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POSTMASTER: July 1949 Please send copies returned under labels Form CONTENTS 3579 to Post Office Box 1055, Indian- Is Time on Russia's Side? by dwight griswold 9

apolis 6, Indiana. We look at the clock; they study the calendar

Deatli in Every Shadow (fiction) ... .by jim kjelgaard 10 The American Legion - A thrill-packed story whose characters are zine is the official publico- animals and reptiles tion of The American Legion and is owned exclusively by The Americon Legion. Copy- You Have To Be Yourself In Chile, .by william lavarre 12 right 1949. Published month- ly at nOO W. Broadway, How identification cards foil crooks and subversives Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for mailing at special rote of postage provided for m The Growing Attack on Veterans' Benefits Section 1103, Act of Oct. li I 4 The National Commander BY PERRY BROWN 14 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, Summer's tough on hair. Sun and water 1925. Price, copy, 15 sounds a warning cents; yearly subscription, leave hair dry, brittle . . . scalp parched, SI .50. Entered os second They're Striking It Rich in the Mojave. .by Robert hyatt 16 flaky. That's why you need Vitalis and the cioss matter June 30, 1948. of the Post Office ot Louis- "60-Second Desert gold is attracting a lot of ex-GIs Workout!" 50 seconds' massage ville, Ky., under the Act of with Vitalis (1) stimulates, refreshes scalp March 3, 1879. Who Wants a Car? by hank felsen 18 (2) prevents dryness (3) routs flaky dandruff EXECUTIVE AND (4) helps check excessive falling hair. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Auto salesrooms provide proof the war is over Indionapolis 6, Indiana EDITORIAL AND Can You Name Your Ballplayers? 20 ADVERTISING A picture- game that every Legionnaire should play One Park Avenue

New York 16, N. Y. Were You Exposed to Tropical Diseases?. by dr. j. b. rice 22 WESTERN OFFICE 333 North Michigan Avenue In all likelihood you haven't anything to worry

Chicago 1, Illinois about

James F. O'Neil, Man- chester, New Hampshire, The City Where the Fourth Was Born Chairman of the Legion Publications Commission; Convention-bound Legion- BY HARRY A. FRANCK 24 Lawrence W. Hoger, Owens- naires should know Philadelphia boro, Kentucky and Dan W. Emmett, Ventura, Califor- nia, Vice-Choirmen, Mem- They Want to Lead a Band by Barbara peerless 28 bers of the Commission: Vilas H. Whotey, Rocme, Training drum majors on a mass production basis V/is.; Tom W. McCow, Dennison, Ohio; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Foul B. Dague, Downing- The National Legionnaire. . . .29-36 town. Pa.; Josephus Daniels, Jr., Roleigh, N. C; George D. Levy, Sumter, S. C; Dr. FEATURES Charles R. Logan, Keokuk lowo; Earl L, Meyer, AIti Previews 4 Report from Hollywood. 44 once, Neb,; Charles E Booth, Huntington, W. Va. Editors' Corner 6 Life in the Open 52 A. C. Jackson, Lubbock Texos; Max Slepin, Philo Sound Off! 8 Vets with Ideas 59 delphia, Pa.; Roland Co creham. Baton Rouge, La. Newsletter 37 Parting Shots 64 George D. Boron, Bethany Conn., Lang Armstrong Spokone, Wash.; Ear Now look what 10 seconds' combing does Please notify the Circulation Department, Publications Division, P. O. Box Hitchcock, Glens Falls, N.Y 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed your address, using for your hair! Neat ... set to stay in its hand- Edgar G, Vaughn, St. Paul notice form 22S which you will secure from your Postmaster. Be sure to

Ml nn. ; Horold A. Shindler cut off the address label on your magazine and paste it in the space pro- some place . . . protected from sun and water Newburgh, I nd. vided. Always give your 1949 membership card number end both your damage. No "patent-leather" shine—Vitalis new and your old address. Director of Publicotions contains no greasy liquid petrolatum just — James F. Barton pure, natural vegetable oil. Get Vitalis at Indionopolis, Ind. any drug counter. Individual application at Ass't to Director Tim Henry's cover man, coming bock your barber shop. Frank Lisiecki from the refreshment stand, is going Editor Joseph C. Keeley to hove a little trouble, you think. As in so many similar coses, the melting Advisory Editor Alexander Gardiner cream is so cJisconcerting that papa Manoging Editor has no thought for the underfooting. Boyd B. Stutler That could have embarrassing conse-

Art Editor quences — if, for instance, he should Al Marshall lake o tumble. We and Mr. Henry, Associate Editors however, are optimistic about his Robert B. Pitkin chances of getting through safely to Irving Herschbein his waving youngsters.

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It's hardly necessary to ask you which you'd In 10 years they get back $40 for every $30 prefer. invested in U. S. Savings Bonds— bonds as'

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A savipling of products which are in process of development or are coming on the market.

PREVENTS SCRATCHES ON FURNITURE. Tabic tops can be piolcctcd from unsightly sii'alclies result ins fi'om the rough bases of lamps, ashtrays and other bric-a-brac with an ingenious product called Ric-O-Bac made by J. B. Dawn Products, Chicago, and distributed by Ben L. Miraglia, 999 Stuyvesant Ave., Irvington, N. J. It is a felt cushion cut in narrow strips, one edge of which is straight and the other scalloped. The scalloping permits it to be applied to rounded objects, and it is easily fastened with finnnb pi-essure. A package of Ric-O-Bac contains six strips, each of which is HARLEY-DAYIDSON 125 six inches long, and four packages cost a dollar. POWER RIDING FOR EVERYONE!

Low C(JSt? Yes, indeed! Owners report 00 QUICK CHANGE FOR BABY. Moisture-proofing is built right miles and more per gallon! Easy to handler' into a new kind of baby panties being made by Miller Art You bet I You can learn to ride in a tew Mfg. Co., 1370 Broadway, New York. The garments are minutes! Parking? Set it anywhere. Depend- made of soft knitted cotton lined with lightweight Vinylite able? Perfectly. So light, so well-balanced, so to assure complete protection. Designed for greater ease easy to start, steer, and stop that anyone can in dressing, it into the ride it safely. Practical ? It's /n/frf/ for riding takes only a minute to snap a baby garment and half that time to change a diaper. Two styles to factory, office, school ; visiting, doing er- rands. Fun? Just picture yourself heading are available, and they will retail for $1.95 and $2.95. for picnics, ball games, enjoying the outdoors! Can you try it? Just phone or see your deal- er. He'll be glad to give you a FRI:E ride! PERSONALIZE YOUR CAR. An attractive car accessory, invented by Legionnaii'e Michael HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR CO. B. \Varncr. of Skokie, III., is the Autogram, a monogram plate which can be mounted Dcpaitnient AL Milwaukfe I, Wisconsin <|uickly on any automobile. The plate, made of plate chrome, holds three DEALERS: VALUABLE FRANCHISES AVAILABLE. WRITE TODAY gold-on-black embossed initials which are corrosion and tarnish proof. Made by Autogram, Inc.. 3243 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, the accessory retails for $1.95 complete.

TO AVOID FOUL ARGUMENTS. An electric "umpire" which specializes in calling bowling fouls will soon be marketed by the General Electric Company. Developed by engineers of the G-E Control Divisions, the device makes use of the "electric eye'' principle to indicate when and on what alley a foul has RESIDENTIAL COACHES BY "M" SYSTEM^ been made. The device consists of a light source and a photoelectric cell mounted at floor level on opposite sides of the alley at the foul line. Whenever the light is interrupted by a foot slipping across the line, a bell or buzzer sounds and a light shows the alley where the foul occured. An interesting feature of the detector is its ability to "recognize" the bowling ball so that the foul signal is not activated as the ball passes the foul line.

Thi.s is "M" Sy.steni'.s Suhurba.n-ite, a .'iS' all- aluminum residential coaeh, largo i nougli for a family of .six, Th.'rc an- two bodroom.s; PAINTING MADE EASY. An interesting adaptation of the .shower room and toilet; largo kitchen with l^rinciple employed in insecticide sprayers is utilized in a range, electric refrigerator and water heati-r. A .spaciou.s living room iirovides an upliol- line of paint which comes in self-spraying containers. .stored davenjwrt that can be extended to a Now, to do your painting, you merely turn a valve and bed. Aiiywlien? you want to take it, the paint comes out of the pressure-packed cans. Accord- your family will be cozy and comfortable the ing St., year 'round. Thi.s i.s life a.s thousand.s of can- to the manufacturer, Spi'ayon, Inc., 1360 W. 9th

free Americans live it . . . and love it! In- Cleveland, no brush, mixing or special equipment is neces- ve.stigate the economies and mod

SHUTTERBUG DEPT. E. Lcilz, Inc.. makers of the well known Leica camera, have come up wilh a device for making photographic slides which does almost everything but select the pictui-es. Called the Bindomat it permits correct mounting, convenient lining-up and rapid binding of both 35 mm. and 2'/4-inch square transparencies with a minimum of handling and effort. Slots hold the glass slides containing the film to be b<»und. Tape is fed from a roll at one end, moving through a channel to the point where it binds the slides. The finished job can be checked in an illuminated "M" SYSTEM MFG. CO. viewer. Available at camera stores, the Bindomat sells for $18..50, complete with 100 U.S. HIGHWAY6I N. . VICKSBURG, MISS. glasses, 100 melalized masks and tape for 120 slides.

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ANOTHER lOOK AT THE ROAD. Legionnaire Robert Stortz, Jr., once almost had a head-on collision because the car ahead of his obstructed his view. Because of this he in- vented what he calls the Passing Eye, an attractive two- mirror instrument mounted on an arm which is clamped Isotropic on the outside top of the driver's door. In operation, the outside mirror catches a view of the oncoming lane of traffic and reflects this image to the inner mirror which is driver. The Passing Eye WINS angled for easy viewing by the can be mounted in a few minutes and requires no hole Most major golf tournaments boring. Manufactured by Passing Eye Inc., Kenosha, Wis., this year have been won with the device sells for $5.95. revolutionary WiSson Isotropic constructed golf balSs. MOLD YOUR OWN PLASTICS. If you want to experiment with plastics or turn out short runs of plastic products, a new low-cost molding machine to handle Bakelite styrene is being offered by Plastics Development Corp., 225 Lafayette St., New York. Designed for use with a drill press, it has standard heating elements, thermostatically con- trolled, with range from 250 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The machine is 10 inches high, weighs only two pounds, has a three-inch stroke and is ready for immediate use. The manufacturer also sells the molding materials and experimental lead dies. The molder retails for $39.50.

WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR GARDEN A DRINK. To insure that lawns and gardens get the right amount of water, an un- usual gadget called the Moistr-Meter has been developed by Garden Specialties Co., 343 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. It consists of a probe to tell the depth to which moisture has penetrated, and when the desired depth has been reached a flag is elevated. The user can set the probe for whatever depth he wishes, but for the average lawn the correct depth is three inches. To use, the lower end of the The stars of the nation's big-money flag pole is pushed into the earth. The flag is then pushed golf circuit can afford to use only to the bottom of the pole. This compresses the flag-raising golf balls iiusiirpassed for distauce spring. The spring tries to push the flag up but the probe holds it down. When water . . . unerring in flight und roll. Revo- penetrates deeply enough the moistened soil allows the probe to slip out, making the lutit)nary Wilson Isotropic built balls flag pop up. It will retail for $1.50. meet their most exacting demands. This is evidenced by the fact that MOST major tournaments this year* AID TO PRECISION SHOOTING. Marksmen will be interested in an ingenious little have been won by players using these instrument which tells at a glance just where their bullets strike the target. Called balls. the Eze-Scorer, the device consists of a bullet-like pin micrometer tested to ten- Sam Snead, Lloyd Mangrum, Gary thousandths of an inch, mounted in a lV4-inch unbreakable plastic magnifier. When Middlecoff, Gene Sarazen and Skip the gauge is inserted in the bullet hole it shows the most minute contact with the Alexander are among the many stars target ring of higher value. Officially adopted by the National Rifle Association for who play only these remarkable all rifle and pistol shooting tournaments, Eze-Scorer is made by Rig Products Co., Wilson balls. For ntw Isotropic Oregon 25, 111., and comes in a self-polishing pouch for $2.00. Calibers available are thrills, ask for Wilson Top Notch .22, .38 and .45. balls at your pro's shop; Wilson K-28 at leading sporting goods and department stores. THAT BETTER MOUSETRAP. Remember the famous saying $ ^ about the world beating a path to the door of the man who invents a better mousetrap? You can start beating the Plajers mentioned above are members of the famous Wilson Advisory Staff • path. A Ft. Worth inventor named Uttz has devised a trap also use only Wilson Strata-Bloc woods to end all mousetraps. It is made of aluminum, and is so and Wilson Precision-Built ir

DRY CLEAN YOUR HANDS. A way of getting grease, oil, paint, ink, etc., off your hands without soap and water is offered by Cadie Chemical Products, Inc., 549 W. 132nd St., New York, in their Cadie Hand Cleansing Cloth. A cleansing preparation is impreg- nated in the cloth and its action is such that the hands are left soft and smooth. Packed in an oilcloth pouch, it sells for 50^.

And reniL-nihur — ni.itched And rciiistercd W ilbtKi Strat.T-131oc woods and Precision Built irons (witli MORE LIGHT FROM SMALLER LAMP. A new 150-watt incandescent light bulb only the \Vilson patented Reminder-Gruv-Grip) give better size of a pre-war 100-watter has been announced by Westinghouse. Containing a highly club control — greater accuracy. There are n( finer clubs. efficient double coiled filament, the new bulb now makes it possible to get more light out of fixtures which can accommodate only small-sized bulbs. The 150-watt bulb is Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago (A subsidiary ol Wilson & Co., Inc.) almost an inch shorter and a quarter-inch slimmer than the old bulb which it replaces. Branch offices in New York, San Francisco Its development is in line with a trend toward smaller light bulbs which started ten and other principal cities years ago. j. c. k.

When writing to manufacturers concerning items mentioned here kindly Wi£iott mention that you read about them in The American Legion Magazine TODAY IN SPORTS EQUIPMENT

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From where I sit ^ Joe Marsh VETERANS, TAKE NOTICE

We will say one thing about National Commander Perry Brown's article on page 14, The Groioing Attack on Veterans' Benefits:

Read it.

PHILADELPHIA, CONVENTION CITY Who's A Foreigner? Philadelphians may raise their eyebrows at our selection of Harry A. Franck to write The City Where the Fourth Was Born (page 24), our editorial bow to this While Fm waiting for a haircut a year's National Convention site. Major Franck is a sell-styled vagabond who couple of days ago, Slim Hartman likes to wander through jungles, over re- mote mountain passes and into inacces- lets slip with a crack about those sible corners of Dark Areas. His long list ''foreigners'' who recently moved in, of travel books includes such titles as Vagabondincj Down the Andes. North down by the depot. From Patagonia. East oj Siarn^ The Fringe the Moslem World, etc., etc. He has wait of "Now a minute, Slim," snaps been around a bit, has "seen the eagle and Doc Sherman. "Don't forget we're all hearn the owl." His wife, Rachel, has confined her literary effort to 1 Married 'foreigners' more or less. Some of our a Vagabond. families have simply been here longer But, so help us, we don't mean to sug- gest that Philadelphia is one of the than others. But even if they came world's Unexplored Spots. It just happens over on the Mayflower, they were that the Franks, who hang their hats in New Hope, Pa., when not rambling, foreigners to the Indians." know the Quaker City pretty well too. Incidentally Franck is organizing a Slim gets a little red and you could safari to and through South Africa (Zulu- land, Capetown, the Kimberley Mines, see that Doc had him. "And the reason Kruger National Park, Victoria Falls,

they came here,'' he goes on, ''was to Durban and so on) . Safari leaves New York September 8, returns November 17. to find freedom do and think as they A few spots are still open for more tra\'el- ers. Thomas Cook & Son handles the de- wanted to, just so long as they didn't tails and the fee is $3,500. tramp on any of the lights of the other JUNIOR IS BIG fellow." We have a quiz for you on page 20. Be- From where I sit, America became hind the quiz is a story much too big to tell in this space. But here's a little of it: the great land it is today through our From 1921 to 192,5 baseball was on the being tolerant of different people and decline among our youth while delin- quency was increasing, says Frank L. different tastes — whether it's a taste Sieh, of Sidney L. Smith Post of Aber- for square dancing or waltzing, radio deen, South Dakota. In the summer of 1925, at the South Dakota Department or movies, goat's milk or a temperate Convention, the late Major John L. glass of sparkling beer. Griffith urged a Legion jjrogram of ath- letics-for-youth. The Department Ameri- canism Committee took up the suggestion and proposed baseball. Sieh drew up plans for leagues, districts and tournaments which eventually grew into the present Legion Junior Baseball program— but not before Legionnaires in many other States had fought for Junior's creation and sur- vival. Turn to page 20 and look at Junior now.

IS HANK JOKING?

We know all those loyal Legionnaires Copyright, 1949, Uniled SlaU-n Brewers Foundation who are car-dealers will forgive us for g • The American Legion Magazine • July. 1949 Hank Felsen's Who Wants a Car? (page 18). He's talking about those other car dealers and besides he's only joking. Or is he? Hd? onthe right course To tell the truth we thought the whole thing was one big rib when we had the article set in type, but now we aren't so sure. Hank sent us the photo below prov- - ing, at least, that he really has a 1937 he's got Terraplane. That's Hank in front.

Felsen and tired Terraplane

AVOIDING POLIO

Summer is coming, and with all its blessings it brings one shadow. With the hot months the incidence of infantile paralysis increases. Just how poliomye- litis spreads is not yet known, so the gen- eral rules to avoid this crippler are basi- cally those same rules which make good sense in terms of avoiding any contagious disease. The National Foundation for In- fantile Paralysis presents the following message to parents, if polio hits your area this year: Avoid crowds and new contacts in trains, buses or boats, if possible; avoid crowded places where you may be close to another's breath or cough. Avoid over-fatigue. Too active play, late hours, worry, irregular living schedules may invite a more serious form of the disease. Avoid swimming in water which has not been declared safe by your health de- partment. Avoid chilling. Take off wet clothes and shoes at once. Keep dry shoes, sweaters, blankets and coats handy for sudden means Hpe Appeal weather changes. ^ Keep clean. Wash hands after going to Most any woman will tell you that the man who smokes toilet and before eating. Keep food a pipe has an extra-masculine attractiveness! covered and free from flies and other insects. Burn or bury garbage not tight- ly covered. Avoid using another's pen- NEW HUMIDORmTOP -locks out air cil, handkerchief, utensil or food Albert — locks In freshness — flavor means Rince touched by soiled hands. Call Your Doctor at once if there are • You're "on the right course" for real smok- symptoms of headache, nausea, upset ing joy when you pack your pipe with Prince stomach, muscle soreness or stiffness, Albert. Choice, crimp cut tobacco . . . mild, or unexplained fever. rich-tasting! Specially treated to insure against Take His Advice if he orders hospital tongue bite! Get P. A. — and see why it's Ameri- care; early diagnosis and prompt treat- ca's largest-selling smoking tobacco! ment are important and may prevent crippling. Consult Your Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for help. Your Chapter (see local telephone book or health department for address) is prepared to pay that part of the cost of care and treatment you cannot meet „ . n ...-T-i J-»- ^^AV J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. — including transportation, after-care Win3ton-Salem, N. C. and such aids as wheelchairs, braces R,MP CUT and other orthopedic equipment. This service is made possible by the March The National Ooy Smoke of Dimes. The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 • J nival business today, decent, honest, up- right people, whose character will be in doubt from the effects of your sucker story. I am only interested in protecting fellow Legionnaires from lowbrow people. Charles A. Minzer St. Louis, Mo.

From our letter to Legionnaire Min- ". zer: . . If the carnival business is not of the type that Mr. MacDougall says, we suggest that you have some persons connected with it prove Mickey is off base. After all, we want to be fair. But we know that what he says about car- nivals has been true in many instances right up to last fall, for we saw some of Writers tutist give name and address. Name my sincerest hope that every Legionnaire these things with our own eyes." Editors withheld if requested. So many letters are in the U. S. will read it and wake up. I it 1,122 LETTERS being received is not possible to promise have noticed for years that the tricksters ansivers. Keep your letter short. Address: and so-called carnivals have used The More power to the clearheaded good Sound Off, The American Legion Maga- American Legion as their sponsors, and it will relations of straightening out Ameri- zine, One Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y. is getting high time that we Legionnaires can thinking by use of letters-to-the- discontinue this kind of stuff to make a editors columns, as in the case of Joy "ON BEING AN AMERICAN" few dollars for our Posts. I would say that Clayton of Monmouthshire, England. In regard to the Letter On Being An we can make the dollars we need in some Americans have been duped too long by Aynerican (May issue) Martha Marlowe other way and in a much cleaner way — the kings of anti-British propaganda or states she cannot understand why people in a way that is in keeping with the prin- anti-other nations. That creates the so- when asked their nationality, answer ciples of The American Legion. cial and economic disorder which is a "German," "Irish," "Norwegian," etc. She Chas. Knott prelude to war. thinks they should say "American." Post Service Officer Stephen Vollmayer I would like to ask one question. Beaufort, S. C. Toledo, Ohio

Why does any American go around To say your issue of May is a disap- "The face that launched a thousand asking any other American what his na- pointment is putting it mildly. You must ships" (Helen of Troy's, that would be) tionality is? To me this is like asking for have been hard up for something to print had nothing on the classic profile of Joy the hi-sign. Does a Frencnman in France when you ran the story Step This Way, Clayton which we carried in the April nationality ask another Frenchman what Sucker. The rest of the issue was very Sound Off! Joy (we first deciphered it he is? Do the Italians do this in Italy? Or good. as Jay) showed that she is well endowed is it just a silly habit we have in America The sucker article was a discourse on with brains as well as beauty by appeal- to find out if we come from what we think antiquated tactics formerly used by car- ing to the Yanks and her own country- is a better background than the person nivals, tactics now barred from use. There men to remember how much they meant we ask? are thousands of Legionnaires in the car- (Continued on page 55) When anybody asks me what nation- ality I am I say "German" because I as- THE FISH REALLY WERE THAT BIG sume the person knows I'm an American and he is really intending to ask from Regarding Barney Peters' article Grimberg says. To Benton Harbor and which country my great-grandparents Monsters in American Rivers and Lakes, Astoria, our profoundest apologies. And came. May . . . prior to 1943 Benton Harbor, as for our research into the fish them- My solution to this grave situation is Michigan was on Lake Michigan. selves, see below. Editors this: Stop asking people superfluous ques- Mannel Hahn Your Life in the Open for May men- tions. We know what we are—Americans. Winnetka. Illinois tioned a sturgeon caught in Idaho's Snake Mrs. Conrad F. Geres Tsk! Tsk! . . . Peters confuses the locale River in 1911 which weighed 1500 pounds. West Allis, Wisconsin of Astoria, OREGON ...... Here is a picture of that fish, caught Warren Grimberg by my grandfather's brother, Nephi Pur- CALIFORNIA CALLING Astoria, OREGON cell. It was hauled into Payette, Idaho by

After reading many articles in the Research into correctness of details is Walt Watts in a dray wagon. . . . Walt Legion Magazine about our comrades an editorial responsibility. We let it be said the wagon box was 12 feet long and who are suffering from asthma, arthritis said that a 310-pound lake sturgeon was the fish's nose touched the front end gate and many other ailments, we take pride found in Lake Superior at Benton Har- while its tail was dragged on the ground. in reminding all veterans that Post 469, bor. We let it be said that a 2.000-pound It was weighed at a local lumber yard Yucca Valley, California, is situated in sturgeon was reportedly taken at and tipped the scales at 1500 pounds. the heart of the Desert area which is Astoria, Washington. Benton Harbor is Red Purcell highly recommended as a healthy cli- on Lake Michigan, like Mannel Hahn Roaring Springs Ranch mate for those suffering from the above says. Astoria is in Oregon, like Warren Frenchglen, Oregon mentioned ailments. We of Post 469 are ready and willing at all times to assist any veteran in locating in this general area. We hope to hear from many of our comrades. William W. Putnam Publicity Chairman Post 469, Yucca Valley, Calif.

CARNIVALS - PRO AND CON

The story entitled Step This Way, Sucker published in May 1949 issue of the magazine is one of the finest articles on the subject I have ever read, and it is Ncphi PurcelPs Oregon sturgeon

g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 ISTIMEOJy RUSSI^S SIDE

By DWIGHT GRISWOLD VERY TIME I read where we are "speeding up" European recovery, I remember my ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT experience with a highly personable group of Russian officials in Germany. As a mem- ber of General Clay's staff, one of my jobs was to The bosses in the KremHn have an oriental re-establish international communications for Ger- mans as quickly as possible. This task required the approval of my British, French, and Russian col- concept of doing things. They will wait years leagues on a quadripartite board. Early in 1947 we called a meeting to make the final decisions which would once again give the Germans to see the red flag flying over the world use of trans-Atlantic cable and telephone service. All the facilities were ready. (Continued on page 39)

9 J** Every Shadow

. . . that was the risk the old bullfrog

ran for the joys of living

By JIM KJELGAARD

ILLUSTRATED BY BOB KUHN

piE BULLFROG beneath the wil- peared. Less than ten inches from him, ly. Since the first spring leaves had low bush was aware that he wading in shallow water directly appeared, and the frog had emerged might die in less than a sec- ahead of the low-hanging willow from the river mud beneath which ond. The frog crouched, branch under which the frog lay, a he had spent the winter, the under side lowering his head between his paws sharp-nosed, masked-faced raccoon of the willow had been his home. The and remaining absolutely motionless approached. Little ripples, stirred by world he lived in was bounded by the on the wet sand which the willow the wading coon, washed up to and bush, the approximate center of the sheltered. The sound he had heard over the frog. The coon bent its head river, and twenty feet up and down. came again. and seemed to look directly at him. He never ventured farther than that. It was a faint scraping, a wisp of Now prepare to act, but look like a The bull-like roar of another frog noise that was almost submerged by slime-covered rock. came from up-river. The fi"og beneath lapping water and the wind. The frog The frog shivei'ed and readied his the willow waited silently, wanting to knew that it spelled possible destruc- insides for a desperate leap. When he assure himself that the coon was far tion for him because, at night, most jumped he would have to pass on one away before he answered. Then he noises meant danger. A little wave side or the other of the hunting coon, raised his own bellowing voice, and broke over the willow bush. When the and he would try the left because that he listened ecstatically to the echoes wave broke it sprayed down upon the offered the best chance of escape. If that bounded back. He became silent frog, but he did not move. he gained the deep water beyond, he as a down-river frog took up the night It was too late to move, for whatever would submerge in one of the hiding song. There was another second's lull, had made the sound that had alarmed places he had there. and the frog which had started the

him was walking upon gritty pebbles There were three, and the frog knew night chorus resumed it. scarcely six feet on the upstream side all of them perfectly. He might go The big frog under the willow bush of the willow bush. If the frog dived under a sunken log, in a crevice be- lay silently, quivering in every nerve now he would splash, and certainly neath a big boulder, or simply hide and muscle as he listened. This was he would attract attention. If a mink in the mud. Which one he selected sheer pleasure, unsurpassed joy, a de- or otter were coming, they would would have to be determined by cir- lightful interlude in a fear-filled night. surely hear and see that splash. Un- cumstances. In his own turn he bellowed and believably swift, either predator could At that moment, eighteen inches quieted so the bull down the river catch a frog before he could hide on downstream, a green caterpillar could bellow. the bottom of the river. The frog's most dropped from a branch of the willow That sound was cut suddenly short, certain hope lay in remaining motion- bush and fell with a tiny splash. The as though a sound-proof black cur- less. coon's head snapped around. He took tain had been drawn over its source. The moon, seeming to rise percep- his eyes from the frog and waded The frog under the willow bush re- tibly, came over the tall trees on the eagerly over to investigate the splash. mained very silent. other side of the river and sent slant- Fishing in the water with his hand- Probably the wandering coon had ing rays across the water. On the far like paws, the coon picked up and ate made a kill. The death which roamed side, deep in the shadow cast by the the caterpillar. Without glancing back the river at night, and was seldom ab- trees, a buck deer came to drink. The at the willow bush—he couldn't really sent for more than a moment, had buck raised an inquisitive head, stared, have seen the frog—the coon started struck again, for the down-river frog across the water, and plucked daintily down the creek. never roared again. at some lush river grass. The tiniest The frog raised up, blinking in the When another dropping caterpillar of shudders stirred the frog. faint moonlight that filtered under plunked into the water, the big frog Then the approaching enemy ap- the willow bush and moved cautious- beneath the (Continued on page 49)

11 WHEN FOREIGNERS visit Chile they are not only checked on arrival but tabs are kept on their subsequent movements

local lists, totalled by states for the entire nation, has reached a climax of nearly a million people. A third of them are aliens. Another third are Thanks to a national passport system, it is no vei'y recently naturalized citizens. We have more, and in other special- better, intelligence agencies than longer possible for disguised subversives and ties any other nation in the world but in our own hemisphere we are not at all leaders in the perfection of procedures crooks to float around Chile and stir up trouble for locating people quickly who try to change their identities. We are, in fact, the most compla- cent Republic of the entire Western Hemisphere so far as an accurate identification of our aliens or citizens By WILLIAM LaVARRE is concerned. Throughout the United States thousands, often hundreds of thousands, of aliens and citizens, for ^EAR AFTER YEAR we have read hended. Men, women and children instance, use the U. S. Postal Savings in our newspapers that "disappear" each year, metamorphose and Money Order facilities under false aliens or citizens wanted by into new identities; many of them names; obtain Notary Public seals and the United States Govern- pursue new deceits or crimes success- verifications for legal documents ment for questioning or crimes have fully, with their old crimes or identi- ynder false identities. disappeared from their homes and ties self-buried behind them. Many thousand aliens and citizens haunts and, by a change of name, Anyone who doubts this can ask have bank deposit vaults and check- character of dress, occupation or facial local police officials for their list of ing accounts under fictitious names, features, cannot be located or appre- "Missing Persons." The sum of these act as witness and give legally ac-

