 100,000 Japanese soldiers stationed there. sacrificed for world-wide peace." 1952 to coincide with the Feast of the But there were no big military installa- "Were the survivors themselves crip- Assumption. tions. It was a city of 400,000 civilians; of pled by radioactivity?" Already Father Schiffer has built an those at least 200,000 died." "No," said Father Schiffer, "not unless orphanage at Hiroshima where 65 chil- "Good heavens," said Captain Lewis, they had had specific injuries. Many dren are being cared for, and this is to be

"That many?" Hiroshima citizens were bald . . . some expanded to a general hospital in time.

"Yes," replied the priest. "The Japa- for years . . . but now their hair has been And so the effects of the A-bomb on nese official figures minimized the loss at restored. There was no sterility-effect, Hiroshima have included things that the ridiculous figure of 80,000. We knew according to the doctors on the spot, and never crossed the minds of the General better." no increase in the birth of abnormal Staff in Washington, nor of the scientists The pilot nodded. "I could see trolleys babies. who discovered how to release the devil and little bridges going up ... I don't "The survivors of Hiroshima are scarce- that uranium contains, nor, certainly, of know how many." ly worse off physicedly today than before the B-29 crew. For peace and love and "Forty -two bridges were destroyed," the bomb. prayer wUl mark the spot, forever, where said Father Schiffer. "Spiritually, they are far, far better." the A-bomb fell. "Did you hear the bomb coming down?" "And what do you mean by that, "Will you fly back to Hiroshima when "I heard nothing," Father Schiffer re- Father?" asked Captain Lewis. we open our shrine, captain?" asked the plied, "not the plane, nor any impact. "Well," said the priest, "it is a happy priest gently. "Will you try to borrow a

That scared me most when I recovered ending. I'll tell you. . . B-29 and land it at the spot you saw go consciousness. I lay there waiting for the "The Japanese Diet has allotted funds up in smoke before?" next bombs to drop, the way they always to build a University of Hiroshima as a "Will I?" said Captain Lewis. "Will I? had in raids before. The silence was the symbol of peace! That in itself is startling. If I can do that, and maybe bring a plane- most appalling thing of all: no screams, But much more than that is going on. . . . load of candy from America for those no air raid signals, no fire engines rush- "Our missionaries there were recently kids, I'll never have nightmares again ing past." approached by a committee of leading over the damage that we had to do that

"Did you have any sensation of heat?" citizens . . . Buddhists, for the most part. day. I'll agree with you, the story of

"I don't remember . . . anyway, it was Before the war this city was predomi- Hiroshima had a happy ending." the end

The Death of the Houston (Continued jrom page 22) acting as the flagship of his Task Force 5. Command to unify forces in that area. submarines, and a number of auxiliaries. Captain Rooks, one of the few American The ABDA Command was never fully But they were outnumbered about four naval officers who realized the Japanese integrated due to differing services and to one by the overwhelming might of the capabilities, was not surprised when the national aims and prejudices. Neverthe- Japanese fleet that had been sent down radio operator handed him the message less, it provided some of the war's most to that area. Furthermore, the naval air from Admiral Hart: JAPAN STARTED heroic stands by Allied units. Hopelessly arm was practically nonexistent as it con- HOSTILITIES. GOVERN YOURSELVES outnumbered in men, planes, and ships, sisted merely of twenty-eight PBY Cata- ACCORDINGLY. the Allies continued to strike back again Unas of Patrol Wing 10. Of this number, Bombs were already beginning to drop, and again until they had nothing left to twenty-five were soon expended, thus for the Japanese planes lost no time in strike with. Field Marshal Sir Archibald leaving the Allied fleet with no adequate knocking out the small American air force WaveU was the original Supreme Com- means of spotting the advancing enemy. in the Philippines and gaining control of mander with Admiral Thomas C. Hart as Under constant air attacks and suffering the skies. The HoTiston was ordered south Commander Naval Forces (abdafloat) from inadequate repair facilities, faulty to Makassar to join with the other Allied and the British Rear Admiral Palliser and knowledge as to dangers to navigation naval forces in defense of the lands that the Dutch Rear Admiral Doorman were and constant threats at all points, the were being threatened by the advancing his assistants. Allied force continued to dwindle as the Japanese. At first glance the Allied defending Japanese scale of attack grew greater. Less than six weeks after Pearl Harbor, force might seem formidable as it consisted The AUied war machine needed the the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff or- of nine cruisers (including the American vitally important oil from the rich oil dered the establishment of the ABDA cruisers Houston, Boise, and Marble resources of the Indies. As the Japanese (American, British, Dutch, Australian) head), twenty-two destroyers, thirty-one began to stretch their greedy tentacles

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toward this field, the Houston was used practically no plsmes in the South Pacific perhaps they would go down — but they during January to furnish protection in those early days of the war. However, would go down as free men shoiild with

from aircraft and surface raiders to the the enemy plane withdrew without doing flags flying and . . . fighting to the last. merchantmen that carried the oil. Mean- any damage, but in the meantime she had This was the spirit of the defenders of while, the Allied Command anxiously reported the presence of the Allied troop isolated Java. awaited an opportxme time to strike at the convoy. "Every opportunity for offensive action enemy troops that were being rushed to Captain Rook knew there was trouble must be seized and sacrifices must be

the area. ahead and he prepared for it . . . made to the end. . . . We will have to do

They did not have long to wait . . . The next morning the Japanese sent our duty until the last moment." . . . Word was received that a large enemy their planes down for the kill — thirty-six Those were the fighting words that Ad- transport force was approaching Makas- land-based bombers and ten seaplanes miral Doorman flashed to his commanders sar Strait, so at midnight on the fourth of bore down upon the Allies, who had no on Washington's birthday, February 22, February, Admiral Doorman led the planes to ward off the attack. Undaunted, 1942. Combined Striking Force out of Bunda the gunners on the Houston filled the Three days later all hell began to break Roads off Surabaya, Java. The little task skies over the convoy with such a care- loose as flight after flight of Japanese force consisted of four cruisers and eight fully laid barrage of shells that not a bombers flew over Surabaya at high alti- destroyers. Before 10 o'clock that morn- single transport was struck by a Japa- tude and began dropping their deadly ing they were attacked by a large Japa- nese bomb, and the enemy planes had to eggs. At such altitudes they were com- nese bombing squadron that began drop- tiom back after losing about twenty per- paratively free from interference since ping its deadly load of bombs with recent of their number. However, ABDA the Allies had no aerial support and the markable accuracy. Admiral Doorman headquarters worried over the reported Houston's five-inch guns were the only signaled to his ships to scatter at high presence of enemy carriers to the north, ones whose shells could reach to those speed. It was now each Allied ship for ordered the convoy back to Darwin. After heights. By 2200 on the second day the itself. Captain Rooks conned his Houston refueling, the Houston set out alone for Houston's men had been at general quar- with amazing skill and courage, one mo- its base at Tjilatjap in Java and from there ters for almost two days with hardly a ment swerving violently to starboard to proceeded to Surabaya. rest. avoid a stick of bombs and at the next The Dutch Admiral's ABDA Combined In spite of the weariness of the men, moment shouting his command to swing Striking Force had now been reduced to Admiral Doorman issued orders that his hard to port to avoid another falling sheaf only five cruisers and eleven destroyers. task force would put to sea to engage the of high explosives. Geysers from near Against this tiny task force, Japan was three-pronged Japanese invasion force misses sent tons of water over the decks ready to throw the full might of its pow- bearing down on Java. The tiny fleet, and threatened to spring the plates of the erful navy. The outcome was inevitable augmented by five British ships, two sturdy vessel as she raced through the unless the action could be delayed long cruisers and three destroyers, steamed Java Sea, turning first this way and then enough to bring the American potential out to meet their rendezvous with death. that. Her anti-aircraft guns were now fir- to bear. How long would that be? With Doorman turned south toward Sura- ing almost continuously, and there were the destruction of the powerful American baya Strait, disregarding Admiral Hel- shouts of triumph from the gunners as warships at Pearl Harbor, the United frich's radio command: "Notwithstanding first one then another of the big planes States had received a deadly body blow. air attacks you are to proceed eastward came crashing down in flames — but still How long would it be before a new to search for and attack the enemy." At the raiders from the land of the rising Pacific fleet could be rebuilt? No one 1427, however. Doorman received definite sun kept up their attack. How long could knew, but it was the prime purpose of the word of the location of Rear Admiral the Houston withstand this concentrated ABDA to slow down the Japs so that valu- Nishimura's Japanese Eastern Attack assault? Good luck could not keep up able resources in the East Indies might be Force. The Dutch commander thereupon indefinitely. systematically destroyed before they fell reversed his course to commence what

Time was running out . . into the hands of the enemy; above all, is now known as the Battle of the Java With the sickening crash that shook the delay would preserve the self-respect of Sea. Houston from stem to stern and sent her the Allied nations. The ignoble and hasty The Allied Forces were doomed before reeling, a heavy bomb made a direct hit capitulation of France had brought a sense the engagement commenced. . . . on its mainmast and exploded over the of doubt, dread and disgust to the mind Lack of a battle plan. Doorman's failure main deck, sending fragments through of every free man in the world. In the end to bring cruiser scout planes because a the thick, steel enclosure of Turret Three. Forty-eight sailors were killed instantly GENERAL MISCHIEF S. B. and twenty more lay horribly mutilated By STEVENS and dying. Turret Three with its main battery of eight-inch guns was completely wrecked — never to be used again — but the HotLston kept on going. Fortimately, heavy rain squalls closed in, obscuring the Allied ships. The Japa- nese planes having laid most of their eggs by this time, flew back to their base at Kendari. Wary of further airborne as- saults. Doorman turned and led his Al- lied force along the south coast of Java, reaching Batavia via Sunda Strait. Although her rear turret had been completely knocked out of action, ren- dering her defenseless aft, the Houston still had greater fire-power than the next largest Allied vessel, the British cruiser Exeter, so she was immediately ordered to the convoying of troops between Dar- win, Australia, and Timor. While escorting American and Austra- lian troops to Timor on February 15, she was spotted by a Japanese fov.r-engined flying boat. Captain Rook's frantic radio appeal for air coverage brought only a single P-40 fighter as the Allies had

The Ameitcan Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • night engagement had been expected, Japanese transports. With no knowledge Allied surface forces from the Java Sea language difficulties, and the failure of of their whereabouts and no means of before they were completely isolated, but the Netherlands Air Force Commander at obtaining the necessary information, the Admiral Helfrich decided to reassemble Surabaya to respond to the request for Allied task force steamed on. In the them at Tjilatjap on the south coast. From aerial support boded ill for the Houston darkness they passed close by the trans- here he thought that he could renew the and the other members of the Allied task ports without realizing it. Instead they fight or aid in the evacuation of personnel. force. ran head on into Takagi's warships again. Which of the few, narrow channels to A forest of masts soon began to appear Japanese scout planes dropped their the south should be used for an exit? over the horizon as Admiral Takagi's garish, horrifying flares, which illumi- Admiral Glassford proposed Lombok battle fleet from the land of the rising sun nated the Allied task force like Times Strait, separating Bali and Lombok to the pressed forward. While still sixteen miles Square on New Year's Eve while, at the east, as Bali Strait itself was too narrow away, the big guns on the Nachi and the same time, the Japanese warships kept and shoal for the heavy vessels. Admiral Haguro opened fire. Doorman gave orders firing in the comparative obscurity of the Palliser, however, directed the Exeter and for full speed ahead in order to get within darkness. Doorman realized that the jig her escorts to use Sunda Strait, between light cruiser range so that the fire power was up and decided to break clear, re- Java and Sumatra, on the grounds that from his lightly armed task force might Bali was already occupied by the enemy do the most damage. and the ships would surely be spotted Soon the Houston was able to open up en route. Thereupon, Admiral Glassford with her eight-inch guns, sending blood- assented to the Houston using that pas- red geysers high into the air as they fell sage, too. close to their mark. Some of the less ex- The decision, in light of what we now perienced officers on the Nachi were ter- know, was disastrous! rified at this bloody omen, not knowing Without adequate aerial reconnaissance, that the Houston was firing dye- loaded the Admirals were unaware that at that shells in order that they might be more moment Rear Admiral Kurita was ap- easily observed as they bracketed their proaching that same Sunda Strait with target. Japan's entire Western Attack Force. Like Takagi then sent two light cniisers and the British decision to send the light bri- two columns of destroyers forward to gade into the very center of the Russian make a torpedo attack. Forty-three tor- army at Balaklava, someone had blun- pedoes were launched in 15 minutes with- dered. Previous reports of the presence out a hit, owing to the range. Withdraw- of the Japanese fleet in nearby waters ing, the Nipponese light vessels laid a were ignored. And so the USS Houston smoke screen which, since the enemy had and the HMAS Perth went forth "to do aerial spotters and we had none, aided and die." The other ships, with the excep- the Japanese immensely. tion of four American destroyers, like- HMS Exeter received a direct hit wise were vanquished. The Exeter and which crippled her speed. Her commander the Encounter ran into the ubiquitous swung out of column to avoid being hit forces of Takagi and were promptly sent by the Houston, which was running at to the bottom. The USS Pope was sunk by carrier planes full speed directly behind her. Without "Keep your shirt on — I'll be down from the Ryujo. The a battle plan, Captain Rooks and the fol- before you finish scraping the toast!" HNMS Evertsen was beached in a sinking condition on Island lowing commanders did likewise. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Sabuku while the The Japanese Admiral seeing the Allies HNMS Witte de With, unable to get un- thrown into confusion, ordered another derway because her captain had granted destroyer torpedo attack. Before this verse his course and try to escape from liberty to his crew, was bombed and could be accomplished. Doorman ordered the heavy battleships of the Japanese sunk at her moorings. a British destroyer counterattack and by running close to the Java coast. HMS And what of the ill-fated Houston and then, reforming his shaken force as best Jupiter ran right into a Dutch minefield the Perth? he could, bore off to the southeast with and went down. The Encounter was or- In spite of frantic pleas from Captain the Japanese fleet in hot pursuit like a dered to turn about and try to pick up Rooks for needed supplies and repairs, he pack of hounds relentlessly tracking down observed survivors of the afternoon's was ordered to sea. His ship, which even a fox. battle. Then, detaching his American de- before the Java Sea engagement had The Houston continued to fire, zigzag- stroyer at the coast. Doorman continued needed fire control changes, improve- ging to bring her turrets to bear. Just on with his cruisers without destroyer ments in the anti-aircraft weapon com- before sundown she received her first support. plement, and overall hull repairs, had to damage when a heavy shell, without ex- The Admiral's strategy did not work. sail out with the after turret completely ploding, passed right through the forward An hour before midnight, the Dutch out of commission, no planes left in an part of the ship, leaving a great, gaping leader again found himself like a fox at operable condition, and with but 88 hole in her hull. A second hit ruptured bay. The Japanese, steaming on a parallel rounds of ammimition for the eight-inch some of her oil tanks but the gallant course, let loose a flood of torpedoes. The rifles in the forward turrets. There was a Houston kept up the fight. Her guns grew Dutch cruiser Java was the first to feel shortage in smaller caliber ammunition, red hot and the gunners sank down from the horrifying shock of the exploding too. The Perth was not much better off, exhaustion into the inches -thick grease torpedo as it found its mark. With battle and its crew were apprehensive over the that had melted and run off the gun slides flags still flying she sank beneath the fact that the picture of the British naval onto the deck, but other men rushed for- waves. The next victim was the Admiral's hero. Lord Nelson, which had hung se- ward to man the guns. own flagship the De Ruyter. The deadly curely on the wall in the wardroom up By now the gunners had used up all fish had accomplished their destructive to a few days before, gazing with love the ammunition available for the forward mission. Doorman had only time to radio and inspiration on his beloved sailors, was turrets, but that did not deter them. Al- his remaining cruisers to proceed to Ba- found after the Java Sea battle, broken though the Turret Three guns had been tavia as the waters closed over his flag- and disfigured, lying on its face on the rendered useless, there was still ammuni- ship, silencing him forever. deck. tion back aft. So, men were dispatched What a battle! Within the short space The crew of the Houston were glad that to the wrecked after turret and laborious- of seven hours, half of Doorman's Strik- they were at last on their way home to ly struggled forward with the live am- ing Force had been sent to the bottom, their loved ones. They were quite willing munition over the slippery decks in spite and the Admiral himself lay in a watery that others should come out to find out, of the danger as the ship veered, pitched grave. But the Houston limped back to as they had, that Sherman was right: and was constantly under fire. port on the north side of Java. "War is hell!" 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cussion from the constant firing of the rest of the Japanese warships. In the Later one of the survivors said: "There main battery had overturned furniture,, meantime the Allied ships held to their was a solid wall of enemy ships. You smashed mirrors, stopped clocks, ripped course, not having seen the Fubuki. didn't have to sight. You just blazed charts off bulkheads and blown the draw- Captain Rooks, imaware of the Japa- away!" ers from every desk on board, spewing nese landing ahead, felt sure that if the The Houston was now close to the their contents in profusion on the deck. Japanese fleet were around, it would be Japanese transports. When the Japanese Plates, weakened by near misses during far out to sea. So he decided to stay close destroyer Fubuki, that had been follow- the many times in which the Houston to the shore to avoid meeting the vastly ing, was sighted and challenged, she had been under attack, were sprung and superior n\xmber of the enemy. answered by firing a salvo of nine tor- leaking, the glass windows of the bridge Imagine his surprise when his lookouts pedoes. The Houston swung hard right were shattered, and puddles along the reported that dozens of Japanese trans- and miraculously managed to avoid the passages marked leaking fire hoses. ports were directly ahead, making for torpedoes that had been fired at a dis- Just as the dying sun sank to rest be- the shore! tance of less than 3000 yards. The tor- hind the horizon on February 28, 1942, the What should he do? That was a difficult pedoes kept right on going and hit one Houston and the Perth got under way. decision for Captain Rooks to make. Here of the transports. Overhead, huge, pale, cumulus clouds bil- lay the very enemy transports that Ad- After destroying as many of the Japa- lowed upward like ominous ghosts in a miral Doorman had given his life to find! nese transports as they could, the Perth blood red sky. Who can say what thoughts Should he. Captain Rooks, stand and fight, and the Houston were now ready to run occupied the mind of Captain Rooks as or should he run for Sunda Strait and the gauntlet of the Japanese fleet which the nodding palm trees of the Java shore safety? was bearing down on them with all speed. slipped out of sight? Although he knew Both the Houston and the Perth could By midnight the air was filled with the that the Houston was the only major make over 30 knots — and Saint Nicholas red glare of rockets and screaming shells American warship still afloat in the west- Point at the far end of Banten Bay was as the encircling Japanese fleet fired ern Pacific, there was no fear in those only twelve miles away — less than a half everything it had. The enemy had come deep set eyes. Had he not already met the hour's rvm. Although Captain Rooks within range in all directions and the enemy? Captain Rooks was confident knew that there must be protecting Japa- struggle became a melee, like a pack of that nothing could stop the Houston as nese warships not too far away, no enemy great, gaunt hounds and yapping terriers

