The American Legion Magazine [Volume 73, No. 3 (September 1962)]

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SEPTEMBER 1962 Volume 73, Number 3

POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6. Ind. LEGION The American Lesion Magazine is published monihly at 1100 West Broadway. Louisville. Ky.. Magazine by The American Legion. Copy- right 1962 by The American Le- gion. Second-class postage paid Contents for September 1962 at Louisville. Ky. Price: single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription. $1.50. Nonmember sub- scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The THE BIG ISSUE & CON ARGUMENTS ON THE QUESTION: American Legion Magazine. P.O. -PRO Box 1055. Indianapolis 6, Ind.

SHOULD THE U.S. BAN ALL TRADE WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES? 8 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: (R-Calif.) 21st District Notify Circulation Dept.. P. O. pro: REP. EDGAR W. HIESTAND Box 1055. Indianapolis 6. Ind.. con: REP. BERNIE F. SISK (D-Calif.) 12th District using Post Office Form 3578. At- tach old address label and give old and new addresses and current membership card number. ARE THE RESERVES REALLY READY? Also be sure to notify your Post 10 Adjutant. BY GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT Because great numbers of reservists are ready for active duty The American Legion our country can act with greater firmness in countering com- Executive and Administrative Offices munist threats. However, it is vital that we keep up this guard. Indianapolis 6, Indiana Charles L. Bacon, National Commander, The American Le- gion, Indianapolis 6, Ind. THE PRICE WE PAY FOR DOPE 12 BY RODNEY GILBERT The American Legion Publica- The penalty for narcotic addiction is levied against everyone. tions Commission: Edward McSweeney, Armonk, To get the dope they crave, addicts will engage in any kind of N. Y. (Chairman): Dan W. criminal activity. Mr. Average Citizen is the logical target. Emmctt. Palo Alio, Calif., Frank C. Love. Syracuse, N. Y., and Morris Meyer, Srarkville, Miss. (Vice Chairmen): Lang Arm- MIRACLES BY MAIL 14 strong, Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; BY HERM HINES John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; Roland Cocreham. Baton Rouge, If you think that all the scientists are working on missiles La.; E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, and nuclear devices you haven't been following the mail order Fla.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, catalogs. A steady customer tells you what you can expect. Downingtown, Pa.: Raymond Fields. Guymon, Okla.: Dave H. Fleischer, St. Louis, Mo.; Her- schiel L. Hunt, El Campo, Tex.; SPARE TIME TRAPPING 16 George D. Levy, Sumter, S. C; Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, BY MORRIE NAGGIAR Iowa; Lewis E. McCray. Tusca- loosa, Ala.: Earl L. Meyer, Al- Ever since the first colonists arrived in North America liance, Neb.; Robert Mitchler, trapping has provided an income for many. It is still a Oswego, 111.; Harold A. Shind- ler, Lafayette. Ind.; William F. good source of spending money and this article tells how. Taylor. Creensburg, Ky.; Benja- min B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn. A TALE OF TWO TEACHERS 18 The American Legion Magazine BY MAX GUNTHER Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue The story of two totally unlike teachers with one thing in New York 19, New York common—an amazing faculty for inspiring students with a love Publisher, James F. O'Neil of learning. The result was a remarkable crop of prize winners.

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Art Editor Everyone agrees thatwe should get more exercise but who wants Al Marshall to make the effort? However, Americans are being tricked into exercising, thanks Associate Editor to gadgets and recreation that are beneficial. John Andreola

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There being no communists, it follows that there are no pro-communists and fellow-travelers. Those people who have been so labeled are in reality simple hu- manitarians who know it is better to be red than dead. They have just been doing everything in their power to bring about peaceful coexistence and arc not being hoodwinked by all this business about patriotism. Someday, come the revolution, statues will be erected to them. A lean- while, we should appreciate what these fine people are doing in our behalf, and we should show our gratitude by continuing to buy their books and phonograph NO TRACE OF RED records, by going to see their plays and movies, by patronizing the people who country is most fortunate. Other Dhis sponsor nations — Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland, them on TV, and so on. East Germany, Cuba, etc. — are infested exciting" with communists but we don't have any ALL IS NOT LOST in the United States. This can be demon- Everybody has read about the flight of strated conclusively and it explains why convicted spy Robert Soblen, who various political figures keep reassuring jumped his $100,000 bail to fly to Israel. At this writing he is on his way home, but sports films us that there is no communist threat what- soever in this country. fighting every inch of the way. Indeed, there are fewer communists in However, we are indebted to The Wall the United States today than there were Street Journal for an illuminating foot- available FREE nazis in Germany at the close of World note to the story. It seems that much of • ••••••• War II. And everybody knows how hard his bail was put up by Airs. Helen Lehman for club or group it was to find a genuine nazi in that coun- Buttenwieser, niece of ex-Senator Herbert entertainment anywhere try at the end of 1945. Lehman, and George C. Kirstein, publish- It stands to reason that are no er of The Nation, a publication that has in the United States there communists here because months ago the long fought the good fight for the likes Select from over 150 sound and Supreme Court ruled that commies were of such people as Soblen. But don't pre- color 16 mm films on baseball, foot- eligible for jail and we don't know of any pare to shed any tears for the people who ball, basketball, auto racing, skiing, who are sitting around in any jail houses. supplied bail for Soblen because their boat racing, bronco busting, fishing Ergo, there can't be any communists. $100,000 was forfeited. According to the and golf. Some people, right wing radicals, have report in the Journal, both Airs. B. and tried to call Gus Hall the head of the Air. K. may claim a tax loss for a "non- NEW... communist conspiracy in this country, but business bad debt." The Treasury thus "Big Moments With the fact that Air. Hall is loose proves con- stands to net a lot less than the $100,000 The Braves", show- clusively how wrong those nasty people it obtained, but this should be a cause for ing highlights of the are. Indeed, in view of the wonderful rejoicing on the part of all right-think- past season and featuring the top turnouts on campuses where Mr. Hall is ing citizens who, in some small measure, stars of the national making idealistic speeches, and in light of through their taxes, can make up this league. the fine press Air. Hall is getting, it is ob- "non-business bad debt" of Airs. Butten-

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If ing soldier of any army of the world. there are no textbooks available for Julius Haut this purpose, then they must use their Petersburg, Term. own materials. They can tell stories sir: All we vets agree that Patton was of adventures having to do with our a great man. Hut now we want his per- pioneers, and discuss the growth of sonal day-by-day story [his diaries] our country, the things we invented, because it's very possible that many etc. It is also the duty of the parent of the fools in Washington are still to see that his child knows about there. So please give us the facts. these things. William H. Loviner Bill Steyert, Jr. San Francisco, Calif. Patchogue, N. Y. sir: The Patton story is a sad master- piece and should go a long way to DEFINITION make the bunglers and muzzlers wake sir: I have just returned from a trip up and start thinking. If they had lis- through nine western states during tened to such people as Generals Pat- ton and MacArthur, and Winston which I talked to as many people as Churchill, we wouldn't be juggling possible so I could ask them their definition of communism. Almost always such a hot potato today. Ernest Y. Strong there would be a hemming and hawing before they attempted to state their Quartz Hill, Calif. conceptions. very few would finally sir: General Patton was penalized by planes in question. The flights were A state the cliche: "Communism means knuckleheads and his treatment was a not part of the coastal defense system. his ability, to slur against red-blooded Americans. They were out on a navigational train- from each according to each according to his need." Pure Let's hope his diary can be published ing hop. The tower was never in con- semantic hogwash! is this all- soon so the public will know and heads tact with any of the planes. We trans- Who important, super-intelligent, omniscient will roll. The wool has been pulled mitted messages to them but were person party that the deci- over the public's eyes long enough. never sure they were received. The or makes paragraph concerning the flight lead- sion as to who has the ability and who J. Lou Caro er's answer to a due heading was has the need, and how much is given I Vest Pah/i Beach, Fla. west never transmitted by him or any other and to whom it is given? Recently a court gave huge sum to a disc jockey PROSELYTIZATION pilot. The flight leader never turned a over the flight command to another because he had been called a commu- sir: The article "Bigotry Abroad" in plane. For some reason all planes ra- nist. Thus it becomes a highly hazard- your April issue has only now been dioed to the flight leader that their ous subject and a loyal American brought to my attention. Permit me radar gear was inoperative. This was learns to keep his mouth shut. This is for the sake of the record to place in heard through garbled transmissions. not necessary if he first endeavors to its correct light your story about the Upon hearing the first SOS I notified get a definition for communism estab- Church of Christ incident in Jerusa- NAS, Miami, and they tried unsuc- lished. So I give you my definition: lem. The church referred to had been cessfully to get a fix on the planes. "Communism is simply and solely a set up in a strictly Orthodox Jewish Insofar as the search plane was con- system whereby politicians take con- quarter of the city. It engaged in pro- cerned, it took off from NAS, Banana trol of everything." selytization, which must always be a River, and seven minutes after takeoff Ralph E. Gray matter of delicacy and tact, at least in- we intercepted a message from a mer- Houston, Tex. sofar as small children are concerned. chant ship that it had observed a huge Their parents, like any American ball of fire about 500 feet up and two parents, might consider themselves en- SUGGESTION miles from the ship. Upon checking titled to be consulted on efforts to sir: I am an avid reader of The Ameri- the position, it was assumed that the instill in their children religious doc- can Legion Magazine and admire your search plane had blown up. trine and beliefs from outside. The in- principles. What I would like to know Jean Dion cident which you describe was part is why, with your finger on the pulse, New Bedford, Mass. of a demonstration on the part of you do not take a stand for an all-out strictly Orthodox Jewish parents cleanout of our State Department and whose children had been approached CHAMP? its un-American activities? A start has in an unusual manner for the purpose sir: I have read the article "The ABC's to be made. of proselytization. The Church of of Blood" in the July issue and wish Mrs. Beatrice T. Gallant Christ minister concerned subsequent- to report that I have given the most Mineral Wells, Tex. ly openly accepted upon himself to blood in the world— 128 pints. I am a cease trying to attract children to his member of Post 160, Adams, Mass., and EXPLANATION church. I'd gladly give my last drop to save a sir: In the May issue you speak of our life. If everyone did this we'd never E. Zev Sufott country exporting vital mechanical Secretary have to worry about blood. First and industrial equipment to the USSR Israel James Dimitroplis Embassy of and say that you fail to follow the rea- Washington, D.C. Adams, Mass. soning. Possibly you did not notice at the time, or have forgotten, that dur- MORE ON LOST PLANES IVAN'S LOVE ing the Roosevelt administration, a new sir: I'd like to point out a few errors sir: My compliments to you on Arther class of thinkers came into being. It in "The Lost Patrol" which appeared S. Trace's article "Why Ivan Loves became the mark of wisdom to do in your April, 1962 issue. At the time Russia" in the July issue. Every school everything in exactly the opposite way the patrol disappeared I was a radio board should have access to this fine from the dictates of common sense. man at the Air-Sea Rescue Base at article. I can see why our "one world- The result was that we plowed under Port Everglades, Fla. The following ers'' would be against this idea. crops, raised pigs and killed them,

information has remained in memory J. Fallon grew melons in Texas, shipped them since I first heard the SOS from the Glenview, 111. to Ohio and dumped them in the

4 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 rivers while people w ent hungry. We were to become wealthy, according to them, by throwing our wealth away to foreign countries. John F. Cook, Bloomer, Wis. QUID PRO QUO sir: Once upon a time there was a herd of hogs which, since the memory of man, had lived in freedom in a great forest. One day a stranger came to the village bordering the forest and offered to bet a bag of gold that he could capture every hog in the forest. The villagers just KNEW he couldn't and took the bet. Eight weeks later the stranger returned and led the villagers to a stockade where every hog was penned. The villagers were dumb- founded. "How in the world did you do it?" they cried. "Well," said the stranger, "I scattered some free corn about; and those hogs got to depend on it, and stopped rooting for their own food. After a while they came right into the stockade to get their handout. All I had to do was to drop the gate. And I tell you that any living creature that takes a handout instead of rooting for its own, will become a captive." (About like what has happened to peoples who have been bribed by red-liberal, socialist, communist come-ons, isn't it?) Kenneth L. Myers Wichita, Kcms. INFORMATION PLEASE sir: After "Le Debarquement de Pro- vence," ("Invasion of Southern France,") I am writing a book describ- ing the invasion of North Africa by the Allied forces in November 1942. I am anxious to include the maximum number of verbatim reports from men who participated in the landings. Jacques Robichon Paris, France Any reports lor Mr. Robichon sent to this magazine will be forwarded to him. The Editors "COMRADE" sir: Recently I have noticed some efforts on the part of some veterans to eliminate the term "comrade" as it ap- EVERYONE LOVES THE AROMA! plies to our buddies and to substitute some other term for it. I resent this very much. The term comrade is a sacred word to me as my father When you light up your pipe with brought it back with him after the HALF AND HALF, the people around you four years of the War Between the States. I have never heard him refer enjoy it almost as much as you do. That's to those with whom he fought—or other pipe has even those whom he fought against— because no tobacco such in later years, by any other term than a delightful aroma—and such a distinctive comrade. If those lying Russians wish to twist the word around from that taste. HALF AND HALF is a mixture of

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 7 WASHINGTON Mi PRESENTING BOTH SIDES OF

' KmWI* ' iff PRO&CON HHHRfiKsN^

THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE: Should The United States Ban All

in all man's history. Should we now trade goods with our announced enemies, facing the real fact that these PRO very items could be used against us? Most emphatically, NO. It would be foolish; it could Rep. Edgar W. Hiestand (R-Calii) be catastrophic. Our Secretary of State has testified 21st District that the U.S. should work "toward a practical arrange- first "lesson of life" a ment of trade" with the Russians, since an increase in demands in the Soviet Union" may lead A youngster learns is not to "consumer naivete aid the "enemy." This he learns toward "stability and peace." It is diplomatic playing cowboys and Indians, or to believe that our providing materials to the commu- in snowball battles. nists will make them easier to live with. Remember? The "other" fellows behind the fort ran Some of these materials could come back at us in the U.S. licensed export of out of snowballs. Is it time to run over, hand over your form of bullets. Last year the team's supply and resume the contest? Of course not! machine-cutting tools and parts, industrial instru- transmission systems, ball One of the arts of snowballing is nursing your supply, ments, pipe valves, power parts for Russia's aircraft. making it last longer than the "enemy's." bearings and other machine maintenance Of course, the child must learn to be fair, to have We permitted shipment of ground and iron and steel scrap, human compassion. Nonetheless, it is essential that he equipment to Czechoslovakia; and to Yugoslavia. learn the absolute folly of aiding an enemy. oil field equipment, and jet planes with U.S. Move the youngster up some years ... he lives in the Have we forgotten the buildup of Japan, United States, a nation locked in deadly competition assistance up to Pearl Harbor? with a remorseless enemy. There are no snowballs. Unfortunately, the first half of this Administration The communist conspiracy has threatened to destroy indicates Sino-Soviet trade is on the rise. We are now strength- his freedoms, and even murder him and his children in World War III and it's not a cold war. If we helping him ("We will bury you," said communism's boss). en an avowed enemy in any way, we are to see com- Communism, with its insidious subversion and es- defeat us! Therefore, I strongly desire a countries. pionage, is the stiffest foe ever to have faced freedom. plete ban on trade with communist not! bill, H.R. 11104, This struggle and its outcome will set the guidelines "Partisan issue? Decidedly My by for mankind's march into the future. and the foreign aid bill amendment introduced block Should we aid this enemy, locked as we are in mortal Democratic Senator Lausche of Ohio, would combat? Our preparations — made with care and pre- this trade." cision — are impressive credentials. We have advanced in knowledge, progress and freedom more than any other nation. We have out-produced any other nation

you feel on this If you wish to let your Congressman or one of your Senators know how

> big issue, tear out the "ballot" on the facing page and mail it to him

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 THE BIG ISSUES

Trade With Communist Countries?

world control. If we can divide or weaken this bloc, it is in the U.S. interest to do so, even if the nation we CON help retains a communist form of government. To ban trade would tie our hands against skillful use of trade Rep. Bernie F. Sisk (D-Calif.) as a tool of a positive foreign policy. 12th District We need to fight this bloc with cold calculation, not with emotionalism. cannot afford the luxury of U.S. SHOULD NOT BAN all We THE with those like. trade with communist coun- dealing only we There are increasing signs of trouble between Russia tries. To do so would deprive us and China. In the event of war between them it might of an effective weapon against interest provide weapons to either or international communism without materially harming be in the U.S. to to limit our freedom of action? our enemies. There already exists ample authority un- both. Are we Exports to communist countries benefit the U.S. der existing law to control or prohibit exports in the economy than any possible benefit to the Sino- U.S. national interest. more Soviet bloc. It is basic to our free enterprise system Presently, there is a complete embargo on trade with business only to the Communist China, North Korea, and North Viet Nam; that government should regulate extent our public welfare or national security requires. exports to Cuba are prohibited, except some food and Any other course would be inconsistent with the de- medical supplies. Trade with Russia and its satellites mocracy we seek to preserve. is rigidly licensed. Exports to Poland and Yugoslavia It is ironic that many of those who now want to build are closely controlled. It is in our national interest to wall blindly banning trade are also most encourage independence of Russian domination, and a government critical of "big government," interference with free western orientation of trade, in these two countries. enterprise, and business controls. This policy admittedly involves risks, as do all inter- Six of hearings searching inquiry the national relations. months and by Select Committee on Export Controls, in We do not ship munitions or strategic and war mate- House my opinion, have revealed no substantial reason for elim- rials to Russia. Non-strategic commodities are licensed inating our trade weapon at this time. for export only when it appears in our interest. If we If future developments indicate it is in our interest refused, Russia usually could get the goods elsewhere. to terminate all trade with all communist nations, it If not, refusal would encourage Russia to increase its can be and no doubt will be terminated without capabilities by developing the resources, machines, and new legislation. know-how for domestic production. Our exports to Russia and its satellites, excluding Poland, average about Y4 of 1 percent of our total exports. Our real enemy is the Sino-Soviet bloc which seeks

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE IN MY OPINION THEU. ID Should Should Not I have read in The American Legion Magazine for BAN ALL TRADE WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES September the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject:

"Should The U.S. Ban All Trade With Communist Coun- SIGNED

tries?" ADDRESS.

