Volume 59, No. 1 (July 1955)

THE AMERICAN PAGE U Miracle at the Iron Curtain

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IVIIRACLE AT THE IRON CURTAIN by Walker A. Tompkins 14 THESE GIs WORKED OVERTIME FOR THE U.S.A.

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WANTS LIST al)l\- the fellow w ho has the toughcsf case to win is not a member of The Sir: How about publishing a list of American Legion, and after > ou win sub\'crsive organizations with dignified the case for him he still won't belong. and misleading names? That way the From stricth- a mercenary point of b<)>'s w ill be able to expose the front \ icw, ma\ be w e should quit squab- organizations for what the\' realK" are. bling about the Hoover Report and How about it? Irving Browne let it come to pass. A\'hen the infa- Brooklyn mous Economy' Act was adopted in 1932, then the veterans decided thc\' See "Editor's Corner," page 6. wanted to fight, and joined in dro\ es. Maybe the adoption of at least a part of the Hoo\er Reptirt would wake them up to the fact that onh' those things which are worth fighting for arc orth ha\ ing. ON FEET w Joseph S. Deiitschle Sir: A Bronze Star with two foot leaf Dcpavtmciit Adjutant clusters to George H. A\'altz"s excel- Coliuiibiis, Ohio lent co\eragc of the subject, "Tlic Trouble with Feet." Any Foot Sloggcr GLOBALISIVI

\\ ill attest to how much trouble a pair Sir; Zane B. I hurston's article on of feet can be. Also, which branch of tnonAoe folding banquet tables \^'orld Government leav es quite a liit the military was the first to establish to be desired. By using semantic trick- a Podiatry Corps? The Arm\' >"ou ery he infers that many supporters of sa> ? Nope, it A\ as the Nav) — strange the \A'orld Federal Government arc isn't it? Donald S. Atrait, DSC Godless, unpatriotic and tinged with Coliniibiis, Ohio liberal traitorous tendencies or worse. Those of us who can think of H\'dro- MISSING LINKS gen wars can also come up with no

solution which is workable other than Sir: There arc about t\\ enr>- niillifin strengthening the U.N. toward the \'eterans. The combined membership ev entual goal of outlawing w ar under of all veterans organizations is less It vou are ftH the lioanl of yi^ur srlmol or a w orld enforceable "A\'orld Law. cliunh, or on tlie house or purtliasinB <'om- than four million. If \-ou separated Pic. Ilurton S. rniltcc of your club or lodge, you will be intii- Kaufman FOliliiig Pnli stal liamiuet duplicate memberships, where the i strd in this niodiTii. Brookliiic, .l/jy.v. T.ibl.'. \\'riti- tor CMhiln- & sp.rial dl.^cuUHis. same man belongs to more than one MM:Ma^.gA9 CHURCH ST. COLFAX, IOWA organization, then the total probably FROM A SURVIVOR ^\ ouldn"t be more than three millions. Now where are the other seventeen Sir: The article in yuuv \la\' issue, millions? It seems to me the reason "The Shame of the Jap Nav\'," awak- \\ \\y a good many of the missing links ened ti'agic memories of a brutal three-

Home don't belong to the Legion is because I day ordeal in the Indian Ocean thc>' get what they want without the underwent following the torpedoing incnt of .After about nine 'Fix-it" lia^ dues. of the SS I Clin Nicolct—the torpedo- > eai s, I have about reached the con- ing, the killing in cold blood, the tor- clusion that we should only do ser\ - tured hours on the lieck of the Jap

ice and rehabilitation work, as we de- Sub 1-8 ... 1 write this letter because

fine it in Ohio, for Legionnaires, I w ant you to know that I feel Com- widows and orphans. The same goes mander Smith has rendered a serv ice Pkislic Wood permanently nationally, too. Our ser\ ice people do bringing this information and the icpans lurnitiiie. replaces \\ veterans in lolled wood, and lills knot ork for about 80,000 background of plotting which brought

holes and gouges. Apply it Ohio. Less than 25 percent are even it about, to the attention of the .Ameri-

like puUy— it hardens into card-carrj ing members in the Legion. can public to show what can happen

real wood. The other 75 percent just drag their w hen > ou let your guard down in feet because the\- get what thc\' want the troubled field of international re-

without being members. W'e ha\c lations. All is not sweetness and light plenr\- of cases to pro\e the point, in this world of ours; the law of the .!li'E''D 'PLASTIC WOOP;' make no mistake about that. In\ari- jungle still prevails anil it is for us

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of rhc Legion to ;ilcrt tlii.' countr\- and Adl'crlnemoU keep it alerted to kno\\' that w e must never let our guard down or be anj - thing but strong and powerful. An>' misunderstanding about the effect of complacent policy can swiftly be a „ From where I sit resoh ed w lien you read in Com- \ mander Smith's article that atrocities of the type he outlines were deliberately used to "scare" American sea- Joe Marsh men out of service in merchant ships. Ij^ The Japs found out that we don't scare too easily but it took a lot of war of retaliation to convince them. Perhaps there arc still countries whicli may likewise need convincing. But a better policy would be to let them know in advance what the consequences of any mistake on their part would be. John Gussak Learn How to J. Col. USAR New York City T A complete account of Col. Gussak's Pull Together experiences appeared in Saga Magazine last No\cnibcr. The Editors

a kid go by the Clarion office on NOT INFORMED? Saw brand-new coaster yesterday Sir: Rudy \^allce talked about an a wagon American Legion Convention being — and it reminded me of when my just a lot of fun and a lot of drinking I forty years on a recent Kraft Foods Co. program. brother and were about Evidently the Kraft Foods Co. and younger. Mr. X'allec are not informed on the humanitarian programs of The Ameri- Our folks weren't poor, hut there can Legion. Frank C. Dacquet Warnego, Kain. wasn't enough to buy two wagons for Christmas. We got one between us. WANTS BETTER ENTERTAINMENT Dad made a rule that we each could Sir: The public is getting tnx-d of t\\ (j \' t> pes of pla> s: the gangster 1 pla> s have it for a week — but the boy with and the legitimate theatre plays concerning homosexuals and uncontroll- the wagon was responsible for keeping able se.x urges. ^Vhere are the fine the kitchen wood-box filled. plays we used to sec? William Ross Brooklyn Seemed a bargain to Bud and me at first. But soon we discovered it was LEGION no more fun playing alone than working alone. It wasn't long before we were sharing the wagon in return for sharing the chores.

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Sir: In your May issue you state tliat deny it to others. There are some folks the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to their derived rt5"permanent guard through who want the right enjoy fa- action of The American Legion in vorite beverage— but would deny me 1926. I make a prior claim; my personal act in securing the permanent my right to an occasional glass of guard in 192.i. I have a letter from beer. I doubt such people get their C. R. Slemp, personal secretary of if President Coolidge dated October 22, full "share" of happiness, though. 1923; also, a letter from John A\ Weeks then Secretary of War, dated November 1923. [Both letters ac- knowledged iMr. Hatch's recommen- dation but did not indicate that action

^^'ould be taken. I After writing tlic President, receiving the Secretary of

\\'ar's letter, I feared the matter was closed and my effort a futile gesture. (Contimied on page 51) Copyright, 1955, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION M,\GAZ1NE • JULY, 1955 • 5 .

PARTY LINE NOW that the communists and tlicir ever-ready stooges have knocked off a few of our legally elected officials who were hurting them, they are giving more attention to those who have damaged rhem by daring to testify against the ringleaders of the red conspiracy. Using a few psychopaths as evidence, the commies arc pulling all the stops in an effort to prove tliat all those who identified the red wretches are bums. The commies could not discredit the good witnesses in court, despite all the shyster tricks in the book, but they are now dt>- ing a pretty good job of discrediting thcin out of court. Some of our most influen- tial molders of public opinion have pitched in on this Operation Smear, and

it seems to be having an effect. Even a few Legionnaires are falling for the com- mie line that the only good ex-communist

is one who never opens his mouth against the party faithful.

WORTH STUDYING

0\E of the letters appearing in '"Sound Off" this month is typical of many received by this magazine. It asks us to publish a list of subversive orginizations, i)ut unfortunately that is not as simple ;is A LIGHT IN THE DARK — More and more outdoor telephone booths arc being placed at it may seem. There are many different convenient locations. Available for service 24 hours a day. They supplement the thousands lists, and by the time we publisiicd all of of telephone booths in buildings, stores, hotels, gas stations, airports, railroad and bus stations. them tiiere wouldn't be much room in an\' particular issue for anything else. Fonunately, something is being done

about it. \Vc keep hearing about new projects which should do much to infomi Brother to the people ever> \\ here about the true nature of communism and those who serve it either openly or in some sneaky guise. One such project w e mentioned recently, Phones at Home the Ithaca Reading Room, where even Cornell students may learn about communism. As a result of this mention. The County No matter \\ here you go, you are ne\'er So the next time something comes American Legion of AX'cstchcster announced that it would soon open a simi- far from a pul)lie telephone. North, up when >ou arc away from your lar information center in AMiite Plains. soutli, cast and west, they are conven- or or you're thinking home business — Also, the Annapolis and Anne Arundel iently located to serve you. of someone who would like to hear County Public Librar>' has installed a book shelf on the red menace, and an- I'hey arcall brothers to the telephones your voice — just step in a convenient other is being installed in the Sr. .Mar> "s telephone booth and call. in your home or office and connected in (xiunty Library at Leonardtow n, .Md.,

a nationw ide family. I' rom them you can You can tra\ el far in a few minutes thanks to Talbot T. Spccr, publisher of Press, Inc., Annap- call any one of fifty million other tele- — save steps, time and money— and tiie Capital-Gazette olis. phones nearby or across the country . . get things settled while they're fresh On a more elaborate scale, a public li- thirty-five million in other countries. vour mind. and on brary is being established in Washington where people can get all sorts of material on totalitarian groups. Papers of incorpo- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM ration have already been filed for this ,"

Foundation of American Research," and the incorporators are D. IMilton Ladd, who retired last year as an assistant to j. Edgar Hoover, and \\'ashington attorneys Daniel L. O'Connor and Aaron Jackson. The library will include material both pro and con, but that is as it should be. The main tiling is to get people to know all about communism and those who pla\ the red game.

incidentally, if would be refreshing to find the Carnegie, Rockefeller, or Foril Foundations making a handsome grant to "Foundation of American Research" or some of the other organizations which try to fight communism, and which manage to do it \\ ithout hiring a lot of left- wingers. However, "refreshing" is proba- bl>- not the right word. Let's cliange it to "unlikely".

SOUNDS FAMILIAR ONE OF our readers, commenting on the so-called New or iModcrn FaIu- cation, the current alias for the Progres- sive variety, points out that there is nothing new or modern about it, that the philosopiiy behind it goes back to ancient Greece, to the Sophists. AX'e're glad to get this in the record, together with the information that this sort of bamboozling M as know n centuries ago as "sophistr>", and if you'll consult ^^'ebster >'ou'll find tliat this is a synonym for "dccepti^el^ subtle reasoning or argumentation." That great philosopher Socrates tried to siiow up those earl\ -day Progressi\ es but what happened to liim has a strangeh familiar ring. An outfit under one An> tus, w liicii might have called itself tlie Hel- lenic Citizens Commission for the So- phisticated Schools, framed old Soc, and the condemned man had to drink the hemlock. iMaj'be some of the people at our bigger teachers' colleges know a little bit about ancient history after all.

GOOD WILL ABROAD WE KEEP hearing about elaborate propaganda projects to make other peoples think well of us, but on page 14 you will learn how a handful of CIs out- did the best of the global publicists. Their system, in effect, merely applied the Golden Rule, which generally does work out well. The story, "Miracle at the Iron Cur- tain," tells about the 24th Constabulary Squadron. It also discusses the Unit's Ex- ecutive Ofiicer, Lt. Col. Ralph F. Miles. A\"lien the article was set in type, proofs were sent to the author. Walker A. Tompkins. With his reply came the follow ing from Colonel Alilcs: "During the development of the Ger- Good taste and good sense—if you man-American relationship program in possess them both you can possess fine Germany, [I| was in constant communi- cation with National Commander Lewis things! In whiskey, that means smooth

K. Gough. . . . Prior to my entry on duty celebrated PM—the whiskey whose quali in 1948 I had served on Commander

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Out in space a runaway rocket missile threatened

death to miOions — unless Cal reached it first.

By LEE CORREY

Free men love their freedom^ and ihey want to live to enjoy it. Their fondest wish is that other men could be free as well. But because free men are also human, they make mistakes. And freedom does not mean they may shirk the responsibilities for such mistakes.

The coded cipher arrived while Don Karlter and test pilot Cal Justin were in a scheduling conference with Captain Hofsteader. "Excuse me, gentlemen/' The Captain arose and went into his office, closing the door tightly behind him. Cal leaned back. "Whew! I guess we can take five, Don. How about a stroll?" But the project engineer of the Navy's new trans-oceanic transport rockets was fidgeting in his chair. He replied nervously, "I'd better wait. Those coded teletypes are usually hot stuff. Washington codes only " when absolutely necessary — " "It'll be thirty minutes or more — "Go ahead if you wish, but I'm staying. With the project " where it is right now, it might concern us — So Cal sat back down. In a few minutes he began to fidget too. There was an ominous silence in the room, and the test pilot had the premoni- (continued on next page) . " .

Now it was necessary to match his speed with that of the missile, and slij) in behind it.

one thing: it was hot . . . plenty! And trouble was coming. "Hercules S/N 24 didn't come back." Cal swallowed. The Hercules was one of the interconti- nental ballistic missiles. It reached up into space like a giant shell and plunuiieted back 5,000 miles away on target. To get that kind of range, the missile had to attain a pretty high tion that something was about to happen — something very velocitj' — high enough so it wouldn't take much of a push important indeed. Getting up at last, he w ent to the window in the wrong direction to keep the missile up there like a and looked out over the Navy's technical area at White tiny moon. Sands Proving Ground. It was a clear, hot summer da>- in "It's between 150 and 200 miles up," Hofsteader went on 1%5. Resting on its landing gear near the hangar was the shakily. "Ar7/!ed and carrying a proximity fuse. It's up there streamlined form of the KX-238, the Navy's first manned until it decides to come dov\ n somewhere. rocket, hi common with a lot of other aircraft and rockets, There isn't much air at 200 miles altitude; in fact, it s a

it looked fast and it was. It could carry a pilot and five tons better vacuum than the best laboratory pumps can get. But of cargo, cameras, people, or bombs across 5,000 miles of there is enough air to cause just the tiniest bit of drag and ocean in one hour flat. On its initial leg it \\ ent up over a that was enough eventually to slow dow n an orbital missile hundred miles into the sky, then came screaming down and cause it to come screaming back to earth again. across the miles as a supersonic glider. With an armed special w arhead.

Ifs a heaiitif/il ship, Cal thought, /loiv that n-e've

the hitgs out of it. iMost of the bugs were nasty pilot-killers. ocean? Or would it hit New \Ork City or Moscow or Lon- Cal himself had crashed once, and by some miracle had don? Or would it slam down out of the sky on Cal s ow n conie through alive. But it was his job; he expected it. family? So did his wife. Cal broke out in a cold sw eat.

Now the KX-238 was ready for production, but the ship "How big is the warhead?" Don asked quietly. standing out in the New Mexico sunlight was the first — and "AEC says a hundred megatons." only — one of her kind. "i7,?/.V"

Captain Hofstcadcr hurst back into the conference room. "Can they intercept it w ith anotiier Hercules missile?" the "Don! Trouble!" Those words and the w a>' rhe\' w ere said test pilot (]ucried anxiously

caused Cal to swing around abruptly. "They launched Her- The Captain shook his head. ''Hercules S N 25 is still tw o esies missile S/N 24 hours ago. That was the one aimed at months from completion. By that time S N 24 will have ." Eniwetok on the operational test of the special w arhead. . . been on the deck for weeks. So there's only one answ er. . . To tlic two men listening, a special warhead meant only They w ant us to intercept and disarm!" 12 ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK MCCARTHY The engineer was on his feet pacing nervously. "How ? With what? The 238 might reach 200 miles, but it won't here?" he wanted to know as he indicated a stack t)f four stay there; it's not an orbital job! Maybe we can rig some big cylinders with rocket nozzles on their ends. extra fuel tanks on her, but once you get a man up there, "Extra push at take-off," Karlter explained. The engi- bow in the bliic-eycd blazes can be get near tbat proxhfiity neer's eyes were red with lack of sleep. "Think another fuse?'' couple of hundred tons of thrust at take-off will help?"

Hofsteadcr started to speak, but Karlter w cnt on, "There's "They should if I don't black out." only one way to disarm the S N 24 permanently, by blow- "You won't. Only six-g." ing it up! But that 238 sitting outside is the only one we have "I can take that. But how about booster separation? Are

and we need it! 1 can't expend her and a pilot to boot!" we going to run some tests to see if they'll break clean?"

"Sit down, Karlter," Hofstcader snapped. He didn't raise "Tests? That takes time . . . and we haven't got it," Don his voice; he didn't have to. To a man who has commanded told him sourly as he inspected the mechanics working in other men for years, there is no need to shout. "I'm not the cargo hold. "I worked half the night tr> ing to figure

asking you if you u-ill do the iob; I want to know if you can. out the orbital maneuver," Karlter changed the subject. If not, the Navy will step in. "With the extra thrust of the boosters and b>' hanging extra "I don't mean to get tough, but this situation is serious. tanks in the cargo bay, we can just barely get you into the The S/N 24 is up there now, and nobody knows w hen or same orbit with the S/N 24 — but not back." where it may come down. Even the best computers can't "Then forget about it. I want to live." tell us. "Don't go off half-cocked! I thought we could use a "But wherever it does come dov n, there's going to be rocket battery to knock out the S/N 24, but I've got a hell to pay. And if it happens to come down in the wrong better idea than that." He led the test pilot dow n to where place entirely, it will touch off the damnedest war this the big rocket nozzles emerged from the tail of the ship. planet's ever seen!" Mechanics were installing a big, rifled, steel cylinder. Don Karlter looked at him through narrowed c\'cs for a "You'll be packing a 120-miIlimetcr gun back here.

moment, then made some rapid figures on the scratch pad, Dwight is rigging up a gunsight in the cockpit, and the "Cal, will you fly it?" computer boys are worldng out a set of range tables for Cal's palms were wet. He didn't want the job at all. In you. When you get up there, your tanks will be dr>'. But

fact, he was scared to death. But a 100-megaton bomb was you can swin: :he ship with the gyros until the tail is point-

just too big to be sailing around loose upstairs. He thought ing at the r i le. It's a t icky maneuver. You'll have to be of Diane and the boy. If the S/N 24 hit them, the\' would about 30 to 50 miles behind the missile in orbit. When you be lucky. But if it missed — even by hundreds of miles — the let loose with the 120, the recoil will slow you down enougii fall-out would bring a lingering death. to bring you back into the atmosphere in about fi\'e hours "I won't make a one-way trip, Don." or so."

"I wasn't asking you to," the engineer replied. "We can "Provided I get pointed the right way." get you up there and bfick, and the 238 can carry a salvo of "Provided you do."

air-to-air rockets." "Suppose I miss?" " The pilot still didn't like it. But he glanced up at the "You'd better not

ceiling and replied, "All right, I'll go." The pilot looked it over. "I don't like it, Don. It's too "Captain," Karlter went on tonelessly, "do they know ." tricky. If something goes wrong. . .

I "1 ." exactly where that east is yet?" don't like it either, Cal. But it's the best w e can do. . . "Lowell Observatory is waiting for nightfall. They still Nobody had made a mistake with the S/N 24. iMachines have the old equipment from Tombaugh's satellite search. sometimes have minds of their own, particularly* the intri- They'll discover its orbit." cate devices w hich make up a guided missile. "They'd better!" But the situation w hich had let the possibiiit\- — tlie real possibility — of nuclear hell breaking loose somewhere on

WHEN CAL drove home that evening, he sat for a long time innocent people w as the root of it all. in his car opposite his house. Occasionally, he looked up Aiaybe this will show iis, Cal thought, how silly this whole to where the stars were jnst beginning to show. He had to game of war really is. It nsed to be a gentlc7//an's contest to tell his -w'lie — bad to! Yet Operation Intercept was top the death. But it's ///ass destruction i/ow, a//d that's i/o secret. gentlei/zan's game. He decided he wouldn't tell her. Being the wife of a test 00967 98334 FLAGSTAFF ARIZ PD WHITE SANDS pilot, she was braced to expect it someday, anyway. No ATTN KARLTER OPTIMUM TIME ONE EIGHT need to have her sweating this thing too, he thought. THREE SEVEN MST TONIGHT GOOD LUCK AND Damn it! Qtiit thinking that way! Or yoiCre dead before GOD BE WITH YOU SIG CAPEN. start! yon he told himself savagely. "Here it is, Cal," Don said, handing the telegram to the "Hey, Daddy's home! Daddy's home!" a high voice yelled pilot. "Better go suit up." and a small boy raced out of the house toward the parked "1 Cal breathed heavily. Four hours away! . . . I'd hoped car. "\\ " harcha doing. Dad? Looking at the stars?" I could see the wife and kid before "Looking for one particular star, son." The engineer laid a hand on his shoulder. "So did I, Cal," The astronomers at Flagstaff found the errant missile that he said w ith the first hint of human sympathy Cal had ever night, and a complete analysis of the orbit was on hand seen from him. when Cal showed up at White Sands the next morning. He Flashing into the pilot's mind came the picture that hnd felt terrible; he hadn't slept two hours. But he studied the been wirephotoed from Flagstaff—the speck of light among figures, then went into the hangar where Don, the other the star streaks on a telescope photograph. The wild satel- engineers, tiie and ground crews were modifying the lite. There it was, a cold, hard point of light, the deadliest 238 rocket. star in the sky. He saw something, so he look- went He had to kill it. j ing for Karlter immediately. \ The setting sun threw the shadow of the KX-238 and "Don, what are those ^ ^ her loading tower far out across the desert. The ground booster rockets crew closed the canopy, tlie loading towers were moved ''! doing in S back, and Cal was alone with his (Contimied on page 56) 13 Miracle at the Iron Curtain

How some GIs improved

international relations by being

good Joes to German kids.

The old orphanage had no heat, electricity or water.

By WALKER A. TOMPKINS

Aucasi President Eisenhower received a remark- I^sr able document from the American Zone of West

' Ciernian\ : a petition from some 100,000 citizens of Hesse province along the Iron Cm tain. These descendants

of the I kssian mercenaries w ho had fought General \\'ashing' in the American Revt)lution requested the "extraditioi;"' of an American soldier w ho, during a brief tour of OccLipatif)n Arm>' dut>', had accomplished a miracle which could hold the secret of lasting peace throughout the w orld. The text of the petition had been penned by Dr. Otto Jansen, hiiri!,criiieister of the ancient cathedral cit>' of Bad Hersfeld. Shorn of its Teutonic embellishments, it Three years later the orphans Avere living here. began: "Nowhere in postwar Europe lias American democ- racy taken loot as in Hesse. This was brought about by True, the 24tii had inlierited an esprit de corps dating a small group of American soldiers who were stationed back almost a centur>'. Progenitors of the Squadron had briefl\- among us. They became the saviors of a lost served in the Civil War, at the Little Big Horn, in the generation of German >'outh. The unit, known as the Philippine Insurrection, in the Invasion of Normandy. Now 24th Constabulary Squadron, no longer exists. But the the outfit's men patrolled 250 miles of the Soviet East Ger-

changes it w rought in the tlestinies of our people arc man border. Headquarters was at jMcPheeter's Barracks in bc\'ond calculation; they will be felt for generations. Bad Hersfeld, an industi^ial town located between Kassel iMr. Presitient, w e take this means of requesting a favor." and Frankfurt. What the Germans now call the "GI Miracle" began in Back in 1951, tlie GIs of the 24th Constabulary Squadron, mid-January of 1951, at an enlisted men's smoker— a month- U. S. Arm>' of Occupation, would have been embarrassed ly bull session where a GI could air his gripes before his at such an extravagant accolade as "the saviors of a lost officers in a college fraternity atmosphere of beer and cigars. generation." They were a typical cross section of the U. S. On this particular evening. Colonel Conant had just re- Army: the majority were draftees, a few key noncoms were turned from a routine staff meeting in Frankfurt. He combat vets of World War II. Their average age was 23. brought back a message from General Alanton S. E'ddy, They came from 46 States and from all walks of life. Their commander of the 7th Army. It was a message Conant iiad commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel Perry E. Co- heard w ith misgivings. It invoh ed a new policy which mili- nant of Michigan. tary discipline could not force a soldier to accept against his

14 the dormant seeds of World \\'ar 111. The Pfc had missed the whole point of General Eddy's new "get friendh" policy. And then Danny T. Pagliarulo of Kentucky stood up. "Pag" was the First Sergeant of Headquarters Troop. "The soldier's opinion may be justified," he conceded. "But I'd like to ask him one question. What about the German children? Do w e w ant them to grow up hating us Yanks—to maybe bear arms against our own kids at some future day?" A spontaneous din of applause greeted Pagliarulo's words. Conant relaxed. He had his answer. The rank and file understood. "I can suggest a good place to start Cieneral Edd\''s cam-

German doctors thought j)laiie rides woidd cure whooj)ing Tlie haled Yankees took a terrific beating, but in cough. Lt. Warner commanded the 21th"s "health wing." view ol methods used the victory was a hollow one.

will, since it dcnianckd the spiritual obedience of every enlisted num. "Up to now," Conant addressed the smoke-clouded as- semblage, "the American Arm\' has not concerned itself w ith

cultivating the good \\ ill of (Jerman civilians. All of us know w here we stand-foreign police, to be endured as one of the penalties of losing a war." The GIs exchanged wry glances. Every man in the da\ - room knew what it meant to be vilified by r()wd\' teen-agers on ti»e streets. They had seen YANKS GO HOME! chalked on the ratbaus (cit\- hall) walls. Not one had been invited to share the hospitaiit) of a German home. The 24th had shrugged off this hostility without rancor. They were more concerned with serving out their hitches, pocketing their discharges, and getting back home to pick up their civilian lives.

"f'rom now on," Conant ct)ntinued earnestly, "our Arm\' is adopting a new policy. CJeneral Eddy w ants us to go all out to w in the Germans over to American ideals, to offset the communist propaganda which is driving a wedge between our When Col. Afiles returned to (.ermany in 1954 he was peoples. It w on't be easy, men. It is something that can be mobbed by streaming throngs ol healthy German kids. achieved only by a slow process of evolution, not revolution." So far. Colonel Conant read no reactions on the inscrutable faces of his men. He had to find out what they were thinking. "All right," he said blunth-. "How does this strike you? Is paign," Pagliarulo w ent on. "Most of you guys know that

German friendship important to usr Sound off." my wife and I have been visiting that ramshackle farm- Dead silence greeted the CO. Finally, from the rear of the house outside of town they call the Glimmesmuhle Or- room, a Pfc w itii three liaslimarks on his sleeve took the floor. phanage. How many of you have ever been inside that "I say to hell with the krauts, sir!" the Pfc declared. "My pesthole? Children crowded together like animals, ten or father w as gassed b> the Germans in '18. Aly kid brother died 12 to a bedroom. No heat, electricity or running water. in the Battle of the Bulge. I helped clean out the corpse ovens If the 24th could sort of adopt that orphanage. Colonel, at Buchenw aid . . . Germans have been warmongers since the we'd make some friends." da\-s of the Huns. So far as I am concerned, America don't A pin-drop silence descended as Pagliarulo sat dow n. the need friendship of any kraut—now or ever." The Glimmesmuhle Orphanage was a hellhole, all right. Conant's lips compressed. The Pfc was not alone in his bit- The older children had been evacuated from Kassel during terness. But in that ver>- attitude, Conant sensed, lay planted the World War II bombing raids. {Continued on page 50)

15 Chappie. Found from ilic AVhite ])er(h. Mostly an At- (ileal Lakes to llie Gull and lantic C>oast fish. Found in

liom New Jersey to tlie Ires h a n d b r a t k i s h Patific. It runs to 2 water. Small mouth: poiuids, sometimes moi e. uns to 15 inches.

Fish you'll enjoy catching and

Bliiegill. Abundant in lakes, ponds and streams. .Scra|)py on light tackle. Moves around in grf)iips. Averages 1 pound. eating

Yon ran cook HuMn whole in a pfin.

By JACK DENTON SCOTT estimate that eight or nine out of e\ er>' ten fishermen are seeking the pan fish,

1 1 Au sonic 1S,5K0,X13 f rcsli-watcr a highly-regarded trout bass. w hich in State is called the bream L\sr or black our fislicriiicn got thcinsclx cs togged up These were the fishermen comprising or crappie." in stream gear, jammed into hip more than 9,000,000 in the four central Thomas L. Kimball, Director of the hoots or waders, anci went forth. The geographic regions of the United States; Game and Fish Commission of Colo- number w ho retiu-ncd w itli the elegant these were fishermen w ho out of respect rado, sa\"s his State, long one that con- trio, trout, bass and salmon w ere in the began calling the fish they caught by centrated mainh" on the stocking of minority. But those who came home their correct names and not 1)\- the ig- rainbow and Loch Le\ en trout, is pres- after a day of fun with fisli for the pan noble "pan fish." ently engaged in an extensive warm- and the desire to fish again bcHeved that \^arious State game and fish author- water fisheries management program catching the white and y ellow perch, ities are charting the pan fisii higher on that w ill materialK' improve the qualit>' the sunfisli, the black and the white their popularity graphs c\ cr>' \ car. J. of recreational fishing for pan fish. The crappie, the biuegiii, the w hite bass, and I.. Stearns, Chief of Fducation and In- residents of his State have ilcnv.uulcd it, the catfish was as much fun as hooking tormation for Georgia, sa>'s, "It is ni\' he saN's. 16 fi_v lod w ith w et or iir\ Hies. Spin-

ning gear w ith a 1, 6-ounce lure, three-pound-te.st line, and sixty-

> ard castability will take the perch and the bluegill. A short trolling rod w ith trailing line and flashing spinner will take both the black and the white crappie and quite

I often a nice fat pcich or bluegill. I ^ On can fish from a dock using live bait such as crayfish and minnows; you can use a boat, the shore, wade a stream, or take a leisurely riverfloat trip. Pan fish seem to be everywhere.

.\nd it seems that no matter how man\' pan fish arc lifted from our waters yearl>', the\' keep on thriving. Tough, hard\' fish,

' the\' are, contrary to popular be- lief, not a panmixia of many species but of their own distinct t\ pe. Thus the\' breed and flour-

i h c\er\' \ car in such numbers

Lyle iM. Thorpe, Supervisor of Fish- field, are cffecti\el\' doing is defiating eries Managciiicnt in Connecticut, is the out-of-proportion game fish bal- proud of the fact that his State's ponds loon that has been blown up o\er flu- and lakes are crammed w ith > ello\v and past few years. uhite perch, cahco bass and crappies. A cross-section stud\' of the I'ishcr- Research has estabhshed that over 75 ies Commissions in oin^ States, which Pan fi.sh ))oathed in white Connecti- we've been undertaking for the past per cent of the fishermen in wine are delicious. Let tlie cut are interested in pan fish. several months, not only brought state- fish stand in tlie ^vine lor a

Ernest E. Mulch, Assistant Chief of ments from the various officials estab- couple <»l hoins before cooking. the Division of Information and Etlu- lishing that the pan fish is maligned, cation of Arizona's Fish C^ommission, but proved conclusiveh" that if it and Frank L. Ha> nes, Information Spe- weren't for this species, oiu' fishing cialist for Alabama, both feel tliat about population wouldn't be as it is — ov er 75 per cent of their fishermen are in- 1S,0()(),000 - but would be dow n to terested in pan fish. They prefer the about one-tenth of that. crappies, the bluegill and the red ear W ithout an\' exception, fishing in sunfish to such fish as trout and bass. America toda\' is the leading partici- Tennessee with its vast T\^A fishing pant sport. We'd gamble the much-piit- impoundments has a great variety of upon pan fish is responsible. One ol our readers says cook fish, with bass in the maiority. But Last week we v\ere talking to one your fish with the scales Louis Clapper, Public Relations Officer of the large fishing tackle manufactur- on. Remove skin and scales with a kniie alter baking. for that State, feels that the crappie is ers. "Ever\' night w hen I close shop," fast outdrawing bass and other game he said, "1 breathe a little prayer of fish. It is a known fact that both white thanks that there are such fish as these and black crappie grow big in the great pan fish. Without them I'd be selling

lakes of the South. The majority of fl\" rods and lui-es to a few, but the that fishermen yet unborn will be as- them tip the scale at well over a pound great volume of m\- business would be sin^ed of fun w ith a rod, w ill know the

and are currenth' being caught on fl\' gone." good taste of their own fresh-caught rods, by trolling, spinning and casting. What the tackle manufacturer didn't fish.

rhe\' arc scrapp_\- and, in some cases, mention is that the pan fisherman is One da>' last August I was on the out-fight the Tennessee bass. three up on the game fisherman. shores of Lake Kcuka, in upper New

"In my judgment," says ) Dan Saults, ( 1 He can fish more often and in York State, watching a fisherman named Chief of the Information Section of the man>' more places. Harry Altman, standing in a rowboat, Missouri Conservation Commission, "al- (2) His gear doesn't have to be as working the water w ith a light f\y rod.

most all .Missouri fishermen will try varied and as expensix e. Harry is a well-known, successful fresh-

for pan fish deliberately, while at least (3 ) The legal limit on his fish is much w ater fisherman. C)0 per cent fish for them most of the higher. The water w as mostlv' smooth. It w as time." When asked why, he said be- If >()ii want, you can angle for the quiet. Harry was flicking his line, w ork- cau.se these fish are fun to catch, there crappie or the bluegill with a can of ing runs in the lake. One long rini are more of them and they give the worms and a bamboo pole. And with started, then exploded. The rowboat fishermen confidence in them.selves. a little patience you'll come home w ith began rocking as he fought the fish.

