The American Legion Magazine [Volume 50, No. 6 (June 1951)]

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Contents for June 1051 The ship on this month's cover is the American Export THE MAN WHO DESERVED DEATH (fiction) Line's new Indepen- BY JEREMY H. GRIFFITH dence. Together with 11 her sister ship the The General knew the traitor was on his own staff. Constitution, she is an important addition to the American Mer- THE NEGRO chant Marine. Now on WHY WON'T BUY COMMUNISM passenger runs to BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON 14 Europe and the Medi- terranean, the Inde- The reds can't understand why Negroes shy from Stalin's slavery. "THE HOUSE THAT pendence is so designed that conversion to a troop carrier can FAITH BUILT" be quickly made. THE GREATEST COWBOY OF THEM ALL BY GENE AUTRY 16 Here is a dramatic, narrative POSTMASTER: Please story of free enterprise and send copies returned Was it Bronco Billy, Will Rogers, Tom Mix or who? under labels Form 3579 opportunity in America . . . to Post Office Box the founding, early growth and 1055, Indianapolis 6, TWO DEAD, TWO INJURED recent history of the House Indiana. BY IRENE CORBALLY KUHN 18 of Anheuser-Busch, where Budweiser beer and other world- The inside story of a true-life tragedy. famous products are made. It The American Legion Magazine is the official also m is the romantic story of publication of The Ameri- HELICOPTERS FOR HIRE young Adolphus Busch, and of can Legion and is owned BY BOB GILMORE - 20 his vision and determination. exclusively by The Ameri- can Legion. Copyright If you want to get into a wacky business, this is it. Well-known Hollywood cast; 1951. Published monthly running time, 39 minutes; re- ot 1100 W. Broadway, quires 16mm. sound projector. Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for mailing at special rate MIAMI ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC., ST. LOUIS of postage provided for in BY PAUL GREEN 22 Section 1 103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. Don't make any vacation plans till you've read this. 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered as WHERE ARE THE CARTOONISTS OF WW II? second class matter June 30, 1948, at the Post Concerning the pen-and-ink fellows who made you laugh. Office at Louisville, Ky., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Non-member sub- WHAT DO YOU THINK WE ARE FIGHTING FOR? scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Depart- BY RABBI DAVID LEFKOWITZ, JR 28 ment of The American Our National Chaplain answers our doubts and fears. Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. EXECUTIVE AND mmnam . . . 29-36 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Indianapolis 6, Indiana Features EDITORIAL AND SOUND OFF! 4 NEWSLETTER 37 ADVERTISING THE EDITORS' CORNER 6 VETS WITH IDEAS 5 1 580 Fifth Avenue PRODUCTS PARADE 8 PARTING SHOTS 64 New York 19, N. Y.

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WHAT CAN BE DONE? friend who is the assistant manager at that store. He explained how they had Sir: I would like to know is there any been working like ants in 'a honeycomb to justice for our reserves? What can be get the prices all changed before the "big done and who can do it? My husband was freeze." The government dallied around overseas 34 months last time. He wasn't until everyone had time to raise prices as home five years when he was recalled. high as they dared, and then froze them We have our own home and two children, at that level. Burton K. Davis one four years and one eight months. He Atlanta, Ga. is on his way to Korea now and God only knows how long he will be gone this time. But Mr. Davis will have to admit that Surely there must be single men who the government has rolled back the price were not overseas last time, who could of soap chips a penny a box. Editors replace these married men with families. Mrs. J. R. Deily MYSTERY DEPT. Pittsburgh, Pa. Sir: Can anyone explain to me just what Surely there are single men who took kind of lottery or ouija board system is no part in the last war. Meanwhile, Mrs. being used to get men into uniform? If Deily's husband and many others like a man volunteers they'll take him. Some- him are required to take up arms again. times. But sometimes they won't and then Possibly if the war lasts long enough the he can't get a job because of his uncertain people in Washington will get around to draft status. One day we read that mil- the questions raised by Mrs. Deily. lions of men are required at once. The Editors next day we read that draft quotas are being cut in half. Yet, the same newspaper tells us that G.I.'s in Korea can look to no rotation because sufficient replace- ments aren't available. Look up or down any street and you'll see a lot of husky young fellows, too young to have been in WW2 but old enough for service now. At the same time, on almost any street you'll ANYONE CAN MAKE COFFEE find a home broken up because the father, . . . imported from England a WW2 vet, was called back into service. Sir: Your article on making coffee in the . . . shown actual size Now they are planning to insulate col- March issue makes me see red. It is in- lege students from the unpleasantness of Quartette is small-sized piece of engi- The a sulting to anyone who has made a pot of lower I.Q.'s serve as G.I.'s. You'll have fun war. Let the neering that you'll respectl coffee every day for more than sixty Well, it doesn't take a college degree to using it on the most practical writing jobs. years. To be telling them how to make a understand where the blame lies. You're writing in red and want to switch to cup of coffee now! Everyone is aware of Sam G. Wingfield black (who doesn't?) . . . one thumb-flick the fact that the coffee we are now getting New York City and you are writing in black. One motion is not fit to drink—except this Kitty York. the first lead is zipped back, stored, and the and So let Kitty York find out why we are Army Times recently published alternate color is in placel Rhodium-plated the unable to get the old brands of coffee estimate that under our present system leads. Set: pencil and 12 case; uses standard we had up to and during World War One. (?) the chance of a man of military age leads.— 3 red, blue, block, green, $3.95. 12 The whole country would like a good cup being called for service was a slim 1-in- First Floor extra leads, 25< Stationery— of coffee, but even the dumbest of the 10. Editors dumb never had to have a college edu- to to make a good cup MARSHALL FIELD t COMPANY cation know how Box 8500 Chicago 60, IlllnoU of coffee. Harriet Mack Please send me the foil owing: Gree?iinlle, N. H.

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54 UA 2, Extra leads (12) 23< Sir: In January the U. S. Government pulled one of the dumbest acts known to FIRECRACKERS MIGHT BE BETTER Postage, Set and/or 12 leads. 13? mankind. It publicized the fact that it was going to freeze wages and prices within Sir: Since we are so afraid we might ir- Klnm* a very short time. This gave everyone ritate Russia or China, wouldn't it be a KAAwMmm time to act. "Eye-brows" and the coal good idea to use blank cartridges in operators got together in less time than Korea? We've made it clear to them that City 7nn» State are not going to cross the Yalu River Charge C.O.D. Check or Money Order it takes an army rumor to circulate we so the use of Please include 2% Illinois Retailers' tax on pur- among recruits. In Atlanta I went to a or use the atomic bomb, chases to be delivered in Illinois. Add postage for super-market on January 25th to see a blank cartridges would also be a great delivery outside our delivery zone. 4-AL-51 ^ • The American Logion Magazine • June, 1951 relief to them. Anyway, this suggestion beat-up instruments and a shortage of is as sensible as some of the diplomacy popular American sheet music. I came up we are using. Some countries train their with the idea that a little space in our statesmen. We elect ours. swell magazine might persuade some of J. O. Mitchell our comrades to send along some instru- Baton Rouge, La. ments or music they might have lying around. It would be a wonderful thing SORE AT STRIKERS for our Turkish friends and hard fighting U.N. allies. Needed are a piano accordion, Sir: When are the American people going a bass drum, a tomtom, an alto sax, tenor to realize that nine -tenths of the strikes sax, bass sax, two trumpets, two snare called in this country for the past twenty drums and three clarinets. This is a large years have either been directed by com- order but over here filling large orders munists or exploited by communists for is the order of the day, and the Turks their own ends? Just how loyal is any really are fighting men and really put American who engages in work stoppages out when the chips are down. The Turkish at this time? non-com to whom any music or instru- L. R. Robinson ments should be sent is Sgt. Fevzi Be- Sackets Harbor, N. Y. ceren, Turkish Band, First Turk. Armed Forces Command, APO 5401, Korea. Sgt. Henry C. Davis Suwon, Korea

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MAIL FOR THE QUEENS ARMS Sir: I used to get The American Legion Magazine and promptly into the basket Sir: I recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Hig- it would go as I did not care to read about gins of the Queens Arms Pub at Bermond- whether Bill Jones was a better crap- sey, whose letter you published in the shooter than Joe Smith. I am not inter- February issue. Stacks and stacks of mail ested in reading such things, but of late I they've received from writers all over do read the magazine for the benefit I get the good old U.S.A., and more are coming out of the stories. I hope you continue to in! The pub is one of the cleanest I've print material that the whole family can seen anywhere. It's a century and a half read and enjoy. Emory C. Williams old; a quaint and charming little tavern. Marietta, Ga. But surrounding it is devastation—areas flattened by enemy bombs, scarred buildings and hollow houses—Bermondsey cer- THE VACANCIES ARE ELSEWHERE tainly got a beating from Jerry. Sir: In your March issue on page 37 you (Miss) Bobbie Vernon say the V.A. is facing a serious shortage London, England in its medical staff. I have offered my services. Quoting from a letter from the PITY THE POOR HOODLUMS TOO! V.A. "There is a nation wide shortage of qualified physicians for V.A. facilities, but Sir: Your article Pity the Poor Prole- the vacancies are generally to be found tariat! showing the lush homes owned by in the more isolated locations rather than commies and fellow travelers is one of the in the populated areas." The two state- best you've published in a long time. ments fail to make sense to me. Could you in the near future publish two Lloyd A. Burrows, M.D. or more pages showing pictures of the Anaheim, Cal'ijornia palatial homes of such wealthy characters as "Bottles" Capone, "Willie" Moretti, "Tony" Accardo, "Bugsy" Siegel, Frank Erickson, Joe Adonis, Mickey Cohen, "Scarface" DiGiovanni and Frank Cos- tello? A Veteran Moscow, Idaho Hoodlums run the reds a close second as a menace to this country, and we are not overlooking them. However, we still DRAFT BOARDS have a lot of unused pictures of mansions Sir: We had a better draft system in owned by Stalin-lovers, and we think WW1 than we had in WW2, when some boards our readers are interested in the living abused their deferment powers. Men were conditions of certain people who are supported by your movie money, by money given deferments for jobs which required only a few hours' training, while married you spend for the goods of various radio men with families in their late 30's had and TV sponsors, etc. Editors to go. Why? One reason was the granting of deferments to men working in plants URGENTLY NEEDED FOR KOREA! that were hoarding manpower. General Sir: Into our company and various other Hershey was notified of such conditions, units comes a real ray of sunshine on but complaints were often routed back fairly frequent occasions — a group of to the draft boards in question, and the Turkish soldiers who have formed a band person who made the complaint was told which plays American swing music like to mind his own business. Member Penn. Grade Crude Oil Assn., Permit No. 2 they've never played anything in their A. T. Raczkowski lives. However, they have a problem — Plantsville, Conn. PINNZOIl' MOTOR Oil AND LUBRICANTS

AT BITTIR OIALIRS . . . COAST TO COAST The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 • 5 ©000000' TOUGHER! 00OOOO WASHINGTON, DEAR WASHINGTON

It's easy to see why our nation's capital is such a busy place. Not long ago we got a letter from Executive Office of the Pres- ident, National Security Resources Board. Seems that the NSRB was interested in obtaining a copy of the March issue of The American Legion Magazine, and this letter was a requisition for it. But not quite a requisition. We were being asked to submit a bid to NSRB. On both pages of the requisition was a rubber-stamped box where it was necessary for us to in- form Washington whether we as bidders employed more than 500 people or less than 500. And it was made plain that this was not an order; they just wanted our bid. Not having more than 500 employees around this office, and therefore not equipped to cope with the well-staffed NSRB, we've decided not to enter any bid. We're just sending the folks in the Executive Office of the President, Na- tional Security Resources Board, a copy of the March issue with our compliments. On the cover they'll find that the price is 15c and we don't intend to cut the price. (Might get in trouble with the OPS if we did.) They can have it.

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In view of an almost stock phrase that we keep reading in the papers, it wouldn't surprise us to find, any day now, the following statement by Josef Stalin: "I am not a communist, have never been a communist and don't believe in communism. Furthermore I don't know any communists and I wouldn't know a communist if I saw one. Also, I have never had any connection with any communist front organizations nor have I ever contributed to such organizations. g • The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 If anyone says otherwise he's a warmon- gering, reactionary fascist and a tool of Wall Street, and I'll prosecute him to the full extent of the law." And come to think of it, he'd probably win a verdict. We can't prove Joe has a Party card.

STOP THIEF!

That's the cry of the crook who has just pulled a job, to get people to look the other way. Using the same gag, those master swindlers, the commies, keep yap- ping "witch hunters, red baiters, reac- tionaries, tools of Wall Street" at people they don't like. Which includes The American Legion Magazine. Of course. Also, so what? What is wrong with hunting out these witches and sons of witches? Why shouldn't they be baited, as they are baiting our soldiers in Korea? Cer- tainly, we intend to keep hunting them and baiting them, that being our reaction to their skulduggery. NEW LIGHT ON "WAR TWO LIVER" A MILLION PEOPLE If you are one of the many vets who suffered "mysterious" liver disease in a have put their money in War Two which you could not, in the past, get the VA to recognize as a service- the Bell Telephone business connected ailment, it might be well to see the Legion Rehabilitation Officer at your nearest VA Regional Office now. VA now recognizes that cases of chronic Today, for the first time in the history of the hepatitis, sometimes followed by severe United States, a company is owned by a million liver complications, occurred in consider- people. The American Telephone and Telegraph able numbers during War Two without Company has reached that mark. No other the jaundice that is the usual earmark of company has half as many owners. hepatitis. As a result, many cases of hepatitis in service went unrecognized. These million men and women owners live Some such cases are now traceable to in 19,000 communities throughout the United certain early batches of yellow fever in- are in cities, towns and on farms oculations. Where hepatitis complications States. They (including cirrhosis of the liver) are and from all walks of life. found in a man who was inoculated with Most of them are small stockholders. More certain lots of armed forces yellow fever half are women. Over 350,000 have held serum, VA may now grant service con- than nection. their stock for ten years or longer. Some 200,000 Your Legion Rehab Officer knows the are telephone employees and thousands more kind of evidence needed to establish a are buying the stock under the Employee Stock claim. Refer him to Rehab Memo — Cir- Plan. About one family in every forty-five in cular 16,1951. the United States is now an owner of A. T. & T.

WAR MOVIES You can see that many, many people have a Somehow it seems as though Hollywood stake in the telephone business. It's their savings is showing more interest in the war. that have helped to give this country the most World War II, that is. Probably on the and the best telephone service in the world. Im- theory that people didn't want to hear about war, there were few war pictures portant in peace, the telephone is vital in time for a long time after Germany and Japan of national emergency. surrendered. But lately things have been different. To recall a few at random, there was "Twelve O'Clock High" in which the BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Air Force was featured, the leathernecks were starred in "Halls of Montezuma," the doughfeet were portrayed in "Up Front," and "Breakthrough," and the airborne in "Battleground." Now we're glad to note that another distinguished group of fighters is getting a break in a new film. These fighting men, and there were none better, are the Nisei volunteers of the 442nd who fought through the bloody Italian campaign, and who had a 300 percent casualty record in four months. The movie telling of their exploits, "Go For Broke!", is being presented by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer.

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You went for "BATTLEGROUND!., and... General MacDonald was sure that the command

Before you reach the end of my tale you Division finally made camp on the west bank will understand why the identities of of the Mekong, I felt so tired I was numb. the persons concerned must be care- Our "Old Man," Major General Donald Mac- fully concealed, and why even the names Donald, looked fresher than any of the staff, of places must be disguised. The General though God knows he had been pushing sent in a report that listed the man involved himself without mercy. He had done a mas- "killed in action," and some pretty fine as terly job of getting us over the river. Thirty well as important people would feel crushed minutes longer would have been too late. if I told you his name. But I can tell you the We had been taking a steady beating for truth of the affair even with pseudonyms six days. The enemy commander, I thought, and an altered background, and that is what must be another Napoleon. He seemed al- you will get. Perhaps some day, when all ways to guess exactly what we would do concerned are dead, an enterprising re- next. He had been flanking us now for a searcher will dig it out, names and all. But week with uncanny precision, as well as tak- even so he could add only the trimmings. I ing some of us daily in murderous traps. He can give you the essential story now, for wouldn't stand and fight, even though he I was there. outnumbered us, but whittled us down a little When, after dark, what was left of our every day, and daily he pushed us back. I HEARD someone stumbling near me. A figure passed within fifteen feet. It was Wood. (continued) depleted staff. He had come up about The Man Who Deserved Death a month before, and none of us knew him very well. He was a shy, tall boy of about twenty-seven. He always did I knew enough of the strategic pic- dead serious now. His uniform was exactly as he was told, and did it well, ture to see that if our force could be torn, and my mind went back to the though he was so painfully conscien- put out of action, our side's whole impeccably dressed man he used to tious it made him — and us — nervous campaign would crumble. It might be at home, when he was the bonvi- most of the time. mean even worse things than that. vant and best raconteur of the old General MacDonald pointed with a After we had eaten our cold rations, Division. pencil to a spot on the map, and went the staff assembled in the native shack Colonel Derrick, Chief of Staff, stood on grimly: we were using as Headquarters. Our at the General's right. He was a mar- "This, gentlemen, is our present po- position was blacked out, of course, tinet, stiff as a ramrod inside and out, sition. You all know where we were and on my way to the meeting I and the rest of us hated his guts. But this morning." His jaw was grim and stepped around or over men spent to we had to admit he was good. his voice matched it. He had a right the point of exhaustion sleeping where At the General's left was Captain to be grim. "Our position is defensively they could under trees or in the long Hilliard, even now in his chronic strong — for tonight only. The enemy green grass. The summer night was devil-may-care mood. He was what can cross the river above or below. soft, and the constellations overhead used to be called a "dashing young Two lines of retreat are open. We can shone with a misty brightness. I officer." He had an eye for the ladies proceed by this northern road — if one paused for a moment to watch them, as — any ladies — and the feeling was could call it a road — or by this — to the I suppose men have always done when usually mutual. He wasn't a man's south. They rejoin — there." He traced their own troubles seem too big for man, yet it was impossible not to like two lines on the map while we bent them. In that moment war seemed him, even if he was so damned hand- over to look. "The north road is less incredible and distant, except for the some. He was our communications open to flanking — unless the enemy occasional flat crack of a sniper's rifle. officer. guesses our intention and moves to- I was the last one in. General Mac- Lieutenant Wood was the last of the night. We shall take that risk. We move Donald and the other four surviving of the staff, stood around a table, THE GENERAL was grim as he traced two lines on the map and explained the risk. studying a map spread on it in the light of an electric lantern. I thought of the others who had been there this time last week: Roberts, Wetzel and Kramer were lying quietly somewhere tonight. I wondered why almost everybody imagines that staff officers have a snap. As I came in, the Old Man nodded briefly without looking up, "Good evening, Captain Maclan." I joined the group around the table. Beside me was Major Nevers, his left hand in a dirty bandage, still a little fat, but a good campaigner. His face was placid, but his eyes, which usually crinkled humorously, were

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on the north road in the morning, at ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT week has been. Tonight our situation 0600. Are there questions?" is precarious. Tomorrow it may be There were, a few. But they were They don't engage us, they just keep desperate." routine queries only. The staff had flanking, always flanking, nudging us I was puzzled. Surely, he wasn't try- learned never to argue with General back. If they get us tomorrow, from ing to pass the buck. That was crazy, — MacDonald. His mind was a steel trap the south and anyhow it wasn't like him. I saw and his will as hard as his lean body. "We'll be caught with our britches young Wood wetting his lips. I thought, Just before we separated to go on down," I agreed. "No base. No line of maybe the kid thinks he's going to be our various missions, he said, "I want retreat. Mountains on both sides." busted. Then the General tossed in his you all back here, gentlemen, precisely "It's uncanny, Mac." He put his good grenade. at 2130. And, before you go, please de- hand on my shoulder, and we stopped. "I shall not waste words, gentlemen. posit your sidearms for inspection." "It's not air observation — we know It is obvious that the enemy has acted Anywhere else, with any other su- that. They have damn little they can with full knowledge of our day-to-day perior, we would have been startled. use here, and you know what we have intentions. No other conclusion is pos- But even in the middle of a situation left." He expelled a bitter, small laugh. sible. And" — his blue eyes were icy like ours, our Old Man was a bearcat "But no matter how smart those blas- and bleak as he searched our faces — on keeping his officers checked up, ters are, how can they guess "he has received intelligence of and this was one of the particular right every time? Fifty percent, y our intentions soon after orders stunts he had pulled before. The most sure, that's the good old law of MKd ^ are issued. I have no idea how famous of his tricks, and one which averages. Maybe even seventy- ^|p| k the contact is made, but his ac- sent laughter rippling through all the five. That's luck. But a hundred B tions prove it." He paused again. Services, was of course the time he percent! No, Mac." "That clears the regimental com- ordered his regimental officers to a "Well—" I said. "I've thought the manders and their officers," he said sudden pistol-shooting competition. same thing. But—" quietly, and waited for the meaning Not one target was punctured that "But what, Mac?" of his words to sink in. day, as every pistol clicked harmlessly. "If they have somebody with us, it The precise, clipped voice of Colonel Thereupon the Old Man — he was a would have to be an officer." Detrick broke the silence. colonel then — had them empty their "Bright boy," said Jim. "An officer "I take it the General is intimating magazines, to find that each was filled who needs catching." a leak from within his staff." with a clip of dummy ammunition, put "The Old Man-" "I'd not call it a leak, Colonel." there when they were away from "Is almost as bright as we are," said That set them back on their heels quarters. The men who were on the Jim dryly. He moved away in the when they got it. I looked up and saw receiving end of his blistering remarks darkness, murmuring, "So long, fella." Jim. He caught my eye and gave me a that day never forgot, and every officer I stood watching him, and thought of slow wink. You could tell from the who later served under him had heard what a swell friend he had always others' faces exactly what they were the story. He still carried around with been. thinking, as they began to give furtive, him, wherever he went, displayed in At 2130 we all assembled again in sidelong glances at each other, won- a conspicuous place as a sort of sym- the Headquarters shack. The General dering who it was. My mind jumped bol, a small box of dummy clips, and handed us back our sidearms without to Hilliard, thinking one word: Com- its meaning wasn't lost on us. comment. It felt good to buckle mine munications. He had the opportunity, After we had laid our pistols on the back on. at least, in a way nobody else did. The table, saluted and left, Jim Nevers and The Old Man looked grimmer than thought must have occurred to him as I moved away from the shack together. ever as we faced him across the table. soon as it did to the rest of us. When We were old friends. The ground was He looked us up and down, one by one, he spoke his eyes were slits, his face uneven, and our shoulders bumped without speaking, until the silence was white and each word was razor-edged. companionably in the dark. so painful I wanted to yell. "If the General implies that the "You know, Mac," he said in a low "Gentlemen," he said at last, "I have communications officer of this Com- voice, "there's something damned called you together because I have a mand has given information to the queer going on. Here we are, pushed disagreeable duty to perform." He enemy, then the General lies!" nearly a hundred miles in a week. paused. "You all know what this last I had seen (Continued on page 46)

13 Why THE Negro "WONT bot Communism

Despite the high-pressure selling of the Paul against the North Koreans, or Mao's hordes, we will be acting against our own best interest. That all colored Robesons, the Benjamin Davis's and the Howard people of the worlu must hang together against the whites. Second stanza: Since Negroes, like Fasts, the American Negro is too smart to fall for all other workers, will be increasingly important in defense industry, the Joe Stalin's brand of up-to-date slavery communists hope and pray to use us to do their dirty work in the way of sabotage and espionage. It can easily be seen that they do not think very By ZORA NEALE HURSTON highly of us and cur character by that. So, the current party line is to muss /ill us up in every way. Even to observ- I he American communist party Peace Crusade, called the most impor- ing Negro History Week. If, as and fl^H held a convention in New York tant pro-Soviet offensive in America. when the eleven red leaders go on to recently. Henry Winston, a Negro, and This dove-tails right in with other jail, it is reported that four Negroes organizational secretary, got up and observations. The experts who watch will be among those who will succeed fervently preached a crusade to sweep communist strategy point out that the them. Not long ago, Howard Fast had the American Negro into the party reds are now beginning a rather im- to eat crow for four columns in the wholesale. portant drive to build up their Negro Daily Worker. It seems that he had Then in recent days our attention is membership. They give two reasons made a slighting remark about Lt. called to The Peace Information Cen- for this. First, the commies hope to Gilbert, the Negro who was found ter and its Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, a lump the American Negro in with all guilty by court-martial in Korea. Fast negro, indicted by the Dept. of Justice, the other colored peoples of the world, had said that Gilbert had no business and now changed into the American so that we will feel that if we fight to be fighting in Korea in the first

14 ILLUSTRATED BY DOM LUPO I wanted information, so I asked just led a of group some twenty-odd Ne- what Russia could do, even if our groes to this same Russia. It was be- condition had been as they claimed. I ginning to look like a trend. The rumor just could not conceive of Uncle Sam was that these people had been se- letting Stalin sit in on, say, a Cabinet lected to produce Negro plays in the session, nor presiding over the Senate Soviet Union. But among them there and swinging votes. I tried hard to was no director, no playwright, no visualize armed Russians invading our nothing theatrical. Just an oddment of Georgia and dealing with a mob that young Negroes at loose ends. So when had been a little hasty with a brother I asked questions, I was told that the in black. Kremlin was extremely interested in So what the hen-fire could Russia the American Negro. The communists do for us? And why did we look so wanted to be our kissing-friends. valuable to Stalin? Numerically, we I was very interested to know just were a scanty tenth of the population why they were grinning up into our of the United States. We did not sit faces. The press of the world was rein on the policy-making bodies of porting actual starvation and naked- Government. We had no control what- ness in parts of Russia. So I knew that soever over the Armed Forces of the there was some kind of a bug under that nation. Compared to the vast wealth chip when I was told that the "People" of the nation, economically, we did of the Soviet Union were terribly dis- not weigh too much. Nor were we tressed over the "horrible conditions" overcrowded with technicians and existing among the American Negroes. scholars. So why did the communists That just did not sound natural to me. want us so badly? People who are hungry and cold just From reading, listening closely in do not worry about things like that silence and watching things, I discov- thousands of miles away. ered our peculiar value to Soviet Rus- Yet and still, my informants gleamed sia. I soon saw that they did not love place, but for fear that might frighten and glowed as they told me how the us just because our skins were black. off some Negroes, even that much was Russians fairly vominated a thing like The USSR was bent on world conquest counter to the new party line. So he race prejudice, and meant to come to through Asia. They saw in us a shoe- had to beat his breast resoundingly our rescue. In fact, Russia was the string with which they hoped to win a and whine that he was guilty of "white sworn champion of all the darker tan-yard. A dumb, but useful tool. chauvinism." The American Negro's peoples of the world. And in particu- In spite of the world brotherhood feelings simply must not be hurt-ed. lar, we American Negroes were so propaganda, it was obvious that Soviet This present hassling over the downtrodden, they deeply pitied our Russia was bent on carrying out the American Negro is just some more of case. Czarist Russian plans to be masters an old soup-bone warmed over. Com- Right then and there they lost one of Asia. Once they had had a toe-hold mon meter, Brother Peter. It has been black sheep. I was poor, but I cer- in China, but had been expelled from around twenty-five years since certainly did not feel pitiful. But anyhow, there early (Continued on page 55) tain Negroes of my acquaintance picked up their doll-rags and headed for Russia. The very first I heard of was Way- land Rudd, a minor actor. Then William Patter- NO DISCUSSION OF COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO IS son, a Harlem lawyer, the Goode brothers, and COMPLETE WITHOUT MENTION OF THESE CHARACTERS later Paul Robeson, who at that time was the idol of the American public. At the time, Russia seemed like an odd kind of a place for a pleasure visit, but otherwise, I paid the matter no mind. My active curiosity was aroused when around 1930, Langston Hughes and Louise Thompson

THE REDS jump in with both feet wherever they can stir up trouble. Here a mob agitates the Scottsboro Case. Their trouble-making never helps the Negro, but that is their aim.