TOWN STATE

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 9 By GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT

VETERAN COLONEL of a high- THEpriority National Guard outfit remarked the other day to his assembled officers: "Gentlemen, when next you hear the whistle, ask not for whom it blows. Ten to one it blows for you." Throughout the Ready Reserve components of all United States armed services, much the same word is being passed. The very term Ready Reserve is taking on a new meaning. As these words are being written, in mid-May, headlines throughout the nation are suddenly ablaze with ominous news: COMMUNIST TROOPS RE- SUME OFFENSIVE IN LAOS. Presi- dent Kennedy, after conferring with his military and foreign policy advisers, has sent U. S. Army, Marine Corps and Air Force units into Thailand, and alerted Strike Command in the continental United States. What comes next? Will the whistle blow again for Ready Re- serves to back up the active forces? That possibility certainly flashed into the mind of every Ready Reservist in the nation as he heard the news from Laos. By the time these words are in print, you'll know what happened next — the point to make right here is this: The President at this troubled moment is far freer to act with firmness and decision because the 150,000 Ready Reservists whom he called into active service last October, in connection with another communist-created crisis in Berlin (half-way round the world from Laos), are still on active duty and are now fully combat-ready. Also, this recent experience has proven that there are more where that 150,000 came from —in the remaining units of the Army and Air National Guard and Army Reserve, and of the Naval, Marine Corps and Air Force Reserves. These reservists are available if needed and can be made combat-ready in a matter of weeks. 300,000 respectively — as Congress, de- Without such a reservoir no President Thus, if it is desired to send more troops spite executive pressure both from this can feel free to commit active forces to to Southeast Asia, or to deploy a couple Administration and its predecessor, has distant combat on one side of the world of divisions to forward positions in Ha- steadily insisted for several years past. without grave anxiety as to what oppor- waii or Okinawa as a warning of Ameri- The sound judgment of the Legion lead- tunities he is offering the communists can determination, these steps can be ership has been promptly ratified by elsewhere. This applies especially to the taken. Such deployed forces could be events! Army, which must bear the principal replaced with others, ready to meet a The pressure of such events — and of burdens of the coming era of limited new crisis somewhere else, within rea- continuing communist aggression — is emergencies. The United States cannot sonably safe time limits. forcing United States strategy into a new afford to leave its President in the situa- The American Legion's National Ex- and active pattern: a pattern based on tion of Lt. Gen. MacMillan, commander ecutive Committee, meeting in Indian- the time-proven military principle of of the British troops in Palestine in 1948, apolis May 2 and 3, showed its cus- freedom of action. We are escaping from who told this writer: "I now have exactly tomary foresight in passing a resolution the strait jacket of over-dependence on enough troops to hold my key positions, opposing the Defense Department's pro- nuclear retaliation. We are preparing to and no more. If new trouble starts, I posed reductions in the divisional meet and defeat limited threats with ap- can't move a single battalion without strength and manning levels of the Army propriate means, tailored to the occa- first deciding what other part of this National Guard and Army Reserve. It sion. But we cannot successfully pursue country I'm going to let go to hell in also urged that the minimum drill-pay such a strategy without a reservoir of the meantime." strengths of these Ready Reserve com- really ready citizen-reserves to back up That would be the position of the ponents be maintained at 400,000 and our active forces when and as needed. United States—on a global scale— if the

10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 i ". year, . . indispensable national secur- fend our rights at all costs—and to meet ity insurance." To reduce our reserves to all levels of aggressor pressure with a one-emergency basis is to gamble that whatever levels of force are required." there will only be one at a time, which Berlin was the problem at that time. is nonsense in view of the communist Yet Mr. Kennedy certainly was acutely record in stirring up simultaneous threats conscious of another communist-created on opposite sides of the world. crisis in Southeast Asia—which has since At present we have plenty of insur- grown worse rather than better. He was ance against the major disaster of nu- also acutely conscious of the festering clear war. Though nuclear war remains threat in communist-ruled Cuba, right at

a*"------.-<%> possible, it seems increasingly unlikely, our doorstep. He knew that Africa was ^TS^i^ii^: since neither we nor the Soviets can in turmoil—that Indonesia was playing afford to risk the devastation of our re- with fire in the Southwest Pacific—that spective homelands in response to any Red China was raising new threats non-nuclear challenge. In that sense, against her neighbors—that the explosive both nuclear powers are deterred from Middle East remained as explosive as using their awesome weapons save in ever, with none of its tensions relaxed. self-defense against nuclear attack. We And he must have had in mind Nikita have reason to be thankful to Mr. Ken- Khrushchev's repeated assertions that nedy and his advisers for seeing this the Soviet Union means to avoid nuclear

RESOLVING CLAUSE OF RESOLUTION NO. 31

Adopted by the National Executive Committee of The American Legion

May 3, 1962

NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT RE- sition of opposing of any such reorgan- SOLVED, By the National Executive ization of the Army National Guard Committee assembled in Indianapolis, and the Army Reserve as will elimi- Indiana, May 2-3, 1962, that, whatever nate any units that would reduce the may appear to be desirable or neces- 27 Army National Guard Divisions or sary to improve the combat readiness the Divisional Units of the U. S. Army of the National Guard when called into Reserve that would bring the strength the service of the United States, The levels below 400,000 within the Army American Legion has a firm and un- National Guard and 300,000 for the alterable conviction that the best in- U. S. Army Reserve. terests of both the several States and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE- of the United States require (dictate) SOLVED, The American Legion urge that the regulating and governing of the President of the United States to the National Guard otherwise, shall maintain organized military reserve never be removed from, but shall al- forces at strengths currently author- ways remain under the direct control ized, specifically an Army National plans recently evolved in the Depart- of the several States and their duly Guard of 400,000 officers and enlisted ment of Defense were put into effect. constituted authorities, and men and a U. S. Army Reserve of These plans would cut back the available BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that 300,000 officers and enlisted men. reserve forces of the Army to a small The American Legion reaffirm its po- six-division high priority reserve, and reduce all the other units of the Army National Guard and Army Reserve to cadre strength with combat-readiness six clearly, and for bending every effort, in war—but also means to support, any- months to a year away. consequence, to improve our non-nu- where in the world, "just wars of na- What we should be doing, after thank- clear means of dealing with limited ag- tional liberation," by which Comrade ing the good Lord for guiding us in wis- gression. Nikita means any kind of local trouble dom to build up the readiness of our The President spelled this angle out which he can instigate or muscle in on. Reserves during the post-Korea years to for us in his Berlin crisis address to the At all events, the President soon found

its present unprecedented level, is to nation on luly 25, 1961, when he said: that he could not even think of commit- take advantage of this progress and build "We intend to have a wider area of ting more United States forces to Europe upon it a posture of still greater readi- choice than humiliation or all-out nu- without either deciding what other part ness. We cannot foresee the future, as clear war. . . . We need the capability of of the world was to be abandoned mean- the Laos lesson has just reminded us. placing in any area at the appropriate while to the communists, or calling citi- The stockpiled readiness of our Reserve time a force, which, combined with those zen forces to active duty. The experience components is, as Senator Stennis of of our allies, is large enough to make which followed is instructive, for the Mississippi said in the Senate earlier this clear our determination and ability to de- (Continued on page 32)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 H By RODNEY GILBERT ALL THE FORMS Of Self-indul- PRICE OFgence known to society none is THE today so outrageously expensive as drug addiction. Yet, as the police of every big American city will testify, no class of our citizens is less able to pay for the "euphoria" — sense of well-being — derived from adulterated heroin than our relatively few but very expensive "active addicts." New York City has about 20,000 of them. They are mostly slum dwellers, low wage earners when Most addicts' income is derived from they will or can work, which is less and the theft of negotiable merchandise. less as they need the drug more and more. And the members of this relative- nally come by, spent by New York's ly small element in our citizenry some- addicts for their "euphoria" is by no how contrive to spend an average of $10 means the total cost to the city. Although a day each on "dope," or $200,000 a those addicts who resort to picking day between them. Anyone can figure pockets, who participate in muggings or that this amounts to $73 million a year. who turn to prostitution to finance their How the addicts raise such sums is, need for dope get cash, most addicts' in- The fence— a dealer in stolen goods—gives of course, of daily and hourly concern come is derived from theft of some sort the thief a small fraction of the goods' value. to the police; and they have been wish- of negotiable property. Such property is ing for years that the problem was of usually worth a good deal more than the upon this traffic is financed by the tax- equal interest to the general public. addict is paid for it. payer, as is the maintenance of the Police Departments across the country As Commissioner Anslinger pointed courts in which thieving culprits and the have estimated that 25 percent of all out, practically all of a thieving addict's narcotics "pushers" are tried, not to crime in the United States is directly or loot is marketed through a "fence" — mention the jails in which they are indirectly connected with the narcotics a dealer in stolen goods — and for every housed, fed and doctored. traffic. The big city police say 50 per- $10 that the addict gets from criminal When the seriousness of the narcotics cent. But, it is sadly remarked, there is endeavor, the fence has received loot problem and its association with crimes no public interest in dope unless a Cen- that is worth at least $30 to him. What against property receives any publicity, tral American diplomat is caught with a the stolen property was worth to the the reaction to it that, in its turn, wins huge stock of heroin in his luggage, or original owner is a matter beyond police most publicity comes from certain med- unless a good-looking French airline estimate except in such specific cases as ical authorities and the officers of vari- stewardess is found to have packets of ous humanitarian organizations. They the poison in her brassiere and girdle. advance an argument that appears to be These figures on "euphoria" re New hard to refute, namely, that the dope York's addicts, and on dope's part in the traffic problem will never be beaten by promotion of crime come from the the police because it is essentially a Treasury Department's Bureau of Nar- medical problem. The problem, they cotics. Early this spring the Bureau of say, is to cure all addicts. Do that and Narcotics submitted a report to the there will be no profit in manufacturing House Appropriations Committee which heroin abroad, no profit in smuggling it included some interesting diagrams and into this country, and no profit in ped- the following figures: In the United States there are 46,798 active addicts. Of these, New York State This book containing heroin worth $25,- is debited with 46.6 percent, or 21,813. 000 was discovered in a sailor's bunk. Nationwide, 56.1 percent of all addicts are Negroes. Mexicans and Puerto Alfredo Blanco, 32-year-old addict, sits Ricans account for 17.3 percent. That is in a New York City police station with a total of 73.4 percent. The rest are just some of the loot, worth almost $200,000 run-of-the-mill white Americans. But it that he had stolen from 120 apartments. is interesting to note that 49.8 percent are between 21 and 30 years of age, come to their attention. But if our while only 10.6 percent are over 40. In wretched addicts spend $73 million a short, because the number of those year on dope, which the police are cer- cured is trifling, they die young. tain they do; and if nearly all of that

The report had nothing in it about comes from criminal enterprise, as the the cost of addiction to the nation and police are certain it does; then, with to the various communities. A letter of "fences" and their profits in mind, the inquiry to Commissioner Harry J. reader can make his own guess at what Anslinger brought the estimates quoted the heroin traffic costs the citizenry of above. And, as the Commissioner point- the community. Finally, it must be re- ed out, that $73 million, mostly crimi- membered that the incessant police war

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 WE PAY FOR DOPE

Drug addicts will stop at nothing to get

money for drugs. We pay for their addiction in

stolen goods and higher insurance premiums.

In the United States, there are 46,798 people classified as active addicts.

Illustrated by HARRY SCHAARE This money is promptly passed along to the "pusher" who supplies euphoria for a price.

dling it here because nobody will want the stuff. blissful indifference

This is the line of argument that gave rise a generation ago to a to this otherwise cold system of "clinics" for the treatment of drug addiction that spread world's cares and wor- throughout the country, operated for a few months, and then ries.

closed down with even more police and popular enthusiasm than ,.. In this country, great num- had attended their openings. They were not only a disastrous bers of former addicts failure, but in many communities abominable nuisances. emerge from our jails each The hopeful assumption had been, that since all addicts year having paid the penalty want to be cured (a fallacy) they would become eager patrons for their rash pursuit of dollars of clinics where narcotics would be ad- to spend on heroin. They are as ministered to them, or prescribed for thoroughly cured as they could have them, either free or at very low cost, and been in any hospital. But in the majority would cheerfully submit to a reduction of cases, as with the majority of those of their allowances until they needed and discharged from hospitals, back they go received none at all. into their same environments, back The painful fact was that the com- among their same coteries of addicted, munities in which clinics were estab- thieving cronies; and in no time they lished were overrun by addicts who took are back in court, charged with some what was offered them at low cost and kind of pilfering for the same old rea- then stepped out and bought more from son—to acquire the price for "euphoria." the hordes of "pushers" who invaded A fact about the addict, of which his these communities. To finance these ex- sympathizers are generally unaware, is tras the customers of the clinics resorted that he is not only very well satisfied to to their usual devices, and what had been be a slave to the drug habit but is likely relatively decent, law-abiding towns be- lice experts but until then was unrecog- to be enthusiastic in his accounts to came afflicted with pickpockets, shop- nized in uplift circles, became evident others of the marvelous release from lifters, muggers, car thieves and prosti- — the average narcotics addict does not care that he gets from heroin. As one tutes. want to be cured. He wants dope and New York police official told this writer From this spectacular experiment a more dope, as greater quantities are re- nearly 30 years ago: "Your average hop- fact, that had always been known to po- quired to give him the desired sense of (Continued on page 38)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 13 Miracles by Mail

A mail-order enthusiast describes some of the thrills provided by his postman.

." By HERM HINES Sawed, Filed. . . Already convinced of these things I skipped ahead, then have rediscovered my childhood stopped abruptly on a new word that year-round Santa, the mailman. had been added-,4 LMOST. "STIKKK," I Not since those dime-and-box- the copy now read, "WILL BIND almost top days of agonized waiting for the ANYTHING." mails to bring me my Straight Shooter Nevertheless, with the picture of the Badge, Secret Compartment Ring, or man dangling from a balloon still.firm in perhaps "Simple" instructions on how to mind, my faith was unshaken. I squeezed perform amazing feats of ventriloquism, out the stuff according to directions, have I known the happy anticipation pressed the crepe sole together and held that again has come my way. it in a vise-like grip not for six minutes It all started when the shoemaker, say- but for a good 15, when muscle cramps ing my sport shoes were beyond repair, in fingers and jaw broke my grip. With returned them to me in a newspaper. I my release, the split opened like a yawn- was unwrapping them to re-examine the ing mouth stretching threads of saliva. slit across a crepe sole when 1 saw the Those threads "of STIKKK quickly proved their strength by being strong enough to pull themselves apart. In all, my experience with STIKKK was an educational feature that taught

me: ( 1 ) Crepe soles are NOT almost ANYTHING. (2) The shoemaker was right. (3) If ever I want to dangle over the Grand Canyon from a balloon I've

got the very stuff to hold me to it. Price of experiment? 79^! Now where can you beat that for the money?

With my purchase of STIKKK I received a catalogue of new gadgets, discoveries and inventions of a miracle quality unequalled since the advent of

the vitamin pill. It was the County Fair There was work to be of literature, its every page a pitchman's done but ZIPPY SEW seemed to represent convention, a dazzling glitter of promise. too much of a risk. eye-catching headline emblazoned above FLIZE-INN FLY TRAP an illustration that showed a tractor ATTRACTED BY FRUSTRATED AROMA FLY AND COM- dangling from a balloon over the Grand ENTERS HOLE PLETELY (g) EXHAUSTEO Canyon. It read: ONCE INSIOE FLY FINALLY HE HEADS "IT'S GLUED WITH ONE DROP DROPS INTO FOR MEAT WATER BAIT (5) OF STIKKK! STIKKK Fastens ANY- (§) AND V DROWNS THING TO ANYTHING! Plastic, HAVING EATEN HIS FILL, HE ." Metal, Leather TRIES TO LEAVE So the shoes couldn't be fixed, eh? (g) Why, if a drop of this stuff could glue a tractor to the bottom of a balloon, a whole tube should bind the soles with cleats so hard they could be used in waltz clogging. I dashed my check off in the mail.

When STIKKK arrived, it had come loose from a cardboard backing that read: "One Drop of STIKKK will lift A TWO TON TRACTOR! Six Minutes Whenever this gadget killed Ambitious to be the talk After Application into I or- STJKKK hardens a fly the fly remained dead. of my neighborhood a steel-like bond that can be Drilled, dered some of the berries.

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 COFFEE! EGGS! BABY'S MILK! the vine there was no telling which way BOTTLE STERILIZER! No traveler the fly situation might go. FLIZE-INN can afford to be without INSTANTO struck me as a sound investment.

BOIL'R-O! Price only 99 <*! Rush money The newly purchased trellis was my NOW! DON'T DELAY!" suspense image while waiting for the Being a bachelor I had no baby's heat- mailman to bring me my surprise packing problems but, there being a possi- age. I say "surprise" because it is always

bility I might travel somewhere some- surprising that a Gadget House can get day, INSTANTO BOIL'R-O made a lot so much promise into such a tiny parcel. of sense. (I once ordered a CLOUD-OF-SLUM- "ZIPPY SEW! Outmodes Needles and BER Pad but instead of it being a mat- Threads! IN LESS than A MINUTE tress-like thing brought by express, it was ZIPPY SEW repairs Latex Girdles, delivered by the mailman who carried ." Makes Seams, Attaches Zippers. . . it rolled lightly under his arm.) But any- way, when the small package arrived, I removed its main bulk of packing paper and spread out the contents. ZIPPY SEW! FLIZE-INN! INSTAN- TO BOIL'R-O! ASTOUNDING CLIMBING STRAWBERRIES! The latter was identified by an anemic strawberry printed in weak ink on a squashed

box. I gave it top priority. But here too, as with STiKKK, a qualifying word had been added. It was now claimed that "ASTOUNDING CLIMBING STRAWBERRIES CAN BE GROWN IN almost ANY SOIL!" From the box I dumped what looked like a soil mixture, bean sprouts and a snarled hemp string. Following the instructions implicitly, I boiled them down

to what I guessed was their meaning.

Plant! I planted.