^^'hat these all if Coiithiiied oil men, experts in their fish. Or, you prefer, \'ou can use a ( page 58) 17 PuBiic Health Disgrace

Few people meet death from rabies,

but it is liorrible and the cure is ahiiost

as J)ad. l^\eii worse, all this is unnecessary.

SEPTEMBER a iiiothcr brought her virus from saliva of the rabid animal mul- SAST the nine-year-old boy into a southern tiplies in the patient's nervous system. But hospital. He was spitting, clawing 70 years ago, Louis Pasteur thought of a way and biting so violently that it took three of halting this inexorable multiplication. No- doctors and two nurses to put him to ticing that it takes a long time, and that rabies sleep long cnougii to get a sample of his is one of the diseases for \\ hich the exact mo- blood. She reminded them that he had ment of exposure— the bite— is know n, he sug- been bitten by a stray dog in July. The gested that it might be possible to vaccinate record showed that he had been given the patient after exposure instead of before. a shot of penicillin and had been sent Doctors now give the painful, $100 series home. of 14 to 21 Pasteur shots to 50,000 of the This news set the five to examining 500,000 Americans who report dog bites their skins for tiny breaks. When the every year. An average of less than one hu- bo\ "s blood test came in, a series of man being dies of rabies every two weeks, injections was started immediately for half of them failures of the Pasteur treatment. one of the doctors who had suffered a An anti-serum released for sale this year by scratch scuffling with him. If that same Lederle Laboratories, providing antibodies treatment had been given to the young- from rabies-vaccinated horses, may sav^e some ster when he was bitten, he would be of those w ho are so badly bitten that they alive today. Now there was nothing are in danger of losing Pasteur's race with the doctors could do to save him from the virus. most horrible end a human life can Doesn't this mean that we have rabies have: death by rabies. licked? Aren't tragic Death by the "ca- deaths so few and far nine madness" has between that it is hard of their minds. Sometimes they simulate been the ultimate of to call them a national the symptoms of rabies— rabiphobia, the

horror since Babylon- problem? experts call it.

ian times. Although I put the question to Every dog bite forces the attending patients dying of ra- Dr. James H. Steele, physician to make one of the toughest bies seldom bite or U. S. Public Health decisions in medicine: to give or not to

attack others, as the Service \^eterinarian give the Pasteur treatment. This is be- nine-year-old boy did, responsible for advis- cause the Pasteur treatment is not with- many of them fear ing State and local out dangers of its own. The decision to

the>' will. "Hold me, public health authori- give the Pasteur treatment is a calculated hold me!" a little girl ties and practicing risk, the hazard of the treatment of in Chicago begged her ph\sicians on the 80 course being less than that of a deadly This rabid dog nurse. diseases transmissible virus from a rabid animal invading the bit 14 persons in All modern medi- from animals to man. nervous system. Chicago last year. cine could do for "The human death Alost of the 50,000 Pasteur treatments another youngster, toll is very small, a \ ear are given because the dog is an four-year-old Temple Lewis Hi. of speaking statistically," he answered with unknown stray. In order to avoid the Louisville, Kentucky, was ease his death a slight emphasis on the last word. "But treatment parents, neighbors, and police by giving him cortisone and keeping his the toll in sheer anguish is incalculable." .sometimes hunt desperately for the re- body temperatiu"e at S0°. Today, rabies Rumor of a single mad dog spreads sponsible animal, hoping to prove him victims are kept in a darkened room panic in a communit>\ People w ho have rabies-free. under sedatives. not really been bitten think they have Dr. Steele also gets frequent calls

Rabies is 100 per cent fatal once the been exposed and are driven almost out from veterinarians. Since our 17,000

18 "Statistics or no statistics, rabies is our luimber one public health disgrace," Dr. Steele wound up. "Evcr.v rabies death and the millions the disease costs the nation are unnecessary. Other countries have wiped out rabies. England did it a generation ago by stringent sanitary pohce measures and a quarantine on all dogs coming into that tight little island. Even General Eisenhower's puppv ii;ul to sit in quarantine six months. "We can't do it that way here because we are not an island and oui- people would never accept the measures used in England," he continued. "But Israel, an island surrounded by rabid Arab dogs, has wiped out rabies, and so has Malaya, with its vulnerable northern border and its varied animal population." Israel and A'lalaya have simply used the new scientific knowledge which now makes it practical to prevent the disease the way all civilized nations prevent smallpox by vaccination. Techni- Exposed lo a rabid puppy, Charles Curelon gets the fust ot 14 shots. cally it might be possible to vaccinate every person against rabies, but that would not help the thousands of dogs veterinarians have to talcc care of over who die of the disease and perpetuate 5,000 dogs known to die of rabies every its threat. The only way to wipe out

year, many of them have had to take rabies in the United States is to get 70 the Pasteur treatment not once or twice, per cent of our dog population vacci- but a half dozen times. The chance of nated and keep that percentage vacci-

paralysis from the v accine is negligible nated by enforcing dog control laws.

the first time, but it increases with every Since the war, dog vaccination has

series until the point is reached \\ here been used to stem the tide of rabies the veterinarian has to choose between wherever it threatens a city population, a 50 per cent chance of parah sis from and sporadic communitv' campaigns

A In an anti-rabies campaign. East St. Louis ordered all stray dogs and cats killed.

Memphis took preventive measures by means of mass vaccinations. Clinics ^vere set up for dogs.

At the Lederie Laboratories, fer- tile eggs are inoculated witii rabies virus, a step in making vaccine.

tlic treatment and a smaller have cut rabies dcatiis from 55 a year

chance of certain death ivom ra- in 1944 to 14 in the first 1 1 months of bies. Anti-rabies serum might help 1954. But onl> 4 million of our 22 mil- these often-exposed veterinarians lion dogs are protected, and the vaccine by reducing the number of Pas- commonly used lasts only a year. We teur shots they must take, but no can't wipe out the fear of rabies until

one is suggesting that the serum at least 16 million of oiu' best friends can entirely replace the usual Pas- are immune. teur treatment. {Contiimed on page 41) 19 MILES OF FILM will be tonsiimed in photogenic Miami duiing the National Convention. In 1954, cameras and film ranked second among items Legionnaires bought lor that event. Photos show a few models.

Some hints to help you get ready

for that National Convention trip.

AST YEAR, a survey of Legionnaires in Wash- I , ington for the 36th American Legion Na- tional Convention showed that many combined iVrgus C3-35nim. Camera a vacation or business trip with the Convention. The survey revealed that Legionnaires bought large supplies of clothes, cameras and film, lug- gage, cars, and sports equipment before heading for the Nation's Capital. Show n here are some of the items you are likely to need. the end %^ S''r>-

' '^o. ,500

,.Loii/.sv,//t.

^'"d iron onj^ h..n,e HIGH , CXRS WERE Legion-;- And bcJught by J-lr j,,, ,eav. went to the for the ^«t;«7\,VXe -ho

Dodge V-8 Royal Lancer

T I X A C O

Plymouth Belvedere being ted Texaco Sky C:hiel. OI)in))i( fimireskaling tliani]), ljail)aia Ann Scott, liad to gi^'e A lew )car,s later, the rule was intcipiftetl to |)ci iiii( Ohm-

back the gil t ol an automobile in order to retain amateiu' status. pic jiole-^ aiilting chamj). Rev. Bob Richards, to keep a car.

What is an Amateur?

Tli(* (lifTeroncc hohvcen aiiud(niJ' and pro dopoiids on whixi s|)or( yon |>lay

By ROBERT UHL The confused pole vaulter issued a the car and other loot for the jmrisb, statement that, "if it does conflict with and as the property of the parish and

AAU rules, I not accept the car, not of himself as an individual. This M.A.'^isK 'SOU iHiNK \()u kiiow tlic dif- because I want to compete in the 1956 was a pretty neat wa>' out of an un- ference between an amateur Oh nipic Cjames. I don't want an auto- comfortable situation, but do >'ou think sportsman and a professional. But mobile to make me a professional." The that Richards would c\er have been on don't bet on it. Because the interpre- agenc\' which put on the program said; that progi'am had lie not also been a tations of the amateur rule as issued b\' "He w as getting the car as a minister famous sports figme? tile associations \\ hicii rule om* various and for use in his job— not getting it for Barbara Ann Scott, international fig- sports may be charitably dcscril)cd as being an athlete." E\entuall\- a solu- lu-e skating champion, w as not so luck\- ill-conceived, illogical, usually harmful tion w as discox ered. Richards accepted when her fellow townsfolk in Canada and prejudicial, and utterly lacking in consistency. Otherw ise tlic\ arc perfect. A neat little question of amatcurisni arose last Januar\' w ith the Rev. Robert Riciiards, our most outstanding pole

\ aulter, caught in the middle. Richards appeared on a tclcx ision program, "This

is \ ()ur Life," without know ing before-

liand that he was to be its central figure. At the conclusion of the program Ralph Edwards, the cmccc, told him, "Bob, we recognize that in vour ministerial duties, \'ou have to make man\' sick calls and the transportation prt)l)lem is

a big one, so we're gi\ ing \ ou this 1955 iMercury for your church work." Dan Ferris of the National Amateur Athletic Union said: "If Richards received the of award because his promi- Tn 1920, John B. Kelly, Sr., was banned Ironi the Diamond Stalls at Henley, nence as an athlete and not of iiis because England, i)ecaiise he liad once "worked witii his hands. " Under U.S. rules lie was preaching, he'll ha\e to return the car." an amateur. His son. foiin |r.. non tills race at Henley a generalion later. 22 . )

pi'cscnrcd licr \\ ith an automobile. She

w as compelled to return it. SimiiarK , when Dr. Roger Bannister, the four- minute miler, was flown to the U. S. last \'ear to be the "mystery guest" on the program, "\A'hat's My Line," British sports autiiorities rose in alarm. His T\' appearance would defile his amateur status, they declared. Bannis- ter flew back w ithout appearing. These incidents may seem to indicate that all is well, and that w e are li\ ing up to the classic definition of an amateur as described b\- the Amateur Athletic Union: "One who engages in sports soleh' ^or the pleasure and ph> sical, mental or social benefits he derives therefrom." Whatever you and 1 might chink, to the ofiicial mind monetary re- wards do not constitute "pleasure," nor "ph\sical, mental or social benefits." Neither does acceptance of gifts or prizes of practical and tangible value.

Golf caddies automaticalh become pros aliei readiing a (eiiain age. Swimmers who work as lifeguards during the summer are lu(kici-, (hey're still amateurs.

"professionals" ha\ e to be satisfied w irh pose in engaging in a sport is to make

medals, trophies and other non-spend- moncN . This is simpl\- not true. To most able tokens of recognition? How about top anrateiu's, athletics provide the onh' those sports where a nran can change path of aspiration, happiness, fulfill-

back and forth like a chameleon from ment. AIone>" is also important, because

amateur to professional to amateur it is hard to live w ithout it. Expense ac- again? How about the "professional counts are a partial answer, but the\' amateur," who makes a career of sport, make no provision for e\ entual slow ing as opposed to the sparetime or holida\' up and retirement. If competitive ama-

sportsman? In many sports, w e have ;v teur sport on the national and interna-

traveling circus of stars w ho dominate tional le\ el is not to be restricted to the all the outstanding tournaments or wealth)', who don't ha\e to worry events, shutting out the average com- about rent or groceiN bills, we must petitor and monopolizing the glor\ either redefine the rules or continue to

The AAU says that a nvan is a pro- blink h_\ pocriticall) at their violation. fessional if he gets any tangible eco- Professional -.poj-t has some hilarious

nomic benefit frt)m the pursuit of his complications, but there is alway s that sport, whether or not obtaining that one supreme simplifying motive. Sid

benefit is his primar>' purpose or onh" Flaherty, able manager of :he "Fighter a secondary or collateral one. With of the Year," Bobo Olson, phrased the

strict interpretation of this rule, virtu- professional creed as clearly as it can The salesman with the gun is ranked as a pro by the Amateur Trapshooting y\s- ally none of the world's top performers be dijne. "W'e're fighting for one thing sociation. The man selling tennis rackets, could qualify as amateurs. The athlete — nn)ney." Bobo ofi^ers confirmation: however, is considered an amatein- by the is not immune to the universal human "If the de\ il himself wants to fight, ami United States Uawii Tennis Association. hunger for fiscal satisfaction. Devoting they'll pay enough, Sid and me will

his whole time to his sport, as is neces- fight him." sary to achieve and hold championship Just as Bobo Olson bared the heart Payment of reasonable travel and rank in toda\'"s competitive world, the of the professional's guiding force. Dr. living expenses is permissible under the amateur sportsman usually accepts vari- Roger Bannister put in simple words terms of this ruling. And here begins ous collateral benefits ranging from sal- the ideal spirit of the traditional ama- one of the perversions of the absolute aried jobs at w hich he need spend little teur. In a speech to the F.nglish Sport- ' amateur" rule. Hundreds of star ath- time or effort to a wide assortment of writers Association last December, the letes are able to travel over the globe propositions which commercialize on great English miler said: "Now that 1 for months at a time, living very hand- his name and fame. am taking up a hospital appointment, I somely, thank you, with no visible There is an entirely wrong implica- shall not have sufficient time to put up means of support except that travel and tion in the amateur rule of the AAU a first-class performance. There would subsistence allowance. and various other governing bodies: be little satisfaction for me in a second- There are other perversions, too. that whenever a man accepts any open rate performance, and it would be How about a sport in w hich the "ama- form of economic return on his sports wrong to give one when representing teurs" compete for money, while the prowess, it means that his primary pur- CoJitiiiiied on ptific ( 44 23 There's noHiing* iiiucli new under the

sini, especially when it conies to cars.

»Y GEORGE WJII.TZ, Jr.

ACH YEAR, Detroit's auto w izards out- however, died young cither because They didn't tall E do themselves. In the hopes of snar- materials or techniques weren't avail- it knee action, ing a lion's share of the business, able to do the job right or because the but this 1910 Brush had coil sj)rings. they vie to bring us the newest, the car-bu>'ing public at the time just peppiest, and tlie snazziest tilings on w asn't ready to shell out the cash for the This year's Chevrolet \\ heels. additional conveniences and comforts. has a valve-in-head Right now the sales lures include such Take today's automatic transmissions V-8 engine. .So things as mightier V-8 engines, power w ith their torque converters (lid the 1917 models. steering, power braking, no-clutch and f^uid couplings. To transmissions, dual-range power, wire most of us moderns, no-shift w lieels, liN'draulic valve lifters, head- driving is the biggest thing lights w ith e> ebro\\ s, coil springs, tuhc- that's happened to the auto- Icss tires, seats that double as beds, and, mobile since the self-starter tor the ultimate in comfort, \'ear-round became standard equipment. air conditioning. One wonders how Yet, the old-timer will motordom's "idea bo\s" manage to tell you that the torque con- keep ahead of the annual parade of \crter, for one thing, pre- "new features." dates the self-starter. As But are all of these "new features" long ago as 1895, the Dey- really brand new? Ciriswold Co., of New Put that question to an old-timer York Cit>', developed a who knows his antique cars and the torque con\ crter for use in chances are good he'll straighten up his an early make of electric car. An elec- In America, the 1914 Premier sported shoulders and grunt back, "Not by a tric motor, powered by batteries, oper- a magnetic shift transmission made by long shot. Why as far back as 1906 they ated pumps that forced oil through Cutlcr-Haninier. This eliminated the ." had a . . fluid-gear turbines to drive the car's gearshift lever, and all the driver had And he'd be right. A good many of rear w heels. In 1902, a German, Dr. A. to do to shift gears was to push buttons the "new features" we modern car Foettinger, developed a torque con- mounted on the steering column. Flec- l)u\ ers marvel at today were marveled \ erter to take the place of the reduction tric solenoids built into the transmission at by auto owners a good many years gears in the turbine drives for steam- did the actual job of shifting the gears. ago — some of the "modern features" ships. A few years later, Harold Sin- Then in 1915, came a big advance in brought "oohs" and "ahs" from pros- clair, one of Dr. Foettinger's helpers, smooth, shiftless driving. A car called pective car buyers as long as 60 years applied the same torque-converter prin- the Ow en-iMagnctic introduced a revo- ago. Most of these "new features," ciple to an automobile in England. lutionary magnetic transmission that 24 —

was gcarlcss. A big electromagnet, fours and then finalh' settled on sixes. Overhead valves, featured by ever\' which also acted as a flywheel, served The present-day race for more and V'-8 car offered this year, appeared in as the connection between the car's six- more horses under the hood is part of production cars as long ago as 1906. cylinder gasoline engine and the rear a repeating cycle that goes back a half The i\riel engine of that year not only end. The big magnet, revoh ing around century. The 1931 Marmon had a 200- had overhead valves but an overhead an armature on the propeller shaft, horsepower engine made largely of camshaft as well. scr\ ed as both clutch and gear box. B\' increasing or decreasing the strength M loMf.KiM M\ I I VCTUREUS ASSN. of the magnetic field by moving a lever on the steering wheel, the driver could go from direct drive (when magnet and armature were magnetically locked) to reduced speeds, at the same or higher motor speeds, when the reduced magnetic force allowed the propeller-shaft armature to "slip" and turn slower than the magnet. So smooth and wide was the Owen-lMagnetic's range of speed and power, that it was known as "the car with a thousand speeds." Even the automatic transmissions as v\e know them toda\' basicalh' aren't brand new. Both Oldsmobile and Buick These Ho^viu'^ lines were a feature ol tlie 1 *).">.! I'ierce-ArroAV. Its offered automatic transmissions as long 12 cylinders developed 175 hoi scpo^vci . Its toji s|>eod was 115 mph.

ISI.AXn AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM aluminum to reduce its If \'()u think that the "new" reclin- weight. And, as early as ing car seats that caiT be folded back 1904, Louis D. Schoen- to form a double bed are fresh off the burg of Cleveland, design boards, >'ou are just about 37 Ohio, set an all-time years behind the times. The Pan, a neat high in the horsepow er little touring car produced by The Pan race by offering a car iMotor Co., of St. Cloud, Alinn., fea-

X RtvOLVIMG GCnLRATOR nZLD powered by a 408- tured the seats-into-bed idea in ads that BOLTtD ro tneinc cR^nn 5«flrT horsepower engine! appeared in 1918! It was called "The Automatic transmission? This 1915 Owen Magnetic Probably one of the Car With the Sleeping Car Body." had it, employing an ingenious electromagnetic system. most advanced cars for Power steering? Basically, that's an its time was the 1933 oldie too. The general idea for a pow er ago as 19.U, and Chr\ sler brought out Pierce Silver Arrow, of which ten steering system was patented in 1876, the fluid coupling for transmissions in models w ere built. It not only boasted w as first tried out on an automobile in

1938! a 1 75-horsepower engine but a "for- 1926, and became a production realir>' hi 1937, we also cheered when the ward look," turret-topped body that for trucks in 1946. gearshift lever disappeared from its wouldn't look out of place on the streets The Ford Thunderbird, introduced former place in the floorboards to its todav', power brakes, concealed run- late last fall, has caused more than just new place on the steering column. ning boards, chrome disk w heels, w heel a ripple of excitement among sports car However, when the Pontiac design skirts, and fender headlights. fans. Among its many "new" features folks came out with their first steering is a hard top that can be removed easil.v column gearshift in that year, they were for summer open-car driving. Back in just reviving another old "new feature." 1915, the touring car owner who had The 1904 Pierce Arrow sported a steer- the cash and w anted cold-w cathcr coming column gearshift as did the German Benz \'elociped in 1888! Toda\' in engines, the overhead-valve V-8 is all the rage. This year, 14 out of the 16 makes of cars on the market have V-8 pow er plants. New? Hardly. The 1905 Rolls-Royce was powered by a V-8 engine that in basic design wasn't too unlike the Ford V-?, engine of a few years ago.

What's more — and this is something the old-timers are chortling about — This 192.) Bodge might be called the first hardtop, even if it had It the first all-steel enclosed Clie\ rolet, w ho this >'ear s\\ itched to an no wrap aioinid ivindshield. had body overhead-valve V-8 after years of making sixes, in 1917 came out with the This also goes for many of the "mod- fort bought himself a so-called "w inter second V-8 to be produced in this ern features" on present-day engines. top.'" It was a top complete with win- country. The first American V-8 en- For several years now, hydraulic valve dows, that could be bolted onto a tour- gine powered the 1915 Cadillac. Both lifters have been getting the nod as the ing car body. During the summer, w hen tiie 1917 and 1918 Chevrolets featured newest and bestest. Yet the record it wasn't in use, it w as gencralh- stowed overliead-valvc V-8 engines, but they shows that Pierce Arrow introduced away with the help of a pulley and were ahead of their time and didn't sell. h>'draulic valve lifters 23 years ago rope system that lifted it up out of the So, in 1919, the company switched to in 1932! (Loiithiiicd on page 50) 25 THESE DAYS of powcr tools, too niaiiv beginners INand even some old hands at "do-it-yourself" forget that hand tools exist. As a case in point, a new home ow ner recently showed me his workshop setup —a $239 multi-purpose power tool. Noting the lack

of essential hand tools at his shop, I asked him where they were. "Don't need them— this baby can do everything." Obviously, he had been "taken" by the salesman's hne. This tool would cut, turn, drill, rout,

sand and dado, bur it wouldn't nail, drive screws, plane, or do other vital operations. Remember, our grandfathers turned out some pretty fine woodwork- ing jobs, and they didn't have pow er tools. \\nien setting up a home workshop, hand tools should come first— pow er tools after you have learned to master the hand variet)'. Of course, you may have some doubt as to the first tools to bu\'. To help you make a proper selection, the tools listed here are the most used. They can be purchased in good quality for around $100. Actually, you don't have to go out and buy them all in a chunk. The average home craftsman expands his collection of hand tools slow - ly, bu>ing three or four extra items each >ear as the particular need for them arises. For example, you may go along for a couple of years without having any need for bar clamps, and then you run into a gluing job where they become an absolute must. Right then and there you should put your tool money into bar clamps and settle that particular setup for the rest of your life. When you purchase tools, bu>' only the best. Cheap tools aren't w orth the pennies they may save

you. The long life of a quality tool makes it decided- ly more economical. A tool that is designed and made Theie isn t a ihing right will give you confidence as you use it. Manu- in ihis |>ictiire that facturers put rheir names on quality tools and make runs witli a motor. every effort to guard against defects in material and workmanship. Good tools, Drilling will be like good friends, wear well. easier if your ratchet. Hand tools are not difficult to use. M brace has a Anj'one possessed of ordinary co-or- The strew dri\ er on dination can easily learn to handle them the right is a lal>(>r- efficiently. First, >'ou must understand saver. Yon .slioukl ol the tools you propose to use, their pur- have several sizes the t e b e I o w. poses and Hmitations; then learn the y J) proper way to hold them and apply them to the work. To get a better idea of hand tools and their uses, let us consider the most commonly used ones — they are designed around tiie home and workshop. onh' for nails. Use a ripping bar for pull- HAMMERS ing spikes.

A 13- or 16-ounce claw hammer is As time goes by the handiest t\'pe for all 'round home you may wish to add workshop uses. The face of a good several other types of hammer is slightly rounded, to com- hammers to > our col- pensate for \ariations in the point of about the nail with a very lection. A 14- or 16- impact w ith the nail. To check quahty slight sidew ise movement ounce pecning ham- of a hammer, inspect the claws—they of the hammer for a se- mer, for instance, can should be evenly machined. With w ell- cure grip. Then give a be used for driving

made claws, \()u can grasp the point firm, steady pull until the nail is with- cold chisels, pecning rivets and bolts, end of a finishing nail and pull the head drawn, hi drawing an extra-long nail, driving wedges, setting parts of an as- through a board. place a small block of wood under the sembly together, and many other tasks.

There is a little trick to pulling a nail. head of the hammer. This gi\ cs greater Soft-faced hammers are needed for Cirasp the hammer handle firmly and leverage in pulling, and protects the driving wood chisels, driving close fit-

tilt it forward with the claws away wood from damage. Don't tr>' to re- ting parts together, and other jobs from you. Work the hammer claws move large spikes with hammer claws where the hard faces of the other ham- 26 crosscut saw for cutting across the grain of the wood and the ripsaw for cutting w ith the grain. To distinguish betw een Yourself at the teeth. ripsaw Tools You Power tlie two, look A usually has larger teeth than a crosscut saw of the same length. The coarseness or fineness of a saw depends upon the size of the teeth and

It really is possible to make things is designated b\- the number of teeth points per inch. The saw having few

teeth— 5, 5V2, 6, or 7 points to the inch willioiil plugging into a llO-volt outlet. —will cut fast but makes a rough cut. Ripsaws usually arc in this category. The common crosscut saw can be ob- By ROBERT SCHARFF tained with cither 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 points per inch. For general work, however, a 24-inch or 26-inch ripsaw

w ith 5 or 5V-2 points to the inch, and chiscl-like taper will force tiie driver 24- or 26-inch crosscut saw with 10 out of the screw slot, burring the slot. points to the inch arc the most w ideh' The blade can be kept in good condi- used. tion with a metal file. Never use a One question invariably raised by be- screw driver for any purpose other than ginners is; Can a ripsaw be used to installing or removing screws. And crosscut, and a crosscut to rip? Tiic a light as don't use one on heavy work answer, with distinct reservation, is yes. twist the handle from the you may It should be remembered, however, blade. that each type is made for a particular There are several special types of use and is most effective for that use. screwdrivers — made for special some W hen starting your tool kit, should — wish to add screws which you ma>' you feel that you can only buy one saw, to tool kit. Phillips is made your The get a crosscut one since it will be used ten times more often than a ripsaw. You might think offhand that an\-- bod\' can take a saw and saw on a straight line, but it's not true. There's a trick 1 he Ifj-degree triangle sliows you to it—one that takes most home craftsmen tlie right way to get a good cut. considerable time to learn. First, place the piece of wood to be cut on \ our workbench or saw horses and hold the saw in either hand mers would damage the ma- by the handle, allow ing the thumb and index terial. The faces of these finger to extend on each side of the handle hammers may be of plastic, to help guide tiic blade. The starting cut leather, or rubber. should be made w ith light upstrokes near the SCREWDRIVERS heel of the saw—ne\ er downstrokes. How- ever, once started, put the pressure only^ on There are many sizes of the downstrokes. Pivot strokes at the shoulder screwdrivers, and several of and elbow without twisting the body. The them will be needed b>^ the blade itself must be vertical or at right angles homecrafter. Always use the to the board to make a square cut. You can get an idea ol a liannner s longest available screw driver '\^'hen doing any type of sawing, remem- quality by the finish of the claws. which is convenient for the ber the saw has thickness of its own. work and w hich has a blade For this reason, the cutting mark should that fits. The thickness of the blade to fit the cross-slotted Phillips screws. always be to the exact measurement and should fit snugh' in the screw slot and The offset types in both standard and the saw cut made to the outside or waste the width of the blade should be ap- Phillips tips are made for close work side of the line. If the cut is made dow n proximately the length of the slot. If where regular handle tools will not fit. the center of the line, the piece will be too wide, the blade tip may mar the The rachct or automatic types of screw - short iust one-half the width of the work around the screw head. If too drivers arc great time-savers if you have kerf (the slot which the saw forms). narrow or not thick enough, the screw- a lot of screws to be driven, because When cutting across the wood grain, slot and the tip of the blade will be- with them once a screw is started it is hold the saw at a 45-degrce angle to come burred. A blade that fits properly simply a matter of several downward the wood. After sawing part wa\ may be kept in the slot easier while thrusts on the handle and the screw is through, put a knife blade or nail into turning than one w hich does not. driven home. the kerf to hold it open. This prevents The working end of a screwdriver SAWS the saw from binding. should be square and straight, with Other saw s you may need as >'ou add sharp corners and no curves. The taper For home workshop use, therf are to >our workshop equipment inckule

at the sides should the Cuutiniicd on piVj;c 60 ,) be very gradual; a two conuiion t\"pes of handsaws: ( 27 D'GUN CLUB

F,\ er wonder if tlie acquatic biologists, By JACK DENTON SCOTT Norman Stava, 392.i .^8th PI., Chicago

those men who go to school to learn to 29, 111., has help for us. "If hooks used for think like fish, ha\ c any special trout fishing smaller fish are black magic Arms manufacturers are not sitting it out and other that would help > ou take more fish? Re- in the back seat, even though fishing sea- dulled against stream rocks and other ob- centh" asked one, A. stacles," he says, against we S. Hazzard, Di- son is in full swing. The following new "try rubbing them rector Institute of the of Fisheries Research items will l)c on the market by the time the scratching surface of a book of of AIichigan"s ." Department of Conserva- >ou read this; matches. Points will reappear quickh He tion, if he iiad an\ s|iecial ad\ ice about O. F. Mossberg, \yl St. John Street, New adds another pearly: "A satisfactor\ hook taking trout. disgorger old Ha\en, Conn., has designed a new se\' en- can be easily made from an are saitl. File "Trout cold-water fish," he shot, .22 spotter named the 140K. It's tooth brush. ofT the butt end of the "'The\' require a certain minimum of n\y- chambered for short and long rifle cart- handle, leaving about half of the hole gen, so the angler w ill ilo much better if ridges (hi-specd or regular), self-cocking \\ hich \v as used for hanging it up. Cut off he his bait in the bristle end. off all and keeps lures or the cold-w ater on the upstroke, weighs 5% pounds, sells Smooth edges zone w here there is enough air for the fish \ ou'll have a small and efficient hook ex- for S24.9.> (SI.00 more west of the Rock- to breathe. .Most trout lakes tractor." become de- ies). A\'inchester is introducing its first pleted of ox\ gen in midsummer and the semi-automatic .22, the eight-shot .Model surface waters are too w arm. Alidwa\- be- 77, available w ith clip or tubular magazine I'or those fishermen lucky enough to tween this warm surface ami the bottom -4^29.75 for clip, tube S.U.95. The High have a use for a landing net, Paul Penquitc, IS a zone of cold, w cll-o\> genated w ater, Standard .Manufacturing Corp. of Hamden, \522 Alberta Street, Dayton, Ohio, says: and that is w here the trout will be." Now Conn., announces the countr\ "s first nine- "Attach about ^4 ounce of lead w eight to \'ou know. Sic 'em. shot revoK er \\ ith swing-out cylinder. It's the end of the net. This helps get a dry the new^ Sentinel, which sells for S34.95, net under your fish more quickh ." and comes in double and single action. Handles .22 shorts, longs, and long rifles, (hi-speed or regular). Has a blue anodized aluminum alloy fraine, hammer with auto-

matic safety block, is a\ailal)le in three or five-inch barrel. And Colt's .Manufacturing Co., Hart- ford, Conn., has an improved version of its \'ou can still catch bullheads and channel .22-caliber Conversion Unit ready to go. catfish in the warm weather. AX'hen bliie- This accessory converts the Colt .45 or 3S ;;ills anil crap|iies ilon't act hungr>-, >ou so the sht)()ter can use inexpcnsix e .22 long can depend on old .Mr. ^^'hiskers ff)r an rifle ammunition for target practice and ".-V Cicorge occasional bite. \A'orms. couple of \ears ago," sa\s nightcrawlers, plinking. The new unit embodies the Colt Bartholomaeus, 422 Fast 6?rd Terrace, minnows, frogs, or a chunk- of \'ellow Accro rear sight — adjustable for windage Kansas Cit\-, Alo., "my fishing partner and laundr\' soap are good baits. I'ish close to and ele\ ation — as a major improvement. I lost several fine catch to the appe- the bottom. "\'ou ma>- need an extra-long of our The unit offers the ciuick-change advan- tite of turtles. It w;is not ni>- first experi- pole and line in the summer to reach out tage of two guns in one, can be converted ence, but these fish were dandies and I w as from shore. .\ spinning rig is just the without tools. angr\- at m\ sclf for allow ing them to hang thing because it's easy to get distance. Tic a light in the water off my stringer, .\fter that sinker to the end of \'our line w ith Do-it-\ ()urself fishing-lures kits are a\ ail- tri|> 1 began thinking: 'A minnow bucket one or more baited hooks above it. Let the able from Pastime Products Co., 40 New- w oi ks for minnows, wh>- not a minnow bucket ilangle a few feet off your rod tip kirk Plaza, Brooklyn 26, N. V. Kits con- for fish? .Actualh- a portable live trap.' behind \ ()u before you give it a hca\ c to tain enough pieces to make three high- reach "I constructed one out of half-inch mesh that siiot. Don't try a snap cast w ith qualitN' lures for spinning or casting: a sur- ' 2' 14" ith a small trap li\ e bait. w ire, about x x 9"— w face splasher; a wobbler; an underwater door at the top ami a length of rope tor plug. Fach package contains wood bodies, tv to the boat. .Al- Bobcats are nast\' animals, ing to a haiuh' limb or and the big- treble hooks, screw e\ cs, screw s, metal lips, ready it has saved me plent>" of nice fish." ger ones are deer killers. Smart dogs washers, glass e\es, and an instruction trained to hunt them w ill tree the cat until booklet. Price: 98 cents. their master comes along with his rifle and F. F. Sharpe, P. O. Box .^74, .Monterey finishes the beast off. Don't turn an cager- ^^"hen \ou see those fat and dangerous- Park, Calif., has a tip for us given him 1)\- b-.a\ er hunting dog like a beagle loose on looking black snakes w iggle their w a\- a guide. "On a fishing trip to Norfolk a bobcat trail. The>- ha\e the courage to across dust>' summer roads this year, don't Fake, iMountain Home, Ark.," he sa\ s, "m\- close with a bobcat or e\ en a cougar; if go out of >our wa\- to kill them. They guide showed me a new and vei v' efficient they do, tlie\ 'II end up ilead dogs. The are helpful, harmless critters. Our gov- way to scale fish. His scaler was a curr\- wild animal uses his claws, as well as his ernment experts ha\ e estimated that the comb, which is even better on fish than teeth, to kill. He has a big advantage oxer annual value of one black snake is ai)out on horses." a domestic animal. $y.75 in rodent control. [Coiniinicd on pitgc 6S)

