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P. S. While you're at the Minneapolis Auditorium, be sure to stop in at the Texaco booth. Trained Texaco Travel Counselors will supply you with maps and routings and latest road information for your motor trip home. YOU COULD BE ^ THE AMERICAN LEGION FOUR DECADES YOUR OWN BOSS! 1919-1959 OF DEDICATED SERVICE Run an Automotive Wholesale Vol. 67, No. 2; Auc. 1959 Distributing Company of Your Own THE AMERICAN If you were a Bowes distributor you would be a successful small businessman enjoying the profits of your own hard work. You would LEGION have a better home, a better car and MAGAZINE could afford to send the kids to college. Contents for August 1959 What's more you would, as your own boss of such a company, get the kind of satisfaction that you LEGIONNAIRES' MEDALS OF HONOR couldn't find working for somebody YOU PROBABLY HAVE ONE OR MORE OF THESE BADGES. else. You'd be selling to service sta- tion operators and garage owners — BATAAN DEATH MARCH by Francis Eldon Bell 12 A Gl WHO MADE THE MARCH TELLS WHAT IT WAS LIKE. fellows much like yourself, who al- ways wanted to run a small business ZACHERLEY-THE MONSTERS' BEST FRIEND by William Lynch Vallee 14 of their own too. You would be ABOUT A MAN WHO HAS MADE A CAREER OUT OF KIDDING HORROR FILMS. handling a nationally advertised line of automotive products which WE MUST LEARN TO FIGHT ... A NEW KIND OF WAR your customers must have to run by Preston J. Moore 16 their business. THE NATIONAL COMMANDER DISCUSSES A CONFLICT NOW TAKING PLACE. For people like you who have seriously thought about running HOW TO GET TO THE TWIN CITIES 18 their own business, the Bowes TRANSPORTATION FACTS FOR CONVENTION-BOUND LEGIONNAIRES. "Seal Fast" Corporation has pre- A MAN'S PLACE IS IN THE KITCHEN by Jack Denton Scott 20 pared a booklet, "So You Want To WOMEN ARE ALL RIGHT AS COOKS, BUT IT TAKES A MAN TO BE A CHEF. Be Your Own Boss!" In it a num- THE AMERICAN LEGION AND . . . THE DEBT THAT CANT BE PAID ber of different small businesses by Robert B. Pitkin 22 you might be interested in are de- VETERANS BENEFITS REPRESENT A SMALL DOWN PAYMENT. scribed and compared as to work, NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 27 investment and possible profits. This booklet also tells why Bowes is now offering a few men the Features chance to become one of their SOUND OFF 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB. .24 PRO & CON 30 distributors. EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 AMERICAN LEGION NEWSLETTER 25

If you're not afraid of hard work PERSONAL AFFAIRS. 8 SHOPPER 52 MOVIE REVIEW . . . . 32 and can make an investment of ABOUT BOOKS 39 PARTING SHOTS 56 about $8,500 in truck and stock, you may get a chance to become one POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. Americon of these distributors with a The American Legion Mogazine is published monthly ol 1100 West Broodwoy, Louisville, Ky., by The Legion. Copyright 1959 by The American Legion. Second-class postoge poid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single "protected" territory. copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Nonmember subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Deporlmenf of The American Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. If Bowes picks you, you will be thoroughly CHANCE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 10S5, Indianapolis 6, Ind., using Post Office trained until you are Form 3578. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses and current membership card well on your way to a substantial number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. and secure income. For complete information on how The American Legion The American legion Magazine flAidwestern you can go into business for your- Executive and Editorial & Advertising Offices Advertising Sales Office Wo(ker Drive self as a Bowes distributor and your Administrative Offices 720 fifth Avenue 35 EosI Indianapolis 6, Indiuno New York 19, New York Chirago ), Illinois free copy of our booklet, "So You Want To Be Your Own Boss!" send Preston J. Moore, Notional Commonder, The American Legion, Indianapolis 6, Ind. your request to: Mr. Charles E. The American Legion Publicoftons Commission: John E. Drinkord, Cullmon, Alo., Roymond Fields, Mo. Bowes, President, Donald R. Wilson, Clorksburg, W. Vc. (Choirman); Gu>mon, Okia,; Dave H. Fieisclier, Si, Louis, the Bowes "Seal L. Meyer Don W. Emmell, Ookdale, Colil., Earl C. Hitchcock, Howard Lyon, New Caslle, Po ; Eorl Fast" Corporation, 5902 E. 34th Glens Foils, N. Y., and Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss. Alliance, Nebr.; Herschiel L. Hunt, El Campo, Tex, R. logon, (Vice Chairmen); long Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.; George D. Levy, Sumter, S. C : Dr. Chorles Street, Dept. 768, Indianapolis III Booth, Keokuk, lov^o; Harold A. Sliindler, Newborgh, Ind. 18, Norman J. Biebel, Belleville, ; Charles E. Brislol, J. T. Whiflock, Indiana. Huntington, W. Va.; Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge, Benjamin B. Truskoski, Conn ; Lebanon, Ky.; McSweeney, New York N. Y La.; E. J. Cooper, Groceville. Fla ; Clovis Copelond, Edward Bowes Distributors throughout Little Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Dogue, Downinglown, Pa.; (Consultant). the country are part of a multi- PubHsher. Jomes F. 0"Neil million dollar operation. They rep- Am. lo Puhliiher Art Editor A drertutug Manager West Coast Ady. Rep. resent a firm which in 40 years has Frank Lisiecki Al Morshalt WilliomM. DeVilalis Dillenbeck-Galavan, Inc. ;65 South Alexandria Ave. .1 .ii.r.jr.- r.diiots Midwestern Ady. AJgr. grown to be one of the largest of Editor Los Angeles 4, Calif. Edward W. Atkinson Charles H. Smith Joseph C. Keeley Soulheaitcni Ady. Rep. its kind, with plants in London, Williom J. Luddy Detroit Adv. Office David P. Rondell England; Hamilton, Ontario; Riv- Mjnrffirn^ Editor Editorial Assistant 151 West Jefferson Ave. 22 30 North 57th Way Hollywood, Fla. erside, California, and Indianapolis. Robert B. Pitkin Eli L. Kerlns Detroit 26, Mich. West Its credit rating is the highest Circulation Manager, Dean B. Nelson, Indianapolis, Ind. Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted lor consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, (AAA-1) available. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. !

MEDICAL EXPERTS now hold... Exercise Helps Stave Off The Aging Process Whether you are thirty, move heavy accumulations of carbon dioxide through daily exercise can you hope to keep fifty or Hearing sixty-five, from the blood stream is materially increased some or all of the extra calories you consume during exercise. The ability of the breathing from turning into more body fat. you'll never regret being muscles to respond quickly and effectively It ups your vitality! when the body calls for extra oxygen is one fit, trim, active and alive! of the most important factors contributing to The more vigorously you exercise, the more total fitness. vitality you will have, and the more energy you can spare when you put extra effort into It's good for your nerves! your work, hobby, or sport. Energy can be It's good for your heart! Your sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell compared to nothing more than unleashed Medical specialists are agreed that the and feel, and your emotions, memory, reflexes vitality stored in muscles during exercise. normal heart becomes more efficient in pump- and reasoning power all stem from your nerve It's good for your ing blood when repeatedly required to do so cells. The beneficial effects of exercise on the stomach! by exercise. Prolonged inactivity, on the nerve cells and the psyche are acknowledged The processes of digestion and elimination other hand, is marked by a decline in coronary by medical authorities. Exercise helps relieve respond as effectively to exercise as do other efficiency. A heart trained by exercise to with- nervous stress and strain. It helps to counter- normal parts of the body. The handling of stand loads is not burdened when you want to act nervous fatigue. Ability to think more food by stomach and intestinal muscles be- change a tire, mow the lawn, shovel snow, clearly or to make dynamic decisions often comes more efficient as these muscles are dance the polka, run for your bus, or lend a depend on a relaxed nervous system. prodded into greater activity by exercise. Strong hand around the house, office or shop. It's good for your muscles! It stimulates your glands! It's good for your arteries and veins! Exercise develops your ability to lift, bend, The normal endocrine system, that vast Medical specialists are also agreed that the twist, heave and haul with ease and comfort. chemical manufacturing and storage system normal circulatory system becomes more effi- It promotes greater body strength, agility, of the body upon which all cell life depends, cient in iTioving blood to and from all active speed, endurance, balance and flexibility. It is another beneficiary of exercise. Here are regions of the body when repeatedly required helps to keep the figure youthful, slender and produced lummines—those important chemi- to do so by exercise; and that prolonged inac- attractive. cal messengers that regulate so many vital tivity is marked by a decline in circulatory body functions: enzymes, so important to the It helps efficiency. control weight! chemistry of the body; bile, so important to If you cannot curb your appetite or your the digestive system; and many, many other It's good for your lungs! choice of highly fattening foods, then you vital endocrines. When the body is engaged Capacity of the breathing apparatus to naturally will gain weight. You should add in exercise, every gland is stimulated to do handle large quantities of oxygen and to re- daily exercise to your mode of living. For only more of Nature's work.

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• Gas-operated Sir: Being an a\ id do-it-yourselfer, I read with great interest Bob • Light recoil and Ray's " "How To . . . article in the June

• Perfect balance issue. I made the breadboard, so vivid- ly described in the article; and my wife Now shooters can have a light- CULTURAL EXCHANGE assures me that she will use it just as ning-fast, gas-operated auto- soon as she finds some unsliced bread. Sir: I feel that The American Legion loader of Remington quality at Am seriously thinking of starting on Magazine and its readers should be a popular price. ..only $109.95*. the butt can as soon as my wife opens reminded that numerous war veterans The new Featherweight Reming- the right-sized can. Am very interested and other patriotic Americans employ- ton Model 878 "Automaster" in the book that Bob and Ra\^ are going ed in the Hollywood film industry are to publish gives you the same super-depend- on 500 Useful and Attractive fully in accord with the Legion's stand Items Von Can Make With Cans. ahility, the same fast pointing Old regarding our "cultural exchange" pact Please find check for $12.50 to cover and slick operating features as with the Soviet Union. Aly personal same. On second thought, I am using guns costing more. It has much view, the outset of State Depart- from an alias on the check, as authorities (^uick-Change Barrels, light re- has ment negotiations \\ith Russia, frown on my "do-it-yourself" checks. coil, perfect balance, weighs been that the Soviet is bound to have Fred Aysse 7 in about lbs. In every way a its sleeve in such ap- red ace up any Fayetteville, N. C. every feature, from the finely parently innocent deal. This stand has finished American walnut stock been taken also by the motion picture WE PAY to the convenient cross-bolt trade papers, which recently have safety, the Model 878 is a shot- pointed out that our acceptance of Sir: In "Personal Affairs" in the June gun you'll want to own. At your Russian films has in effect opened the issue it was stated that housing ac- dealer's now. door to large-scale South American counts for only 13 percent of the aver- ini lort of red screen fare. In other age family budget. i\ly rent has in- words, we played right into Russian creased 300 percent in 5 years. Has hands. If we so naively place a stamp anyone's income increased that much, of approval on potential Soviet propa- in the same length of time.' They have not e\ en L' rida products, who can expect our pretended to justify such an Western neighbors and allies not to increase; they simply charge it, and we

follow suit? This is not to question must pay it. motixcs of moviemakers here, whose ^V. F. Smith films have been selected for showing Silver Spring, Md. QUICK-CHANGE BARRELS — in Russia. A few of them may believe EASY TAKE-DOWN. Model 878 that exchange of films can have a PESSIMISTIC? barrels are interchangeable beneficial effect in building greater without tools for desired Sir: Why do the editors of your understanding between peoples on choke and barrel length . . . magazine, along with a large minority Just unscrew magazine cap both sides of the Iron Curtain. 1 he <;f American citizens, continue to resist and lift off the barrel. Trigger niaior't>-, however, would never have assembly comes out as a unit or fail to accept what seems like the initiated such an "exchange." The with the pins. removal of 2 inevitable? I am speaking of the com- State Department "idealists," to my munist menace and the impending col- mind unfortunately, took the initiative lapse of the United States. To whom — even going so far as to invite U. S. MODEL 878 does the blame for this belong? It lies film exhibitors to ^Vashington to be at the doorstep of every citizen. Col- AUTOMASTER' "sold" on the idea of showing Soviet lectively we are selfish, blind, soft, 12 GAUGE pictures out of pure cooperati\"e good stupid, and bungling. Labor is selfish in will! And much as it saddens me to that it is continually after wage in- $ 95' turn my back on the true artistry of creases in the face of inflation. Union groups such as the Aloiseyev dancers, 109 members allow themselves to be led by- crr,c<- l to si,h„; I must agree with Mr. Joe Hughes, a hoods, crooks, bosses schooled in Soviet fellow Angeleno, who wrote you re- "Aulomjstef " IS a l.aOeiiiark of Remington Arms Company, Inc. Russia, politicians, etc. cently on the subiect. Through no crooked The farmer (I myself) selfishly fault of the dancers, as individual art- am one \ (>tes constantly for programs that cur- ists, every red cent gained from U. S. RgmittgtQii tail his freedom in return for some sort performances is ultimately bound to of the are be invested in weapons which one day dole from Government. We may be directed either against our ripe for picking by any politicians cities or our minds! promising us sc)mething. What busi- Reminclon Arms Company, Inc., Bridpcport 2, Charles Schnee nessman or industrialist will not go all Conn. In Canada: Remington Arms of Canada Lim- Hollywood, Calif. (Continued on page 32) ited, 36 Queen Elizabeth Blvd., Toronto, Ont. • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST (

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THE CIGAR THAT 5 for 25 Product of - minor skirmishes between good white men (lawmen and ranchers) and bad guys (gunslingers and rustlers), but the important historical ARE OFTEN asked why it is events involved Indians and w hite settlers. WE tiiat certain large advertisers are not Recognizing tiiis, a poet who signed him- represented in this magazine. Readers who self Jolin Lukkus once wrote a bit are puzzled b>' this point out that giant of verse. AA'e'd like to present it herewith corporations such as General Motors, to because, somehow, it brings to mind such name just one, spend many millions of things as coexistence with the Russians, dollars in other media but they pointedly summit meetings, Geneva conferences, ignore The American Legion Magazine. and certain U.N. sessions: Frankly, we don't know the answer. PERIODIC O, bury the hatchet, irascible Red, Officials of those concerns tell us they

For peace is a blessing, the ^Vhite think we have a good magazine, and cer- INVESTMENT tainly they are not backw ard about asking Man said. us to publish publicity material promoting The Savage concurred, and that iL-eapon PLANS their products. But w hen it comes to ad- interred, To acquire shares of vertising, the mone)- is always allocated United Accumulative Fund With imposing rites, in the White for television spectaculars, multiple spreads Alan's head. in Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post, etc. offer you investment units in And, anyway, they tell us, "^Ve do not multiples of with in- $2,500 ad\ crtise in 'fraternal' publications."

vestments as low as . . . $125 \\'hcn ()u're up against a company ART WITH A TINT > Initially and |25 Periodically. policy, a discriminatory policy, the going You invest in United Accum- YEARS AGO we published an becomes pretty rough. But someday, we FOUR trust. Legionnaires will able to find ulative Fund Shares, a diver- article entitled "Art for \\'hosc be just about all the blue-chip advertisers sified, managed mutual fund Sake?" which discussed some of the trash represented in these pags. Meanwhile, to with investments in over 100 that is vended as "modern art" to a gul- prove a point we'd like very much to American corporations. lible public. The article also discussed the make, wherever possible patronize adver- way in which communists and fellow- tisers are willing to support the or- travelers had moved into this lucrative who ganization which yoii are a part. And field. of let them know why you are doing so. If Waddell & Among the practitioners of the t>'pe of you want to go a step further, there's no art mentioned in the article is one Anton you shouldn't w rite to adver- Refregier. This fellow, who has compiled reason why Reed, Inc. tisers who are not represented in this a lengthy record of communist front magazine, pointing out that you, at least, affiliations, seems to have a tremendous Principal Underwriters approve of "fraternal publications" even appeal to people who buy art for the if they not. Go\'ernmcnt. For instance, he got $26,000 do For Prospectus and De- for painting a propaganda poster for the scriptive Literature, with- Rincon Annex of tiie San Francisco Post out obligation, return this Office. This mural depicts the downtrod- PASSING SCENE? advertisement. den American proletariat and crooked bosses in a way that would do credit to rp HE CIRCUS big top may be on the the Kremlin wall, though it is singularly I w ay out as progress inundates many Waddell & Reed. Inc. out of place in an official building of the enjoNable aspects of American life, but United States Government. But, despite the Clyde Beatty and Cole Brotliers Com-

20 West 9th Street 40 Wall Street outcries from indignant citizens and bined Circus is still going strong. Earlier

Kansas City 5, Mo. New York 5, N. Y. Legion groups, the powcrs-that-bc refuse this \ ear it played a lengthy engagement to remove it. at famed Palisades Amusement Park, in Name Refregier is also scheduled to get $7,.')00 New Jersey, giving us an opportunity to out of New York City's taxpayers. This dispatch photographer Donato Leo across

Address. w ill be his fee for decorating a wall in the Hudson to snap this bit of Americana. Public Sciiool 146, in the Bronx. In view From his reports of attendance, the big of the city's financial crisis, particularly top probably has many years of life left

"OFFICES COAST TO COAST" with regard to its schools, there were in it. ^^'e hope so. g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 American Legion sponsored Sea Scouts at Perry Victory Monument. Put-In-Bay, Ohio

Lake Erie-where history was written on an old envelope...