The strawberry season now on its way,

I decided it might be well to start getting rid of the flies even though none were in evidence. FLIZE-INN Traps If STIKKK would hold a tractor over the were testimony of what ingenuity can canyon I figured it would fix my shoes. accomplish with cottage cheese contain- "ASTOUNDING CLIMBING ers merely by punching holes in the lids. STRAWBERRIES! Watch Them Speed For this is what FLIZE-INN Traps appeared to be. HIGH Up The Trellis! They will be the The working principle of FLIZE- talk of the neighborhood! The envy of INN is quite simple. Meat is placed in YOUR Neighbors! YOU Will Pick BIG the container along with an inch J-U-I-C-Y STRAWBERRIES This Year of water, then covered. The fly, to get at and EVERY YEAR! Price ONLY $1.29. Rush money NOW! DON'T DELAY!" (Continued on page 39) I rushed my money. I did not delay. But on one thing I was resolved — no ATTACHES ZIPPERS! This was a neighbors of mine were going to know must! about this! Already they had enough My buying sense told me that to have to talk about in their own little circles. a nicely rounded order I should include I would have none of them in my back one more item. I did not hesitate. yard yakking it up over my vine and "FLIZE-INN! NO FLIES INSIDE showing their envy by freeloading on WHEN YOU HAVE FLIZE-INN the berry crop. No sir! And unless this OUTSIDE! FLIZE-INN TRAPS plant in its shooting growth made a PLACED AROUND YOUR YARD rocket-like SWOOSHHH there would WILL LURE FLIES BY THE THOU- be no cause for anyone to spy. SANDS. WHEN FLIZE-INN TRAPS Like all confirmed addicts in any line, ARE FILLED YOU DESTROY I cannot stop at just ONE. Besides, at THEM. SIMPLE AS THAT! Price such prices who couldn't afford to do a ONLY $1.00 for FIVE. RUSH Money little splurging? I HAD to add to my NOW! DON'T DELAY!" order: Now it's true that for me the primitive "INSTANTO BOIL'R-O! SIMPLY swatter had proved an adequate fly con- IMMERSE THIS AMAZING HEAT- trol measure. In fact, so small was my ER IN A CONTAINER OF WATER. fly appeal that the insects were almost

PRESTO! THE WATER BOILS! a rarity around the house. Still, what If at first you don't succeed, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID PASCAL with strawberries soon to be ripening on there's always another delivery.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 15 By MORRIE NAGGIAR

ARE you interested in picking up some spare time money in an

outdoor pursuit that is closely akin to hunting and fishing, one that will keep you afield when most rod and gun sports have folded for the season? If you are, fur trapping could be just the dish for you. Practically everywhere in North Amer- ica, from the outskirts of our largest cities to the heart of the true wilderness, fur bearers of various kinds are to be found in varying degrees of abundance. Wherever you live, you may be sure there are trapline possibilities not too far from your door. It has been estimated that upwards of 75 percent of the multi-million dollar

North American fur crop is harvested by

Most North American furs are taken by, part-timers.

Here's how you can join their ranks and make extra cash

part-time trappers — factory workers, farm hands, school- boys, loggers, mill hands, white collar workers, the list is limitless — who find trapping a profitable as well as pleas- urable outdoor pursuit. Why not try your hand at this fascinating game that can put hard cash in your pocket? All you need to get started in this outdoor avocation are a few traps, some minor items of equipment and a bit of knowledge of where and how to make your trap sets. The amount of money you can expect times as much. As you might expect, ping seasons and license requirements. to realize from a spare time trapline de- pelts from the colder parts of the country Your local game warden can give you pends upon a number of factors, among are usually more valuable than those the details of trapping regulations or which are: the amount of time you can from warmer regions. As a balance, how- sporting goods dealers should be able to devote to the 'line, the numbers and ever, is the fact that in general the provide the address to write for trapping kinds of animals that occur in your area, warmer regions make up in quantity of regulations information. the quality of the fur you take, how well animals available what the individual Even though regulations may allow you handle the skinning, fleshing, and pelts lack in fur quality. trapping at other times, fur animals drying of your pelts, and the degree of Since fur values fluctuate from season skill you develop in locating and making to season, and even during the same sea- your trap sets. A school boy running a son, the best way to keep abreast of cur- few muskrat traps after school may earn rent prices is to write to several raw fur only 25 or 30 dollars during a season. dealers and request your name be placed On the other hand, a part-timer who has on their fur market report mailing list. good territory and the know-how could Most outdoor and farm publications expect a fur check running into three carry advertisements of raw fur dealers. ligures-$200, $300, $400 or even more, Regulations governing the taking of for his spare time activities. fur bearers vary from state to state. Cer- Prices paid for individual pelts vary tain animals that may be taken only dur- considerably with the size, condition of ing specified periods in one place, per- primeness, the manner in which they are haps may be taken at any time or may handled, and the region of the country even be protected the year around in from which they are taken. As an ex- another. Most states require a license to ample, a No. 1 medium 'coon from the trap fur bearers. You should, contact Deep South might bring a dollar while your state game commission — or what- Scent Station Set. This "fooler," a the same grade of pelt from the Great ever your state wildlife management clump of transplanted grass, is scented Lakes region might sell for three or four agency may be called — in regard to trap- with fish oil and placed on a sand bar.

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 ring and into the ground as shown in some of the set illustrations. Sometimes should be taken only during the period it may be more desirable to wire the ring when fur is prime. November through to a small tree or bush or to a fence post. February will cover the prime period for A drag, made by wiring or stapling a most common fur bearers, although bea- three-foot-long section of a small tree ver and muskrats may reach their peak trunk about three or four inches in diam- a bit later in some locales. Prime fur on eter to the chain, will allow an animal to the boards is money in the pocket. Fur move away from the set site without tear- taken too early or too late is worthless. ing it up too badly. The drag soon tangles In order to make a start on your spare in brush and you usually can find your game without too much difficulty. You should make yourself a strainer box by tacking a V^-inch piece of mesh hardware cloth to a foot-square frame of Cubby or Bait Pen Set. Baited proper- lxl inch wood. The dirt you use to ly, a rotted-out tree stump or similar cover your traps should be strained to hollow makes a deadly, enticing set.

approximately the following prices: No.

1, $6.85 a dozen; No. Wi, $9.75 a dozen; No. 2, $12.95 a dozen; No. 3, $22. a dozen. If you plan on trapping musk-

rats, the No. 1 with an auxiliary arm de-

signed to prevent wring-offs is a wise investment. They are somewhat more expensive than single jaw traps but will Bait Hole Set. Dug along animal trails, soon pay for themselves in extra fur on this will take almost every kind of small the boards. fur bearer that can smell juicy bait. New traps should be treated to cut down on the formation of action-slowing time trapline, you will need only a few items traps, side-cutter of equipment; Fence Set. Used along stream banks where pliers, a supply of galvanized wire for blind sets won't work. Repeat traps at fastening traps (10 or 12 gauge is about fence openings where animal must pass. the right size), hatchet, small hand hoe or garden trowel, a screen for sifting dirt eliminate the small stones, twigs, and trap covering, knife, and fur stretchers other debris that could prevent your trap or drying boards. from closing completely when sprung by Recommended trap sizes for the com- an animal. mon fur bearers are as follows: For Trapping most of the common fur muskrat, civet, and weasel, No. 1; for bearers is not an especially difficult feat. It does, however, require a basic knowledge of the proposed quarry's habits and requirements. Trap sets are relatively simple to prepare, once the funda- mentals are understood. Culvert Set. Many animals use culverts Proper location for sets is another for crossing roads. This baitless trap, matter and it is in this respect that many carefully covered, is quite effective. beginners fail. Rather than wandering at rust and to make them less conspicuous random over the countryside, fur bearers when set for wary animals. follow rather well-defined routes of trav- Boiling new traps in clean water for el, dictated for the most part by the par- 15 or 20 minutes will remove most of ticular type of food currently holding the machine grease with which they are their attention. When, for example, rac- coated. Pour off the water after boiling coons are feeding on acorns, the oak rather than lifting traps out. This will woodlands and ridges are the most rea- prevent floating grease from recoating sonable places to look for the ringtails. Crossing Log Set. A fallen log, notched the steel. Foxes depend a great deal upon rabbits to fit your trap where animal must pass, Boil them a second time in clean water and mice as the mainstay of their diet. will do the job and need not be baited. to which has been added crushed green Grassy fields and clearings where these walnuts, chunks of red oak inner bark, species occur in greatest numbers are the skunk, raccoon, mink, and opossum, No. tannic acid powder (a pound to 10 gal- logical places to trap foxes. Trails and IVi for fox, ; No. 2; and for otter, bobcat, lons of water) or the special trap dye old logging roads traversing such local- and beaver, No. 3. preparations available from trappers' ities will serve as passageways for foxes Six to 24 traps are plenty for a begin- supply houses. as well as other night foraging fur bear- ning trapper to handle. This many prop- Traps must be fastened securely to ers. When searching for animal signs, erly located and well-made sets will take prevent trapped game from escaping the trapper will do well to investigate more fur than two or three times as with them. You can fasten traps with a carefully such locations as: brushy fence many haphazardly placed. Long spring forked wooden stake driven through the rows, old stone or stake and rider fences, steel traps are currently being quoted at ILLUSTRATED BY WALLACE HUGHS (Continued on page 34)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 17 a Tale of Two Teachers

What caused two totally unlike science teachers to produce such brilliant results?

lem would be to take some outstanding science students, youngsters with better than ordinary records, and find out how they got that way. Who or what nurtured them as budding scientists? What were their teachers like? Did they go to big schools with fine lab equipment, or small schools with more likelihood of individual attention? Public schools or private? Exactly what brought them to the top of the heap? A convenient place to find a sample of such bright youngsters is the winner's

list of a national science contest. One

such contest is the annual Science Talent Search conducted by Science Service, an education agency in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by the Westinghouse Elec- tric Corporation. High school seniors all over the country enter this contest each year, competing for college scholarships ($250 to $7,500) and other honors. To be among the 40 winners, a youngster must have an outstanding general school record, score high in a tough 2Vi-hour exam, and carry out an original scien-

tific project. This project can't be a simple demonstration out of a toy-store

chemistry set, since it will be up against stiff competition. One lad built an atom- smasher. Another built a device to record radio-like signals generated in the upper atmosphere. These, then, are exceptional kids. And Sister Mary Lauretta with some of her physics students at Columbus High School. in the backgrounds of this year's winners, two teachers and two schools stand out above all the others. One of the teachers By MAX GUNTHER march of his country and of the world? is Thomas Gordon Lawrence; his school This problem, vital in any age and in is Erasmus Hall High School in Brook- Take a clever, science-minded any advancing nation, has been the focus lyn, New York, where he is head of the youngster — not a genius, just a of special worry in the United States biology department. Of 1962's 40 win- bright, interested kid. He quickly over the past decade. Some of the worry ners, five were students sponsored by learns what's provided in the regular has been gloomy and defeatist, some con- Tom Lawrence — a feat never equaled in school curriculum, is always a jump structive; but all of it has been intense. the contest's 21 -year history. The other ahead of most of his classmates. How With Soviet Russia turning out scientists remarkable teacher is a Catholic nun, do you keep him from getting bored and and engineers on a mass-production basis Sister Mary Lauretta, physics and chem- lazy? How do you g2t him to do extra (though of what caliber remains to be istry teacher at Columbus High School work, good work? How do you keep tested ) , the problem becomes involved in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Sister Mary alive in him the spark of enthusiasm that with our very survival as a nation. Lauretta, with only a small student body may one day contribute to the forward One way to find answers to the prob- in which to find talent, this year saw a

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 that his students like him. As he talks, he interrupts himself continually to give

little character sketches of the young-

sters — how clever this one is, how un- selfish that one, how poised another. Sister Mary Lauretta, too, seems genu- inely delighted with her students. What fascinates her particularly is the way in which the kids, launched on a project with her help, move off on their own and end far ahead of her. "The teacher," she says, "learns from the student." Undoubtedly this esteem communi- cates itself to the students. It must be a considerable part of their rewards for working — perhaps the biggest part. With so high an opinion of th^ kids, neither teacher seems to recognize any real limit to what they can do. Sister Mary Lauretta makes a point of urging them beyond what they might consider their own limits. "I get them in way over their heads," she says. "They read books

that I find difficult myself. They don't

absorb it all, of course. But when they

find they can absorb some of it, they're proud. It gives them confidence to push on to the next level of difficulty." Says Tom Lawrence: "We all think there are

things we can't do, until we try. All I do is nudge the kids a little so they try." Both speak of their delight at watch- ing confidence grow. One Columbus High student, Ronald Gates, had been Thomas Gordon Lawrence with some of his prize students at Erasmus Hall High School. involved in a number of projects, among them the building of a spectroscope out student enter the winners' circle for the teaching almost from the beginning. Tom of odd parts gathered from here and seventh time in eight years. Lawrence, on the other hand, knocked there. When he and Sister Mary Lau- What is there about these two teach- about considerably before finding his retta began talking of his entering the ers and schools that has produced such niche as a science teacher. In his time Science Talent Search, she asked wheth- brilliant results? As I began hunting an- he has worked on the New York Cotton er he had any ideas about what his com- swers to this question, looking for points Exchange, taught journalism at New petition project might be. of similarity between the teachers and York University, and written a book of "No," he said. "Do you have any schools, my first snap judgment was that poetry, "My Horses Are Grasshoppers." ideas?" there were no answers. For the two seem It was in a more or less experimental, She had recently been reading about totally unlike. see-what-happens frame of mind that he the chemistry of vinegar, and she threw

One of the teachers is a man, the other took the New York biology teachers' out the suggestion that this was a fas- a woman. Tom Lawrence's Erasmus Hall examination during the Depression. cinating subject. is a public school; Sister Mary Lauretta's Thus, it seems, the answers to the prob- "Okay," said the boy. "Vinegar it is." Columbus High is a parochial school. lem of raising bright young scientists "What do you know about vinegar?"

Erasmus Hall is in the nation's biggest do not lie in such immediately obvious "Nothing. But I can learn." city, surrounded by major universities areas as the teacher's background, the He did. And he was a 1959 winner. and major science-minded companies. size and type of school, or the nearness You can get some idea of how far Columbus High is in a town of 14,000, of big universities and research centers. these teachers' kids go beyond the stand- dead in the middle of Wisconsin, 200 As I talked to Tom Lawrence and Sister ard high school textbooks merely by miles from the nearest big city, Milwau- Mary Lauretta, I began to think that glancing down a list of their contest kee. Erasmus Hall is one of the biggest there is really only one thing that counts: projects. Sister Mary Lauretta's winner secondary schools in the world, with a the individual teacher and his approach this year studied the effects of radiation student body of some 6,500 and with all to the students. In this area, finally, I on a type of immunity in guinea pigs. the advantages and all the problems that found the similarities for which I was Another Columbus High youngster, mammoth size brings. Columbus High looking. studying heredity, raised 400 mice and has about 570 students. The first thing that struck me was the nearly 50,000 fruit flies, X-rayed them Even the two teachers' backgrounds unabashed admiration both teachers have to produce mutations, made photo- are notably dissimilar. Sister Mary Lau- for their students — not a patronizing, micrographs of chromosomes from the retta has led the gentle, though in her pat-on-the-head kind of attitude, but an flies' salivary glands. Among Tom Law- case not sheltered, life of one dedicated honest, person-to-person esteem. Tom rence's 1962 winners, one lad developed to religious service. She has devoted her Lawrence, a large, lean, craggy-faced a unifying theory to explain why certain life to teaching, belongs to a teaching man in late middle age, a bachelor and substances are capable of fluorescence — order called the School Sisters of Notre in some respects a lonely man, appears a theory that contradicts certain older Dame. She has concentrated on science full of surprise and delight at the fact (Continued on page 40)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 19 By GIL PAUST

recent months they've been Incalling us a new name—"the flabby Americans." We've been described in even less flattering terms in the past and we've been able to shrug them off. But there's no shrugging off this one.

The shoe fits. And its implications are more serious than we care to admit.

We know it's true every time we try to sprint to catch a train, or carry a heavy suitcase a few blocks, or mow several square feet of lawn. We're even more convinced when we look at a few statistics. Then we begin to worry, and for good reasons. We have a cold war to win and being proved physically in- ferior not only to our opponents but also to our allies is no recommendation for a nation touted as the world leader. Be- Dancing is another form of exercise that is not hard to take. sides, there's a personal application. We don't need a medic to tell us that our lack of physical fitness will hurry the day when our life insurance becomes collect- Bowling lanes are usually crowded with enthusi- asts who may not realize the sport is healthy. ible. AN Let's take a quick look at some of the proof. Health authorities offer the start- tests whereas only slightly less than 9% ling estimate that more than one-quarter of the Europeans failed the same num- of this country's 185,000,000 people are ber. We don't need tests of the Russian overweight. Couple this with the fact children to know how they rate; every that excess weight is one of the major Russian youngster over six years of age Easy- causes of heart disease, which has be- spends at least one hour per day in con- come one of our greatest killers. Far centrated physical training in sports, more of us, almost 95%, are in the health drills and calisthenics. "marshmallow" category although we Why are our youngsters softies? When may keep our weight within limits. The most of us went to school we attended remaining fortunate 5% includes those adequate physical education classes, but Going who are active in competitive athletics, now times have changed. Lack of facili- or military training, or who have been ties is one reason. And our school ath- sensible enough to maintain their own WAY TO fitness programs. But as flab-happy as we are, our youngsters are destined to be even flab- bier unless we start worrying about them,

is forecast based FITNESS too. This the gloomy PHYSICAL on research conducted during the past five years under sponsorship of the Presi- dent's Council on Youth Fitness and the American Association for Health, Physi- letic programs have trained athletes, not cal Education and Recreation. Physical students. They have emphasized varsity tests to determine arm strength, leg sports for about 3 % of the students and power, speed and agility were given to made the remainder mere spectators. our school children by means of pull-ups, Here's proof of how the situation has jumping and sit-ups. The results were deteriorated. At West Point in 1947, 3% compared with those from the same tests of the appointees failed the physical ap- given to 10,000 British and 20,000 titude test; in 1961 this number increased Japanese youngsters. Health authorities to 15%, half because of overweight. At termed the comparison "shocking." Yale in 1951, 51% of the entering stu- British children, for example, aver- dents measured up to the university's aged 14% higher than our own. Even physical standards; in 1956 — 43%; in the British girls outperformed many of I960 - 38%. our boys. In comparison tests with the Even in the Armed Forces, where it youth of Austria, Italy and Switzerland would seem that physical fitness would conducted by two independent research- be a necessity, life has been softer, at

ers during the past 1 5 years, it was found least until recently. In the days of World I, much of the training emphasis that almost 60% of the American chil- Cutting grass is good exercise but War dren failed one or more of their physical most people prefer the easy way. was on calisthenics, and it was a tough

20 TH E AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 to put our- deal; but the discharged doughboy was to walk to work, or go on foot or horse- be sufficient incentive for us how much will in far better physical health than when back; now he rides on foam-rubber car selves back in shape. But program in- he entered service. In the 30's and 40's, cushions. He lets gasoline push his lawn such a health "recovery" stated: the civilian youth of our country were mower. Snow shovels are on the way out; volve? President Kennedy

". . do is literally offered progressively fewer programs of there's a self-propelled gadget that picks . what we must millions calisthenics and the trend was to exer- up the snow for him and blows it away. change the physical habits of far more diffi- cise through play, specifically through Or easier yet, he runs heating pipes un- of Americans. And that is tastes, their sports. Then came World War II. By der his driveway and sidewalk so that cult than changing their fashions and their politics."