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SOUTH DAKOTA & INDIANA kin .... $555 is the maximum payment where reason for TO PAY KOREA BONUSES: payment is duty in the Korean Theater .... Such payment is calculated to the maximum, with fractions By action of their 1955 legislatures, the States of South at $15 a month up an additional Dakota and Indiana have approved bonus payments of a month of more than 15 days counting as

month .... June 30, 1956 is final deadline for filing claims . for persons in military service during the Korean conflict . . . Payment of Indiana bonus in each class of payments is Those actions bring to 7 the total of States which have if meet all claims approved Korea bonuses, the others being Louisiana, only authorized the WW2 bonus fund can .... Claims based on death have first priority and may be Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont 85 Washington .... paid if fund can meet them all .... If so, then claims Indiana's bonus is restricted to certain classes of payees , and based on disability be paid, if remainder can meet them is contingent upon an existing fund holding out .... South may all .... If so, claims based on Korean Theater service Dakota's is a 'ecjular bonus in the usual pattern of then such State payments. may be paid, if remainder can meet them all. prior to Conditions of the South Dakota bonus include the One years' residence in Indiana immediately following induction is required of those receiving payment of the bonus. Recipient must have had service in the Armed Forces

between June 25, 1950 and July 27, 1953 , must have had SOLDIERS & SAILORS RELIEF ACT MUDDLE MAY at least 90 days' service and have left service under honorable NOT) SOON CLEAR UP: conditions (or still be serving honorably) .... Maximum (OR MAY payment for stateside duty is $500, at rate of 50^ a day . . . . "Newsletter" continues to get queries from interested vets Maximum payment for service outside continental U. S. seeking progress reports on the mixed-up matter of their

(including Alaska) is $650, at rate of 750 a day .... $650 may obligation to repay Soldiers fit Sailors Relief Act assistance also go to dependents of any who died in service .... Service- received by them under the 1940 law. Iman must have had s ix months residence in South Dakota Under that Act, some servicemen in WW2 got gov't help immediately preceding induction into the military, and not to meet civilian-incurred obligations (chiefly insurance pre- have received a bonus from any other State based on the miums) which they were unable to meet when they san^e service .... Bonus, sponsored by South Dakota swapped their civilian income for military pay . America Legion, is a pay-as-you-go affair, based on sales and The Act, in 1940, did not say that the servicemen, luxury taxes and a 1-mill property levy .... Whole program, now vets, had to repay the money. including taxes, is scheduled to cease by Dec. 31, 1956 It was rewritten in 1942, and thereafter clearly stipulated

.... Last for filing is day applications July 1, 1956 .... that the assistance would have to be paid back . Applicants should request application form from J. J. Kibbie , VA has taken the position that all vets who got the Director, South Dakota Veterans' Bonus Board, assistance must repay, including those who got it under the

Capitol . Bldg., Pierre, South Dakota 1940 version of the Act . Conditions of the Indiana bonus include the following: Since WW2, VA has attempted to collect from all who got The bonus is payable out of the State's WW2 bonus fund, the help .... Where VA had its hands on money due a vet and no new WW2 claims were to be honored if applied for who got Relief Act aid, it has deducted repayments from after enactment of the Korea bonus act .... The Korea such money .... Where VA couldn't get its hands on the bonus payment depends upon the ability of the WW2 fund to money, it billed the vet for repayment, and if it couldn't meet Korea bonus claims .... Payment of Korea bonus collect it turned the case over to the General Accounting is authorized only for reasons of (1) service-connected Office which, in turn, handed many cases over to the Justice death, (2) service-connected disability rated 10% or more by Dep't for prosecution by gov't attorneys . the VA, and (3) active military duty in the Korean Theater In the past, several cases involving repayment of aid of action .... No bonus is paid for service outside the given under the 1940 version of the Relief Act were heard in Korean War Theater unless disability or death was incurred U. S. District Courts .... And the vets lost in every case .... Period of service recognized by act authorizing but one .... When the muddle was last reported on these bonus is June 27, 1950 to Jan. 1955 .... Payment is a flat pages, last fall, a New York District Court had ruled $500, regardless of length of service, where reason for pay- that a vet who got aid under the 1940 act did not have to ment is disability or death .... Death payments go to next of repay .... At that time the question had not been 29 reviewed by any court of appeals anywhere. feeling that servicemen are being offered ice cream cones Today, three appeals are pending in U.S. Courts of with the right hand while the left conceals a club. appeal (the 10th, 9th, and 2nd.) Various money experts in and out of gov't who have been urging Social Security protection for soldiers 8e sailors VA is still collecting in those cases where it has control of any funds of any of the veterans in question, since courts have also been hinting that, if service personnel had of equal competence have ruled both ways. Social Security, their compensation for service-connected The Justice Dep't has ordered its attorneys to suspend death and disabilities—now paid for by Congressional prosecution of 1940 Relief Act cases pending the results of the appropriations— could be reduced or eliminated .... appeals now being heard. Social Security benefits are being repeatedly referred to as A recent Supreme Court decision, on a different issue, "gov't benefits ", although they are really insurance has stated a matter of principle which tends to weaken the on which each person pays premiums .... To grant VA's position regarding 1940 Relief Act repayments. Social Security coverage to Armed Forces with the right reduce compensation with the left, would simply What will happen if the courts arrive at a final decision hand, then be a roundabout way of making members of the Armed adverse to the VA ? ... A VA official recently speculated , for disability death incurred by them in the for "Newsletter", that VA would, on its own initiative, refund Forces pay and service of the country Legion agrees with ancient all Relief Act repayments it has ever collected. .... Real possibility of the muddle getting muddier will tradition that such payment is an obligation of the entire actually suffer the occur if the three appeals courts now hearing the Relief Act country, and least of all of those who death or disability. question come to different conclusions. . . For the time being

Social Security itself , no less than veterans' compen- the question is in their laps . sation, is threatened by the increasing noise to eliminate

gov't obligations on the ground that Social Security fills the BILL WOULD PERMIT CHALLENGING ANY ACTION bill .... If Social Security payments to individuals are OF A FEDERAL AGENCY IN THE COURTS: made to substitute for tax-based obligations of the gov't, then Social Security ceases to be insurance altogether and bill introduced in the of Repre- A (HR 6114) was House becomes a poorly-concealed tax .... Social Security was sentatives on 9 by Rep. Frank Thompson, May Jr., (N.J.) originally envisioned as a remedy for the need for relief to revise the administrative code for Federal agencies .... payments by requiring each person to put something aside , One part of the bill would provide that "Every agency action for a rainy day .... But it is a horse of another color to shall be subject to judicial review." . . . "Newsletter" inter- treat this compulsory insurance as a remedy for the meeting prets this to mean that in the case of the Veterans of obligations .... In the business world, this would be Administration, for instance, any of its decisions could be tantamount to refusing to pay a just debt on grounds that questioned in the courts . ... At present (as for many the person owed had money of his own .... Legion years) few VA decisi ons involving veterans' benefits except attitude on Social Security for Armed Forces could change if those relating to a contract can be questioned in the courts. attempts to let Social Security substitute for tax-based .... Last resort for vets challenge who a VA decision obligations would vanish. in most cases is the VA's own Board of Veterans' Appeals

.... Passage of HR6114, as is, could have a revolutionary effect upon the processing of veterans' claims .... The bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary HOW TO KNOW MORE ABOUT VETS' BENEFITS:

.... Crystal ball : "Newsletter" takes dim view of prospects "Newsletter" gets many letters from readers, asking of this comprehensive bill to through in get legislature additional questions regarding matters discussed on these anything like its present form Looks upon "judicial .... pages .... "Newsletter" will always be happy to see that review" feature as perhaps the hottest potato in it. all queries get the best possible answers .... However, as a matter of practice and policy, most unsolicited queries addressed to "Newsletter" are referred to that Dep't of The SHOULD ARMED FORCES BE PLACED UNDER American Legion in which the query originated .... The SOCIAL SECURITY? Dep'ts and Posts of The American Legion maintain service Question whether U.S. Armed Forces members should staffs which are better set up to attend to individual problems

. is true be placed under Social Security on a regular paying basis than "Newsletter" is ... This particularly when the has to with fitting a matter of law or regulation is being considered on high policy level of U.S. gov't, query do "Newsletter" is with much talk in favor of the idea .... Same question has to an individual case .... In such cases, long been studied by The American Legion. not even sure that it can give a good answer, being too far fr the specific case .... In other cases, The question is not as simple as it looks at a glance, removed om of "Newsletter" which could be answered particularly because of the climate of opinion in which it is questions are asked in better personal detail by the service stated today .... The American Legion was the chief as correctly, and , "Newsletter" will sponsor of the successful movement in the past to grant officer of one's own Legion Post .... all correspondence whose Social Security coverage to those who were in service in WW2 be glad to continue to receive reason to refer it to and Korea yet at its meeting this content indicates that there is better , May year, the Legion's officer or one's Dep't Nat'l E.xecutive Committee passed Resolution 102 .... "Newsletter" than to a nearby service ". Legion officials, but hopes that queries that could easily be It said, in part : . . We do not recognize a present necessity for Old Age and Survivors' Insurance [Social answered right around home will be tried there first .... ." Meanwhile, "Newsletter" assures those who ignore its wishes Security] for members of the Armed Forces . . Legion reluctance to sponsor this apparent additional that all valid queries will be answered or referred to experts. protection for servicemen and their dependents is due to competent 30 ,

NEWS (flheA.merican Legion

and Veterans' Affairs

thus be exempt from the peacetime House Again Leaves Defense draft. The draft would then continue to select men from among those who would not volunteer for the training pro- Up to Big Army and War Vets gram. The American Legion, which has For the 4th time smce VVW2, the sei"ve status or not — thus perpetuating long favored compulsory military train- U.S. House of Representatives had an by law the outrage that was inflicted on ing for men not called to active dutv opportunity to create a trained, non- the WW2 vets in Korea merely through went along with the House Armed Serv- \eteran miHtary reserve for the Armed negligence. ices Committee and approved the non- Forces on May 17, 18 & 19 - and Today, as then, these veterans remain compulsory bill. It did pro\ ide a method avoided it. the only persons who are compelled by of setting up a sort of system for creat- Again, the House did exactly nothing law to be in the military resei-ve. ing a non-veteran reserve for the Armed to create such a reserve. The repeat performance by the House Forces — and in 10 dangerous years Under consideration was HR 5297, a this year makes it plain that the politi- since WW2 the House had done pre- bill to provide the beginnings of a cal theory of perhaps a majority of the cisely nothing in that direction. trained, non-veteran reserve. members of the U.S. House of Repre- As the new bill came before the A majority of the members of the sentatives regarding military duty is House, it had a few imperfections in House either fled the room or joined in this: It is better to use over and over addition to its mild nature. amending imperfect i?ortions of the bill again the fellow you have already forced House members leaped in large num- into a totally unacceptable condition, into military service than to disturb the bers upon the imperfections. They then tabled the ruin they had made. happy majority whom you have never amended the imperfections into worse The bill would have provided 6 had to burden with any duty in defense imperfections in the guise of "correct- months of basic military training plus of their country. ing" them, then threw up their hands an 8-year reserve obligation for young This time, the House Armed Services at what they had done and tabled the men, without making it either compul- Committee leaned over backwards to pesky bill. sory or universal. bring out an inoffensive bill. Nobody Those were in the minority who made The devious action of loading the would have been required to take the any attempt to correct the imperfec- bill with crippling amendments and training and reserve obligation that the tions in such a way as to make a more then tabling it was an echo of House bill would have permitted non-draftees acceptable bill. performances in 1948 and 1952, when to take. But up to 250,000 young men The House action again sacrifices the UMT bills were up for action. could volunteer for it each year, and younger veterans to the god of politics. It was the easy, political way out for those members who would rather not go FIRST POPPY SALE, 1955 on record for or against any military obligation for those who escape the draft. In 1948 and 1952, most members would have voted yes for UMT. if forced to vote. They preferred not to vote at all, and managed parliamentary ways not to. In 1951, faced with the shame of more than 600,000 WW2 vets plugging the hole in Korea — because no jirovi- sion had been made to train the millions who had come of military age since WW2 - the House did pass a brave bill that i^rovided universal militaiy training, on paper. But when, in 1952, the time came to get the 1951 act out of the paper stage to actually create a corps of trainees who hadn't already fought one war, the House ducked, amended and tabled — precisely as it did with a far weaker bill this May. The House created a situation then, which still exists, whereby all veterans of the Armed Forces inducted since mid-1951 are compelled to stay in the President Ei>fnh<>\\er buys the first po|)pies of the recent INIeniorial Day poppy sale reserve when their hitch is up and be from Nat'l American Legion Auxiliary President Mrs. Percy A. Lainson, of Iowa, subject to recall whether they elect re- on May II. The President got one poppy for himself, a biuich for the First Lady.

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and prolongs the national commitment Collins and the special committee nation does not alter one iota the need

to keep a large standing military force. a\ ()ided the "big stick " approach which for a strong trained reseiA'e force," he Should new hostilities break out, the many Representatives had complained said. standing forces and those with previous about in the past. Taking the complain- "Such a force is needed to back up service would be ordered into the ing Representatives at their word, Col- our regular Armed Services. Tlie action breach. The ready reserves will con- lins placed his faith in the innate sense of the House can't change this fact," he tinue to be composed chiefly of those of responsibility of the legislators to play declared. "A good training program and with pre\'ious service in \VW2 and fair in dealing out military obligations. a strong reserve are also essential to the Korea, He had been temperate, considerate and economic solvency of our nation. We

At this writing, it appeared that only thoughtful in his appeals for action. cannot continue for the next generation a legislative miracle could re\i\'e a re- It came as a hard blow when the or longer to de\ote two-thirds or more ser\ e training bill in this session of Con- milder bill and the temperate approach of our annual budget to maintain a gress. got the same abrupt and evasive side- large, permanent military establish- The Senate passed sound reserve tracking that more militant approaches ment," he said. training bills se\ eral times in the past, to the problem had gotten in the past. Collins asserted: "The American only to see them wrecked and buried On May 20, usually soft-spoken Sea- Legion will also continue to sui^port re- ill the House. Today, the Senate is in born Collins unleashed some harsh and ser\e training of non-vets as a matter no mood to waste time again on a bill realistic words. of simple justice to veterans who have that will not get to a final vote in he Collins scored opponents of the meas- already done their share and more in House. ure lor putting "personal political con- the defense of our country. siderations ahead of the nation's se- "If the Congress fails to enact a non- Blasts House Deed curity." \ eteran reserve program, veterans who To American Legion Nat'l Cmdi- Sea- In charging that the bill's opponents have already fought in one, and in many born P. Collins, the failure of ihc House liad "deliberately ignored" the advice cases in two conflicts, in the defense of to do aiiN'thing at all was a bitter pill to of the country's top military leaders, our freedoms and democratic institutions swallow. past and present, and the President, w ill be the first to be called back should The Legion's campaign to get a train- concerning the need and value of a non- another war come. ing bill through the legislature liad been \eteran reserve training program, ('mdr "Our reserve force today, inadequate placed by the Nat l Con\ention and the Collins asserted that the amendments and under-strength as it may be, is Nat l Executix e Committee in the liands and other technical changes forced largely made up of men who have al- of a special committee of three, to work through during the debate "were only ready fought for their country. The with Cmdr Collins and the Nat'l Legis- a smokescreen." American Legion refuses to believe that lative Commission. The special commit- "The truth of the matter is," he said, the House of Representatives is domi- tee is composed of Past Nat'l Cmdr Erie "that too many members of the House nated by men so indifferent to their ob-

Cocke, Jr. (Ga.) ; Past Nat'l Cmdr l\;rry didn't lia\e the political courage to put ligation to enforce the responsibilities Brown (Tex.) and Granxille Hidlev themsehes on record for or against a of American citizenship and so fearful (Tenn.). military training program to insure a of their jobs that they will compel a Collins and the special committee had strong reserxe. They used the amend- minority group of citizens to bear the recognized the substantial opposition to ments and other changes as an excuse entire burden of defending our natidn." a compulsory training program in the lor side-tracking the bill," he said. Collins emphasized that The Ameri- House, and agreed with the Armed Cmdr Collins said that The American can Legion is grateful to those House Services Committee to give Legion Legion will continue to fight for effec- members who fought for enactment of sanction to the non-compulsor\ bill. ti\ e reserv e strengthening legislation. HR 5297 riglit dowii to the wire. In addition, in their appearances be- "The fact that some Congressmen be- "They're deserving of our sincerest com- fore Congress to speak for a reserve lieve that their own political future is mendation," he said. training bill on belialf of the Legion, more imp(jrtant than the security of our "The members of the House who ab- sented themselves from voting on tliis SEVEN ALFTS AT ONE BLOW essential legislation and those who sought refuge behind amendments and

technical changes to oppose it must be judged by the conseciuences of their action. "These consequences," he concluded, "are that the long-range military security and economic solvency of om- nation are jeopardized and our democratic institutions imperiled by the fact that the obligation of defending our nation is not

shared fairly, as it should be, but is re- served only for those who ha\ e already carried out this responsibility." They Spoke Up

.A. goodly handful in the House did speak up for reserve training. Those who took the floor in an effort to get

.Seen above arc the seven sons of Edward Alft (left), being inducted into membership the bill through included: in their fatlicr's American Legion Post — Hageistrom-Rude Post 9, \Viscoiisiii Rap- Vinson (Ca.); Brooks (La.); Deve- ids, Wisi. The sons: Carl, Oscar, Harold, Lester, Jerry, Edward, Jr., and Dale. reu\ (Md.); Halleck (Ind.); Johnson

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i (Calif.); VVinstead (Miss.); Teague said the Air Force can count on only that are distant fronr Florida, arrange- (Tex.); Arends (HI.); Wickeisham 134,000 adequate family units. ments have been made to have floats (Okla.); Hyde (Md.); McCormack "Thus there are 311,000 men in the designed and built in Miami by the de- (Mass.); Celler (N.Y.); Price (III); Air Force today who do not have ade- signers and builders of the floaty used in Taber (N.Y.); Van Zandt (Pa.); Pres- quate housing for their families". Miami's annual Orange Bowl' parade. ton (Ga.); Miller (Md.); Robison Designs would be based on themes sug- THE CONVENTION: (Kv.); Forrester (Ga.); Durham gested by the individual Dep'ts, (N.C.); Jones (Mo.); Kilday (Tex.); Sliooliiig for Floats 4. To permit commercial co-sponsor- Bates (Mass.); Wigglesworth (Mass.); ship of parade floats and thuS reduce For the first time in years, if ever, McDonough (Calif.); Martin (Mass.); the cost borne by Deji'ts, the Nat'l Ex- Dep'ts of The American Legion are be- Chelf (Ky.); Murray (111.); Dawson ecutive Committee, in May, authorized ing urged to enter one or more floats (Utah); Fisher (Tex.); Gavin (Pa.); limited commercial announcements to each in the Big Parade at the Nat'l Con- Thompson (Wyo.); Rivers (S.C.); appear on parade floats. vention in Miami on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Dixon (Utah). The NEC resolution (#95, May, Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins has 1955) amends a resolution of the 1950 Tuged that every Dep't enter at least one THE ARMED FORCES: Nat'l Convention that prohibited all float; aim — to add more color and more commercial legends from any and all Homes for Airnieii change of piice to the flavor of what is vehicles appearing in the parade^. The American Legion, on May 18, annually America's biggest parade, and The NEC amendment permits an ap- called on the Congress to provide for to give the parade more public appeal. proved Dep't float to bear a commercial proper adequate housing to correct Since Cmdr Collins' announcement, and legend on each side, not to exceed 14 a number of steps have been taken to what it calls a "serious shortage" of inchs by six feet if linear, or a similar make it easier and more worthwhile for family quarters for the Armed Forces. area if circular or irregular in shape. Dep'ts to enter floats. John K. Evans represented the Le- Commercial legend may bear 0)iJ[i 1. The Convention Coiporation will gion in testimony before the Senate the name, slogan and/or trade mark of award $500, $350 and $150 to the three Banking and Currency Committee. Said the commercial co-sponsor. Dep't floats judged to be the most at- Evans: Further information on floats piay be tractive.

. . The lack of adequate housing had from Float Division, The Mi^mi 2. To prevent a huge expenditure on [is] a disgrace and a problem of con- Convention Corporation, The American parade floats by one or two Dep'ts from cern to all of the Armed Services. It is Legion, P.O. Box 2830, Miami, Fla. overshadowing the entries of the re- especially critical for the Air Force be- mainder, a ceiling of $1500 has been MAINE LEGION: cause it is a new expanding service". placed on the maximum that may be Evans, Chairman of the Legion's Nat l spent on a float that is approved for the Fire and The Preamble Aeronautics Committee, said there are jiarade. "To consecrate and sanctify our com- 445,000 men in the Air Force who must 3. To pre\ ent huge transi^ortation ex- radeship hij our devotion to mutual have housing for their de])endeiits. He penses for floats shipped from Dcp ts helpfulness." (Final phrase of the Pre-

NEW GLORY FOR OLD GLORY

May 3, The American Legion, the Delrex Corp. (makers of J. L. Hudson Co. Right, a Detrex emjjloyee shows how small dry-cleaning equipment) and students ot the U. of Detroit flags are cleaned. 26,000 dry-cleaners joined Legion's Hag eni- cleaned the largest American Flag (left) owned by Detroit's ]>hasi$ campaign, cleaned anyone's flag free, June I Jinie II. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. 1955 • 33 .

amble to the Constitution of The Ameri- The Post figured that that amount lessons by mail, which are of permanent

can Legion ) would do, since volunteer labor was cut- value to them as American Legion refer- An old metal bathtub tipped against ting the dollar cost of the project. If ence material. Contents of the 6 vol- a stone wall, a half-crushed, single- the fund is oversubscribed, the Post has umes are as follows: burner kerosene stove lying on its side, voted to give excess to American Le- Lession 1: T/ic Internal Organization a drainage pipe leading out of the gion Nat'I Child Welfare Fund. of The American Legion; (a) Origin ground and ending abruptly in air, some Post 116, in Monson, Maine, has and birth of the Legion, (b) Legion shapeless bits of metal and concrete ly- about 30 members. law, and (c) Legion finance. ing askew in ashes — these were about Lesson 2: T]ie Internal Organization EDUCATION: all that was left of the worldly posses- of The American Legion; (a) The Nat'l sions of Gerald Stanchfield, his wife To Hold Legion Office Field Service, (b) Membership and and three children after fire swept the Post activities, (c) Public relations, (d) This year, as in any year, something Stanchfield home in Monson, Maine, Subsidiary groups, (e) Emblems, and like 200.000 Legionnaires will run for last April 29. (f) Pubhcations. some office in The American Legion, With an income of less than $40 a Lesson 3: The Americanism Program; and well over 100,000 will be elected to week, the Stanchfields were up against (a) Youth activities, (b) Educational office. Year after year, in the future, it to replace the possessions and home activities, (c) Community service, and they had put together since Gerald additional hundreds of thousands of ( d ) Subversive acti\'ities. Legionnaires will run for, and hold. Stanchfield came out of service in Lesson 4: Tlw Reliahilitation Pro- Legion office. WW2. gram; (a) Veterans' claims, (b) The Because there is more to The Ameri- Three days later, on May 2, Legion- G.I. Bills, and (c) Veterans' insurance. can Legion than meets the eye. the naire Stanchfield's American Legion Lesson 5: Tlie Legislative Program; nat'l organization periodically offers a Post breathed life into the Legion Pre- (a) Federal & State. In same volume, correspondence course in the history, amble. Towne Holmbom Post 116, Tlie Economic Program; (a) Veterans' structure, programs and achiexements American Legion Dep't of Maine, reso- employment problems and programs. of The American Legion. luted that an occasion was at hand for Lesson 6: T/;c National Defense Pro- The course is especially valuable to "devotion to mutual helpfulness." gram and r/ic Cliild Welfare Program. those who asjDire to hold office at any The Post set out to give the Stanch- Cost of the course for 1 person is level in the organization. It gives them fields back what they had lost. On May $6.00. Special rates for 5 or more en- an authoritative grasp of Legion mat- 6 a benefit dance netted $130 for the rollments in one order are: 5 to 9 enroll- ters that commands respect when they newly-created Post Buddy Reconstruc- ments, $3.00 each; 10 or more enroll- are candidates, and helps them carry tion Fund. ments, $2.00 each. out their responsibilities and make cor- Meanwhile, Post members went to Orders may be placed before Aug. rect decisions—based on knowledge and the burned out site, cleared it of wreck- 15 using the coupon on this page. If confidence—when elected. age, erected forms for concrete for a ordering for more than 1 person with The course, offered by The American new foundation. The Portland-Monson this coupon, to take ad\ antage of mul- Legion Extension Institute, has been Slate Co., Stanchfields employer, do- tiple rate, enclose one payment for all taken by nearly 35,000 veterans so far, nated a small, unused building on its and list names, home addresses, Post most of whom found it to be an eye- property, which Legionnaires were number and 1955 card numbers on a opener. Extension graduates are among ready to dismantle and move, to serve separate sheet, with coupon attached. the most respected leaders in the many as the nucleus of the new Stanchfield Make check or money order payable Departments, especially those who are home. to The American Legion. younger leaders and did not grow up At presstime for these words, scarcely Graduates of course get a graduation with the organization. a month after the fire, Post 116 was run- certificate and a cap patch. ning a local fund drive to raise a total The 10th term of the Institute begins of $1200 for the special fund for the next September. Enrollment applica- LEGION PROGRAMS: Stanchfields, and expected to have it bv tions must be in by August 15th. Stu- July 1. dents who take the course receive six How to Be Famous Does anybody in the house want national recognition for an idea for a good I American Legion Extension Institute Legion that C. M. Wilson, Director American program he may P.O. Box 10.55 MAKE ORDER PAYABLE TO THE AMERICAN LEGION have thought up? Indianapolis 6, Indiana Here are some tips on how to get it. Please enroll (me) (those whose names, addresses and 1955 card numbers Programs of two Dep'ts of The Ameri- are attached) in the 10th term of The American Legion Extension Institute, can Legion were commended to the starting this September. Full payment of $ is enclosed, @ $6 each for other Dep'ts in Pxesolutions 5 & 37 of 4 persons or less, $3 each for 5 to 9, $2 each for 10 or more. the Nat'l Exccuti\ e Committee in May.

They were ( 1 ) the Blood Donor Pro- gram of the Dep't of PennsyKania and Name the Safety Essay Contest of the I | (2) Dep't of New Jersey.

There is nothing veiy original in the

I Home address I idea of either a blood donor program I I or a safety essay contest. The present

I I nat'l recognition gi\'en these two pro-

Post No 1955 Card No ! grams points up the fact that mere ideas j (If more tlian one order is placed herewith, list all names, addresses, Post identification I often are not worth nearly as much as I and 195,5 card niinihers on separate sheet and clip to coupon). I the devotion, patience, hard work and I _^ J 34 • Tilt AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 ingenuity of men who w ill make ideas all their lives than if they had been reward and a training ground for "junior (new or old) work well. forced to listen to 10,000 lectures on police" in Minnesota's schools. It is the The American Legion, like any or- the subject. only such camp, giving uniform school ganization, has its share of idea men In the last 11 years the American safety patrol instruction for a whole who seek sanction and recognition for Legion Dep't of N. J., in cooperation State, to be found in the U. S. ideas that they have thought up but with the schools, has gotten 780,000 6th The camp is called Legionville. It is never developed. Yet hoopla over the to 8th grade children to write safety es- 35 years old. In all that time not a best of ideas, when they have not been says. Tlie tally last year alone was single fatality has occurred at a school put to work, ends up as nothing but 91,000. as 216 Posts sponsored contests street crossing in the State of Minne- sheer noise. in 550 schools, and awarded prizes and sota that was guarded by a Legionville Few of the successful working pro- citations valued at more than $3,500. summer camp trainee. grams of The American Legion got that Police Cap't Byron Christie, of Post Right now, Minnesota Legionnaires to way by being thought of, talked about 255, Garfield, N. J., got this one rolling, are raising $130,000 build a brand and publicized. They only materialized starting in his own Post. He has spent new, modern Legionville camp. The de- as something worthy of recognition II years developing it in his Dep't. Jer- votion of Minnesota Legionnaires to after some quiet Joes buckled down and sey Legionnaires today are happy to this remarkable program was exempli- made them work, on the local level first maintain Cap't Christie in office as their fied once again during the recent bitter and on a broader scale when the local Dep t Safety Chairman. cold Minnesota winter, when 15 mem- test had proved itself. The idea of a safety essay contest is bers of Post 255, at Brainard, Minn, American Legion Junior Baseball was a\ailable free. But anyone who wants (site of the new camp), ran a complete an idea for se\eral years, and nothing to know how a tried and true one works survey and topographical study of the else, until the Dep't of South Dakota can write Cap't Christie at Police Hq., 390-acre site for the new Legionville. its birth pangs in put the program through Garfield, N. J. The 400 volunteer man-hours near- as a one-state guinea pig. Hard workers zero weather that did the job were Minnesota's Good Deal went through many more tribulations worth $2,800 at the going rate for sur- before Junior Baseball rose to its present On the subject of safety, not enough veying and topographic drafting. status. has been said of the remarkable safety The Minnesota Dep't hopes to be Boys' State wasn't suddenly created program of the American Legion Dep't able to train 1,000 boy and girl school as a national program. The Dep't of Illi- of Minnesota. That Dep't is the chief safety patrolmen a year when the new sponsor of Minnesota's nois was enamored of the idea and summer camp camp is completed. made it work successfully in Illinois be- for boys and girls who direct young FIT MEMORIAL: fore it got anywhere. Hayes Kennedy pedestrians at street crossings near A (still a member of the nat'l Boys' State schools. Do you want to make a fitting me- Committee) was perhaps the chief mid- Minnesota's summer camp is both a morial to a departed comrade w ho has wife who made Boys' State get born in Illinois by making it work there. Getting down to the present, the Pennsylvania Blood Donor program Mrs. Jane Doe started as a local program of Legion- 32 America Drive naires in northeast Pennsylvania. It was Indianapolis, Ind. pushed hard (with no dreams of nat'l shown here actual she) glory) by such Pennsylvanians as Paul f Selecky, Jack Dodson and Herbert MMED LABELS Walker— all now Past Dep't Cmdrs of Pennsylvania. The program spread all PRINTED WITH over the state from the Wilkes-Barrc area, and has bect)me perhaps the na- YOUR NAME and ADDRESS tion's most outstanding example of team- for making the simple lest described below work between the Red Cross and another organization. The recognition the Pennsylvania LET US SHOW YOU HOW EASILY FOLKS program has just gotten from the Nat'l E.\ecuti\e Committee is not recognition of the idea of a blood donor pro- Mate Good MowML gram. That's old stuff. It is recognition in spare time . . . WITHOUT EXPERIENCE ! W of the proved workability of this partic- out as well for you (as coupon will bring you 250 gummed labels If this little test works ular program. THE it will prove a with your name and address printed on each it has for thousands of others) that extra money for which one. They have dozens of handy uses. They are simple way to make The New Jerse\- Safety Essay Con- have so many good uses. Just mail cou- free — whether or not you do anything about the you now test is a story written in the same style. Doehla "Extra Money" Plan. pon now. — — — — —i — — — hat, as ideas. But We'll also send you sample assortments of DOEHLA and Associates, Studio A-1 37, Essay contests are old I HARRY , Doehla Christmas and AU-Year-'Round Greeting H. , ,1 NASHUA, N. the N. contest has been working well your I Address, . any one of J. Cards, on approval. Just SHOW them to , offices: are so unusual and such won- I these three for II years. Essay contests have one friends. The cards ) p^^Q ^^^q (-AL. bargains that no "selling" is needed. If derful Send 250 gummed labels printed with my name and ask for more I excellent function, and they are all ho- your friends don't snap them up > and address. Also send "Extra Money" Plan and — return them without cost or obligation. The 250 I samples of Doehla Christmas and All- Year- Round if fulfill kum they don't that function. labels are yours to keep as a gift. (assortments on approval. The 250 labels are mine to keep free. I will return the assortments (without If you are promoting a safety contest , cost or obligation^ UNLESS I find that merely showing them to other folks can provide me with One of These Nation-Wide Associates Will Give I )'ou must get a lot of people to compose , an easy way to make extra money. Send me free You Prompt Service in your Area: samples of "Name-Imprinted" Stationery, too I an essay on the subject. The excellent Boulc rd Art Publi - -3tinqs Unlimited I'aul .V Miiin.MPKlis, Minn :hl( III. St. I Name Sons Hye-Quality Card Co.. Inc. theory is that if you can get people to Iva E. Brundagc & I (I'lease PRINT Your Name aiul Address VERY Clearly) Detroit 4, Mich. Kansa-* i ltv li, Mo. organize their thoughts safety Capitol Card Company. Inc. Imperial Greotinq Card Co. own on Now Orleans La. L.,s An-^, I.-. 1 .1. C:al. Address Ltd. Midwest Card Co. Columbia Card Co., I and put them on paper, they will pay Dallas, Texas St. Louis 1, Mo. Western States Card Co. City State Harry Doehla Co. p more attention to good safety practices Nashua, N. H. .'iPaloAlto, Cal. Denver 4. Colo. | THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 • 35 .sei\ed Tlie American Legion well, oi- The Post puljlished 100 copies of a JUNIOR BASEBALL: an>' citizen who has shown himself to 4-page, mimeo, legal-size newspaper. i\e\v riiikles lia\e been a friend of \eterans? One page was filled with classified ads, W One graceful and helpful way is to which were sold for exactly one cent a Most plans, facts & figures for the make a contribution in memoriani to word; three pages contained compressed 1955 American Legion Jimior Baseball such a person to The American Legion news relating to the Post. season were solidified by the last week in May. New rules, most of the playoff Endowment Fund Corporation. Ads at 1(* a word were surprisingly pairings and schedules, and some new This fund, in existence since 1925, is easy to sell. Complete ads averaged be- wrinkles were in evidence in announce- held in perpetual trust. Income from it tween 30c and 50(t a customer. ments approved by the Nat'l American- is used soleK' for Rehabilitation and Financial statement for the first issue ism Commission and released by Nat'l Child Welfare work in The American was as follows: I^egion. One hundred percent of gifts Jimior Baseball Director Lon Brissie. Ad rex enue $7.65 go into the capital of the fund, wliich Two new rules are noteworthy: 4 stencils (a .15 $ .60 is administered without charge b\ tlic 1. New age-limit rule increases by Ink .10 distinguished Legionnaire officers of tlie four months the eligibilit)' age for con- 1 ream paper (donated) .00 Fund Corporation. testants. Boys born on or after Sept. 1, Postage- 100 (y -02 2.00 In recent \'ears an increasing nimiber 1937 may compete. Under older rule, of individuals and groups ha\e made Total expenses 2.70 players this year would have been re- gifts to the fund in the names of de- Profit $4.95 stricted to those born on or after Jan. 1, — a distinguished, 1938. parted comrades If the mimeo paper had been pur- 2. certain conditions, liv- w'orthx' and peimanent form of li\ing Under boys chased, it would have cost 86c'. Profit ing in or attending school in one State memorial. would then have been $4.09. may compete with a Jimior Baseball Memorial gifts can be made out to With the addition of a profitable Post functioning the Corporation and sent to Harr\' W. team in another State. Thus, newspaper in Hemiiker, i\. H., there Colmery, President, American Legion a bo\' living in West Virginia, near the are now more American Legion local Endowment Fund Corporation, P. O. Kentucky border and remote from any newspapers than ever, reports Jack R. Junior Baseball team in his own State, Bo.x 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. C. Cann, Secretary of The American may play with a nearby Kentucky team. Legion Press Ass'n. POST NEVv^SPAPERS: Approv al of American Legion Dep't in Legion papers listed in new 1955 di- Ni) Money l^rohh^u both States must be obtained. rectory total 792. Others have been re- New wrinkles include: Officers of Post 78, Henniker, N. H., ported since the directory went to press. 1. Arrangements with airlines to fly knew that without a Post newspaper the Of the tohxl. 527 are aflnliated with The many teams competing in the regional, Post was not doing the best jol) it could American Legion Press Ass'n. In addi- sectional and nat'l tourneys. in passing the word on \ arious subjects tion, 849 Legion editors are memi)ers 2. Issuance of a special card to Amer- of Post interest to the membership. of the press ass'n. ican Legion Junior Baseball players But mention of a Post newspaper Unaffiliated Legion papers and edi- which will be honored by 10 minor summoned up images of the expendi- tors may join the ass'n and receive its leagues for free general admission to ture of money, a commodity that was Legion news ser\'ice b\' apphing to their games. in short snpph'. Cann at P. O. Box 1055. Indianapolis 3. Revision of the Junior Baseball Here's how they licked the problem: 6, Indiana. Handbook (available from Dep't Hq).