On September 10, 1813, fiery, hard-driving Oliver Perry sailed out of Put-In-Bay on Lake Erie and into the pages of history. SINCLAIR SALUTES LEGION In a bloody three-hour engagement with the British fleet the 28-year-old THE AMERICAN Commodore won a victory that set a young nation on fire and quenched forever With nearly 3 million members, the an old nation's dream of conquest in the New World. Legion has long been a zealous guardian of America's heritage. In And then this the man who hated to write, took an old envelope and wrote this its 40th anniversary year the words that have a hallowed place in the story of America: IVe have met Legion continues to be a vital force the enemy and they are ours. in the making of our country's his- tory, dedicated to the perpetuation When you vacation in the historic Ohio countryside, with its Indian mounds of freedom and justice and the pres- and natural caves, it'll do your legs good to climb the 352 foot monument ervation of peace among nations. built to honor Perry. And it'll do your heart good to read the inscription dedicating it — not to war, or victory, or conquest — but to international peace.

From it, you can see part of a 3,800 mile border that has been at peace since Perry's time. Perhaps this is Perry's true glory — a shining example to the world that through jriendship and understanding, peace between nations can be more than a dream. * * * Sinclair FREE TOUR INFORMATION If you would like to visit Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, or drive anywhere in the U.S.A., let us help plan your trip. Write: Tour Bureau, Sinclair Oil Building, 600 Fifth Avenue. New York 20, N. Y- A Oreat Name in Oil also ask for our colorful National Parks map. ANOTHER IN SINCLAIR'S AMERICAN CONSERVATION SERIES OrL'S FIRST CEMTURV-BORN IN F R e E D O M - WO R K I N G FOR PRO'SRiESS . DON'T

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Job prospects for fall stack up as fair to good. There isn't going to be the frantic scramble for new faces that there was two years ago— except in a FORGET! few lines, such as secretarial and engineering. But on the whole, employment conditions will be steady. Notice how job searchers often try to shortcut their hunt by working through employment agencies. Here's how that fraternity operates: • In all major areas, employment agencies are licensed—that is, fees and contract conditions are legally regulated. You can provide • The agency will ask you to agree (in writing) to pay a specified fee for any job you land through it. This contract is nonexclusive— it doesn't bar you LUCKIES by the case from dealing with other agencies. • Fees vary not only by locality but also by job type. As a clue: In New TAX-FREE (LESS THAN York City the great majority of jobs calls for payment of 25 percent of the first month's salary in the under-$225 brackets. The percentage moves on up 9< A PACK) for to a ceiling of 60 percent for $400-and-up positions. shipment to one or To put it another way: If your job is going to pay you $50 a week, the New York City agency fee is $54.17; if the pay is $100 a week, the fee is $260. all of the following (Incidentally, should your prospective employ ei' want you eagerly enough, he may reimburse you in whole or part for the agency fee.) • In all, the agency is a professional clearinghouse — seeking, screening, service groups: placing. • • • * V.A. HOSPITALS Not to be overlooked as another employment aid is the widespread net- work of job placement offices each State maintains. -k STATE HOSPITALS AND These are the State employment services, operated under the guidance of SIMILAR HOSPITALS IN the Bureau of Employment Security of the U. S. Labor Dept. They differ THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA from private agencies in that: (1) The service is free, and * ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY (2) The States will help many types of persons — handicapped, aged, be- AND MARINE HOSPITALS ginners, etc. — who otherwise would have difficulty making contacts. ^ U.S. ARMED FORCES IN Note: Veterans get preferential treatment with federally appointed vet- erans employment representatives in each State. KOREA • • • Cases available in two sizes: Don't be surprised if your prospective emplo.yer asks you to take a • 500-PACK CASE. .54270 psychological test before he signs you up for good. Industry and Govern- • ..5854 « ment alike are bent on getting the right pegs in the right holes these days. 100-PACK CASE. You'll be sent to a testing "laboratory" which has investigated your job (Price subject to change without notice) and its environment. Psychologists will give you a thorough probing (much Send today for your of it written) to see how you shape up. Don't "freeze up" when you take such tests. They'ie confidential. More- Lucky Strike order blank over, they're not competitive in the sense that a high school exam is. Moil this coupon • • • ^^iHBjl A new — yet very ancient — method of reviving victims of shock, drown- ing, etc., is fast coming into official use everywhere. It's the mouth-to-mouth or "Biblical" system (so-called because the prophet Elisha revived a dead East 42nd Street, New York 17, N.Y. boy by putting "his mouth on his mouth") 150

Its leading advocate. Dr. Peter Safar of Baltimoie, claims it is superior Dear Sirs: Please send me Lucky Strike order blonk(s) with to other life-restoring methods because it assures passage of air into the which I may provide TAX-FREE Luckies by the victim. The idea is to get him on his back with his head tilted well backward; case for shipment to: put your left hand between his teeth; seal off his nostrils with your right (C/iecfc /hose denVed) Veterans Administration Hospitals hand; then blow enough air into his mouth to make his chest move, I'epeating ( ) Air Force, Navy & Marine Hospitals every 3 or 4 seconds. ( ) Army,

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State Hospitals and Similar Hospitals in For those with a sense of history: ( ) The District of Columbia • The actual goings-on in the atomic submarine "Nautilus" during its North Pole voyage have been put into a record alburn fiom tapes made by Your Name the crew. Herb Shriner is narrator (Colpix; $7.50 for lecord and booklet). • Feats of the U. S. Ground Forces in both World Wars and Korea are the basis of a new film series now a-making. Columnist TV Bob Considine City or Town is script writer and narrator. Battle scenes, taken from American plus Ger- A.L man and Japanese footage, were shot so close up that you might easily lecog- State nize yourself or your buddies. By Edgar A. Grunivald g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 The cigarette is Lucky Strike. Tlie taste is unforgettable. Get the honest taste of a LUCKY STRIKE

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Medals of Iftonor

Here are the bodges that have been worn by

Legionnaires since the First National Conven- tion was held in Minneapolis in 1919. Many Legionnaires possess some of these medals; a few are the proud owners of most of them. We would like to know how many members have a complete set. Have you one?

MIAMI 1948

ATLANTIC CITY LOS ANGELES 1957 1956

By FRANCIS ELDON BELL for our benefit, the corporal would bat the private in the head and chest at 30- >r~>/ARLY IN THE MORNING of April 10, 1942, word was second intervals with his gunstock. The Irj passed down to my outfit, the 515th Coast Artillery private would hit the ground, then re- (Antiaircraft), that Major General Edward P. King, cover himself, replace his helmet and Jr., had surrendered the American forces on Bataan. We were glasses, and immediately resume his stiff instructed not to fire on hostile troops unless we were fired position of attention. Was this the meth- upon. od of the Nip army? Cruel, ruthless, Thus the end came to a 3-month engagement which saw us 14ell belorc liataan. even among themselves? We were later defeated by an overwhelming combination of Japanese mili- to learn that this was child's play com- tary forces, disease, and starvation. The 76,000 of us on pared to their more advanced forms of torture. On we trudged, Bataan had suffered what has been called "a true medical wondering if our fate was to be similar to that of the private. defeat." When we reached our destination near the beach, 440 of We were now at the mercy of the Japanese. After daylight us were herded to a knoll directly in the line of fire between a battery of Jap 105's and Corregidor. Our group was formed into a square and we were told to sit down. We glanced in- quisitively back and forth wondering what their next move would be. We noticed the artillery crews manning the guns; but we had no idea that they were to fire, for we^eemed to be looking straight down the barrels of those two black weapons. The question in our minds was soon answered when the 105's opened up and we felt the concussion as the projectiles hurtled over our heads. Naturally, we were scared and we jumped. What if Correg- idor answered the fire? This, too, was answered after the second volley. A shell screamed at us and hit 20 yards to our right. It threw gravel and dirt over us, but only one man was injured — and that from a flying rock. The shell was non- explosive and ricocheted harmlessly over our heads. Another blast from the 105's, and a gunboat lying off the Rock sent

back six more in quick succession. Zzzing, zzzing — it seemed we could raise our hands and touch them. And the third one spun one of the 105's halfway around. Several men started to rise — this was obviously dangerous

territory. "Sit down, men — take it easy. We can't do anything about this. Sit still or those guards will shoot." We also heard the Nips throwing shells (Continued on page 49)

The escapees were beaten, tied to posts, and left to die.

a column of Nip tanks came clattering toward us. They were shooting at everything in sight. We fired at them with our '03's. This was about as effective as tossing BB's at a loco- motive. They rumbled by, their small war flags fluttering. At 9:30 in the morning we were ordered to go to regimental headquarters - carrying our rifles slung muzzle down over our right shoulders. The Battling Bastards of Bataan began drifting in from all directions. We tossed our arms, gas masks, tin hats — all equipment except our clothes - on a huge pile near headquarters. We were issued three C rations, we were ordered to assemble at Cabcaben Airport, and we started our last march as free American soldiers. From that night on, the ever-present Nip guards were our escort. Halfway to the point of assembly we encountered a Jap private standing at rigid attention at port arms; facing him in the same position was a corporal screaming at him. Seemingly We dreaded the burial details, and there was one every morning.

13 By WILLIAM LYNCH VALLEE

THE LIGHTNING PICKED a tree, split it neatly, and eased it through the dense curtain of rain just as my coach and four drew up alongside a run- down old inn in a remote corner of Tran- sylvania. The proprietor, looking like a double for Bela Lugosi (which he was), wel- comed me in with a sly grin. "Veil." he said with a throaty gargle, Starting out as a "dining room iss closed, but ve can giff handsome young man, \ou a werry choice delicacy, someding Zacherley turns himself dat \ ill stick to your ribs. V'ot iss? Spider into something macabre. zoup, off course — fantahstic!" He rolled his eyes.

I was hungry enough to eat a protein- burger (anyway there was nothing left but the soup), so I agreed. For what it's worth, it is on the approved list of Count

Droonkan von Heinz, whose word is gus- tatory law in those parts. Since that wild rainy night, and back Zacherley- in the States. I have searched in vain for this fantahstic soup which not only stuck to your ribs, but climbed all over them! Thinking of the acrobatic dish while toying with a bowl of Cogswell's Clam Something new and funny has been added to the Chowder one night a little after 11. I suddenly heard the word "Transylvania"' spoken, then a ghastly laugh. I looked horror films shown on TV — and people love it. up and saw a ridiculous-looking fellow on the TV screen named Zacherley (some

TV screens are named Zacherlev ) . He was merrily reaming what was obviously casting Company. Since ABC is in a Scouts." Zach said, "you never know someone's brain, chattering as he former riding academy, horse-type, it what they'll do." worked. "Remember the grand old times took very little urging to make the nags He brushed a covey of bats off a chair we had at Transylvania U. Rudolph?" he hurry to the rendezvous with the noted and turned to a bubbly cauldron. "Zoup's said to the brain, fetchins it a hard wal- 2houl-tender of the Transvlvanians. on!" he yelled. "I've been bothered by a problem" he continued. "Should the live spiders be shown to the customer, the way lobsters are before they're cooked to order? Anyway, have a bowl of zoup." It's an academic problem at best. For you lucky gourmets, here's the priceless recipe: MOTHER ZACHERLEY'S SPIDER SOUP 2V2 dozen big spiders

1 large crock Blazing wood fire Fresh cow bones for stock 2 gallons old water Set old water to a racy boil and add cow bones and irritant greens, in that order. Allow mixture to ferment for a day or so. Boil again and add a pinch of bone dust. Swat spiders with a Zach gives an assist to Boris Karloft by doing a comed\ routine which is broad wooden mallet to tenderize, spliced novice. into an oldtime Fraxikenstein-meets-up-with-a-were\voU then pop in. one at a time. Tenderizing

is a must, since spiders toughen rapid- lop with a mallet. "A plate of steaming Zacherley met me at the door of his ly when boiled. Serves three spider- spider zoup would go good right now, cluttered laboratory, located deep in eaters. eh lad?" .Manhattan. "Don't want any Girl Scout For dessert, after making sure there I handed the Cogswell's over to Mi- cookies!" he shouted, slamming the door were no dangerous Girl Scouts lurking nette. our cat. reached for my cape, and shut. I stuck a foot in it. just as I've seen about. Zach served a delectable item was soon whipping up my four blacks in Sergeant Friday do. The ruse worked and called Lady Dracula's Bat Pudding. the direction of the American Broad- I limped in. "Have to watch those Girl There is a move afoot to can and sell it 14 Zach tries to appeal to a monster's sentiment.

But the evil critter turns, jeopardizing Mr. Z.

bat pudding like mother used to make.) Zacherley delights listeners with his beatnik-type friends. LADY DRACULA'S BAT PUDDING Make a sticky paste with bare hands, in zupermarkets, but no one has yet Zach appears, catches it, and answers using 4 parts bone dust (fortified) to figured out a way to keep the bats alive everything said by the crook. Or again, 1 part leftover spider zoup. Lay out on in the cans. ""Going bats, ha ha! trying to the hero phones someone. The camera window sill to catch bats. After bats work the cussed thing out," said Zacher- shows Zach answering, shouting silly are stuck and have gorged themselves ley, sounding as always like a fey, maca- things to the hero. It's done by momen- on the sticky paste, sprinkle lively bre James Mason. A light flashed on, tarily switching to a live TV camera amount of dry bone dust over the en- Zach shoved me behind a coffin, and did focused on Zach who is ready with pre- tire mess. While the bats are still ac- a sequence for his Zacherley At Large pared, carefully timed dialog. This re- tive, slide the mess into a preheated horror-movie TV show. quires a great amount of preparation. So oven (350 ) and bake for 2 minutes. In case you're ignorant or out of range does the bat pudding. Here's the recipe. Eat with fingers (anybody's). Serves of WABC-TV in" New York City, this (If you're smart, you'll give it to your six — depending on how many of your Transylvania graduate (Summa Cum mother, then vou can later rave about guests care for live, warm bats in bone Liigosi) kids the pants off both the actors paste. and the ancient scare films in which While breaking bread — or bats — with they appear. Many TV stations all over a champion monster, it occurred to me the U.S. show horror movies, but none that this was a fine time to find out many except WABC-TV has Zacherley. None things. Such as what every young man of his rivals has achieved the national should know about monsters. How to infamy Mr. Z has. entertain a ghoul. How to decorate your It's hard to define Zacherley's loath- home with items from the Monster Ward some charm. He kids the movies, but catalog. What to do with little monsters. others do that too. He sings and dances Whilst, as they say in Transylvania, I — both badly. He decries the commer- was getting the answer to these ques- cials, but Ed Wynn began that a long tions, I learned that there is a Mrs. radiotime ago. He spoofs anyone — was Zacherley, a lovable vampire who lives recently ribbing New York's very serious in the wooden box which supports Z's Mayor Wagner via phone calls over TV. laboratory table. This is a decidedly dank

One thing that does set Z apart is his marriage which began in the dankest skill in actually getting into the movie cellar at Count Dracula's split-level being shown. The villain, say, opens a Here Zach is all dressed up castle in Transylvania. She is reputedly window and tosses out a stolen object. ready for a go as a mummy. (Continued on page 47) 15 .

By PRESTON J. MOORE NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION i-Yp^ o ONE KNOWS better than a vet- f eran that the methods of waging J war do not remain the same. The man who fought in the trenches in World War I and then as a "retread" in World War II found himself fighting an entirely new kind of war. The World War II vet who was called back to fight in Korea learned that the warfare there was different in many important re- spects, notably in certain strange con- cepts of strategy. riors once fought deadly battles while peasants worked quietly in adjoining fields.

We must learn to fight . A New Kind

We are losing out to the Soviets We have to keep building a j)owerfiil, balanced defense.

More than a century ago a famous because we do not understand the strategy they military writer, Clausewitz, described the changing concept of war in a series of books that have become classics. As a youth Clausewitz had fought in wars are employing so effectively against us. that were almost idyllic. Peasants plowed their fields as battles raged a short dis- tance away, and as soldiers died in those battles burghers in nearby towns carried on their business as usual. But Clause- tion of warfare. We are familiar with the witz saw that situation changing, and we way in which Hitler used various kinds have been living through the change he of pressure and persecution to force the predicted and discussed. capitulation of his weaker neighbors. We One of the key phrases in his works saw how Japan, without any formal dec- is this: "War is nothing else than the con- laration of war, evolved its Greater East tinuation of state policy by different Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. We certainly means." have not forgotten how the interplay of In other words, no longer do two political pressures between the United mighty armies face each other on a field States and Japan culminated in the sneak and, at a given signal and with a flourish attack on Pearl Harbor. And since the of trumpets, join battle. Warfare is sub- end of World War II we have seen in the tler and more abstract, the front is every- actions of the Soviet Union the greatest where, and whatever can hurt the enemy demonstration of all in the way of brutal, is permissible as a weapon. relentless war. Wily Maxim Litvinov, left, in 1933 sold our All of us have seen this terrible evolu- In 13 years we have seen how Soviet Government on the idea of recognizing Russia. 16 they are being used against us; to fail to do so is to go under without realizing what happened to us.