nothing ever had. . . warships were visible as yet. There was ripping and cutting at two cornered foxes. Condition Two was set — so that half still time to make a quick dash — and es- With enemy shells ripping through her the batteries of the Houston were manned cape. Once around the point the Houston sides, the Perth was the first to be put while the other half of the crew tried to and Perth would be out in the Indiam. out of commission. Two torpedoes hit her, snatch a few hours of well-deserved rest Ocean, where they could vanish in the one on the starboard side and one in the beside their battle stations. It was a mot- depths of the night while the Japanese forward engine room. As she lay dead ley scene on board because the battle- warships would undoubtedly remain be- in the water, unable to move, her ammu- scarred veterans, in an attempt to tone hind to guard their charges against a re- nition nearly expended, her four-inch down their tell-tale white imiforms to an turn or other surprise raids. By dawn mounts totally inoperable, her men con- undistinguishable khaki, had only suc- the Houston and the Perth would be free. tinued to fire practice and star shells at ceeded in making them every color of But duty beckoned the other way. If the enemy because they just had to con- the rainbow — green, blue, yellow, and the Houston and the Perth altered their tinue firing something. The enemy de- even purple. course to attack the transports, there was stroyers closed in on her like jackals The coastline that stretched out before no escape. The Japanese warships would waiting for the gallant ship to die. As the them reminds one of the shape of the close in and trap them. Yet himdreds of ship began to sink, its captain ordered sickle carried by the Grim Reaper — for their conrurades had given up their lives "Abandon ship! Every man for himself!" death was riding the waves that night. in the dark waters of the Java Sea in an But before the vessel slipped beneath the Starting at Tanjong Priok, the shore runs attempt to get at these very Japanese glassy sea, two more torpedoes struck, straight like the long handle of the sickle transports which now lay directly ahead. killing a number of men in the water. for a distance of fifty miles. Then comes This was the purpose of the ABDA — Hundreds of others were carried down Pontang Point and the curved blade of destruction of the enemy. There was no with the ship. Other hundreds died in the the sickle — Banten Bay. Around Saint other choice. Captain Rooks gave orders water as grinning Nipponese poured ma- Nicholas Point at the far end of the bay to attack! chine gun fire at them. Only about 330 lay Sunda Strait and freedom. That was the gamble — but the dice

were loaded against Rooks that night. . . . For at that very moment Rear Admiral Kurita was superintending the largest Japanese landing yet made in the south- western Pacific. And his beachhead was

none other than . . . Saint Nicholas Point — directly in the path of the Houston and the Perth. The wary Japanese commander had left nothing to chance. Although he knew there was very little danger of any attack by an Allied warship, he had brought with him a mighty armada. Four heavy Japanese cruisers and the aircraft carrier Ryujo lay about twenty miles to sea- ward while the powerful Mogami and the Mikuma were in close enough to shore for direct support. And in Banten Bay itself was the light cruiser Natori, a destroyer squadron, and numerous smaller craft. As the unsuspecting Houston and Perth roimded Pontang Point and tiimed to hug the circular shore of Banten Bay, they were discovered by the Japanese destroyer Fubuki that was standing guard there. She immediately radioed the alarm to the

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men survived, of whom 200 were picked But the end was near at hand. . . . scinded by the Executive Officer, Com- up by a Japanese destroyer. A whole enemy salvo landed squarely mander David W. Roberts, long enough The Houston's bells struck eight bells, on the HoiLston's Number Two Turret, to give the ship time to slow down as it signifying the witches' hour of midnight. completely destroying it. The order was still has too much way on. The once The Perth had just sunk bow first in the immediately given to "Flood Turret Two's mighty HoxLston is now blazing fiercely. sea when the fury of hell was turned loose magazines." It has so much of a list that its heavy on her as the lone survivor. The glare of Fires were now beginning to break out guns are useless, but the small caliber the star shells lit up the eerie scene. Tor- throughout the entire ship, and it was weapons chatter defiance to the end. pedo boats were now coming in through becoming increasingly difficult to cope The command to abandon ship is at the smoke screens; destroyers circled with them. Losing speed slowly, her in- last sounded by the bugler. Seaman Staf- swiftly, pouring in a deadly barrage; the board propellers turning over lazily, the ford, as the communication system has enemy cruisers lay back and lobbed over Houston was suddenly struck by three long since gone dead. The Japanese are their high explosives. more torpedoes on the starboard side as impatient. More torpedoes are shot into The five-inch batteries on the Houston the enemy destroyers closed to rake her the sinking vessel. went to local control — there were simply decks with machine guns. Dropping over the sides or climbing too many targets for the directors to Her decks were littered with the dead. down the cargo nets, what is left of the handle. Captain Rooks conned his ship The screams of the dying could be heard crew begin to depart. Nipponese gunners this way and that at high speed, dodging above the sound of machine gun fire. Her begin machine gunning the quarterdeck persistent torpedo attacks. The ship superstructure, a maze of twisted metal, and the port hangar where knots of sur- seemed to be leading a charmed life. wood and glass, leaned at a crazy angle. vivors have clustered. High in the main-

But her luck was fast running out. . . . Below decks, many fires raged, and the mast a lone Marine sergeant with a 50 The Fubuki, that had first taken up the water-filled compartments gave the erst- caUber machine g\m tries to offer some scent of the Houston and had been hot while queen of the Asiatic fleet an omi- protection to his buddies as they fight on the trail all evening, finally managed nous list to starboard. The shell hoists desperately for life. The Japanese depress to send a torpedo crashing through the had been knocked out of commission so their guns to bear on the sailors struggling side of the ship. It hit the after engine that the flow of projectiles to the secon- in the water, at the same time lobbing room, ruptxiring the main steam lines and dary batteries had been halted. Those over high explosives whose concussion scalding or drowning the entire engine who tried to bring up ammunition had crushes the insides of those who thought room force. With this engine room out of been prevented by the smoke and blocked that they were safe. commission, the Houston's speed was cut passageways. To maintain a volume of Within twelve minutes after the Aban- in half. fire, however insignificant, the ready don Ship Command has been given, the Steam, hot enough to sear human flesh, boxes had been broken out and their Houston rolls over to starboard and goes now hissed out through the bulkhead stop starshells were being used as ordinary down. Outside of the Captain's cabin, his valves and drove out the occupants of ammxmition. faithful Chinese cook sits cross-legged, the near-by boat deck. Battle Two and The queen is dying. . . moaning to himself as he rocks back and repair stations. Thick smoke, combining As the Houston began to settle fur- forth, "Captain dead, Houston dead, Buda with the escaping steam, also drove the ther in the water. Captain Rooks sadly die, too." men from their g\ms on the adjoining turned to Ensign Herbert A. Leavitt, his Two out of every three American boys weather decks. Then a second torpedo Signal Officer, and said, "Have the word aboard the Houston, who thought they came crashing through the sides of the piassed for all hands to abandon ship." were going home, went down with the ship and destroyed the main battery plot Hardly had the command been given ship that night. Only 368 men, of an forward. The hapless survivors of that when a nearby Japanese destroyer landed original complement of over 1000, reached explosion were wiped out by a shell burst a salvo of direct hits on the bridge, crum- the shore, to be captured and imprisoned as they emerged on the main deck. pling it like tinfoil. A piece of the breech until the end of the war. Of these 368, One of the Japanese warships became mechanism of a 1.1 inch gun (that was nearly one -fourth died in prison. confxised and for a few brief moments blown up by the explosion) flew back Thus ends the story of the Houston, turned its searchlights so that they illu- through the brave Captain's chest so that posthumously awarded this citation: minated a number of their own ships. he never lived to see his beloved Houston "Often damaged, but self-sustaining, The gunners on the HoiLston seized this go down. the Houston kept the sea and went down, opportunity to sink one of the Japanese The Captain is dead. . . gallantly fighting to the last against over- ships and to dcimage three destroyers. The command to abandon ship is re- whelming odds." THE END Warhorse Jiuldoon and the Veteran Vote

( Continued from page 13) "As usual, His Majesty, Colonel Pea- my chest. In short, he loathes and despises yo' papa, fat boy. Nurse, bring the bottle. body, is still lounging in his tent, so I me above all the creatures of the earth. The man's dying on his feet!" holler in and tell him what the general If there's a Jap within forty miles he trots That's good enough for me. I leave 'em says. He immediately hollers back that me out on some silly errand to give him working over the Japs and a fifth. They the general is a boot-nose old fool, the target practice. Just to annoy Peabody must kill all or both of 'em. When they only man in the Army with a bigger belly I went underground every chance I got. come pushing through the crowd at than mine and that he'd like to see him That's where poor Jackson came in." speaking time, the Doc is really loaded. lugging such a load of guts up that damn "Warhorse," I say, "that's a very funny "Make way for the Iron Duke!" he's hol- ridge. story, but this Muldoon-the-Mole busi- lering. "Make way for the Iron Duke." "It occurs to me that he is not aware ness is gonna play hell with your Man O' "Wcirhorse," I hiss, when they swagger that the general is out there in the jeep. War billing!" up on the platform, "Doc can't make any ." I'm positive that he doesn't really feel "Peace, Edward, peace. My great and speech, he's . . that way about the dear old general, so good friend. Dr. John Bamer, wiU re- "Quiet, peasant!" he roars. "We bring I holler back and ask him if he heard deem me at Covington tomorrow. He'll tidings of great joy. Put us on." what I said. He not only repeats himself tell 'em the truth about old Mars Mul- We)l, to give the Doc a little time to but goes into his cheap imitation of the doon. He was our battalion doctor and cool out, we put the Warhorse on first. general giving orders. He is at the very believe me, Edward, he really loved me Immediately I make a note to stock up on funniest part when the general walks like a brother. He'd split his last flagon whatever it is they've been drinking. The into the tent. of alcohol with me!" stuff has put a platinum coat on that "Believe it or not, Edward, things are Well, that's one love affair the War- silver tongue of his. It's the best speech never the same between Peabody and horse underplays. The Doc, a little, short, of his career. Through it all the Doc is me after that. He gives up trying to get bald-headed fellow greets him like he's sitting there patting his feet and chanting: those eagles on his shovilder and devotes a long lost debtor. "Is it really you, Han- "You tell 'em. Stonewall" . . . "Oh, you're all of his energy toward getting Ulies on nibal, or one of yovir elephants. Come to so right, Harmibal. Tell me more" . . .

^2 * American Legion Magazine • lanuaiy, 19S1 "Bravo, Scipio, bravo . . . Let 'em have it!" "Joe," I wheeze, "he's not putting the thing else. I feel awfully sorry for him. ." Then, as the town's leading citizen, the finger on the . . "Look, Warhorse," I say, "maybe things Doc takes over with his testimonial. "Yep. One of our boys down at King- will tiuTi out all right after all. Everybody Damon at Pythias' funeral never said ston just called. Slocum is coming down knows how politics are. And they know sweeter things. He says the Warhorse was out of the Wallow tomorrow just to sink how a lot of the boys feel about the offi- a bright cloud by day and a pillar of fire his fangs in the Warhorse. He's gonna cers they were under. I was in the Army. ." by night, the heart, soul and life-blood tell 'em that the Warhorse was a coward, I know how they feel. The only . . of the battalion. Where the bullets were had the heart of a chicken, the brain of I don't finish it. An idea has mush- the thickest, there was Muldoon. He a guinea hen, and the fight of a rabbit. roomed in the darker, danker section of hammers out every dent in his armor. If we don't give him a hearing he's gonna my brain. It makes me shudder to think

Red and Jackson have lived in vain. tear the place down." what will happen if it backfires but . . . March on, Muldoon! Then, when every- "Joe," I moan, "we're cursed. The Lord "Warhorse," I say, "I got an idea. It's ." body is wondering why we had to have has turned his face from us. Our guardian a blood curdling thing and . . MacArthur when Muldoon was so handy. angels got their heads tucked under their "Never mind that," Joe growls. "What Doc say's he's gonna tell 'em about the wings! We run a veteran for office and is it?" great man's wound. "I can't tell you. Your blood pressure Warhorse makes a frantic grab for him couldn't stand it!" but it's too late. Doc is already telling That sets Joe and Muldoon off. They them about the day a bunch of Jap bom- raise so much hell the desk clerk has to bers hit their column. "Me and the come over and quiet 'em down. "All driver," he rants, "dive under the jeep. right," Joe snarls finally, "go ahead and But not Muldoon. No, sir!" I'm getting play the big mystery man. But if it doesn't awful proud of my fat friend. work, by God, you can just as well close "No, sir," Doc continues, "Muldoon's shop. We'll ruin you." stomach is so big he can't get under the "And, Edward," the Warhorse says, jeep. Nothing but his head and shoulders "don't overlook the fact that I still have anyway, the rest of 'im is all sticking out. my old service revolver." One of them bombs drops not fifty feet Well, at three o'clock the next after- away." (Dramatic pause.) "My friends, noon my trap is all set. Just who it's you should have seen the seat of the gorma catch I still don't know. All I know Muldoon's trousers." is that the Warhorse is my bait and I'm

That does it. Spell's over. Everybody having a helluva time with him. His roars. Good old Doc! Ain't he a card! The nerves are unravelling. hell of it is that the Doc hasn't meant "Edward," he hisses, "by God, you tell to be a card. That juice in him has fer- me what this is all about or I'm getting mented and he's told the thing in all seri- down off this gibbet right now!" ousness. "What are you laughing about?" I can't blame him too much. There are he screeches. "Most painful wound you some twenty-five hundred people packed ever saw. I was picking bomb splinters aroxuid the Kingston square but only one out of his seat for two days." of them is in focus — the Wildman. He's know so much about military That sends them into convulsions. Even "If you standing right down in front of the plat- strategy, how come you were only a Warhorse starts laughing. Then Doc real- form giving the Warhorse that Booth-to- corporal in the last war?" izes what a fool he has made of himself Lincoln look. A tall, gaunt, sunk-eyed AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE and he starts laughing. Everybody's fellow, he looks like one of the Four laughing but me. I know what kind of Horsemen about to mount up. He'd make play the it. papers will give The whoop- who beats us? Not the school teachers, an undertaker squirm. ing keeps up until Warhorse takes a bow. not the unions, not the farmers, not the Finally our fiddlers go into "March On, The show's over. Everybody flocks around miners but our dearly beloved, never- Muldoon" and I get ready to take the the heroes. forgetting veterans. It's cannibalism!" podium. "I told you I'd fix up, Hannibal," grip that chair, you We try plotting an escape course. It "Get a good on War- Doc whoops. got in this I music "You every vote won't chart. We got to carry Kingston horse!" tell him. He quivers, the town!" I face the multitude. to carry the district and, if we don't show stops and "Yeah," I growl, "and he's lost fifty up, the folks will really believe the Wild- "Friends," I start out, "your good thousand in the rest of State. to introduce our the War- man's tale. Then the Warhorse strolls in Mayor was scheduled horse, your warrior days are over. All the lobby and we check the thing with distinguished speaker today but upon the voters can think of now is you trying him. learning that there was another well to belly that the occasion, up under jeep. You ruined "Hell, yes," he bellows, "I was a coward. known figiire on hand for him with that one, Doc." generously insisted that he have the I was the yellowest-bellied skulker you he "Don't listen to him, Doc," instead." Warhorse ever saw. You know why? I wouldn't get honor says, patting him on the back. "Greatest (I can hear the Warhorse fidgeting out my little cap pistol and take on the speech I ever heard. You to behind me. Lee looking for Long- got teach me whole Japanese army. I wouldn't crawl around ." those gestures. You're the . . around on my belly all night in those street.) I leave 'em fawning all over each other swamps strangling imperial marines with "This man has known the speaker in foul, storm strife. and head for the hotel. Joe Bradley is my bare hands. That was the way that fair weather and in and waiting for in his greatness of soul, his noble- me the lobby. "I know," idiot Slocum wanted to fight the war. It He knows ." I tell him. . . the rare quality of his "The deal is was strictly a private war with him. Just ness of spirit and courage. It gives me great pleasure to "You ain't heard anything," he says. because I asked him to stay in nights ." "You know Harry Slocum? Sergeant and play war with the rest of us he gets introduce to you . . Slocum?" very armoyed with me. I'm a yellow dog, I turn and gesture towards the thin, I ." bald headed, mote-eyed man coming up groan. Everybody knows Slocum. The a . . J. Wildman of Wolf Wallow they call him. "Warhorse," I moan, "I believe you, but the steps on the left — "Frederick Pea- under He runs wild in the Philippines one day, when that fool gives his version of it to- body, formerly Colonel Peabody, wipes out practically a whole battalion morrow we might as well half-mast the whom our speaker served during the last

of Japs, and when he snaps out of it, he's flag." war." got himself the Medal of Honor. He is He just shakes his head. It's the first I imagine there is the usual polite ap- THE veteran in the State. Anything to time I've ever seen him really worried plause. All I'm conscious of, though, is do with the war, the papers always want about anything. He knows that that a long-drawn-out, deathbed wheeze com- a quote from the Wildman. He's the final slander of Slocum's won't only wreck his ing from the Warhorse. He's been ex- word. politics but his law business and every- pecting a St. Bernard to bring him in