SOMEBODY STOLE MAY DAY

UNIONTOWN, PA. BURLINGTON, WIS.

May Day was Loyalty Day all over the United States in 1955. Americanism Day. At right is shown the second "May Day, Once the day for tommies to howl, it is increasingly an Ameri- U.S. Way," staged by the town of Burlington, Wis. In New canism day. At lelt. above, is a tvpiral scene in Uniontown, York's Union Square, once the tenter of red soap box ora- Pa., which celebrated its 22nd annual, Legi<)n-s])onsorcd tory, you coiddn't see the reds for the Red, White and Blue.

3^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 Feb. 8; Hook L. Siiiilh and John B. Williams New hiindbook lias much new material •3. Suggestions for assigning members and James C. Hooks, Post 89. Mullins, S C. on the planning, promotion and opera- to a membership committee of a Post. Feb. 12: James F. McNamara, Post 254, Mays Landins;, N. J. a Baseball team, includ- 4. tion of Junior The fundamental meaning of Feb. 14: Wallace C. Ocorr, Post 146, Rochester. ing a special feature "How to Keep a Legion membership. N. Y. Feb. 16: Theodore Ellis Stokes, Post 81, Pleas- Sponsor Happy." 5. Methods for locating and contact- antville, N. J. Feb. 21: C. A. Carlson and Lawrence R. Tomp- In the tentati\e department. The ing prospective new members. kins, Post 172. Fairplay, Colo. American Legion has received inquiries 6. The use of publicity in a member- Feb. 26: James Boyle, Post 5, Waterville, Maine. Feb. 28: Milton M. Griffin, Post 1, Rockland, from interested agencies asking what ship campaign. Maine. Mar. 7: Edward J. Daneault, Post 48, Hudson, would be involved in sending two Jun- 7. Methods of selling membership. N. H. ior Baseball teams each on tours to (a) 8. Available literature on membership March 9: Abe J. Davidson, Post 88, Marvell, Ark. Latin America and (b) Japan and the work. March 12: Joseph P. Consiglio, Post 411, Islip, N. Y. Orient. information has 9. Incentives and awards for success- The necessary Mar. 13: Albert Ruggles, Post 12, Dixon, 111. been supplied. Whether either of the ful membership workers. Mar. 15: Dr. Charles W. Hoshall and Sid A. Miller, Post 35, Oklahoma City, Okla. two tours will actually come off was un- 10. Renewals. Mar. 15: Robert J. Kelley, Post 103, Ashtabula, Ohio. 11. certain at presstime. Important dates in the 1956 mem- March 15: Carl D. Buihanan, Post 112, Winter bership drive. Park, Fla, MEMBERSHIP: Mar. 15: Ernest Jones, Post 160. Smyrna, Ga. Mar. 17: James C. Griscom, Post 133. Wood- LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: '56 bury, N. J. Help for Campaign The citation of an individual Legion- March 23: A. P. Phillips, Jr., and Clyde T. Walker, Post 19, Orlando, Fla. Mar. 24: Margaret Moors, Post 170, West Preparation of materials to assist new naire to life membership in his Post is a C. Palm Beach, Fla. Post officials in the 1956 American testimonial by those who know him best Mar. 24: Fred E. Taggart, Jr., Post 332, Bata- that he has served The American Legion via, N. Y. Legion membership campaign is well Mar. 25: James S. Saliba, Post 11, Florence, Ala. March 25: Walter C. Atwood, Post 1180, Brook- imder way in the offices of the Nat'l well. lyn, N. Y. Membership and Post Activities Com- Below are some of the life member- April 16: Robert Rirnn, Jr., and Elmer Riddick and Elmer Herring and Albert J. Wilderson, Post ship citations in 1955 recently reported mittee in Indianapolis. Theme for the 153. Park Ridge, N. J. April 16: Edwin J. Duffy, Post 241, Brooklyn, campaign will be "It's Great to be an by Post officials: N. Y. Jan. 21: William C. Bridgman and Leo Goldfin- American Legionnaire." cer and Harry Davidson, Post 543, New York, Among the many life memberships A 32-page membership campaign N. Y. Jan. 27: Harold F. Walters and Harry Winart awarded before they were regularly booklet will soon be available to Posts and William J. Copeland, Post 94, Clementon. N. J. Jan. 29: Michael Piiskas, Post 25, New Bruns- listed in these pages are the following: offices. through their Department The wick. N. J. Veno Sacre (1946) and Fred E. Garrity (1949), Jan. 29: George Carlton and John Campbell and booklet outlines: Post 124. Detroit, Mich. Charles I. Carty, Post 159, Mackinaw City. Mich. Joseph G. Carty (1948), Post 9, Plainfield, N. J. 1. Six reasons why it's great to be an Feb. 2: Father Joseph Lonergan, Post 84, Au- Henry De Lara (1949) and Samuel Siikenik rora. 111. (1954), Post 1049, New York, N. Y. American Legionnaire. Feb. 3: A. E. Seawrighf and Jesse L. Morris, Rev. Louis J. Grohman (1949), Post 1, Denver, Jr., Post 14, Anderson, S. C. 2. A five-point sales program about Colo. Feb. 3: Frank Raz and Edward Brandon and George D. Levy (1948) and Martin K. Rosefield which a Post membership campaign Peter J. Neubaner, Post 631. Woodside. N. Y. (1953), Post 15, Sumter, S. C. Feb. 3: George D. Miller and G. Lee McClain may by built. and T. W. Spalding. Post 121. Bardstown, Ky. tConiinin':! nn next

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LIFE MEMBERSHIPS drama that the picture required. Post 84, Columbus, Nebr., who had at- Continued) ( Surrounded by a cast of excellent tended the Paris Caucus. Frank Heinel (1950) and Leonard C. Manser (1954). Post 63. Clintonville. Wis. actors who played his real-life young BRIEFLY Ross L. Hevel Post 12. Haines. Alaska. NOTED: (1954). relived the Gen. William F. Dean (1953). Post Berkeley, combat buddies, Murphy 7, ^ The American Legion Dep't of New Calif. battles of Sicily, the Anzio beachhead, Ovid B. Jernijian (1948), Post 32, Longmont, Jersey held a 2)2-day American Legion Colo. the landing in Southern France, the College at Fort Dix^ May 13, 14, Colmar pocket, and the other campaigns N.J., 15. Nearly 125 registered students from MOVIES: in which Company B, 15th Infantry American Legion Posts all over the State Regiment, 3rd Division fought in WW2. The Foot Soldier got a thorough briefing on the history The grim humor of the infantryman For the first time in Hollywood his- and workings of American Legion ac- comes across in a re-enactment of the tory, a real-life hero a chance to tivities, programs, and policies. It was gets engagement which won Murphy the play himself in a motion picture. Audie the first such college held by the N.J. Medal of Honor. Asked on the phone Murphy, America's most decorated sol- Dep't. by a liaison officer "how close" the Ger- dier, re-enacting his own life in the Uni- Breakdown of $91,533.42 presented mans were. Murphy answered, "Hold versal-International picture To Hell and to The American Legion by The Ameri- the phone, I'll let you talk to one." Back, portrays the courage, determina- can Legion Auxiliary at the May meet- Murphy may still regret not having tion, and stamina of the often unnoticed ing of the Nat'l Executive Committee is gone to West Point, but movie-goers combat infantryman. as follows: who see him in To Hell and Back will Murphy, whose ambition to go to To The American Legion Child Wel- be glad that he decided to take up act- West Point was knocked out by the fare Foundation, $51,533.42 ($25,000 ing as a career instead. wound which got him his tliird Purple from Nat'l Auxiliary iind $26,533.42 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Heart, wrote his autobiography after from Auxiliary Units and Dep't:- ) WW2. He didn't think at the time that Leo V. Lanning, Nat'l E.xecutive To the general Legion Child Welfare he would some day be making the vivid Committeeman from New York and Fund, $15,000. Technicolor movie of the incidents member of Nat'l Finance Commission, To the Legion's Rehabilitation pro- which won him 24 decorations includ- appointed manager of VA Regional Of- gram, $25,000. fice, Albany, N.Y. ing the Congressional Medal of Honor. At the same time, J. Earl Simpson, The 30 months which saw the "baby." Past Nat'l Cmdr Erie Cocke, Jr., mar- head of 40&8, turned over to the Legion as he was called by his buddies, rise ried Miss Madelvn Alice Grotnes at a check from 40&8 for $50,000 for Child from PFC to 1st Lieutenant are de- Park Ridge, 111. Welfare. picted in a realistic film. Probably for the Frank G. Mitzel, Past Cmdr of Wayne Dep't of Nevada became the 10th first time, a movie conveys to an audi- County (Mich.) Council, elected presi- Dep't to reach its 1955 membership ence what war means to the foot-slog- dent of the American Bowling Congress. quota when it attained a percentage ging soldier. Died of 100.2.

The screen writer found that it Frank X. Murray, Past Dep't Cmdr Need A Lift?, the American Legion wasn't necessary to invent anything to of Pennsylvania (1943-44) and member handbook on scholarships, will be used create a dramatic picture. Murphy's own of Nat'l Constitution and By-Laws Com- this summer at the Guidance Institute record, as told in the cold, official lan- mittee, of a cerebral hemorrhage. of Fordham University's School of Edu- guage of his citations, supplied all the Dr. W. B. Ncumarkcr, member of cation and by the State Supervisor of Guidance- at a summer session of the State University of South Dakota. AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS U.S. CI S Forty-seven radio stations in Virginia carried the American Legion Loyalt\' Day broadcast May 1. Dep't Cmdr L. Eldon James, Gov. Stanley, and U.S. Senators Byrd and Robertson partici- pated. Dep't of North Dakota has reached an all-time high in membership. In late May, Dep't had 27,102 members. Through the intercession of The American Legion and Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, a one-year-old girl af- flicted with tubercular meningitis was flown by the U.S. Air Force from Texas to the Nat'l Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colo. The child is the daughter of a 100 per cent disabled Korea vet. The Onondaga County (N.Y.) Amer- ican Legion presented its medal for Americanism to Mrs. Eleanor Buchanan for her work in fighting communism. ^ W. L. Johnston, Sr., Past Cmdr of Post 135, Phenix City, Ala., has enrolled an average of more than 200 members a year since 1944. Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins and Veep Richard Nixon get special somcniis ol 17th District, County, the huge moninncnt in Canberra, Australia, honoring U.S. GIs. 2ncl from lell is The Woodford Aussie yVnibassador Spender; at right, FIo'ncI Blair, Pres., Australian American Ass'n. 111., reports 1,393 members for a 59.3

3g • THE AMliRICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 percentage of the county's eligible vets. bert E. Michaels recently, marking 1^ Thirty-five slightly used drum and his retirement as service officer of Post bugle coips uniforms are offered for 50 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had been sale by Post 247, Chisholm, Minn. Write on the job since 1922. Michaels had Makes An Amateur Wm. F. Richards, corps manager, at that been and still is active in American Post. Legion national rehabihtation work. An Expert The State of Nevada has adopted an W. B. Davis Sr., Post 125, Richmond, even Aid to Dependent Children Law. The Va., recently completed 1,000 hours of The Flatfish enables an amoteur fisherman fo American Legion has plumped for thirty volunteer hospital work. Most hos- VA be an expert because of years for such child welfare laws in every pital workers enrolled in the VA volun- its extremely lifelike motion which one of the States and Territories. With teer service who have 1,000 or more fools a fish into striking. That's why World's larg- passage of the Nevada law, such legisla- hours recorded are women. Davis' rec- it is something special. est selling plug. Over 14,000,000 tion now exists in all 48 States plus ord is in line with VA's plea that one of sold. Get it at your tackle dealer's or write D. C, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the great needs in the volunteer hospi- for 48-page book with fishing secrets of the Virgin Islands. tal work for disabled vets is the partici- famous anglers. HELIN TACKLE CO. The American Legion has a role in pation of more men. 4099 Beoufait Detroit 7, Mich. the operation of a Rehabihtation Center Nat'l Ass'n of American Balloon Corps at Seward, Alaska — where patients of Veterans has arranged to preserve valu- the Seward Sanatorium get job training able records of ballooning in the Smith- during late stages of hospitalization and sonian Institute, and will supply stickers convalescence. Rehab Center began which individuals may put on any such with a photo finishing shop in 1953, documents they may have, directing now includes training in shoe repair, they be sent to Smithsonian at any time skin sewing, key making and saw filing, when the present owner or his heirs and operates a gift shop. The Center, might otherwise consider destroying CONTAINS 3 BEARD SOFTENERS which is a joint civic enterprise, occu- them. For stickers and other info write pies a converted warehouse with 19 Charles F. Devine, 1620 Sterigere St., ATHLETE'S FOOT rooms for trainees. Among Legion vol- Norristown, Pa. Devine is the balloon Relieves Faster unteer participants is Mrs. Ethel B. vets' nat'l cmdr. CUTICURA prove new, sensational Cuticura Lindlay, Rehabilitation Chmn, American Clinical tests RECENT POST DOINGS: Medicated Liquid relieves y out of 10 cases— in Legion Dep't of Alaska. jast 4 to 14 (lays! It stops itching instantly—checks most cases of infection—usually kills pathosenic ]t Post 13, Joplin, Mo., gave a copy of The Truman L. Ingle Legion Memo- fungi—and soothes as it helps heal raw, open cracks. Tlie American Legion Reader to the (iO^ at druggists. If your druggist hasn't it. don't rial Fund has been established by Dep't waste money on substitutes but send us lO^ for Joplin Public Library. of Missouri Executive Committee. In- generous trial size. terest from the memorial trust fund will ]\ Dep't of Connecticut gave a citation CUTICURA, Dept. 2GY, Maiden 48, Mass. be used in Child Welfare work in Mo., to Post 34, Milford, for the services especially to assist persons who plan to rendered by members of the Post's Aux- teach the deaf. iliary Police Unit which recently cele- ami BECOME AN EXPERTJH | brated its 27th anniversary. Post mem- Dep't of Panama has reached an all- Mli»u II imH I bers, sworn in as policemen, have u year, I a time membership Execntive Accoantants and C. _ . $4,000 to $10,000 high by attaining Thousands of firms need them. We train yon thoroly at home in ppare assisted the local police dep't since time for C. P. A's examinations or execut ive accountinK iKisitions, 115.48% of quota. Previous experience unnecessary. Personal trainin« under supervision 1928, even policing the entire town of staff of C. P. A's. Placement counsel and help. Write for free Ellis Rubin, former Dep't of Florida book. "Accountancy, the Profession That Pays." (pop. 40,000) on many occasions. Unit, LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. Un-American Activities Chmn, now A Correspondence Institution. Dept. 7361M, Chicago 5, III. now a part of the local Civil Defense serving as Special Ass't Att'y General of set-up, has also performed emergency Florida, has pubhshed Report on In- police duties around the clock when does HEARING LOSS vestigation of Subversive Activities in hurricanes have struck the community. Florida. rob you of Success ]> Among Posts which have entered o Final 1954 membership figures an- claims to the title "Biggest Little Post" nounced by the Boy Scouts of America in the Legion are: Post 353, Dixon, Discover how you may now hear again show total of 3,988 Scout units under so clearly that you'll get much more out Iowa, which has 210 members out of a American Legion auspices. of life, thanks to a sensational new elec- 1950 vet population of 208; Post 436, tronic Invention. You'll again enjoy con- The sup't of Juvenile Hall in Los versation, parties, recreations. For Inspir- Greentown, Ohio, with 334 members in ing FREE book that tells how, write: Angeles has special praise for the Beltone Hearing Aid Co., Dept.4-89 a community of 750 persons; Post 146, 2900 W. 36th St., Chicago. American Legion Auxiliary of the 24th Loretto, Tenn.—469 members in town District of California. Auxiliary provides of 706; Post 266, Hardand, Minn.-151 or COLOR supphes and equipment for, puts on members, population 298; Post 73, TOLL-GLOW KODACHROME special programs for, and shows special Sweetgrass, Mont.,— 120 members, pop. CHRISTMAS «^ interest in the 500 children detained in 300; Post 185, Grantsburg. Wis.-231 Juvenile Hall. Sup't David Bogen says New radiant color creations seljon sip-ht, pay von $1 .06 < members, pop Post per boil TallCards.21 &26-Card $1 Assts.. Name-In- 931; 561, Lewis- Red Parchment Cards at 3c each. Religious Koda- this activity is profoundly $10.$r>0 I important chromes. 175 fast-sellers. Frohts to 1007« . plus ville, Minn.—206 members, pop. 362. in Honus tiiftsl Assortments on approval. Imprints |HWl#'jH| and extends "far beyond the call of Free. Act fast-Bet $1.00 (iift KKEB. Write TOUAYl mi:H:*m Expected to be contender: Post 132, Illinois duty." CREATIVE CARDS. 4401 Cermak Rd., Dept. 16-B, , ChlcaEo23, Keams, Utah. Post is located in town The American Legion Dep't of Alaska now being erected on site formerly oc- last year furnished 10,000 "Alaska cupied by an air base, and almost all RUPTURED Visitor" SLAVERY auto windshield stickers to U. S. the home owners are vets. BE FREE FROM TRUSS NOW there is a new modern Non-Surgical treatment customs officials at ports of entry. Stick- permanently corrects rupture. These Non-Sur- ]> Post 9, Alameda, Calif., made its that ers served official purposes, were hand- gical treatments are so certain, that a Lifetime Certi- membership quota of 555 on 5-5-55. ticate of Assurance is given. Write today for our New somely illustrated, and carried American FREE Book that gives facts that may save you pain- As it had done in 1954, Post 411, Mil- ful and expensive surgery, and tells how non-surgi- Legion emblem. cally you may again work, live, play and love and en- waukee, Wis., observed its Americanism Friends joy life in the manner you desire. "There is no obligation. threw a big party for Her- (Continued on next page) Excelsior Hernia Clinic Dept. 7205 Eicelsior Springs, Mo.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 • 39 RECENT POST DOINGS of-Allegianee-to-the-Flag cards for each nized outstanding scholarship and lead- (Continued) school room. ership qualities of 528 pupils in the 26 Niglit ])y donating an automatic i^age ]> Post 10, Reno, Nev., was responsible consecutive years that Post has partici- turner (a device to tiun the pages of for commemorating USS Nevada Day pated in The American Legion School books for paralyzed persons) to the this spring. A highlight of the ceremo- Award Program. A present Post member, VVyod (Wis.) VA Hospital. nies honoring the USS Nevada, which George E. Lussow, won a school award ]> Post 258, Yosemite, Calif., this year fought in both world wars, was the pres- in 1931. enlisted the aid of other local organiza- entation to Gov. Charles H. Russell of ]) Members of Post 158, Los Gatos, tions in its annual tree pruning of the remnants of the champagne bottle used Calif., accompanied Post's three historic apple orchards of Yose- initiation to laimch the sh' \ Nat'l Exec. Commit- team to the home of OHver mite. Orchards e planted in the James Moore teeman Tom Mil'i r made the presenta- where team initiated Moore, who is con- 186()'s and had been neglected for many tion. fined to an iron lung, and his wife years. into ]\ Post 70, Obcrlin, Kans., conducted its Legion membership. ] Post 175, Longmcadow, Mass., spon- third annual Jimior-Senior Dusk to ]\ Post Roanoke, Va., sored four hockey teams last winter. It 3, has arranged Dawn Party for high school youngsters. with Station also has an excellent blood donor squad. WSLS-TV to televise a sc- Party consisted of a promenade down ries of 13 programs ] Post 22, Charleroi, Pa., has a 15- entitled "Know Oberlin's main street at 6:00 p.m.; a Your Government." Series minute "Back to God" program on sta- deals witli dance; a midnight movie; games and city government and tion WESA every other Friday. the role of the more dancing at the Legion Hall; break- citizen. ]) Post 743, New York, N.Y., awarded fast served by the Auxiliary at 5:00 a.m. the Medal of Valor to Air Force Capt. ]\ Post 806, Chicago, 111., sponsors a Boy ]) Post Scout Jack T. Woodyard, who piloted the air- 501, New York, N.Y., awarded troop at the Chicago Parental the School plane ^vhich rescued nine siuvivors of William J. McGough Memorial Tro- for Boys, a school for delinciuent to Past Nat'l bo>'s. an airliner shot down oft the China coast phy Cmdr James F. O'Ncil Post and Unit furnish boys with for his contributions to the de\ Scout by comnumist aircraft. Post gave its clopment Handbooks, hats and belts, and of with Gen. Billy Mitchell Trophy to Adm. aviation. Roger Wolfe Kahn, Grum- clothing. They provide a chicken test dinner Arthur \V. Radford, Chmn of the Joint man Aircraft pilot, recei\'ed the for the Scout of the Month and Post's of Merit for his in an adult, in Chiefs of Staff. This trophy is given an- Medal work and summer hold weiner nually to "the U.S. citizen making the tlie dc\'elopment of jet aircraft. roasts, swimming parties, and water- outstanding individual contribution to More than 225 residents of Union- melon feasts for the Scouts. For this aviation progress." town, Pa., attended the testimonial din- work. Post won 9th (111.) District Child ner which Post 51 of that community Welfare Award in 1954. ]) The fact that membership increases Post when a Post has acti^•e Legion programs ga\e for the retired and retiring teach- ]> 28, Farmington, Maine, has established has been proved again, this time bv ers of Uniontown schools. a Teen-Age Center in its Post home. Post 70, Seabrook, N.H. The Post, lo- Since May 1952, Post 209, New York, Center, which provides whole- some cated in a town of less than 2,000 peo- N.Y.. has placed 160 handicapped Acts recreation for teen-agers, is a big hit with ple, increased its membership from 30 in industry, and has contributed $17,- the local youngsters. four years ago to 200 by late April this 500 tf) Just One Break, Inc. (an organi- ]> Post 331. Hollywood, Calif., has year. The Post retired two Dep't tio- zation tliat aids in seeming jobs for the "adopted" Giuliana Liquori, an eight- phies for its membership activities. Dur- ph\sically handicapped). Post was re- year-old Italian orphan, through the ing past year this Post: presented a T\' cently presented with a plaque and ci- Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, set to a ^''A hospital; donated an audio- tation on behalf of President Eisen- Inc. The "adoption" is financial, not le- meter to the local schools; held Hallow- hower for its "outstanding eftorts in pro- gal. The foster parent promises to con- een and Christmas parties for the chil- moting equal opportunity in employ- tribute $15.00 monthly to the child's dicn ol Seabrook; donated a stage for a ment for the plu'sically handicapped." support.

new scliool building; presented Pledgc- j> Post 15, Oak Park, 111., has rect)g- ]\ Post 331, Ravenna, Ohio, has a new Post home, is prospering, has high membership. As usual. Post success is related FIVE LEVELS OF COMMAND to a history of meaningful Post programs conducted for the Legion and for the community. Long list of the Post's programs includes (1) sponsorship of an outstanding, community-wide Legion "Back to God" program; (2) gift of $700 microscope to hospital; (3) gift ol 66 American Flags to school classrooms; (4) contribution to many worthy fund prograius; (5) sending a handicapped child to a special school; (6) sending three boys to Boys' State; (7) sponsoring State essay contest; (8) entertaining all local school teachers at a banquet; (9) entertaining Boy Scouts and giving flags to Scout units; (10) creating $500 fund to help veterans in distress; (11) sponsoring training for two Ci\il De- fense officers; (12) co-sponsoring spe- Legion Commanders at all levels got in one pic when Nat'l Cmdr Collins visited cial to for football injuries to Amsterdam, N.Y., recently. They arc: Montgomery County Cmdr \Vells, De])'t Cmdr fund pay Ryan, Nat'l Cmdr Collins, 4th District Cmdr Fralianni and Post 554 Cmdr Kapp. high school athletes.