Actually, there is no reason why there should be any misunderstand- ing as to our true relations with the Soviet Union. No one will dispute

the fact that Nikita Khrushchev is the boss communist, and that what

he says is law. When Khrushchev tells us that he intends to bury us, he

is merely reminding us in a few words of a basic premise of communist

doctrine. Years ago Lenin spelled it out in the following statement: "Marxists have never forgotten that violence will be an inevitable

accompaniment of the collapse of capitalism . . . and of the birth of a socialist society. And this violence will cover a historical period; a whole era of wars of the most varied kinds— imperialist wars, civil wars within the country, the interweaving of the former with the latter, na- tional wars, the emancipation of the nationalists crushed by the imperi- alist powers which will inevitably form various alliances with each Biif today civilians aie directly involved in wars. other in the era of vast state-capitalist and military trusts and combines. This is an era of tremendous collapses, of wholesale military decisions

Oiu asscmljly lines used to be the ^soiitler ol ihc Avoild. locl.iy we liiul it ilillicull to meet competition from abroad.

Russia has absorbed 17 nations into its bloody empire, and we of a violent nature, of crises. It has already begun. We see it

are well aware that today one-third of all the people on earth clearly— it is only the beginning." —923,000,000— are now arrayed against us in what the com- We in America must see this picture just as clearly as the

munists have always referred to as "the final struggle" between communist master strategist did, and we must see it in relation

communism and the free world. In not a single case did the to our own personal affairs. This is a matter that we must conspirators in the Kremlin formally declare war against the recognize and help solve as individuals. We cannot pass the countries they took over. Instead they employed espionage, buck to the state and go on the assumption that if we allow treason, sabotage, political blackmail, threats, persecution, our politicians to spend enough money on foreign aid and murder, and other methods that decent people abhor. Even armament, the unpleasant picture painted by Lenin will auto- though their methods are treacherous and evil, they did get matically disappear.

results. It is time that we understood those methods and how The new kind of war is not fought that way. We cannot— like the peasants and burghers of the

1 8th century—unconcernedly watch sol- diers dying as we plow our fields and engage in trade. We are directly involved in war right now, regardless of what our

business is, where we are located, and what station in life we occupy. And keep

in mind that it is official— this war was declared when Marxism began, and it is now rapidly approaching the showdown stage, "the final struggle," as various manifestations of war erupt in Berlin, Iraq, Tibet, Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere. A few weeks ago the biggest and blackest headlines in our newspapers Not long ago the Kremlin sent Mik()\an here lo dealt with Berlin, and by the time this try to sell the United States another j)lionv deal. (Continued on page 42) 17 The main thing wanted this time was American chemical equipment, plus technical assistance. By TRAIN - from the northwest

the 1,772-mile trip and to sleep soundly. John and Mary will observe the great The Smiths plan to arrive in Minne- woods, cool lakes, and bustling cities of apolis on Saturday, August 22. Thus the North country. they will be able to take advantage of They will arrive at the Great Northern the Great Northern's moneysaving Station in Minneapolis at 6:25 a.m. on family fare plan. This arrangement per- Saturday, August 22. mits a man and wife to buy round trip En route they will eat four meals tickets at greatly reduced rates provided apiece in the dining car, and the same they begin their trip on Monday, Tues- number on the return trip. These 16 day, Wednesday or Thursday. meals will cost an estimated $35.40. Their total round trip railroad fare This amount, coupled with approximate- will be $140.31, tax included. Without ly $8 for tips and incidentals, brings the benefit of the family plan, their tickets total cost of their round trip to $183.71. would cost them $175.24. 70HN SMITH and his wife Mary are John and Mary plan to leave Seattle traveling to the 41st National Con- at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 20. vention in Minneapolis from their Their afternoon departure time allows Seattle home by train. They will ride the them several hours of sightseeing before Great Northern Railway's crack stream- night falls. While still in the State of they will, before dark, pass to liner, the "Empire Builder." Washington How get Their accommodations, though eco- through Everett, a great commercial nomical, are far from Spartan. Their fishing center and picturesque port on reserved seats are in a "Great Dome" Puget Sound, and Wenatchee, where car which will provide them an unob- more than 15 percent of the nation's to the structed view of the magnificent coun- apples are grown. By 6:30 next morning tryside through which they will pass. they will be in Whitefish, Mont., one of These reclining seats are equipped with the finest ski areas in the Northwest. adjustable leg rests which will permit During the day, as their train speeds them to relax comfortably throughout them smoothly toward the Twin Cities,

By BUS - FROM THE SOUTHWEST

hours of their trip. In addition, the bus will, of course, stop for longer periods at lunchtime and at dinnertime. All along their route the Carsons will be able to buy wholesome, attractively When the Legion holds its 41st served meals at reasonable prices at the various Greyhound Post Houses and restaurants at which their bus will stop. National Convention, all routes During the first day of their trip they will ride in comfort through San Ber- will lead to the Twin Cities. nardino, Barstow. and Baker, Calif. Their bus will arrive in Las Vegas, Nev., in time for the evening meal. There their Scenicruiser will take them down that city's famous "Strip." After they leave Las Vegas, they will pass through Cheyenne, Wyo., a typical with reclining seats and lavoratories. Western frontier town. The Carsons have figured that by tak- — THE CARSONS — Gcorgc and Betty Their next major stop will be Salt ing the bus they can combine economy of Los Angeles are going to the Lake City, Utah, where they will stop at with a considerable amount of effortless National Convention by bus. They Temple Square, with its view of the Mor- sightseeing. decided to ride a Greyhound express mon Temple and Tabernacle. And their Since they intend to take advantage direct to Minneapolis, rather than to third and last major stop before reaching of Greyhound's family plan, the total take any of the various scenic tours Minneapolis will be Omaha, Nebr. round trip fare for both persons will be which Greyhound also offers. They will arrive in Minneapolis at $157.08, tax included. They calculate Their schedule calls for them to leave 7:30 in the evening on Friday, August that their meals will cost about $6 per Los Angeles at 9 in the morning on 21. person per day. In addition, they will Wednesday, August 19. Their first rest They will travel the 2,160 miles be- probably spend another five dollars or stop will be at Riverside, Calif. There tween Los Angeles and the Twin Cities so for incidentals. they will be able to enjoy coffee and aboard an air-conditioned bus which Thus the Carsons' budget has made doughnuts before reboarding their Sce- offers the utmost in riding comfort and provision for a total expenditure of nicruiser. There is, incidentally, a rest in visibility. All of Greyhound's huge $234.08 for their round trip transporta- stop of 15 or 20 minutes every three Scenicruisers are conveniently equipped tion and their meal costs.

18 By CAR - FROM THE NORTHEAST

ICK AND PEG JONES of BoStOn for lunch near Albany, then will continue want to do some sightseeing westward through the Mohawk Valley. along the way as they drive to Before reaching Buffalo, they plan to the National Convention. Since Dick is leave the Thruway for a side trip to a member of the Massachusetts Division Niagara Falls. They will have their of the AAA, he will have the benefit of evening meal in Ontario, Canada, and the assistance and trip planning that that will spend the night there. Next morning organization provides for its members. they will follow Queen Elizabeth Way The Joneses plan to leave Boston at to a point near Hamilton where they 8 in the morning. They will head west will pick up Route 20 which will take along the Massachusetts Turnpike, and them to Route 53. at the New York State line will pick up Continuing westward after their re- the New York Thruway. They will stop turn to the United States, they will turn off the main road at Vassar, Mich., so that they can have lunch at Franken- muth, a town famous for its excellent cost the Joneses $44 for gas and oil. chicken. Road and bridge tolls will come to about They then plan to proceed to Macki- $11; $4.80 will be spent for sightseeing naw City, where they will view the visits. The 10 meals will cost about $35; Straits of Mackinac, and spend the night their motels will cost about $34 for the at a nearby motel. three nights. Figuring another $10 for Next morning they will take a boat snacks and incidentals, the total cost of trip to Mackinac Island, then on U.S. their trip to the Twin Cities will be Route 2 drive to Iron Mountain where roughly $140. they will spend the night. For the return trip, they plan to take After nearly eight hours' driving next a different route, one which will take day, they will arrive at the Convention them over Northwest and Tri-State Toll- city. way to the Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsyl- This journey of some 1,464 miles will vania Turnpikes.

By PLANE FROM THE SOUTHEAST

company's coach flights. Northwest's "Coronation Coach" service appealed to

them because it combines the economies of air coach travel with many of the luxuries usually associated with first- class air travel. Since they wish to depart at a con- venient hour, they picked Flight No. 705 which leaves Miami International Airport at 5 :30 p.m. On the day of departure a limousine will take them from downtown Miami to the airport. Cost: $1 each. The Johnsons will board a huge DC- MONG THE THOUSANDS of Lcgion- 7C, and will soon be winging their way naires and their families who north and west in a pressurized, air- will attend the National Con- conditioned, radar-equipped airplane. vention in Minneapolis this year are As America slides smoothly beneath meals. As first-class passengers, their many who will arrive at the Convention them, the stewardess will serve the eve- fare would be $236.62. These amounts city by airplane. Typical of these flying ning meal. A hot meal — the same type, include tax. Legionnaires is Fred Johnson of Miami. incidentally, as is served to first-class The Johnsons' plane will make one Early last spring Fred and his wife passengers — is a feature of Northwest's brief stop at Midway Airport in Chicago. Dorothy decided that this year they Coronation Coach service. The price of Then at 11:41 p.m. the giant plane will would make the 1,550-mile Convention the meal is included in the cost of the touch down at Wold-Chamberlain Air- trip by air. Next they considered the ticket. port at Richfield, Minn., which serves various possible ways that they could do One-way tickets for Fred Johnson and the Twin Cities. this — the several airlines which offer his wife will cost $88.39 each, a total of A waiting limousine will whisk the service out of Miami, the different routes $176.78. If they were to fly on one of Johnsons to their hotel in downtown over which they might fly, the different the other three coach flights which Minneapolis for $1.25 each. (To down- types of accommodations available. Northwest offers from Miami to Minne- town St. Paul the charge is $1.50 each.) The Johnsons chose Northwest Orient apolis, the fare for both would be The total cost for the one-way trip for Airlines, and decided to take one of that $171.28 — but this would not include two is $181.28. 19 By JACK DENTON SCOTT A MAN'S PLACE

TIME HAS COME to lay to rcst THEsome of the great fictions of the past several generations: That women are natural cooks holding a hallowed place of honor in the kitchens of history, that the female of the species is gifted with great Is in culinary ability, that the our women were cre- ated to execute clever plans with pots and pans. This belated essay in honesty was prompted by the recent reading of a recipe in a famed woman's magazine

( pork- marsh ma How -sherry-jelly stew) that stood my hair and stom- ach on end. Kitchen The truth is, gen- tlemen, that women 4 never have been really great or even better- than-average cooks. .4ntonin You won't find women working as Most of them consider Careme cooking mere drudg- ery, a witless form of Anthelme Biillat- servitude. They have chefs in fine restaurants, and this is why. never been the imagin- Savarin ative equals of their masters in the kitchen. There are no female gourmet societies. Or if there are. they are secret. There is no gathering of AiigUoie chefs are men; no hotel or res- famed lady gourmets who form a Escoffier taurant, at least none of renown, club and meet periodically to wed has its kitchens controlled by fine viands with wines as the jolly gentle- women. Every schoolchild of my gener- men of the Cofifrerie des Chevaliers du ation, at least those who believed that Tastevin do. As far as we know, women food was something to eat, knew the have never shown their respect for great names of Oscar of the Waldorf, the chefs by honoring a favorite, as do the famed chef whose name was a byword group of male gourmets who gather for years, and Louis Diat of the old regularly as the Friends of Escoffier. Ritz, who passed his genius on in cook- No women, including those lady edi- books. tors of women's magazines who concoct If asked to name the three greatest those countless recipes that make you chefs of all time, you should immedi- wince, have ever won cooking awards ately say Antonin Careme, Anthelme such as the chef-coveted Merile Agri- Brillat-Savarin and Auguste Escoffier. cole, given to professional chefs by the Fanny Farmer wouldn't even get a nod French for doing simple but unusual with her creamed peas and chipped beef. things with foodstuffs that come from If all life is a dispute between taste the earth. and tasting, as Nietzsche said, then But even if a Cordon Bleu award had women who read this will immediately been won by one of the aforementioned realize that I am not maligning them in lady editors, it would be promptly a field that they thought they had to stripped from her after a sampling of themselves, rather I am merely trying to Tiie siniplf and the elegant are some of her "gourmet" concoctions, set the record straight. stiessed by Gaston Lauryssen. such as gelatine powder and string beans Although the ladies do write cook- marinated in raspberry sirup, or peanut books, it has always been a moot ques- for Caesar Ritz in Paris and London, butter-beef patties, or any of the odious tion where the recipes came from. De claimed that most of his best work was mixtures that these food editors of Honesta Vohiptate et Valetiidine, the inspired and created "for the ladies." housekeeping and home magazines reg- first cookbook, was printed in 1480 and I agree with the premise that women ularly foist upon long-suffering Ameri- was authored, of course, by a man, should be cooked "for," but I feel that can households. Bartolomeo d'Sacchi (Baptista) Platina. they should also keep their hands off the

According to historic record, great There is no doubt that some chefs cre- writing of cookbooks. This takes the cooks have always been men. No woman ated some of their own greatest dishes firm, creative, masculine touch. Can you has ever cooked for an emperor or a in honor of women. Escoffier and his imagine a woman writing, "The discov- king; all of the valued recipes, handed Peach Melba provide a historic example. ery of a new dish is more important to down over the years, that hold places Auguste Escoffier (probably the best mankind than a new star." Brillat-Sav- of honor in the gourmet halls of fame known name in chefdom), who worked arin. who wrote the Psychology of Taste, were created by men. All professional PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO made that remark and he wasn't talking 20 Can you imagine any woman taking her cooking that seriously? Cooking also sometimes takes the lavish touch that a woman seems to lack — in the kitchen anyway. I know of one French chef who used three whole hams to get one cup of stock. Culinary men seem to find no efi'ort too great. Male chefs refuse to use the instant mixes and powdered sauces and quick pastries made successful by fe- males. Any serious cook will tell you that American women are rapidly de- stroying our entire food tradition with the precooked instant messes they dish out as meals. Do you honestly believe that a man would create a beef stew,

A tip for outdoor chefs: Walk the steak, so that it will not absorb too much heat.

taking most of the day to simmer it slow-

ly and season it to perfection, then top

it with done-in-a-second instant biscuits?

about a way to meld meringue with But the real reason that man is the cheese sauce to spoon over fresh straw- superior cook is because he puts his berries, the gagging new dessert that a formidable powers of intellect to work. ladies' magazine recently drooled about. He does a better job because he works

Cooking is, of course, one of the arts, with the basics, simplicity being his main and creative people seem to do well in tool. Here are a few of the basic things the kitchen. Alexandre Dumas is a lead- men do that make them better cooks. ing example of a great author who was Let's take one of this generation's a great chef. Lafcadio Hearne, Rudyard great chefs, Antoine Gilly, owner of the Kipling, Walter .Scott, even Jack London world-famous La Creinaillere a la Cani- did almost as well with a saucepan as pagiie in Banksville, N. Y., sometimes they did with the pen, and they took it called the best country inn in America. just as seriously. Such noted belly-worshippers as Charles One of the classic stories of how seri- Laughton, Lee Bowman, the Duke and ously the great chefs took their work is Duchess of Windsor, and many more of told of the chef of Louis XIV. Supposed the famous faithfully trip to his tables. to serve fillet of sole as the main dish, He cooked a skewer of six fat squabs he waited until just before dinner to pre- over a charcoal brazier at my place in pare it so that the sauce and the fish Connecticut last summer. I was going to would have the benefit of that last- marinate the birds in a good dry white minute touch. Then he learned that wine first, then rub them with salted chicken had been delivered instead of M. Gilly studies a vintage wine butter, and baste them with the wine to sure that it is clear. fish. What did he do? He killed himself. make (Continued on page 46)

