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My hus- be first called, so as for justice for our re- band served three years overseas in the serves, they are reserves by their own se- last war and we both feel that if the ex- FAST RELIEF with lection. I m>'self am not a reserve but I Get perienced men were to go perhaps it would had the choice also. I was in service as a help save the lives of the inexperienced Aiarine in World War II and it makes me this MEDICATED Powder! boys who are being called. boil when reserves complain about being unmedicated powder can relieve your sore Name withheld No recalled. W. Griitiii or itching toes as Ammens Powder does! Coqitille, Oregon Liiiiestoue, Neiv York For Ammens contains three famous medicinal medicated skin care: ingredients— gives 3-u-ay THANKS TO RABBI LEFKOWITZ (1) It soothes, relieves and helps heal irritated skin. (2) Its extra softness protects and cushions Sir: In his article l(7.>,r/ Do You Think H^' to Powder at any drug counter today. express. 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Goodman o/M^^ Powder fighting the good fight so tiiat our Ameri- Fairfield, Connecticut can way of life shall not vanish from the face of the earth. Let's all, rich or poor, smart or dumb, enter into this great struggle. Sammy Windham Lynchbnrf!;, South CaroUnct POPULARITY Salesmen jamming STILL ANOTHER VIEW Sir: I would like to know just what the pockets with SEE PAGE 975B "powers tliat be" think they will accom- 510OO bills... plish by calling back into service the vets Sir: Question for Miss Harriet Mack: You TAKING ORDERS FOR would like a KEY who are in their mid-thirties. It seems to said, "The whole country of coffee, but even the dumbest EXPERTLY me that having to figlit one war created good cup Tailored AUTO enough wreckage in a veteran's life with- of the dumb never had to have a college SEAT COVERS out hav ing to be subjected to a second dose. education to know how to make a good Look at These Features I had four > ears of active duty, and I have cup of coffee." If this is true, why has the • 7 STYLES - 7 PRICE RANGES been called back to serve again. I am not EncN clopedia Britannica an article on page • LINE OF SENSA- A COMPLETE to .Make Coffee"? TIONAL NEW DESIGNS so sure just what I am supposed to be fight- 97.>B in volume 5, "How George H. Roedcr • FOR ALL CARS ~ ALL MAKES ing for. I am beginning to tliink the end — MODELS — YEARS BIG SEASON product will be the same as the opposed Buffalo, New York patterns hke the finest suit of force, and I am beginning to wonder if our NOW STARTING! clothes . . . Slick, smooth, You've heard of the tremen- wrinkle- free fit adds an accent political leaders really know what is going APPLAUDS ZORA NEALE HURSTON of elepance to any car . . . j ust dous demand for Leopard auto on in the world. Name withheld seat covers that built over- like an original upholstery job! up Sir: I have enjo> ed another great article in night from one end of the Illinois country to the other when RUSH NAME FOR FREE our magazine. It impressed me as great be- Cadillac introduced a new 1950 irand r Car model with I..eopard Seat cause it concerTied me. Vou see, I am an Anyone working full or spare Covers. Car owners are pay- CALL OUT THE RESERVES! time can realize big money in American Negro, and, like millicins of us, ing $50.00 to $60.00 and $70.00 this business. No need to . . . and more for covers with search for prospects. Every Sir: In answer to the letter of Mrs. R. I love America. Of course I am referring Leopard desipn. Now you can J. car owner is one. Be the first serve that eager demand at a Deiley, I would like to cxpre.ss my two- to the article M'hy The Negro Woji't Buy to rash in . . . Make year around fraction of the cost the cus- STKADY PROFITS. Don't put it Hurston. She tomeraexpecttopay! Nowon- ofT — (ret your Free Selling Kit at cents' worth. Mrs. Deiley 's husband, with Coniiininisiii by Zora Neale Her salesmen are making once for some real money. AC- of overseas service in has hit the nail on the head, and believe money hand over fist with thin tual skat covers givkn 34 months World frep: to producers for sensational new Key line! u oes, OWN USE! Write for full detiiils! War II, had a choice of being out of serv- me, in spite of some of our domestic Make big- money daily. Take Americans. I say, the orders from carowners every- KEY PRODUCTS CORP. ice or in service as a reserve, the same as we will always be 32-0 where. Beat all competition Dept. with covers SOON. Clark, Chicago 10, III. cut to accurate ^ • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 I would like to point out, how- few paste-brained red tools do not speak deserved. Prices! has made a couple of mis- Latest Models! Lowest for my people. We are Americans and shall ever, that he Mix was not killed in 1944. If BRAND NEW MERCHANDISE stay Americans. Philip E. Cheek takes. Tom find that Boston, Massachusetts you check the records you will mm SUPER- he was killed in 1940. Also, the records 16x50 POWER This unit Is the Most Powerful will show that Mr. Mix was born in 1880 commercially available — stand- TELIS THE STORY ard — practical Binocular. instead of 1882. Rocky Dunn COATED. Center-Focus, only 26 oz. weight, it is a unlcjue devel- Congratulations on that fine article Conway, Arkansas opment we are proud to offer. Sir: In fine case with straps. Why the Negro Wo7i't Buy Communism $67.50 plus 20% Fed. Tax (total by Zora Neale Hurston. It is powerfully ANOTHER CROONING COWBOY $81.00) written in real Negro idiom and tells the PRISM As Louis Sir: In your June issue Gene Autry makes mm story fuUy^ and convincingly. Joe BINOCULAR a statement in his article on cowboy screen 7x50 put it: "There's plenty wrong with this Imported from U.S. Zone should not be permitted to go abroad. Finest Ground and country from our point of view, but Joe stars which Color Corrected Lenses. Inter- Rogers pupillary adiustment. Eye focus. the answer." unchallenged. Gene states: "Roy LiRht weiEht: This model fea- Stalin hasn't got tures Kreate^^t liKht transmis- Foster and I, still the only two crooning cowboys, sion: verv wide field. Niffht Horace W. Glass. Naval Model. With hand- York certainly have benefited a lot from this some case and 2 straps. White Plains, New $28.00 plus 20 % Fed. Tax (total — $33.60) wonderful new medium." What about Rex 10x50 mm Allen, the crooning cowboy star of Re- SUPER-POWERED HUGE STEREOPRISMS, Same fine manuTacture as above 7x50mm's ljut 4^':i more public Pictures? Rex has starred in at least powerful. In fine case with neck and shoulder straps. $55.00 plus 20% Fed. Tax. (total—$66.00) eight excellent western pictures to my knowledge. Harry Litzenbcrger mm GERMAN Denver, Colorado 8x30 This Is a REAL BUY. These are genuine GERMAN. Coated, Center-Focus Binoc- ulars made in German>'. CHEERS FOR ARMOUR The.v have great optical pre- cision and are but 101/2 oz. in weight. Magnesium. In KUDOS FOR KUHN Sir: Richard Armour's / Want to Be a Hand made leather case with straps. Similar glasses Dentist gave me such delight that I have on the market at very higli Sir: I've just finished reading Irene Cor- Fed.yea. Taxi ax \(total — $43.20) cut it out and pasted it in my scrapbook. $36.00 plus 20 % bally Kuhn's article Two Killed, Two In- * ' ~ mm PRECISION PRISM All my friends practically roll on the floor jured in the June issue. It is one of the TVs -.0 6x151Irinocular-coated when they read it. I hope there are a few This is the ition-' vide finest articles ever written regarding auto- on model dentists left with a little appreciation of sold so widely at much hipher mobile accidents and the tragic aftermath prices. Eye-width adjustment- individual eye focus adiust- wit, who will write in to prove that all ment. 370 foot field at l.OOO that always follows. If every American yards (leather case & neck their kind are not soreheads. Personally, I cord). his prevent these tragic would do share to plus 20 Fed. Tax (total— $23.40) could love every bone in Richard Armour's $19.50 % accidents and know how to prevent them, head. Name withheld the toll on our streets and highways would Rochester, New York not be as high as our national debt. t - 60x70m J 30x to 70x FRENCH POCKET MICROSCOPE Harvey B. Woodvvorth, Jr. Both lower side adjustment and upper tube - eNtcrsion to increase power. Exceptionally critical \A UH San Francisco, California Instrument v^"*"* 20x40x60 POCKET MICROSCOPE This model has hig^h light clarity, very powerful, lower linurled adjustment knob. Unusual buy in this tfO QC ONE ACCIDENT PREVENTIVE Power and quality Sir: Four years ago Fort Fetter Post 516, Hollidaysburg, Pa., decided to do some- thing about automobile accidents following high school proms. After the prom, all the ONE VOTE FOR CAESAR participants were invited to Legion Park 200 POWER MICROSCOPE Sir: Please print a nice long article about Newly Imported from France. Hiffhiy for dancing and refreshments, then a fine g-roimd and polished precision lenses. that marvelous television comedian Sid With 2 directional French Mirror. In early morning breakfast of ham and eggs. box including 5 prepared Caesar real soon. He has many millions of slides nplete 9S The part)' went over with a bang, and not enthusiastic fans. one accident happened to mar a pleasant Mrs. Joe Willis evening. The following year it was re- Aristes, Pennsylvania peated. Last year it was decided to move the affair to the beautiful Blue Room at the T Anyone else interested in Sid? Or Imogene 1,500 POWER MEDICAL MICROSCOPE American Legion It was a huge suc- Coca? Home. This is the finest instrument we handle. It is in every way comparahle to domes- cess, and this year's will be even better. tic makes sellinK for $450.00. Complete with tools, oil for immersion. 3 objec- Harry Thompson THAT LOAN TO RED WARSAW tives*- lOx. 40x & lOOx oil immersion. Kye pieces are 5x. 8x. 15x Huygenian. X & Y Abbe 1.2 condtii^cr. Hollidaysburg, Pa. mechanical stage. andCOcn Sir: "China lobby" investiga- In hardwood chest with lock #tMu. QQww The proposed Key. etc. tion \\ ould be in order if it were made on AN ORDER AND AN IDEA a non-partisan basis to determine whether an>' action was undertaken to illegally in- Sir: It's a great idea for the service man and 80 POWER MICROSCOPE for the Legion — send him The American fluence our go\'ernment or public opinion Legion Magazine. /Maybe you should run in this country in favor of Nationalist Precision, Polished Lenses. Ideal Instrument for Nature a column every month telling what the China. However, since there are reasons to Study, Botany, Mineralogy, partisan motives in the proposed in- etc. With prepared slide CC 7C Legion is trying to do that will help him suspect »V.i«» in box complete vestigation, it to ex- when he returns. Anyway, here is my buck would be too much and a half to send The Aii/erican Legion pect its extension to include similar illegal Magazine to a swell boy, six months from influence in favor of the Peiping puppets — far the of the civilian life to Korea. I hope he gets to of Moscow beyond scope read every issue for the year ahead. present Senate hearings? How about a re- D. D. Stockdill opening of the celebrated Amerasia case? GENUINE WOLLENSAK TELESCOPE And why not investigate the activities of Adiustal)Ic Powers. 15x. 20x. 25x. 30x. ar.K. 40x. Pully Gleucoe, Minnesota co-ite'i iense.-i thiniiKlioiit. The finest tolesco|>c we ton cn Leallier Case. *ta.JU Mr. Acheson's law firm in behalf of a sub- can offer. In UNCONDITIONAL stantial loan to the \Varsaw puppets of _ TRIAL_ MONEY-IACK GUARANTEE MIX-UP 10-DAY CATALOGUES OR TIME PAYMENTS are interesting SAVE MONEY — NO Moscow? There so many E.ich Item Is a real Investmciit^ In ^educyloit^and ^pract^cM lifetime use and pleasure. Add 75c P.P Sir: I have just finished reading the won- possibilities. Why not include them too? on Binoculars only. Send ch r M O. C.O.D. eral Tax nearest — vou pnv postage. Plea.-^e 1 Mall Orders to derful article by Gene Autry concerning Ignace Morawski office. For reference appl> Tom Mix. I think he has done a swell job Editor, Nowy Swiat STANLEY OPTICAL CO. Mail Order Dept. FM-8. S74 Filth Ave.. N. Y. 19, N. Y. of giving Tom Mix the credit he has long New York City Mid-West Branch Office 30 W. Washington St.. Chicago 2. Illinois The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • g THE ditor's orner WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR COUPONS? Did > ou ever stop to think how fast com- mon things disappear? Not long ago every- body was using ration tickets, and billions of them must have been printed. But even thougii it's only about five > cars since they were i}i use, try and find many of them today. We know because of the effort that was necessar\' to locate a few gasoline ra- tion stamps to illustrate the article Will We Have Gas Rationing!,!' on page 18. The regular collectors didn't have any, but finally one of our editors found some in a trunk. THE SNOW OF YESTERYEAR House for Sale: \ studio home (two baths, cypress panelling, fireplaces, etc.) with a private beach on the Con- necticut River at Chester, Conn. Four secluded acres accessible by private road. Ideal for writing or painting (studio has north light). Owner is going abroad and wishes to sell prop- erty at once. Telephone EDGAR SNOW at Palisades, N. Y. From Overseas Press Club Bulletin Edgar Snow, former member of the staff of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, is the aUthor of Red Star Over China, The Battle for Asia, etc., and used to be active as a book reviewer. iMr. Snow was referred to in Why Yoii Buy Books That Sell Coiiivm- nisni, in our January- issue. A LESSON FOR TEACHERS As tiiis is written, college commence- ments arc being held and man>' campuses are resounding to the cries of pedagogues and others who scream that sinister forces are assaulting academic freedom. Since The American Legion has long been con- cerned about subversion on the nation's campuses, there is no doubt that certain campus characters look upon Legion in- terest as sinister. Our position, however, is clear. ^Ve belic\ e college students should be taught about communism, but we don't like it when instead they are taught com- munism. We deplore, too, the tendenc\' of many educators to be apologetic when it comes to this country. We wish they'd be more positive in teaching that, with all its faults, the United States is a wonderful country. So, to educators and the public generally, we extend an invitation to study Let's Have More Schools Like This! on page 26. ANOTHER ABSENT-MINDED PROF Tiic other da\' w e gt)t a ratiier strange letter from a college professor who started out by asking us if we were sure we didn't have a foreign agent on our editorial staff. Seems he had been mentioned in one of our anti-comniic articles and he opined that nia>be a foreign power had planted an agent here to blacken, or redden, his char- acter. He was innocent, of course, he said. The American Legion Magazine • August, IflSl His version was that some time ago he had been approached by a professor from Mos- It cow University who wanted him to do some character assassination on reputable Americans. He refused, and since that time he declared he had been subjected to a "smear campaign." Now everybody was going around saying he was pro-Soviet, i0 just as we did in our article. However, the learned gentleman did not explain just how it was he had got himself tied up with more than twenty organizations that the House Un-American Activities Committee has described as communist fronts. Adaybe Mysterious Moe from IXloscow U. did it. DON'T BUY COMMUNIST! We're hearing a lot these days about those who betray their country by selling to the reds. But how about those who buy goods that come from the Soviet or its satellites? There is plenty of stuff coming into this country for dollars which will quickly find their wa\' into the Soviet eco- nomic bloodstream. In almost any camera store, for example, >'ou will find plioto- graphic equipment made in the Soviet Zone of Germany or in Czechoslovakia. In many sporting goods stores you will find rifles and ammunition that originated in Czecho- slovakia. Before you shop for these or other goods, take a look at the map of Europe and buy accordingly. THE DREAM MILE If your sport is trout fishing we invite your attention to the pictures on pages 24 and 2.*). There you'll see a trout stream such as you've probabl>' dreamed about. It's a stretch of Tobyhanna Creek appropriately called The Dream Mile, and it is located near Blakeslee, Pa., in the Poconos. Only a few lucky fishermen, members of the Split Rock Club, have access to this well-stocked stretch of water, but it's out of this world. UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED! When you're looking at the photos pay particular attention to the one showing a THESE days smart tire buyers want building better passenger, truck and hook being removed from tiie neck of a em rugged. And they don't come tractor tires, is your assurance that (not man a fish). 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Near him, in waders, was Donato Leo, our sea-going cameraman. On the bank hovered one of our editors. Suddenly, as Blassingame cast, Leo yelled: "I'm hooked! Get it out!" Proving that Leo really was hooked, a Mickey Finn fly was found jabbed firm- ly behind his right ear. The editor took one look, asked for his camera and spent the next ten minutes get- ting "just one more" picture after another. A sample is shown above. : . NOTED ELECTRONIC SCIENTIST OFFERS Products NEW FREE BOOK TO HARD OF A sampling of items which are in process o/ development or are coming on the market. 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THE TEXAS COMPANY TEXACO DEALERS IN All 48 STATES Texoco Products are aho dishibufed in Canada and Latin America Moscow's lED LEITEI DtY IN AMERICAN HISTORY South of the Rio Grande, our Pan-American neighbors remember that it was on November 16, 1933 that the Colossus of the North became "El Loco Rico del Norte," and lost moral leadership of the west. By WILLIAM LA VARRE THE AMERICAN LEGION OFFICIALLY OPPOSED THE SIGNING OF A TREATY WITH THE SOVIET. VERY SPECIAL agent from Moscow, Speaking at the Tomb of the Unknown THE commissar of all the Red Square's ne- Soldier in Washington on November 11, chief 1933, just five days before President farious international machinations, Roosevelt signed the treaty recognizing of the Kremlin's schemes for communizing Soviet Russia, National Commander the American hemisphere, sat victoriously Edward A. Hayes said: "He (the Un- at the White House desk at midnight, smil- known Soldier) would understand the ing at the President of the United States. Legion's attitude that opposes the official For fifteen deceitful years the corrupt recognition by the United States of strange Kremlin had tried to obtain a communist tenets, admittedly and avowedly intended to destroy through base, protected by diplomatic immunities, violence and revolution the structure of our government and witiiin the United States. Four Presidents — the family relationship that is the keystone of that structure. He Coolidge and — would tell you to beware of questionable commitments that would Wilson, Harding, Hoover tend to tie the hands of those of us who would keep our Ameri- had refused to countenance iMoscow's pagan canism; to beware of bizarre associations just because they might ideology or its carriers. But here, at last, ." benefit someone financially . . was a President the communists could deal THESE PRESIDENTS REFUSED TO DEAL WITH RUSSIA with. Many patriotic, well-informed Americans, in tlie old Department of State, in The American Legion, and in the American Federation of Labor, had begged Franklin Roosevelt not to use his new leadership of the United States for the aggrandizement of an evil, dangerous and pagan guest — but to send him back to Moscow, red with the blood of the commissar's own countr>'men, without a handshake. Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover But Franklin Roosevelt, piqued with the power of his new office, stimulated by his clique of Marxian and Fabian socialists pos- 11 (CONTINUED) Moscow's Red Letter Day in American History ing as intellectuals and liberals — and by spirit of Thomas Jefferson." In the radicals in labor unions, universities and White House, ten days before the sign- his own sycophant bureaucracy — had ing of the Roosevelt-Litvinov pact, signed his name to the Kremlin's fran- there was abundant evidence to the con- chise. Without the approval of Con- trary, in the form of a comprehensive gress, he made an actual treaty with the report on Soviet-promoted communist Soviets, giving them the right to estab- activities throughout the whole hemi- lish a communist embassy and con- sphere, and documentary evidence that sulates in the United States, with full the prospects for peace "over all the diplomatic hospitalities and immunities world" would be greatly damaged, to Stalin's agents, the bloody bolsheviki rather than strengthened, by giving the of Asiatic Europe. Kremlin an American base in Wash- Boris Kraevsky, Moscow's secret "Com- missar for South America," 1919-1933, November 16, 1933 — at midnii^ht! ington. posed deceitfully as a Soviet purchasing That is a date in American history our It was known in 193 3 that Stalin and agent, used Moscow gold to buy diplo- children will long have tragic cause to his Soviet regime was beginning to matic recognition for the U. S. S. R. remember. That was the day Soviet topple, and only its diplomatic recog- Foreign Commissar A4axim Litvinov, nition by the President of the United plunderer of Estonia and the Kremlin's States — and a subsequent vast economic THEN, BEGINNING IN MEXICO, MOS- first agent for socializing England, sat subsidization — would make it possible down with Franklin Roosevelt, after to continue to control the Russian Dean Acheson and Henry Morgenthau people and expand the Soviets' treacher- had done the spadew ork of propaganda, ous socialistic activities throughout and made the deal that has led the Europe, Asia — and America. American people, and our once vast In the White House, some of us knew resources, into a social and economic — at the very moment of Roosevelt's calamity to the very brink, now, of na- deal with communism — was a highly tional and international disaster. detailed report and analysis of the "In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson," Kremlin's real objective: the sabotaging the President reported artfully to his of the Western Hemisphere's social, countrymen, "Air. Litvinov and I have political and economic life and the cre- believed that through a resumption of ation of a Pan American Union of So- normal relations the prospects of peace cialist States. over all the world are greatly strength- M. Litvinov, of deceitful smiles, was ened." To give his words weight he not the first commissar of the Kremlin President Obregon of Mexico, quoted to his fellow Americans an old to come, with a Soviet bag of trickery, eager for Soviet gold, "welcomed" the U.S.S.R. "into the brotherhood of friendly letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a to America. As far back as 15 years in nations," giving the reds a beachhead. Russian friend of 1809, setting forth the the American Hemisphere history he thesis — then true but in 1933 a provable professed to know so w cU — and in this falsehood — that Russia and the United instance did know in detail — the Presi- States were "in character and practice dent had a dossier of Soviet duplicit>', Soviet's agent in the United States. essentially pacific, with a common in- not only in Europe but in America. But Here — read it now and weep — is the terest in the rights of peaceful nations." in spite of pleas, begging him to give the missing chapter of facts hidden from the Thus began our era of lost integrity, facts to his countr>men, he hid the public in 1933. lost statesmanship. There was no truth truth behind a highly organized Wash- In 1917 when the bolshex iki seized in the statement that the Washington- ington plethora of pro-communist prop- power, and more than a billion dollars' Moscow deal had been made "in the aganda, banquets and festivities for the worth of American property and assets GREAT WAS THE FEAR OF LATIN AMERICANS, THEREFORE, WHEN THEY LEARNED THE UNITED STATES Maxim Litvinov's sly To "prepare" U. S. citizens for his Harry Hopkins was Roosevelt's smile was to gain, from deal with Stahn, President Roosevelt used, "confidential advisor" with Stalin's Franklin Roosevelt, what 15 secretly, the combined talents of Henry Litvinov; they held their secret con- years of Soviet cunning had Morgenthau, Jr., and Dc.m Acheson — the ferences in a guarded house in Wash- failed to obtain for Stalin. actual ghost-writers of the propaganda. ington. The U. S. press was barred. 12 HAD USED THE SUBVERSIVE TACTIC OF CONQUEST BY REVOLUTION. 'herever Kraevsky's bolshevik gold — plundered Riots and revolutions — attempts to take President Uriburu of rom Russia's homes, banks, industries and churches — over L. A. governments by bullets — broke out all long-patient Argentina seized ailed to gain recognition for the Soviet regime he financed through Latin America. Thousands of photographs, Kraevsky's Amtorg headquar- :ommunist-led riots against the anti-communist govern- such as this scene of a 1930 Sao Paulo revolution, ters in 1931, exposed Moscow's nents, such as this 1930 revolution in Rio de Janeiro. were sent with intelligence reports to Washington. plotting and won red hatred. COW'S AGENTS SWITCHED TO A POLITICAL TACTIC OF BALLOTS RATHER THAN BULLETS. The Kremlin's ambassador to Mexico became Mos- Using Moscow-controlled labor votes, the Constantin Oumansky became Stalin's ow's secret agent for organizing Mexicans into communist- Soviet ambassador was actually to "elect" an master ambassador and Trojan horse- ontrolled labor unions; he sent labor agitators, also, to anti-U.S., pro-red Mexican Indian, Cardenas, man for the American hemisphere, )ther Latin American unions such as that shown here. (second from left) President of Mexico. operating from a secret headquarters. in Russia was stolen by the Kremlin, amount of war-boomed surplus wheat, shrewdly saw Argentina's predicament. all the American republics, at the re- corn, meat and hides; the Armistice had Moscow had a storehouse of gold quest of President Wilson, closed the left them facing a national crisis. The from the plundered Russian industries, old Russian embassies and consulates first bolshevik agent to be sent from estates, homes and churches, and needed and refused to recognize the regime of Moscow to tour America as a "com- large amounts of food imports until its Lenin and Trotsky. mercial agent" was a communist-trained communist agricultural program could The Argentine, however, had a vast Japanese named Sen Katsama. He regiment Rus- {Continued on page 50) m INVITING STALIN TO OPEN AN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON. Then, on November 18, 1933, President Roosevelt an- nounced, en route through Savannah, Georgia, to Warm Springs, that he had signed "agreements" with Moscow. The U.S.S.R., he pledged, had become an ally for peace. Formerly a social worker in New York before he was "discovered" by Elea- nor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins became the But — Stalin's first ambassador White House Svengali for all Roosevelt's to Washington, A. A. Troynov- deals with Stalin — deals which were to sky, brought communist agents give over eleven billion dollars worth of rather than peace to America. He U.S. ships and economic treasure to the employed a large staff of experts Kremlin. Without such material as well as on subversive tactics, all pro- diplomatic support, the Soviet regime tected by diplomatic immunity. would have fallen as long ago as 1935. No ?°;»^«fcers Loans to ^300 NO REFERENCES. NO DELAY JUST PICK UP YOUH PHONE DIAL UR-2345 HIGH WIDE LOAN GO. Need Money? A lot of people shy away from making small loans at their banks, because of mistaken ideas about banks and bankers. However, many are learning banks can save you money. By BERTON BRALEY Well, I "lAf ' 'BORROWED that hundred dol- bank?" he continued. "No? ini lars 1 needed," said Joe Wilkins, have. And the banker was just as affable "and, just as the ads say, without as your Affable Finance Company man, any security but my character and my and he lent me money on just the same job. Those people at the Affable Fi- basis as your finance company — my nance Company are sure pleasant to character and my job. And at from S'/z deal with." to 6 percent instead of 17. "Yeah," commented Mark Lawson. "Look. Why don't you go to a bank, "What rent are you paying?" borrow that hundred, pay off the Fi- "What's my rent got to do with it? nance Company right away, and save Paying back $9.75 a month for a year yourself $8 or $9 rent on the money?" ain't going to keep me from meeting "Would they do that for me?" asked willingness to pay — and saved them- my rent." Wilkins. selves $88 million in interest. "I'm talking about the rent you pay "They have— and often," Lawson re- Why don't the Wilkinses do it, then? for that money. Twelve times $9.75 is plied. "They want your business, and Mostly for reasons that ain't so, as $117. Seventeen dollars for a year's rept that's one way to get and keep it." for instance the tradition (a) of the of $100! You could have rented that Wilkins and Lawson are representa- glassy eyed banker who won't let go hundred from the Personal Loan De- tive of two types of borrowers. Last of money without a mortgage on all partment of a bank for four, five or six year the Wilkinses borrowed $800 mil- your earthly chattels and supernal dollars— and paid it back at about $8.85 lion from Small Loans Companies and prospects. a month!" paid about $136,000,000 in interest. The The truth is that banks want to lend "And to save 90 cents a month," Wil- Lawsons borrowed about $2 billion mone>', and personal loans are a profit- kins exclaimed, "I should face a cold- from bank Personal Loan Departments able and sound way of doing so. Lend- eyed banker, and give him my life his- and paid about $120 million in interest. ing on "character and willingness and tory, and get a friend to sign my note, AVhich means that the Wilkinses paid ability to pay" entails losses of less than and maybe mortgage my furniture! money-rent at a rate three times that one-half to one percent. Bankers are Anyhow, what bank'll loan as little as paid by the Lawsons. not so stupid as to get frosty-eyed with a hundred dollars?" Yet at least 95 percent of the Wilkinses good customers. "Any bank with a Personal Loan Dc- could have gone to their banks and Reason (b) for not borrowing at a l)artnicnt," said Lawson. borrowed the same amounts on the bank — because the Joe Wilkinses have "J 'ever make one of those loans at a same basis of character and ability and the idea that when they head for the 14 partments—in sums from $100 to $1,500. tection by the amount you borrow.) I have >'et to get the glassy stare, or be If you have bonds or stocks you can snooted because I wanted $100 instead borrow on them (from a conunercial of $10,000. bank). As a rule the bank will lend you And any honest borrower will tell up to 80 percent of the stock market you the same thing. price of your securities at an interest The other reason (e) the Wilkinses rate of 3 l/i to 4 percent. don't go to banks is because they don't If you own a house, you can mort- realize the money rent they're paying gage it — at around 4 percent. (At a the Small Loan People. Like Joe Wil- savings bank, a savings and loan com- kins, all they ask is, "Can I get a hun- pany, or an insurance compan\'.) dred? And can I manage to pay $9.75 You can borrow on your furniture a month for it? Okay, can do." (but generally you'll have to go to the Joe Wilkins wpuWn't pay $1,700 a Small Loans Company for that. Banks year for an apartment when he could don't lend on furniture). get the identical housing across the You can borrow on your car — street or down the block for $400 to And that brings you back to the bank, $600— but that's the way he rents mone\' if you're wise. You'll get your money when he pays rr extra 90 cents or dol- on a car already bought, or to buy a car, lar a month for $100. as easily, and more cheaply, from the Are there other ways of getting bank's Personal Loan Department than money for an emergency, or for any from any Small Loans outfit. Personal Loan Department in the bank other legitimate purpose, besides bor- As a matter of fact, except for bor- ever\body ij \\atchinQ; tlicni and the rowing from a Small Loan Company rowing on securities or mortgaging whole town knov/s. or a bank's Personal Loan Department? your home, the most sensible, and gen- — It isn't the fact, but to counter such Several. If you want less than $50, the erally, the cheapest place to get $50 an idea most banks now have separate chances are >'ou can borrow it from a well, say $80 — or more, is from a bank's entrances for their Personal Loan De- friend or relative. Personal Loan Department. partments. Or you can pawn a watch or a ring How much can you get? (c) The idea chat banks inform the or a camera. That'll cost you 3 percent As much as $10,000 — and sometimes borrower's employer, family, and ref- a month, and if you get more than $20 more. on something you paid $100 for, you'll You can't. However, borrow a sum like that on a personal loan unless you're earning from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, or have a business that justifies the bank HERE ARE FIVE DIFFERENT WAYS in risking that much. IN WHICH YOU CAN RAISE MONEY. Generally speaking, banks limit per- sonal loans to 10 or 20 percent of your annual income. But if you have a secure job, good credit and first rate refer- ences, or a co-maker with that kind of rating, You can leave your watch you may get a loan up to half or your boxing gloves or of your yearly earnings. Say they're the mandolin at a There is the real personal pawnshop. "average" of about $3,000, you'd have loan, from one friend or no difficulty in borrowing $750 to relative to another. $1,500, at 4 to 6 percent on a personal loan without collateral. On a car you can do even better. Up ferenccs about all the de- to Vi the listed price on your car — new tails of the loan. That ain't or used — and at an interest rate as low so, either. The bank simph' as 3.33 percent {Co7itimied on page 44) checks as to whether the borrower works where he says he works, lives where he sa>'s he lives and banks where he says he banks, if anywhere. So does the Small Loans Company. In fact, Joe Wilkins can trust the bank's discretion A home-owner can mort- gage it and get money more confidently than that of the seven- at about 4 percent. teen percenters. Reason (d) thn; che Wilkinses shy be unusual. The rates are mighty stiff. away from bank borrowing is their But, except for one of those little idea that banks snoot anybody who financial stringencies involving lack of wants to borrow less than a thousand immediate pocket money for an un- dollars, and are pretty condescending expected small crisis, you almost never about even such a loan as that. need to borrow less than fifty dollars. An .lutoiiiobilo may also used as collateral Here I'll take the witness stand on For more than fifty, if you have a be if you want to borrow. these two propositions. straight life or endowment policy that's Because of personal improvidence and been in force long enough to accumulate the precariousness of a freelance writ- cash value, you can borrow on it — at If your life insurance has er's business, I have been a frequent about (But you reduce the value 5%. been in force long enough borrower from Bank Personal Loan De- of your policy and your family's pro- you can borrow on it. A short story about a ham-and-egg golf pro who made good in one memorable game. By RICHARD ALDEN KNIGHT RAIN, wind-driven and rival at the course was to the club as been mentioned. Bear with me a while heavy, sv\ept across the the robin is to spring. He was the offi- and I'll tell >'ou about a bo\" w ho I think parking area and ham- cial opener of a happy season and he topped them all. Wlio, \'ou sa\ ? Why, mered on the caddyhouse bore this distinction