40 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 Lake Michigan Dr.N.W., Grand Rapids, Mich. COMRADES Hospital 802, Redgreaves, Salisbury, England- Need to hear from doctor and nurse who were m charge of the Isolation Ward. Write IN DISTRESS me. Michael La Mantia, 4535 N. Lincoln Ave., ATHUTES FOOT Chicago 25. HI. Claim pending.. Space does not permit notices to contact Base Hospital No. 5, Menton, FYance— In Mar. Dr. Scholl's 1919, 1 had my picture taken with some of my except to assist persons for any purpose in buddies who were hospitalized with me (I had Famous double In order to establish establishing a claim for a veteran or his de- pneumonia). Prescription claim. I need to contact those who were in pendents. Statement to that effect should the picture with me, or who know of my hos- Now Compounded accompany notice. pitalization. I served from June 1918 to June 1919 with 88th Div, 313th Engrs, Co A. Write and Obtainable me. Payton Hurt, Post 277, The American Everywhere Army Legion, Colcord, Okla. 1st Div, 1st Engr Reg't, Co B-During the battle Dr. Scholl 29th Iiif, Co F—Need to contact Robert Steese or at Soissons, July 29. 1918, Hubert W. Williams s SOLVEX is the original preparation for Athlete's anyone who served with me at Camp Ben- suflered exposure to mustard gas. He now Foot which this noted foot authority pre- scribed ning, Ga., in July 1921 when I bought my needs to contact anyone who was with him with striking success for many years. You'll marvel how quickly it way out of the service. Write me, Jesse De- at that time. Write K. Klemmetson. Dep't relieves intense itching . . . kills the fungi on contact . . . Tienne, Rich Hill, Mo. Service Officer. 620 University St., Seattle 1, helps heal red, raw,

cracked skin between . . 26th Div., 104th Inf, Co E—Anyone knowing of Wash. Claim pending. toes and on feet . aids in preventing spread an injury, wound, or hospitalization of Pfc 505th AA, 3rd Bn, Hq Battery-In order to estab- of infection. Get Dr. Scholl's SOLVEX today. Liquid, Powder or Ointment. Harry F. Ligon contact Gordon B. Eubank, lish claim. I (now totally disabled) need At to Drug, Shoe, Ass't Dep't Service Officer, South Hill, Va. hear from anyone who remembers my knee Department, 5-l0( Stores. Claim pending. injury following the explosion of a B-17. Camp Fannin, Tex., 67th Bn, Co A—Need to hear Thursday, April 20. 1944, at Foggia, Italy. from someone who recalls that my left leg Write me. John A. Doviak, c/o Y.M.C.A., was injured while maneuvers. Df^Scholls SoLVEX on On one oc- Passaic, N.J. casion I was transported back to camp. This 208th Inf-In the spring of 1945, a truck hit me condition was not recorded. I am now to- at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska. In order to tally disabled, and need help to establish establish claim, I need to hear from anyone claim. Write me, Oscar Davis, Jr., Rt.l, Box who recalls the accident. Write me David 34. Sheridan, Ark. John Henry, Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. In the kitchen 3rd Div, 4th Inf, Co. D-Oct. 5, 1918, I was 419th Supply Train, 476th Motor Truck Co-One wounded near Nantiloise. In order to estab- afternoon in 1918, I was one of a group of of highly lish claim. I need to hear from anyone who men moving the company box of records to A few drops pene- recalls the incident. Especially need to hear the train from Longieres, France, because we trating 3-iN-ONE make appli- from Sgt Tullis, Cpl Robert Chappel. George were to move that night. As we were taking ances run better. It never gums A. Markland. Write me. William A. Burrows, the box off the truck, the handle came off the Howard's Place, Wheeling. W. Va. box; I fell onto the track, hurting my back up the way many oils do. 508th MP Bn, Companies B & C-In order to es- and both wrists. I was put on the train and tablish claim, need to hear from anyone who left there. I was supposed to have been ac- recalls Cpl James L. Thiele, who was sta- companied by some of the men that night. tioned at Munich, Germany, 1950-52. Contact In order to establish claim, I need to hear R. D. Fillman, Service Officer, Post 39, 907 from someone who recalls these incidents. 3-in-one!oil DeKalb St., Norristown, Pa. Write me. William Hathaway, 33 Andover 1565th Engr Depot Co—Need to contact buddies Ave.. So. Attleboro, Mass. who served with me in this outfit. Write me, 35th Div, 134th Inf, Cannon Co—My back was in- Scott J. Barry, Route 1, Yuma, Tenn. Claim jured in Calif.; and the injury bothered me Worry of pending. throughout the European campaign. Need to 31l8(h Signal Service Croup— In order to establish hear from those who know about the injury and I received in Europe. claim, I need to hear from anyone who re- about the treatment FALSE TEETH calls the accident in which I received a frac- Especially need to hear from: Maj Mays; tured nose and ribs in Copenhagen. Denmark. Marrison Price; Vaughn Gore. Write me. Slipping or Irritating? Write me, Fritz Espinoza, 266 So. Yuma, Dewvernie R. Harris, Gen.Del., Sweetwater, Denver 23, Colo. Tex, Don't be embarrassed by loose false teettj 28lh Div, 109th Inf-July 16. 1918, I was captured 343rd Field Artillery— In order to establish claim, slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, at Chateau-Thierry. I was returned to Vichy need to hear from anyone who served with talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH Dec. 8, and sent to Hospital No. 19 and later this outfit in Germany in Dec. 1944. Write on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a transferred to Hospital No. 1. I enlisted at James D. Gibbs, 224 W. 14th, Junction City, remarkable sense of added comfort and secu- Scranton, Pa.. July 18, 1917, in Co M, 13th Kans. rity by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, Inf and served with this outfit at Camp Han- Camp 98, Sicily-Need to contact anyone who was gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline cock, Augusta, Ga. Need to hear from anyone in this POW camp Dec. 1942-Jan. 1943. Write (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug who remembers me. Write me. John Zoleski, me, O. M. Frye, 120 Highland Ave., Bluefield, counter. 197 Beach 122 St., Rockaway Park, N.Y. Va. Claim pending. Claim pending. Induction Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.—In or- Glenn Springs, Tex., 8th Cav, Troop D-While der to establish claim, need to contact 1st Lt Epstein, a doctor, was at this station serving with this outfit in 1918, I fell from a Carl who horse and injured my back. In order to es- in Apr. 1941. Write me. Wade Hockett, Stuart, Iowa. tablish claim, I need to hear from men who Fort Ord, Calif., Station Hospital-In Oct. 1943, served with me. Write me, Sam J. Franco, Win nroraotion faster—increase yonr income—develop yoor personal- I suffered from high blood pressure. to ity. Learn to "Sell yourself" to your friends and associates throush 28 Woodbine St., Worcester 3. Mass. Need Laballe bales Training. LaSallecan help vou become .sales hear from anyone on the hospital staff or from a specialist. 595th Construction Engrs, 2nd Group, Dump Over 200. UUO already enrolled in this specialized protT-am. Train al anyone who served with the 159th Inf who home m your spare time. I.OW cost—easy terms. Cearn of the many Truck Co (Korea, 1953)— 1 Aug. need to lo- opportunities and how you can prepare for Success in this profitable remembers condition. I recall Sgt cate Cpl Bob Shoaf (of N. C. or S. C.) my Mess field. Send today for FREE Book "Salesmanship, the Power Thai & Wins Success." Pvt Wallers (of Calif.) who were with me George W. Battenberg and Ass't Mess Sgt Fred L. McDonald. Write me. Melvin Chris- LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. when I injured my leg in the Monsonee area. tenson, Eleva, Wis. Claim pending. A Correspondence Institution • Dept. 7361S, Chicago 5. lit. Write me, Rubert H. Kruckenberg, Box 325, Chester. Mont. 28th Div, MP— In order to establish claim, I need to contact Steve Radnick. Smitty, or anyone 8' 14' 611th Tank Destroyer Bn, Co B—Need to contact to Models from $39.95 incl. freight Capt Lanburger, Capt Fred C. Davis, or Lt captured with me near Bastogne, or anyone who went on work detail at Naumburg. I *o"r"iw'n IB^yJ^ Wheeler concerning the head injury I suffered f ^P^^^ worked at an air raid shelter on detached duty at Camp Bowie, Tex., in 1943. Write me, ' •Noexpcri- , Oscar S. Luckey, Gen. Del.. La Belle, Fla. from Stalag 4F. In Feb. or Mar. 1945, I was 'S^^^'"^' hospitalized at the infirmary (while a POW) Claim pending. ' Save^li to '^S^^^^^^^^^^^"^"'^'"''^- 88th Div, 313th Med Bn, Co D-Need to hear from because of a stomach condition. Need to contact men who served with me at Camp Gruber, anyone who was in camp with me or anyone who recalls that I was hospitalized. Marine Okla., in Oct.-Nov. 1942. when 1 attended Hardware, Fiberglas and Trailers Write me. Edward C. Chesney, 324 Fairmount First Aid Classes in the barracks because I was unable to go out with the companv. Write Ave.. Sunburv, Pa. U(9CR INDUSTBIIS MINNIArOllS < MINN me. Royal D. Hollingsworth, P.O. Box 44, 310th Field Artillery (WWl)-In order to establish Perryville, Ark. claim. I need to know the whereabouts of Joe 71st Div, 371st Med Bn, Hq-In order to establish Callahan. Write me, William J. Callahan, .3415 claim, need to hear from: Lt. Col Wm. F. Sheridan Ave. No.. Minneapolis 12, Minn. Costellow (NE Air Command); Henry Wolf- 17th Cav, Troop L-In 1921, Pvt Harry F. Brunner MOHCOH son (New York, N.Y.); Cpl Robert Ramm served with this outfit at Schofield Barracks, (Omaha, Nebr.); Sgt Jack Tombe (San Fran- Oahu, T.H. In WWl. while serving with 5th FOLDING CHAIRS cisco, Calif.); Capt Div, 6th Inf, Co D, he had received a bullet Richard Burgess (Omaha, For Comfort, Safety Nebr.); Ralph E. wound in his right arm and right leg and two May (Smethport. Pa ); De- and DurahilHy Forest E. Delano (Rumford, Maine); Herman bullet holes through his stomach. He spoke of and near* Marto (Los Angeles, Calif.); Mac A. Jones; the little dog that stayed with him after he Wnle for Free Catalog est distributor's name. or anyone who remembers T/Sgt John J. Rehr, had been shot, and of how he was nearly com- especially anyone who remembers him from pletely covered and lay for hours until his NORCOR MFG. CO., INC. Dept. 2. Green Bay. Wis. the spring of 1945. Rehr is now hospitalized. buddies could come out after him. Brunner His wife, who has 4 children, seeks help in went from Hawaii to Hong Kong, China establishing claim. Write her. Mrs. John J. where he worked with the Chinese doctor in Rehr. 261 W. Loather St., Carlisle, Pa. the sanitarium. In order to establish claim, 9th Armored Div, 10th Tank Bn, Co A-Need to his widow needs to hear from anyone who remembers her late husband. Write her, Mrs. contact anyone who served with this outfit in PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG, ILLUS- Germany, Apr. or May 1945. Write me, Mabel Brunner, Granger, Wash. TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report Charles T. Padgett, 1320 El 259th Field Artillery Bn, Battery-In Nov. makiiiii .substantial incomes. Start and run your Paso, Manhattan, Hq own business quickly. Men, women of all age-s. ffOOH Kans. Claim pending. 1943, I was on a work detail at Fort Sill, learn easily. Course covers Sales. Property Management, Appraisinu", Loans. Mortgages, 44»h Div, 114th Inf, Cannon (1943)-Need Okla., when I was injured in an accident. Cpl and LHotv// Co to related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- hear from anyone who knows of my defective Harrison Worthington, Jr., was Charge of rooms in leading' cities. Diploma awarded. Write hearing, caused by boxing while in service. Quarters at the time, and he helped me to TODAY for free hookl No obligation. Approved for World War II and Korean Veterans Especially need to hear from Jim Dryer and the infirmary. His last known address was WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est. 1036) Don LeClair. Write me, Bill Newville, 701 (Continued on next page) 2020A Grand Avenue Kansas City, Mo.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 • 2^ "145. New- COMRADES IN DISTRESS Dec. Write Mrs. Wilbur L. Air (Continued} berger. R.D. 4, Mechanicsburg, Pa. "Verba Buena Naval Training Station (Goat Island) 47th Mobile R & R Sqdn— In order to establish Evanslon, III. In order to establi';'' claim, I —Need to contact anyone who can recall the claim, the widow of T/ Sgt Albc.-t L. Morris need to learn his whereabouts. Write me, name of the Pharmacist's Mate 1/c who ran needs to hear from men who served with her Sick fall of Robert H. Bray, 136 E. Green St.. Nanticoke, the Main Barracks Bay in the husband in England. France, and Germany Pa. 1918, or anyone who knows who someone during WW2. Especially needs to hear from 611th Tank Destroyer In order to establish may recall. records do not show that I Bn— My 1st Lt Wm. W. Case and Sgt Sam A. Eyler; claim, I to treated and was on the sick list for about need hear from anyone who knew was also needs to hear from Sgt Robert L. Keene, me at Polk, La. Write me, half of 1918. Write me. Bill Gianella, Route Camp Albert Reed, T/Sgt Arthur Coughlin, M 'Sgt John Bucking- Newton. 111. 1, Box 409, Niles, Calif. pending. Claim ham, M/Sgt Donart, and T/Sgt Miller. Write 814th Tank Destroyer I was hospitalized at Black Hawli-While anchored at Kirkwall, Bn— USS her, Mrs. Albert L. Morris, Carroll, Iowa. Camp Polk, La., from through Orkney Islands, stationed ofT U.S. Naval Base Sept. Dec. 493rd Fighter Sqdn— In order to establish claim. 1943. I was discharged Jan. 3, 1944, when the 18, Inverness, Scotland, I fell from hammock I need to hear from anyone who remembers outfit went overseas. Need to hear from in the engineer force quarters at 1:30 a.m.. any- that my feet were frozen while serving with one who recalls me or my illness. I remember June 20, 1919, and injured my hip. I was re- this outfit. I was with the 493rd in Normandy. Lt. Prentice, Sgt Krakoski (I am not certain moved on a stretcher to sick bay where I Northern France. Ardennes. Rhineland. and that the names are spelled correctly), remained for was treated by Dr. and a 3 weeks and Central Europe. Write me. Robert H. Mc- - cook named Fletcher. Write me. Frank T. H. W. Wellington and Dr. McDermott. I was Dowell, 1644 Beecher St.. S.W., Atlanta. Ga. R-.irtko«ki, Box 8.S4. Wheaton, Mo. then assigned, by Chief Engineer Turner, to Chaniite Field, III. (WW2»-We;ley Doyle, a glider Cora! Gables, Fla., VA Hospital, Ward 6I8C-ln janitorial duties in quarters. In order to estab- pilot, served at this station during WW2. His order to establish claim, need to hear from lish clajm, I need to contact men who saw last known address is 19303 Dequindre St., patients who were in this ward during the me fall or who remember me. Especially need Detroit, Mich. Doyle is entitled to New York period May 29-June 22, 1953, and who knew to hear from: C. Colson. Machinist's Mate State benefits. Anyone knowing his where- Hugh Bernard Middleton, a paraplegic suf- 2/c (last known address Dayton, Ohio, 1935), abouts contact Clyde R. Pooler, Director, Es- fering from a brain affliction. Write Mrs. who traveled with me to discharge at Brook- sex County Vets Service Agency. Elizabeth- Minna Lee Cunningham, 512 Rivervicw Blvd., lyn Navy Yard and then to Chicago: and town. N. Y. Daytona Beach, Fla. Master at Arms DuPree. Write me, Mons Thomasville, Ga., Air Base, 339th Sqdn-In 1945. Camp ti.;!an, Calif., 56th AAA Training Bn, Bat- Anderson, Box 102, Juneau, Alaska. I was sergeant in charge of the Shipping & ler.v A (Nov. 1943-IVIar. 1944)— On or about USS Sampson— Need to contact anyone who served Receiving Dep't in Air Corps Supply. About Feb. 27, 1944, Alexander S. Scott was working with me on this ship in New Guinea in 1944. July, I fell from a truck while unloading it, on a wheel of a G.M.C. truck while mechanics 1 was a right shell loader on a 5-inch gun, and hurt my back. Nothing was done about and drivers were observing. Scott was in a sit- and was injured while servin<-' on this ship. it at the lime. In order to establish claim. I ting position when another truck rolled back- Write me, Joseph Hummel, 107 Baltimore St., need to hear from anyone who served with ward down the ramp and on to Scott's back, Glendale. W. Va. Claim pending. me or who knows about the incident. I recall: forcing his torso between his legs. He was SS Burnett— In order to establish claim, need to Sgt Brown. S/Sgt Scott. Sgt Sykes. Cpl pinned in that position with the weight of the hear from those who served with Franklin C. Schuler. Cpl Tonley. Write me. Enmiitt L. truck supported by his back. Scott warned Eberhard, S 1/c. Eberhard served in the Groene, 3301 Mohawk. Houston 16. Tex. against moving the truck, but directed his re- Navy,, Dec. 1943-Dec. 1945. and was hospi- lease by jacking up the truck. When he was talized aboard the Burnett. His wife (who has removed, an ambulance took him to the hos- 2 sons) has photographs of some of her late pital. Most of the battalion was shipped out husband's buddies whose names she does not shortly after the accident. In order to estab- know. One buddy, whose name she does know OUTFIT lish claim, his widow needs to hear from and from whom she needs to hear, is Alvin anyone who recalls the incident. Write her, H. Cov. last known address Cincinnati. Ohio. Mrs. Hazel E. Scott, 626 Coronado, Oxnard, Write Mrs. Iva Eberhard. R.I.. Box 24. Cli- REUNIONS Calif. max. Mich. hear S.R.U. Philadelphia Navy Yard—Need to To serve more units, this department is Navy from anyone who remembers my back trouble in the sprinu of 1944. especially from Doc now published in a more condensed man- LISS Brown (Oct. 19S0-Jul,v 1951)-Need to hear Whitwood and Ted Mounts, of the 38 Shop. ner than formerly. Send notices to: Outlit from anyone who served with me during our I was with the USS Zaniah Detail. Write me. bombardment of Wonsan, Korea, Apr. 1951. Robert C. (Red) Lance, Post 64, The Ameri- Reunions, The American Legion Magazine, I was the gun captain of Mt. #42. Need to can Legion, Stowe, Vt. Claim pending. 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. \. hear from those who know that I was injured 2nd Marine Div, Amphibian Tractor Bn, Co C— will be held in month indicated. and received treatment until 1 was transferred Sgt Lester J. Fridlev died at Camp Le Jeune, Reunion to the U.S., and who know that my gun was N.C., Aug. 18. 1952. In order to establish For particulars, write person whose address put out of action and its condition. My medi- claim, his mother needs to hear from anyone cal records were lost in the mail. Write me, who served with him. Write her, Mrs. Helen is given. Stanley R. Simmons, Box 183, R. 1, Swantort, Patton. R. 6, Lima, Ohio. Ohio. Army IISS Picking— In order to establish claim, I need to hear from anyone who saw me fall down THE AMERICAN LEGION Isl Div-(Aug.) Arthur L. Chaitt, 5309 German- a ladder leading to the mess hall on the port town Ave.. Philadelphia 44. Pa. side, while loading stores in Panama, May NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1st Med Reg't-(Aug.) Donald Neville. 4429 17th 1951. Especially need to hear from the two Ave. So.. Minneapolis 7. Minn. APRIL 30, 1!).).'> men who lifted 70 lbs. of beef off me. Par- 1st Special Service Force— (Aug.) Eugene V. Mc- ticularly recall a inan called Davis. Write me, ASSETS Cormick. R.R. 7. Lafayette. Ind. (former Seaman 2c) Kenneth Ray Copley, 1st Inf, Service Co-(Sept.) James W. McDonnell,

General Delivery, Espanola. N. Mex. Ca.sh on hand and on deposit. . . .S 582,555.86 Laclede. Mo. IISS Michigan— Need to contact Burns of Scran- 211,243.03 2nd Div Ass'n-(July) 2nd Div Ass'n, P.O. Box ton, Pa., and McCabe of Bayonne, N.J., or Inventories 392,452.10 1450, Grand Central Station, New York 17, anyone who recalls that I was injured Mar. 4, Invested Funds 1,457,970,57 N. Y. 1919. Write me (former Seaman Ic)—Joseph Permanent Trusts: 2nd Engrs (AEF)-(Sept.) L. C. Beaumont, Gos- Lllrich, 459 Tayco St., Menasha, Wis. Claim Overseas Graves Decoration port, Ind. USS Merak—Need to contact anyone assigned to 3rd FA Obsn Bn-(Sept.) Walter T. Caldwell, 2449 this ship in late 1945, who remembers my fall Employees' Retirement E. Livingston Ave., Columbus 9, Ohio. and back injury. Especially need to hear from Trust Fund 1,860, 48:?. 1.5 2.114,769.91 3rd Signal Co— (Julv) 3rd Signal Co Reunion Com- A.D. Kirt, BM 2c, believed to have been from 973,972.65 mittee, 1926 Nat'l Bank Bldg., De'roit 26, Mi.ii. Oreg. Write me, Alvin W. Bamberg, Rt. 2, Furniture and Fixtures, 5th Div-(Sept.) Walter J. Barnes, 3733 N. Park Brent, Ala. Claim pending. less Depreciation 239,615.10 Ave.. Philadelphia 40. Pa. L.vons Point, Advanced Naval Base, Tulagi, British 89,890.61 6th Div-(Aug.) H. A. Sauleen. 5325 Hiawaiha Solomon Islands (Aug. 1943-1945)— Need to Ave.. Minneapolis 17. Minn. $6.062,4G!).,s:i hear from anyone (especially doctors or phar- 6th Engrs. Co E (WWl)-(Sept.) Eric A. Scott, macist's mates who treated me) who knows of R.R. 5, Box 105, Fort Wayne 8, InU. my having had fungus of the ears or of the LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE 7th Div. (AEF)-(Aug.) Clarence W. Best. 1215 body. Write me, Fred J. Pinsdorf, 306 1st AND NET WORTH lilghman St.. Allentown. Pa. Place, Bogota, N.J. Claim pending, 7th Armored Div— (Aug.) John Reeks, 115 Werner 3rd Marine Div, 3rd Marine Reg't, Co B— In order Current Liabilities ! 364.996.11 Drive, New Orleans. La. to establish claim, need to hear from anyone 26,878.47 8th Armored Div .\ss'n-( July) Henry B. Rothen- who recalls that Cpl Wallace A. Cook was Deferred Income 1,338.237.60 berg. 134 N. La Salle St.. Chicago 2. III. sent to the Hospital, 3rd Med Bn, on Guam, Permanent Trusts: 9th Inf Div Ass'n-tJulyl Stanley Cohen. Box 428, Feb. -Mar. 1945. I remember Dr. Shepherd of Overseas Graves Decorati(m Jersey City. N. J. the 3rd Med Bn. Write me, Wallace A. Cook, 9th Prov Special Engr Detachment— (July) Seve- Box 293, Hogansvillc, Ga. Employees' Retirement rino Stefanon. P.O. Box 946, Harrisburg, Pa. USS Sea Bass— Need to hear from anyone who re- Trust Fund 1,860,48:5.1.5 2,114,769.91 9th Evac Hosp (WWl)-(Sept.) Harold P. King. calls having seen TJ Anthony Anderson being Net Worth: P.O. Box IS6. Lincoln. Nebr. thrown from his third tier bunk and injuring Restricted Capital: lOlh Armored Div-(Sept.l Paul Kosmas. 26301 his head during a typhoon near Okinawa, Reserve Fund ..$ 23. 8,52. .30 HolYmeyer. Roseville, Mich, Oct. 9, 1945, while on the way home. Write Restricted Fund. 18.507.77 nth Airborne Div-(Oct.) Peter J. O'Regan, P.O. Mrs. Tyyni Anderson, 420 Keller Ave., Wau- Reserve for construction Box 11. Times Square Station, New York 36, kegan. III, Claim pending. Wash. BIdg. . . 28,752.18 N. V. VMS 425— In order to establish claim, I need to Real Estate 973,972.65 llth Armored Div— (Aug.) Richard A. Davidson. contact anyone who served aboard this vessel Reserve for Reha- 18610 Ferguson. Detroit 35, Mich. (Aug.) William W. Hawkins, during the period 1944-Jan. 1946. I recall bilitation , 422.240.47 12th Armored Div— Pharmacist's Mate Kenneth E. Watkins and Re.serve for Child 1086 Geneva Ave., Columbus 23, Ohio. Seaman 1/c L, L. Jones; both lived in Los Welfare 36,656.79 13th Evac Hosp (WWl)-(Sept.) Leo J. Bellg, 808 Angeles, Calif., in 1947. St., Toledo 11. Ohio. Write me (former $1,503,982.16 Ash Coxswain) Div-(Aug.) Paul J. Cooney. 5627 Mickey M. Delashaw, 2111 N. Unrestricted Capital: I6th Armored Prospect. Oklahoma City II. Ave.. Philadelphia 43, Pa. Okla. Excess of Income Washington 21st Engrs Light Ry (WWl)-(Oct.) J. H. Brooks, IIS-S Zamiah— Need to hear from anyone who Over Expense 713.605.58 2,217,587.74 served with Wilbur I.. INewberger in 1944-45. 1217 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. .$6,062,469.8:! Newberger. who is now hospitalized, entered 23rd Engrs, Co C (WWI)-(Oct.) Steve Mullery, the service Apr, 25, 1944, and was discharged 305 Riverside Dr., New York 25, N. Y,

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27(h Div-(Scpt.) Lawrence Rcamin, P.O. Box 384th AAA (AW), Batler.v D, & 71st CA, Batter.> 140.1, Albany. N. Y. H— (Aug.) Glenn Baker. South Mountain, Pa. IF - YOUR CAR VAIVES STICK AND BURN . . . 27th Cav Rei-onn Troop— (Sept.) Arnold Gates, 389lh FA Bn, Battery C-(Oct.) G. M. Goet/c 28X New Hvde Park Rd., Garden Citv, N. Y. Charlotteville Rd., Ncwfane, N. Y. 28th Div-(Jiily) Robert B. Muir, 604 Dean St., 430th Engr Constr Bn, Co A (Korea)-(July) Hil YOU needPYHDIL Scranton. Pa. mer E. Boo. 29 McKinlev Ave.. Steger. III. 29lh Div Ass'n-(Sept.) Milton E. Groome, 1615 43Sth Signal Bn-(Aug.) F. C. Crozier. 3301 Semi HERE'S WHY-PYROIL "A" clings Rhode Island Ave.. N.E.. Washington, D. C. nole Ave.. Cranston Heights. Wilmington 8, Del to valve.s and stems so carbon can't 32nd Div-(Sept.) Harry Fillner, Stoddard Hotel. 489th Port Co-(July) Robert Lovekamp, Box 47, form and keep them from closing. La Crosse, Wis. Blutis, III. PYROIL keeps your engine clean. 34th Div— (Sept.) 34th Div Ass'n. Argonne Armory. 513th Parachute Inf, Co I-(Sept.) Dean C. Swem. Plugs fire every time. Compression Des Moines. Iowa. 402 Main St.. Buchanan. Mich. stays high. You save gas . . . and 35th Div-(Sept.) Mahlon S. Weed. P.O. Box 1001, 532nd Amphib Reg't, Co F-(Aug.) Donald E. repairs. Kansas Citv. Kans. Phillips. Callender. Iowa. PYROIL . . .It doesn't cosf 37th Div-(Sept.) Jack R. McGnire. Room 1101, 566th QM RHD Co-(Julv) Jimmie Lawver, Box HEAT-PROOF UPPER ENGINE 21 W. Broad St., Columbus 15. Ohio. 3. Stone Creek. Ohio. ...It PAYS! LUBRICANT 41.st Div-(Julv) Robert Keller. 175 West Jackson 605th OBAM Bn (302nd Ord Reg't, 2nd Bn)- Get PYROIL"A" Today • See your favorite service Blvd.. Chicago 4, 111. (Sept.) H. R. Hunt. Box 881. Bristol, Va. Only 25c station, garage ot dealer. 45th Div-(Oct.) Joseph C. Cherry, Jr., 2803 N. 636th TD Bn-(Aug.) Paul Giesselmann. Arlington. Or write for exciting trial Boston Place, Tulsa, Okla. Nebr. offer. Pyroil, Dept. AL-7\ 51st Pioneer Inf (WWl (-(Sept.) Otto Rauch, 186 644th TD Bn-(JuIv) Joe Singer, 2347 Morris Ave.. La Crosse, Wis., U. S. A. Adams St., Delniar, N. Y. Bronx. N. Y. 54th Pi;>neer Inf, IVIinn. Chapter— (Sept.) Elias C. 713th Ry Operating Bn-(Aug.) Wm. E. Cobble. SUPER LUBRICANTS • WORIO FAMOUS SINCE 1929 Streeter, 3226 E. 25th St.. Minneapolis 6, Minn. Jr.. 2427 Shenandoah N.E.. Atlanta. Ga. 55th FA Bn (WW2)-(July) W. H. Taylor. 1404 749th Ry Operating Bn-(Aug.) Don Gothard, 84 Rcgina St.. Harrisburg. Pa. Dana Ave.. Columbus, Ohio. 63rd Div— (July) Robert Capasso, 10 Brook Ave., 757th Engr PS Co-(Aug.) Fred Rinker, 1720 E. Roxburv, Boston, Mass. 21st St., Cleveland 14, Ohio. 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT f.8th CAC, Batterv B (WWI)-(Oct.) Ben. H. Hol- 893rd TD Bn-(Sept.) Russell M. Reedy, Gam- man, 530 W. Peru St.. Princeton, III. brills. Md. OIL LEASES-$100 71st CA. Batter.v H, & 384th AAA (AW), Battery 1332nd SU, Hq Co, WAC Detachment-(Sept.) You do no cJrilling, pay no taxes, may realize a D— (Aug.l Glenn Baker, South Mountain. Pa. Lula Methvin, 2330 W. Roosevelt Dr.. Milwau- king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write 71st Co Rj Trans Corps (WWl) (Sept.) W. H. kee 9. Wis. for free mop and literature. Hawk. R D. 2. Halifax. Pa. 1338th Engr (C) Group & 337th Engrs-(Aug.) American Oil Scouts, Dept. L, 7321 Beverly Blvd. 77th Div-(Oct.) James A. Lynch, 77th Div Club Wm. A. Sturm, 108 Outlet Rd.. Fairmont, W. House, 28 E. 39lh St.. New York 16. N. Y. Va. Los Angeles 36, Calif. 78th Div Vets Ass'n-(Julv) John E. Ghegan. 697 2511th WAC Co-(Aug.) Laura Coon, 318 N. Ox- President St.. Brooklyn 15. N, Y. lord St.. Arlington, Va. SOth Div Vets Ass"n-(Aug.) Thomas A. Welch, 23 3459th Ord MAM Co-(Aug.) John C. Floyd, R.D W. Ohio St., Indianapolis 4, Ind. 2, Box 111), Aliquippa, Pa. 85th Chem Mortar Bn-(Aug.) Ray Seeitiiller. 119 3791st OM Truck Co-(Aug.) Joe Clancy, P.O Ravilla St.. Pittsburgh 10. Pa. Box 267, Angola. Ind. MARTINS FLAGS 88th Div— (Aug.) Carl A. Johnson. 69 Devoc Ave.. Airborne Ass'n— (Julv) Airborne Ass"n, P.O. Box ^'onkers 5. N. \'. 5, Fort Bragg. N. C. . _. SPLAYS FOR 88th Engr Hv l>on Bn, Co A-(Aug.) Ray B. American Ex-Prisoners of War— (July) Otto C. i ORGANIZATIONS- Pence. 645 E. Chestnut St.. Lancaster, Ohio. Schwarz. 53 Pine Grove Terr.. Newark 6. N. J. TOWNS-SCHOOLS-FAIRS <»Oth Div-lNov.) Milton Sears, Cimarron. Kans. .\nierican Transport Corps— (Oct.) G. J. Mur- RR Prompt shipment. Ask for our 91st Div-(Sept.) Archie Walker. Drawer 2219, ray. 417 Vine St.. Scranton. Pa. colorful WHOLESALE Catalog No. 55-B Seattle 11, Wash. CBI Vets Ass'n-(Aug.) CBI Vets Ass'n. Box 1765. 91st Chemical Mortar Bn-(Sept.) P. J. Hennessey, St. Louis 1. Mo. MARTIN'S FLAG CO., FORT DODGE, IOWA 5501 Whitby Ave., Philadelphia 43, Pa. Military Railway Service Vets— (Sept.) Fred W. 92nd Div-(Aug.) Jesse L. Carter, 6223'2 Indiana Okie. P. O. Box 536. Pittsburgh 30. Pa. Ave., Chicago 37. 111. Ranger Battalions—(Aug.) John C. Hodgson, 1726 '='^"'>5 lOlst Airhorne Div-(Sept.) Leo B. Connor, 1529 DLiblin Dr.. Silver Spring, Md. l/mff COLOR 18th St., N.W., Washiniiton 6, D. C. ON 50 BOXES I(l4th Div-(Sept.) Roger Levy, 885 West End Navy Show \ New Z,ai!n!7Co/orP/-oce,>!sChristmas Cards sell fast Ave . New York 25. N. Y. from KKEE Samples—you keep $1.00 cash on every 1st Beach Battalion-(July) Charles F. Speraw. 311 New \ 113th EnBrs-(Sept.) Charles M. Beal. 321 S. Main ,„.„,„, A bo.>c! Also prolits to lOO'fo on biggest selection of E. Pa. ItlKISTMAS) St.. Tipton. Ind. Marble St.. Mechanicsburg. Gift Novelties, newest SUM CARDS. 7 Fersonal Lines. 3rd Special Seabees—(July) Cy "Rosy" Caruso, CARD / Children-sitems.etc.NewCatalosShoppingPlan.VeChildren's item 113th & 131st Engr-AGF Bandsmen-t Aug.) Round 537 Grove Ave.. New Orleans 23, La. Gallery Display. Biircjiin SpeciaL rningsl Donald E. Johns, P.O. Box 154. Hillsboro, Ind. Sensation/ No experience needed Contos, 218 Get Assortments on 139th Inf, Co L (WWl)-(Nov.) Elmer M. Holt, ISth Marines, Batterv E-(Aug.) John al. Imprints and Cnlor Catalog KRKK. Wall St.. Syracuse 4, N. Y. 619 North A St., Wellington, Kans. BOULEVARD ART PUBLISHERS 140th Inf, Co B (WWl)-(Aug.) Will Short, 825 MAG-25-(Sept.) Robert J. Biggane. 274 Maynard 23S S. Wabash Ave., Dept. SOZ-A.Chicago 4. Illinois Dr., BulTalo 21. N. Locust St., Boonville, Mo. Y. Park 145th Inf. Co E-(July) David Boughter, 37 E. 8th 35th Seabecs-(Sept.) Herbert P. Vogel, 10 Ave.. St.. Ashland, Ohio. Methuen. Mass. Vincent Rd., LEARN 16Ist Inf, Co E-(Oct.( Thorkel M. Haaland. 513 42nd Seabecs-(Oct.) Tom Hogan, 77 Hicksville, State St., Pullman. Wash. N. Y. 20Sth Engrs, Co B-(Sept.) Glenn Slining. Bel- 60th Seabees-(Sept.) Mrs. Wm. Melt/er, R.D. 2. MEAT CUTTING Alliance. Ohio. mond. Iowa, Iraln quickly In 8 short weeks ac To- 224th Airborne Med Co— (Aug.) Ed Zimmerman, 75th Seabees-(Aug.) Fred Smith. 920 Kingdom ledo for a bright future wuh security Ave.. Danville. III. tn the vital meat business. Big pay, 40 Upmanor Rd.. Baltimore 29, Md. full-time jobs— HAVE A I'llOFlTABl.t: 229th Signal Opn Co-(Sept.) Robert E. Smith, 93rd Seabces-(Sept.) Darle Christy. 715 W. 36th MARKET OF YOUU OWN! Pay after St.. Kansas Citv 11. Mo. •j:rafluatIon. Diploma given. Job help. 2515 Grovewood Ave., Parma 29, Ohio. Thousands of sncressfui James Zink. 4305 Berwick Ave.. pr.idnates. 257th FA Bn-(Aug.) Albert Walz. Jr., 1115 Adams PC 470-(July) W. a yeiir! ^end now for blp, new illustrated FREE Toledo. Ohio. No oblipr.'illon. G.I. Approveii. St.. Lapeer. Mich. NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING 264th CA, Batteries A, B, Hq-(Aug.) Harold Central Mo. State College V-12 Unit (trainees & Dept. A-57, Toledo 4, Ohio ship's (Aug.) Irvin L. Peters. Cen- Ehinger, R.R. 2, New Haven, Ind. company)— tral State College. Warrensburg, Mo. 272nd Inf, Co D-(Sept.) Nick J. Etze, 511 Wash- Mo. Enterprise (ship's company air groups) ington St., .Mt. Pleasant, Pa. USS & -(Sept.) Bob Flagg, 2005 Snyder Ave., Canton. 273rd FA Bn (WW2)-(Aug.) F. E. Kelley. 313 IN A JIFFY N. 6th St.. Hannibal. Mo. Ohio. 3n2nd Inf, Co L Ass'n-(Sept.) Charles Misner, USS Nevada-(Aug.) W. E. Larsen, 4246 Campbell or money back Dr.. Los Angeles 66. Calif. ITCH 333 Knox St., Westcrville. Ohio. Very first use of soothing, cooling liquid D.D.D. 309th Ammnnition Train-(Sept.) H. E. Stearley, VSS Owen (WW2)-(Sept.) Henry Zwick. 3919 N. Prescription positively relieves raw red itch 444 N. Sycamore. Brazil, Ind. Ravenswood, Chicago 13, 111. .309th Engrs & Ladies' Anx— (Aug.) George Sloner, USS Thomas Jefferson-(July) Cliftord Phelan, 25 caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- Summit Ave.. Lexington. Mass. 750 N. High St., Columbus 8. Ohio. ing— other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. Vets 313th Machine Gun Bn-(Scpt.) LeRoy E. Welk. Seabee of America— (Aug.) N. P. .Sercombe. 43^ trial bottle must satisfy or money back. 516 N. Milwaukee St.. Jackson. Mich. 1921 Peach St.. Erie, Pa. Ask your druggist for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. Nat'l Waves Reunion (Waves Vconianettes)— 314th Inf (AEF»-(Sept.) Albert S. Dawson, 460 & (July) Malone. N.E. St.. .Miami Monastery Ave., Philadelphia 28, Pa. Mary 893 82nd 3I5th Inf (VVW2)-(Sept.) Harry (Pop) McGivern, 38. Fla. PUSH VALVE ...OUT COMES LATHER! 1410 Liverpool St., Pittsburgh 33, Pa. 316th Inf-(Sept.-Oct.) Raymond A. Cullen, Sr., Air P.O. Box 1303, Philadelphia 5. Pa. 14th Air Force-(Aug.) B. C. Freeman. 216 S. 319th Field Signal Bn (WWl)-(Sept.) J. W. Robe, 4th St.. Stcubenville. Ohio. 605 S. River St.. Newcomerstown. Ohio. 22nd Bomb Group-tAug.) Walt Gaylor. 338 Rah- 319th Inf, I Co (WWi)-(Aug.) R, H, Adams, 369 wav Ave.. Elizabeth, N. J. North St., .Sprinedale. Fa. 50th Troop Carrier Sqdn (WW2)-(Sept.) Paul 332nd Inf-(Sept.) Ollie J. Haag, 771 Chalker St., Funderburg. Rte. 5. Columbus. Ohio. Akron. Ohio. 142nd Aero Sqdn (WWl)-(Aug.) T. C. Morris. 332nd Field Remount Sqdn (WWl)-(Sept.) 305 N. Main St.. Tuscumbia. Ala. Contains Soothing LANOLIN Charley Pea. Rushville, Ind. 376th Bomb Group (H)-(Aug.) Wiley L. Golden. .337th Engrs & 1338th Engr (C) Group-(Auu.) 371 Probasco Ave.. Cincinnati 20. Ohio. Wm. A. Sturm. 108 Outlet Rd., Fairmont, W. 390th Signal Co (Avn) (WW2)-(Sept.) Harry W. Va. Aivalotis, 1830 Anderson Blvd.. East Liverpool. 341st Inf, 3rd Bn-(Sept.) James B. Dickerson, Ohio. RUPTURE EASEr 1049 Park Ave.. Paducah. Ky. 507th Fighter Group-(Sept.) Ray Stoddard. 5 S. Amazing comfort! Strong, 349th Inf, Co H-(Aug.) Wm. I. McConnell, P.O. Maple Ave.. Avoca. N. Y. NO Box 142. Seymour. Iowa. FITTING w.ashable, form-fitting, ad- 646th Bomb Sqdn-(Aug.) Tony Melenick, 3672 E. justable. Soft, flat groin pad. 3Slst Inf, Machine Gnn Co REQUIRED (WWl)-(Sept.) Henry 106th St.. Cleveland 5. Ohio. "len women, children. J. Reinders. Mallard. Iowa. ti,K„t.ftSi<, for 835th Engr Avn Bn (WW2)-(July) Charles Hare. . Mail order: Give measure 3S3rd Inf ., A«^ac (WWl)-(Sept.) John C. Hughes. 829 77 Wilder Terrace. Rochester 12. N. Y. * around lower abdomen, indi- East Ave. wTq? B. Hutchinson. Kans. Rich Field, Waco, Tex. (WWl) Vets-(Aug.) Wm. %^ cate right, left, double. Post- 367th Harbor Craft Co-(Sept.) Richard E. Long- E. Beigel. 312 Norlhcrest Dr., Kansas City 16. PIPER BRACE CO. paid, except COD s will, 531 Oak St., Indiana, Pa. Mo. 811 Wyandotte Dept. .\l,-73 Kansas City, Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. 1955 • 43 WHAT IS AN AMATEUR?