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The American Legion and . A 4:0th THE DEBT FEATURE That Cant be paid

and neither can we. It's as simple as that. The dead numbered into the high hun- The little-known story of how The American Legion dreds of thousands in WWl, WW2 and Korea. They left widows, children, par- became a so-called "pressure group" for veterans. ents. We pay money to the widows, orphans and dependent parents. It's called death compensation. At last count we were By ROBERT B. PITKIN All told, there are today 57,000 mental paying 387,000 widows, orphans, par- patients getting VA care—or more than ents. We are also helping 7,800 of the jf Jf HAT COULD BE SIMPLER than the half the patients in the whole VA hospi- children of the war-dead through college on the opposite page? tal system on any given day. The VA this year. It's a grand thing to do, since |ltl^"^^ photos In direct and violent terms they lists the mental illness of 51,000 of them we can't bring the husbands and fathers state a national debt— a war-debt if you as "serious." back. please—that can never be fully paid. We are all in permanent debt to these One photo shows a disabled service- One photo shows doughboys pressing insane men. It is not our fault that we man. He started the day— fifteen years forward on raw nerve in the Argonne in can't restore them, that most of their ago—helping Gen. Stilwell drive the Jap- 1918 to break the Hindenburg line. The lives were permanently ruined in our de- anese out of a malarial valley in far- strain on them is visible. A certain num- fense. You could populate a good-sized away Burma. Close by, the battle still ber exhausted their nervous stability, and city with them, and you shouldn't ever rages, but now tender hands have band- a came home insane. In WWl the Army forget it. aged him and are lowering him onto discharged 50,000 for mental illness, af- In one of the photos here, a number stretcher. ter they'd passed the military physical of bodies lie beside a wagon whose We have a fine program for men like and mental requirements on induction. wheels show. The wagon carried tele- him. Even today, there are more than Note, too, the blood-spattered Ameri- phone wire. Earlier, the bodies were up two million men and women disabled in can boy sitting by a coconut log on Pele- and about, stringing the wire somewhere past wars who are rated 10% or more liu Island in the Pacific in 1944. He has on the Western Front in WWl. Then a disabled right now. reached the breaking point. Though ex- German shell came through and disem- We pay them money as long as they posed to Jap fire, he no longer cares, and boweled them. are at least 10% disabled. It's called dis- sits down to weep over the horrors en- In another photo, a dead Marine lies ability compensation, and the worse the

graved in his mind. It is entirely under- face up to the glaring sun of a Tarawa disability the more they get. standable. beach in WW2. The war goes on, and in Tens of thousands of our war-disabled The Veterans Administration has fine the background are men with duties to still need medical care, and the VA gives mental hospitals and psychiatric clinics. perform. They can't restore the dead. (Continued on page 40)

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120,000 U.S. doughboys were hospitalized in France in 1919 the modern day Veterans Administration hospitals, a far for lack of veterans beds at home (left). At right, one of cry from the shameful set-up we had back in 1919-1924. 23 OUR IDEA of a beautiful shotgun is the new "Sun-Grain" blond wood job put out by Remington. It comes in two models, the 870 slide-action AVingmaster and the Sports- man 58 autoloader. Both models have gold- plated triggers, butt plate screws, receiver

screws, and magazine caps. \Vood is bleached walnut. You may have a choice of three versions: Trap, Skect, or Field Grade. All have ventilatcd-rib barrels. The Sports- man 58 is beautifully engraved. These guns are truly handsome and have the highly at- tractive appearance of custom-made guns. Prices: Trap versions: 870 TX, $166.35; Sportsman 58 TX, $214.45. Skeet models: A TRICKY ITEM for those w ho go in for THE FISHERMAN'S usual concept of a 870 SX, $137.85; 58 SX, $181.35. Field Grade: 870 ADX, $137.85; 58 ADX, $176.05. still fishing is ofTered by Jack 1). Daum, fish "home " is simply the w hole lake or 745 N. Second Ave., Upland, Calif. "When stream. Biologists find, however, that the AVrite Jack Hunter, Remington Arms, fishing a deep pool with live minnows," he homes for man>' species of fish are much Bridgeport, Conn., for more details and il- lustrated folder. writes, "the idea is to get the minnow down more localized. The hole, weed bed, or bar to the bottom, then let it swim around as is probably a sharper definition of "home." freely as possible, gradually working its Research at the University of Wisconsin way back to the surface in a natural man- revealed 85-95 percent of the green sunfish ner. Trouble is, a heavy sinker gets down in a small pond returned to the corner from but restricts the minnow's .swimming and which they had originated. In most cases won't let it rise naturally. The trick: Tie a the return trip was done with the preci- candy lifesaver to the end of your line, then sion of a homing pigeon. Largemouth bass tie a short length of string with an old nut also tended to have a home to which they or bolt on the end, to the lifesaver. When returned 68-73 percent of the time. this sinks, it takes the to the bot- Anglers take notice. If you had a strike minnow HERE'S AN ITEM for crow shooters: "I the lifesaver melts, freeing the min- at a certain location once, better check that tom; learned to shoot a large quantity of crows now to swim naturally and rise slowly to fish "home" again. while I lived in Arkansas," says Mrs. Pearl the surface." G. Sill, 309 Lister St., Shreveport, La. "I JAMES M. RUHMANN, Box 43, Kenedy, put a live, solid-black cat in a cage which JUST a handy item on the wrist of SAW Tex., has a request: "Next to hunting rab- had slats or bars spaced wide enough apart a fishing frienil: A C(jmpa.ss in a handsome bits, I guess that mourning-dove would to make the cat easily visible. Then I placed leather strap, worn like a wristwatch. The is hunting one of the most widespread this in the corn or peanut field \\ here the compass was in a brass case, and it had a sports in the United States. It's a great sport crows were doing damage, and hid until luminous dial. I learned that this must item and one that demands shooting skill. Why the first crow came. He spotted the cat, for all who wander the woods and wade don't you call for some reports and tips and flew away to get more crows. When the wild streams, is sold for less than $4 b\' that It from vast army of hunters? would they returned, I stood up and shot; and the .Marble Co., Arms Gladstone, Mich. make interesting reading in your column." the crows just kept coming. This worked Here's the call: Dove hunters unite! Send better than calling, or using owl or actual E. V. ASPEN, 1123 10th St., Sioux in W. helpful hints on how you bag the dodg- crow decoys. It never failed." City }, Iowa, has a few: "Use pipe cleaners ing dove. to clean fishing tackle. Clean the camp SPRINGFIELD rifle owners will be inter- skillet with baking soda after fish frying or "I DON'T WORRY about the muss and ested in the line of sporter stocks recently onions. Tie a bit of pipe cleaner to the fuss of greasing m\- spinning reel," says introduced by Kodiak Manufacturing Co. fishiiook if other bait fails. Fish like bait Joiin Glenn Gehringer, 415 Forrest Ave., The Kodiak line features fully finished that has motion. Use canned potatoes for a Norristoun, Pa., "because I installed a Springfield sporter walnut stocks for $17.95. quick meal on the camping trip. Canned threaded grease fitting in place of the lubri- Selected fiddle-back and semifancy grades spaghetti and cornmeal are mush handy, cation screw in back of the reel. Now, just are available for $5 extra; rubber rifle pad, easily transported camp foods." a few squirts of the grease gun will do the $2. Handsomest member of the line is a job. If you don't have a grease gun, you Monte Carlo stock with cheek-piece and can get one at any auto supply house." hand-checkered pistol grip and forearm. All hand-rubbed, this beautifully grained MRS. ERNEST ORDRACEK, Max, Minn., and gracefully proportioned stock comes has a recipe all rcad\' for gunners of the with rubber rifle pad included at $27.95. bouncing cottontail. She calls it "Buttered The company off^ers a money-back guaran- Rabbit with Gravy," and it goes like this: tee, and tells us that liberal quantity dis- "Cut rabbit into serving pieces. Put two counts are available to gun clubs. Address tablespoons of butter in pressure cooker to Kodiak Manufacturing Co., Box 185, North melt. Salt pieces of rabbit and place in the Haven, Conn. FOR CAMPERS, hunters, or fishermen hot cooker, turning until they are brown. who have car trouble, Lloyd D. Aloran, Add one cup of water, cover the pan. "SOIL CONSERVATION Tips for Sports- 2829 Ivy Place, Chalmette, La., advises: "If When the steam reaches the cook position, men" is a new \J . S. Soil Conservation the radiator on your car runs dry and you cook the young ones 15 minutes; the older Service publication which should be read have nothing to carry water in, remove the ones, 25 minutes. Mix a little milk with by all sportsmen, the Wildlife iManagement hubcaps and use them. They hold quite a flour to thicken water in cooker after steam Institute reports. The illustrated tipshcet bit of water." has returned to down position." shows practices that will benefit fish and game. Request it from the SCS, USDA JOHN H. SISON, JR., P. O. Bo.x 3152, A HANDY, well-written booklet entitled Building, AA'ashington 25, D. C.

New Orleans, La., has this for the 2-gun The Easy Way to Outdoor Cooking is man: "If you use both 12- and 20-gauge yours for the asking from Joseph Bates, PETER STANG, an eighth grader from shotguns, you must be very careful not to Jr., P. O. Box 414, AVhite Plains, N. Y. Camden, Alaine, was one of the grand prize get the shells mixed up and blow your gun Containing lists of equipment for camp winners in the Cortland Line $25,000 sw eep- and perhaps yourself apart. One way to cookery, it even gives fine basic menus and stakes. He and a companion of his choice make sure is to put a ring of red fingernail other simple but helpful items that appear will fly to Brazil on a 9-day, all-expenses- polish around each of the 20-gauge shells." in too few cookbooks. paid fishing trip. < C.ontimied on page 38)

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A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

GI LOAN CHANGES LONG SOUGHT BY which kept precisely those vets most in need LEGION BECAME LAW ON JUNE 30: of government guaranteed credit from President Eisenhower on June 30 signed getting any loans at all. a separate veterans' housing bill con- Legion Housing Chairman King worked

taining two important f eatures . . . ( 1 ) It tirelessly for the new bill in Washington.

raised the interest rate on new GI housing . . .The House of Representatives passed the

loans from 4% to 5V^ percent ...( 2) It bill speedily earlier this year. .Then, pumped an extra $100 million into the in the Senate, it was tied to a larger Veterans Administration to lend veterans housing bill whose passage was endangered

on GI Bill terms in certain rural areas by political aspects. . . .But in the last where homebuilding money is always scarce. week of June, friends of veterans in the ...The bill accomplishes the major aims Senate freed the GI loan proposals from the set forth more than three years ago by a larger housing bill and they were quickly

special Legion committee under Past Nat ' adopted separately .... To assure President Commander Seaborn P. Collins of New Mexico, Eisenhower of the Legion's support of the rnd projected since then by the Legion's nev; proposals, Nat ' 1 Commander Moore sent

Nat ' 1 Economic Commission, currently the President an emphatic telegram on June headed by Everett Richaud of Louisiana, 29.... The President signed the bill the and its Housing Committee, headed by Sylvan next day. King of Washington, D. C, The higher interest rate is designed to A LOOK AT THE NEW PENSION BILL: shake loose loans for those veterans who A feature story on the following pages need GI credit the most. tells about a new veterans pension bill The old 4%% GI loan interest has been (HR7560) that has passed the House of little more than a feeble joke for some time Representatives in a money market where non-veteran loans After weighing the pros and cons of the have been attracting the available mortgage bill, National Commander Preston J. Moore money at rates from 5%% up. gave it the official support of The American Joseph Holzka (N. Y.), member of the Legion.... He acted under the authority

Legion's Nat ' 1 Economic Commission, who of the action of the National Executive was president of the U. S. Savings and Loan Committee of last April. League last year, believes that the bill may The National Executive Committee at steer as much as a billion dollars into GI that time flatly rejected an earlier pen- loans within six months. sion bill proposed by the Veterans Adminis- The extra $100 million for VA direct tration. ... Instead it vested authority in loans will be a boon to vets in rural areas the National Commander to seek disability where scarce mortgage money has always pension legislation for veterans and their tended to nullify their VA mortgage rights. dependents which: ...It raises to $250 million the total VA (a) Increases pension rates to those direct loan fund now on hand.... For years eligible . . VA has had a large backlog of rural appli- (b) Adheres to the principles of dis- cants without enough funds to do the job ability and need in awarding pensions. . . The Legion asked for $300 million more, (c) Gives consideration to inequities but the $100 million will do great good. in the present laws... Lobbywise, The American Legion can (d) Gives V/W2 and Korea widows the same claim entire credit for this helpful bill. pension eligibility as WWl widows...... Many demagogues in and out of veterandom (e) Improves the pension rates for had prated against "raising veterans in- those in the lower income brackets without terest rates" as if championing the vets. doing violence to awards going to pension- ...They thus helped to prolong a system ers whose outside income is at or near the

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • 25 . upper limit of permissible income... had to deal with under the authority vested (f) Would, generally, improve existing in him by the National Executive Committee. pension laws in the framework of present By its very nature, it meant that Legion mandates. Commander Moore would either stand pat This was no easy order for National for exactly what the Legion wanted in every Commander Moore .... Stacked up against some detail, or else compromise .... If he stood or all of the Legion's long-standing pen- pat, there would be no new pension legis- sion mandates were demands of other groups lation and things would go on as they ranging from one extreme to the other. had.... If he compromised, he would have At one extreme were those who seek to weigh what veterans, widows and orphans unqualified pensions for all veterans, would get against what they might lose. with no requirement except age ... .Against Those who read the details of the new this, the majority of the Congress and bill on the following pages will see public opinion is solidly aligned. clearly why Commander Moore chose not to At the other extreme were those, typi- stand pat. fied by the Bradley Commission and the In agreeing to the four restrictions powerful Budget Bureau, calling for a com- listed under point 13 of our news story on plete end to all veterans pensions. ... In the bill, none of which the Legion is par- government, these groups had the edge in ticularly crazy about, he made it possible influence for the House of Representatives to vote Not since 1948 has there been a major on and pass a bill that would improve change in the veterans pension structure. pension benefits for more than one million ...In that year. The American Legion was veterans, widows and orphans ... .Not only the prime mover in liberalizing the meas- for all those most in need of additional urement of total and permanent disability pension relief today, but for those who, requirements, for pension purposes, for by being barely over the present pension veterans who are advanced in years. income ceiling, cannot get any pension In the following eleven years, the under the present law... and for all those Congress, by doing nothing, became a hero who recently lost their pensions when a or a villain, depending on how you look at it. 7% increase in Social Security benefits From the point of view of the pressures made them ineligible. brought on it, the Congress was essen- tially heroic... By far the greatest pres- The advantages of the new bill which sure was brought by those who wanted to Commander Moore could not turn down are far wipe out pensions for veterans, their greater than a reading of the provisions of v.-idows and orphans .... Influential monied the bill reveals. . . .The vast maj ority of groups, a vast segment of the press, and those veterans and their dependents who a substantial section of the public that qualify for pensions are in the exceedingly had been neatly propagandized, clamored low income groups slated for a raise. against all pensions. Their numbers and their need weighed At the same time that Congress did not overwhelmingly in Commander Moore's deci- improve the veterans pension structure sion to accept the less rosy aspects of along the lines asked by The American HR7650. Legion, the Congress held the line against Even so, because the bill varies from the powerful movement to wipe it out. Legion policies in four important respects. Faced with completely contradictory Commander Moore was in no comfortable spot proposals on new pension legislation from in making a decision for the entire American different sources, a majority of the House Legion on so vital an issue.... Yet the Veterans Affairs Committee, led by Chmn timing of the legislation left the whole

Olin E. Teague, adopted the position that thing in his lap under the Legion Nat ' 1 they would draft their own pension bill and Executive Committee action. try to incorporate in it the most reason- But now the Senate Finance Committee able and politically possible of all the may relieve him of that burden. . . .At present polyglot demands before them... but if it is delaying action on the bill, and if they could not get substantial agreement the delay continues into August, then the from the saner interested groups, they delegates to the Legion's national con- would do nothing. vention in Minneapolis may shoulder the This was the political and legislative heavy responsibility that has been Com- situation which National Commander Hoore mander Moore's alone since April.