It sure is! We're not going to scrap our oil burners and go back to carrying wood and coal. Or scrap our soft cars and go back to walking or riding a horse. Or get rid of our elevators, powered lawn mowers and all the rest of our exercise-saving gadgets. We're not going to dash right out to sign up for a course of backbreaking calisthenics; and even if we did, we probably wouldn't stick it out. It's hard work that we don't get paid for. Unfortunately, one item modern science hasn't yet given us is a way to "instant fitness." On the other hand, none of us aspires to become a Samson. Let's not kid ourselves! Having become so used to the easy life, we're not going to

give it up, in spite of our good intentions.

one's The "suck it in" routine, familiar to Gyms which use machines to give I 9 GIs', is equally good in civilian life. muscles a workout are growing in favor.

People don't mind exercising so long as there is

an absolute minimum of physical effort involved.

The oldtime bar bells that exercise most still for body building. that time calisthenics were considered the snow melts as fast as it falls. muscles are tops virtually un-American. In military train- They say we've been eating too much. ing, especially for the new GFs, such But the term "too much" is relative. A In the last frank analysis, all we can programmed exercising was principally a normal meal for a man who gets suffi- hope to become is some degree better crash program of physical conditioning. cient exercise puts extra fat on those of than we are. Moreover, if we're going

More often it was physical punishment! us who loaf all day. Exercise prevents to increase our own physical fitness by Instead of KP you had 1-2-3-4- at 5:15 the intake of calories from becoming fat even a minimum amount, all but a few

in the morning. And it was considered in the first place. The body uses it up as will want to find the easiest ways pos-

real punishment! For what has happened energy before it can be converted into sible. And there are some. since the war, we are in the unusual po- fat and stored. To us, sweets mean more Most of us participate in a sport, just sition of having to thank Russia; she weight; to an athlete they mean quick for fun. Over 30,000,000 of us fish; over served warning on us by swarming all energy. So in most cases we actually 20,000,000 hunt. We know these num- over us at the Olympic Games. Now haven't been eating too much; we just bers because we can count the licenses. we've gone back to calisthenics in many haven't been exercising enough to use But uncountable millions of us swim, civilian schools and the armed services. up what we eat. And we've gotten fat. ski, bowl, play tennis, golf, etc. These The reason we've become flabby is no But let's be honest about this exercise sports provide one of the answers. The

great riddle— it's been soft living. We've business. We all know why we need it. government has considered them so im-

been living push-button lives, taking ad- We'll look better, feel better, function portant that it has recently created a vantage of all the miracle labor-savers better, be organically healthier, live long- Bureau of Outdoor Recreation under the modern science has come up with. And er. And we'll get rid of our soft ideas Department of the Interior, which will why not? It's natural to take the easy that always go with soft bodies. It was coordinate the activities of 20 Federal way. Once upon a time, father brought soft living, and the fumbling effort al- agencies that have programs affecting all up coal and wood while mother was ways to take the easy way, that led di- outdoor activities. Sports provide an easy bringing up the family; now he flicks a rectly to the crumbling of great empires way to better health because most of us lever on a thermostat. He used to climb throughout history. These reasons should already are active in one or more of stairs; now he takes an elevator. He used PHOTOS BY BENN MITCHELL (Continued on page 41)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1952 21 will work like penetrating oil if you want to loosen a nut or bolt which has rusted tight. Indeed, according to Stan, it works better than penetrating oil.

FIRE INSURANCE for a few pennies is available in a box of ordinary baking soda. H. Josephs, of Gardcnville, Pa., says he always carries a king-sized box of soda with him when traveling since it quickly douses almost any kind of fire. Indeed, bak-

FOR THE MAN CLUB ing soda is the prime ingredient of some of WITH AN INTEREST IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS our most effective fire extinguishers.

REMOVING RUST ON GUNS caused by IF YOU GO AFIELD with your dog at IF YOU RUN LOW on matches while out- sweaty hands is easy if you follow the sug- night, K. Thompson, of Huntsville, Ala., doors here's a trick that D. W. Rabey, of gestion of James Davis, of Helena, Ark. has an idea to help you keep track of him. Savannah, Ga., learned from frugal French Just rub a lead pencil over the rusted spots Put some reflective material on his collar soldiers during WWl. To make a single and the metal will clean up quickly. and a flashlight will pick him up even in match do double duty he suggests that you those dark corners. tear it from the book and with the small EXCELLENT REPRINTS of articles of blade of your knife divide it right up to special interest to shooters arc constantly LEGIONNAIRE AND SCOUTMASTER, the head. By pulling at it gently, the head being made available by the National Rifle Rev. Richard R. Davis, of Shelley, Idaho, will separate. In lighting it, hold the match Association. Recent releases deal with me- offers a suggestion for outdoorsmen based as close to the head as possible without tallic sights, and how to remodel the U.S. on personal experience in scouting. "I teach risking a burn. Model 1917 Enfield Rifle. For further par- my Scouts to carry their matches in a tight- ticulars we suggest that you write the NRA ly sealed glass iar with a small stub of a at 1600 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Wash- candle in it," he says. "The matches are ington 6, D.C., asking for the titles they packed around the candle in the jar and have available. all together take up little room. When preparing to light a fire either in the wind or in the dark we light the candle in the jar. This not only provides light with which to see to get your campfire going, but hot wax from the candle docs wonders in getting wood to burn."

A DERRINGER with many modern features is being introduced by High Standard AN EXCELLENT HOLDER for rifles, shot- Manufacturing Corp., of Hamden, Conn. guns and pistols can be easily made from As small as the most popular models of a peg board. Daniel Graff, of Munhall, Pa., century ago, the new "Super" two-shot who offers the idea, points out that this derringer is only five inches overall and permits you to hang as many firearms as weighs 11 ounces. It has a self-locking ham- you want and arrange them pretty much ELECTRONIC FISHING is made practical mer which is not exposed and empty car- of a as you please since the board can be cut for the average fisherman by means tridges are quickly ejected. It chambers to any size and the wire holders can be compact device just brought out by the .22-caliber shorts, longs and long rifles. The shuffled around at will. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. price is $29.95. Called the Fish-O-Thcrm, the gadget pin- SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN ADDED points the depths at which fish arc likely to to the Ithaca Gun Co. line, a brand new be found in fresh water lakes. Experts know assortment of Fcatherlight Gun Cases. This, that fish like to stay in water of a certain and a lot of information about Ithaca guns, temperature (panfish prefer 65-75 degrees shooting and gun manufacture can be found while lake trout like it colder, from 45-55 in the company's big 1962 catalog. You can degrees). The battery-operated gadget has of get a copy by sending 25

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f VETERANS SEPTEMBER 1962 j^^y^j^^ J[ ^ j^

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

FIRST MILLION DOLLARS Policy #1 was taken out by Gov. James SURVIVORS TO LEGIONNAIRES' Blair, of Missouri, on April 1, 1958 . . . DUE AT CLOSE OF 5TH YEAR Ex-Gov. Blair and his wife died accidentally OF MEMBERS' INSURANCE PLAN: of monoxide poisoning in their home this The first one million dollars in death July, due to the idling of their auto in benefits will have been paid to survivors the garage of their home . . . Because Mrs. of Legionnaires on or about next April 1, Blair was the beneficiary, payment of under the American Legion's low-cost ($12 benefits on Policy #1 awaits adjudication per year per basic unit) Life Insurance of the estate . . . The only death risk

Plan for members . . . April 1, 1963, is the excluded in the plan is war ... As the U.S. 5th anniversary of the plan, which started has not been at war since 1958, no claim has on that date in 1958 under the National been denied because of the nature of a death

Commandership of John S. Gleason, Jr...... Illustrative of the lack of extra- Gleason is now Administrator of Veterans hazard restrictions is the $4,000 claim paid Affairs in the Kennedy Administration. (See recently to the widow of Legionnaire details of plan on page 1) Richard Varney, of Post 44, Redmond, Oreg.

"You can imagine how proud I am that a . . . Varney, 32, was killed in the crash of million dollars that they otherwise would a commercial plane he was piloting at Xieng not have received will have gone to the Dat, Laos, on April 6 . . . The young Korea bereaved families of Legionnaires within vet had taken out a $12 Legion Life Insurance five years, as a result of the action we unit on Jan. 1 ... He left a 3-year-old took in 1958, " said Gleason when notified son, Allen, in addition to his wife, that the present rate of benefit payments Marcelene, whom he married in Kansas City indicated that the millionth dollar would in 1957. be paid before or during April of next LEGION WILL PUSH year . . . "No member has yet paid more than INSURANCE PLAN $68 into the plan, and none will have paid AS RESULT OF GOOD EXPERIENCE: more than $92 during the time that Legion Until now, The American Legion has not families will have received the first strongly promoted its low-cost life million dollars in benefits," Gleason insurance plan for members . . . the first noted ... In urging adoption of the plan in application form ever to be published in 1958, he had stressed the low-cost feature this magazine in 4% years of the plan appears of the plan. on page 1 of this issue. On July 16, checks totaling $658,481.34 Predicted payment of a million dollars had been paid under the plan, and claims in benefits to bereaved families of were being paid at a rate of about $33,000 Legionnaires in five years, (see above) a month . . . The rate of payment was in- and 4% years' experience with the soundness creasing due to the doubling of the amount of the plan, has resulted in an official of insurance that a member could carry as of determination to give the plan the widest last January . . . About a third of the possible airing within the organization. approximately 47,000 insured members took When the plan was started in 1958, its the doubled amount when first notified of value to the membership and even its feasi- the opportunity to do so. bility at $12 a year for a basic unit were Wives of Legionnaires have been the unknown quantities, awaiting further beneficiaries in about 96% of claims paid experience ... It began as a service to the

. . . About 12% of the total payment to date organization and its members . . . Promotion has involved the deaths of Legionnaires was limited chiefly to occasional news under age 42, usually with young families stories, and direct mail to members advising

. . . 90% of the deaths in this younger age them of the availability of the insurance group were accidental, mostly by auto. . . . As a result of this "low-pressure"

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promotion, many members were unfamiliar ments at different ages on page 1) con- with it, and out of 2,700,000 Legionnaires, There is no medical examination Insurance is the number of insured members averaged nected with the insurance . . . between 40,000 and 47,000 per year ... It granted on the basis of truthful answers is to survivors within this relatively small to the questions on the application form are not neces- group that a million dollars in benefits (page 1) . . . Applicants if a question must be will have been paid in five years . . . Had sarily rejected all insurable members been covered, answered in a way suggesting uninsurability detailed questionnaire benefits in five years would have been . . . Instead a more if closer to 50 or 60 million dollars. is sent, and insurance may be granted more "Now that it has proved itself," says the underwriter is satisfied with the

. an applicant is National Commander Charles L. Bacon, "let detailed report . . If refunded us publicize it within the Legion so that deemed uninsurable, his payment is provide current no member will lack American Legion Life . . . Applicants must Insurance out of ignorance, and the only paid-up American Legion membership eligible uninsured members will be card numbers. those who, fully understanding it, do not desire its inexpensive protection." LEGIONNAIRES MAY APPLY FOR INSURANCE PLAN IN SEPTEMBER WHAT IS LEGION LIFE INSURANCE?: FOR »/4 ANNUAL COST: The Legion's life insurance plan for Legionnaires (either men or women) not insured under The American members is "reducing term insurance." . . . who are Plan may It is an official plan of the organization, Legion's low-cost Life Insurance coverage underwritten by the Occidental Life In- apply during September for full the surance Co. of California in all states for the balance of 1962 at one-fourth full except New York and Puerto Rico, where the annual payment ($6 instead of $24 for a half unit. company is the United States Life Insurance unit or $3 instead of $12 for a application form and accompanying Co. in the City of New York . . . All See applications are handled by the Legion's text on page 1. offer, but it is official administrator at P. 0. Box 5609, This is not a cut-rate insurance year runs Chicago 80, 111. (See footnote to form on possible because the 1 Dec. 31 . . . September page 1) from Jan. to will apply to The plan is not identical in all states, applications, when accepted, (Oct. 1 to Dec. 31) due to the varying requirement of state the remaining % of 1962 ... At year's end, September applicants laws . . . This description covers 43 states rate for 1963. and all foreign countries, in which it is will be billed for the full does permit mem- under a single American Legion group The year-end low rate bers to join the plan for a very small policy . . . Differences in other states are when only of not significant regarding protection or initial layout, by coming in % cost, but this description does not fit the current year remains. Applications filed in October or those states in all details . . . The unless they payments are the same in all states, the November are not encouraged, for 1963 as well benefits are slightly, but not sig- include the full payment The admin- nificantly, different in some. as the balance for 1962. ... for two months The plan may be confused with some com- istrative cost of insuring less is high, while the nuisance value mercial insurance under similar names . . . or for 1963 very The full words "American Legion" are to applicants of being billed rest of 1962 used only by the Legion's official plan. shortly after applying for Under The American Legion plan, in- is also high. sured members pay a flat rate of either $12 TO CALCULATE FIRST PAYMENT: a year or $24 a year, the $24 providing HOW Legion life insurance twice the insurance of the $12 unit . . . When you apply for each remaining month The maximum insurance, for younger members, (page 1) , send $2 for or for each is $8,000 for $24 a year (or $4,000 for of the year (full unit) , $1 (half unit) . . . Do not pay $12) . . . The amount of insurance for the remaining month flat rate reduces with age, and insurance for the month in which you date the form form in August ends at age 70, when the amount obtainable . . . Thus , if you date the for the flat rate has not been considered send $8 (fullunit) or $4 (half unit) ... If etc. enough to be of interest. (See scale of pay- you date it Sept. , send $6 or $3,

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 OF THE NEW) AMERICAN LEGION AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 1962

from their private affairs to conduct Nat'l Commander Outlines these studies, and to meet at the call of three successive National Commanders, Status winter and summer, often on short no- Legilion's Financial tice, to do the tasks we had given them. This prolonged study was undertaken October convention to consider dues increase, de- by them at the direction of your dele- layed since 1959; Three-year studies of programs gates to the 1959 National Convention, who recognized that we faced national and finances completed, ending basis for deficit financial problems bearing on our suc- budgets; Effects of inflation, fixed costs, outlined. cessful future operations. In postponing the dues increase proposals of 1959 your which have made us a great organiza- Convention Finance Committee pro- By Charles L. Bacon tion in the land. posed, and the delegates approved, "a National Commander, The American Legion It became obvious as long ago as study of all the programs of The Amer- At its May, 1962, meeting The 1959 that a dues increase would be ican Legion" and of its fiscal policies — National Executive Committee of The necessary. In that year, four states pre- the findings of such study to be reported American Legion gave serious attention sented resolutions to the National Con- to the 1960 Convention. to the present financial position of the vention urging adoption of a dues in- I do not know if those who accepted national American Legion — its income, crease. But as there had been a 25^ in- the task of carrying out the studies real- its expenditures, and its needs. crease that proved to be inadequate in ized that it would keep them working As a result of the study, it directed 1956, a three-year period of review, for three years instead of one. No report the National Finance Commission to overhaul and study was undertaken first, was possible to the 1960 Convention, as prepare a proposal to increase the na- so that the experience of 1956 would not the size of the task required its continu- tional per capita dues, for the considera- merely be repeated. ance. Nor was it finished at the time of tion of your delegates to the National During the three years from 1959 to the 1961 Convention. Convention this October at Las Vegas, 1962, every aspect of our national op- The matters involved, during this Nevada. eration was thoroughly reviewed from long period, have been the concern of The purpose of the proposal will be the point of view of both cost and effec- the Advisory Committees to three Na- to provide adequate revenue for the tiveness, by standing committees and tional Commanders; of the National Ex- general operations of the national commissions and by special committees. ecutive Committee; of a special Program American Legion and adequate sub- During that time, many changes were Study Committee which worked two scription revenue for The American made, while future needs were carefully years exclusively at this task; of the Legion Magazine. appraised. standing national Finance Commission; The exact amount to be proposed is I wish that I had room here to name of a special committee on future finances still under study by the Finance Com- all of the responsible Legionnaires from which I appointed last winter; of the na- mission, which will present a firm figure coast to coast who have taken time off tional Publications Commission; of the to the National Convention. Preliminary REPORTS TO THE MEMBERSHIP studies would seem to indicate a need for an increase in the neighborhood of 504 a year per member. This proposal will come at the end of my year as your National Com- mander, and if adopted will not affect my administration, but will affect me only as it affects you — as a dues-paying Legionnaire. Thus I can speak much more freely, and with less personal in- volvement than my successor. I feel that I am under an obligation to give the full membership a resume of the financial position of the national organization as I see it after almost a year in office, so that you and your delegates will know the situation before the Na- tional Convention convenes. You can wrap up the whole question in a very simple statement which everyone understands: Inflation has caught up with us, and our American Legion needs additional revenue in order to properly carry out in the Nine- teen Sixties those traditional programs National Commander Charles L. Bacon, of Missouri