gracefully. Leach Randolph, a guy with the hottest roof. . Line on Hne of cu- The unending blackjack game was hands in the game." , mukis clouds humped over going on in the corner. Groups of Ben lighted his pipe again and began. the ridges be>'ond town >'oimger caddies were sprawled about and dropped their precipi- the floor, all talking the same thing — Back in '40, they held the first An- tation on an already sod- the greatest golfer of them all. Minor derson Memorial Open liere. Then, it den community. Ben arguments broke out from time to time didn't cause much stir. Sure, the local Royal cocked his ample as each brought forth the name of his boys -were all excited about it, but na- feet on a soda case and relit his pipe. idol. But when Ben spoke, tiie rest tionalh' it was just one more money His round, meaty face gave no clues as quieted down. tournament for the big pros to put on to his age. He was pudgy to the point "Ya know, boys, I'vj listened to this their list. Maybe that's why Leach didn't of being rotund and seemed to possess same argument for years and I always attract much attention when he pulled the fortunate ability of being comfort- hear the same names mentioned. You talk in here. I was in the pro-shop, helping able in any position he found himself. about Top Kittridgc and Willie Roach Steve clean clubs and get things ready. Ben was more or less a fixture at Oak- and George Ashurst. You say that Beniy When Randolph registered he signed hurst. Every spring, he'd show up on McFall was the greatest wood player his name and after it put professional — opening day, sign in, draw his caddy of them all and you tell how Ralph unattached. W^ell, right off he got badge and retire to the shade of the Severson could outscramble the field. labeled as just one more ham-and-egger nearby woods to await call. Ben's ar- Bur I've got a name for you that hasn't trying to make a quick buck. He was 16 playing his practice rounds in par while ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE WITHERS shots looked like three million bucks. Kittridge and McFaii were taking the egger try to make a name for himself. Leach knocked it down for a bird and course apart. He'd stand out on the Maybe it's not fair for me to call away he went. practice tee and hit shots by the hour, Randolph that. He wasn't flashy. His Randolph's drive on four was all by himself. Willie Roach w ould hit swing was fair and he hit the ball pretty pushed deep into the right-hand rough. two putts and fifty people would mill well. But he looked like a good ama- McFall was grim when he addressed his around with their mouths open, but teur on a hot streak. Willie Roach on ball. Gone was the characteristic jovi- nobody paid any attention to Leach. a bad day still looked better than this ality that endeared him to galleryites, Yes, sir, he was one awful small frog in kid did hot. but the power that made him famous a big puddle. We birdied twelve when he chips in was still there. His tee shot screamed Maybe I used the word puddle right, from the edge of the green. On thir- down the middle, hooked slightl>' and 'cause that's what it was the first day. teen, he's in trouble all the way but came to a stop better than three hun- Looked a lot like the weather today, scrambled out of the backcountry and dred yards out. Len Donardo kidded but it wasn't raining quite this hard. It scratches down a par. On fourteen, he him as he stepped up: "Benjy, you make had settled down to a steady drizzle that shuts his eyes and hits the flag with a me feel pretty little when you do that!" turned the course into a sloppy mess. I ball that should have been thirty yards The gallery rocked with laughter. went to draw my bag and who do I over. The ball winds up about three And so it went the rest of the after- pull but Leach Randolph. I was a little inches from the can. We're five under. noon. McFall was hitting six-irons when sore at first, but the grin he gave me Fifteen he almost three-putts and on Leach and Donardo were debating be- on the first tee got me over it. sixteen, he chips in again. By this time, tween a four wood or a tw o iron. After Our threesome went off in the middle every person in the district is there the smoke cleared awa>% he posted a 66, of the field. With Randolph were tw o watching and getting drowned doing Donardo had a 70 and Leach, still amateurs, Lucas and Ecker. No galler>% it. Seventeen — well, seventeen we par. scrambling, came trotting in with a 68. no nothin' — just rain. One thing I no- On eighteen, he hits two good ones All the second-guessers of the da>' be- ticed right off. He hit every ball to go home, rims the can with a forty-foot fore were still calm about Randolph's from here to there. That's good wet- try for his eagle and winds up with a four stroke lead on the field. Bud Wil- weather golf. Played the ball off his seven-under 64. son, w ho runs that "Around the Green" front foot and hit 'em high and long. When that score hit the big board, column in the Star, did quite a piece Well, we played pars for three holes. everybody and his brother started sec- about it. Can't remember his exact He hit his greens, but not on the can ond-guessing. The newspaper boys words, but it went something like this. like a lot of them do. On the fourth he looked wise and said it wouldn't last "Unknown scores double accident to and the big pros didn't seem much con- lead Memorial by four strokes. Lucky cerned with his lead on the field. golf and breaks galore gave Leach Ran- The rain quit that night and the next dolph a colossal head start on a star- studded field of seasoned campaigners." But lie, just like everyone else, fore- cast a tremendous blowup. Randolph and pulled the shot deep into the pine grove. Vv'as due to break and it w asn't supposed to be a surprise. Saturday morning, I showed up down here early, figuring Leach for a good day turned out real nice, The course hour's practice before we w ent out. We knocks down a twenty-footer for a bird was still wet, but by noon the greens were due off at 11:10 and when 10:00 but I figure that's bound to happen had dried out pretty well and were get- rolled around, I knew he was plaj'ing it now and then with any pro. When he ting back some of their speed. smart. I don't know where he hit them, birdies the fifth with a fifteen-footer, I Leach didn't go off until one-thirty. maybe a vacant lot, but he was warmed figure it's accidental. But when we make The gallery wanted to see some of this up when he got there without having the turn three under par, Vm wonderin'! hot golf, so the committee moved him a crow d watching him hit shots. Top He pars ten and it really starts to rain. into fast company. They teamed him Kittridge and a red-hot amateur by the Word is getting around the course by with one of the Donardo brothers and name of Lee Jameson filled the three- then. McFall is one over, Kittridge is Benjy McFall. They pulled better than some up and we had a mob follow ing us. even and we're three under. half the gallery on the course. This kid Jameson was a picture Boys, 1 never could figure out what Maybe the gallery bothered Leach, swinger. He hit every ball with a makes a golf fan tick. People that but the breaks he got fixed that. After grooved action that made each shot wouldn't walk to the corner to mail a playing the first two with sloppy pars, seem easy. He puttered a little between letter plod all over a golf course watch- he halfmissed a seven iron on the third shots and his short game was a shade ing the big boys play. Like I said, it that ran through a flank trap to the weak, but, as an amateur, he looked six was raining. Leach and I were soaked green, picked up the roll and almost strokes better than Leach any time. and the gallery, bless them, looked wet- holed out. McFall nearly lay down on All three hit good drives off number ter. But there they were, almost two the fairway and cried. He couldn't beg, one and the first ball we came to be- hundred of them, watching a ham-and- borrow or buy a birdie although his longed to (Cofitimted an page 49) 17 WILL WE HAVE GAS RATIONING? With vast quantities of gasoline and oil necessary for war use, and with Iran's supplies now in doubt, will we soon he restricted to driving for essential purposes only? million barrels of oil. We produced al- most two billion — more than seven times as much — and accounted for about half of the world's entire oil pro- duction! Even if the 240 million barrels produced by Iran were added to Russian production, the total wouldn't even be- gin to approach that of the U. S. Why then is there any talk of short- Gasoline acquired special value ages? when it took more than money to buy it. For years, we have heard talk of de- pleted oil supplies and shortages. "Ex- perts," time and time again, have cried ORi.D W AR II," according to Fleet reserves and production facilities com- out the warning that our oil reserves Admiral Chester W. Niniitz, "was pare with those of Russia? What will would not last another ten years. Im- won on oil, bullets, and beans." happen if the Kremlin grabs off the oil mediately after WW I, when our na- With the unsettled world conditions fields in Iran? tional oil demands were considerably and the cverlooming possibility of WW Let's consider the last questions first. less than they are now, the then Di- III, it is only reasonable to wonder how According to the latest figures available rector of Mines wailed that "within the we stack up in those three vital depart- to tlie American petroleum industry, next two to five years the oil fields of ments of wartime supply. As for armor Russia, at the moment, has an estimated this country will reach their maximum and food, we never have been caught in untapped, in-the-ground oil reserve of production, and from that time on we extended short supply. Once mobilized, some six billion barrels. We have a our industrial capabilities are second to pro\ en, readily-tapped underground re- none, and our farmers already have serve of 30 billion barrels! demonstrated what the)' can do in In 1945, Russia, long famous for her IF GASOLINE becomes emergencies. fi\ c-\'ear plans, started an intensive pro- scarce, oil shorta.ifcs will But how oil? is about Oil a natural gram of well-drilling. By 1950, she had not be far behind. underground resource that can be de- drilled 3,500 new wells, her five-year pleted, and when it is gone, it is gone. goal. Last year, in one twelve-month Will another full-scale war tax our oil period, Uncle Sam's oil industry drilled supplies and mean an even tighter ra- more than 43,000 new wells within the tioning of oil and gasoline than in the continental boundaries and today more past war? Will badly depleted resources than half of those wells are producing perhaps even spell the difference be- crude oil or nanu'al gas. tween victory and defeat? How do our In 1950, Russia produced less than 300 18 ) "^^ny **••*!!. It takes oceans of oil to keep our fleet afloat. Here a tanker, right, pumps . . • fuel to the light carrier Independence in a fueling operation during WW II. . , The Army's new M-4 tank at left meets up with the M-3. The new model is improved but uses more gas. This system of aenal refueling is called the "Flying Boom." Both tanker and tankee require g.is in great gobs. will face an ever-increasing decline." overlooking the vast possibilities of pro- necessary to add to our natural oil That was in 1919 when our proven re- ducing fuel synthetically. Right now, a supplies. serves were a mere seven billion bar- relatively small plant near Brownsville, The large deposits of oil shale in rels as compared to the present-day 30 Texas, is producing more than 7,500 Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming also billion. Over the years, thanks to the barrels of synthetic fuels a day by proc- show promise of providing additional oil industry's ingenuity in perfecting essing natural gas, and that total pro- sources of oil. Major oil companies, improved exploratory techniques, bet- duction includes enough gasoline to fill working in close cooperation with the ter drilling methods, and more efficient the tanks of 14,000 automobiles plus U.S. Bureau of Mines, ha\e devised a refining processes, our proven reserves enough extra to fly a squadron of air- unique system for converting the oil- as well as our production have increased planes around the world! Such an oper- bearing rock into crude oil. By literally rather than decreased. ation could easily be expanded — or boiling the oil out of the shale, pilot What is more, oil experts are not duplicated many times — if we found it plant opera- ( Contiinied on page 59 19 . Orders had gone out from President Roosevelt himself, and factories had worked day and night to load . . THE Ship the Nazis had to get By JAMES H. WINCHESTER Captain Kenneth George Towne, who commanded the Scatrain Texas, ALL the ships that sail the seas, from Reykjavik to Rangoon, shown below. The ship was a hybrid, OFfrom tlie Cape of Good Hope to Nome, none looks less half car ferry and half ocean-going glamorous than the S.S. Sentrain Texas. In the coastwise freighter, capable of carrying a tre- mendous amount of cargo. trade, between Texas and New York, she's as functional as a bathroom plunger, long on space, short on looks, built for ruggedness rather tlian grace or comfort. No excited or admiring glances from those in sk> scraper windows or on ferr\boat decks, no riotous welcomes from spouting fireboats or blasting whistles ever greet her as she plods her workmanlike way tlirough the cluttered waters of New York harbor on her bi-monthl\" visits. But well the\' might, for the Seatrain Texas, for all her lack of glamor, is a ship that changed the course of history. Night had not yet turned to daw n on the morning of July 29, 1942 w hen 16 low -riding freighters, ghostlike in their w ar gra>' paint in the clinging darkness, slipped away from the Arnn 's sprawling New York Port of Embarkation piers in Brookh n. One of them w as the Seatrai/i Texas, loaded to her Piimsoll Mark w ith 250 heavy tanks, half a hundred tank de- stroyers and assorted weapons enough to equip a division, The arsenal worked day and night. The loaded trains converged on the docks. The tanks were transferred from lighters to ships. Nmih Europe America Niw roiiK Nmih Atlantic Sep. 2nd .lAUFlO 35 days out of Now York ' South America Captain Towne learned from sealed orders his destination was Port Suez. I doy fueling^ more than 8,000 tons in all. On the bridge, as she pushed out into the busiest harbor in the world, This is the route that was taken by the Seatrain Texas. The wireless operator George Mason, a civilian harbor tried to get the mcssagp interfprcH. pilot, stood shouldcr-to-shoulder but heavy static with the ship's skipper, 44-year-old Kenneth George Towne, a soft-spoken, dead-earnest Yankee from Vermont, who'd worked his way up from deck- hand to master in 23 hard years at sea. All but one of the freighters pointed their bows northv^ards, up the East River toward Hell Gate and Long Is- land Sound, toward the sleek and com- forting destroyers waiting to meet them off Block Island. On the bridge of the Seatrain Texas Mason turned to the helmsman, ready to swing the ship into line behind the other vessels. Towne reached over quietly, touched his arm. "Wrong wa>'. George," he corrected. "We're going the other way this time . . . alone." Surprised, Mason looked across at the captain, hesitated a moment, then shrugging his shoulders, passed word to the man at the wheel to change course. The tanks spearheaded the famed British att.ick The Hell Gate or The Narrows, it was that turned Rommel's advance into a retreat. all the same to him. This was wartime and strange things were happening on pipe, watching the early morning traffic well that the odds, none too good m the seas and to the men and ships that of the harbor as they moved slowh best, were all against iiini. sailed them. His job was not to ask down the Lower Bay, knew where he questions, onh' to get the vessel safel>- was going, knew that men in high places It had been cjuitc a week, the da>s out of the busy harbor. in Washington and London were just past, he was thinking. In from Ire- Towne, sucking the dry stem of his watching his progress, kncM onK- too land, nfrcr {Cnntimicd nii fn^i.c ) 21 — THOSE INCREDIBLE Gl STODENTS HOW EIGHT MILLION WAR TWO VETS MORE THAN JUSTIFIED OUR FAITH IN THEM By ERLE COCKE, JR. NATIONAL COMMANDER. THE AMERICAN LEOION IHFARD A wonderfully inspiring story also planted the seeds to provide new World War II veterans would care for rhc other day from Cecil Munson, and brighter horizons for future gener- postwar education or training. About T he American Legion's chief of vo- ations of America. eighteen months later—shortly after the cational training and education. While After .seven years, the education- passage of the GI Bill—the War Depart- in Texas recently, Cecil visited the farm training program of the GI Bill — along ment took a sampling of its officers and of a veteran who had learned modern with the vocational rehabilitation pro- enlisted men, and came up with the farming methods under the education- gram of the Disabled Veterans Act conclusion that only three out of ten training program of the GI Bill of has outstandingly withstood the test of servicemen had any plans, definite or Rights. Although the farm was located time. The program has proved to be tentative, to enter training or schooling in one of the poorer sections of the state, one of the finest things America has after their discharge from the Armed the (li s land was fertile and prosper- ever done for the men and women who F"orces. As late as August 1945 The ous, and the farmhouse was equipped served in uniform. But even more im- Saturday Evening Post featured an ar- for good living. The veteran expressed portant, it has proved to be one of the ticle which announced that "The GIs rhdnU's for the G\ Bill. He said that it finest things done for the prosperit>- Reject Education" on the fragmentary had raised him from a tenant with a and security of the entire nation. evidence that only 1.5 percent of the bleak future to the level of an inde- Today, virtually everyone joins in a first 12,844 veterans of 'World War II pendent farmer with a promising future. song of praise for the GI Bill's educa- had decided to take advantage of their "The GI Bill training has changed the tional provisions. Yet, onl>' a few years educational opportunity. world for me," exclaimed the sun- back there were many doubts, outside The estimates, the surveys, and the bronzed ex-Gl. "Believe me, mister, if of the Legion, that the program would direful predictions proved to be wrong, I learned nothing else from my school- succeed. incredibly wrong. ing, I learned this: I'm going to see to The critics and the cynics had a field By 1946, the amazing rush of the ex- it that my children al.so get an educa- day. "Education and training require GIs into school and college, into job tion." time, effort, and perseverance," they and farm training, convinced even the In this little story is the boiled-down cried out, "whereas the veterans are im- most obstinate skeptics that the vet- \\ isdom anti foresight and faith of The patient, and lazy, and want their bene- erans were eager to make use of their .\merican Legion's leadership which fits handed to them on a platter. The GI Bill educational rights. The rush, fought to establish the Cjl Bill of Rights veterans won't go to school," hooted the too, fulfilled the average American's in a battle which at one period had to detractors of education for GIs. faith in the purposes and goals of our be fought against the bitter opposition Even in high places, in government ex-.servicemen. The average American of the other major veterans organiza- and in education, fears were voiced that had supported the GI Bill with bales tions. In this little story is summed up the program would attract relatively of letters and telegrams to Congress in the long-range benefits of the GI Bill's few ex-servicemen. When the GI Bill the days when passage of the Bill hung education and training program. For the was first being discussed, in the sum- by a thread. GI Bill has not only plowed up new' op- mer of 1943, a special committee ap- in seven years of the GI Bill of Rights portunities for hundreds of thousands of pointed by President Roosevelt esti- -(Public Lave 346}-viore than 1,350,000 veterans of World War II, but it has mated that only one out of twelve veterans of World War II have re- Some said GI Bill would make "educational hoboes" of vets. But in the colleges on the job and on the farm they wrote "brightest pages in history of U.S. education.' Given the opportunity, War Two vets were the hardest-working pupils our colleges had ever seen. They took more and tougher courses than the average student and their grades were the highest in history. reived tra'miv^ hi the school, on the job ers, better-informed American citizens. educational pro\'isions of the GI Bill, and on the farm. What a deafening reply these silent here's what we find: In seven years of the Disabled Vet- statistics give to the mockery of those More than 2,480,000 veterans con- erans Act — I Fjiblic Laiv 16) — some who sneered that the veterans want tinued their education and training at S72,000 ex-Cih went after vocational re- "handouts on the half shell, ' who some 3,000 college-level schools, includ- habilitation. crowed that the veterans would ignore ing colleges, universities, professional Latecomers this spring bring the over- any solid benefit which reciuircd work and technical schools, junior colleges, all total close to an even eight ntilliori. and stud> on their part! teachers colleges, law review colleges, That means that more than half of Nearly $1 2,()()0,0()(M)()0 has already music schools, and hospitals offering the men and voomen ivho saiv service been spent by Uncle Sam to provide residence training to ph\ sicians. At least in the Second World War availed them- training and schooling, with tuition, 400,000 of these \eteran-students liave selves of the opporttinity to improve books, equipment and subsistence, for lompleted their courses. themselves, to make themselves better the veterans who icspondcd to the (il More than 3,3''>0,000 veterans sought earners, better providers, better prodtic- Bill. Kven in these inflated times, S12,- to improve their education and train- ()()(),()()(),()()() (twebe billion) is a pile of ing in below-college-level schools, at- monej'. Was this tremendous expetidi tending approximately 17,500 technical ture worth it? institutions, business schools, secondarx- AND raised the level of American farming A careful answer to this question was and elementary schf)ols, vocational and recentlj- reported to Congress by the trade schools, flight schools, and farm House Select (Jonunittee to Investigate training schools. Over half a million of the Education and Training Program these veteran-trainees completed the under the (il Bill ( The l eague Com- full training period. mittee). More than 1,600,000 veterans took on- "The good that has been accom- the-job training courses. More than plished and which will shoM' itself more 625,000 veterans went into on-the-farm clearly in each succeeding year and in training. And the programs are still succeeding generations is incalculable," going on! reported the committee. We've all seen the newspaper head- If wc take a close look-see, and ana- lines and heard the talk about the l> /e the response of the veterans tf) the "racket" \'et- {V.ontinued on page 19) 23 1. 2. 3. A FISHY KIND OF QUIZ How NOT TO FISH 7. 8. Write your criticisms in the bl<9nk space under the photos, then turn to page 4; 11. 12. 13. 24 Someone is doing or has done something wrong in each of these pictures except one. Can you detect the false notes? To a fisherman most of the errors will be readily apparent, but we warn you that some are tricky. PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO lHnd check your opinions with thobe people who are supposed to know the answers. 14. 15. 25 This young lady just starting her academic career gets a lesson in art that also includes patriotism. How they teach Americanism in all things at Buffalo's Public School 51. By JOSEPH C. KEELEY ^lAio ago a group ot coiii- on. C^hildren ambled in and dtteiKi>.d iiiumsts opened a Young Pioneers some of the gatherings, but the\ ne\ei A^^.\\'Club in an industrial section of returned. The reds kept their clubiiousc Buffalo. B> all rights it should have been going for a few weeks, then the\' too a perfect location to recruit children left and didn't return. and through them their parents. I he The reason for tiie failure ot thi. neighborhood was made up of vvoi king commies was ,\ significant one since it people, a maiorit) of whom v\ere for- provides an answer to those \\\w wail. eign bt)rn, and recreation' centers such "What have v\ e got to counter the ap "' as this were not plentiful. peal of communism? Paul Wamsley, Principal club didn't catcli 1 lie answer in this i ase was .1 stiiool of Public School 51. But .somehow the This is one of many coiurtul displays found Every school day st.irls out vMtli .1 H.ig-raisiiiy in the school corridors, Al tcdching a lesson. lereinony. Students know their fl.(g etitiuette. HOME AND SCHOOL i \lmtl(H^ fiilmr \Nit!l>f riiiimfilh^ ihr hoiiw timl Ilir liirf-^K itdwl 01 ttorfi it. one fW ) Class shows have patriotic themes, such as this bit of Lincolniana. In this presentation, George Washington calls on Betsy Ross to see how she is doing with the flag. The pledge of allegiance IS recited in all grades, including kindergarten. a school that is doing a job — specificalb' Public School 51, at the corner of Her- tei Avenue and Gurnsey Street, not far from Buffalo's bus>' waterfront. To look at it you wouldn't think there was anything remarkable about this particular school. It's like thousands of other elementary schools scattered around the country. The main building was put up back in the 90's, and its red brick construction is a familiar sight to This UN flag display doesn't bury our banner but places it top and center, all Americans. An annex built in the 20's is gradually melting into the older PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS structure, and the two buildings to- gether accommodate about 650 children. There will be those who will sneer- What is so unusual about it? The ingly retort, "F'iag waving!" Well, the answer can be found by visiting a few fact of the matter is that there is a good of the classrooms and talking to the deal of flag waving at P.S. 51. But the Students are taught to know and principal, Paul Wamsley. kids are flag wavers for an excellent rea- be proud of our national heroes. Gen- eral rates high. You'll soon learn that this is no ultra- son. Here is one school where the Douglas MacArthur progressive school where teaching teachers instill a pride in the United methods change as often as women's States, its history, its traditions and its w 1th aiiiaz.ement that a child in her class clothing and have about as much sub- ideals. The result is, the children wave had stood up, raised her hand in a stance. P.S. 51 is, indeed, quite the op- the flag because they've learned to love clenched fist salute and in a childish posite. It's a school where an amazing it. treble started singing tlic "IntLrnation- job has been done in restoring to ele- It isn't just a matter of flag salutes, ale." On investigating, die principal mentary education a number of sound, pledges of allegiance, and patriotic pic- found that the little girl's latiicr was old-fashioned principles, successfully tures — important though they be. It's out of a job and broke, hi his bitter- blending them with modern teaching a way of teaching that was suggested to ness he had turned to communism. techniques. Paul Wamsley by an incident that hap- F.ventualiy, a job was found for the You can describe it by saying that pened about twenty years ago. A kin- man and he broke his ties with the P.S. 51 teaches Americanism. dergarten teacher came to him and told coniinuiiisrs. I do/jtii/iiCii on pai^c 51 Patriotic shrines like that in the Students ate encouraged to assist background are found in every classroom. in law enforcemtiu, as m safety work. ) Have You a ONE TRACK MIND? The fellow who gets into the upper income brackets is usually the one who sticks with a single good idea. By LESTER DAVID A bartender started a mammoth business by pilfering. His boss, James Ritty, annoyed, invented the cash register. SuAU MtN have one-track minds. That's good. Others have minds criss-crossed with more rails than Grand Central Terminal. That's bad. When an idea starts highballing down a single track, it knows where it is heading and generally gets there. But when it chugs aimlessly along a maze of main lines and sidings, the odds are high that it will wind up like the wreck of Old 97. So if you are one of those with a single-railroad mind and if all you've been able to whonip up in a lifetime is one little old idea to ride on it, listen to this: Your chances Sidney Ingram knew that many mothers didn't like to mix baby formulas. With a partner he started a business. of busting open the jackpot of success are infinite- ly greater than those of the guy whom >'ou prob- ably envy but shouldn't, the fellow whose mind fizzes, pops and crackles with ideas like a roman candle. Henry Ford was a one-idea man and see what happened to him! To prove this vital point, I dug into success Mrs. Reba Failer makes money out of heraldry, stories of America, past and present, and learned painting family crests like those used by ye knights. that time and again the one-idea boys have struck pay dirt, but heavily. It's happened before and it's happening now, over and over again. This is what I mean: Back in the early 1930s, a single idea burrowed into the mind of a swarthy little man named Henry Cobbs and began gathering steam along his one-tracker. Henry had a wife, two children, a fistful of unpaid bills and a gapingly empty wal- let. But he also had this one idea, which kept plod- ding along determinedly on his mental railroad. Henry had gone to Miami with his familj- at the height of the depression and had begun toying with his idea of preparing and distributing fruits and preserves — not the routine kind, but many Hazel Bishop studied kissing, from the lipstick angle, and varieties of extra-special, top-drawer stuff for the developed a no-smear type. Geraldine Brooks, left, samples it. elite trade. But nothing happened and Henry bare- ly eked out a living at jiis { Continued on page 46 28 : The IVatioivai Legioivivaire PRESIDENT SIGNS NEW UMT BILL In a historic ceremony at the White House on June 19, Presi- General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service; Rep- dent Truman signed the new Universal Military Training and resentative Carl Vinson, Georgia, Chairman, House Armed Service Act, making it law, which strengthens the draft and Services Committee; National Commander Cocke; Representa- sets up the framework for a post-emergency UMT program. tive Overton Brooks, Louisiana, Member, House Armed Services Attending the ceremony were Congressional and Administra- Committee; Senator Styles Bridges, New Hampshire, Member, tion leaders, and National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., only Senate Armed Services Committee; Senator Lyndon Johnson, person outside the official circle who witnessed the signing. Texas, Chairman of the Senate Sub-committee which initiatec* In the picture above, at the President's right are Mrs. Anna the legislation; Representative Dewey Short, Missouri, Member, Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and General George House Armed Services Committee, and Earl J. McGrath, U. S. C. Marshall, Secretary of Defense. Standing, left to right, are Commissioner of Education. Climaxing a campaign begun at the over," Commander Cocke emphasized.d. 2. The Commission submits UMT leg- first American Legion Convention in "Even with the new law we do not have^e islation to the Congress within four 1919, the principle of Universal Military a guarantee that UMT will be put intoto months following Senate confirmation of Training was written into law when operation. That issue will be decided byly its members. President Truman on June 19 placed his a future vote of the Congress, and it is 3. Within 45 legislative days thereaf- signature on a bill setting up the frame- up to Legionnaires to start workingig ter the Armed Services Committees of work of such a program. In 1919 the now to make sure the decision is right."