Paul Robeson Henry Winston Benjamin Davis Propagandist who Big red wheel also known as used to sing. found guilty. •Poor Ben."

Dr. W. E. B. DuBois Langston Hughes Howard Fast Got in trouble Author of Ate four columns selling red peace. "Goodbye Christ.' of crow.

15 The Greatest Cowboy of Them All

Tfc'3 is a hit parade of fearless straight-shooters of

the silver screen since the time of Bronco Billy, as described

by one of them. See if Gene's candidate is yours.

By GENE AUTRY

WHENEVER a bad man ran shooting, lassoing, taming berserk broncs or wrestling atom -charged LONG BEFORE TV, AND BEFORE steers, most of yesterday's saddle stal- warts would make me and my contem- poraries look like tenderfeet. Trying to pick the best of these old-time top- notchers is quite a chore, and I know I'm not likely to find everybody agree- ing with me. Western pictures fall into four periods. The first I call the Wild and Woolly era. It began in 1903 when he whole junior population Edwin Porter starred in "The Great and a heap of adults seem to Train Robbery." By 1910, "Bronco be cowboy crazy today. Some Billy" Anderson was a major western saysavinsit s bbecause of television, but what- star. His "bronco" was a wooden NOT MANY cowboys can handle guns that- I've got no cause for studio horse bounced in ever the reason on which he a-way, but Bronco Billy Anderson was complaint. I only wish there was an- front of a moving painted landscape. unique, as many evildoers found out. other cowboy around today to share in Harry Carey, William and Dustin all this public interest — a man who I Farnum, William S. Hart and Tom think was the greatest cowboy of them Mix, all started in movies during this 1927. At the beginning of the sound all. period. Harry Carey and William Far- era, talkies were only made indoors Now in picking this greatest of cow- num, two fine gentlemen, were excel- and since it was foolish to try to make boys I'm going to play it safe and skip lent actors and gave class to Westerns realistic action pictures in a barn, over today's ten -gallon tycoons. That and helped many of us young 'uns. Westerns faded. When production of way I'll keep at least 15,000,000 kids Bill Hart was the first really great sound films was developed to the point off my hide. Let some foolhardy fu- cowboy star. He entered pictures in where they could take advantage of ture horse opera historian judge the 1914 and by 1922 he was drawing down the great outdoors, the third era of current crop when I'm tethered with $10,000 a week, the highest pay in Westerns began — the one I call Sound Champion in the 01' Corral. Hollywood up to that time. A stern- and Fury. As it is I'm liable to alienate some faced, cold-eyed man, he rode a horse A new bunch of youngsters appeared of my fans who were kids twenty or magnificently, could shoot expertly on the scene: Ken Maynard, whom I thirty years ago. Many of them prob- and lasso like a gaucho. consider one of the greatest trick rid- ably idolized horse wranglers oBier These actors brought about the sec- ers, and who ironically became known than the one of my choice, and once ond era — the Great Silent He-Men, as "the last of the cowboys," as West- a fellow picks a cowboy hero it would when the accent was on epic and ac- erns entered their second eclipse take a cattle stampede to change his tion. It lasted from 1915 to about 1927. around 1932; comical Hoot Gibson, loyalty. I know, because I was lucky In 1923, it took a turn for the better once winner of the Pendleton Roundup enough to be a kid when a really great when the great film "The Covered and, to my mind, the best all-around bunch of two-fisted, hard-riding cow- Wagon" gave scope to Westerns. cowboy; and Fred Thompson, a good pokes used to gallop across the screen. The Golden Era of Westerns ended horseman and excellent scrapper, who When it came to trick riding, sharp- with the coming of sound pictures in was popular with the ladies as well as

16 over the world. He starred in 170 pictures in 24 years, a mighty impressive record. He earned over $6,000,000 during his film career, a record no movie actor before or since has approached from acting alone. No one, either, has topped his steady weekly salary of $17,500 a week—and this in the days when a dollar was worth a dollar. Tom Mix was an all-around performer who could be counted on to give a lively show of action in every film. He rarely used a double for rights or dangerous stunts. He acted on the screen the same way he did in real life—aggressively, fast-

afoul of Tom Mix he eventually ended up parallel, like this gent on the bar-room floor. THAT THAR feller with the six-gun is Bill Boyd, THE MOVIES SPOKE, AUDIENCES THRILLED TO THESE HE MEN. now better known as Hopalong Cassidy. The villain is Clark Gable. It all happened years ago.

NOT MANY people recall the flicker "Three THERE may have been better THAT LOOK on Harry THERE WAS drammer aplenty Word Brand" but who can forget William cowboys than Will Rogers, Carey's face means that in Dustin Farnum's famous por- S. Hart, hero of an earlier generation. hut none was bigger-hearted. some villain is going to get it. trayal of "The Virginian.''

boys and men. I think Thompson would the chips. We are now in the fourtn moving and fearless to the point of have topped them all if he hadn't died era — Video, Vicious and Vengeance, foolishness. He thought nothing of suddenly just as he was hitting his you might label it. So far it hasn't riding a team of horses with his legs stride. made any new stars. But it has brought wrapped around a wagon tongue, If I were to choose the number one back Hoot Gibson, Johnny Mack jumping off a cliff into a boiling cowboy strictly for personal affection, Brown and Col. Tim McCoy. Televi- stream, or attacking a bunch of wolves I'd pick Will Rogers, one of the first sion pulled Hoppy (Bill Boyd) out of single-handed. great stars of the talkies. It was Will, the sticks and put him in big-time, Consequently, he was the most after all, who gave me my start in the kind of Horatio Alger success broken up and punctured man in Hol- show business. 01' Will was a fine, story that so typifies America. And lywood. At one count, he figured he'd humane character whom everybody Roy Rogers and I, still the only two had 156 stitches, 23 broken and cracked loved. He was more a philosopher and crooning cowboys, certainly have ribs, and five broken legs! His right character actor than an action cow- benefited a lot from this wonderful arm had been broken in five places, boy, yet he was one of the greatest new medium. his left arm in three, and he had more rope wizards. But as far as I'm concerned, the fractured fingers and toes than he A lull in Westerns occurred during number one candidate for the Cowboy could count. Add to these a bullet World War II. Most of the Westerns' Hall of Fame is the incomparable Tom through his mouth; being scalped by stars, including myself, went into serv- Mix. an exploded shell; three bullets in his ice and folks became interested in One measure of Tom Mix's stature hide and an uncounted mess of buck- serious pictures. But at the end of the was that he had over 10,000 fan clubs shot. Talk about cats and their nine war the old cowboy fever started up with more than a million members all lives! again, and TV really put us back in PHOTOS BY CULVER SERVICE When I was (Continued on page 43)

17 AS THE SHATTERING echoes died down, lights in houses were turned on and people came running.

By IRENE CORBALLY KUHN THIS IS, frankly, a horror story. It and-cents costs that can be reckoned; is a true story, however, except the and of intangibles which cannot be men and two pretty names, disguised to spare further pain. computed. wo young It is the account of an automobile ac- It could be your story, or the story of girls, laughing, joshing 20-year- cident which brought almost instan- your next door neighbors, or of anyone olds on a mid-September Friday taneous death to boy girl, a and a and in your town, because not a day passes night dancing date, piled into a car serious injuries to two more. It is a that some group of homes is not dark- shortly after midnight. They'd been at story that you read about almost every ened by the shadow of sudden death or all day in your newspaper, under the grievous injury swooping down on its a place their crowd went to the familiar headline TWO KILLED, TWO members abroad in traffic. It happened time— the Rendezvous, they called it. INJURED, but this account tells more. thousands of times last year; it will This quartet had grown up together; It's the story your newspaper does not happen as often or even more frequent- they'd gone to the same public school print. ly this year. Unless, reading this, you This is the story of twenty-odd people pledge that your driving won't send and high school. As a matter of fact, whose lives were directly affected, and someone—a stranger, a member of your the whole crowd was out at the Ren- i;i some eases disrupted, by this acci- family or even yourself— to a morgue or dezvous that night. And now the party dent. It*s the story of the way the crash hospital, and inflict heartbreak and ex- was breaking up, and twos and fours affected an entire town. It describes the pense on more people than you may doors, aftermath o£ that accident in dollars- realize. were getting into cars, slamming yelling good-byes, shouting last minute "see you tomorrows."

18 Frank Jordan was driving his father's brand-new car Recalling how she had got the car for her son, Mrs. and Martha Martin slipped into the seat beside him. Larry Jordan couldn't look at her husband, nor at the Alberts. Evart and his girl, Grace Albert, got into the rear. And Mr. Jordan couldn't face the Evarts, arriving now Another couple from the same close-knit crowd was with the widowed mother of Martha Martin. Fast as they about to squeeze into the back seat when a car with more had come, it wasn't fast enough. Martha Martin had died room slid alongside. They promptly deserted Frank's car ten minutes after she had been carried into the hospital; for the other. They didn't know it then but God had His died without a whisper or a word, all broken and bloody, arms around them. skull fractured, bones smashed, a limp, shattered body The Jordan car rolled out of the driveway onto the that minutes before had been lovely, laughing, dancing, road, picked up speed and purred along. Its tires sang as alive. they hugged the road. The kids sang, too. Frank looked Not long afterward Frank Jordan died. Slowly, the at his watch. Twenty minutes to two. Pretty good. He parents went home, the Evarts and the Alberts thankful noted that they were at Seneca Road and he turned into that their children, though seriously injured, would re- Franklin Avenue, a steeply-pitched street in the center cover; feeling guilty, too, in their relief and happiness of the residential district. In that split second, as the car that they had been spared; the Jordans and Mrs. Martin, turned, something happened—what it was no one will ever stunned and numb with the suddenness and finality of know. The car went out of control on the hill. Frank fought their loss. the wheel, tried desperately with all his young strength In an accident like this it is impossible to fix blame or to get the car back in line, but to no avail. With a crash guilt; the driver of the car had died without regaining that wakened the whole silent, sleeping street, the car consciousness and so had the girl beside him in the front smashed head-on into a seat. The other two remembered nothing and couldn't aid big tree at the foot of the the police or insurance men in the slightest degree in their hill, was folded in on it- investigation. self as one would turn in "One minute we were sailing along, like always, and the flaps of a cardboard the next — wham! — and it was all over," was all either carton or punch in a Grace Albert or Larry Evart could say. paper bag full of air. The Only it wasn't all over. It was only just beginning for engine was driven into those who were left behind. the car. Jammed between Every small town is a close-knit one; and the violent, steel and steel were Frank sudden death of one of its residents touches everyone else. It was particularly so in this case, but almost anyone, if he thinks about it, can recall a similar case in his own town, even his own neighborhood. First, there is the shock of the news itself, spread by FEELING guilty for her part telephone, word of mouth, newspaper, radio. Later the in the tragedy, Mrs. Jordan — couldn't look at her husband. pain is spread by the horror picture in the newspaper the car accordioned in on itself, the tree or telegraph pole snapped off, the bodies trapped in the twisted wreckage, and Martha. Thrown only legs or arms protruding grotesquely; or sometimes, out into the leaf-lit- a familiar face, blood-streaked, staring, distorted and tered roadway were disfigured in death looks out. Then there's the funeral. Larry and Grace. You agonize with the family, you reflect on the life that's There was no sound been snuffed out, you look at the young widow, or the in the darkness once middle-aged one with her brood the shattering echoes EVERYBODY turned out for of children, or see the grief- died down. But all up the funeral, since Frank and lined faces of parents. and down the street Martha had many friends. Sometimes, if the victim is lights in houses came young, other people are brought on, and people came face to face with death for the running; and soon, over their calls and shouts, first time, experiencing its ter- police cars, rose the sirens of the ambulance and rible, incomprehensible mystery whirring to their shrieking into the street, down in angry (Continued on page 42) last dry clacks like death rattles, as they stopped beside the bodies and the wreckage. All four young people were unconscious, but breathing.

Telephones jangled in four homes and Mr. and HEART-BREAKING to those Mrs. Albert, Grace's parents, arrived first at the left behind are rumors which hospital. They had no clear idea of what awaited hurt no less because false. them. They didn't know whether the nurse was being truthful or just kind; they weren't sure their girl was really alive as the nurse said. And if she was alive, was she disfigured or would she have to suffer amputation? Their agony was indescribable as they shivered with fear and apprehension on that warm night. The parents of Frank Jordan, anguished over their son's condition, were heavy /ith the t^ rible burden of responsibility. Particularly did Mrs. Jordan feel this, for Frank's father had been reluctant to let his son take the new family car that night. Frank had had an accident with A PENDING lawsuit, for the old car and Mr. Jordan wasn't sure he had learned his lesson. Frank's $50,000. will bring the whole sad business to life again. mother remembered with terrible remorse now how she had winked and smiled at the boy behind her husband's back and indicated in sign really language she'd coax Dad around even after he had got angry SOMETHING is always com- and said, "No, damn it, you can't have the car tonight and that's final!" ing up. Like the draft notice for Frank his mother got. THE LIFE of this boy, Terence Hallinan, was saved by a WHO 'copter which hauled him from a Sierra peak after he fell from a horse.

There's no such thing as "business as usual" in the run-

ning of Western Helicopter Operations, Inc. Such as the

time the college president became a Peeping Tom.

By BOB GILMORE

farmer wasn't quite up to the about a mile you come to a stop-and- The ." ". situation. It taxed his ingenuity. go light . . Another halt. . . Then

He frowned, squinted up at the you turn right at the viaduct an' . . . thick fog, pushed back his hat and Aw, the hell with it! Just point the scratched his head. damn' thing thataway. Town's six mile "Wa-al," he hesitated, "you follow off. You can't miss it." BUD MOULTON, of WHO, gives Bob that highway there and drive ..." A And without a backward look he Gilmore the lowdown on 'copters. ". while the two pause, more scratching. . . And in climbed on his tractor, men in the helicopter rose straight into the air, pointed their "damn' thing thataway," and windmilled off into the mist. Bare of armor or armament, as vulner- down in enemy territory, have been lifted It may seem strange that two fliers able and harmless as a sitting duck, the out of danger almost before they could should be abroad in pea-soup fog. helicopter has been a hovering angel of unfasten their parachute harnesses. On Stranger that they should ask direc- mercy around the hell holes of Korea. occasion, ditched naval aviators scarcely tions like old-timers in a Stanley Many a wounded soldier whose life was had time to be dampened before a heli- Steamer. But that's the way with the ticking away by the minute lives today copter hauled them out of the drink. A helicopters — you can fly them as low only because a helicopter snatched him scant ten years old. the helicopter has and slow as you want to, and nearly away for treatment. Fighter pilots, forced only begun to show its military potential. any weather that will let an automo-

20 HELICOPTERS are invaluable in fighting forest fires. Here a WHO 'copter does some spotting at the Indian Valley, Calif., fire in 1950.

bile through is good enough for one of these agitated eggbeaters. Around Fresno, in the Central Val- ley region of California, farmers and townspeople alike are getting used to the sight of three yellow Hiller "360" helicopters that mill hither and yon in rain or shine, night or day. They glibly call the company which operates the helicopters "WHO," short for Western Helicopter Operations, Inc. And steadily more and more of them have reason to thank WHO for a favor or to call on it to do some job that can be performed only by this rotor-spinning phenomenon.

They tell of the grape rancher, try- ji ing so hard to dust his vineyard but watching a capricious wind swirl the expensive chemicals off into the wide blue. Suddenly there was this helicopter hovering low and slow in his wake. And below the whirling rotor the rising clouds of insecticide were being washed down to earth again, blanketing every stalk and leaf and tendril. THE FARM of Enoch Jensen, near San Miguel, Calif., gets a spraying via helicopter. The job here is tough because the farm is located in a semi-canyon with steep sides. A grin spread over the frustrated rancher's face. "Keep it up," he waved. And thenceforth he turned over his zation, with an office in the adminis- dusting jobs to WHO - all because the tration building at Hammer Field, pilot, on his way back to the airport Fresno's municipal airport, and a han- from another job, had recognized his gar and small "heliport" at one edge cue for a convincing demonstration. of the field itself, has a staff of ten, all Such demonstrations aren't always constantly dreaming up new fields to needed. The average person, little as spray or conquer. he may know about helicopters, spon- Jay Demming, 33, is president and taneously sees in them the solution to one of the two pilots. Sharing the flying many a tough problem. Thus WHO has is Harry R. Watson, same age, veep been called upon to perform a strange of the corporation. Ferris S. (Bud) potpourri of deeds, part of which in- Moulton, 26, is secretary -treasurer; cludes: mountain rescues of injured and Donald A. (Nick) Nickerson, 33, persons; aerial photography; air- an aircraft and engine mechanic whose sleighing of Santa Clauses; not only specialty is helicopters, supervises re- crop dusting but also spraying and pair and maintenance. seeding and fertilizing; fruit picking; Even before WHO was thought of commercial fish spotting; implanting it became obvious that a helicopter of flagpole sitters; mountain-area could carry a man into unseemly — powerline survey and repair work; and often embarrassing — situations. spiriting newlyweds away from One of them turned up during a cross- would-be abductors; mountain snow- country tour Demming, Watson and survey work to forecast water sup- Nickerson made for Hiller Helicopters, plies; forest-fire fighting and patrol; Inc., a couple of years ago. real-estate site showing; searches for The wonders of the helicopter were minerals; and political speech-making being displayed at a certain university tours. in Florida. It was the university presi- Naturally, the initiative doesn't all dent's turn for a ride, and Watson de- HELICOPTER helps put a lady flagpole sitter in place in San Francisco. come from outside WHO. The organi- cided to give (Continued on page 40)

2! :

- Where

Here's the information you'll

need to start planning for that trip

to the National Convention City.

By PAUL D. GREEN

ome keen observer once remarked "Miami has made more money from the sun than Pittsburgh has from steel." The same applies to its Siamese twin - Miami Beach - and, for that matter, to the whole state of Florida. For tourism is indisputably Florida's No. 1 industry, followed by aviation and citrus growing. Miami Beach, in fact, is the only city MIAMI BEACH combines the attractions of Europe's Riviera, in the world that was built solely as a Hollywood, Broadway, Coney Island and the Arabian Nights. holiday town. Here's the story:

Around the time of World War I, one John S. Collins was trying to con- ures of over a million visitors a year. washed-out pink, lime green, off- vert some desolate swamp islands off "Fisher's Folly" now has some 370 white, and lemon yellow cement and the southeastern tip of Florida into hotels, 15,000 apartments, scores of terracotta, bordered by wind-bent agricultural land. auto courts, hundreds of private homes palms, set against a clear blue sky. At Collins' plans called for a bridge and shops, and is assessed at over 300 night it is seductively neon-limned spanning Biscayne Bay, connecting his millions of dollars. and dramatically indirectly lit, yet has overgrown sand dunes with the vil- There is virtually no manufacture, a higher candle power than Times lage of Miami on the mainland. But no commerce, no agriculture in Miami Square viewed from across the Bay. he couldn't raise the funds. Luckily, Beach. What enterprises there are — Miami Beach is at once restful, in- he met Carl G. Fisher, an Indiana Hollywood-style hotels and restau- vigorating and feverish, depending auto tycoon. Instead of farm lands, rants, sightseeing companies, fishing on how you take it. imaginative Fisher envisioned a cus- boats and souvenir and sportswear The city of Miami, to which it is tom tailored paradise for wealthy shops — are dedicated to the pursuit wedded by three steel and concrete northerners. He put $50,000 into Col- of pleasure. Miami Beach is a monu- causeways across Biscayne Bay, is a lins' bridge project. ment of superlatives rivaling and in more conventional American city of Fisher spark-plugged the gold rush many ways surpassing Los Angeles 250,000 population, with Latin over- to Florida. Within the next decade he as a pleasure resort— it has nine miles tones. Miami is a thriving business and other financiers poured hundreds of continuous surf-swept beach, the town presently undergoing booms in of millions of dollars into paved roads, longest in any city in the world; the fashions, furniture, air conditioning, transplanted palm trees, man-made most even year-round temperature; construction, aviation, light manufac- islands, new causeways, breakwaters, the biggest night club (Copa City); tures, and agricultural distribution. and other building construction in the the biggest fishing fleet; the best near- Miami is united with its flossy sis- area. Magically, the nine-mile chain by fishing grounds; the swankiest and ter across the water in whole- of islands was transformed into a fab- costliest shops; the biggest and gaudi- heartedly purveying pleasures to holi- ulous playground of luxurious ginger- est lobbies. dayers. In or near Miami are big air- bread castles; cabana clubs; marinas; Miami Beach is truly the Techni- conditioned first-run movie houses, swimming pools; exquisite shops; golf color City. It combines the sunkist many inexpensive night clubs — some II courses and parks. Today, this com- features of the Cote d'Azur, the fabu- on the burlesque side — horse and dog- munity of 45,000 permanent residents lous touches of Hollywood's garish, racing tracks, the Jai Alai ronton, the is still expanding feverishly unsur- pastel-plaster homes and hotels; with biggest bowling alleys and skating passed in its all-out, if sometimes touches of Broadway, Coney Island rinks, and scores of good, moderately- frenetic, efforts to cater to the pleas- and Bagdad. In the daytime it is all priced restaurants. )

Miami is the Hub of Hemisphere — at providing facilities for these. Here indulge in tennis and handball and the clearing-house for thousands of is a run-through of what you may basketball practice at very nominal businessmen, politicians, vacationers expect to find and do in Miami -Miami charges. The Miami Beach Commu- and adventurers seeking fun or for- Beach. nity Center also features a golf driv- tunes coming from or going to the ing range. SPECTATOR PARTICIPANT SPORTS Caribbean Islands, Central and South AND The casual duffer can also putt-putt America, only one to five hours away In season, there are a number of around several miniature golf courses by plane. It may surprise you to know good spectator sports — horseracing, on the Beach and in Miami; while the that there are more departures and dog racing, jai alai, night baseball more ardent club-swinger has the arrivals of planes at Miami than in games, golf tournaments, water shows, choice of two public courses in Miami any other city in the United States, wrestling and boxing. But in October, Beach and two in or near Miami. In except possibly New York. the chances are that all of these will Miami Beach, there are the Bay Shore You are at a tremendous advantage not be available—at least not in Miami Municipal Course at 27th Street and in that you are visiting the Miamis Beach, but possibly in Hollywood or Alton Road, and the Normandy Isle between seasons. You will have the Fort Lauderdale, a short drive north. Municipal Course, near 71st Street. whole town to yourselves, and the The football season should be in full Greens fees run about $1.00 for 18 local citizens will have plenty of time swing, however, and you may be able holes off-season. The Miami courses and the will to extend their hospital- to catch a home game of the University are the Miami Springs Golf Course, ity. Hotel rates, restaurant prices, and of Miami, which had an unbeaten sea- in the northern suburbs, and the everything that you'll be interested son last year. And you may be able Miami Shores Golf Club, still further in will be scaled low — as much as to catch one of the play-off games of. north and west. Fees there are about half to two-thirds less than winter night baseball at Miami's new million- $1.50 a round. rates. dollar stadium. There are also several good, large October is a mild month, with tem- The active sportsman should find no bowling alleys in Miami, where you'll peratures ranging between the mid- dearth of activity, however. Most of find rates of 30c a line, daytime; 35c a 60's and low 80's. the big beach hotels have their own line at night, and a nickel less for duck In any case, you will probably find tennis courts, putting greens, shuffle- pins. And at N.W. 37th Street and 7th most of your fun out of doors— fishing, board, lawn bowling and beach games. Avenue, there's the Dexter Roller sunbathing, swimming, boating, sight- There is also a Municipal Park in Rink where you can whirl away some seeing, golfing, playing tennis, or Miami Beach, at Lincoln Road and of that excess energy, if not girth. handball. The Miamis are specialists Washington Avenue, where you can (Continued on page 51

THIS IS MIAMI'S distinctive skyline as seen across broad Biscayne Bay.

FOR LEGIONNAIRES WHO LIKE RARGAINS Did you ever ask yourself why so convenient low-cost tours are going to many Legionnaires attend every National be provided by all transportation media. Convention? The answer is that nowhere Going by Greyhound Bus, for instance, else can a person get so much fun per you can make the round trip from New dollar spent. Convention cities invari- York City or Chicago for a little more ably offer a multitude of attractions, and than $50. If you travel by train from these are always augmented by special Detroit the round-trip tariff will set you features arranged for visiting Legion- back less than $70. A round-trip train naires. Many of these features can be fare from St. Louis will cost you less enjoyed by Legionnaires without cost; than $60, and you can come all the way others are being offered at special low from Los Angeles and get back home,

rates. - for a few pennies more than $120. Both Bargain prices apply also to room and National Airlines and Eastern will get board. Thanks to The American Legion's you there and back for about $87 from Convention Committee, working on the Washington. Delta will fly you from spot, special rates for visiting Legion- Chicago and return for slightly less than naires are worked out, so that excellent $100, and Eastern will haul you from hotel and rooming house accommoda- St. Louis and return for about $137. tions can be had cheap. Vacationing on Of course Legionnaires will make the your own you couldn't hope to equal trip from other cities and by other means what you'll get for what you'll (not forgetting 40 & 8 locomotives) but pay at Greater Miami from this will give you the idea. The idea ^.v October 15th to 18th in- being that the fellow who holds a Legion clusive. membership card is automatically en- Even travel is titled to a vacation that non-Legionnaires cheap since can well envy. RELEASED FOR ACTIVE DUTY

gam, If any one cartoon character came to represent the contest. From then on the Sad Sack was a regular average GI of World War II in his own mind, it was feature of the paper. The Sad Sack. His troubles were those of the Baker like so many other popular cartoonists 1 average yard bird and his pet dislikes matched of today is an alumnus of the Walt Disney Studios. those of every man in uniform. George Baker, the It was from his job there that he went into the ft Sad Sack's creator, came to the attention of Yank Army. Today Baker keeps busy with the civilian when he won first prize in a serviceman's cartoon Sad Sack. Unlike the service character, the Sad

CAPLAN IN THE ARMY Where Are the Cartoonists of WW 115

Here's how some old friends of yours

survived being separated from service.

ewspapers today offer grim reading. The war in Korea, commie spy trials, crime investigations, corruption in govern- going, Mahoney! You'll get PFC for this!" "Great ment are disturbing — even the usually lightly written sports pages speak of gambling fixes among basketball players. The last chance for escapists is in "the funnies" as they used to be called. Here millions of ex-servicemen can reminisce with their old friends, Sad Sack, Hubert, Private Breger and other cartoon characters who entertained them during World War II. True, even the comic characters have their troubles but just as in the service, their troubles are ours. (Continued on page 26)

A top flight comic strip artist when the war began, Fred Lasswell was right at home when the Marines put him to work on The Leatherneck in early 1943. Here he created Hashmark and did such other cartoons as the boss wanted. Now he is concentrating on drawing his more famous and widely read characters, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. A native of Florida, Fred and his wife today live in Connecticut. Fred has been experimenting for some time with a braille cartoon for blinded ex-service 'My, Madeline, this is good! Pass the mustard, ketchup and relish.'' men and civilians, and hopes to have it perfected shortly. Another frequent contributor to Yank, Irwin Caplan, now makes his home in Seattle, Wash- ington. Before entering the service in 1942, Cap worked for the Seattle Daily Star as a staff cartoonist. It was while in service that he began to sell free-lance cartoons and continued to do so after separation. Now back home, married and happy, Cap is a regular contributor to leading national magazines. A recent survey by a cartoonist trade paper finds Cap listed among the top ten cartoonists in sales to national magazines during the past year. At present he has a feature in The Saturday Evening Post called "Famous Last Words."