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and Veterans' Affairs

and their meaning are catalogued be- First Major Pension Change low. 1. Most veterans, widows and orphans who qualify for pensions would be In Decade Passes the House aided by the bill. It increases the amount of pension paid to those with very low The House ot Repiesentati\ es on June tions, making thousands of persons en- income, and this group includes the 15 passed and sent to the Senate a bill titled to pension benefits for the first niajoritij of all who qualify for pensions to substantially modify existing veterans time; and it fulfills the Legion's long based on war service. pension laws. sought objective of equalization of the 2. It reduces the amount of pension Entitled the "Veterans Pension Act of death pension requirements for WW2 paid to those whose other income is at 1959," and numbered HR7650, this bill and Korea Conflict dependents. For or near the top permissible level. How- went before the Congress with the these reasons The American Legion sup- ever, anyone presenthj on the rolls could considered approval of The American ports HR7650. clioose between the new or old system, Legion. It originated in the House Vet- "The House Veterans Affairs Com- whichever was to his best advantage. erans Affairs Committee, and is not to mittee and its staff merit commendation 3. It raises the eeiUng of other income be confused with HR6432 which was for the time and effort they have de- permitted a pensioner to the exact fig- ." described on these pages two months voted to this difficult problem . . ures long recjuested by The American ago. What's In It? Legion. The earlier bill, which originated in What would the new bill riiean to A pensioner without dependents the Veterans Administration, was flatly veterans, their widows and orphans, if would be permitted to have $1800 other rejected by the Legion's Nat l Executive it now passes the Senate and is signed income instead of the present $1400, Committee. The new bill, though similar by the President? and a pensioner with dependents would in structure, is entirely different in de- Your editors regret that its meaning lie permitted to have $3000 other in- tail. It overcomes the majority of the cannot be stated simply. The number come instead of the present $2700. objections which the Legion made to the of changes and their scope recjuire The amount of pension payable to earlier proposal, and includes some or lengthy description, and these changes those in these "upper brackets" would all of many pension improvements sought by the Legion for many years. HANDICAPPED — BUT REAL SCOUTS It is not a Legion bill, however. It is best characterized as a difficult synthesis by the House Veterans Affairs Commit- tee of dozens of veterans pension changes that have been urged for man> years by veterans organizations, the ad- ministration and members of Congress- many of which have been in conflict. Recognizing the difficult problem of the House Committee, and some of the positive gains of the new bill in direc- tions the Legion has long urged. Na- tional Commander Preston J. Moore ex- pressed the Legion's support of HR7650 to Rep. Olin E. Teague in these words:

"The American Legion is disap-

pointed in the fact that HR7650 . . . did not meet the recommendations our or- ganization made when I testified be- fore your committee on June 5. I feel that we submitted a reasonable proposal calculated to meet the minimum require- ments of veterans and their dependents. "The American Legion notes, how- ever, that HR7650 contains a number of suggestions made by this organiza-

, I II l) ., i ih s iIk m m nts 24, ik, tion. The bill effects a number of reso- THOUGH PHYSICALLY WDICMTI i- of Troop Washington, Wash., Iia\c reason to ict'l proutl. L iidcr tlic supci\ ision of their Legionnaire lutions of the American Legion, some of leaders, the six boys of the troop "swooped tlie field" during Wasliington's recent Boy which have been mandates for over a Scout Central District Camporee. Tliey competed against 200 other physically normal decade. In addition, the bill provides boys, and won tlic admiration of all. The organization and training of this group of boys increased pension rates for the great ma- as a regular scout troop was the special project of Post 124, Lake Washington. Tlie troop tlie a program jority of veterans, widows and children was organized on January 9, 1959. With help of an orthopedic physician, was tailored to fit the need of each boy. The boys attended troop meetings, made field now on the rolls, particularly the most trips, learned scouting by the liandbook and prepared for the camporee. Now they are needy; it increases the income limita- scouts. Next fail the Post lias hopes of having tliirty handicapped boys in tlie troop.

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IwMiV/.-^ — be lower than the present rate, but bet- receive substantially more than now. the total veterans pension program. The ter than the zero pension now available The middle brackets slightly less. rate stmcture under which it pretended to many of them. The upper brackets, including brack- to "improve the program" was cunning-

4. Complete charts of the proposed ets higher than now pensionable, con- ly contrived to undermine it. The differ- and the present pension rates of pay- siderably less. The highest rates are ent rate structure in the new bill lacks ment and income ceilings appear on close to those which The American this hypocrisy. these pages. Legion has long sought. The American Legion's National Leg- 5. The new bill would include a por- 9. The "grandfather clause" would islative Commission reports that "1,100,- tion of a spouse s income in that income permit all those now on the rolls to 000 veterans and dependents would be which tends to disqualify a veteran from choose the new law if it is to their ad- aided," either by the increased rates, or receiving a pension. Unlike the earlier vantage, but to remain under the pres- by coming on the rolls for the first time proposal, it would not include all such ent law if they would come off worse un- under the increased income ceilings, or spouse s income. It would exempt the der the new bill. as a result of granting parity to WW2 first $1200 of spouse's income from 10. The earlier bill, to which the Le- and Korea widows and orphans. counting, and would never count more gion strenuously objected, had a similar The Legislative Commission gives this than 50% of spouse's income for this structure to this one. But its net result breakdown: "854,406 beneficiaries now purpose. It also provides that such would have been to sul)stantially reduce on the rolls would get increases; 72,039 spouses income must be "reasonably available to the veteran " and permits the VA to make exceptions where, in its Proposed New Pension Rates In HR7650 judgment, the counting of spouse's in- come woidd work a liardship on the Here are the pension rates for veterans and their dependents in the bill HR7650. veteran. If the bill becomes law, those on the rolls up to July 1, I960, could choose to come 6. The new bill permits the VA to under either the present law or the new law. deny pensions where a veteran's net In addition to the facts below, veterans must be rated totally and permanently dis- worth is such that under all circum- abled and substantially unemployable to receive pension, as under the present law. stances, including consideration of the Under the new bill, widows and fatherless children of WW2 and Korea vets veteran's income, it is reasonable that would be eligible for pension if they meet the income restrictions, without the some part of his estate should be con- present requirement that a deceased husband/father must have had a service-con- sumed for the veteran's maintenance. nected disability. About 205,000 would benefit thereby. The American Legion expects this new restriction would be applied only according to the intent put forili in jusli- VETERANS WITH NO DEPENDENTS fication of its inclusion—namely to dis- and not in need of regular aid and attendance bar from pension veterans wnose in- Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension comes are within tn^ low permissible ( annual) ( Under 65 and ( 0\ er 65 or ( Flat rate for all limits, but whose estates are so large as not 10 years on the rolls regardless of age on the rolls) for 10 years) or years on rolls) to make a mockery of the income pro- $0000 to $ 600 $66.15 $78.75 $85 vision. 600 to 1200 66.15 78.75 70 If so applied, it would be good for 1200 to 1400 66.15 78.75 40 the veterans pension program by elimin- 1400 to 1800 00.00 00.00 40 ating these few harmful instances in which the size of a veteran's estate pal- VETERANS WITH DEPENDENTS (Wife or minor child) pably removes him from any possibility and not in need of regular aid and attendance of being a i^erson "in need." Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension If the bill becomes law, the Legion ( annual Under 65 and { 0\ er 65 or ( Flat rate for all will closely watch the administration of ) ( not 10 years on the rolls regardless of age the "spouse's income" and the "net on the rolls) for 10 years) or years on rolls) worth" provisions to see whether it vio- $0000 to $1000 $66.15 $78.75 $90 lates the reasonable intent on which 1000 to 2000 66.15 78.75 75 2000 to 2700 66.15 78.75 40 both restrictions are based. 2700 to 3000 00.00 00.00 40 7. The new bill would make widows of WW2 and Korea veterans eligible to pensions on the same basis as widows VETERANS IN NEED OF REGULAR AID AND ATTENDANCE of WWI veterans. The Legion has long without dependents sought such parity. At present, no WW2 Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension or Korea widow—however needy—could ( annual receive a VA pension unless her de- $0000 to $ 600 $135.45 $155.00 135.45 140.00 ceased husband had had a service-con- 600 to 1200 1200 to 1400 135.45 110.00 nected disability. bill The new would 1400 to 1800 000.00 110.00 at long last, remove this restriction. 8. As the accompanying rate charts show, the new bill would vary the VETERANS IN NEED OF REGULAR AID AND ATTENDANCE amount of pension paid in most in- with dependent(s) — wife or minor child stances according to the other income of Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension the veteran, widow or child. ( annual Those with the lowest income would $0000 to $1000 $135.45 $160.00 1000 to 2000 135.45 145.00 receive the most pension. 2000 to 2700 135.45 115.00 The bottom income brackets would 2700 to 3000 000.00 115.00

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WIDOWS CAROLINA POST without minor children BOUNCES BACK Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension

( annual $0000 to $ eco $550.40 $60.00 600 to 1200 50.40 45.00 1200 to 1400 50.40 25.00 1400 to 1800 00.00 25.00

WIDOWS with one minor child Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension

( annual) $0000 to $1000 $63.00 $75.00 1000 to 2000 63.00 60.00 2000 to 2700 63.00 40.00 2700 to 3000 00.00 40.00

DISASTROUS FIRE completely gutted the WIDOWS home of Post 350, Pinehurst, N. C., in the early morning hours of January 1, 1959. with more than one minor child Immediately, members gathered at tlie site Under the present law, $7.56 is added to llie $63 for widow witli one child for every addi- to plan a new and better clubhouse. tional minor child. Under the proposed law, $15 would be added in each eligible income bracket, listed above under "Widows with one minor child," for each additional minor child in excess of one.

CHILD where no widow is eligible for pension Other income Present Monthly Pension Proposed Monthly Pension

( annual $0000 to $1400 $27.30 $35.00 1400 to 1800 00.00 35.00

CUTTING TIMBERS lor the rooi arc tlicsc four "overnight" carpenters wlio, in the MORE THAN ONE CHILD daytime, are a painter, garage official, busi- ness e.\ecuti\e and post office employee. where no widow is eligible for pension Under the present law, $13.65 is added to the pension for one child for a second and third, and $7.56 for each additional child above three. Under the proposed law, $15 would be added for eacli additional child abo\ e one. The total amount is divided equally among tlic children. now barred by income ceilings would age as disabling (by reducing the re- be added, plus 205,684 widows and quired amount of measurable disability children of deceased WW2 and Korea at higher age levels) would remain. veterans." 13. To summarize the essential re- The American Legion Rehabilitation strictions in the bill which would apply Commission says the new bill is "far to veterans in the futine—they are: more liberal" than the earlier one, and (a) Spouse's income would disqualify bears "'no resemblance . . . insofar as some futme applicants. intent is concerned." (b) Net worth would disqualify some PRODUCTION LINE technique is u.scd in 11. The new bill would not permit future applicants. putting on tlie roof of the new cement block veterans to waive otlier retirement in- (c) The reduced monthly rates for building by this niglit-shift crew of volun- come to which they are entitled in order pensioners whose other income is in the teer workers. Teamwork paid off here. to qualify for a VA pension. At present. upper brackets of permissible income Civil Service retirement pensions can be would result in lower pensions for some waived for this purpose. future eligibles. At the same time the Veterans with other forms of retire- higher rates for those in the lower brack- ment pay, such as company pensions or ets would protect the same veterans Social Security, cannot waive part of against severe reverses. them to qualify for VA pensions. (d) The "anti-waiver" provision The "grandfather clause" protects the would prevent some veterans in the fu- legitimate interest of those veterans who ture from coming within the VA pension have already been granted this waiver income limits by waiving part of their privilege. retirement pay. 12. The bill does not alter the present 14. Benefits of the bill outweigh its basic requirements of ciualifying for a restrictive factors. Congressional esti- veterans' pension. mates, not challenged by The American A veteran still must be rated totally Legion, are that 807c of single veterans and permanently disabled for pension now getting pensions would get in- SIX MONTHS LATER the nearly com- purposes, and adjudged essentially un- creases; 62% of veterans with dependents pleted building serves as the scene for the installation of the new post officers for employable, in addition to meeting the would get increases; 60% of widoivs 1959-60. Setting a torrid pace, the local new income ceilings. without children would get increases, as Legionnaires did this work between baby The present system of recognizing (Continued on page 34) sitting chores and earning a livelihood. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • 29 \[r)\

PRESENTING BOTH SIDES OF BIG ISSUES EACING THE NATION

THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: ShouM Immigratioii Barriers Be Lowered?

(PRO) present immigration laws (CON) The Walter-McCarran Immi- are in contradiction to the great Amer- gration and Nationality Act is a just ican tradition of fair play. law. It is not a perfect law, of course. The quota systems now in effect set No piece of legislation conceived by up arbitrary and unfair categories by the human mind can claim perfection. which the peoples of other nations are But the current Act, which I was A * graded as "first class," "second class" privileged to cosponsor with the late or in some lower bracket. Had national Senator Pat McCarran, is, to my way origin been the norm for admission in of thinking, the best yet devised, not our country's earlier days, the United States would only from the standpoint of fairness to the prospective have been deprived of the great contributions to its immigrants, but also from the standpoint of maintain- advancement made by millions of immigrants. ing the security and cultural integrity of this nation.

I do not favor unrestricted immigration, but I feel The Walter-McCarran Act is not the cold, heartless we can set up better standards for admission to our thing depicted by its detractors. On the contrary, it country than quotas based on racial origin. Let us provides amply for so-called hardship cases; it afifords judge potential Americans on the basis of their intel- asylum heie for persons whose lives would be in ligence, their morality, their health, and their loyalty; jeopardy were they deported to the lands from which let us set up all proper safeguards to prevent the en- they sprang; and as was so dramatically illustrated at trance of undesirables; but let us base the rules on the the time of the Hungarian Revolution when the fleeing people themselves, not on the country of their birth. freedom fighters were admitted into this country, it is This is not a political question; it is a question of designed to meet emergent situations as they arise. simple justice. Both the Republican and Democratic Most important of all, the Act is predicated on real- parties have pledged themselves to liberalization of the ism rather than emotionalism. present immigration laws; both party platforms in 1956 The magnitude of our immigration problem may be called for revision of the present laws to conform to grasped from the fact that since the end of World War American ideals of fairness. II, the United States has admitted 3 million immi- The Republican platform asked for "an immigration grants. What has become of them? What has been their policy which is in keeping with the traditions of impact on our economy? What has been their impact America in providing a haven for oppressed peoples, on our industrial welfare, our scientific achievements, and which is based on equality of treatment, freedom our arts and literature, our government— yes, and on from implications of discrimination between racial, ." our prisons and mental hospitals? What would be the nationality and religious groups . . impact if immigration doors were opened still more? The Democratic platform called for "prompt revision of the immigration and nationality laws to eliminate Is it wise to create in this country a problem of un- unfair provisions under which admissions to this coun- assimilable surplus population on top of the problems try depend upon quotas based upon accident of national created by our fast-rising birth rate? I have no doubt origin." that the United States has ceased to be what inter- In these days when the people of the wor'.d look to national migration experts call an area of resettlement.

America for moral as well as political leadership, it is While we shall continue to welcome reasonable unfortunate that the artificial restrictions of our im- numbers of assimilable aliens to our shores, we should migration laws make us vulnerable to criticism and not tolerate turning the United States into a dumping give our enemies an opportunity to picture the United ground for the surplus population of other lands. States as a nation preaching justice but practicing The greatness of the United States stems not just injustice. from its natural resources, its industrial might, or its We might well think back to the ringing words of scientific achievements. In the last analysis, this coun- the great George Washington, who said: try consists of people who are assimilated in a society "The bosom of America is open to receive not only dedicated to concepts of freedom. When we tamper the Opulent and Respectable Stranger; but the op- with the flow of people into our society, we are tamper- pressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; ing with America itself. whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our That is why I feel that this nation cannot afford to rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of play the politico-emotionally inspired immigration conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment." numbers game—the stakes are too high.

Frank Kowalski (D ) Francis E. Walter (D ) Member of Congress fit Large from Connecticut Member of Congress from IStii District of Pennsylvania

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 r Budweisei! Movie of the Month MEN PAST40 JOHN PAUL JONES Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, Nervousness, Tiredness. Moviegoers who like adventure, ro- ity are nowhere better demonstrated If you are a victim of the above symp mance, moving drama, and history will than in the famous battle when he led toms, the trouble may be due to Gland- find all these things in the spectacular the Bo7ihoTi!iiie Richard against the ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- Technirama-Technicolor movie John Serapis, and this exciting action is im- ease for which it is futile for sufferers to try to treat themselves at home. Paul Jones. pressively portrayed on the screen. To men of middle age or past this The story of one of America's great- It was during this battle on Sept. 23, type of inflammation occurs frequently. est heroes—and one of the world's great- 1779, that Jones uttered the words for It is accompanied by loss of physical est naval officers — is told in striking w hich he is perhaps best remembered. vigor, graying of hair, forgetfulness and often increase in weight. Neglect of fashion in this excellent motion picture. W hen summoned to surrender by the such Inflammation causes men to grow The title role is ably pla\ ed b\' Rob- British officer commanding the Serapis, old before their time premature senil- — ert Stack, who turns in what may well he set the tone for generations of Amer- ity and possible incurable conditions. be his best dramatic performance to date. Most men, if treatment is taken in time, can be successfully NON-SURGI An imposing array of established stars CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam —as well as some talented newcomers- mation. If the condition is aggravated portray of the outstanding figures by lack of treatment, surgery may be many the rinly chance. of the Revolutionary War period. Chief among them are Charles Coburn, Alac- NONSUtteWAL TRBAmism donald Carey, Jean Pierre Aumont, Marisa Pavan, Erin O'Brien, and Bctte The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat ments used at the Excelsior Medical Davis. Clinic are the result of discoveries in The movie expertly and forcefully recent years of new techniques and covers Jones' life from the time of his drugs plus over 20 years research by scientific technologists and Doctors. boyhood in his native Scotland until his death in France 45 years later. In this Men from all walks of life and from over 1,000 communities have been suc- comparatively brief span he accom- cessfully treated here at Excelsior plished feats that have made his name Robert Stack as John Paul Jones Springs. They found soothing and com- forting relief and new health in life. known and revered the world over, and the dramatic unfolding of these events ican fighting men by saying: "I have RECTAL-COLON makes a topnotch motion picture. not yet begun to fight." Are often associ- EXAMINATION story, ated with Glandu- The fascinating the fine acting, The re-enactment of this historic en- AT LOW COST lar Inflammation. and the excellent photography all com- gagement provides the movie's best you arrive These disorders, we When can successfully bine to make John Vctul fo/ies a picture scene. here our Doctors who treat for you. at \\ hich all Americans should see. It is a are experienced spe- the same time we In summary, Joh/i Paul Jones is family cialists make a com- treat Glandular In- film w hich is at once entertaining, ex- entertainment of the finest kind. plete examination. flammation. citing, and instructive. A Warner Bros, release; produced by Your condition is frankly explained REDUCIBLE The movie accurately records how Samuel Bronston; directed by John Far- and then you decide HERNIA Jones rose from humble beginnings to row. Screenplay by John Farrow and if you will take the is also amenable to become one of the outstanding naval Jesse Lasky, Jr. Running time: 2 hours, treatments needed. a painless Non- Surgical treatment heroes of all time. His courage and abil- 5 minutes. Treatments are so that we have de- mild hospitalization veloped. Full de- is not needed— a con- tails of this treat- siderable saving in ment given in our expense. Free Book.