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m\' country." The same day, on the mean a polite guy, but someone who the name of an amateur rider in a horse

other side of the world, Austraha's had never \\ orked with his hands. Back race with the proud title of "iMr." in John Landy, whose 3:58 for the mile in 1920 America's John B. Kelly, twice front, while the pros are disdainfully is still the world record, remarked that National Amateur single sculls cham- listed by their last names alone. For a his daj's of competition were ending pion, tried to enter England's Diamond neat switch on this attitude, an amateur too. He will be a school teacher, and Sculls event at Henley, the most cov- boxer recently w as denied a license as obviously no school board could per- eted of all rowing trophies. The Hen- a professional b>' the New York Ath- mit him to give priority of time and ley Committee refused to let him com- letic Commission. Little matter of an effort to running. These men, two f)f pete, because he had once "worked unappetizing police record. He wasn't the finest athletes of the English-speak- \\ ith his hands" and was therefore not polite enough nor moral enough to ing world, emphasize the truism that a "gentleman." (He had been a brick- qualify as a pro fighter— a profession supremacy at any sport is a full-time layer during a summer vacation while which is no open sesame to the Social job, with no margin left to earn a living. he \\as a student at the University of Register—but he was acceptable in the Jim Thorpe, of the Carlisle Indians, Pennsylvania.) Kelly went on to the gentlemanly guise of "amateur." was the victim of one of the earliest Ohmpics, beat the Henle\' winner It is customary all over the world to and biggest bloopers over the amateur badly, and glecfulh' sent his sweat)' pa>' the expenses of top amateur ath- rule. Jim went to the 1912 Olympics rowing cap of Kell>' green to King letes. Our best tennis players tra\el at Stockholm and dazzled the world by George V. Kelly got his revenge, as a widely year-round, most of them with the ease with which he won the pen- good Irishman should. He raised a son, no important outside income. Expense tathlon and the decathlon. King Gustaf John B. Jr., who visited Henley a gen- accounts are generous—they have to be. presented him with a special trophy, eration later (with unsullied hands) and A lot of athletes have nominal jobs back remarking: "You, sir, are the greatest copped the title. home, but the\' can't work seriously at athlete in the world." "Thanks, King," A stink was raised about Jim Ten them and stay at the top in their chosen .said Subsequently sport. pla> ers— like ^Vood, Jim. someone dis- Eyck, too, when he w ent to Hcn!e\ . Some Sidney covered that Jim had played semipro Not that he had ever been a laborer. the laundrynian; Frank Shields, the in- baseball a few years before. Although But his father (Ed Ten Eyck, famous surance broker; Ted Schroeder in the baseball had no part in the Olympics, it crew coach at Syracuse) was a pro! refrigerator business; Frank Hunter in was decided that once a man had en- The authorities finally decided not to the liquor business; and Cliff Sutter in gaged in an>- sport for monc>', he w as visit the sins of the father on the son, advertising, arc highh' successful busi- thenceforth and forever a full-rtcdged and they let Jim row. He won going nessmen, but usualK- not until they have professional at all sports. Jim's medals aw ay. Abe Mitchell, the famous British given up top-flight competition. Tour- and trophies were taken from him, and golfer, never had a chance to pla\' as nament tennis amateurs don't get much his Ohmpic records stricken from the an amateur. He had been a gardener, so chance to accumulate capital, like the books. he was automaticall\' a pro when he pros, but they see a lot of the world We Americans have borrowed man\' took up golf, whether he pla\ed for and live extremely w ell as long as their of our finest institutions and traditions monc\' or not. reflexes remain fast and their backhands from E'ngland, but we got no bargain Although this caste system has been accurate. But is it fair or consistent to when w e took o\ cr the English con- somew hat relaxed in recent years, Eng- call the tennis champion an amateur cept of sports. Their historic pattern lish cricket players are still classed in and a trapsliootcr, sa\% a professional had simplicity, but no other virtue. two groups— "Pla\'ers," who are pro- w hen the trapshooter pa\ s his ow n wa\', Only a gentleman could be an ama- fessionals, and "Gentlemen," who are and can reduce his expenses only b\' teur. By "gentleman" they did not amateurs. In this country we still post winning a few bucks in prizes? Or to let an amateur bov\ler win a monc.v purse and dcn>- a pole vaulter an unsolicited automobile? Then there are tlie "professional amateurs" w ho make a career of sport. For \ ears Frank Stranahan pla>'ed golf as an amateur against pros, year-round, and under the same competitive pressure as the pros. Doing nothing except play golf, Frank w as a pro in every thing except profit. 10 his great credit, he himself came to the conclusion that he had an unfair advantage in amateur tournaments against men who could afford to pla>' oni\- after business hours, and he finalh- turned pro himself. The National Amateur Golf Championship has now become little more than a farm system for the Professional Golfers As-

sociation. As fast as a man wins it, he

turns pro. This is onh' sensible. If a

man is going to make a career of a sport, w hy shouldn't he get paid, particularly

if the money is in glamorous amounts? "We're not speaking.' AMERICAN LEOION MA<;A7.INli, Sid Wood, President of the Tennis Pla> ers' League, has made a candid re-

44 • THE AMERICAN LEUION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 .

port on that segment of the tennis prizes, but calls an emplo> ee of a sport- DOUBLE YOUR EARNINGS WITH world known as "tennis bums," who ing arms company a pro. The U. S. exist on handouts from tournament Lawn Tennis Association takes exactb' ChristmasCard Bargain Specials sponsors. He properly damns the spon- the opposite tack. It will not permit its SELL SUPPLY Get $1.25 mfku sors and the officials who condone these amateurs to play for money stakes, but LIMITED! Boxes for 3Vr 50 CARD 5] ORDER practices, as well as he does the players, will permit sporting goods companies ASSORTMENT EARLY! $1 ^°f'^I 35^ for the resultant sham. There's some to put ranking players their payrolls. on Get FREE List of Factory SurpluB Greeting Card real fancy finagling here, with expenses The U.S.L.T.A. permits faculty mem- Bargainaandmake the biggest profits ever, while supply lasts. Christmas, Everyday, Religious, above the supposed $15-a-day maxi- bers of .schools and colleges to give ten- Wraps included. All first quality. Also Free Color Catalog, over 200 newest Card Assortments and nis mum paid to some of the really out- instruction and allows undergradu- Imprints, Gifts and Gadgets. Amazing Calalou standing stars, occasionalh' on the basis ates to teach tennis at summer camps Shopping Plan. No experience needed. We'll send Bargain List, 4 new 1955 boxes on approval and of kickbacks from the less famous play- and clubs as long as their remuneration Personalized Samples FREE, if you write at once. ers. Gardnar ]Mulloy% our fifth ranking is on a total contract and not a per- MIDWEST CARD COMPANY 1113 WashlnBlon Ave. Dept. 402-B. St. Louis 1, Mo. tennis player, has been temporarily lesson or per-hour basis. A^Iost otiier barred from all United States Lawn coaches or instructors automatically be-

Tennis Association tournaments become pros, even when coaching is only PUSH VALVE .OUT COMES LATHER! k •it cause of "acting in a manner detrimental part of their jobs. to the game" in managing a tournament It's an open secret that dozens of col- in the South— a mix-up having to do lege baseball stars play semi-pro ball in w ith the amount of expense money paid the summer without losing their ama- AERO SHAVE to phn ers. teur status, because everyone looks the A MQrBomb The idea of the "professional" rule other way. Golf caddies automatically SAVES UP TO 20i PER CAN should be to prevent competition be- become pros after a certain age. Then tween full-time athletes and part-time how about summer lifeguards? Should BACHELORS . . athletes, wliich obviously is unfair tliey be declared ineligible for amateur and those who wish they were Haclic'lc.r' , .Ifk'i •< - from lliu I ol. whether the participants are paid or swimming? It w ould be as logical as the lest* «»l .siii;^!.- HUsso.i-nes.s — aulhunllc-luoliliii; ciitilioatc tor not. Yet in big time amateur sports, present rule on caddies. What about lo frail Ihi; ifiiu f(i rarchment Bond dipu competition is so stiff that few men some modification of the "once a pro, den. bar or bedroom, Wonder- 1 âK. Kreat novelty cift. *1 can reach the top, or stay there, unless always a pro" rule? And the heart- .; 1 lor S3; M for .'S5. we pav •.late. No I'. O.I).';, iiiease. they devote practically all their time to breaking rule that punished Thorpe Jim SMALE- 1250B N?'''stone''st.,' Chicago 'to, III. it. Such men arc superbly conditioned in the Olympics— if you're a pro in one athletes as w ell as men with the right sport, you're a pro in all? reflexes, intelligence, durability, and For some really dizzy rules on ama- competitive instinct. An untrained f)p- teurism and professionalism, take a look • • • Leeally trained men win higher posi- ponent has little chance. at shooting. As I mentioned, in the big CTIinV AT linMP OIUUI HI nUIflttions and bigger success in business The overw helming pressure on cham- trapshooting events the amateurs get and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. More Ability: More Prestige: More Money h\"ûp ô" pionship athletes produced a wonder- the money, w hile the professionals shoot can train :U home during spare time. Det-ree of LL.B. We furnieh all m-.it*-ii.il. includinp M-vulume Imw Lihrar.v. Low cost, easy text " ful rhubarb at the Davis Cup matches for glory. The "professional," an\' man terms. Get our valuable 48-paKe I^w Traininjr for Leadershit" end "KvideiM-e" l>u.,k> KKKh;. Send NOW. LASALLE EXTENSION UN1VERSITY.41 7 South Dearborn Street in Australia last December, pointing up who makes his regular living in the A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 73*alL, Chicago 5, III. again that the pressure of championship sporting arms industry', can revert to GOVERNMENT 40 ACRE sport can destroy the ke>' phrase in the amateur status six months after he dis- classic definition of the amateur— "one continues that employment. Thus, Rudy OIL LEASE $100. who engages in sport solely for the Etchcn competed as a professional (and Act of Congress gives citizens equal rights with Oil lo obtain Govt, leases. You do no drilling, yet pleasure." The Australians w ork under very successfully, too) at the 1950 Co's. may share in fortunes made from oil on public lands. a pressure training system w hich has Grand American Handicap, because he (Payments if desired) Licensed & Bonded Oil Brokers. Free Information & Maps of booming areas. Write: produced sensational results. The for- was on Remington's sales staff. Today NORTH AMERICAN OIL SURVEYS nuila is a simple one: live only for he ranks as an amateur, since he left 8272-L SUNSET BLVD., LOS ANGELES 46, CALIF. tennis. Remington when he bought an auto This year, Lew Hoad, the 20-year- court at Sun \'allcy, Idaho. DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS old Australian sensation, went all to Skeet shooters for many years ab- Orlf;ln.il Type P I'ump has 1.001 uses — house, garden, farm. Pumps 3.0O(i pieces. Playing against the American, horred money— at least as con\ entional GPU; -150 C.PH 80' high; or l.SOn CPH from 2.5' well. Use 1/6 to 3/j Tony Trabert, Hoad served up eight shooting prizes. Envious people have IIP motor. Motor couplinK Included. 1" inlet; 3 .j " outlet. St.-»inless steel RUST' double faults, -.illft. SUBMERSIBLE! WON'T foot faulted three times sometimes suggested that the Texans, WON'T CLOG! Postpaid If rash with order. (West of Miss, .ndd Ôitt on the first day, and generally put on who for a time seemed to dominate MONEY BACK GUARANTEE —( entrll'ugal (1 t - " 1(7 all" ,lzes a dispirited performance. Hoad was dis- skeet, have so much of the green stuff LABAWCO PUMPS, Belle Mead 56, N. J. armingly frank in his subsequent press that mere money rew ards would be no conference. "I was just fed up," he said. inccnti\e to try hard. But a few years "1 did not care w hether I won or not. ago, the money "Sw eepstake" idea be- INVENTORS I'm just tired of tennis I 1 to penetrate skeet and get so gan on much the If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find out how to protect It. are registered Patent Attorneys. do not give a hang." AVillie as "optionals" in We Take Alays. same model the trap- Send for copy of our Patent Booklet ' 'How to Protect He's a pro, Your Invention," and an "Invention Record" form. No but his complete devotion shooting. These are open only to ama- obligation. 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MERICAN LEGIO.N MAU.^ZI^E • JLJLY. ly.^5 • 45 Ill tlic rest of the coiinti N . T. Iici c is no tures in pursuing his sport. This would "capitalizes uiukr no circumstances on such thing as a "professional" in rifle open the Olympic doors to many ex- his athletic fame," and if his teaching and pistol shooting, and feeble efforts pert shots. is incidental to his main vocation. This to establish a rule of professionalism Hocke/ makes a weird case history body of rules is going to provide a have always been put down. Tlic top in the record of amateurism and pro- nightmare of eligibility wrangles, be- amateurs are not the least bit afraid of fessionalism. If an amateur player has cause the last three rules are interpre- the "professionals" (though professional any promise, he becomes the exclusive tive ones, with violations almost im-

competition is a little hard on the rank- propcrt)' of the professional National possible to prove. and-file shooter). Rifle and pistol shoot- Hockey League club which first an- W e have seen the amateur sports re- ers who aspire to the Olympics must, nounces to league headquarters that it ceive some heavy blows in recent years. of course, abstain from competition for proposes to bargain w ith him. If he re- Pro golf today attracts more attention

mone)', and money prizes are no long- jects the club's offer, he can t pla\' for than amateur; pro football and basket- er offered at the National RiHe and any other NHL team. ball are competing hectical!) w ith ama- Pistol matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Up in Canada, where most of the teur events for headlines, T\' rights, The onl\' major complication in the good players come from, amateur and spectators; our best tennis players

distinction between amateurs and pro- hockey is ?. money-making proposition. and ice skaters arc deserting amateur fessionals in trapshooting has been the The amateur teams serve as a farm s> s- ranks. One reason for all this ma>- be refusal of the American Olympic Com- tem for the pro league, with players re- the ridiculously stringent rules estab- mittee to accept the rules as established ceiving a generous "expense account." lished by the governing bodies of our by the Amateur T rapshooting Associ- A player becomes a pro when he is leading amateur sports. Another ina> ation. American trapshooters as a grouj) picked up by a pro team, and can regain be their erratic enforcement of these are far superior to those of any other amateur status when he is sent back, rules. Another reason, too, is that the

nation. Yet 1 don't know of any top even if he has been a pro for 10 years. social penalty attached to an amateur trapshootcr w ho hasn't accepted prize A lot of people were startled a year ago for turning professional years ago, has monc\ at some time during his career. when a Russian hockey team beat the almost disappeared. Tliis makes him ineligible in the eyes Canadian team ia Europe. This defeat Purists in the athletic associations of the American 01\ nipic Committee. in Canada's own national sport resulted have been broadening the scope of the At the last Olympics, Joe Devers, one from the widespread popularity of the amateur rules to the point where they of our top trapshooters, w as already in dollar. The Canadians generally have arc too loose to enforce, besides being Europe and anxious to compete, but sent their poorest money maker among highly discriminatory. \Miy vot let a there was no way to qualify him. their amateur teams to Europe. This famous athlete make a TV appearance Curiously, the high gun at the Olym- would naturally be their w eakest team. or endorse a product for dough, or ac- pics was a Canadian, George Genereux, In 1955, the Canadians went back w ith cept a car on a give-aw ay program, like who had previoush' competed in the a crack team— at least one of whom had ordinary mortals? Narrow the designa- U. S. and w on sizable purses. The Cana- been a professional with the New York tion of a professional, instead of broad- dians found no difficulty in qualifying Rangers—and beat the Russians 5 to 0. ening it, till we reach the simpler defi- him. F.uropean shooters are not loath The World Ski Federation has re- nitions—the guys who get a direct share

to shoot for dough. Almost 5i50,000 w as cently joined the rankj of those who c f the gite or a big money purse. If in distributed in purses at the big Fher can schuss down both sides of a fence or Jcr to do this v/e have to take con- shoot at Cairo, Eg> pt, this winter, w ith w ithout discomfort. A money-grubbing trol of the athletic associations away over $14,000 for a single event. These pro can become a simon-pure amateur from the fuddy-c uddies who are tr>'ing are amateurs! One solution w hich has o\ernight. Any professional can be- to impose an u\.pi.r class, aristocratic, been proposed w ould permit our Olym- come an amateur (and eligible for the sports ideal on r .riddle class, demo- pic rulemakers to consider as an ama- Oh nipics) if he stops teaching 90 days cratic world, then let's do that. Tliis teur any shooter whose winnings are before the games, if he teaches elemen- may call for some pretty fine legalistic

less in a given ) ear than his expendi- tar\' rather than racing skiing, if he distinctions, but so docs the present system, which even the Supreme Court can't seem to clarify. The present system imposes an insufferable economic burden on the star amateur athlete. It demands so much of his time that he can't pursue normal gainful emplo\-

mcnt, > et it ostensibly would pre\cnt him from compensating for this handicap by some mild exploitation of his fame. Anyway, let's hope the U. S. Ohni- pic Committee doesn't get to feeling even holier than the Supreme Court

when it chooses its team for the next Olympics. And let's give thanks that there are still a few surviving examples of the true ideal of amateur sportsmanship, like the golf phncr who refused to profit from an error in scorckeeping, taking a six instead of a five on one hole

~~when it meant a tie instead of a win for an important tournament; and the football player who called a foul on his own team w hich the referee had missed,~~

~~"Von ovcrcoiiiing your fear of tfie water?" even though the foul nullified a touch- AMERICAN I.KOION SIAGAZINK down. THE END~~

4^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 PUBLIC HEALTH DISGRACE NO. 1 (Continued from page 19) Zemo Great For iMcmphis vaccinated when the 1948 really present. By now, the police and outbreak got to the point where 56 the public health office are trying to Itchy Skin Rash people were undergoing Pasteur treat- find all the exposed dogs, and they have Zemo, a doctor's formula, promptly re- ment in a single month. Denver's crisis all sorts of clues to run down. Someone lieves itching of surface skin rashes, that the dog who started came in 1950. St. Louis, in 1951, when knows for sure eczema, prickly heat, athlete's foot. Zemo a peak of 79 rabid dogs a month were it was a foreigner brought in from a stops scratching and so aids faster heal- being reported. Chicago made rabies neighboring State by car—"tourist dogs" ing and clearing. Buy Extra Strength Zemo for stubborn cases. Greaseless! news last year, and Houston, one of rabies control officers call them. An- the worst sore spots for rabies in the other frequent story concerns a woman Sell New TALL STYLE GREETING CARDS country' dramatically rounded up 45,- w iio took her sick dog to the vet but i^Ai^E ^100 , ipmM ^7^' 000 dogs and immunized them in four refused to leave it there for observation. EXTRA MONEY off llfl days last fall, reducing a menace \\ hich On her way home, the dog shook Show friends amazing value Christ- mas, All Occasion assortments. Profits to 100% for yourself or organization, plus cash bonus. Write today for Free Trial oullit of Feature boxes on approval. 77 I'KEE Samples Imprinted" Chrlst- 1 Uais- IF YOU ARE BITTEN BY A DOG I'l OITe NEW ENGLAND ART PUBLISHERS , , FREE Full Color Catalog Coiiiiininicablc Disease Center, I I By Dr. ]civics H. Steele, F/iblic Health V eteriiiar'uw, Nofth flbiHgtoii 724, Mass. Viiblic Health Service, Depart/iient of Health, Education and Welfare.

Health officers all over the United States are trying to eliminate rabies from n,g K-, but imtil w e can get and keep our dogs vaccinated, the possibility of gs reported with rabies must be considered w ith every dog bite. If you or your dog are bitten, you should:

/• hcloye you buy ~ send no money!—pay postman uith soap and water at once. Rahies cannot l)e \^^-^ V 1. Wash the wound thoroughly nothing! If amazed at increased mileage send only J>1.S0 per transmitted unless the infected saliva Ijeconies estabfished in the bite wound. needle (8 cyl. cars use 2) otherwise return the "little slinkcn"- you owe nothing. Rush make—year. No. c> 1. of car. Fi ce Trial Supply limited! NEWHOUSE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES, Dept. 361. Us Angeles 22. Colif. 2. Confine the biting dog so that he is a\ailable for olxsei vation. If he is a stray

or is acting strangefy, try to get the dog pound to handle him. Report the bite immediately to your doctor or veterinarian who nuist notify FREE FOR ASTHMA the dog control authorities. If you rannot reach a doctor right away, tall If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult your local health department. because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for pet strange dogs and keep away from dogs when they Teach children not to a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA are sick. MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. contracting rabies than \ our Remember that your dog is in greater danger of No matter where you live or whether you have faith in faniil>- is. In order to deserve your dog's loyalty, you should: any medicine under the sun, send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. 1. Consult a veterinarian on the best way to protect your dog by vaccination. Frontier Asthma Co. 134-A Frontier Bldg. 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1. N Y. Be sure to bring him back for revaccination at the time the veterinarian advises.

2. If yoia- dog seems sick, or has been in contact witli a dog suspected of rabies, take him to the veterinarian. Suspect rabies when a dog is dull or uneasy in behavior, when his bark changes tone, when thick saliva collects on his mouth, when he tries to eat wood, earth, or clothing. A dog doesn't have to look or act "mad" to have rabies. The "dumb" type of rabies in which a dog slinks away and dies in a paralytic coma in some instances may be more dangerous than the "furious" type, in which he attacks everything in his path, because the individual does not realize the animal is rabid.

~~.'?. Keep your pet away from stray dogs or wild animals who may attack him. Keep him off the street if rabies is reported in yoin- town.~~

LEGIONNAIRE CUSTOMERS had been claiming several human lives his leash and disappeared on a mad Trade with confidence and buy with a year. \\'ashington, D. C, Spokane, career. pride when you see this emblem. It Buffalo, Ithaca, Mobile and Atlanta Parents their children otf the warn is displayed only in a Legionnaire- have been through the mill. streets. Authorities responsible for in- owned store by a member of The With a little poetic license, it's pos- vestigating cases of exposure have to American Legion Magazine Retail sible to tell the story of these and scores explain that you can't get rabies by Advisory Council. of other rabies scares w ith a single tale: w alking down a path taken by a sus- Rabies has been absent so long that picious dog. One woman h>'sterically no one worries about it. Then one day, begged for Pasteur treatment because LEGIONNAIRE RETAILERS a strange dog attacks a child on her she had pricked her finger mending an Join The American Legion Magazine way home from school. A neighbor- apron she later discovered had touched Retail Advisory Council and display hood chase is set up, and the culprit is a mad dog. Alarmed authorities screen this distinctive membership emblem. finally apprehended after it has engaged out only the most improbable exposures, If you are a member of The Ameri- in a couple of unfriendly transactions and since rabies is about, most of the dog can Legion and own and operate a with other dogs in its path. If cool bites in the communit\' result in Pasteur retail store you are eligible for free heads prevail, the dog is caught and treatments. membership. Use the handy member- held until he shows signs of illness. But The pound fills up w ith inimals under ship application form on Page 63. all too t)ften an apprehensive policeman observation, and the laboratory tecimi- or an irate parent shoots the dbg cians who examine dog heads are glued THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE through the head, making it impossible to their microscopes. Slowly the number to examine the brain under a micro- of proven infected dogs rises. Ordi- RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL scope in order to be sure that rabies is nances requiring all dogs on the streets

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 47 ro be leashed ai'c dusted off, and an \\ ith tue nu)iK> and teeth to enforce it. sages from egg to egg, the virus wasf^ cniergencv' quarantine barring all dogs After the Denver outbreak, public modified so that it could produce anti- from the street is passed. If necessary, health officials took the pound over bodies w hen injected in a dog without police are given orders to shoot stray from tiie police who never really harming the dog. Careful check of more dogs on sight, and rifle squads are re- wanted it, converted the dog catcher than 200,000 dogs inoculated with the cruited for the grim dog hunt. Dog into a uniformed ral)ies control officer, new modified virus vaccine in_^X«.v: <)\\ ncrs have been know n to shoot back. replaced an unenforceable dog-licensing York State indicates, as a matter of fact, Responsible dog o\\ ners take their pets SN'stcm with a law requiring ever\' dog that onl>' three dogs suffered fro^ii the to be vaccinated, but they only dent to w ear a \ accination tag of the cur- shots, instead of the 40 >\ hich could the rising toll. The federal Communi- rent year or risk impounding. The next have been expected on the basis of ggst cable Disease Center advises mass vac- year, Denver put on an intensive get- experience with the killed virus vaccination, but if there is no permissive your-dog-rc\ accinated campaign w hich cine. But the important tning is that

State legislation and no time to pass it, boosted the percentage of protected we now ha\ e proof that the new egg the authorities launch a voluntary mass animals to a record high of 85 per cent. vaccine protects dogs against rabies for dog roundup. Unfortunateh', most communities are at least 39 months, a sizable stretch in^"^"* ' It's an eniergencN', and ever>'one only too glad to forget about rabies the average dog's life of five >'ears.^ \\ ants to help. The local veterinary so- once the threat has been declared licked. In 1951, the World Health Organi- ciet\' offers its ser\ ices, ith zation chose Israel as a test country to w or w ithout Conscientious dog ow ners \ accinate on ^ pa\-, to vaccinate all dogs at clinics set tlieir own. Veterinarians strongly urge see whether the "big push" technique up in firehouses, churches, schools, vaccination on their clients, but most would work. Although the Israeli gov- police stations. Women's clubs and serv- people reason that the\' don't need to ernment was effectively picking up ice organizations volunteer to do the do an\ thing about their dogs because strays among its relatively small (30,- paper work. \'accine is flown in from there is no rabies around. iMeanwhile, 000) dog population, nine human be- the manufacturers. A day or two days the number of vulnerable dogs rises to ings liad died and more than 2,000 had nr three days are set for the big push, the point where there is no barrier of been forced to take the Pasteur treat- and the new spapers, radio stations, and immunit\' to cushion the rampage of ment in 1949. S\"stematic \accination schools impress on everyone the time another "tourist dog" from an infected of nearl>' 90 per cent of the dogs in the and place w here a dog can be protected. area. country with the long-lasting egg vac- Sometimes loudspeaker trucks patrol The ideal weapon, of course, would cine eliminated human ca.ses and cut residential sections w ith the word. be a x accine w hich would protect a dog the incidence of rabies in dogs from 80 The dogs and their owners line up for life. \\'e could then get rid of rabies in 1949, to three along the border in at the improvised stations, and press by vaccinating almost all the dogs in 1953. Results of a similar push in Malaya photographers picture the pooches, big the country in one big push, and keep are even more striking. \\ hen 42 people and little, scrub and purebred, waiting it out by vaccinating the new puppies died of rabies in the single month of their turn at the needle. Next day, the iust as we keep smallpox out b\' vac- August, 1952, the new vaccination was papers pat everyone on the back and cinating children. started and followed up in January, record a resounding total of thousands As a step in tliat direction, we now 1953, b>' an intensive federally spon- of dogs protected. The number of rabid ha\ e such a longer-lasting vaccine. Six sored dri\ c Luitil few dogs escaped vac- dogs reported dips, then dw indles rapid- years ago, Drs. Herald Rea Cox and cination or destruction as strays. There h after the 30-da\' period required for Hilar>' Koprowski of Lederle Labora- iiasn't been a single case of rabies in the vaccination to "take." tories Division, American Cyanamid that previoush' rabies-ridden country Tired public officials thank heaven (Company, obtained a strain of rabies since. that there have been few or no human virus from Dr. Harald N. Johnson of The American record is not so good. deaths and prepare an ordinance requir- the Rockefeller Institute and succeeded Only five per cent of our 3,090 coun- ing vaccination of all dogs every year in grow ing it in eggs. After man\' pas- ties have rabies control programs which Dr. Steele feels are really good enough

~~to stop a rabies outbreak before it starts. What's the matter with the United States? Why can't w e knock out rabies the way we've ka\'oed smallpox, mala- ria, and pneumonia? In order to fTnd~~

~~out, I buttonholed public health veterinarians at their con\ cntions and in their offices on tiic community firing line. All of them gave the following obstacles:~~

~~1. Dog laws arc hard to enforce. The~~

dogcatcher is looked upon by many as the lowest form of Anglo-Saxon political life. Children are allowed to put tacks in the tires of the dog wagon, hide dogs which should be picked up, let the dogs out of the pound. He used to be something of a pcft\' racketeer, paid out of the licenses he could collect. Even today, dog licensing is regarded by some communities as a general tax levied on those conscientious

~~enough to pa\- it xoluntarily or luifor- tunatc enougii to be caught b\ the dogcatcher.~~