Sack occasionally gets the best of it the popular demand that the little fel- WINSERT IN THE ARMY now. The reason according to Baker is low win out at least once in a while. 1 ASTLNI ZSVVMTSt 3 RHOADS IN THE MARINES

"We'll have to keep him in the Army — he's no longer fit for civilian life!"

"The kid likes to sleep a little late, now that it's all over.'

RHOADS TODAY

FRED

Fred Rhoads got "He likes the standard treat- you, Al." ment of any Marine — first Parris Island "Why don't we cut out her vita- and then Lejeune. min pills for a few days and Surviving that he was assigned to the quieter theater of operations in take them ourselves, instead?" Washington, D. C. originated characters Here he the Gizmo and Eight- Stars and Stripes was the birth- ball for The Leatherneck and then on to Pacific. went the Fred said he place of Hubert. The bewildered, covered every island— there lot and were a of them— doing cartoons. After barrel -shaped character was de- four years he was considered well qualified civilian life for and dis- veloped by Dick Wingert after much experi- charged. Fred operates out of Florida, where, "it's Tampa, he says, easy mentation. Today Hubert continues his ex- to get ideas for cartoons — like in just those islands the Pacific." periences as a King Features Syndicate cartoon. Dick is another member of the now famous artist colony at Westport, Conn.

LASSWEIL TODAY BREGER IN THE ARMY

STEIN IN THE ARMY STEIN TODAY

"Try to squeeze in with these boys, Sonny."

The gentleman on the left is Ralph "Quit worryin'! If the lieutenant said he'd find the Stein, man of many vocations and avo- quickest way down, you can be darn sure he will!" cations. In the zany pose you see here he is holding a stereopticon camera. Taking the pictures is just part of the problem for this novel hobby so Ralph has spent time and money on various attachments and projectors including many he has designed or built himself. A famous cartoonist in his own right, Ralph was As- sistant Art Editor of Yank during the war and looked at what seemed to be millions of cartoons from servicemen contributors. From time to time the pages of Yank were enlivened by his own ludicrous views of military life. Today Ralph sort of doubles in brass. He is cartoon editor for This Week magazine, the Sunday supplement, and Automobile Editor of Argosy. He holds this latter job by virtue of twenty years of experience in owning and driving the flashy sports cars you see zipping along the roads.

(continued) Where Are the Cartoonists of WW II?

." When Hubert has difficulty at home we grin and . And you had promised never to gamble . . recall the same scene with our own wife. When Sad Sack meets his old enemies, the beetle-browed ser- Like so many other now famous car- geant and wolf-faced lieutenant now civilians, we toonists, Dave Breger started out to be remember yesterday's fight with the boss. almost anything but an artist. His at- World War II introduced to millions of servicemen tempts other livelihoods at include pre- and women a group of cartoonists who skillfully med courses, architectural engineering poked fun at the services and life in general. What- and sausage casing in his father's plant. ever the man's service and wherever he was sta- Finally in 1937 Breger gave in to his tioned, some service publication was sure to reach latent ambition and began the difficult job of becoming a top-flight cartoonist. him, and always an important part of those publica- King Features was already running his Private Breger tions was the cartoons. feature in 1942 when the editors of the soon-to-be-pub- Cartoons were used not only for humor but to lished Yank decided it would be a good cartoon for their help solve the grimmer problems of the war. From magazine. In searching for a catch-phrase title, Breger the studios of Walt Disney and other film producers, hit upon G.I. Joe. It was a happy thought for the name came animated cartoons showing in entertaining became the symbol of the foot-slogging soldier of World style the operation and maintenance of the complex War II as had his counterpart — doughboy — in the A.E.F. machinery of war. Airmen of both the Naval Air Now G.I. Joe is a civilian and the cartoon is aptly named "In Civvies." Arm and Army Air Force laughed while reading the adventures of "Dilbert," the fabulous pilot who did everything wrong. They were being entertained all 26 FLANNERY IN THE ARMY

"All right men—you've had your break—now police up the area!"

FLANNERY TODAY

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right, but they were also learning correct proce- dures and many an airman is alive today because he read of Dilbert's blunders. The period between World Wars I and II saw the Saaeae. phenomenal growth of two graphic mediums — pho- "Rough peace while it lasted, wasn't it?" tography and cartoons. Both did their part in World War II to bring home to servicemen and civilians Tom Flannery is best remembered for alike the problems and difficulties of the war. Today his pointed humor in Yank. A self- the cartoonists of World War II are entertaining taught artist, Tom was apt at pointing their ex-comrades-in-arms. In newspapers and out the foibles of the brass and the magazines all over the United States, the cartoon- rugged life of the GI. After the war ists of Yank, The Leatherneck and Stars and Stripes Tom free-lanced a bit, trying his hand as well as those of smaller post and station publi- at gag cartoons. His dream, however, cations are drawing their wonderful little people was to do editorial cartoons. In Novem- he with the Lowell, who have become so real. As America becomes more ber of 1948 went Mass. Sun and since then has been turning out four edi- alert to its peril, perhaps these cartoonists will, in torial cartoons a week covering, as he says, "everything dramatic: and pointed strips, bring home to us the from local and international politics to the effect of TV dangers we face. Perhaps they too will be printed on ulcers." in the Congressional Record, as was one forceful episode ;.n "Terry and the Pirates" by Milton Caniff during World War II. the end

27 What do you THINK WE ARE FIGHTING FOR?

Some people have a hard time explaining why we are once

more fighting and sacrificing. The answer is simple and the

results will be better than we can imagine.

By RABBI DAVID LEFKOWITZ, JR. National Chaplain, The American Legion

handful of youngsters crowd rages. And many are asking searching we heading for uncharted seas - and around the fountain in the drug questions regarding the mounting sac- disaster. Are our freedoms to go smash A store on Main Street. Some of rifices our leaders say must be made. on the rocks of newfangled notions them will be heading for the Army in Calls for aid come from every side. like the U.N., collective security, in- a month or so. But right now they're From our own leaders. From Europe ternational police actions and freedom drinking sodas — and arguing world and Asia. From stricken, captive for every last Hottentot? affairs. peoples. "You must give up your good These are real "Seems like we're taking up cud- times," we are told. "You must pay fears. They are gels for the whole world," the Adams the price of freedom. You must build heard today in boy says. "The guns and tanks, you must send weap- many loyal U. N. people talk ons and ammunition and food." American homes. and talk. But they Restrictions and controls multiply They have been leave us to pay the in the emergency. Officials warn we voiced even on bills and do the must be prepared to put brakes even the floors of messy jobs." on cherished civil liberties — to pre- Congress. And "We got to stop vent our enemies from using them to communists here the reds," Hank destroy us. and abroad seek to magnify these Smith cuts in. "We The mother finds her son marching fears, to distort them with false prop- got to stop them off to a conflict she does not under- aganda, to use them for the spreading before they swarm over everything." stand. Industry turns from routine of distrust and disunity. "And after we stop them — then jobs to perform new miracles of pro- A straightforward, unequivocating what?" somebody else demands. duction — and shoulder-crushing new answer is needed. That answer, in my "What'U we have - besides a lot of taxes as well. Housewives face soaring opinion, is best found not in policy guys dead and a lot of places shot up?" prices in the gro- statements out of Washington, or even "Everybody knows what we're fight- cery store. The in words of heroic leaders at the front. ing against," another insists. "But it's college man must It is to be found best in the record got to be more than that. We got to put aside his already written — in the pages torn know where we're heading with all books — for duty from our past. this- where we're aiming. Everybody's on the front. Our history says: We who have trying to tell us but they're all saying In the welter fought for what we knew to be right something different. Nobody seems to of confused and have always found more in our ulti- know—" clashing ideas mate victory than we ever thought That verbal tilt in a Main Street and ideologies was there. drug store could be multiplied many which form the pattern of our times, The pages of our history are not times. Across the nation, youngsters it is not surprising that some should only a story of dates and names and and oldsters - high school lads and be bewildered regarding the road we battles. They are the record of what college professors, parents and kids — must follow — the course we must set. Fourth of July orators call the great grapple with momentous issues, as the It is not surprising that some are American dream. That dream is the great debate over America's policies asking: Have we lost our way? Are most real (Continued on page 60)

28 The National Legionnaire

Affairs of Legion Reviewed in Meeting of National Executive Committee; Strong Foreign Policg Stated

The Commission also reported that a National Commander Cocke Makes Report on his World Tour Asked substantial group of official and unof- of Inspection; 10 Percent Cost-of-Living Increase ficial bodies are advancing plans to for- for Disabled; Warns of New Economy Act Directed at Vets mulate a new economy act directed at veterans, and warned that such plans would seriously affect not only the ad- Legion lines were tightened, policies moval of restrictions on military opera- ministrative side of veterans' benefits clarified, and a forward-looking program tions in Korea. but also the direct service programs to immediate realm of the adopted was adopted at the regular meeting of In the more disabled veterans. The resolution Legion, when Harold V. Haines, Chef de the National Executive Committee the National Executive Committee at by Chemin de Fer, Forty and Eight, con- "favored the individual consideration of the National Headquarters at Indian- cluded his address to the national body each phase of veterans' benefit pro- apolis on May 2-4. The sessions were he turned to National Commander Cocke grams as opposed to the meat-axe slash" presided over by National Commander and handed him a check for $50,000. contemplated by economy advocates, and Erie Cocke, Jr., and observers were This money, in furtherance of the 40 pronounced its unalterable opposition agreed that this session of the national and 8 program, is to be devoted to child to so-called economy moves to be accom- governing body was one of the most welfare. On the last day of the meeting, plished at the expense of the disabled important and portentous ever held. Mrs. Willis G. Reed, National President veterans. / Highlighting the opening session was of The American Legion Auxiliary, Other resolutions in reference to re- the report of National Commander brought the gr-eetings of her organiza- habilitation requested the Department Cocke, just returned from a trip around tion to the Committee — and likewise of Defense to prepare a pamphlet to in- the world when he stepped off the "Tide two checks for basic Legion programs, form dischargees of their rights under of Toys" distribution in many war-torn one for $10,000 for child welfare and one existing laws; extension of benefits un- countries and made a first-hand obser- for $30,000 earmarked for rehabilitation. der the War Claims Act (prisoners of vation of matters as they stand in the war) to veterans of the Korean action; Far East, in Korea, and in Europe. His Compensation Increase Asked urged Congress to provide for an exten- graphic report and his forthright rec- The report of the National Rehabili- sion of entitlement to education and ommendations were reflected in the for- tation Commission presented by Chair- training under Public Law 346 (GI Bill) mulation of a strongly stated foreign man Robert M. McCurdy, California, to qualified veterans who have not ini- relations resolution presented by Donald called for a cost-of-living adjustment of tiated their course prior to the deadline R. Wilson, of West Virginia, Chairman ten percent in monthly rates of disa- date of July 25, 1951, and who have of the Foreign Relations Committee. bility payment and statutory awards entered active service prior to that dead- payable to veterans of the two World line. Session is Televised Wars and Korean hostilities. The reso- National Security For the first time the public was per- lution also asked for equitable adjust- mitted to see the Legion's National Ex- ments in death compensation and in dis- Following the report of the National ecutive Committee in action through the ability and -death pensions. Security Commission presented by medium of television. The entire session Chairman Bruce P. Henderson, the on Thursday morning, May 3, was tele- Committee strongly reaffirmed its faith vised through the facilities of WFBM- WASHINGTON OFFICES MOVE in and support of a civilian controlled TV, Indianapolis, and WTTV, Bloom- program of Universal Military Train- ington, Indiana. Television viewers in a INTO FINE, NEW BUILDING ing, and urged legislation which will very large section of the middle-west make automatic or mandatory Though not yet completed, the UMT of serv- saw how the world's biggest veteran or- offices of the Washington branch of upon elimination of 24 months ganization works in the formulation of the National Headquarters have been ice; set up a commission as authorized

its programs and policies, and how it moved into the splendid seven-story in the House Bill ; fix the period of basic handles its business as a battery of building erected on the site of the training at not more than six months, long-time headquarters at 1608 cameras roamed the assembly chamber. J K and make the Commission full time, full Commander Cocke's report, the report > Street, N.W. Work on finishing the paid. > building is satisfactorily of the Foreign Relations Commission, proceeding Firmly opposed the transfer of the > and it is believed that everything discussion of the National Security Com- Selective Service Agency to the Depart- > will be finished within a few weeks. mission's report led of Labor, and requested the serv- by Bruce Henderson Z Tentative plans call for formal dedi- ment of Ohio, other the practice and major considerations > cation some time in July or in early ices to eliminate reported were taken up in regular order of busi- > August. in some recruitment centers of auto- ness. Miss Jeanne Dickinson, 16, Roan- AH communications should be di- matically rejecting all persons who at

oke, Virginia, winner of the Legion's > rected to the new address — which some time were committed to a training National Oratorical contest was featured > has been the Legion's permanent ad- school for juvenile delinquents. Asked i dress in Washington for nearly in the televised session. The television again that conscientious objectors be twenty years. Housed in the new viewers had the action brought right j drafted or accepted into service and as- > building are the Rehabilitation, Leg- into their homes — they saw and heard signed duties insofar as possible con- > islative and Economic Divisions, and the National Executive Committee give sistent with their objections. » with branch offices of Public Rela-

a rousing vote of '» Deferment of college students, urged approval to National 5 tions, Americanism and other di- Commander Cocke on his statement > visions. the Committee, should be restricted to made immediately after his world tour, Again doing business at the old those enrolled and satisfactorily pur- in demanding more vigorous action in | stand - the address is 1608 K Street, £ suing courses which are necessary or Korea, in holding Formosa, in aid to £ N.W. pertinent to the national security effort. the Chinese Nationalists, and for re- Further, the Committee asked that the

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policy be made specific enough to require have shown a will to combat communist concludes the report. "We don't have uniform administration by all local aggression" should be invited to join that kind of leadership in our State De- Draft Boards. the North Atlantic Treaty. partment today. To get the leadership Other resolutions called for the ap- Grain should be given to India only required we must remove the present proval by the Defense Department of a in exchange for certain strategic ma- corps of leaders whose every action has Service Flag and Service Lapel Button terials which she "is apparently un- reflected incompetence, indecision and of standard design to be displayed by willing to make available to America." defeatism. They must be replaced by a families of members of the Armed The resolution declared that "we are corps of realists — men of high purpose Forces serving in the present national informed that several hundred thousand and courage — who are not afraid, who emergency; free mailing privilege for acres of land have been voluntarily have undeviating confidence in Ameri- service personnel during the present taken out of grain production by that can power and ingenuity, and who will, conflict, and the establishment of a sys- nation." by meriting our respect, face the future tem of identification of children as a Strengthen Western Germany econom- with resolution and faith." safeguard against separation and loss in ically, politically and militarily "so that Another resolution demanded "swift event of evacuation of danger areas. she can make a real contribution to the and adequate retaliations" against red North Atlantic Treaty military forces." Czechoslovakia for jailing William N. Americanism Urged speedy conclusion of a peace Oatis, AP bureau chief in Prague on the The action of the House of Delegates treaty with Japan by the appropriate charge of "gaining and diffusing illegal of the American Bar Association in powers, regardless of the disposition or news material." The resolution was in- adopting the recommendations of its lack of cooperation of Soviet Russia. troduced by Committeeman Harry E. committee to study communist tactics, Asked aid to the fullest extent to the Fitch, Indiana, — Oatis is a native of strategy and objectives was warmly Republic of the Philippines in its at- that State. commended. Legion units were urged to tempt to resist communist aggressors The resolution declared the Oatis case work closely with the local grievance and revolutionaires, and also for the follows the same pattern as the arrest committees looking to the disbarment of protection of American interests. of Angus Ward, State Department of- communist lawyers. The House Com- Reiterated the recommendation for a ficial held by red China, and Robert A. mittee on Un-American Activities was Pacific Pact for the mutual defense of Vogeler, arrested and held in jail 17 urged to extend its investigation of sub- the free nations of the Far Pacific and months by red Hungarians, charged versives to the fields of radio broadcast- Southeastern Asia. with being an American spy. Vogeler ing, television, theatre, book review, Oppose the recognition of any ag- was released after State Department writers for the press, radio commenta- gressor nation. Therefore oppose the bargaining. tors and others who mold public opinion. recognition of red China by the United "It appears to be becoming an estab- In another resolution commendation States, and the admission of delegates lished procedure by communist regimes was extended to former communists, from red China to a seat in the United to have a few Americans in captivity sympathizers and supporters who have Nations. to add to their bargaining position in broken away from the conspiracy. It Denounced the sale and delivery of the so-called cold war," the resolution was recommended that these disillu- strategic materials to communist coun- said. sioned former communists give evidence tries and asked the United Nations to Much of the time of the busy three of their sincerity by fully revealing their take such steps as may be necessary, day session was taken up with the con- knowledge of the Kremlin-controlled including the imposition of a blockade, sideration of organization house-keep- communist group by appearing before to stop this vicious trade. ing and questions dealing entirely with the House Un-American Activities Com- Called upon United Nations members the internal affairs of the Legion. This mittee and by making public statements. to provide a "fair share" of troops for included a re-examination of various Other resolutions had to do with de- UN actions. programs and projects, and the formu- tails of combating communism in its Deplored the ineffective administra- lation of new programs. various phases, and to the internal af- tion of the Voice of America and asked fairs of the organization. that it be revitalized. "This can best be accomplished by removing the respon- LOS ANGELES LEGION TO Foreign Relations sibility of operation from the Depart- PUT ON FIREWORKS SHOW ment of State and vesting it in an inde- Highlighting the entire session More than Legionnaires in the was pendent administrative and operating 50,000 the report of the Foreign 270 Posts making the Los Angeles, Relations agency." up Commission, and the California, County Council the Le- discussion that "This program demands dynamic of followed its presentation. Previously the gion have been alerted for their 19th and courageous leadership on the part National Executive Committee had annual 4th of July Fireworks Show and by a of our international policy-makers," rousing vote endorsed National Com- Circus. Held in the mammoth Memorial mander Cocke's 4-point Plan: Use of Coliseum, the goal this year is $50,000 — Chiang Kai-shek's forces in the Korean all of which goes into the funds of the

War ; bombing of military staging areas Council's Service Department which UMT BATTLE NEARS END; I in Manchuria; blockading of red China's \ now employs a full time staff of 55 ports, and defense of Korea. CONFEREES STUDY BILLS persons. The far-reaching policy statement on j The pattern of the great community !| Thirty years of American Legion X foreign relations given to the Committee display of especially designed action \\ fighting for UMT have finally borne by Chairman Donald R. Wilson was in j fireworks pieces follows current national || fruit with approval of this security 2 part a re-statement of the policy patriotic themes. For a full hour, with adopted ]i principle by both Houses of the 82nd z at the Los Angeles Convention, clarified ; hardly a breathing spell between the ' Congress. and expanded to meet issues which have The House, by a vote of 372 to 44, X showing of sets, the spectators will see arisen since last October. High points !| has passed H. R. 2811 providing for X such elaborate scenes as "The Marines in that report are \\ a continuation of the draft act and X at Pusan," "General MacArthur at for UMT on a standby basis. The 2 The United States should never par- |j Seoul," and a great variety of other Senate previously had passed S.l, its 7 ticipate in any form of world federation J> action scenes. ! version of the Draft-UMT Bill, by a or government. | Top-flight artists will appear in the 1 1 vote of 79 to 5. Marshall Plan aid should be discon- Circus — a departure from the usual ! The final provisions of this legis- X tinued as soon as possible. circus format will be made this year I; lation are now being ironed out by 2 Point 4 technical aid to underdevel- joint Senate-House when each act will be presented as a ]j a Conference J oped nations should be administered by |i Committee. Its report will have to be 2 separate event, not a three-ring affair. an agency independent of the State De- i| approved by both the Senate and the X Gate prizes will be awarded. The event House. partment. X is under the direction of Harry Myers, Spain, Greece, Turkey, "all of whom Director of Special Events.

' 30 * rhe American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 COCA-COLA BOTTLERS JOIN Virginia Girl Wins in National High School IN JR. BASEBALL PROGRAM

In this Silver Anniversary year of Oratory Contest; Gets College Scholarship American Legion Junior Baseball, the Coca-Cola Company is offering its as- adding Breaking all pre- judges. The click-clack of the sistance in spreading the program's exciting under- cedent, a 16-year- machines provided an benefits to more of the nation's youth. Legion old girl emerged as tone to the speeches by various To accomplish this commendable goal, filled in the time. winner of the Le- officials who the Coca-Cola Company has asked its Almond, gion's 14th annual The judges were J. Lindsay bottlers, nationwide, to cooperate with Dr. J. Blan- National High Jr., Dr. Paul D. Sanders, local American Legion Posts in spon- Miss School Oratorical ton Belk, Miss Thelma Keene, and soring Junior Baseball teams. Many of Contest—the top or- Mary L. Peple. these bottlers already have entered the Allan Willand, Director of the ator out of some program, but it is expected a great Com- 350,000 'teen age, Legion's National Americanism many more will join them in this and high school boys mission, presented the certificates to the succeeding years. Jr., Depart- and girls who par- winners. Joseph L. Hodges, In addition to this stimulus, the com- of Virginia, in his ad- ticipated in the con- ment Commander pany, through its local bottlers, will pre- Legion test. Incidentally, dress pointed out that the sent permanent trophies to each De- she also won a through the means of this national con- partment champion and runner-up test sought to familiarize American high Jeanne Dickinson $4,000 college schol- team. At the National Finals, to be held principles of larship, good in any school students with the in Detroit this September, permanent practical institution of her choice. the Constitution and its trophies will be presented to the Na- Brown-haired, green-eyed Jeanne workings. tional champion, runner-up, third place for the Dickinson, Roanoke, Virginia, who Miss Dickinson, in her battle and fourth place teams, in addition to plenty of never had a course in public speaking, highest oratorical honors, had individual trophies for members of the out-talked three boys representing the competition from other girl students in championship and runner-up teams. — is three other regions into which the na- other states. Eleven girls and that American Legion Junior Baseball has record — were the state tion had been divided, at the national another among grown to be the largest youth program champions in the 45 Legion Depart- finals held in the John Marshall High of its kind, in the relatively short span ments participating in the contest. Four School at Richmond, Virginia, on April of 25 years. This growth is largely the of the state champions went 16. Her topic was "The Constitution — feminine result of cooperative effort at the Post, on to win regional honors to qualify My Birthright." She is the first girl to District and Department level, between — failed survive the grueling test of the elimi- for sectional competition three Legion groups and the assistance of nation contests and fight her way to the to survive the test in the regions. They other civic-minded persons and organi- Hines, Dorchester, top honor. were Joanne A. zations. Massachusetts; Afton Dean, Twin Falls, The Three Opponents Idaho, and Kay Jon Mildon, Ogden, Her opponents were Ronald Hengen, Utah. CHILDREN OF KOREAN VETS Miss Dickinson repeated her prize- son of a German immigrant, who won IN WELFARE winning oration to the Richmond Ki- NOW PROGRAM second place and a $2,500 scholarship wanis Club, to round after round of to take back to his home at Richmond Benefits of The American Legion vigorous applause. After which the four Hill, Long Island, New York; Francis child welfare program were extended young orators were taken on a round of O. McDermott, Omaha, Nebraska, a di- to children of veterans of the current sightseeing, visiting Williamsburg, the i-ect descendant of Patrick Henry, took period of hostilities by the National Ex- old colonial capital of Virginia now re- third place and a scholarship of $1,000, ecutive Committee of The American stored to its original state as near as and Ralph Petersberger, Davenport, Legion at its meeting in Indianapolis, can be, and Jamestown Island, where Iowa, who writes sports for his home May 2-4, 1951. the first English settlement was made town paper, was in fourth place and re- Needy children of these veterans were in America in 1607. ceived a $500 scholarship. declared eligible for financial aid from The four finalists came to Richmond the National Child Welfare Division on from a series of contests, starting with the same basis as children of World the elimination contests in their own GEN. FRANK LOWE AWARDED War I and World War II veterans. schools, At the same time, regulations govern- then state contests to determine DSC FOR KOREAN SERVICE contestants to enter the regional coming the use of American Legion and petitions. The regional champions were Major General Frank E. Lowe, Auxiliary Poppy funds were also broad- ' paired off in four sectional meets to de- Harrison, Maine, has been awarded ened to include rehabilitation and child termine the four finalists for the Rich- the Distinguished Service Cross for welfare services for veterans of the mond tilt. These four represented the "extraordinary heroism in action*' present hostilities in Korea and their survivors of 350,000 who entered the in Korea. He received the decora- families. tion from General Douglas Mac- contest — a record-breaking number. In each case, the National Executive Arthur on April 10, one of Mac- Although Miss Dickinson made her Committee defined the present conflict Arthur's last general orders before first public as the period until speech only after she en- he was relieved of his command. from June 25, 1950, tered the contest, she had appeared in Veteran of both World Wars, and the date of cessation of hostilities as high school plays. Her mother teaches in the Legion, Past Department determined by the government of the dramatics in William Fleming High Commander of Maine and Past Na- United States. School in Roanoke. tional Vice Commander, General The military services were also asked The finalists had a full two hours of Lowe came out of retirement last to establish a definite procedure by August to serve as the President's oratory at Richmond, in a closely con- which dependents of servicemen could personal representative in the Far tested battle of wits, skill and knowl- apply for and receive military allow- East. Specifically his mission was to edge. Each in those cases service- one had a 10-minute pre- observe and report on military op- ances where the pared speech as a starter, and a 5-min- erations in Korea. While doing so man himself fails to do so. Such a sys- ute extemporaneous speech on some he "distinguished himself by extraor- tem was in operation during World War phase of the Constitution to close. They dinary heroism in action against II, and the Child Welfare Commission took it like veterans. the enemy between August 10, 1950, reported that there was a definite need So close were the contestants that it and April 9, 1951," according to the to re-establish this procedure for the took the tabulators more than half an citation. protection of families of some service- hour to add up the scores of the five men.

The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 • 31 : ;

$7,000 IN PRIZES FOR LETTERS

"Operation Comeback for Physically Handicapped Veterans Announced by Legion; Four $1,000 Prizes for Best Letters i USE RITUAL SERVICE TO On "How I Overcame My Handicap;" Contest Ends September 1 PEP UPPOST MEETINGS ji

]' The Department of Illinois, a ]i Handicapped veterans — if you have A veteran who suffered injuries in an ' pioneer in many Legion programs i! made a comeback — your letter may win industrial plant or other way in the ', i and activities, devotes a lot of atten- ! a $1,000 prize. Four such prizes for vet- years after his discharge is eligible to i tion to the of the of promotion use \ \ erans of the two World Wars and of the enter. The only restriction is that the the Manual of Ceremonies and ritu- jj |j Korean hostilities have this chance. In contestant be honorably dis- alistic service in must an • J; Post meetings and Ji addition, the four top winners will be charged veteran of one of our three last ]' at public ceremonies. Top-notch u guests of The American Legion at its wars. ' ritual teams have been developed, <

i ! National Convention at Miami, Florida, ! resulting in Department competi-

; tions — is ! but more important the ! October 15-18. What to Write

; closer Legion ties resulting from | ; Sixteen other prizes, ranging from ' In the preparation of a letter not ex- < • inter-Post exchange and visitations. J $400 down to $50, will be awarded in ceeding 500 words, the contestant will i The whole program is under the di- ! this letter-writing contest to vets J who set forth: i! rection of a Department Ceremonials ! have overcome physical handicaps and Clar- ! Commission, chairmanned | by Dates of enlistment and discharge j|

who have made a readjustment. J; ence E. Harper, (3642 Jasper Place, from war service. ] Chicago 9, Illinois.) Other Depart- The American Legion announces "Op- Rank and organization, or unit in J; ; ]i ments have organized similar Com- i! eration Handicap," a letter-writing con- which he served.