." the Senate and House must complete ac- Legion demanded "a policy of Universal The statute places the Congress onin tion on the bill, reporting it to their Military Training (with) administra- record for the first time in history asIS respective chambers, tion . . . removed from complete control favoring the idea of UMT. While hailingig 4. The UMT measure then becomes of any exclusively military caste." that action as the "high water mark" of)f "privileged legislation." This means it The bill signed by President Truman The American Legion's long prepared-i- goes direct to the floor of each House, is the first step toward that end, for ness campaign, Commander Cocke saidid by-passing the Rules Committee. How- which the Legion still contends. There UMT can go into effect under the laww ever, it would then be subject to debate is still much to be done. only after the following preliminaryy and amendment prior to final vote on "We've won an important skirmish, steps passage by the Senate and House, but the battle is yet to come," was the 1. The President appoints a Nationalal Immediately after he had signed the limited-victory reaction of National Security Training Commission of five'e bill, the President sent to the Senate the Commander Erie Cocke, Jr. members — three civilians, one of whomm nominations of five men to compose the "The American Legion's 32-year fight is chairman, and two active or retired\d National Security Training Commis- for this training program is by no means members of Regular Armed Services.s. sion. This Commission, under the law, The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • 29 : will not only formulate the program, but will have general supervision over the Legion Conference on Narcotics Plans activated UMT. Help The nominees were James W. Wads- worth, former Senator and Representa- To Check Spread of Juvenile Dope Addiction tive from New York, who will probably be the Commission's Chairman, although The Legion has enlisted in the fight Vogel, head of the U. S. Government the appointment did not so specify; against illegal narcotics and narcotic hospital for narcotic addicts at Lexing- William L. Clayton, former Under Sec- addiction. ton, Kentucky. Legionnaire Barney i-etary of State; Dr. Karl T. Compton, Alarmed by the recent upsurge in Ross, former world lightweight and wel- Chairman of the Corporation of the drug addiction and the narcotics prob- terweight boxing champion and a for- Massachusetts Institute of Technology lem in general, particularly among mer addict, made a stirring and enlight- and Chairman of the Commission that juveniles. National Commander Erie ening talk on his experience with the recommended Universal Military Train- Cocke, Jr., appointed a special com- drug habit. ing to the President in 1947; Lieutenant mittee to confer with groups and indi- Many high ranking school officials General Raymond S. McLain, Controller viduals likewise concerned. As a result were also present, including Dr. William of the Army; and Admiral Thomas C. a very successful three-day "crisis con- Jansen, Superintendent of New York Kinkaid, Retired. ference" was held under the auspices of City schools, and Maximillian Moss, Legion to Continue Fight The American Legion at the Waldorf- President of the City's Board of Edu- Astoria Hotel, New York City, on June cation. The Federal Government Announcing the determination of the was 16-18. represented by Commissioner Harry An- Legion to continue its fight for a realis- The clinic heard a number of experts slinger of the Federal Bureau of Nar- tic national security program, anchored in the fields of anti-narcotics investiga- cotics, and Dr. Kenneth Chapman, on Universal Military Training, Na- W. tion and enforcement. Speakers included Assistant Chief of the Division of Hos- tional Commander Cocke said: Police Commissioner Thomas F. Mur- pitals of the U. S. Public Health Service. "The measure signed into law today phy, New York City, and Dr. Victor H. sets up a series of steps by which the New York State's Attorney General Congi-^ss must decide finally whether Nathaniel Goldstein was also among the 36 speakers heard during the clinic. the nation is to have an operating UMT CECIL MUNSON APPOINTED program. We believe a clear majority The conference was the outgrowth of of Americans made up their minds long NEW FIELD SERVICE CHIEF an overture made to National Com- ago, and affii'matively. We intend to use mander Cocke by Irving Geist, New every means at our disposal to convey Cecil H. Munson, York philanthropist, several weeks ago that majority opinion to the Congress. member of the asking Legion help to stamp out the nar- "While postponement of the finai de- Washington branch cotics evil among the nation's school cision is regrettable and unnecessary, National Head- children. Commander Cocke appointed staffs, I am convinced that the additional study quarters has a special committee headed by Past Na- and the detailed training curriculum to been appointed Di- tional Commander George N. Craig, In- be initiated by the National Security rector of the Na- dianapolis, Indiana, to co-operate with Training Commission will serve to tional Field Service Mr. Geist in sponsoring the clinic. strengthen and solidfy the public sup- to succeed Jack Past National Commander Craig was port UMT has enjoyed since the end of Oakey, who was re- not able to be in attendance on the day World War IL cently promoted to fixed and Commander Cocke delegated "The opposition has been whittled Assistant National James F. O'Neil, Director of American over the years by enlightened under- Adjutant. The ap- Legion Publications and a Past National standing of the need of a system of Cecil H. Munson pointment was an- Commander, to act as temporary Chair- youth training under civilian control nounced by Nation- man. He was assisted by members of and within predictable costs. The oppo- al Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., and the special committee, Clarence E. Cross, sition remains centered today where it Director Munson assumed his new duties Chicago, member of the Legion's Na- has always been — in a small but loud on June 21. tional Finance Commission; Leo V. Lan- handful of pacifists and chronic critics The new Field Service Director has ning, Buffalo, New York, State Director who are for national security but served as Chief of Vocational Training of Veterans' Affairs and the Empire against the measures that would make and Education on the Washington staff State's member of the Legion's National the nation secure." since August, 1946, and is recognized as Executive Committee, and Guy Stone, an authority on veteran laws, specializ- Glenwood, Georgia, member of the Na- Pays Tribute to Supporters ing on the training program under the tional Executive Committee. Father Ed- The combined draft-UMT bill (S. 1) GI Bill. ward J. Carney, Lawrence, Mass- was enacted only after a grueling six- A WWl veteran, native of Iowa, he achusetts, immediate Past National months battle in both Houses. In sum- was graduated from Morningside Col- Chaplain of the Legion, sat in on all ming up, Commander Cocke paid a trib- lege, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1924, and re- sessions as an observer for Commander ute to the members of the Congress and ceived his M. A. from the University of Cocke. Randel Shake, Indianapolis, rep- the Defense Department who were Iowa in 1934. Member of the Legion resented the Legion's Child Welfare largely instrumental in securing pas- since 1920, when he enrolled in the Division which is vitally interested in sage of the Act. Said the National Estherville (Iowa) Post, he was Com- stamping out the growing use of narcot- Commander mander of Emory-Johnson Post No. 481, ics among 'teen agers and school chil- "The Universal Military Training Whiting, Iowa, in 1936-37, and later dren. and Service Act is an important victory served as Commander, Child Welfare Summing up the three-day confer- - although a limited one - for realistic Chairman, and Education Chairman in ence, which drew front-page coverage preparedness. The American people owe Iowa's 9th District. In 1943 he was by newspapers and radio wordage, Past a great deal to the vision and courage named Chairman of Education for the Commander O'Neil pledged the contin- . . . particularly to Senator Richard Department of Iowa. ued co-operation of the Legion's 3,000,- Russell, Senator Lyndon Johnson, Sena- Director Munson was superintendent 000 members and 17,000 Posts in helping tor Styles Bridges, Senator Harry Cain, of schools at Menno, South Dakota, Federal, state and municipal authorities Representative Carl Vinson, Represen- from 1924 until 1930, and was superin- combat the sale and addiction of nar- tative Overton Brooks, Representative tendent of schools at Whiting, Iowa, cotics. Meanwhile, the Committee will W. Stirling Cole, General George C. from 1930 until 1946, when he joiiied study the approximately 100,000 words Marshall, Secretary of Defense, and The American Legion Rehabilitation of speeches and testimony before mak- Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secre- staff. He is married and the father of ing specific recommendations to Na- tary of Defense . . . who fought this three children, one a Marine veteran tional Commander Cocke and the Na- legislation through." of WW2. tional Executive Committee. 3Q • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 pensation and pension: (1) Compensa- Bills Okayed by House tion for disability rated 10 percent to 15 Veteran Benefit 49 percent increased 5 percent on basic rates, and for disability rated from 50 Wide Range; Increases Provided For to 100 percent increased by 15 percent Cover on basic rates. For 10 percent disability Clearing the first vice in the Civil War, Indian wars and a veteran now draws $15. He would re- ma j or hurdle, 15 Spanish-American War. ceive $15.75 under the new scale. Those bills of major im- H. R. 323, calls for the construction having disabilities of 100 percent would portance to veter- of 24 new hospitals in various parts of be raised from $150 to $172.50. The ans were reported the country and the enlargement of 14 legislation provides no increase in sta- to the floor of the others. All told, the result would be the tutory awards and allowances, specific House on June 13 restoration of the 16,000 hospital bed injury rates, and no increase in ceiling. in by Representative cut-back. This bill passed the House (2) Rates of non-service connected John Rankin, Mis- the 81st Congress and was reported out pension (total and permanent disabil- sissippi, Chairman by the Senate Committee, but was not ity) would be upped from $60 to $63, of the House Vet- acted on and died with the adjournment and from $72 (automatic rate at age 65 erans Affairs Com- of that Congress. or after being on rolls ten years) to $75. mittee. Pressing H. R. 2384, includes attendance at The American Legion's bill called from Rep. John Rankin for immediate ac- Service Academies in determining eli- increases to $75 and $90. benefits, part of tion, four of the gibility for various as (3) Compensation for widows of de- bills were passed by the House on June the service of Spanish-American and ceased veterans who have dependent 18, and on the 20th the other 11 were World War I veterans. children and for children where there is no widow, increased by 15 percent. given House okay. Increases Are Authorized The bills were sent on to the Senate No increase for widows without chil- for action, three of which have been H. R. 3861, extends for two additional dren or for dependent parents. given clearance by the Senate Finance years the direct housing loan authority (4) Pension for dependent of de- Committee. of the VA. ceased vets of both World Wars at fol- The field day in the House on the 20th H. R. 3932, provides vocational re- lowing rates: Widow but no child, $48; was brought about by a bit of parlia- habilitation and training for all service- widow and one child, $60 (with $7.20 connected veterans serving after June mentary maneuvering. When called up, for each additional child) ; children Representative Rankin invoked a little- 27, 1950, whether disability is incurred alone, rates increased by 20 percent. used rule whereby certain Wednesdays in combat or elsewhere. Present law are designated for consideration, with- limits such benefits to vets disabled in out clearance by the Rules Committee, Korea and other extra-hazardous zones. AUXILIARY HEADS ATTEND of measures approved by legislative H. R. 4108, reduces from 50 percent committees. to 40 percent the disability requirement LONDON MEMORIAL SERVICE The bills cover a number of benefits for compensation for dependents. for veterans, including a cost-of-living H. R. 4233, provides payment of increase in disability and death com- $1,600 for specially equipped automo- pensations; establish a new $120 pension biles to amputee or blind veterans of rate for non-service connected helpless WWl and the Korean War, as well as or blind, and increases for the non- to those of WW2. service connected totally and perma- H. R. 4387, increases income limita- nently disabled. Compensation and pen- tion for non-service connected pension sion boosts under the new bills fall short from $1,000 to $1,800 for veterans and generally of the increases asked by The widows without dependents, and from American Legion. $2,500 to $3,000 for veterans and widows with dependents, to include income from Subjects Covered all sources. Under the present law. Gov- Taken up in order, the bills passed ernment insurance and certain other by the House are: benefits are excluded in computing in- H. R. 301, to extend benefits, com- come. Mrs. Reed Mrs. MacDowell pensation, pension, etc., to husbands H. R. 4394, increases rates of com- and widowers of women veterans. Mrs. Willis C. Reed, National Presi- H. R. 302, sets new requirements for dent, represented the American Legion pharmacists in VA. Auxiliary at the dedication of the JACK SPORE RESIGNS AS H. R. 1072 and H. R. 4000, authorizes American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's the renewal of NSLI and USGLI term ADJUTANT OF WISCONSIN Cathedral in London on July 4. Accom- policies for an unlimited number of panying her as an aide was Mrs. Gwen- times. These two bills have been cleared Jack L. Spore, WW2 Adjutant of dolyn Wiggin MacDowell, National Sec- the Department of Wisconsin since for action by the Senate Finance Com- retary. late in 1946, resigned to accept an- mittee. A Roll of Honor bearing the names of other business connection. His resig- H. R. 3193, authorizes pension 28,000 Americans who gave their lives a new nation, effective June 30, was an- of $120 per month to helpless and blind nounced by Department Commander in World War II while based in the veterans "requiring regular aid and at- Jerome E. Host. British Isles was presented by General tendance" by another person, regardless Adjutant Spore succeeded Gil Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Chapel has of whether the disability was incurred Stordock: in November 30, 1946, been restored through a fund of $370,- in service. Also cleared by Senate Fi- when the latter, after 13 years of 000 raised by popular subscription in nance Committee. service, left the Legion office to be- England and will be a permanent me- come Commandant of the Soldiers' H. R. 3205, establishes for WW2 vets morial to American War Dead. Home at King, Wisconsin. the that multiple While in England, Mrs. Reed and assumption sclerosis In announcing Spore's departure, will a pilgrimage is service-connected if there are symp- Department Commander Host said: Mrs. MacDowell make toms of the disease within three years "It is with the utmost regret that wcr to the American Cemetery at Maiding- after discharge. The limit now is one accept Jack Spore's resignation. We ley, Stratford-on-Avon, to pay homage year. will miss him a great deal, but we to war dead buried there. A visit to H. R. 3549, removes a condition that will not stand in the way of his American war cemeteries in France on further widows must be dependent in order to advancement." the way to England was also included obtain pension for their husbands ser- in the itinerary. The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • gi ! : MIAMI HAS AWELCOME FOR YOU! By Joe H. Adams signed to prove to Legionnaires how boat. You may cruise Biscayne Bay by hospitable Miamians can be. Every day and see the magnificent homes along National Vice Commander and President effort has been made to pack a thousand millionaires' row and watch marine life of The American Legion National nights into a week or in the deep from glass-bottomed boats, Convention Corporation and one Arabian ten-day stay. or you may dance and dream on moon- Legion- All sports, participating and specta- light cruises. Within the city limits is naires, in tor, are available except mountain an original Seminole Indian village 1 948, you climbing . . . and hunting, which opens where a native wrestles alligators and came, you saw a month later. nearby are tropical gardens, rare bird and you con- The fishing of course is out of this farms and a monkey jungle where the q u e r e d world. If you've come back this summer monkeys run wild and humans walk Miami with empty creels or stringers, you have through cages. In fact you my personal guarantee that won't hap- Exciting side trips may be taken by so won the pen in Miami. And you don't have to be sea or air to Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas, hearts of the a millionaire to catch fish around Miami Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Virgin people of this . . . even the prized marlin and sailfish Islands. sub-tropical and dolphin. A charter boat for deep- These are of course but a few of the metropolis of sea fighters is reasonable when a party things in store for you when you ac- America that splits the tariff. You can catch all man- cept the invitation of Greater Miami, this year . . . ner of fish inside the city limits for which in the brief span of fifty years from the free! Hundreds of anglers fish daily has been transformed from a tropical Georgia line from the piers, causeways, docks, jungle to the most popular playground on the north bridge, jetties and the beach. Bait might in the world. Joe H. Adams to the famous cost a half dollar or so, but that's all So register early, bring your camera Keys . . . the State of Florida is rolling for a thousand dollars' worth of thrills. and sports togs, have the time of your out a magic carpet to welcome your And the fresh waters inland blackbass life, and go back (if you must) with return. up to ten pounds and more will test your rare recollections, good health and a Those of you who have been here are tackle. rich Floridian tan. familiar with the near-perfect climate Golfers, instead of one or two courses and tropical of . . . beauty the area but you have your choice of a dozen cham- POSTS WILL GIVE you will find that "something new has pionship layouts ... in addition to my- SEAGRAM been added" for your maximum enjoy- riad miniature courses and driving 4 FORDS AT MIAMI MEET ment before, during and after The ranges. Then there's horseback riding, American Legion's big 33rd annual na- shuffleboard, skating on real ice, skish, Following a custom of several years, tional convention in Greater Miami, swimming in the surf along miles upon the three Seagrams American Legion Ostober 15-18. miles of palm-shaded silver beach or in Posts will offer four brand new Victoria If this is your first trip, you'll find freshwater pools, tennis, trap and skeet, Ford automobiles to four lucky Legion- a new world opened to you. and water skiing, which you can pick up naires in a prize drawing to be held yourselves after brief and inexpensive during the 33rd annual National Con- Plenty of Housing instruction. vention of the Legion at Miami, Florida, on October 15-18. entrance fee. You Housing is ample and luxurious . . . Among spectator sports are night No and unusually reasonable, with off-sea- baseball in the ultramodern Miami Sta- need not be present to win. son low rates in effect. The Miami area dium, boxing, football, horse racing, the The drawing for these free automo- contains nearly a third of all the state's fast and tough game of Jai-Alai (pro- biles will be held October 15 at the con- 'tourist accommodations, but naturally nounced HiLi) in the Biscayne Fronton, clusion of the colorful Drum and Bugle it is advisable to register for the Con- polo, greyhound racing, all manner of Corps contest. Here's all one has to do vention early in order that you may water shows and, of course, top-notch to get his name in the box for the get the best available. Easily served by wrestling matches. drawing some of the most modern and efficient For the more leisurely inclined there 1. Fill out a coupon at your Depart- transportation systems in the world, are a multiple of amusements including ment Convention, or (2) Register in ad- Miami is ideally situated for special sightseeing tours by motor, blimp and vance for the National Convention and convention trains, planes and boats. You fill out a coupon, or (3) Fill out the ' vvill be wise to make your reservations coupon which will be printed in the NOW on the Convention "Special" be- September number of The American 20 EARLY REGISTRANTS ing arranged in the center nearest you. TO Legion Magazine, or (4) Fill out the If you come by automobile, parking WIN $100 DEFENSE BONDS coupon at a registration booth at Miami is no problem. And if you come by trail- in October. er, there are modern and beautiful- As an inducement for early regis- In addition to the automobiles, Sea- tration for the 33rd annual National trailer parks galore. grams Posts offer a special cash award Convention of the Legion at Miami, For many delegates American Legion of $250 to each of the Posts or Auxiliary October 15-18, the Convention Cor- Units in which the four winners hold Conventions are often "all work and poration will award a $100 Defense membership. no play." Not so at this convention . . . Bond to each of 20 early registrants. for there's good clean fun morning, These 20 names will be drawn from But that isn't all! The Seagrams noon and night in Miami. the green copies of the pre-registra- Posts will also award personal gift cer- tion receipts which are in the Cor- Registration fee is $3 . . . and what tificates of $50 each, redeemable in mer- poration's Miami office on October 1. you get in return ! You will receive a chandise at the Legion National Em- The registration fee is $3.00. Early kit containing your convention badge, a blem Division, to the Commanders or registrants will pick up their regis- colorful program of all events in the Presidents of the Posts or Units to tration packets, including badge, offi- four big conclaves . . . The American which the winners belong, plus a $50 cial program, tickets for events, etc., Legion, the American Legion Auxiliary, on arrival at the Convention city on gift certificate to the Department Com- the Forty & Eight and the Eight & •presentation of white receipt. mander or State President and Depart- Forty . . . pictorial guides to everywhere The address of the Miami Conven- ment Adjutant or State Secretary in and everything, and a coupon book tion Corporation is Miami Ship whose Departments these Posts or Units which will save you more than $30 for Building, 615 S. W. Second Avenue, are located. many side attractions. Miami 36, Florida. Coupons are limited to one to a mem- The entertainment provided is de- ber. Win yourself a brand new Ford. 32 * The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 the Armed Forces from the area. The * * monument was designed and built by * . * * LEGIONITEMS :A Legionnaire Alphonse Carotenuto. . . Bloomfield (New Jersey) Post No. 20 presented a Life Membership to Past An Ohio "first" was run up on June ming) Post, who, with Mrs. Barrett and Commander George W. Siver—the Post's 28 when Cora L. Jerrow, WW2 vet and Department Adjutant W. W. Hale, "Mr. Legion" — at a Past Commander's Akron school teacher, was installed as drove 450 miles from Cheyenne to attend Night meeting. The Life Membership Commander of Summit County (Ohio) the ceremony. was the first such award made by the Council, The American Legion, com- — Post. . . . Husband and wife team posed of 22 Posts. Commander Jerrow Highlight of the year in Momence, Ralph Seils and Mrs. Sells were in- served as a WAC and was in India more Illinois, is the annual Gladiolus Festival stalled as Commander and President of than two years. She is Past Commander which, this year, will be held on August Raymond W. Harvey Post and Unit, of Blanche Sigman Post No. 639, 16-18. Momence-Ganeer Post No. 40 is Fort Ann, New York, June 20. Akron's only woman's Post. . . . Mont- one of the active sponsoring groups - the gomery Post No. 912, Rouses Point, New * last day of the Festival is set apart as York, is proud of three charter members Jersey City (New Jersey) Post No. 85 Legion Day. Activities of the day will con- who have served continuously on the dedicated plaques in of Major clude with a parade and drum and bugle memory Post's Graves Registration and Graves William E. Malinka, Sr., and T/Sergeant corps competition, with $1,500 hung up Decorating Committee since the unit was Edward Annette at Pershing Field, Jer- in cash prizes. ... As an extensive ven- organized in 1920. The members are sey City, on Memorial Day. Principal ture in Americanism, Edward T. O'Shay, Frederick Foy, first Post Commander, speaker was Commander William H. Commander of Walter R. Craig Post No. Robert E. Casey, Sr., and Ernest Mo- Musker, Jersey City Post. . . . Thomas A. 60, Rockford, Illinois, presented a copy nette. Under their direction every grave Edison Post No. Detroit, Michigan, of Clarence Manion's Key To Peace to 187, of a veteran in the area has been is made up entirely of Edison employees each senior graduating in June from the charted and is cared for, with special of Detroit Edison Company. Synchro- city's five high schools — a total of 900. flag and decoration on Memorial Day. scope, the plant house organ, devotes Each book had a book marker, with name two full pages in its June number to the of graduate and a message from the youth and community activities carried As a part of its Americanism program, Post, concluding "with the hope that the on by the Post. . . . Department Adjutant Kau-Tom Post No. 11, Honolulu, Hawaii, message contained in this book will de- Click Cowger of Kansas reports that all presented an American Flag to Diamond velop within you an appreciation of the but 72 of the 383 Legion Posts in the Head School for Deaf and Blind on Me- great heritage that we entrust to your Sunflower State own their own homes. morial Day. Flag presentation ceremony keeping." . . . Auxiliary Unit of Shawnee Post No. was conducted by Dr. Clarence T. Lee, 193, Louisville, Kentucky, is sponsoring Post Commander. . . . Jerry lannilli, 19, John Stanley McDuff Post No. 381, an American Legion Junior Baseball son of Legionnaire Joseph lannilli, Paris Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, fur- team this year. According to the records, (France) Post No. 1, now a student at nished 10,000 letterheads and envelopes this is the first instance of Auxiliary Harvard, received the top award as a for use of patients at the new VA sponsorship of a Junior Baseball team. cadet in the ROTC class of Air Science Hospital at Erie, Pennsylvania, writes and Tactics for the academic year Harry L. Sheffield, Crawford County 1949-50. Member of the Sons of the Le- Adjutant. Funds have been allocated for In 30 years, the ranks of the Past gion, Paris Squadron, since it was or- a second lot of the same number, for Commanders of D. W. Brooks Post No. ganized in 1935, he was also given the delivery when needed. . . . Silver Beach 63, Swissvale, Pennsylvania, was broken Five-Star Award of the Sons of The Post No. 1371, Bronx, New York, dedi- recently by the death of Past Comman- American Legion, presentation made at cated a monument on Memorial Day, der Harvey Welsch. The Post now has a the June meeting of the Paris Post group commemorating the men who served in corps of 29 living Past Commanders. in New York City. MERCER UNIVERSITY GIVES LL.D. TO COMMANDER COCKE Parkersburg (West Virginia) Post No. 15 sponsors a Boy Scout Troop that is older than the Legion Post itself — the Parkersburg Troop is one of the forty Scout units that has maintained continued existence since the Scouting was organized forty years ago. Of the other 39 pioneer Troops, 37 are spon- sored by churches, one by the Elks and one by the Odd Fellows. . . . Hundreds of WW2 service units in all branches have formed organizations to keep old files in tquch with each other, and many of them publish periodical bulletins and newsletters as an aid to the annual re- union attendance. One of latest is News Letter of the 22nd Bomb Group, to be Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, and dramatic champion of freedom, dis- had from Walter Gaylor, Room 1212, one of the oldest and most honored edu- tinguished and decorated military leader. 744 Broad Street, Newark 2, New Jer- cational institutions in the South, National Commander of The American sey. . . . Hughes-Pittinger Post, Powell, through its distinguished President, Dr. Legion." In the picture above, left to Wyoming, conducted an unusual joint Spright Dowell, conferred the honorary right, are Dr. Fred Townley Lord, Presi- Post-Unit installation ceremony on June degree of Doctor of Laws on National dent of the World Baptist Alliance and 5 when Past Commander George Gibson Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., at a con- pastor of Bloomsbury Baptist Church, installed his son, David Gibson, as Com- vocation held on June 4. The citation London, England; Dr. Montague Cook, mander, and Mrs. Frances Smith, Past read: "Young man of heroic mold, daunt- pastor of the First Baptist Church, La- President, installed her daughter, Mrs. less courage, boundless faith, and Grange, Georgia, both of whom received Jack Rockhold, as the new Unit Presi- charmed life. Citizen and soldier of ro- honorary degrees at the same convoca- dent. Principal speaker of the evening mantic character, marvelous resource- tion; Dr. Erie Cocke, Jr., Dawson, was Governor Frank A. Barrett, WWl fulness and of miraculous experience. Georgia, and Dr. Spright Dowell, Presi- vet and Past Commander of Lusk (Wyo- Successful business executive, dynamic dent of Mercer University. The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • NATIONAL CHILD AID FUNDS LEGION NIGHT HONORS FOR guests of the "V> nitehawks." Paul Heil- man, committee chairman in charge of AVERAGE $3.50 PER POST TOP 1950 JR. BALL PLAYER arranging the celebration said the turn- out was most satisfactory considering applica- Porter, Almost 78 out of every 100 J. W. the threatening weather that night. received tions for aid to children by 1950 American Porter expressed his thanks for the Child The American Legion National Legion Junior Player of the Year certificate and his Welfare Division show that the primary Baseball Player of gratitude for having been permitted to sickness or dis- Year, hon- cause of need is the the was play American Legion ball. In the game ability of the veteran father. ored by a special that followed the presentation, he made National This fact was reported by Legion Night cele- two hits out of three times at bat to David V. bration Child Welfare Chairman at Water- help his team to victory. While playing Michigan, in a July 1 loo, Iowa, the Addy, of Detroit, on Legion ball, he won the American tabulation of the work of the Child Wel- night of June 22. Legion National batting championship eight of each 100 fare Division. In out Porter, outstand- twice in consecutive years. He hit .531 death cases the cause of need was the ing catcher for the in 1949 and .488 in 1950. of one or both parents. Other causes twice National of need were: insufficient income to Champion Capt. meet unusual situations, usually involv- Bill ErwinPostNo. ''COMEBACK'' PRIZE LETTER ing medical care; desertion; imprison- 337 team from CONTEST ENDS ON SEPT. 1 ment. J. W. Porter Oakland, Califor- For more than 26 years the National nia, was presented Disabled veterans have another month Child Welfare Division has granted di- with a certificate attesting the honor in to get into the "Operation Comeback" rect help to needy children of veterans pre-game ceremonies at the Waterloo prize letter contest and have a chance when other sources of help have failed. baseball park. to win a $1,000 prize and a trip to the Funds for this purpose come from a Commander Vern Davis of Becker- Miami Legion National Convention. The portion of the earnings of The Ameri- Chapman Post No. 138, and Tom Rig- prize contest, announced in the June can Legion Endowment Fund and from ney, Jr., General Manager of the Water- number of this magazine, is open to all generous annual gifts made by the loo Baseball Club, and other organi- disabled and handicapped honorably dis- affiliated Auxiliary, the 40 and 8 and zations cooperated in developing the charged veterans of both World Wars the 8 and 40. program. Iowa Department officers, the and the Korean fighting. Because of the limited funds available Becker-Chapman Drum and Bugle All Legion Posts have been supplied for this program as compared with the Corps and Color Guard assisted the with a folder, through their Department total number of children of veterans in Waterloo "Whitehawks" in making the Headquarters, outlining the rules of the the nation -now estimated as 24 million evening a complete success. The White- contest and also containing a convenient — it is possible to help only those rela- hawks came through with a thrilling form for the attestation of a Legion tively few cases where all other sources 10-6 win over the Terre Haute "Phillies." Post Officer. The rules are simple : Tell in of help have been exhausted. National More than 200 visiting Legionnaires 500 words "How I Overcame My Physi- Child Welfare Director Randel Shake and members of American Legion cal Handicap"; with some details of the points out that if all the Child Welfare Junior Baseball teams from a score of nature of handicap and cause; method funds available for direct aid to children towns within a 100-mile radius were of readjustment or rehabilitation. The were divided equally among the 17,400 injury or disease need not have resulter" American Legion Posts, it would amount from service, or while in uniform. to about $3.50 per year per Post. National Commander Cocke urgeb The average family aided by the Child KNOW YOUR AMERICA that Post Service Officers make this a Welfare Division has three children and Post project — the prizes are worth while We in America have had it so good lives — four top prizes of each; four in one of the smaller communities for so long that we tend to be a little $1,000 or in a rural area. About four-fifths of forgetful and indifferent. Many of us each of $400; $200, $100, and $50. In the childi-en helped are from World War today are letting ourselves be swayed addition, the top winners will have a'" II families. Although needy children of by the propaganda of some so-called all-expense trip to Miami to attend the Korean veterans were made eligible for new ideas' in government. Actually, 33rd Annual National Convention, they've all been tried before . . . this help on the same basis as World and October 15-18. what in our time is called "fascism" War I or II children by The Legion's Contest closes at midnight, September or "nazism" or "socialism" or "com- National Executive Committee in May, 1. Send all letters to "Operation Come- munism" have all been spectacular 1951, no applications have as yet been flops under some other name back," The American Legion, 1608 K received by this new group. throughout recorded history. Street N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Help granted averages between $55.00 It's a matter of record that no and $60.00 per month and is given for other system of government the New Post In Ireland a period of one, two or three months. world has ever known could even come close to the Father Francis P. Duffy Post No. 2, Most of the families aided also have one we here in America enjoy now for lasting work- Killarney, County Kerry, Eire, is the some income from other sources, such ability. newest Legion unit organized in the as VA compensation or pension, help Unfortunately, there are millions Emerald Isle. In forwarding applica- given by local Posts and Auxiliary of Americans today who seem to be tion for the charter, containing 21 Units, earnings in need of some good, of members of the down-to-earth names of vets of the U. S. Forces, Ad- "reselling" on the superiorities family, relief granted by Departments of the jutant John D. O'Connor reported that American way of life. of Public Welfare. Grants given by the some of the men traveled as far as 50 As an American, could you sell National Child Welfare Division, when America? Is your knowledge of your miles for the organization meeting and combined with this other income, pro- community sufficient to defend in an election of officers. Michael O'Donoghue vide a total of about $110.00 per family argument four of its basic phases — Post No. 1, Cork, Eire, has been organ- per month. Religion, Education, Economics, and ized since 1930. Government — trom those are American Legion direct aid is always who teaching a doctrine of destruction? on a temporary basis and is given to Cigs for Korean Fighters Let's remind Americans how good help keep families together during an our American Way of Life is. Watch Kings County (New York) American emergency period, such as is caused by for an important announcement in Legion will send 5,000,000 cigarettes to sickness or delays in processing Vet- the September issue of The American the soldiers in Korea. Funds for the Legion Magazine. erans Administration claims or appli- purchase were contributed by friends, cations for aid from other Govern- —National Americanism Commission in furtherance of the Legion's welfare mental agencies. program. 24 * The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 ; Wyan- Fort Warren, Wyoming — Urgently need to Hotel. Write Hdqrs., 37th Div. Assn., 1101 locate Anthony (Tony) Lopaze,- Amerio Hernan- dotte Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. Div. Assn. - 4th dez, Henry Snyder, Hill and others who served 69th (Fighting 69th) Infantry Ohio, Aug. 24-26 COMRADES IN DISTRESS with at above station in 1944. Claim for back annual reunion, Cleveland, me Banquet Committee, injury in truck accident pending. Robert J. Ren- Hollenden Hotel. Info from Broadway, New York der, 539 Fair Ave., N. W., New Philadelphia, 69th Inf. Div. Assn., 135 Ohio. 96th Balloon Co. (WWI) — Will officers and men ^' Ridge) Infantry Div. Assn. -32nd Whitney 8^th (Blue of this outfit please write, especially Lt. annual reunion, Akron, Ohio, Aug. 2-5; Hotel Colorado ; also who went to Resident I and L. King of men Mayflower. Write Harry J. Collette, in fall Machine Gun School at Camp John Wise THE AMERICAN LEGION 302 Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh 2, Pa. Kauff- Secy., of 1918. Statements needed badly. G. C. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 84th (Railsplitter) Infantry Div. - 6th annual man,, RD 2, Melrose, N. Mex. convention, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 27-29; Statler — Urgently need INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA NCTC, Qoddy Village, Maine Hotel. Info from Natl. Hdqrs., P.O. Box 282, to hear from mates who were with me when I 4, D. C. . MAY 31, 1951 Washington . . injured my back in machine shop, winter of 88th (Blue Devils) Infantry Div. Assn. - An- Box 74D. St. 16-19; 1944-45. Charles W. Swartz. R3, ASSETS nual reunion, Washington, D. C, Aug. Joseph, Mo. Shoreham Hotel. Write Hdqrs., 88th Div. Assn., Bn. — to hear from Cash on hand and on deposit....? 