Write Today For Our % The Excelsior Med- and the others blame the farmer and ical Clinic has pub- the laborer. lished a New FREE Carl Zimmerman Book that deals with St. John, Ohio diseases peculiar to men. It could prove of utmost importance to your future life FOR FAIR TRADE Write today. No ob- off!'' Sir: It is iModell ligation. obvious that Henry who "answers" Senator Proxmirc in ' Off! " section EXCELSIOR (Coiniinied fro7// pat^e 4) your June "Sound knows MEDICAL CLINIC nothing \\ hatsoe\ er about Fair Trade. B] 151 I Dept. out to get a soft Government contract Fair Trade is not price fixing. It is sim- Excelsior Springs, Mo. for goods, services, etc' Palm-greasing I ply a legitimate means for permitting a Gentlemen: Kindly send at once, your I me is called for, and there go ethics, self- manufacturer to safeguard the proper- I New FREE Book. I am interested in full respect, independence, the rest of I information (Please Check Box) and ty value of his trademark and the sta- I Hernia Rectal-Colon Glandular it. Collectively we buy imported goods bility of his distribution system. The Inflammation the things I because aforementioned fact is that in every transaction in our have caused the price of domestically econom)' somebody established the I NAME produced goods to rise completely out price for which a product is to be sold. \ ADDRESS- of proportion, and our economy is It would not eliminate price competi-

I TOWN thereby weakened. Tiic union member tion except between the same brand. STATE who is out of work blames the admin- Before a product can be Fair Traded, I istration, the farmer blames Benson, it must be in free and open competi-

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 . .

tion with articles of the same class produced by others; therefore if you Tick-tock . . tick-tock . . do not wish to pay the price for, say, a particular brand of toothpaste, you have a choice of a large number of other brands at a great variation in price. Even the opponents of Fair Trade estimate that not more tiian 10 the whiskey percent of the merchandise sold is Fair Traded, and under an\- condition onl\-

a small part of the cost of living is pur- chase of merchandise. Thus an estimate of a 30-pcrcent rise in the cost of living that didn't watch the clock is simpK- ridiculous. Clyde Magnello GiriirJ, Ohio ...seven long years! IT WORKS

Sir: As Post Service Officer for 40 \'ears, I know the prol)lem of tiie tran- sient veteran discussed by E. T. Gam-

age in "Sound Off!" for AIa\-. Here is my \va>- of handling this problem: If the veteran can show a Legion mem- bership card, regardless of year, he gets help. If he has no card, he gets no help. Wc give no cash. W'c pay bus fares or

fill up the car w ith gas and oil if they are needed. We buy food for the vet and his family and offer lodging. It works; try it. Art O. Grapp

Highland, III.

MARKERS TO FOIL THIEVES

Sir: Because the brtinze markers used at the graves of the dead are such a

temptation to delinquents, I believe it would be a good thing if we could substitute for the bronze now used a plastic American Legion emblem. Plastics are now at such a stage of per- fection that it would not be hard to make this substitution. It would make a cut in the overall cost, and at the same time place at the final resting place of our honored dead a marker of which we might justly be proud. Aly brother's final resting place has been neglected by his erstwhile Post for the past 3 years because of vandalism. Clarence E. Allen Hallouell, Maine

THANKS TINKER FRENCH CALENDAR CLOCK. Sliows 111' s, dates, phascs of moon. From the famous Old Cliartcr Collcclion. Sir: Our sinccrest thanks for Frank A. Tinker's "Open Letter to Norman Old Charter goes into the cask a superior whiskey. Long, quiet years Cousins" in the issue. If June only we of aging mellows it to rare magnificence. These two simple, but vital, could get the newspapers and press factors are behind the superb flavor that is Old Charter's alone. Long services to consult a man like Frank a bourbon drinker's premier whiskey, Old Charter's superb quality Tinker for a followup every time they and rare smooth flavor have actually won over many Scotch, Canadian publicize stories such as Norman Cou- sins promotes! AVe seem to hear much and Bonded whiskey drinkers. It has become one of the leading more from the bleeding hearts than quality whiskies in America. Try it yourself. You'll see luhy. from men of good will and common sense. Robert F. Steiner TopL'k'a, Kans.

Letters published in Sound Off! do not necessarily represent the policy of The American Legion. Name withheld if re- quested. Keei) your letters short. Address: Sound Off, the American Legion Maga- zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19. N. Y. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • 33 . "

POSTS IN ACTION PEN,SION such a gathering of young men. The en- Items from our 1 7,000 posts. Tliose of most (Continued from page 29) thusiasm of youth was quite evident but al spread general interest and widest geofiraplik would the same percentage of widows no group of sages could have been more are selected, witit apologies for the hundreds icifh children. coolheaded, keener in judgment, or more of others ttiat are so kindly reported to tlie editors. AU children who receive pensions in intense in purpose than these ex-soldiers New eyes — Post 1092, Schenectady, their own names would get increases. and sailors of the United States. N. Y., collected over 4,000 pairs of Substantial increases would go to niost It was evident throughout that the glasses and 35 pounds of jewelry during pensioned veterans who are so disabled two greatest attributes which the men its 6th annual drive for New Eyes for the that they need regular aid and attend- brought home from the war were a Needy, a charitable group that provides ance. No pensioners now on the rolls spirit of unselfishness and a desire for eyeglasses for those who cannot afford could have their benefits involuntarih' service to mankind. Every resolution them. The 6-yr. collection record: 26,663 diminished. which could be interpreted by the coun- pairs of glasses and 178 pounds of Similar percentages would apply to try as indicating a selfish motive on the jewelry. future applicants, although unlike those part of the soldiers, for example, the six now on the rolls, some future applicants months' additional pay for discharged soldiers, was immediately voted down, Blood — Post 396, Brigantine, N. J., re- would be at a disadvantage compared cently initiated the first blood typing to their possible entitlement under the practically unanimously. At no time program in the community. The post present law. would any hint of using this organization bears the labor and laboratory costs and The new, higher income ceilings, on as a political power be tolerated. The furnishes the post facilities. the other hand, would admit to pension leaders in the movement were the entitlement some future applicants who strongest in denouncing any political Forward march — Post 168, Barnesville, could not qualify at present. preferment for any man as one of the Ohio, has two 40-year members who Status of Bill motives of the Legion. have marched in every one of that town s Late in June the new bill was in the 'Bolshevism, the I.W.W. movement, Memorial Day parades since 1919. The Senate Finance Committee. Uncon- and all other radical movements tinged two are: A. A. Davis, 70, and Durward firmed reports said that the Budget with non-Americanism, were most se-

Bernhard, 69. Burea was attempting to keep it bottled verely arraigned. It was ever apparent up there. The Senate Committee had that here was a group of men, represent- Fund raisers — Post 44, Canton, Ohio, asked the Veterans Administration for ing millions of other men, who would raised a total of $431 for a recent "Gifts a fresh cost estimate of the bill, and as fight and die to perpetuate a 100 per It even more to the Yanks" program ~ nearly half of these words went to press it was certain cent Americanism. was the $1,034 raised in Stark County. that the bill would not budge in the apparent that this organization stood Senate Finance Committee until the VA squarely behind fair play for every one of Three R's — As a community service, had compiled its new figures and the and would not tolerate the misuses Post 1366, New Brighton, N. Y., con- Senate Finance Committee had studied either economic or political power by ducted evening classes four nights a them. any class or party. week this past school year for high school It passed the House by a standing 'But the most vivid impression gained students who desired to improve their vote of 226 to 34, but was being sub- at the convention was the spirit of ideal- almost every action. grades. The instructors were qualified jected to attack as it went into the Sen- ism which marked high school teachers, all members of the ate. The attack seemed based upon that This spirit can best be interpreted by — — post. Subjects taught: mathematics, sci- part of the bill which would permit the one word Service service to their ence and art. WW2 and Korea veterans' widows to country, service to one another, and receive pensions on the same basis as especially to those soldiers handicapped because of lack of funds, unemployment Outdoor living — Picnic shelter and fire- WWl widows. The objection— it would or disability from disease or wounds, places valued at $1,500, built and paid cost money. by and service to humanity. A new force is for by Post 472, Manor, Pa., were re- in the country — a force that will cently presented to the Manor Recrea- PROPHECY? abroad "safeguard and transmit to posterit>' the tion Area for community use. A New Force principles of justice, freedom, and de- Even forty years ago when The mocracy. Carnival — Post 201, Louisville, Ky., American Legion was in its infancy there "Carry on. has sponsored a child welfare carnival were those who could foresee the value Sincerely, for the past 7 years with the entire of such an organization. /s/ Leo H. Pollock, M.D." profits being given to the Stevens School The following letter was received (Editor's Note: See The American Le- for Retarded Children. Six vear total: from Dr. Leo H. Pollock, of Kansas City, gion Magazine, "How Theij Wrote The $31,308. Mo. It reads almost like a prophecy. Preamble" (June 1959), 'ivhen Teddy "Dear Sir: Said No!" (Mat/ 1959), "The Legion's Outing — Post 98, Rockport, Mass., "In perusing the Journal of the Mis- Fir.st 40 years" (March 1959) and "The sponsored its 10th annual outing recent- souri State Medical Association to get Debt That Cant Be Paid," page 22, this ly for 110 disabled and hospitalized vet- items for my "Forty Years Ago" column, issue ) erans from three VA hospitals in the I found the following item in the edi- area. tion of August, 1919. It certainly de- LEGION FACTS: scribes the beginning of a great and Ding dong! — Collecting scrap brass, patriotic force: A Library Full bronze and copper war materials is the 'THE AMERICAN LEGION: The If you're looking for information project being undertaken by Post 28, birth of The American Legion in St. about The American Legion, you might Duluth, Minn. The scrap will be used Louis in May was one of the most mo- check with The American Legion Li- to cast the third and largest bell for the mentous developments of the war. Never brary located at National Headquarters, Peace Memorial Tower in Duluth. in the history of this country was there Indianapolis.

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Founded in 1923, the library is housed (Aug. 15); Time (Aug. 17); National in a room 52 feet by 144 and lias a col- Geographie; Natural History and The lection of some 7,000 books and other American Legion Magazine. These pub- material on the Legion itself, the two lications cover more than 20 million World Wars and the Korean Conflict. readers. Here's what the library contains: ® A unique panel discussion on "The Memorial book collection of some Role of the Free Press in the United 200 interesting books. States" was conducted dming Jer- Bound copies of National, Depart- New sey's American Legion Boys State this ment and Post periodicals. year. Representatives of the New Jersey Magazines pertaining to business, press served as the panel members. economics, foreign relations, current events, the armed forces and veterans • Ninety-eight future leaders of Ameri- attairs. ca who attended the Legion's 14th an- World War 1 and 2 recruiting posters, nual Boys Nation in Washington July pamphlets, maps, photographs, medals, 17-24 got a close look at the Nation's propaganda leaflets, outfit newspapers operating government. (including Stars and Sfripes and the Amaroc News • Deadline tor this year's American ) NOW IS THE TIME TO Archives materials which include Legion National Post History Contest is everything issued by the Legion nation- Sept. 15. PLAN YOUR QUEBEC TRIP ally and to a limited extent by the From the • Another post has exceeded the 2,000- border north to James Bay and Departments (proceedings, minutes, re- Ungava, geese and duck fly in untold member mark. It's Post Minne- 435, thousands over the lakes and streams ports, histories, bulletins, news releases, of apolis, Minn. La Province de Quebec. Enjoy Quebec constitutions, speeches, pamphlets, pro- hunting and French-Canadian hospitality. motional literature, manuals, biographies • All 38 American Legion posts in Artonge now for guides and reservations. of prominent Legionnaires). Oklahoma's fourth ch'strict participated Write to-day to: Provtnciol Publicity Bureau, An alphabetical cumulative subject in raising funds for the United Cerebral Parliament Building, Quebec City, Canada; or 4S Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N.Y. card index and digest to all action taken Palsy campaign. They were cited by at National Conventions and National Judge Kirksey M. Nix, Criminal Court LA PROVINCE DE Executive Committee meetings. of Appeals, and state campaign chair- Card index containing the names of man. e\'ery Legionnaire who has held a Na- tional or Department office. WERE YOU THERE? at A cross indexed correspondence file Who were the two Legionnaires of 14 main classifications and some 30,- the National Convention in Chicago 000 subjects. last year who tried to help a woman The usual general reference sources who had been knocked to the pavement when the door of a she was trying jncwtae folding (almanacs, directories, atlases, diction- bus BANQUET aries, encyclopedias, "Who's Who" type to board was closed in her face? of biographical information, literary She needs their help as witnesses to TABLES] f}uotation books, city telephone direc- what happened to her. She required ex- tensive medical treatment for injuries, tories, etc.) I Lodqe com- mittees. soc.„. and states that the bus company chal- and recreational , Information on Child 1 Americanism, qroups. you will I lenges her claim that the event ever r- be interested m Welfare, Rehabilitation, National Se- this modern J Folding Banquet clubs, etc. Write for —:p Table. America's curity, Foreign Relations, Legislative, happened. . Catalog of Tables. 3 QreatcEt line. Economic, Insurance, Membership and The Legionnaires who tried to help Chairs. Trucks. Monroe Co., 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa Post Activities, etc. her then could assist her with affidavits The trained staft under the direction of what they witnessed. Write: Miss of librarian Tom Hull handles an aver- Maude McQueen, 706 West Sheridan age of 9,000 informational requests a Road, Chicago 3, 111. year. People 50 to 80 LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: BRIEFLY NOTED: The citation of an individual Legion- COPY DOWN THIS NAME naire to life membership in his Post is a • Two non-Legion Connecticut institu- AND ADDRESS . . . testimonial by those who know him best NOW tions have established a memorial fund that he has served The American Legion . . . and write today to find out to send boys from the Bristol area to well. how you can still apply for a Connecticut's American Legion Boys Below are listed some of the previous- $1,000 life insurance policy to State. They are ( ) the employees of the 1 ly unpublished life memberships that help take care of final expenses Bristol Brass Co., and (2) the Pur- b.a\ e been reported to the editors. They without burdening your family. chasing Agents Ass'n of Hartford Coun- are arranged by States. Mail a postcard or letter, giving ty. Fund established was with Post 2, Ralph Ford Tiilhill (1959). Post 56. Santa Maria. your name, address and year of Calif. Bristol to memorialize its late Bo\ s State Charles O. Wallace (19591. Post f>66. San Jose. birth to: Chairman, C. Vincent Chapin, former Calif. Frank G. Millar (1959), Post 29, Greenwich, Old American Ins. Co. purchasing agent for Bristol Brass Corp. Conn. Walter L. McCanibridge (1959), Post 149, Chi- 4900 Oak, Dept. L857M cago. 111. Sinclair Kansas City, Missouri • Oil Corporation honors The Hubert E. Mogle (1958), Post 391. Lombard. 111. Carl E. Shoaff (1959). Post 514. Carbondale, 111. American Legion this month during the There is no obligation — and Lawrence D. Larson (1959), Post 864, Rockford. 40th anniversary year with a 4-color 111. no one will call on you. You can E. F. Stallcup (1959). Post 239, Gilmore City. page advertisement appearing in News- Iowa. handle the entire transaction by week (Aug. 10); Satuidinj Review (Continued on next page) mail.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGU,ST 1959 • 35 LIFE MEMBERSHIPS James J. Magee (1959), Post 21, Philadelphia, THE LEGION'S VOICE Pa. (Continued from page 35) William H. Heuston and Charles W. Hiney and Brief digests of some remarks by na- George L. Horner and Victor E. Lane (all 1959), Chester P. Derveloy and Mires C. Gehr and Post 147, Roaring Spring, Pa. thnal American Legion spokesmen in Gra.v A. Mann (all 1959). Post 3. Alexandria. La. Dixie D. Dryden (1953). Post 190. Chester. Pa. recent months. Joseph FitzPatric and Earl B. Foss and George C. Lee Artley and John Billhime and Frank C. T. Lake (all 1958), Post 117, Wilton, Maine. Brass and Samuel C. Brass (all 1959). Post 268, Christian W. Bretail (1959), Post 8, Baltimore, Muncy. Pa. "Your firm determination that West Md. Carl Miller and Paul Stoler and Earl Thomas John F. McAuliife and Edward Reed and (all 1957). Post 559. Annville. Pa. Berlin will not be abandoned to the Charles L. Tobin (all 1959), Post 22, Whitman. William J. Coady and John Danshaw and Simon Draginis and James Edwards (all 1954), forces of enslavement has strengthened Mass. Frederick L. Ripley (1959), Post 114, Milton, Post 677, New Philadelphia, Pa. the hopes of freedom loving peoples Mass. John J. O'Malley (1959), Post 803, Philadelphia, William M. Carroll and George T. Higgins (both Pa. ." throughout the world. . . TSlat'l Cmdr 1959), Post 42.1, Worcester, Mass. Marian Peterson (1959), Post 129, Waubay, S. Roliert Ro.v and Kep Summers (both 1958) and Dak. Moore to Sec'y of State Heiier. Ernest Simmons (1959), Post 135, Imlay City, Howard V. Holland (1959), Post 327, Norfolk, Mich. Va. "Veterans comprise more' than one- Belmont Burger and Glenn Lamberson and Vern Post Commanders or Adjutants are Mcintosh (all 1958), Post 203, Belding, Mich. fifth of jobseekers age 45 or over, and Leo Shoenholz (1959). Post 165. Cleveland. Miss. asked to report life membership awards Robert F. Steenbock (1959). Post 160. Polk,