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WE MAKE THINGS TOUGH FOR OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

cepted evidence under temporary chameleon-like sabotage agent might an American plane, disguised as a rather than permanent identities. In still be free to travel in America— Polish refugee metallurgist, the Chil- the United States anyone with a per- Trojan Horse of special danger to our ean Government had its own efficient sonal reason for hiding his or her real vital war and peace industries. The method of tracing him, day by day. identity can engage in trade, join labor Kremlin overlooked a fact, little The Kremlin, in dispatching this unions, teach in our schools, send and known also by most of the people of agent to secure highly confidential de- receive registered mail, and vote the Western Hemisphere: Chile, far tails from U. S. owned copper mines under not only two but several differ- in advance of the other American Re- in Chile, made him subject for the ent names and identities. publics and Canada, has today the first time in a circuitous American An alien communist, for example, Hemisphere's most tamper-proof sys- marauding to unchmigeahle personal was known to have stolen some very tem of civilian identification. identification. It is the law of Chile important papers from a U. S. Official. The man we were searching for that every citizen and every alien resi- Many security agencies joined in a under a new disguise had made, we dent over seven years of age must nation-wide search for him, suspect- were to learn, a still mysterious pil- have a Carnet de Identidad, a 2x4- ing that he had shaved his mustache, grimage during many "missing" inch little non-forgable identification dyed his hair, and otherwise changed months, right under the eyes of our folder containing name, age, parent- his personal appearance. Hundreds of investigating and police agencies— to age, residence, nationality, profession, other aliens and citizens in the United Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San voting district, and, in addition, the States have frequently divorced them- Francisco, Wichita, Buffalo and Niag- owner's signature, numbered photo- selves from former identities in order ara Falls. Just what names he used graph, and thumb print. Physically to pursue new schemes and associa- in those industrial centers we may this is a minute vest-pocket national tions. This particular agent of the never know, nor what other vital passport. On the very small pages of Kremlin was equally successful. He contributions he may have made to a this Carnet the owner's thumb print simply disappeared. potential enemy's storehouse against and numbered photograph are verified If it had not been for the Chilean us. In the United States we had no skillfully by government seals and the Civilian Identification Bureau's highly way to trace him or, by accurate iden- personal signature of the issuing offi- perfected system of knowing who's tification, catch him. But from the day cial. The Chilean Carnet must be re- who, and just where to find him, this he first set foot on Chilean soil from newed by (Continued on page 54)

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The Growing Attack on

By PERRY BROWN,

National Commander, The American Legion

PHOTO BY ESTHER BUBLEY

p IS MY UNHAPPY duty to Call to the attention of Legion- naires and all vetei-ans of Once again the disabled both great World Wars cer- tain unmistakable evidence that our hard-won veterans' benefits are under veteran is the secret dangerous, irresponsible and, in some cases, greedy attack from many sides. In one sense veterans' rights and target of anti-veteran propaganda and lobbying benefits have always been under at- tack. Our American Legion is geared to detect, expose and combat the usual of sniping at veterans. But today, for the second time in six- teen years, opposition to established veterans' benefits by special and of years, powerful groups contains elements of Chicago, to investigate the exceed- Those were the depression and ingly complex attack veterans' the spent a real crisis for all war veterans. It on Economy benefits organizing the its the that represents a challenge which calls and to begin dollars to promote claim forces of American against the cost of veterans' benefits had to for the full fighting strength of The The Legion American Legion. an enemy which seems to have a thou- be reduced. sand heads. Many veterans and their friends As National Commander I have al- I like alarmist, lulled into false security ready taken preliminary steps in this do not to be an but were by I know that swift action is necessary. promises (which you always hear crisis. Last March I appointed a spe- I veterans' rights cial committee, headed by Past Na- am mindful of the tragic lesson of from opponents of tional Commander Edward A. Hayes 1933, when the infamous, callous and and benefits) that the war- injured cold-blooded Economy Act caught us would not be asked to share in the by surprise. Then, before we could economy. We hear the same pious ^lir marshal our strength, the shocking words today. Savings, they said then, NO BED FOR TUBERCULAR VETERAN Public Law 2 of the 73d Congress was must be made only in the cases of slipped through the national legisla- those veterans might be said to Among Ihc thousands of who veterans with active tu- ture in one day, without a hearing. be enjoying government generosity. berculosis wlio are wait- Those of us who remember that They sneaked their law across—and ing for hospital space is Alfred Tedeschi (left) law, and who remember the terrible the betrayal of the veteran was of a of Canonsburg, Pa. Last year and eight days that followed its magnitude to make Americans blush February he was 230th on passage, today. for the waiting list at Deshon cannot be complacent shame. Veterans Hospital, Butler, Too many straws in the wind fore- Immediately, veterans whose dis- Pa. By April 13 he had tell another gathering storm for vet- abilities were classified as non-service- advanced thirty positions and was 200th. erans and their dependents. The pat- connected were removed from vet- Tedeschi spent the winter and spring unem- tern is strikingly similar to that erans' hospitals. first, in this gigan- now , At ployed as a result of his illness. He lived with his wife, who expected a baby in April, in of sixteen years ago. In some ways it tic bed-emptying, no attempt was two rooms at the home of an uncle. There is worse. made to readjust the veterans or find were two other children in the home. All risked T.B. infection. In 1933 the cry was for economy. other care for them. They were thrown During the time he advanced thirty numbers And so it is today. In addition, today, from their beds by the thousands, cast on the waiting list the American Legion was there are powerful interests who seek into the streets — most of them not battling a 16,000-bed cutback in the VA hos- pital building program. not economy, but the capture of vet- only sick but penniless and without Tedeschi served with the 410th Bomb erans' appropriations for themselves. hope — at the bottom of the great Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes and Central In 1933 there was a league — the depression. Europe. National Economy League—supported In the fiscal year 1933-34 over by the dollars of many of our seeming- 10,000 sick or convalescent veterans ly best citizens and large industries. were thrown (Continued on page 57)

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Scene in a state mental hospital, 40% overcrowded as of

March 1, 1949. Many of the patients are veterans for whom no VA hospital beds are available. The same situation exists in nearly every state in the country They're Striking It Rich

The desert telegraph

has been humming

with news of ex-GI's

and the bonanzas

they've been finding

By ROBERT M. HYATT

NY DAY NOW, the country's newspapers may carry such a headlines as these:

BIG STRIKE IN CALIFORNIA! THOUSANDS OF CI S IN MOJAVE STAMPEDE! The news will come as a total sur- prise to almost everyone, inclviding Californians, so quietly has the "rush" got underway. It started early in 1946, when two war-weary veterans went to the Mo-

EX-GI BILL KNIGIIT and his wife spend their vacations and every weekend prospecting though the Mojave hasn't made them rich yet in the Mojave

jave Desert for a spot of sun and a rest. One of them—an amateur miner- alogist—was pecking at a rock outcrop ANOTHER EX-GI. George Macniillian. examines a specimen from the Mojave one day and made a momentous dis- covery. Quickly the boys filed a claim. In the next few weeks they dug $20,000 in gold from their plot. L. D. Harris, a carrier-based fighter leges and universities have inaugu- Like all good prospectors, they tried pilot team, who criss-crossed the rated special courses in such vital to keep the secret of their find to South Pacific on many missions, began things as atomic ores and how to lo- themselves, but the desert telegraph digging gold in an abandoned mine cate them, critical and strategic min- got going. Soon more GFs were pour- last April. Using modern mining erals, and simple courses in general ing into the desert, all hoping to strike equipment, they put a shaft far down prospecting. it rich. Today there are an estimated below the ancient workings and struck In my five weeks' sojourn among four thousand men from many states a rich deposit of tungsten. They have these youthful sourdoughs. I talked and every branch of the services woo- already taken out $50,000 in oi'e. to scores who are digging nice incomes ing Dame Foi'tune all over the sprawl- Former Waist-Gunner Emil Krautz, in gold and silver from the arid wastes, ing Mojave, which has resounded to in partnership with an old sourdough and acquiring enviable suntans to the shouts of gold-mad men in the who has lived in the area fifty years, boot. past. is dickering for the sale of a large Few of them are satisfied to tackle While these 20th century 49'ers will chi'omite deposit they discovered a the tough business of prospecting with settle for the yellow metal, they're few months ago. As chromite (like the meager tools — pick and shovel — looking for a half dozen other ores tungsten) is a valuable mineral used that uncovered the country's historic that the old-timers knew nothing in strengthening steel, they expect a strikes in the past. Many go laden about: tungsten, molybdenum, chro- handsome profit. with such items as ultra-violet miner- mite, beryllium, titanium and — ura- Before going to the desert, many of alites, for detecting various oi'es by nium, top ingredient in the A-bomb. these vets took intensive college their fluorescent colors, air compres- Have any of them the jackpot? courses in prospecting and mining: sors for operating pneumatic drills, They have. Several of the boys have thus they are far better equipped to the latest in blasting equipment, and found real bonanza claims, sold them, seek earthy wealth than their great- even walkie-talkie radios with which and returned to their homes to build grandfathers who made flaming his- partners may keep in touch when dis- houses and set up in the business of tory at Sutter's Mill jvist one hundred tant separations are necessai-y. their choosing. "Pud" Jacobs and years ago. Many southwestern col- A few went (Continued on page 45)

LS BY BURRO, BUT THAT'S A GEIOER COUNTER SHE'S USING. OTHERS PREFER MOI Who Wants a Car ?

By HANK FELSEN

Officers Candidate School in the war). I parked my car in front of an agency that advertised itself as paying highest prices for good used cars, any This is the kind of story that will probably year, and I went in to do business. A well-dressed man smoking a cigar jumped up and ran to meet me at the remind you of things that happened to you door— to keep me from getting inside. "Whaddya want?" he snarled, backing me ovit of the showroom. "I'd like to see about getting a new ." car. I . . ILLUSTRATED BY WHITNEY DARROW, JR. "A hundred bucks and maybe I'll put you on the list. We don't have any ^owN A 1937 Teri-aplane that I in on a new car. At the time, my bus cars. Who sent you? Come back next wouldn't sell for a thousand was in good shape. I had all new tires, year." dollars. The block is cracked, a new paint job, the motor had just "But, Sir," I interrupted, "I want to — the valves stick, the win- been completely overhauled, and the trade my car in on a new one. Your dows are broken, the tires worn, and interior was perfect. I went to town ad in the paper said you wanted good the upholstery has been chewed to a with the idea that I was driving about used cars, and I have this excellent ." pulp by my kids. But that old car has four hundred dollars worth of car, 1937 Terraplane that . . a l evenge value that money can't buy. which I would use as a down payment I got no further. The man grabbed It all goes back to 1946, and the day on one of the cheaper new cars. (Now me by the coat, slammed me against I thought I would trade my Terraplane you know why I was never chosen for the wall, and hammered my face with

18 WHEN HIS MEjN rolled out the red carpet the dealer led me inside and offered me cigars and Scotch the back of his hand. "A wise guy, The same man was on hand to serve ences. This car had the fenders off, the huh?" he spat out, along with some me, but this time he was more cordial. rear half of the car had been chopped other stuff. "I'll nineteen-thirty-seven "I can't get you a new car for a year," away to make an open truck body, you!" he said without blushing, "but I'll give the windows were covered with col- I drove my Terraplane for another you a good break on one of our new- lege stickers, and high school pep year, then tried again in 1947, when used cars. Ten dollars for your Terra- slogans had been painted on the sides. new cars were supposed to be more plane, and you can have a Gizmo Four, "Now here," said the dealer, "is a available. I went back to the same driven only fifty feet, for three thou- practically new car that was owned by agency, and this time things were dif- sand dollai's." three school teachers who never went ferent. No man blocked my way at "That's a little more than I intended more than thirty miles an hour. They the front door. The entire staff of the to pay," I said bravely, fingering the treated the car like a baby, and cried agency was busy in the rear. thin roll of one-dollar bills in the tears when it was run over by a train As new cars rolled off the trucks, pocket of my GI trousers. "Do you and they had to part with it. Fifteen one agency owner accepted delivery, have something a little cheaper?" dollars for your car, and you can be and immediately sold the car to his "We don't handle cheap cars," he towed away in this one for only five partner. The partner drove across the answered. "But some of our bargains hundred bucks. It's a steal, but you showroom to the used car side, and are less expensive than others." He have an honest face, and I want to the auto was for sale at double the led me to the used-car lot and showed help you." list price. me a Terraplane the same year and "What?" I cried. "Say if this wreck Once more I tried to do business. model as mine, but with a few diflfer- is worth five hundred, my car is worth a thousand." HE SAID it was owned by school teachers who never drove more than thirty "Certainly," the dealer agreed.

"That's what I intend to ask for it. But it's only worth fifteen dollars to me." "If it's worth a thousand when you

sell it, I want a thousand when I sell it," I said indignantly. The dealer looked at me closely. "I remember you," he bellowed. "You're that wise guy that was in here last year. Trying to undermine the profit system, eh? We know how to deal with your type." He called two mechanics who threw me out on the sidewalk. The dealer threw his cigar butt after me. "Our boys fought the war to protect (Continued on page 50)

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1. SLUGGING CARDINAL out- 2. HIGH-SALARIED Cleveland 3. PHILLIE OUTFIELDER. 1948 4. CATLIKE CARDINAL fielder who once played for pitcher who once played for Rookie of the Year, once played who once played for Howard Ernest Jobes Post #212, Donora, Penoach Post #464, Adel, Iowa. for Antelope Post #172, Neligh, Maxey Post #72, Ada. Oklahoma. Pa. Who? Who? Neb. Who? Who?

Can You Name Your Ballplayers? 9. CLEVELAND SHORTSTOP- nianager who once played for Harvey Post #155, Harvey, Illinois. Who? By ROBERT B. PITKIN

[here's a parlor game that ought Legion stars in the majors and 3,457 in to be easy for any Legionnaire all organized baseball. On these two or baseball fan. Major and pages we show thirty-two major baseball today leaguers and offer a few hints to help ^ is dominated by former Legion identify them. Junior Baseball playei'S. Thirteen of the All we challenge you to do is to name sixteen opening day this year each player. were ex -Juniors. So wei'e thirty -five All set? Get out your pencil and write of the fifty men certified to play in the the names in the space provided under last World's Series (18 Braves, 17 In- each picture. Answers on page 51. To see

14. DETROIT SOUTHPAW fire- dians) . Last year there were 243 former how you stand, see chart on facing page. ball pitcher who once played for Uoose-Vanker Post #286, Detroit. Who?

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18. RED SOX SLUGGER who 19. CUBS' VERSATILE team 20. NEW YORK GIANTS' pitch- 21. CLEVELAND THIRD BASE () nee played for D vv i g h t C captain. Once played with Na- er who once played for Bolton MAN who once played for Baj Mitchell Post #201, San Diego. tional Post #467, Chicago. Who? Post #19, York, Nebraska. Who? View Post #180, Milwaukee, Wis- Who? consin. Who? 0^

B B 25. YANKEE -OUT- 26. BRAVES' 1948 ROOKIE 27. ONCE HURLED two no-hit- 28. RED SOX second basemai FIELDER who once played for shortstop. Once played for W. B. ters in row for Cincinnati. Played who once played for Leonari Stockham Post #245, St. Louis. Williamson Post #1, Lake for Wyckoff Post #83, WyckolT, Wood Post #125, Los Angclc Who? Charles, La. Who? N. J. Who? Who? 5. PHILLIES' HIGH-BONUS 6. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 7. BOSTON BRAVES- pitcher 8. PITTSBURGH PIRATE short young pitcher, once played for pitcher who once played for Cres- who once played fo^r South stop who once played for Tona- Coplay Post #426, Coplay, Penn- cent City Post #126, New Or- BufFalo Post #721, Buffalo, New wanda Post #264, Tonawanda, sylvania. Who? leans, La. Who? York. Who? New York. Who?

10. CLEVELAND SLUGGING 11. WASHINGTON UTILITY 12. CINCINNATI SHORTSTOP 13. PIRATES" king second baseman. Once played for INFIELDER who once played for who once played for W. A Hud- who once played for John Portland Post #1, Portland, Ore. Shaw-Stephens Post #103, Maple- gens Post :ttl4. Anderson. S. f Howard Strain Post #139, Al- Who? wood. Mo. Who? Who? hambra, Cal. Who?

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29. PIRATE PITCHER, former 30. SLUGGING, BASE-STEAL- 31. Brooklyn shortstop and team 32. CLEVELAND PITCHER, Cardinal, once played for Byron ING Brown third baseman who captain. Played in Louisville, former Senator, once played for H. Mehl Post #23, Leavenworth, once played for Glendale, Cali- Kentucky, Legion league. Who? Wiregrass Post #59, Geneva, Ala-

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Brooklyn or Kansas was a breath- By J. B. RICE, M.D. taking picture of almost unearthly PHOTO BY TOM CAREW beauty. For no place else on this planet has Nature painted her sea- scapes and her landscapes so skillfully and lavishly. But his second impres- sion might have been one of chilling horror at native men and women with Here is a round-up of the jungle diseases you elephantiasis (el-ef-an-ti'-as-is) Their pitiful bodies distorted by gi- gantic tumor swellings may well have might still fear at this late date if you served in transformed the cathedral-like forest primeval into a treacherous jungle nightmare. An African suffering from the Pacific, CBI, Africa or Latin America this disease was operated upon by the author several years ago. He weighed in on the hospital scales at 230 lbs., but "lost" 120 lbs. in about an hour in the operating room. Although he went back to the ward less than half his J^pi^HlLE SERVING in the Pacific, will the jungle stalk them the rest of former self, he certainly was lighter J^fljj the Orient, and elsewhere, their lives? Can their families and in heart as well as body. And 50,000 [jL^Km at least a million and a half friends feel safe, or are their maladies of our service men fell prey to the ^^^^ American men and women still catching? parasite that causes elephantiasis. contracted strange alien diseases. The unknown sheds its terrors when If you like to shudder, stop reading Even the names of many of them are it loses its mystery; and doctors have right now and start wringing your terrifying. Good old pneumonia and found out a lot about these exotic dis- hands; for the next sentence may honest Bright's disease seem warm eases and their dangers. Let's put prove to be a letdown. Although they and friendly compared to the slimy some of the worst of the foreign played unwilling host to the parasite coils of "tsutsugamushi" and the men- "killers" under the bright lights of a temporarily, not one of the 50,000 ever acing hiss of "schistosomiasis." No police line-up and look them over one got elephantiasis and not one of them wonder there have been dark whispers by one. Like most mugs, they aren't ever will. of dreadful things in store for hapless so tough— they just looked tough while And here's why. The cause is a little veterans. they were on the loose. thread-like animal named filaria (fil- Have our men really been cured of The first sight of the tropics for ar'-ia). Research doctors had studied their mysterious tropical diseases, or many a G.I. freshly uprooted from it before the war, of course. They had 22 found out that the little creatures got death and bloodshed tJian assaults of kind of dysentery has produced no

around from person to person, like the enemy. post-war problem because it is hardly malaria parasites, by hitch-hiking Dysentery germs like food so well ever chronic and it's easy to diagnose

rides with mosquitoes. And they knew it's said they'll even eat C rations; and and treat by modern methods. that a few filaria parasites did very therein lies their danger. When meals But there's another kind of dysen- little harm. It took large numbers ac- are prepared on a mass scale for arm- tery that gave the doctors (as well as quired by the bites of many infected ies of men in the field under condi- the patients) a run for their money. mosquitoes over periods of months or tions preventing strict cleanliness, It's the kind caused by little one-celled years to produce elephantiasis. dysentery germs frequently get first amebas, related to the microscopic Prompt diagnosis by alert medical place in the chow line and make it blobs of protoplasm known to every officers and early evacuation to the tough for everybody who eats after schoolboy as one of the lowe.st forms United States by enlightened com- them. The work of army food in- of life. According to army records, manders prevented any fighting man spectors was hindered by a curious only about 5,000 men contracted ame- from getting enough filaria to cause psychologic twist of the male mind. bic dysentery. Yep, that's what the any but trivial and transient symp- Kitchen work is woman's work; and records say. But here's a little secret, toms. Veterans need not dread that the temptation to carelessness in the known only to me and to nine mil- grotesque distortion will be their preparation of food is great in men lion ex-G.I.'s. Army records can get eventual fate. They are safe and so who must be sentenced to K.P. as fouled up. In this case, they were - are their friends and families. For the punishment. Maybe the Chinese sol- the number was probably closei' to a few filaria picked up by our men have dier who refused to go to war unless million. Amebas specialize in the sneak by this time all been killed by the nat- he could take his wife, children and attack and the symptoms they pro- ural defenses of their own bodies. family pig along with him had some- duce are easily confused with a dozen The only "elephantiasis" we have to thing at that. other diseases; so it's very hard for fear is the kind we get under the belt Although the "war of the kitchen" doctors to diagnose. And they're ver- from too much home cooking. was fought valiantly, still the invisible satile creatures. One scientist who had So much for the horrible jungle dis- enemy "got" its half -million men. But very little to do one fine day made a ease that scared the pants off more it didn't kill them; and that was a vic- list of 1,691 different symptoms that G.I.'s (WACs excepted, of course) tory of the highest order for the they could produce. But even so, they than all the Japs in the Pacific. "medics." In this war, Army doctors should hardly be blamed for all the Half a million soldiers were tem- had a new weapon — a kind of sulfa bellyaches in the army. How many porarily disabled by a microscopic foe drug that stays in the intestine and veterans now have amebic dysentery that likes to eat. Bacillary dysentery kills off the germs as they come down is unknown. The percentage among has been called the "military disease" the hatch. This sulfa cut the ancient those who served in tropical countries because in all the great wars of his- military disease down to size — from may be as high as 20. But at least tory, particularly those fought in two weeks of suffering to two days — 107f of American civilians who have warm climates, it has brought more and almost eliminated fatalities. This never been (Cnvtivucd on pnqp 42)

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The City Where the Fourth

By HARRY A. FRANCK

ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM VON RIEGFN

Philadelphia's proud-

est boast is Independ-

ence Hall, but Con-

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FOURTH OF JULY might al- most be called a native of Philadelphia. For if dates

can have a birthplace it was bom there, 173 years ago. At any rate, there are more memories of our na- tional birth in Philadelphia than at any other place in our land. The building, the very roorh in which our Declaration of Independ- ence, therefore our nation, was born is a short walk eastward down Chest- nut Street from City Hall, the center of town. Independence Hall is the old- est of four colonial buildings in Inde- pendence Square, a little brick-walled inclosure between Fifth and Sixth been called the most historic, the most representatives from a majority of streets in the heart of the old city. In hallowed spot in the United States. what until then had been the thirteen 1729 the Pennsylvania Legislature, There the second Continental Con- colonies. Here the convention that tired of meeting in private houses, ap- gress was formed in 1774, the Congress adopted the U. S. Constitution met propriated £2,000 ($10,000 in those which decided, after the battle of Lex- Americans wounded in the Battle of days) to buy ground and erect a legis- ington, that the thirteen colonies Germantown were laid in rows on the lative building. Completed in 1734 - should break with England. In that floors of Independence Hall; in the though the bell tower was not added room George Washington was chosen very room in which our nation wa.s until 1751 - it is a beautiful example commander-in-chief of the Conti- born, American officers taken in the of colonial architecture, inside and out, nental Ai-my on June 15, 1775, In it. battles of Brandywine and German with impeccable simplicity of line and on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of In- town were kept as prisoners of war. woodwork unsurpassed in the nation. dependence was enacted by men who In the I'otunda, just inside the main The East Room in Independence ran the risk of being hanged for entrance, is the Liberty Bell. Perhaps Hall, our nation's exact birthplace, has signing. no other single object more typified

Here too. on July 9, 1778, the Arti- our independence. Cast in England ,i;

Alien. I ?0 '...pr, ,„/„., ; cles of Confederation were ratified by in 1752. it (Continued on page 47 t 24

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E GOODl HERE ARE jSYLVIA AND THE YOUNGEST GENERATION TAKES UP BATONEERING. THESE HOW THEY INCORPORATE A THREE- AND FOUR-YEAR-OLDS CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAVE RECOMMENDED FOR LAZYBONES TO FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE, BUT SOON THEY WILL MASTER IT The National Legionnaire

In conformance with a resolution adopted by the National Executive National Legionnaire section, a regular feature of the Magazine Committee at its November, 191,8, meeting. The National Legion- each month, will continue the class of material relating to Legion naire was consolidated with The American Legion Magazine. The programs and activities as used in that publication in past years.

Pension Bill Granting World Wars Vets $72 at Age 65 Passes House— Unemployability Amendment Defeated

bill, as reported, would have been a big RoU-Call Vote of 365 Yeas, 27 step toward accomplishing American Legion Representatives Heard Nays Swamps All Opposition Legion mandates for service pensions By Committees On Other for World War veterans. With the un- Bills of Veteran Interest — Bill Goes to Senate employability clause in the bill reported, the possibility of pension benefits for veterans was greatly diminished. From The fight on the floor of the House, By JOHN THOMAS TAYLOR figures submitted by the Veterans Ad- which was bitter, centered on the so- National Legislative Director ministration, the bill containing this called "unemployability clause" which requirement would reduce the cost ap- Pension Bill, H. R. would have cut the heart out of the The World War proximately 85 percent, thereby depriv- 4617, passed the House on June 1st by measure, and was vigorously opposed ~ ing six-sevenths of the veterans, who vote of 365 to following over- by the Legion and Auxiliary. a 27, would otherwise qualify, of their eligi- whelming defeat of the Teague Unem- During debate, speeches were made in bility to a pension at age 65. ployability Amendment, which was support of the unemployability amend- vigorously opposed by The American Appeal to Membership ment by its sponsor. Representative the American Legion Auxi- Olin E. Teague, who stated: "Mr. Legion and On May 14th we sent out to The I offered the in liary. American Legion and the American Chairman, amendment local officers committee to that All National, State and Legion Auxiliary throughout the coun- require a man be Auxiliary can take unemployable before he can be eligible of the Legion and try our Legislative Bulletin Supplement fully justified pride in the great victory for a pension." Others who spoke in No. 6, calling for immediate action which was the favor of unemployability amend- for World War pensions opposing this amendment, and the the wholehearted coopera- ment were Representatives Glenn R. result of their National Commander sent to every assistance. Davis (Wisconsin), M. (Don) tion and Member of the House a news release W. 24th, H. R. 2681, the origi- Wheeler (Georgia), Hamilton C. Jones On March calling to their attention that "this re- Legion Pension Bill, on the motion (North Carolina), and James E. Noland nal quirement could result in the nullifica-

. Representative Olin E. Teague (Indiana). This group opposed the of tion of the principle of veterans' pen- same of House Vet- original bill secured its recommit- (Texas), a member the sions which the other provisions of the and erans Committee, was recommitted to ment on March 24th. bill would sustain." All National, ^ate that Committee by a vote of 208 to 207. and local officers, as well as the entire Opposed Teague Amendment following day, March 25th, at The membership of the Legion, and Auxi- request. Rep. John Rankin, Chair- Opposition to the unemployability our liary were called on to contact their of the Committee, reintroduced the amendment was ably led by Chairman man Representatives in Congress, urging bill containing the amendments whicJi John E. Rankin, of the House Veterans them to actively oppose the unemploy- passed the House the pre- was assisted in his op- had been by ability amendment. Committee. He vious day. It became H. R. 3821. position by Representatives A. Leonard On Tuesday, May 24th, a letter was Allen (Louisiana), Joe L. Evins (Ten- Teague Amendment Put In on the desk of every Congressman, set- nessee), Dayton E. Phillips (Tennessee), ting forth our position in the matter Hearings were started on this bill on Harley O. Staggers (West Virginia), and requesting their support to "strike March 29th and continued until April Clare Magee (Missouri), James E. Van out and vote down" the entire amend- 28th. Your Director appeared before (Pennsylvania), Paul Cunning- ment relative to unemployability. This, Zandt that Committee on April 5th and 6th. (Iowa), Carl Elliott (Alabama), then, became the issue. ham On May 10th, in executive session the Barratt O'Hara (Illinois), Toby Morris Committee agreed upon the bill to be (Oklahoma), Walter E. Brehm (Ohio), reported and it was introduced as H. R. and Alvin E. O'Konski (Wisconsin). 4617. The Committee, however, again TENN. POST COMMANDER The Teague Unemployability Amend- met on May 11th and there was inserted ment was overwhelmingly defeated on a '49 in it an amendment, which became SIGNS UP 483 FOR division vote of 172 to 57. On a roll call known as the "Teague Unemployability vote, the opposition was completely Sam Morris, Commander of Sum- Amendment" because it had been swamped, the final count being 365 yeas mers-Whitehead Post No. 14, Chat- offered by this member of the Commit- tanooga, Tennessee, has rolled up a to 27 nays. tee, and it was so reported to the House record for service that is hard to In a final attempt to kill the bill, on May 12th. The bill provided that beat. A WW2 vet and graduate of Representative Glenn R. Davis (Wiscon- 65-year-old veterans of World War I The Legion College, Commander sin) moved to again recommit the bill and World War II, who could meet the Morris takes his Legion work seri- to the House Veterans Affairs Commit- ously. Last enrolled 520 requirement of unemployability, could year he tee. So few members rose to support the members for his Post, and was the qualify for monthly pensions of $72.00. motion that the Speaker did not even first Legionnaire in the Department Under present regulations, such pen- call for the opponents of the recommittal of Tennessee to secure 100 members sions are paid only where the veteran for 1949—and at last report had ex- motion to rise. can show a nonservice-connected dis- tended his 1949 roll to 483 members. And so ends a glorious victory for ability of at least 10 percent. While serving as Commander of his the Legion and Auxiliary, who re- As reported, the bill would have big Post, he is also Department Ser- sponded so generously to calls made by eliminated entirely the 10 percent dis- geant-at-Arras and Aumonier of the National Legislative Commission. Voiture No. 645, Forty and Eight. ability requirement. Had the unemploy- There is no question whatever but that ability amendment not been added, the their efforts in informing their respec-