467,864.48 33rd Naval Const. Need Box 328, Cooper Sta.. New York 3, N Y. Receivables 870,656.04 shipmates, particularly ones who served with me 91st (Wild West) Infantry Div., (both WWs) 494,901.15 on Peleliu - T. P. Jones, Dale Ware, Ralph Phil- Inventories — reunion, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 29; 667,841.00 33rd annual lips, Roy Snyder, Bill Sanders, Schmidan of Invested Funds Chamber of Commerce. Write Archie Walker, ship's store, and others. Statements needed. Jesse Permanent Trusts: 2219, Seattle 11. Wash. Graves Decoration Secy., Drawer L. Roberds, 522 N. 5th St., Morris, Okla. Overseas 92nd (Buffalo) Infantry Div. Vet. Assn. - An- — shipmates remember Trust Fund $ 251,485.50 6745 USS Kangaroo Will who nual reunion, Chicago, 111., Sept. 6-9; Hdqrs. in ship Employees' Retirement head injury I received late 1944 while was State St. Info from Jesse L. Carter, Natl. Com- 1.221,668.46 1,473,153.96 trying to tie up to re-fuel a transport, please Trust Fund mander, 6223% Indiana Ave.. Chicago 37, 111. once. Irvin Guenther, Hospital, re- write at J. VA Real Estate, less depreciation . . . 833,673.28 100th (Century) Infantry Div. - 4th annual Tomah, Wis. Furniture and Fixtures, less union, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 7-9; Benjamin USS Worden, (DD352) — Need statements from depreciation 308,172.53 Franklin Hotel. Write Century Assn., P.O. Box men on anchor detail who saw me hit the deck Charges 84,275.79 Deferred 86, Hartford 1, Conn. . . with sound power phones on forecastle at time Division - 6th $5,200,538.23 104th (Timberwolf ) Infantry of collision (sunk on reefs Amchitka, Aleutians, annual convention, Louisville, Ky.. Sept. 1-3; Jan. 13-14', 1943). CBM Grimes was there. Spinal Hotel Seelbach. Info from J. Wm. Barnes, Secy- operation may be necessary. Statements needed. LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE* Treas., 1237 Keswick Blvd., Louisville, Ky. Harry J. Simoneaux, 916 Mulberry St., Donald- NET WORTH National P. T. Vets Assn. - 6th National con- AND Auxiliary sonville. La. Mass., Aug. 31-Sept. 3 ; 241,973.07 vention, Boston, 102nd Cav. Grp., 190th FA Bn. — or others at Current Liabilities $ convention same time. Info from Natl. Hdqrs., Funds restricted as to use 476,278.81 "Sausage J-12," Southern England, May 28, 1944, Box 884. Boston 3, Mass. 1,160,218.21 P.O. who witnessed fire in ammunition train. Please Deferred Income 3rd Service Group (Air Corps) - Reunion, De- Trusts: write. Statements needed for claim. Charles Permanent Mich., Aug. 10-12. Details from Ted Fern- Overseas Graves Decoration troit, Seiderer, 115 Leonard St., Jersey City, N. J. holz, 5775 Grand River. Detroit 28, Mich., or Group Hospital, Watersham Air Base, Eng- Trust $ 251,485.60 Hickory, Chillicothe, Ohio. Retirement Kermit Miller, 81 S. land — Will Dr. Timms or Dr. Service, who Employees' Evacuation Hospital No. 8, AEF - 31st annual 1,226,011.28 1,477,496.78 treated me for eye burns, please write, or anyone Trust reunion. New York City, Oct. 20; Hotel McAlpin. who knows their present address. Statements Net Worth: Write Herman C. Idler, Secy., Gaul St. at E. needed. "Stinky" Reese, Jackson, Ohio. Restricted Capital: Susquehanna, Philadelphia 25. Pa. Troop E, nth Cavalry, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Reserve Fund $23,464.13 313th Infantry, 79th Div. - Annual reunion, Info (WWI) — Will anyone who remembers me please Restricted Fund . . 17,161.81 Pittsburgh, Pa., July 27-29; Hotel Roosevelt. write. Need statement to complete claim and to Reserve for construction from Brig. Gen. Sterling A. Wood, Secy-Treas., certify that I was in above troop. Harrison New- Wash, office 784,806.45 Ark. Camp Chaffee, . , j all ton, Port Ewen, N. Y. Real Estate . . 80,000.00 905,432.39 4th Cavalry Assn., (Group, 4th, 24th and Ore. — 5-6; Co. C, 57th Engineers, Camp Abbott, Unrestricted Capital: attached units) — Reunion, Chicago, 111., Oct. Need to hear from men this outfit, particularly Surplus 254,369.73 Sheraton Hotel. Write Clare Schwartz, 7922 So. Capt. W. J. Neiman, Lt. Myers (last saw him Excess of Income over Expense Colfax Ave., Chicago 17, HI. at Camp Lewis), and Pvt. Harper; Lt. McFinal, Infantry, 89th Div., (WWI) - 32nd an- 5 months . . 684,769.24 939,138.97 356th C.O. at Camp Beale, Jan. to March, 1945. Also nual reunion, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 17; WW2 6th School Co., Atlanta Ord. Depot, and a Capt. l,844i.571.36 Memorial Bldg. For info and reservations write Bennett, Fort McPherson Hospital who treated $5,200.538.23 Inghram D. Hook, Perpetual President. Federal me. Ivan Van Note, Saybrook, 111. Reserve Bank Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Co. E, 9th Inf., 2nd Div. — Need to contact men 1st Signal Bn., TA — 6th annual reunion, De- who served with my late husband, 2nd Lt. troit, Mich., Sept. 2. Contact George Hands, William McCoy Wadsworth (died in Sta. Hosp. 12034 Bramell, Detroit 26, Mich., or Stanley 115, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 3, 1950.) Mrs. Bette Kendy, 2735 Emogene, Melvindale, Mich. 26th Div., AEF Wadsworth, Argyle Circle, (3adsden, Ala. REUNIONS 51st FA Brigade Hdqrs. Det., Navy Hospital, San Bruno or Oakland, Cal. — OUTFIT — Reunion, Boston, Mass., Oct. 7; Hotel Statler. Will anyone who was in sick bay, 1944, with Contact G. A. Livesey, Wakefield. R. I. Fl/c Lester S. (Mike) Michaelis, (burnt on 40th Engineer Assn. — 6th annual reunion, shoulder in boiler room explosion) please write Society of the 1st Division — Annual reunion, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 1. Contact Geo. W. his widow. Claim for herself and 7 small children Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 6-8. Write C. M. Prichard, 4706 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo., or pending. Mrs. Luella Michaelis, 1651 Knox St., Eymer. Box 188, San Diego 7, Cal. Otto L. Siddons, Natl. Secy., Lock Box 132, Cincinnati 14, Ohio. 1st Armored (Old Ironsides) Div. Assn. — 4th Falls, Wis. Chippewa . „ . . Co. A, 83rd Recon. Bn., 3rd Armored Div. — annual reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 40th Engineer Club of Wisconsin — Picnic and Will anyone who knew John E. King while serv- 2; Netherlands Plaza Hotel. Contact Leo B. reunion, Irbine Park, Chippewa Falls, Wis., Aug. ing in England and France please contact J. P. Connor, Secy-Treas., 1115 17th St. N. W.. Wash- 12. Otto Siddons, Chairman, Lock Box 132, Beveridge, Veterans' Service Officer, Room 20, ington 6. D. C. . , Chippewa Falls, Wis. Dickey Bldg., North Platte, Neb. 4th (Ivy) Division, (WWI and 2) — National 631st Tank Destroyer Bn. — Reunion and picnic. Co. L, 3rd Bn., 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Div. — reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 16-18; Wisconsin- North Park, (10 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa., Men who knew Darrell E. Arnold in service, par- Hotel. Write George W. Rochal, 2659 N. 17th. on Route 19), Sept. 2. Write Charles Surloff, ticularly Medical Officer, 3rd Bn.. on Guam in Milwaukee 6, Wis. 2540 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. late 1944; also Billy Whitaker, (Roanoke, Va.), 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Div. — Annual re- LST 693 — Annual reunion, Garfield. N. J., week end. Sgt. Anderson, (Laurel, Miss.), Walter Van de union, Philadelphia, Pa., Labor Day Sept. 2; Casey's Bar and Grill, 209 Market St. Walker, (Sioux City, Iowa), Preston Hunt, Info from Frank Mulvan^y, Natl. Secy., 1023 S. Write Alfred J. Courter, 15 Osborne St., Bloom- (Greenup, Ky. ), are requested to contact J. P. Farragut Terrace, Philadelphia 43, Pa. field, N. J. Beveridge, Veterans' Service Officer, Room 20, 6th (Super 6th) Armored Div.— Annual reunion, North Sea Mine Force Assn. — 10th, annual, re- Deshler-Wallick Dickey Bldg., North Platte, Neb. Statements Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2 ; union. New York City, Oct. 12-13; Hotel New needed. Hotel. Write William E. Rutledge, Jr., Secy- Yorker. Info from Jacob J. Kammer, Exec. Secy., Hdqrs. 13th Trng. Regt., Camp Robinson, Ark., Treas., P.O. Box A, Yadkinville, N. C. 54 Walnut Ave., Floral Park, L. I.. N. Y. and Camp Fannin, Texas, and Pnts. Det. 3S61st 7th (Lucky 7th) Armored Div. — 6th annual 1st Marine Aviation Force, (WWI) - Reunion, Unit (8th SC), Fannin — Need to contact convention, Chicago, 111., Aug. 25-26; Sherman Hotel. Camp San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 4 ; Fairmont M/Sgt. Berman, Lt. Daniel T. Perry and Capt. Hotel. Write Johnny Walker, Secy., 39 Stillman WWI Leatherneck Aviation original members Benj. C. LeRoy, in 13th Trng. Regt., and Lt. Ave., Bergenfield, N. J. write Capt. Russell A. Presley, Ret., Public In- annual John R. Carr, Personnel Officer, Med. Adm., in 8th (Pathfinder) Infantry Div. — 4th formation Office, Marine Corps Air Sta., El Toro, 3861st. Statements needed. Write Morris Gordon, reunion, Macon, Ga., Aug. 31-Sept. 1; Hotel (Santa Ana), Cal. „ . „ , . ,^^u Jr., YMCA, Erie, Pa. Dempsey. Write B. L. Kersey, Jr., Exec. Secy., Chemical Warfare Service Vets. Assn. — 15th Co. C, 764 th Rwy. Shop Bn. - Urgently need to 488 1st St., Macon, Ga. annual convention. New York, Oct. 20. All CWS — 4th annual hear from Rudolph C. French, (Louisville, Ky. ), 24th (Victory) Infantry Div. Assn. personnel from 1917 to date invited. Contact Geo. Herman J. Vaughn, (Shreveport, La.) and James reunion, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 10-12; Hotel TuUer. Secy-Treas., RFD 4, Box 425A, N. W. Nichols, C. WooUey, (Asheville, N. C.) Claim pending. Info from Joseph I. Peyton, Natl. Secy., 131 Kingston, N. Y. Forester Eden, P. O. Box 281, Richmond, Ky. Culver St., Baltimore 29, Md. 699th Ordnance HM Co. — 2nd reunion, Cleve- Div. Assn., (both 509th CBMU - Mag 22 - Will survivors of this 27th (New York) Infantry land, Ohio, Aug. 11-12; Hotel Hollenden. Con- — reunion. York City, Sept. unit who recall my injury on Okinawa, May 23, WWs) Annual New tact C. E. Cook, Rt. 2, Box 116. Shively, Ky.; Armory, 66th St. and 1946, please write. Claim pending. Milton P. 28-29; 107th Inf. Regt. Norman J. Neuf, 17854 Lake Rd., Lakewood, Richai'd F. ConnerjT, Gathright, 17 Lemoyne Gardens, Harlingen, Park Ave. Info from Lt. Col. Ohio, or F. J. Jones, 668 Vanderbilt St., Brook- 66th and Park Ave., New Texas. 107th Inf. Armory, lyn, N. Y. 430th Bomb Sqdrn., 520th Bomb. Grp. — Need York, N. Y. — Chicago, 111., Oct. , , Co. D, 746th ROB Reunion, Infantry Div., (both to locate Cunningham, Jesse E. Fermentel, Fish, 29th (Blue and Gray) 20-21. Contact B. Gibbs, 6822 So. Peoria St., Rolland and others. Claim pending. James H. WWs) — 32nd annual reunion, Newark, N. J., Court Chicago 21, 111. Thompson, Sedan, N. Mex. Oct. 12-14. Contact William E. Guthrie, 489th AAA (AW) Bn. (Sp.) - 1st reunion, 76th Seabees, Co. C, Platoon 6 — Need to locate House, Hackensack, N. J. Altoona Pa., Sept. 1-2; Penn Alto Hotel. Write Infantry Div. Assn., (both Chas. Whitman, (Kansas). Clinton Webber and 32nd (Red Arrow) Thomas P. Trexler, 1005 Beech Ave., Patton, Pa. others who served with me in Hawaii and Guam. WWs)— Annual reunion, Chicago, 111., Sept. 1-3; 478th Engineer Maintenance Co. — 5th annual Fletcher, Pres., Statements to establish disability claim. Charles Morrison Hotel. Info from Leo J. reunion, Monroe, Wis., Sept. 2-3. Info from R. Whelan, R 1, Box 22, Emmons, Minn. Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111. Charles Ostrander, 2208 14th Ave., Monroe, Wis. Infantry Div. — 4th annual re- V Corps Artillery, 102nd Cavalry, Other units 34th (Red Bull) Co. C, 805th TD Bn. — Reunion, DuBois, Pa., in "Sausage J-12" near Plymouth, England — Will union, Chicago, 111., Sept. 15-16; Hotel Sherman. Kozminski, DuBois, Pa. Adams Aug. 4. Contact Joseph anyone who witnessed fire in artillery ammo, Contact R. D. Poole, Room 1331, 72 W. Co. A, 691st TD Bn. — Reunion, Grand Rapids, Chicago III. train on or about May 28, 1944, please write. St., 3, Mich., Sept. 1. Contact Walter Sobel, 1802 Tama- needed. Reilly, Stuyve- 37th (Buckeye) Infantry Div. Assn. — Annual Statements may be J. P. 8 (Continued on page 36) sant Oval, New York 9, N. Y. reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 1-3; Gibson The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • 35 OVERSEAS FORCES TO GET NAT'L VICE COMMANDER FIGHT BUILDING HOLLYWOOD ACTION WASHINGTON TO \ A MEMBERSHIP CHAMPION I Arrangements have been completed BE DEDICATED AUGUST 14 f between Hollywood (California) Post A working Legionnaire and a Formal dedication of the Legion's No. 43 and the Armed Forces Radio \ membership getter — that's National brand new, 7-story monumental 5 Vice Commander Felix Pogliano. In- Services to broadcast the Friday night building at Washington, D. C, will > cidentally, his area is leading the boxing bouts from the Hollywood Legion be held on Tuesday, August 14, ac- X other four areas in membership per- Stadium. This feature, until recently, cording to an announcement made 4 formance. The National Vice Com- stemmed from Madison Square Garden, by National Adjutant Henry H. Dud- \ mander has personally signed up 560 New York City. ley. Though occupied by the several members for his own Leyden-Chiles. divisions operating from that center According to Commander William P. Wickersham Post No. 1, Denver, since early in May, the building is Laffin, the fights will be broadcast by Colorado, breaking his 1950 record just being completed. to of 550. short wave the Armed Forces over- The newly constructed building Vice Commander Pogliano's area seas and to all Naval forces, wherever stands on the site of the old 4-story had a membership of 443,286 on July located. Fred Hessler, Chief Sports Edi- brick building at 1608 K Street, 1, or 85.13 percent of its quota. The tor for AFRS, assisted by Sergeant Mel Northwest, which had been occupied area embraces Colorado, Iowa, Ballinger, will present the action story by the Washington offices for nearly Mexico, Minnesota, Nebraska, New in a ringside, blow-by-blow report. 20 years. The new structure, built to Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, conform to the Legion's needs, will South Dakota and Texas. house the Rehabilitation, Legislative Cadet Wins Legion Wrist Watch and Economic Divisions, with branch offices of Americanism, Public Rela- Lambert J. Larson, Bellevue, Wash- tions and other divisions. X ington, and Littleton, Colorado, Cadet _x LEGION DAY OBSERVED AT at the Coast Guard Academy, New Lon- MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY don, Connecticut, is the 1951 winner of the Legion's engraved wrist watch for A. Pellicano, 150-05 Village Rd., Jamaica, L. I., American Legion N. Y. Day was observed proficiency in athletics. 37th Service Group (AAF)— 2nd reunion of at the United States Merchant Marine Will Rogers Field "Boys From Pennsylvania," Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. Academy at Kings Point, New York, on 31-Sept. 2; Hotel Belated Purple Heart Biltmore. Write George E. Reed, 502 Magee Bldg., Saturday, May 26. Commander Henry Pittsburgh 22, Pa. China-Burma-India Vets. Assn. — C. Parke of Robert L. Merchant Glen Elder, Washington, Kansas, 4th annual Hague got national reunion, Kansas City, Kansas, Aug. 10- Marine Industries Post of The American his Purple Heart for wounds at St. 12; Town House Hotel. Write or contact Ernest D. Ferguson, 6711 Agnes, Kansas City, Mo., or Legion, who is also Chairman of the Mihiel in September, 1917, rather be- Ellsworth Green, Jr., 727 Minnesota, Kansas National American Legion Merchant latedly. Presentation was made recent- City, Kansas. 379th Squadron, 310th Bomb Group — Reunion, Marine Committee, presided over the ly at a ceremony held at George W. Decatur. 111., Aug. 10-12; Hotel Orlando. Write program staged at O'Hara Hall. Hood Post. An alert Legionnaire discov- Joe Rademacher, 1535 E. Willard Ave., Decatur, The address given F. ered that Elder 111. was by James had a wound citation, Battery F, 342nd FA, 89th- Div., (WWl) — O'Neil, Past National Commander of but no medal to match. Annual reunion, Caruthersville, Mo., Sept. 3. Write J. V. Oates, Blytheville, Ark. The American Legion, also a who was 11th FA, (both WWs and Korea) — Annual re- reviewing officer for a review of the union, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 1-3; Hotel Roose- velt. Unit history published. Write regiment of cadet midshipmen of LEGION TOP MUSICIANS TO R. T. Sum- the mers, Secy., 81 Ampere Parkway, East Orange. United States Merchant Marine Acad- N. J. RALLY AT MIAMI CONCLAVE Engineer — emy, which was held on 738th Base Depot Co. 2nd annual Tomb Memorial reunion, Omaha, Neb., July 27-29; American Field. "Played vacations" will be enjoyed Legion Club, Post No. 1. Info from Bernard T. Kinsella. St., Omaha, Neb. Rear Admiral in Florida this 3937 N Gordon McLintock, year by some 5,000 306th Infantry Assn., (both WWs) — Open USMS, Superintendent of the Academy, musicians, drum majors and majorettes, house, 77th Div. Club, 28 East 39th St.. New York City, August 9-11, same time as N. Y. Depart- gave the address of singers and other contestants will welcome and also who ment Convention. Info from George A. Allan, acted as host to visiting dignitaries at travel to Miami to participate in the Pres., 77th Div. Club, address. USS Mississippi — 4th annual reunion, N.O.B., a buffet luncheon. national championship competitions at Terminal Island, Cal., Aug. 25. Contact J. C. Many Legionnaires participated, and the 33rd annual National Convention of (Snuffy) Campbell, 630 Cedar Ave., Long Beach, Cal., or "Danie" Dansich, the Department of the Legion, to held 15-18. 5752 N. Loma Ave., New York was offi- be October Temple City, Cal. cially represented by Colonel James V. An early registrant was the Holy 319th Engineers Vet. Assn., (WWl) - 319th Engineers Combat Bn., invited — Reunion. Demarest representing the Name Drum and Bugle Corps of Gar- WW2 Department San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 18. Details from Commander, Joseph R. Hawn, and the field, New Jersey, which will be seeking Colonel C. W. Otwell, 14,444 Magnolia Blvd., Van Department junior Nuys, Cal. Adjutant, Maurice Stember. the championship for the fourth 17th Signal Op. Bn. — 6th annual reunion, consecutive year. Hometown boosters Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 1-3; Adelphia Hotel. Contact E. F. Hoffmeister, Secy., 710 Crown Ave., and civic organizations raised $4,000 to DEFENSE BOND SALE Scranton 5, Pa. DRIVE send the 50 youngsters, ages 12 to 19, 693rd FA Bn., (WW2)-4th annual reunion. Medicine Park, ()kla., 1-3. For details write to the Miami Convention. They will Sept. WILL OPEN ON LABOR DAY Paul L. Fitzgerald, Chairman, Knox City, Texas. travel by chartered bus with personal 316th Infantry Assn. — 32nd annual reunion, Secretary of the Treasury John W. appearances scheduled along Reading, Pa., Sept. 28-30; Hotel Abraham Lin- the route coln. Info from Raymond A. CuUen, Secy., P.O. Snyder has announced that the big Fall to the Florida City. Box 1303, Philadelphia 5, Pa. Bond drive will open on Labor Day, 516th Ordnance Co. (HM) (FA) - 7th annual reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 29. Write George September 3 — with a tremendous goal. M. Stippick, 2729 W. Wells St., Milwaukee 8, Wis. The target is to have 19,000,000 em- OUTFIT REUNIONS 133rd Ordnance MM Co. — Reunion, Olean, N. Y., Sept. 1. Write John R. Abdo, Whiting (Continued from page 35) 327 ployed in two and a half million busi- Ave., Olean. N. Y. nesses aci-oss the land buying Defense rack N. W., Grand Rapids, for info and reserva- 784th Military Police Bn. — 2nd annual dinner- tions. dance. New York City, Oct. 13 ; Hotel Empire, Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. 17th Base Postoffice Assn. — 4th annual reunion, 63rd and Broadway. Info from Dan Rosenberg, The drive will be directed toward the Louisville, Ky., Sept. 1-3; Hotel Seelbach. Info Secy., 108-43 53rd Ave., Corona, L. I., N. Y. from Bill Osborne, Pres., Box 189, Vine Grove, 977th Engineer Maintenance Co. — Annual re- payroll objective — the achievement of Ky. union, Pittsburgh. Pa., Aug. 17-19; Hotel William this goal means a body-blow against Co. C, 66th Signal Bn. - Reunion. Detroit, Penn. Write Herbert C. Lunt, 3500 5th Ave., Mich., Aug. 4; Hotel Fort Shelby. Info from John Beaver Falls, Pa. inflation. Stadelman, 158 Hollis St., Jackson, Mich. USS Hunter Liggett — Reunion of ship's com- Legion Defense Bond Sale Committees, 354th Bomb Squadron, S86th Bomb Group — pany. New York City, October. Write V. A. Bar- Reunion; write Dr. Doyle O. Burch, Caney, Kans., ron 107 Riverview Ave., New London, Conn. in Departments and Posts, will join in for full details. LISS Baham, (AG 71) — 3rd annual reunion, all the campaign, in most cases as co-oper- I54th General Hospital Assn. — 2nd annual re- personnel, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 2. Contact Olin union, Philadelphia. Pa., Aug. 18; John Bartram Schmidt, 2822 Telegraph Rd.. St. Louis 23, Mo. ating units in a great community effort. Hotel. For reservations write Mrs. Donald Snel- 33rd Seabee Bn. — 5th annual reunion, Balti- In the past Legion Committees have lenburg, Box 343, Orland, Pa. more, Md., Sept. 15; Lord Baltimore Hotel. Con. 36th Tank Bn. Assn. — Reunion, New York tact Charles C. Ficke, Pres., 1309 Wilcox St., made records as Bond sellers. City, Sept. 22 ; Hotel Sutton. Info from Joseph Baltimore 2, Md. 3g • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 : Veterans AUGUST 1951 A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU 17 D1KE( 1 HOME LOAN TIME lO BE EMENUEU: Volunteer categories will be eligible for release within after being called to duty, if they haVe had at least With time running out, the House on June 18 joined the months 12 months service in Senate in approving a two-year extension of VA authority to WW2. make direct home loans to vets who cannot obtain private financing. . . . Under old law the direct loan feature would INEW INSURANCE FOR DISABLED VETS: have expired on June 30. . . . Measure was initiated by the Disabled veterans recently separated from the service may Legion and enacted last year to provide for veterans in areas be eligible for a new type of Government insurance under where four percent GI home loans are not available through — Public Law 23. . . . Coverage up to $10,000 is provided local lenders. . . . Senate voted to extend the measure in if vets qualify under four basic requirements. . . . They are April. . . . According to VA, 9,927 vets had secured direct (1) Vet must have been disabled in active service under loans valued at more than $94,000,000 up to May 25. . . . special conditions specified in the Act; (2) separated from Tightened credit has served to boost applications since that service after April 25, 1951, under other than dishonorable date. conditions ; (3) VA must find disabilities for which com- pensation would be payable if 10 percent or more in degree, and (4) VA must also find that, because of these disabilities, PROGRESS MADE IN FOW FAYMEJNTS: the vet would not be insurable under the good health War Claims Commission is running ahead of schedule in standards of NSLI. . . . The law covers many groups who processing and paying claims of WW2 prisoners of war and were in active service on and after June 27, 1950, and who civilian internees. . . . With approximately 150,000 claims were separated after April 25, 1951. . . . They are: Armed filed — and with claims coming in at the rate of about 200 Forces personnel; Reserve component, including the National each week — the staff is working in the 90,000 series. . . . Guard, when called to active duty or active training duty Claims are being paid in order of receipt at the Commission's for 14 days or more; cadets and midshipmen at West Point, office; each claim is given a number which is entered on the Annapolis, and Coast Guard Academy; commissioned officers receipt card sent the claimant. . . . Again claimants are urged of Public Health Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey while not to write about their checks unless the claim number is on specified duties Reservists, including National Guard, ; below 90,000. ... As of June 15, the Commission had cleared while engaged in aerial flights in Government- owned or and paid the claims of 56,707 ETO prisoners of war; 15,420 leased aircraft, with or without pay, as an incident to from the Pacific theater, and 3,091 civilian internees and military or naval training. . . . These, including men disabled survivors — for a total of 75,218 — amounting in all to while on way to report for induction, may apply for the $39,405,000. . . . Ex-POWs are paid at the rate of $1 per day new insurance within one year from the date VA finds their for each day held by the enemy when food provided was disabilities to be service-connected. . . . Term or permanent less than the normal ration. . . . Commission has ruled that form insurance may be issued — but all such insurance issued ex-prisoners can count every day held because a sub-normal will be non-participating; that is, no dividends will be paid ration prevailed at all times in the ETO and Pacific. . . . on it. . . . And, because it is non-participating, VA says Only civilian internees in the Pacific theater are provided premium rates in most cases will be lower than the standard for in the Act. . . . Deadline for filing applications expires NSLI rates. . . . Totally disabled may also apply for waiver on March 30, 1952, — Congress has already given one of premiums — law stipulates that no waiver may be denied extension; it is not likely to grant another. on the grounds that the service-connected disability became total prior to the effective date of the insurance. ARMY RELEASING RESERVISTS: Volunteer and Inactive Reservists called tu active duty by BA I TLE STARS AUIHORIZED FOR KOREAN VEIS: the Army are being released to civil lift;, beginning in Army vets of the Korean fighting have been authorized' to July. . . Army Scretary Pace says the program will be wear three bronze battle stars on their blue and white completed before the end of the present year. . . . Approxi- campaign ribbons. . . . Each bronze battle star represents mately 100,000 men who were called to the colors after the a major engagement in which they participated, and a star in . war started Korea are involved. . . The plan does not is authorized for soldiers engaged in each of the following include members of the Organized Reserve, the National campaigns: ... (1) United Nations Defensive, June 27- Guard, or . . Regular Army volunteers. . Secretary Pace September 15, 1950; (2) United Nations Offensive, September points out that no iron-clad point system will be used to 16-November 2, 1950; (3) Chinese Communist Intervention, determine order of release. . . . However, consideration will November 3, 1950, to a date to be determined. ... In be given in order of precedence to (1) veterans of WW2; addition, the Army Decorations and Awards section has (2) men with other prior military service; (3) men with no under consideration a fourth major phase, or campaign, for previous . military service. . . Officers in the Inactive and which a star will be authorized. 37 WW2 BONUS DEKKAIEl) IN WISCONSIN: for dependent female vets; liberalize requirement for VA pharmacists, removing certain dependency requirements Ni/ bonus this year for Wisconsin's WW2 vets. Bill and for widows of Civil, Indian and Spanish-American wars U) pay a delayed bonus was passed by the lower House, but for pension eligibility. . . . (See further analysis of these was defeated in the Senate. . . . This proposal called for Legionnaire section.) payment in 20 years: rate $10 per month for home service measures in National and $15 for overseas with a top limit of $500. . . . Heirs of veterans who died would be paid after July, 1952. SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF GI BILL: The GI Bill of Rights reached its 7th anniversary on June 22. . . . Officially known as the "Servicemen's Readjustment til UIAI. AWARDS KOK PHIl.iPPlNE VETS: Act of 1944" (Public Law 346), it granted three major aids to Burial benefits for a potential third of a million Philippine WW2 vets in their effort to return to civilian life. . . . Free veterans who served with U.S. forces during WW2 are education and training; guaranteed loan program, and authorized under Public Law 21, 82nd Congress. . . . Pay- allowance for unemployment and self-employment. ... At ment may be made to families of such vets who had the its 7th anniversary, the record is good — the Legion-written required service up to a maximum of 150 Philippine pesos measure has benefitted millions. . . . Here are some of the (peso roughly worth 50 cents, American) . . . charges may things it has done: include cost of funeral, as well as preparation and trans- The GI loan program is but one year past its midway portation of body. . . . VA is authorized to furnish f^ag. . . point, extending to July 25, 1957. ... So far, 2,680,000 WW2 Law is retroactive to deaths occurring after July 26, 1941, vets have obtained GI guaranteed loans for homes, farms but claims for all deaths occurring between that date and and businesses, totaling $15,600,000,000. . . . About 90 percent April 27, 1951, must be filed before April 27, 1953. . . . of the loans, or 2,480,000, have been for homes; 61,000 for Estimated that living Philippine vets who served under the farms and farm equipment, and 141,000 for business. . . . American Hag number about 315,000. . . . Some 13,500 died The veteran has proved to be a good loan risk. . . . Only after July 26, 1941, and before the new law was passed. one-half of one percent of the home loans have been defaulted to the point where VA has had to make good the guaran- teed to the lender. . . . For farm loans, the proportion SOLDIERS SEND MONEY HOME: portions was 2.5 percent, and for business loans 6.2 percent. Army's "saving conscious" soldiers are sending money The The GI Bill's education and training program on July 25 home at the rate of more than $443,000,000 a month, reached its cut-off point for vets discharged before July 25, according to the Army Finance Center at St. Louis. . . 1947 — those in training on that date have until July 25, 1956, Currently, more than 835,000 Class E allotment checks are to complete their courses. . . . Some 7,500,000 vets received being mailed from the Center each month to soldier families or are receiving training in schools, on the job, or on the and banks for saving. farm — and have taken courses in nearly every field at which man earns his living. . . . The cost of the program has been more than $12,000,000,000 for tuition, subsistence NO DISCRIMINATION A<;AINST WACs: allowance, supplies and training equipment. . . . This pro- All members of the Women's Army Corps receive the same gram is already returning huge dividends in a better prepared, pay and benefits as Army men of the same rank. . . . The better educated and better trained body of American citizens. WAC organization corresponds in every detail to that of (See "Those Incredible GI Students" by Erie Cocke, Jr., other Army elements. . . . The scale of rank also is identical, National Commander, in this number.) ranging from private to full Colonel. Readjustment allowances for unemployment and self- employment — third major GI benefit — ended for most veterans on July 25, 1949, although a small trickle of ap- HOUSE PASSES VE I BENEH I BILLS: plications is allowed by VA from vets who are still eligible A total of 15 bills, all directly affecting vettians weiL (by reason of late discharge). . . . 9,000,000 vets have drawn passed by the House on June 18 and 20. . . These includtd readjustment allowance, totaling $3,200,000,000 for unem- provisions for increase in compensation foi disabled veterans ployment and $600,000,000 for self-employment. . . . a flat 5 percent for those under 50 percent, and 15 percent Although most vets were eligible for a full year, only one . in . . . for those 50 to 100 percent disabled. . . To extend provision ten exhausted the full right. Average vet found a job for specially equipped automobiles for WWl, WW2 and after a month and a half on the roll. Korean vets. . . . To permit vets to renew USGLI and NSLI term policies indefinitely, (both bills reported favorably by MINNESOTA BONUS DEADLINE EXTENDED: Senate Finance Committee on June 21). . . . To grant Public Law 16 and 894 benefits to all personnel in service Minnesota has extended its deadline for filing applications for . . . since June 27, 1950, (present law limits such benefits to State bonus to December 31, 1951. Original time service-connected disabilities suffered in Korea or other expired December 31, 1950. . . . This State pays $10 per month for home service; $15 per month for overseas; $270 areas designated as extra-hazardous). . . . To authorize $120 — monthly rate for WWl and 2 non-service connected vets maximum or top of $400 if vet had 30 days or more of service. . . . who are helpless or blind (this bill, H.R. 3193, has also been foreign Requires at least 30 days of service between December 7, 1941, and September 2, 1945; six cleared by Senate Finance Committee). . . . Other measures provide 3-year presumptive period of service-connection for months actual residence in State before entering service. . . . multiple sclerosis; reduce from 50 percent to 40 percent Applications from Commissioner, Adjusted Compensation disability rquirement necessary for dependents to receive Division. Dept. of Veteran Affairs, 213 East 4th Street, compensation; uniformity in administration of VA benefits St. Paul, Minnesota. 38 Those Incredible Gl Students — — —^— — —— ( Continued from pdge 23 } — til craii.i ^cIhihIn, .ibuui Uu VLidiiUN who went ileers, law v ers, decorators, commercial Only ,1 lew UKiiulis aUer tiK 'passagi. H) school for tlic "frLL ride'* and subsis- artists, draftsmen, laboratory technicians, the (]1 Bill, Dr. Hutchins made a few tence, and orhei examples of aljuse. photograiihers, surveyors, craft.smen, as colorful comments about rhe Cil educa- riioiigii all too true, these repcjrts are well as diversified trained men in the man- tional program in a popular weekly, com inisieuding agerial and clerical career fields. ments which were widely quoted in the For example, tlie tacts and figures siiou In stressing the drive for the i)rt)fessions, press. Said Dr. Hutchins: tliat a hare feu veterans souglit to use their I don't w ant to ov erlook the importance of "F.ducational institutions, as the big time training riglns to prepare for such doubtful the (j1 Bill in encouraging the basic three football racket shows, cannot resist money . careers as the rhuml)a, samba or waltz. R's— reading, "riting, and 'rithmetic. An in- The CA Bill of Rights gives them a chance In its detailed report to Congress lasi cident illustrating this point occurred at to get more money than they have ever >ear, the Veterans Adnnnistration showed Urbana, 111., where fort> veterans were dreamed of and to do it in the name of that most veterans in training chose courses enrolled in a carpentry course in the public patriotism. in fields which demand considerable pro- school system. The e.x-GIs were asked "They will iKJt wain to keep out un- fessional or technical skill - occupatit)ns what the>' would like to learn most of all qualified veterans; they will not be allowed which in general offer greater prestige, in addition to their carpentry. To the sur- to, {or the public and the veterans organi- greater familv security, and higher earning prise of the school officials, the veterans zations will ni)t stand for it. power. 