1 1 mittees and Commissions. <] test by handicapped veterans on "HOW Circumstances of incurring the wound 1 1 Chairman Harper urges the use of I OVERCAME MY HANDICAP." The or injury, and the extent of the handi- \\ \\ the Manual of Ceremony in Post story is ]] to be told in not more than 500 cap. and public meetings as a means of | J ; words for a chance at the four top $1,000 Method or means through which establishing an interest in Post ' prizes. Through such letters veterans readjustment or rehabilitation was 1 1 affairs and in Legion programs. who have suffered physical handicaps — achieved. either service-incurred or in the post- Occupation, if any, prior to entering war years — will tell the extent to which into service, or before the disabling in- they have overcome their injuries and jury occurred. ONE-MAN CAMPAIGN BRINGS the extent to which they have made Occupation now, and degree of utili- OLD GLORY OUT IN DENVER physical, social, economic, industrial and zation of ability in gainful employment. spiritual readjustment. Each letter submitted in the contest As a result of a one-man campaign The rules are simple: The contest is must be supported as to the statements conducted by John C. Vivian, Past De- open to all veterans of World War I, made by an affidavit signed by the Com- partment Commander of the Colorado World War II, and the Korean hostili- mander, the Adjutant, Service Officer, Legion and twice Governor of that ties, except present and former em- or the Medical Advisor of an American State, American flags are flown every ployees of The American Legion. Ko- Legion Post in the vicinity of the con- day from staffs atop Denver's business rean eligibles must be veterans — they testant's residence. The attestation of buildings. The campaign started in De- must have been separated from the serv- any one of the Post Officers named will cember when Past Commander Vivian ice under honorable conditions. be sufficient. contacted owners and agents of down- The contest, authorized by the Na- town blocks with an appeal for a dis- tional Executive Committee at its May Where to Send Your Letters play of Old Glory, with observance of meeting, will close on September 1, 1951. Each letter offered in the contest, to- regulations in hours and inclement Entries will be accepted if postmarked gether with the affidavit of the Post weather. He met with almost 100 per- before midnight of that day. Officer and other supporting material, cent cooperation and the flag now flies is be sent from nearly every building which sup- $7,000 in Prizes to to "Operation Comeback" ports a flag staff. A fund sufficient to cover the cash The American Legion It is believed the same result can be prizes offered has been set up by an 1608 K Street, N. W. had in every American community if anonymous donor is who interested in Washington 6, D. C. some patriotic group or citizen will make the welfare of handicapped veterans. Remember, the contest closes on Sep- the start—especially during this present The contest will be conducted by The tember 1, 1951, -$7,000 cash money in war emergency. American Legion with several of its di- prizes and the four top winners get a visions participating. The cash prizes trip to the American Legion National have been Right Program, Wrong Post designated as follows: Convention at Miami, Florida, in Oc- splendid hospital program re- Four 1st prizes of $1,000 each. tober. Letters postmarked after mid- The Four 2nd prizes of ported in the May number (page 36) $400 each. night, September 1, will not be con- credited National City Four 3rd prizes of $200 each. sidered by the judges. was to Bank Four 4th prizes of $100 each. Post, New York — it should have been Four 5th prizes of $50 each. Chase National Bank Post No. 1674, The judges who will review the letters also of New York City. Beg pardon, Six Brothers in One Post submitted will be named by National please. Chase National Bank Post car- Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., and their The six Tanita brothers — five of ries on a fine hospital and rehabilitation names, together with the method of whom served overseas in WW2 — are services as a continuing program for judging letters, will be announced in the members of Glendale (Arizona) Post sick and disabled veterans. July number of this magazine. No. 29, according to a report received "Believe me," writes Service Officer from Adjutant Norman F. Wykoff. The Charles Spangehl, Chairman of the Post How to get Into the Contest six brothers are Makoto, Kiyoshi, Mi- Hospitalized Veterans Committee, "Operation Comeback" is designed to noro, Tadashi, Wataru and Tomotsu "more people must read our magazine let in the greatest number of veterans Tanita. The end is not yet — the six than have greeted our beloved General who have suffered handicaps, and for brothers have two younger brothers who MacArthur on his l-eturn. This is evi- that reason it is not restricted to those are presently serving with the Armed denced by the number of calls I have whose injuries were incurred in service. Forces. had in reference to the error."

32 * The American Legion Magazine • June. 1951 town, Texas, reports collection of 1,500 * * toys running up to 1,000 pounds in Tide LEGIONITEMS * * of Toys program— top contribution in the 8th Texas Legion District. . . . Legion- naire Morris E. Jacobs, member of the Rose Self, 20, East St. Louis, Illinois, fish support of all Legion programs" Finance Commitee of Omaha (Neb.) lost her right leg from polio in child- was presented to Clifford D. Clearwater, Post No. (world's largest) since its in- hood, but when two children were 30-year member and first Commander of 1, ception, has been named to membership trapped in a burning home her handicap Palisades Post No. 283, Pacific Pali- on the National Board of the United did not deter her from dragging them sades, California . . . Ted Stolp, Chair- Defense Fund, Inc. . . . Laurel (Mary- out, thus saving their lives. East St. man of Stamps for the Wounded, Olney land) Post No. 60 has launched a drive Louis Legion gave her a Medal for Post No. 388, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to purchase an iron lung for community Heroism; presentation was made by has sent out a call for stamps and phil- use. The Post has sponsored bowling James H. Egan . . . Carroll Post Cadet atelic items for the wounded in Percy tournaments and dances to raise funds Corps, long-time sponsored by Gerald V. Jones Army Hospital, Battle Creek, for National Heart Foundation. Carroll Post No. 161, Passaic, New Jer- Michigan . . . Edward M. McKee Post sey, has 31 of its members in service, 5 No. 131, Whitestone, Long Island, New * * * * York, has tendered its house of whom have been wounded in Korea. club and Breaking all records in 30 years of In age bracket 12-17, the lads who face facilities to the use of the local Civil shooting the George Washington Birth- induction into the Armed Forces are Defense organization . . . Two of the day 30-calibre matches in Arizona, four thoroughly drilled in the correct use of greatest champions in the heavyweight members of the champ Luke-Greenway firearms under Sergeant Max Mar- boxing division are both members and Post SAL team, Phoenix, shooting un- quardt, Commandant. The Cadets also officers of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Me- der the colors of the North High ROTC, provide firing squads for burial cere- morial Post No. 1755, New York City. won the 1951 championship. These four monies and color" guards for various Gene Tunney is Post Commander, and lads, out-shooting their dads and older Legion and community affairs. Jack Dempsey is Judge Advocate. brothers, defeated the 1950 champs, the Tucson Rifle Team, 4 Luke-Greenway Jelkins-Harms Post No. Tripp, Post teams, and 23 National Guard, and 142, Starting with a $100 appropriation, South Dakota, made something of a Army and Navy Reserve — all adding Guy Rathbun Post No. 24, Kelso, Wash- record in its local Legion Oratorical up to 41 whipped teams. The boys are Con- ington, has developed a full-scale protest - 41 pupils out of a total of 96 par- Charles Cox, 17; Stewart Hood, 16; gram of giving every man going into ticipated. Post presented the Kenneth Palmer, 16, and Robert Wolfe, High service from Cowlitz and Wahkiakum 17. "It was like a high school team tak- School with a new flag . . . Jimmy Ker- Counties a practical fitted kit. "Opera- win, member of the Class A bowling ing the World Series from the Yankees," tion Kit" has been financed by the comments Murrill, team of Leonard S. Morange Post No. Win Department and Legion, and presentation is a part of the SAL Marksmanship Chairman. 464, Bronxville, New York, achieved a going away party Commander Robert bowler's dream when he rolled a perfect W. Chase, Tri-Cities Post No. 323, Bay- 300 in a team competition. Captain WW2 Sgt. Staples Post No. 198, Clifford, and vet of Africa and Anzio, Bowler Ker- Virginia, took a full page advertisement win's Post gave him a silver cocktail in the Lynchburg News to tell the Legion shaker, properly inscribed, to commemo- THREE-WAR FAMILY IN story on the Legion's birthday, March rate the feat. . . . Serving as a one-man CAROLINA LEGION POST 16. Organized in 1949, has acquired a USO, Legionnaire Harry Rodriguez, two- building lot and expects to construct a war vet, member of White Plains (New home within the year. . . . Coffeyville York) Post No. 135, hands out cigarettes (Kansas) Post No. 20 won a member- and parting gifts to departing draftees ship contest with Harold R. Andrews from his area. Comrades say he has not Post, Independence. A chartered bus missed a group since drafting was re- took 30 "Cocke O' the Walk" Club mem- sumed. . . . Past Commander W. Craw- bers to Independence to enjoy a huge ford Fullilove, Jr., Lowe-McFarlane Post turkey dinner put up by the losers. . . . No. 14, Shreveport, Louisiana, was named Legionnaire and Mrs. Guerino Filosa, "Shreveport's Citizen for 1951" by the Wilder, Vermont, were designated "Mr. local Club. Civitan and Mrs. Liberty" and given a round trio -!:.; • • «... .>;,; sis-. \s«!;: to Italy on inauguration of first steam- Sponsored by Brittan Square Post No. ship passenger service direct from Bos- 436, Worcester, Masachusetts, developed ton to Europe since WW2, in mid-March. an all-star Pee-Wee Hockey team from Legionnaire Filosa, WW1 vet, is an ac- the 68 neighborhood lads — 5 original tive member of Hartford (Vermont) teams — organized and put into play. Post No. 26, and Mrs. Filosa is a charter The squad averages 13 years, coached member of the Auxiliary. by Eddie Bates, former North High and 304th FA Post, New York City, gave a Department Commander Joseph Mc- Gold Life Membership Card to its Past Cracken, Pennsylvania, was the guest Commander Harry C. Lechner as a re- speaker at the super birthday party ward for his many years of faithful and thrown by Frank P. Hammon Post active service . . . 300 Legionnaires No. 24, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on gathered at Winthrop (Massachusetts) Valley Post No. 77, Graniteville, South March 16, when 50 new members were Post home to pay a tribute to Charles A. Carolina, has a three-war family en- inducted into the Post ... A unique gad- Hagman, 30-year member. He was given rolled in its membership — Ernest John- get devised by technicians of the Gen- a Gold Life Membership card and cita- son, Sr., veteran of WW1, seated in pic- eral Electric Supply Co., Rochester, New tion, the first one issued by the Winthrop ture above. Standing, left to right, are York, which shows all pictures in re- Post . . . Bari inger- Walker Post No. 139, Edward Johnson, veteran of the Korean verse, brought "normal" television to Lyndhurst, New Jersey, reports a col- war, and Thomas F. Johnson and Ernest polio victim Bob McKenna. He sees the lection of 3,000 toys from school children Johnson, Jr., both veterans of WW2. The true picture reflected in a mirror at- in the Tide of Toys drive. South Carolina three-war Legion family tached to the top of his iron lung. The is the first to be reported to this family device was presented to him by 15 Past A special citation for "distinguished journal — but no doubt there will be Commanders of Burton-Miller Post, of services, faithful devotion, and unsel- others. Rochester.

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Military JERSEYLEGISLATURE Wage Credit For Social Security f NEW | DEPT. ADJT.COWAN \ HONORS \ Purposes Explained; Credit On Retirement Roland F. Cowan, who completed ? * 25 years as Department Adjutant of * Wage credits for veterans of WW2 at veterans. The new provision may be the t the New Jersey Legion on March 31, X the rate of. $160 per month under old basis of retirement as well as survivors' Z was honored by the New Jersey 2 age and survivors insurance provided benefits. * State House of Assembly on April 2. $ adopted a y for in the 1950 amendments to the Social The new law gives everyone a new > The solons unanimously X resolution congratulating Cowan for Security Act seem to be not clearly un- start toward eligibility beginning Janu- j 5 his long service to the Legion and ? derstood by many veterans. In order to ary 1, 1951. A minimum of six quarters X to the "community, state and na- X clarify understanding, and to point out of coverage is necessary before anyone £ tion," and granted him the privi- J that the wage credit is not intended to can be insured. Therefore, any veteran * lege of the floor. The resolution was ?

give veterans an immediate benefit, but who has credit for six quarters of cov- <* sponsored by Assemblyman Fred- » rather to prevent their being penalized erage due to his military service will be X erick M. Hauser, Hudson County, X because of military service, the follow- insured until the end of 1953 even % and co-sponsored by Assemblyman % Essex County, I ing statement has been prepared by the though he has never worked in jobs > Lewis M. Herrman, both Legionnaires. Social Security Administration covered by social security. A calendar J A Navy vet of WW1, Department » The only conditions necessary to qual- quarter is a three-month period begin- X Adjutant Cowan was a charter mem- » ify for the wage credit of $160 per month ning January 1, April 1, July 1, or X ber and first Commander of Union 4 are that the veteran must have served October 1. » Hill Post No. 46, New Jersey. He is I 90 days between September 16, 1940 and The duration of a veteran's insured » now a member of Trenton Post No. 7 July 24, 1947, and have been released status based solely on wage credits I 93; is a Past Commander of Hudson ? County and Past President of the ? from service under conditions other than given for military service depends on X National Association of Department % dishonorable. A veteran with less than length X the of his active duty in the Adjutants. 90 days' service also qualifies for bene- £ armed forces. A person who was in the y fits if discharge was due to injury or service for three years will be insured disability incurred active or if on duty, for six years beginning January 1, Legion Honors Al Jolson he died in service. There is one further 1951; one who was in the service five At a regular meeting of the Los proviso: the old-age and survivors' in- years will be insured for 10 years. If Angeles, California, County Council, a surance benefit is not payable if the there are no other wage credits for citation honoring the late Al Jolson for time a veteran was on active military non-military employment, the insured his devotion to the welfare of hospital- - duty is counted toward some other Fed- status eventually lapses unless his in- ized veterans and men of the Armed eral retirement system, such as civil sured status continues to his 65th birth- Forces was presented to his widow. The service or military retirement. day, in which event benefits will be pay- presentation was made by Past Depart- These wage credits are not mechani- able. ment Commander William P. Haughton. cally posted as are the wages recorded by private employers, but they are used at the time a claim is adjudicated. There are more than 15 million living veterans Legion Rehab Program Includes Full Rights of WW2. The work that would be en- tailed in making the postings to the individual's record would be very great For Korea Veterans, Cocke Tells Committee and such posting is not necessary. Awarding of World War II-type vet- Higher annual income limitations When a veteran retires from employ- erans' benefits to Armed Services per- for determining eligibility for pension ment at age 65, or later, the claim form sonnel on active duty since the start of awards to veterans rated as having per- that he files asks the question: Were fighting in Korea topped the list of leg- manent and total non-service-connected you in active military or naval service islative requests presented to the House disability. The increase would be from after September 15, 1940, and before Veterans' Affairs Committee on April $1,000 to $2,500 for single persons, and July 25, 1947? The duration and dates 25th by American Legion National Com- from $2,500 to $3,000 for married per- are verified through the records of the mander Erie Cocke, Jr. sons. appropriate military department and Commander Cocke asked for "equali- Death pension to widows and children the wage credits covering the period of zation of benefits and services" to proof deceased World War II veterans on service are used in calculating eligibility vide present GIs with "compensation, the same basis as for those of World for benefits and the monthly amount pension, hospitalization, education and War I veterans. that will be paid to the veteran. training, loans and allowances compar- Restoration to the Veterans Adminis- Should the veteran die before reach- able to those to which veterans of World tration Hospital Construction Program ing retirement age the claim form used War II were entitled." He said the na- of 16,000 beds eliminated by a Presi- by survivors also asks whether the vet- tion's obligation to these men and to dential Order January 10, 1949, and es- eran was ever on active military duty their families is "every bit as compell- tablishment of a Federal Board of Hos- during WW2 and the procedure from ing and just" as was the case in the pitalization to coordinate all Govern- that point is the same as for a veteran previous conflict. ment Hospital activities. who files his own claim. "Our fighting men in Korea have rea- A clear expression of Congressional This provision for giving wage cred- son enough to feel that their sacrifices intent regarding veterans' right to its for military service in WW2 should are being made in vain," Cocke said. training under the GI Bill after July 25, not be confused with the provision in "Whether they are right or wrong, that 1951. the old law which said that a veteran impression can only grow if the Con- The right of continued renewal of U.S. of WW2 who died within three years of gress fails to establish their rights un- Government Life Insurance policies for separation from the service would be der law." Commander Cocke visited the additional five-year periods at the pre- considered fully insured under old-age Korean battleground last month. mium rate without medical examination. and survivors' insurance. Benefits in He also urged legislation to provide: Cocke also told the legislators that he this case are also figured on assumed Additional disability compensation for anticipates American Legion approval wages of $160 a month. This provision dependents of veterans with service-in- of a new policy favoring general up- is continued in the new law. It no longer curred disabilities rated at 10 percent ward revision of veterans' compensation applies to the vast majority of veterans or more. rates. The action is being pursued, he because they were discharged more Increased monthly death compensation said, "because of the disparity between than three years ago. for children of veterans where there is the fixed income rates of the disabled, The old law protected survivors of no widow, and of dependent parents. and the greatly increased cost of living."

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from Manuel Safferman, Secy., 138 Prince St., New York 12, N. Y 84th (Railsplitter) Infantry Division — 6th an- IN DISTRESS OUTFIT REUNIONS nual convention, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 27-29; COMRADES Statler Hotel. Info from National Hqdrs., P. O. Box 282, Washngton 4, D. C. Combat Divisions Reunions — Info about the 88th (Blue Devils) Infantry Division Assn. Corps of Engineers, various units— Need to following scheduled reunions can be had by ad- Annual reunion, Washington, D. C, Aug. 16-19; hear from men who served with me in various dressing the Division Association, care Division Shoreham Hotel. Write Hdqrs. 88th Inf. Div. units, H & S Co., 827th Avn. Engrs. Bn., Fort Associations, P. O. Box 1111, Washington 13, D.C. Assn. Box 328, Cooper Sta., New York 3, N. Y. Dix, among others, and in 407th Port Co., Italy S5th Division, June 22,24, New York City 94th Infantry Division Assn. — 2nd annual re- and France; 410th Port Co. in France and 99th Division, June 29-July 1, Pittsburgh, Pa. union, Chicago, III., June 15-17; Hotel Sherman. Philippines, who know of my asthmatic condition 63rd Division, July 6-8, Cincinnati, Ohio Details from 94th Div. Assn., P. O. Box 1111, while in service. Write Jesse A. Jackson, 1101 Washington D. 103rd Division, July 13-15, New York City 13, C. — Lane St., Hamilton, Ohio. 11th Airborne Division, July 20-22, New York 99th (Checkerboard) Infantry Division 2nd Camp Pickett, Va.— Will Pfc. Alfred Rigsbie City annual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 29-July 1; (34461998), Pfc. Thomas E. Davis (34451722), 102nd Division, August 24-26, Pittsburgh. Pa. William Penn Hotel. Info from John R. Gavin, and T/5 Julien H. Berntson (37164645), who St.. Pittsburgh Pa. 87th Division, Sept. 14-17, New York City Secy., 130 Oneida 11, witnessed last will and testament of the late 100th (Century) Infantry Division — 4th an- Society of the 1st Division — Annual reunion, Frederick Bernard Fedele on Jan. 1, 1944, get Philadelphia, Sept. 7-9; Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 6-8. Write C. M. Eymer, nual reunion, Pa., Ben- in touch with undersigned as quickly as possible. jamin Franklin Hotel. Write or contact the Box 188. San Diego 7, Cal. Two witnesses must be found in order to probate Association, P. Box 86, Hartford 1, 2nd (Indian Head) Division Assn. — 30th an- Century O. will. Arthur J. Prindle, Attorney, 145 Main St., nual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., July 26-28. In- Conn., for details. Nyack, N. Y 92nd Division and 2 Vet. Assn. —Annual formation from National Headquarters, 2nd Di- WW1 732nd Engineers —Will anyone who remembers reunion, Chicago, 111., Sept. 6-9; headquarters vision Assn., 116 N. 3rd St., Camden 2, N. J. my injury — in Manila, Aug. 1945, please write. Infantry Division — 5746 State Street. Info from Jesse L. Carter, 3rd (Rock of the Marne) Henry L. Sheppard, Gen. Del.. Pahokee, Fla. Annual reunion. Columbus, Ohio, July 12-14; National Commander, 6223% Indiana Ave., Chi- Destroyer Juneau —Survivors this ship, sunk headquarters Neill House. Info from Harry Cedar, cago 37, 111. by enemy action in 1942, who remember Joseph National Secy., P. O. Box Washington 4, Battery A, 548th AAA (AW) Bn. - Reunion, 74, Jamnos, please write. Claim pending. Arthur F. D. or Vincent Young, Reunion Chairman, 14 Saginaw, Mich., June 16. Details from Edgar R. Cm Hoffman, Service Officer, 107 Parkway, Rochelle Moler St., Columbus, Ohio. Rupp, 1918 Benjamin, Saginaw, Mich. E. Park. 4th Armored Division Assn. — 5th annual con- 41st Infantry Division Assn. — Annual con- N. J. Lowry Field, Denver, Colo. — Will Burl I. vention, Chicago, 111., July 6-7; Sherman Hotel. vention, Seattle, Wash., June 16-17; Ben Franklin Info from Albert Rosen, Secy.-Treas., P. O. Box Hotel. Info and reservations from Edward L. Nicholas, Ralph N. Wyatt, Charles Holland who Milazzo, to 247, Madison Sq. Station, New York 10, N. Y Barrow, Secy.-Treas., Portland Municipal Air- were at this field with Frank 1942 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Division — An- port, Portland 13, Oregon. 1945, please contact Arthur F. Hoffman, Service nual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Labor Day week- Co. B, 51st Medical Bn. and 883rd Medical Officer, 107 Parkway, Rochelle Park, N. J. end. Info from Prank Mulvaney, Natl. Secy., Collecting Co. — Annual reunion, Harrisburg, Pa., USS Buchanan and USN Hospital, Seattle, 1023 S. Farragut Terrace, Philadelphia 43. Pa. June 10; Harrisburg Republican Club, 26 N. 2nd Wash. —Urgently need to contact anyone who 5th (Patton's Ghosts) Armored Division — An- St. Write Eugene F. Rabenstine, Secy., Cassatt served with me from May, 1942, to Aug., 1944* nual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 5-7; William Bldg., Continental Square. York, Pa. Please write to Robert F. Janssen, 601 Wilson St., Penn Hotel. Info from Charles Rubel, 886 Middle 64th CAC, — Batteries D and E - Annual re- Neenah, Wis. Road, Pittsburgh 34, Pa. union, Akron, Ohio, June 23-24; Portage Hotel. Co. C, 526th Armored Infantry — Will anyone 6th (Red Star) Infantry Division — Annual re- Write Charley Huckel, Secy., 14 S. Maple, Akron, who served overseas with William Dawson, or union, Milwaukee. Wis., July 26-28; Wisconsin Ohio. was hospitalized with him at Fort Knox, Ky., Hotel. Info from Elroy E. Scholl, 1425 N. 14th Co. I, 164th Infantry — Reunion, Wahpeton, upon his return (April to Dec, 1942) please St., Milwaukee 5, Wis. N. Dak., June 30-July 1. For details write Ira H. write Mrs. Vivian Dawson, 922 S. Washington 6th (Super 6th) Armored Division — Annual re- Keeney, 79% Dakota Ave., Wahpeton, N. Dak. St., Alexandria, Va., or Benjamin E. Read, Chap- union, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2; Deshler- 714th Ry. Operating Bn. — Reunion, Chicago, lain, Department of Commerce Post No. 45, Wallick Hotel. Write William E. Rutledge, Jr., 111., June 22-23; Midland Hotel. Make reservation American Legion, 3536 S St., N. W., Washington Secy.-Treas. P. O. Box A, Yadkinville. N. C. direct. Details from M. H. Sullivan, President, 7, D. C. Statements needed. 7th (Lucky 7th) Armored Division — 6th an- 805 N. Lincoln St., Casper, Wyo., or W. H. Co. D, 114th Inf. — Will anyone who knew of nual convention, Chicago, III., Aug. 25-26; Sher- Noble, Secy., 778 Roasmond Ave., Akron, Ohio. my being wounded, please write. Statements man Hotel. Info from Johnnie Walker, Secy., 39 Hdqrs. and Hdqrs. Co., 194th Glider Infantry, needed for medical care. Stanley (Stub) Right- Stillman Ave., Bergenfield, N. J., or 7th Armored 17th Airborne Div. — Reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, mire, RD 1, Benton, Pa. Div. Assn. Headquarters, Box 5072. Chicago, 111. No. 2. June 28-30; meet at American Legion Post Co. C, 303rd Engineers, AEF-Will anyone 8th (Pathfinder) Infantry Division — 4th an- Details from Otto Kazmaier. 422 East 18th St., who knows of my disabilities while in service, nual reunion with attached units, Macon, Ga., Erie, Pa. please contact me. Thomas J. Carey, Rt. 1, Box Aug. 31-Sept. 1; Hotel Dempsey. Write B. L. 45th Seabees — 5th annual reunion, Chicago, 71, Ceres, N. Y Kersey, Jr., Executive Secy.-Treas., 488 First St., I1L, June 29-30; La Salle Hotel. Members 12th, Troop E, 4th Cavalry, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Macon, Ga. 23rd, 38th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 62nd and 79th Sea- (WWI) — remembers please 24th (Victory) Infantry Division Assn. — 4th bees invited. Info from Robert J. Sullivan, 1725 Anyone who me, write. Need statements to complete claim and annual reunion, Detroit, Mich.. Aug. 10-12; Hotel Wilson Ave.. Chicago 40, 111. to certify I in Tuller. Info from Joseph I. Peyton, Natl. Secy., Co. D, 71st Signal Service Bn. — Reunion, To- that was above Troop. Harrison 181 N. Culver St., Baltimore 29. Md. peka, Kans., June 2-3; Jayhawk Hotel. Write Newton, Port Ewen, N. Y 25th (Tropic Lightning) Infantry Division LeRoy H. Kroeker, 102 West 23rd, Hutchinson, Co. B, 11th Regt., USMC-Need to contact Assn. — 2nd annual reunion, Washington, D. C., Kans., for details. men who served with me in France in fall of July 6-8; Hotel Statler. Info from Association Co. B, 115th Inf., 29th Div. — Annual reunion, 1918, in La Rochelle, La Pallice, or Vogualn. Also Secy., P. O. Box 101, Arlington 1, Va. at Capt. McCleary's Club House, Miller's Sawmill, pharmacists and medical personnel in sick bay 26th (Yankee) Infantry Division — Annual re- Sharpsburg, Md., (just beyond the battlefield), at boot camp, Parris Island, in January-March, union, Portsmouth, N. H., June 7-10. Info from Sunday, June 3. Check for directions at Legion 1918. Thomas Martin, 5093 Sumter Ave., Cin- Albert Shepard, Convention Secy., P. O. Box 846, Home, Hagerstown. Info from Leroy R. Weddle, cinnati 38, Ohio. Portsmouth, N. H. 334 Bryon Place, Hagerstown, Md. Co. B, 1918th Service Command Unit, Camp 28th (Keystone) Infantry Division — National 101st Infantry Vet. Assn.— Convention, Boston, Beale, Cal. — Urgently need to hear from men convention, both WWs, Bethlehem. Pa., June Mass., June 6-8. Contact Knocko, Secy., 200 who served with me above unit and station, 27-30. Inquiries to A. W. Frymyer, Gen. Chm., Huntington Ave.. Boston, Mass. October, 1945, to January, 1946. Claim pending. RED 2, Bethlehem. Pa. 753rd Railway Shop Bn. — 2nd reunion, Bucy- Please write. Willard Ernest Beard, 3053 Emerald 29th (Blue and Gray) Infantry Division Assn. rus, Ohio, June 9-10. Information from Charles St.. Klamath Falls. Oregon. — (Department of Va.) — Annual reunion, Hope, Seyler, Secy.-Treas., P. O. Box 185, Bucyrus, Ohio. SS H. M. Story — Shipmates who served aboard well. Va., June 2-3. Contact Capt. Harry R. 149th Infantry Vet. Assn. — 3rd annual reunion. with Warren G. Higginbotham in spring, 1943, Maifield, Sr., Hopewell Armory, 200 N. 9th Ave., Fort Knox, Ky., Aug. 18. Review of present 149th, are requested to write, particularly Ensign W. Hopewell, Va. KNG. Details from B. T. (Rusty) Hauer. 831 H. Rutledge, SI Harold 0. Petterson, Densal 30th (Old Hickory) Infantry Division — 5th an- Temple Bar Bldg., Cincinnati 2, Ohio. Adron Brubeck, Roy Clanton Petterson. Claim nual convention, Cleveland. Ohio. July 4-6. Write 388th Bomb Group H. Assn. — 2nd annual re- pending for injury in explosion. Write G. W. 30th Inf. Div. Assn., P. O. Box B, Bergen Sta., union, Columbus, Ohio, July 6-7; Deshler-Wallick Davis, Rt. 5, Box 71. Jasper, Ala. Jersey City, N. J. Hotel. Info and reservations from Robert L. LCI "M" 431 — Need to hear from shipmates 32nd (Red Arrow) Infantry Division Assn. Pfeiffer, Convention Chairman, Deehler-Wallick who served with me during 1944 in Pacific, (Both — Annual convention SW WWs) and reunion, Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. particularly Cox. Calvin C. Brower, Ensign Chicago, 111.. Sept. 1-3; Morrison Hotel. Info from Ranger Battalions Assn. — (members and for- Schroeder (Acting Capt.) and Bl/c William Leo J. Fletcher, President, 32nd Div. Hdqrs., mer members of 6 U.S. Ranger Bns. of WW2) Howard Able. Disability claim pending. Robert Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111. — 2nd annual convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, Au- L. Guyse, P. O. Box 33, Ober Ind. 33rd (Illinois) Infantry Division Assn. — An- gust 3-5; Hotel Netherlands Plaza. Information 522nd Sqdrn., 67th Air Group, Santa Maria, nual reunion, both Chicago, WWs, 111., June 22- from Kenneth J. Munro, 284 Woodword Ave., Cal. — Urgently need to hear from truck driver 23; Morrison Hotel. Write George D. Radcliffe, Buffalo 14, N. Y who drove truck in which W/O Elmer Richter Secy., Room Morrison Hotel, III. 508, Chicago 2, Co. C, 97th Signal Bn. (WW2) - Reunion, was injured when truck dropped into hole in 37th (Buckeye) Division Vets. Assn. — Annual Turkey Run State Park. Indiana, July 7. Details road. Also need to contact 1st Lt. Hopkin, Lt. reunion, Cincinnati. Ohio, Sept. 1-3; Gibson Hotel. from Carroll C. Field, Clay City, Ind. Letinninger, and Lt. Young, all at above station Write Headquarters 37th Division, 1101 Wyon- 613th Ordnance Bn. — Annual reunion, Pitts- about July, 1943. Write Elmer Richter, 876 dotte Bldg.. Columbus 15, Ohio. burgh, Pa., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Complete details Thomas Ave., St. Paul 4, Minn. 42nd (Rainbow) Division Vet. — Assn. 33rd from James L. McClintock, 727 Gaywood Drive, Co. D, SATC, Corneil Unit, Ithaca, N. Y. national annual reunion, Birmingham. Ala., July Pittsburgh 35, Pa. Urgently need to hear from men of this unit, 12-14: Tutwiler Hotel. Info from Lindsay L. Cox, 60th C. B. Battalion — Annual reunion, Rich- particularly those who remember me being kicked Reunion Secy., 107 Hermosa Drive. Birmingham, mond, Ind., Sept. 1-2; headquarters Leland Hotel. in right side and hospitalized while suffering from Ala. Co. A, 115th Infantry, 29th Div., (WW2) - influenza, Nov., 1918. Names remembered Lieut. 69th (Fighting 69th) Infantry Division Assn. Reunion, Frederick, Md., Sept. 1. Write Alton E. Sutherland, Pvt. Foster, Sutton, Richardson and 4th annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 24-26; Shaft, 713 Motter Ave., Frederick, Md. Starbuck. Please write. John F. Riordan, C/o Hollenden Hotel. Info from Banquet Committee, 286th Engr. Combat Bn. Assn. — 5th annual N.Y Dept of Mental Hygiene. 600 East 126th St., 69th Infantry Div. Assn.. 135 Broadway, New reunion, Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 5. Info from Mort Ward 10, New York 35. N.Y York 6. N. Y Dietrich, 1286 Troy Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y Ward D3, Fleet Hospital 114, Samar, P.I. 80th (Blue Ridge) Infantry Division Assn. — 23rd Engineers Assn. — Reunion and dinner, Will anyone in this ward with me in August and 32nd annual reunion, Akron, Ohio, 2-5; Aug. Coldwater, Mich., June 23; Arlington Hotel. Con- September, 1945, or anyone who knows present Hotel Mayflower. Info from Harry J. Collette, tact James P. Henrikson. Secy., 2922 N. Kilbourn address of Navy Nurse Evelyn Pabst. please Resident Secy., 302 Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Ave., Chicago 41, 111. write. Statements needed to establish claim. 82nd (All American) Airborne Division Assn. 13th Engineers — Annual reunion, Buffalo, (Identification; I am the one who had the pet — 6th annual reunion, Chicago, 111., July 1-3; N. Y,, June 15-17; Hotel Buffalo. Make reserva- squirrel, "Frisky.") Write Edward W. Stewart, Hotel Sherman. Write John Spike Lynch, 9116 S. 6147 tions with hotel. Info from A. E. Ward, Box 6, Kissimmee, Fla. St., Chicago 111. May 20, Patterson Ave., Chicago 34. 111. Battery B, 57th CA, Bermuda Base Command 82nd Airborne Division Assn. — Reunion dinner. New York, August 28 or 29. Exact time and place (Continued on page 36) (Continued on page 36) The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 • 35 — : —