Th» American Legion Magazine • July. 1949 * 29 tive Representatives in Congress of their erans' Preference Act and give the op- Hayden testified before the Senate Post opposition to the unemployability amend- position the opening wedge by which Office and Civil Service Committee, ment, and their support of World War they hope eventually to completely vigorously opposing the bill. Pensions resulted in the defeat of the sabotage the law. The National Legis- Numerous bills have been introduced amendment and the overwhelming vote lative Commission has again been called in Congress to set up new Government in favor of the bill. on to vigorously oppose bills designed agencies whose personnel would be The bill is now before the Senate to break down veterans' preference. outside of Civil Service, or to transfer where it will have to hurdle the me- National Legisla- other Government agencies from juris- chanics of legislative procedure in that tive Representative diction of the Civil Service Commission. branch of Congress. Many of these bills are designed to cir- Other provisions of H. R. 4617 are: cumvent the Veterans' Preference Act. The income limitation in the case of Should they be adopted in their present any unmarried person without depen- form, many veterans would be deprived dents would be increased from $1,000 of employment benefits provided for to $1,200, with no change in the income them by the Congress. The National limitation for veterans with dependents expressing the un- Legislative Commission is opposing all ($2,500). legislation providing for Federal em- If a veteran eligible for pension under ployment outside of Civil Service. the Act is or becomes, on account of Rehabilitation age or physical or mental disability, . , ,^ , amend the Veterans' John rhomu» lajlor - helpless or blind or so nearly helpless -r.Preference Act« . toi Following the reporting of the pen- or blind as to require the regular aid protect the status of permanent classi- sion bill, the House Committee on Vet- and attendance of another person, the fied Civil Service Employees. The bill erans Affairs commenced hearings on amount of pension would be $100. would provide that in any reduction in five American Legion Bills. For veterans less than 65 years of age force, preference employees whose effi- Your National Legislative Director a total disability rating may be assigned ciency ratings are "good" or better shall and National Rehabilitation Director T. when the requirements of permanence be retained in preference to all other O. Kraabel, Assistant National Rehabi- and unemployability are met, where competing employees with less than ten litation Director Charles W. Stevens there is a single disability of 60 per years of total service and that prefer- and Dr. H. D. Shapiro, Senior Medical centum or more, or two or more dis- ence employees whose efficiency ratings Consultant, presented testimony to the abilities, one of which is 40 per centum are below "good" shall be retained in Committee in support of the bills which or more in degree combined with other preference to competing nonpreference were introduced at the request of the disabilities to a 70 per centum degree. employees with less than ten years of Legion to comply with our official These requirements are reduced at age total service who have equal or lower mandates: 55 to 60 per centum and at age 60 to efficiency ratings. The Legion maintains H. R. 896 would require payment of 50 per centum. Pension payments are that if S. 660 is enacted into law, it disability compensation in World War $60 monthly to veterans under age 65. would seriously affect veterans' prefer- I presumptively service-connected cases Those who have been rated permanent ence in Federal employment and would at the same rate as awarded the directly and total and in receipt of pension for be the long sought opening whereby service-connected. Miami 1948 National a continuous period of 10 years, are en- those elements who have continually Convention Resolution 349; titled to $72, the monthly payable under opposed veterans' preference hope to H. R. 900 seeks the final accomplish- this bill at age 65. completely break down employment ment of Chicago 1945 National Conven- No pension or increase of pension benefits granted to veterans by a grate- tion Resolution 264. Public Law 877 — may be paid under the Act to any per- ful*Government. , 80th Congress, approved July 2, 1948, son who advocates or is member of authorized additional disability compen- a Gives Personal Opinion an organization that advocates the over- sation for wives, children, and depen- throw of the Government of the United While stating that his organization dent parents of veterans rated 60 to 100 States by force or violence, and any was officially opposed to S. 660, the percent. The Legion had asked such such person who accepts a pension or spokesman of the Veterans of Foreign payment in any service-connected cases incre^ise of a pension under the Act Wars told the subcommittee that it was rated 10 percent or more. This bill would be subject to a fine of not more his personal opinion that, if the bill were would extend this added benefit pay- than $1,000 or imprisonment for not amended to provide that non-veteran ment to those rated 10 to 59 percent; more than one year, or both. employees with 18 or more years service H. R. 901 would satisfy Miami 1948 For the purpose of award of death would be protected against reduction in National Conventidn Resolution 352 pension, the income limitation will be forced separation by veterans with less seeking the statutory provision of min- $1,200, instead of $1,000, for a widow than 18 years, the bill would not be imum ratings for service-connected without child or a child. For a widow objectionable and would probably meet arrested tuberculosis; with children, $2,500 continues as the with the approval of the VFW. This con- H. R. 903 seeks an increase of com- annual income limitation. Existing law flict between the policy of the Legion pensation rates for service-connected makes this death pension payable to and the personal opinion of the VFW disability and of pension rates for non- widows and children of veterans of both spokesman received wide publicity in the service-connected permanent and total World Wars though the eligibility re- daily press. disability and deaths. Miami 1948 Na- quirements differ. Such requirements Another bill which would weaken tion Convention Resolution 558 asked are not altered by this bill. Veterans' Preference, S. 115, was in- this, as the 80th Congress only granted troduced at the request of the Veterans increased compensation to widows, Veterans' Preference of Foreign Wars. This bill, which failed children, and dependent parents in sei-v- With the threat of curtailed appro- of passage in the last Congress, would ice-connected death cases; and priations, resulting in a reduction of amend Section 2 of the Veterans' Pref- H. R. 906 asks, in conformity with Federal employees, the drive to sabo- erence Act, to provide that veterans San Francisco 1946 National Conven- tage the Veterans' Preference Act, must have at least compensable dis- tion Resolution 605 that the Admini- which has been more or less continuous ability (10 percent) to secure the 10 strator of Veterans' Affairs be given since the law was placed on the sta- points credit in examinations for Fed- adequate authority to provide required tute books in June 1944, has gained eral employment; and would amend space in Veterans' Administration ac- unprecedented proportions. The same Section .3 of the Preference Act to re- offices for the use of paid, full-time elements which have always opposed quire that all veterans make a passing credited representatives of recognized veterans' preference are spear-heading gi-ade in Civil Service examinations be- organizations. the drive and exerting every effort to fore the 5 and 10 point credits are The Senate passed S. 266, with have Congress enact into law amend- added. In accordance with Legion amendment, to permit the refund of ments which would weaken the Vet- mandates, Legislative Representative (Continued on page Si)

2Q • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 COLD FACTS ABOUT LEGION'S JOB IN REHABILITATION

By JOHN H. WALSH Chairman, National Rehabilitation Commission

The disabled veterans of the nation render the more the Legion will be clerical and secretarial help. (The total are being silently caught in a squeeze called upon to aid veterans. More and Rehabilitation staff— specialists and cler- play which threatens to strangle their more veterans will be coming to us for ical — of thirty-one persons in our Wash- rights under the law. So are their de- help. ington office received 60,160 letters in pendeftts and the widows and orphans Will our overtaxed rehabilitation ser- 1948 and wrote 71,226). of deceased veterans. vice, which failed to double while the To meet the present economy attacks Hemmed in by a deliberate economy veteran population quadrupled, be able being directed at the veterans' program, attack on the source of their benefits, to carry this new load? Do we have the veterans must have a war chest of their their position grows more insecure every resources to carry on our legislative fight own. We must establish a rehab reserve day. to keep VA services up to par? and be prepared to meet any further Yet their greatest champion, The The cold fact is that we are short of attacks — from any source at any time — American Legion, is also practicing both marks. whether they come from the National economy— in this case unwilling economy. We must strengthen our financial po- Administration, the Congress, the States Here are the facts: sition to keep pace with the times, to or anti-veteran lobbyists and propagan- Since 1940 the nation's veteran popu- keep our promise to war's victims, and dists. The American Legion will not lation has quadrupled and so have ac- to match the influence of powerful op- submit to a repetition of the shameful tive disability claims. They rose from ponents of the veterans' program. Economy Act of 1933. We must solidify 610,000 on file in 1940 to 2,315,000 in We must increase our own rehabilita- our ranks, build our reserves, grow up 1948. Over 80,000 disability claims are tion service. Our National Rehabilita- to our job and at no time be unprepared awaiting final action at this moment. tion staff must be enlarged to include as we were in 1933. With the backing of The history of War I disability claims added specialists, whose services have every Legionnaire we will not fail in (155,023 on file in 1921 and 449,609 long been required in a large percentage our dedication to unselfish service for twenty-eight years later) indicates there of cases. Many claims cannot be won those who suffered the ravages of war are many million more War II disability without their assistance. in defense of our country. claims still to come. Due to the tremendous amount of The American Legion has done the Meanwhile, with improved legislation, correspondence involved in claims the job well ... up to now. It now has but claims in many other categories have Rehabilitation staff must have added one way to turn ... to its members. risen from nothing to many millions. Over 8 million veterans have used 52-20, over 5 million have used GI education and training, nearly one and a half mil- THE SAME OLD STORY lion have used GI loans. How have the Legion's and the VA's services ex- panded in proportion to this multi- million leap in claims? The Veterans Administration in- creased its personnel staff from 42,369 in 1940 to 195,545 in 1949 — or approxi- mately 460 percent. But The American Legion was not able to keep pace with the demands for its services even before the current at- tacks on veterans brought us new re- sponsibilities. Since War II, budget restrictions of The American Legion al- lowed only a 75 percent increase — from 40 staff members to 71 — in our National Rehabilitation Service. Our expansion has at no time been sufficient to prop- erly carry on the work which every Legionnaire knows to be our first obliga- tion. Now we must look forward to carry- ing even a greater load with our inade- quate staff, for disability claims are increasing while the VA's capacity to serve is being reduced. During last March alone, 85,637 new disability claims were filed with the VA, and the backlog of claims pending was 5,100 greater than in December. At the very same time the Adminis- tration and the Congress commenced a paring down on the facilities of the VA. A 9 percent reduction of VA claims per- sonnel is being effected presently, right in the face of a rising load of claims pending. Similar cuts are taking place in appeals, finance, education and other divisions of the Veterans Administra- tion. The less service the VA is able to

The Amei^ican Legion Magazine • July, 1949 '31 !

NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMISSION LAYS PLANS FOR PHILADELPHIA CONCLAV

Meeting at the Indianapolis National Headquarters, the National Commander Paul H. Griffith, Washington, D. C; National Convention Commission completed general plans for Department Adjutant Maurice Stember, New York City; the 31st annual National Convention of The American Legion Department Adjutant Edward A. Linsky, Harrisburg, Penn- to be held at Philadelphia on August 29th through September sylvania; Convention Commission Chairman Vincent A. 1st. The City of Brotherly Love has not seen a Legion Con- Carroll, Philadelphia, who is also Chairman of the 1949 Phila- vention since 1926 — and a lot has happened in the intervening delphia Convention Corporation, and Members Vic MacKenzie, 23 years. The city is ready to roll out the red carpet for visiting Carmel, California; James P. Ringley, Chicago, Illinois; Frank Legionnaires, and according to reports coming in from all E. Brigham, Florence City, Florida; Joseph A. Partridge, Lake sections it is expected that attendance records will be broken Charles, Louisiana. Other members of the Commission not at this meeting. shown in the picture are John W. Slacks, Vice Chairman, In the picture above, reading from left to right, Edward Manhasset, New York; Fay M. Thomas, Detroit, Michigan; McGrail, National Convention Director; Department Com- Leo Crowley, Denver, Colorado; Bascom F. Jones, Nashville, .mander Lawrence Trainor, Duquesiie, Pennsylvania; Past Tennessee, and George H. Stott, Larchmont, New York.

100 PERCENT ENROLLMENT TWO PAST NATIONAL VICE BOYS NATIONAL FORUM TO OF BOYS' STATES IN 1949 COMMANDERS DIE SAME DAY BE HELD AT WASHINGTON

The long-sought goal in Boys' State Two Past National Vice Commanders, The fourth annual Boys' Forum of has been reached in 1949 — it is the John J. Maloney and John F. Sullivan, National Government, organized and climactic year with a Boys' State being both from the New England area, were sponsored by the Legion, will be held held in each of the 48 States during taken by death on the same day, May 20. on the campus of American University June-August. The entire program is John J. Maloney passed away at his at Washington, D, C, the week of July climaxed by the Boys' Forum of home at Portland, Maine. He had long 29-August 4. National Government at Washington been active in the Legion; was Depart- The 96 enrolees who will represent the week of July 29 — August 4, thus ment Commander of Maine in 1930-31, the 48 Boys' States held in 1949 will be rounding out training in Government and the following year, 1932-33, served housed in three University dormitories in each of the 49 continental Legion as National Vice Commander in the and will take their meals, home style, Departments. official family of National Commander in the University dining hall. Led by "The pioneering spirit of the group Louis Johnson. Later, in 1936-38, he National Commander Perry Brown, of Illinois Legionnaires who conceived was Maine's National Executive Com- President Harry S. Truman will re- and conducted the first Boys' State in mitteeman, and was a member of the ceive the Forum at the White House 1935 has, in 14 short years, given Amer- National Resolutions Assignment Com- on August 3. Other highlights in high ica what is generally conceded to be mittee from 1933 until 1939. He is sur- official circles will be personal recep- the best youth citizenship-training pro- vived by his widow and five children. tions by Secretary of Defense Louis gram, based on a practical approach to John F. Sullivan died at his home at Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Ache- the study of government, yet devised Saint Albans, Vermont, on May 20. He son, and AttoiTiey General Tom Clark by man. was one of the founders of the Legion and other high ranking officials of the Minnesota and Colorado recently en- in the Green Mountain State, and was Federal Government. tered the program, both holding their a charter member of Green Mountain The Federal training program will States for the first time in 1949. Rhode Post No. 1; Department Commander in also include visitations to shrines and

Island, home of the excellent "Little 1920-21 ; National Executive Commit- historic spots in and near the nation's Rhody" Boys' State in pre-war years, teeman, 1922-23; National Vice Com- capital city, party conventions, a na- has revised its plan for conducting a mander, 1941-42. Member of important tional election, a special Forum Senate reorganized State on July 3-16 at Camp committees in the National Organiza- session at the Capitol, dining and min- Legionnaire. The Rhode Island entry tion since 1923, Legionnaire Sullivan gling with United States Senators and rang the bell — it was the 48th State was best known for his service as a Representatives, a trip to the U. S. Boys' State enrolled approximately member of the Legion's Labor Relations Naval Academy, laying a wreath on the 16,000 high school youths in 45 States Committee as the Labor representative. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a press in 1948. Approximately 175,000 out- For many years he was an active Labor dinner with a program provided by standing boy leaders since 1935 have Union official, and in a busy life found radio commentators and press officials experienced the rare privilege of learn- time to serve as Mayor of his home city. of national fame, visits to the U. S. ing government by participation in gov- He was a retired Central Vermont Rail- Si^reme Court, the FBI, and other fea- ernment through Boys' State. way conductor. ture events.

32 * Th« American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 0 Q P Q 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0 QJLOJLiULflJljUUULOJLiUUL^ the Pentagon on Army Day. . . . Thomas Montgomery Post No. 431, Newcomers- * town, Ohio, has just completed 23 weeks * * lEOIONlTEMS * of free movies for children, as a part of its community-youth program. The Post has pledged $7,500 to btiild a bath house in City Park, which is now under con- 49 of in 1945, thus ending a $12,000 Forty-Niners Post No. Albu- purchased struction, and, jointly with the B.P.O.E., first Legion debt. Post has 376 members and, querque is the all-women The financed a 2-way radio for the police de- unit organized in the Department now out of debt, is ready to go places on to be partment and an oxygen tent for the fire all- a broader program. Commander Fred , of New Mexico. Plans embrace an department. State membership, says Mrs. Lee Wittich announces. . . . Annual mass Coburn, but as the movement strength- initiation inducting 82 new members was

ens other Posts will be organized. . . . held in mid-May by Robert L. Hague Dedicated to the memory of seven 2nd Division Post No. 27, Baltimore, Merchant Marine Industries Post No. young men who died in WW2, all sons of Maryland, made a dual selection for the 1242, New York City. The initiation team members, John Coleman Prince Post No. first time this year in the annual award of the Kings County 40 and 8 conducted 9, New London, Connecticut, formally

of its Medal of Valor to Coast Guards- the ceremony. . . . Alexander City and opened its new home on May 4. The 30- men who have performed outstanding Dadeville Posts, of Alabama, each con- year-old Legion unit has held its meet- deeds of heroism during the preceding tributed $125 as prize money to the Talla- ings in rented quarters. Inscribed on the year. Winners for 1949 were Albert E. poosa County winner in the American memorial plaque are the names of Morris, Boatswain's Mate 3cl, USCG, of Legion High School Oratorical Contest. Charles R. Buell, William E. Carlson, Wyandotte, Michigan, and Edward D. Americanism Director Claude Haygood Leon E. Forsyth, Ralph E. Good, Jr., Phelps Engineman 2cl, of Vancouver, reports that this is the highest award Charles E. Griffith, Harry E. Holder, Jr., in Washington, Pi-esentation of medals offered any county in Alabama. and Matthew B. Perry. . . . Legionnaire was made by Post Commander Howard Robert Collard, a wheel chair veteran of E, Townsend on April 23. Post No. 801, Sacramento, California, * CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT was presented with a Silver Life Mem- bership Card for outstanding Legion Few Post Commanders have the privi- LEGION EVENTS IN JULY lege of inducting five brothers into the service. Ceremonies were conducted by Legion in the same ceremony, but Harry 2-5 West Virginia Department officers of the Post and the 6th Legion Melcer, Commander of Maco Stewart Convention, Wheeling District of California. WWl vet with six 3- battle stars. Legionnaire Collard had Post No. 20, Galveston, Texas, had that 5 South Carolina Department honor. The brothers are Arthur, An- Convention, Greenville three sons in service in WW2. 3-5 Alabama Department thony, Amedeo, Santo and John Trimar- Convention, Mobile * chi. . . . The Cannan family of Lowville, 4 Independence Day Oliver-Russell Post No. 105, Center- New York, beats the Trimarchis by two 14- 16 Wyoming Department field, Utah, revived that good old stand- -six sons and one daughter, all members Convention, Lusk by, "Lena Rivers," for its spring home of the Legion. Bernard, Kenneth, Rob- 15- 16 Delaware Department talent play. . . . Governor Alfred E. ert, and Doris, Nurse, are members of Convention, Dover Driscoll, New Jersey, officially presented the home Lowville Post No. Francis, 15-17 Louisiana Department 162; the colors of Mercer County Post No. Rome (New York) Post; Richard, Lan- Convention, Baton Rouge 18-20 Nebraska Department 447 to Commander Marie Thompson in caster (New York) Post, and Donald, Convention, Omaha a striking ceremony in the State House Army and Navy Post No. Watertown, 61, 23-26 Tennessee Department Assembly chamber on April 28. The unit New York. Convention. Chattanooga is composed of all women veterans, or- * * 24-26 Arkansas Department ganized in 1947. When they marched in In late Convention, Fort Smith March the Joseph E. Zaloga to receive their colors, the 21-gun Gov- Post No. 1520, Albany, New York, con- 25-27 Montana Department Convention, ernor's salute was fired by a battery of ducted double funeral services for MM2c Butte 25-27 Idaho Department the New Jersey National Guard. . . . Joseph E. Zaloga, for whom the Post Convention, Weiser Kings County (New York) Legion or- was named, and his brother, Pfc. Ed- 27-30 Arizona Department ganization and Long Island University ward Zaloga, both killed in action in Convention, Nogales have completed preliminary arrange- WW2 The Past Commanders Club, 28- 30 New York Department ments for joint sponsorship of an ora- Chicago, Illinois, is campaigning to Convention, Buffalo torical contest. Winner gets a scholar- raise 28-30 Vermont Department $15,000 in order to accommodate ship in the University. Convention, 500 youngsters this summer at its boys' Bennington 28-30 camp near Coloma, Wisconsin. Last year Connecticut Department Convention, New Haven the camp handled 225 boys for two soldier's 28-30 Massachusetts Department Because of an American weeks each at a cost of about $30 per Convention, Boston friendliness and good fellowship while boy. . . . Each year a simple, though 28-30 District of Columbia Depart- in WW2 service abroad, his likeness has very significant, service is observed at ment Convention, Washington been preserved in a stained glass win- Natick, Massachusetts, when Edward P. 28-31 Michigan Department dow in Saint John's Methodist Church, Clarke Post No. 107 conducts the Convention, Detroit Glasgow, Scotland. The soldier is Joe "Transfer of the Flags." Back in 1923 Bage of Dendron, Virginia, now Legion- the Post presented a silk flag to each naire Joe Bage of Surry County Post school in Natick; at each school a pupil Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Pilot's No. 160, Surry, Virginia. ... In early was selected to have custody of the colors Post No. 968, whose members are all rated May, Medford (Massachusetts) Post No. for one year as standard bearer. Selec- pilots, has inaugurated a free emergency 45 initiated a class of 75 new members, tion for this post of honor is based on and disaster service of flying medical the second large class inducted within scholarship, leadership and the qualities supplies to any point within a 200-mile a month. . . . Celebrating the Legion's of good sportsmanship and citizenship. radius of its home city. This emergency 30th anniversary and the 30th anniver- At the last school session before Me- work will be conducted from Philadel- sary of the Washington Apple Blossom morial Day the flags are transferred to phia Skyport under the direction of Ar- Festival, Wenatchee (Washington) Post a new standard bearer in a colorful mass thur Bowley. The Post plans to secure No. 10 and Auxiliary banqueted the ceremony. an ambulance plane later, to be operated Apple Blossom Queen and all the Apple

free in emergency cases by the Post royalty. . . . East Liverpool, Ohio, Legion-

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, members. . . . Army and Air Force Post naires celebrated Memorial Day by lay- Englewood (New Jersey) Post No. 78 No. 62, Washington, D. C, formally ing the cornerstone for a $200,000 Ameri- burned the mortgage on its club house dedicated its colors in the auditorium of can Legion home.

The American Legion Magazine • luly, 1949 * 23 HOUSE PASSES WW PENSION '*RED MENACE" GETS GREEN

MEASURE-NOW IN SENATE NEW TROPHY FOR SERVICE i LIGHT FROM LEGION GROUP

IN RETURN OF WW2 DEAD realistic presentation the (Continued from page 30) j In its of ruthlessness brutality of commu- pension or compensation withheld from Conditions for award of the Man- and Talcott Trophy for the most out- nism, Republic Pictures has done a an incompetent veteran while hospital- eel | of the commendable public service in pro- ized when released as a competent vet- standing service in the Return m Program has been an- !| ducing a full length, 90-minute film, eran. War Dead nounced by National Headquarters. \', "The Red Menace." This picture ex- The Senate also passed S. 811, to ad- This trophy is to be awarded for ;| poses in its grim nakedness the methods just the effective date of certain awards possession to that Post of permanent ;> used by the commies to seduce, take of pensions and compensations payable the Legion which, in the opinion of over and use people who may be a bit by the Veterans Administration. This the judges selected by the National ![ confused on economic, race or religious bill is designed to take care of cases of Commander, has performed the most I [ service in this program. problems. The film also clearly discloses vetei-ans and dependents of veterans outstanding ; | will be at the how communism makes capital of group who, due to being interned or other war Presentation made |> Legion's National Convention which dissatisfactions, and how little the sub- conditions, were not able to make ap- follows the officially declared close ' versives actually care about the prob- plication for compensation and pen- re- of the Government's war dead !| lems of the individuals. The objective sions. In these cases, when a claim is turn movement. The trophy, offered |[ is the revolutionary and totalitarian appi'oved, the compensation or pension Talcott, > competition by Mancel ; for schemes. would start as of the date of application. Waukegan, Illinois, the Legion's '> Unusual in its character, but of such S. 811 would provide that such compen- long-time Chairman of the National < entertainment and educational values as sation or pension would commence on Graves Registration and Memorial !| Committee, is of pedestal type, 29 to earn the endorsement of the National the date the same would have started !| inches high, with laurel award fig- ;> Americanism Division of The American had conditions not prevented prompt ure on top, and a wreath and Army ;> Legion, the film was released on June filing of application. ', figure on each side. 9. Premier showings were given in Americanism Hollywood and Los Angeles, and now "The Red Menace" is available for dis- Chairman James F. Green, of the Na- souri). Chairman of the special subcom- tribution to all parts of the country. tion Americanism Commission, testified mittee, to permit Legion representa- The Americanism Division recommends before the Senate Committee on Judi- tives to appear before^ the special sub- this picture to Legionnaires, both as a ciary in support of S. 1194 and S. 1196, committee to present The American film they ought to see and for showing which are bills similar to the Mundt- Legion Plan covering this phase of in local theatres wherever possible. Nixon Bill of the 80th Congress to reg- training, as contained in H. R. 1305 and ulate and curtail Communist activities H. R. 2220. in the United States. Missouri Lad is Top Orator Merchant Marine At a subsequent hearing of the Sen- Paul T. Heyne, 17, of Jennings, Mis- ate Judiciary Committee, Chairman On behalf of The American Legion, souri, is the winner of the grand $4,000 Green testified as to the support of The Albert B. Stapp, National Chairman of college scholarship in the Legion's American Legion of the bill S. 1694, the Legion's Merchant Marine Commit- National High School Oratorical Con- which would give the Government au- tee, testified before the House Commit- test. He climbed to the top'in the finals thority to refuse entry into the United tee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, at Philadelphia in mid-April in a con- States of members of the Communist presenting our recommendations for a test in which 300,000 student partici- party or any other subversive organi- strong American Merchant Marine. pated. Orator Heyne was sponsored by zation, and to deport any such undesir- Lehman-Meyer Post, Concordia, Foreign Affairs able aliens. Missouri. Donald R. Wilson, Department Com- Housing mander, The American Legion of West Paris Post to Welcome Visitors The House Committee on Banking Virginia, and your National Legisla- With the return of more normal con- and Currency favorably reported the so- tive Director, testified before the Sen- ditions in France, Paris Post No. 1 is called "Housing Act of 1940," H. R. ate Foreign Affairs Committee in sup- preparing to welcome and to assist, if 4009, with amendments. This bill is port of the Atlantic Pact. need be, a record influx of Legionnaires similar to, but diff'ers in some respects Emblems during the coming summer months. from the Senate-approved bill, S. 1070. Commander C. Denby Wilkes had an- It provides for a program of 1,050,000 The National Legislative Director nounced that the Post facilities in federally-financed low-rent housing and Ralph B. Gregg, National Judge Pershing Hall, (49 Rue Pierre Char- units over the next 7 years. Advocate, and Carlos A. Morris, Gen- ron), are being expanded to provide a The President signed The American eral Manager of the National Emblem maximum in service and hospitality. Legion Bill H. R. 2440 to authorize the Sales Division and James P. Murray, And also in the friendly atmosphere of Public Housing Commissioner to sell Administrative Assistant of Emblem Pershing Hall — equipped with soda the suburban resettlement projects Sales, of The American Legion, pre- sented testimony to the House Judiciary fountain, bar and snack bar, unique in known as Greenbelt, Maryland ; Green- Europe — a tourist service is planned. dale, Wisconsin; and Greenhills, Ohio, Committee in support of the following without regard to provisions of law re- American Legion Bills, H. R. 774, Initiates quiring competitive bidding or public granting a renewal of patent No. 98187 Memphis Post 1,000 advertising (Public Law 65—81st Con- relating to the badge of the Sons of One of the greatest mass initiations gress). The American Legion; H. R. 775, grant- ever staged by the Legion in its 30- ing renewal of Patent No. 54296 relat- year history was held by Memphis National Security Training ing to the badge of The American (Tennessee) Post No. 1 on the night of A special subcommittee has been ap- Legion; H. R. 776, granting a renewal April 13th when more than 1,000 new pointed by the Chairman of the House of patent No. 55398, relating to the members were inducted into the organ- Armed Services Committee to go into badge of the American Legion Auxili- ization. The ceremonies, says Post thoroughly and investigate the entire ary. These bills were prepared by the Commander Rodney Baber, were color- plans and program relative to the Re- National Legislative Commission in ac- ful and impressive. serve components, ROTC, etc. Main- cordance with Resolution 74, adopted The guest speaker was Governor Sid- taining that National Security Training by the November, 1947 Meeting of the ney McMath of Arkansas, young WW2 (UMT) is a vital part of any overall National Executive Committee. (Com- Marine hero and political machine bust- civilian training program, the National panion Bills, S. 646, S. 647 and S. 676, er since his return from the wars. Legislative Director filed a request with have heretofore been favorably reported George E. Belote, Jr. was chairman of Representative Dewey Short (Mis- by the Senate Judiciary Committee). the committee in charge of the event.