1 his observation underlines the unanimously replied: "We'd rather learn "Colleges and universities will find them serious intent and pur|iose of the GI stu- how to read and write better, than srud>' selves converted into educational hobo dents. anything else." jungles. .And veterans, unable xo get work Nor did tile \ eterans go scrambling aftei' Veterans educ.ition and training hit it.s and equally unable to resist putting pres their eilucatioii and training simply to get all-time peak in December of 1947 - three sure on colleges and universities, will find a degree or diploma, aiu' degree or diploma. themselv es educational hoboes. . . . More than «()0,()0() of the veterans took the "'File result w ill be that both the educa intensive \' A guidance tests before choos- tional system and veterans will be de- ing their career ct)urscs. More would have moralized." taken advantage of the scientific guidance Com^ bftckr l\e»e, VJaA*. What a sad prt)i)hecy ! Fhe National to help select a career had VA been able ^ktvooo -Hv2 Tbsf-r^ Education .Association's Department of to make available more facilities and trained ftcvcf meefs Inj^ Higher Education informed the House personnel to run the vocational guidance Veterans Committee recently that "the clinics. education of veterans in regular public and A breakdown of t!ie ambitions of the non-profit educational institutions has been veterans in training, according to the lat- one of the brightest pages in the history est available figures (October 1949;, shows of American education. ". that tine out of ever>- three ex-GIs aimed . . From their intimate exjierience in to be a professional man. The meaning the education of veterans . . . the college of this figure becomes clear when we and university faculties of the United learn that a survey of the Armed Forces States have become convinced that a tre- personnel for June of 1945 shows that only mendous value has accrued to the nation two out of every 100 men in uniform (2.2 as a result of the enactment by Congress percent) had been in a professional job of this ICJI Bill! far-sighted legislation," before going into the militar>' service. the NEA told Congress. Only four out of 100 (4 percent) of the The fact is that the veterans made a ter- male working population were in profes- rific impact, for good, on the American I ti„m July, t9M A.L.M i sional occupatKjns, according to the latest system of education. The colleges aloiu availai)le census figures. received more than $2,000,000,000 in tuition 1 he statistics also show that the same and J half years after the pass.igL nt ihc and fees, which provided 65 percent of the push to improve their know ledge and skills CJl Bill — when 2,546,000 e.v-serv icemen colleges' income. This |2,000,(X)0,000 was characterized those veterans who sought, crammed into the nation's classrooms and "enough to make a vast difference in the and are seeking, to improve themselves )ob-training programs at one time. 1 here's financial status of these colleges and uni- with courses aimed at bringing them into been a decline since, but as late .is .March versities,' according to Benjamin F'ine, the the .semi-professional occupations, the man- 1, 1951, there were 1,670,000 v eterans under- education editor of the New York 'Times. agerial occupations, and the skilled crafts going training. The tuition, along with the billions more I'he present ticklish world situation, and F irst to attain its high point w as )ob in subsistence, peniiitted tens of thousands our own partial mobilization, makes it training, in January' of 1947. The following of veterans to go to school who otherwise necessarv' for us to measure the value of the December, college training marked its all- couldn't afford to do so. GI Bill training from another point of vievv time high. It was not until two years later, N(K only did the (jI BUI revive and — that of its contribution to the national however, that the below -college-level strengthen long-established schools; it cre- defense. education program rose to its crest. Insti- ated new ones. A Congressional committee Again we glance at the statistics and we tutional on-thc-farm training did not reach recently reported that public and indepen- - find the veterans in college flocking to the its peak until the summer of 1950, and this dent schools in existence prior to 1944 courses in engineering, physical and natural program has grown right up to this sum- when the Gl Bill was adopted — were too sciences, medicine and tientistry, and sci- mer's deadline. few to meet the demands of the veterans entific agriculture. Other popular studies on There are those, of course, who warned ilesiring training, and that there was a seri- the college level are the humanities, law, that no good C(juld come of the rush to ous shortage of schools, especially in the and the social .sciences, such as economics school. They said that the great mass move- southern states. VA figures now show that and history, all of w hich provide the neces- ment of ex-servicemen into the nation's 7,600 new institutions for education and sar> background for future leadership of schools lowered training standards and training were stimulated into being by the our count r> . afforded rhe veterans cheap degrees or Gl Bill. Many public schools added voca- Below the college level, the veterans diplomas. F'oreniost, and most widely pub- tional departments and other special divi- have pursued courses mainlv m agriculture, licized, among those who sold short the sions to meet the needs of the school-bound business, engineering, mechanical crafts, aims of the Cil Bill and underrated the veterans. And in some states, such as .New refrigeration and air conditioning, com- aspirations of the homecoming veterans York and .Massachusetts, junior colleges mercial art and design, radio and other was Dr. Robert i\l. Ilutchins, then chan- were established to catch up with the rush communications. On-the-job training has cellor of the University of (Chicago, an ro rhe classroom. Many of these are now produced accountants, journalists, engi- educator with an international reputation making higher education available to T1j« American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • 29 UlUiisiMLii LuuKI nut U) g(i (iidcoiise, pre.'>idcni of this college with a according to the certain know ledge of the awa)' to college. tradition of serious, bright students, "dis- employer-trainer, were employed elsewhere I ht veterans sircaming onto the campus pel the initial fear expressed in some quar- in the kind of work for which they had challenged tiieir teachers to take another ters that the money spent in the education been trained. From the survey, it was esti- look at their teaching methods and phi- of the veterans might be substantially mated by the Teague Committee that 65 losoph)'. Reviewing the seven years of the wasted, or that the college campus would percent of the veterans in the on-the-job CjI Bill, a recent article in School and So- be flooded with poor students." training program had reached their em- ciety commented: "The veterans have The fine job of the veterans on the col- plo>ment objectives. "This figure," com- brought stability, maturity, higher stand- lege campuses has been repeated in the ments the Teague Committee, "is consid- ards of work, and a broadened adult view- other phases of GI Bill educatit)n and ered highl> satisfactor>- in the light of the point to the classrooms and the campus." training. normal results of established educational Under the barrage of questions shot at In on-the-job training, for example, the programs." them by the knowledge-questing ex-CJIs, Sales Executive Club of New York re- Much publicity has been given the curi- man)' professors were forced to junk their poned that the mature attitude of the vet- ous sidelights of on-the-job training, such 20-year-old classroom lecture notes, and erans gave them a "slight but definite edge" as learning how to operate a mink farm, to start thinking in terms of today and over non-veterans in the field of salesman- raise rainbow trout, blow glass, or climb tomorrow, instead of yesterday. The vet- ship. steeples — all of which, incidentally, are erans placed a high value on their limited Kncyclopedia Britannica Inc., replying to honorable occupations. Little publicity has time and funds. They refused to accept a survey by the Sales Executive Club, said: been given, however, to one of the truly " shallow, shoddy answers. They demanded I he average age of our sales force has fine achievements of the on-the-job train- answers which were practical and realistic been lowered 10 years since the war be- ing program — apprenticeship training. To- in keeping with their serious outlook. The cause the veterans have come out with a day, three out of ever>' four apprentices veteran-students — half of whom had one mature attitude toward life and are ready training under the high standards of the or more dependents — u ere willing t'. United States Bureau of Apprenticeship are hard, and, as a rule, tot)k on more classwork They are easier to train and average more veterans. Already 6J,000 veterans have and tougher courses than the nun-veteran pay than other salesmen of equal back- achieved the respected status of journey- students. ground and age who were not in the man-craftsman. This number will rise to Yet, in .spite of his heavier school work Armed P'orces." between 150,000 and 200,0(X) within the load and responsibilities at home, the Gl In the same survey. General Foods, one next two years. As many more ex-GIs who student proved, in most cases, to be a bet- of the first major corporations to be ap- began but did not finish the apprenticeship ter student than the non-veteran. A year proved for on-the-job training, stated that training program, nonetheless have im- after the CJI Bill program got going, Wil- it had not been disappointed in any of the proved their skills, knowledge, and earning liams College was able tu report that it had ex-servicemen trained and hired under the power. had the highest scholastic average in its GI Bill program. Institutional on-the-farm training was the history "entirely due to the presence of More recently, the National Association last of the Gl Bill training programs to get serious-minded veterans." A similar check- of State Approval Agencies sent out a going in a big way, but even so, it has al- up at ()hi() State University disclosed that questionnaire to some 19,000 employers ready had a splendid effect on the nation's more than 14,000 e.\-GIs in a student body participating in the on-the-job training agricultural methods, practices, and opera- of 24,000 were doing "significantly" better program. Employers replying to the query tions. than the non-veterans. There were similar said they wanted to continue their job "I was opposed to the program," a west- reports from other schools. training program, by a vote of 3 to 1. When ern Congressman told me, "because I felt A most thorough study of (jI schooling asked, "In the light of your own experi- that the government was already meddling has been made at Brooklyn College, which ence, do you consider that the on-the-job enough into our famis without the on-the- made a detailed investigation of its scholas- training program has been worthwhile?" farm training. tic records for the period between Febru- the employers (jverwhelmingly okayed the "My son, however, insisted on taking the ary 1946 and June 1949. program by a vote of 6 to 1. farm training, and soon, I discovered, he 1 he study showed that the veterans held A highlight of this survey was that more knew more about efficient, productive a "slight but consistent superiority" in than one-third of the veteran trainees had farming than I did. That made me change school work over comparable non-veterans. been hired by the firms which had trained m>' mind about the farm training program." The results of the study, said Dr. Harry them; and that half as many trainees again. The fami training program gave the v eterans a push to buy, rent, or lease their own farms. In many areas, the program boosted fami incomes. It has led to more farm production and to widespread soil conservation activities, and it encouraged farm improvements for better li\ ing. .A check b>' Veterans Administration last > ear showed that 94 out of 100 veteran farm trainees either owned or operated their own farms, a strong testimonial to the \ alue of the program in helping make indepen- dent farmers out of \eterans. Here are some other encouarging reports trom around the country': In i cxas, veteran farm trainees ha\ e in- vested $100,000,000 in land, homes, stock and farm equipment. In Pennsylvania, the average net income of GI farm trainees has risen from $400, before starting their courses, to $1,400. In a Minnesota county, the average net worth of 31 veterans who completed their training was $5,220 as against $1,960 when the>- started. In three West Virginia counties, veteran trainees have been averaging more than 100 bushels of shelled corn per acre where the area- wide yield is only 43 bushels per acre. In North Carolina veterans built 15,000,000 ( Continued on page 42) • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 1 TEEN-AGED SLAVES OF DOPE How boys and girls of school age are enticed to drug addiction by the most vicious criminals of our time. To help combat thp dope menace the Columbia University Press These illustrations are a sampling of the graphic way it pre- has prepared and is distributing a comic book entitled Trapped. sents to teen-agers how a boy or girl can become an addict. By EDWARD J. MOWERY ANKW YoKk ( in )uni(>r high school stance came to a syrup. He put it into ran. Right now, seven of those boy s teacher Mirve>ed the (lile of coni- the needle, tied a band around my arm are dope addicts. \^^'hy, around m\ posirions on her desk and picked and my veins rose as he jabbed the point block you can buy heroin in a bubble ." one at random. Slie started to read. She into my flesh. 1 got di/./.\ , sick. I hen gum wrapper . . Manched . . a girl came into the room. She snorted A third essay: " "M\ friend, a M-\ear-old hati v\rit (inhaled through nose). I was scared. "A boy I know had been taking " ten. "askc(i nie to get high. V\'e went Rut I'm sure 1 hav e no kind of habit. heroin for two years. He died. He to his room. He took out a package, a The horrified teacher scanned an- couldn't get an injection. I'hc boys and i h\pod(Mniic needle and a spoon. \h' other treari.se on, "What I Knou About girls tell me if don't try the stuff . . . said the [)ou(1er\ stuff was heroin. I'd Narcotics." T his youngster u rote: I'm a punk!" never seen it before. "W e all went into the tenement hall- This New N'ork teacher, utidcrgoing "He put the stuff in a spoon, addetf wa>' and snorted. W hen it came my an unprecedented feeling of shock anel I (.'oiiliiriicd f>0 a little water and heated it. Ifie sub turn, I couldn't go through with it. I revulsion, nn piinc 41 ) { C,ovti7nied from pafie the abuses and rackets in the program. restore the perspective. GI education has feet of terraces to conserve soil, replanted I hese abuses showed up in on-the-iob cost 12 billions. 'The United States will ^.(HM) acres of land in trees and limed training, flight training, farm training, in easily profit more than .fOO billion dollars |()5,(KK) acres of farmland, all in a single proprietory schools, and sometimes c\ en in from GI education. That sum is not hard \ear. In (jcorgia, 21,000 farm trainees de- non-profit institutions. for a nation to come by during the life- veloped I50,0(K) acres of pasture from All too often, veterans have been blamed time of eight million men and women who eroded red clay land that at one time u as for the abuses which have cropped up in earn more, pay more taxes, produce more, considered virtually worthless. "fly-by-night " schools. Not one veteran has buy more, spend more, farm better ever been in a position to i- In such uavs have schooling and train- abuse his pri\ and build better — and do it all more Icgcs under the (jl ing below the college le\el enriched not educational program wisely — than they would have without without the deliberate connix ance the iiist the veterans, but the nation as a u hf)lc. or (jI education. It is very likely that far incompetence of elected or appointed pub- more of the post-war prosperity of this A sampling of veterans' reaction to their lic officials. nation than anyone might imagine is due training in less-rhan-college institutions dis- 1 he l eague Committee ~ recogni/.ing directly to the GI Bill. We must not ever closes that the ex-(ils, almost to a man, that the vast (Jl Bill ]irogram included as let the bloodsuckers on the fringes, or the spoke out their belief that the good their many veteran students as the entire popu- phony prophets, persuade us to go back courses had done was worth the money ex- lation of the continent of Australia — found to the days of veteran apple-peddlers, [>ended by the government. A large num- unmistakahK that the abuses were rela- bonus marchers and breadlines. The (jI ber of replies expressed thanks to the na- tively few. Bill way is the right way and the wise way tion for giving them a chance to learn use- Nevertheless the crooks and the bunglers and in the k)ng run the profitable way — ful skills. T hose \cterans contacted in the have gotten the headlines. So, on the to absorb wartime veterans into a bigger survey \oted ? to 1 that they had found a shc)ulders of those who have corrupted or and better national economy. iob as a direct result of their training. I he mismanaged their little corners of the CJl The GI education and training program results of this .survey are ''most significant." Bill rests a far worse crime than their own expires for most War Two veterans this in the opinion of the 'l eague Comn)irtee petty thievery or incompetence. 1 heir summer. Its incredible record since War an opinion shared by The .American Legion. abuses, seen out of perspective by the pub- 1 wo prov es without question that the pro- ear, of F.ach > over the seven y ears the lic, have endangered confidence in (tl gram must be continued for the veterans (il Rill education and training program, training. of Korea — and for the benefit of the there has been a hue and cr\ raised about In this article 1 hope I ha\ e helped to nation. run ksd Answers to How Not to Fish CONTINUED FROM PACE 34 ! You can get a quick trip to the nearest I't f hat was a mighty tasty lunch, but how on the bench he'd call tt uistifiable justice of the peace for fishing in waters about burning or burying the rubbish? homicide. that are posted, unless you have permis- Ibis way. it will probably be washed 1 4 According to certain experts you sion. T he question is, did Izaak Walton, or blown away to foul up the adjoining shouldn't wear white when y ou're doing shown here, have permission- He did. landscape. this kind of fishing. They .say it gives 2 Wading Willie, on the left, is going 1 1 .\ little mixup here. That's a casting reel the fish too much of a break. (If you places and doesn't let another fisherman on a fly rod. don't agree with the experts, write stand in his way. What V\'illie deserves I? There's no law. that says you mustn't Soia?d Ojf! for such bad manners shouldn't happen stand up when you're casting from a n T urn the reel 90 degrees counter-clock- to a df)gfish. boat — except the law of self preserva- wise. When casting the handle of the ' I here's nothing \\ rong \v ith a cold tion. Izaak's insurance is paid up so he reel should be up. When it's up lioth bottle of beer when you're fishing, but has nothing to worry about. reel and wrist action are improv ed. you don't toss the empty bottle into the !' Some fun, eh, kid? There's nothing like K). Nothing at all wrong w ith this picture. stream. Sooner or later it u ill break, 1 niotorboat to stir up a fellow who's \Vc just want you to know that our leaving shattered glass to mess up the try inp to fish. A situation like this could Izaak Walton can catch fish in spite of stream and possibly iniure another fish- n milt in murder, but if a fisherman \A cre everything. mi t-vi. erman. 4 Helpful Henry, left, is chock full of ad- vice while Izaak VX'alton is trying to land A trout. .\n excellent solution would be to throw Henry in. ' In spite of FTcnry's advice Izaak got his trout. But that's no way to hold the little monster, especially if you intend to throw it back. Such squeezing in that case is a death grip. The kind of fly a man is using (especial- ly if he's catching fish; comes under the iicading of trade secrets, and a gentle- man doesn't pry into such matters. A .22 is a lot of fun but you aren't sup- posed to shoot fish w ith one. Besides which, there's danger from ricocheting bullets. K I hat seemed like a nice pool over yon- der so our friend in the foreground had the bad manners to let his line drift over that wa\ u here the other chap was hauling em m. Now both lines are fouled and no one is catching any thing '> It says in the book to be careful of by- standers when casting, but l/aak forgot to read the Ixiok one day and look what happctied If the hookee threw a hc>ok at the fisherman's luisc who lould blame hiiii' "HOW CAN I GET THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE?" This question is constantly asked by non-Legionnaires who are anxious to be informed about matters that appear in no other magazine. Till recently, only members of The American Legion were entitled to obtain the Magazine, but now the National Executive Committee has made it possible for others outside the organization to subscribe. 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For additional subscriptions mere- Post to order a number of subscriptions for men in service, ly list names and addresses of those who for prospective members and for people in your commun- are to receive them. Kindly include remit- ity v/ho should be reading The American Legion Magazine. tance with order. CLIP and MAIL to CIRCULATION DEPT. NAME. THE AMERICAN LEGION ADDRESS. MAGAZINE CITY or TOWN P.O. 1055 BOX STATE INDIANAPOLIS 6, IND. ) Need Money? < Continued from page IS) at some banks. (It will cost you around IS cost as much as the larger to handle. But TABLE I (Continued) percent at the Affable Finance Company.) they'll take the small ones if you're a good Actual Cost of Loan How long can your loan run? risk. (Not mentioned by Finance Company) Under present federal regulations, not And there are no more forms to fill out, Total You Pay more than 15 months, (the same holds for no more information about your private $ 50 (6 months) $ 54.48 Small Loans companies) except if you're a affairs, and no more security required by Annual Interest rate 17.92% veteran or get a "Small Business" loan. your bank on your 4 to 6 percent loan $100 (-12 months) $117.00 A veteran may have as much as three than by the Small Loans Compan>' on Annual Interest rare 17% years to pay hack a personal or car loan. your 17 percent loan. $200 (12 months) $231.96 A Small Business Loan may go as high Furthermore, your bank loan is insured Annual Interest rate 15.98%o as $15,000 and run for three years. Let's (at no additional cost to you) so that, if $300 (12 months) $345.84 look at some instances. In the four that you die before it's paid, your family doesn't Annual Interest rate 15.28%, follow the bank took its interest when the have that debt to meet. Loans from Small $500 (12 months) $.563.28 money was borrowed (see Table II below.) Loans Companies are not insured. Annual Interest rate 12.65% The owner of an infants' wear business But what if you're late with your pay- needed an installment loan of $600 in order TABLE II to purchase certain scarce material used (Bank Personal Loans) in making its finished products. The Per- At Interest Rate of 3.83% Per Annum sonal Loan Department of a bank made Including Insurance this loan, repayable at $50 a month. Total Cost Two women in partnership operated a for millinery establishment. The demand for One Year Your Monthly their hats was larger than could be met (deducted Amount Payments for with existing capital. A plan of expansion from loan) of Loan One Year required a loan of $3,240. The loan was $ 2.30 $ 60. $ 5. made for a period of 18 months, repayable 4.59 120. 10. at $180 per month. 11.49 300. 25. A specialrj' food shop needed $4,800 for 22.98 600. 50. two years for additional equipment. It was 45.96 1,200. 100. felt that with larger gross business and 114.90 3,000. 250. lowered costs, $200 a month could be re- paid. Accordingly, a credit of $4,800 was TABLE III extended by a bank's Personal Loan De- (Bank Car Loans) partment for a term of two years. Cost A real estate holding company controlled Per Year Yotir Monthly by two brothers borrowed $1?,000 to fi- (deducted Amount Payments nance the installation of an elevator and from loan) of Loan 1 year l'!?nonths new heating equipment in an apartment $3.33 $ 900. $ 75. $ 60. house. The money was borrowed from a Per $100 1200. 100. 80. bank's Personal Loan Department for three Borrowed 1800. 150. 120. years to be repaid on an installment basis 2400. 200. 160. out of rental income. If you haven't figured these things out if So, you're on salar)% or wages, or in for yourself, here are a. few facts to note business for yourself, borrotv from your in these tables. bank. It costs you $2.18 more to borrow $50 Fine, you say, but isn't that Big City for six ?nonths from the Small Loans Com- Stuff? Can I borrow from my small town pany, than it does to borrow $60 for a year bank that way? from the bank. The answer may be found in a survej- "Dear, why do you watch the Dodgers It costs you $12.41 more to borrow $100 made by the American Bankers' Associa- play when they always upset you so?" for a year from the Small Loans Company, tion, to which nearly all banks belong. Out than it does to borrow $120 for that period of 16,000 member-banks, the ABA found from the bank. AMERICAN LFGION MAGAZINE that 12,000 had a Personal Loan Depart- $300 from rhe Small Loans Compan>' ment. costs $34.35 a \'car 7nore than >'ou'd pay Since there are not more than 5000 towns the bank. in the country with a population over 2500, ments? Doesn't the bank charge you extra The bank lends you $600 for a year for the odds are that there's a bank you can for that? Yes, and so does the Small Loans $22.98, the Small Loans Compan)- charges borrow from in your own town — or in Company. Only the bank penalizes you you $63.28 for |500 - $40 more. the next one. And the chances of your get- much less. There is no car-loan table show n for ting a loan are even better in a town where Here are three tables. The first is taken Small Loans Companies because rhesc loans you're known — if you're known as a nor- from the advertisement of a Small Loans mostly exceed $500 - the limir for these mally honest and reasonably dependable Company. The other two are taken from companies. But a Small Loans (-ompan\' citizen. Which is the kind of citizen this the folder of rhe Personal Loan Dcparr- car-loan for less than $500 will run dose article on credit assumes you are. incnr of a bank. to 13 percent - as compared to the 3.3 These banks with Personal Loan De- percent shown on rhe Bank I able. partments are located in every state, of TABLE I There is another good reason for f)or- course, and are governed by vary ing state (From Finance Cf). advertisement- rowing from >()ur bank. If > ou prove to laws as to interest rates. Some stares allou Personal Loans) be prompt and srcady w irh your payments interest rates as high as 12 percent on bank Ov/i Von Get Monthly raymcnii — and 99 percent of borrowers are - you've Personal Loans; but in spire of that it is $ 50 (6) S 9.0S established credit rhar's good w irh almosr safe to say that the borrower practicalK $100 (12) 9.75 an\- bank in the American Bankers" Asso- never pays more than 6 percent on such a $200 (12) 19..? 3 ciarion. loan from a bank. Minimuni Loan? $60 to $300 (12) 28.82 Here's an instance from the files of the $80. *$^()0 (12) 46.94 ABA. Of course, the banks prefer to make loans ('$500 is legal limit of I oaris ^IIovmmI Small Mrs. ,M., w ife of a consrrucrion engineer, from $2^n up because rhe smaller loans Loans ("ompanics had a p(-rsnnal loan of 44 • The Ampricon Legion Moqazine • Augvi";*. 1951 Mass. bank. Before the installments had been entirely paid, her husband mo\ ed to Bridgeport, Conn, on a new job. Une.xpectcd expenses and a siege of sick- ness made it necessary for the iM's to get S350 in a hiirr>', and thc>- borrow ed it from a Small Loans Company in Bridgeport. But, realizing what high interest they were paying, Mrs. M. w rote the Springfield bankers, asking if it were possible for tiiem to take over this loan. The Springfield bank wrote that, be- cause they confined their loans to the local area, they could not finance the deal — but that they had written a Bridgeport bank, recommending the M's as of excel- lent standing, and that if Mrs. M. would see the Personal Loan iManager in that bank, the loan could be arranged. It was — w ithout difficult)-. This is no isolated incident. It is frequent enough to be close to routine — credit es- tablished in one community through a bank loan, can be, and is often, a means of es- tablishing credit for a borrower in a new location. Gradualh' the public is getting educated to the adv antages of bank-borrowing over going to the Small Loans outfits. Ten years ago banks made about }0 percent of the Small Personal Loans, and the Small Loans Companies about 40 percent (the other 30 percent w as handled by Credit Unions, in- dustrial Loan Companies — like the Morris Plan, and miscellaneous lenders). In 1949 the banks made 40 percent of the Small Personal Loans, the Small Loans C^ompanies about 25 percent. In actual vol- iMiie the bank loans increased 400 percent while Small Loans Companies increased their loans by 100 percent. But five or ten million W'ilkinses are still borrowing from Small Loans Com- panies at what amounts to pawn shop rates, because they don't know how ready and actually eager the banl^s are to lend them the same amounts on just as easy terms and at a lot low er money-rent. And banks will tell you frankly one of AIR RAID WARNING SYSTEM — The Bell System is providing nationwide communication the most important facts of money-rental facilities for defense at the request of military authorities. The pholograpli shows air- that the Small Loans Companies try not craft movements being mapped in a Civilian Defense ' lilter" center, as reports from to mention. It is the fact that on install- strategic observation posts are received by telephone. ment loans your interest is actually about twice the rate you are paying. For instance, when \'ou borrow $100 for a year at five percent and pay it back in twelve monthly installments, you really have the use of The Telephone Is a Vital Link only $50 for the w hole year, because you're reducing the amount of the loan month by month — and $50 is the average sum you possess for the twelve-month period. So, in Civilian Defense on a five percent 12-month installment loan you are paying approximately 10 percent. The Nation's air raid warning system is just one of Banks don't hesitate to explain that, be- cause at the most it means one percent a many ways in which the Bell System is spending millions month, but the seventeen percent to the of dollars to help make this country strong and safe. Civilian Small Loans Company adds up to 34 per- cent a year, or "vera vera close" to the 3 Defense is based on quick communications and the tele- percent a month >'ou pay the pawnbroker phone is a vital, indispensable link in it. when, as and if you have to hock your watch. Defense is our No. 1 job and we are giving it first call Small Loans Companies aren't likely to emphasize this interesting fact about in- on new construction and facilities. We know you would terest, because if the Wilkinses realized want it that way. what the Affable Loan Companies were charging in their affable way, they'd rent their money from a bank, where affability BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM p comes so much cheaper. the end The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • . ' Have You A One Track Mind? (Continued from page 28) ^MAKE GOOD PROFITS ^' SELLING STRAND MADE- tiny jam and jelly shop on Biscayne Boule- Now the point is becoming clearer and vard until The American Legion came clearer. One idea, firmly rooted and dili- TO-MEASURE CLOTHES along. gently pursued, is enough to break the No investment needed It was the 1934 Conxention and Henry bank. The multiple-idea lads who generate Complete outfit FREE' noticed the thousands of Legionnaires ideas like electricity are under a definite Just like many other Legion- milling around in the bars and hotels. Came handicap because a good one is nearly al- naires you too can be success- reasoned, the wa>s displaced think is ful selling Strand made-to- the dawn, he and boys would by another they measure clothes (men's and be thirsting for great big vats of ice-cold better, which is then succeeded by a third, ladies') and set yourself up in orange juice to de-fur their tongues. and so on, with none reaching the last stop. a profitable business—on full He 1 time or part-time basis. scuttled home, grabbed tools and knocked Look at what happened to a boy genius, With a nationally known line like Strand, sell- out the front of his shop, setting up an who graduated from college with highest ing is easy. Big assortment of fine, all-wool fab- rics; every suit individually tailored to measure; improvised bar on the street. Then with honors and almost immediately set a small POPULAR PRICESI Every sale backed by fire in a guarantee of satisfaction or money back! his last few dollars he bought a used the business world with a new pro- A generous profit on every order —plus extra squeezer, some glasses and a few crates of motion plan aimed directly at the college profits for good producers. oranges. He and his wife and kids squeezed set. His advertising agency was an instant FREE OUTFIT. . . we furnish everything you need plus advertising and selling helps. Write today all night long and by dawn were read>' for success — the collegiate market was broad STRAND TAILORING CO. tlie rush. and this bright lad knew how to intrigue 2501-2511 E. Eager Street—Baltimore 3, Md. And wiiat a rush! Legionnaires jammed them into buying. But tlien the ideas began ten deep around the small stand morning popping. Why not branch out to sjsecific after morning, all through the Convention. trades and callings? He tried it and gradu- When the dust cleared, Henry sat back ally dropped his contacts with the cam- exhausted, six hundred lovely dollars nest- puses. Business w as .still good, however, but m 7m mm M©\M1^ ling in his casli drawer. the ideas kept fizzing — drop special trades, And now the rails began to hum as the buck the big competition in w hole sections IS ^35.00 YOURS idea picked up momentum. Using this of the country. Linalh' he learned sadly for selling only 50 boxes of our ' 300 Christmas card line. And this windfall, Henry leased a little shack, in- that he couldn't make the grade and tried can be done in a single day. Free stalled a huge kettle and stove and began desperately to claw his way back to the samples. Other leading boxes on approval. Many surprise items. It making his ultra-special preserves. Despite colleges. But by this time he had lost toucii costs nothing to try. Write today. heart-stopping adversities, despite the with the campus world. At last reports he CHtERFUL CARD CO., Dept. AX'3, White Ploins, New York ominous presence of the landlord at dis- was working at a small job in a West Coast tressingly regular intervals, despite the advertising agency. warning of friends to lower his standards If you're not convinced yet, how about or face ruin, the idea sta> ed on the single some more examples of one-idea jackpots? track and no new ones popped hi to derail All right, ever hear of a gentleman named it all through those rough early years. Col. Lewis Walker? All he had was one Result? Today, Henry Cobbs has an in- tiny idea and, frankh', it wasn't his to be- ternational fruit and preserves business gin with. \Vhat's more, try as he would, he grossing $2,000,000 annually, owns a beau- couldn't make it work in jears of trying. tiful villa, a yacht and is one of Florida's What's more, he didn't have any money to wealthiest business men. The little siiack keep going on it. What's more, nobod>- is now a million-dollar plant, from where paid the slightest attention to him. Quite Some Hake More, Some Less . . his exotic fruits and preserves are shipped a variety of unfavorable circumstances, Start This Business for YOUR OWN all over the world. Almost every visitor