The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 out of the cold and I've whistled up the look Eiround at the crowd for a minute. low, their pride and their joy, the oil in Beast of the Apocalypse instead. I can't "Ladies and gentlemen," I say very their lamps, has brought them the Word. bear to look. I just sit down and wait for solemnly, "you have just heard from So be it. They're ready to lynch Peabody the blood to start flowing. Colonel Frederick J. Peabody, winner of and canonize the Warhorse. He looks like Peabody is at his Prussian best, stand- the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf he's ready for it. He's beaming like a bull ing there like an instrument of the gods. clusters. I would like to present to you angel. "Ladies and gentlemen," he says, "yes- now, Harry Slocima, formerly Sergeant Then Slocum quiets 'em down and terday I received a call from Mr. Edward Slocum, winner of the Congressional starts going into detail about what a hel- Hicks, the speaker's campaign manager, Medal of Honor. He also served with luva soldier the major really was. I think asking if I would be so kind as to say a Major Muldoon. Come up, Mr. Slocvun." he means it too, he's just a little late rec- few words in behalf of my old comrade- Every drop of blood I got is sloshing ognizing the facts. It's the sweetest music in-arms. I told him in all truth that I around in my shoes. I sit down, fold my I ever heard. It drowns out all the sour would be delighted to tell you good people arms cuid look straight up in the sky. notes that have been smuggled in. I see everything I know about the speaker." When I'm sending up prayers I want the our dear, sweet friends, the reporters, Then he gets groimd glass in his voice. direct route. Above all the cheering, I jotting it all down. God is in his heaven. "Ladies and gentlemen, seldom if ever hear Slocum clomping up the steps. He When the Wildman winds up, the War- has a man been given the splendid op- slumps across the platform and gets horse takes over. It ain't necessary. King portimity I now have to serve my State. squared away in front of the mike. County and Kingston, and as far as that I intend to make the most of it. Instead "Folks," he bellows out, "you all know I goes, the rest of the State is already salted of an introduction I want this to be a ain't much for speaking but right now away. It's not imtil we're sitting around funeral oration bidding farewell once and I'm kinda inspired." I nearly black out. the Warhorse's room celebrating that he for all to the political ambitions of this Those homespun tones have got murder gets a chance to inquire about the details would-be Caesar who sits behind me." in them. I can't help but look. of my strategy. He turns around. His head looks like a He turns around and points a big, bony "Edward," he says, "I'm your slave for snake roost, so many veins have popped finger right at the Warhorse. "Folks, I life and all that sort of thing, but was it out on it. His lips are quivering and his want all of you to take a good look at absolutely necessary for you to bring nostrils flapping. He points to what a this big bellied old man. Fat as a hog at Peabody down here? Did you really think few moments before was a man. killing time, ain't he? Big, flat feet, that evil old man would say nice things "Ladies and gentlemen," he bellows, "I wheezy, broken-down, even looks like about me?" served three years with Major Muldoon. he's got a little palsy right now. Well, "Warhorse," I say, "let me ask you a Those three years served only to confirm folks, that old wreck right there is as question. Why do you think the Wildman my first impression of him. He not only brave a man as the good God ever blessed had that change of heart?"

. . . looks like a blimp, he is a blimp very a country with. If there's any more wars "That's . what I'm talking about. You little spine, very few guts and full of gas." to be fought I want to do my fighting bribed him so why did you have to bring Then he really starts getting brutal. under him. Mind you, he ain't no Napo- Peabody in?" He must have kept a dieiry to have been leon, he ain't any Stonewall Jackson but "Warhorse, you're learning politics but able to remember all the nasty, petty, when there's any hell to be caught he's you still don't know soldiers. I didn't blown-up, back-ripping stuff he throws right in there with both hands out and bribe the Wildman. I just promised him at the Warhorse. Everybody in the crowd that's all I ask of any man!" a chance to speak his piece. He was all is gape-mouth. Everybody, that is, except The crowd is gape-mouth again. The set to rawhide you until Peahead popped the Wildman. He's still staring at the Warhorse has stopped wheezing. I don't off. That's the reason I had to keep Pea- Warhorse. think he's even breathing. Then Slocum head hidden out imtil the last minute. Peabody keeps foaming and frothing. turns around and levels a finger at Pea- You would have balked at him getting up After what seems like a hundred years, body. there and the Wildman would have gone he bangs on the railing and bellows: "As for Colonel Frederick J. Peahead," ahead and really fixed you." "Take those words to the polls with you, he says, "he was an old war dog too. I He gets right ashy. "Edward, do you my friends. No man served you worse in mean he was really a war dog. That bile- mean to tell me that you were just gam- war and no man will serve you worse in hearted, snake-tongued, old reprobate bling on . . . that you were trusting to ." peace. I thank you." He turns aroimd, wasn't born — he was whelped. He was luck that . . glares at the Warhorse and then takes too busy fighting for a promotion to fight "Warhorse, I was just trusting to the his seat to the accompaniment of a lot anybody else and, if he ever tells any one thing I learned in the Army. Namely, of whooping and yelling by the Gaines more of them lies on the major, I'm gonna that in a battalion there's always one offi- faction. The primary is as good as over, sic my old granddaddy on him." cer the men would rather make a fool they figure. Granddaddy Slocum must be pushing of than the major. That's the colonel!" The Warhorse stares at me like a beat a hundred because that sets everybody He just stares at me and shakes his child. He's had his lesson in politics. He's off. You never hear such a roar. There's head. "Edward," he finally wheezes, "I been nailed to the cross and he's ready a lot of relief in it too. Peabody had 'em don't know whether to kiss you, kill you, to go home now. I get up real slow and confused but the Wildman of Wolf Wal- or make you my chief of staff." the end

A Theater in Your Home (Continued from page 25)

Record changers range from $30 to $60, take care to have it properly installed. labor cost for installing a complete home while high-fidelity speakers vary from There's nothing complicated about a theater is about $15. $18 to $150. A sixteen-inch picture tube custom installation. You don't have to There is almost no limit to the imagina- TV chassis costs approximately $200, in know anything about electronics. There's tion and resourcefulness you can employ case -you want to tie it in with your no soldering, or wiring of resistors and in planning your custom installation. sound outfit. condensers. Since most purchased com- There are a few simple rules to follow The degree of perfection you obtain in ponents come complete with connection in connection with the housing and plac- high-fidelity is directly proportionate to wires, all that is required to make them ing of the speaker. Beyond that, the in- the price you are willing to pay. For the work is to plug them together. Your local stallation should reflect your own partic- exactitude with which the various com- radio supply dealer will provide any tech- ular tastes and requirements. ponents are constructed and matched de- nical assistance you need. Also, the manu- First, it is not necessary to limit your termines the range and the quality of re- facturers of the components have turned thinking to the shape of a conventional production (and, of course, affects the out instruction leaflets written especially radio-phonograph. You may have an at- cost). But the minimum budget setup for the layman. However, for those who tractive bookcase, credenza or cabinet in for $150 is capable of performance pleas- wish, it is possible to hire a competent your living room which can be easily and ing to even a fastidious music-lover if you serviceman to do the job. An average inexpensively adapted. This is a particu-

44 * "^^^ American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 larly good solution if you have the problem of limited space in your living room, and find it inadvisable to add another large unit. It is also a very economical idea, since you save the cost of buying an additional piece of furniture. The fact that all components need not keeps the family together be together allows a more flexible and interesting arrangement. You can place when you move from the controls near your favorite chair, with the record changer nearby — while the speaker system can be placed in an ideal acoustical position facing the persons in the room. say S/Sgt. George E. Albright, Jr. Certain tested engineering and acousti- and his wife, Doris. "And a trailer cal principles, easy to apply in the home, home is ideal because the time is govern correct speaker location. To pro-' often short between moving orders the yoit must report at vide perfect listening, the speaker should and date another base. Also it's the only tfay be situated at "normal listening height" — you can keep your family with you between four and six feet above floor on temporary duty." level. The speaker should also be mounted so its cone faces the portion of the room where people generally gather. The ordinary open-back cabinet allows the tones generated from the rear of the speaker to leak around the cabinet's edge, bounce off the wall, and arrive, grossly belated, at the confused listener's ear. This is what causes the high notes, in most ready-made consoles, to shatter while low tones boom or vanish, canceled out completely. Ideally, the cabinet should contain a minimum of six cubic feet of air space. If more space is available so much the better. Materials used in construction of the enclosure or speaker mounting board is very important. First, the cabinet box must be solid. If it's flimsy the boards may vibrate and cause distortion. Three- quarter-inch plywood is recommended with all joints screwed and reinforced with a good grade of glue. To prevent bounce and slap, the box should be lined with sound-absorbing material such as a rug cushion such as Ozite or one-inch- thick rock wool insulation. Mode of lin- ing the cabinet varies, but the bottom and one side should be left unlined to provide a reflecting surface for the bass "YOUR FURNITURE IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE," enthuses Doris, "and it's easy to take notes. it with you. Besides, we enjoy the very newest furnishings like this smart convertible refrigerator, range sink. And with automatic Conversion of existing furniture into sofa bed . . . our modern electric gas and a good speaker cabinet can easily be ac- heat control and the best of insulation we always have comfortable, even temperatures." complished by the home hobbyist.. But for those who don't wish to make an PRICED FROM $1033 to $4995 including enclosure, there are ready-made units furnishings, these new TCMA coaches that sell for as low as $15. make pleasant, modestly-priced If television is to be included in the homes-on-wheels for members of the home theater or added later, its location marrieds, retired should be considered next. The TV screen Armed Forces, young should be placed to allow the widest couples, war workers and construction viewing angle and, if possible, should be workers in the field. Make the TCMA adjacent to the speaker. It should be emblem one of your guides to quality slightly above the eye level of a seated and satisfaction. For the members of person—that is, 3 or 31/2 feet from the floor, of the industry and there should be ample seating in TCMA are the leaders front of the screen without obstructing . . . pioneering improved designs, fos- doors or passageways. tering more and better trailer parks, It is an acknowledged fact that manu- building to high, dependable standards. facturers of video receivers, especially table models, put most of their emphasis on the picture. In contrast with a high "OUR SEPARATE BEDROOMS have BOOK! Informa- doors for privacy and inner- fidelity sound outfit, the average televi- JUST OUT—FREB sliding tion on new 1951 TCMA coaches. spring mattresses for comfort. And sion set sounds tinny and thin. However, Write TCMA, Dept. A-11, Civic our children always have the same this can be corrected by calling in the Opera Bldg., Chicago 6, 111. familiar home and a yard to play in." serviceman who maintains your set and have him convert its sound output to play through your high-fidelity amplifier. The job is inexpensive and will not affect your- The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • ^5 —

service policy. But it will certainly make Regardless of the type of installation a world of difference in your enjoyment used, there is no home which cannot of TV. readily accommodate an attractive home LastWeek The AM-FM radio tuner, amplifier and family theater system. Moreover, the sys- ^ record changer may be located wherever tem can never become obsolete. Its pro- they prove to be most convenient and fessional elements can be modernized, IMade practical. But remember that the equip- unit by unit, to keep pace with scientific ment may break down and no serviceman advances. When you make an investment likes to stand on his head to get at the in a system of this type you provide a ^25922 Ray Barta chassis. Make sure all units are easily re- lifetime of pleasure in good sound and movable. Since the tuner, amplifier and sight. with Science's New Midget Miracle, PRESTO Fire Extinguisher TV chassis get hot in operation, have So reports RAY BARTA of Wisconsin. Many space and vents for air circulation. For further information on building "cleaning up" - so can YOU! others your own home theater, visit your local AMAZING new kind of fire extin- The record changer should rest on a

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Earn '100 CASH business of coaching college basketball leges), held in Kansas City. A special plus 24 wood card tables players the same year I did (1919), has game was staged with the goals raised for your Legion Post! long been the champion of the 12-foot two feet above normal. New Mexico No risk. Nothing to pay. basket as a curb against the tall man. If School of Mines, with a team that aver- For details write F. W. I'm not mistaken, Phog came up with the aged six feet, four inches and included MATHERS, Dept. A.L., proposal back in 1932 and he's been ham- seven-foot, one-inch Elmore Morgen-

Mt. Ephraim, N. J. mering at it ever since. thaler, met Drury College of Missouri, Much of the color and excitement in which had a height average of five feet, basketball is supplied by the swift, agile 10 inches. Field goals counted three little player who can cut, run, and shoot points. with anybody on the court. Last year, in During the game, few shots were tried the National Invitation Tournament at more than 20 feet from the basket, and Madison Square Garden, the fans were running lay-ups were very unsuccessful. and turn constantly buzzing over the play of Gene The elevation of the baskets distinctly worthless objects into Melchiorre, a vest-pocket magician who did not result in deeper rebounds and played the pivot for Bradley University. less milling around under the backboards Goldand 5i7i;er Treasures The year before, tournament followers — one of the theories of the raise-the- HOUR PROFIT were hypnotized by the flashy ability of basket lobby. The stratospheric Morgen- five-foot, nine-inch Rene Herrerias, the thaler couldn't tip the ball in on rebounds, in new home business University of San Francisco's fine guard. but he still maintained his advantage in Think tif tui nini; 5lk' worth of materi- Eil^ into II prolit of $5.00 and more for There have been some other great little controlling the ball. And the game slowed just a fi-v. minutes of easily learned haniliwork. Sounds fantastic— yet. it's stars in the recent past, fellows like Ernie down to such an extent that the fans were prove without true— as you can quickly Calverley of Rhode Island, Kenny Sailors left yawning, despite the novelty. The riskini; any mone.v. i have ready to mail to you a complete set of instructions of Wyoming, Ralph Beard of Kentucky, taller New Mexico squad won, 84-51. It h.i ciisv 1.. lull.. w that even ttie inexperienced —old or MiuiiK -men or women can learn the 59-45 Art of Metali/ini; in few hours. Then use this Murray Wier of Iowa, Dick McGuire of would have been under regulation n.aicic to Kest.M e Old Articles by reolatini; in of • 'dime scoring rules. Kron/e. Silver or Cold . .lump value St. John's, Hank Luisetti of Stanford and

store' ' iirtii l. s S t.. 10 times. Turn leaves, Amazing Book shell, I1..W..1S ml.. (ioUl and SilverCostume Sid of or two test runs don't necessarily other Tanenbaum NYU, just to mention One Tells How To Jewelrv Kti- 1 n'l I i/ e Bahv Shoes and keepsakes witli layers of hronze. a few of the prominent ones. prove or disprove a theory. But I believe rntT PAY ME NOTHING FOR rlf^r THIS INFORMATION. Such players would be seriously handi- all the disadvantages of the 12-foot bas- I 11 Men and women both say in this Is the most fascinatinK home operated capped if they had to shoot at a basket kets were underlined that game. husiness they lan think of. It is creative and artistic. It pays money for every hour you 12 feet from the floor. The driving layup At City College, we've had to get along want to work. Fun for the whole family . . . startin,; & huildinK permanent lifetime husi- shot, one of basketball's most exciting with medium-sized basketball players ness in spare time sent without riskinK job risk. Just send name. or pay. Read it at Ifiy plays, would virtually be eliminated. Our ever since I can remember. Our current R.E.Brandell. WARNER ELECTRIC 1512 Jarvis, Dept. 161 Chicaso 26, III. job is to encourage the small player and team has more height than usual — and

R. E. Braiidell, Warner Electric ! his abilities, not legislate against them. don't think I'm not happy about it. Ed 1512 Jarvis, Dept. 161 Chicago 26 | There already been a a six-foot, six-inch center, is one Rush complete showinif how I can start m have few ex- Roman, iietali/.inK business at home. No charge. No obligation. All Free. I periments with the baskets at 12 feet. of the biggest men I've ever coached. Ed The most notable one was in the 1946 weighs a hefty 225, but he can move well National Association of Intercollegiate and he's a fine shot. I CITY ZONF, STATE- Basketball Tournament (for small col- But even with Roman on the team, we