4g • THE AMERICAN LECilON MAGAZINE • JULY. 1955 Dog laws arc so unpopular tliat no skunks of the midwest. .Maddened b\' d:\y and attacked a person, ih..t: rliey city council wants to appropriate the disease, these shy beasts charge into obligingly took a look at its brain un- money to enforce them. Few cities have farmyai'ds and attack human beings. In der the microscope. There, to their sur- a truck for every 12,000 dogs, the mini- Pennsylvania two years ago numerous prise and horror, they found the telltale mum required to keep strays off the rabid foxes forced parents to escort Negri bodies which indicate rabies. street. In St. Louis, where the public their children to school. Dogs, of Prompt treatment probably saved the health department is tr\'ing to make the course, are more frequent victims, and boy's life, but naturalists all over the pound an acceptable public building, they carry the disease to domesticated world plied the Florida authorities for there isn't enough money to cover open animals. I'armcrs have lost millions of information, and grim game authorities sewer traps. dollars worth of cattle to rabies in New tramped the wilder parts of central Our federal form of government, York State, Georgia, and the southwest, Florida shooting and trapping bats for which extends home rule to localities, and a vaccine for the protection of live- laboratory examination. Six proved is as tough an obstacle to public healtli rabid. enforcement as our traditional annoy- Naturalists w ere ready to dismiss the ance with pctt\- regulation. States iiave w hole thing as a Florida freak, when a the underh'ing power to legislate on bat in Carlisle, Penns>lvania, attacked dogs, but most of them simply empow cr the w ife of a biologist on a September cities and counties to pass emergency evening. The bat proved rabid, setting legislation, while the U. S. Public off a nationw ide bat roundup that has Health Service can only advise w hen so far disclosed the infection in Texas, asked. Jurisdiction is split horizontally Montana, and California. as well as vertically. \"accination and AMiere did the American bats get importation of dogs may be covered rabies? No one had ever seen an\' ani- by State legislatit)n, but the State de- mal bite a bat, including a bat, and so partment of hcaltli, department of ag- far .saliva is the onl\' know n transmitter riculture, and livestt)ck commission can of rabies outside the laboratory. Could and often do issue regulations of their \ ampire bats from the Caribbean hook own. At the city level dogs may be a ride to the U. S. on cattle boats? No regulated by police, public health, tax, stevedore had ever uncovered one. or sanitation officials, or bv' a pri\atc Could they fly that far? Banding opera- humane society granted quasi-public tions, hurriedly started, will .settle this pow ers. It's almost a question of w ho is point in >'ears to come. w illing to take on the odious chore. The thing that really worries the

2. A small, vocal group of organ- experts is that vampire bats don't alized animal lovers is ready to oppose ways die of rabies. Some of them can vaccination of dogs as unnecessar\' and carry the infection for months. If the cruel. Irene Castle, the movie star, made same holds true of the bats of America, "AVhy is it, < oiiiratic, our riimuTs »aii only the papers at the time of the Chicago they the Alarys of break the loin-iiiiniite iiiile when escaping may be Typhoid outbreak by declaring there w as no such across the border-'" rabies w hich are infecting w ild animals disease as rabies and that she would AMi:i:i< AN J.Kciox MA<;-\/iNi: and dogs in areas now free of the dis- be glad to expose herself to an allegedly ease. The U. S. Public Health Service rabid dog in order to prove it. Cj roups would love to find out, but it warns holding these views have prevented pas- stock has just i)ecn offered to \ ererina- that it will take several years and sev- sage of vaccination law s in Los Angeles rians. eral hundred thousand dollars of rax in spite of a menacing buildup of rabid Public health officials and naturalists money to get the answ er. dogs in that city. To combat them, admit the\ "re puz/led l)\ the phenome- The practical solution, of coiuse, is irate parents have circulated leaflets ex- non. Some areas, like the Rockies, are easier than the problem. You can't leg- ploding the fallac\- that vaccination is free of w ildlife rabies, w hile in other islate bats out of existence. You can't unnccessar\' because no human being places it snioklers, skips ()\"er presum- even find them to kill them. But if >ou lias died of rabies in the cit\' for nine ably susceptible populations and breaks protect dogs, j'ou've got the danger to

> ears. Newspapers have published pic- out mysterioush" in isolated places. human beings pretty well licked. tures of dying children. Tw o > ears ago, rabiologists and nat- Some of the States are now tr\ ing Irene Castle and those w ho hold w ith lu alists were electrified hy an unprece- to .solve the rabies problem, but !)e- her forget that dogs profit more than dented event in Florida that suggested causc of the interstate character of rhe humans from tlic vaccination programs. a bloodcurdling clue to the m\-ster\'. tliseasc it must be attacked on a ixgional

~~They are both more susceptible to the The seven->'ear-()ld son of a Florida basis. At present Uncle Sam is spend-~~

disease and more exposed to it. Last cattleman w as pla\"ing in his ow n back- ing little more than $60,000 a year ad- year, over 5,000 dogs died of rabies, \ ard one morning w hen a bat flew out vising and helping local authorities w ho dogs that would be alive today if they of the bushes and sank sharp little teeth have to cope with outbreaks of rabies, had been protected. If they were hu- info his chest. The boy's father recalled and improving laboratory methods of

man beings, there would be no stopping the \ ampire bats of .Mexico w ho gently detecting the disea.se. A much nioic a general vaccination campaign. Yet the perforate the skin of sleeping humans substantial amount would allow him opposition comes specifically from those and cattle, lap their blood, and return to help the States to launch longterm

w ho believe that a dog's life is as valu- the dread virus of rabies, and he lost programs of control that would readily able as a human's. no time dri\"ing bat and boy to the pre\ ent outbreaks. Some of the mone\' 3. Continuing vaccination is essential Tampa Regional Laboratory 30 miles would have to be spent in gi\ ing dog in the United States because our dogs away. There, technicians told him that owners the facts about rabies so that are constantly exposed to infection rabies had never occurred in the insect- the\- would protect their pets.

~~from rabid wild animals. For some ob- eating bats found in the \J . S. But the\' N'ou, of course, don't have to wait to~~

scure reason, rabies is increasing among were s(/ surpriseil that a bar, usually be told. You can vaccinate >'our dog the foxes of the Appalachians and the the sh\ est of animals, liad flow n by right now. iHi: end

~~THE AMERICAN LEGION M.\GAZ1NE • JULY, 1955 • 49 THOSE OLD CARS HAD EVERYTHING~~

( Coiitiiiiicd frotti jtnge 25 ) way and held it under the garage roof. "economy power." The lever cut out its roots in the past. Progress is a mat- As for sports cars in general, toda\'"s half of the Enger's 12 c>linders and ter of trial, error, and timing. In the

models are iust the product of an auto- made it a six "that could go 35 miles automobile business, it's also a matter inoti\e evolution that has been going on a gallon of gasoline." of price and reliabilit>'. A basic idea is on for generations. The>' are members Air conditioning — for those w ho only half the problem. To make that of the same breed that fathered such were willing to pay, Packard offered it idea work under all conditions and to oldtime speedsters as the Stutz Bearcat, 15 years ago in 1940. produce it in mass quantities at a price

~~Mercer Raceabout, the 1909 Coyote, the Even things like buying a car on that will sell is the all-important other~~

Chadw ick, the Detroiter Kangaroo, tlie time, used car lots, and motels go pretty half. The reason that you and I can Jordon Pla\boy, the 1920 Cunningham far back in recorded automobile his- drive the luxury cars of today with all Speedster, and man)' others. tory. You could buy a car on the in- the "new features" that the idea boys And so it goes prett\' mucii riglit stallment plan as long ago as 1915, and can think up—or borrow from the past down the line of "new features." one of the first used car lots in the —is because Detroit can produce those Tubeless tires — the first automobile country opened up for business in the cars at a price w hich we can afford to tires \\ ere tubeless, borrowed from the same year. One of the first motels, pay. bicjxle. called a "Bungalette Camp for Motor And what's for the future? Wrap-around w indshields — some of Tourists," was built on the outskirts Undoubtedly each \ear"s crop of the early electric cars sported these. of Oakland, Calif., in 1922. The camp's new cars will continue to bring some Coil springs — the 1907 Brush, a fa- "bungalettcs" — wooden houses com- brand-new developments plus some old mous one-Iungcr, had an independent plete with electricity — rented for as revivals. A sneak preview of some of coil spring on each wheel. little as $20 a month or $1 a night! Detroit's "new features" scheduled for

All-steel bodies -in 1914, Oakland W hat it all adds up to is that the unveiling in the not-too-distant future and Hupmobiie offered all-steel open development of the automobile — like includes such things as a gas-turbine en- bodies and Dodge introduced the all- the development of any basic product gine (already being tried out in trucks) steel closed body in 1923. —has been one of gradual improvement and a hand-operated accelerator lever Wire wheels — the>- go back to the on the past. As the automobile grew, mounted on the steering wheel for use first "horseless carriages." and the \'ast knowledge of production on long drives when your right foot Dual-range power — the Enger Tw in- know -how increased, ideas that for one gets tired of pushing dow n on the gas Unit Twelve of 1917 advertised that. reason or another failed in tiie past ha\ e pedal. I'm all for the fingertip gas con-

All the dri\er had to do, according to been brougiit out of tlie moth halls and trol. But then maybe I'm prejudiced. 1 the balh'hoo, was to "touch a little revived. took my first driving lessons in a car lever on the steering column" wJien he "There's nothing new under the sun," that had one— .Mr. Ford's famous old wanted to go from "full power" to can be said about any industry that has Model Tl THE KND

~~MIRACLE AT THE IRON CURTAIN (Coiithiiicd fiotu I'figc /5j~~

They were being joined almost daih' For all his breezy, informal pcrson- "So it is," replied the puzzled Ser- by the abandoned offspring of DPs alit\'. Major Miles was a go-getter. The geant Hand)'. fleeing Soviet oppression in East Ger- following week, he arranged a meeting "But )'ou Americans," \\'cidmann inan> . Even more significant to Co- with the city fathers of Bad Fiersfeld. protested, "are secretly bringing in star iiant's men was the fact that 20 per Through his interpreter, Corporal athletes from other Army units. Many cent of the Glimmesmiihie orphans had Werner Toew s of Pocahontas, Idaho, new faces are seen arriving at your American blood—born out of wedlock Miles fired the opening volley in his barracks. Can you deny that?" to German fnm/e/w, of (A fathers. fight to promote better understanding Handy blinked. "Those new men be- "OK, men," Conant said. "There's betwen Germans and Americans. The long to our battalion, sir. From our your kickoff project. But let me warn Constabs, Miles informed biir^^crineistcr outposts at Fulda and Bad Kissengen. you. This business is going to depend Otto Jansen, herel)\' challenged the You know our men are spread out on almost entirely on you enlisted men. Sportsmen's Club of Kreis (District) patrol. None of them arc outsiders." You'll ha\e to sacrifice a lot of your Hersfeld to a track meet, to be held at Weidmann looked awa)'. "The situa- off-duty leisure to putting this across. the local Sportplatz. Strictly a local tion is out of my control," he confessed. ^ Our adviser will be our Executive affair, neither side to import an>' talent. "Our Sportsmen's Club, in retaliation, Officer, Major Miles here. CJood luck!" How about it- is importing crack CJerman athletes Conant had made a master stroke in The Germans agreed enthusiastically. from all over the province. You see," appointing as liaison officer Major Plans got under w a\' amid great excite- \\'eidmann tried to explain, "we grew Ralph E. Allies. Popular with the EM, ment in both camps. The meet was up under Nazi rule, trusting no man's

Miles was a stock red-headed man scheduled for \\'hitsunda\', foiu' months word for an)'thing. . . . We must cancel of 46 from Wolcott, New York. He off. the track meet, of course. It is a most had worked his way through college as All went w ell until April, w hen the regrettable misunderstanding." a professional boxer. During the thir- official in charge of the German prepa- "No!" Handy cut in. "The meet will ties he had been an active reservist. In rations, assistant laiidrat Fritz \\'eid- be staged as planned. If your club in- World War I! he had seen action from mann, sought out Sergeant Alajor Ted sists on importing stars, don't wort) New Caledonia to the ETO. In his L. Handy.^ about it." veins flow ed the fighting heritage of a "Herr Sergeant," he said accusingi)', A\'hitsunda\' 1951 saw thousands of ilistinguished frontier (Jcneral of tiie "an ugl\ rumor is sw eeping Bad Hers- partisan Cicrman sports fans gathered '70s and 'SOs— Nelson A. Miles, the con- feld. We understood that the track at the Hesseplatz to watch the Ameri- queror of Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph meet was to be strict!)' a local talent can 24th pit its best athletes against a and the renegade Apache, Geronimo. affair." supposed!)' "local" German team. Be-

5Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 fore the meet was well uiulet \\:i>-, the American personnel throughout riie August, \\ irii dpi,. in (Juentji Row - pattern became clear. The scoreboard Zone." land, t)f Oregon, in charge. The re- read Germans 60, Americans 0. A raffle it was to be. Prizes were pro- splendent Chrysler sedan, mounted on As the meet progressed, with the il- posed, discussed, rejected as too trivial an army semi-trailer, started down the legally-entered German stars winning —wristwatches, bicycles, and the like. Autobahn for Frankfurt. At every U. S. event after event, a subtle change came Finally, just before the Charge of Army service station en route, Yankee over the predominantly Hessian spec- Quarters w as due to make bed-check, attendants clamored for tickets at one tators. It was becoming ob\ ious to the the men \oted to make the top prize dollar each. most rabid Yankee-haters in the stands an automobile. Not a pint-sized Volks- In I'rankfurt, the grand prize was that the outclassed 24th had not broken wagen, but a top-bracket American car. parked outside the American Exchange faith; it had imported no outside talent. Next day. Major Miles dispatched —focal point for the thousands of GIs When the tournament ended with the the outfit's Adjutant, Captain James stationed in the area—and the hustling score 169 to 11 in favor of the German Martin of Los Angeles, to visit Frank- little outfit from Bad Hersfeld set to team, there \\as no cheering from its furt and contact an auto dealer. Martin work. supporters. telephoned back, "I've located a lulu, One enterprising NCO, Sergeant joe In a strained, embarrassed silence, the Aversano, rounded up a score of skinin-, Germans saw Colonel Conant salute the ill-clad moppets from the bombed-out baii[>tyiaiin of the German team. "You tenement district, lined them up at the have won a proud victory," the Ameri- PX entrance, and began his pitch: "The can officer said. "V\ê congratulate you." cash from this raffle will bring Santa A wild frenzy^ of applause broke Claus to kids like these for the first time from the stands. For the first time in next Christmas. Think it over, gu\-s. the six-year tenure of the Occupation, One buck bu\'s you the best car in the civilians came rushing out to mingle w hole EUCOA'l." with GI police. Apologies came from Fifteen hundred tickets w ere sold the every side: "\\c allowed the rumor- first afternoon. One sergeant, Dick mongers to mislead us." "Our honor Ricker of Alar>'land, sold 7,974 tickets has been soiled." "We beg >"our for- in his spare time, ^^'hen the raffle ended, giveness." over $27,000 had been taken in, for a The GIs of tile 24th returned to their net profit of $18,814.40! Not one penn\- barracks in triumphant mood. \\'hat had come from a German. mattered the debacle recorded by the Later, Alajor Allies and Alaster Ser- scorekeeper? The Americans had won geant Ted Handy presented themselves the real victory by their sportsmanship. at Dr. Jansen's office in the Bad Flcrs- An event that had opened in an atmos- feld City Hall. They were met b\- a phere of hatred and distrust had ended puzzled delegation of German civic in an avalanche of good w ill. The ice officials. was broken at last. "Here," Sergeant Handy said through In the days that followed, orderly interpreter Toews, "is a check for "I Avas a liaiulyiiiaii until this do-it-youiself room clerks at AlcPheeter's were de- craê tame along." $2,000 to buy shoes for the orphans in luged with invitations such as "Would AMEUICAN LEGION SIAGAZINE \ (>ur local DP camps. And here. Hei r the Kommandant allow an Ainerikan- Biirgcniicister, is another check for isher soldat to dine Sunday evening Major. A '51 Chrysler Windsor sedan $2,000 to get new clothing for the chil- next at the home of the Gusrave Uten- with all the extras. But >'ou'Il pass out dren at Glimmesmuhle." Handy then dorffers?" Needless to say, all such re- when I tell > ou the price." turned to Frait Elfriede Caselitz, head quests were immediately granted. "How much?" the red-headed New of the local German Red Cross. "We The hard-won comradeship betw een Yorker inquired. understand that the city plans to build the American Occupation troops and "Thirt> -five hundred bucks. And we a $15,000 Red Cross building, Fran the burgers of Hesse very ncarh' c(j1- only have until tomorrow noon to take Caselitz." lapsed shortly after the track meet, up our option. A \ÎP is w aiting to snap "/j—that is true," the overwhelmed when an outbreak of crime in the area up the car." Frail Caselitz admitted. was traced to American soldiers. I5ut Thirty-five hundred dollars! It was "Here is the 24th's contribution to the crisis passed for the 24th when a an astronomical sum. But Miles didn't get the building started," Sergeant military court of inquiry pinned the bat an eyelash. "Tell that dealer we'll Handy said, turning over a $5,000 guilt on GIs from another outfit billeted have cash on the barrelhead by 1200 check. "And now, Alajor Allies has a temporarily in the community. hours tomorrow. Tie up that Chrysler, proposal to offer the city officials.

The men of the 24th liad another Captain. I'll arrange for a chauffeur to Alajor?" smoker. pick it up." Alajor Allies stepped forward and, as "All right, guys" Sergeant Pagliarulo That afternoon Miles, together with the popeyed Germans gasped, spread a declared, "now' we're set to spring our Colonel Conant, Colonel Harold Spitz- bale of 42,000 Dciitscbviarks on the orphanage welfare project, without er, and George P. Aloore, the local mayor's desk. making the Germans think we're dish- High Commissioner to Germany attache, "This money is yours, sir," Allies said, ing out charity to poor relations. It's presented themselves at the Frankfurt "with one proviso: that it go toward going to take a wad of dough, though. branch of the Chase National Bank of the construction of a new orphanage to How are we going to do it? Put a bas- New York and signed personal notes replace that overcrowded farmliousc ket at our next pavline, or what? Any guaranteeing repa>'mcnt of a $3,500 at Glimmesmiihle." ideas?" loan. "If the raffle fizzles out," the GIs Dr. Jansen gidped. The Council Backstage, Alajor Ralph Aliles pulled back at the p<»st had assured them, w ould take the Yankees' proposal imder another string. "w e'll buy that damned jalopy over the advisement, ja. And would the Alajor "How about a raffle? " Miles suggested. pay table ourselves." do him the honor of signing the city's "Put up a prize and sell tickets to "Operation Raffle" got under w a\ in "Golden Book," an autograph album

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 • whicli visiting dignitaries had signed their GYA expenditures, the Germans supply of the nearby hamlet of Phillips- ()\ er a span of 300 years? had begun the new Orphanage project. thai, on the Iron Curtain. Clvristmas 1^51 was approaching. For Land w as purchased atop the \\ ehne- Phillipsthal's mayor telephoned the the needy children of Kreis (District) berg (Wehne Hill), overlooking the 24th for help. The ranking officers, Alc-

Hcrsfeld, it was to be an unforgettable beautiful Eulda \'alle\'. Ground was Millin and Miles, were awa\' for the one. An intramural ri\ alr\' M as bur- broken in iMarch for a building which day. The officer in command, Alajor

geoning among the inspired troops of would take the xAmericans' initial $10,- AVilliam Blake, of Florida, put it up to the 24th. Christmas Eve saw C and D 000 donation and $50,000 to come from his men. The 24th promptly disbanded Troops visiting the Iron Curtain vil- Cierman civilians. its Independence Day festivities to rush lages in IVi-ton, 6x6 trucks—in some "We can't let the Germans get de- tank trucks to the beleaguered village. cases parking close enough to hang their pendent on our help," Alajor Miles When "Operation Waterhaul" reached hubcaps over Soviet soil. On the East w arned repeatedly. "Wc won't be here the 50,000 gallon mark, the disgruntled

GeruKin side of the border, glowering long. For every dollar of ours, we'xe Soviet overlords called it cjuits and re- red oHicials watched the exuberant got to persuade the Germans to put up stored normal facilities. young Gis pass out a w hopping $5,000 four dollars." Hessian commies, acting on directives worth of food parcels, clothing bun- Meanw hile, how to finance the floiu- from Aloscow, had made much of racial dles, an^ sacks of American-made toys. ishing youth program? Had the 24th discord attributed to the American Sergeant John D. Hatfield, of New Constabs bitten off more than they South. When word got out that the 24th ^Ork, w as master of ceremonies, decked could chew? had received orders from the European out in a Santa Claus suit. "I've got an idea," Miles told Colonel Conunand to transfer ten per cent of The New Year, 1952, had liardh- Conant. "\^'e'll stage a series of Ger- its personnel to make way for a like been rung in when the 24th requested man-American boxing matches, open to number of Negro replacements, Kreis

and received EUCOAI permission to the public. I'll bet you it'll go over as Hersfeld's red sj nipathizers loudly pre- tal' hour an organized sports program. All in- 24th hit another jackpot. A series of with whooping cough patients. While structors were local Germans. They German-American boxing tournaments the 24th's Aledical Detachment never had orders to avoid anything that drew 10,000 paid spectators and settled conceded the efficacy of this therapy, smacked of pro-American propaganda. the GYA debt with mone>' to spare. the project added another feather to Bad Hcrsfeld's >'outh, suspicious of On one occasion, the outfit advanced the garrison caps of the increasingly the Yankees' motives as their elders had money to bring Germany's fistic idol. popular "miracle men" of the 24th. been a few months earlier, jx'spondcd Max Schmeling, down from his mink In September Alajor Aliles was pro- slowly at first. But finally the rolls had farm in Nor\\ ay to serve as referee. Al- moted to Lieutenant Colonel, and the mushroomed to over six hundred. Cap- though Schmeling appeared in an open- rumor spread that he was to be trans- trin John iMcGuire of Louisiana, in air arena during a torrential rainstorm, ferred. The German people promptly charge of the GYA project, saw the hundreds of the ex-world heav>'weight forwarded a petition bearing 25,000 sig- wr.yward girls and the Dead-End Kids champion's fans had to be turned aw ay natures to 7th Army Headquarters, re- leove their alle\ s and riitskcllcrs to de- at the gates. questing an extension of assignment for vote their excess energy to basketball, Wkh finances in good shape, the 24th the red-headed officer w hose presence ski meets in the nearb\ moimtains, Constabs now turned to a series of sum- in Kreis Hersfeld was believed essential manual training, auto shop, soccer mer camps at Dalherda, 30 miles aw a\' to the continuance of the youth welfare matches, even a Soap Box dcrb\ —the in the scenic Bavarian Alps. Every w cek program. first ever held in Europe. 60 need)' orphans were transported to "Alight as well ask tiic Army to yank All this cost money. In a short time and from the tent city, where Chaplain the moon out of its orbit," ran the skep- $6,000 was spent— a sum out of reach Herold G. Lohrman of Connecticut tical latrine gossip. "Such things don't of soldier donations in an outfit as small and Corporal Leslie N. Koray of Texas happen." as the 24th. served as counsellors. The entire project But it did. Colonel Aliles received The soldiers stubbornly resisted offers was financed by the soldiers, without orders postponing his transfer indefin- of help from German civilians. The cost to the taxpayers back in the States. itely "in the interests of international raffle which had paid off so handsomely All this caused a wave of unprece- accord." in August could not be repeated, for dented pro-American sentiment to The spare-time activities of the other American outfits had jiuiiped on sweep through Hesse, to the alarm of Squadron, as good-will ambassadors, that bandwagon throughout W^est Ger- local communist cells. With typical had come to overshadow, in the Ger- many following the 24th's success. communist malevolence, the Russians man mind, the basic military function While the GI smokers wrestled with struck back. The\' chose the big Ameri- of the unit—the vigilance patrol of the problems of ways and means to meet can holiday, July 4, to cut off the water Iron Curtain border. But in December,

52 • THt; AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 just as the unit was making plans for we raise the funds to coiuplete this or- the Army will arrange transportation a second gala Christmas bounty for phanage—at once!" to and from Europe." needy German youth, the bad news German citizens rallied to the cause. On August 12, 1954, Colonel Ralph came: the 24th Constabular>' Squadron The orphanage was finally completed in F. Miles completed a V^IP-priority had completed its mission, said the mid-summer 1954. The Hessian people flight from America. He arrived in European Command, and was to be de- decided on impressive dedicatory cere- Frankfurt to find a German motorized activated. monies to mark the opening. But it was escort waiting to take him "back home" Sorrowing throngs of civilians lined unthinkable, trumpeted the Hessian to Bad Hersfeld. Arriving there. Miles the ancient cobbled streets of Bad Hers- press, to dedicate the new orphanage was mobbed by screaming throngs of feld as the uniformed Yankees marched without having as guest of honor at well-fed, well-dressed, happy, German away from the former Nazi kaserve on least one member of the 24th Constab- children, \\ ho showered him with flow- the hill for the last time. These Ameri- ulary Squadron which had made the er blossoms in a Hessian version of a cans had come to Germany as police- miracle come to pass. By now, most of ticker-tape parade. men, despised and taunted; they de- the unit's personnel was back in civilian And a parade there was, with Colonel parted as honored friends, their memo- life in America. Whom should Bad Miles, representing the absent GIs of ries enshrined in the hearts of grateful Hersfeld invite? the 24th, riding in the place of honor children. There was only one answer, of between Burgerineister Jansen and Fran There is no way to measure the good Caselitz of the German Red Cross. which the outfit had accomphshed in Past the newly-enlarged Red Cross the incredibly short months since the building the parade moved, miles long, auto raffle. But the unit's records told with seven brass bands in attendance. an impressive story which no amount The marchers reached the grim barrier of red propaganda can ever dispute: of the Iron Curtain, where Russian po- Donation to start new lice saw the procession retrace the route orphanage $10,000 which the 24th had patrolled night and

Donation to German Red day for six j ears by jeep, plane, and on Cross bldg 5,000 foot. The parade reached its destination New equipment for atop the ^Vehenberg. orphange 5,000 There Colonel Miles beheld the Total Christmas 1952 monument of the 24th's spare-time ac- donations 5,000 tivities in behalf of German-American New clothing for youth unity. The magnificent new Jiigeiid program 5,000 Wohvhelm surpassed anything the GIs Operation of GYA summer could have envisioned. tent camp 3,000 Three stories high, the orphanage had Operation of GYA winter glassed-in solaria, ultra-modern kitchens ski camps 1,000 gleaming with chrome, and landscaped Expenses of GYA training grounds. At prevailing American labor schools 6,000 scales, the building would have cost "Is this one sharp enough? Total American GI more than $150,000. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE contributions $40,000 And occupying these shining, spa- This feat is all the more incredible cious quarters were the precious re- when it is realized that it was accom- course: Colonel Ralph F. Miles, then cipients of the Yanks' benefactions: the plished by ever-changing personnel serving as head of a Reserve Officers' once-forgotten w aifs of war who, back which never numbered more than 250 Training Center in Santa Barbara, Cali- in 1947, had first roused the pity of off-duty men. At the time the 24th left fornia, 6,000 miles away. So Burger- Sergeant Danny Pagliarulo, now on Germany, the Hessian people had con- Tiieister Otto Jansen sat down to write duty at Fort Meade, Maryland. tributed another $60,000 to bring the an historic plea to the President of the When Colonel Miles advanced to the total up to a tenth of a million dollars. United States: microphone, his words were to be clar- As Major Miles had secretly feared, "Mr. President, we take this means ioned across the Iron Curtain in 27 work on the new orphanage— half-fin- of requesting a favor. We desire languages, via the mighty X'^oice of ished when the 24th left—came to a that Oberstlcutnant Rolf Aliles be America, to the ears of oppressed mil- sudden halt. Fund-raising in a poverty- granted leave to visit Germany on lions. ridden area such as Kreis Hersfeld faced the occasion of the formal dedica- "I accept these honors," he said himi- appalling difficulties. tion of the new orphanage \\ hich bh', "not for myself, but on behalf of When Colonel Miles was given a his unit was responsible for estab- the rank and file of the 24th Constab- hero's send-off at the time of his de- lishing. No other single American ulary Squadron of the United States parture for America in May 1953, he has been a better ambassador of Army, who opened their hearts to the took away the solemn promise of Bi4r- good will from your country to suffering of innocent victims of war. ." geriiieister Jansen that the orphange ours than Rolf F. Miles. . . "It is my fervent prayer that this would be ready for occupancy by the The White House sent the petition magnificent building will always stand end of the year. But the deadline passed to the Pentagon. The economy-minded as a symbol of what miracles can be with no further construction. The Army had a problem on its hands: no produced when former enemies join snows of January 1954 whitened the appropriated funds were available for forces in common cause. . . . What we skeleton of the structure on the such an unusual junket. However, the accomplished together here could be AYehneberg. undeniable importance of granting the accomplishetl an\'where else on our

"Because the American soldiers are Germans' petition in the interests of in- troubled globe. Before us toda>' is the no longer here to inspire us," editori- ternational amity prompted the Penta- living proof of a spirit of Christlike alized the HersfelJer Zeitung, "is no gon to wire Colonel Miles in Santa brotherhood w hich, with God's help, excuse for rhis disgraceful delay. It is Barbara: "If the officer is willing to will one day bring enduring peace an obligation of national honor that make said trip on liis own leave time. throughout the world." the end

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ship. As the minutes clocked off, he was eased off abruptly as the boosters broke meter. Velocit\- he had to estimate from kept too busy with pre-flight checks clean; he could see them tumbling aw ay checking landmarks below. He saw to worry much. It was a lot like a through his gunsight. Then he w atched Haw aii go past to the north, then there normal flight; but a few minor difi^er- while the earth dropped away, the was a long stretch of ocean w ith no ences reminded him that this was not mountains and the deserts fading into checkpoints. He made some rough cal- a regular test hop—the mirror gunsight flatness. The streak of the Rio Grande culations by the position of the sun, looking to the rear, the range tables for River Valley swam into the mirror, then which was climbing higher as he the 120, the little red push button on swept out as the ship began to lay over streaked around the globe. the panel where no switch had been on its side in a long curve to the west. When he saw- New Guinea appear before, and the constants of the S, N Thus far, it was pretty much like any ahead of him, he started searching w ith 24's trajectory. other flight, Cal decided. He watched his radar. The S N 24 should be com- The S/N 24 was in a "wobble" orbit; the flame bk)Ssoni out in the mirror. ing into range soon, he thought. But as she passed overhead she would be there was nothing on the radar screen. heading roughly southwest. The next Had somebody misplaced a decimal time around in a little over an hour, point, he wondered? The missile should she would pass far to the north of be approaching him from above and White Sands and head southwest over behind, but he couldn't pick it up. A Los Angeles. His intercept maneuver cold sweat broke out on his face as he was a long one; he would have to take savagely swept his search radar back the 23S half-way around the world to and forth, but he wasn't scared now. meet the errant missile. He was only afraid that he had missed

~~"Red-hot Papa, this is Bitter Joe Con- the S/N 24 entirely. trol," a voice rang in his headphones. Over the Timor Sea, a weak spot of "Are you ready for lift?" light appeared on his screen! It was~~

"Red-hot Papa is ready for lift, Bit- there, sweeping toward him through ter Joe," he replied, wetting his lips. the sky! He looked up, hut there was "Coming up on minus ninety seconds. nothing there but stars. The sun was

. . . Markr slowly sinking behind him, and he Cal started his take-ofl^ procedure, didn't dare look back to tr>' to spot the unclutching his reference gyros. The missile. programmer which would fly the ship "I wish you could hear me on the during the powered portions of the radio, Don," he said to himself. "I wish flight was showing a green light on the I could talk to somebody." panel. But he was coming up on the most

"Sixty seconds. . . .Mark!" critical portion of his flight—the burst Then, "Forty-five seconds. . . .Mark!" of power that would match his speed The KX-238 was a different ship now; w ith that of the missile and bring him

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The last moments were dragging b\-. the ship. The acceleration slapped him A million thoughts ran through the in the teeth, but he dismissed the dis- pilots head as he settled himself back ll-r.im Juh. I.L.M.) comfort. He w as too engrossed in vec- into his pads. There was no time to be toring on the missile. Seventy-five miles. scared, only time to wait. but he jumped when it suddenly winked . . . Easy, easy. . . . Fift\- miles and still ." "Twenty 19 ...... 18 17. . . out. The red "Cutoff" light was on, and above him. . Careful. . . . Very care- Somewhere, far up in the endless he felt his stomach climb into his chest ful. ... A bit of pitch-positive control. blackness of space overhead, an armed as he went into free-fall. . . . Thafs it war rocket sped across the stars toward "Bitter Joe Control, this is Red-hot Then he saw it. It floated b\' over- a hypothetical pt)int in space where the Papa. First cutofi^ on schedule," he re- head, a brilliant star in the black sky.