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valuable monthly department in the Report on Finances "There is the overriding need to con- (Continued from previous page) sider the financial structure of The magazine. But I can tell you that for ten years . . . (whose) national Internal Reorganization Com- American Legion Magazine used our magazine has not been adding any mittee; and of our standing national In- management has explored and present means services, it has been subtracting, to ternal Affairs Commission and its sub- eveiy resource within its budget. Most is- . our total national . save committees. to represent the national organization . many of the sues are shortened for economy. Today, there is no more work on an but which is faced with problem here is entirely financial, . . the de- The emergency basis to be done, though the problems that have caused . to the unrealistic (for 1962) 75$ a results of these studies will bear fruit for struction of commercially operated pub- due ." year subscription base. manv years, and recommendations al- lications . . paid employees have not ready carried out have provided new Here are some further details of the Our lowest increase since 1958. In that direction for many of our programs. kind of problems which have absorbed had a pay Legionnaires time the Federal Government gave The task first assigned by the 1959 the attention of so many raises, and National Convention before a dues in- for the last three years equivalent workers three gave varying numbers crease should be presented to a national In 12 years we cut our national staff private employers year that convention has been completed. In a by 94 people, or 21%, only to see in- of raises. We need $50,000 a very isn't in our present budget simply to be final review of the situation last May, escapable rising costs push the employees. Until we find it the National Executive Committee in- minimum possible operating budget up fair to these trading on their loyal- structed the Finance Commission to pre- by 33%, in a period when our revenue we will be cruelly because pare the proposal that will be presented declined. ty. This is particularly painful, fed- to provide our own war- to vour delegates in October. The repeated liberalizations of we are unable steadily in- employees the fair economic It will be none too soon. In order to eral Social Security have veteran organization, carry out the work of our great organiza- creased our Social Security contributions treatment which, as an we in private and tion during the three years since the as an employer, without new revenue ask for veterans generally need for an increase in national revenue being found to meet the cost. government jobs. was recognized by our 1959 National A new postal law enacted this year, These are typical examples of the fru- Convention, we have been operating requiring 10^ for the return of an un- gality with which we operate, and of the placed temporarily on deficit budgets, and we deliverable magazine added $19,000 to burden which rising costs have have been practicing numerous econo- our 1962 budget, without new revenue upon us, and of the harm that some of are wreaking, mies, many of which would not have to meet the cost. our necessary economies been wise on any but a temporary basis. A proposal to increase postage rates, even in years when we have been spend- Deficit budgets spend money that we long entertained in Congress, could in- ing more than our income. Amer- there, don't have, but hope to have. As it was crease the mailing costs of The Yet our problems do not end must the will of three National Conventions ican Legion Magazine by $180,000 or for as we look to the future we in revenue to postpone needed increases in revenue more at any time, without compensating consider what the trend our pending thorough studv of the entire revenue. (When you mail more than 32 will be, as well as what we expect to do rational operation, deficit budgeting — million copies a year, fractions of cents on the national scene. totals). I as well as stringent cutbacks in many of of cost increases become huge A special committee which named on our operations — were iustified pending We are still paying 75^ a year sub- last winter to submit a final report comnlet'on of the studies ordered. scription price for our magazine, the these matters noted first that our mem- a The job having been done, no ra- 1919 rate. This has required cutbacks in bership does not wish us to go into tionale exists for continuing into another the size and brilliance of the magazine period of decline and inactivity. year spending income that does not ex- that have been self-defeating, as they "Recent conventions have uniformly in programs in ist. have hurt the magazine's position favored increasing Legion The general picture of our situation competition for quality advertising. In order to meet the challenge of new prob- was well stated in a few words bv Na- the past, when we were not afraid to lems facing our country and our or- tional Commander William R. Burke in invest in the size and scope of the maga- ganization," the committee advised me. explaining to the 1961 National Conven- zine, it earned profits which accumu- At the same time the committee noted tables, tion why the studies which we at first lated to the sum of two million dollars. that, based on mortality "The thought would be finished in 1960 were We placed that in our untouchable En- American Legion faces the loss by death still next six to ten years of up to still continuing at that time. A great deal dowment Fund, where its income over the had been achieved. Burke reported, supports our Rehabilitation and Child 600,000 members" — mostly in the after 15 meetings of the special Program Welfare programs. upper age brackets of WW1 and WW2 result in a Study Committee. After recounting its Economy cutbacks in the magazine members — which would achievements over a two year period, he have so crippled its competitive posi- "total reduction in annual per capita year." added that its "original purpose has not tion that its power to earn more than the dues income of $900,000 a yet been accomplished. This was in the difference between its cost and what we This year, by a united national and matter of determining whether the na- pay for it (3/5 of cost) has now dis- local effort, we have attracted new in tional organization in the face of mount- appeared. Its ability to serve The Amer- members slightlv excess of the growing costs and decreasing revenues could ican Legion and the nation and its war ing death rate. We envision a strong na- properly advance the purposes and veterans has steadily been reduced, as tional effort, when adequately financed, ideals of the founders. In that sense the the average number of pages per issue to develop paths to membership growth on a scope beyond the capacity of local work , . . thus far done . . . has (only) has shrunk. have written me Posts. Two pilot projects in Texas and . Many Legionnaires been preliminary . . There are some programs of the national organization protesting that our magazine did not Missouri by the national Membership operating on budgets that do not permit publish something which they felt it Committee have already demonstrated more than token consideration of the should have published. that, given the tools, we can develop

goals sought. There is desperate need for This Spring, a group of Legionnaires membership growth to overcome the action in such cases. circulated a petition to have added a natural attrition. But without the tools,

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 program that had been "sneaked through we must necessarily decline through the Now the solvency and future growth without hearings in the working of a Power higher than our- and vigor of our American Legion and Congress" dele- closing days of the 1945-46 session. selves. its programs rest in the laps of your Convention. that It was as a result of many factors, gates to the 1962 National Stelle's greatest Legion role was such as these, based on three years' I have presented this report so that you as chairman of the Legion Committee study, that the Finance Commission and they could fairly consider what is that drafted and maneuvered into law was instructed to submit a dues increase involved, well in advance of the Con- the GI Bill of Rights for WW2. In com- proposal to our Convention in October. vention. pany with many other able Legionnaires on the committee he worked tirelessly members Past Nat'l Cmdr John Stelle Dies at 70; for ten months, most of the practically deserting their private affairs Led GI Bill Fight; Was Illinois Governor to be on the scene in Washington, to see the GI Bill enacted 16 days after the Past National Commander John Stelle, joined the Nat'l Guard, became a ser- Sheridan Normandy landings. of McLeansboro, Illinois, died of leuke- geant, was sent to OCS at Ft. lieutenant. When the GI Bill was near failure of mia at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., and was commissioned a 1st promoted to captain on the passage, and it was necessary to bring on July 6. He would have been 71 on He was gassed and the late Rep. John Gibson from a Aug. 10. battlefield, where he was his machine gun Georgia sickbed to Washington within Stelle was chairman of the special wounded in action with 12 hours to cast the deciding vote for committee of The American Legion that battalion. the bill in committee, no telephone con- drafted and lobbied the GI Bill of Rights He was 27 when he participated in founding of the Legion at St. Louis. tact could be made with Georgia be- for WW2 servicemen in 1943-44, having the cause of wartime long distance priorities. been named to head the GI Bill Com- It was Stelle, with his fearless, roaring mittee by Nat'l Commander Warren voice, who picked up the phone and Atherton in 1943. "created" a priority that got the success- He was elected National Commander ful search for Gibson in Georgia under of The American Legion for 1945-46 at way. the National Convention in Chicago in November, 1945, succeeding Edward Membership Highlights N. Scheiberling, of N. Y. In 1934 he was elected State Treas- Minnesota; Pikeville, Tenn., etc. urer of Illinois. In 1936 he was elected Some astonishing membership records Lieutenant Governor. On the death of have been set recently by Legion units Gov. Horner in 1940, Stelle was sworn in various parts of the country. Among in as Governor of Illinois to complete them: Horner's term. (1) Post 66, in Pikeville, Tennessee, Stelle was one of 112 registered dele- had for the third straight time exceeded

gates from Illinois at the founding cau- its membership quota for the folloicing cus of The American Legion at St. 7' year by July 1. On June 27 last, Pike- Louis, Mo., May 8-10, 1919. He regis- ville sent 168 paid up memberships for tered as an attorney from McLeansboro, Nineteen Sixty-Three to Tennessee Le- and as a Captain of the 115th Machine gion Its — 166. Post's John Stelle Hq. quota The Gun Battalion of the 30th (Old Hickory) unusual membership team is headed by Division in WWI. He helped organize McLeansboro's Post Korea vet Martin DeBord, who is also He was born in McLeansboro, August 106 and many other Posts in southern its new Commander. 10, 1891, and claimed it as his residence Illinois. (2) The American Legion of Minne- all his life, though he had established a In his private career his biggest in- sota kept up its record breaking binge. Florida home on Star Island in Miami's terest became the Arketex ceramic tile On July 26, there were 95,863 paid up Biscayne Bay, was president of the firm. He also branched out into many Legionnaires for 1962 in Minnesota, an Cahokie Downs racetrack near St. Louis, other interests, oil, farms, dairy. He had all-time Minnesota high for the 6th and was chairman of the Board of the his own string of racehorses. straight year. One other Department Arketex Corp., world's largest maker of Stelle served as chairman of the Le- had an all-time high by July 26 — the structural glazed tile, in Brazil, Indiana. gion's National Publications Commis- Mexico American Legion. He is survived by his widow, the for- sion from 1950 to 1957, and was on the (3) The American Legion lost an mer Wilma Wiseheart of Shawneetown. Nat'l Executive Committee's liaison estimated 63,000 members by death in 111., to whom he was married in 1912, committee with the Publications Com- the first half of 1962, but national mem- and by two sons, both WW2 vets, Rus- mission at the time of his death. bership on July 26 ran ahead of the sell and John A. Stelle. The latter was Powerful in physique and voice, same date in 1961 by 8,266 — a gain in wounded at St. Lo, and the former was Stelle loved a battle. He was The new members of about 68,000. Pennsyl- a P-51 fighter pilot in the ETO. American Legion's "bull in a china shop" vania had the biggest net gain by July Stelle graduated from McLeansboro in many a controversy. He was involved 26, with an increase of 3,170 over July high school, and enrolled at Western in violent political controversy during 26, 1961. All told, 31 Departments Military Academy in Alton, Illinois. He his tenure as Lieutenant Governor and showed net gains in spite of deaths. played professional baseball with the Governor of Illinois; and during his term Others in the 1,000-plus net gain class Owensboro, Ky., team of the old Kitty of National Commander of The Ameri- were Puerto Rico, Florida, Tennessee, League. He completed a law course at can Legion he waged a bitter fight with North Carolina, Oklahoma and Indiana. Washington University in St. Louis, the Veterans Administration, headed Massachusetts had the largest net loss — and passed the bar in Oct. 1916. then by Gen. Omar Bradley, because of 3.174. Alabama and Kentucky were the When war was declared in 1917 he limitations on the WW2 job-training only others with net losses over 1,000.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 27 The Las Vegas Convention Hall: What More Could You Ask?

It may be smack-dab in the middle of a desert, but Legion conventiongoers will be in the plushest, poshest convention hall yet when they gather for meetings at the Las Vegas (Nev.) Conven- tion Center next October. Every chair (even the usually horrible

temporary folding type ) has a foam rub-

ber seat. Most of the interior is wall-to- wall carpeted. The outer halls where conventioneers usually jostle elbows and roadblock each other around protruding jerrybuilt hotdogstands are like sumptu- White arrow points to Las Vegas Convention Hall. View is from direction of airport, looking toward midtown (taller buildings), Main road is "strip" (Las Vegas Blvd.) with its hotels. ous, wide lounges with the food conces- sions recessed in the walls. There is even a cocktail lounge, with a 60-foot bar.

The whole works is airconditioned, naturally, in a town where the mid- summer midday temperature can be expected to hit 105° (but about 85° in

October) . For committee meetings there are 17 small and large side meeting rooms and auditoriums. The main audi-

torium is a rotunda that will seat 8,384.

Closer view of Convention Hall, showing part of parking area for 10,000 automobiles.

Convention Hall cocktail lounge. Exhibits, instead of being more stumbling blocks in crowded lobbies, are housed in an exhibit hall bigger than the main rotunda. The parking lot holds 10,- 000 cars. The convention hall is no more than about 15 minutes drive from the

Rotunda auditorium where Legion business sessions will meet, under main dome of the most distant part of the city, and is about Convention Hall. Here Leonard Bernstein conducts a symphony before a packed house. 3 to 5 minutes from most of the hotels and motels on "the strip" (or Las Vegas Boulevard), main road from the airport to midtown. The convention center was built as recently as 1959, hence its ultra-modern- ity. The city put $6 million into it, and has been reaping big and little national conventions ever since. Last June the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce convened there, and if Las Vegas can adequately hold a happy American Legion National Convention

it will be able to take on all comers — for there is none bigger. Las Vegas official- dom has no doubt that the Legion convention will be such a success that its Broad, plush, outer lobby of the Convention Hall, with muted lights, spacious hall- ability to accommodate any other group ways, full carpeting. Opening at left is rotunda interior. Lobby completely circles auditorium, and opens on right into exhibit hall (right wing in second photo above). in the future will never be questioned.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 NEWS

Young "Senators" from Nevada, Nebraska and Pennsylvania, view the Capitol's dome from one of its balconies, after a day visiting Congressmen in their offices, and seeing the Senate in session. American Legion Boys Nation-1962 Here are some scenes from Washing- ton, D.C. and the University of Mary- land during the week of July 20-27, when 98 high school juniors, represent- ing 26,000 American Legion Boys' Staters, met to form a temporary youth national government at the annual American Legion Boys' Nation. There were two delegates from each of 48 states, and the District of Colum- bia. It was the 17th Boys' Nation, run by the Legion's National Americanism Commission. Legion counselors came to give a hand from as far away as Wis- consin and Florida. The 98 youngsters, a capable and serious lot, divided into two political parties, held conventions, adopted platforms, ran candidates for U.S. President and Vice President (winners: H. Pettus Randall, President, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who had been elected Governor of Ala- bama Boys' State; and Bernard W. Gie- sen II, Vice President, of Houston, Tex.,

The 1962 Boys' Nation on the move at the University of Maryland campus. These 98 high who had been Governor of Texas Boys' school juniors were the representatives of 26,000 American Legion Boys' Staters of 1962. State). As Nationalists, they defeated fHBBBI .plplipSSIIilll I—I

The Boys' Nation Nationalist party holds a night convention to name its both 17. Randall won the Presidency and Giesen the Vice-Presidency candidates for President and Vice President. Nominees were H. Pettus over candidates of the rival Federalist party in Boys' Nation elections

Randall, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Bernard W. Giesen II of Houston, Tex., held the next day.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 29 the Federalist candidates, Nordahl La Missouri Boys' State, and chairman of American Legion for 14 years. The bills Biue, of Audubon, Iowa, and Tom Loss, the Legion's national Boys' State Com- have become, respectively, Public Laws of Sheridan, Wyoming. mittee from 1950 to 1955. 87-439; 87-438 and 87-437. Sen. John They then set up a national govern- McClellan (Ark.) and Rep. Roland ment and legislature and judicial system Craig Laine, of Texas, member of the Libonati (111.) originally presented the and operated them. But not before they Legion's Nat'l Public Relations Com- bills in the Senate and House. had seen the actual government in oper- mission. ation, with visits to Congress, the White Mrs. Lillian M. Jennings, of Ex-Service House, the Civil Service Commission, Richard F. Cunningham, Commander Women's Post 243, East Lynn, Mass., the State Department, the FBI, the of the Massachusetts American Legion has been elected to a second term as Pentagon, the Smithsonian Institution, in 1940-41. Treasurer of The American Legion De- and had been guests of the National partment of Massachusetts — one of the Press Club, where they were addressed John P. Nation, Commander of the few women to hold state or national by National Commander Charles L. Kansas American Legion in 1953-54. offices. She was a Yeoman F in the Navy Bacon and James E. Webb, Administra- in WW1, with 14 months duty. tor of the National Aeronautics and Insurance Bill Moves Space Administration. The American Legion in Appleton, The House Vets Affairs Committee Acting as a U.S. Senate, the Boys' Na- Wise, played host to a youth baseball approved the bill to reopen WW2 and tion discussed and voted on two bills team from Ft. William, Ontario, on July Korea gov't life insurance for one year now pending before Congress—HB 6433 14, including a night game with the on Aug. 2. Passage seemed certain, as (to establish a cabinet post of Urban Appleton American Legion Baseball this committee had been the only stum- Affairs) and Si 555 (to make federal youngsters. It was about a 700 mile bling block to the act for some time. It contributions to the campaigns of candi- round trip for the Canadian guests from was also expected that an increase in dates for Federal office.) Lake Superior's north shore. compensation for war-disabilities would pass as a result of the committee action, At its convention in Iloilo Province, the since the Senate had tied that bill to Philippine Department of The American Recent deaths of widely known Le- the insurance proposal. Forshay "Out- gionnaires include: Legion voted Kenneth J. liiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiitiiininiM Post Commander of the Year". U.S. Senator Henry Dworshak, of Idaho, standing Award recognized the vigorous growth, who was Commander of the Idaho BRIEFLY NOTED programs and American-Philippine re- American Legion in 1932. iTlllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIllllllllllllMI(IMIIIII!IIMIIIIIIII1lllllllllllllllllllllllli;illMII1lllllll lations work of Post 10, at Clark Air The 42nd Observance of Nat'l Educa- Matthew of Illinois, national Base, under Forshay 's leadership. J. Murphy tion Week — founded by The American Vice of Commander The American Le- Legion and the Nat'l Education Ass'n gion in 1939-40; one of the organizers The National Recreation Ass'n has cited in 1921 — is set for the week starting Furniture Post 258, American Legion, of the first American Legion Boys' State, Sunday, Nov. 11 — Veterans Day. Sug- and vice-president of Illinois' Boys' State of Grand Rapids, Mich., for its spon- gested observances of the week by Posts since its founding in Illinois sorship of youth baseball since 1937, 1934; — in conjunction with their schools — amateur boxing tourneys since 1924, American Legion Commander in 1937. have been prepared by the Legion's and long cooperation with the city's Nat'l Americanism Commission and dis- Neal Grider, of Indianapolis, Ind., who recreation department. tributed to all Post Commanders in the was National Treasurer of The American September ADVANCE - nat'l publica- Legion in 1933-34 and from 1945 to of Springfield, Mass., tion for Post leaders. Harold P. Redden, 1958. chairman of the Legion's nat'l Finance the U.S. Dep't Clarence H. (Cap) Olson, of Montana, Commission was awarded James T. Blair, former Governor of Merit Secre- was appointed National Legislative Di- of Labor's Certificate of by Missouri, longtime member of the Le- of Labor Arthur Goldberg, on rector of The American Legion on July tary J. gion's nat'l Distinguished Guests Com- occasion of Redden's recent retire- 16. Olson, a WW1 and veteran, the mittee and the first Legionnaire to be- WW2 the S. Veterans Employ- had been Acting Legislative Director ment from U. come insured under the Legion's group Service. V.E.S. Chief Edward L. since the retirement of Director Miles ment life insurance plan for members. Omohundro made the award to Redden Kennedy (N.Y.) last March 31. Olson for Goldberg. Frank Mackey, one of the Legionnaires had been assistant director since 1950. who defied the Hitler occupation of A member of Post 73, Sweetgrass, Dwight Cowles Post 70, Overland Park, Paris on July 4, 1940 by marching down Montana, he presently lives in Arlington, Kans., has received a citation of appre- the Champs Elysee to the cheers of Va. He served seven months overseas as ciation from the Overland Park Christian French throngs, to rekindle the flame of an enlisted man in WW1. In WW2 he Church. For 9 years the Post has allowed freedom at the tomb of the French un- rose to the rank of colonel and was Ass't church to use the Post for Church known soldier under Nazi guns. A Chief of Staff of the 41st and 32nd the Infantry Divisions, serving in the Pacific. School, and its grounds for Sunday founder of Paris Post 1, Mackey was church parking, without charge. caretaker of the Suresnes Cemetery for He held many Legion offices in a career U.S. war dead there for 21 years. He going back to 1920 in his home state, The Medal of Honor, highest award to died at 80 in Ridgefield, N.J. including Department Commander. an individual by the United States, was Thorn os Priteharcl, Alabama State Amer- President Kennedy has signed three bills 100 years old on July 12. On that date ican Legion Service Officer. extending the patents on the emblems in 1862 President Lincoln authorized of The American Legion, The American the Army Medal of Honor, as proposed Harry M. Gambrell, former director of Legion Auxiliary, and the Sons of The in the Senate the previous February by