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frequently find ourselves at a height dis- advantage. For instance, in the quarter- final round of the National Invitation Tournament in 1950, we met Kentucky and its seven-foot center, Bill Spivey. With a well-balanced, experienced team A Sensationally New POTENT around him, Spivey posed as a major problem to us. I assigned Roman to cover him and he All Vitamin-Mineral Supplement did an excellent defensive job against Embodying the latest nutritional developments . . . big odds. Roman was instructed to smother Spivey by hurrying his passes and pivot shots, by moving in front of him on defense, The MAYON Formula and by constantly harassing his every move. Of course, we double-teamed 13 Vitamins — 12 Minerals including and sandwiched Spivey just as you would THE any big man. He took 18 shots at the bas- MJl»mM0M 0 M / AMAZING DISCOVERY ket and hit only four times. His low percentage was partly accounted for by Ret/ v//^m//f B/2V^:î^''zi^) Roman's blanket defense. The result of Here is the most potent therapeutic vitamin supplement ever offered in a single capsule, con- the Roman-Spivey duel was that both taining the dramatic new factors. Folic Acid and the amazing RED VITAMIN B-12. The intriguing results from tiny dosages of RED VITAMIN B-12 are described in the February fouled out before the game's end, but we issue of READER'S DIGEST, in a story of blo()d regeneration that has thrilled millions. accomplished our mission, beating the While it has long been assumed that there is an inter-related dependence of vitamins, miner- in enzyme and hormone activation, recent clinical Wildcats by a surprising 89-50 margin. als and trace mineral elements observations substantiate these conclusions and establish their value in nutrition. Accordingly, the Mayon There has been a concerted effort to Formula also supplies in a separate capsule, 12 minerals with Liver and Yeast. No other supplement is so all-embracing, so poten; and yet so inexpensive. It is the greatest vitamin value curb the basketball giant for time. some ever offered combining all factors usually found in multi-vitamin capsules as well as B-complex Three important rule changes in the last and mineral capsules. With but two capsules, nutritional supplementation is made simple and less costly than ever before. You can give up combinations and dozens of capsules formerly 13 years have gone a long way toward required to secure the potencies supplied in the truly remarkable Mayon Formula. restricting his natural advantages. After the 1937 season, the center jump, one of Note the High Potencies in this Outstanding Formula Each MAYON vitamin capsule contains: the vital factors of the original game, was Vitamin A 37,500 units Vitamin B12 1 Meg. Vitamin E 15 Mg. eliminated, and the ball was awarded to Vitamin D 2,000 units Vitamin B6 2 Mg. Niacin Amide 175 Mg. the team scored upon after every field Vitamin Bl 30 Mg. Folic Acid 1.25 Mg. Cal. Panto 15 Mg. goal. That speeded things up a great deal Vitamin B2 15 Mg. Vitamin C 200 Mg. Choline Chloride 50 Mg. Inositol 25 Mg. and the elongated center was no longer Each MAYON mineral capsule contains: all-important. After 1939, the three- Liver Fraction (2) .... 125 Mg. Iodine 0.15 Mg. Manganese 1 Mg. second rule made it impossible for the Brewer's Yeast 1 25 Mg. Copper 1.5 Mg. Magnesium 1 Mg. Potassium 1.5 Mg. Boron 0.2 Mg. big player to station himself inside the Calcium 90 Mg. Phosphorus 68 Mg. Cobalt 1 Mg. Molybdenum 0.2 Mg. free-throw lane and patiently hook in Iron 30 Mg. Zinc 1 Mg. his shots. Now he can stay there only Daily Dose: One Vitamin and One Mineral Capsule. three seconds, then must step out. 50 Capsules — 25 days' supply $3.85 200 Capsules— 100 days' supply $12.50 100 Capsules — 50 days' supply 6.75 500 Capsules - 250 days' supply 29.00 Probably the most important "anti- 1000 Capsules — 500 days' supply $56 goon" regulation was the recently in- The Mayon Formula is sold only at address below. Order C. O. D. or save all charges by voked law against goal-tending. In the sending check or money order. Money back if not satisfied. early 40's giants like Bob Kurland, George Mikan, and Harry Boykoff batted VITAMIN-QUOTA One the World's Largest Distributors Vitamins. Est. 1923 away from the basket as many as 30 or of of 40 of their opponents' shots in a game. Dept. 604, 880 Broadway at 19th St., New York 3, N. Y. Until the rule-change which prohibits knocking a shot away from the hoop the game was steadily being deprived of genuine excitement. 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FITS ALL CARS °" P"St<-ard for/r^^ paTlirul.ir, and tlow Dept. 9201-1, 55 W. 42nd St., N.Y. 18 We came upon the Pivot Play quite ac- (R)-^J VACU-MATIC CO., cidentally in a game we played in Chat- tanooga one winter night in 1926. Our opponents were using a standing guard, ORDER a guy who stationed himself on his own rtjTTO fn HOMES CUT bWIOWw cosis ^ NOW foul line and didn't budge all night. We hit on the idea of placing one of our men SAVi UP ro in front of him; taking a pass from Deh- nert, and then passing off or pivoting and shooting. That was the birth of the pivot i06',"'„ Ready-*-" , le wit" play, although we didn't know it at the time. And it was a boomerang, because roofing. the pivot was tailor-made for a stationary ^'-Wed"Ve% ^'Sr Vata-;'.^& giant. P'ni "glass Today, of course, the pivot constitutes the chief menace of the tall man. When PRICED FROM $2132 Five Easy Payment Plans watch a big like George Mikan you guy Send 25c for NEW of Lakers CATALOG the professional Minneapolis I ^ INTERNATIONALINTFPNATI MILL AND TIMBER CO. COLOR lâng them in all evening from around DEPT. A.L. 151 BAY CITY, MICHIGAN The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • 47 the post, you know theie's no defense In the meantime, here are three pro- against such talent and size except an- posals I would submit as counter sugges- WANTED other Mikan. tions to Phog Allen's plan for raising the Although I am opposed to Phog Allen's baskets: MAN WITH CAR proposal to elevate the baskets, I do be- (1) Widen the foul lanes to enlarge the lieve measures should be taken to mini- zone where one m.ay only linger for three No Time Like mize the purely physical advantage held seconds. The wider lanes would curtail Now to Get In by players who tower over everyone on some of the under-the-basket activities McNess Business the floor. Basketball was meant to be a of the big man and force him to do his It's no trick to make good money when you team game, but it's much closer to a one- shooting from a greater distance. your car as McNess "Store use a man show when big oaf is able to (2) Prohibit a try for on a on Wheels." Farmers buy everything some a basket they can from McNess Men because IseYour pour in 30 or more points simply because m-issed shot until the ball is passed or McNess Products are tops in quality, represent extra values. Attractive busi- CAR he can outreach everyone else. batted to another player. In other words, ness-getting prizes and premiums; also money-saving deals to customers make to Raise Because of the physical setup of the no tap -ins. setting McNess daily necessities a snap. sport, the tall man will always enjoy some (3) Move the baskets away from the We Supply Capital — Start Now! Your advantages over the average player. It backboard. In the old Eastern League, There's no better work anywlierc. Pays I well, permanent, need no experience to PAY | would be wrong to bar the tall fellows around 1922 -'23, the hoops were extended start, and we supply capital to liclp you get started quick. You begin making money first day. from the game, just because of their size. out about 14 inches from the backboards. Write at once for McNess Dealer Book. It's FREE. Telts all — no obligation. (1 ) Basketball is one of the few competitive You couldn't bank your shots or pick up THE McNESS CO., 986 Adams St.,Freeport,lll. sports whers the over-grown youth has two easy points with a lucky rebound. a chance to play. But it's important that Any one of the above proposals would CHRONOGRAPH WRIST WATCH we don't let the young giants take the greatly help reduce the tall players' effec- excitement and color out of basketball. tiveness without detracting from the (EXCLUSIVE OF PARTS) The fans enjoy watching a well-coor- game. The sm.all player would get a bet- dinated attack that features quick passes, ter break and the big boys couldn't get $7.50 speed, and clever shooting. I'm convinced by on reach alone. It wouldn't be long they don't care to see an offense that before coaches stopped looking solely for strictly depends on the altitude of one prospects who have to duck their way player, who may or may not have any through doors. They would begin to place special qualifications except his size. m.ore emphasis on youngsters of what- INDEPENDENT MOVEMENTS When I put Ed Roman, the biggest man ever size with Unusual basketball talents. For si>oilsni.-n. prof,- i,,p.il nun .iiKi wninen I iniekeejx-i ili ,H - ,ir --l — separatt on the team, in the pivot post, I until the rules are changed, works when nth.-, t,. I .iimI lipped CCNY But we movements pe RUGGED CONSTRUCTION expect him to give preference to the play- coaches will continue to scramble around Precision workm.niviup iri.l >h..i k r«'-isi;Hil features are added to enhance the of ihis watch. Sold everywhere er who pitches to him. I don't want him and try to beat the big boys any way for a.s high av si 7. on. dur low introductory price is only

1 0'', I or S7.-'>0 plu*i tax. Tr>tal ^SH.25. ) Send check just to spin and shoot as soon as he gets we can. Of course, the only sure way is monev order anri we prepav posla-re. Or sent O. D. plus rliarces. Li:\nTl-;r) STfX K! the ball. I like to rotate pivot man to come up with a big lug of your own. MARDO SALES CORP., 480 Lexington Ave., Dept. C-995. N.Y. 17 my with someone else, and I like to see all No one knows that better than Phog "Suffered 7 years five players scoring from plays set up at Allen. This year, he has a six-foot, eight that post. and one-half-inch prize named Clyde pros have always led in improving Lovelette, the greatest scoring threat he's -then I found Pazo The and shaping the game. I'm surprised they ever had at Kansas- And I've been told brings amazing relief!'' haven't done more to cut down the effec- Allen can be seen on the campus with a says Mr. M. W., Los Angeles, Calif, tiveness of the big boys. With one eye six-foot, nine -inch freshman, one B. H. Speed amazing relief from miseries of on the box-oflfice, they should know that Born, who scored 1,322 points in high simple piles, with soothing Pazo*! Acts the spectators aren't interested in one- school. to relieve pain, itching instantly— soothes man performances. I think the profes- Under the present rules, there's only inflamed tissues— lubricates dry, hard- ened parts—helps prevent cracking, sore- sionals will be the first to enforce new one way a basketball coach can look for ness—reduce swelling. You get real com- restrictions on the long john.s. help, and that's up. the end forting help. Don't suffer needless torture from simple piles. Get Pazo for fast, wonderful relief. Ask your doctor about it. ^^Le^H Raise the Baskets^ Suppository form — also tubes with per- forated pile pipe for easy application. (Conthmed from page IS) *Poio Ointment and Supposiwries («) suggestion for elevating the hoop, a wail basketball retain the thrills and the drama of anguish spreads across the nation from that have made it great. There is little the rulemakers. For some mysterious drama and no thrill in the sight of a RUPTURE tiptoe and reason, the height of the basket has be- seven-footer stretching on RELIEF... OR YOUR MONEY BACK come somewhat sanctified - like mother- gently nudging the ball through the hoop. Simple, to wear truss easy hood. The thrills come from the players who made by old surgical house. You risk nothing. Write for Yet this ten-foot elevation started as make the hard shots—the boys who smack free booklet. Don't delay. the merest kind of coincidence. When the net from far out in the court and de- WEB TRUSS CO. Dept. AL-1 Hagerstown, Md. Dr. James Naismith invented the game, pend on speed, maneuverability and he nailed the first basket — in this case marksmanship. a peach basket - on the indoor running They haven't driven the little man out MIND POWER, track of the gymnasitim at Springfi.eld of basketball yet. But they are making it College in Massachusetts. The track hap- increasingly tough on him. In the last pened to be ten feet from the floor. It ten yeffrs the height of the players has might just as well have been 12 feet or progressively increased. It is no coinci- A FREE BOOK 14 feet. dence that teams such as the Oklahoma Develop your personal, creative power! Awaken I have associated with Dr. Naismith foi- Aggies, DePaul and St. John's, which have the silent, sleeping forces in your own conscious- 37 years, and he has repeatedly told m.e dominated the game during the last four ness. Become Master of your own life. Push that it was never his intention to freeze or five years, have had in their lineups aside all obstacles with a new energy you have overlooked. The Rosicrucians know how, and the basket ten feet from the floor. In such towering stars as Bob Kurland, will help you apply the greatest of all powers in fact, when it became evident that it gave seven-footer of the Oklahoma Aggies, fflan^s control. Create health and abundance for a to tall players, heartily George Mikan, six-foot, nine-inch center yourself. Write for Free book, "The Mastery of premium he life." It tells how you may receive these teach- approved raising the basket out of their of DePaul and Harry Boykoff, the St. ings for study and use. It means the dawn of a reach. John's Goliath. oew day for you. . , Address: Scribe X. S. F. Basketball is the greatest game in the Probably the greatest crowd-pleaser in '7Ae ROSICRUCIANS world. It is drawing great crowds. I want basketball in recent years was a little SAN JOSE (AMORC) CALIFORNIA to make it even better. I want to sec man who was far from being a giant. His

• The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 name is Jackie Goldsmith. He was one about a collapse of the game. It has been in of the last of the little men who did so proved in our practice with the 12-foot Up to UV'^ an much to bring basketball to its present- ring at the University of Kansas that the day pinnacle. Goldsmith played forward players adjust rapidly. We have been Evening's Spare for Long Island University in New York. playing unofficial games with the new He was only five feet, seven inches tall. hoops for 15 years. The results are ex- r\ Time! He had speed, precision, great competitive cellent. 29,000,000 prospects ability and a fine shooting eye. Yet he is The rebound arc of dispersement of the waiting for amazing re- control! EX- almost the last outstanding little man the higher goal is much greater than that of frigerator CLUSIVE D-Frost-0- sport has seen. the ten-foot goal, thus reducing by a fat iVIatic ends messy, wet I remember another great little man. percentage the number of balls that defrosting...Saves Food One day about 20 years ago the Hillyards, trickle off the rim into the waiting fingers -.i . . . Saves Electricity. a great independent team from St. Joseph, of some giant. Further, the 12-foot goal Sate, Automatic— Missouri, were having a morning practice produces a high, beautiful arching shot GUARANTEED TWO FULL YEARS! SURE-FIRE session. There was no one in the gymna- which is more pleasing to the public than SALES PLAN— Clicks 95 times in 100 m Homes, Apartments. sium except the players and a scrawny the fiat skimmers prevalent in recent John C. West of Ohio sold 94 in three weeks' youngster of 18 sitting on the bleachers. years. spare time— made $611 clear profit. Write for I not favor 12-foot basket for all The ball slipped from one of the players' do a FREE DETAILS-TODAY! Specify Territory. hands and rolled to where the boy was classes of players. I would limit the use DFROSTQ 6 N.Michigan Ave. sitting. of the 12-foot basket to college and inde- Dept. AL-1,Chlcago2, III. "Hey, thi-ow it back," yelled Red De- pendent teams. Let the grade schoolers Bernardi, the Hillyard captain, a five- use an eight-foot goal, the junior high time All American. The boy picked the schools a nine-foot goal and the high Easy to MAKE MONEY ball up awkwardly and looked at it re- school players a ten-foot goal. flectively. He seemed a little scared. Then, I favor a three-year moratorium be- W.TH FAMOUS instead of throwing the ball back, he bent fore the advent of the 12-foot basket. This BOSTONIAN gl^lpjg his knees, squinted at the basket and fired would allow the players now enrolled to Thrilling new money-making oppor- from mid-court. The ball arched lazily have three more years of competition on tunity — spare time, full time, side- line—with NATIONALLY-KNOWN through the air and swished through the the ten-foot hoop and would not penalize Bostonian Shirts. All styles, sizes, net without touching the backboard. the coaches now directing the seven-foot fabrics, colors. Dress and sport. Finest quality — sensational low prices. Also Talk among the Hillyards stopped. They players. rainwear, slacks, underwear, women's experience needed. eyed the boy dubiously. "Kid," said De- Basketball isn't in any danger of dying. wear, etc. No Bernhardi, "can you do that often?" It is too great a game. But right now the FREE SAMPLES Just send "I'm not so good at it," he said. "Every game is made to order for the giants. What of fabrics and costly presentation. name and address. See how easy it is to now and then I miss one." I'm suggesting is to change the rules so make exceptional money wit hold, reliable company. Send no money, but write Now! DeBernardi handed him the ball. "Try that the little man can once more come BOSTONIAN MFG. CO., 89 Bickford St. - BOSTON 30, MASS. If it again," he ordered. The boy shot ten into his own. DEPT. a-3t times. He made seven baskets. Not once In the meantime, does anyone know IN did the ball touch the backboard. where I can find a good seven-foot center? 'honestly >| "Look," said DeBernardi, "that's great. THE END YOU CAN MAKE SPARE TIME But how come you never hit the back- SeM beautiful Everyday cards for months to come.— board?" Send for NEW. exclusive, exciting selling idea works like cfiain letters — multiplies your customers. The boy was embarrassed. "Well," he Same Old Russians! Get FREE Surprise Selling Kit plus two sample boxes ^of our fastest selling Everyday cards on approval. said, "I (Contijiued from page 26) never played on an indoor court CHARLES C. SCHWER COMPANY 15A Elm St.. Westfield. Mass. like this. I learned to play in a little The big boys back in Moscow decided school in downstate Missouri. We've got a they'd better change bosses, so they or- basket rigged Sell Fairbanks Made-to-Measure up out in the lot. There isn't dered Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskof back TAILORING LINE any backboard on it. If you shoot and to Russia. Then they put a fellow with He an Independent dealer with this reliable tailoring firm. Make steady, miss the basket, you have to chase the an un-Russian name in charge. He was repeat profits taking easy cash orders from Men and Women. FREE ball a mile. I don't like to chase balls. I Karl Schmidt, the new Commander of Sales Kit of Samples, Styles, Selling just like to shoot baskets." Aids. etc. CJet details of our easy Fort Ross, California. selling plan and how to get a S55 suit that costs you no money Write— The boy's name was Harold Hewitt. He But Schmidt wasn't any more of a suc- FAIRBANKS TAILORING COMPANY joined the Hillyards and was an out- cess than Kuskof. "Russian America" 17M W. WaslilnitoD Blvd. • Chlcito 12. III. standing basketball star for ten years. went right ahead and went broke, and Four times he was voted an All American. the Czar's boys had to write home for Basketball needs more players like money. The Muscovites had to start sup- Jackie Goldsmith and Harold Hewitt, porting their poor relations in California. ASTH MA hustling crowd-pleasers who make their That did it! To'S' points the hard way. NO-COST TRIAL OFFER! Yet today both could You can't say the Russians aren't smart. IF YOU SUFFER FROM BRONCHIAL ASTHMA be consistently outscored by any slug- They always have wanted everything PAROXYSMS, from coughs, gasping wheezing . . . write quick for daring No-Risk, No-Cost Trial Offer. No footed giant who has only to reach up to coming in and nothing going out. Being matter if you consider your case "hopeless" — Write Today! make his baskets. Raise the height of the that way, the big shots back home or- NACOR, 952 H State Life BIdg., Indionopolis 4, Ind. basket and there will be ten fireballs like dered Comrade Schmidt to sell out be- Jackie Goldsmith for every one in the fore he went any further in the red. Learn Facts on game now. Basketball will once again be- By this time it was 1841. Schmidt con- come a game where speed and skill are sidered himself pretty smart at getting Chronic Ailments the thing that count, as it was before the $30,000 for the colony from a Swiss-born coaches started picking their players with adventurer named Capt. John A. Sutter. FREE BOOK — Explains Causes, a measuring tape. But seven years later one of Sutter's men, Effects and Treatment In proposing decisive changes in the James W. Marshall, discovered gold on rules I'm not a disappointed coach looking the property, just nine days before the for an easy way of turning losers into win- formal transfer of the territory from Avoid ners. My record speaks for itself. In the Mexico to the United States. He and Dangers past 28 years at the University of Kansas Sutter succeeded in keeping the discovery of Delay we have won 19 championships in our secret for a few weeks, but by 1849 all conference. We have won rather consis- the world knew about the new El Dorado, Neglected piles, fistula and colon troubles often tently against big-time competition out- and about everybody who had even a spread infection and cause other chronic condi- side the conference, too. small stake was on his way to the dig- tions. Write today for 164-page FREE BOOK. Learn facts. McCleary Clinic and Hospital, C-166 The 12-foot-high basket will not bring gings. THE END Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • ^9 )