to wasn't it? iMiami has, at one time or another, sent Colonel Walker became interested in an GEORGE HELD EARNED IN ONE WEEK $350 home a basket of Cobbs' products as a article thought up by an in\entor named WITH souvenir. Wliitcomb L. Judson just before the tin-n ELECTRIC UPHOLSTERY CLEANER • Here's YOUR chance to start a money-making, year- 'round business of your own and malie the success you've dreamed about. R. O. Donnley took in $40 in seven hours. O. W. Ware landed a $750 hotel job. J. S. Corbit grossed $279.50 his first month. And so it goes. Homes, hotels, offices, clubs, all places where furniture is used, offer you big profit possibilities. Auto upholstery also. NO SHOP OR OFFICE NECESSARY • You clean furniture on customers" premises. No hauling. No high rents. Supplies are inexpensivesive and you operate, at low cost, from your home. What you take in is mostly profit. Surely YOU will want to investigate an opportunity like that — right away. Own your own business. Be your own boss. If you are ambitious, honest and cour- teous, we will help you to start and succeed. '1, Full Information Free Send the coupon now for booklet that exp)ains everything . . . " MAIL COUPON TO VON SCHRADER MFG. CO. 843PL. Racine, Wisconsin Send at once (no obligation) your FREE book- let containing information about your Electric Up- holstery Cleaner and how I can own my own perma- nent, profitable business. Uudh>3 "Never mind, never mind, I'll turn it myself." AMEKrCAN I.Er.ION MACAZIXE City Zone State • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 of the century. He was convinced that the world would one day sit up and take notice of this little item and for ten years he and Judson tried to perfect it, v\ ith no luck at all. They got it to work, all right, but they couldn't create a machine to put it into mass production. From where I sit Finally the inventor got fed up, mainly because the invention wasn't feeding him, so he got a job elsewhere. But by this time j6u Joe Marsh the idea was racing like mad in the Colonel's noggin and he couldn't quit even if he wanted to. He convinced a dynamo engineer named Gideon Sundback to work on it and for more years the plodding went on, hampered constantly by lack of funds. At long last, more than a quarter of a century after the Colonel first latched onto the idea, the device was perfected. It rocked the world, revolutionizing the en- Hope "Cappy" Told Him tire clothing industry. You wouldn't be without it. It's called the zipper. All right, maybe you don't have an Where to Get Off! earth-shaking idea like the zipper rattling around upstairs. Can you make a go of a smaller-scale idea, a community proposi- "Cappy'' Fisher— who just retired tion whicli wouldn't net you millions but would result in a robust little bank ac- after some thirty-five years as a rail- count? The answer is a thundering "yes." road conductor— was telling us about How about the mid-western restaurant man who barely made ends meet by serv- a salesman who was often one of his ing the same kind of hash and hamburgers as a dozen other eateries in town? For passengers. years he nursed one little idea but didn't so busy," says have the nerve to give it a whirl. Finally, "That man was when competition drove his back to the Cappy, "he used to bring a dictaphone wail, he said what the hell and did it. He shut the place down for a couple of on the train to catch up on his letters. weeks and then reopened as the town's, On one trip he'd been rushing around and perhaps the country's, first reducing restaurant, sening only non-fattening so much he clean forgot to bring his foods to persons who cither wanted to shed ticket. Left it on his desk." excess avoirdupois or had done so. He had hired a dietitian to prepare special low- When Cappy started to tell him he calorie diets, served only gluten bread and foods without fats and starches. It was an didn't have to worry about the ticket^ instant success. bursts out with "Who's How about Sidney D. Ingram and Allen the salesman M. Miller, two Brooklyn brothers-in-law worried about the ticket? It's just who also had a rougli time with their small business until they put their ONE IDEA that now I don't know what city I was to work? Ingram and Miller reasoned that going to get at!" mothers of small babies must spend any- off where from a half hour to an hour of pre- Cappy might have been pulling our cious housework time in preparing the baby's formula each day. Wouldn't these leg, but from where I sit, lots of us get mothers jump at the chance of getting the so wrapped up in ourselves we often formulas delivered on their doorstep each morning, like the morning paper? forget "where we're going." Some folks They set to work, pooled their savings, get so narrow they even begrudge borrowed some more money and within several months had raked together several their neighbors the right to enjoy a tiiousand dollars with which they rented glass of beer now and then. Let's not a two-story building, bought a delivery truck and assorted laboratory equipment, forget that just as trains run on steam hired a registered nurse and went into business. and oil, democracies run on freedom The idea hit with a bang. In a short time and tolerance! tile partners were turning out hundreds of scaled containers every day, each with a 24-hour supply of baby formula prepared according to a doctor's prescription ob- tained by the parents. Delighted moms passed the word along and before long the business was grossing $7,500 a month. Men have by no means a moijopoly on one-idea success. The gals are right in there pitching and Legionnaires' wives can take note. Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundation The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • 47 . Take note, especially, of brown-haired and needed, or which the public ivas per- Hazel Bisiiop, who worked for years on suaded to need. something e\ cryonc said just couldn't be That's it in a capsule, the formula for done — a lipstick which wouldn't smear off. success. Go down the list of all the bril- But she did it after 309 separate experi- liant and prosperous ideas which ever ments and came out with the first new lip- hoisted their creators to the pinnacle of stick formula in 40 years and, incidentally, fame and fortune and that will be at the with a million dollar business. bottom of each. Look at some of the major \\ liatcvcr ycmr sizo, large or lipstick idea seeped into Miss ones: Cli\ e K. Henington of Wolfe City, small, look to Knapp! Over 100 The Te.xas, devised a mass-production smart styles. Dress, Sport and Bishop's mind gradually and she hardly who iWork Shoes, all with famous children in realized it was there. She was working for method of photographing WRITE Cushioned Comfort. Factory- I school at the rate of one every five sec- direct prices. Write today for freo, the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey as a FOR^ZW colorful style folder and the name of chemist and got tired of seeing red smears onds and earns S400,000 a year from the your local Knapp Shoe Counselor. STYLE FOLDER on napkins, glasses and cigarettes. She be- idea; Eci Long, chairman of the board of gan tinkering, then dabbling more seriously, \y. E. Long Co., a service organization KNAPP BROTHERS SHOE MFG. CORP. for bakeries, who first thought up the idea DEPT. 28 Brockton, Massachusetts then plunged into heavy work. Where? In some high-powered, Buck- Rogersy lab, full of scientific instruments? Guess again. She worked nights right in the kitchen of her home, using the stove BUY. . as a bunsen burner, a double-boiler as a water bath, glassware for beakers, and the WHEREVER YOU SEE THIS SIGN refrigerator. Finally she perfected a smear-proof lip- stick and now comes the really interesting part. No matter how good a product is, it's useless unless the right people take hold of it and present it to the public the right way. Aliss Bishop met a law>xr who 1 AMERICAN raised the necessary capital, and after two years of packaging research, it was put on the market. Three months later. Miss Bishop was flat broke, her lipstick a failure! MAGAZINE Then what? Out the window with the formula? Nope, because the idea was still RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL darting around and iMiss Bishop's mind is decidedly one-tracked. She kept hunting for the right man to offer it to the buying public and found Raymond Spector, a New York advertising man who had made the nation Lone Ranger-conscious. Spector StHSATlOHAl in SOUmm NtW and "For Pete's sake, the Senate Crime In- repackaged it, launched a tremendous ad- CHRISTMAS CARD vestigation Committee isn't interested in vertising campaign with new financing and Superb Satin Velour & Metallic that two bits you bet on the Dodgers." Show Rich New Cards never be Aliss Bishop was over the top. .\MKUltAN LE(iIO.\ .MAI^AZINK foreotTert'd. Amazintr Value ! Get ersKA.ST! Fays up to UlOt/,, And carrying it down to the end, one fit. FREE Samples of 30 Goi of the biggest factors in the success of the putting wax paper wrappers on bread; ed Book Matches. Stationery. Gift J of Cards. Several $1.00 I idea is this: there is only one idea and Ite ; pasteur- -oval. WRITE TODAY I James L. Kraft, the first man who 2801 Locust, Dept. 129-K. St. Louis 3. Mo. only one product to sell, hence no di\ er- PURO CO., ized and packaged cheese, doing away sion of emphasis in advertising. with the soiled, dried-out and unsanitary There are many other success case his- products sold theretofore; James Ritty, tories for the ladies, all stemming from who first thought up the idea for the cash single ideas. There is Reba Failer, who ... BONUS register after too much cash was swiped AS had an idea that she would like to paint by his bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio family crests for a living — now she's so MEN! saloon! WOMEN! busy she can't keep up with orders. There Make MoncyFu/ZorSpare Time with NYLONS Look at the minor ones, successful in N.vlon3 GUARANTEED 9 MONTHS ! Women eager to get is Freda Barlow, a former New York City guaranteed not to run. snaH. wear out from any cause, or hose local areas: a mosquito-killing service in a free within terms of amazing guarantee! Start N.vlon public school teacher, who leai'ned the art replaced pests; a private Club. Easytobuildbigprolits—year around business— get new farm area plagued by the even in SPARE TIML of mastering her memory, then branciied car to drive around in as extra Ijonus— by veterans in an outfit. Send no money. Just send fire department formed Hose for own use sent with out into coaching private students, then name and hose size on postcard for area where official protection was insuffi- FREE Money Making Plan today! YOUR OWN HOSE went on the lecture platform, now gives WIL-KNIT HOSIERY CO. sent with outfit cient; a canine catering service supplying special courses for business firms that hope 33I8MIDWAY. GREENFIELD. OHIO I complete meals for dogs in wealthy areas to increase office efficiency by teaciiing wiiere their masters could afford to give executives and personnel how to remem- years Rover the best. "Suffered 7 ber things. And there are a host of women Big and small, the ideas filled a need, who have nursed particular recipes, handed I found Pazo wiiicli was either there to start with or -then down by grandma, and who have marketed w iiicii was developed. And big and small, their specialties successfully. brings amazing relief!'' their originators followed them through Let's says Mr. M. W., Los Angeles, Calif, pause a moment and take stock. relentlessly until the>' clicked. relief from miseries of \\'hat kind of ideas were these, the fruit Speed amazing W hat better example is there of a multi- simple piles, with soothing Pazo*! Acts business, the and jam zipper, the slimming million-dollar idea, hatched in a one-track to relieve pain, itching instantly— soothes restaurant, the baby formula service, the inflamed tissues — lubricates dry, hard- mind, than the thought which ran around ened parts— helps prevent cracking, sore- non-smear lipstick, all the others? W'iiat the mind of Adolph Levitt in the early ness — reduce swelling. You get real com- ilid they all have in common, what was 1920s? Adolph Levitt didn't create the forting help. Don't suffer needless torture tiieir big secret? — from simple piles. Get Pazo for fast, won- doughnut-— the origin is lost in antiquity derful relief. Ask your doctor about it. Simply this: One way or another, their but he sure as heck made it a national Suppository form — also tubes with per* originators hit upon something which their institution! forated pile pipe for easy application. *Paio Otnlment and Supl>ouloiiti<^ conniiunities or the country didn't have Levitt, operating a chain of window 42 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 ' bakeries in the cast, found a tremendous the country and directly responsible for AMAZING COMFORT — NO SPECIAL FITTING public response to tiie baking of dough- making the doughnut what it is today. nuts in the windows of his stores. 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He two-putted safely for a four. when his sliced approaches caught traps Leach rimmed his bird and parred and and trouble. By the time we hit the fif- Kittridge birdicd. teenth, we were one under and had a radio To the left of one green, near .seven jeep on our heels. I stood near the an- Sensationally New for 1952! fairway, a beer and hot-dog concession was nouncer while the bo> s were lining up their going full blast. They had been doing a putts. land-office business during the tournament "\Ve are parked next to the fifteenth as might be evidenced by the heavy scat- green at Oakhurst Country Club \'. atching tering of empty bottles throughout the the impossible! Leach Randolph, the un- roughs. Leach skirted the top of the right- known pro who holds the lead in this out- hand trap on his way^to number tw o tee. standing field is one under par, playing The gallery marshals were keeping people with a hemstitched right palm. That's right, from walking across the green and in this hemstitched! He laid it open on a broken pushing, pulling melee, someone bumped bottle and is playing with the hand Leach off balance and he spilled into the wrapped in a bandage. Here comes Top trap, rolling down the grassy bank into the K ttridge up over his ball. He's got a thirty- sand. sat He up, but didn't rise. At first, I foot putt from the top left corner and — couldn't understand it, then I saw his right there it goes. It looks good — it looks — oh, hand! He was holding his wrist to stop it stopped inches short. Kittridge strokes it the steady flood of blood that was stream- in for a par. Randolph has a fairly straight ing from his lacerated palm. Broken gla.ss fifteen-footer from below the pin. He's can really slash you open. over the ball — fans, his shoes are blood- I don't know how it always happens, but spattered from the steady drainage of his you get a crowd of more than three people cut — here comes the putt, it's wide. Ran- around a country club and at least one of dolph knocks it in and stays one under. As them is a doctor. There were two bending the boys go off sixteen, we'll switch you over Leach before I got to him. While one back to Bill Artley at the big scoreboard of them wrapped the wound in a clean and see where the fic'd stands." handkerchief, an official spoke to Randolph. Well, the field stood hot and hea\y. "Do >'ou w ant to dro - out of competi- Leach posted a one-under 70 to hold a one Midwest offers a sensational new 1952 beautiful consoles and complete tion, Air. Randolph?" stroke lead line of over Benjy AlcFall. AlcFall chassis for easy installation in your own Leach grinned at him. "This little thing came to life and played the back nine in cabinet. Mammoth 20-Inch Television Radios — . . . powerful, world-ranging won't bother me none. four par a fift> - Lemme put some under and posted a 67 for at low Factory Prices, and on Easy stickin' plaster on it and Lll be set to roll." four-hole total of 203. That, mister, is a Terms and 30 Days Trial. Jameson and Kittridge agreed to step lot of golf. Leach's 202 looked fine, but his Buy DIRECT from the MIDWEST Factory and SAVE! ' " aside while Leach got patched up, and the hand didn't. " " SEND THIS 'm id west" radio V" teTe"vTsTon cor p! doctors ran him over COUPON to the first aid sta- Benjy AlcFall had the reputation of a Dept. 101, 909 Broadway, Cin The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • around the country and all but one were talked to them until his time came up. No the pin. Taking a t\vo-iron, he lined a shot set in the last two rounds of play. He was practice swings, no preliminaries; he just that stopped fifteen yards short of trouble. an iceberg under pressure and that perfect walked out on the tee and smacked his Randolph gambled on the wet green, hold- swing of his never varied no matter how- drive. Gone was the fade that cut his round ing the ball and hit his approach iron right tough the going. He played every hole for the day before — today his ball left the to the pin. The green held the shot well — a birdie and refused to be satisfied with club with a clean crack, hooking late and so well that we lost eight feet with the pars. All in all, Benjy was a tougli article carrying long. I saw him wince when he backspin on the ball. to buck and taking top money with him in met the ball and right then, I knew the Twelve feet — it looked like twelve miles tlic league was a big order. gallery would see a real pile of courage to me — lay between the ball and the cup. that afternoon. Twelve feet between Leach and glory. Ben paused and lit his pipe. The rain had Randolph's hand was bleeding again by Brother, with 3000 people watching and slacked off to a light drizzle and off to the the time we reached five green. He'd hit a first money at stake, that is one long putt. southeast the clouds were clearing off. Ben low one-iron against the wind stiff to the Leach lined up the putt, stopped and squinted out the window. Well, (he con- pin and yanked a stitch loose. We stood walked back to me. Borrowing my knife, tinued) it's eleven-thirty now — rain should under the umbrella beside the green wait- he cut the blood soaked bandage off his quit right soon. Course sure will be wet, ing for our turn to putt and I watched the right hand and wiped both hands dr>' on but they'll play. They played that Sunday blood drip into a puddle beside us. Leach the towel around my neck. Then, he ad- in 1940. Play? Boys, they slogged througli rammed in that birdie with a grim look on dressed the putt. It looked short at first, tlic wettest final round I ever walked. iiis face. He wasn't fussing with his siiots. then it started to fall off line. It stopped on It was pouring when iMcFall appeared at He'd size tiiem up as we approached the the lip of the cup, hesitated, then, like a the starter's canopy. The wind was blow- ball, take a stick and hit the shot. picture in slow morion, fell out of sight. ing in sharp gusts, slanting the rain in a We were a colossal thrcc-undcr when we wall across the fairways. Benjy wasn't very passed fifteen. Leach was white around the Tell you somctliing funny. The first guy happy when he spoke to the starter. mouth and iiis hand was bright red. 1 had to get to Leach was Benjy iMcFall. He "Don't suppose you're going to hold the to wipe the blood off the club handles as grabbed him around tiie neck and pounded field until this slows up, are you?" he returned them. iMcFall was one under him. Leach had a big grin from ear to ear The official shook his head. "Can't do approaching seventeen green. Leach hit his as the piiotographers took pictures of the that, Ben))'. \Ve have too many to get off. drive on sixteen and finally, his bod>' got two of them. He needled Benjy in the Looks like you boys will have to get wet!" away from him. He flinched and pulled speech he made when they gave him his iMcFall shrugged his shoulders and the shot deep into that pine grove to the check. Said something about there being walked out on tlie tee. There he stood for left. After the commotion cleared away, "a new mayor in town." five minutes, taking practice swings and we wound up with a double bogie six, ty- Before you ask me, I'll tell you why you getting well drowned before they gave him ing us up with McFall. We played seven- don't hear about this guy Leach Randolph. clearance. He dro\c last in his threesome, teen in par and walking toward eighteen He v.'on something else back in 1944 — guess belting a long, screaming ball high with an tee, we heard the gallery up by eighteen it might even class with first money. Yes- easy hook that brouglit it back on line. green groan. McFall had missed his birdie sir, Sergeant Leach Randolph was awarded Leach showed up right on time, his hand — the door was open! the Distinguished Service Cross for gal- wrapped in a brand-new bandage. He Leach took his time on that last drive, lantr\" in action — posthumously. grinned at me and slumped into an extra but he still pulled it a little. It was long, Well, here comes the first car up the chair under the canopy. Photographers and but enough to the left that the flanking driveway. Looks like we work today, boys! reporters grouped around him and he trap ne.xt to the green lay between us and THE END Moscow's Red Letter Day In American History (Continued from page 11) sian farms into a slave-trade monopoly of of Moscow, and speaking a scholar's Span- joined to the socialists, radicals and anar- the So\ict state. Sen Katsama saw, and ish and Portuguese. The sole financial agent chists of England, France, Italy, Germany, reported to .Moscow, that Argentina with of the rich-by-plunder Moscow regime, he Spain and other coimnunist-infiltratcd areas its urgent need for trade and with its large- was able to weigh his suave arguments for of the world, to form a \\ orld-wide Com- ly European immigrant racial stock was the diplomatic recognition and immunities witli munist International which would destroy most likely nation in whicli to establish a promises to increase, or sly threats to de- otlier forms of go\ crnmcnt and other eco- A\'estern Hemisphere communist base. crease, his purchases. But it was known nomic systems. Woodrow Wilson, in Washington, was a to the Argentine police that his orders, Moscow's projected steps in changing man with \\ horn the Kremlin could make early in 1919, were to force, in one final Argentina and other American republics no deal. and "victorious conference," the Argentine into communist states were detailed in a Explaining its predicament to the United recognition of the U.S.S.R., "/w order that document of more than 100 pages, but States and otlier Pan-American govern- we n/ay proceed to operate, send men and these are the highlights: ments, Argentina welcomed the opportun- paraphernalia back and forth, under diplo- "^Ve confiscate and nationalize all fac- ity to load its food surpluses for spot gold matic immunities.'''' tories, industries, private transportation and into Soviet-bound ships. They also per- The Argentine police also disco\ercd communication systems, banks, land estates mitted Moscow to send a "purchasing the fact that Kracvsky's real title in the both private and those belonging to the agency" to Buenos Aires. Kremlin was not merely that of Alanaging cliurch ... all buildings, machinery, prop- The communist who followed Sen Kat- Director of hiynzh Amtorg, Argentina, but erty, agriculture, dair>% li\ cstock, and turn sama from l\1oscow to America, witii "Soviet Commissar for South America." A tliem o\ cr to the state. . . . Wc abolish all Soviet gold, was named Boris Kracvsk>\ secret plan for creating revolutions in South inheritances. . . . All industries will be un- He arrived in Buenos Aires with a large America was obtained by a wealtliy and der the management of organized workers, entourage of "purchasing" assistants for his influential Argentine in Paris. Dated in and taken from the capitalists. . . . ^^'e es- hiynzh Anitorg office. He placed big, Pctrograd, March 5, 1919, and signed by tablish, by revolution, a Dictatorship of profitable orders for Argentine resources, Zinovieff, Lenin's international schemer, ^^'orkers into a A\'orld Union of Soviet paid for them in gold, and worked con- this document siiowed tiiat the Kremlin's Socialist Republics, with a Capital in Mos- stantly to persuade the Argentine govern- real purpose, behind Kraevsky's polite ne- cow." ment to recognize the Soviets, officially, gotiations and promises of friendship, was The Argentine government notified and open Argentine's quarantine to a Soviet to organize all the scattered revolutionary Kraevsky that diplomatic recognition of ambassador. groups in South America — and eacii coun- the Soviet regime would never be granted To the few North Americans who try had its own native revolutionists — into and that he and his luyuzh Ai>itorg organi- studied him in Argentina, Boris Kraevsky a Moscow-controlled union of communist zation in Buenos Aires would be deported was a very smooth operator, immaculate in but native political parties; that these if found engaging in any non-commercial the garb of Bond Street, rather than that American revolutionists were then to be activities. Kraevsky began traveling fre- 5Q • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 qiiently to Brazil and Chile, but the Ar- hospitality — and opened a lavish Soviet gentines beat him to those goals by hastily embassy. Boris Kraevsky, well praised by GUARD AGAINST negotiating a treaty under which each of the Kremlin, returned to Buenos Aires and the three nations pledged itself not to rec- his lnyiizh Aiiitorg headquarters. ognize the Soviet regime, or allow a Soviet The Soviet coup in Alexico, Commissar ITT?IvTITHTTl all ieff Kraevsky, Mexico ambassador to enter the country, unless Zino\ wrote made Upset stomach • Jumpy Nerves three neighboring nations did so jointly. ''the brightest vista for the future, the The record of Commissar Kraevsky's at- greatest possibilities for international ex- tempts to get a diplomatically protected pansion, and source of possible difficulties base for the Kremlin's program in Latin for the United States. Mexico is the natural America was available in minute chrono- connecting link betiveeti the coimi?iinist logical detail to President Roosevelt in 1933. movement in North and South America. Get effective relief /os/ from head- The Argentines not only continued to Latin America must now become the China ache, upset stomach and jumpy quarantine the communists, diplomatically, of the Far West, and Mexico the Canton nerves with Bromo-Seltzer. Fol- low the label, avoid excessive use. but dc\ oted so much time and documenta- of Latin America." A product of Emerson Drug Co. tion to a campaign against recognizing the Kraevsky, making no headway with the Argentines for a South American embassy, began capitalizing on the increasing trade in s FACE HI jealousies of the Argentines with their YOU GET $25 neighbors, the Uruguayans, across the Rio FOR SELLING ONLY 50 BOXES de la Plata. 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Easy to operate — no eyestrain. Makes ing ambassadors with AIoscow and wel- cation in AIoscow. Between 1926 and 1930 old saws cut like new. coming the S.S.R. "into FREE BOOK ' I ndependence U the Brotherhood many thousands of young natives were After 40" shows how st.irt In spare time at h of Friendly International Nations." transported to the U.S.S.R., trained as com- small investment and build a peat cash business. Leo H. With a great fanfare of hands-across-the- munist organizers and agents — and sent Mix, writes: "I made about $9<)0 In spare time last sea goodwill to a "Brother Republic," So- back to their native communities to be- year." Write today for Free Book —no salesman will call. viet Ambassador Petrovsky arrived in come secret "Citizen Workers of the Com- Alexico City with 30 "diplomatic" attaches munist International." These native com- FOLEY MFG. CO. 839-1 FOLEY BLDC, MINNEAPOLIS , MINN. — and with the gold that was the price of munists could not be deported, though at The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 * ^\ certain times tiiey hastily went into exile dreds of So\ iet documents were inter- clique in the Mexican legislature, gave — use of ballots ill other Latin American republics and, cepted or seized by anti-communist intel- iMoscow a new idea the especially, in the United States. ligence agents. One, dated Moscow, rather than bullets. The Kremlin sudden- The l\lexican-Soviet "Brotherhood of February S, 1932, signed by R. TomasofF, ly changed its American program and or- Friendh' International Nations" lasted onl>- .Moscow Secretary of the Communist In- dered its agents to hold revolts in abey- six years. President Calles, after the death ternational, is here sufficient: ance throughout the hemisphere until it of Obregon, ordered the Soviet Ambas- "Tlie examination of reports from our could be determined whether Mexico and sador, on January 23, 1930, to get out of commissars in Latin America during tlie the other American republics might not be Mexico — within 48 hours. Mexican police last three montiis of 1931 leads us to de- seized by ballots. Alay Day, 1933, for the rounded up trainloads of foreign commu- cide to begin a period of concentrated rev- first time in five costly years was riot free nists and deported them. Soviet files w ere olutionar>' action. The lower classes of throughout the American hemisphere. seized — and w e had a complete record of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Urugua\' Stalin's agents in America, beginning iMay tlie Third International's blueprints for the are read>' to fight and bring down the es- 19tii of that year were directed to work conquest not only of Alexico but the en- tablished governments." behind, and from within, specific native tire hemisphere. Mexican railroad riots, uni- In Monte\ idco President Terra went be- political parties, all of them financed from versity revolts, and strikes in the mines, fore the Urugua\ an congress, obtained spe- iMontevideo, for the nomination and elec- utilities and industries w ere pro\ ed to ha\ e cial pow ers, seized guns and ammunition tion of pro-communists for all future elec- been financed out of the Soviet embassy. imported and stored by the Soviet embassy toral offices and important government With onh' one diplomatic base in Ameri- preparatory to smuggling into Argentina. positions. ca, the Kremlin, in March, 1930, began He imprisoned many' communist agents. In .Mexico, for example, the Kremlin's choice a presi- stepping up its campaigns in South Ameri- Claiming that Uruguay by its continued of candidate for the Mexican ca. Riots and armed rexolts broke out hospitality to the Soviet ambassador and dency' was Lazaro Cardenas, "The Indian," simultaneously in Peru and Chile. There luyiizh A'/ntorfr had created international and three now powerful native communists his w as a w ave of rioting in the universities of liabilities, Argentina recalled its ambas- pledged the Kremlin to organize elec- tion — through the legal National Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and sador from Monte\ idco and closed its ports now X'enezuela. The W estern Hemisphere's old- to Uruguayans and their commerce. The Re\ olutionary Party. est university, San iMarcos of Peru, older Brazilian government, tracing a plot for the It was at this critical moment of Ameri- than Harvard, was closed hy the govern- overthrow of the federal government to can history that a Soutii American ambas- sador to Washington w as tipped off to the ment; it had become a major base of so- Brazilian re\ olutionists exiled in Uruguay cialistic and revolutionary plots and propa- and organized by the Soviet embassy and fact that President Roosc\ elt, in office bare- ganda, financed by the Soviet embassy in Kraevsky's agents, sent an ultimatum to ly se\ en months, had sent a personal letter Montevideo. By January, 1931, the Argen- .Montevideo and set aside an off-shore island to the Kremlin inviting Stalin to send an emissary to \\'ashington for confidential tine police were defending Buenos Aires as a prison barracks for its nati\ c com- against hordes of suddenly armed workers munists. talks "to end abnormal relations between 125,000,000 people of the United States and and small farmers and the capital was only By the end of 1932 Mexico, though with- the 160,000,000 people of Russia." The saved by a hastily formed "Legion for out a So\ iet embassy, had put many of tlie South American ambassador gave his in- Emergency" of Buenos Aires citizens. They Third International's programs into its formation to other Latin American em- raided Kraevsky's "commercial" headquar- national laws — including the \^era Cruz bassies in Washington and soon many of ters and seized his records. Kraevsky fled expropriation decree wiiich seized U.S. and the go\ crnments south of the Rio Grande across the river to Montevideo. Argentina's British owned property in Mexico. The were dispatching reports to XA'asliington, President Uriburu cancelled liiyiizh Ain- National Revolutionary Party was declared documenting the Soviet danger to America, tovfi's Argentine charter, distributed copies a legal Mexican political party, and its na- its record of consistent double-dealing and of Krae\ sky's files to all the other Ameri- tive communist leaders promised Moscow intrigue. can republics. a sweeping control o\er Mexico in the very great misfortune for both the Revolution almost captured Chile and subsequent elections. The Kremlin's suc- "A go\ ernments and the people of Pan-Ameri- Peru; martial law had to be established in cess, after only six years as a diplomatic ca," one wise Latin American statesman many Latin American cities. \'iolent and guest of the Republic of Mexico, in infil- wrote, to a personal as well as official friend costly riots damaged native as well as U. S. trating communists into labor and govern- in the old State Department, "will be the owned mines, utilities and industries. Hun- ment offices and in building up a powerful certain and irrevocable result of a diplo- matic recognition by the great United fiUP-ULSES By Ponce de Leon States of North America, the rightful moral as w ell as economic leader of Pan-America, of the Soviet regime, its criminal masters and agents." More than one hundred Latin American patriots rushed long letters and evidence to the State Department and the \Vhite House, urging the people of the United States to stand firm with them in an ada- mant bloc against the Kremlin, its ambas- sadors and agents. But these documents of October, 1933, were hastily stamped "Top Secret" and kept from the citizens of the United States, and from the U. S. Congress. Space, in this re\ iew of a tragic error in American leadership, is too limited for quoting details of the \\'ashington record of No\cmber, 1933, but researchers will find that the pro-communist officials of W'ashington used the identical propaganda for softening up U. S. citizens to the re- ception of. the Kremlin's agents that had been used to fool the people of Mexico in 1924, and the people of LTruguay in 1926: great "economic benefits" would result from welcoming a Soviet ambassador to tiie United States. Stalin was said to ha\ e promised a billion dollars in new Sovict- 52 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 . United States trade. vated by the desire of both countries for iMany well-informed citizens thought peace and for the strengthening of the Amazing Invention otherwise and said so, but their warnings peaceful purpose of the civilized world." were smothered by a wave of bureaucratic The Kremlin, Secretary Hull promised Defrosts Refrigerators counter-publicity. The American Legion's the governments of the other American resolution opposing the recognition of the republics, at the 1933 Pan-American Con- ii Kremlin was challenged by the President ference, agreed to refrain from any act , Pays Salesmen Up To as a philosophy of "Tories" and "Doubting "overt, liable in any way whatsoever to in- \ $2)0.00 a Week! Thomases." 