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Sen. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. Morris Burr (1961) and Earl L. Townsend (1962), 1962), Post 72, Albuquerque, New Mex. Post 63, Westport, Conn. John J. Higgins and Henry Hoffman and S. The first six medals went to survivors of William F. Abbott and Herman F. Flugel (both Jacobellis (all 1953), Post 391, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1962), Post 111, Woodstock, Conn. a Eugene Faulkner (1953), Post 398, New York, the aborted Union attempt to capture Robert K. Warland (1962), Post 165, Wolcott, N.Y. Confederate train at Marietta, Ga., and Conn. Pulaski B. Culbert (1961), Post 616, Richfield Garland D. Bloodsworth, Jr. (1962), Post 19, Springs, N.Y. wreck Southern rail lines — the cele- Laurel, Del. Raymond McGill and Carl Martinson and John James H. Smith (1962), Post 1, Titusville, Fla. F. Schultz, Sr. and Leo See (all 1962), Post 777, brated "Andrews Raid." Since then the George Farnall (1961), Post 20, Belle Glades, Celoron, N.Y. Army has awarded 2,199 Medals of Fla. Emery J. Mix (1962), Post 907, Candor, N.Y. Royal E. Weidner (1962), Post 52, Leesburg, Fla. Ben Gravey (1962), Post 1004, Brooklyn, N.Y. Honor. The medal has also been be- Sam A. McCollum (1962), Post 125, Gulfport, Charles Holste (1956) and Frank Pisano (1962), — has Fla. Post 1070, Bronx, N.Y. stowed by the Navy and Congress Charles B. McAllister (1962), Post 90, States- Louis J. Gianazza (1962), Post 1209. Bronx, N.Y. boro, L. 1242, awarded it to civilians. Ga. Thomas Byrne (1962), Post New York, Herbert F. Schindewolf (1962), Post 21, Chicago, N.Y. From last July 12 to March 25, 1963, 111. Sidney Harris (1962), Post 235, Rolla, N. Dak. Adolph Larson and Frank Ravenscroft (both Dave Cunningham and Arthur L. Howell (both the centennial of the Medal of Honor 1962), Post 266, Chicago, 111. 1962). Post 195, Jay, Okla. is being officially observed. Edward Kuhlman and Daniel P. Kulczyk and Abraham Aaron and Ebner S. Abrams and Dr. Charles Kwiat and Edward LaPunia (all 1962), Sherman Ames and Carl S. Bender (all 1962), Post Post 330, Calumet City, 111. 9. Easton, Pa. Cyrus Henshaw and Edward Mayer and Oliver James Reese (1962), Post 123, Lansford, Pa. Waynesboro, Pa., recently Post 15, Neutzling and Thomas Shashek (all 1962), Post Warren H. Luiz (1961) and Fran jis X. Campbell staged a mammoth pork-and-sauerkraut 435, Glen Carbon, 111. (1962). Post 179 Yeardon Pa. Emil Meister and Henry G. Murphy and Alvin Leroy B. Renn and Jacob H. Sherrard and dinner, serving 1,400 meals, and there- Senf and James M. Wood (all 1961), Post 854, Oliver M. Taylor (all 1960), Post 295, Browns- Evergreen Park, 111. ville, Pa. raised for the Franklin by $1,930.47 Ted S. Kuzniar (1962) Post 923 Chicago, 111. Theodore Hinger and Charles Rimsky (both County Society for Crippled Children. Louis H. Hauth (1962), Post 312, Hawkeye, Iowa. 1962), Post 304. Jim Thorpe, Pa. John Evans Beers (1962), Post 502, Castana, Frank A. Sharp, Sr. (1962), Post 42, Clemson, Iowa. SC. Frank T. Sullivan (1962), Post 14, Lawrence, W. N. Forbes, Jr. (1962), Post 371, Natalia, Tex. The Legion Department of Florida, Kans. Eugene E. Bryant and Fred B. Crawford and through its Flag and Patriotic Observ- Donald F. Casey (1959), Post 123, Ware, Mass. Justin A. C. Curtis (all 1962), Post 21, Newport, Vt. Edwin M. Noyes (1961), Post 223, Duxbury, Robert E. Bonney and Dr. H. H. Kretzler and ance chairman, Warren Brubach, pro- Mass. Otto N. Sorenson (all 1962), Post 66, Edmonds, Ruth M. Farrell (1962), Post 264, Boston, Mass. Wash. statistical report for vides the following Otto Petersen and Richard F. Yubel (both 1961), E. C. Kaiser and G. O. Nickerson and John C. 1961-62 on patriotic functions by Le- Post 283, Lunenburg, Mass. Robinson and Wm. H. West (all 1962), Post 116, Dr. Frederick J. Gillis and Dr. Carl F. Maraldi Goldendale, Wash. gion Posts in that state and John L. Mayer (all 1962), Post 316, Boston, Mass. for display, or dedi- Life Memberships are accepted for Flags provided Dudley S. Turner (1962), Post 350, New Marl- publication only on an official form, boro, Mass. cated, 7,879. which we provide. Reports received N. Madison and C. McPherson and M. Men- only from Commander, Adjutant or Patriotic observances officially attend- singer and H. Moss (all 1962), Post 261, East Finance Officer of Post which awarded Detroit, Mich. the life membership. ed, 232. Matthew L. McEniry Lea, (1962), Post 56, Albert form by sending Minn. They may get Flags for graves and caskets, 4,523. stamped, addressed return envelope to: Conrad B. Lund (1961) and Emil T. Peterson "L. M. Form, American Legion Maga- Flag etiquette booklets provided to (1962), Post 87, Alexandria, Minn. zine, 720 5th Ave., New York 19, N.Y." Daniel Brockman (1962), Post 31, Twin Bridges, schools, 4,180. Mont. On a corner of the return envelope write the of you wish Frank E. Barrett and William H. MacDonald number names Leading Post in such activities in the to report. No written letter necessary (both 1962). Post 4, Keene, N.H. to get forms. state received an official award. It was Rev. Fred W. Druckenmiller (1962), Post 35, Union, N.J. Post 304, Dania, Fla., whose Flag Julia L. Kelly (1962). Post 419. Jersey City. N.J. A. Officer is Clifford Vought. Sam Lopez and Richard W. Turpen (both

A:HIIIIMIIIUI1ll1IHIIIIllllMllllMlltlll1llllinilllllillllUIIIIIIIIIIIMIIillllllllMIIIIIIIII>'^r The American Legion and its affiliates, THE AMERICAN LEGION at all levels from Post and Unit to Na- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OUTFIT REUNIONS tional, spent more than $7,000,000 on JUNE 30, 1962 ^iiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiMiiiiiiiiMitiiiuiiiMiiiiMiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiuMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiti'Ar Child Welfare activities in the year ASSETS Reunion will be held in month indicated. ending June 30; bringing total expendi- Cash on hand and on deposit 378,769.54 For particulars, write person whose address Receivables 215,095.18 is given. tures since 1925 to $178,000,000 - ac- Inventories 573,467.33 Invested Funds Notices accepted on official form only. cording to report of nat'l 1,257,826.01 the midyear Trust Funds: For form send stamped, addressed return Child Welfare Chairman Percy A. Le- Overseas Graves Decoration envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion Trust Funds ...$ 269,774.27 Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y. moine, of Louisiana. Employees Retirement Notices should be received at least four Trust Fund 3,267,724.37 3,537,498.64 months before scheduled reunion. Real Estate 814,228.39 Earliest submissions favored when vol- Furniture & Fixtures, ume of requests is too great to print all. Less Depreciation 236,040.17 LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Deferred Charges 60,085.94 ARMY 8th Inf Reg't (WWl)-(Nov.) Henry M. Buckley, The award of a life membership to a $7,073,011.20 375 - 9th St., San Francisco 3, Calif. Legionnaire by his Post is a testimonial by those who know him best that he LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE r*h Enirs (WWl)-(Sept.) Elliot Beebe, 1722 N. Louis, 111. has served The American Legion well. AND NET WORTH 23rd, East St. 429 Below are listed some of the pre- 36th Inf Div (WW2)-(Sept.) Angelo Barca. Current Liabilities $ 378,008.93 viously life Warburton Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. unpublished membership Funds Restricted as to use 26,267.91 Post 58th (Coast) ArtiUery, Bat F-(Oct) Leo C. Read, awards that have been reported Deferred Income 1,369,722.23 to the editors. They are arranged by 714 E. Lake Ave., Baltimore 12, Md. Trust Funds: 107th A~Ware Co (WWl)-(Nov.) Dr. Wm. States or Depts. Overseas Graves Decoration Rich, 200 Cranford PI., Teaneck, N.J. Trust Funds 269,774.27 116th Gen. Hosp (WW2)-(Oct.) Dr. Wm. Rich, Employees Retirement William H. Bright (1962), Post 44, Scottsdale, 200 Cranford PI., Teaneck, N.J. Trust Fund 3,267,724.37 3,537,498.64 Ariz. 13lst Machine Gun Bn (WWl)-(Oct.) C. F. Vick- Mary Lola Paulding (1962), Post 56, Santa Net Worth: rey, Box 826, Frederick, Okla. Maria, Calif. Reserve Fund .... 24,185.11 139th Inf, Co B (WWl)-(Oct.) Francis A. Brandon, Genevieve Dahy Cramer (1962), Post 185, Holly- Restricted Fund . 22,025.40 213 Topeka Blvd., Topeka, Kans. wood, Calif. Real Estate 814,228.39 162nd Inf Reg't-(Dec) Harry Nelson, 5214 N.E. Harry Schabbleman (1962), Post 268, Los Reserve for Reha- 30th Ave., Portland 11, Oreg. Angeles, Calif. bilitation 505,122.17 496th AAA Gun Bn-(Oct.) Frank W. Wasik, 4207 J. Earl Merifield (1961), Post 271, Los Angeles, Reserve for Child Harlem Rd., Buffalo 26, N.Y. Calif. Welfare 70,609.45 5-il QM Railhead Co-(Nov.) Strates Frangules, Clyde Pervose (1961), Post 589, Salinas, Calif. Reserve for 483 Charles St., Maiden 48, Mass. George C. Hoerger (1962), Post 687, Tarzana, Convention 60,000.00 NAVY Calif. $1,496,170.52 6th Seabees-(Oct.) Jack Readey, 5847 N. Cicero J. M. Spencer (1962), Post 15, Loveland, Colo. Unrestricted Ave., Chicago 46, 111.

3. M. Branaum (1962), Post 207, Pueblo, Colo. Capital . . . 265,342.97 1,761,513.49 44th Navy Band-(Oct.) Samuel Silverman, 680 Isaac Ricker M. (1962), Post 2, Bristol, Conn. $7,073,011.20 County Road, Barrington, R. I. Rev. Robert Keating and Carl Limon (both USS Briareus (AR 12) (WW2)-(Oct.) Don Collins, 1962), Post 45, Meriden, Conn. 328 Kennelly Ave., Hempstead, L.I., N.Y.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 31 ARE THE RESERVES REALLY READY? (Continued from page 11)

immediate requirements were compara- tional Guard divisions were alerted, and three-division, three air-wing Marine tively modest. their level of readiness increased so that Corps; and sufficient tactical air power support the ground forces What was initially desired was to build if it had been necessary to start sea-lift- and air lift to swift air up the Seventh Army in Germany with ing two, three or four additional Army of the Army and provide for of a number of additional non-divisional divisions across the Atlantic, the latter deployment when needed. Since eight per- units; to establish capability Hying could also have been progressively re- our Army divisions are more or less a of — two divisions to Europe on very short placed in the Strategic Army Force. manently deployed overseas five in in Korea and one in Ha- notice by prepositioning their heavy Primarily, it appears, the mission of Germany, two the Pacific equipment so that only the men and our citizen components—especially those waii as a forward reserve for — there are left just eight divisions their individual weapons would require of the Army— is to enable the President area (Strategic Reserve Army air transportation; to back this by having to respond promptly to one limited for the STRAF continental United States. four more divisions ready to move out emergency without serious risk of im- Force) in the While this is a substantial force level, it is by sea if necessary; to provide immedi- pairing his capability of dealing with far from enough to meet possible — even ate additional tactical air power in another one on the other side of the probable — future demands without the Europe in case the Soviet interference in world. The improved readiness of the backing of Ready Reserve forces. the Berlin air corridors grew worse: and citizen forces provides greater freedom Six divisions, to begin with, must be at to beef up our anti-submarine capabili- of action for the active forces. It enables all times ready for early deployment to ties in the North Atlantic Ocean to offset us to make the fullest use of our global Europe, as Secretary of Defense Mc- any possible Soviet submarine threat to mobility by sea and air, and of our un- told Congress last January. The the sea lanes. questionable superiority in sea power Namara force required for intervention in Cuba All this was accomplished. But in or- and long-range air power, by providing was estimated early last year as not less der to do these things, and still retain a the nation with readiness-in-depth in the than six divisions, and Castro today has margin of power to deal with such situ- ground forces. Such readiness will be the heavier and better armament (including ations as: a possible worsening of the decisive element in most limited emer- jet aircraft) than he had then. Interven- situation in Southeast Asia, a call for gencies of the future, as they have been tion in Southeast Asia on any scale be- help from a Latin-American neighbor in the past—in Greece, in Malaya, in yond a counter-guerrilla effort might threatened by a Castro-instigated "war Korea, in Southeast Asia. need at least as great a force if it were to of liberation," or a surprise emergency We may take it as virtually an un- but a quick hit-and-run af- in be anything some other area of the free world, it changeable fact that an active Army of fair, and even that would be a substantial was necessary to call up 150.000 reserv- 16 divisions - totalling about 1,000,000 effort, considering the time-distance fac- ists. men — is all the budgetary traffic will tors affecting operations on the other They were called. They responded, in bear over the long pull, considering the side of the Pacific Ocean. Furthermore, the most successful mobilization of citi- need of maintaining: a thoroughly ade- no one can say when the unpredictable zen forces in the nation's history. The quate nuclear deterrent force; a Navy Red Chinese may take it into their heads Berlin crisis promptly cooled off. The capable of commanding the sea lanes to renew their attack on Chiang Kai- enemy was impressed and probably most wherever required, with the support of a shek's offshore islands, or against For- unpleasantly surprised, since it has long mosa itself — or against Korea. Without been a cherished belief of Soviet military even considering what could happen in analysts that the "Wall Street imperial- Africa or the Middle East, it is clear ists," who are supposed to be running the that we cannot hope to keep up an active United States government, cannot de- Army which could maintain the required pend on citizen reserves to back their level of stand-by-reinforcement for Eu- policies. rope and be able also to handle even one "For the first time," said Senator of these other contingencies, let alone Henry M. Jackson of Washington State, two or more of them at the same time. on the floor of the Senate, "we have We should, as already remarked, be used the military power represented by thankful indeed that as we face such new our Reserve program to achieve FOR SEPTEMBER foreign and unprecedented demands on our policy objectives." The Reverend Milton B. Faust citizen components, these components For the first time, because never be- are at the highest state of readiness they fore have our reserve forces Department Chaplain, been close have ever achieved. Warned by Korea, enough to combat-readiness to carry any North Carolina Congress in 1951 passed the Universal weight in the calculations of our oppo- Military Service and Training Act, which Blessed nents. But this first time will God, help us to watch and not be the established a reserve obligation for every last. pray, to trust in Thee that we may man who serves in the active forces. In What the reserve call-up win for Thee the battle over sin and did (as far 1955, when "obligors" were beginning as the Army components apathy. Give us a vision of Thyself were con- to accumulate, the Reserve Forces Act cerned) was to provide a backlog so that we will not fear to let Thee of regularized the situation, and made it force-two divisions and supporting have complete control. Lord make us units possible to require six months of active -which could be combat-ready strong to do Thy will when we see it. within a duty training for all men enlisting in an calculable period (about 16 Give us brave hearts and help us to weeks). This organized Ready Reserve unit. This in would have allowed the hold fast to our trust in Thee and our two active Army turn relieved the unit commanders of the divisions earmarked for Faith in Mankind. In God's name we European de- burden of carrying on individual train- ployment to be sent out pray always and forever. of the country ing within the unit and allowed them to without reducing the Amen. remaining Army use all available training time for unit and Marine Corps ground forces below training. Legionnaires may well be proud the level of reasonably prompt response of the vigorous and unswerving support to some other emergency. Other Na- The American Legion gave to these two