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Pomona, Cal., please write. Especially need state- N. Y., or Wm. J. Connally, 378 3rd Ave., North ment of 1st Lt. Charles G. Grant and 1st Sgt. Troy, N. Y., for details. Wetzel. William F. Delphy, P. O. Box 341, E. National Association of American Balloon COMRADES Pasadena 8, California. Corps Veterans—Gasbaggers will hold 18th annual Co. M, 349th Inf., 88th Div. - Need to hear reunion with Legion National Convention, Phila- from men with me when I was wounded in Italy, delphia, Aug. 27-31. Headquarters, Hotel Shera- IN DISTRESS Oct., 1944. Especially Sgt. Driskle, later of 349th ton. For all details contact Craig S. Herbert, 3333 Replacement Pool. Samuel J. (Ike) Dearing, Rt. North 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 2, Franklin, Ga. 1st Marine Aviation Force Veterans Assn. Troop K, 7th Cavalry—Service comrades at Fort (WWl)-Reunion at the Hotel Statler, Washing- Bliss in 1918 please contact me. Need help to tion, D. C, November 4-6. Address E. V. Brum- prove claim. Royal S. Miller, Route 2, Berryville, fiel. Chairman, 14 Carvel Road, Washington 16, Co. D, 547th Engineers, WWl — Service com- Va. D. C. rades who remember Sergeant William Adams are 840th Police Sqdn — Calling Paul Renish, cor- U.S.S. Montour, APA 101 Club - Reunion at requested to write his wife, Mrs. Edyth Adams, poral, who was with outfit at Westover Field, Penn-Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 5-7. 2242 Park Avenue, Richmond 20, Va. Aid needed Mass., in 1942 and 1943. Believed to have lived Make reservation direct with hotel. For further to establish claim. at Scranton, Pa., after discharge. Veteran or information contact George C. Love, Box 175, Ted C. Eberwine — WWl soldier, organization anyone who knows him write George W. Ullrich, Warren State Hospital. North Warren, Pa. unknown; enlisted at Chicago, III., was first grade County Service Officer, Waterloo, N. Y. 9th Air Force Veterans Group — Reunion and chef and may have served as Mess Sergeant; 28th Bomb. Sqdn., 19th Bomb. Group — Ed J. convention, Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 111., July 1, wounded in service, shrapnel. Died at Mount Schneider, radioman on B17, body found in New during the Air Force Assn. Convention. Make Vernon, Maine. Information required to complete Guinea. Anyone who knows about death of this reservations direct, addressed Air Force Assn. record of service. Did you know him? If so, write man, please write. Purpose is to settle insurance Convention, Hotel Stevens, Attention-Reserva- Martin R. O'Reilly, Service Officer, Lewiston claim for mother. Carson Schlosser, Service tions. Post No. 22, Lewiston, Maine. Officer, 701 S. Franklin St., Garrett, Ind. Battery A, 489th AAA—Reunion at Hotel Pitts- U.S.S. K2, USN, (WWl) -Shipmates who re- Co. I, 125th Inf., 32nd Div. (WWl)-Anyone burgher, Pittsburgh, Pa., July ,.23. For reserva- member my injuries in fall while on trip to Fayal who served with Harry Hudson Freeze, please tions and information contact Bill Wieser, 63-B, from 4th Submarine Flotilla base, Azores, in write. Purpose to establish claim for his widow. Boone Drive, Turtle Creek, Pa., or Al Buti, 3311 1918, please write James H. Quinn, 103-58— 101st Carson Schlosser, Service Officer, 701 S. Franklin Auburn St., McKeesport, Pa. . St., Ozone Park 16, N. Y. St., Garrett, Ind. 510th Bomb Squadron — Reunion at Morrison USN, San Bueno, Cal.—Will anyone who served Hotel, Chicago, 111., Aug. 13, 14. For reservations with me at above Naval Base, June to September, and info write W. Behn, 9941 South Maplewood please write. 1945, Statements needed. William pLSJ)JISJ>JLSU>JIJ»JIS.o ooooQOOOOi Ave., Chicago, 111. Reservation fee $3 for expenses. A. Klug, 175 Laurel St., Buffalo 8, N. Y. National Yeoman F. — Reunion luncheon at U.S.S. Boxer (CV-21) - Donald L. Collins, 801 LuLu Shrine Club, 313 South Broad St., Phila- E. 16th St.. North Platte, Neb., was injured delphia, Pa., at 12 noon, Aug. 29. For reserva- aboard ship by a fall about April 2, 1947. Ship- OUTFIT tions and info write Mrs. Agnes Spangenberg, mates who remember incident write him, or John 2117 South Frazier St., Philadelphia, Pa. P. Beveridge, Lincoln County Service Officer, 1st Special Service Force Association (U. S.- North Platte, Neb. REUNIONS Canadian) —Reunion at Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Naval Air Station, I. — Quonset Point, R. Wil- III., Aug. 5, 6. For info write Robert T. Plunkett, liam Prokocimer, 9 Clinton St., Newark, N. J., n) o a a o a 6 Secretary, P. O. Box 442, Helena, Mont. suffered severe head injury while playing ffiotball nnmnm 60th Ry. Engineers Assn., AEF (and Auxiliary) about Oct. 12, 1946. Records incomplete; state- —Reunion at Little Rock, Ark., July 14-17. Head- ments needed. Anyone who knows of incident Society of the 1st (Infantry) Division— 28th an- quarters, Hotel La Fayette. Contact D. E. Gal- please write veteran above address. nual convention at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, lagher, Chairman Arrangements Committee, 812 342nd Tank Battalion, Camp Polk, N. C.-Pvt. Philadelphia, August 26-27, 1949. E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. Wilbur E. Hewitt suffered influenza and other ill- 1st Marine Division — 2nd reunion at Hotel 904th F.A. Battalion—Reunion at Hotel Com- ness while this with unit between November 15 Astor, New York City, August 6, 1949. For info modore Perry, Toledo, Ohio, July 1-3, with an- and December 15, 1918. Now needs assistance to write Nathaniel T. McGrane, Chairman, 324 nual meet of 315th Infantry Association. Infor- establish claim. Anyone serving with him please Brower Ave., Rockville Centre, L. I., N. Y. mation from Dr. S. I. Rosenthal, 421 Chamber write Edward M. Mathews, Veterans Service Former members send current addresses to Resi- of Commerce Bldg., Scranton 3, Pa. Officer, Box 971, Front Royal, Va. dent Secretary John I. Fitzgerald, Jr., P.O. Box U.S.S. Bremerton, CA-130-Reunion at Pitts- 3rd Armored — Division Calling first-aid man, 69, Boston 14, Mass. burgh, Pa., July 16-17. Contact Anthony Cout- name and unit of Armored Inf. Bn. unknown, 2nd ^Indian Head) Division Assn.— Informal soumbis, 823 Bluff St., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Phone who gave first aid to Captain Wilson W. Van reunion during American Legion Convention at Co. 2534. Winkle, Signal Corps, near the Cathedral in Philadelphia, Aug. 29-Sept. 1. Command Post at 149th Engineer Combat Bn.—Reunion at Am- Cologne, Germany. While on special mission, he 263 S. 22nd St. for purpose of registration and bassador Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 3-5. hit was by frag in hand, arm and right side; getting former Indians together. Write Robert H. Miller, 4444 Norledge St., Kansas given field treatment and no record made on 3rd Armored Division — National Convention City 1, Mo., for details. casualty list. Write Captain Van Winkle, P. O. at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, July 52nd Tel. Bn., Signal Corps—Members inter- Box Chillicothe, 666, Mo. 1, 2. Big time show will feature the meet. Contact ested in a reunion at" Philadelphia during Legion Co. F, 314th - Motor Supply Train (WWl) Paul Corrigan, 80 Federal St.. Boston 10, Mass. National Convention. Aug. 29-Sept. 1, write G. Statements urgently needed from service com- 4th (Ivy) Infantry Division (Both WWs) — R. Jones, 6903 Greene St., Philadelphia, Pa. rades to establish claim; gassed and had asthma; National reunion at Toledo, Ohio, September 1-4. 284th F.A. Bn. (Helpmate)—Annual reunion, driver Pvt. in Meuse-Argonne Battle and later at Contact Mrs. Canelli, C/o Toledo Convention and La Bagh Woods, Cicero and Foster Ave., Chicago, Coblenz. Write John P. Dillon, 134 Meserole Ave., Visitors Bureau, 218 Huron St., Toledo 4, Ohio. III., July 3. Write Ronni Poison, 1108 Leiand Brooklyn 22, Y. N. 12th Armored (Hellcat) Division Assn. — 3rd Ave., Chicago 40, III. U.S.S. Buford. (WWl)-Urgently need to con- annual convention at Louisville, Ky., September U.S.^ Sterlet SS 392-Reunion at Washington, tact Jack Hanley, GM, ex-Terre Haute, Ind. 3-5. Details from John J. Colins, E.xec. Secretary, D. C, latter part August or first of September. Willie Blow, Bugler, N. Y. City; Jerry Breen, 21 Brushton Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pittsburgh 21, Pa. For further information write Matt Kane, 1764 QM, and W. Beaudro, S 1/c. Statements needed. 29th Infantry Division Assn.—Annual conven- Mass. Ave., N.W.. Washington, D. C. Write Vincent (Mickey) Earley, 1561 E. 66th tion at Washington, D. September 2-5. Head- 39th Engineer Regiment (C)— Reunion at In- St., Brooklyn C 34, N. Y. quarters, Washington Hotel. Information from dianapolis, Ind., July 2, 3. Write John W. Station Hospital, Camp Roberts, Cal.—Will the John J. A. Ager, Secy.-Treas., 1765 New York Bracken, Box 103, Laporte, Ind. medical officer in charge of above hospital in Ave. NE, Washington 2, D. C. 15th U. S. Engineers—Reunion and picnic, West April, please write. 1945, Statement needed. Arlie 36th (Texas) Infantry Division — Annual re- View Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 9. Mothers and LeRoy Hutton, 5433 Brittian St., Long Beach 8, union, both WWs, at Waco, Tex., Sept. 9-11. wives will serve picnic supper at 5 p.m. Further Cal. Write 36th Division Assn., P.O. Box 2174, Capitol info from Neda M. Duncan, Secretary, 1238 S. Battery E, 313th F.A., 80th Division, (WWl) Station, Austin, Texas. Braddock Ave., Pittsburgh 18, Pa. — Anyone who remembers Forest Harrison Hall 41st (Jungleers) Infantry Division— First as- 26th Engineers, (WWl) — Annual reunion at at Camp Lee, Feb. 11 to March 29, 1918, please sembly and reunion, WW2, at Portland, Ore., Philadelphia during Legion National Convention, write his widow, Florence M. Hall, 3013 W. Da- July 15-17. For information and reservation's con- Aug. 29-Sept. 1. Contact A. A. Fricks, Secy.- kota St., Philadelphia 32, Pa. Urgent; statements tact Mike A. Trapman, Commander, 41st Division Treas., 246 S. Orange Drive, Los Angeles 36, Cal. needed by July 15th. Post, American Legion, 5932 NE Glisan, Portland Hqrs. and Hqrs. Co., 10th Armored Div.—Re- USNAF, Mercer Field, Trenton, N. J.-Service 13, Ore. Reservations, $6 to cover entertainment union at Lexington Hotel, New York City, Aug. comrades who can give names of Medical Officer and other expenses, 18-20. Write John F. Valley, 13 Montgomery Ave., or Corpsman at field please contact Anthony P 43rd (Winged Victory) Infantry Division—An- Prichard, Ala. Andriolo, 639 W. Christopher St., Orange, N. J. nual reunion at Fort Varnum, Narragansett Pier, 306th Inf. Assn., and 77th Div. Outpost—Re- Help needed to establish claim; medic record lost. R. I., September 9-11. Information and reserva- union during Legion National Convention, Phila- 753rd Ry. Bn — Information is requested from tions from George E. Cole, State Armory, Hart- delphia, Aug. 30, 31. Headquarters, V.F.W. Club, members this unit relative to Alfred Bellamy, who ford 6, Conn. 173 W. Cumberland St. Information from Frank was carried to and from work during action in 80th (Blue Ridge) Division Assn.— Annual re- Galgan, 28 E. 39th St., 77th Division Club, New Italian campaign. Needs help in claim for pen- union at Richmond, Va., August 4-7. Head- York City, or Frank Hughes, 1511 W. Cumber- sion. Address Douglas G. Pearcy, Service Officer, quarters, John Marshall Hotel. For details write land St., Philadelphia, Pa. Clewiston, Fla. Glenn E. Jordan, 2721 Fendall Ave., Richmond 3rd Ind. Inf. and 137th F.A.—20th annual re- 364th ' Fighter Group—Men who went overseas 22, Va. union at Albion, Ind., July 31. Info from Cary with this group or transferred to France at same 90th (TO) Division, Indiana Chapter—Reunion, A. Davis, Chairman, Albion, Ind. time are requested to write. Statements needed. both WWs, at Hotel Severn, Indianapolis, Ind., Co. F, 4 th Virginia Infantry— ( Former Suffolk Delmar Hamiel, J. Box 924, Reliance. S. Dak. September 3, 4. For details write Russell L. Dilts, Grays, WWl)—Annual reunion at Suffolk, Va., U.S.S. White Marsh (LSD-8) -Shipmates of the Secy.-Treas., Indiana Chapter, 116 West South Aug. 20. Write R. W. Glaus, Secretary, 894 Bote- 1st Division, especially Phm Beckman and Dr. St., South Bend 1, Ind. tourt St., Norfolk, Va. Zinn, in 1944 and 1945 please write. Need state- 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division—Reunion, 54th Signal Bn.—Annual reunion, Santa Cruz, ments. James H. Smith, Route 1, Graham, Ala. New York City, September 3-5. Headquarters, Cal., over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-5. (Contact U.S.S. Intrepid—Was injured in accident at Hotel Commodore, where all sessions will be held. David H. Farrari, 312 National St., Santa Cruz, Guam Sept. 17, 1946; shipmates between May 2. Howard S. Bedney, National Secy.-Treas., 140-10 Cal. 1944, and Oct. 1945, especially a sailor nicknamed Franklin Ave., Flushing, L. I., N. Y., will furnish 388th Signal Depot Co. — Reunion at Roosevelt "Chory," please contact me. William Reentz, info and details. Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 12-14. Write D. A. Green Lake, Wis. National Organization of World War Nurses- Sweet, 6235 Vetter Place, Pine Lawn 20, Mo. U.S.S. Colorado—Earl Lewis Hopkins served Annual reunion at Philadelphia, Pa., August 29- U. S. Army Ranger Battalions—Members of all aboard between August, 1929, and April 28, 1933; September 1, with National Convention, Ameri- six Battalions will hold reunion at Cleveland, was injured by a shipmate during mess. Informa- can Legion. Reunion breakfast at Hotel Bellvue- Ohio, Aug. 12-14. Write Bill White, Secretary, tion on this incident is urgently needed by his Stratford, Aug. 30, 8 a.m. Contact Miss Anne E. Arborway Court Apts., 9 Saint Ann St., Jamaica widow to prove claim. Shipmates please write McCarthy, Chairman, 295 St. Johns Place, Brook- Plain, Mass. Mrs. Hazel G. Hopkins, 521 Pioneer Ave.. Kent, lyn, N. y. 12th Co., 2nd Regt., A.S.M. (WWl)-Reunion Ohio. Naval Air Transport Service—Reunion in con- at Palmer House, Chicago, 111., July 2-4'. Contact Co. G, 127th Ord. Base Depot Regt.—Men who junction with Legion National Convention, Phila- E. P. Martin, Wooster, Ohio, or Bob Baker, 4141 remember when I fell from truck, about March delphia, Aug. 29-Sept. 1. All former NATS men Fletcher St., Chicago 41, III. 30, 1943, while stationed at L.A. Fair Grounds, contact Leo P. Mullen, 133 Eagle St., Albany, (Continued on page 36)

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SHANGHAI POST SUSPENDS THE AMERICAN LEGION ; PERMANENT HOME BEING WHEN REDS INVADE CITY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA BUILT FOR SCOUT TROOP :; General Frederick Townsend Ward APRIL 30. 1949

I of Venice, Illinois, Scout Troop No. I| Post No. 1, of Shanghai, China, one ASSETS ' 1 of the 1, sponsored by Venice-Madison Post i the old established outposts | Cash on hand and on deposit. .$ 967.787.39 I I No. 307, is to have a home of its own Legion, the storms and ] has weathered | Receivable 209.414.03 after !; 32 years of meeting in barns ;> strife of wars and revolutions through Inventories 527,500.72

1 and the public school buildings. A i Invested Funds 959.265.96 1 many turbulent years, beat the Reds to '1 Investments: ;i red granite structure, 26 by 40 feet, Permanent the punch in the recent capture of the Overseas Graves Decoration 'I is under construction and is expect- city by the communist forces. Trust Fund 265.440.11 ! to for Retirement Trust I ed be ready occupancy by late Employees' ; The Legion did not go underground. Fund 1,039,191.79 !| summer or early fall. The building Real Estate, less depreciation. . 558,936.40 is under direction of Fifty-Fifty It merely suspended activities and for- the ;1 Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, all equipment to 1 records the 1 Club of Venice, and is located on warded and less depreciation 285,548.41 Deferred Charges 114,282.80 •i property owned by the sponsoring National Headquarters at Indianapolis $4.917,367.61 i\ Legion Post. It is estimated to cost '.\ for safekeeping. However, according to

1; about $15,000 when completed. a notice sent out by Commander O. R. LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE The Fifty-Fifty Club, headed by ;j Fitz to the 148 members, the Post will AND NET WORTH Walter Simmons, was organized by '1 not lose its identity. Dues for all active Current Liabilities $ 267.086.79 |i the Legion's Ways and Means Com- !| Funds Restricted as to use 199.096.89 members on the 1948 rolls were paid out 'I mittee and is composed of 90 Venice i| Deferred Revenue 1.367.880.10 men whose goal is to raise the of the Post treasury. Permanent Trusts; I mon- ; Decoration "This action does not mean that we Overseas Graves l\ ey and see that the Troop home is ;> Trust Fund ..$ 255,440.11 completed on time. are going out of existence," said Com- Employees' Retirement

Trust Fund . . . 1,039,191.79 1.294,631.90 1 Organized in April, the < 1917, Troop I 1 mander Fitz, "nor does it mean that the Worth: '\ has operated under various sponsor- Net !| officers and members will not aid and as- Restricted Capital 750,128.90 '(', ships until taken over by Venice- !| sist the American community, Legion- Unrestricted !| Madison Post two years ago. The ;> Capital 1,038,544.03 1,788.672.93 naires and veterans whenever they can. < ' present plan is to raise the member- > $4.917,367.61 ] We consider it wise to curtail our ac- |> ship of the Troop, Cub Pack and ' Seniors to a total of 120 boys. tivities until conditions appear more settled." CALIFORNIA POST ADOPTS OUTFIT REUNIONS NEW MOBILE UNIT GATHERS LIFE MEMBERSHIP PLAN (Continued from page 35) 37th Service Group (AAF)-The Will Rogers BLOOD FOR OHIO VETERANS Field "Boys from Pennsylvania" (including 38th George Washington Post No. 114, of and 50th Service Squadrons) reunion at Harris- Thanks to the determined effort of San Francisco, California, has adopted burg, Pa., July 16, 17. Inquire of George E. Reed. 621 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. District Commander Milton M. (Mike) a life membership plan for its members, Service Batteries 194th F.A. and 1st Bn.. 185th Donahue the 3rd Legion District of based on the purchase price of Series F F.A.—Reunion at Clinton. Iowa, September 3-6. Write Orville N. Seamer, RR 1. Goose Lake, Iowa. Ohio has a new mobile blood bank in United States Savings Bonds. Under 725th Railway Operating Bn.— In conjunction this it with Entire Military Railway Service Veterans service. It is collecting blood through- plan is believed that continuous 3rd annual reunion at Pittsburgh, Pa., membership in the Post be ob- Assn.. out west central Ohio for the free use may Sept. 24, 25. Headquarters, William Penn Hotel. Popowich, 46-32-66th St., Wood- of veterans needing transfusions at tained at much less cost than would be Write Fred J. side, Long Island, N. Y. paid on an annual basis during the life- Brown Hospital of the Dayton VA Co. E, 161st Inf., 25th Division—5th annual re- Center. time of a member. union, Washington Hotel, Pullman, Wash., Sept. 16, 17. Contact Carlyle Ragsdale, Box 113, Col- The plan is made possible, says Le- Last summer when Commander Dona- lege Sta., Pullman, Wash. learned gionnaire Floyd F. Helmick, by dividing 785th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Co.— let hue that the hospital was*having Ohio, for the membership into eleven groups ar- annual reunion at Cincinnati, Aug. 13. difficulty in getting an adequate supply reservations write Fred Morris, 1041 Main St., of blood, he determined to ranged by life expectancy years. The Aliquippa, Pa. do something Evacuation Hospital, (WW2)—Reunion at plan also establishes a fund to guaran- 25th about it. An SOS brought Legion volun- Chicago, 111., Oct. 15. Write Capt. E. T. Kret- tee payment of the Department schmer. Secretary, A.S.M.P.A., 84 Sands St., teers who came direct to the hospital. and National per capita tax. The by-laws Brooklyn 1, N. Y. But that was a hard way — the better 274tli Armored Field Artillery—3rd annual re- also include a provision that on the union at Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, July way seemed to be to get it where the death, resignation, transfer or expul- 23-24. For info and reservations write E. T. Cun- donors lived. A mobile blood bank was neen, Jr., 19801 Lanbury Road, Warrensville the answer. sion of any life member, the amount of Heights 22, Ohio. 699th Ordnance Co.—Reunion, Hotel Seel- the life membership dues paid shall be- HM Like most Legionnaires, Commander bach, Louisville, Ky., Aug. 12, 14. Contact C. E. come permanent property of the Post. Cook, Box 116, Rt. 2, Shively, Ky.; R E. Sheetz. Mike works for a living. faced the He 924 Franklin St., Wyomissing, Pa., or F. J. Jones, The plan is not as complicated as it problem with the knowledge that neither 668 Vanderbilt St., Brooklyn 18. N. Y. sounds, and may be of interest to other Battery A, 60th Art., C.A.C. (WWl)-Annual he nor others in the organization could reunion Marysville, Ohio, 7. Write R. E. Posts seeking a life membership meth- at Aug. buy the necessary equipment and hire Cook, fiR 2. Plymouth, Ind. od. An age table has been worked out 56th Pioneer Infantry — Annual reunion at competent technicians to operate it. So for each age group. For example: A Bloomsburg, Pa., Aug. 6, 7. Contact W. Hess, he tackled the matter as a co-operative Secretary, 707 Park St., Bloomsburg, Pa. member bom in 1897 holding a 1949 316th Infantry Assn.—30th annual reunion at effort. membership card, making application Philadelphia Sept. 30 and October 1, 2. Contact Technicians at Brown Hospital made Raymond A. Cullen, President, P. O. Box 1303. in 1949, would pay life membership Philadelphia 5, or Edwin G. Cleeland, Secretary, the sketches. Trotwood Trailers, Inc., dues for the 58-56 year age group, or 6125 McCallum St.. Philadelphia 44, Pa. built the trailer with necessary beds, 109th Engineers (WWl) — Annual reunion at $92.50. The rates run from $222.00 for Council Bluffs, Iowa, Oct. 22, 23. Ex-members of tables, and space for a refrigerator, and the 21-25 year group, to $37 for 67 outfit not on mailing list, write E. W. Rockwell, members of Dayton Post No. 5, many of Secretary, 1815 Avenue E, Council Bluffs, Iowa. years and older. 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group—2nd whom are employed in a refrigerator- Legionnaire Floyd F. Helmick can be annual reunion, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 3-5. For making plant, chipped in to buy the es- details write Arthur W. Bishop, 121 Northen reached at 190 11th Avenue, San Fran- Ave., Decatur, Ga. sential freezing unit at rock-bottom cost. cisco 18, in case any Post would like Co. I. 345th Inf.. 87th Div.-Reunion being ar- Dayton's Borchers Ford Agency agreed ranged ; former members of outfit write Wesley complete details. to furnish a car Garrisson, ISIOV^ Ave., Tuscaloosa, Ala., or whenever this trailer is Donald Campbell, 117 S. Minn. Ave., Sioux Falls, moved. Mrs. Oma Stagnaro, wife of the S. Dak. "Taffy Three Reunion"—4th annual reunion of The project is not competitive with Commander of Santa Cruz (California) CTU 77.4.3. (USS St. Lo, White Plains, Kalinin other blood-gathering agencies, but it Post No. 64, claims the deep-sea record Bay, Fanshaw Bay, Kitkun Bay, Bay, does assure Butler, Dennis, Hoel, Heermann, Johnston, Ray- Brown Hospital of a blood for poppy sales. She sold 35 poppies on mond and Roberts ) —vets of Battle of Leyte Gulf supply for needy veterans — and plenty her husband's fishing barge when ten —at San Francisco. Cal., October 22, 1949. Write Val Cosper, 800 Mills BIdg., 220 Montgomery St., of it. miles at sea. San Francisco, Cal.

3g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 . .; —. " — , Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

July, 1949

MINNESOTA WW2 BONUS: Sixteenth State to GI INSURANCE "BONUSES" : VA has been sending authorize payment of a bonus to its WW2 out checks for overpayments on GI life in- service men and women, the Minnesota De- surance (NSLI ) . . . . Some considerable num- partment of Veterans Affairs, St. Paul, is ber of vets, VA reports, are a bit confused speeding up preparations for a flood of by this surprise "bonus" believing it to be ^ applications ... .Passed by the 1949 Legis- the long-expected and long-delayed divi- lature and signed by Governor Luther W. dend payment . . . .No such good luck. . . .These Youngdahl, the cost is estimated at $82,- checks are simply reimbursements for over-

000 ,000. . . Rates of payment are $10 per payments, clearing the decks in order to month for domestic service . up to maximum start the dividend checks rolling out some of $270 ; $15 per month for foreign service time next year . up to maximum of~|400 home service counted ; * * * * in reaching this maximum. . . .Men in armed forces five years prior to Pearl Harbor are MEDAL FOR BERLIN AIRLIFTERS : Creation of a special medal to honor the men who flew the excluded ; otherwise any Minnesotan six months in bona fide residence in State Berlin airlift and helped break the Soviet before enlistment, induction or commis- blockade has been approved by the House Armed Services Committee. . . .It will be sion, who served between December 7 , 1941, called "Medal for Human Action" and will be and September 2, 1945, is eligible . . . Maximum payment to next-of-kin of war dead awarded by the President to "persons serv- in following order: Unremarried widow ing in or with the armed forces of the U. S. in carrying out the air supply of blockaded children, parents . . . .Application blanks " from Department of Veteran Affairs. St Berlin. . . .Defense Secretary Louis Johnson has awarded Special Certificates of Honor Paul — will be ready some time in July. . . The stream of checks, it is believed, will to next-of-kin of 28 Americans killed in start to flow probably in late November. this operation. . . .The dead include 25 mem-

bers of the Air Force , one soldier, one * * * * sailor and one civilian. BONUS IN NORTH DAKOTA: Bonus day is coming * * * * soon for more than 60,000 North Dakota WW2 WAVES TO BE SENT OVERSEAS : The Navy has an- veterans. . . .Payments are expected to aver- nounced that WAVES will be gj.ven regular age $450 at the rate of $17.50 per month for overseas duty next fall in six areas Eng- foreign service, and $12.50 for each month land, the Caribbean, Panama Canal Zone of stateside duty no maximum — limitation , . . Alaska, Hawaii and the Marianas . .Over- between January 1, 1941. and January 1_^ seas tours will range from 18 to 24 months. 1946 . . . .Applications will be received after . . .To date, only five WAVES . all officers, July lj_ with processing to start on July 7. are serving overseas — three in London, one ...Out-of-state vets eligible for this in the Caribbean, and one with the Berlin liberal bonus may obtain application forms airlift. by writing Brigadier General H^ Edwards. * * * * The Adjutant General. Bismarck. North "MEET KING JOE" : A film with high American- Dakota. ' ism values, "Meet King Joe , is being re- )|! ))C ^ jjc leased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for general

distribution. . . . Speaking out for democracy IOWA BONUS BLANKS READY: Announcement is in a way that is clear to all through the made that the Iowa bonus applications are medium of the animated cartoon, this film ready for distribution to Tall Corn State examines in a manner both humorous and real- eligible WW2 vets.... The Act authorizes istic the role of the American payment of $10 per month for home working man. duty, and ...He is $12 .50 "King Joe".... The flicker is in per month for foreign service . up to the same tradition as last year's popular a maximum of $500 . . . .Six months bona fide "Make Mine Freedom" . ... It was shown to some residence in State is required before en- members of the Legion' s National American- tering armed forces for service between ism Commission at the May meeting in Indian- September 16. 1940. and September 2^ 1945. apolis and won informal indorsement. ...Next-of-kin of war dead entitled: Un- remarried widow, children, step-children, * * * * parents . . . .Application forms from Iowa WW2 NATIONAL GUARD REACHES PEAK: America's Service Compensation Board. Pes Moines. largest peacetime National Guard in history Iowa. reached a total strength of 550.630 officers

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Section 14, and men on May 1 The Guard is organized after successful appeal under restored to every State, the District of Columbia, Veterans Preference Act, be in separa- Hawaii and Puerto Rico Ma.ior General duty retroactively to the date the . . . .Previously, such res- Kenneth L. Cramer. Chief of the National tions were made the Guard Bureau, (Past Commander of the Con- torations had to be made as of the date necticut Legion) reported that nine States employes rex-urned to duty ... .Under the amendment , if the restoration is recom- have a Guard strength greater than 10,000. Pennsyl- mended, it will serve to rescind the order . . .They are : New York, California, appointment or oath vania, Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Massachu- of separation and no new will setts, New Jersey and Tennessee. of office be necessary. Sfc sfc 3)C * * * * GI TRAINING FOR 3-WAR VET: Proving that age MARINE CORPS OCCUPATION MEDAL: The U.S. is no barrier to education and training Marine Corps began distribution of the Navy under the GI Bill a 74-year-old Navy vet Occupation Service Medal to its present and who has seen service in three major wars is former personnel on June 1. . . .This Medal studying advanced electronics in a school is awarded Corps personnel attached to and at St. Petersburg, Florida, under the GI serving with organizations of the U.S. Navy Bill. . . .He is Edward W. Thompson, whose in occupation of enemy territories during Navy career started in 1889 ... .He was on as : WW2 . . . .Occupation service is defined the U.S. S. Texas in 1898 and saw his first European-African-Middle Eastern area, naval action in the Battle of Santiago . . . Asiatic-Pacific, sent on and after May 8^. 1945 ; After the Spanish-American War he was on and after September 2, 1945 . . . . Appro- to the Navy Electrical School at Boston Navy priate clasps marked "Europe" and "Asia" Yard, and became an expert, taking on radio to denote theatre of service, are author- as a pioneer. . . .Still pioneering, though ized. Marine Corps posts, stations, re- retired, he wants to be ready for duty should cruiting divisions and reserve districts another war come will issue the Medal to Corps veterans and * * * * reservists NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE: Vets of * * * * WW2 are again reminded that GI insurance is ARE YOUR FEET MATES? No, that's not a gag- still available to all who had service be- there • s a non-profit "mismated" shoe serv- tween October 8, 1940 . and September 2, ice for veterans and others who have this 1945 . . . .Amount of insurance ranges from injury $1,000 up to $10,000 in multiples of $500, disability from polio , amputation, issued in six standard forms of policies or disease. . . .This problem confronts thou- sands, which led to the formation of the in addition to the 5-year level premium . . : life National Odd Shoe Exchange as a clearing term. .They are Ordinary , 30-pay- ment life 20-payment life 20-year endow- house.... The Exchange does not deal in , ^ shoes, but with names of persons of similar ment ; endowment at age 60 , and endowment at ages and tastes in shoe styles who have age 65 . . . .Proceeds of this insurance are available, or are seeking "mismates" . . . exempt from taxation, the claims of cred- Members pay a nominal registration fee. . . itors, and are not liable to attachment, The National Odd Shoe Exchange is operated levy or seizure. . . .Insured may name anyone by Miss Ruth C^ Rubin, 6267 Clemens Avenue, he chooses as beneficiary, and may elect St. Louis 5, Missouri, herself a polio vic- lump sum or monthly payment settlement to tim who started the service as an answer beneficiary. . . Time marches on I . . . .Delay to her own problem. will make the insurance cost more. . . .The * * * * Post Service Officer will be glad to help SMITHS, JOHNSONS AND BROWNS: Latest count you with your insurance problems, or, if you prefer, write or visit the nearest VA of the VA Central Of ice master index file office for forms and additional informa- reveals 263,000 Smiths ; 12,000 of whom are :|c tion. >t: * named John ; 195.000 Johnsons or Johnstons ;

150,000 Browns or Brownes, 6,700 of whom FRIDAY , 13th , NO JINX : Out at Ada , Oklahoma answer to John as their first name, and J. 2s. Davis found a dollar bill in a sack of 130,000 Jones . .. .There are but few names cow feed. . . .He immediately invested it in a not duplicated in the files. . . .Vets having ticket for an American Legion raffle. . . .On correspondence with VA about claims or in- Friday, May 13th, he was told that his ticket surance, to prevent confusion, should al- had won the new Ford sedan. ways use their "C" number in their letters * * * * ... If no "C" number, then use service serial FEW VETS USE UP GI TRAINING : Only two out of number, date of birth or other identifying every 100 WW2 vets have exhausted their time information. . . .A lot of trouble and delay entitlement for education or training under will be avoided if vets will observe this the GI Bill and Public Law 16. . . .Out of a simple rule total of 6,228. 707 vets who had entered * * * * training only 61.406 used up their full CIVIL SERVICE APPEAL RIGHTS: The Civil time, while 81.899 disabled veterans have Service Commission has amended its regula- been declared rehabilitated under Public tions to provide that hereafter veterans Law 16. . . .Last count showed 2.476,090 vets who have been separated from Federal posi- enrolled in schools or colleges or taking tions may, if the Commission recommends farm or job-training courses.