Evacuation Hospital No. 8, AEF — 31st annual JR. BASEBALL GRADS STAR reunion, New York City, in October. Contact COMRADES IN DISTRESS Herman C. Idler, Secy., 1500 E. Susquehanna (Continued from page 35) IN LEAGUE OPENING GAMES Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., for complete details. Co. K, 110th Infantry, 28th Div., (WW1) - — Urgently need to contact officers Permanent reunion date, first Saturday after and enlisted served Opening day games in the Major Labor Day at Waynesburg, Pa. Write Ernest O. men who with me on Coopers Island. Robert this season proved again the Clayton, President, Waynesburg, Pa. C. Lee. 1850 Bernard PI., Dallas, Texas. Leagues Battery F, - 163rd Infantry, 41st Division — 5th annual re- 72nd FA, (WW1) Need to hear from valuable contribution American Legion union, Great Falls, Mont., Sept. 14-16. Details anyone who served with me and who may recall my leg injuries. Joseph Wagner, Junior Baseball has made to the senior from Glenn O. Stockdale, 715 N. 32nd, Billings, B. 135 Mont. Cunningham, Vallejo, Cal. Hdqrs. Battery, - circuits. Of a total 185 players who saw 39th Combat Engineers Group — 4th annual re- 368th FA, 98th Inf. Div. Will William Hungerford, William Doughton or action in the initial 1951 games, 90 were union, Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 1-3; Hotel Frances. other members of the cadre transferred Contact Charley G. Callahan, 1736 6th St. N.W., to 862nd Bn., 63rd Inf. Div., former members of American Legion Washington, D. C, or John Serrin, 308 E. Syca- FA please write. Need help to prove claim. Joseph Fleming, Highland St., Junior Baseball teams. more St., Kokomo, Ind. Co. B, 157th Engineers (C) Bn. — Annual re- Flemington, Mass. of the sixteen starting pitchers 258th Ordnance Evacuation Co. — will Eight union, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 11. Write Robert F. Urgent; Capt. Paul S. Morrison please write Renzo got their start in the 25-year-old Legion Seiler, 931 Gaskill Ave., Jeannette, Pa. M. 521st Clr. and 694th Amb. Cos. - 5fh annual Poeta, 37 Acorn St., New Britain, Conn. Claim pending. youth program. They were evenly di- reunion. Camp Perry. Clarks Mills, Pa., (inter- MTC Reconstruction Park 772, Verneuil, vided in the National and American section St. Rt. 358 and U. S. 19), Aug. 12. De- France, (WW1) — to from tails from Floyd Barber, Union City, Pa. Need hear men who Leagues. 56th Pioneer Infantry Assn.. (WW1) — Na- were assigned to crane detail, above station. Claim pending. Clarence Howell, Junior Baseball alumni performed tional reunion, Smithfield. N. C, August 4-5; 409 National headquarters Gabriel Johnston Hotel. Info from Road, Richmond, Ind. Troop C, 16th Cavalry, Mercedes, — yeoman service in the slugging depart- W. M. Gaskin, President, Smithfield, N. C. Texas Need to hear from who served ment. Jensen of the Yankees, Ennis of Battery D, 579th AAA AW Bn., (SP) - Re- men with me 1917; ten transferred to Mounted Co. A, detached for union, Chicago, 111., July 1-4. Details from Mar- MP the Phillies, for service with 3rd Div. Claim Grasso the Senators shall Ruff, 1347 W. Greenleaf Ave., Chicago 26, pending. Frank Zebrak, Box Harmarville, Pa. and Zarilla of the White Sox collected HI. 352, Co. A, n28th Infantry, 32nd Division - 20th USS San Juan or USS Dixie — Shipmate needs four of the six home runs clouted by reunion, Reedsburg, Wis., July 28-29. Contact A. help badly; will anyone who knows about a head injury suffered by William T. Kellie please members of the sixteen teams in their F. Prange, Secy.-Treas., Reedsburg, Wis. write. 669th Bomb Sqdrn., 416th Bomb Group — 3rd Believe injury occurred in 1942 in Guadalcanal or in or about Subic Bay. B. season openers. annual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., first week-end Thomas Egan, Dept. Adjt. and Service Officer, in August. Write Dolphus Whitten, Jr., Hender- American Legion, son State Teachers College, Arkadelphia, Ark. Dravo Bldg., Wilmington, Del. L, — 102nd Cavalry, 38th Cavalry, 117th Cavalry, Co. 27th Infantry Urgently need to hear from Pvt. J. Greenstein, Pvt. Frank Werkstein Life Membership for Marse Henry (and all others formerly with these organiza- and any others who know of accident in 1916 tions) — Reunion, Newark, N. J., October 6; my when I fell into the shaft of the Logan In recognition of outstanding services Robert Treat Hotel. Details from Roland Beetham, USAT when enroute to the Philippines with the Regi- Armory, 500 Rahway Ave., Westfield, N. J. to The American Legion, both locally 178th Quartermaster Co. — 4th annual reunion, ment. Write Joseph Kacsandi, Sr., 9529 Lamon- tier Ave., Cleveland Ohio. and national, Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 1-3. Info from Jack Thrush, 4, Superior Court Judge Geiger Field Military Police — 2937 Woodway Road, Dayton, Ohio. Will men who II L. enry Stevens, Jr., Warsaw, North 314th Infantry Assn., (WW2) - Reunion, Chi- served with Glenn Mead in 1946 please write; particularly Pfc. Rambo, Cpl. Arnold, and Sgt. Carolina, Past National cago, 111., July 27-29; Sheraton Hotel. Contact Commander, Mantle. Statements needed. Worth White, Service Charles Caputo, 7505 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, 111. was presented a gold card of life mem- 553rd C. B. M. U. — 2nd Reunion, Washington, Officer, Roger Potwin Post No. 1419, American Legion, Ellington, N.Y bership in Charles R. Gavin Post No. D. C, Sept. 1-3. Write William H. Gibson, 3100 Co. A, 59th Infantry, (WW1) - Men who re- Mass. Ave. S.E.. Washington 19, D. C. 127, Warsaw. The presentation was Co. G, 152nd Infantry, 38th Div., (WW2) - member head injury suffered by Raymond Hiram Stimaon in May, 1919, are urgently requested to made by 9th District Commander J. C. Reunion, New Castle, Ind., Aug. 25-2 1>. Write write. Help needed. Believe following officers and Page. Franklin Retz, 1620 Q Avenue. New Castle, Ind. X-Eglin Field Wartime WACs - 4th annual men may be able to help: Lts. A. A. Arnett, F. E. Arnett, Albert Roberts, William M. Bell. H. Judge Stevens was one of the organ- national reunion, Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 17- M. Pvts. John Scott. 19: Dykeman Hotel. Info from Muriel Diamond, McCoy; Stuppy and Paul R. izers and Commander of the Charles R. Secy., 2329 Huskey, Garland, Texas, or "Cyclone" Write Raymond F, Shear, Service Officer, Court House, Belmont, N.Y Gavin Post in 1921. Two years later he Dahlgren, 5038 Sixth St., N.E., Minneapolis, Minn. Presque Isle, Maine, Air Base — Important that was elected Department Commander of 817th Tank Destroyer Bn. — Annual reunion, I locate man on duty at radio tower June 26, 1943, when my son, Lt. Bertrand N. Robertson, was North Carolina, and in 1931, at Detroit, Elmira, N. Y, June 2; Langwell Hotel. Info from killed in takeoff. Write Neil A. Robertson, P. O. William B. Ryan, 206 Kellogg St., Syracuse, N. Y Michigan, was elected National Com- Bpx 194, Derby, Maine. Co. B, 10th Infantry, 5th Div. (WW2) - Men mander. He has served his State several who served in Rhineland and Central Europe with years as a Judge, Superior Court. THE AMERICAN LEGION Robert D. O'Brien, please write; urgent, assistance NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS needed. Harry J. O'Brien, 3 Raymond St., New Britain, Conn. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA LSM 130 — Will shipmates who know of serious Chase Heads Formosa Mission MARCH 31, 1951 fall suffered by me aboard ship in June, 1945, ASSETS please write. Statements needed. Irving G. Pen- Major General William C. Chase, nini, (Fireman 1/c), 143 Pleasant St., Rockland, Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .$ 762,541.84 Mass. currently heading the U.S. Military Receivables 877,050.84 Co. C, 52nd Armd. Inf. Bn., 9th Armd. Div. Advisory Mission to Chiang Kai-shek's Inventories 429,764.58 Urgently need help to establish claim; will any Invested Funds 667,477.23 comrade who served overseas with me, or in the Chinese Nationalist Army on Formosa, Permanent Trusts: Battle of the Bulge and taken prisoner, please is the same Bill Chase who as a Briga- Overseas Graves Decoration write. Orville Warcken, P. O. Box 506, Castro- Trust Fund $ 251,853.20 ville, Cal. dier General of the U.S. First Cavalry Employees' Retirement Camp Pickett, Va. — Urgently need to locate

. . . Alfred Pfc. led a small detachment into Manila in Trust Fund . 1,220,676.71 1,472,529.94 Pfc. Rigsbie, Thomas E. Davis and T/5 Julien H. Berntson who witnessed last will Real Estate, less depreciation. . . . 751,726.68 one of the most daring operations of and testament of Frederick Bernard Fidele at Furniture and Fixtures, less Pickett on Jan. 1, 1944. of witnesses WW2. General Chase, a two-war vet- depreciation 306,444.42 Camp Two located order will. Write Deferred Charges 58.979.34 must be in to probate eran, got into the Army as a cavalryman Arthur J. Prindle, Attorney, 145 Main St., Nyack, $5,326,514.87 in a Rhode Island National Guard unit N.Y. Co. B, SATC, Auburn, Ala., 1918 -Anyone in 1916. LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE who knows the whereabouts of Lt. Thompson and AND NET WORTH Pvt. Vickers or knows of my foot trouble, please write. P. D. Beverett, Box 118, Vernon, Fla. Current Liabilities $ 186,017.21 Philippine Guerrillas, WW2 — Need to locate OUTFIT REUNIONS Funds restricted as to use 469,331.31 Capt. Alfred D. Bruce, organizer of Bruce Guer- Deferred Income 1,337,936.99 rillas in Northern Luzon. Statement for Army (Continued from page 35) Permanent Trusts: pay needed. Felipe D. Toletino, (former Capt., Overseas Graves Decoration USA, FIP-NL), C.A.T., San Miguel, Tarlac, P. I. 325th (Checkertail Clan) Fighter Group - 6th Trust $ 251,853.20 US.Pompey, Cavite, P. I. — Need to locate men Employees' Retirement annual reunion, entire group, Buffalo, N. Y., who served with me Jan. to June, 1919, especially Aug. 3-5: Hotel Statler. Write Bob Stranskv, Trust 1,225,019.56 1,476,872.76 PM/1 Peter J. Horley who treated me for injuries 753 Broadway, Buffalo 12, N. Y Net Worth: aboard ship. Crew members remembered: Lt. 95th Evacuation Hospital, (WW2) - 2nd bi- Restricted Capital: Pippo, Chief Paulson, Neighbors, Pickins, Grove,

ennial reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 6-7; Gib- Reserve Fund . . 23,464.13 Hannigan and Halligan. Write Henry J. Hetrick, son Hotel. Contact R. C. Seymour. 253 14th St., Restricted Fund. 16,798.04 224 Shelton St., Chadron, Neb. Barberton, Ohio. Reserve for construction of Casuals Returning to U.S. From ETO on Green Cos. A and B, 113th Ammunition Train, (WW1) Washington Project — Will anyone who was in C-47 cargo — Annual reunion. City Park. Murray, Ky., Sept. office 786,551.66 plane carrying 22 officers and enlisted men from 2. Details from J. H. Henley, Rt. 1, Murray, Ky. Real Estate 80,000.00 906,813.83 Natal, Brazil, to Miami Beach, which hit an air 729th Railway Operating Bn. — 2nd annual re- Unrestricted -Capital pocket near mouth of Amazon morning of August union. Ft. please write. pending. L. Wayne, Ind., Sept. 21-22; Hotel Keenan. Surplus 254.369.73 22, 1945, Claim Wayne Info from A. H. Colello, Secy.-Treas., 1426 1st Excess of Income over Expense Skow. Frederick, S. Dak. Ave., Altona, Pa. USS Mississinewa, (AO 59) — Urgently need 3 months . . . 695,173.04 919,542.77 711th and 791st Railway Operating Bns. to contact shipmates from Dec, 1943, to Dec, Reunion. Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 21-22; Hotel 1,856,356.60 1945; statements needed for claim. Will Sl/c Hennenden. For info write Harry Lepine, 107 $5,326,514.87 Paul Kinzer, P. T. Upchurch, Ed Kinsler, "Mac" W. 1st St., Fond du Lac, Wis., or Howard Lamp- McGarrity, MM3/c Bill York, and Sl/c Barrentine recht, 1521 S. High St., Columbus, Ohio. please write. Louie K. McLaughlin, Hamilton, Ga.

3g • The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 . - " . . " . Veterans Newsletter

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

June , 1951

LAPSED VET POLICIES DIE UNDER NEW BILL: beyond his control, such as re-entry into the military service. If when President Truman signs H. R. 1 intp law and Once a vet completes or discontinues his program he will slam the door on the reinstatement of insur- of training after the cut-off date, he may not start ance rights of millions of veterans of WW1 and WW2. another course. . . .Also, he must meet these require- ...The bill denies immediately the right of vets ments: He will be expected to pursue his training both wars to obtain new USGLI or NSLI in cases of "continuously until completion, except for condi- where they have never applied for insurance. . . . tions which normally would cause interruption by Also denies insurance to the full amount of $10,000 . any student . . . .He may change his educational ob- if they have less than $10,000 and have never applied jective "only while in training and then for reasons for more. . . .They would also be denied insurance in . satisfactory to the Administrator cases where the previous term policy lapsed during The July 25 cut-off da^e applies lo WW2 vets dis- the initial term of the contract . . . . The bill does charged before July 25. 1947 . . . .Vets discharged not affect USGLI and NSLI now in force on which after the 1947 date have four years from the date of premiums are being regularly paid. . . .Neither does discharge in which to begin GI Bill training. . . .Most it deprive those who permitted their policies to vets in both groups, however, must finish training lapse during the term of the current contract from by July 25. 1956, wind-up date of the entire program. reinstating, if otherwise qualified. . . .An exception has been made for those who enlisted First legislative step to eliminate insurance for or re-enlisted under the Armed Forces Voluntary war veterans, bill provides "death indemnity" of Recruitment Act (between October 6, 1945, and $10,000 for all service personnel subsequent to October 1946) . . . .Vets in that class have four June 1950--(to cover the "police action" in 5, 27, years from the end of their enlistment or re-enlist- Korea} . . . .While this indemnity is provided without ment period in which to start training, and nine cost to the service personnel during their period years from that time in which to complete it of service, no provision is made for continuing insurance after discharge unless they are uninsur- P0W CLAIM DEADLINE EXTENDED: able with private companies because of service- President Truman has signed S. J. Resolution 40 connected diseases or in.iuries . . . .The Legion's bill extending the period for filing claims by WW2 84)-- which was rejected for H. R. l--provided (S. prisoners of war and their dependents from February for automatic insurance for all those in servioe 28, 1951, to March 31. 1952 . . . .Several thousand who died or were killed after June 27, 1950, and WW2 vets and dependents have thus far failed to file who were without Government insurance . . . .This bill claims- -many because of lack of knowledge of the also provided that Korean vets bjj given the same War Claims Act insurance privileges as were extended to the veterans of the two previous wars, and that the present NAVY POLICY ON RECALL OF RETIRED OFFICERS: NSLI provisions for the latter group be retained. Bureau of Naval Personnel clarifies policy of Millions of WW1 and WW2 vets are directly affected ordering retired officers to active Naval service. by this legislation . . . .VA says it has no way of . . .No retired officers are being involuntarily telling how many lapsed term policies will be wiped ordered into active Naval service ... .However, a out, nor how many vets will be denied the right to limited number of younger retired officers who apply for new insurance. . . .Some 21,000,000 NSLI volunteer and who have special qualifications are policies were issued during WW2--of these 6.700.000 being ordered back into uniform . . . .In general, no are still in force . . . .When bill was sent to Presi- officers retired for physical reasons, or who are dent Truman, National Commander Cocke sent a warn- members of the Fleet Reserve, or who are more than ing broadcast over the country, pointing out that 51 years of age, are being recalled. reinstatement rights and the right to apply for new

insurance was imperiled. . . .As a result, VA Insurance FOURTH CITATION FOR FIRST MARINE DIVISION: Divisions was flooded with applications for rein- The Presidentia l Unit Citation has been awarded to statements. .. .Best advice to insured vets- KEEP the 1st Marine Division for service in Korea from YOUR PREMIUMS PAID: DON'T LET YOUR USGLI OR NSLI September 15 to October 1950, during the Inchon- LAPSE. 11, Seoul campaign. . . .It is the fourth such award of the blue, gold and red horizontal striped ribbon to LAST CHANCE FOR GI BILL EDUCATION OR TRAINING: this Division. .. .Previous awards were for the

The July 25 deadline for starting GI Bill courses Guadalcanal . Peleliu. and Okinawa campaigns, fol- of education and training for most veterans is just lowing the first award of the Presidential Unit

two months away. . . .WW2 vets who want to take advan- Citation to the defenders of Wake Island in WW2. . . tage of this benefit must act quickly --July 26 will 1st Gyrenes who have returned stateside may wear be too late. . . .The July 25 date, established by law, the ribbon with a bronze star will bar the last chance for vets to enter or re- PHILIPPINE BURIAL ALLOWANCE: enter GI Bill training. . . .Vet must actually be in training by the deadline if he wants to continue Burial allowance for certain Filipino veterans

afterwards. . . .VA will consider him in training, of WW2 is authorized in a bill passed by both Houses

even though he has temporarily interrupted his of Congress. . . .Legion-supported, the measure awaits course for the summer vacation or for other reasons the signature of the President to become law.

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THREE RIBBONS FOR KOREAN WAR PHASES MICHIGAN VOTES BONUS FOR KOREAN CASUALTIES: Korean war has been divided into three campaigns At the spring elections, the v oters of Michigan for the purpose of determining credits for campaign approved a referendum to pay a bonus of $500 to the ribbons ... -First campaign designated "United immediate dependents of servicemen killed in Korea. Nations Defensive" lasted from June 27 through Sep- . . .Payments are to be made from the State WW2 bonus tember 15, 1950 .... Second campaign running through fund. . . .Only bona fide residents are eligible.

November 2 is called "United Nations Offensive" . . . Third phase is called "Communist China Forces In- NO BONUS ACTION IN MARYLAND tervention. " starting November 3 and lasting to a Maryland Legislature adjourned without taking date still to be announced. final action on a bonus payment for WW2 veterans of

that State. . . .Issue has been a live one in Maryland NSLI DIVIDEND PAYMENTS STARTED through several legislative sessions. .. .No agree- ment by both Houses could be reached. Payment of the 685-million NSLI dividend will proceed according to plan is the last word received NEW ECONOMY ACT SHAPING UP from Washington, first checks starting out on Legion ' s Legislative Commission warns of new and Apr i 1 23 ... . Suggestion that the payment be deferred, made by some Government officials on the plea that ominous signs of economy planning that endanger benefits veterans now authorized by law. . . .Com- it might spiral inflation, has been re.iected by the to mission points to the Report of the Joint Committee Office Defense Mobilization . . . .Payment original- StL Report Senate Report ly scheduled to begin in early April was held up on the Economic (published as No. 210, April 2, 1951) as a signal of coming attacks for "technical reasons". . . .Payments will be made .. .This report cites "selected in routine according to anniversary date of policies on vet benefits. held- -January go out first; December policies will cases where changes in legislation would effect such as:.... (a) Objective means test to be last to be paid. economies" determine whether or not a vet is entitled to treat-

ment in a VA hospital , i . e . probably use of pauper ' s "ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY" : oath in non-service-connected cases.... (b) Rescind First Navy Medal o_f Honor awarded for conspicuous already authorized $500 million VA hospital con- gallantry in the Korean war was awarded to Lt . Thomas struction program on premise that there are already J. Hudner Fall River, Massachusetts, Navy pilot. enough beds to care for service-connected cases...... The 26-year-old pilot crash-landed in enemy (c) Eliminate dental care for veterans after a territory in a futile attempt to rescue a Negro specified period after discharge, contrary to squadron mate who had been shot down. . . .Presenta- present regulations which authorize dental treat- tion was made at the White House by President Truman ment for service-connected conditions. . . . (d) Estab- on April 13. . . .Lt. Hudner is the first man to receive lish income limitations for all veterans. Redefine the highest American war decoration in person for income concept . Reduce pensions as income approaches service "above and beyond the call of duty" in the limits. Disallow presumption of total disability Korean war.... Army has awarded nine Medals of with less than 40 percent disability. . . . (e) The Honor, all posthumously if it turns out that Major value of on-the-farm training is doubtful Short General William F. Dean, missing in action, is dead of eliminating it, determine the amount of subsis- as believed. . . .The eighth MH of the Army was awarded tence payments on basis of total income .... (f) Corporal Mitchell Red Clou d. Jr . Friendship, Abolish first year interest payments which VA now Wisconsin, who gave his life to slow down an attack, makes on the loans it guarantees .... (g) Abolish while his company regrouped and evacuated the payments fp_r burial of veterans who do not die of wounded. . . .Ninth went to Private Joseph R. Ouel- service -connected causes or in VA facilities (Gov- lette. Lowell, Massachusetts, Company H, 9th In- ernment now contributes $150 toward burial of a fantry, who repeatedly risked his life for his veteran in other than Government cemetery. Legion comrades and was killed in a conspicuous act of supported this legislation in order to insure that gallantry on September 3. . . .The Medal of Honor is no veteran would be buried in a Potter 's Field. ) . . . . not lightly given: 427 men received the decoration Aside from proposal to wipe out the hospital con- in WW2. . . .The Army awarded 253. . . .The Navy Medal struction program, the Committee estimates that the of Honor was given to 57 in the Navy; 37 in the Air savings to the Government, if it reneges on the Force; 79 in the Marine Corps, and one in the esablished programs enumerated above, would be Coast Guard. $516 million in 1952 . . . .Radical cuts, harking back to the "Economy League" days of 1933, are urged by TRAINING OF GUARDSMEN A NATIONAL MUST: anti-veteran groups ... .While these groups have not An appeal has been made to American business and yet dared to attack the service-connected disabled, industry to further the national defense effort or service-connected dependents, bitter experience by helping employees who are National Guardsmen to of the past and an analysis of present propaganda attend field training this summer ... .Major General point to such attacks as not far in the offing. Raymond H. Fleming, Acting Chief, National Guard Bureau, has asked all business firms which do not SUBVERSIVE CONTROL ACT AMENDED yet have military leave policies to make a special New amendment to Subversive Activities Control effort this year to help the Guardsmen attend camp. Act (Public Law 14) , signed by President on March 28,

. . .Business leaders have cooperated with the Guard modifies original provisions to permit entry into in the past through granting liberal leave.... the United States of certain aliens who were barred Many leading firms grant full leave with pay for %he by a strict interpretation because of past affilia- - two -week camp period without loss of regular vaca tion with certain totalitarian groups . . . .New bill tion time or pay. ... "It is important to our coun- permits entry of so-called "nominal" totalitarians try's security that every National Guardsman pos- who were listed as members when under 16 years of sible receive the invaluable full-time training age.... Those who were forced to join, and those provided by summer encampment," said General who had to join to obtain food, clothing or similar

Fleming. . . ."There is no substitute for this experi- necessities. . . .The bill in no way authorizes entry ence which rounds out the training taken in the of outright communists, or those who joined totali- armory during the year . The goa l for 1951 is 1QQ tarian groups of their own free will. . . .About 2,000 percent attendance Last year 92 percent of the men war brides are affected, as well as some 8,000 were able to make camp. With the full cooperation persons who were admitted to this country before of business and industry we can reach our goal . the passage of the McCarran Act last fall.