32 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SI 'TEMBER 1962 masterly pieces of legislation. By 1961, the limits of economic prudence, hope to the buck around. Divisions and other we were beginning to cash in on these "maintain an adequate level of active units which have once been called should benefits, as the results of last Fall's par- forces" to meet the successive crises of go on a lower priority for a while after- tial mobilization amply prove. varying dimensions and intensities with ward. For such a structure we need at It is unfortunate that these results which communist ingenuity will continue least the number of drill-pay spaces — have not been put in proper perspective to confront us. The only "practical pol- 400,000 for the Army National Guard, for the average American. Instead, icy" available to us is to rely, as needed, 300,000 for the Army Reserve - which gripes from a comparatively few dis- on using our reserve forces. Congress, with consistent Legion sup- gruntled individuals filled the headlines The subsequent proposal of the De- port, has so far firmly insisted on. We and attracted far more public attention partment of Defense for a drastic reduc- may, in fact, need more. than the heartening fact that we had just tion of the Army's reserve components The filler problem needs attention. It carried out the most efficient mobiliza- seems to have had its origin in what the should be dealt with at the company tion of citizen reserves in the whole of civilian leadership of that Department level, not by means of an unmanageable our national experience. chooses, in their inexperience and dis- pool of 733,000 individuals. The Army For this failure in perspective, the regard of historical background, to re- National Guard has already worked out responsibility lies with Secretary of De- gard as a disappointing lesson. Exactly a simple, effective plan for this. Full fense McNamara and his principal civil- the reverse is the case, as the wartime levels of equipment should be made ian advisers. They should have empha- memories of most Legionnaires will con- available to units. There should be more sized positive accomplishment loud and firm. full-time technicians — and an accept- clear, with appropriate comparison with We should, of course, be mindful of able career pattern for this type of per- previous experiences. Instead, their re- the problems which the 1961 experience sonnel. Administrative delays in mobil- action was almost wholly defensive, cen- pointed up. No. 1 among these is the ization plans should be eliminated. All tered on detailed attempts to excuse crucial question of equal sharing of the this will help us maintain reserve power minor slip-ups. Secretary McNamara burden. We must maintain for the in- structured in depth — in real depth, cap- went so far as to tell a Senate committee definite future a capability for partial able of providing a steady flow of units early this year that: "It is not a practical mobilization — meaning that in any given to meet one, two or even three concur- policy to rely on the reserve forces to limited emergency, some will be called rent problems. We can settle for nothing meet the repeated crises which inevitably and others won't. We must make sure less if our freedom of action is not to be lie ahead. We must maintain an ade- that the same units, the same communi- severely — perhaps fatally — restricted. quate level of active forces to meet these ties, the same individuals are not tapped One final requirement merits atten- crises, relying on the reserve forces for twice in succession. This can't be done tion. As already remarked, nuclear war augmentation only when armed conflict within the limits of Secretary McNa- seems improbable under existing or fore- is imminent." This, with all due respect mara's six-division high priority reserve seeable circumstances. But circumstances for an able and hard-working Secretary, force. There must be room enough with- do change in time; what is improbable is utterly unrealistic. We cannot, within in the Ready Reserve structure to pass now is not necessarily impossible a few ---Exciting New Way To Earn $6.44 An Hour INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS

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back of the hole. This is a good set for gether to discourage an animal from edge of the bait hole. Set the trap on top most fur bearing animals. pushing through. You may have two or of the pole and staple the chain to the #2. Culvert set. Culverts under road- more openings in the fence, each guard- pole. ways offer an excellent opportunity for ed by a trap. A variation of this set is made at "blind" sets, traps placed in a natural #1. Crawl Log set. Along steep- water level or slightly above. Cut a foot- pathway without bait or other attraction. banked channels, sloughs, and small long length of fairly stiff wire, bend it Many animals use such culverts in cross- creeks, an effective set, especially for into a U to form a trap support. With a ing roadways. If the opening is much muskrats and mink, is the crawl log. jump type trap the wire goes below the wider than the trap, narrow it down with Notch a small log (four to six inches in open jaws of the trap and between the stones, pieces of wood or whatever natu- diameter) to accommodate the trap. spring and the trap base. Push the ends ral material is at hand, to guide passing Stake the log in position so that the trap of the wire into the bank so the trap sets animals over the trap. Stake the trap out- will be under the surface but the top of below the water surface an inch or two side the culvert or wire it to a convenient the log will be out of water. An animal at the entrance of the hole. Stake the trap bush or small tree to prevent a trapped swimming up the channel will cross firmly through the chain ring. Within a animal from getting inside the culvert through the open notch and hit the trap half chain's length, drive in two more where it could be difficult to dislodge. pan. If the water is fairly deep under the stakes. Trapped game will wrap the

Cover the trap carefully, using material crawl log, animals may dive under it. chain around the stakes and soon drown. that will blend in with the surroundings This is easily prevented by setting a row #9. Scent Station set. On open river and taking care that twigs, small rocks, of stakes under the surface and along bars and points, where sets are difficult or other debris will not prevent the trap the upstream side of the crawl log. to locate properly, the scent station set from closing completely. If water is run- #8. Pocket set. All animals are nat- is effective. Carefully dig up a clump of ning through the culvert, traps may be urally curious about burrows and holes grass six or eight inches in diameter at placed under water without covering. along stream banks where crayfish or the base. Leave the upper roots attached #3. Cubby or Bait Pen set. This is a other food may be found. This is an so the clump will stay together. "Plant" simple and effective bait set. A pen is especially effective set for mink and the grass on the open bar. Scent the constructed of bark, chunks of wood, muskrats. It is made by digging an up- clump with fish oil, oil of anise, or com- rocks or other material in keeping with ward slanted hole six inches in diameter mercial trapping lure and conceal a trap the surroundings. A bait of meat scraps, in the bank. It should be about eight or two in the sand or dirt so that the pan poultry cleanings, fish or similar food inches deep. Place a bait — fish, rabbit, is about six inches out from the clump. item is nailed or tied securely to the back mouse, or the like, in back of the hole. This is an effective set for mink, musk- of the cubby which should be built A pole, beveled at the top to hold the rat, raccoon, and otter and will fre- against a tree or large boulder. The trap trap, is jammed firmly into the stream quently take other kinds of fur-bearers. is set in the narrow open entrance and bottom with one end leading up to the #10. Hanging Bait set. In extensive covered carefully. #4. Crossing Log set. Many animals use fallen logs in crossing over creeks and gullies. With a sharp hand axe, cut a notch of sufficient size to hold the trap. The proof is in the puffing Staple or wire the chain securely to the log and cover the trap with leaves, rotted wood, or moss. #5. Trail set. One of the most effec- • TASTES FRESH tive methods of taking fur of all kinds is the "blind" set in which the trap is placed in a trail being used by animals in their nightly wanderings. Bed the traps (two are more effective than a single trap for this set) in the trail so that the pans will set slightly to one side of the center line of the pathway. Select a narrow part of the trail or constrict it by carefully placing rocks or wood chunks at the side of the path to force the animal to step into the trap. An inch or two away from the open jaws of the trap, place short "step- ping sticks," about V^-inch in diameter and at right angles to the trail. This will cause an animal to step over the stick and onto the trap pan. #6. Fence set. Along small streams where tracks show mink, coons, and other animals to be in the habit of traveling, flat open banks often make it difficult to locate good places for blind sets. The fence set is an effective remedy in such a © 1962 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Winston-Salem, N. C. situation. Using dry sticks sharpened and driven into the ground, make a fence up The flavor most favored in the U.S.A. either bank, leaving an opening wide enough to be guarded by a trap. The sticks should be 1 8 inches to 2 feet above the ground level and close enough to- PRINCE ALBERT THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 35 on the underside of the mouth, down the belly to the tip of the tail. Make an incision down the inside of all four legs to join the center cut. Peel off the pelt, flesh as described, and stretch the pelt as nearly square as possible by nailing on a

wood panel or convenient wall where it is protected from rain and sun. Beaver are skinned by ringing feet and tail, then making only one cut from the underside of the jaw to the base of the tail. After completing skinning and fleshing, nail the pelt out in a circular form to dry. Circles drawn on the drying panel or wall will help greatly in obtain- ing the desired round form of the finished pelt. Single piece drying boards for cased skins are made of Vi-inch lumber, smoothed and shaped to proper dimensions. Experience will help you determine the proper size of board to use, but the following will serve as a guide in getting you started on the right track:

base shoulder length width width

muskrat 24 in. 8 in. 7 in. marsh areas where there are no trees, connective tissue between pelt and body skunk 34 10 7V2 logs or stumps for cubbies or other types only as required, peel the pelt off the civet 24 5V2 5 of conventional bait sets, hanging the hind legs. The tail of all animals except raccoon 42 12 10 bait above the trap on a grass arch is a opossum and muskrats are skinned out mink 36 4 3 useful trick. Locate the set on a runway and left on the pelt. Once the tail is weasel 16 3 2 through the marsh vegetation. Several skinned, peel the pelt off the body, work- red fox 50 8 6»/2 stalks of rush or marsh grass from both ing the front legs out mainly with your gray fox 48 6V2 5V2 sides of the trail are tied together at the hands, exerting a steady, even pressure. opossum 28 1V4 6 top to form an arch a foot or more You will need to do some careful knife bobcat 50 9 1 above the trail. Tie a small bait — fish or work around eyes, ears, and mouth to No set of trapping instructions can do meat for mink and coon, parsnip, carrot, avoid making damaging holes in the pelt. more than get you started in the right or apple for muskrat — to the mid-point Slip the skin, fur side in, over a direction. Personal experience will be of the arch and set the trap in the pass- smooth, boat-shaped drying board. Now your best teacher. Reading can, how- age about six inches out from the spot with a tablespoon or a dull knife, care- ever, be of real help if you augment it directly below the bait. Stake trap se- fully scrape off fat and connective tissue by trial and observation on your own curely. If trap thieves are no problem, clinging to the pelt. At first this is a time- trapping grounds. use a long stake that will stick up above consuming job, but with a bit of experi-

the marsh vegetation. This will help you ence it becomes a relatively simple chore locate your set more readily, sometimes to do a good job of fleshing. A hatchet There are many books that can help a problem in open marshes where there is used by some trappers to flesh heavier you in this most interesting avocation. are few landmarks to help you remem- skins such as coon and skunk. The pelt Among these are: ber where you put your traps. is slipped on the board, the hatchet head "Trapping North American Fur-bear- SKINNING, FLESHING, AND is grasped in one hand while the other ers," by S. Stanley Hawbaker, Fort DRYING PELTS. holds the pelt taut on the board. Work- Louden, Pa. Before tackling the skinning opera- ing carefully from tail toward the head, "Successful Trapping Methods," by

tion, make certain the fur is clean and the layer of clinging flesh and fat is Walter Chansler. Published by D. free from burrs and other debris. If the slipped from the skin with the hatchet Van Nostrand Co., N. Y.

animal is muddy, wash its fur out care- head held at a flat angle. "The Trappers Partner," by E. J.

fully with cool water. There are two After fleshing is complete, slip the Dailey, Ogdensburg, N. Y. methods of skinning fur animals. The pelt, fur side in, on a properly shaped "The Trappers Guide," by O. L.

"cased" method is used for all animals drying board. It should be stretched only Butcher, Shushan, N. Y. except beaver and southern coons which slightly and tacked with small finishing "Professional Trapping," by Walter are skinned "open." nails around the lower edges to hold on L. Arnold, Guilford, Maine. To case skin an animal, start by cut- the board. Do not overstretch pelts as "Trapping," by Harold McCracken ting through the hide only, in a ring this reduces their value by causing fur and Harry Van Cleve. Published completely around the front legs at the to appear thin. Tack the tail out so the by A. S. Barnes & Co., N. Y.

lower "wrist" joints. Next, rim the back flesh side is exposed to the air for proper "Trail to Successful Trapping," by V. feet in a similar manner at the "ankle" drying. Dry pelts in a cool, dry place, E. Lynch. Published by A. R. Hard- joints. Now insert the knife just under never in the sun or close to artificial heat ing Publishing Co., Columbus, the skin on the back of the hind leg and as this will cause grease burn and greatly Ohio. make a straight line cut to the vent, lower the value of the skin. Fur — Fish — Game — a monthly pub-

around it, and join with another straight Open skinning of coons is done by lication, carrying trapping material line cut down the back of the other hind ringing front and hind feet, then making of interest and value to trappers. leg. With your fingers, and cutting the a straight-line cut from the mid-point THE END

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 MEN PAST40

Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, Nervousness, Tiredness. YOU WITH EVERYDAY PROBLEMS INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP II you are a victim of the above symp- toms, the trouble may be due to Gland- ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- your shopping trips Mounting competition for your patronage will make ease for which it is futile for sufferers this fall seem like visits to an Oriental bazaar. The old, familiar price guides, to try to treat themselves at home. such as retail "list" prices, are going or gone, or often meaningless. Infight- To men of middle age or past this type of inflammation occurs frequently. ing among merchandisers is sharper than at any time since the Great De- It is often accompanied by despond- pression. So this is what you will find: ency, emotional upset and other mental • Appliances: The price structure is a bedlam. Most "fair trade" prices and nervous reactions. Neglect of such Inflammation causes men to lose their (retail minimums set by the manufacturer) are dead. Even "suggested" or vigor, grow old prematurely and often "list" prices are practically non-existent because the Federal Trade Com- leads to incurable conditions. a ball in this mission frowns on them as fictitious. A sharp shopper can have Most men, if treatment is taken in field (if he takes his time), but it's rough on the dealers whose take is time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- treated for Glandular Inflam- beginning to get down to rock bottom. CALLY mation. If the condition is aggravated • Autos: By federal law, a dealer must display the manufacturer- deter- by lack of treatment, surgery may be mined retail price of a new car and its accessories. Actually, though, there's the only chance. a mile of room for dickering because of trade-ins and price-shading. Experts say dealers would like to keep about 20% of the price of a compact and 25% NONSURGICAL TREATMENTS of a luxury car; but they'll shave to 15% on compacts and may go as low as The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat- 10% on luxury models when the going gets rough. ments used at the Excelsior Medical • Beverages: In the alcoholic beverage field there's still some semblance Clinic are the result of discoveries in years techniques and of order. Distillers "fair trade" their products where possible, while in the recent of new drugs plus over 20 years research by "monopoly" states the state-operated stores keep a firm rein on prices. scientific technologists and Doctors. Elsewhere, it's apt to be a different story. Beer, meantime, has its share of Men from all walks of life and from ups and downs, but since it's a low-priced commodity, the warfare is less over 1,000 communities have been successfully treated here at Excelsior spectacular. Springs. They found soothing and com- • Books, records, photographic equipment: Manufacturers make prac- forting relief and new health in life. tically no effort to set or maintain retail prices. You see a lot of "list" prices RECTAL-COLON (notably on books) but the mass merchandisers merely use "lists" as targets, EXAMINATION and the FTC is beginning to get restive. DISORDERS AT LOW COST Are often associ- • Gasoline, oil: Prices gyrate rapidly on this age-old battlefield. On the ated with Glandu- lar Inflammation. average, the dealer's cut is 5fi a gal. (the range is from to 9^). That's When you arrive 3%$ We can treat these at the clinic, our just enough room for sporadic shading. disorders for you doctors — who have at the same time • drugs, cosmetics: Full Foods, of bargains, "specials," private brands, years of experience we treat Glandular Inflammation. and new products. Moreover, the trading stamp (see below) now looms as in this field — make a major competitive factor in this area. a complete examina- REDUCIBLE tion. Your condition As a rule of thumb: Prices of standard merchandise are comparatively low HERNIA is frankly explained Is also amenable today; they're lowest wherever the mass-merchandisers (discount houses, and then you decide to a mild nonsurgical treatment department stores, chains) are prevalent. Hint: You can get some idea of if you will take the that we have de- general levels by consulting a mail-order catalog. treatments needed. veloped. Full de- Our treatments are tails of this treat- so mild, hospitaliza- ment are given In If Legion post, our Free Book. your or church, or any other organization you belong to, tion is not required. is collecting trading stamps, it won't have to redeem them for standard items Write Today For Our | anymore. The big stamp houses will supply just about anything special your Our New Free Book group wants — "even if it's a fire truck," says one. gives facts that may Meanwhile, the trading stamp rage has moved to two new plateaus: One save you painful, expensive surgery. Tells is the promise of better and more diversified merchandise; the other is the HOW and Explains expansion of trading stamps into the men's field. Now companies are giving WHY NON-SURGICAL them to their employees as incentives for better sales work, quality control, treatment methods are so successful today. safety records, cost reduction, etc. Write today. No obligation. Insurance to help defray the costs of human ailments is fanning out over EXCELSIOR more and more territory. MEDICAL CLINIC Most popular of the newer types is dental insurance which now covers an i Dept B1151 estimated 2,000,000 persons. 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80 Cup Automatic Urn THE PRICE WE PAY FOR DOPE ™ (Continued from page 13) to your Organization v 40th Anniversary head is hell's own missionary. He gets All the high-priced dope that is worth SPECIAL real satisfaction out of initiating others considering is smuggled into east and Earn this Urn FREE into his fraternity of the damned." west coast ports from southern Europe, for selling only 24 Vanilla & 24 Pepper Then, one is entitled to ask, what is the Near East, the Far East and South-