38 IS TIME ON RUSSIA'S SIDE? (Continued from page 11) All that remained was for the four-power the minds of many Americans, you see, who yells "Fire!" m a theatre has a much representatives to agree that the service one year is a long time—long enough to easier assignment than does the fellow should be re-opened. expect solution of the major difficulties of who tries to restore order. And in this I had hopes that within a week orders a small, rocky country with eight million case, we, being Americans, expect order for German post-war goods would again people, and only two-thirds the size of to be restored in a hurry. In short, we are be moving by cable. I was, you see, using my native state, Nebraska. But to the attempting to apply hot war tactics to a the American conception of time. Russian mind, one year is nothing. cold war. The Russians came to the meeting The Russians have learned how not to Here at home we need to understand pleasant and smiling. We had become be in a hurry. Their country reaches to clearly that this cold struggle with com- well acquainted and there was the usual the far east and across it through the cen- munism is a long-time affair. It will de- exchange of small talk. But when it came turies the oriental contempt for time has mand a most careful and prudent use of to saying "yes" to the re-establishment of spread. The revolution in their homeland American aid. We cannot afford to weaken the international services, the Russians was long in coming and they were willing our own economy and we don't want to were adamant. to wait for it. Since world revolution pour out all our available strength in the "It is worth considering," said General would be much bigger, is it not to be ex- initial round. That means that the scope Malkov. "One of our representatives will pected that they will be willing to wait of our aid abroad must be determined go to Moscow and talk to officials there. even longer for it? by our long-range ability to pay. In the Perhaps the next session of the United When the Union of the Soviets first at- beginning of our European aid program Nations Assembly will wish to debate the tracted serious notice in this country, its we have been occupied with getting food question." leaders talked of five-year plans. The and fuel - basic necessities - to our friends The Assembly would not even meet Temge of even a five-year plan was so abroad. It is time now to give more atten- until the following fall. And, American- strange to our American minds that we tion to the kind of aid we offer. like, I had harbored hopes of seeing the adopted the phrase as a sort of humor- Our American insistence on "hurry up" service operating within a week! ous byword. Our biggest campaigns, those has already pushed our representatives The incident is typical of hundreds for the presidency of the United States, abroad into a "long range" versus "short which have made clear what everybody run about 90 days— and we tell each other range" conflict. This conflict is not un- knows by now: the Russians don't want that they're "long and drawn-out." If your derstood here at home. It boils down to a self-sufficient Germany. But more than own town stages a 30-day drive for the a question of whether we are to use our that, it demonstrates the difference be- Community Chest, you find yourself con- aid program to furnish consumer goods tween the western and eastern concept sidering the effort interminable. food, gasoline, household gadgets -to im- of time. This difference is something Yet, here are the Russian communist prove today's living abroad, or whether which Americans must come to recognize leaders with their five- and ten -year plans it is to be used to bring in industrial before we can grasp the magnitude of the —mere fractions of a whole plan for ab- machinery, erect power plants, and pro- cold war we are fighting. sorbing the world. We can scarcely be- mote better agricultural methods to im- Here in the United States we cherish lieve such a show of patience is real. But prove toviorrow's living abroad. the motto that time is golden; that time is it is. The Russians do not expect to see We need more emphasis on the long- money; that time must be saved. We the Red banner floating over the world range view. It is not the easy way. It wish all our differences with Russia, in- by 1950. There is plenty of time, and time means that our American representatives cluding our disagreements in Berlin, can be spent in talk that plants again and in Europe will have to say "No," over would be dissolved this week so that we again the seeds of doubt, unrest, suspi- and over again to the demands of local might relax and enjoy the Sunday paper cion and discontent. politicians who are, quite naturally, think- in peace. The American use of time in a The communist course for the present ing more of today's cabinet crisis and hot war has been the thing that has per- amounts to little more than the promo- next week's election than they are of mitted us to remain unprepared until war tion of chaos— and it's a simple task com- conditions in their countries 10 or 20 engulfed us and still—somehow—survive. pared to the one we have handed to our years from now. We wait until the zero hour, then work American administrators abroad. The man (Continued on page 40) like mad producing the implements and supplies for war. Our ability to decide quickly and then produce in frenzy amazes IMP-VLSES By Puiit:e de Leon the rest of the world. It has brought us through the hot wars. But this is a cold war that won't be won with speed. Operation of the air lift to save Berlin was a magnificent display of ability to or- ganize quickly and to "do something." It has given Germans, and other Europeans too, increased confidence in Americeins. But can we keep providing relief by such heroic measures whenever we run into a crisis. American aid has kept the little sub- marginal nation of Greece outside the grasp of communism. But will we still be supplying aid to keep Greece free five years from now? I am sure that the communists would be surprised—and happy— to read a report that we intend to discontinue all foreign aid at the end of 1949. But I think our own people would be more surprised by a repwrt that we intend to continue foreign aid for, say, twenty years. Since I returned from more than a yeai- in Greece as chief of the American Mis- sion, I have been asked over and over again, "How are we doing over there? Are the Greeks getting back on their feet?" In

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(Continued from page 39) that is going on in Greece and Germany complete coordination ECA and the State It IS tragic but true that we have al- is also going on in France and Elngland, Department must move as one or we risk ready given European people a standard and to a lesser degree in other countries. confusion and conflict between policy and of living they can't afford today. I am not Here in America we like to think that administration. We can't afford that risk. saying that their standard is enviable; I the only way communists gain followers It is surprising to discover just how am only saying that hand-to-mouth aid is by strong arm methods. Unfortunately, closely foreign recovery policy and U. S from America has given them a better it is not as simple as that. Communism business attitudes are related. I had quite standard of living than their production has an appeal to the discouraged and the an argument in Greece with a repre- warrants at this time. hungry. It promises food and freedom sentative of the American government on In Greece, the political leaders, hounded from want. We can talk all we wish about that point. The question had to do with by pressure groups from within their other freedoms - from fear, of religion, a further development of the Greek air- own constituency, were constantly asking and of speech but they are intangibles lines. Inasmuch as the Greeks were me to authorize the use of American aid that seem dim and worthless when hunger already being adequately served and be- to boost the living standards of the civil grips a man. There are times when birth- cause airplanes and parts required use ot servants and the laboring people. Heaven right seems a small price to pay for a foreign exchange, I would not approve knows, they should have better living bowl of pottage. any diversion of the badly needed dollars standards but this is not the sole ques- With ECA and the Marshall Plan we to further Greek airline expansion. But tion the American administrator has to have powerful cold war weapons. While another representative of the United consider. His job, as I see it, is to de- the communist talks of food and produc- States in Greece plugged hard for the cide which native assets can be built up tion, we are demonstrating w ith tangibles. expansion program He admitted that his to permit the natives to improve their But as a new tool of American foreign first concern was to find an outlet for own standards of living. policy, ECA required new operators and American-made airplanes and the devel- One request that came frequently from Congress therefore set it up as an inde- opment of more feeders for American international airlines. I could not Greek government officials was that higher pendent agency. There must be, however, owned complete coordination between our gov- see, however, and still can't, how his ob- security prices be guaranteed to farmers ernmental agencies dealing with our for- jective would help Greece become a self- I have the greatest respect for the Greek eign relations, and that means ECA and sufficient economic unit I could not see farmers. They are the backbone of the Department of State. At the present how his plan would help to win the cold Greece. But to have granted that request time, the President is the only coordinat- war. would have been to use American funds ing authority, and he cannot be bothered I am convinced that the large share of for a better living this year and diverted with details which often are tremendous- our foreign aid must be spent for equip- them from the construction of roads, ly important. ment and endeavors which enable the ports, railroads, and the importation of Now that ECA is established, with its recipient nations to stand, at an early all machinery, of which can help make important personnel chosen, it should date, without our help. To do this, they the Greek struggle for survival a little either be taken over in toto as the eco- must be placed in position to produce - easier in the years to come. nomic section of the State Department or and if they produce enough to pay for The long versus short range conflict there should be established a system for their necessary imports, they must find

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• The American Legion Muguzine • July, 1949 an export market for their surpluses. both individxially and for their native ful in contrast. Wasn't this proof that a ECA is working hard to break down the lands. life under communism was less desirable trade barriers between the European We could accomplish much by a pro- than a life under western democracy? countries, and the United States must gram to exchange thousands of students My leftist informer threw me in doubt. live up to its role as the world's biggest — foreign students who come to our He pointed out that the well-dressed, cash customer by likewise accepting schools to complete their educations, and well-heeled, and well-composed Ameri- goods from abroad. American acceptance Americans going abroad to complete can species can tend to increase the dis- of foreign trade is more than a commer- theirs. Both groups will be benefited and satisfaction of foreign people with their cial transaction: it is a blow at commu- they are to be the world's leaders within own lots. Instead of rushing out to work nism, a stone in the foundation of peace. a few years. harder to be more like the Americans, Moreover, it is a cold war weapon the There is a certain ironical whimsy in they are more likely to grumble and curse communists are in no position to use. the political app>eal the communists make. their own plight more bitterly. Bitter dis- Another cold war weapon that we alone It is precisely the ssmne system American satisfaction is a wonderful climate for can use is to enlist the support of the politicians have applied domestically with communism. foreign young men and women who are success. I know. I've used it. In cam- Imagine that you are tired and hungry, ambitious enough to seek self-improve- paign talks I strove constantly to impress and more discouraged than you have ment through better education. The cause the individual members of my audience ever been before. Before you stands a which gets the support of this type of that they - personally — would be better "Comrade" who says "Come with me and young person will be the cause which ofT if I were elected. I claim no originality you shall have plenty and be happy." guides the destinies of Europe and Asia in this. Every elected United States offi- Beside him stands an American - all in the coming years. cial has applied the same technique. The Americans are considered 'rich" Ameri- Youth in European countries today sees commies know a good thing when they Ccins — and he says "Tighten your belt, little to hope for. Let me tell you about see it— they are making similar promises. work harder, work longer hours, pro- a very intelligent Greek girl, an employee This desire of men for a better way duce more and then you will have more." of the American Mission. of life can be a strange thing. A very Which sounds more appealing? "What does life hold for me?" she said. clever "leftist" in Greece set me to think- I was about to point out to my leftist "There is no future as things are and it ing about it in a new light. Before he informant that the "promises" of Com- might be that the upset which would spoke, I had taken two things for granted. munism couldn't be expected to hold come with communism would improve I assumed that the presence abroad of their recruits. Then I remembered the my status." American persormel, with their good unique feature of communism: there is We want the ambitious intelligent clothes, their talk of good jobs at home, no second chance. As proponents of west- young men and women in these foreign and their obvious sense of well-being, was em democracy we must win every round, lands to feel that the United States is serving as a kind of inspiration for the every election, but the communists, or so interested in their advancement. We must natives. Wasn't this living proof that the it seems, need win only once. That is the give them cause to understand that this "American Way" paid its followers well? thing that Americans abhor most about great America, with its democratic sys- And, second I felt sure that the commu- communism. I think. We detest its un- tem, offers them hope for a better future nist representatives appeared rather piti- fair finality. There is no "next election."

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The American Legion Magazine • July 1949 * 41 Two years of experience have taught Swiss, and the Greeks as pro-American said about the mutual affinities of the us that cold war costs for the communists rooters. These peoples, however, are con- Slavs. On the other hand, little has been are cheap. The cost of closing the Berlin cerned more with the product than with noted of the jealousies among these corridor didn't compare with the cost the personalities of the salesmen. All peoples. Ownership of Macedonia, now of the air lift. Communist leaders were three of these peoples have contributed part of Greece, with its fertile agricul- able to keep the Grecian poker game thousands of citizens to the United States. tural areas has been a bone over which going with two-bit antes while we tossed The Swede's Uncle Einar, the Greek's Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have growled in $100 bills. Brother Nick, and Aunt Gretchen of the and snapped for centuries. A green and The Russians, however, have their Swiss for years have been writing and growing field is something you can see problems, too. They have their enemies. taking back to the homeland pleasant and want and I suspect strongly that An overwhelming percentage of the stories of wonderful America. Their re- Tito's "break" is based largely on his German population has an ingrained ports are trusted, whereas the claims of suspicion of Bulgaria. Ye.s, Russia has her dislike for the Russians. This ill-feeling either a native Russian or American problems also. for the Russians, whose government is would be subject to salt. American immi- We Americans can win this contest. We communistic, does not stem from political grants and their descendants are the best have the friends. We have the material ideologies. Germans of varying social and press agents we have. means. We will have to adjust our sights educationcd levels with whom I talked Italy might be listed in the "pro- on time. We will have to put our adminis- and worked, expressed a contempt for American product class," too, but un- trative machinery in order. We must give what they were wont to call "Asiatic doubtedly a more powerful anti-Commu- hope to the young people of recipient Mentality." They expect nothing good to nist aid in Italy is the great Roman nations. We will have to accept a two- come out of Russia. The Turks, also neair Catholic Church. Three factors, I think, way exchange of goods. But to win this neighbors that they are to the U.S.S.R., have been particularly effective in bend- cold war we can do these things, and we simply don't like the Russians. The feel- ing Italy from Communism — American will. ings of both the Germans and the Turks aid in the Mediterranean area, relatives Expensive? Yes. But far, far less ex- would not be changed by the kind of in America, and the Church, and the pensive than the defense program that government Russia might have. Such ani- greatest of these is the Church. would result from a communist sweep mosity does not make the road easy for Even behind the Iron Curtain there are that would come with our withdrawal. Russian peddlers of commvmism. It isn't fermentations which might upset Rus- A sure victory? No. It is a contemplated their product so much as it is themselves. sia's digest of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, risk, but more than worth taking in the You can list the Scandinavians, the Yugoslavia, and Hungary. Much has been interest of a suffering world. the end WERE YOU EXPOSED TO TROPICAL DISEASE? (Continued from page 23)

outside the United States also have it. An Doctors knew but one way to block mass G.I. comes splashing along, he gaily hops epidemic occurred in Chicago a few years infection; and that was to prevent these aboard and digs in, wondering what it ago, striking 1,500 people and killing a blood-thirsty little wretches from getting was he ever saw in snails anyway. Months hundred, among them the famous night- at our men. But this was far from simple. later, he announces his presence by caus- club entertainer Texas ("Hello, Sucker!") Because schistosomes spend their youth ing either bladder or intestinal hem- Guinan. in the bodies of fresh -water snails, these orrhages. The American Society of Tropical Med- little disease parasites may ambush every This disagreeable little pest has been icine is actively engaged in warning the stream and pond. But no schistosome is carrying a grudge against mankind for a medical profession of the prevalence of content to live his whole life dawdling long time. Its eggs have been found in this hard-to-recognize disease, not only about with a stupid snail. He knows he'll Egyptian mummies preserved since a among former members of the armed never get any place that way. So as soon thousand years before Christ. Cietting forces, but in the general population as as he's old enough for more ambitious trapped in a mummy should have taught well. One medic who is wide-awake to adventures, he takes leave of his indolent the schistosome to let people alone long the danger is Dr. Tom Mackie, head of host to go swimming about in the water ago, but it didn't. the Veterans Administration Tropical Dis- under his own power. Then when some Oddly enough, it was beaten in this war ease Clinic in Winston-Salem, North warm-blooded creature like an American - not by any "wonder-drug" — but by the Carolina. He wages a valiant and success- school-room. Hours of lectures, demon- ful fight to see that veterans get prompt strations and motion pictures showed our diagnosis and proper treatment. If you troops how to avoid these miserable little have vague symptoms from your mid- snipers.

section and your doctor wants to examine But the story is told of one tender- you not once but 3 or 4 times, be a patient hearted soldier who learned his lesson too patient — remember it's a tough job to well. On hearing in a medical lecture that find the amebas or to be sure there aren't dogs are susceptible to the disease, he any. If you pass blood in your stools, find tried to protect his mongrel puppy, out the cause. Maybe you've got a little Gwendolyn, by bathing her in clean wa- family of amebas tucked away some place. ter after she had come from splashing in Don't fool around with home remedies. an infected stream. While handling the Go to your doctor and find out for sure. squirming Gwendolyn, some of the para- It's worthwhile, for if you harbor amebas, sites present in the water on the dog's they can be evicted quickly and perma- coat penetrated through the skin of his nently with a new drug and they have hands. An amused medical officer success- practically never been known to be licked fully treated both dog and master. But without treatment. this was an unusual case; of the millions Another tropical disease, schistosomi- of American soldiers obliged to live and asis (skis'-to-so-my'-as-is) can do a lot fight in infested areas, only about 1,500 of harm besides breaJiing the jaws of peo- got schistosomiasis. ple who try to pronounce its name. (The Until recently we thought that no only safe way to say it is to sneeze it.) American snail could carry the infection In some parts of the world, it is as com- to us. But since the war, doctors have mon as a cold in the head, but far more found one kind in Louisiana and Texas dangerous. In many villages on the Phil- which can be infected in the laboraotry. ippine island of Leyte, for example, every- Even so, the vigilance of public health "Got him trained. He'll land on his one above fifteen years of age has it. officials will never permit schistosomes to feet every time" The schistosomiasis parasite kills peo- flourish in American streams. For here, AMFRIfAV l.rniOV MAC;A71VF ple hy bleeding them to death internally. doctors can use a well-known snail-killer.

42 • Thp Ampricon Lpgion Maqazinp • July 1949 copper sulphate. Only one part of this of malaria acquired during the war, but virus laughed at everything the Army blue chemical in a million parts of pond almost all cases have been cured long docs could do. Sti angely enough, it took water is all that it takes to send a snail ago. Don't dose yourself with quinine or the air force, not the medical corps, to to his slimy ancestors. Nearly all of the Atabrine when you feel bad. The chances tame it. The only hope of cutting down unlucky soldiers who did get schistosomi- are ten to one that it's not your old mala- dengue casualties was the insecticide asis during the war have been cured by ria coming back. Go to a doctor and find DDT, for dengue, too, is carried by mos- antimony drugs. And the ever-watchful out what's wrong. But if he does tell you quitoes. The frantic army medics put in Veterans Administration is now checking to take an anti-malarial drug regularly, a plea to the air force "Bomb mosquitoes on the few doubtful cases so that another take it for the full course. Don't quit just for a while instead of Japs." Although to course of treatment can be given if neces- because you feel fine. Remember, the skeptical pilots this seemed like carrying sary. You can't very well have it without cryptozoites may get you if you don't pin-point bombing a little too far, they knowing it. If you're not passing blood watch out. soon learned to fly their planes armed in either urine or stools, maybe it's just Early in the Pacific struggle, dengue with DDT sprays low over mosquito as well not to bother to learn how to (deng'-u) fever gained the upper hand breeding places, with disastrou.<: results pronounce "schistosomiasis" after all. over our men who were fighting doggedly to dengue. If you always believed that malaria might doom a man to years of chills and fever, you were right — that is, until the last war. Malaria, laboratory scientists have recently shown, is the perfect exam- ple of a "Jungle-bug" disease; in fact, at one state its parasites are called crypto- zoites (krip'-to-so-ites) meaning "hidden animals." For they may lie in ambush in a man's body for months or years be- fore attacking him. During the war, every scientist who knew anything about malaria and thou- sands of others who knew a great deal about putting chemicals together into complex compounds, went to work. One evening in March, 1944, two tired young chemists (both under thirty) peered cirri- ously at a few grains of white powder lying in the bottom of a test tube. Their names were Surrey and Hammer; and the powder they made that day was Aralen. But how could you tell whether Aralen (or any of the thousands of other prep- arations which chemists made) was any good? You could find out something by trying it on animals, but animals don't get human malaria. So the final tests on all the promising drugs had to be made on people. There was a call for volunteers — for men who would be willing to let malaria mosquitoes bite them and then let try thern with drugs. doctors to cure new for every inch of island soil. In 1944, it Veterans who have had dengue have inmates Illinois State Hundreds of of the temporarily felled one man out of every nothing to fear. It never comes back; and Penitentiary at Statesville — gangsters, seven. There is no known cure for dengue. even if they are exposed to it again, they burglars, murderers — prohibited from We do know that it is caused by one of won't get it because their bodies have fighting for joining the forces, begged the the viruses, those still mysterious some- become immune. chance. Three of them betrayed what was things so much smaller than germs that The war on "jungle bugs" became liter- in all their hearts by remarks which they they can be seen only with the powerful ally true in the case of still another mal- made to the doctors when they volun- electron microscope. ady whose name you have to sneeze: — teered: One can almost imagine the dengue tsutsugamushi (tsu-tsu-ga-mush'-i) dis- the risky part? That's "Say, Doc, when's virus having a sardonic sense of humor ease. This typhus-like ailment is carried I want." what because of the nasty pranks it delights in by a little red larval mite that looks like sister is a I certainly don't "My WAC. playing on its victim. It strikes with sud- a chigger. When it began to send thou- want to sit this war out while Sis does a den and terrible fury, laying him low sands to the hospital, field commanders soldier's job." with raging fever, and almost intolerable ordered the medics to do something about "Maybe people will think there's some head and back pains. After a hundred it. But nobody knew what to do. The doc- good in convicts, after all." hours or so of this unremitting torture, tors realized that they couldn't tackle the Doctors found, after thorough testing the virus relaxes its grip and all symp- disease itself, for they had no weapon. So on these human guinea pigs that Surrey toms disappear. Just when the delighted they centered their attack on the mite and Hammer's Aralen was the most pow- patient, overjoyed at one or two days of carrier and it turned out to be a medical erful malaria-killer of them all. But blessed relief, begins to think about get- free-for-all, with no holds barred and the difficulty in treating the chronic kind ting out of bed and ordering a steak and devil-take-the-hindmost. They began by of malaria is the craftiness of the "hidden French fries his tormentor strikes again clearing the grass from around encamp- animals." When a regiment of them rush more furiously than before. All the ago- ments so the sun could bake the earth out from the tissues into the blood to nizing symptoms return intensified: his and imprison the little bugs. They de- make an attack, they may leave a reserve fever climbs higher than ever. But just signed stifling mite-proof clothing and force behind where even Aralen cannot when the feebly writhing quarry realizes forced it on sweating soldiers. They reach them. But one dose of Aralen a that death is inevitable and begins to sprinkled DDT and sulfur on the ground week will prevent a man with chronic welcome its release, he starts to improve! They daubed swearing men with smelly malaria from having any symptoms or This time, recovery is slow but sure; like chemicals unpleasant enough, they hoped, suffering any harm until the infection no other serious disease of man. dengue to repel the most voracious insect. And dies out of its own accord. never kills. finally they argued with one another all A few veterans may still have relapses For months during the war. the dengue night as to which method produced the

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THEY'RE STRIKING IT RICH IN THE MOJAVE (Continued from page 17) in with Geiger counters and are search- ing for carnotite and uranium. These OFF TO chaps seem quite unimpressed with any- CAMP thing short of radioactive minerals. "Uncle Sam needs uranium," they'll tell you, • ••with America's First Team! "and we're here to find it." With a port- able counter strapped to their waist, they stalk slowly over the terrain, headphones . . . leave the desk, the store, the factory, on, right hand grasping a long detector the old home town. MOUNT UP, rod. The sound they long to hear above RESERVIST, MOUNT UP AND all others is the metallic click-click-click MOVE OUT for svunmer field training! as the detector rod moves above a radio- active deposit. There is more of everything this year. Several of these uranium hunters have More unit esprit de corps. More equipment heard the happy click, and staked their for training. More men eager to go. More claims, but just what the next is move need for YOU to go because the Organized Reserve Corps has a vital role to play m WALLY the Nation's defense. READY ON THE RIGHT!

. . . will ring out this summer and nearly 200,000 Reservists will hear the command "COM- MENCE FIRING!" Expert- ness with pistol, carbine, and rifle is still essential for the modern soldier. Range work with crew -served weapons will keep essential teamwork at high pitch. New recoilless weapons make every rifleman the equal of a cannoneer. Here's your chance to handle and fiire the latest guns in Uncle Sam's arsenal.