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Yes, just a few hours even in should pay you up to $18.00 PROFl already communist-infiltrated labor unions. This pledge, the U.S. Secretarv- of State plug D-Frost-O-Matic — women won't let y One of the greatest concentrations of promised the Latin American statesmen, Profits Guaranteed. No risk — If you don't find this the factual information, wise analyses, police also covered the peace and tranquillity of most fascinating, hest pay- ing business you ever heard all the other American republics. of we'll refund every cent records and military intelligence ever to you paid for your initial order. pile spontaneously subject in Did President Roosevelt — in spite of up on one Rush name and address on the contrary evidence — really believe that postcard TODAY for gen- Washington, all documenting the liabilities erous FRKK TRIAL plan. of dealing w ith the Kremlin, had no effect Stalin, Litvinov, the Kremlin, and a Soviet DrROSTQ on Franklin Roosevelt. He had appointed ambassador would abide by such an agree- Dept. AL-S N. Michigan Henry A'lorgenthau and Dean Acheson, ment? The people of the United States Chicago both proteges of Felix Frankfurter, to can join the statesmen of Latin America, "study" trade opportunities between the now, in skeptical wonder. A promise of the It's Quick, Easy, Fun To Learn A U.S.S.R. and the United States, and he Kremlin bad never been kept on any oc- casion beneficial to others, prior to praised their report of tiic benefits to come 1933. LANGUAGE by LINGUAPHONE to all U.S. citizens from Soviet "friendship." History, in time, may disclose what secret AT HOMI-: in lei'.ure thne. quickly, easily, master Span- President acting his ingredients were hidden in the Litvinov- ish, Fr» n< h. (Jerriian. Russian — any of 29 lanfjuages The though as own tlnroush proved Llnguaphone Conversational Method — Rooscvelt deal; they have not yet been World's Standard. The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • 53 of a 'People's Front Government' as a step no longer stood, in Latin-American eyes, They listened, too, to our Secretary of in transition to the Soviet form of govern- astride 48 States as the great, respected State, Dean Acheson, warn them, now in ment"; (6) by a "coalition of such new "Colossus of the North." V\'e became, in- 1951, that "this freedom of ours is faced 'People's Front Governments' against the stead, "£/ Loco Rico del Norte — The Rich with a mortal threat. The small group of United States (and all other non-commu- Fool of the North." men who rule the Soviet Union and pull nist countries) to bring the entire Western The Roosevelt-Stalin Deal, of November, the strings of the International Communist Hemisphere under Soviet control." 1933, has been so costly to us, as a nation movement ha\ e a doctrine which is op- The record shows that Cordell Hull, and as a hemisphere, that the full appraisal posed to freedom . . .There is no free nation upon the receipt of this authentic docu- of our losses and liabilities will not be anywhere, large or small, whose freedom ment disclosing the Soviet's continuing known for several generations. The Krem- is secure." dupHcity, sent a note of protest to A'loscow, lin's gains within the United States and The statesmen of our neighbor republics but President Roosevelt could not be communism's cost to us is only now, in have very long memories, and massive persuaded to withdraw his diplomatic rec- dossiers. Acheson: their files on him go far ognition. He began, instead the "reorgan- WALLY back, complete with enlightening details, ization" of the State Department in Wash- to the year 1933, the fateful year when ington and the dispatching to far, isolated they tried to warn us of the dangers ahead! posts of its anti-communist career officers. Is it strange that the Latin-American states- In December, 1955, however, the govern- men, in \Vashington during April 1951, ment of Uruguay, after conferences with looked realistically at the busy Soviet em- its South American neighbors — and after bassy's blood-red flag, flying over 16th waiting in vain for the United States to Street just a few paces from the White join its decision — summarily canceled dip- House and the State Department, and felt lomatic recognition and ordered tlie Soviet exasperated to be told, like children with ambassador to leave Montevideo within 24 short memories, that the Soviet's plan was hours. Uruguay charged the Soviet Ambas- a "new imperialism" or that "its instruments sador Alinkin and Boris Kraevsky with are a formidable machine of war and the financing and manipulating, in spite of its international communist movement"; to be promises, anti-goverment communist politi- told these long evident facts by the man cal campaigns in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, who had worked night and day, in 1933, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia, as to gi\e the Soviets their major base in well as in Uruguay and Paraguay. The America — who had celebrated the 15th an- Uruguayan police seized the hiyiizh Am- niversary of the Third International and torg Montevideo files and obtained Mos- the fourth anniversary of Stalin's supreme cow's complete record of South American dictatorship of the Kremlin, in a White propaganda and activities, as well as dupli- House party honoring Stalin's emissary, cate records of Central and North Ameri- Litvinov, on November 7th, 1933? (From September, 1937 A.L.M.) can plans — sent to Kraevsky from the The protocol of diplomacy requires soft Soviet embassy in Washington. words, innuendo rather than excoriation. Again evidence was given President 1951— after eighteen years of suffering a So- Consistent protagonists of a Pan-American Roosevelt of the Soviet program — dictated viet embassy in our Capital, and its agents Union adamantly blocking Soviet expan- from Moscow by the same Stalin that to roam the States — coming to public con- sion, and cooperatively quarantining its am- Roosevelt, in 1933, thought he could do sciousness. bassadors, consuls and other agents from business with. This disclosed among other It has truly been a costly era of mysteri- the society of honest, God-worshiping things that Stalin's agent for the sovietiza- ous friendship for an appeasement of the mankind, the statesmen of the rest of the tion of (Mexico, Central America and the devil, of un-American compromises with hemisphere replied to our Secretary of Caribbean was Constantine Oumansky, who deceit and pagan ideologies. Some of its State with stoical restraint. had accompanied Litvinov to Washington protagonists are now dead, their graves "At a time when the threat of a third and partaken of White House festivities in monuments to our present predicament, world conflict is knocking at our doors," 1933. but others, again mysteriously, have been Brazil's Foreign Minister Jao Neves de The Soviet Ambassador to Uruguay, allowed to step into their strategic places. Fontoura suggested, the first thing we must Minkin, went back to Moscow. Boris A Colossus of the North no longer sits do is "to correct the mistakes of the past Kraevsky stopped off in the United States, in the well earned place of honor at Pan decade . . .We are undoubtedly faced with under a diplomatic passport arranged for American conferences. We have exchanged a denial of the idea of nation, just as ca- him by the Soviet ambassador in Washing- our once unchallenged prestige for a mess tegoric as the denial of God. There exists ton. He was to mastermind the expansion of suspicions. With one side of their mouths an ostensive philosophy which, if it came of the Kremlin's Amtorg Trading Com- our politicos and State Department manipu- to pass, would consecrate as a hero Ephi- pany, headquarters in New York City — the lators liad preached a beautiful, new Good altes, the Spartan traitor convicted of crime agency which was to be used by Moscow Neighbor western hemisphci'e policy — but against his mother country, having de- for spying out our most valuable defense out of the other side they welcomed Stalin's livered to the Persians the very lives of secrets, including the atomic bomb. Asiatic and Europan agents into tlie neigh- those who stood in defense of the Pass of There was no longer a Soviet ambassador borhood. Our Latin American policy since Thermop>'lae." anywhere in Latin America. But Stalin 1933 has been in fact no honestly founded It was not the AVashington Monument, could still gloat; he had the diplomatic base program of sincere hemisphere statesman- or the remodeled \Vhite House, or the he most wanted in the American hemi- ship, but merely another case of AVashing- Capitol, or the modernistic Department of sphere —Washington. And out of that So- ton double talk. The meeting of inter- State edifice which the Latin-American viet embassy and its consulates a horde of American foreign ministers, in Washington statesmen concentrated on photographing secret agents, protected by diplomatic pass- during Alarch and April, 1951, found "U.S. during their sightseeing tours of our na- ports, could roam and plot throughout the and Latin America Far Apart on Big tion's capital. It was the big Soviet embassy, Americas, assisted, as the record shows, by Issues," as our newspaper headlines too behind its iron fence, wkh its big red bol- powerful pro-communists in the Washing- briefly recorded. The statesmen of our shevik flag staining the \Vashington sky- ton federal government. To the list of hemisphere neighbor republics listened po- line. Stalin's very good friends in Washington litely to President Truman, now mired in Inside that building, could now be added a former impoverished a fiasco of Soviet international intrigue, massive, ugly of New York social worker, Harry Hopkins. read a speech bidding our neighbors gird vaults, dungeons and short-wave radio code Thus, quite unrealized by the good peo- against a red blow by Soviet Russia at the instruments, there is the complete record ple of the United States, our great nation, W'^estern Hemisphere, listened to us telling of Soviet duplicity in and cost to America. once respected by all our neighbors of the them — at this late date — that "the aggres- If a building could scream we would, be- Western hemisphere, lost its philosophical sive expansion of Soviet power threatens fore it's too late, know the whole story! and moral leadership of Pan-America. We the whole world." THE END 54 ' The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 . 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COUNTY some of them for 20 hours at a stretch. As there be time for another shipment? Al- TOWN STATE fatigue increased, more than 10 percent ready Rommel was massing his forces for The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • " " the strike at Alexandria. It was nearing the potential death, it took the Seatrain Texas vette's captain signaled a heart-warming end of July and time was running out. to cross the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, message of appreciation: turn south down the West Coast of Africa "Thanks. We never expected to find a "That's where you come in," Comman- and finally reach Capetown, South Africa. Santa Claus this far from home. God be der Clark told Towne as he finished bring- During this two weeks and four days, with you." ing him up to date with the facts. "For- Towne slept hardly a wink, grabbing cat Twenty-nine days out of Brooklyn, the tunately, we have enough tanks in reserve naps in the wheelhouse or fort>' winks in Seatrain Texas slid through the inky black- at Chester, Pa., to replace those lost aboard his cabin without removing his clothes. ness of the night off^ Somaliland's Cape the Fairport. Washington is gambling that Day and night, all around him, the air was Guardafui, near the mouth of the Gulf of your ship can get them there in time to do filled with ominous warnings of submarine Aden. In the chart room, red-eyed and some good. attacks, ships sinking. Crossing the top of haggard, Captain Towne plotted his course "You ll have to go alone, depend on your the Caribbean, one U.S. freighter had been between the Cape and tiny Socotra Island. speed and luck to make it." torpedoed less than 12 miles away from his In the radio shack, the ship's wireless Like tlie skipper to whom he was talk- own position. The Seatrain Texas held to operator leaned forward as his earphones ing, the Commander was a man of the sea. its course. began to crackle. Static blurred the mes- He didn't tr\' to minimize the danger. At Capetown, the Seatrain Texas was sage. Try as he migiit, those portions of it "It'll be tough," he said. "Those subs love oiled and supplied, on her way again in he could receive fitted no pattern. a ship alone. Personally, I don't think you less than a day. In the harbor there had "It's hopelessly garbled," he reported to have a chance. But may God have mercy been the five remaining ships of the orig- the bridge. "Shall I ask for a repeat?" on us all if you fail. Good luck." inal convoy. "No," Captain Towne replied. "Keep It was a big order, but if any ship was "That was the first time I even allowed your radio silence. We'll be in Aden to- capable, at least on paper, of doing the job, myself to hope that perhaps we might be morrow and we can check it then." it was the Seatrain Texas. Built in 1940 to successful," Towne recalls. "W'e'd made In Aden, a chill ran down his back when haul 100 fulh-loaded, 40-foot freight cars record speed to Capetown. Now we'd met the British port control officer gave him at a crack from Texas to New York, she'd up with the original shipment and left them the ungarbled text of the message his radio hardly wet her feet in the commercial trade behind. They'd left Brooklyn more than operator had missed. An Italian submarine, before being requisitioned by the Arm\ 's two weeks before me. spotted by a British patrol plane, had been Transportation Corps for war work. A hy- Code-named the "Treasure Ship" by the waiting in the narrow channel between brid of the high seas, half-way between a British, who assumed operation control of Cape Guardafui and Socotra Island — square car ferry and an ocean-going freighter, her movements from Capetown north, the in the path of the plotted course of the with three reinforced concrete decks, she ship headed up Africa's East Coast. On Seatrain Texas. was all space inside, could carry almost August 21, Captain Towne paused briefly Urgently, Aden had radioed Captain twice the tonnage of an ordinary freighter. in Durbin, not even dropping his anchor Towne to change his course, to move out- Her own booms could handle a 70-ton in the outer harbor, to pick up additional side the island to avoid the deadly peril locomotive as easily as a jeep. orders, then sped on. ahead. Captain Towne's sealed orders, handed A Free French corvette arrived along- The Seatrain Texas had missed the mes- to him on the dock before he sailed, were side to escort them through the sub-infested sage. The submarine did not. Although it terse: Mozambique Channel. It was their only was in code, they had the key. Pulling out "Proceed to Port Suez by way of Cape- company on their long and dangerous of his lair in the narrow channel, the sub's town. Trip will be made at full speed of voyage. When the corvette, whose crew skipper sped to the new course, on the 16/2 knots." members were cut off from their homeland, other side of the island where, during the Nowhere in them was mentioned the made ready to leave them, the crew of the night, he sank two other freighters. The urgent reason for the trip. Unofficially, Seatrain Texas constructed a raft, nailed a Seatrain Texas, a prize the Germans would though, he knew it only too well. box to it, filled it with razor blades, have valued above all others, slipped through At a briefing the day before, an Ad- matches, candy and magazines, and floated on her old course unmolested. miral had whispered in his ear, "Roosevelt it across the calm seas to the crew of the From Aden, the ship raced up the Red is issuing the orders on this one himself. French ship. Sea under the broiling August sun. On the Eighteen daj-s, e\ ery second filled with Back across the sunlit waters, the cor- morning of September 2, exactly 35 days out of Brooklyn, she eased into the harbor at Port Taufiq, at the Red Sea end of the Suez Canal. An American Army captain led a crew of British stevedores aboard before the dock lines were fastened. The ship's own booms were used to swing the tanks out of the deep holds and onto the dock. \\'aiting British drivers took them over, speeding them to the desert front. Three days after the last of them were unloaded, and days before the original convoy arrived, Mont- gomery' sent the American armor into bat- tle against Rommel. Along the dusty roads leading out of El Alamein they thundered and roared, weary soldiers of the Eighth Army rising from their foxholes to cheer as they lumbered past. In the six weeks of bitter desert fight- ing which followed, these tanks spearheaded the British attack. Their guns were the weapons that stopped the German armor. They were the decisive factor that turned Rommel's advance into a retreat to mark the beginning of the end for Hitler's Third Reich. The Seatrain Te.vas, against almost im- possible odds, in what was surely one of the dramatic trips of the war, had arrived in time. It was a moment in history. the end 5g • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 Let's Have More Schools Like This (Continued from page 27) The incident, however, made Paul lection. Even the school's magazine which Wamsley think. "1 reaHzed that if they reports these honors. The Broadcaster, is The could sell that stuff to a kindergarten child, imbued with the same will-to-win, having GEM STENCIL DUPLI- CATOR saves money . . . gets we could and should sell Americanism. placed first in its class nineteen times in the results quickly! Hundreds of Now we're doing just that, from kinder- national competitions conducted by the uses for every type of business and organization. We ship the garten through the eighth grade. And we Columbia University Scholastic Press Asso- GEM complete with all supplies Guide Board for accurate printi teach it in every subject." ciation. and dO'page Book of Ideas at t is chil- In most elementary schools history These many honors have given the special low price of only $8,50 often the only subject in which tiie child dren an esprit de corps that is like that of (a J15.00 value) learns much about this country. P.S. 51 does the student body of a university with a f/f££ rmi OffBit more. In addition it uses other subjects as winning football team. One of the major Use the GEM FREE at our expense! SEND NO a vehicle to give the child a broad under- problems of the teachers is to keep the kids MONEY. Write and complete GEM outfit will lie standing of the greatness of the United from coming to school when they are sick sent you postpaid. After ten days, send us only $8.50 or return the GEM. You must be satisfied! States. and ought to be in bed! WRITE TODAY. Go into a music class and in any group But probably even more important than BOND EQUIPMENT CO. Dept. 21 6633 Enright « St louit Mo. of songs there will be at least one of a their lessons in competition and enterprise 5, frankly patriotic nature, and >'ou may be is the way the children are taught to work sure that the others will make singers and together. From the stress that is laid on 7 JEWELS! listeners better appreciate some aspect of this, it is obvious that Paul Wamsley gives 3 YEAR SERVICE GUARANTEE American life. In English classes, whether teamwork top priority in his own thinking • Shock Resist • Radium Di'ol reading, writing or speech, stress is laid on on the subject of Americanism. • Sweep Sec. Hand • Gift Boxed • Chromed Cose • leather Band subjects that, while giving the child exer- I saw an excellent example of the way the lADIES- WATCH *7.9S pi„, flOc to« cises in English, also teach him something school teaches the American way of work- Aj described above — jmaller sii* about America. E\ en in art classes no op- ing in harmony to accomplish something. Monejf bach gjarantee! Oider tadair' Soiry, no CO D. portunity is overlooked, and I will hazard Several grades staged a pageant in the ELCO PRODUCTS a guess that the sciiool uses more red, wiiite auditorium to mark Lincoln's and Wash- Dept. A8, 166 W. Washington St. Chicago 2, Illinois and blue paint and crayon than any other ington's Birthdays. Every boy and girl in combination of colors. the classes represented took part. Some of Now all this might become tiresome to the children spoke only a few lines, but for the children if it were not for the manner a brief moment each ciiild was on stage Personal in which the teachers of 51 do their job. and in the spotlight, and the responsibilit>- Many educators hold that education pre- was on that child. If he muffed his lines To Women With pares for life, but Paul Wamsley has sold there was no prompting. He was strictly Nagging Backache his staff on a different concept. "Educa- on his own, and he knew his companions tion," he maintains, 'is life. " Applying this, were counting on his contribution. I might Nagging backache, loss of pep and energy, head- the teaching staff draws on everything at add tliat the quality of the performance aches and dizziness may be due to slowdown of kidney very hand to teach the boys and girls. would have done credit to children of high function. Doctors say good kidney function is important to good health. When some everyday con- The policeman on traffic duty at the school age. My personal feeling is that this dition, such as stress and strain, causes this im- folks suffer corner is an example of this. He does more can be credited to the way each child ac- portant function to slow down, many nagging backache— feel miserable. Minor bladder than see that the children get safely across cepted the personal responsibility. irritations due to cold or wrong diet may cause passages. the street. He is brought into the teaching This excellent system is used in otiier getting up nights or frequent Don't neglect your kidneys if these conditions orbit, to train the boys selected for the ways. For instance, everyone in the school bother you. Try Doan's Pills—a mild diuretic. Used Safety Patrol. All the children know him, takes an active part in making The Broad- successfully by millions for over 50 years. It's amaz- ing how many times Doan's give happy relief from and with this as a starting point the chil- caster the prize-winning magazine it is. Fol- these discomforts—help the 15 miles of kidney tubes dren are taught that the law, as personified lowing is an excerpt from an issue pub- and filters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills today! by the policeman, exists to protect the lished in December 1945. This particular individual. piece has been selected since it serves a Another kind of lesson is taught by dual purpose. It will give you some idea »37 " IS YOURS means of the school banking system. Not of what these very young Americans did just that thrift is a good thing, though tiiat to back up the fighting men of World FOR SELLING ONLY 50 of course is emphasized. But rather that it W^ar II, and it will show how an entire CHRISTAAAS CARDS is good to be industrious and earn one's class works together: BOXES To your friends and fellow-work- way, that being the American way, as op- School 51 in ^Vorld \Var II ers, 21 for $1 and 50 for $1.25 posed to the notion that "the world owes with naifle on. Other money ma!c- ers. Selling Plan and Samples on me a living." This same thought is reiter- All of us at School 51 tried to help approval. Costs nothing to try. ated in the school's shop class. The boys win the war. — Helen Mack. there learn of the dignicy of labor as they Wc did many different things for JEWEL CARD CO. St., Newark, J. make their boolcends. towel racks and lamp our country. — Do7?jW McRobb. 366 Plane Dept. 4, N. bases. There was a scrap drive in which There's anotlier lesson in Americanism our school gathered a great pile of Sell Your Way to^ ^. that the boys and girls of P.S. 51 absorb metal. — Doris Hoedt. BIG MONEY (fR(^.; from all their activities — that healthy com- We had more tons of scrap than any petition makes champions. Further on other elementary school in Buffalo. — BOOTS for Men! you'll read how these children outdistanced Donald AicDomiel. many others in the things they did to You should have seen the great pile p.irt nine-. Wnlv t...l,l^- help win World \Var II, that in such as selling was our playground! There was Consolidated Shoe System, Dept. S148 Wis. more than a million dollars worth of \\'ar a great big boiler brought from Grand Chippewa Falls, Bonds, a national record. More recently Island in the heap. — /oa/z Kramer. YOUNGSTEIt ilfJXX they've been showing the same aggressive Our school won a banner called The spirit in other undertakings. Last year, for Minute Man for selling so many Bonds instance, the school won a National \' alley and War Stamps. — Dorothy Cramer. Giveyouryoungster a TRACTALL for the joy-ride of a lifetime! Looks Forge Freedoms Foundation Americanism School 51 led all the schools of Buf- just like a m.in-size Tractor. The gift for boys, Award. This year the falo in the sales perfect fiirls, up to school made the of AVar Stamps and 12 years old. Ctiain Drive. Sold best record of all the Buffalo schools in Bonds. — Norma ]Valton. only direct from factory. Write for Literature, FREE trial offer. The American Legion's Tide of Toys col- In 1943 we had a special drive to INLAND MFG. CORP., AL-8 • 1 64 Elllcott St., Buffalo 3, N.Y. The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • raise money by stamp and bond sales Twenty-five years after graduation, an should understand that the educator's aims to buy three Airacobras. — Carol Stcii- alumnus gets a certificate a ipropriateK' are likely to be identical with their aims, man. printed on siher paper, re-affirming the and his problems are likeh' to be the same A contest was held to choose a name privileges of graduation. On the fiftieth as theirs. By being tactful and trying to for the planes. — Doiictld Lester. anni\ersar\' a gold certificate is tendered. understand the sciioolman's viewpoint. Kathleen McRobb of the fifth grade "Because of such things this school is Legionnaires can do much to create an ga\ c the winning name. It was Biiffiilo truly the center of the communit) ," says atmosphere faxorable to the teaching of Belle. Her brotlier, Donald is in our Air. \A'amsle\'. "CcrtainK- it is working true Americanism." room. — Earl Divorak. constantly for the community since we One of the educators problems, he Boys and girls in man>' rooms \\ rote have e\"en more adults attending night pointed out, is the scarcity of really fine letters to the boys in sen ice. W'c classes than our enrollment of children in material for teaching Americanism in the wanted to help cheer them. — Elaine the regular day classes. How e\ er, it is made grades. This, he explained, made it neces- Bralcy. obvious to us in man>- w ays that the people sary for his teaching staff to improvise W e also sent man>- prett\' \ alentines of this section appreciate the work of this much of the material tiie>' were using. to the boys. — Richard Filer. school, and gi\ e us e\ er>' possible support." "Wh>'," he asked, "aren't there a lot more The first Christmas tliat we were at The American Legion has more than an motion pictures about the heroes of Ameri- war our school sent bo.xcs to the boys can history — portra> ing our great admirals, and girls who were former pu|)ils of generals and statesmen? Holh w ood persists Scliool 51. — Milton Erdei. in presenting American history in terms of The children brought things to help cowboys doing their fighting in frontier fill these boxes — Frank Barr. saloons, and I dare say that more film foot- Many children brought old paint age has been wasted on Jesse James than brushes so their bristles could be used on all our Presidents. When it comes to to make good brushes. — Joan BIkk''-'- modern subjects, Holh w ood gives the im- Old victrola records were brought in pression that the outstanding Americans of so that they could be used to obtain recent years ha\ e been certain Tin Pan shellac from them. — Robert MacFee. Alley song w titers and x arious people in We were asked to bring old silk show business. In addition there has been stockings. Our scliool had many bun- undue emphasis on thugs such as Dillinger. dles collected. ~ Dorothy Kish. Is it any wonder that our ciiildren often W'c helped other countries also dur- grow up with a warped outlook on life?" ing the war. St)mc clothing was sent to Howe\ er, e\ en such influences as those people in Europe. — Elizabeth Karpic. are no match for w hat bo> s and girls learn Many fine boxes were packed with at P.S. 51. Follow ing is a sample, a compo- useful things which the children sitit)n from The Broadcaster, which might brought. These were sent to the Rus- well be studied b>' all Americans, grow n- sians. — Joseph Levesque. ups as w ell as children: All of us remember bringing bars of "The principles of Americanism are soap which were sent to people in simple and unlike other 'isms' arc fair Europe who had not had any soap for to the indi\ idual. Ever>' person in the a long time. — Mildred Shisler. United States, rich or poor, colored or We have had many paper drives. We "For heavens' sake, Gladys, not with white is an important indix idual who are still bringing in paper which is the Chippendale!" AMEItllAN l.EIMON MA<;AZINE has the right to speak up for himself. much needed. — Catherine Matesich. He has the right to li\e the type of We have been telling some of the life he wishes; he has the right to ways our school has been helping dur- academic interest in P.S. 51 if onl\- because choose the leaders he thinks deser\ e ing the war. — Joan Mann. Paul Wamsley has long been acti\ c in the office in the goxernment. All Ameri- — Foi RTu Grade, Roo.m 203. organization. In 1945 this valued member cans are equal before the law. All have of Tuscania Post 175, Buffalo, was aw arded equal rights, pri\ ileges, and respon- The foregoing is an eloquent testimonial the $1000 Lewis S. Rosenstiel prize for be- sibilities. to the Americanism taught at P.S. 51, but ing the Legionnaire performing the most "Americans ha\ e the right to as- there's more to it than that. The boys and outstanding community services during tiiat semble and discuss freeh' an>' social or girls of this school don't get themscK es year. This award was made at the National political problem w ithout intrusion by on any juvenile delinquency records. E\ en Convention at Omaha by James F. O'N'eil, the police. Americans can attend any petty pilferage, "light-fingcredncss," is no then National Americanism chairman. church they choose. They have protec- problem since the ciiildrcn are indoctri- To win this award, which Legionnaire tion against illegal search and seizure, nated w ith the idea that they must respect Wamsley characteristically turned o\ cr to or loss of their lives, their libert\' or the property of others. Among the alumni, local, state and national humanitarian proj- their propert\'. the record shows how the lessons taught ects, the school principal had contributed "No person in America is compelled at 51 pay off in citizenship. By careful an estimated 3,000 hours to various com- to work for any person or company checking, Paul Wamsley has found that munity service acti\ ities. iMuch of tiiis time against his will. E.\ er\ one has the right his alumni (a) have excellent \oting rec- was spent in \'arious Legion acti\ ities and to petition the government for griev- ords, (b) rarely if ever ask for jury de- in addition he made an impressive record ances. The people run the go\ ernment; ferment, and (c) rarely request draft de- in civil defense work. the go\crnment does not run the ferments. A Legionnaire as well as an educator, people. At election time every adult The last is evident from the record. This Paul Wamsley has some definite ideas as citizen has the dut\' of \ oting for the one school had 647 of its alumni in A\'orld to how members of the Legion can work candidates of his choice. War II, and there are twenty gold stars in greater harmony with those who teach "These are the basic principles of on its service flag. Already it has lost three our children. Americanism that are the priceless graduates in the Korea fighting. "Whate\ er infiltration of our schools has It heritage of e\ er>' American citizen." is relatively easy for Paul Wamsley been accomplished l)\- sub\ersivc elements to find out about such things as the doings can be countered effectively by Legion- Little wonder that the Buffalo Courier of his alumni because the great majoritj' naires working with educators," he de- Express, commenting editorialh- on Public settle down near the school and close clared. "But there is a wrong as well as a School 51 last year, came to this conclu- ties are maintained. If there is a death, a right way to do this. Legionnaires should sion: marriage, a birth or a baptism in the neigh- not look upon educators as unapproach- "Principal Wamsle\" and the facult\' of borhood, the principal is usualh' invited. able and sometimes antagonistic people w ho School 51 are to be commended for bring- And he makes it a point to be present. \or Ii\"e in a different world, but as their neigh- ing honor to their school and to their city." does the school neglect the amenities. bors whose job is to teach children. They THE END 58 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 Will We Have Gas Rationing? (Continued from page 19) Foot-long strips of sensational new G/o-Tex fabric that glow like SCOrCH- tions have shown that it is possible to ob- ethyl-lead rather than petroleum. LITE (R) when reflected in car head- tain 1,500 gallons of oil from every 50 tons What will be the situation if we are lights. A gay decoration by day. A life- saver at night. Easily attached to han- of raw materials. drawn into a full-scale war? dlebar grips or auto antenna. $1 .49 pf. Since 1945, the oil industry as a whole Here again the matter of definition is Order Now! has expanded its capacity for producing important. Just what is a full-scale war? natural oil more than 25 percent at a cost When asked about oil and gasoline ration- Life-saving, light-reflecting Glo 1 of more than $10 billion. They have had ing in the event of an all-out war, the Oil Vividly outlines your car at night. Easily in- to, in order to keep the available supply Industry's Information Committee put it stalled under chrome around rear window and doors 25 to 40 feet for average car. ahead of the ever-increasing demand. For this way, "There will be less oil for civilian 35f per foot. Send Check or Money Order to today, you and I, and our European neigh- use, of course, depending on how much Glo-Glove Co. ,6141 Fairway, Dallos, Texas bors, are using more American petroleum the military takes. In an all-out war we products than we did in the months before might not be able to supply everyone with AGENTS WANTED -WRITE TODAY \VW II — about 70 percent more, as a mat- everything he wants. But we will be able ter of fact. In 1940, less than four million to supply America with everything it barrels of U.S. petroleum were used every needs." DESIGNS FOR I Bruce K. Brown, Deputy When Admin- COMPLETELY NEW AND I istrator of the Petroleum Administration ORIGINAL WAR MEMORIALS AND HONOR ROLL TABLETS for Defense, \\'as asked the same sort of fRESEMEP ON CEOUEfT question, he replied, "I ha\ c stated publicly FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL a number of times my belief tliat the petro- leum industry has the courage, ingenuity, IRON CO. DEPT. L MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. patriotism, and enlightened self-interest to be able to supply the petroleum needed for essential purposes in either peace or war if it is given enough materials and manpower to do the job. AUTO SEAT COVERS "If the United States does not find itself tffi' .\ TBs^t^^^^^lOJll in an all-out war with Russia, and if the |*^|||||g|aMHHn 7lf >ifcrj>r.>n/;^ domestic petroleum industry is given the bI^^^^^^^^^—:::=o--i«f^''e(i,se/)r.