GET The Way They Put Them Up! HOME MOVIES ( Continued -from page 21 Park is so big that trying pick out any in (ALL TYPES) ... FOR [1 to job half the time that's usually taken. of its statistics from any of the others is Even the delivery of the roof shingles AS LOW AS $lOO like trying to choose a pet from among a is a model of whizzing efficiency. Lake- running herd of elephants. The project Wonderful, exciting wood hires the carpenters and most of the covers 3500 acres — ten square miles — it common labor, with the other operations subjects . . . many just will have 133 miles of its own paved being performed by sub- contractors. The produced. PERFECT FOR streets, its own 18-hole and possibly 36- roofing job went to Bob Griffin, who re- YOUR NEXT PARTY. hole golf course, its own schools, play- putedly checks his countless roofing jobs Let us show you how to get grounds, and churches. The main shop- through the window of his private air- them for os fow as $1.00!! ping center alone will cover 154 acres, plane. FOR VERY SPECIAL SAMPLE with full-size "downtown" department Shingle bundles, weighing 80 to 90 FILM AND BIG LIST OF FILMS stores, theaters, its own hospital, and off- pounds, have always been delivered onto (ALL TYPES) send only 254 to street parking for over 10,000 cars — and the ground beside a new house, and then even this shoppers' maelstrom must be carried up a ladder to the roof one at a HOLLYWOOD FILM EXCHANGE supplemented by eight other shopping time, on a man's shoulder. Griffin delivers 5864 HOllYWOOD BLVD. centers at various main road intersec- them right onto each roof. Not from his HOLLYWOOD. CALIF. tions within the project. airplane, however. Have you ever seen 17,000 houses un- Four years ago J. H. Moses, the chunky der construction? In one batch? It's a lot Irishman who is Griffin's trucking super- DO YOU SUFFER! of houses. Already, with the project only intendent, and mechanic Woody Seabaugh well under way, the endless rows of new worked out the details of Griffin's "shingle RHEUMATISM? homes stretch away in every direction as lifter." Mounted on a truck chassis is an ARTHRITIS? NEURITIS? SCIATICA? far as you can see. Back of the thousands endless belt arrangement running on a s.nrf for FREE BOOK of completed homes are more thousands sort of adjustable fire ladder. This is to turn. Trucks describing the proven, spec- under construction, and back of them the driven up each house in ^ed treatment that has been amaz- big yellow bulldozers clank away scoop- bring the shingles alongside it, the right combatting rheumatism, ingly successful in ing out the streets for more thousands. number of bundles are dumped onto the arthritis and similar painful disorders. This illustrated book "RHEUMATISM" fully ex- Building a city the size of Phoenix, moving belt, and up they go. The bundles

and effects . . . tells you WHY plains causes Arizona, in two years is something of a of shingles are "put on the roof" in five medicines afford but temporary relief. drugs and minutes per house, with no backstrain Delay may be dangerous. task. In the actual construction areas the LEARN ABOUT SPECIALIZED TREATMENT rows of new $10,000 three-bedroom homes to anyone. Send for FREE Book toda^—a postcard will spring up on all sides of you like stucco I asked Mr. Moses what the unions do. No obligation. Write today. on a short inspection thought of this device. "Why, they're in BALL CLINIC, Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. mushrooms. Even tour you have the feeling that you had favor of it," he said. "Any union with better step lively, for fear that if you any sense likes to see you take the grunt How Many Men Will Wear pause you are apt to be stuccoed, painted, out of it for the men." Okay, so the Lakewood houses go up this SUIT floored and roofed before you could even SAMPLE get out words that you are only a fast. How good are they? I — and you — and Makeupto$15.00inaDay? the Amazing plan! Wear sample suit and take visitor. have seen a lot of "GI houses" that had orders for handsome made-to-measure tailoring from friends, neighbors. Just take a Dodging nimbly about among the all the structural integrity of a cheap feworders— earn biK cash profits and tret yimr nwn suits Without Ic Extra Cost! Senust, dirt, grime. fogdisBDpear like matric. Wojuier fut for auto windows, windshieidat plastic-dome roofs or uranium water And they seem to be good, honest SAMPLES TO INTRODUCE Sr^i'iV' ^^.u'Tu^'^^^i heaters. Inside and out, the individual houses. The rooms are adequately large name .it once. A peimv postal will do. SEND NO MONEY — just your n.inie. KRISTEE CO., Dept. 1451. AKRON 8, OHIO houses are perfectly conventional two- and well-arranged, the wallpaper and and three-bedroom stucco houses. other interior decoration is most tasteful, VIOUN, BOW & INSTRUCTIONS FOR OV But heavenly days, how they put them and you have no feeling that the place up! The foundations are dug in fifteen is apt to fall down around your -ears if minutes per house by big flail diggers. you should trip over a roller skate. My The cement is squirted in out of those most distinct impression of the Lakewood whirlamajig trucks as speedily as you Park houses was this pleasant feeling of K regular honest to goodness Student's Violin. Yours, with Instruc- their sturdiness. the tions, for selling Garden Spot Seeds at 10c per packet and remit- would fill muffin tins. The lumber, ex- FHA has given ting per catalog. Nothing to buy. Send for SO pkts. seeds TOOAT, actly enough for each house, is delivered Lakewood houses its highest construction lANCASTER COUNTY SEED CO., Sto. 162, Paradise, Po. directly to each house site. When each rating, and the Prudential Insurance A PENNY POST CARD CAN house is finished, the scraps could be car- Company happily loans 100 per cent of PUT YOU IN BUSINESS! ried away in a peach basket. appraisal on them. The carpenters and other workmen who Lanky Bill Clifford, who has been with assemble the materials into the finished the Lakewood group through the build- houses move with the same precision. In ing of a lot of houses, was voluble in his Every Outdoor Worker a ProspectI teams of two to five men each, they do explanation. • Sell them all! Telephone line- men, building workers, hikers, only one specialized job and move on "If you could look under these houses, hunters, demand snug warmth, free-action comfort, sturdy con- next door, up one side of the street and you'd see," he said. "Every bearing wall struction. Write today! down the other. Each team uses every has a full foundation under it — none of COMPLETE LINE Jackets, shirts. raincoats, PLUS 151 comfort shoe styles for men, sort of helpful electric saw or other labor- this 'pier' business. And the floor joists women. Liberal Comm., no experience or invest- nent. Write TODAY for FREE SELLING OUTFIT! saver; subfloors go in with the aid of are 2x8 instead of 2 x 6. All lumber is CONSOLIDATED SHOE SYSTEM Dept. S-83 Chippewa Falls, Wise. pneumatic nailing machines that do the kiln dried. Every house gets three coats

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of plaster inside and out. The interior the VA's appraisals have been not too paint gets two coats. The shingles are far off the mark. the best Oregon cedar. The linoleum in And by accepting the VA's word in the the kitchen is heavy Armstrong linoleum, matter you open the wondrous floodgates Advertising instead of some of the stuff we could buy of GI financing. that would look just as good but wouldn't At Lakewood Park 99 percent of the Machine last. The stainless steel on the kitchen houses are bought by veterans. Any qual- sinks is the best stainless steel, and there's ified veteran can walk into the place, lay a 7-inch stainless steel splashboard all down approximately $150 to pay the around the sink. And the bathtub is a original escrow and other fees, and buy Prints £ good porcelain-on-cast-iron bathtub, in- himself a brand-new $10,000 house. His Illustrated stead of a little enamel sprayed on steel. monthly payments, depending on the size Why, these houses," he finished, "will and "model" he chooses, will be from $44 last a man a hundred years." to fifty-some dollars a month — half, or V Post Cards Learn how thousands of business Discounting Mr. Clifford's enthusiasm less than half, what he would have to men, in every line, are boosting rREE sales in spite of for the product of his employers, there is pay to rent the same house anywhere in 1 conditions— with 1< messages— printed and illustrated in a few still much heart to be taken from what town, if it could be found for rent. Also minutes on gov'nt post cards — with amazing he says. Just because we are learning to at Lakewood, still for no down payment new patented CARDMASTER. Your "today's" ideas, read build our houses by modern mass-pro- whatever and only a single dollar added by your prospects next morning. Not a toy, but a sturdy advertising machine, duction methods, the result by no means to his regular monthly payment, he can built to last for years. Low price, sold direct. has to be shoddy, jerry-built houses. We have his choice of a new Bendix washer, Guaranteed for five years. Send name today. CETUn UAMC We'lUend FREE illustrated book of money have had both good and bad mass-pro- Norge refrigerator, or O'Keefe & Merritt OCI1U IlltlVIU Diakint IDFAS (or your bullness and complete, unique dvcrtininj plani. RUSH YOUR NAME TODAY. duced cars; we will have both good and stove — all three, if he wishes, for ap- bad mass-produced houses. proximately three dollars extra a month. CARDMASTER COMPANY t920 SUNNYSIDE. Dept. 701, CHICAGO 40, ILL. Given anything approaching integrity Never could a man buy so much with so on the part of the builder, the mass- little of anything resembling cash. WILL PAY $10.00 EACH FOR CERTAIN produced house should give the buyer a Which brings us to the well-what's- LINCOLN PENNIES better house for less money. There are wrong-with-it department. INDIANMEADS *50.00; DIMES $1000.00. SEND DIME FOR simply inherent economies in mass pro- In the first place, you are expected to CATALOGUE OF PRICES duction. To begin with, your lot costs less. continue paying for the house for thirty W E PAY At Lakewood the 3500 acres cost $8,800,000. years, and eventually get it paid for. Dis- NCOLN COIN CO. That figures out Dept. 2 to about $2500 per acre, card any thought of grabbing one of these ELKHART, INDIANA which is the cost of almost the poorest nice new houses for nothing down and fifty-foot single lot in Los Angeles today. less per month than rent, living in it until with Even the street-paving and other you tire of it or conditions change, and We dig it! You pan it! costs, the Lakewood lots give the home then giving it back to the man, thanking GOLD! buyer his first bargain. Send for generous supply of ore containing him, and heading off down the street. Gold and many other minerals. Instructions In the actual building of the houses, When and if you should attempt that, you included. For pleasure, not profit. _ _ Postpaid $2.00 the savings are on every hand, and self- will discover that you owe the man for evident. The big foundation diggers could HOME MINING CO. any difference between what you still owe P.O. BOX 5145A PHOENIX, ARIZ. hardly be driven across town to dig just on the house, and what he can resell it one foundation; the "shingle lifter" could for. Eventually somebody has to pay for MAH£ EXTRA MOME)f not bother with the roof of one new everything, and everything includes bungalow. Lakewood's mass-production houses. EVERY BUSINESS EVERYWHERE USES UNION LABEL BOOK MATCHES "team system" makes it possible to use But other than the fact that you will No experience needed to earn big daily commissions. less skilled, less and expensive, labor. And be expected to pay for what you buy at Be a direct factory representative of the world's largest so it goes. exclusive UNION LABEL Book Match manufacturer, Lakewood — a not unreasonable desire on prospects everywhere. Feature In buying the fittings and "parts" for Glamour Girls, Hillbillies, M •\| their part — what else is wrong with the '' /LUH-JJ the scenics and dozens of other - houses, the savings are often tre- deal? styles — Double Books — Jumbo — mendous. When you buy 17,000 of any- Books nearly 100 color combi- Nothing. nations. New, bigger portfolio thing you tend to get a slight discount. makes this fastest selling line Nothing, that is, if you don't mind your a real profit maker for you. The final saving is in the selling of the house looking a little like the one next Write TODAY for full details. completed house. The commission for sell- door. At Lakewood they have thirteen SUPERIOR MATCH CO. ing the usual Illinois $10,000 house is five percent, different floor plans, with Dept.A-lSI, 7528 S.Greenwood Ave. .Chicago 19, four variations West Coast Salesmen, write Box 1087. San Jose, Calif, or $500. At Lakewood the sales cost runs of each. But the houses still look pretty nearer fifty dollars per house. much the same. Each one is a good house, DO YOU NEED MONEY? Well, what do the finished houses cost? but you could stand at one end of the The two-bedrooms $40.00 IS YOURS $9100 to $9250, and the row with a rifle and kill everybody ring- FREE three-bedrooms for ellin only 5U bo.xes of our $10,150 to $10,300. A ing a doorbell on your side of the street. JUO greeting card line. And this SAMPLES can be tlone in a single day. Free ilized prominent Los Angeles FHA official said But they are certainly no more harshly .samples. Other leadinK boxes on STATIONERY & NAPKINS they saved the approval. Many surprise items. It buyer at least $2000. And uniform than those ungodly rows of front costs nothing to try. Write today. these prices are set not by Lakewood at steps in Baltimore, the uninspired CHEERFUL CARD CO., Dept. AX-L White Plains, N. Y. all, but by the Veterans Administration. "brownstone fronts" in New York, or the If you build houses today that involve endless "row houses" of even the best GI financing, you take your plans and sections of Washington, D. C, Philadel- specifications to the VA, they go over phia or San Francisco. And at Lakewood them, check everything fore and aft, and part of the peas-in-a-pod look is due to with then tell ^ you what you can charge for the very newness of the place. As the your houses. people have time to fiddle around with Larson Leatheiciaft Most of the mass builders don't consider their own rose bushes and fences and Easy -To -Assemble Kits this rigid control too onerous. The Vet- other knickknacks, the streets will take No Experience Needed erans Administration has usually been on a different and softer look. Get started now. LARSON Beginners' quite fair in their appraisals — there have This will be aided, at Lakewood, by Kits of ready-cut projects require no tools or experience. Free instructions included. even been instances of builders selling lack of any "house rules." At Long Island's Make belts, gloves, moccasins, billfolds, houses for as much as $2000 less than the Levittown, for instance, the management woolskin animals and mittens, other at- VA's appraisal. Other builders have of tractive leather items. Also America's remains interested in how you change most complete stock for advanced hob- course vowed that the VA was cutting the appearance of your house even after byists and professional craftsmen. SEND 10c TODAY for newest 24- page catalog. their throats with a dull razor blade. By it is yours. They request that you "con- J. C. LARSON CO., 520 So. Tripp Ave. and large, however, it would seem that sult" them if you want to change the Dept. 433 CHICAGO 24, ILLINOIS