You don't invest 1 cent , . the hard-boiled police solution to the east Asia. Various Asiatic countries con- Products Shipped PREPAID narcotic's problem and its stimulus to tribute relatively small quantities of the WRITE lor detail! ol iMs offer and free Inlormatlot on coining equipment and RAISING MONEY fo crime? The first response to that ques- opium needed; but the Bureau of Nar-

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Dept. 1 8, Brownstown, Indiana ally a deep sigh. Then comes the protest A highly reputable authority in Bang- that the cop's job, whether at home or kok, Thailand, lately published a report abroad, is not that of a reformer. His

ITCHING Torture business in this situation is to fight the traffic. And as for the addict? If he runs Stopped like Magic afoul of the law, as he will sooner or Here's blessed relief from torture and misery of later because he is usually a bungling rectal itch, chafing, rash and eczema with a new amazing scientific formula called LANACANH. This law-breaker, do your best to get him fast-acting, stainless medicated creme kills harmful jailed. bacteria germs while it soothes raw, irritated and inflamed skin tissue. Stops scratching and so speeds Along this line, an authority on nar- healing. Don't suffer ! Get LANACANI at druggists cotics on the Los Angeles Police force ENJOY STEADY PAY EVERY DAY AS A said recently that the only lasting cures NURSE of addiction he had ever heard of came from a series of jail terms. come? LEARN AT HOME IN ONLT 10 WEEKS How

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MIRACLES BY MAIL — (Continued from page 15)

the meat, must venture down a hole Amazing growth sped the vine within ZIPPY SEW, I was afraid to take the from which he cannot escape. Thus, scratching distance of the trellis. There risk. ZIPPY SEW is now far back on a

when he's ready to make a break he ex- it lost interest. Cultivation, water, and shelf gathering dust alongside a fellow hausts himself in the attempt, falls in the best of magic elixirs failed. With the traveler named STIKKK. the water and drowns. It's that simple. browning slow death of the first shoot Now it might be supposed that I With the traps properly baited, I I detected an odor I scarcely could be- should be discouraged by all these seem- placed them strategically around the lieve was coming from a dying plant. ing failures. Not at all! It is just that I yard and waited to check the action. No After that, the end for my little AS- have been unfortunate in having almost flies. Either FLIZE-INN was an ineffec- TOUNDING CLIMBING STRAW- anything include me out instead of in- tive product, I reasoned, or my presence BERRY VINE was not long coming. It cluding me in. was frightening away the flies. To check shriveled and disappeared as quickly as Why, in a new catalogue just arrived this out, I would hide. it came. Only the odor remained. look what I found! In selecting the kitchen for this pur- But when the odor turned the air "GULP FLY TRAP PLANTS! AC- pose, my reasoning was that I could take thick with stench, I began to suspect TUALLY EATS UP FLIES! Its Beauti- advantage of the time and put INSTAN- there was mischief afoot other than a ful Flowers Are Traps That Attract TO BOIL'R-O to the test of boiling an dead vine. And so indeed was the case. Flies and Live Insects. WATCH THEM egg. The only complexity in the opera- Investigation disclosed the bait in my EAT YOUR HOME OUT OF FLIES! tion of INSTANTO was not to remove trap line had become so wild that no GULP TRAP Bulb Set only 89^! Rush the BOIL'R-O from the water before FLIZE-INN could be approached. Only Money NOW! DON'T DELAY!" pulling the plug. by holding breath and retreating a safe That takes care of my fly situation. INSTANTO BOIL'R-O proved to be distance to recharge my lungs was I able Now how about this: all the name implied. In an instant it had to put them underground. This done, I "HAND-O-MATIC SEWiNG MA- the egg dancing and the merrily bubbling hosed away the flies blackening my CHINE! Sews By LIGHT HAND water splashing over the side. Truly a screen door, and sat down to meditate. PRESSURE! TO OPERATE JUST remarkable device. Satisfied all was well Like any experienced addict of the SQUEEZE THE HANDLE! IT'S here, I went out to see how the FLIZE- mail order gadget house, I always keep THAT SIMPLE! Hems, Bastes, Zigzags, INN were doing. an item in reserve to cheer me out of Sews On Zippers, Meets Every Sewing These, too, appeared to be as repre- failure. I now brought out a pair of torn Need. Price ONLY $1.49! Rush Money sented. Where before I had no flies at shorts, a zipper and ZIPPY SEW. How- NOW! DON'T DELAY!" all, there now were a number inspecting ever, in contemplating the zipper against What is keeping that mailman??? the trap holes. As I watched, fascinated, the heavy responsibility to be placed on THE END one of the more greedy ventured in. Others followed. None came out. Returning to the kitchen, my arrival was timed to get in on a fast little round of action. First, there was the sputtering of a shorted wire, echoed by INSTAN- TO BOIL'R-O shooting out a spurt of black powder, followed by the shattering of the cup in which turn sent the egg IT'S JUST ONE OF careening in a drunken dive to the floor. THE FIVE TOBACCOS I picked it up to see if it was done. It had turned to granite. IN REVELATION Now let this not be testimony unfav- We use Perique as a sea- orable to INSTANTO BOIL'R-O. No traveler can afford to be without one. soning. Wonderful aroma. But he must remember to stand over the Each of the other four cup, ready to jerk the plug a split instant adds something special, before the water has boiled away. too. Bring them all to- Events of the next few days left me gether with the Revelation heady with success. My trap line was doing exceptionally well. Flies were ar- recipe and something rare riving faster than the traps could snare happens. Try it soon. them. The solution to this problem I could solve neatly merely by increasing my consumption of cottage cheese and Kentucky Burley-dark flakes, slow burning converting the containers into additional Virginia Bright -bright leaves, even burning traps. I'm not so bad at thinking up things myself. Old Belt Bright-slightly darker, good body The ASTOUNDING CLIMBING Latakia -deeper brown, extra mild STRAWBERRY VINE broke ground Perique— very dark, wonderful aroma sometime between sundown and my final nightly inspection. Disclosed by my flashlight, there it was, its vigorous three REVELATIOM shoots already reaching for the trellis. MILD SMOKING MIXTURE j "HUZZAH!" I shouted secretively, "If \ the neighbors knew this there would be dancing in the streets tonight!"

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 39 A TALE OF TWO TEACHERS NOW ! EAT BETTER, FASTER (Continued from page 19) MORE COMFORTABLY WITH ones. Another boy built several instru- back and said she'd changed her mind. FALSE TEETH BY ments for gas chromatography, a means Both teachers spot budding science RAISING BITING POWER! of analyzing mixtures. talent early, sometimes before the young-

Another Erasmus Hall biology stu- sters realize it's there themselves. Neither dent, Carl Feit, experimented with the Sister Mary Lauretta nor Tom Lawrence metamorphosis of frogs. He knew that wait for kids to identify themselves as tadpoles must have thyroid gland hor- ready for extra work and extra honors. mone to change into frogs, but by giving The teachers identify the kids — hunt for them extra doses of thyroid extract, he them in each incoming class, pick them kept some puzzled tadpoles longer than out. Theirs is an active search for latent usual in the tadpole condition. talents. Without such a hunt, many a These projects are all at a level that potentially brilliant scientist might sim- When false teeth get on your nerves many the average adult would judge to be far ply doze his way through school and dentists give special FASTEETH powder. It helps hold teeth in place—helps keep them beyond the capacities of a teenager. Un- graduate into obscurity. from slipping or dropping down when you der other teachers, some of these young- Part of the teachers' job in lifting talk—makes you feel more secure. FASTEETH cushions tender gums so you can bite harder sters might not have reached so high or bright students beyond the average is and eat easier, faster with greater comfort. worked so ordinary human lazi- FASTEETH helps you laugh and speak more hard. simply overcoming clearly without embarrassment. FASTEETH is In encouraging them to reach, neither ness. A youngster won't normally want alkaline (non-acid). Checks ."plate odor" teacher resorts to forceful pushing or to do long hours of extra work unless he (denture breath) . At drug counters everywhere. hounding. Both seem to believe that, at sees a clear reason for doing so. "Back in least with bright students, a carrot dan- the 1940's," says Tom Lawrence, "before gled in front produces the Talent Search was widely known, we PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE. BIG. ILLUS- more motion than TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report a stick getting the kids inter- making substantial incomes. Start and run youf /book// applied from behind. "I never had a hard time own business quickly. Men. women of all ages, learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property needle them," Sister Mary Lauretta says. ested. Now it's a recognized honor Management, Appraising, Loans. Mortgages, and [HOWf// related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- "I encourage them." students. Like playing the rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. Adds Tom Law- among the on Write TODAV for free book! No obligation. Approved for Korean Veterans rence: "In most cases the good student football team. This makes the job easier." WEAVER SCHOOL. OF REAL ESTATE (Est. 1930) 3521A Broadway Kansas City, Mo. is almost sure he wants to plunge into To keep the enthusiasm alive, he hangs some difficult project. All he needs from winners' plaques on his office walls and me is a slight poster corridor, showing the FEET or TOES ITCH? nudge, and his decision is keeps a in a Beware! Athlete's Foot Starts Just That Way! made — he's over the edge." school's Talent Search record. (In the Get Dr. Scholl's Solvex at once. A few words are enough. Tom Law- 21 years of the Search, Erasmus Hall Stops intense itching right off. Instantly kills fungi on contact; rence once spotted a girl as a bright High School has had 23 winners. This helps heal red, raw, cracked or peeling skin. Sold everywhere. talent, called her to his desk and sug- puts it in second place. Bronx Science gested that she enter the Talent Search. High School, another of New York City's DiScholls SOLVEX She said she didn't want to — didn't have big schools, has had 25.) time, was involved in too many other During the 21 years of the Westing- things. He grinned at her and said: house Science Talent Search, Tom Law- "'You're going to enter that contest. rence has sponsored 24 winners and What's more, you're going to do a fine more honorable mentions — some 85 — job and maybe win." The girl went away. than any other teacher in the country. A week passed. He said nothing more to In Marshfield, Sister Mary Lauretta her, simply let the idea simmer in her probably has less of a problem in keep- head. ing enthusiasm alive. New York is a big At the end of the week she came city with much on its mind and with a

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The own Sufferers from Asthma and the dis- far off. Sister comforts of excessive secretions in the is quality phis day, but the day seems winning combination nasal passages associated with Hay to prepare a quantity." Mary Lauretta would like Fever have, for over 60 years, found quick, temporary relief by smoking for use in school laboratories. Quantity is what the students deliver. lab manual PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleasant, inex- drug stores, for example, Tom Lawrence is writing a health text- pensive. At One Columbus High boy, or order direct from requests for a num- wanted to carry out a project on electro- book and has editors' factory. education phoresis of blood— a method of separat- ber of articles in science and For free somples, write schedule on Consol idated Chemical Co., ing blood components electrically. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 41 its slow building process. If your heart on a deer stand or in a blind and wait ter months. Or by winter sports such as isn't strong, in many cases that also can for the game to come to us. Thus, the skiing and sledding. The greatest benefit

be blamed on lack of exercise. The heart only aid to our health is that we breathe from these sports would be obtained if

is another muscle you may have been clean, country air. The hunter who never we would by-pass the tow or lift and

neglecting. comes home empty-handed usually is the walk to the top of the slope. Expert ski- This resistive principle can be applied one who walks to a distant ridge or ers, however, who follow the more diffi- easily to all sports. We gain more physi- mountain top, where the game are safe cult trails, get enough of a workout on cal benefit from golf when we carry our from the lazy sports. the way down. And a slalom provides as

ow n bags rather than hiring a caddie to Fishing is famous for being a lazy much exercise as you'll find anywhere.

do it, and the bags feel a lot lighter at man's sport, but it needn't be so. Other Dancing can fill in as a physical condi- the end of the season than they did at than peace of mind, there's little to be tioner, especially during these off-seasons. the beginning. If we rent a motor-driven gained physically when still-fishing from The thousands of persons who attend cart to carry us around the fair-ways, we a boat or riding as a passenger in one. the Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire

also miss the important walking exer- Rowing, however, is an excellent body studios have the opportunity to acquire cise. Walking and running are most builder. And there's good exercise in better health as well as social grace. beneficial and should be done with an wading the current of a trout stream, Dancing can be as beneficial as vigorous effort; loafing along accomplishes little. and in continued casting with a bait, fly walking, but in this case also, loafing Swimming can be one of the best ex- or spinning rod. Fighting big saltwater around a dance floor a few times isn't

ercises when we swim hard instead of fish is good exercise when you live near exercise. You'll have to dance a lot

just taking a few strokes and then bask- the ocean and can do it often enough. (which should make your wife happy) ing on the beach. Ever notice the muscu- But don't let the cruiser's engine do the until you feel the physical effort. And if lar development of Olympic swimmers? fighting for you. you want maximum results, and don't Their muscles are developed evenly over Another healthy outdoor sport that is mind living dangerously, you might learn their legs, arms and shoulders because experiencing something of a revival is bi- the twist! swimming is a sport that exercises the cycling. An association calling itself the In addition to these sports which we entire body. Skin-diving has the advan- American Youth Hostels, with head- do for fun, there are other shortcuts to tage of providing us with an incentive quarters in New York City and with 20 better health. In our lazy lives, full of for swimming; it gives us a goal to reach, branches or "councils" throughout the labor-saving gadgets, it's logical there and we perform our swimming exer- country, has a membership of almost should be some to make even exercising cise without concentrating on it. Bowl- 21,000 cyclists ranging in average age easier. And since gadgets fascinate most ing is in the same category. Since our from 17 to 35. It sponsors one-day, of us, they're incentives to keep us exer- goal is to beat an opponent, bowling week-end and four-week group bicycle cising. Health clubs, such as Vic Tanny's, requires extra effort and also works most trips in this country and several in Eu- are full of them. They twist, stretch, of the body muscles. It would be even rope. Its membership is open. In one shimmy and vibrate, making us limber better if it could be conducted outdoors. way, cycling with a group has an advan- and increasing circulation. But they is Tennis excellent but can be too tage over going it alone; when you're won't reduce weight, as some of the strenuous an exercise for a beginner alone, and lazy, you can call it quits clubs imply; only exercise plus diet can who might run the risk of overtaxing his whenever you want to, but in a group do that. The only reducing a vibrator muscles, especially his heart muscle, in you have to keep up with the others. does is to its own belt. his desire to play too many sets at one The disadvantage of outdoor sports as To gain the maximum amount of ex- session. It is always best to allow the exercisers is that they are seasonal in ercise, remember the resistive principle body to rest after any strenuous exer- most parts of the country. Hunting, es- and concentrate on those gadgets that de- cise so it can recuperate and work at pecially, has a short season. But most mand the greatest physical effort. Spring- strengthening itself where needed. Hunt- hunters enjoy angling also. Such spring, loaded push-pull affairs, rowing machines ing gives us a motive for walking and summer and fall sports can be supple- with oars that are braked so that they're climbing, but many of us prefer to sit mented by other exercise during the win- hard to pull, and the pedal machines with brakes on their drums to resist your pedaling are in this class.

One of the best exercising gadgets is an oldtimer — the bar bells. Professional trainers rate this type of weight lifting one of the best of the body builders. But

it's wise to use bar bells under supervi-

sion, since there is danger in trying too much too soon. Also, when using bar bells, correct posture is important to avoid injury. Properly used, they exercise almost every muscle, a fact you appreciate if you've ever seen the contor- tions of a champ weight-lifter in action. Francis Budd, holder of the recent world's record for the 100-yard sprint, spends much of his training period at the bar bells. Although few of us will have enough ambition to use straight calisthenics to

get back our health, there is a simple system of exercising to get rid of flab that's so easy none of us can possibly object to

it. It requires no gadgets, no hard work and, in fact, isn't exercising at all in the

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MOSQUITO MADNESS He buzzes around Till I'm wholly miserable; I switch on the light, But he isn't viserable. Stephen Schlitzer AXLE GREASER

Many a fellow who talks like a big wheel is merely a spokesman. Anna Herbert

AS THEY REMEMBER IT When hearing about the good old days, Grandchildren find, as a rule, The older grandpa and grandma get, The farther they walked to school! S. Omar Barker PRIVATE PROBLEM

People who live in glass houses shouldn't do much of anything. D. O. Flynn JEST FOOLING This joker's capers are gaily spun All in a Spirit of Good, Clean Fun. Removing a chair where you plan to sit To him is harmless aseptic wit, And it's subtle fun when a trick cigar Busts and burns you and leaves a scar. For delicate comedy he's a One; All in a Spirit of Good, Clean Fun.

So now we've got a humorous whim To play intelligent tricks on him And balance some of the stunts he's done All in a Spirit of Good, Clean Fun. Laughing, we'll rope him with barbed wire tethers, "Are you the new man?" Wittily coat him with tar and feathers, All in a Spirit of Good, Clean Fun. Then light his shirt tail and watch him run POINT KILLER All in a Spirit of Good, Clean Fun. Jeff Matthews The orchestra leader at a second rate night club was making eyes at the gorgeous blonde seated at a table near the bandstand, much to the annoy- BUGGY MUSICAL CHAIRS ance of her escort. Finally he leaned over and turning on all his charm, Description of a man bitten by a mos- said: quito and then immediately stung by a "Miss, boys and I can play anything you'd care to mention. What my bee in the same place: Sting along with friend like play?" would you and your us to itch. maestro Before the blonde could utter a word, her escort looked the Philip Thomas squarely in the eye and snapped "Pinochle!" F. G. Kernan

LAST OF THE BIG SPENDERS A rich Texan, attracted by a crowd on the beach, rushed over and discovered his wife was being revived after nearly drowning. "What are you doing to her?" he asked. "Giving her artificial respiration," replied the lifeguard. "Artificial, heck," retorted the Texan angrily, "Give her the real thing. I can afford it." A. W. Stinson

SIGN OF THE TIMES

The proprietor of a large food store was deeply moved by the woeful story of the man with a large family and no source of income. He filled up two big sacks of groceries and said, "These are on the house. I hope they will make your family happy." With tears in his eyes, the man started to leave, but stopped and turned around.

"Can I get you anything else?" the proprietor asked. "You forgot my trading stamps," the man replied. "I have my Diner's ." Don Sutter Card right here. . .

48 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1962 SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, BLENDED WHISKEY, 86 PROOF. 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS,

Bowling is speed and color, timing and suspense, a blur of motion, a wide open shout ofjoy as pins crash to a polished floor.

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