>o/^ m fnONr j| materials it needs, I see no reason to fear aa II tt„rn SEAT^M cix ilian rationing of gasoline and fuel oil H^P? "MIRACLE PLASTIC'^MI in this country. in 5 LUSTROUS COLORS wi "To a greater extent than any other KED-BLUC'GlieCN- GRAY •MAROON ffSfflj Add in.stiint clat s to your car! Snap-on .ictii.n major industry, the petroleum liold 'em tight. Color fast. No fade! No shrink! industry has Wash with damp cloth. SEND NO MONEY! Order r make of car, sought in the past TODAY at our ski Give year and to expand and to stay 2-door. 4-door, or coupe, and color preference, ^^^H Pay postman pitIS postag:e, or send Cash, Check ^^^M well ahead of growing demands for its or IVIonev Order and We Pay ^^^M Postafje! Keep 10 days — return ^^^H products. So far it has done so, despite the for full refund of purchase price ^^^H if not fully satisfied. but ^^^B very large expansion of these demands HfRRY - Introductory offer onl.vl^^HH since the end of AA'orld War II, and par- ^ t ^ )/——)*-—-^"1'- YOUNG PRODUCTS CO. ticularly since the outbreak of hostilities in ^ V— DEPTMi.wm 1 1 i.ajnrnna.nnwv.'a.Mflim'-' Korea. The li\ es of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public are likely to be little affected by "You certainly got quick service on that shortages of petroleum in the immediate future, except in the circumstances to HAID TO GET, BUT^ AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE which I have already referred." WE HAVE THEM! Write for free Surprise Package, Surely, if the bombs begin to fall in filled with novelties, specialties I \\ holesale lots, no one can expect that there and selling helps. Gel sample J day. Last year, almost seven million barrels won't be sacrifices, including less gas for ] boxes of our best selling Xmasi cards on approval. J a day were consumed. We Americans alone the family car. That is war, and war means CHAS. C. SCHWER CO.. 1 5 D Qm St.Westfleld. Mass. this year will use as mucli oil as the entire that all supplies must be conserved for the world did ten years ago. possibly long pull. There is one thing, Let's consider the matter of gasoline. In though, that we can bank on. All Ameri- 1940, U.S. production was 617 million bar- can industry is ready today to meet all Itch... Itch... Itch rels to meet a domestic and foreign demand military needs and essential civilian needs of 615 million barrels — an average of ap- should we find ourselves involved tomor- I Was Nearly Crazy I discovered Dr. D. D. Dennis' amazingly proximately .32 percent. In 1950, although row in ^V^V III. — until fast relief — D. D. D. Prescription. World popular, production jumped to 1,024,448,000 barrels, As for the domestic oil industry, it today this pure, cooling, liquid medication speeds peace and comfort from cruel itching caused by eczema, the demand likewise skyrocketed to 1,018,- has a producing capacity of about 6': mil- athlete's foot, rashes, scalp irritation, chafing and other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. Trial bottle, 997,000 barrels — an average of a little more lion barrels of oil a day. At the request of 43c. First use soothes, checks raw. red itch or money back. Ask druggist for D. D. D, Prescription. than .5 percent. The demand, however, has the Petroleum Administration for Defense, been more than met. the industry's top men are now working Now comes the $64 question. Short of on plans to boost that total by another war, will there be gas and fuel rationing daily million barrels by 1953. This year in the U.S.? alone, plans call for drilling 44,000 new The answer to that poser depends mainly wells, 1,000 more than last year. on a matter of definition. For all intents By comparison, Russia, the experts esti- and purposes, we have been at war. Yet, mate, is no better prepared today to fuel so far, we have had no rationing. What's an all-out war than she was in WW II wiicn more, according to the best authorities in she fell far short of needed supplies and had pany the government and in the oil industry, to rely on "lend-lease" to eke out her mili- plete line qual- ity shoes foi men, women, there will be no civilian rationing if tary supplies. the children. C o ni - missions to $4.0i European and Far Eastern situations be- If wars are won on "oil, bullets, and per pair. PLUS Casli Bonus come no worse than they are now. True, beans," the figures seem to point up the per pair. PLUS Paid Vacation: Smash hit styles wit: majiic comfort heel-to-toe cushion -ue selllnc dynamite the octane rating of gasoline has been cut, fact that shape No experience or investment neecied. Actual shoe sample we up pretty well in the supplied without cost. Write TODAY for full Informatioi but that is a matter of conserving tetra- "oil" and FRKE tin paffe Fall Catalog. department. the end TANNERS SHOE CO., 854 Boston 10. Mass. The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • Teen-Aged Slaves To Dope Look for this (Continued from page 41) promptly sent the bundle of compositions the plant found in the W'est and South- to her superiors. And shortly afterwards, west known as "locow eed" although their the nation's largest city launched the first effects upon the mind and body are similar. anti-dope educational program on the Locoweed (gemis Astragahis and Oxythro- mhlem school level in history. The horror and pis Laiiiterri) is in the belladonna group moral debauchery of narcotics addiction from which powerful alkaloids may be is currently unfolding in elementary grades. isolated. An overdose of any of these prod- What is the truth about the barrage of ucts is capable of destroying life. headlines from coast to coast on dope ad- \\'hat does hashish do to a thrill-seeking diction's upsurge? Are they merely head- adolescent? Is it really the "gateway drug" lines? Sensationalism? to addiction? Few^ will dispute it. How can the growing bodies of legions This narcotic, housed in an innocent- of children withstand the lethal impact of looking cigaret and peddled by the mil- AMERICAN the most dangerous opium deri\'ativc? And lions at 50 cents each, intoxicates without if an organized, nation-wide campaign is modifying consciousness. No drug has a under wa\' to enslave our teen-agers, what's happened to America's moral fiber? Can a such movement be attributed to sabo- IT'S A LEGION FIGHT teurs? LEGION Four million Legionnaires and Auxiliares These questions arc currently vexing liave joined in the fight against the narcotic scores of enforcement and social agencies menace. Earlier this year Irving Geist, the in virtually every section of the United MAGAZINE New York philanthropist, called upon Past States. National Commander George N. Craig and RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL After more than a year's continuous Maiuice Steniber, Department Adjutant for probing of the dope addiction problem, I New York, and as a result of his representa- am satisfied that dope, as top American tions a narcotics crisis conference was held Legion officials aptly put it, "is a cancer- in New York City on 16, 17 and 18, ous growth gnawing at our budding man- June with Past National Commander F. power and destroying our moral fabric." James O'Neil presiding. Heroin and marijuana arc flowing into A special committee to coordinate The Guide to Courteous this country like streams of malignant lava. A American Legion's efforts has been named Enforcement agencies are practically im- by National Commander Erie Cocke, potent in stemming this contraband. And Jr., Service and Better Buying and consists of Past National Commander an iron curtain of official apathy is damning George N. Craig of Brazil, Indiana; Clar- a future generation of Americans to a hell for the Whole Family, on earth. ence E. Cross of Chicago; Leo Lanning, Director of Affairs, Buffalo; These conclusions are inescapable. Veterans and Guy Stone of Glenwood, Georgia. Let's analyze the illicit dope situation as From coast to coast, in the windows it is reflected in official statistics on fed- of thousands of stores and other re- eral and local levels, in newspaper dis- tail establishments, you'll find the patches (particularly addiction's incidence greater immediate effect upon the imagina- emblem of The American Legion rise) and in numerous pleas from adult ad- tion. The user seemingly develops increased dicts to save our youngsters. er. In the throes of delusional Magazine Retail Advisory Council. muscular pow We'll start with the smuggling of mari- violence, he ma>' attempt to destroy every- Shop where you see it, and you'll juana — the lowly "reefer" or "key to the thing in reach. be supporting a veteran; a Legion addicts' paradise" — and heroin, the terror Sensual visitations accompany these fan- Comrade. drug. What is marijuana? tasies. Time seems prolonged, space en- No matter what your needs, food, Marijuana is the Alexican name for C eaters known as the "Hashshashin." In the States, the drug is flowing across the Rio Legionnaire Retailers: Far East, where the plant's potency reaches Grande. A high official of the Federal Nar- its maximum strength, hashish is frequently cotics Bureau conceded to the writer: mixed with opium and taken in the "It's ph\sicall>- impossible for Mexico's If you have not yet joined the Retail Ad- form of a confection. visory Council — why not.^ Membership costs border patrol to police 900 miles of the nothing, and entitles you to the Council The hemp plant may be found growing Rio Grande where smugglers can actually emblem, the informative newsletter written as a roadside weed in nearl>- ever\' state wade across with marijuana packs on their especially for your business, and the benefits of the Union. It has been cultivated in backs. Our side of the border? We'd need of national promotioii. Get all the faas. window boxes and in vacant lots. Its an army corps to screen it!" Write today. strength as a narcotic, however, is in di- Heroin — the illegitimate chemical off- rect proportion to the climate in whicli spring of opium — is the deadliest of nar- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE it is raised. Marijuana, or hashish, thrives cotic poisons. Heroin addiction, the most Retail Advisory Council under a hot sun. despicable form of the drug habit, is also Marijuana should not be confused with the most common among criminals. Pour- 580 5th Ave., Nev/ York 19, N. Y. gQ • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 ing into the United States from clandestine under moldings of large liners, in tail- laboratories in France, Italy and the Near assemblies of trans-Atlantic planes, in oil "TWcwscce Folding East, this drug—obtained from the "sleep tanks on freighters. Every seaman is a sus- poppy" — can "hook" a teenager in two pect, every sea-borne vehicle a potential weeks! illicit drug carrier. Direct Prices To And in considering a\ailability of this Customs has a force of 200 agents per terror drug, it's well to emphasize that 500 eigiit hour shift to police New York har- American Legions tons of opium are now lolling on the Hong bor's 600 piers for all types of contraband. Clubs, Lodges Kong waterfront awaiting a w orld market It can't be done. Societies Hotels the Chinese communists. The Narcotics Bureau has 188 agents Service Clubs Know n as "H" or "horse" to thousands to halt the dope avalanche throughout the Schools, Churches of young addicts, heroin may be "snorted" nation. Members of this splendid depart- a mirror top or match-book- ment, working an average of 60 hours week- (sniffed from WRITE FOR covcr, leading directly to nose cancer), ly (without extra stipend), chase migratory Manufactured by CATALOG 225 "skin-popped" (injected under the skin) dope rings across the country in utter frus- THE IHovUOe. COMPANY or "mainlined" (intravenous injection into tration. This bureau needs a minimum of 69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX. IOWA tlic main forearm artery). 400 agents and triple its current $1,850,000 Youthful addicts, who rob hospitals or budget to do its job adequately. drug stores for both drugs and parapher- "It's like fighting a tidal wave with a hypodermic needles or medi- sponge," one realistic agent told the writer. nalia, prefer FactoryFacli lmperf» : wrinkles, hold press lonRer. dict's body develops a vicious tolerance for New York City, the recognized head- >k dressy ofter hours of hard my pockets. Tan. Blue, Ltght narcotics, the dosage must increase. He or quarters for at least five international dope Brtiwn, Dark Brown. Gray WAIST: 28 to 42. i n.Tmo. waist Size, color an4 she becomes a furtive, repulsive physical rings, is wallowing in heroin. In addition, SEND NO MONEY jabardino Of tropicals. Pay mall postage. Or send money, save and moral wreck who will lie, steal or com- dope filters from New York via boat, car ,ck Ouaranleo. mit a felony to obtain the drug. and plane to the nation's urban centers, like LINCOLN TAILORS, Dept. AM-7. Lincoln, Nebr. \\'ithout it, the unfortunate user under- rays from the sun. goes the unspeakable agony of "cold tur- Estimates on the number of New York key" withdrawal from its effects. Hardened addicts vary from 30,000 to 50,000, fully police say tlic spectacle of a teen-age addict a third of \v liom are believed to be adoles- the Oe^l with a Leader Earn BIG EXTRA M0NE1 fighting witlidrawal is the most heart- cents. Child-addicts are dying in me- // EARN EXTRA SS / time, fliG BONUS PLAN / in 'ull 0' SQitt rending sight mortal eye may witness. tropolis while pushers (peddlers) operate S50&M0RE i^-,]:rx.ToZ There's no way to estimate the amount from fixed posts in theatres, hotel lobbies, /OVER lUO«// IMAZINC pfolits w.th greatest ol case send postal card You take NO RISK of heroin and marijuana now choking the pool rooms, school corridors and cafeterias. \ ^PROFIT/ on approval You also American underworld market. Narcotics Peddlers have used babies in carriages as get FREE samples easy-to-sell personal cards, stationery, napkins It and customs officials compare their plight decoys to meet their "connections" and ig to try Write TODAY Dpt. AM-8,133DuaneSt..N.Y.13,N.Y. to the frustrated fisherman who came home feed their narcotics clientele. A federal PEN-'N-BRUSH, with a small catch. witness in a dope case was shot in an effort "It's not iiow much we can snag," one to silence him. A reformed addict-pusher official said bitterly, "it's how much we suspected of turning "canary" was perma- INVENTORS know got away." nently silenced. If you believe ttiat you have an Invention, you should find out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. F'cdcral narcotics agents last year seized The weapon was ingenious. It was dope! Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect Vour Invention," and an "Invention Record" form. No 46,000 ounces of marijuana and 3,500 ounces "They took this gu)' to an east side oliMgatlon. Tliey are yours for the asking. of heroin, morphine, etc. They arrested apartment," an addict told the w riter, "and McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON lte:;ls.terert Patent Attorneys 6,163 persons, the highest total in the gave him a shot of 'pure' (heroin). They 146-Z Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. Bureau's history. At the underworld level, let him die in agony. Look up the medical the value of the confiscated drugs is breath- examiner's records! You'll see that Joe was taking. just another dead junkie. Only, this was A kilo of heroin (1,000 grams or 33 murder by three members of a ring. Even ounces) may be purchased by a seaman in the cops didn't suspect it was homicide." Europe for approximately SI,000. The The records disclose that "Joe" was found sailor, who can secrete the package in the in a Bowery flophouse and that a lethal shoulder pad of his civilian jacket, doubles dose of heroin most assuredly would ha\ e Iiis initial investment by cutting the drug's been veiled under the official cause of 5626 L Telegraph Ave., Oakland 9, Calif. purity 50 percent. death: "Chronic morphine addiction." Each successive underworld trafficker Heroin is a morpiiine derivative. dilutes the drug and, in turn, doubles his But "Joe" wasn't alone in his drug-in- money. The heroin's degree of purity final- duced death throes. In 1950, New York ly reaches 5 percent at which time it pro- City deaths from dope addiction totaled vides 133,000 two-dollar capsules (two 58. . . . Just one less than from dreaded grains each; for America's teen-age addicts. polio. The 33-ounce purchase has enriched the Tireless New York narcotic squad detec- dope ring by approximately $265,000! tives under Lieutenant Bernard Boylan and This fabulous profit, in short, is the Detective Sergeant John Cottone have secret of America's treacherous betrayal by flushed 4,000 peddlers from their dope underworld overlords, and their greed has "routes" in the past 14 months. They've cut a swath of depravity acro.ss most of tracked migratory junk rings like grey- the civilized world. hounds but they admit they're barely keep- The dope scourge in our own country ing abreast of the tide. may be accurately gauged from the head- Fifty-seven New York social agencies lines. In New York — the nation's largest are trying desperately to formulate plans port of entry — incoming dope is hidden to curb the narcotics menace and State The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 * " Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein, to roll 3,000 cigarettes. A spokesman for The Legion's BOOK probing teen-age addiction, has urged high Chicago's Juvenile Protective Association school students to form vigilante commit- characterizes the situation there as "com- SERVICE tees to aid in the fight. pletely out of control." Chicago welfare Adolescent dope addicts are choking the groups conduct mass meetings and dis- city's courts, the entire police force (19,000 tribute thousands of posters warning that men) has been alerted to the problem and "dope must go." mass meetings of parents have been called Detroit's Federal Narcotics Bureau super- in protest. visor shocked a Grand Jury by estimating \\'hile New York is writhing under illicit that 2,000 Detroit youngsters (15 and up) dope's impact, rings feed destruction to are confirmed dope addicts. As for peddlers CRIME IN AMERICA other areas on meticulously-planned sched- who filter into his net, the official said: fill genera- By Senator Esfes Kefauver ules. Dope couriers long-distance orders "They're trying to raise a new by using clever codes during transmission. tion of addicts. Innocent young girls and A sensational book giving a full account of the And extent of the trans-continental dope boys are given the stuff for a thrill, then greatest crime hunt in American history. Thirty traffic may be glimpsed from addiction at cut rates. When they can't do without million dropped everything to hear only a few upheavals in Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, it, they're asked to pay $5 to $10 daily. of the revelations in this book v/hich lifts the lid off "protected" crime. Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, ^^'ashing- High school girls have turned to prostitu- Cloth, $3.00 paper, $1.00 ton, Newark, New Orleans, San Francisco tion for a single capsule of heroin." and Louisville. Smoldering resentment against whole- Since one addict induces an average sale enslavement of teen-agers has reached THE FRONT IS EVERYWHERE of five others to get on the "junk," the addic- a new peak in letters received by me from By Colonel W. R. Kintner tion spiral muslnrooms from urban areas to horrified citizens in various parts of the A realistic appraisal of the world communist small towns in many parts of the country. country. A Joplin, Mo., housewife, who movement and its pattern of conquest. The mili- A Maryland convict told a judge he had watched a group of l.'i-year-olds "act like tary nature of the Soviet conspiracy is set forth no trouble keeping up with his needed a wolf pack" at a dance, added: brilliantly by an American who has made a spe- dosage of heroin. It was peddled inside the "One moment they were howling with cial study of our enemy. $3.75 prison. A young New Jersey girl, whom glee. The next moment, they were crying another judge contemptuously termed "the and shaking. It's appalling what the young- THE CHINA STORY most vicious peddler in my experience," er set is doing, especially around the small By Freda Ufley went to jail for starting a 12-year-old girl towns. Of course there arc narcotics agents The betrayal of the Chiang Kai-shek govern- on heroin. near here (Kansas City), but it's hard to ment to the reds, with American help, is ex- In the East, desperate stupefied teen-age get action without positive proof. Yet, plained brilliantly by an ex-communist who addicts are rifling mail boxes for loot and I'm almost certain where the (dope) supply knows the Far East story through experience in San Leandro, Calif., across the bay from is here. going back over the years. $3.50 San Francisco, the whole town was block- Pleading for people to "wake up" to aded by federal agents to crush a Chicago the dope problem, a Caledonia, 111., school THE CASE Of COMRADE TULAYEV dope syndicate and seize its $1,000,000 cache girl will include this subject in her social By Victor Serge of heroin. problems class. The head of a Schaller, An unpremeditated murder of a communist party Reno, Nev., ofiicials arrested two-score Iowa, hospital-clinic offered to rehabilitate official is labeled as part of a terrorist plot by high school students who assertedly in- "as many teen-age addicts as my small in- the Russian government, and one by one inno- dulged in dope-induced sex orgies. At one stitution can handle." cent persons are implicated" and "confessions" of the parties, a teen-ager told police, a A Yonkers, N. Y., sister of a teen-ager are obtained. A book that reveals the whole girl handed her a loaded pistol and snarled: who has "fallen a victim to illicit drugs" devious fabric of communism. $3.00 "Have a good time. If a cop comes to asked: "How can I solve this problem? To that door, I'll blast him!" whom can I turn? The minister and the HOW TO GET IT FROM THE GOVERNMENT In Savannah, a maraca-shaking "jungle doctor don't know what to do. Do you?" By Stacy V. Jones dancer" was nabbed by police in a night And so the letters from irate citizens spot. In his suitcase was enough marijuana — Topeka, Des Moines, Princeton A factual book designed to help you utilize the come many services of your government. Concise in- formation on the who, where and how of get- ting almost anything. $1.50 NEW UNIT HISTORIES 84tli Infantry Di«. . . .$5.00 727tli Railway 8Slh Infontry Div. . . .SS.OO Operoting Batt $5.00 88th Infantry Div. . . .$5.00 Operation Sandstone (Joint lOtst Airljorne Div. . .$7.50 Task Force Seven) ..$3.50 Write us for complete free list of available unit histories of both World War I and II I i Order NOW: Cash or C. O. D. I I AMERICAN I LEGION BOOK SERVICE I 734 I5th St., N. W., I Washington 5, D. C. I I Gentlemen: I Please send me the books I indicated. | I enclose $ Send C.O.D. I | I I Name (please print) I I Street "John — a man came along and gave me some gas — I'm going home to mother — I won't live with a man that curses like you do — Hazel. City Zone State I AU9/51 AMEKH'AN LEGION MAr..\ZINE g2 • The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 " national agreements may be reached to period. But when I got caught, I got down (N. J.), Terryx ilk (Conn.), etc. The mail- bag also includes numerous letters from strangle contraband narcotics at their on my knees and thanked God. addicts who wish to pass along their own source, this country must extricate itself "I saw my wife and kids fading away, frightful experiences to the young thrill- from the shambles of widespread addiction there was nothing I could do because I had seekers who stand at the brink of disaster. per se. Dope has already left its mark upon to have dope. Then I realized I could have waiting Just w hat is being done to curb the dope untold thousands. killed someone and now might be evil? Practicalh' nothing. Second, few realists believe that any for the electric chair. Adolescent narcotics addicts are society's UN edict on control of narcotics will have "Please tell America's kids that dope will forgotten children. There isn't an adequate the slightest effect on communist China or kill them. I'm o\er the fence now and I medical refuge available in the United other popp>'-raising red satellites. In fact, have a lot of time ahead of me — six years. States for the child-addict who wishes sin- red armies in Korea have been deliberately But I still have my family's love and a cerely to redeem his or her life. While stupefied to increase their ferocity and new way of life. Take a group of high Irving Geist, New York philanthropist, is servility. The stupefying agent was dope. school or college kids to some prison. They a liv at . . . and striving to create such a haven, > ouths in And what about addiction being prime need a ing example to look that city up to 18 are grudgingly admitted weapon for saboteurs? think about. to two hospitals and quartered w ith the One federal attorney charged in open "1 belie\e that the communists have mentally-ill. court that draft rejections due to nar- something to do \\ ith so much drugs be- . . . I be If the New York child is committed cotics addiction are very high. Authori- ing around and know there must through a magistrate, he goes to a peniten- ties in Toledo who smashed a dope ring plenty of young people today who are tiary and mingles with criminals. Nor does of nine men and two women stated that starting on the road to ruin. I broke the the Federal Government provide an answer the principal inducement of the gang to law and must pay. Tell the kids . . . please to the problem. youngsters was the promise that if they tell them ... to save themselves and their "Narco," the nation's lone federal hos- tried heroin, they would never be called families from ruin. Tell their parents that pital for addicts at Lexington, Ky., is to serve in the Armed Forces. dope addiction is America's shame. into "It's I . . . jammed beyond its maximum capacit)' and Narcotics agents were "inducted" too late to say see the light maintains a long waiting period for recidi- the Army and planted at Ft. Eustis, Va.., to when the light is out. vicious ring serving sol- it said that "duty \ i:ts. Adolescent admissions to this institu- break up a dope Wasn't Goethe who tion have jumped 600 percent since 1948. diers. They arrested 70 persons and con- is the demand of the hour"? Children from 14 up enter Lexington for fiscated considerable high-grade heroin and The duty to save America's children . . . medical succor. They are, because of marijuana. One of the soldiers arrested is America's. And this is the hour, the end limited facilities, thrown in with perverts was described as the son of the "king" of and criminals! \\'ashington's narcotics peddlers. VETEB/M\'H HL'HOOL AI\D ^ et, the A former addict from Connecticut in- hospital staff xvas curtailed at rOlLEHE DIRECTORY the height of the worst addiction scourge formed me that addiction is being used as in the nation's history. a subterfuge to evade the draft. This man, Since heroin must come from abroad, who has been in numerous jails and clinics, why can't the source of supply be smoth- said scores of young men plant heroin on ered at the opium poppy-field level? their person, invite arrest and commitment A\'hat"s happened to the United Nations' to the Lexington Hospital. PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE BIG, ILLUSTRATED CATALOG NOW! No obligation. Graduates report making Permanent Central Opium Board and the "They get off a bus or train in Lexing- up to $1000 monthly. Start and run your own business Men, women of all ages, learn easily. Course covers ton," the ex-addict said, "have a doctor quickly. UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs? Sales, Property Management, Appraising, Loans, Mortgages, related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in our classrooms give a shot enter the hospital as hundreds of Following the Narcotics Limitation Con- them and in leading cities. Diploma awarded. Nationally known vention of 1931, signatory nations agreed a junkie. They're committed for a 'cure' WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est.1937) 15 E. Pershing Road Dept. AL Kansas City, Mo. that internal control and carefully-guarded and out of the draft!" manufacture of narcotic drugs for medical This, in summation, is the ghastly dope purposes were the only media to halt di- addiction picture now facing the country, version of drugs that had flourished since Erie Cocke, Jr., National Commander of the 19th century. The American Legion, declares: Start high Limited manufacture and stringent inter- "Organized traffic in narcotics which eats at defense potential is national controls were effective until the our a weapon at »3,450 late 'tO's. They crumbled with the ad\ ent of saboteurs and we shall fight it through- out our 17,500 posts." of ^^'orld War II and were I'ent asunder A YEAR! Legion's in the mid-'40's. Dr. Leon Steinig, UN Commander Cocke said the .Mfii. Women. Piepare NOW for next e.xaminations. Vet- get preference. Write immediately for FREE 32- under the erans Narcotics Division Director, candidly ad- Special Narcotics Committee I'AGE JiOOK witli list of positions and full particulars chairmanship of Past National Commander telling how to qualify for tliem. (Not Government Spon- mits that the current is situation worse .-.ured. I FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Dept. X-62, Rochester 4, N. Y. than in any period in the past 150 years. George N. Craig, will explore every as- pect of the addiction and make Addiction has swept around the world. menace LEARN specific to fight it. Other "Drug- addictian," he said, "is finding recommendations reinforcement in the moral, psj chological members of the committee are Leo Lanning MEAT CUTTING^ (N. Y.), Clarence Cross (Chicago) and and economic distress of the post-war through actual practice. Profit- l^cr'od." Guy Stone (Ga.), able Meat Cutting, Meat Mer- chandi.sing and Self Service Of all the mail on the dope problem I 1 he UN Narcotics Commission has Meats taught easily, quickly in received, a letter a convict in a "* large cutting and big agreed, it was learned, to destroy all illegal have from rooms the retail meat department in just eight weeks. opium known to exist. (Italy has a supply Massachusetts prison registers most "forgotten LEARN BY DOING AT TOLEDO sufficient to last 10 years). The Commission poignant plea for America's given under actual meat market children." He wrote; Training will also screen ; !1 nations' legitimate re- conditions. For beginners or men with ex- quests for narcotic drugs through the Per- "I'm writing this letter in the interest of perience. Thousands of successful graduates. manent Control Opium Board in an effort human salvation for the young people of COMPLETE TRAINING IN 8 WEEKS thoroughly and to curtail the slightest diversion into clan- America. I can speak of the terrible road All related subjects taught completely. Diploma given upon graduation. of destine channels. ahead for those who use the stuff. Out Job help. Get a money-making store of your Assured future. PEOPLE MUST EAT. The Commission began its marathon ses- 10 of my friends (on dope), two died from own. School in operation for over 25 years. si(jns witli representatives of 71 nations in an overdose and the rest are doing time APPROVED FOR Gl TRAINING April. Its aim: Adopt and apply strict in- for some crime, including myself. Advise if veteran of World War II. Pay After ternational treaties to control narcotics dis- "For 22 years I led a good life. I mar- Graduation Plan available for non-veterans. today for FKEE 52 page illustrated cata- tribution and fight addiction on a global ried and had two children. Then, I began Send log. No obligation. No salesman will call. scale "as an imperative necessity." using dope. Drugs make a man a Doctor There are t\\ o facets to consider in hop- Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. For one year I rob- NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING ing for relief through the United Nations' bed people with a loaded gun. I can't re- Dept. A-16 Toledo 4, Ohio war ( n illicit dope. First, whatever inter- member half the things I did during that The American Legion Magazine • August, 1951 • g3 One particular evening, as we clatterea across the prairies of the Midwest, far to the north of his beloved Texas, he had an inspiration. "They don't send troop trains through my state if they can possibh' help it, ' he informed us, then paused significant- ly. Of course someone soon rose to the bait and w anted to know why. "\^'ell, you see," he informed us innocently, "Texas is such a wonderful place that Uncle Sam is afraid all the boys will try to jump off and stay there." "You know, Tex," a boy from Utah re- plied guilelessly, "I think you've got some- thing there. I w as through your jackrabbit pasture one time before the war — and it The postman always rings for you sure did look like the jumpin'-off place if I When letters lack a stamp or two, had not come, you would not be iiarmcd?" e\eT saw one." — Dave Flynn But he has never offered any "No," answered the Quaker. Rebate on mail that has too many. "But if your time had come, then no — Ivan J. Collins matter what you did, it would do no good?" BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEP "That is right." \Micn Brown called at the home of "Then w h>' do you carr>' >'our gun to Keene, a business associate, he was met in the meeting?" the hall by a \ cr>' homeh' w oman. She Gra\ el\' the Quaker replied, "On my took his hat and motioned him toward the w'ay to or from the meeting I might see lixing room where he was greeted by an Indian whose time had come." Keene himself. — Anthony A'Iartino "Say," said Brown, "was tliat > oiir wife or the maid?" BAD DEAL "Oil, come now," replied Keene, "would ' It takes jacks or better to ofieii most olh'c I hire a maid that homel> ? and pickle jars. — Mary Alkus — F. G. Kernan THE END OF THE LINE ON THE DOT During \A'orld W ar II, while on one of I like a tie that's polka-dottcd; the troop trains that shuttled men in uni- It doesn't show as iniich when spotted. form back and forth across the country, I — RicHAKi) Armour happened to be in the same coach with a very enthusiastic young Texan. Texans were like FATALIST "You knew what these meals seemed to be in every outfit, and all of and you brought me into the world? A Quaker pioneer, walking from his them had lots of pride in their home state, clearing to the meeting house, had his but this individual far outshone all the EXPLANATION trusty flintlock read)'. A nonbelie\ er ac- others I had seen. Almost constantly he costed him, sa>'ing, "Brother, is it not your sang the praises of the Lone Star State in a It was late at night on the speeding train " belief that w hat is destined to be, will ber good-natured, bantering sort of v\ay. The when a man rang the buzzer in his berth "Yes." terrific ribbing he took from the rest of us and soon che porter appeared. "Then, if all the Indians in the pro\ ince seemed only to stimulate his imagination "I want a corkscrew," the man said. attacked the meeting house and your time and spur him on to more fantastic bragging. "I'm sorry, sir," replied the porter, "but the train is now passing through Kansas and you can t do any drinking. It's against the law." "It's not for that," was the easy reply. "I just want to dig out a pillow that's sort of worked its way into m>- ear." — Dan Bennett MODERN VERSION Early to bed And early to rise, And your girl steps out With other guys. — Francis Gerard SICK CALL Two little boys were overheard by a nurse in a children's ward discussing their hospital experiences. Said one: "Are \ ou medical or surgical?" The other shook his head. "I don't know what you mean," he said. The first little bo>- looked scornfully at his friend. He had been a patient in the ward for many weeks. "Were you sick when >'ou came," he persisted, "or did they make you sick after you came?" — Dave Castle 04 • "^^^ American Legion Magazine • August. 1951 Year 'Round and Convention Needs L966—Ritepoint— Bright pol- L962 — Zippo — Famous windproof for every Legionnaire ished chrome mounting. 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