The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 * 51 color of your house or build a fence. At a good house, and they were all appre- • The simple truth being that at today's Lakewood you can paint your house any ciative of Lakewood's flying service crews inflated prices very few of these people infernal color you please. One comfort- that evidently hustle over as though jet- would be, buying homes at all if it weren't able keynote of the place, I thought, was propelled if anything's busted. The only for our many postwar Lakewood Parks, that a man who had bought one of the real complaint that anybody had was that and the GI financing that has made them houses directly across the street from they sometimes had difficulty getting possible. Lakewood can sell a veteran a the throbbing sales office was busily put- Lakewood's busy ear if nothing was brand-new $10,000 house for nothing ting up a fence that the Lakewood people busted. down because the government guarantees themselves thought was hideous. "But For instance, they had all been told the actual lender — in this case the Pru- what the hell," they said, "it's his house; that there would be no assessments for dential Insurance Company — 60 per cent I guess he can put up that kind of a fence utilities; and yet on the immaculate new of the appraised value up to a maximum the if he wants to." light poles in front of their houses paste- of $7500. (Actually, 30 per cent of Actually the whole place had an un- board signs had suddenly sprouted from value or $7500, which is the lesser. On usually prideful and sprucey look about the County of Los Angeles concerning the a $10,000 house, for instance, the govern- it.) Prudential it. Everyone was out watering the lawns maintenance of the new street-lights. ment guarantees $6000 of and pruning the whatnots, and building can thus loan the home-buying veteran fences, busy as bees. Incidentally, with all of the $10,000 he needs to buy his everyone having his own Waste King house, and loan it at a 4 per cent interest, garbage-disposal unit, courtesy of the because the government guarantees that management, Lakewood Park will be lend me a hand it is a safe investment. GI home financing America's first garbage-free city. (An is a joint effort by the government and little interesting aside is that the city of Balti- private capital to get a home for the more, Md., is reportedly considering buy- guy who otherwise would not be able to ing everybody in town a free garbage- afford one. disposal unit, figuring that it would be So far the program has worked out well. cheaper than collecting the garbage. We It has worked, indeed, excellently. The are living in remarkable times.) number of GI's anywhere in the country How do the people already living in who have defaulted in their payments is Lakewood like it? so small as to be non-existent. And they their houses, One young man I talked to as he have taken good care of watered his lawn said he liked his house another former worry on the part of those fine, but he was pretty bitter because who originally opposed the program. they didn't have all the planned new Since the start of the GI home financ- schools built yet. Upon further inquiry, ing, we have been, it is true, in a period in this country, I found that he had no children. People of unusual prosperity are remarkable. however forced. An unusual percentage employed, and "But I will say one thing for them," he of our workers have been are continued, "they come right over and fix at wages that have been high and anything that's wrong with the house. getting steadily more bloated. Bankers oc- When we moved in there was one cracked and other experienced financial men of the window, and a nick in the back door There was nobody to talk to about that. casionally wake in the middle willies over knob. They came right over, put in a new The salesmen at the bustling tract office night with a bad case of the many window, and new knobs not only on the naturally weren't interested in any such the whole program — they say what the beginning, back door, but on the front door.'" nonsense, not as long as all those other of them have said from GI home fi- The next man, also watering his lawn people were waiting to buy more houses. that in no-down-payment on a most hazardous — in California your lawn extends only Perhaps if we are going to go into mass nancing we are out depression to the end of your hose — had been a Fire- housing we will have to out in "Com- limb, and that if any sudden dead. man 1st in the Navy, and now works at plaint Windows," like department stores, should come along we're un- the Long Beach Edison Company, some for 17,000 people can think up an awful Perhaps so. Chickens do have an roost. seven miles distant. He liked his house lot of questions they want to ask some- deniable habit of coming home to defi- fine — his only complaint was that they body. (The streetlight thing was really But the only thing that can be said had somehow balled up his payment rec- simply answered. The maintaining of nitely is that the GI home loan program certainly ord, and he hadn't yet been able to make their new streetlights will cost each is still handsomely afloat. And Let his first monthly payment. "Everybody on family probably not over fifty cents a it can't be said that it isn't needed. Angeles (although this block," he said, "has made the first month, and this is a charge by the County, us take only Los metropolitan area monthly payment except me." He was not by Lakewood at all. And even this seemingly every other all over the country quite put out about it. Some day when will be taken out of their regular month- is just as crowded; some you're not busy, build 17,000 houses and ly payments, with no "assessment" what- people seem to have come out of Since the sell them to people. ever.) sort of national woodwork). have poured into Los "But I'll say one thing for them," he The Lakewood householders, however, war new families canal dredge. said, "after we moved in we noticed that can't really be blamed for worrying over Angeles like sand out of a July, 1950, one of those little spring gadgets was suddenly having a streetlight to support. From July, 1946, through been missing from the screen in the kitchen The average income of the veterans now 268,938 new dwelling units have enough to door, and they came right over and put buying homes there is around $4000 a built in Los Angeles County, the need has a whole new screen in it. They were year, with an average of nearly two chil- house 845,000 people. And " there Johnny-on-the-spot to fix everything up. dren per family. (A figure due for early never even slowed down. In 1948, building in Los The next man had been a PFC me- increase — practically every woman I saw was $859,778,274 of new with the chanic in the Air Force. He was busying making inquiry at the sales office was Angeles County, and 1950, even credit restric- himself in the cool of the evening erect- exceedingly pregnant.) slackening due to the new the end of ing a most professional-looking cement Many of the Lakewood buyers have to tions, will top even that. By building total for Los block wall across the rear of his lot. He dig with great fervor to find even that September the 1950 already passed was even making his own cement blocks original $1.50 they need for the escrow Angeles County had ahead of the same in a set of forms just abaft his garage. charges. It is not too uncommon for a $750,000,000, 13 percent year of 1948. Liked his house fine. The only thing veteran home buyer (who is buying a period of the postwar record 67 percent is for wrong with it was that there had been $10,000 house, mind you) to say, "Well, Out of the 1950 total, — 73,909 new a little leak in the plumbing. But they'd here's nine bucks, I'll give you another new residential housing enough come right over and de-leaked it. fifty Friday, another fifty the following dwelling units costing $516,775,326, That's about the way it went. Every- Friday, and the other forty-one the next to house 232,000 people. to body seemed to think that they'd bought Friday -Okay?" And still the Los Angeles GI's rush

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buy housing. Lakewood was officially if 4 per cent money wasn't loosened up, opened on March 1st of 1950. Some 700 gave the lagging GI home loan program MEN! WOMEN! homes were sold the first week. I was a tremendous boost at a critical time. there on October 16th, the middle of a Due in large measure to this and other New Car givetr Housing Act of 1950 quiet Monday afternoon. There was a Legion urging, the Bonus! steady stream of people coming in to in- raised the government's maximum guar- as ^ for quire about "these houses." On a recent antee from $4000 to $7500, provided ORDERS for TAKE EARNED week-end they had sold 87 houses on direct loans from the VA for good-credit- Natlonallii Advertised Saturday, and 100 on Sunday. Since March risk veterans who couldn't get a regular TWO NEW CARS ... and as much as 1st sold over 5000 GI loan from private lenders, and in gen- they had new homes, NYLOHS $120.00 in one week the kickoff for the increased That's llyfini with no let-up in sight. eral provided GUARANTEED NINE MONTHS of Chas.Millswith the SoTisartional Guarantee creat* famous Wilknit hosipry line. The American Legion has naturally building boom of the past year, and the Oiler of New Chevrolet as a in;^ a tremendous demand for bonus open to EVERYONE. had a big hand in all this. Such men as very building of Lakewood itself. Wilknit Nylons! If tliey run, Send name for facts FREE. wear out or even sna(r from any written, newly established Robert R. Poston, former Legion assistant As this is the cause whatever within NINE MUNTHS . . . depending on controls quantity . . . they are replaced FREK OF CHARGE. No won- legislative director, Walter Alessandroni, and arbitrary government der it's easy to quickly build up fine, steady, year-'round in- former Legion housing chairman, and his threaten to kick the whole program right come. EarninRSstartimmediately. Look at the^;e exceptional litjures— Ralph Shearer made $67.11, first week — Mrs. Paul successor Bertram E. Giesecke have per- back out the window. As the controls took Estes, $42.y2— Mrs. IveyGentry, $J3.37. Doris Jensen in addition to making as much as $17.00 in a single day, earned two formed heroic duty in the cause of vet- effect, Lakewood, for instance, had ap- cars as EXTRA BONUSES. Learn how you can make money in your full orsparetime without a bit of previous experience. erans' housing. The Legion saw to it that proximately 2000 more already-under- strong veteran benefits were included in construction houses to sell to veterans SEND NO fliOHEi.„JustHosQ Size When you send for Selling Outfit, I also send your choice of the Public Housing Act of 1949. An edi- under the old no-down-payment rule. Nylons or Socks for your personal use. Don't lose a minute. Rush name on penny postcard for full money-making facts torial in this very magazine in 1949, ap- But what will happen to the unbuilt on Sensational Sales Kit. Send hose size, too. Lowell Wilkin, WILKNIT HOSIERY CO., 331 Midway, Greenfield, Ohio pealing for direct government financing 10,000 no one is quite sure. the end

Why You Buy Books Thut Sell Communism (Continued jrom page 19) however, the avidity of the American industrious and conscientious ones, can that om manu mind for knowledge and information, the read all the 8,000-10,000 new books i7.2() pe doz., vour cash. proHt $4.8() per doz. Re; American passion for "advancement" and come out every year. He has to depend up values. New desijins, expert workmanship. Lined at both ends, lOO^o wool InterlininK. Money-making oppor- "improvement," factors which stimulated on reviewers' estimates of books more tunity supreme. Act now! We pay postage. Money back guarantee. PHILIP'S NECKWEAR mass production of books and made pub- than on his own judgment and experience. 20 W. 22nd St., Dept. 709, New York 10, N. Y. lishing big business, have also provided Proof of the importance of this is to be our enemies with one of their most valu- found in the recent victory of The Ameri- able weapons. Books have become trans- can Legion in a controversy with the offi- Free for Asthma mission belts for insidious propaganda for cials of the Brookline, Massachusetts, If you sufTer with attacks of Asthma and choke treason. Public Library over circulating an anti- and gaop for breath, if restful sleep is difficult The American with something to sell communist book dealing with the Alger because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for gets it to his buying public chiefly through Hiss case — Seeds Treason. of a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA advertising and modern sales methods. Local Legion officials had charged that MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. It is as true of as it is of candy, the library had banned the book, which books No matter where you live or whether you have cosmetics and cigarettes. But books, al- has been on best-seller lists since its pub- faith in any medicine under the sun, send today free trial. It will cost you nothing. though they are frankly material, are also lication last April. for this Frontier Asthma Co. 967-D Frontier Bldg. food for the mind and spirit. But un- Recently, Arthur L. Endicott, chairman 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. like a new brand of soap which has to of the Board of Trustees, announced that depend on paid advertising to sell it to the book had been made available to the public, a book gets extra special free library patrons. treatment. This is the review by the In explaining the library's earlier stand newspaper and magazine, the radio and on the book, Mr. Endicott said: "The se- EARLIES' TV critics. The reviewer stands between lection of books was in large measure «KING OF THE Big solid, scarlet fruit, disease the public and the publisher's product in dependent upon the reviews which we resistant, heavy yielder. Ideal for almost the same way that a capricious or have learned from past experience to be table or canning. Send 125 SEED postal today for 125 seed CDCF haughty headwaiter mans the barricade a satisfactory guide. Several of the re- and copy of Seed and Nursery Catalog. F H 1 of the plush rope at a swank eating place views were not such as to induce the R. H. SHUMWAY SEEDSMAN, Dept. 327, Rockford, ILL. and decides what table he'll let you have, committee of our staff, which makes a or whether he'll bother to let you in at preliminary recommendation, to purchase MAKE MONEY all. The reviewer can hang garlands or the book. The trustees are the final au- and Have FUNJoo! garbage on an author's work. On the re- thority to decide upon the purchase of Show these adorable Greeting Cards Friends will be deliKhted with sma viewer's integrity, even more than on his any controversial book." Birthday. Get-Well. Secret Pal. Easter Star. Scripture Textand Catholic Every- technical skill, depend an author's repu- However, Mr. Endicott revealed that day. Easter and Relative assortments. They'll buy $1 box of 21 Cards quick. Yoo keep tation and livelihood. following The Legion's determined stand DP to 60c PROFIT. BONUS EXTRA. Gift Wraps. Gift Items. Kiddy •'Pop. Up" Books. Scented Sta- The importance of the reviewer then is on the matter, the trustees had decided to tionery. New Party Plan. SamvUs on Approval. MIDWEST CARD CO., Dept. F-SO TTTi'S' evident, since the only news the public purchase the book for the Brookline 1113 Washington Ave., St. Louis 1, Kfo. ' t I • ^< gets of a book is through the reviews and Library. paid advertising; and paid advertising, This explains why book reviewers are LOOfC more often than not, depends on the important to the communists, too. Their amount, kind and quality of the reviews. influence, if it can be won, can be used If the reviews are poor, the publisher to enormous advantage. for Rupture Help won't put money into paid advertising. The communists were the first to see Try a Brooks Patented Air appliance. This mar- He can't afford to. He can afford it less if this, naturally, so it was imperative that Cushion velous invention for most forms the book gets no reviews, which often if they were to control or dominate this reducible rupture is GUAR- heav- happens. Depending also on the reviews important field of communications, they ANTEED to bring YOU enly comfort and security is the extent of the sales effort expended spot their agents or sympathizers among day and night — at work and on the book. Before the reviewer has given the reviewers. Thorough strategists that at play—or it costs you NOTH- ING ! Thousands happy. 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The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 • or sympathizers among the reviewers, tions and encounter some inbred critic The Legion's BOOK they actually get active Party members beating to a pulp a book author who is or cooperative fellow travelers into pub- trying to say the same thing. lishing houses as editors or editorial as- "They seem to produce nothing, these sistants: they put their people into retail critics. Their role is simply to belt one book outlets, in department stores and over any writer who has the industry bookshops. and knowledge to produce an anti-com- And they have set up and control book munist tome. Deplorably, few authors selling clubs, related trade unions, etc. have any way of retorting, rebutting or And, of course, the party has plenty of suing the critic for pulling the rug from members and sympathizers among the under years of devoted work. BRAVE COMPANY authors themselves, always ready to fol- "We have book publishers too, among By Guthrie Wilson low the line in fiction or non -fiction them, some grown quite fat under our work; to logroll for the other faithful and capitalistic system, who will not touch A moving story of infantrymen. Not the story an anti-communist book. Among these they wrote home — but the story of the stork, to be hatchet m.en against anti-commu- snow-covered desolation, the hollow terror of up nist writers. are some shrewd fellows who have sense front. Mr. Wilson gives a realistic view of the Thus organized, they are able to work enough to know that such books will be age-old bond among soldiers, the fear and the a parallel course of intensive propaganda solidly battered by the critics and prob- need, the dull and dirty tasks, the bawdy humor, for their aims and sabotage of everyone ably lose money. But there are others the sympathy spoken and unspoken. $3.00 and everything opposed to those aims. who seem to believe with the critics, and Whenever a book comes along that is like them are Russia-firsters. HOW TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE YOUR OWN HOME potentially damaging to the communist "I can speak with a little personal ex- effort, the entire strength of their forces perience in this latter respect," Considine By lee Frankf is marshaled against it. They go beyond continued. "I had something to do with How to get the most possible living space out just book reviews; they bear down on the the editing of a book named The Rape of your present home — told with 1,225 "see-if faithful and the naive in all other spe- of Poland, written by the exiled demo- — do it" drawings and specific, easy-to-under- cialized types of writing; syndicated col- cratic premier of Poland, Stanislaw Miko- stond directions. Shows you exactly how to per- umns, editorials, etc., for it is through lajczyk. He gave a most detailed account form more than two dozen major home expan- of how communists were able to seize sion and improvement projects, including: this group that public opinion is formed, that predominantly Catholic country with finishing the attic, building a porch, garage, convictions cemented, prejudices solidi- storage areas and closets, modernizing the fied, and hatreds whipped up. hardly the firing of a shot — except in the kitchen, finishing the cellar or adding a wing, Just this past summer, the syndicated prisons of the secret police. The pub- and tells how to choose your materials. $5.95 columnist. Bob Considine, one of the lisher who originally planned to produce country's best and most prolific writers, the book actually asked Mikolajczyk to PLANNING YOUR HOME WORKSHOP and a fearless one who calls the shots as tone down his accounts of the tortures Edited by Sam Brown he sees them, spoke about this field of and murders inflicted on Polish patriots during destruction of that country's Active home craftsmen will want this handy specialized writing, which is his own, on the Popular Mechanics Press book that tells how to a national radio network. He described hard-won liberties. set the up ideal workshop. Scale drawings, dia- it as the one which wields the greatest "Mikolajczyk, of course, refused to go grams and actual photographs show you various power; one, therefore, which should have along with this treacherous suggestion. floor plans, wiring layouts, and power-tool hook- a corresponding sense of responsibility. He found another publisher — one with ups. Planning Your Home Workshop takes up By and large he said these writers who the courage to let the truth be told." the problem of specialty shops — tells what fools are given such wide latitude of expres- Mikolajczyk's book, The Rape oj Po- you will need for your own particular hobby land, subtitled Pattern of Soviet Aggres- ond how they can best be operated. $2.50 sion are with scant exception, fair-minded men and women. But he added: sion, was published, without censorship VISIBILITY UNLIMITED "If there is any apparent anti-religious or distortion, by Whittlesey House, a di- By Di'cfc Grace feeling among these specialists in journal- vision of the McGraw-Hill Book Com- ism, it will be found chiefly among the pany, Inc. Fabulous is too cheap a word for this story of book reviewers of certain leading New Poland was the first country on Rus- the career of o WWl flyer who was a crash pilot newspapers literary publica- sia's schedule of seizures by force — force between the wars and despite a broken neck got York and back of lying propaganda, fifth column tactics, into uniform for the Big War. It's really tions. fantastically interesting. $2.75 "Here a rather shocking situation pre- boring from within, all the techniques of vails," he went on, "If you write a book oppression and suppression with the trade NEW UNIT HISTORIES which steps on the toes of our home- mark of the hammer and sickle, masque- 11th Airborne Div. . .$6.00 103rd Infantry Div. . $3.00 grown left-wingers, bamboozled liberals rading under the sickening euphemism of 24th Infantry Div. ..$3.00 104th Infantry Div. . $4.00 or outright communists, or their idols "liberation." The communists therefore 77th Infantry Div. ..$6.00 106th Infantry Div. . $5.00 heaviest 78th Infantry abroad, you can almost count on receiv- ordered the of attacks on books Div. . .$5.00 506th Parachute Regt. $3.00 81st Infantry Div. ing a of reviews where the by Poles or about Poland that attempted . .$6.00 508th Parachute Regt. $5.00 number sour — reviews hurt most. to reveal the truth. Write us for complete free list of available unit "There are, of course, outstanding ex- Still another notable book which fell histories of both World War 1 and II ceptions to this rule. But the average into this category, was Defeat In Victory, big city book critic sets himself up as by Jan Ciechanowski, published in 1947, Order NOW: Cash a defender and champion of the legend a dramatic and moving account of Po- I or C. O. D. AMERICAN that those who speak out against com- land's last free days before the commu- I LEGION BOOK SERVICE 734 15th St., munists and their pale pink carbon copies nists took over. This died of neglect; de- j N. W., Washington 5, D. C. are automatically cheap sensationalists, liberate, planned neglect. I Gentlemen: Please send the war-mongers and unctuous serfs of Wall Sometimes the attack centers on the I me books indicated. I enclose $ Send CCD. Street. author, regardless of the book. John T. I "Some of these book reviewers get away Flynn is one such victim, and the vio- with murder, even though their reviews lence of the attack on his was all the appear in newspapers and magazines greater because experience had shown which could not possibly exist — nor could that Mr. Flynn, with a long-established the reviewers — under communism. Yet reputation as a writer, editor, critic and the reader of a fat Sunday newspaper fighter for principle, didn't scare easily Nome (pleose print) I can digest an editorial denouncing com- and never quit. He also knew all the tricks munism or shudder through such stories and anticipated a great many of the moves I Street as the 'tortured confessions' of clergymen charted and planned for his professional I City Zone Stote and businessmen behind the Iron Curtain destruction. When he wrote The Roose- I Jan/51 I — and then turn to the book review sec- velt Myth, he submitted the manuscript