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. . . secure your future while you help secure your country. Fifteen days at svunmer camp mean a lot more retirement credits for you. This in addition to the fuU pay and allowances of your grade that you receive for field training. Remember also that your retirement pay after 60 is based on the number of credits and the highest rank you have attained. Summer camp gives you more credits—ups your chances (From July 1932 A.L.U.) for promotion. Don't miss **** the boat. Plan to go to camp nobody seems to know. Uncle Sam wants this summer. MOUNT UP, uranium, all right, but the Atomic En- RESERVIST, MOUNT ergy Commission, which has charge of UP AND MOVE OUT for these things, hasn't made clear to pros- ORGANIZED summer field training! pectors what disposition is to be made RESERVE CORPS of the ore. And a fair-sized headache exists right now. JOIN THE RESERVE! U.S. ARMY But they keep on coming. They hitch- Become a part of the hike in, come in cars and jeeps, on motor- Nation's most important cycles, and occasionally fly their own team — the FIRST team small planes. They have found the latter for Peace. excellent for patrolling large areas in what they call "sky prospecting." At least one of the boys I talked to — Jim Som- mers, ex-navigator in a B-24 — has even More Reservists in the U. S. Army are needed AT ONCE. Do your more elaborate aerial aspirations. part to strengthen our security! Members— stay in. Non-members "A plane is too fast," Jim explained. join up. Visit your local Reserve Unit Instructor's Office, nearest "You can't get down close enough to see Post Commander ... or the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force Recruiting what you're looking for. So I'm bringing Station in in a helicopter. I figure a 'copter will be your locality . . . for full details. Join up — stay in! the ticket for slow, close work — and you

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can still cover more terrain in a day than Several old ghost towns dot the wide whirr of roulette wheels, but there is you could on foot in a month." Mojave, like withered old ladies slowly little serious trouble. Prospecting is no These GI's, who seem destined to make dying in the sun. But this new rush-in- lark. It's mostly back-breaking toil, and modern mining history, are, in the ma- the-making has given the old girls a shot youth must have its fling. jority of cases, grub-staking themselves in the arm. Their battered facades are While a spirit of fun and comradeship on their terminal leave pay and GI read- taking on the "new look" supplied by pervades this streamlined post war re- justment allowances. The comparative neon lights and bright paint. They're liv- habilitation program, there is noticeable few who go in broke, find their lot not too ing again, getting ready for the crowds, a serious undercurrent, as if these boys difficult, since several GI's have opened as in the long-gone boom days. That the mean to bring home the bacon while still up stores selling food and a complete crowds will come, weathered old-timers enjoying a holiday in the sun. There is line of mining equipment. Like Chuck will assure you profanely. They read the no discouragement, even among those who Marrone, who owns the Miners Trading signs from past experiences. "Things are have been there the longest and still Post in Johannesburg. Most of these bound to pop where there's so damned haven't hit pay dirt. The gleam in their storekeepers will grubstake a fellow GI much activity. Alius does." eyes seems to say, "It's here, all right. with a thin pocket on his promise to pay But with all the activity and bustle, And we mean to find it." They won't all when he hits it. this rush is being conducted with remark- uncover wealth, of course, but if they find Some of the boys take their families to able common sense. It may lack the nothing else they will have harvested a the desert with them, and live in tents, glamour and hell-roarin' that character- crop of health not obtainable anywhere repaired shacks, and even small quon- ized earlier stampedes—the crack of .45s, else, and be ready for the future. sets. "The desert is a swell place to bring swaggering "bad men," and hoss thieves The good old American spirit to win up kids," they say. "Hot sun, clean, being strung up to the nearest cotton over any obstacle is just as predominant healthy air, and not a germ in the whole wood—but there's no dearth of color and there in the desert today as it was on region." What's more, there's plen|ty of excitement. Beer flows freely on Satur- Europe's battlefields and the Pacific's room — millions of acres of it. That limit- day nights in the rehabilitated bars, and hotly-contested beachheads. Only this less space appeals to men with three or from a back room here and there may be time it is young America going to work, four crowded war years under their belt. heard the stealthy click of dice and soft instead of war. the end

THEY WANT TO LEAD A BAND (Continued from page 28) gold braid and plumes, they twirl their Any boy or girl between the ages of week, most of the seniors, and some of batons and hope one day to be high-step- three and seventeen is eligible for mem- the juniors, are assigned as instructors to ping leaders of bands. bership, but so far the girls far outnum- those who still have a lot to learn. Those No idle dreams are these — they have ber the boys. They learn more than fifty who teach the beginners get advanced in- substance and every chance of being tricky maneuvers in five routines that struction from Bill after the regular ses- realized. Under the sponsorship of the Bill has worked out for them. Beginners sion is over. Harvey W. Seeds Post of the Legion, the start with the simplest of spins and leg The club is open to anyone within the kids are learning all the tricks and twirls passes and work up to such difficult items age limits; the only requirement is the from a major-domo extraordinary — as finger rolls, leg whip throws, and desire to learn, plus a baton and a uni- Legionnaire William I. (Bill) Allen, na- jump butterflies. Meeting once a week on form. The batons are sold to the club tionally known champion. The Miami the football field of one of the city play- members at cost, and the uniforms are Twirling Club was started only two years grounds, the kids mark their progress usually made by the children's mothers. ago, after Bill and his wife watched a down the field. The beginners start on the White shirts and shorts, orange beanies similar outfit working out in Racine, ten-yard line and, as they master each and sashes, and white boots — the whole Wisconsin. Its expansion has been so rapid routine, advance to higher groups until outfit, including the baton, costs about that it is now recognized by the Ameri- they are one of the seniors up near the fourteen dollars. Dues of ten cents per can Association of Baton Twirling at goal posts at the opposite end. With be- child each week buy uniforms for those Janesville, Wisconsin, as the largest tween eight and nine hundred children who can't afford them, support the pub- group of its kind in the United States. turning out for the two-hour class each lic address system that provides the music to which the kids twirl, correspondence, awards, and out-of-town trips for the group. No salaries are paid. OEFF The kiddies take their twirling very \^EATE seriously. Their batons are always in mo- tion. Rarely does one see a child just holding it still — an order of "At Ease!" from their instructors merely means to twirl without anyone calling the signals. Serious aspirants practice hours every day, and some take private lessons from Bill or one of the advanced girls. Only with top-notch proficiency comes the real glory for the kids—shows, exhibitions, and the most coveted spot of all— a solo act in a dress uniform as fancy as Mom can make it. A chance to strut their stuff in public isn't the only reward in sight for the children. Many universities and colleges offer scholarships for top performei's. One of Bill's girls, Pat Harshbarger, was awarded a scholarship to the University of Miami last year. More will follow in her footsteps. Bill's kiddies have already walked off with several first prizes in the competitions held during the recent con- all this with most of them "Occupation? I'm shortstop on the ! What'd you f/iin/c I do?" vention—and year's instruction. AMERICAN Lf;GION MAGAZINE having less than one THE END

J^Q • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 THE CITY WHERE THE FOURTH WAS BORN

(Continued j om page 25) cracked soon after reaching Philadelphia; the birthplace of the American flag. Tra- was recast there. On July 8, 1776 — in dition has it that one G. Washington those days news was not so instantaneous and Robert Norris, Philadelphia's finan- — the bell was rung to call the citizens cial wise man of the Revolution, often together to hear the proclamation of the sat before the old fireplace in a corner signing of the Declaration of Independ- of that house, planning with Mrs. John ence read. Every year thereafter it was Ross, a widow and a professional flag rung in commemoration of that event maker, the flag she finally sewed together. until, in 1835, while being rung for the This is commonly believed to be the fist funeral of Chief Justice John Marshall, Amei-ican flag at all resembling our pres- it cracked again, nearly from bottom to ent one—with thirteen stars where there top. It has not been rung since 1843. are forty-eight stars today. But alas, trailer However, half a century later it did go John Fiske, the historian—you know how When you buy a Glider ossured of a complete Pennsylvania Rail- these matter-of-fact you are traveling. In 1893 the people are alwaj's home equipped with all the road fitted up a special car in which it spoiling good stories— insists that the first thhigs that moke a real livable home is complete „ could be safely transported to the World's American flag with stars and stripes "was home. Your — there ore no extras to boy. g Fair in Chicago. hastily extemporized out of a white shirt You have a trailer that will be 5 yeors to come. See strips ill style for and some of red cloth from the are Gliders in construction, you petticoat of a soldier's wife." alwoyswelcome tovisit our fac- dealers Officially, Philadelphia, the "City of tory. Remember, Glider have a liberal time-poyment Brotherly Love," was founded in 1682 by plan. Write for free literature. William Penn. Actually, William Penn himself did not reach America until the Guarantped by *'*\ it year after was founded. Nor was the .Good Housekeeping; , name very original; there were a num- ber of Philadelphias in the Old World, especially in the Near East, even before GLIDER TRAILER CO. the time of Christ. Having received a 1828 WEST KINZIE STREET, CHIiCACO, ILLINOIS grant of land, in lieu of cash, from spend- thrift Charles II of England, who owed New Cut him £ 16,000 plus much interest for his cJHa^ Prices! ^#195 deceased father's services in the King's Navee, Penn sent a Captain Markham, in Low As on lOO^l Gabardine 1681, with a group of colonists, to take possession of it. But Captain Markham \ PANTS Rush name (or beautifully illustrated CATALOG. «iIuhI and company were by no means the fii'st SAMPl.KS or MATKRIALS, and our unbellcvablv LOW prices: A:M'W. ,M.' i 4 #ibi^ Almost beside Independence Hall is Old 113 feet wide, respectively. But neither City Hall, built in 1791 and occupied by Markham nor Penn foresaw the auto- ^ifh Christmas Cards ^ rJ^^ Ensv with i-Jioitiiiu lu'w line LOW- PRII 'KP. the United States Supreme Court until mobile, streets so the checker-board of - i Name Imprinted I'EK.SdNAL cl i

Cards . . . shipped direct to CustoiDei s. 1800. farther is an ex- A few steps on old Philadelphia are narrow even for Also l.iK Alburn DeLiixe Personal , M .I - more tnonevwjlli 21-(:arcl "1'Vatiirf-' A I quisite little building called Congress one-way traffic. When Penn arrived, he onlv «l - pr.ilil np to r>l)c. 38 othe ;" a... I Kvi-rnlnv Ass'ts. fREK Hall. Completed in 1790 on the site of a found that some of his colonists had -i,in:il i:bi.Is aiid •Peafn WALLACE BROWN. INC.. 22S I wooden shelter for visiting Indians—and named streets after themselves, a per- Dept. A-142 NEW YORK I do not mean Cleveland baseball teams sonal vanity unbecoming a Quaker. Penn —it played an important role in our early gave them the names of trees instead. history. The Continental Congress met History credits him with treating the In- BE FREE there during the last decade of the eigh- dians honestly—which was rare in both FROM FEAR teenth century. There Washington was North and South America. OF ASTHMA inaugurated for his second presidential That first year eighty houses were ATTACKS! term—he took his first oath as President, built; 600 the second year; by 1684 Phila- you remember, at the corner of Wall and delphia had a population of 2,600. Penn Broad streets in City. New York /"'"^- wanted his city to be a "greene countrie normally -icithnuf /-'"P '"ore Carpentei's' Hall, back in a narrow towne"; set aside a central square (now court a little farther on down Chestnut the site of the City Hall) and four open oiiiirette Street, is still more venerable. For here or vive JL, V'"''''^"- spaces at the corners of a rectangle be- the first Continental Congress met, on tween the two rivers. Today the city has September 5, 1774, before the colonists had definitely decided to forswear alle- 6,436 acres of parks; its Fairmont Park, f DR. R. SCHIFFMANN S giance to the King of England. with 3,957 acres, is the largest park wholly A little way north, at 239 Arch Street, within municipal limits in the United ASTHMADOR is the Betsy Ross House, reputed to be States. Stretching for miles along both The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 • 47 sides of the Schuylkill, it takes in also the which must greatly have shocked the tion. Philadelphia is still the Quaker long, deep gorge of scenic Wissahickon proper Philadelphians even of those days. center of the United States, and the Creek. The drive along that wandering The following year he went gadding off Friends, as they call themselves, have stream is still closed to the upstart auto- to England, but came back two years greatly influenced the characteristics of mobile and reserved for horses and pe- later and settled down. Within six years all this region and its people. Yet by 1750 destrians; along it are reminders of Rev- he was publishing the Pe7insylvania only one out of four Philadelphians was olutionary days. Gazette and from that time on he was the a Quaker; by 1770 the Quakers them- By 1775 Philadelphia had 35,000 in- dominating spirit in the city, and one of selves admitted that barely one pei'son habitants and was not only the largest the outstanding men in the thirteen in seven belonged to the Society of and most important city in the thirteen colonies. Friends. Wealthy Quakers, tired of drab- colonies but the largest city, after Lon- Philadelphia has more than a thou- ness and yearning for display, became don, in the British Empire. It had out- sand churches, some of them of great Presbyterians, Lutherans, especially stripped proud old Boston, had not yet historical interest. Chronologically, I sup- Episcopalians, joining the rich and so- been overtaken by New York — and of pose we should visit first Old Swedes cially prominent congregations of Christ course there was no Washington or Church on Swanson Street near Second, Church and fashionable St. Peter's, erected in 1761 for the prosperous mer- WALLY cantile population in the southern part of the city. The Catholics came, in any strength, rather later than the Quakers and the other Protestants; their great cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, facing Logan Square—now a circle— is compara- 'tell mj tively young. pay The Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in I'll 1751 by Franklin as the Alms House and oP a

' phians say, the first hospital in North wWc> all +V« — h/hoopee/ ' America. The original building is still in B use, though almost hidden by extensive additions. Legend has it that one of the first patients was an insane sailor, who climbed up into the dome and stayed there until he died. Another tale is that insane patients were kept in an iron- barred cellar and that some of the people passing by used to poke at them with sticks and otherwise enrage them, in the good old eighteenth century way. The hospital authorities saw the point, the tale goes on, built a wall around the prop-

erty . . . and charged admission to those who thought it sport to tantalize the in- sane. At any rate, the wall is still there. Philadelphia has never tried to rival (From Seinrmhcr 19:12 A.L.M.) New York in skyscrapers, though it does have some high buildings. But in looking across the city it is easy to get the im- pression that the highest thing in it is William Penn himself, standing in Quaker Chicago in colonial days. Philadelphia famed for its historical pageants. If you garb on top of the City Hall. His Quaker was the capital of Pennsylvania from 1683 have any interest in the architecture of hat is 548 feet above the street level; the to 1799; unofficially it was the national by-gone days, do not miss this ancient whole statue is 37 feet high. You will not capital during the Revolution — except place of worship, also called Gloria Dei. find anything higher in Philadelphia since from September, 1777, to June, 1778. For It was completed in 1700 on the site of a city ordinance forbids building higher Lord Howe and his 18,000 soldiers took a wooden church built by the pre-Penn than Penn's hat. The City Hall, by the possession of the city after the battles of Swedes — who called this part of town way, covers four and a half acres, and Brandywine and Germantown, while the Wicaco. For 130 years it imported its Philadelphians say that no other building defeated remnants of the American Army pastors from Sweden. Eventually the in this hemisphere covers more ground. froze through that heroic winter at Val- Swedish Lutherans joined the American Of many notable people, besides Penn ley Forge. Actually and officially it was Episcopal Church in a body and since and Franklin, in the history of Philadel- the capital of the new nation from 1790 then its services have been in English. phia, one to be remembered is Stephen to 1800 and the center of its political ac- Nearer Independence Hall is Christ Girard (1750-1831). Born in France, son tivity during all the revolutionary period Church, built between 1727 and 1744, of a sea captain, a sea captain himself at and until about 1835, when New York where an older church had stood since twenty-three, Girard settled in Philadel- forged ahead as a money center. When 1695. It was attended by royal officers be- phia in 1776. A business wizard, he built the Civil War began, its population was fore the Revolution and later by high up the United States Bank and financed 565,000; today, with about 2,000,000, it is officials of the new American Republic. the American Government almost single- the third city in the United States. Ben Franklin was one of the managers of handed during the War of 1812; left his But have almost by-passed the lottery, in to for its we most a 1753, raise money great fortune to municipal institutions in important man, next to William Penn, in bell. Robert Morris steeple and He and Philadelphia and New Orleans. His best Philadelphia history — many people con- are buried in its Burial Ground at Fifth known charity, one of the outstanding sider him the most important man. It's and Arch. philanthropic institutions in the United an old Philadelphia saying that Benjamin There are four dignified old Meeting States, is Girard College "for poor white Franklin was born there ... at the age Houses of the Society of Friends, better male orphans" between the ages of nine of seventeen. In 1723— to Boston's eternal known as Quakers, in old Philadelphia. nineteen. Girard left it $5,000,000, but regret — he sauntered nonchalantly up The one at Fourth and Arch was built in and bequeathed it his Market Street from the docks along the 1804; there is one at Fourth and Green, seems also to have Delaware, carrying a loaf of bread (some another at 15th and Race, still another financial sagacity. For today its endow- hair-splitting people say only a bun) on Twelfth between Chestnut and ment, supervised by the Board of City under each arm and eating a third — Market, all reeking with age and tradi- Trusts, totals nearly $90,000,000.

48 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 If you visit the forty-acre campus of to religion"—the college has a beautiful EQUIPMENT Girard College, with its many buildings, pan-religious chapel, with services by OWN YOUR now completely surrounded by city, do laymen—"but to keep the tender minds AND MAKE YOUR not be surprised if the gate guard asks of orphans free from the excitements you what you do for a living. For Girard's which clashing doctrines and sectarian will provides that "no ecclesiastic, mis- controversy are so apt to produce." Tol- FUHD RAISING sionary, priest or minister of any sect erant Frenchman Girard had probably whatsoever" can be employed in or even seen too much of the sectarian quarrels CAMPAIGNS admitted to the institution. This sti-ange and religious animosity so prevalent in provision "is not on account of hostility the Philadelphia of his day. the end MORE SUCCESSFUL!

DEATH IN EVERY SHADOW Increase revenue at all your affairs with Evans' equip- (Co}itinued from page 13) ment. Big selection of Wheels. Bingo Supplies, forward, picked it particular bass well. willow bush moved up He knew this Games of all 1 y pes. Superior offers strongest on his sticky tongue, and swallowed it. Larger than any other bass in the pool, "flash" attraction. Mechanical per- The frog retreated to that exact bit of undisputed leader of the fish there, custo- fection insures fool-proof Evans' 5(>-year sand upon which he had been sitting, and marily it lay only a little way from the oi^eralion. reputation forsatisfy ing he did not answer when the up-river frog water-soaked stump which was one of strict requirements of uttered a few tentative croaks. the frog's favorite hiding places. It never professional Carnival and _ Club operators is your Something else was coming, and the tried to injure him, but it hunted and assurau'-e of more profuable frog dared not make his presence known gulped smaller frogs whenever they were fund raising aciivity ! S»VE RtNTAL COSTS! Write for FRfi^E Evans' Catalog today. far out into because he did not know what approached unwary enough to venture H. C. EVANS & CO. Dept. 3 0 now. A little to one side of the willow the pool. It was well to have a healthy 1528 West Adams Street • Chicago 7, Illinois bush, the shallows churned as a school respect for such a thing. of frantic minnows made a way through A couple of night-flying ducks skit- IF I Send YOU I them. For one second the bright moon tered down the river, alighted on the JHIS FINE SUIT- I revealed a huge bronze back. It was The pool, swam about for a moment or two, Will You Wear It and Show It to Friends? Bass who dwelt in the frog's piece of river. and flew away. The frog upstream was I need a reliuhle man in \ i..s-,u u. a fme, made-to- measure, all-wool ;>ui( v.Ml,.Mii t.:iyiiiK ' J h. but hv tak- ing a orders from tni.ii. Is. \V at it-sliow it the big tew it— to help Almost as suddenly as appeared, the silent. Beneath the willow bush, you take more orders witli my line of nearly 100 pruaran- teed qualitj* fabrics. You can make up to $12.00 in a day shining back was gone. Farther away, the frog plucked and ate another green cater- without experience or investment. I supply everything required FREE. Write today, trivin^ age, etc., for FRP'!') fleeing minnows continued to splash in pillar that dropped into the water. He outtit. John Grant. STONE-FIELD Corp.. 532 S. Throop St., Dept. U-705, Chicago 7, III. the shallows. The great fish pursued them bellowed a couple of times but received until he had as many as he wanted. A no answer. Then he ceased bellowing, for 45 X 3.5 wavering line of ripples spread behind he knew that the other was, at the mo- BINOCULAR $10.00 VALUE him as, staying near the surface, The Bass ment, being hunted. COATED swam back to the deeper portion of the He could not see the slinky otter, a yard pool. of sinuous murder, stealing down the LENSE and INTERPUPIllARY The frog under the willow remained shaded side of the river. Nor could he ADJUSTMENT motionless. He was too big to have any know that the other frog had heard the Sensation of the Year! Many teatures ot hlBli justifiable fear of The Bass, but such fear otter coming in time and slipped .silently Dvircd binoculars. Heavy

duty, all-purpose ; precision. had been born in him and it would not into hiding. Unable to find the up-river (':iTr\!iK' Oiisi\ slinitlder straps.

SEND NO M 0 N E Y , pay postman banished. Scudding about with the bank to TOTAl $S.9« now be frog, the otter bounded up i plus i li:ir-rs, Si'iid H-niittance Sloney hark MUarantee. the swarms of tadpoles that had hatched hunt young birds in the brush. The am- oidn, HI' send Dicpsiid. Ideal sift. GOERTZ COMPANY, Dept. G-5 with him, the irog had many times seen phibian under the willow simply knew 1148 West Chicago Avenue Chicogo 22, Illinois. bass raid his brothers and sisters. The that silence up-river meant danger in marauding fish had gulped them whole, that quarter. OTTAWA Tiller & Mowerl of then gone placidly to their resting places In the center of the pool, the head New Tiller and Mower with 2 H. P. "Red Two until they were hungry again. You might surface. Seal Continental Motor." a swimming muskrat broke the speed.-i aiuJ freewheeling. Does not say the frog remembered that — yet The frog watched him, blinking but not most any kind of mowing. Cuts close to trees and fences. At- you couldn't say he had forgotten. moving because to move might bring un- tachments for soil tilling, etc. Thousands in use. Sold welcome attention upon himself. He saw Mows T^^' e'i'aTis'. 40" Swath 'ir'.ii' "i-'arl'^lrREE"" the muskrat go up the river, dive, and OTTAWAMFG.CO reappear with a mussel. The muskrat sat on the end of a partly-submerged log, shucked his mussel, and ate it. It dived for another mussel. Settling himself comfortably, the frog LOWEST MARKET PRICE .$7.25 sent forth an experimental bellow. He re- Sweep Second Hand: Preci- sion Workmanship; Rugged peated, and bellowed a third time. The Shock-resistant case: Ra- frog sat up, blinking in the moon light and dium hands and numerals: Leather strap. It measures expectantly awaiting a reply. It came distance, speed of cars, planes, horses and other from the frog up-river. The frog beneath moving objects. It's a time keeper, stop watch, tele- the willow bush bellowed his answer. meter, tachometer. ONE WRITTEN GUAR- in terror. YEAR Then he froze ANTEE and full operating ter- instructions enclosed witii He could neither see nor hear the each watch. SEND NO rible thing that had come, but he was MONEY. Mail your order today. Pay postman $7.25 aware of its presence. It was felt in a plus lO'o Federal tax. Total $8.00 plus postage. Or send cash (money order or sinister and terrible fashion, an evil pres- check) with your order and save postage charge. ence. Then the frog heard it, a few wispy MARDO SALES CO., Dept. 1-A 480 Le.vingtoii Ave., Riii. 1115, N. Y. 17, N. Y. slitherings and a few faint ripples in the water. A giant water moccasin came di- rectly toward him. Too terrified to do anything else, the frozen position. Now he frog kept his rncc ABOUT money "What's the matter with Farviev 'B' could not escape. He had survived the rntt rALIoCAPTC making plan anytvay? Why can't he plow as fast agile Metah/cHnlivSl sal honic- .Start full or spare tadpole stage because he was more , I. me. ban,.,i.s WARNER SUCCESS PLAN as Farmer 'A'?" V, backe.l by old establislied company. Facts than any of his brothei's and sisters, and ;t nothing. Money waiting. Act I Time is to AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ^cions . Ruf.li name on postcard Warner luckier. Reaching the adult phase, he had Ca.,1512Jarvis,Dept. 167 .Chicago 26, III.

The American Legion Magazine • July. 1949 • 40 continued to survive because he was It stopped in the shallows, its head moccasin was dragged slowly out to deep alei't and cautious. Nothing could survive cocked to one side while it alertly studied water. this. the willow bush. The otter slunk forward, The frog beneath the willow bush The frog blinked, looking from beneath lifting one velvet paw after the other as watched. He blinked as, still locked to- the willow branch into the paralyzing it stalked the hidden Iro^. Pausing a sec- gether, the snake and the otter were car- gaze of the big snake. Daylight was en- ond, the otter gathered Us.^lf for the strike ried downstream by the slow current. croaching upon the creek. Dawn had flung that would overwhelm its victim. Moving a little forward, the frog picked a pale hand across the sky, and with it Just as it sprang, enraged because up and ate another green caterpillar. Day- something else came. Then the frog heard something else was about to steal its in- light bloomed fully. Except for the con- the otter. tended dinner, the big moccasin struck. flict of the snake and the otter, it had It waded in the shallows just in front of The snake buried poison fangs in the been an ordinary night in the world of the willow bush. In the waning light of otter's shoulder. the willow bush—as long and as danger- the night, and the rising light of the day, The otter squalled, then joined battle. ous and as full of fear as usual. its water-soaked fur owned a dark -satin Striking again, the moccasin buried its The frog knew that darkness would sheen. Hungry, unsuccessful in its search fangs in the otter's shoulder and tangled come again. for birds, the otter had come to find the them there. The otter snarled, and slashed. It would be a time of peril, but a good bellowing bull frog. Winding itself about the otter's body, the time for bellowing. the end WHO WANTS A CAR? (Continued jrom -page 19)

the country against your kind," he I was overjoyed. I was ready to part I drove home in my Terraplane and shouted. "Now stay away!" with my Terraplane for fifty dollai's, be- vowed that I would keep on driving it I stayed away until 1948. By that time cause the car I wanted listed at fifteen until the automobile dealers looked me I read that a buyer's market was on its hundred, and that was just what I could up. At the time it sounded like an idle way back in the auto business, and new afford. "Fine," I said, "I'll give you the dream, but once the buyer's market in cars could be had at list without too long fifteen hundred now." cars started, it was like a flood. Today .?" a wait. I cranked up what was left of my "And the rest . . he asked. I can have my pick of new cars, but I'm Tei'raplane and coasted down to my old I blinked. "What rest? I said fifteen keeping the old Terraplane. I only have pal the car dealer, to see if we could do hundred. Doesn't that buy the car?" to drive it when I feel the need for more business this time. "Fifteen hundred!" he roared. "It comes revenge. The dealer was standing front of his to twenty-six hundred and eighty dollars." It started one evening recently when a place, watching traffic with a slightly "How comes it?" I demanded, my lip fellow drove up to the house in a brand anxious look. When I stopped near him beginning to tremble. new car. I was sitting on the porch, shoot- he actually smiled. "Hello, hello, hello," "Optional accessories," he explained. ing at sparrows with an M-1. This man

he said cordially as I got out of the car. "You know . . . Radio, heater, telephone, removed his hat, bowed his head, and "How about looking at a new car today? sun-visor, back-up light, cigarette light- asked if he could please speak with me. Drive one away tomorrow." er, under-coating, over-coating, inner- Not knowing who he was, I gave my We shook hands, and he took me in to coating, outer tubes, license frames, white consent. ." if see his new cars. "My friend," he said, pink-wall tires, over-drive . . "Sir,'' this man said, "I wonder you giving me a cigar, "I can't give you much I shook my head. "I don't want the ac- would do me a favor? I have a brand for your old car, but if you'll take fifty cessories. I'll get along without them." new Gitchma Eight here, Etnd I would dollars, I'll let you have a new one at "Then we can't do business," he said like you to drive it at the agency's ex- list. Not one dime money under the coldly. "I told you the accessories were pense for a month or so. If you like it, counter or anything. Just pay the legal optional — that means you have to take we'd be happy to sell it to you for a very price, and the new buggy is yours. I'm them." He turned away from me in dis- reasonable sum, and give you three or doing this because you're a veteran, and gust. "That's the trouble with this world," four hundred dollars for that excellent I want to show how much I appreciate he complained. "You try to do a person but ancient car you are now driving." what you did in the war — whenever that a favor and right away they try to take "Leave the keys," I said in a bored tone. was." advantage of you." "I'll let you know what I decide in a month or so." "Oh, thank yovi. Sir." the salesman VEINEKAL MISt'HIKF Ky S. B. STEVEIVS breathed. "Thank you. Remember, send us all your gas and oil bills, and if you take any trips, we'll gladly pay the hotel bills for you."