. to "Life Memberships," American this percentage is increasing. . . Em- Nebr. The ployment problems affecting veterans Peter J. Flynn and Arthur E. Hiland and Wil- Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave., New liam Murphy (all 1959). Post 2. Manchester. N. H. because of arbitrary age restrictions will Karl F. Underwood, Sr. (1959), Post 4, Keene, York 19, N. Y. Date of award is re- N. H. become more intensified as World War 2 Kenneth R. Knowles and Frank G. Randall quested in all cases. Receipt of names ." (both 1959). Post 70, Seabrook, N. H. and Korean veterans get older . . cannot be acknowledged. William B. Post and Murrell Price and Morris Clarence Bird, Nat'l Economic Director, E. Rockhill (all 1958), Post 79, Burlington, N. J. Eugene D. Morin and Howard A. Portz and PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: to a Congressional committee. Kenneth N. Wray (all 1957). Post 111. Closter. HARRY L. FOSTER, member of The N. J. George Hofer (1959). Post 173. Milltown, N. J. American Legion Convention Commis- "Unless the Chinese Nationalist Edmund Fitzgerald and Gus Flaherty and An- sion, of the Harbor Com- thony F. Frisina Arthur J. Glatt (all 1959). named chmn Olympic Team is admitted to participa- and Post 69. Oiidcnsbiirg. N. mission of San Diego, Calif. tion in the 1960 Olympics it will be Raymond Rasbach and Fred L. Rice and William J. Rogers and Leonard Ulrich (all 1958). Post 264. WALTER E. ALESSANDRONi, Nat l Ex- necessary for me to request the 17,200 Tonawanda. N. Y. ecutive Committeeman from Pennsyl- American Legion Posts to cease support James N. Mason (1958). Post 323, Granville. N. Y. vania, appointed U. S. Attorney for ." for this series of games . . Public state- Jerry Collins and Morris Levy and Sam Levy and Willet McAvov (all 1959). Post 573. Brook- Eastern Pennsylvania. He also received ment of Natl Cmdr Moore. lyn. N. Y. the Pennsylvania Assn's Distin- Frank J. Grehl (1959). Post 631. Jackson Bar Heights. N. Y. "In a year Administration guished Service Award for his work as when the James J. Keany (1959). Post 712. New York. Philadelphia Ass'n. is making budget balancing one of its N. Y. chancellor of the Bar J. Wesley Drake (1959), Post 1205. New York. major political goals, the Veterans Ad- N. Y. T. o. KRA.\BEL, Vicc Chmn of The ." George Schiro (1959), Post 1221, Brooklyn, N. Y. American Legion Rehabilitation Com- ministration has not hit . . been hard F. Darius Benham (1959), Post 1755, New York. mission, appointed director of the Voca- Joltn J. Corcoran, Legion Nat'l Rehab N. Y. Alfred B. Mickelson and Howard W. Stansburv tional Rehabilitation and Education Director, in btdJctin to service officers. (both 1958), Post 13, Finley, N. Dak. J. Edward King and Edmund F. Marlowe and Service of the Veterans Administration. Henry Rentz (all 1958), Post 436. Greentown. Ohio. "We'll never beat communism merely He was also selected to receive from the Ass'n of Physical and Mental Rehabilita- by being against it . . . but only through a vital and dynamic faith in Ameri- THE AMEKK AN LEGION tion, Inc., the John Eisele Davis Award, ." NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS for his contributions to the field of physi- canism . . Natl Cmdr Moore to Florida MAY 31, 19.)9 cal medicine and rehabilitation. Legionnaires. ASSETS Died: Cash on hand and on depost 302.108.54 H. ADAMS, Choiii of The American "A communist Cuba . . . could mean Receivables 280.075.34 JOE 499,218.97 at least a massive staging center in our Legion Convention Commission, and a front yard from which Moscow could Trust Funds: Past Nat'l Vice Cmdr (1950-51); in Overseas Graves Decoration Fla.; after a long illness. direct . . . broadsides against America. Miami, Employees Retirement ." RE.x F. WHITTEMORE, Past Dcp't Cmdr . . Natl Cmdr Moore, to FBI Academy Tru.st Fund 2,769,364.15 3,029.424,52 graduating class. Real Estate 804,990.15 of California (1948-49). Furniture and Fixtures, L. HEARN, Past Dcp't Cmdr of Less Depreciation 332,784.00 JOE "We ought to rely more on our readi- Arkansas (1948-49); in Little Rock. ness to win a fight than on the Commu- DR. LEONARD G. ROWNTREE, Ass't Chief nists' ." Medical Adviser of The American Le- reluctance to start one. . . Natl LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE Cmdr Moore, to Kentucky Legion- AND NET WORTH gion Rehabilitation Medical Advisory naires. 412.060.10 Board; in Miami, Fla. 21,767.77 1,639,848.96 GILBERT BATES, Vicc Chmn of The Trust Funds: soft living is Legion Economic Commis- "Love of not among the Overseas Graves Decoi-ation American ideals for which we fought. Perhaps the Trust Fund $ 260,060.37 sion, and Past Dep't Cmdr of Indiana Emplovees Retirement time has come when we must choose be- Trust Fund 2.769,364.15 3,029,424.52 (1951-52 ) ; at his home, in Milford, Ind. ." Net Worth: sTUBBLEFiELD, fomicr Execu- tween luxury and liberty. . . Nat'l BRUCE Reserve Fund $ 24,185.11 tive Secretary of The American Legion Cmdr Moore, to South Dakota Legion- Restricted Fund . . 20,424.33 Real Estate 804,990.15 naires. Rehabilitation Employment Com- Reserve for Reha- and bilitation 415,297.63 mittee, and former Associate Chief of Reserve for Child "The bill for our independence will Welfare 45,796.62 the Veterans Division of the U.S. Civil Reserve for not be marked 'paid in full,' until we see Service Commission; in Johnson City, Convention . , . . 30,000.00 the world rid of the political philosophies $1,340,693.84 Tenn. which govern Unrestricted p.\TBicK PETRONE, Vicc Chmii of The without the consent of the Capital 330,622.42 1.671:316.26 ." governed. . . Nat'l Cmdr Moore, to a $6,774,417.61 American Legion Nat'l Security Com- NBC radio network audience. mission.

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 LLOYD G. HILL, Past Dep't Cmdr of 109th Ammunition Train (WWl)-(Oct.) Sam Hoyt, Bo.x 434, Creston, Iowa. Washington (1924-25); at his home, in 110th Engrs (Southeast Kans. units)—(Sept.) John Shrinks Hemorrhoids P. Main, Sinclair Pipe Line, Independence, Kans. Spokane; after a long iUness. 111th QM Bakery Co-(Aug.) Darwin Hruby, 217 N. Park, Buffalo 16, N. Y. New Way Without Surgery 112th Heavy FA, Btry B (WWl)-(Sept.) M. L. George N. Davis Atkinson. 1020 Linwood Ave., Collingswood 7, N. J. Stops Itch -Relieves Pain 113th Engrs (WWl)-(Sept.) Leo Fenton, 100 Mul- George N. Davis, the chief author of berry St., Noblesville. Ind. For the first time science has found a 114th FA, Btry B (WWI)-(Sept.) W, F, Orton, new healing substance with the astonishing The Preamble to the Constitution of The 2102 Bailey Ave., Chattanooga 4, Tenn. ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve 114th Field Sig (WWl)-(Oct.) Worrell, American Legion, died in Portland, Bn W. F. pain — without surgery. Box 154, Ruston, La. In case, Ore., on Mav 8, 1959. He was 80 vears 116th Field Sig Bn (WWl)-(Dec.) Bill Clark, 6210 case after while gently relieving E. Greenlake Way, Seattle 3, Wash. pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. old. 133d Inf, Co E (WW2)-(Sept.) Albert A. McCol- Most amazing of all — results were so Best known for his contribution to the lough, 501 Beach St., Webster City, Iowa. thorough that sufferers made astonishing 137th Inf, Co B (WWl)-(Sept.) Floyd A. McGehe, statements like "Piles have ceased to be a Legion's document (See 406 New Jersey Ave., Holton. Kans. now famous problem!" 137th Inf, Co K (WWl)-(Sept.) George Meeske, "How They Wrote The Preamble," The Coffevville, Kans. The secret is a new healing substance American Legion 'Magazine, June 1959), 140th Inf, Co B (WWl)-(Sept.) E. C. Lohse, Pilot (Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of a world-famous Grove. Mo. research institute. the Davis was a former Judge of Mul- 148th Inf, Co D-(Oct.) Woodrow Kohlman, R. D. This substance is now available in sup- 1, Oak Harbor. Ohio. pository or ointment form under the name tonomah County (Oregon) Circuit 151st Med Bn-(Aug.) Capt. Robert Cornelius, Preparation //.* Ask for it at all drug count- Court. He was bom in Bridgeville, Del., Police Dept., Steubenville, Ohio. 151st Ord Bn, Hq Co and Companies A & B- ers—money back guarantee. »Reg. u.s. Pat. off and graduated from the University of (Sept.) Robert Heckard, R. D. 2, Logansport, Ind. at the age of 19. received cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; Delaware He lS2d Ind, Co H (WWl)-(Aug.) Ward E. Camp- DRAINS his law degree from Harvard University. bell. 905 Meadow Lane, Lebanon, Ind. IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES • SPRAYS 172d Inf, Co E-(Sept.) Elmer E, Nissley, Hum- e P Pump has 1.001 u.ses. Stainless a resident of Riv- ft. Won't rust or clo<;! Use i n HP Judge Davis, Hood melstown. Pa. otor or larger... 3 4 HP for up to 3000 203d CA (AAl-(Sept.) O. C. Hayward, P.O. Box PH; 450 GPH 8(1' high: or 1 BOO GPH er, Ore., was a veteran of the Spanish- om 25' well. 1" Inlet; outlet. 706. Webb City, Mo. oupling included free S7.9S 218th Sig Depot Co-(Sept.) Glenn Williams, 604 ivy Duty Ball'Bcaring Pump. Up to American War and served with the 91st " " "(J GPH. 1 l'4 Inlet: 1 outlet . S12.9S 111. Wabash. Mattoon, tp.ild If c.Tsh with order. Money Back Di\ ision during World War I. 291st Sig Heavy Construction Co-(Oct.) Robert L. irantee. Also other sizes, types. Hinman. Box 1906. Lincoln, Nebr. Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Mackie Belle Wead N.I. 301st GHQ MP Bn-(Oct.) Dr. J. C. Hughes, 12 ^LABAWCO PUMPS. 56. Ruth Davis, Hood Ri\er, and a sister, Parker St., Gardner. Mass. 302d Inf, Co L-(Sept.) Charles C. Misner, 333 Ida B. Davis, Laurel, Ore. Knox St., Westerville. Ohio. 313th .MG Bn (WWl)-(Sept.) L. E. Welk, 1921 Intemment \\ as at the Willamette Na- RUPTURE-EASER Peach St., Erie. Pa. (APioer r.race Truss) tional Cemeterv in Portland. 315th Inf (WW2»-(Sept.) Harry McGivern, 910 (g| Roosevelt Road. Pittsburuh 2. Pa. 334th Engr Regt, Co F-(Sept.) Roland E. Sim- mons, 2320 Acorn Drive, Davton 19. Ohio. 337th Engrs and 1338th Engr Group-(Aug.) R. H Bieri. 66 Oruan Ave.. Akron 19, Ohio. Double 5.95 OUTFIT 339th FA, Btry D-(Sept.) Ben Miller, Osceola, F. Right or left No low a. Side Fitting 357th Inf, Supply Co (WWl )-(Sept.) S. F. Dafforn. 95 Required REUNIONS 4920 Rock Creek Lane. Mission, Kans. 486th AAA AW Bn (SP>-(Aug.) Antonio J. Man- Reunion will be held in month indicated. A strong, forin-iitting washable support yino. 21 Greenleaf St., Portland. Maine. for redurible inguinal beir.ia. Bark lacing adjustable. For particulars, write person whose address 489th .\AA AW Bn-(Sept.) Henry Kustra, 3811 Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat groin Grover Ave. (Rear), McKeesport, Pa. pad. No steel or leather bands. I'nescelled for comfort is given. 536th Ord HM Co (Tank) (WW2)-(Aug.) Bayard Also used as after oixTation support. For men. women, children. Mail orders oive measure around the lowest Notices accepted on official form only. W. Peabody. 6 Forest St.. Baldwinville. Mass. part of the abdomen and state right left tide or For form send stamped, addressed rctmn 605th TD Bn-(SeDt.) Alfred M. Schmit. 626 E. double. We Prtpav Postase except C.O.D.'i. Third St.. Delphos. Ohio. PIPER BRACE CO. envelope to: O. R. Form, American Legion 607th OB.4M Bn-(Oct.) Frank Bohovic, 3479 E. 811 Wyandotte Dept. AL-89 Kansas City 5, Mo. !05th St., Cleveland 4. Ohio. Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, 638th TO Bn-(Aug.) Wilfred Hochaesans, Box N. V. Notices should be received at least 270. R. D. 4. Jasper. Ind. four months before scheduled reunion. 640th TD Bn-(Sept.) Jack Slusher, 6428 S. State St.. Murrav. L'tah. 645th .\irborne AAA MG Bn-(Seot.) Ray Ball. 256 Hunstead Lane. Indianapolis 27. Ind. All Services 699th Ord HM Co (Tank)-(AU2.) Ray Tavlor. Retreads (Vets of both World Wars)-(Aug.) Co!. 18320 Hazelvvood. Roscville. Mich. MONEY MAKING OPPORTUN Oliver J. Troster, 74 Trinity Place, New York 715th Rv Operating Bn-(Sept.) C. C. Thompson. FOR YOU WITHOUT INVESTMENT! 6, N. 6144 .Ave.. III. Y. Kimbark Chicano 37. No experience needed to act as our Local 724th Ry Operating Bn (WW2)-(.Aug.) Robert J. Dealer for Master Work Uniform garments. Army Timlin. 849 Binns Blvd.. Columbus 4. Ohio. Every business concern a prospect. Adver- 3483d Ord MAM Co-(Sept.) Oliver Quelle. 5427 tising embroidered on garments is a big sales 1st Special Service Force— (Aug.) Eugene V. Mc- feature. Stores can't compete. You can easily S. Manlewood. Chicago, 111. Cormick. 1901 S. Fourth St.. Lafavetle. earn up to many thousands of dollars yearly. Ind. Camp Dix Base Hosp Med Detachment (WWl)- 3d Corps Artillerj Park (WWl)-(Sept.) John W. We supply all Sales Equipment FREE. Write (Sept.-Oct.) Henry C. Mades, 453 Colonia Blvd., Miller. 71 Central St.. Narragansett, R. I. GEO. MASTER GARMENT DIV. Colonia. N. J. DEPT. C-3 - LIGONIER. INDIANA 4tli Illinois-130th Inf-(Sept.) Tony Borries. State Los .\ngeles MP Organization— (Oct.) William W. .Armorv. Effin'.>ham. 111. Search, P.O. Box 515, Adelanto, Calif. 10th Inf. Co D (WW'l)-(Sept.) Alvin E. Gebard, 1204 S. Grant St.. Bloomington. Ind. WORLD NEEDS HELP! 11th FA-(Sept.) R. J. Summers, 84 Ampere Park- Navy LORD'S PBAYBR PIN way. East Oransie. N. J. 93d Seabees-(Sept.) Mike Suvak. 59 Gorsline St., 17th Sig Operations Bn (WW2)-(Sept.) E. F. Hof- Rochester 13. N. Y. Helps You Make Money meister. 710 Crown Ave., Scranton 5, Pa. Fleet Post Office, >ew York-(Oct.) Nat Harris, 19th Inf-(Sept.) Alben L. Beisell. 526 N. 105th P.O. Box 36. New York 1. N. Y. and Serve the Lord St.. Seattle 33. Wash. Hampton Roads, Va., N'avv Electrical School, Co 23d Engrs (WWl (-(Aug.) Entire Lord's Prayer arttullv en- James P. Henriksen, 10-10 (1918-19)-(Scpt.) Paul G. Clayton, 4113 graved on lovely I4K Gold-Plated 2922 N. Kilbourn Ave.. Chicago 41, 111. Jenifer St. NW.. Washington 15, D. C. Pin. Everyone admires it —Wears It 34th Div-fSept.) Dean J. Ernest, 2211 Reynolds Newport Recruit Personnel Office— (Sept.) Thomas with pride and devotion. We ship you a dozen. They sell fast at Si Ave. SW.. Cedar Rapids, lovva. J. Reeder. 37 Lark St., Pearl River. N. Y. each— Many buy 3 or more. When 35th Div-(Sept.) .M. S. Weed, P.O. Box 1001, Kan- Sub Chaser 2.33 (WWl)-(Nov.) Edward J. Comis- You get extra Pin sold, remit only $6 to us. Keep sas City. Kans. Free. Wear it. kev. Dover. Mass. profit for yourself or church. Just 50th Engr Combat Bn, Friends & Neigh< Co A-(Aug.) Chesley USS Gustafson-(Aua.) Donald Gladson, 2336 St. bors will admire send name, address and $1 deposit Fovsler. 1135 Shepard St., Lansing 12, Mich. Paul, Indianarolis 3. Tnd. and ask to buy. now. WE TRUST YO U ! Order today. 56th CAC (HWl)-(Sept.) Al Burke, 28 Hoyt St., USS Solace (WWl>-(Nov.) Dr. Richard A. Kern, LaViv6Co.,4N. 3rd Ave.. Dept. PA -89. Mt. Vernon. N.Y. Stamford. Conn. 3401 N. Broad St.. Temple Univ. Hospital, Phila- 56th C.\C (WW2)-(Oct.) Elmer Bertrand, 16821 delphia 40. Pa. Bulger. Hazel Crest. Til. USS White Plains-(Sept.) Col. Fred E. Hader- 88th Div— (Aug.) Sidney Heyman. 2017 Forest mann. Municipal Bldg., White Plains, N. Y. Dale. Hillandale Forest. Silver Spring, Md. 88th Div MP Companies (WW l)-(Aug.) Albert J. • • • Mever. Cumberland. Iowa. Air LAW trained men win higher posi- 93d CA (AA), Hq Btry (WW2)-(Oct.) William lOth Troop Carrier Group-(Aug.) O. C. Wilkins, CTIinV ST UnMP Legally A. OlUUI HI nUITIL tion3 and bigger success in business Gundel, 4020 Ave., 4811 Westmont Drive, Springfield. Ohio. Potomac Chicago 51, 111. and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. 104th Div-(Sept.) Robert Moehrman, 198 Hanford 354th Fighter Group-(Aug.) Lt. Col. Charles E. We guide you step by step. Yoa can train in spare time. Degree of B. fnmish all te« material, includmg valuable 14-volumo St.. Columbus. Ohio. Jr., 354th Tactical Fighter LL. We Cook, Hq Wing, Law Library. Low cost, easy terms. Get full details Law Trainrng 105th Med Regt, Co G-(Sept.) Preston D. Rierson, Mvrtle Beach Air Force Base, S. C. for Leadership" and -'Eyidence" books FREE. Send NOW. 127 W. Cahill St.. Madison. N. C. Rich Field, Waco, Tex. (WWl)-(July-Aug.) Wil- ACCREDITED MEMBER. NATIONAL HOME STUDY COUNCIL 109th .\mbulance Co (AEF)-(Nov.) Roscoe F, liam E. 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((.onlinited from fxige 24) THE B. F. GLADDING CO., of South THE NATION'S Indian reservation lands Otselic, N. Y., maker of fine fresh- and