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to several publishers and discussed it with tom. We paid, I believe, $700 for the ad. still others. This was the first time in his "The Herald Tribune then changed its more than forty years' experience as a position, probably as a result of the ad, well-known writer-editor that he had had because in three weeks, just barely BUNHER to "peddle" a book manuscript. Some of enough time to hire someone to read the the publishers were old friends and most book and write a review, a review did C/ISH IN WITH of them who read the manuscript ex- appear — a smear job to counteract the pressed great interest and approval — effect of the favorable Chamberlain re- HAHdILITE Bl/T — their lists were full; they couldn't view we had bought the space to run." CONSUMER DEMAND get the book out in time really to profit For a perfect example of the all-out, RUNNING WILD ON from it; the paper situation was bad, etc., four-alarm attack on an anti-communist 1 SEC. DEMONSTRATION etc. ad nauseam. The excuses were as book by another well-known anti-com- and weak. Revolutionary new . . transparent as they were lame munist author, W. L. White's Report on invention brings \\ Mr. Flynn found a courageous publish- the Russians is probably the classic ex- new protection to motorists and money ,J\ er in young Devin Garrity, head of the ample. making opportunity without parallel for ^ firm of Devin-Adair that up to then had W. L. White is the son of the late Wil- live Apents — Sales- — specialized chiefly in Irish books and other liam Allen White, the "sage of Emporia," men — Di.-^tributors, — H A N D I L I T 10 — — fine works in the general field. They pub- editor in the an American newspaper flashing- ON - OFF lished Mr. Flynn's book; and he was dodg- best tradition of our country and his craft. Safety Lantern ends / dnnfjer of night ac- ing the dead cats and over-ripe fruit of Bill White has inherited the fighting heart cidents when ear is parked for emer- scurrilous and vicious criticism for months of his father and his crusading spirit for gency repairs. Casts thereafter. Nothing daunted, he wrote an- justice and right. To his inheritance of powerful 1.000-foot beam plus flashing? red warn- other book, The Road Ahead. In this work craftsmanship, he has added a rich talent inff siq-nal! THREE-WAY ACTION. Red flasher only Mr. Flynn says: "The real enemy we must of his own that has grown with the years. — both flasher and white or beam liprht only identify and fight at every crossroad and He is the author of several books, among beam — at turn of switch. MOTOR- at all points is the American edition of them the poignant Journey for Margaret, ISTS — FLEETS — SFORTS- — VACATIONISTS the British Fabian Socialist who is en- MEN the stirring They Were Expendable, and ALL WANT THIS SAFETY gaged in a sneak attack here, as his com- Queens Die Proudly, all successful war LANTERN ON SIGHT. rades were in England, who denies that books, widely read and acclaimed. FREE! Demonstrator Offer! is a socialist he and who operates behind In the summer of 1944, when Soviet Huge profits in direct sales and to stores for resale! a mask which he calls 'national plan- Russia was fighting Hitler and Nazi Ger- Get Sample Offer. Write TODAY ! ning'." Mr. Flynn is eminently qualified many, and we were fighting Nazi Ger- The HANDILITECO. STURGEON BAY, WIS. by experience and study to hold and ex- many and Japan, Mr. White accompanied pound such views. There are not many Eric Johnston, then President of the U. S. OLD LEG TROUBLE Americans who know more about our six weeks' Chamber of Commerce, on a Easy to use Viscose Home Method heals history and politics than Mr. Flynn. And trip to Russia. It was decidedly to Rus- many old leg sores caused by leg conges- of those qualify tion, Vciricose veins, swollen legs and in- few who can match him sian advantage to put aside its long- uries or no cost for trial il it fails to show for his intellectual honesty. He believes, allow these standing rule of secrecy and results in 10 days. Describe the cause with millions of others not so articulate, American visitors to go about the coun- of your trouble and get a FREE BOOK. that is communism merely socialism in try. It was wartime; Russia was being L. E. VISCOSE COMPANY 140 N. Dearborn St., Chicago 2, Illinois a hurry. And he has not hesitated to say hailed as our "great ally," and a real and so and to fight this threat to our estab- extraordinary effort was being put forth lished American system. This is the key by all Americans, even those of vast and to his book — a warning that whereas the bitter experience with the Soviets, to be communists are numerically weak here, fair and impartial in their judgment. millions who say they hate communists Wasn't Russia fighting Hitler too? For- are actually helping them at every turn. gotten, far too quickly and easily by most, Imperfections very sIlKht —• poslttv

pi . The communist party has been able to the Hitler-Stalin pact, that cynically affect wc.ir. Ideal for dross, school , ay work was Firm hard finish. Wrinkle and shine resistant. use the professional liberals to do their political marriage of convenience between Retains neat press. Zipper front. Roo pockets. Blue. Tan. Gray, Sand. Lt Brown. : Brown, Waist: 28-42. dirty work. two totalitarian despots. Forgotten were Blue-Gray or Green. SEND NO MONEY Mr. Flynn's book, The Road Ahead, by l'^^^^ iTt""^ind'*and the bloody Moscow purges, the long rec- 3rd color choice. Pay postman only $4.95 all the criteria applied to books, should plus small pstg. Or send money and save ord of sinister events under Stalin. psCK- Money Back Guarantee. L.T.-m50 have had the widest attention from re- The White book, recounting his trip LINCOLN TAILORS Dept. AM-1 Lincoln, Neb. viewers, especially in the nationally- through Russia, was published by Har- FOR YOU circulated Sunday book review supple- court Brace, after condensation in the yKUI-£LE- ments. Reader's Digest, in March, 1945. Where At this point Mr. Devin Garrity reports: the publishers had confidently expected, Play this UKULELE. Send No "We published the book and waited for reason, that it sell and with good would Money. Just nanie & address. the reviews, especially the Sunday New 120,000 copies, the total was some 40,000 We trust you with SOpacks Gar- den Seeds to sell at 10c ea. nemil York Herald Tribune. After two months, less. The book was first attacked by David ...... send Ukulele and Instruction book. when it seemed fairly certain there would Zaslavsky in Pravda and sniped at by the Ho more money to pay. Write for SEEDS. Paradise, Pa. be no review, I instituted some inquiries local American leftist press incessantly LANCASTER COUNTY SEED CO., Sta. 257, and learned that the review copy had before publication. Before the review been received and was on file, but that copies were out, Bennett Cerf predicted LEARN RADIO it had been marked for the silent treat- in the Saturday Review oj Literature, ment. No review was scheduled for it. that it would be "the worst book of the — TELEVISION We then bought advertising space in the year." It was then covered for that pub- Herald Tribune's Sunday book section and lication by a symposium of five writers. Train at Home-Make Good Money Get Actual Lesson and 64-page book both FREE. See the excellent and fair — ran review of Mr. Three of these reviews, according to Mr. how I train you AT HOME for good jobs and a bright Flynn's book which had been written by line future in America's fast growing industry. You get White, were "amplifications of the PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE building Radio, Tester, etc., John Chamberlain and published in Hu- laid down by Comrade Zaslavsky and Mr. with many kits of parts I send. Make extra money fixing Radios in spare time while learning. Send Coupon NOW! man Events, a small Washington, D. C. Cerf." The other two reviewers, Louis publication of exceptionally high standing Fischer and William Henry Chamberlin, .MR. J. E. SMITH, Pres., Dept lAHI limited circulation. but The ad was set both of whom had spent more time in Nat'l Radio Inst., Washington 9, D. J C up purposely and deliberately, on our Russia than the other three, not only liked \ Mail me Sample Lesson and book FREE.

orders, to look like a legitimate review — the book, but dared to say so in their S Name Age which it was, although from another reviews." Address. State. paper—and legal requirements were com- However, the book was so abused and City , Zone Check if Veteran plied with by printing 'Advt.' at the bot- (CoTitmwed on page 58)

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BRAND NEW SURPLUS (Continued jrom page 55) request — an action which, considering the Stalinist operation against it so com- their situation (they knew the Soviet UP TO 8 5% DISCOUNT prehensive, that reviewers for libraries Foreign Office had read the cable) took EXTENSION CORD and church organizations were suggest- real courage. However, of the eighteen (Item 16) 40 ft. heavy duty, ing, "Don't read this; it's a prejudiced correspondents present at the Moscow made of specially insulated No. 14 2-conductor wire. So tough book." meeting, cabled their individual that you can drive over it and yet seven amazingly flexible and easy to liandle. Resists oil, grease or The National Council of American- willingness to sign a denunciation of a water. Extend electricity up to oltage drop. Use indoors or out. Soviet Friendship, Inc., a Red outfit sub- book they had not read. By writing, tele- "y rubber plug and outlet. Wt. 2 1/2 $1.99. Combination: Sale. 2-40 ft. sequently declared subversive by the phoning and cabling all over the world total 100 ft., wt. 7 l bs.) $4.95. PORTABLE LIGHT PLANT Attorney General of the U. S., led the to each of the many scores of correspon- Push Button Start 32- (Item 24) 500-700 watts 110-120 attack with an elaborate, expensive, dents who at some time had been in Mos- —60 eye. A.C. Powered bv a sturd dependable, easy starting, air cooled", page two-color brochure, which boldly cow since the war began, the NCASF was 2 hp. gas engine. No w iviwa necessary, just plupr in and o[>- purported to be "the truth." Ironically, able to collect nine more names and re- erate. Plenty of current for oil burner, emergency lights, freez- the only paid advertisement this publi- leased the list as "16 American Moscow er, radio, incubator, etc. Cinn- plete protection against current cation carried was "an official U. S. Trea- failure. Ideal for hunting or camping. Complete with Voltmeter sury advertisement — prepared under the an(i built-in windinpr to charge 6 v aiito batteries WALLY Fully guaranteed. Reg. $275.00 value. Only $138.50. auspices of the Treasury Department and HEATING & VENTILATING FAN the War Advertising Council." Thus, the 'Item 10) Easily installed in furnace pipes, or on oil space heaters. Forces taxpayers' helped for this even heat to all rooms. Over range, money pay removes kitchen smoke and odors. Powerful continuous widely-distributed attack on a distin- dutv motor, 110- W\e Voo /\ouj . Colonel* 120 V. A.C. Quiet, super etficient fan moves huiXQ volume of air r400 to guished American author for his effron- 600 c.f.m. > S" Fan $5.95, 10" Fan $7.95, 12" Fan $8.95. tery in telling the truth as he saw it on Air items brand new. Prices f .o.b. Chicago area. Money back guarantee. Send check or M.O. his tour of Russia. A A K EQUIP. & SUPPLY CO., Dept. 62 Burlinglon.Wis. The brochure itself merits close examination. It is black with a two-inch margin of red down the right side. The COMES cover is particularly interesting. A great AMAZING blob of white with jagged edges like a GANE TRY ONE FREE burst of light, is overprinted with the NEEDLE IN YOUR CAR! legend, "The Book The Nazis Like," and all this is superimposed on a facsimile

MANY GANE NEEDLE USERS RE- of the dust jacket of White's book, ex- PORT up to 25^0 more niileatê, FREE faster pick-up, ea.sier starting and posing it only enough to identify it and smoother Idling. Aulo Economy Manual NOW TEST A GANE NEEDLE IN reveal his name clearly. Underneath this YOUR CAR for ten days, then compare your mileage and perform- is another facsimile — a reproduction of ance. If satlslied. send $1.50 per many new economy needle (8 cyl. cars take 2). If products. ( Sent ab- part of the front page of Der Westkamp- not satisfied, just return It — fair solutely free to all enough? Since authorities differ on who try Gane jer, (the West Front Fighter).^ the issue (From Febniiiry. 1934 .4.L.M.) Us merits and some users report Needles ) . no improvement. TRY BEFORE YO[T BUY! (Gane Needle replaces of January 30, 1945, with a dispatch from Idling adjustment screw in carburetors — sily Installed In a few minutes). Lisbon about White's description of correspondents" who denounced the WRITE TODAY. ENCLOSE NO MONEY. PAY POSTMAN NOTHING. Just send us your name, address, and make forced labor in book. Of the sixteen, several were British, and year of car. the Soviet Union. NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH CORP., Dept C-1 the interesting thing about all this Canadian or New Zealanders. Others were 350 W. Washington Blvd. Venice, California Now is that Der Westkampfer was the front journalistic curiosities who wrote sporad- journal of Hitler's army — the German ically for obscure communist or fellow- equivalent of the Stars and Stripes which traveler publications and could be called No Experience we circulated to our soldiers at the front. war correspondents only by stretching Necessaryl ^PLASIICS This was January, 1945—the date is plain- the term considerably. However, also on Here's CASH for you. . .easy! Show friends, neigfibors amaz- ly seen on the facsimile—and the German the list were several well-known names, ing laundry- saving tablecloths, aprons, draperies, rainwear, babies' needs, etc. Tremendousdemand. Sellonsight. paper was barred in the U. S. at the time. including Edgar Snow and Richard Lau- BIG PROFITS, full or part time. Write tor FREE Outnt. more later. LORAINE PRODUCTS, Dept. DM-507 How was it that a copy of this publica- terbach, of whom 844 West Adams Street Chicago 7, Illinois tion was available to the National Coun- The book was even reviewed by the of cil of American-Soviet Friendship for Rev. Dr. William Howard Melish in the Many Causes just this kind of propagandizing in the Churchman, although it is difficult to see Chronic Ailments U. S.? what powers of clairvoyance the Dr. Mel- The booklet is also noteworthy for the ish of Brooklyn possessed that would en- FREE BOOK On Colon Troubles fact that on Page 3 it carried the petition able him to judge the accuracy of reporter And Constipation signed by 16 correspondents, newspaper, White's facts from trained first-hand ob- Many facts about colon disorders, headaches, magazine and radio, excoriating White servation in Russia. This is the same Dr. constipation, nervousness or stomach, liver and for writing the book. Never before, to my Melish who is notorious for his support bladder conditions are explained in a new 40-page FREE BOOK. Write today. Thornton & Minor knowledge, have writers joined in public and defense of red fronts and fronters. Hospital, Suite 187, 911 E. Linwood, Kansas condemnation of a colleague. Curiously He was assistant to his father, the elderly City 3, Mo. enough, several weeks before the book rector of the Episcopal Church of the was published, the National Council for Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, New York. Re- MAKE American-Soviet Friendship cabled the cently, the vestrymen demanded the res- Anglo-American Correspondents' Associ- ignation of the Melishes. The rector. Dr. lAWN MOWER ation in Moscow, asking them as a body, John Howard Melish, was removed by MONEY to join in a petition denouncing the book. the Bishop of Long Island, James P. de GRINDER! Moorad, in Wolfe after he had concurred; but the WITH THE . George who died the 1949 ^ Ênjoy a profitable lawn plane disaster in India which took the Melishes refused to obey the Bishop's mower sharpening business. No previous lives of 13 newsmen, wrote to White from edict and have been stubbornly resisting experience needed. Place a hand or power mower on the Universal Grinder. Wit_h Moscow in March, 1945 and sent the let- the ouster in a series of legal moves in one set-up you quickly grind ter via diplomatic pouch so that it would the courts and extra-legal ones outside. the stationary blade and all of the reel blades to proper be safe from inspection and confiscation White's book was immediately followed clearance without removing by the Russian censor. In it he detailed by a spate of reporters' books on Russia, a single blade from mower. the story of that cable. Here it is all ballyhooed either by their publishers mmmmm^ g. spuriock of Ar- as he IJÎiUIA kansas writes :" told it: the Daily Worker, or the mmm^m havehadmyUniver- The correspondents in Moscow or the NCASF, ^^^^^ salGrinder only two met after receiving Edwin Smith's tele- authors themselves as the "answers" to months. Live li4 miles from town. Yet have already made a net profit of $227.00." gram from the National Council of Ameri- the dreadfully "prejudiced" White book. J. L. Peterman of Pa. writes: Thank you for getting me can-Soviet Friendship (hereinafter re- One of the hatchet men on Mr. White's started in this wonderful business . . . I averaged StOO.OO a week in May, and made 91rOOO,00 spare time th is season." ferred to as NCASF) and voted down the book was Edgar Snow, long-time writer- Write TODAY for complete FREE FACTS about Money- Making Profits in Lawn Mower Sharpening ROGERS MANUFACTURING CO., Dept. A-li,Lindsey, Ohio 58 * The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 . .