"All right, all right," I said. "Now go away. I'm busy." My moment had arrived, and, accord- ing to plan, I went into action. First I approached my Terraplane with a ham- mer and an axe. I cracked the windows, chopped holes in the body, tore the up- holstery, ran it without water, and stripped the gears. When it was just barely able to crawl under its own power, I got in and drove down to see my par- ticular auto dealer. He was on the side- walk in front of his establishment, run- ning back and forth trying to drag cus- tomers into his place by brute force. As soon as I stopped my car the dealer was opening the door for me, and yelling for his men to roll out the red carpet. As I stepped out of the car he gave me a box of cigars and a bottle of Scotch, whispered the names and addresses of several lovely blondes, and led me to an easy chair in- side his showroom. AME1![< A\' I.IX.TON MAf:AZINE "Sir," the dealer murmured, "I would

• The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 like to trade one of my new cars for your scratches are a dollar each, cracks in the ." lovely Terraplane. Please forgive me for windows two dollars, tires . . being so vulgar as to discuss money, but "Tires come with the car!" the dealer WANT TO EARN if you will be so kind as to accept a com- moaned. pletely-equipped new car for less than "All right," I said, "tires come with the $9000 A YEAR? the wholesale price, I would gladly give car. But the tread is an accessory. Also business you four hundred dollars for the Terra- the wood-stove heater, the crystal radio, Then here's your chance to enter a offering an opportunity for unlimited earnings ." plane. I know it's worth more, Sir, but squirrel tails, tools . . . . . plus the satisfaction of rendering a worth- that's all I can afford." The dealer sobbed aloud. "I can't do it," while service in your own community. Many of our representatives earn $4000 to $9000 a year I polished my fingernails on my lapel he moaned. "I haven't the money. Please and more! and yawned. "You wouldn't want my . . . please ... I need the business. Please To find out more about the opportunities car," I said. "It isn't much good." be kind." offered to you in a life insurance selling career, "It's a wonderful car!" he cried. "Such "My friend," I said, "I'll tell you what send for our free booklet, "The Career for Me?" I'll do. I a for beautifully shattered windows, and those won't make deal now, but For those who qualify our program includes gouges in the body . . . like a painting by a hundred dollars I'll put you on my an excellent on-the-job training course, and the provides waiting list. When I'm ready to do busi- Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan liberal commissions and service fees, with a ness, that hundred will buy you the comfortable retirement income at 65. For com- chance to bid against the other dealers." plete information send for booklet today. The dealer sobbed out his thanks, gave me the hundred and I drove away. THE MUTUAL LIFE I've seen about half the dealers in town, INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK and I've collected about a thousand dol- New York 5. N. Y lars from them for the privilege of get- 34 Nassau Street ting on my list. Three dealers keep new cars at my home night and day, which I operate without cost. Another dealer picks up all my restaurant checks, and yet another keeps me in whiskey and soda. When I collect another five hundred dollars I'll be ready to make a purchase. SERVICE CLUBS MAKE I don't intend to sell my Terraplane. The MONEY... others make revenge value is still good, and as long DOES THE WORK OF BIG A10NEY I it, as have the new car men are after IN 1 6 TOOLS "Enclosed find 56 orders me to trade. I can make a living just driv- Holds 20 times its representing 91/2 hours weight in water work on Monday and Tues- ing that old wreck back and forth along day." "Enclosed are 12 Hands orders secured after sup- per this p.m." Automobile Row. And when I buy, I Housewives P/eased won't buy any of their new cars. I won Everyone that sees this a new car as a door prize at a dance last outstanding CELL- U -MOP immediately want one . . . Thafs the reason our dis- week, and since I live out in the coun- tributors are so success- ful .. . For MOPPING. try, I'm saving my money for a good WAXING. WALLS, WIN- DOWS. AUTOS and horse. the end CLEANING RUGS. Sells quick to Taverns, Clubs. nexii Hotels, Hospitals, Stores, "Who's the babe?" Restaurants, Homes, etc. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Drain Bracket squeezes out water thoroughly. ANSWERS TO BASEBALL Write for FREE particulars CLOSE& CELL-U-MOP CO., Dept. L-7. FREEPORT, ILL. Picasso. You'll do me a favor if you take QUiZ ON PAGE 20 a new car and let me have yours for four 1. Stan Musial hundred and fty. For old times' sake." 2. "But the tires are flat," I said. "The 3. INVENTORS Richie Ashburn rims must be ruined." Patent laws encourage the development of mven- 4. Harry Brecheen tions. Our firm is registered to practice before ttie "I'll fix the tires," he insisted. He ran U S Patent OfHce. Write tor further particulars as 5. Curt Simmons to patent protection and procedure and "Invention out and threw himself to the ground, Record" form at once. No obligation. 6. Howie Pollett crawling under the car in shaking haste. McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON 7. Warren Spahn Registered Patent Attorneys "Don't do that," I called. "You'll ruin Washington 1. D. C. 8. Stan Rojek 1466 Vielor Building your nice new white suit." 9. Lou Boudreau "I always wear my white suit to fix 10. Joe Gordon tires," he called back. "It's nothing at all. 11. Mark Christman Always glad to do a favor for a good 12. "Virgil Stallcup customer." 13. Ralph Kiner "Look," I said, going to my car, "this mi CHRISTMAS CARDS 14. Hal Newhouser Plastic Cards for Christmas and Everyday. Also lovely EM- is really a piece of junk. It won't even BOSSED Christmas Cards WITH NAME. Sell themselves at 15. Roy Campanella 60 for $1.25, up. Amazing $r'Southern Beauty" Assortment make good scrap. I can't understand of 'l Christmas Card^ Davs vou op to 5nc! Complete line of fast. sellers. 16. Sid Gordon Write for Samples on approval. SOUTHERN G««TING CARD CO why the Gitchma Eight people want to 216 South Pauline Street, Dept. c-44, MEMPHIS 4. TENN. 17. Dom DiMaggio give me four hundred and seventy-five 18. Ted Williams dollars for it if I buy a car from them." 19. Phil Cavarretta LEGIONNAIRES! EARN MORE "Five hundred!" the dealer screamed 20. Sheldon Jones from under the car. "And you can keep On The RIGHT Job for You! 21. Ken Keltner Mail us your qualifications, abilities, back- it besides. Just take one of my new ones. be restyled into an 22. Bill Salkeld ground and experience to I need the space." effective, professional resume-letter that will 23. Vernon Stephens help you obtain that better-paving position, $20. "Okay," I said. "Five hundred it is. For BUSINESS EXECUTIVE CONSULTANTS 24. Elwin Roe old times' sake." 625 Madison Avenue New York 22, N. Y. 25. Larry Berra The man came to me on his hands and 26. Alvin Dark knees, holding out the money. "Here, 27. Johnny Vander Meer Does GARLIC dear friend," he said. "Take it." 28. Bobby Doerr "And the rest?" I asked. Relieve GAS? 29. Murray Dickson relieves distressing symptoms of The dealer rolled over on his back, his ALLIMIN 30. heaviness after meals, belching, bloating and hands and feet in the air. "What rest?" he colic due to gas in stomach and intestines. 31. Harold (Pee Wee) Reese clinically tested doctors croaked. ALLIMIN has been by is the 32. Early Wynn and found highly effective. ALLIMIN "The car is five hundred," I said, "but largest selling garlic tablet in the world. For Bale at drug stores everywhere. Ask for the optional accessories are extra. Paint L Tablets The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 '51 ALLIMIN Garffc was he a sport? Would he breed true? Walden bred him to a black and white LIFE IN THE OPEN July, 1949 female and in the new litter all the dogs inherited the same characteristics that had made Kim such an outstanding ani- mal. They were tawny coated, powerful PERRY GREENE with two Chinook dogs, Riki and gentle. They in turn bred true and and Bering. From his Maine kennels Greene Walden was satisfied that he had a new controls the entire breed of Chinooks breed. He called it the Chinook. Walden never publicly revealed the parentage of Kim nor the identity of his black and white girl friend. The secret is known to only three people today: Mrs. Julia Lom- bard who took over Walden's kennels, and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Greene who are now the sole breedei-s of the Chinook. All three, however, emphatically state that there is no Husky or wolf in the Chinook and that there have never been any throwbacks in more than twenty genera- tions of breeding. In one of the early litters Walden chose an oversized puppy and trained him to lead one of his teams. He named the dog Chinook in honor of the new breed and it was Chinook who became famous as the lead dog of the team Walden drove during Admiral Richard Byrd's first Ant- arctic expedition in 1928.

When Walden found it difficult to supervise his kennels properly he turned them over to Mrs. Lombard, a neighbor living in Wonalancet, N. H. Under her feminine influence the Chinook's gentle- ness of nature was stressed. Knowing the value of selective breeding, she bred them for disposition and intelligence without, however, sacrificing their ruggedness and stamina. Mrs. Lombard exhibited the dogs every year at a sportsman's show in Bos- ton and there she met Perry Greene who was appearing in the show as the world's champion woodchopper. Greene, a six foot two inch Maine guide of Mohawk ancestry, was impressed by Mrs. Lombard's lead dog, a 120-pound Walden, prospector and sled dog breeder By JOHN DURANT giant named Chugash. He asked her one and driver, there appeared in a litter a day if he could take the animal for a IN million times there occurs in coat and proportions were ONCE A puppy whose run on Boston Common during the slack nature a phenomenon which biolo- totally unlike that of its parents' or any of hours of the show. For several days there- gists call a "sport." It is a sudden and its brothers'. Walden named him Kim, after he took Chugash out, unleashed, and unexplained variation in the offspring, and watched grow into a 110- him huge never once did the Chinook attempt to a change in marked degree from its pound animal with a thick tawny coat, leave his side. "He'd circle around me and parents. A sport breeds true which means furry arched tail and a chest of amazing run five miles while I was walking one," that the characteristics are main- breadth. The had a long muzzle and new dog Perry says, "but he was never further tained in the next generation and all sub- pointed ears. gentle, intelligent He was away than arm's length at any time." The ones. and obedient and great power and sequent had next year when he walked into the thirty in the kind of dog that Some years ago the New endurance. Kim was crowded Boston Garden Chugash instant- Hampshire kennels of the late Arthur T. Walden had always been looking for. But ly recognized him and jumped all over him. From then on Perry couldn't see enough of Chugash and the other Chinooks. When Mrs. Lombard was forced to give up her kennels in 1939 she chose Perry as her successor, knowing that he would care for the dogs and preserve the Chinook breed. It was a fortunate choice, for Peri-y, now the sole breeder, has tre- mendous pride in the dogs and has re- fused many tempting offers for the ken- nels. He will not sell an unspayed female, thus maintaining complete control of the breed. Because the Chinook is a closed breed the American Kennel Club will not ac- knowledge it among the 111 breeds it recognizes, five of which, incidentally, are of U.S. origin. The Chinook is a distinct CHINOOK OWNERS across the country have their own newspaper. Above, Jackie and established American breed, however, Manzer reads a copy of The Chinook News at Greene's Waldoboro kennels and would be welcomed to the canine

52 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 social register if Perry chose to release control. (The AKC i-equires only eight generations of true breeding). This Perry refuses to do on the grounds that the more than 30 years Chinook would then become a show dog Ernie Poole has covered all sections of and the brains might be bred out of it. Canada Perry's kennels are on U. S. Highway by canoe, saddle horse, train and plane, fishing Number One near Waldoboro, Maine, and getting first-hand information on where to where 10,000 people annually stop to see catch the "big ones." He's caught game fish his dogs. A large sign there says: "Perry from Nova Scotia in the East to "Vancouver Greene Kennels. Worlds Only Breeder of Pure Bred'Chinooks." Island in the West. There are over 500 Chinooks distributed through twenty states and Perry has a ON THE BEST MUSKIE WATER THEN ON THE LAST DAY THE record of every one as well as its ances- IN THE WORLD . . LUCKY HORSESHOE IN MY try back to In Kim. his active corre- BUT 4 VAYS TACKLE BOX PAID OFF spondence with the owners he has never WITHOUT A STRIKE received a complaint and he takes pride in saying that a Chinook has never been known to bite a human. It is a fine watch dog nevertheless, for it will hold an in- truder at bay until its master arrives. Once a chicken thief on Perry's property was bowled over and his shoulders pinned to the ground by a Chinook but the dog did not bite him. The Chinook will fight other dogs only if attacked. "I don't mean THAT SAME AFTERNOON A $0 PQUHD ORAHddMPV just growled at," Perry says. "I mean the other dog has to jump him first. Then ^'PJ^IKBS SOUNDS WITH ALL MY LINE look out.''

All Chinook owners say it is the best all-around dog in existence, a handsome affectionate house pet yet tough enough to bed down in the snow and sleep con- tentedly on the most severe winter night. It will plunge mto the water and swim all day in the midst of shouting children and will retrieve in the water and in the field. Before buying a dog from Perry you must first visit him and win his approval. ONE HOUR LATER He has over 2,000 applications on file and ON yOUR LUCKY VAV he's extremely choosy about where he SUDDENLY— places his beloved dogs. "The Chinook is DON'T LOSE

the world's best dog," he says, "and I don't THE BIG ONE want it to get a bad name because of some people who wouldn't know how to bring BE REAVy WITH it up right." He will not ship a dog. The buyer must come to Waldoboro, .pass H-l TACKLE muster and take the dog away. p. S. -THl SIC CMS When Kim appeared in Walden's ken- MWAyS CIT AWA/" nels years ago nature gave him a keen intelligence which has been the outstand- ing trait of his descendants. Several of HORROCKS IBBOTSON CO., UTICA, N.Y. Perry's dogs run free in his yard which faces a traffic-heavy highway. Yet they Manufacturers of the Largest Line of Fishing Tackle in the World never roam, instinctively sensing the danger of the auto-clogged road. The only ^-^ff^ time a Chinook went on the highway was $15.00 —^/ when a kitten wandered out of the yard THE OZARK ( Super Temper brand 1 and stood confused in the center of the TUBULAR Steel Bait Casting Rod — Feather-light shaft for steel " step-down con- road. The dog, lithe, live action. One-piece alloy " mstantly aware of the struction. Double offset cork grip. Locking reel seat. Silk kitten's plight, rushed out, gently picked wound chrome guides. New finish. Lengths; 5' and it up in its huge maw and brought it back TACKLE safely into the yard. Means FISHING Perry hitched up a seven dog team in $10.00 for EVERY FISHERMAN January, 1940, and drove them across the THE RAINBOW and EVERY KIND of FISHING state of Maine from Fort Kent on the SOLID Steel Bait Casting Rod- one-piece octagon tip. Met-

alustre finish . new type black nickel guides . . . double offset Canadian border to Kittery. Hauling 800 aluminum handle with cork lower grip, plastic upper grip, pounds of equipment, and with a thirteen- and locking reel seat. Lengths: 4', 4? 5'. year-old boy as passenger, BETTER BUY H-l he made the OLD HI'S HI-TEST 502-mile trip in 90 hours' running time- Silk Casting Line . . . $2.00 — $3.00 AT YOUR the longest sled dog trip ever in made the Each thread waterproofed before braiding. United States. The finest casting, longest lasting bait cast- DEALER'S ing line you can spool on your reel. There is no doubt that this unique American breed of dog, closely guarded THE COMMODORE • • $6.00 FREE Old Hi's famous by Perry Greene, is one of the most re- A brand new H-I "reel-value." fishing books -"Fishing for Hardened steel bearing and the Millions" "Salt markable in the world today. And it and gears assure dependable, stemmed spiral Water Sports Fishing ". from a sport named Kim whose trouble free service. Easy run- Get your copies now. Write identity remains a secret. the end ning level wind feature, attrac- tive, durable, chrome finish. H-I, Dept. H. Utica, N.Y.

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 YOU HAVE TO BE YOURSELF IN CHILE (Continued from page 13) personal appearance, with a new photo- chance to look at copper being produced asked. "Do you like having to carry an graph and thumb print, every four years. in Chile!" official government identification?" Chile stretches north and south more Chile by law has made individual iden- "Why not?" said Chile's wealthiest miles than the distance from Labrador tification obligatory but by the same law wine producer. "When I travel to Europe to Key West, and many of its communi- it has completely isolated the system of or the United States I carry a passport, ties are very isolated. Its 22 provinces, or civilian identification from criminal or don't I? The passport identifies me as a states, could provide people who wanted penal records. The Deputy for civilian Chilean citizen. Not everyone in my to change their identities with 22 new identification who issues Garnets and country knows my face," he- chuckled opportunities. But the little Carnet is an passports, is the sole custodian of their "but my Carnet quickly identifies me. anchor holding each man, woman, or secrets and is charged by law with the And don't forget this: it prevents other child to their past, a true identity, no mat- duty of keeping his civilian identification men from impersonating me. That's ter how far or fast the alien or citizen service entirely separate from Chile's equally important!" may travel in Chile. For, in addition to Departamento Criminologico. Only ajter A U. S. mining engineer now stationed the vest-pocket Carnet, there is a fac- a crime has been committed and the alien in Chile admitted that he was mad at simile behind all aliens and citizens in or citizen sentenced by the Court can a having to be fingerprinted at first. "You Santiago's Central Civilian Identification copy of the civilian identification file be know how it is," he said, "fingerprints Bureau, with even more personal details transmitted to the penal files. Compara- and crime have been too much linked to- which can never be destroyed by a fugi- tive statistics show that for every 30 citi- gether back home by the movies and tive. The personally carried Carnet. zens and alien residents in Chile there mystery books. But I've found man's best though very small, has a great deal of will be only four who will ever have their protection in a foreign country to be his national as well as personal security fingerprints, photographs, and identifica- fingerprints, not his signature. And that power behind it. tion file transferred to the police records. goes double for his children! The Kremlin's Comrade, under his new But those four people are the ones "Take one event that often happens disguise, had obtained a job as Metal- whose past chronology and unchangeable in my family, for example," he continues. lurgist in a great, complex, copper mine identification are often of great impor- "My children travel all over the coun- many miles from Santiago, but the greasy tance to the peace, honesty, or security of try and think nothing of wiring me from prints of two of his fingers, months prev- the community or nation. To the great little as well as from big towns asking ious, on the stolen leather brief-case majority of Chileans and honest alien me to please telegraph cash pronto. Well, which he had cut open for its blueprint residents the Chilean Carnet is a nation- I don't have to sit down and worry about contents, in a U.S. airport, caught up with ally recognized asset. someone getting money out of me by us- him in Chile. In addition to its own file "We have proven to good Chileans," an ing the names of my children. I wire the of Chilean fingerprints and photographs, official explained recently, "that the Car- cash— I know that no other person can the Santiago identification specialists have net and our system of civilian identifi- collect it in Chile. The paying teller will initiated a program of exchanging fac- cation is a contribution to personal as not hand it over until he's checked the similes with the police agencies of other well as national security, though at first Carnet. My children can prove their iden- American nations. In one routine batch some of us were quite angry at being tity wherever they may be, and nobody of prints and photographs received from fingerprinted. Yes, some Chileans raised else in Chile can impersonate them. Yes, the United States the skillful Chilean hell and high temperatures — especially we use our thumb prints often here in clasificacioneers discovered the "refugee" our very nicest old ladies! But go out and Chile. They are our assets!" metallurgist's pre-Chilean history. He ask the people, now, what they think of Before the compulsory identification was taken into custody by the authori- the Carnet," he suggested. "Check up law, a Chilean auditor told me, war pen- ties immediately. yourself. Ask some of your own country- sions were often paid to people who The Chilean Deputy of the Civilian men, who were the most furious of all claimed them in the names of people long Identification Bureau had only one quiet at first. I bet they convince you!" since dead; politicians often voted dead comment: "If the fingerprints had been So I talked with many different kinds people. But today pensions can be col- sent us promptly we would have caught of Chileans and alien residents in Chile. lected only by people who display the your fish for you before he even had a "What do you think of the Carnet?" I correct Carnet, registered mail can only be obtained by personal display of the proper Carnet. In order to vote a citizen has to be still living; he has to register in advance, presenting his Carnet for checking. On election day each voter has his or her Carnet taken up on leaving the booth and held until sundown. In Chile you can only vote once! People hurt in accidents or found dead without identification can be identified by telegraphic facsimiles of their finger- prints within three hours from any part of the far-flung nation. All children born in Chile have their footprints taken on the day of their birth by an agent of the Civilian Identification Bureau, together with the mother's thumb print. Prior to burial each corpse is fingerprinted, the Carnet of the deceased reclaimed by the district agent, and official identification certified. "My youngest son," a Chilean rancher told me, "was only eight when he started out one day to see what was at the end of the railroad. He stowed away on a freight train. Far down in Valdivia it took "They are an imported breed from Europe and not worth a damn for mtitton — the police only a few hours to identify hut oihertvise I can't kick too much!" him and send him back home." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE (Continued on page 56)

5^ • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 SOUND OFF! tory, a pupil does not have to pass an lottery was held on September 30, 1918, (Continued jrom page 8) examination in it to be eligible for his and Mr. Wilson, as per our drawing, per- diploma. At least this was the case a few formed as had Mr. Baker, pulling out to one another in the days when they years ago. No. 322. Editors were fighting side by side and how much And while I am writing, may I call at- they need one another for the years that tention to a mistake in picture No. re Because I studied American history lie ahead. We sent her a copy of the April 4, the "legal lottery" of 1917 draft. Woodrow when it was really taught in our schools, issue, and thanked her for what she had Wilson was President, but he did not take it was a cinch to get 100 per cent on the written, asking her to give us a report part in the drawing on that day. The page 16 (May issue) quiz on American on the number of letters she had re- first name was drawn by Newton D. history. ceived: To this Joy replied: Baker, then Secretary of War. There are The Legion Magazine does not get 100 "Counting the letters I have received a number of reasons why I know this, the per cent however, on the answers. The as aftermath to your April issue has main one being that I was present when first heavier-than-air flight by the Wright proved no imposition. Total to date 1,122, it was done. brothers took place on December 17, 1903, and still they come! It is the practice in Winfield Scott Clime not December 14, as the answer panel our village to give the postman a small ' Old Lyme, Conn. shows it. I'll not take too much credit for bonus at Christmas. He has warned me this, however, as Dec. 17 (not 1903) is my that he expects it to be really good this birthday. year! J. P. Greene "Correspondents have written in various Los Angeles, Calif. languages, including French, Greek and Latin, and I am still trying to decipher Mr. Greene is correct. Incidentally, two efforts in code. Ages have ranged Mr. Di.xon cannot be held delinquent on from eight to eighty, all have been ex- these matters taken up by Messrs La tremely kind and interesting, and have Sala, Clime and Greene, as the quiz was done much to increase my already high got up in our office. Editors regard and admiration for the American peoples. Without reservation, the writers John Dixon needs a refresher course in pay tribute to the high standard of your 1917 elementary arithmetic. magazine, sentiments I myself heartily His article What's Wrong With U. S. echo. History says that students should study Yours sincerely, at least 1200 pages of American history Joy Clayton in a year, which he claims would be about Henllys, Ciomhran six pages a day. Monmouthshire, England" That would mean a school year of 200 or more days. The number of American P.S. Latest word from Joy is that she ex- school children fortunate enough to go pects to visit the this U.S. summer. to school that many days a year is a small, even an insignificant minority. The aver- THAT HISTORY ARTICLE age is something like 160 or fewer days per year. Ralph Erickson In the May issue of the Legion Maga- 1918 Blackduck, Minn. zine, What's Wrong With U. S. History, I noted one small in your answer Mr. Clime is right. We should have Legionnaire Erickson is being a bit to question No. 5, "Lt. Col. George A. made the year 1918. There were actually too literal, we think. It wouldn't hurt a Custer, Custer's Last Stand in which he three drawings from the fishbowl hold- pupil to get eighteen pages of reading and four companies of the 7th Cavalry ing draft numbers. Mr. Clime was pres- over a week-end, especially if the ac- were wiped out." Companies should read ent at the first, on July 20, 1917, when count were as interesting as a Kenneth troops for Cavalry. Secretary Baker pulled out 258 as the Roberts historical novel—which isn't too I'll bet many an ex-yellow-leg will first number. The third and last draft much to ask for, we think. Editors catch you up on that small error. I suggest that What's Wrong With U. S. AdvertLsement History be continued as a regular feature of our magazine. We all need to be re- minded of the glorious past of our coun- try. Sam La Sala Ex-Sgt. of 1st Cavalry & Ex- S.C. 1st class of U.S.S. Phantom A.M. 273 Rosemead, Calif.

A War Department General Order of 1876 referred to officers just graduated from the Military Academy as having been assigned to cavalry companies. In 1881 there was a statement that organi- zations of that character "hereafter . . . will be referred to as companies and troops." It appears that sometime in the 1890's troops became the fully accepted designation. Our thanks for clearing up this point go to the Historical Division, Department of the Army. Editors "Look, Harry! The boss must have finally opened The May number carries an article by the suggestion box." John Dixon, What's Wrojig With U.S. His- Good suggestion. Good eating, too! Enjoyed by many top-flight athletes. tory, and I want to thank him for it and America's favorite whole wheat Provides seven dietary essentials. to say we need more such articles. I was flakes—that's Wheaties. And, with Had your Wheaties today? Wheaties stunned to find that while our school in milk and fruit, a famous training dish. —"Breakfast of Champions!" Old Lyme has a course in American his-

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 • (Continued from page 54) A Chilean banker had another anecdote have been convicted of several offenses. "My Carnet," a taxi driver admitted, to contribute. There was once in Chile, But we know who they are. The Carnet "has saved me from being stranded on he said, a very crooked politician. But he system protects our plants and also our several long trips without gas. Gasoline never accepted checks or traceable se- employees." stations will always let me have a tank- curities. He took his graft in cash and Disguised characters can't float through ful on credit because they know that by stored 't in bank vaults under different Chilean labor communities or become having my receipt and the verification of names—paid no taxes either. Then when members of labor unions. "We often have my Carnet there is no risk in my being the Carnet law went into effect he sud- to take on a batch of new members quick- able to run out of their trust behind a denly found that he couldn't get into any ly," a trade union official told me. "Some- fictitious name or stolen auto plates." of his deposit boxes. All vault clerks times a call comes overnight for three or "Here's Carnetology in a nutshell!" a asked him for his Carnet, as required by widely travelled merchant of Santiago the law. Each bank refused him access to suggested. "Look! I meet you somewhere a box registered in another name and Resolutions favoring compulsory finger- far south on the lakes. I've had an acci- notified the police— as the new law re- printing of all persons in the United dent. My car is wrecked. My clothes are quires. "Si, Senor! He had been stealing States have been passed by six National torn. I am dirty and look like a tramp, from the people for years!" the banker Conventions of The American Legion, maybe quite an evil tramp. I tell you who said. "He could have kept on doing so and represent a continuing Legion policy. I am and ask you for a loan—money to for the rest of his dishonest life if the The first of these resolutions was adopted get home or to the nearest i?legraph sta- Carnet hadn't stopped him, exposed his in 1935, the sixth in 1941. This last as- tion. I show you my Carnet. If you ask fortune in cash, and started an investiga- serted that fingerprinting "is a matter of for it I give you a duplicate thum'u print. tion, into the methods by which he had protection for our natioyial defense," and Voila! You loan me the cash without fear grown so rich!" Chile's experience proves how true this of being taken in by some impostor!" In Chile, I was often reminded, you is. Editors "Si!" another Chilean who had been can't start out in life as a Musica and be- listening to us said. "But suppose it is come a Coster. Such a human chameleon * the visiting Senor Norteamericano who as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde cannot exist has the accident. He shows you his pass- except in fiction. Without the proper Car- four hundred workers for a job in a dis- port. It has a photograph and his signa- net you cannot receive pension payments, tant province. We don't want to sign them ture. He has only been in Chile a few get passports, receive commercial licenses, up and then have to guess who they may days so he doesn't have to carry a Carnet. operate an automobile, make transpor- actually be. I check their Carnets to see Do you lend him money?" tation reservations, live in hotels, cash if they are law-abiding citizens or police That provoked considerable argument, checks or do any of the other things file characters. We refuse union member- with each of them waving my U. S. pass- where identity is of importance. ship to men who have had too many or port as exhibit A. Yes, they admitted, it One of Chile's largest industrial em- too serious entanglements with the law had my photograph and signature. But ployers uses several thousand seasonally enforcement agencies. They are bad risks both, they insisted, could have been itinerant laborers and in many other for a trade union because they, too, will changed by a clever forger. Comparing countries it would be quite impossible to have a vote in our union affairs. Some- my passport with the Chileans' Carnets separate personnel dangers from assets times we take on apprentice members I could see for myself—now that it had at the employment gate. His personnel who may have made several previous been called to my attention— that the best manager, like those of most other Chilean mistakes. But they are on trial with us; item of unalterable identification I could industries, collects the names and Car- we do not pass them into full member- have had on my own passport was miss- net numbers of each day's applicants, tell- ships until they prove that they are sin- ing. There was no certified thumb print. ing them to return in three days. By that cere in their reformation." "In the United States," another Chilean time he has been able to check each ap- In Chile a man or woman can change said, "you invent many great things, you plicant's past history— if he has a criminal his or her name for personal reasons but are the country of progress, of new ideas. or penal history. the change, made officially by the Court, But we are ahead of you in passports and "That does not mean that we do not must immediately be recorded in the Carnets. I could never show up at a Chil- employ men and women with police rec- Central Civilian Identification Bureau ean Consulate, anywhere in the world, ords," the industrialist said. "Several slips and a new Carnet obtained. Names can't and impersonate another Chilean. And no often do not make an actual criminal. We be changed, however, if there is a past other man can impersonate me." have many people working with us who conviction for two crimes. "If you return to the United States," I asked a North American electrical engi- neer long successful in Chile," and find that you have to go to a Civilian Identi- fication Bureau and have a fedei^al or state Carnet issued you, and your finger- prints and photograph filed, would you like it?" "Sure!" he said. "There was a time I would have been up in arms at having my constitutional right, let's say of 7iot being identifiable, taken away from me. But after what I've seen here of the way the system can actually work for the per- sonal as well as the general good I'm all for it. As far as I can see there's nothing in our Constitution or Bill of Rights that gives people in the United States the right to falsify their real identities. When I go on trips to the States I take my Chilean Carnet with me, as well as my U. S. passport!" You can lead a double life in Chile in activities which do not run counter to public laws or your neighbor's peace of mind, property or security, but you must lead your double life under the same name! the end THE GROWING ATTACK ON VETERANS' BENEFITS THE NEW (Continued from page 14) Colonial ". from VA and Army and Navy hospitals Senate floor: . . 157 million dollars models are on display at all Co- in the name of "economy," and in the was taken out of the hides of the men lonisl dealers. Write fot folder. same year 9,631 CCC, CWA and other disabled as a result of the World War. government agency beneficiaries were in- Do you remember the official title of stalled as patients in those same hospitals! that law? It was called An Act to Main- A wave of veteran suicides swept across tain the Credit of the United States Gov- the land. American Legion Posts boarded ernment!