38 "At last I discovered the whiskey that ." reall y tastes best to me . .

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the dignified educator a memorable thrill. his horse during a pack trip and frac- first jet airplane and first jet built in the Up one side of a tall building he flew, tured his skull. A doctor who made a United States, along with many test flights intending to skim over the flat roof, then 12-hour dash by horse from the nearest in the propeller-driven P-39, P-63 and straight down the other side. But instead road pronounced him too gravely hurt other experimental and prototype models. of skimming, Watson and the president to be carried over the tortuous mountain Although other pilots may have more hovered pop-eyed while a flock of the trails. Coast Guard and Air-Sea Rescue hours in rotary-wing aircraft than Dem- university's fairest, like a covey of Sally helicopters were called upon, and one of ming's 1,500-odd, few share his variety Rand understudies caught with their fans the outfits made a vain attempt to lift of experiences in them. In the spring of down, shrieked and streaked for the over the 10,000-foot peaks that encircled 1945, during the Army's Operation Frigid, nearest windows. the area. he test-flew helicopters for five weeks in The president spoke not a word until Then, early in the morning, when Alaska, through temperatures often lower the eggbeater had backed down and mountain winds are tamed and the air is than minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. landed. Then, adjusting his hat and un- cold and gives the most lift, Demming He was the first man to fly a commer- buckling his safety belt, he spoke primly took off. He made it over the high peaks cial crop-dusting helicopter. He origi- to Watson: "I would suggest," he said, without incident and the round trip, end- nated many of the maneuvers through "that the identity of your passenger on ing with "Kayo" Hallinan's delivery to a which rotary -wing dusters out-perform this flight be kept forever a secret." hospital, took exactly 56 minutes. fixed-wing aircraft in getting the stuff Aside from unpremeditated "Peeping Not long after the Hallinan rescue, a onto every plant in every corner of a Tom" activities, however, the helicopter Mrs. Warren McKay of Sacramento, Cali- field.* is capable of highly effective missionary fornia, fell from her horse in Blue Creek In 1945 he flew Dr. Hans Lundberg, work. As, for example, when a WHO Canyon, high in the Sierras east of Fresno internationally known geophysicist, on helicopter winged over a local churchyard and 29 miles from the nearest auto road. searches for precious metals, their heli- recently to shower the congregation with A painful hip injury made it impossible copter equipped with a special nose boom messages in the form of flying saucers. for her to walk or ride a horse. containing a magnetometer the doctor Nothing surprises a helicopter pilot. Again Demming had to clear more than had devised. On cross-country junkets for Not even the frantic call, last autumn, 10,000 feet to reach and remove the ac- both Bell and Hiller, Demming has flown for WHO to pluck the sophomore class cident victim. But this time he had to fly oil-well-drilling equipment into impass- president of Fresno State College from his passenger out from an altitude of able marshes, helped capture the last of the roof of a campus building, to prevent 8,500 feet, 400 feet higher than before, the whooping cranes, hover- hunted al- his abduction by milling freshmen and chalking up what is believed to be the ligators from the air and discovered that deliver him to the scene of an inter-class highest helicopter rescue on record. there is nothing to equal a helicopter for football game — thus preserving the soph- Jay Demming, a long and lean (six feet, running down such pests as jack rabbits omore honor. The rescue was promptly 140 pounds), driving individual, has been and coyotes. performed. Crazy? Perhaps. But also a dealing in the unusual for nearly a decade Demming knows his way around in convincing demonstration that nothing is now. Early in World War II, with a pilot's fixed-wing craft, too. At the 1947 National a helicopter's equal in snatching hapless license and a brand-new degree in aero- Air Races at Cleveland, Demming flew humans from the edge of disaster. nautical engineering from the University a souped-up P-39 to place third in the Twice, when other methods have failed of Illinois, he went to Malton, Ontario, Thompson Trophy Race, closely challeng- or been ruled out, Jay Demming has gone not far from his home town of Niagara ing the two lead planes — Corsairs — each in to whisk injured persons from moun- Falls, N. Y., as a civilian flight instructor with a rated horsepower 2,000 higher than tain fastnesses. in the RCAF. A year later he was hired that of the Airacobra Demming flew. The first snatch was made from the as a test pilot by Bell Aircraft. There he It was in the fall of 1948 that Demming 8,100-foot-high Benson Lake area in the pocketed Helicopter Pilot License Num- and Watson and Bud Moulton came to- Sierras of Yosemite National Park. There, ber 7, then Jet Helicopter Pilot License gether and the beginnings of WHO were 12-year-old Terence Hallinan, son of a Number 4. He test-flew the NC-1H, first planted. Demming and Watson were test San Francisco attorney, had fallen from Bell helicopter, and the XP-59, Bell's pilots, Moulton an expediter and sub-contract arranger, for boy-wonder Stanley Hiller, Jr., president of Hiller Helicopters, GENERAL MISdIIIEF By S. B. STEVENS Inc. Tall, dark, erect Watson had been a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, based at Wright Field. His specialty had been performance-test flying. Besides around 1,000 hours in B-26's and an impressive total in A-26's, he had logged time in almost everything else the Army or Navy had to offer. Approximately the 40th pilot in the world to be checked out in helicopters (he now has around 1,100 hours in them), he had been in charge of accelerated-service tests on the Sikorsky R-6, during which two of them were flown to rickety old age in a grueling two weeks. Like Demming, Watson knew scientific procedure; he had graduated from California Polytechnical Institute, at his home town of San Luis Obispo, as an electrical engineer. Moulton, a pink-cheeked lad with a quick, boyish air, had spent a couple of years of World War II in a combat-engineer detachment as a T-5 corporal in

» While an airplane spends 85 percent of iti, time in turns and flying back and forth to suit- able landing spots for reloading and refueling, AMHKlt'AN LEG I ON MAGAZINE a helicopter spends 85 percent of its time plant- ing its load.

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charge of an assault boat. Then he had important factor to ranchers everywhere Watson ferried in 30 men in a total time been sent back from France to become in the West. of one hour and forty minutes. At the a cadet at West Point. After three months The Hallinan rescue, for example, Pine Ridge fire, east of Santa Maria, after there, illness had forced him to resign his brought a contract from the Pacific Gas patrolling the perimeter of the fire and appointment. Well again, he had entered and Light Company and the State of checking on the safety of ground fire- Stanford University at Palo Alto, Cali- California for WHO helicopters to take fighting crews, he was signaled down to fornia, where he finally took his degree over the Sierra snow surveys previously pick up a bulldozer operator who had in economics. Immediately thereafter he made by hydrographers on skis or snow- been horribly scalded when the radiator went to work for Hiller. shoes. of his machine blew up. So, as the three men worked together, Once, while waiting for a flight rendez- The man had already been given emerg- the WHO idea began to shape itself. Fi- vous with Dernming and the hydrograph- ency first aid, but the field doctor gave nally, a little more than a year ago, hold- ers, Watson landed his ship on a smooth him only a 20 percent chance of recovery. ing the franchise for Hiller sales and crown of snow-crust that covered a small Without helicopter transport, the burned service in the Fresno area, Western Heli- mountain meadow. He stepped from the man faced a three-mile litter trip to the copter Operations, Inc. began to function. ship, took a few steps and dropped nearest fire trail, then a six-mile truck Within six months the $80,000 corporation through the crust up to his armpits. He ride to the nearest base camp. From there was in the black. had landed on a thin shell of snow tented he would still be separated from the near- Because WHO's primary business is eight or ten feet from the ground by a est hospital by four hours and a jolting agricultural, the men have had to become precarious network of manzanita branches! ambulance trip. quasi-specialists in entomology, agron- As it was, 30 minutes elapsed before the omy and kindred subjects. Their price helicopter could be called. Six minutes per helicopter hour varies from a mini- later, Harry landed at the scene of the mum flat fee of $50 for the quickest, easi- accident. In seven minutes the man was est flight to something over $100 per hour in base camp for a half hour of field for highly hazardous operations. For $50 medical treatment. From there, the 25- an hour Dernming or Watson will teach mile airlift to the Santa Maria hospital you how to fly a wandering windmill. But took exactly 25 minutes. don't expect to become an accomplished At the Big Sur Forest fire, along the stump jumper in one easy lesson — it may rugged California coast west of King City, be true that anyone can hover a helicopter the ranger in charge told Dernming that in a few minutes, but it takes an average if he'd had another helicopter on the scene of 12 hours before solo, then many more a day earlier he could probably have spot- flying hours before you're anywhere near ted enough men in strategic locations to competency in all situations. hold the fire and prevent the holocaust There are growing groups of ranchers that eventually took place. who consider WHO the miracle-workers One of the heliports from which Dern- of the west. Take the fresh- vegetable ming and Nick flew while working on the ranchers of Half Moon Bay, below San Big Sur fire was a rocky ledge 3,000 feet Francisco. Aphides were sucking the crops straight up a cliff from the waves of the to ruin, and even fixed-wing spraying had Pacific. The two men were stranded there had little effect. Then WHO began opera- one day by the failure of their ship's gen- tions, and in a few months' time had erator. While a Forestry Service plane wiped out the hordes of bugs. circled overhead, the men searched for Other ranchers have had their ripe a way to signal their needs to the plane. cherries and grapes, about to split when Suddenly Nick rushed to the helicopter, wet by unseasonal rains and then shone which was loaded with food supplies. Back on by a bright sun, dried swiftly by the he ran, his arms loaded with cartons. powerful down-wash of WHO helicopters. "That's the way it is . . . Some guys And in a few minutes the circling plane ." And the harvest of figs, wherein hand seem to lead charmed lives. Others . was on its way to pick up the needed picking neglects the ripe fruit on high AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE part— while Dernming and Nick gathered branches, has been successfully accom- up the dozens of strictly fresh eggs they plished by the blast from a hovering had laid out to spell their message of helicopter. Slowly, testing the snow carefully distress. During nighttime or daytime dusting around him and expecting to see the ship No one can dispute the helicopter's un- operations, Nick or one of the other me- drop out of sight at any moment, he slid matched worth in cheating death and dis- chanics is always near with the supply himself out of the hole. Then, stepping as aster. Yet even in soberest straightaway trailer and one of the yellow pickup though he were walking on eggs, he flight, looking like a runaway electric fan, trucks. Filling the dusting hoppers that reached the ship, got it started, and took it still leaves laughter in its wake. stand out like gopher pouches on the off—just as it began to crunch through There was, for instance, the Sunday sides of the helicopter fuselage sifts dust the crust. morning when Watson was rotoring slow- on the men and their clothing. On spray Mountain flying, winter or summer, is ly along Malibu Beach, admiring the lush jobs, the mist from the horizontal, an- a tricky operation. Devilish drafts whirl homes with their plush interiors. As he tenna-like pipes that jut from either side up and down canyons and curl over approached one whose oceanward walls of the craft seeps into hair and cloth and ridges. Treacherous eddies and twisting were entirely of glass, he could see a man skin. currents can slap aircraft into rock walls within, comfortably sprawled in a deep Thus during crop season, powerful or down into spiking timber. And always, chair, a newspaper held before him and scents follow the men everywhere. At at altitudes near its service ceiling, the the foot of one crossed leg bobbing up home or in restaurants their silverware lifting members of an aircraft—whether and down. As the rhythmic beat of the turns black from sulphur fumes. If they they are wings or rotor blades— are biting rotor blades reached the man through the have been spreading fertilizer, patrons at at thin air with lessened lift. glass, he lowered a corner of the paper, nearby tables move away soon after the The precariousness of mountain flying glanced out, then went back to his read- men sit down. Once, reeking of 2-4D and is magnified during the fighting of forest ing. registering in a hotel, the men were ad- fires. Last summer, through some of the A moment later, however, he was on his dressed respectfully as "Doctors" by the worst fires of California's history, Jay feet, newspaper flung aside and mouth desk clerk. Dernming and Harry Watson, nearly al- agape, struggling vainly to reach the win- While dusting and spraying may be ways with one of their crewmen along, dow for a better look— all the while fight- their primary agricultural work, WHO flew for long periods. ing frantically but futilely to dislodge a helicopters have been called upon to aid At the Porterville fire, where it took a small wastebasket into which he had in the snow-water forecasts that are an man many hours to ride in by horse, jammed his foot. the end

The American Legion Magazine • Tune, 1951 • 41 Two Killed, Two Injured (Continued from page 19)

bewilderment. There were many like that laughs for her mother. We thought we'd they reminded each other too strongly of in the Ohio town where the Alberts, the gathered all of them up but we missed the horrors they had experienced. Any- Evarts, the Jordans and Mrs. Martin lived. some." way, they saw less of each other and now One of them said to me months after the Still another heart-breaking aftermath Grace is marrying someone else, a man funeral, still uncomprehending, "You to every car accident are the rumors from out of town. know, Martha Martin was my dearest that spread through a town afterward. Compared to the human suffering, the friend. We were all together that night. Was the driver drinking? Was he speed- cost of an accident is trifling. Still it can In fact, I'd talked to her just before she ing? Were the kids necking? One-armed mount up to a staggering sum, giving got into Frank's car and we made a date driving, huh? It is especially easy for the point to what an insurance man said in for the next day." She stopped a moment, careless and thoughtless to lay the blame discussing this accident: "Anyone who remembering. on liquor in accidents involving young drives a car and doesn't carry $50,000— "That accident affected more people people. The Jordan family had to suffer $100,000 liability these days is just plain than any other accident we've ever had that kind of rumor and innuendo. It did crazy." This particular accident is esti- in our town. Everybody turned out for no good for the survivors to insist that mated as follows: the funeral. I'd never been to one before. they hadn't even been drinking beer. Hospital expenses, doctors' bills, I'd never seen anyone dead before. Frank There were people who didn't believe x-rays, etc., for the two injured. .$2,000 and Martha were both in the same funeral them, who cited the earlier accident Funerals and burial services for the home. So we had it twice as bad. We had Frank Jordan had had as evidence that two dead 2,000 to look at one, then the other—our closest he was untrustworthy and unreliable. Incidental expenses 1,000 friends—dead. Frank is dead and out of range of such Cost of wrecked car and replacement 5,000 "And the worst part is, it'll never be gossip, but his parents are painfully aware Earning expectancies of the two 20- over. Just the other day, now more than of it. year- olds (45 years' expectancy a year after the accident, Frank's mother And what of the two who lived through each $3,000 per annum) 270,000 told me she'd got his notice from the the crash, Grace Albert and Larry Evart? @ Grand total $280,000 draft board. There it was, in an official Today, more than a year after the ac- envelope, addressed to him just as though cident, you'll still notice an after-effect And that's just one of thousands of fatal he were alive. She had to get his death in Larry. He has a nervous way of twitch- accidents that take place in the U. S. certificate to prove he wasn't available. ing, and he holds his head sideways. For every year. Statisticians have estimated Lots of letters came for him and for a long time Larry couldn't work. Physi- the annual economic loss to the Ameri- Martha after they'd died. People forget cally he seemed all right, but nothing can people through motor accidents at how hard constant reminders like that seemed important to him, including his $2,500,000,000-or more than the cost of can be for families, opening up the old job. As for Grace, she still hasn't returned operating the entire public school system scars. to her job. throughout the nation for a year. "For weeks after Martha was buried, "She's a bundle of nerves," a friend ex- What is frequently not understood by her mother kept finding things to remind plained, "and only the other day she had the average car owner or driver, how- her, all around the house, everywhere it a severe hemorrhage from her nose. You ever, is that he pays part of the cost of seemed—little notes left in unexpected know, her nose was badly injured and every accident, whether he himself is in- places. She used to do that. The night they had to take a lot of stitches." volved or not. You may be the most care- she was killed, she'd gone out in such a But something happened to both Grace ful driver in the world, the most respon- hurry she'd left the dirty dishes. So she and Larry that doesn't appear in any sible person in your community; you may had written little notes to her mother formal record. Among their friends it was never be in an accident yourself and yet telling her she'd do the dishes when she known that they were practically engaged. you pay for every accident. Car insur- got in—not to bother with them—don't go That was understood from the time they ance rates are in direct proportion to the into the kitchen, mom—all that kind of were in high school. After the accident, accident rate in a city or state. There- thing—and then she'd tucked them in here though, there was a change in their feel- fore, the higher the total accident rate, and there all over the house just for ings toward each other. It may be that the higher the individual insurance rates. But here again there's more to it than appears on the surface. The big sums involved mean red tape, litigation, time lost and further pain for all those who are involved. In this case, the mother of the dead girl has started legal action against the parents of the dead boy for $50,000. Unless there is a settlement out of court, this case will require a trial in which everyone concerned will have to live once again the agony of the accident. And there is an excellent likelihood that new fric- tions will be generated in the friendly little town. Can any conceivable good come from all this? I put this question to a police official. "It can have a good effect," he replied, "if all those who know of the case, and those who will read what you write about it, take the lesson to heart. And the lesson is simply that the person at the wheel of a car must realize the terrible responsibility he owes not just to himself and others in his own car, but to every car traveling the same road with him. And beyond that, he must keep in mind, always, that he has a responsibility to many others not in the car with him or even traveling that highway." He went on to describe an experience you don't mind, sir. I'm just resting a moment!" that everyone has had. 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As you crawl by you shudder at the sight is sheared away as cleanly as an old-time funeral of someone you love who trusted

of the blood on the pavement, the broken Comanche could do it. your judgment and skill enough to put forms partly covered by coats, the dazed The two girls in the back seat will his life in your hands. And then it will be and bleeding survivors, and the twisted eventually recover, though it's hard to you—or your family, if you die—who will steel and broken glass that a few minutes believe it to look at those broken and have to start on this heart-breaking road before were cars. twisted arms and legs. One of the girls, of hospitals, funerals, insurance, law suits, You vow that you'll take it easy, and though, will frequently wish she had died newspaper stories; the road that winds on your foot is light on the accelerator. Then, because even months of plastic surgery through years of grief and anxiety and as the road rolls beneath your car and won't do much to improve that ghastly complications. the image of the wrecked cars and bodies scar from her eye to her chin. The other, Anyone can learn to drive a car and fades, you find yourself moving faster, after a month or two, won't show much handle it reasonably well. But how many and faster. Eventually you find yourself outward sign of the crash. people can learn to handle themselves? behind a car that is moving too slowly. It's just as well you won't be needing How many can learn to control the im- The road is narrow and there's a curve your car because its value will barely patience that makes them take a danger- ahead. Still, a person can't spend all day cover the cost of towing it away. And the ous chance to save a few seconds' time, crawling along behind such a slowpoke. car you hit head-on is in no better shape. with the same ease they control the flow You are doing 65 as you pass him right on Fortunately there was only one person in of gas to the engine? How many can brake the crest of the hill. Fortunately, this time, that car. They're putting him in the am- the impulse that makes them cut out of a there's no car coming from the opposite bulance but anyone can see that it's a traffic line without signaling, as efficiently

direction. . . waste of time. as they brake the car before a cop's up- The next time, who knows? And where You had some insurance but it's only lifted hand? will it leave you? If you're doing 65 then, $10,000. And the people involved in the The clue to America's appalling auto- the chances are they'll find the steering accident, or their survivors, will bring mobile accident rate lies there, within the wheel twisted down where it smashed suit against your estate for a total of individual personalities of every one of your ribs and crushed your insides. You $300,000. Of course you didn't leave any the millions of licensed drivers. The re- won't know it, but the intern riding the such estate, but what you did leave won't sponsibility for accident prevention, in ambulance will barely look at you. He'll do your widow and orphans any good the final analysis, lies not with the auto- merely nod to the state trooper so he can when the final settlement is made. mobile designers, the safety organizations, get your name in the part of his report If you think this is far-fetched, ask the traffic engineers, the police. It lies with that deals with those killed. anyone who knows the score. Your insur- you—the individual driver. Are you going Your friend sitting alongside you will ance man can cite cases, and not just to to assume your responsibility— or take have his name entered in the same sec- scare you into buying insurance either. needless chances with death? Will you tion of the report. It will be easy to see The police can tell you. Accident reports wind up an insurance statistic because you what happened there. The glass didn't and court records will confirm it. couldn't learn to handle yourself? Thirty- break but it looks like a spider web from It can be your funeral—tomorrow—or five thousand Americans did last year. the impact. And the poor fellow's scalp the next day— or the next. Or it can be the THE END

The Greatest Cowboy of Them All (Continued from page 17) a young boy in Oklahoma, where my face was swarthy—attributable to his part intricate silver filigree work. He wore a family moved from Tioga, Texas, my Indian ancestry, and it was highlighted brilliant, wide belt studded with silver birthplace, Tom Mix was my favorite by a prominent curved nose and a gash work and jewels; and when he went to actor. I lived on a ranch and liked being of a mouth. parties, he always went formal — with around horses. But I always envied the Tom was mighty proud of his black head a purple or white gabardine jacket. exciting life that Tom Mix led on and of hair which he always kept down with Tom was a great story teller, but he off screen. Ranch life can be very dull, "stickum." "How kind the Lord has been was always minimizing his own exploits. believe me. to me," he used to say, "he's preserved He spoke careless-like, with plenty of cuss I first met Tom Mix in 1933, when he my hair." To the day he died, his hair was words and in a West-by-South-by-Penn- was playing the Dill Bros—Tom Mix Cir- jet black and he always looked as though sylvania Dutch twang with a slight Scotch cus in Harrisburg, 111. I was doing a sing- he stepped out of a bandbox. burr. He was born, in 1882, of Scotch- ing and guitar act at a local theater. I Tom was the first cowboy to go in for Cherokee parents, in Dubois, Pennsyl- went around to see him, and he seemed colorful clothing. He wore custom- vania, and not near El Paso, Texas, as glad to meet me. He had heard some of tailored, fancy-embroidered silk shirts in some accounts have said. He spoke away my cowboy records, he told me, and liked pastel colors; purple and saddle-tan whip- down low, like a minister intoning a them. I had just had an offer from Mas- cord trousers, covered by wide, flapping funeral service. This was due to his being cot Pictures to come to Hollywood and leather chaps; and hand-sewn boots with shot once in the goozle — the sound box. I asked Tom what he thought about them. It happened when he was a professional He told me they were a good outfit and soldier with the U. S. Artillery in the advised me to go to work for them. Cuban fighting in 1898. He came out of A few months later, I went out to the the bloody battle unhurt, but when he Coast to work for Mascot, and looked started to round up a band of guerrillas, up Tom Mix again. We started going one of them shot at him as he called out around together and I got to know him to them to surrender. The bullet went very well. At the time he was in his early right through his mouth and came out fifties and his movie career was slowing the back of his head. How he lived is a down. miracle but three months later he was I asked his advice as to whether I should fitter than a blue ribbon stallion, a tribute stick to Westerns or try to become a sing- to his fine physical condition. ing star in regular pictures. His next move was to Africa in 1899 to "Gene," he said, "the life of an ordinary break in horses for the British Army to star may only be five years. But a West- use in the Boer War. He got tired of that, ern star can go on forever-it's like life so he gave exhibitions of riding and rop- insurance." It was good advice and I'm ing to British officers. Finally, he got into glad I took it. the fighting. His division was licked and Tom was a perfect physical specimen "He thought I motioned for him to he was taken prisoner of war. But he and kept himself in excellent condition. come on past when I was merely dry- liked fighting so much that a little while He was pretty tall, and had wide shoul- ing my fingernail polish." later he entered the war again this time ders, a narrow waist and lean legs. His AMERICAN LF.IIION MAGAZINE on the Boers' side.