238 would meet it. ported. Then it slow ed and slow ed and stopped ." "Eleven ...... ten nine . . . eight. . came back intermixed w itii just as his rocket engines quit! His tanks . The rcph' He pushed the final switch. He had noise. "Roger, Red-hot Papa. You're had run dry! a few seconds left on earth, just a few- over the w estern horizon; we can't fol- Panicky, he took a radar bearing, then moments in which to back out if he low you with our radars now, but closed his eyes and sobbed. wanted to. But it was not a matter of you looked right in the groove before The sun disappeared behind the east- wanting to or not. The S/N 24 was wc lost contact. Let us know what it ern limb of the globe behind him. sweeping around the world to the point looks like w hen \'ou come around next of interception. ." time. . . 1 he transmission faded as HIS VOICE reached anxious ears at A\'hite ." "Three . . . two . . . one. . . the KX-2 38 swept out over the Pacific Sands 40 minutes later. Don Karlter The green "Ignition" light came on, Ocean, climbing steadily in a shallow- threw- down his cigarette and jumped then the boosters fired. With a back- ellipse. It was daylight below now. He to the receiver. "Hello, Bitter Joe Con- snapping jerk, he was slammed into his turned back to his instruments to check trol, this is Red-hot Papa." cushioned seat as a maelstrom of noise his velocity and altitude. "Thank God! He's all right!" Karl- filled his universe. The acceleration Altitude he could check by radar alti- ter breathed.

5g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1955 "I'm in rile soup," Cul's voice went "Look, >-ou fool, i^et out of there! computer boys figured right. Stand by! ." on. "The 238 reached fuel exhaustion Let that thing come down where it Three . . . two . . . one. . . ." too soon at intercept. . . will." The telescope film records showed a The engineer grabbed the mike from "And kill a couple of million people?" ball of fire 20 miles in diameter. The the radioman's hand. "Cal! Cal! This is "We'll take that chance!" light was visible in New York City,

Don! What's wrong?" "Why risk millions? I . . . I'm not Havana, Mexico Cky, and Honolulu. It "Somebody made a mistake, maybe sure I could live with myself, knowing turned night into day over Los Angeles. me, maybe the astronomers, maybe you. I could have done the job. Tiie entire west coast was thrown into I'm matched with the S/N 24, but I'm "Don, look. Tell Diane and the boy, a red alert with interceptors screaming only seven miles away from it. I've been will you? Tell them the whole story, into the sky, anti-aircraft missiles being sitting here watching it ever since we not the stuff they release for publica- readied, and the people herded into hit intercept over the Indian Ocean." tion. Tell them I didn't want the job, shelters. The glowing dust was tracked

A dead silence fell over the room full but . . . Well, tell them, will you?" seven times around the globe. There of men. Don hesitated a moment as the Don choked. "I will, Cal." was no photographic evidence of any facts sunk in. "You're too closer^ "And another thing. Tell the others object larger than a tennis ball left. "I know. I've been hoping 1 wouldn't to cut this stuff out. Tell them that ugly At White Sands Spaceport today <4et an\- closer and set the damned thing thing out there might have been a satel- there is a simple stainless steel pillar. otr." lite \\ ith people in it instead of a bomb, And once each year at sundown two The engineer shivered. He had only a station with people looking out to people — an elderly lady and a lean a notion of w hat the pilot must have see the whole western United States spaceman — stand before it to read the endured and was enduring now. "Look, and out at the stars just like I can see it words:

Cal, swing the 238 around and fire that now. You won't miss the 238; you can "/;; iiiciuory of Calvin J. Justin, test 120 against your orbital velocity and build another one, Don. You created pilot, ivho takes his place with the other get out of there! Do you understand?" it, and you can create it again. But the patriots in American history. Such per- "I don't buy that, Don," Cal's voice S/N 24 isn't a creation; it's destruction. sonal sacrifice is the criterion by which came back. "I can sec the thing out This place up here just wasn't meant such men are judged. And Cal Justin's there, and I don't like the idea of it for it. actions were in the highest tradition of coming back down, not the way it's "I'm swinging ship. Damn it, Don, free men everywhere who not only fixed. If I swing arouml and fire so I w hy didn't you fix a magazine on that have family and country at heart, hut can get back down, I'll miss the S/N 24 gun so I'd have more than one shot? If also the welfare of mankind around the ." entirely. . . I miss? There! I'm lined up! Hope those world." THE i;nd

(Coinrimcd front page 5) brougiir to the attention of millions But later, niv sister Mrs. William of Americans who have forgotten or LcRoy Ashbaugh of Scarsdalc, N. Y., lia\ e never been told of the original the wife of a Marine veteran, visiting conception of freedom of their w orthy in \A'asliingt()n that same year w rote forefathers. sam O. PottorlE me, "W'c have seen the St)ldier-Guard Edinburg, Texas at the Tomb of the Unknow n Sol- Sir: Freedom the Professors For- dier." So I concluded that the Presi- "The dent as Commander-in-Chief had over- got" on page 18 of the May issue is most unusual in timelj' truth, and it ruled the Secretai)- of War. some of the most vociferous of our would be a very fine thing if e\ery Roscoc Conkliiiii; Hatch college professors, judged by their mature person in the United States Hyde Park on Hudson, N. Y. long-time associations and actions and could be induced to read it. remarks, completely unable as men are Raymond Gould of theory to comprehend the hard FORGOTTEN FREEDOM Cliicago realities of subversit)n and infiltration. Sir: W. H. McComh's "The Freedom Enlightened national self-interest is the Professors Forgot" is a ranting, the protector of American freedom INFORM THE NATION dogmatic, shameless piece of journal- and starry-eyed liberalism is its |>all- Sir: Have just read the article in the ism, unfit for the eyes of any com- bearcr. Kny Arneseri May issue, "Hoo\er Commission Re- petent American historian. It is about East Rockaway, N. Y. port on VA Draws American Legion as scholarly as a treatise by a Ku Fire." An excellent article. How ever, Kluxer appraising the character of Sir: W. H. McComh's article recalled does it go far enough? Why not see any recent Pope. josepli for mc the parable of the trees b\' the R. Lebo that this report goes into the daily prophet Jotham in Judges 9: 8-15 in New York City news columns and thereby inform tiie which he rebukes Abimlech, king of entire nation of the intent of the re- Sir: Congratulations to H. Mc- the Shccliemites. I commend its wis- W. port? Having sened as a service Comb for packing into just six pages dom to anyone who would care to officer for several years, I believe such a wealth of inane material. Rather look it up. there could have been no examination short on valid historical analjsis and Thomas S. Whechvright, Jr. at any point (in the report) dealing rather distortion, this article Chester, Va. long on with the needs of the many (hospi- appears to be another typical example Sir: "The Freedom the Professors talized) veterans. I have often found of the anti-intellectual's literary effort. Forgot" is tops. In clear and fascinat- that veterans have no desire to go to Kent Kreiiter ing style the author snaps us to atten- the VA hospital unless there is no 2iid Lt. AGC tion for a shot of good, old-fashioned other alternative, and too often they Fort Dix, N. J. Americanism. It is like a refreshing wait too long for best results. Parker Sir: With deep appreciation I read breeze and would surely be most Marion R. "The Freedom the Professors Forgot." effective in dispelling the bunk float- Service Officer, Vast 29

It is time that people realized that ing around these days if it could be Siloani Springs, Ark. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . JULY, 1955 • 57 FISH YOU'LL ENJOY CATCHING AND EATING (Coiiliiiiied from pai^e 17)

The quiet was gone, and as Harry very much. On the fly rod it's there to your own back yard a workout. Your landed his fish and rowed into shore, keep your line in a neat little bundle, handgrip on your fly rod handle can

Ills face a Httle red from exertion, I said, except when you hook a big, lively fish be just a natural closing of the hand "Let nic sec that unlucky bass! That and pre* - to let him run. Then you o\ cr the cork butt — thumb around one was a hot fight he put up!" need > surplus line. side, four fingers around the other. Tie

He held up the chunky little fish. "It Your back > ard is the place to start. a piece of tighth- rolled paper or a small isn't a bass. It's a bluegill; some call it Get a light trout-action fly rod of either hunk of light w ood on the end of your calico bass. They're scrappy little devils. 7V2 or 8 feet and a single-action reel. line. Pick \ oursclf an open spot and, if And they can make a duffer out of you Select what they call the level line and you want to test \our accuracy and if you get too cocky. For my money, the six-foot, tapered dry-fly-type of your eye, mark a circle on the ground a bluegill is better eatin' than a bass. leader. Technically, the leader size and attempt dropping \'our line with Doesn't have that mudd>- taste." would be probably a 5x .006 inches in the piece of paper or wood as close to

In addition to tagging the pan fish diameter. This is the type of gear rec- it as possible, conjuring the spot as a as a poor fish, there's something else the ommended for pan fishing. And as long sunken tree stump near which are bully boys of the braided line have done as you're just starting out and intend sw imming several very large and hand- to complicate fishing. For years they've to pan fish for fun with fly casting some fish. gi\en out mystical information that equipment, try concentrating on w hat Once you've got your spot, have the fishing is a technical and involved sport, they call the dry fly. More fun than rod gripped in your right hand, then that it takes years of practice to become the wet fly, it floats on top of the strip ofl^ al)out twenty feet of line. Flip adept enough to catch fish. As a result, water and gives you your mone>"'s this line to the left with your rod tip, thousands of potential fishermen arc worth once the fish strikes. then with a swinging, lifting motion of cautious about becoming involved. And don't let yourself get lost in the your wrist, move > our rod overhead at Read the fishing columns of most of hopeless maze of artificial fly patterns. right angles to the spot you're facing. our outdoor magazines and you'll There's an artificial fly for every fish- Now, before your line settles and is emerge from their pages as confused as erman's w him, numbering in the thou- well overhead, move the rod quickly an eight-year-old in an algebra class. sands. Never buy a fly larger than a but lightly in the opposite direction. Fl\' casting, top-drawer technique in number 10 for pan fishing. For sunfish Now \"ou've got your line in the air fishing, can be learned in one evening — and the like you can even get down to moving free as a bird. Continue to do at least well enough to catch a few fish a tiny number IS. this Irackward and forward, with a and have some fun. And, from where A few of the patterns you might rhythm if possible. we sit, that is the primary purpose of bring along arc the colored Hackles You're getting the feel of the rod and fishing, an\ way. (black, white, brown and gray), the realizing w hat it means to keep the line Understand that the difi^crcnce be- Bee, Black Gnat, Royal Coachman, Red in the air, in motion and untangled. Do tween fi\- casting and bait casting lies Ant, the Alder and the Silver Doctor. as much of this as you wish. It's good in the fact that w hen you cast with the That'll be plenty to take any pan fish, practice and will help when you get fiy rod, \ ou are really casting the line. and it's egg-hcaded to arrive at a lake ready to cast. It's a heavier line. You don't depend or a stream and spend most of your Consider that you arc standing beside upon the lure or the fly to pull the line time sorting flies and attempting to a huge clock. You are not facing it; > ou out as you do in bait or spin casting. make the tremendous decision of w hich are standing sideways to it. Raise your Your line should be out w ell bc> ond one to use w hen. rod up so that you are holding it at the rod tip all through your casting. Before deciding to take out after the about ten o'clock on your imaginary And \ ou don't depend upon your reel sunfish, the crappie or tlie bluegill, give clock. Hold your arm so that the upper

portion is near your bod>', the forearm forward and horizontal. That line of yours should be stretched out in front of you on the ground. As you bring the rod back to 11:00 on your guidance clock, using w rist action, flip the rod. T his bends the rod tip backw ard and assists in throw ing the line back over your head and shoulder. Don't let that rod go back more than 12:00 on >our clock, then wait for the line to move back into the air before giving it the forward sweep. The action is oi/c-Tzi-o-thrcc; one to bring it up,

~~two to hold it or check it in position and three for the start of the forward cast. Don't attempt to use >"our reel to bring your line in. That's all right when~~

\ <)u hook a big fish or at the end of the da\- w hen you arc througii casting. But w hiie practicing on your law n or actu- all\- working a stream, use and practice to perfection tlic so-called hand-twist retrieve of >'oiu" line w ithout touching

~~"Well . . . h:i(k to the «I:<:i()N macazinI': It's simple: just grab the looped line~~

• LECilON • .UJLV, 1955 5J{ THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE w itii rlic rhiinil) and forcHngcr of xour understanding of w liy her spouse or monofilament and just fails ofl^ the left hand — try to keep your palm up wanted to spend so much time tr\ ing reel at the cast. You cast w ith the guides as the line slips through \-our hand, to outw it the scaly creatures. He didn't facing the w ater. In casting, the w eiglit (^losc tile rest of the fingers of your left think it could be done. of the lure takes the line off the reel and hand tigiitly over the line which you One Saturday afternoon I invited her it flows in small coils which quickix w ill feel in \ our hand. Then turn your over to my place, and suggested that I straighten out as the line arches o\ cr hand around palm down and take an- teach her spin fishing. She was inter- the w ater. When the lure hits your tar- other piece of the outstanding line with ested, a bit intrigued with the strange, get, the w ater, the line stops uncoiling.

\ our thumb and forefinger, and again cofl^ec-grinder-looking spinning reel and On tile retrieve, a pick-up finger or bail turn your hand palm up and repeat the impressed with the lightness of the rod. mechanism steers the line accurately same movements until \ou have re- In fifteen minutes I taught her the back onto tlic reel. trieved a handful of line. If you're fish- rudiments of spin fishing and had her The fact that tlic spinning reel doesn't ing in a boat, just drop the line in the sending out a V-i-ounce lure 25 yards revolve means there is no possibility of bottom of the boat as you bring it in. without any difficulty. Her excitement tangling the line in a backlash. Reason-

That's about it. Practice and a couple in the whole thing made me suggest able accuracy with spinning is possible of trips afield with a man who knows in a few hours. The light rod, line and what he is doing will make you a pretty 'A-ounce lure give you much of the fair fiy rod man. To knock the com- pleasure of fly fishing without its complication out of it, man\' manufacturers plications. It is superior to bait casting have printed booklets w ith simple dia- because of its accuracy, lack of backlash grams and black-and-white sketches and the variety of lures that can be showing the e.xact steps in fly casting. used. (Small spoons, bucktails and small Next time >'ou go to >our sporting plugs arc popular.) Xcry light lures, goods store to l)U\' a few hooks, ask like flies, cannot be cast with spinning for one of these instruction booklets. gear because they are too light to pull Fly casting isn't the onl>' w ay. Tech- the line out. \\'eight must be added. nique needn't tangle you w hen it comes That's about it for pan fishing tech- to pan fishing. nique. Remember to keep your hooks

Bait casting, the old reliable, is also sharp; use small ones for small fish. All a good method of bringing home the pan fish like live baits such as crayfish, pan fish bacon. It is also recommended worms, fresh-water shrimp, frogs, that you tr>- "back yard practice " w ith crickets, grasshoppers, minnows and this system. Points to remember in bait varied kinds of insects. casting are simple ones. Hold your ' When hooking a worm for a pan thumb over the line on the reel as you fish try to work the worm over the tiie cast so it won't play out too quickly, "Vtsteiday, for no reason at all, my latlicr hook in a natural manner, co\ cring "overrun" and cause a backlash. And came rushing in here and asked for the entire hook if possible. Hook the cray- carriage wheels back." remember that the rhythm of bait cast- fish through the back of the tail and ing is "oy/e-Mro," as opposed to the v\MKIlH AN' l.i:(;roN MAflA/.INI-: remove his pincers; fresh-water shrimp ''one-tivo-threc^' of casting w ith the fly. should be tail-hooked; frogs, through Do not pause between the backcast and the front lips. The grasshopper should forw ard motion. It'll be easy to master that we try a friend's pond. The result have the hook going through the colif \'ou keep firmly in mind that the was that she caught tw o x ellow perch, lar on his shoulders, just back of the w eight is at the end of the rod w hich a crappie and three sunfish. Today she head. The cricket should be w ired on pulls into a bow w hen >'ou cast. The is a better pan fisherman than her hus- w ith a fine wire or a rough piece of application of forward power puts the band. thread. Minnows can be hooked in rod into a full bow, bending against the Spinning, an ancient European type many ways, through the lips, the front w eight. And use your wrist when cast- of fishing that is still comparatively portion of the back or the tail. When ing — with a snap-like action. When new to this country, takes the hazards fishing gets slow w ith the fly, try tip- \<)u make the overhead, side, or so- and complications out of fishing. Some ping the hook w ith a piece of w iggling called flip cast, don't hold your arm of the experts don't like it and current- worm. In still-fishing, use a split-shot woodenK' and cast as if the arm were ly are trying to push through legislation or w rap-around sinker of about ' ;;- going along with it. Make it a brisk, to ban it on certain streams. Their ob- ounce and a nylon leader. Standard wrist-snapping action that will send jection is that it "makes fishing too trolling techniques work with pan fish. your line and lure out smartly without easy." Small plugs and spinners do a nice job. the bird"s-nest backlash. In bait casting But the pundits notwithstanding, The figure 17,127,806 has been men- for pan fish \ ou have a wide choice spinning technique is sweeping the tioned as the number of fishing licenses of artificial plugs and lures, numbering country and practically every tackle sold in 1952. Clayton B. Scagears, Di- literally in the thousands, and live bait manufacturer is currently engaged in rector of Conservation Education for which can be an\thing from a grass- turning out his own style spinning rods the State of New York, brings up a hopper to a silvery chub minnow. If and reels. moot point: "I believe more fishermen

> our lure seems too light, add a clinch- Spin fishing really comes betw een fly operate on pan fish in New York State," on lead sinker or two. fishing and bait casting and encroaches he sa\'s, "than on the so-called game

Last year a friend of mine approached on both. It is a sjsteni of throwing fish. To make that statement stick I'd me with a problem. Wife trouble, he slightly weighted flies, lures, live bait like to point out that w e can include all said. He couldn't go fishing any more and plugs easih' w here you w ant them the kids under sixteen w ho don't re- w ithout her constantly carping at him. to go. The axis of the reel is parallel to quire a license to fish in our State."

1 suggested that he teach her how to the rod and there is no rotating spool Most States don't ask children under fish, take her along. Once she experi- w hen casting or retrieving. iMost spin- sixteen to purchase licenses, and, w ith enced the tug of a fish on the end of ning reels fit on the left-hand side of the exception of California, licenses are her line, I thought, she'd have a better the i"od. The line, \ er>' light, is of nylon not required for salt-water fishing. So

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. 1955 • 59 the 17,000,000 figure can be increased. cleaned," Ur. Fandel suggests, "fins re- An ordinar\' teaspoon or tablespoon The youngster under legal age is tiie moved but the head and tail left on if is the best fish scaler. Scrape cross-grain, greatest pan fish enthusiast in the coun- desired. And do not remove the scales. tipping the spoon back so that it catches try, cutting his fishing c\'eteeth on pan Salt inside of fish and pat lighth' w ith the flying scales. fish, learning to respect them at a ten- flour on the outside. Then place Vi:-inch The pan fish can be compared to the der age. of \ egetable oil in > our baking pan and cottontail rabbit. If neither existed the There's the pan fish for your inspec- heat. Place your fish in the pan and sports of fishing and shooting woidd tion, with the mud rubbed ofi^ hini and bake in a 375-degree preheated oven hit an all-time low. And like the cotton- a neat list of his virtues. But there is for 30 to 35 minutes, depending upon tail rabbit, the pan fish is a hardy little one important point that w asn't men- tile size of the fish. Bake one side of character. He forages for his own food, ridned in detail — the meat of the the fish, then turn it over and complete lives in all kinds of waters and repro- chunk)- little characters. The\ 're good the baking. duces himself b\' the millions. to tiie taste — even their name-callers "This method keeps all the juices in- This year the State of Penns\ lvania admit that. side, the fish does not dry out as in has lifted all restrictions on most pan

Re\ Beach, a respecter of the pan fish, frying and the flesh is more flaky. \\'hen fish. They call it "liberalized" fishing claimed that the natural habitat of a fish \'ou remo\ e the fish from the oven, take and will use the results of 1955 as a w as in the frying pan. a knife and slide it under the skin and yardstick to judge their fishing program In the South, the bream or crappic is scales. The skin with the scales conies for the future. Called by their aquatic cleaned and split, rolled in corn meal off like parchment paper, and you've biologists "sound fisheries manage- and dropped in deep fat and fried. The saved >'oin-self the mcss>' task of scaling ment," mainly because of the abun- juices are scaled in by this type of the fish." dance of pan fish, the Penns>'lvania ex- cooking and the fish emerges from the Scales are probably one of the fcw- periment has not only been greeted fr\er golden brown. The sno\\\ -\\hite tiiings even his most ardent fan holds with enthusiasm by every fisherman in meat practical!)- melts in \-our mouth. against the pan fish, but simple know- that State, but will start people fishing Some fillet them and dip them lighth" how can make scaling an easy job. who have never before dunked a line. in flour and saute them in melted butter. Pour hot water over \'our fish until Seems unappreciative to call a fish I've had a mess of small sunfish poached the side fins behind the gills become that means so much to so many by the in white wine the French way that stiff. Remember to add enough cold slighting sobriquet "pan fish." This year tasted better than any trout I ever ate. water to the hot water to bring it just out of deference, if you can't remem-

A. J. Fandel, an optometrist from St. below the boiling point. After this the ber the name of the scrappy little devil Paul, iMinn., has dreamed up a w ay of scales brush off easily. that gave you so much trouble on the cooking pan fish. Let him tell you about Another cute trick is to put a table- other end of the line and so much it in his ow n w ords. This cf)<)king meth- spoon of vinegar in the water in which pleasure between jour knife and fork, od appeals to the lazy type of fisherman you arc cleaning your fish. This w ill how about calling him "ever\ bod\'s like nnself. dissolve the scum, make the fish easier fish." Being as democratic as he is, he'd

~~"Have the pan fish thoroughh' to handle and loosen the scales. like that. i iir end~~

TOOLS YOU POWER YOURSELF (Coiiliiiind from page 27) the hack saw (for cutting metal), the evenly as possible for the full length guide line. Start slightl>' aw a\' from it, coping saw (for interior cutouts), the of the board. If the grain becomes torn so that there is a small amount of ma- kej hole saw (for interior cutouts), and or roughened b\- the plane, reverse the terial to be removed by the finishing the hacksaw (for ver\' accurate cut- direction in which the plane is being cut. Keep the bevel side down until \ou ting). The techniques for using these pushed. make the final finishing cut. In this w a\- saws arc similar to those already de- W hen planing end grain or across >ou can guard against cutting too deep, scribed. the grain as \'ou must on the end of a since you will be able to lift the point PLANES board, set the blade much finer than of the chisel b\ tilting back onto the when w-orking with the grain. To pre- heel of the bevel. On rough work, the Planes are used for smoothing off the vent splitting the wood at each end pow er w liich drives a chisel is usualh- rough surface of wood and for bring- (w liich will always happen if the stroke the blow of a wooden mallet. On fine ing down to size when a saw can't be is carried through from one side to the work, the driving power is applied en- used effectiveh'. There are two basic other), start from one end and plane to tirch' w ith the right hand. types of planes — the block and the the center of the board. Then, reverse It is probably easier to cut vourself bench. Block planes are used niostl\- the wood and plane in from the other accidentally with a chisel than with w hen planing against the grain of the direction. any other hand tool, and a cut from a wood, for example on the end of a CHISELS chisel can be very bad. To guard piece of w-ood. Bench planes, on the against injury, keep both hands back other hand, arc used when planing in Chisels are very similar to planes since of the cutting edge at all times. Never the direction of the wood grain. While they are actually constructed just as the cut toward yourself w ith a chisel. there are sex eral different bench planes plane irons or blades are. In other used for various jobs, the 12-inch-long words, chisels are plane irons in w idtlis DRILLING TOOLS jack bench plane is the best type for varying from one-eighth of an inch to all-around handyman use. two inches which have been fitted with For most wood drilling or boring,

To use a plane, hold it firmly by the handles for easier use. For most pur- a brace with auger bits is used. Auger handle and place yourself so that you poses the y4-inch, Vi-'mch, %-inch and bits come in 1/16-inch gradations. For will be able to take a stroke the full one-inch widths will suffice. the home workshop, a set of six singlc- length of the wood w ithout getting off In using a chisel, cut awa\' fiom the twist bits (Vi", Ys", '/-'", %" and balance. Keep the bottom of the plane cutting guide line and tow ard the w aste 1") should be adequate. Additional bits at right angles to the wood and straight wood so that an\ splitting w hich takes ma\' be purchased as the need for them along the edge. Tr\' to keep the pres- place will occur in the waste and not arises. sure of the plane upon the board as in the finished w ork. Never start on the {Cuiitiiiiicd uii piiiic 62) go • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. iy55 ' !

~~The Indian sang his death song~~

~~1 f\r\ YEARS AGO. during a frontier skirmish, i-\J\J an Indian brave, singing his own death song, charged down on a young officer. Lieutenant George Crook, 4th Infantry,~~

~~coolly fell to one knee, carefully aimed, and dropped the brave in his tracks.~~

~~It was not Crook's first Indian, nor his last.~~

~~(His right leg already contained a flint arrow- head he was to carry to his grave.) And by the time he made general, Crook was the greatest Indian-fighter this country has ever had.~~

~~Yet, he was also one of the best friends the Indians have ever had. For he understood them well, dealt fairly and firmly, and always kept his promises.~~

~~When Crook died, Indians wept. And a Sioux chief named Red Cloud said: ''He never lied to us. His words gave the people hope."~~

~~No nation can ever have enough men like~~

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The U. S. Government does not pay for this (idrrrlisrinrnt . It is rhnnicd by this publication in cooperation with the Advertising CouncU and the Ma^nzinr PubUshrrs of America, {CoiitiiittL'd from paiic 60) wood. As a Forstner bit has no screw, wide enough use to be helpful to the Siiice most holes arc bored vertically, lip or spur, it makes clean and accurate home handyman. These include a pair check the position of the auger with a cuts. of six- or eight-inch combination or tr>- square as soon as the spur of the Among other boring tools useful in slip-joint pliers which can be adjusted bit hits the wood's surface to make your home workshop are the hand drill for different thickness of work, a pair sure you are boring straight in. When (for rapid drilling of small holes) and of fixed-jaw cutters, and a pair of long- the spurs have cut into the wood some the star drill (for cutting holes in ma- nosed pliers. distance, take a sighting from two po- sonry). You may also find a small gim- A 6-inck •^nd a 10-inch adjustable sitions 90 degrees apart to determine if let or brad awl handy for making lead wrench are the most useful in a home

\ ou arc holding the bit pcrpendicularh'. h(jles for nails and screws. tool kit. They will take most of the If the bit is forced all the way through jobs. However, as your repair jobs in- the wood, splitting will occur on the RASPS AND FILES crease in magnitude, you will want a opposite side. To prevent this, pull bit set of open-end wrenches, a pipe These cutting tools are used to rough out as the spur come through, insert wrench, and a set of socket wrenches. and smooth out work and are particu- the spur from the opposite side, and larly useful on rounded surfaces. The complete the hole. This forms a smooth MEASURING TOOLS rasp is used for c|uick cutting work on hole on both sides. Another way to wood because it has a rough cutting Accurate, well-made home workshop prevent splitting on the reverse side is surface. items require the use of measuring tools. to clamp a piece of waste w ood on the Files are made in many diff^erent cuts All work must be carefulh' marked be- back of the \v orking piece. and varying degrees of fineness. Since fore any cutting can begin, for even In many cases it is necessar>' to bore the cutting edge is raised diagonalh the most skilled craftsman can't judge a number of holes of the ,same depth across the surface, most files arc de- w ith the e>'e alone. For this work, you and size. Equal depth can be obtained signed to cut only when pushed against must have a si.x-foot folding type rule, b\' fastening a bit gauge to the side of either w(K)d or metal. Buy a l()-inch a try square, and an adjustable combi- the bit; the gauge prevents the bit from mill and a 6-inch triangular file first; nation square. As time goes b>', you going further than the required distance. the\' give the greatest service around may wish to add an eight-foot steel rule, Other tools that may be used with the home. a framing square, a sliding T bevel, a tlie brace are the screwdriver bit, the When filing, push straight across, and marking gauge, and a level to your other countersink, the expansion bit and the use just enough pressure to keep the file measuring and la> ing out tools. Forstner bit. The screwdriver bit en- cutting. This should be done with as ables you to get more leverage in turn- long a stroke as possible. Lift the file CARE OF HAND TOOLS ing a screw, and is usually used only clear on the backstroke; dragging back with large screw s and heavy work. The The efficiency and life of hand tools dulls the teeth. Keep the file teeth clean countersink enlarges the top of a bored will depend on their care. All tools by stroking with a file card (a special hole so that a flat-head screw w ill fit should be kept clean and free of rust. type of wire brush with short, stifl^ flush with the surface of the wood. The Frequent oiling of movable parts and bristles). expansion bit is just what its name im- occasional rubbing of their surfaces w ill plies, for by a simple adjustment of the PLIERS AND WRENCHES help to keep them new and bright. If cutter it can be made to cut holes of the tools are to be stored for any length var>ing sizes up to 2V2 inches. The Pliers are general utilit\- tools for of time, cover them with a liglit film Forstner l)it— not necessary but useful holding, bending, or pulling materials, of oil or grease. —is handy for boring close to the edge or for cutting wire, brads, nails, etc. Cutting tools nuist be kept sharp for of a board. It is also useful for boring While there are many types and sizes best results. Generalh', tiiis requires very hard wood and for boring in end of pliers available, only a few have a two steps: first, shaping the bevel on a grinding w heel, and second, honing the cutting bevel on an oil or w hetstone. The first bevel can be ground on a coarse stone, but a wheel gives a con- cave bevel w hich lasts longer and cuts better. In n.iost cases, grinding and honing are done against the edge.

~~Saw s must be both sharpened and set, but as these processes demand considerable skill and special tools, the beginner~~

~~is advised to ha\e them done b\' a professional. If you choose your hand tools cai"e-~~

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"AVith the walleye pike season upon us, I that he feels may be helpful to his fellow S want to pass on some information that has anglers. w worked wonders for me. If tiie walleyes 1. "I alwa>'s carry a small tube of lather aren't biting on a plain minnow, add a type shaving cream in my fishing tackle large nightcrawlcr just above the minnow box," he advises. "It comes in handy w hen and fish about six inches to a foot from the used in place of bar soap to wash up prior " 0-T3 bottom. We pulled out about 26 pike, rang- to a shore lunch." E '^'J^ ing from 1 V, to 3 Vi pounds that way. 2. "To clean and remo\ e fish odor from K " = Those long-nosed fish also like a spinner the cork portion of any fishing rod, use ZO 3 C P c w ith the spinner removed and just the a small amount of any cleaning fluid or & = o colored beads remaining." cigarette lighter fluid on a piece of cloth ->o <^ 01}^ or cotton. It will make the rod look neater ae UJ < f Cliarlcs G. Ridlou, a guide living in and smell sweeter." Naples, Maine, offers this: "When fishing a lake, try working the slioreline w here the If you have a helpful idea that pertains X C4 wind seems to be heading. The reason: to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we h- fie r> tiiere are flies and bugs on top of the water, can use it, we'll reward you with a hunting and the fish swim along with the wind or fishing accessory. Address: OUTDOOR feeding on the wind-l)orne bugs or what- EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The Ameri- Legionnaire Retailers! ever may be floating. I find this 'following can Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Avenue, Use this handy coupon for your tile wind' fishing ." FREE membership in the R.A.C. really pays. . . Ne^v York 19, New York.

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to his wife and said, "AVhat I can't under- Her figure is a perfect drccim, stand is they didn't just (Vbotograpbers adore her); why get taller girls in the first place! " She never has to ivatcb her shape . . _ h.,„oi.d Helper The boys all ivatch it for her! — ¥. G. Kfrnan How to Keep Frienils BOON* You inherit Mom and Pop, Yojir uncles, aunts and nieces. Visiting in a small town, she was en- Yoii're the one ivho picks ymtr friends, tranced at the exquisite beauty of a pair So don^t pick theni to pieces. of fair-iiaired little girls plaj ing in the yard — Jack Herbert next door. Calling her iiostess's ten year old son, siie asked who they were. Feeding tiic Mind as Well "Aw, they're just th' doctor's kids," he replied. "He always keeps th' best for BOOl^ Most banquets turn out to be full dis- himself." course dinners. — Ed Whittaker — Mary Aijcus

Germs Beware! The young mother was taking every pre- caution to insure a sanitaiy existence for her infant son. In fact, up to the time he three months old, visitors were not crowded, and that if you could condense was permitted to see the baby unless they wore your argument a little, it might help your client's cause." gauze face masks. One day the mother The attorney smiled at the suggestion. turned to the father and said: "Your Honor," he replied, "that thought "Junior seems to be cutting a tootii and I suppose I should find out about it some- was in my mind when I prepared my argument. Suh, for the ne.xt four days my brief how'." "Well," suggested her husband, is a perfect marvel of condensation!" "my — Dan Bennett mother used to put her finger in the baby's mouth and ..." Noticing the horrified expression on his Near Miss wife's face, he gently added: "Money isn't Everything," "Oh, of course you boil the finger first." It merely is the payment — Francis Gerard For drinks, cigars, and shows and cars, Parties and rent and raiment. Eneonipassing It's only stud yon use to bring Blubber band. <£i>c)- Your food home from the grocer. Girdle: — Earle Sayles Bennett No, money isn't Everything, But, tell me, what comes closer? 'Tluy don't build people today like they — Berton Braley Strapless Eveninj£ Gown used to!" // yotn zvife insists Pi*ai*ti«'al Point S/if 's going to ti'eor it Karly .Slow-down More or less dragged by his wife, a rural You might as zvell grin Too many people stop seeking eniploy- fellow went to see his first ballet. He was And let her bare it! nu iit alter they've found a job. obviously intrigued by all the tip-toe danc- — Hal Chadwick — Bon Grillo

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