editor for the Saturday Evening Post, and well-known communist technique a signer of the petition condemning whether the practitioners know it or not. White's book. Mr. Snow has long been on It is the double-action attack, the double- good terms with the left. He was chief jointed double-cross, "logrolling" on the correspondent in the Far East in 1938 for one hand, "logjamming" on the other. In the London Daily Herald (official daily short, a pro- communist author gets a newspaper of the British Socialist Party) friendly, even fulsome review by a pro- Tlie GEM STENCIL DUPLL CATOR saves money The Saturday Review of Literature chose communist reviewer who may himself be results quickly! Hundreds of Mr. Snow to do the job on George Creel's an author, or by a fellow-traveling pro- es for every type of business and organization. Wc ship the latest book, Russia's Race for Asia, and fessor or self-styled "expert." The author GEM complete with all supplies, Snow produced a highly unfair review. who is not in that company, who is writ- Guide Board for accurate printing and 60-page Book of Ideas at the Mr. Creel reports on his experience: "I ing against the communist line, will special low price of only $S*50 Our took the matter up with the SRL and they usually be subjected to a reviewer who (a $15.00 value) 2ht Year printed my letter along with another sneers, belittles, derides and generally fRee rmi offiR column of rebuttal by Snow. Although macerates both book and author. Use the GEM Mil at our expense! SEND NO the book was selling fairly well, the pub- Mr. Creel had another sample of this MONEY. Write and complete GEM outfit will be lishers went panicky and would not put when the New York Times turned his sent you postpaid. After ten days, send us only $8.50 or return the GEM. You must be satisfied! out another edition." Russia's Race for Asia over for review to WRITE TODAY. What Mr. Creel wrote to the editor of Professor Nathaniel PefTer, of Columbia BOND EQUIPMENT CO. Dept. 21 6633 Enright » St. loui» S, Mo. the Saturday Review of Literature fol- University, a frequent contributor to the lows: Times Sunday Magazine Section and its "Edgar Snow, in what purported to be Sunday Book Section. Professor PefEer W^YMkiOmmmG NtW and StHSATlONAL in a review of my book, Russia's Race for has been an unremitting foe of National- nrTlSEVERYDAY CARDS Asia, started off with an ugly sneer at my ist China and Chiang Kai-shek in virtu- Superb Satin Velour and Metallic MAKE Show rich now cards never before offered. 2|roR conduct of the Committee on Public In- ally everything he has written since the Get easy orders FASTI Amazine: values formation in the First World and Japanese surrender, in 1945. The New low as 25 for $1. Up to 100% profit. Froe War MONEY Samples Scented Stationery, Charmet- tea. Napkins. 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Also, that the hard-won victory in the Pacific might be MOMCrMAKING OPPORTUNITY fOK YOU purpose of a review was not controversy lost by defaulting to propagandists, they VYITHOUr INYeSTMeMTy but critical assessment, with criticism tried to sound a warning. The war which No experience needed to act as our Local Dealer for MASTER Work Uniform garments. based on firmer and higher ground than China had waged alone against Japan Every business concern a prospect. Advertis- prejudice. If these are justifiable assump- from 1931 until our entry in 1941, was one ing embroidered on garments is a big sales feature. You can easily earn up to many tions then what could be more unfair which cost the U. S. the lives of thou- thousands of dollars per year. We supply all than to turn a book over to another au- sands of young men and millions of dol- ales Equipment FREE. Write 'EO. MASTER GARMENT CO., DEPT. ligonier, fnd. thor whose own writings give plain warn- lars, which the young men who survived ing of a bias that will impel him to use will be paying for during the whole of his own review either for attack or at- their lives. The commie-hep American tempts at rebuttal? writers and others knew that the Chinese 25 o^rf'^srid DAHLIAS Mrs. Mitchell. Wash., D. C. writes: "It is im- "When you handed Russia's Race for communist leaders were Moscow-trained possible for me to express the pleasure derived your Dwarf Hybrid Dahlias from Asia to from growing over Mr. Snow, you cannot have and Moscow -directed stooges bent on de- Seed. It is unbelievable that such gorgeous been unaware that for years, both in livering their country over to communist blooms came from seed in such a short time. I enjoyed the blooms from early July until late books and articles, he has specialized in domination in return for the gauleitering October from seed planted in April, and sueh large, beautiful blooms, many double." presenting a favorable picture of the privileges, if they could get them. These You can do as well. Send 10^ in coin today and we will send you a Large Packet (50 Seeds) and F D F F Chinese communists. You must have anti-communist writers began to talk and our big new Seed, Plant and Nursery Catalog 1^ » ^ fc- foreseen the violence of his dissent to my write the warning. CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN rocmoTJ: " no.s charge that the Chinese communist party But the organized communist opposi- was organized and financed by Rus- tion got there first. All the resources of sian agents, and that for a full thirty years the Cominform were thrown into the it has been under Moscow's direction and battle for China. It was a battle that was control for the conquest of the And Folding WKire China and waged in every country, with cells group- FOR subsequent communization of Asia. ing into units, regrouping into cadres, Chairs CATALOG Ho. 200 "It could have been no secret to you," moving relentlessly and purposefully, Direct Prices fo legi( Mr. Creel continued, "that he would par- with diabolically effective propaganda to THE MONROE COMPANY, INC 69 CHURCH ST. COLFAX, IOW/> ticularly resent my denunciation of those blanket the truth and kidnap the Ameri- 'credulous liberals and fellow-travelers' can mind, the anti -communist mind, who have labored so faithfully to per- wherever it showed and smother all op- Learn here the TRUTH about suade American opinion that the Chinese position by any and every means. communist party is a purely native No better illustration of the effective- movement, led by agrarian reformers ness of that campaign can be found than psoniAsts and born of a people's spontaneous re- a look backwards at China now from the volt against corruption and oppression. tragically clear perspective of hindsight; IS IT A SKIN DISEASE All propaganda that I branded as the Ul- and at our terrible adventure in Korea, OR INTERNAL? timate Lie. all the more heart-rending because it "True, certain metropolitan dailies have should never have been necessary. And For the past several years a number of Physicians have reported amazing success in treating Psoriasis made a practice of this type of 'review- while let's we're looking at the wreckage, with LIPAN — a new medical wonder taken inter- ing'; The New York Times, for example, take a look at the battle of the books, iiaihi. LIPAN (registered U.S. Patent Office) is a combination of glandular substances that treat put General Claire Chennault's book at a battle which the communists won certain internal disorders which many medical the mercy of Annalee Jacoby, co-author through their involuntary helpers as men now agree to be the cause of Psoriasis. Clinical of ." results show LIPAN successful in over 90''! of the Thunder out of China . . (another much as through their dedicated Party cases treated. Even stubborn lesions are alleviated apologia for the Chinese communists). comrades. to a degree almost beyond belief. Ahsolutil n harm- Mr. Creel in his last sentence, as much The American people had no real less! Ask your druggist for lipan. or write direct for free booklet. Or send for month's supply (180 as in his entire letter reveals a common knowledge of China. The leftists filled tablets), enclosing check or money order for $8.50. practice in book reviewing circles — a the vacuum with their own books, re- SPIRT & CO., Dept. A-11, Waterbury, Conn.

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viewed favorably by each other; and the casual browser will be awed into by deriding and denouncing all others buying the work. This is a common tech- who had a kind word to say for the law- nique for "heavy" or "serious" books. On ful Nationalist Government of China or the jacket of Professor Fairbank's tome its leader and sworn enemy of commu- was Theodore H. White's assertion that nism, Chiang Kai-shek. this was "the best one-volume job on Who are some of these authors and China I've ever read." Mr. White, former- reviewers? ly Time-Life correspondent, was only 32 We have just seen George Creel's esti- years of age at the time, with nine years' mate of Edgar Snow. In 1944, even be- residence in war-time Chungking and no fore the war was over, Mr. Snow wrote time at all in China when it wasn't at war. People On Our Side, which Random With Annalee Jacoby, a young woman House brought out. who was given a job in Ch^na after the is the author of several other books ISUPERSHOP the PRECISION BUILT WORKSHOP. Lifetime He lubricated BALL BEARINGS. All running ports precision and numerous magazine articles all tuned WALLY IGROUND. Compare finest production tools. BIG capacity to note, one he has played for lAmozing VALUE. Write for FREE catalog, full details the same prial plan. years since his journalistic tour de force .M'ij:IM.IUil!« when he went into Red China and ouf Cleats - and emerged with the manuscript of Red Star «obalt\ Luan^s -to take Over China which Random House pub- BICOLORED U.S. FLAG STAMPS lished in 1938. 13 different. The cunipieU- >e: showing the flags of 13 over Another of these authors is Guenther run Nations in their oriKin;i colors. Reprularly sold at .'SI. 3; Stein, who in 1945 brought out The Chal- per set. Now special at 50(* Only to new applicants for U. S lenge of Red China. This book was re- approvals. One to a customer Send 5')c' now! viewed in the New York Times by the WAKONDA - Box 272A, Jackson Heights, N. Y. aforesaid Nathaniel Peffer. It was a glowing review. Thus: "The distinguishing characteristic of communist China is not It's Quick, Easy, Fun To Learn A ideological, political or economical but LANGUAGE by LINGUAPHONE psychological. There is something in com-

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The American Legion Magazine • January, 1951 ' Q\ (The current party-line is to sneer at pendix 9" the records of the Congressional I need 500 Men all ex-communists, to deny and insult Committee on Un-American activities. their repentance. This is particularly Apropos of that it is interesting to read wear SAMPLE necessary to the communists because Mr. Gannett in his regular space in the they must try to offset the damage done Herald Tribune for January 1, 1948. In an SUITS! their cause by such sincere and repentant easy mood, reviewing the literary scene men as Whittaker Chambers, who testi- at year's end, he says: fied Hiss, and Pay No Money — Send No Money! against Louis Bundenz "Meanwhile, I hope that the old year

My plan is amazing I Just take a few whose testimony helped convict the 11 has seen some competent talents — not easy orders for my sensational values in made-to-measure suits. Get your top communists in the U. S. Another sec- geniuses — at work on two books which I suits WITHOUT A PENNY own tion of the line, is COST and make money too! Men current one which should like to read in 1948. One would can't recist the outstanding style, always current as a matter of fact, is to be a study of the history of long wear and low price of my Congressional made-to-measure suits. You need encourage disrespect for simple morality; committees — how and when they arose, no experience. Spare time pays big profits. Rush name and address today for to glorify attacks on decency and su^^^jest how they came to outside the corapletedetails.biBFBEESAMPLEOUT- be ordinary KIT containa more than 101) actual woolen it is bourgeois and old-fashioned and so rules of law, what good — or evil — they amples. style iUuatrationa. etc. Write today I to be avoided.) have accomplished under what circum- Buried back in the Sunday Book Sec- stances. I would also like to read a care- tion of the Herald Tribune was a review ful study of the invasions of civil liber- OIL BURNER by an obscure reviewer, one Edgar L. ties in and after World War I — the ousting SWEEPING THE COUNTRY! Acken, of David Loughlin's novel A Pri- of the Socialists, the deportations, the vate Stair. Palmer raids. It would give us a standard ISLIPS INTO km COAL 'range, stove or furnacc In a 50-line review these two bits by which to gauge our present moods. Amazing quick, in- appear: It would also be a colorful study. It could tense heat. By finger-tip control. Cheaper than coal. No more "At first we think we understand De include the occasion when a noble Sena- _ shoveling coal or ashes. SENT ON TRIAL. Prove it pays for itself quickly by what it Gastro, the seaman-electrician. After all, tor shook his finger at a witness, Louise saves. $1 bonus for testing. We'll let you try one in your own home for one monlh. Write for details today. he is only tryiiig to make some money Bryand, and refused to let her tell what NORTHWEST MFG. CO., 109 Mitchell, S. Dak. in a slightly illegal way, a project an she had seen in Russia until she first CONDON'S GIANT TAii ATO American reader can understand and even swore that she believed in his 'God'." EVERBEARING I UMAI U sympathize with." And this: "As for All- On March 1, 1948, Mr. Gannett wrote: QUEEN OF THE MARKET-Big Money Maker. Largi'. Solid Red Fruit, Excelh-nt Canner. pike, the able seaman, except for his "They read American books even in the Almost Si'cdlesa. To introduce ourSuperior pathological lying, in which he reminds Russian Zone of Germany. Seeds. Plants, Bulbs, Roses, Perennials Eva Putnam and Berries, we will send 125 Seeds of us of an ex-com7nunist who has seen the reports in the New Republic that Howard Condon's Giant Everbearing Tomato and Big Catalog. Over 600 illustrations. 100 in light, there is nothing about him which Fast's Freedom Road, is being serialized natural color. Low Prices. Send FDFp postal now for Seed and Catalog. imfct we can identify." Emphasis supplied. in the Russian-licensed Berlin Vorwarts that in to inquiring CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN RocMord, Illinois Or for another example, the Herald and response an read- Tribune Book Section on September 3rd er, the editor recommended other ex- DO YOU WANT TO MAKE carried a review of Public Opinion In amples of 'progressive American litera- Soviet Russia, by Alexander Inkeles, pub- ture'." lished by the Harvard University Press. Mr. Fast is the red frontist who drew GOODMONEY^ The review was written by Clyde R. three months and a $500 fine for contempt Miller. of Congress not too long ago for refus- IN A BUSINESS Miller is known for his pro-Soviet ing to state whether he was or was not MAIL THE OF YOUR OWN? views. The most revealing passage in the a communist party member. Fast is COUPON review is this: "must" reading, the Daily Worker says. "Racial prejudice, once exploited in Last year he was in Paris at one of those • Would you like to own a business in which it the propaganda of the Tsarist regime (and phoney communist peace rallies telling is possible to take in as much as $200 gross the first week, as did L. A. Eagles? Some make of course, later by Hitler) has no place the French that "the reign of terror is more, some less. R. E. Traynor says, "/ made in the Soviet Union. This, in large only beginning in America." $62 gross in one day." If you are honest, am- meas- bitious and courteous, write today for full in- ure, explains the fanatical zeal of the Mr. Gannett has never reviewed Seeds formation about your big opportunity to own a Soviet's exploita- permanent, year-round, money-making business North Koreans and the of Treason, the Victor Lasky -Ralph de in which net profits are high, investment low. tion of the Korean situation among the Toledano book on the trials of Alger Hiss, No Shop Necessar/ colored peoples of the world." although its value and importance and This ofThand acceptance of the myth distinct literary merit and interest are Our Electric Rug Washer cleans rugs and carpets like new right on the cus- of race equality in the USSR is a dead unquestioned and its pre-publication pub- tomer's floor. This quick, thorough of the Russian has and highly efficient method removes giveaway. The supremacy licity was extraordinary. The book dirt and grime, thus restoring the people in the racial melange of the coun- been on the best-seller lists despite this natural, fresh beauty of floor cover- try is this time an article of faith; other attempts to keep it out of the ings. Anyone can run it. Rugs and by and carpets are not harmed. Russian culture and the Russian lan- public eye. There are hundreds of possible cus- guage are musts for other nationalities; On the other hand, Ordeal By Slander, tomers in YOUR vicinity. These cus- excessive "national" sentiment on the Lattimore, a "quickie" done by tomers tell their friends and soon you by Owen should have an independent, prosper- part of any of the minor racial groups the man Senator Joe McCarthy accuses ous business. Send the coupon NOW is dis- for booklet that explains everything. treated as counter-revolutionary "sep- of being the chief architect of our aratism." Actually, there has been a not- astrous Far Eastern policy, got extra- able growth of anti-Semitism, under the special treatment from both the Herald PRINT official label of "cosmopolitanism." Tribune and New York Times. PLAINLY In any case, why did Miss Irita Van The two papers published on two suc- AND Doren, who runs the Herald Tribune book cessive days, Sunday, July 30 and Mon- section, pick on Miller, of all people, to day, July 31, a big blast of favorable pub- MAIL deal with a book on Russia? There are licity vindicating Mr. Lattimore and NOW any number of American writers who damning Joe McCarthy. This was not done have lived in Russia and are better able in the news columns; the book columns to VON SCHRADER MFG. CO. appraise a book on Soviet propaganda. obliged. Both gave Ordeal By Slander 117 PL, Racine, Wis. 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t"*'°c» t^ort, merge and reclaim tiie wool and other valualjle nia- ^ ^ terials in worn carjjets, rugs, clothing of all kinds; then steam, j)icker, card, coml), bleach, si)in, red}'e and w eave lovel}', new ...

Deeply-Tufted, Two-Sided Broadloom Rugs . . . with tlie thrilling beauty and "feel" of "luxuiy ])ri( ed" rugs at a fraction of the cost. No underneath jiails are needetl (an extra saving). __-'-*'*~~^ J^-î. Colors, Patterns, Sizes for All Needs — AnÛ^ ' unusual and large sizes up to IG feet ^Û<^ J "-N wide without seams, any length. Solid Colors 18th Century Texture /)fuMW^^^ I Two-Tone Early American Florals îlffjgjK'' /t f/v^^ Tweed Blends Oriental Designs Ovals ^t FACTORY-TO-YOU SAVINGS. We do not I have agents or sell thru stores. We guarantee * Bl"^""^ * "^v please you or pay for your materials. '-^ ffc:-^ ^ OLSON RUG CO. ^^'I^^^^^^^c^ Lurtjust Maker of Rugs dealing Direct with the Home ---1

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