The American Legion Magazine* • June. 1951 • 43 A short while after that, in 1900 he was bit player and sort of technical adviser. his pictures always played the big "A" seeing more action in the Philippines, and "After the pitcher was over," he told theaters while most other Westerns stayed he was bored because it was raining all me, "I jest nachally went back to my old in the "B's." the time. He got involved in a couple of pursuits. I found myself in the movies There's a lot more to Tom Mix's fabu- skirmishes. From there he went to China, agin doin' ropin' and stunts with horses lous story. I don't know it all, but what also in 1900, to take part in cleaning up in Colorado. Then I quit again—or mebbe I do know convinces me he was the great- the situation created by the Boxer re- I was fired, I ferget which. Next thing I est cowboy of them all. bellion. know I was down in Mexico with Old Apparently, many others felt this way, "I couldn't complain about bein' bored, Blue." Old Blue was his first horse. too, when in 1936 he was stricken with there," he told me later. "During the siege He fought in the first Mexican Revo- appendicitis, and peritonitis developed. lution in 1911 under Francisco Madero. He was given up for lost, and the whole WAI.LY He took part in the capture of Juarez and world mourned. Millions anxiously was shot in the right leg and was eventu- watched the bulletins announcing his ally captured. He was sentenced to be failing condition. But his tremendous shot and was actually up against a wall stamina and fighting spirit won out—he blindfolded, so he told me, when one of was nigh indestructible—and he survived. the officers who had testified against him He owned several cars, and was fond changed his story. of speeding along in a fancy job with "I alius wanted a military funeral, dang pony skin upholstery. In June, 1944, he it," he told me, "and that was the closest was riding along Red Rock Road between I ever come to it." Florence, Arizona, and Tucson, on which Mix crossed back over the border and my own ranch faces. There had been made his way to El Paso, where he got a heavy rains and the road was flooded. He wire from Selig, who had another part for came to a section where they were digging him. He went to Chicago, where he out a culvert to drain off the rain, and a learned that he was to double for an actor with a pretty face who was sup- WALLA" posed to kill some wolves barehanded. (From April, 1935 A.l.M.) "You can't do that," Mix told them. "No one has ever killed wolves with his bare hands." But they offered him so of Peking, I was guarding men at work much money he said he'd try. They rigged up on the railroad between Peking and Tien- hew !!?- if t&r, a from the wolves' to a win- tsin. All of a sudden, there was an chute cage explosion near me. My eyebrows and hair dow, with a slot on the side so he could see them coming. As they popped out of were hangin' down in front of my eyes, and blood was streaming all over my the chute he grabbed one by the tail. "It bit wrist," recalled, I head. My scalp had been lifted better my he "but held onto it. I swung it around, hitting its than a Comanche could do it, and it just head on the ground. I stunned it and I flopped over. They stitched it back on again and now I'm as good as new." thought I killed it. The hero came in, put He finally ran out of wars and settled his foot on the wolf's carcass, and started in Texas. He became a Texas Ranger and emotin' and making a speech when the held the job for three years. On this job wolf woke up and bit him." he was critically wounded four times In another picture, Tom saw a leopard chasing desperadoes and picked up three go after the leading lady with his teeth, slugs in his body which remained with which was not in the script. He grabbed him until his death. the snarlin' critter by the tail and wouldn't He was very modest in telling how he let go. He got clawed up something awful captured the notorious Shonto brothers. before someone else clubbed the animal They were a pair of outlaws who had unconscious. (From June, 1935 A.L.M.) terrorized half the population of New One story he loved to tell was about Mexico. There was a reward of $750 for the time he was supposed to be in a movie these desperadoes, so Mix went after stagecoach race and the villain came up barricade had been put up to stop motor- them alone, and with only one gun. He and cut the leaders. Tom climbed down ists. Tom was going so fast, he didn't see cornered them in a little Indian village. An on the wagon tongue, between the two the barricade in time and plowed right Indian woman shot Tom in the back, but wheel horses, and recaptured the leader. through it. But his number wasn't up this he shot down the two killers. "While I was joggin' along astraddle that time, and he came through with only a After leaving the Texas Rangers, Tom there wagon tongue," he recalled, "I wuz few bruises. drifted up and down the West. He took wonderin* to myself: Who the dang hill But on October 12th, Columbus Day, of jobs as sheriff or marshal for a couple of thought up this stunt. Then I recalled that the same year, he was zipping along the counties and towns. Eventually, to make I had worked it out when I was drumina- same road under practically the same extra money, he entered rodeos and found tin' on the corral fence the previous circumstances. He was on his way to the that he could do better winning prizes in Sunday." Coast from El Paso, where he had gone them than working as a law enforcer. It was stuff like this that made Tom to see our old friend Ken Maynard per- In 1908, he won the national champion- the great performer that he was. He al- form in a circus. He wanted to stop at ship at the Frontier Day celebration in ways gave a good show because he was Tucson to see Ed Eckles, the sheriff, a Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was cashing his swift on his feet, and leaped and dived long-time friend. He went through an- check at a bank when the president told and wrestled with his opponents with no other barricade, only a few hundred yards him that a Chicago producer by the name attempt to take it easy. from the scene of the first crash—and this of Col. William N. Selig was looking for Tom Mix set the pattern for Western time, the double-O showed up and he a fellow who owned a small ranch to help pictures which still holds. He never cashed in his chips. make a movie. He dropped in to see Col. smoked, drank or gambled in his pictures. It may sound corny, but he actually died Selig in Chicago. Selig offered him $100 He never killed an animal unless his life with his boots on. This was what he a week. This was big money to Tom, who was actually endangered. He always let wanted, but he never expected it to be in had never made more than $50 a month, the villain draw his gun first. And there an automobile accident. It would have so he took it. was always a message in his stories. In- broken his stout heart to know that when His first picture was an educational film cidentally, he was different from most they picked him out of the wreckage, his on beef, and was shot on his own ranch movie cowboys—he was allowed to get his slick shock of hair was all mussed up and with professional actors. He was only a gal. That, probably, was one reason why muddy. the end

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AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE mother kept one in her kitchen to remind her to take stock of herself that one of us is a traitor. It's damned now and then. hard on the rest of us, and I suggest that whoever it is come clean." "I slipped that bottle over the There it was again, the suspicion that it made us all look furtively at each other, cucumber when started to grow on

calculating. . . . the vine," he went on. "And like "We'll do just as the General says," whispered Jim Nevers. "Exactly. Evi- certain viewpoints, not noticed, it just dently we're to blow our own brains out. grew grew— it's there to stay." What a story! And who'd ever believe and now it?" I sit, Suddenly we all realized how time was From where we could take a passing and that if we had letters to cue from Squint and watch for our write or to make our peace with God, or any of the other things condemned men own "blind spots" and prejudices do, we had better get at it. The group before they grow too big to get rid of. dissolved into the dark. I crawled under my poncho and wrote We've got to respect our neighbor's to Alicia by flashlight. I tried to imagine right to his preferences . . . preferences her face when she read the words killed in action, but only told her that we were for a certain make of car, a favorite headed for more action and that I had movie star, or a temperate glass of a hunch. I tried to get through to God, too. I'll admit I didn't feel any of the beer after work. We won't be tripped soul-shattering emotions that are sup- by any blind spots if we keep our eyes posed to be the portion of the condemned. I sat down on a slope in the grass. Off —and minds— open! to the East there were a few streaks of light. The moon ought to be up in an hour, I thought. A few cirrus clouds were moving lazily across the sky, whitened by the light of the unrisen moon. I sat drinking them in and beginning to feel a little peace, when I heard someone stumbling near me. A figure passed within fifteen feet. I could just make him out against the slowly lightening sky. It was Wood. Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundation

The American Legion Magazine • June, 1351 • J£J He was almost running and half-sobbing, "A man who'd betray his country would either talking to himself or praying out do the same for his friends, too," I in- loud. He tripped and fell, and lay there, sisted stubbornly. "Nothing could be too crying. low for a man like that." Whatever his personal agony, I didn't Jim sighed. "Maybe you're right, Mac. want to watch it. Weary men were lying Maybe you're right." everywhere, but I found a place. But I I looked at the luminous dial of my couldn't stay put, and when I saw around watch. It was 2225. a shoulder of the hill, a spurt of flame "Time, Jim," I said. We rose and walked

at the base of a tree, I walked toward it. back. I felt very close to him then. "Hi there, fella," Jim's voice said as I We were first. The rest came within a came up. "Have a last smoke. Oh, I know minute, with Wood dragging himself in you're about to bawl me out. But what last, his face white. the hell? There's nothing in the sky, and General MacDonald showed the strain, how far can you see a cigarette? They too. He just looked at us all again for a New Models! New Features! know where we are, anyway." He waved full minute, one after the other, as if his his hand. "Have a chair." eyes were trying to search out the I sat down beside him and leaned thoughts behind our faces. Then he did against the tree, our shoulders touching. a strange thing. He strode around the table We talked — about the others, of course, and shook hands with each of us in turn, one by one, trying to hit upon the traitor. beginning with Colonel Detrick Nevers after a while came out with a "Gentlemen," he said then, "has any VISIBLE FUEL LITERS theory—that whoever it was had probably of you a statement to make?" There was no finer liter to give... or to get! been caught quite young in some idealis- no reply, though he waited longer than tic stuff about a Brave New World. he needed. Young Wood came to my mind then, "Very well, then," he commanded. For Dads, Grads, his wide, almost-innocent eyes and his "Follow me." sensitive mouth. Marching ahead, he led us out into and Servicemen "But what about such a guy when he the night. We went over the uneven found it was a lie, Jim? Wouldn't he ground, past sleeping men, and through quit them cold?" the layers of outposts until we reached Jim shook his head slowly. the North Road. The Old Man never

"I doubt it, Mac boy. It would be like looked back. The rest of us followed in giving up your religion. A man like that single file, in order of rank. I remember would be nearly pulled apart, I guess." thinking, This is the strangest death- "I don't see how anybody could live march I'LL ever walk in, and wonder- with himself as a traitor, Jim, even if he ing why the guilty man didn't make a did get sucked into it like that. How can break for it. Well, why didn't / make a he /ee(? break for it? My conscience was clear, "He must feel lower than a louse, now, and life is sweet. What made me obey Mac," said Jim sadly. "He's probably liv- like this? Not the habit of discipline, ing through a deeper private hell than merely, I thought. Not the Old Man's iron will anyone else could know, sick and tired . will, either. It's my own will. The and waiting for the end of it all." that makes a man die for a cause he loves. "But how," I insisted, "could he let the A will stronger than the will to survive rest of us take the rap with him?" (is a person. "I don't see," agreed Jim, "how he We went on about a mile after we could be that low." passed the last outpost. The road followed

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48 * The American Ley ion Magazino • June, 1951 the stream, and wound around the loViS of the hills. The moon had risen in the east, hanging over mountains and forest like a round, almost blood-red lantern, and there was a little more light. At a spot where the road made a U-turn into the hill and out again, the General stopped. We all halted and waited. With wordless gestures he lined us up about three paces from each other, our backs to the dark mass of the steep slope. He stood

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on the other side of the road, outlined against the brightening sky, oblivious that it made him an easy target. For a moment the light seemed to be playing tricks on me. I could have sworn he was a Highland chieftain standing there, straight and tall in bonnet and kilts, claymore in hand, his sporran white against the plaid. A Highland chieftain commanding implicit obedience by the immemorial right of his blood, which no clansman or septsman could question. Behind him the illusion persisted: the moonlit blue of the middle distance was the heather of Glen Creran, behind it the massive shoulder of Ben Vair. Perhaps it was an ancestral memory such as could come only to one whose mouth was suddenly filled with the acrid, bitter taste of death. Whatever it was, it dissolved at the sound of General MacDonald's voice. It was a voice that haunts me yet — low with regret and compassion, yet firm and clear with inexorable resolution. "You will draw at my command. When I command 'aim,' you will place the muzzle against your right temple . . . Good- bye, gentlemen." Next to me, Jim murmured, "So long, Mac boy." I whispered back: "You were wrong, Jim. We're all going. The louse is a louse to the end." "I guess you're right, boy," said Jim. I thought I could hear him swallow. Then he said again, "So long, Mac." I drew at the command. It still seemed 94.4 PROOF • 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N. J.

The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 • unreal. I knew it was real but didn't be- "But how, sir, what—" stammered Hil- he did not, I believed he would attempt lieve it. This couldn't be happening to me. liard. escape by removing the supposedly live "Aim!" The Old Man nodded. "I owe you an cartridges from his pistol in the dark, and I pressed the muzzle to my temple. It explanation, gentlemen. When you left substituting for them—in case I inspected was cold. I tried to fix the image of Alicia your sidearms for inspection tonight, I your arms again—what he supposed to be and our boy in my mind, confusedly myself removed the live clips from them a harmless clip of dummies from my box. thinking they'd be the first thing I'd see Doubtless he planned to simulate death when I woke up. and escape when I left the spot of your "Fire!" execution. Thus the guilty man, I be- I squeezed the trigger. The world dis- lieved, would all unwittingly both ex- solved in sound. I felt myself falling, pose and execute himself. This he has blacking out. Then I hit the ground. It done. I have no words to express my con- hurt my hip, and as I came out of my daze tempt for one who was at once a traitor I knew I wasn't either dead or waking and—a coward." up. I raised myself on one elbow and I felt sick. looked around. Next to me, Jim Nevers "So far as others are concerned," the was lying crumpled up in that utterly still General continued, "we have all been on way that tells you someone is dead. reconnaissance. Rather unusual, I will Colonel Detrick was standing examining admit. Major Nevers was killed by an the mechanism of his pistol. Hilliard, on enemy sniper." He turned to me. "Cap- the other side of Jim, was swaying on one tain Maclan, when we return you will knee, looking dazed. On the other side detail a burial party—and command it of me, young Wood lay in a faint. General yourself." I felt sicker than before. MacDonald hadn't moved. We revived Wood and the five of us I pulled myself together, got up and "DAMN the torpedoes! Full steam marched abreast down the road. Halfway bent over Jim. He had let his whole clip ahead!" to the first outpost, the Old Man said: \M\ Fill AN I.Kc;illN MAi. \/IM go. Then I went over to General Mac- "Gentlemen, you will observe that the Donald and saluted. situation is now changed. For the first "Major Nevers is dead, sir," I reported. all. In their place I substituted specially time we know what the enemy will do, That was a queer thing to do, and I don't weighted dummies from my box— if you and he does not know what we will do. know yet why I did it. will examine your clips you will find them He imagines that we will move in the He returned my salute. The others almost perfect imitations. I filled the box morning on the North Road. Doubtless he came up, too, except for Wood, who was of dummies, of which you all knew, with expects to occupy Podan by the South still out cold. live clips, and left it on the table where Road before dawn, trapping us in the "Gentlemen," said the General, "I re- you saw it while I went out to inspect our valley. I gave Major Nevers sufficient gret having had to subject you to this disposition. time to get that message out, however he experience. You bore yourselves well." "Until the end, I hoped the traitor, did it, before 2130. The enemy, we may He added regretfully, "I was afraid it was whoever he was, would come forward assume, is already in motion. We will Nevers." for the sake of his brother officers. But if move in an hour. After his main body

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has passed the junction and prepared his 1 recall that night with a feeling of be- New, Patented Comfort ambuscade, we will take him from the wildered unreality. Nothing so fantastic rear. The 51st Regiment will take the could ever have happened. Then I re- Idea from Allen-A North Road and spring his trap." member Jim's lonely grave far away in General MacDonald's plan came off, those alien hills, and the little cross of "LIVE-RUBBER though a battle never goes according to wood I set above his head. You see, I had plan, as you expect it. The enemy had to go through his pockets before we divided his forces, almost as if he were buried him. I found the clip of dummies. S-T-GrGT'C-H'' ignorant of our intentions. But the 51st He had carefully wrapped it in a small Regiment sprang the trap prematurely, flag— the flag he had sworn to defend the enemy recalled the forces that might and had betrayed. I took his pistol from have intercepted our main body, and so the grip of his cold hand, and examined the General was able to achieve the tacti- the clip. The ammo the General had left cal surprise he planned, after all. for the traitor had all been made by So the Command was saved, and it had Remington. The clip Jim put in was from something to do with the eventual out- Vickers. It hadn't come from the Gen- come of the war. But sometimes, even yet, eral's box. THE END Miami (Continued from page 23) FISHING has a good-sized pool. You can also go over to the new Crandon Park, a huge New comfort idea inT-Shirts! Live-rubber Fishing opportunities range from rent- s-t-r-e-t-c-h in the shoulder — new development which is Miami's official seams can't ing tackle for 50^ and buying about a bind. And in the knit-with-«^/o« collar — bathing beach. It is reached by the quarter's worth of bait to angle off the it's easy to pull on, holds its shape. 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There is also a handsome new Disneyish Pickin' Chicken places which Dade County Auditorium out on West are at 15th, 23rd and 79th Streets, on Col- Flagler Street, which will accommodate lins Avenue. For about $1.25 you get a 2,500 persons, and at which the 40 and 8 basket filled with southern fried chicken may meet. A spanking new lime-colored and shoe string potatoes, with a salad, MANY GANE NEEDLE USERS RE- auditorium has just PORT up to 25 % more mileage, FREE been completed at and hot biscuits and coffee on the side. If you faster pick-up. easier starting Auto Economy Manual Bay Front Park on smoother Idling. Biscayne Boulevard NOW TEST A GANE NEEDLE IN Tells how to save want to splurge, try Joe's Stone Crab at YOUR CAR for ten days, then com- gas, tires, brakes, in downtown Miami which can easily hold pare your mileage and perform- etc. Also introduces 227 Biscayne Boulevard or The Light- ance. If satisfied, send $1.50 per many new economy the National Commander's dinner and the needle (8 cyl. cars take 2). If products. (Sent ab- house up at Baker's Haulover, both fam- not satisfied, just return It — fair solutely free to all Auxiliary's States dinner. There are a enough? Since authorities differ on who try Gane ous seafood spots; or the more conven- its merits and some users report Needles) number of large rooms, such as the meet- no improvement, TRY BEFORE tional Red Coach Grill. YOU BUYI (Gane Needle replaces ing room of the Plaza, Idling adjustment screw In carburetors — easily Installed Roney big enough In a few minutes). All in all, you can't help but have a WRITE TODAY. ENCLOSE NO MONEY. PAY POSTMAN to accommodate the 8 and 40 meetings. NOTHING. Just send us your name, address, and make good time during the Convention, and and year of car. The American Legion Auxiliary will NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE RETAIL CORP., Dept. C-6 you'll have to use unusual restraint not 350 W. Washington Blvd. Venice, California convene in the new $1,800,000 Miami to extend your stay for a week or more. . . —_ ' Beach auditorium, and the Auxiliary You might even consider taking a week- headquarters hotel will be the Delano, end in exciting Havana, only an hour's two minutes' walk away. flight away by plane; or to restful Nas- \Se/fix l i lll.iiiiiil sau, just as close; or to colorful Key West, So Easy.. Just Moisten.. EATING Wolferooms a like time-distance from Miami. How hooks Press. .Up in a Minute 1 j You can excellent have, 1 Clo«««* get seafood, chicken, good a time you and how long you 1 Firm as a rock — fully tested ^MaflbSk Chinese and Italian meals at a number stay in this palm-studded playground, 2 'o,25c of places both in Miami and Miami Beach, depends on how much energy and money In white, red, yellow, black, -green, blue, pink. At Department, 5 and and you don't have to pay Stork Club you have to spend. 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Myrton Purkiss of 124 N. Lincoln, Ful- A trio of Corona del Mar, Calif., vet- lerton, Cal., came out of the army after erans have worked their way into the 40-odd months overseas with the idea of motion picture industry from an amateur making art pay off — and he's done it to beginning — and are making it pay off. the tune of $150 a throw. V. E. Ellsworth, a former captain in Signal Corps' motion picture section, The former GI, due to his art training the Monohan, sergeant scenario before the war, had spent a large share Dave master Offer writer with the same organization during good in PIPES of his service time in preparing maps and World War II, and Beatrice Medes, a U. S. A. relief models of terrain for use in plan- only WAC lieutenant, are the officers and own- ning by higher echelon. With his discharge • ers of Mercury-International Pictures, GOOD in hand, he realized that ceramics, his TYPICAL HUSKY 1415 Coast Highway, Corona del Mar, an DEALER'S future, already was a crowded profession. organization which originally specialized his ASSORTMENT His plan of decorating the products of in filming 16-millimeter TV commercials. These pipes of genuine imported briar kiln with individual hand-painted designs The company was formed when Ells- were taken out of the factory produc- basis, tion line of $3 50 to $5.00 pipes be- was the however, for a profitable worth and Monohan worked out a script fore final smoothing and polishing business. built around the Newport Harbor vaca- due to defects which do not impair their smoking quality. Smoke them At present, Purkiss is making large urn- tion beaches and filmed an "epic" titled "as is" or wax and polish them your- shaped lamp bases which sell through his "California Way of Life" on their Sunday self for handsome, natural finish. exclusive agents for approximately $150 holidays. A major studio heard of the WALLY FRANK, Ltd. each. The lamp bases, although often from project, looked at the completed film 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YORK 7, N.Y. Dept. 864 the same mold and identical in shape, which had been shot in color and prompt- Enclosed find $2.98. Send postpaid 6 ly purchased it outright. pipes described above. If, upon examina- have individual scenes painted on them tion, With this as a start, Mercury-Interna- I am not completely satisfied I will thus making each lamp an "original." return pipes for full cash refund. (Sorry Purkiss' tional Pictures was born and Miss Medes . . . No C. O. D.'s). lamp base business began by taken into the organization to handle the PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS BELOW chance when an art gallery where some business details, while the two men con- of his work had been displayed received centrated on the creative work. an inquiry from a prospective customer Realizing that West Coast television asking for a 30-inch lamp base with orig- was a coming thing, they began by con- inal paintings of the Purkiss type. centrating on making spot commercials In addition to painting original scenes for a number of clients. They're antici- on the lamps, Purkiss also has perfected pating color television, too. They film all EVERY MASON WILL WANT THIS a process whereby he can use a series of their commercials in color and then make special glazing agents MASONIC QUIZ BOOK to give the pottery black-and-white prints. The original lamp the bases appearance of a solid piece commercials in full color rest in their granite or of or other type of rock. Standing vaults, waiting for the occasion. price on these items as was stated "Ask Me before Soon, organizations were commission- is $150 each. Thus far, Another, he has had no ing the firm to do full-length commercial trouble in selling all Brother" he has made. films (always in color) and they began to Purkiss' agents are exclusive art deal- turn these out. At present, they do all of A real help to ers and galleries in various sections e v e v y }j o dg of the U.S. Gypsum's films. Officer, Master country. He has agents in Mason or Ma- Los Angeles, A Hollywood film company, shooting sonic Student. San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, New a sea saga, hired Mercury-International Does not dis- York and several other metropolitan to film some actual shots of an octopus close any Secret Work, hut yives cities. Each week brings attractive offers at a marine biology laboratory. When the aut horitative Information on from department and furniture stores shots were finished, the studio found it Masonic liis- throughout the country desire to tory, ritual. who necessary to discard them, saying that handle the Purkiss-made items. He has they were so "real" they made the fake Include such not accepted any of these offers, however. octopus used in other scenes look silly. questions as : Instead, the youthful artist is perfectly It looks as though the Corona del Mar • What did content to trade through Masons have the established filmsters are headed for bigger things. to do with art agents. the Boston At present they are considering the offer Tea Party? He feels that should he begin producing of a large studio to put up half the ex- panes, x S", 3284bound in cloth, and a • What refer- the lamps on a mass production basis for penses of producing a feature length film distinct, addition to the ence is made $ wide distribution through retail library of any man. even to the Cath- depart- based upon the California harbor region. though he Is not a olic Church ment or furniture outlets, he would have the success Postpaid Mason, in Masonic Most of of Mercury-Inter- or C.O.D. plus postal charges teachings? to sacrifice quality in the work and drop national has stemmed from the fact that his price at the A Gift that every • Has every same time. both Ellsworth and Monohan split their President of Rather than allow this, it is better to let time between production and contact Mason tviil appreciate the United States been a those interested pay the present estab- work. In contacting clients they are in a ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY Mason ? lished price, he has decided. At the same perfect position to tell and show the fu- THE CHARLES T. POWNER CO. time, this allows him to continue mixing ture customer exactly what they can do. 407 S. Dearborn, Dept. AL, Chicago 5, Illinois profit with artistry. — JACK LEWIS

• The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 Why The Negro Won't Buy Communism (Continued from page 15) HfAT RASH? around 1904 by the more alert and in- the might and power of the Armed Forces genious Nipponese. Now, while pretend- of these United States, just where will ing to feel for the little peoples of the you be?" whole world, meanwhile issuing hot de- "Oh, for God's sake! If we are willing to nials of imperialistic intentions, the So- do the thinking for you, you ought to be viet was bent and bound to continue the glad and proud to do the fighting." march to the East. And that was right Accented just like that. where we American Negroes could come "I see," I murmured, and I did. I said in handy. With the war-like and deter- it calmly enough, but inside, I had jumped mined Nipponese standing across their as salty as a mackerel. This gang looked way of empire, plus Western influences, down upon us and despised us. They dis- we were badly needed. The Asiatic mil- counted our abilities and integrity in- lions must be led to fear and thoroughly finitely more than those southerners from hate the sight of a white skin. To rise up whom they were pretending to defend us. against their leaders, place their depen- On top of that, their raw flattery and in- dence on Russia, swamp Japan, and throw sulting patronage was intended to hide the "white oppressors" out. It must be re- cold and ruthless hearts. The plan was peated and kept in mind that this passion- obviously to herd in the dumb black fools, ate love of the non-whites did not apply and when the time arrived to use us up to Japan, for obvious reasons. like so many worn-out undershirts and So the brains in the Kremlin eagerly think nothing about it. I thought some Get FAST RELIEF with seized upon the race propaganda of the more, and by then there was nothing in United States, feeling sure and certain that would kill them all the drugstore this MEDICATED Powder! that they really had something that they quicker than I, come that day. Nobody could use. It could be dusted over Asia ever yet celebrated being taken for has No unmedicated powder can relieve your burn- to effect. good A horrible example of a chump, even by a smart man, and when ing, stinging heat rash as Ammens Powder does! white rule over darker races. most it is tried a chuckle-head, that A by dumb For Ammens contains three famous medicinal frightful scarecrow to shake at the peoples puts knobs on it. ingredients—gives 3-tcay medicated skin care: of Asia, and thus hasten them into the While they waited for the day of revo- (1) It soothes, relieves and helps heal irritated arms of the Soviets. lution, the third important use the com- skin. (2) Its extra softness protects and cushions With the then twelve million Negroes munists planned for the Negro masses sore skin, and so promotes healing. (3) Its extra in the United States won and done, we was to lie down and act as the mud-sills fluffy texture gives cooling relief. For real medi- could be filed away for the day of revo- of the proposed American peasant party. cated skin care, get genuine Ammens Medicated lution here. The dumb black brutes to This was to be maneuvered in a way to Powder at any drug counter today. bear the actual burden of physical com- carry out unknowingly, the program of FREE trial size can. Write bat. Highly expendable. One white the communists. today to Dept. A-61, Bristol- zealot discoursed to me at length on the The party felt a deep need for such a Myers Co., Hillside, N. J. glory we would win under the party, stratum. The Kremlin had launched out (Oger limited to U.S.A.) come that day, and millions of us would on the conquest of the world by analogy. fall out in the streets behind the barri- Then they began to see that what worked cades to win freedom for the oppressed among the peasants in Russia did not AMMENS masses from our "masters." work so well here. This country was too When the man kept on mentioning rich, the working man too well fed, Negroes, Negroes and nothing but Ne- clothed and housed. There was no grind- cAfe^^ Powder groes "out there," I was moved to en- ing poverty to make men bitter and des- quire: perate. The place was much too juicy and "While we're out there tussling with jumpy. Poor folks went up the ladder UP 1 O MILE TO 18.J LONG VIEW BINOCULARS <1 perfect precis rid le stable your strength. 30-MIUImeter objective. INTRODUCTORY lo OKI l.R. ONLY $2.98. ( Sold for much higher), day money-back guarantee. SEND ( HKi'K or MONEY ORDER FOR $2.98 and we prepay postage. Or send C.O.D. and you pay postage charges. $2.98 DeLuxe Model — 42mm — $:).98 DOMAR SALES CO. 480 Lexington Ave., Dept. T-2, York. N. Y.