some of the outcasts, clothed them, asked Think of it! The Congress swallowed them to hold on while the Legion fought that effrontery and so, apparently, did the vindictive law. American Legion Wel- a public which had been conditioned by fare and Relief funds kept many of them a siege of propaganda in newspapers and SPORTSMAN INDUSTRIES and their impoverished families in food magazines. The American people, with- 6446 S. WENTWORTH AVE. CHICAGO 21, ILLINOIS out whose support Congress does not dare to act, had been won over to the idea that veterans' benefits were waste, and that veterans were milking the Govern- ment dry. The American people had been 3^ DSSESBaaSSI artfully led to believe that the disabled Noted for its lifelike action. veteran was the logical person to make The only lure with offset hooking. That's why it sacrifices to ward off a completely phony catches 'em for keeps. World's / largest selling plug. Made in-' threat to the credit of the United States! 21 colors- Underwater, sur- CHIROPODIST nation's credit in danger? That face and trolling models, Was the $1.35 each. Musky. $1.45. was one of the years of WPA, PWA, CCC FIvrod size. $1.10. Write for FREE circular—or send 20c and many other of the great and revo- for 48-page booklet with plug-fishing secrets of fa- lutionary emergency acts of the New mous anglers. Deal for which ample credit was found. Since then a new genei'ation of soldiers, HELIN TACKLE CO. whose benefits are now under attack, has 6342 Pulford Detroit 7, Mich. fought a war whose cost could swallow the entire Federal budget of those years many times over, and the credit of the Government is still intact. Even the title Free for Asthma of that pernicious law was a lie. If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke Remember all this, because the enemies and gasp lor breath, if restful sleep is difficult of the veteran are molding the public because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for mind again with phony statistics, misrep- a FREE trial of the AMERICAN MAGAZINE FRONTIER ASTHMA LEGION MEDICINE, a resentations, exaggerations, distortions preparation for temporary symp- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. and half-truths— all aimed at sabotaging No matter where you live or whether you have the veterans' program. Again they are faith in any medicine under the sun, send today and shelter, but we could not keep them for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. all. crying hooray for the loar hero out of one Frontier Asthma Co. 813-C Frontier Bldg. 462 Niagara St. What happened to the promise not to side of their mouths and too much cost Buffalo 1, N. Y. molest the rights of the war-injured out of the other. veterans? Veterans' benefits are part of the cost SHORTHAND in Once the iniquitous law was on the of war—and it is a cowardly act to renege statute books the promise was violated on them in the security of victory. No- Weeks at Home likes the of war, before completely! body cost but we FauiDiis ypeedwriting system. No signs; no swallow any more falsehoods let's put synilioLs; nu machines; uses ABC's. ICasy to The compensation of disabled war- learn; ea-iy to write and transcribe. Low cost. 100,000 injured veterans was whittled to the bone some billions of dollars in their proper tautilit hv mall. For business and ('i\ 11 Service. Also tyiiiim, 2

it. The author was a Charles Stevenson gressmen, editors and Legion officials The rest, about one third of one bil- and the title of the article was How urging that a stop be put to the VA's lion dollars, was spent on general ad- Bureaucracy Swindles the Taxpayer. "multi-billion dollar swindle." ministrative expenses to run a bureau Only one Government bureau was dis- Everyone who wrote or felt that way which administers a large group of bene- cussed—the Veterans Administration. Al- was completely misled. The article did not fits to eligibles numbering eighteen mil- though the title of the article charged say how the VA spent six billion dollars lion veterans of all wars and many of "swindle" no swindle was shown or a year. It couldn't, for several reasons. their dependents. First, claimed in the text. This is odd, because it would have had to shift its at- The American Legion warns veterans the Reader's Digest has one of the most tack away from the VA to veterans, to that any substantial saving for which the expert and best-paid staffs of editors, the GI Bill, to Public Law 16 and all our public might cry under the influence of and they know the meaning of words. other veterans' benefits. Second, the VA such magazine articles can only come Why did they suggest to you that the VA does not spend six billion dollars a year. from cutting back veterans' benefits. The not billion is swindling taxpayers, when nobody can The VA does spend one dol- propagandists who try to line you up show a cent of swindle in the VA? lars a year. against the entire VA appropriation never It is true that the VA has been handling tell you that. There is room for increased The article damned the VA in no mean about six billion dollars a year. Of this efficiency and better service to veterans terms, from one end to the other. It cited figure the VA spends approximately 5% in the VA, but it is scarcely a matter of mismanagement, stupidity, irresponsibil- for general administration. For the year budget reduction. Already, in the opinion ity, lost records, waste and duplication ending June 30, 1949, five and one third of hundreds of American Legion long of effort. billion dollars of six-plus billions were time service-workers the VA operating We in the Legion know that the VA paid directly in cash to veterans and their budget has been and is being subjected to went through a terrible time at the close beneficiaries, for such things as: economies which impair the service the of its work-load vastly War Two when Insurance death claims; VA can render veterans. exceeded its capacity and its staff was Compensation and pension for the dis- Today veterans are suffering greatly inexperienced and inadequate. Horrible abled; because of the slowness of progress in the things happened. Tuition and education under the GI VA hospital program — now far behind One of the interesting things about this Bill; schedule and being slowed even more by article was that, without giving dates, Mr. Rehabilitation of the disabled; the interference of the "economy minded" Stevenson cited the same specific VA Pensions for the survivors of deceased and other special groups. clerical errors and blunders which The servicemen; Below are some funny things being American Legion Magazine had I'eported And other direct payments to veterans proposed by strong and influential groups two and three years earlier! If you have and their beneficiaries as required of the and committees. As you will see they are that Reader's Digest and back copies of VA by law. not entirely agreed among themselves. On your Legion Magazine, see Clarence It would have been a swindle if the the other hand there is danger of a con- Woodbury's That VA Insurance Muddle money had not been paid. certed attack on veterans among them — (June 1947) and Robert B. Pitkin's In- This is not spending, it is disbursing or just as the New Deal and the Economy surance Is Like Love (June 1948) and paying out, as a bank teller pays when a League (strange bedfellows) ganged up see how many skeletons Mr. Stevenson client makes a withdrawal. And it is the on the veteran in 1933. dragged out of the closet in March 1949, cost of war — in payment for services In 1933 the Economy Act closed Army long after The American Legion Maga- which veterans have already rendered in and Navy hospitals to veterans, and threw zine had reported VA progress in cor- full. them out in the streets. recting Mr. Stevenson's nightmares. A little less than one billion doUai's re- Last April the Armed Forces Medical On page 61 of the March Reader's mains to be accounted for. Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Digest Mr. Stevenson said that the VA The VA spent that. Defense, headed by Charles P. Cooper, recommended that Army and Navy hos- pitals reduce or eliminate care of vet- erans. Cooper is connected with Presby- terian Hospital in New York. The Hoover Commission has recom- mended that VA hospitals cease to exist as such, but that a general Federal hospital system be set up to absorb disabled vet- erans along with other Government bene- ficiaries. This suggestion is supposed to provide economy and be beneficial to veterans. It should be noted that the Hoover Commission investigators did not avail themselves of the advice and experience of those in the Legion who have special- ized in rehabilitation problems of veterans for thirty years. They wanted a "fresh" look at the situation. One of the few acts affecting veterans which Congress ever passed without giving us a hearing was the Economy Act of 1933, which is also one of the few acts affecting veterans which was so wrong that Congress had to eat it piece by piece. Regarding the recommendation of the Hoover Commission on eliminating hos- pitals from VA, I will state categorically J that it is the experience of The American Legion and of the United States Govern- (Continued on paae 60) j

• The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 BOOKS FOR VETERANS

DOORS TO SUCCESS ceived in the meantime a sample set from printer which he showed to the men The very housing shortage which the in his outfit. These caught on immedi- plagued ex-GI Harry Stevens and his ately with his buddies. friend, Hank Thuet, gave them an idea Three days after his first shipment ar- which has now developed into a booming rived, Dow was ordered home for dis- business in Long Beach, Calif. charge. But in those three days before Looking for houses themselves, they sailing he sold out his entire shipment. saw small homes springing up in every Encouraged by his first successful at- direction and reasoned that there would tempt, Dow returned to his home-town be a market for garage doors to be sold and began plotting a campaign for putting to contractors as single units. The kind HUNTIN' GUN By Walter R. Rodgers his business venture before other GI's. of garage doors they had in mind would He had three separate sets of the stickers Hunting and shooting stories of the Southwest be made of lightweight, durable material, — told with humor and common sense in the printed, a set repi"esenting each of the such as aluminum, light enough even for Southwestern lingo. Pacific and European theatres, and a third a child to raise or lower. Walter Rodgers also presents his "gun feel" covering the United States. There are 30 For a trade name they chose a natural theory, of learning the habits of your gun and stickers in the sets dealing with Europe — Alumi-Door. shooting instinctively to achieve ballistic impos- and the Pacific, while the U. S. set has 48, sibilities. Beginning in a ramshackle garage with one for each state. Sets sell for $1.00 each. The funniest, most exciting, true stories you'll only shoestring capital, the ex-GI and his With his small Army savings Dow be- ever read. $3.50 partner at first turned out only two doors gan advertising in small servicemen's a week. But the growing demand for THE GUN DIGEST publications. The response shows signs Alumi-Doors called for larger-scale pro- An authentic guide to American and foreign of becoming as enthusiastic as it was in duction, so they adopted an assembly- rifles, shotguns, pistols, revolvers and accessories, the South Pacific. line method of operation, and by using written by seventeen eminent gun authorities. And with a prospective market of panels of prime-coated Kaiser Aluminum $1.50 15,000,000 ex-globe-ti-otting servicemen, Clapboard Siding, which has a pre- Dow, who operates his business at 21-A FISHING TACKLE DIGEST formed locking joint and pre-punched School St., Hanover, N. H., is going into An authoritative guide to popular rods, reels, nail holes, they were able to cut their larger-scale production. lures and accessories, plus articles by Americo's construction time by two-thirds. — By Ellen Bartlett most famous fishing experts on selection, use With orders increasing, the Stevens- and care of tackle. $1.50 Thuet Construction Company soon out- BAIT LURES grew its small garage and moved to larger For fishermen who take their sport ATOMSK By Carmichael Smith quarters in the industrial area of Long seriously, C. B. Shuman of 3 Green Ter- Adventure, espionage, mystery— the story of o Beach where they are located today at race, Kent, Ohio, has made a success of U. S. Army spy in the possibly mythical and 2165 Cowles St. a moulding kit which permits them to secret Russian city of Atomsk. As real as the Stevens and Thuet, with the help of make their own fishing lures. world's nightmares and as realistic as the morn- ing headlines. $2.50 15 assistants, now turn out 50 garage doors Shortly after WW2 Shuman, a veteran every eight-hour working day. They use with three service-connected disabilities, NEW UNIT HISTORIES conceived the idea of moulding from rub- 65 base feet of aluminum, weighing only Uth Armored Di» $5.00 2nd Morinc Div $6.00 52 pounds for each door — one -third the ber exact copies of different kinds of fish- 45lh Infantry Div $5.00 506th Porothute Regt..$3.00

76tli Infontry Div $5.00 442nd Combat Team . $5. ing bait. He started with a frog. The 00 weight of the average wood garage door. 84lli Infontry Div $5.00 727lh Roilrood Bott...$5.00 A single door sells for $48, a double door finished product was so life-like that it 85th Infantry Div $5.00 9th Marine Regt $5.00 not only fooled the fish, but fishermen. for $78, including delivery, installation, Write us for complete free list of unit histories hardware and painting. The doors are Next Shuman and his associates took availoble. many other kinds of bait, such as cray- covered by a three-year guarantee, and THE AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE are approved by the fish, grubs, hellgrammites and insects, FHA. 1608 K St., N. W. Washington 6, D.C. Alumi-Doors are sold to contractors and from them made rubber facsimiles. — — ——— — _— by distributors throughout United A kit was devised which contained the Order NOW: Cash or C. O. D. States, and can be shipped to private materials, moulds and instructions with which an angler can his flies AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE builders as well. _ By M. D. Brown make own and plugs. With this kit, using only scis- 1608 K St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. FOR GLOBE TROTTERS sors and a pocket knife, a person can Gentlemen: The fabulous Kilroy saw more of the make more than 100 flies plus the moulded Please send me the books indicated. world than any ten GI's during the war, bait. Since no artificial heat is needed to I enclose $ Send C.O.D. but an ex-Army sergeant has come up cure the rubber, all the angler has to do with an idea that is giving him plenty of is pour the rubber into the mould, let it competition. dry, then mount a specially prepared When Harry Dow of Hanover, N. H., hook, and get ready for the first "sucker." was serving in the South Pacific he first The kit sells for $2.75 postpaid. got the idea of souvenir stickers — labels Because of their wide appeal to fishing on which would be printed the of enthusiasts, the names moulded bugs have been Name (please print) the "most visited" places in the world by recommended by many sports editors in GI's, and which could be used on luggage, their publication. Shuman has started ad- Street in albums and sci'apbooks, and at conven- vertising on a larger scale and expects to tions. Sending back home for 20,000 stick- enlarge his working staff with veterans. City Zone Stole JULY/49 ers like those he had in mind, Dow re- — By Lois O'Keefe

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 • (Co7itinued from page 58) for the lone veteran to find his way chiatric out-patient treatment at VA ment and of every State in the Union and through the bureaucratic maze, exactly clinics. Many of these are service-con- of thousands of veterans that the disabled as it did until 1921. Yet every group which nected and clearly entitled to have the veteran too often suffers when he is is jealous of the VA's function and of the high type of care the VA clinics provide treated in a non-veteran hospital. VA's appropriation (which is really the — but enough of it isn't available. It is also the experience of The Ameri- veterans" appropriation) uses the vet- That is the great problem of veterans' can Legion and of thousands of veterans erans' difficulties with the VA as its ex- medicine today. It is no time to be crying and many VA employees that there is al- cuse to bid for part of the VA function economy. The earliest possible relief for ready too much red tape confronting the and a chunk of the VA appropriation. these seriously ill veterans and non-vet- veteran who is eligible under law for VA The most serious problem we face today erans would be to complete the building hospitalization. Removal of VA hospitals in veterans' medicine is the task of get- and staffing of the new VA hospitals. to a brand new bureau will throw another ting adequate care for seriously ill vet- Ninety such hospitals were authorized by wall of expensive paper work, inter-office erans, and of saving them from the pres- Congress as long ago as 1944. Only three memoranda and bureaucrats between the ent plight of patients in non-veteran tax- of them have been completed, although sick veteran and his hospital bed. supported hospitals. Under the watchful the veteran population has increased over Amazingly, the Hoover Commission's eye of the Veterans Administration and 15 million. recommendation would be a reversal of The American Legion, the existing VA Completion of this program would care history if carried out. Until 1921 veterans hospitals are the finest tax-supported for the veterans and take them out of were hospitalized by the U. S. Public hospitals in the world today. But there competition with the civilians for civilian Health Service. The VA hospitals came are not enough of them, and meanwhile hospital bed-space. Physicians and hos- into existence because a special commit- our state and county mental, tuberculo- pitals across the country should join with tee under former Vice-President of the sis and general hospitals are in a shame- us in a gigantic effort to solve the prob- in- ful United States Charles G. Dawes, and state and packed to the rafters. Many lem of the tubercular, the chronically ill, cluding John L. Lewis, found that the of them are 40 to 100 percent over- the phychoneurotic and the insane. I am Public Health Service set-up was unsat- crowded. Usual conditions are so pitiful not able to report they have been doing isfactory and recommended that for the that the patients are often housed and so. Many, many private doctors are ex- relief of the veteran he have his own confined rather than treated. pressing real concern. Some of the finest hospitals. The Veterans Administration Among these pathetic patients in state physicians and surgeons in the nation are itself came into existence on advice of institutions are many hundreds of vet- giving their services to VA hospitals and the same committee because the handling erans who are entitled to VA hospitaliza- clinics. But I beg them to look to their of veterans' benefits by many Govern- tion but cannot get it because enough VA organizations, for here are the things ment bureaus was found to be wasteful, beds and staff are not available. Outside which organized hospital and medical unnecessarily complex and injurious to of all hospitals there are still more insane, men have been pressing before Congress! the proper handling of the benefits psychoneurotic, tubercular and chroni- The American Hospital Association has awarded veterans Congress. cally ill veterans and civilians waiting for by proposed a plan whereby some non-serv- In the years since 1921 The American accommodations to care for them. Jails ice-connected disabled veterans be Legion has often criticized the VA, and are holding some of the insane veterans dropped from VA hospitals. Under this will do so again, because of difficulties for whom no beds are available. Children, plan "non-service-connected" veterans veterans have had with red wives and husbands of tubei'cular vet- many VA would carry health-insurance policies tape. The American Legion warns erans (and non-veterans) are sickening But with the VA on which the veterans or veterans that any attempt to these and often dying from tuberculosis con- use the VA would pay the premiums. Follow difficulties as an excuse for parceling out tracted from the tubercular living at this closely. Such veterans would then be the functions to other home. Psychoneurotic veterans VA's Government wander treated in local hospitals when in need bureaus can have only the most disas- from private psychiatrist to private psy- of care. The hospitals and the attending trous results. It would simply multiply chiatrist for treatment, spending their physicians would receive fees to be paid the factoi-s which already make it difficult money — for lack of sufficient psy- own out of the health-insurance fund which THE PLAN OF ATTACK ON VETERANS' BENEFITS they propose. Under such a system, they say, the VA hospital program could be greatly reduced and the money saved could he passed on by the Federal Gov- ernment to the AHA hospitals. Maybe that looks all right to you. But stay with me, please. There are some shocking things wrong with it. First, there is the technical problem of what disabili- ties are non-service-connected. In spite of many published statements to the con- trary on the propaganda front against vet- erans, a non -service- connected veteran is simply one whose disability has not yet been determined to be service-connected. Service-connection is established as part of the veteran's claim, usually about the time he needs hospitalization—often after he is in. Can you imagine the red tape and confusion of a vast health insurance pro- gram to be carried by veterans or the Government for many years, in which the insured will not know whether the policy applies to him until he is already sick? Under this sweet plan the sick veteran will not even know which hospital to enter, private or VA. until the question of service-connection has been settled! It cannot be settled until after the nature of the disability is known and related to the veteran's military medical record. Many a vetei'an has already died while his treat- ment was being held up pending paper gQ • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 work. 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OR NO COST!—Try Dr. Barron's GENU- The way to solve the hospital crisis in tal program and urged that funds for it INE Foot Cushions for l shocks, help support weak ai-ches. Light, spongy. LIKE WALKING ON A PIL- is no in the Speaking for the York was lated, Paul. There economy AHA New AHA LOW! Wear in any shoes. Dr. Barron says: "Re- v.'S tirea. aching' feet from heel to toes.'- Send plan for moving some veterans into the John H. Hayes, Superintendent of Lenox ftl.98 for A PAIR, or C.O.D. plus postaKe. State ize and if man or woman. 30-OAV TRIAL GUAR- already crowded private hospitals. Just Hill Hospital and a past president of ANTEE»>Ioney Inu-k if no hlessfd rolitf! 61H, N.Y.C. 25 a transfer of funds from the veterans' AHA. ORTHOf Inc.* 2700 BROADWAY, Dept. program to a different outfit. And thirty Hayes supported the President's cut- years' experience in veterans' rehabili- back of 16,000 VA hospital beds and urged %m IN SPARE TIME tation has consistently shown that treat- the AHA plan as a proper substitute. That's what L. H. Mix did last year! ment of Government beneficiaries in pri- Neither Hayes nor Davis added that of You can make up to .$2 or $3 an hour KharpeuinK saws with the Foley vate hospitals costs the taxpayer more these 16,000 beds whose elimination they Saw Filer. Steady cash business, and serves the Government beneficiary recommended 7,000 would care for in- no canvassing. Start spare time — Free Booti shows how. Write less. sane veterans, over 1,000 would care lor Foley Mfg. (^o., 7.'W-9 Foley Minneapolis IK, Minn. The AHA suggestion is a thankless one, tubercular veterans, and 1,000 would care I'>]iIk., for The American Legion has supported for the chronically ill—none of whom the DESIGNS FOR I the Hill-Burton Act, which approves AHA plan proposes to absorb! COMPLETELY NEW AND | Federal aid for AHA hospitals. The Fortunately others testified at these ORIGINAL WAR MEMORIALS Legion is deeply concerned for the wel- hearings. Included in the hospital cutback AND HONOR ROLL TABLETS fare of community hospitals and state was elimination of a 500-bed tuberculosis hospitals. But our reward for supporting hospital in Detroit. Dr. Bruce Douglas, FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL Federal aid to them is this attempt to Detroit health commissioner, pleaded for IRON CO. take that aid out of the veterans' appro- the restoration of that hospital, and stated DEPT. L MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. priation! that 2,700 new TB beds were needed im- This AHA suggestion has been sup- mediately for the Detroit area. The VA ported by sections and high officials of hospital would aid the Detroit situation the American Medical Association. since it would reduce veteran competition And mai'k this: The AHA plan does not for civilian TB beds. Is ready include any attempt to care for any of Dr. A. M. Lyons, Commissioner of Wel- for the insane, tubercular, psychoneurotic or fare for the State of Kentucky, seconded you chronically ill although it luould take Dr. Douglas' plea. He testified that his NOW* junds already appropriated to care for state institutions were greatly over- them! Their plight is the great national crowded and added: "... I think that the Furnished complete, ready for you and is hospitaliza- problem. The Legion and the VA are left veteran entitled to better your family to live in and travel in. to tussle with it. The AHA plan wants no tion than most of our State hospitals With living room, bedroom, kitchen- dinette lounge. part of it! offer." and But I have just begun. In March of this American Legion service workers from SEND FOR year the Senate Committee on Labor and many States affected by the hospital cut- CIRCUUR Travelite Trailer Co. Public Welfare back also testified. Edward A. Linsky. held hearings on a cutback 4013 Wentworth Avenue Ill of over 16,000 beds in the veterans' hos- Adjutant of the Department of Pennsyl- Chicago 9, Illinois ^

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 ' Q\ vania, reported that an on-the-spot check at that time revealed between 300 and 500 insane veterans confined in Pennsyl- vania jails for safe-keeping and over 4,000 Pennsylvania veterans remaining at home with tuberculosis for lack of hospital beds. Lewis E. Sloneker, Legion rehabilita- tion director for California, stated an im- mediate need of 599 TB beds for veterans ". in California. He added that . . It is doubtful if there is a jail in the State which is not holding one or more vet- erans at this minute, waiting for them to

be transferred to psychopathic wards. . . . In Los Angeles County alone, during 1948, there was a total of 953 veterans with mental disabilities before the courts, only 242;; percent of (whom) were committed to VA hospitals because beds (for the ." rest) were unavailable. . . G. W. Steagall, Director of Veterans Affairs in Tennessee, testified in part: "Veterans are being sent to hospitals every day by doctors in their communi- ties as emergency cases, many times by ambulance, where the veteran is suffering intense pain or with active tuberculosis, only to be told by the admitting officer that he does not meet the requirements Tails, He Lost of the regulations for an emergency case and has to be taken back home and can The medic hneic blood ivas only be put on the waiting list and al- thicker than tvater — and red lowed to suffer and oftentimes become progressively worse because of the delay in obtaining a bed." As the LCI churned through the boxes. Suddenly he felt someone Also from Tennessee was Dr. H. H. shallow off-shore waters, the bat- touch his legs. Glancing over his Shoulders, a past president of the Ameri- teries on the Jap-held island shoulder, he recognized his friend. can Medical Association. Speaking for the opened up. Shrapnel whined over- "Hya, Joey, whatcha doing up Tennessee State Medical Association he head. Salt water spray from near here?" testified in favor of the AHA plan and misses fell on the figures of the 2nd "Take it easy fella. I'll have you in favor of the 16,000 bed cutback in VA Marine Division huddled in the fixed up in no time," replied Joe hospitals. landing craft. PFC Ray Peters sat as he opened his bag. I doubt that many private physicians in one corner, his nervous fingers "Whatcha mean, take it easy? would back up their organizations if they checking and rechecking his equip- Hell, there ain't nothing wrong knew the whole story. Already veterans ment. with me." and the nation owe a great debt of grati- "Get ready to hit," snapped the "Sure, fella, sure. You're o.k." tude to individual physicians, surgeons NCO in charge of the platoon as Hillman, believing Peters was in and medical schools across the country. the small craft made their final ap- shock and unaware of his wound, Since 1946 medical men and medical proach to the beach. Peters rose, hoped he could dress the injury schools have cooperated vmselfishly with adjusted his helmet chin strap, before the pain began. Drawing his the VA, bringing to its existing hospitals glanced once more at his rifle and scissors from the kit, he started their personal services. It is partly as a shuffled forward toward the bow. cutting away the cloth. Ray Peters result of their cooperation that today the Unknown to him, a ships carpenter whirled around as the sharp instru- too-few VA hospitals now operating pro- had painted a rusty spot in the LCI ment gashed through his fatigues. vide the highest level of skilled medical with red lead just before the as- "Damn it, Joey, you nuts or some- care ever known in the Federal service in sault was launched. In the excite- thing? Leave me alone, I'll yell if peacetime. ment of shoving off, Peters had un- I need you." Yet look how the present situation turns wittingly chosen that particular Joe's answer was lost in a fresh and twists. If the recommendation of the spot. A large circular blotch of red burst of gunfire. The second wave Hoover Commission that VA hospitals be lead adorned his posterior. was landing. Fearing his patient handed over to a general Federal hospi- The LCI struck bottom, shud- might be reaching the violent stage, tal bureau is carried out veterans will dered and came to a halt. The land- Hillman cut through the offending probably lose this great contribution of ing ramp dropped. The Marines trousers at a furious clip. No less our outstanding medical specialists. It is waded ashore, raced a few yards furious were Peter's gestures and hardly reasonable that they would be across the sand and dug in. exclamations. At that moment, the willing to contribute the same effort First-Aid Man Joe Hillman, after advance signal was given. toward a central bureau of medicine that digging in, checked his kit of medi- Hillman, clutching a lai'ge patch they have voluntarily and patriotically cal supplies. During a lull in the of blood-red cloth, caught a final given to veterans. Doctors take such a firing, he glanced about to deter- glimpse of Peters dashing into the proposed bureau to be the cornerstone of mine any casualties. Some 20 yards underbrush one hand grasping his socialized medicine in this country — forward, a fellow leatherneck was rifle, the other attempting to draw which they do not want. In this convic- hit. Hillman grabbed his kit, bent some cover of dignity and respect- tion they have a strong ally in The low and sprinted across the gap. ability across his pale white ex- American Legion. Peters peered through the smoky posed backside. The American Legion is opposed to so- haze trying to locate the Jap pill- Jack R. By Cody cialized medicine if only because of the experience we had with it in the VA prior to 1946. We certainly will not be a party to restoring bureaucratic medi- g2 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 cine in VA hospitals. In the interest of the coming year. This cut would work of having no funds with which to pay the veteran and of the American standard serious damage to the ability of the VA such staff. of medical leadership we align ourselves to serve veterans in nearly all phases of All through the winter and spring The with the doctors on this matter. And yet its operation. One result of an 11,000-man American Legion has been combatting we find ourselves at war with doctors or- cutback in VA would be that for finan- these continuous assaults on the success- ganizations over their grab for the VA cial reasons alone the VA would be un- ful operation of the Veterans Administra- appropriation. It is an odd and complex able to staff those new hospital beds tion. Our paid Rehabilitation staff, our situation—and a dangerous one for vet- which it will be able to open in the com- Legislative staff, and many of our volun- erans and doctors and the general public. ing year. tary committeemen have given the bulk While this article is on the press Legion In April the House of Representatives of their time to these problems. Congress committees will be meeting with repre- Appropriations Committee took a favor- and its committees have heard our rep- sentatives of the American Hospital As- able attitude toward the VA hospital pro- resentatives fairly, and they have heard sociation and the American Medical As- gram, and recommended to the House many of our opponents. sociation to try to resolve their attacks on that funds be restored to continue con- Perhaps when you read this the battle the pi-oper care of veterans, and to try struction. And then, at the same time, the of Congress this year may have been won. House Appropriations Committee recom- But the economy front, the propaganda mended an additional reduction of $28,- front and the give us the veterans' money 000,000 in the VA operating budget which fronts are still busy. They are working on may mean 9,000 more VA employees will your mind, working on your legislature, have to be laid off! and working in secret to gain their ends. We need the hospitals desperately. The In 1933 we were less than a million nation needs them. But they are no good Legionnaires. I thank God that we are without staff. The VA has its work cut now three million and I pray for three out to find the proper staff for the beds million more, for I believe the battle has as they are opened.To this difficult task just begun and it will call for our full must not be added the hopeless prospect and united strength. the end

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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1949 • REVELATION A youngster attending church for the first time was surprised to see the people around her kneel suddenly, and asked her mother the reason. "Hush!" her mother whispered. "They're saying their prayers." "What!" exclaimed the little girl. "With Men dream of smooth white fingers all their clothes on?" Running softly through their hair. — By Henry A. Courtney And a subtle scent that liyigers — From a first class barber chair! HE'LL LEARN — By S. Omar Barker Wo man is born YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING A woman-hater: If he marries. his patient The doctor had examined later. lar, all it doesn't say which That comes wife right. You see, and had then asked to see the man's — Sidney R. Baron end. Furthermore, it doesn't explain that By alone. He offered her a chair and bluntly it's not actually the third flower pot but stated: "I don't like the looks of your LOOK IN THE FIELD MANUAL the fourth, because you don't count the husband, Madam." end one. And one more thing — the note The new recruits were a sad-looking She apologized: "Neither do I, doctor, doesn't tell how far the key is under — bunch and the lieutenant and sergeant but he's good to our children." itself, under were obviously disappointed with what — By Albert Kelley whether under the flower pot the saucer in which the flower pot sits, or they saw. One rookie in particular, a tall, SEASONAL NOTE under the ledge that the flower pot and anemic youth, was a matter for much saucer are on. conjecture. Oh, Summer is the time of the year But just suppose the burglar is a clever "Tell you what. Sergeant," said the That simply can't be beat, fellow, and manages to figure the thing lieutenant finally, "let him clean the And I'd be wild about it, if out. Well, my wife is an extremely smart rifles." It weren't the heat. for woman. Another thing her note doesn't "Okay," agreed the sergeant wearily, By F. G. Kernan tell is which key it is! Since it's hidden in "but who's gonna pull him through?" front, any burglar would think it's the — By Francis Gerard KEY NOTE key to the front door, but it's every bit GRASS When I come home and the door is as likely to be the key to the back door, locked, I expect to find a note under the or to the garage. Imagine the burglar's A lot of toil little wii'e clip on the mailbox. If it isn't embarrassment! It takes to grow it: there, I look in the geranium bed under- As a matter of fact, I think a burglar You till the soil neath, where it probably has fallen. Writ- would waste a lot of valuable time with And then you sow it; ten with the stub of a pencil on the back my wife's note. By the time he got back You water it well, of an old envelope or on a jagged piece to his original plan of unscrewing the And before you know it, of brown wrapping paper, it usually runs hinges or using his blowtorch, it would It grows like hell. something like this: "Key is under third probably be too late to go ahead. And you have to mow it! flower pot from end." As for myself, I usually enter by the — By Burge Buzzelle I'll admit I used to think this was pretty side door. That's the one my wife leaves silly. Surely a burglar could read the note THE LIMIT ^P^"^' — By Richard Armour as well as I, unless he was completely il- In Birmingham, Alabama, they tell of literate or had forgotten his glasses. I old fellow used to make his wife BANK NOTE an who could see him sneering at us simpletons keep a cash account. Each Saturday he as he fished out the key and turned it in Most banks will gladly grant a loan; would examine it, mumbling and grum- the lock. But I've learned that my wife's In fact, they often speed it; bling to himself. On one such occasion, instructions to me are really quite safe. The only thing that they require he summoned his wife: Observe that the note says "third flower Is proof that you don't need it. "Look here, Pauline," he stormed, "this pot from end." That would fool the burg- — By Philip Lazarus extravagance has got to stop!" He ran his finger down the column: "Headache ********* ******, powders, 15 cents; two teeth pulled, $3.00; *** new cord for the electric iron, 75 cents. There's $3.90 in one week spent for your own private pleasure. Do you think I'm made of money?" — By Webb B. Garrison

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/ rose and gave her the seat, I cordd not let her stand; She made me think of my mother, With the strap there in her hand. — By Charles V. Mathis

"AS THE TWIG IS BENT" A boy grows straight as a sapling tree, If occasionally bent over father's knee! — By Emily I. Alleman

SCANTY SHANTY In seeking a home It rouses my wrath When all I can find you got in the bank?" jf- "How much money have Is two rooms and path. ^ — By Tom Hunt

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