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and rich men tumbled down. What was vaded and the line peddled that the is in the United States was pointed up by needed was a permanent bottom-class. members were really serfs. No more in- last November's elections. The huge ma- Somebody who could be made to feel at dividuals at all. Their case was really jorities piled up by Taft and others who the scratchy bottom, and no chance to pitiful. Nothing to do but hate bosses and opposed regimentation of the working get up from there without the violent work toward the day when they could do man said a mouthful. The average Amer- overthrow of their "masters." away with their hated oppressors. So la- ican still sees himself as a yeasty man. They found nothing like that on hand. bor disorders of an unheard-of intensity Why kill the boss? He might be the big As one rich and well-born matron said and violence swept the nation. It has boss himself next year. It has been done to me, "We do not employ Americans of taken years for many to come out of this time after time and again. Every man a any color as domestic help. White or fog and return to the American tradition. king when he gets his break. black, there are no American servants. The proposed peasant party failed to Having decided to mount their world They are all millionaires, temporarily come off. Mostly, it failed because the rule on black American backs, it is in- short of funds. Instead of being content Negro, the intended mud-sill, refused to teresting to note how the reds went about where they are, they plan to be the boss hold still so that he could be built upon. the important business of capturing the themselves next year." What the party overlooked is the fact that American Negro. So, without putting a name to it, the the Negro is the most class-conscious in- For a blueprint, they took an ancient commies went about creating a perma- dividual in the United States. The biggest and long-discarded folk piece. The anal- nent lower class by dialectic persuasion. snob in America, bar none, is a Negro ogy of the "white mare." It got to be said Wealthy persons per se were born vipers. house servant. It works in varying de- during the Reconstruction that the high- There was a great weeping and wailing grees up and down the line. Kings and est ambition of every Negro man was to over share-croppers and the like. All un- potentates, yes! Good groceries, fast cars skilled labor was glorified in words, but and fancy shoes, yes indeed! Draped down bedded down as far as possible to form in raiments of needlework, the average a foundation for this peasant class. The American Negro would much rather call pleasures of peasantry were lauded to in ten doctors to tell him how near he is the skies. To make it appear inevitable, dressed to death, than to have one com- the nation was flooded with propaganda missar come around to tell him how near about there being no more frontiers; no dead he will be before he is allowed a more chances at all for free enterprise; change of clothes. The party, misinformed, not a prayer for a lone individual to rise grabbed the wrong sow by the ear. The by his own efforts. No more nothing but dear peasant in the Soviet Union in his collectivism. It was like a rotting fog shapeless felt boots and slurping his cab- hovering over the land. It was as if from bage soup, meant exactly nothing to us. a vigorous youth, the United States had Just the thing we are striving to get away arrived overnight at a decaying old age. from. For us to long for that would call It was a case of don't try anything. If you for much more persuasion than the party could barely keep alive then you were has been able to deliver. spying noble. The trade unions were in- How dead the permanent bottom-man

"Just finished this quiz on 'Are you an ideal husband? and scored 8 points better than Robert Taylor and 7 better than Clark Gable." LEGION AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE have a white woman. While one of their faces was spouting about how deeply they resented, and would die defending us MAGAZINE from, white slanders the other face was RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL patronizing us insultingly with a revival of these old notions. As a supreme in- *\*\\\vvvvvvwwwwwvv? Tvvwvwvwwvwvvvwvw^ ducement to join up, prospective party members were grinningly offered white mates. Facts are facts, and it cannot be denied that some of us were influenced. This explains why so many of the Negroes high BUY. . in party councils have white wives, or husbands, as the case may be. But it also explains one reason for so few party members. When you look at the thou- AMERICAN LEGION sands who could have and did not, it tells you something. The vaunted foundation for sweeping the whole Negro body into Wherever you see this insignia displayed in a store window, the party was laid on sandy land. The it means that the shop is owned by a member of the American structure went shackly even before the Legion is cooperating in important Legion activities. who winds began to blow. When you patronize him, you support the Legion. All the way along, there has been entirely too much dependence placed on sex. BUY THE BEST — BUY AMERICAN LEGION! Very few of us felt the need of help in a case like that. It offended the thoughtful among us because it amounts to a tacit

50 • The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 belief that we are a people totally under ment. The party wanted nothing of the the sway of sexual pleasures, a sure and kind, and they got it. The party stirred certain way to get us. up years of world-wide publicity for The "white mare" apparatus failed to themselves as the defenders of darker FREE pay off. Yes, it is true that mules will peoples. The boys got life-time in jail and unhesitatingly follow a white mare any- other unhappy bonuses. There have been where and at any time. But it is known other and less-heard-of cases where they there's danger in arriving at conclu- "helped us out." Like the joke about the sions by analogy. It is possible, and even corn salve. The toe is gone, but the corn probable that we might not be mules. But is still there. We have come to be real BOOK the reds evidently thought so. That is why shy of party help, so Henry Winston, Harlem swarmed with party-sent white speaking for Moscow, can save his breath. FOR THE women during the pressure drive of the And their shaking of the North Koreans Thirties. Even white girls of high school and the Chinese communists in our faces age were up there under party orders and is less than intelligent. There never has doing their level best to "persuade" Ne- been any bond between us and the gro prospects, and then bring them on Chinese. So once more and again, the through "religion." commies show off their estimate of our DEAF But it is to be observed that Negro intelligence. When numerous Negro homes membership is still slack and scanty. are mourning the death of their sons, hus- An authoritative, brilliantly illus- There is a constant turn-over in member- bands and brothers, and boiling over with trated book, revealing all the facts ship from backsliding. What happened to rage at the knowledge of butchery and on the new wonder electronic ear the misled little girls is another story. inhuman torture of their loved ones at which hides deafness, will now be Perhaps there is some connection between the hands of these same yellow skins, to this "pig-meat" crusade and the later dis- now be exhorted to treasure them and sent without cost or obligation to missal of numerous teachers from the take sides with them is too much to ex- any hard of hearing reader of this New York City school system. pect of us, even though we are supposed magazine. By such whoopdedoo was the Lincoln not to be able to remember nor feel re- This amazing book discloses full recruited in sentment at a thing like that. The sense Brigade to go to Spain a details of the miraculous electronic vain attempt to place the Russian Bear at that God gave a billy goat would have invention which transmits even Gibraltar. But believe it or not, even we prevented this insult. whispers with startling clarity — can learn a lesson. The disillusionment In a recent issue of the Pittsburgh and without a button showing in lingers on. Courier, a GI in Korea publishes an earn- Another Bear trap was the one polished est letter to American Negroes, warning either ear. over by Winston in a recent red conven- us against the falsity of communist prop- To obtain your free copy, simply tion. That is, that the party must infiltrate aganda. In the letter, he strove to make address your request to: Electronic into Negro protest organizations, and gen- us realize how horrible the commies are Research Director, 1450 W. 19th St., erally seize upon Negro causes, and other- in fact. He goes on to wonder how any 1056 Beltone Building, Chicago 8, wise come to be looked upon as our sa- American Negro can think of joining the 111. A penny postcard will do. viors, champions and friends. party, or even stoop to read the Daily This is a very old soup-bone to be Worker. warming over. God knows that we have In addition to jumping into causes as had the experience of communist help, our defenders, another device to supple- Free for Asthma and it sure has been a lesson to us. The ment that is to set up false enemies of If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke is horrible the then great to-do notorious Scottsboro Case a Negro and make a and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult example of how they "help things out." about knocking them over. 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The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 • 57 every case, they are and were bedded you can't win! Expanded, the poor, dear in Americanism. So we cannot dodge the colored character starts off to be some- WE FIT EM ALL suspicion that these "enemies" stand in thing in the world, but he or she gets the way of the change in form of govern- trapped by our form of government, and ment here. They must be done away with down he goes to the lowest depths like as popular public figures if the revolu- buttonless britches. Pity the poor, black tion, the dictatorship of the proletariat, brute! Rotted away morally and in every is to come to pass. Our dark hands must direction, but not his fault at all. It lies be used to pull them down and out of the at the door of the people of these "United way of the coming revolution. These Stinks." In other words, the formula of "white chauvinists" must go! All done for "The American Tragedy." The Negro Negro benefit, you understand. characters could not get too low and re- Another important "defense of the Ne- volting. The lower and more despicable gro peoples" is by literature and art. The the better. The sop to the Negro public Negro press and protest organizations was, Poor thing, what could he do under were not near enough. Besides, they were this American way of life? Negroes here not telling the thing right. Becoming dis- are doomed from birth! gusted and all put out about this condi- The reward to the complaint author tion, the party got the bright idea of their was pre-arranged critical support, plus "literary defense" hoping thereby to make sales boosting and handling. For those a clean sweep of us into the party ranks. who drew back from representing a whole And it did not matter, whether despite race thus falsely, vile slander and abuse. our mulishness, we saw the light, and It was brushed off as chauvinism that joined up in any great numbers or not. it was not just a matter of race pride, but The material was what they wanted for utterly against fact. Like everybody else anti-American propaganda abroad. So in the nation, a Negro can take his choice. Knapp Shoes they were going to do it for our benefit, The thousands on thousands of very suc- whether we liked it or not. cessful Negroes in numerous fields could They acknowledged that the Negro be offered in proof, so it was and is ob- press and protest organizations soap- vious that you can win. boxed a gracious plenty about racial But the party had orders that this evi- There's a size for every foot in grievances fancied or real, but there was dence of Negro success under the Amer- Knapp's complete factory line of Dress, real to thing. out- Sport and Work Shoes. Choose from no meat the No hopelessness, ican system must be suppressed. The over a hundred smart styles for men no despair, no suggestion of scrapping the side world must see us as a low, degraded and women. All with Knapp's exclusive Constitution, no mention of revolution. mass, and impossible to be otherwise Aerotred Construction — cushions every Just lawing and jawing for a better ad- under constitutional government. Poor step! Money-saving Factory-Direct Prices! justment into the framework as is. And things! They will take us by our hands Write for the name of your local Knapp mingled in was offensive material con- and lead us away from all this, and back Shoe Counselor. cerning fine cars, big houses, wealth and to the Middle Ages with them. From education among Negroes here. It indi- where we stand, that is just like Mrs. KNAPP ttOTHEKS SHOE MFC. COIP. cated a "black bourgeoisie, black chauvin- Astor battling to free herself from her Brockton, Massachusetts Dept. 14 ists" no different from the white capital- enslaving Cadillac to win her way into a Please rush FREE style folder ists, and utterly detestable. Lying coun- Russian droshky. ter-revolutionists and all that. The party Now with their intense efforts for at Name (print) decided to ignore them and create its own least a full generation, why have the Address Negro literature. commies gained such a comparatively few Established Negro writers were ap- Negro adherents? City State proached to produce the kind of fiction The party's first and foremost failure that the party could use and approve of. was under-rating our intelligence and The formula was, you can't win, Negro, self-esteem. I have no way of knowing KIDNEYS r»if»-l i nks By Ponce do Leon MUST REMOVE EXCESS WASTE When kidney function slows down, many folks complain of nagging backache, loss of pep and energy, headaches and dizziness. Don't Buffer longer with these discomforts if reduced kidney function is getting you down— due to such common causes as stress and strain, over-exertion or exposure to cold. Minor bladder irritations due to cold or wrong diet may cause getting up nights or frequent passages. 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58 * The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 whether they just scraped up any old- popular and prominent they might have fogy notions that they found lying around, been before they were taken in the raid, or whether they were briefed up by the once they are shackled and begin to spout earlier Negro sycophants that they got the trite jargon, somehow they seem to hold of. Certainly, the high-sitting black repel, rather than to attract. They give off comrades do not object to the insulting a funny kind of smell. We stand off and program. The rest of what the party has look at them, remembering the flash and to offer us as a way of life is as morbid shine they had in their former existence, and as ugly as the devil's doll-baby, when then shrink away from the morbid spec- EARLY are the hunt, like everybody else, TIMES we on tacle of their commie state. We shake our for something pretty; tasty-like, to make heads and mumble, "What happened, our side-meat taste more like ham. what could have happened to make so- 1951 Baseball Booklet I reiterate, it is amazing how commies and-so like that? They've come to be Accept this Sensational Early Times Offer can hang on to a mere notion in the face significant!" Without Cost or Obligation of facts. They try to change the whole It could be that that feeling of strange- pages of up-to-the-minute base- V32ball information! world, but refuse to let anything change ness is the inside key to the failure of the Gives complete 1951 Schedule for them. They simply will not see us as party to attract Negroes in any numbers. V Major and Minor Leagues! Americans, nourished on the same ideals It feels ghosty, and too much like marry- V Contains final standings of 1950 as other Americans, and so headed in the ing a zombie. Death on the breath, and teams! same direction. So why would we want something feeling corpse-like to the y Tells team prospects for 1951! to swap freedom for bondage? Why hand. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY. like this freedom-feeling as it wouldn't we Now, take to pieces, and everything THIS WHISKY IS 4 YEARS OLD. 86 PROOF. well as the next one? is old and mouldy. What they call new I will not contend that we Negroes are and progressive is nothing but mom- MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY ! other but more religious than Americans, mucked-up dialectics. Just like children "It's A Hit- J J certainly we are more ceremonial. Ne- talking hog-Latin. What it is about is at I Early Times Distillery Company | | Box 1080 AL, Louisville, Ky. groes own more church property per least a thousand years old. The social de- | | Please send me postpaid the Early Times • capita than any other group in the United vices of the Middle Ages, when the serf Baseball Schedule Booklet for 195 I. I States. There has to be a reason for that. was bound to his master, which they have I I | Name We must like it. So how expect us to turn just found out about. j godless in a lump? Like a lot of other Their touted "significant, socially -con- I Address I Americans, many of us do not attend scious" literature is a steal from the old I City Stale I church regularly, but we have no thought morality plays. Authors and other artists I - I nor intention of doing away with God. must cater to the Kremlin as they used We like Our Maker, and feel better to to do to the Medicis. Their labor argu- THROWING DAGGER think is somewhere around on the pre-date age. The He ments the machine This MALAYAN FIGHTING KNIFE premises. worker must own his tools in this highly is used for self -defense, killing Thrllh game, target skill. A powerf The anti-white program was another mechanized age indeed! If that is kosher, Excitement! silent, accurate weapon ndoors - outdoor- mistake. We do not hate white people as then the very next time I go on the air, Splits 1" board this Sport! Easy the commies are determined to believe. I'm carrying off the mike. They are still al 30 ft. to throw accurately with ou« As fellow-citizens, it is our privilege to waging a war against "the masters," clear instructions. Beautiful, heavy- steel. Tough give each other skull-draggings on oc- somebody who has been dead and gone duty 10" knife Tempered dc-bound handle. Rare souvenir, unusual casion, but laying all jokes aside, we cer- too long to talk about. All in all, the bargain, limited quantity. Sold direct only. Send $2 Alhombro. Calif tainly have no wish and desire to kill off commies carry on exactly like they have to Wholesale Import Co .Dept C, 6GM S. Marengo. the pink-toed rascals. Even if they were been in a trance like the Sleeping Beauty not useful as they are, we'd keep 'em for since the days of Ghengis Khan. Awak- pets. Where is the kick in being an Amer- ened by the smell of blood from World INVENTORS ican if you don't call everybody out of War I, they sprang to life like the sons of If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find their names now and then from the Pres- the dragon's teeth, to continue their out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet ' 'How to Protect ident down? Just as natural as the march across the face of the world. ' * on bloody Vour Invention, ' and an "Invention Record' form. No Fourth of July. Are these commies so So this Russian philosophy does not obligation. They are yours for the asking. McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON blind through the eyes that they have not take with us. We are not that morbid by Registered Patent Attorneys seen us always in there fighting just as nature. You need a huge inferiority com- 146-X Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. hard as anybody else in a common cause? plex to be a commie, something for hate AMAZING COMFORT — NO SPECIAL FITTING From the Revolution on down. to feed on. The reservoir of party thought Go against our own country because the is too much like the Dead Sea. You can Chinese are yellowish in color, indeed! and will get gassed to death just trying RUPTURE-EASER We would fight them just as hard, just to fly over it. We are too American to fit for MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN as fiercely, if they were lam and damn in. Our idea of top dog is one who can black. They are not Americans. It has muscle it out from the shoulder. Russia been proved too many times and by claims a great victory from World War different countries, that nationality is II, when in fact, it was something like stronger than race. Max Schmeling lying flat on the canvas The party got misput on the road again yelling "Owoooo" then demanding the when it fell for that old "leader" foolish- championship of the world. ness. They have proceeded from the pre- The majority of American Negroes in- mise that all they needed to do was to dignantly refuse the role that the party capture, or buy in, a few well known has assigned to us. That is, to go around Negro names to have the whole tribe of the world like Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du- Double

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and re-bury the dead. By behavior and with us, the party has been led astray by The Legion's BOOK flavor, they are zombies. Something oozes the illusion of color. It has been tasted out like a viscous seepage from a morgue. and proven that we feel closer to the SERVICE It is poisoning the air of the world. American white man than to any foreign So Henry Winston and the whole party Negro. The differences between us and in convention assembled, may call upon foreigners are deep and fundamental. us like the priests of Baal, but I predict We are Americans, and so, a wing- that few will answer. Not even for footed people. We are confirmed in our Chinese hides will we come, not being in springing impulses by the spirit that the luggage business. Years ago, they had hovers this continent. The party is a So- us at the mourner's bench. If they failed ciety of the Dead, soulless zombies, but WAR IN KOREA to bring us through religion then, they even the living-dead have no place among certainly will not make it now. Their lat- the living people. They, and their of By Marguerite Hlgglns way est cry can well up from nothing but des- life died on the plains of Asia centuries Not since Ernie Pyle has any reporter cap- peration. The last stroke of exhausted na- ago. May they now return to their graves tured the hearts of the American people as has ture. and remain there in decent death. blonde, pretty war correspondent Marguerite From the very beginning, in dealing THE END Higgins. Here is her story of the Korean war told with the discerning eye of the expert reporter and the sympathy of a woman. She tells What Do You Think We Are Fighting For? of green troops maturing in battle, communist ( Continued from page 28) bullets kicking over the coffee pot at breakfast thing in our history. It has outlived the Puritans and Huguenots in the north, — a day-by-day account of the gallantry and doubts and fears of every passing decade, Catholics in Maryland, Quakers in Penn- hardships, the panic and heroism of an ordeal just it will outlive flee which compares with Valley Forge in the annals as today's fears. sylvania, Baptists who had to New of the American Gl. $2.75 But how often have we only understood England for the South and Jews in all our dream on looking back? We seem to sections. Each in fighting for his own Faith have been driven toward its fuller reali- played his role in establishing through- THE BATTLE AGAINST DISLOYALTY zation by forces stronger than ourselves, out America freedom for all Faiths. By Nathaniel Weyl pushed toward our goal in spite of our- Or go to a later page— to the story of This is a most timely book dealing with a sub- selves, our confusions, doubts and argu- the Revolution. And again we find ject that is dominating today's headlines. Mr. ments. achievement was far greater than many Weyl traces the gradual development of the The very beginning — page one torn of that day were able to grasp. machinery with which this country ferrets out from America's past — is a record of Our patriots had pledged their lives and persons bent on treason from inept beginnings achievement beyond expectation: Ameri- fortunes and sacred honor. But many in World War I through two decades — and ends with a study of our efficient counter-espionage ca's discovery. Columbus, as every school- even among our leaders had grave doubts system meeting today's increased demand for boy knows, was seeking not a continent of this notion of "republicanism"— of be- watchfulness. $3.50 but a new route to the East. ing able to rule themselves. In the face of dissension, predictions of America was fighting for freedom—from disaster, sailors who lost faith and England, from a nation three thousand 11 YEARS IN SOVIET PRISON CAMPS were close to mutiny — he persevered. Like miles away. Only the most far-seeing rec- By Elinor Upper many another after him, even down to ognized through the smoke of battle that The personal horror tale of one of twelve today, Columbus did not understand fully what was coming into being was more million political prisoners caught in Russia's the goals. Yet he could not turn back. than a new nation— it was a new kind of "Great Purge." A nightmarish story of suffering And what he accomplished— right there government, a government of and by and and death in one prison after another across the at the start of the dream—was far greater for the people. length and breadth of the Soviet Union. A book than he could have guessed. 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f}Q • The American Legion Magazine • June, 1951 brand of unfettered 1'reedom—for which Only when bitterness began to die did they bore, with many a doubt and migiv- we realize that more than the fate of a GUARD AGAINST ing, the peril and sacrifice of the frontier. nation had been at stake, more than the Ask them what drove them on—and issues of slavery and secession settled. they would give you wrong answers. For at issue also had been the ideas on i:i=f:W:H:i1 "Nation builders? Us?" The frontiersman which the country had been built, the Upset Stomach • Jumpy Nerves would roar his derision. "We like it here. concept of liberty, of government of and Vv^e like being free. Being our own boss. by and for the people. North and South With nobody telling us what to do." and all the world knew at last the most It was true also with the families who important meaning sealed at Gettysburg followed, men, women and children jog- and Antietam and Appomattox: That this ging over the trails in covered wagons, nation—these ideals— this American dream Get effective relief fast from head- setting up homesteads and new communi- of freedom—could and would endure and ache, upset stomach and jumpy ties where law and order took root in the grow. As always the truth was not gen- nerves with Bromo-Seltzer. Fol- soil of freedom. erally seen until the troubles of the mo- low the label, avoid excessive use. A product of Emerson Drug Co. They too were seeking individual free- ment were past. dom for themselves. And the price was There is no such thing as "just fighting high. Many of their diaries are full of for survival" without also fighting for the complaints and despair. Danger and hard- survival of all we stand for. Make Lr-Oun ROTARY TYPE % ship rode with every wagon train setting In the last half of that century came POWER MOWER out. Countless graves along the trails the story of expanding industry and en- marked the toll taken in Indian raids. terprise, of smokestacks and oil wells, of THIS IS NOT A KIT But the pioneers kept on, in spite of the a nation threaded with new tracks and But a Complete Mower As- doubters and faint-hearted who cried out glittering wheels and roaring machines. sembled as Illustrated Model BOM KEEN MOWER. Add to turn back. They were no empire build- America was thriving and building. your electric motor or gas ers. They wanted a strip of good land to Millions of newcomers from tyranny-rid- engine. Concealed blade for safety, 3 cutting heights, stake out for themselves. A strip of free- den lands crowded through the gates to 1%" to 3 Mi". Ball bearing dom—to do with as they pleased. work the new mills and factories. Many rubber tired wheels. 18" cut. Cuts to within %" of But out of the hardships they suffered Americans were alarmed. This "cheap sidewalk. Weight 48 lbs. for this individual hunger of freedom was labor" would wreck the nation, they America's Greatest Power Mower Value. to come the new West, expansion across warned. These newcomers could not learn Order Now. the continent, growth of a nation—and of America's ways. They would tear down Shipped S /

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(Continued from page 61 taste of freedom when Kerensky gained to choose between tyranny-with-peace what business is it of ours what happens power. But Lenin's little gang "moved in" and freedom-through-struggle— this time over there. We're safe enough here. Let's on that mild revolution, and the Russian on a global scale. Immediately we made stay put. people, unready to defend new-won free- the same choice we have always made But America saw freedom threatened— doms, lost them under the heels and bay- since our land was a savage wilderness. and plunged in. Our forces turned the onets of the Bolsheviks. That choice has never failed us yet. We tide. And again, in our triumph, we did Liberty and tyranny are both dynamic travel the road of freedom and liberty. more than merely crush the enemy. For forces. If either lies down, the other takes There can never be a more ringing answer the lamp of liberty was carried into over. to those who ask, "What's in it for us?" lands where before only tyranny was Many lack the vision to see this. Many Beyond all the hardships there is more known. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria. are bewildered and confused. They de- "in it" for us and the world's millions of Despotism, however, dies hard. Its ten- mand we now give up our oldest goal, people than anyone now living can fore- tacles took new root in Russia with Lenin they insist our men in Korea have fought see. There always has been. and Stalin. Later, in Germany, Hitler and died only for a worthless hunk of All of those who went before us were tried to out-distance these experts in oriental mud. Many cry, "Turn back—or blazing the trail. Their destiny and ours torture and enslavement. we will lose our way." remains the same. Like them, we may not Again despite doubters we threw in But we cannot turn back from the goal understand fully the goals ahead. Like our forces against the tide of fascism—and ahead, from the destiny of a land which the Plymouth Pilgrims, some of us may not won. And again we wrought better than builds as always before—not for conquest comprehend the seeds of freedom we sow. we knew. For out of that victory came a but for freedom. Today the great dream But we must recognize one towering new dimension to the dream of freedom is challenged by the most ruthless force truth—that we still carry the flintlock of —the tremendous concept that aggression the world has ever seen. When we began the pioneer, that we are moving forward, anywhere strikes at human liberty every- against England in 1775 the world was as our forebears did, along difficult, haz- where. full of tyrants. We, more than any other ardous, uncharted paths. This is a new flowering of the great people, have by our action and our ex- We must pray God to guide us, to keep American dream. It means that we will ample cut them down. We must not now us still on the road. For in the struggle support the growth of freedom every- lose faith in what our forefathers began. ahead we shall carry forward the star- where. It means that we are once again Final victory—freedom for the whole spangled dream of freedom. We will be blazing new paths— to world peace and world—may be within our grasp. If we sharing that dream, helping to make it law and order. lose faith we will most certainly lose that true not for ourselves alone, but for the Those who will not fight for liberty- victory. weak and weary, the shackled and beat- lose it. The Russians themselves had a Last June we were forced once again en, throughout our ravaged world, the end

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TO MY LATE WIFE These be your words I always listen to advice, As you enter Perdition, I'm quite sure that I need it, "Perhaps it would start some day — if I live that long, And If you'd turn the ignition." certain that I'll heed it! I'm — E. E. Shaffer — Catherine E. Berry

BOY GENIUS "What do you mean?" asked the puzzled Nine-year-old Edna was just crazy friend. about school, while her younger brother "Well, I don't have to worry about po- was considerably less enthusiastic. One tatoes," answered the editor. "Down in day the little girl suggested that they play my basement I've got fifteen barrels of school. The lad absolutely refused to co- samples/' — Dan Bennett operate. However, when Edna threatened to tell their mother, the boy weakened a BRIDE bit. He sivung her lightly o'er the sill. "Well, all right," he agreed grudgingly, Now she housekeeps with a will. "but let's play I'm absent." And he's the god to whom she brings — F. G. Kernan Thrice daily her burnt offerings. — Richard F. Armknecht MARITAL NOTE

Everything is love and kisses, TWO AND TWO Till your girl becomes your Mrs. After looking over the qualifications — Frank Rose of more than fifty applicants for the position of industrial relations manager, the presi- POTATOES - POTATOES - POTATOES dent of a manufacturing company nar- The editor of a small-town New Eng- rowed down the number under consider- land newspaper was having trouble in ation to three and arranged to interview raising the circulation of his publication them personally. and at last hit upon a scheme. He started The man he wanted had to be tactful "Your application for O.C.S. has been a contest by giving a year's subscription but honest. To each of the three appli- approved. But you're still ours 'til for the largest potato raised in his county. cants, then, he put this question: "Do you tomorrow!" Several weeks later a friend said: "Ben, think I'm right in believing two and two did you boost your circulation any by that make five?" potato contest you're running?" The first man said: "I think you're WESTERN ETIQUETTE "Well, I don't know," grinned the editor wrong." A man traveling in the heart of Texas in reply, "but I'm all set for the winter." The second man said: "I'm sure you found himself in conversation with a Texas cowboy. The Texan confessed that he was 87 years old, whereupon the traveler said: "Tell me, to what do you attribute your remarkable longevity?" The Texan thought for a moment and then he spoke gravely. "Well," he replied, "I never stole a horse and I never called a man a liar to his face." — Bill Odiorne

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GREEN THUMB The city man had purchased a home in a small community. One day as he browsed about his yard, he found the bodies of two baby birds that had fallen from a nest. He proceeded to bury thera in the garden under the critical gaze of his neighbor's five-year-old son. When he had finished, the youngster looked at him strangely. "What a dopey thing to do!" the boy said scornfully. "They won't grow." "I .said bridge, Edward." — Francis Gerard

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Smoke Camels yourself for 30 days. Compare Camel's choice tobaccos for flavor and mildness ... in your "T-Zone" (T for /... Throat, T for Taste). You'll see why so many smokers say . . BASEBALL MANAGER Ed OPERA STAR Robert Sawyer: "Camels made Merrill: "The cigarette a hit with me right from ONCE A CAMEL SMOKER, ALWAYS A CAMEL SMOKER! I smoke must agree with the start. They're mild my throat. Camels are and taste great!" reallv mild!'' Winston-Salem, X.

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