offer a \asc potential for liiinting, fisliingr, salt-water fishing lines, is offering a free and recreation. Many tribes have opened pocket-size world record fishing dial for

reservations to hunters and fishermen in those of you who write for it. By rotating several Western States. Since the tribal gov- the wheel you will see the kind of fish

ernments retain hunting and fishing rights caught, where it was caught, how long it on their lands, permission and licensing was, and what it weighed. must be obtained from them before plan- A\'rite to Billie Coleman, B. F. Gladding ning a hunting or fishing trip. Some rcscr- Co., South Otselic, N. Y., for your free

\ ations are closed to nontribai sportsmen; copy. The B. F. Gladding Co. is the old- so a careful check as to local regulations est manufacturer of fine fishing lines in the and status is recommended. country. State conserv ation or fish and game of- fices list the seasons, limits, and regulations MRS. C. V. MOTT, of 222 \V. Railroad (pertaining to the different Indian reserva- St., Long Beach, Miss., reports that when tions \\ itliin their States. The visiting hunt- she and her teenage son were fishing for er or fisherman is allow ed on the reservation speckled trout off a pier at Fort Morgan b>- courtesy of the government and mem- near Gulf Shores in Alabama, they had re- bers of the tribe concerned; he should, markable success with some rather unusual therefore, remember to act as a guest at all bait. They ran out of the pork rind which times. The following States have large In- they were using for bait, and her son cut a boy dian reserxations: South Dakota, North a small thin strip about 3 inches long off Dakota, Arizona, New iMexico, Wyoming, his white T shirt and put that on his hook Washington, Oregon, .Montana, Minnesota, must learn . . for bait. He caught plenty of fish, and the Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho, and Wisconsin. other fishermen around him began to buy strips of the boy's T shirt for bait. He learns to hold a bat— just so. At the end of the day they had plenty of He learns to swing at the right speckled trout, and the boy had sold his time and to follow the rules brother fishermen |5 worth of strips off of the game. his T shirt.

He learns to toss a football and O. F. MOSSBERG & SONS, INC., of YOU HUNTERS who want a shotgun his eyes under water. to open New Haven, Conn., lias introduced a new with a lieav >' w allop will be pleased to hear He learns to .say "tliank \()u" lever-action .22-calibcr rifle called the that Remington now has a version of its at the right time, and to read. Palomino (Model 400). It holds 20 short, Sportsman 58 which will handle a 12-gauge 18 long, or 15 long-rifle cartridges in its 3-inch-niagnum shot shell. The model He leanis of rain and tubular magazine. Its tapered, blued steel Sportsman 58 is a gas-operated autoloading grasshoppers, of bicycles and barrel features the new, precision AC- shotgun w hicli has rapidly become a favor- summer vacations. KRO-GRU\' rifling. The genuine walnut ite with those shooters who \\ant either stock is of iMonte Carlo design. Forearm heavy-duty field performance or the split- He learns to know joy . . . and is bea\ ertail shape that w e liked very much; second action required in clay-target sports.

pain . . . and people . . . and facts. it's not too big. The U-notch, open rear The new version of this great gun is de- And tcliat he learns will make sight is adjustable for elevation and wind- signed to meet a widespread demand for

age. The bead-t>pe front sight is fitted in ill pro- him the man that he shall a gas-operated autoloader w hich w a standard dovetail slot. The Palomino's vide goose, duck, turkey, and fox hunters someday be. lexer action is hammerless. Receiver has with the extra range and impact of the Learning the things that turn a do\ etail groove for easy mounting of scope. 3-inch-niagnuni shell with a highly desired This new rifle weighs 51: lb., and costs softer recoil. boy into a man is not a matter S68.88. Write Walter L. Pierson at O. F. The Sportsman 58 ADL magnum has all of wealth. But sometimes iMossberg Sons, Inc., 131 John St., New the features of the conventional model plus financial security can help. Haven 5, Conn., for illustrated folder. a rubber recoil pad furnished as standard Make sure yonr child will be equipment. The gun is chambered for the ARTHUR FALGIONE JR., of 1 1 Jersey 12-gauge, 3-inch-magnum or 2 K -inch regu- safeguarded during his learning .\\c., Alorristown, N. J., passes on the lar standard-length loads onl>'. Barrels are years. Take advantage of the idea that the surest way of catching carp 30 inches in length, full choke with plain

American Legion Insurance is by using a single mulberry on a no. 8 or ventilated rib. Stock dimensions are

Plan. It gives so much added hook and casting it without a weight. He standard. The gun is 50 'i inches long. The protection. Only $1 a month. says it's better than cornmeal. Sportsman 58 ADL costs $149.95 with a plain barrel; 1!>169.95, with a ventilated-rib Underwritten by Occidental Life WE JUST HAD the pleasure of shooting barrel. Insurance Company California. of a weapon that is destined to become rare: Write Henry P. Davis at Remington a double-barreled, side-b>'-side shotgun. It Arms, Bridgeport, Conn., for more details was the Fox (Model B-ST) manufactured or illustrated folder.

I 1 b>' the Savage Arms Co., with \entilated

. Clip this coupon now for more information rib, gold-plated single trigger, bea\ertail "SENSITIVE-EARED shooters, especially fore-end. is bcautifull>' The gun balanced, those who engage in pistol competition, I Post No I has a fine walnut stock, conies in 12, 16, 20, will find handy, helpful and economical .410 gauges, and is a real bargain at slightly slip Name j earplugs in the rubber erasers used to I than 00. Winchester has its more Si taken over the end of a pencil. Available at any ' Street j 21 side-by-sidc famed Model off the market, five-and-dime store, the erasers have a nice making it an expensive, special-order item. City fit for the ear. The upper, generally tri- I Zone | angular, erasing surface ser\'es as a 'handle' state If you have a helpful idea that pertains [ for inserting and withdrawing the plug." B to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we Mail to: INSURANCE PLAN So speaks W. D. Workman, 915 Belt Line can use it, we'll reward you with a hunting Blvd., Columbia, S. AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS C. j or fishing accessory. Address: Outdoor Editor, P. 0. Box Indianapolis, 1055, Indiana The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth _| Avenue, New York 19, New York. —Jack Denton Scott 3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 BRIEFLY About BOOKS

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them the best. There's a bed for them if posts in their towns for help that they then The American Legion Weekly,

they need it. If they can be up and couldn't find anywhere else. whose first issue appeared July 4, 1919. around, they can visit VA outpatient Two unexpected things had happened. Marquis James, who was to be a dis- clinics. First, there was no wise "somebody" tinguished American writer and historian Those who live too far from a VA in Washington who knew what to do. for a generation, blasted the Vocational facility can arrange to go to a private There had not been a major war since Board in a series of exposes in the Le- doctor and have the VA pay the bill. 1864, and never one on the scale of the gion's weekly. He delivered the crusher Men who were so disabled that they first World War. The laws and the agen- when he published a confidential order had to learn new skills to make a living cies and the benefits and the facilities for of the Board to its field men which said: got special training from the VA. veterans were hopelessly unable to cope "The organs used in approving cases Of course if the disabled still hurt, we with the reality. are the eyes and the brain. The ears and can't erase the pain. If they're blind, we The veterans agencies in Washington the heart do not function. Be hard boiled. can't give them their eyesight back. We were in an unholy mess, bogged down Put cotton in your ears and lock the can't grow new legs or arms on ampu- and desperate. doors. If you are naturally sympathetic,

tees. Not even new toes. Most of the Instead of one agency, there were work nights when nobody is there." paraplegics are still in wheel-chairs. We many, including three big ones. Those James' expose brought on a Congres- can't pay the whole debt, but that's not that were sincere were so paralyzed by sional investigation of the Board which our fault. their inadequacy that they sometimes made an honest woman of it for the rest The problems created by these raw referred veterans to the Red Cross, the of its short life. human tragedies do seem relatively sim- Elks or local charity lest they die or That was the first chapter of the Le- ple to grasp. The wonderful veterans starve before they could get what was gion's career as a pressure group, and programs that we have now, under one legally their right. you have just read the words that started government agency to which the veter- During the summer of 1919, tempo- it all. ans or their families can go with any of rary Legion headquarters in New York The awful facts of hospital care for their legitimate war-related problems, City hastily threw up the grandfather of the disabled in the years after World seem an entirely obvious way to pay War One are a far cry from the fine that part of the debt that is payable. Veterans Administration set-up of today. That's what The American Legion The U. S. Public Health Service was thought when it was first organized be- supposed to give medical care to dis- tween March and May of 1919. charged disabled veterans. The first Legionnaires had no intention 40r It had exactly 1,548 beds for veterans. of becoming the champions of veterans DEDICATED At the start of 1919, it had 20,000 ap- and their families. You can read the plicants for veteran care, with more to SERVICE statement of purposes written into the come. Legion Preamble on May 10, 1919, for- 1919-1959 ^ By the 2nd of January 1919, the Army ward and backward and you will find no had discharged 74,500 men for mental word that mentions disabled veterans, THE AMERICAN LEGION illness and tuberculosis alone. On top of widows or orphans. that, the Army was holding 120,000 The Legion was formed to make a bet- casualties overseas, many in tent hos- ter America, to continue to serve "com- today's great Legion veterans' service pitals, and more in the United States. munity, state and nation" in peace as in chain. The Army was loath to keep the men. war. At first its founders had complete Directed by C. F. Sheridan, it helped The cost of their care ate into its normal faith that wise heads in Washington many thousands of veterans and their military appropriations, which the Army knew all about the human wreckage of families to collect back military allot- fancied it had a right to use for other war and knew what to do about it, and ments that had gone afoul; insurance purposes. would do it promptly. payments that had been frozen in gov- If the reader visualizes desperation in When veterans' benefits were brought ernment red tape; disability claims that the families of many of the war-disabled, up in the Legion early in 1919 they were the individual war-wounded veteran had suicides in some, the mentally ill housed tabled, because "it would be selfish for no hope of getting by his own feeble as- in jails around the country, and other pa- veterans to say what should be done for saults on bureaucracy. tients provided with cots by Legion veterans." A grateful nation— it was con- The second shock that struck was that posts, he is right. fidently expected—would sympathetically the returned veterans ran into a home- In 1919 Congress provided nine mil- bind up the wounds of war without any front antagonism toward them. It even lion dollars for new veterans hospital prompting from the Legion. The veter- infected some of the agencies that had bedspace. But three years after the war, ans in the Legion would get about the been created to serve them. not a new hospital had been built. Au- business of being an organized group of Congress had established a Federal thorities insisted the veterans would be good citizens for the benefit of the na- Board for Vocational Education to teach well soon, so the money was spent on tion. war-disabled veterans new skills with flimsy barracks, empty summer hotels That notion was ancient history before which to earn a living with their handi- and similar makeshift "hospitals." the Legion met in its first national con- caps. A third government agency had the vention a scant six months later. The In 1919, the Board was busy rejecting biggest job. It was the War Risk Insur- summer heat of 1919 had hardly begun the men it was supposed to help. The ance Bureau, which originally was sup- before the Legion was inescapably up to Legion's temporary leaders had a pipe- posed to handle marine and veterans life its ears in the problems of the disabled, line to what was happening in towns all insurance. As it already existed, the sud- the widows and the orphans. By the tens over the country. They could not wait den need to process other veterans of thousands, the newly returned veter- for the November national convention claims at the end of the war was dele- ans of America and their families had for instructions, but launched a political gated to War Risk. turned desperately to the new Legion ofl'ensive in the pages of this magazine, Totally unprepared, inexperienced,

40 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 understaffed, underhoused, the Bureau with Legion workers, interviewing sick just couldn't do its job. The laws under and wounded veterans on the spot, and WHEN FALSE TEETH which it operated were inadequate as deciding what they should claim from well. Some of the benefits it was permit- what agency. CAUSE SORE GUMS ted to pay were so niggardly that even Without this coordination, veterans You get undreamed of relief in yi I ly | veterans wid- claims were sometimes endlessly shuttled seconds! Medicallv-formulated ^ /\i y\ T many of the "lucky" and NUM-ZIT Adult Strcnqth has — ows who were able to get their claims back and forth in Washington, in a royal already brouRht blessed relief to thousands. Recommended by \yS^\l' through were appealing to Legion posts buck-passing maneuver that was as dentists everywhere. Pleasant- ^ y V tasting ... eases discomfort while / for succor. wasteful as it was useless and frustrating. ^ you break in new false teeth. A totally disabled veteran, completely Such actions were all patchwork to Works wonders, too. for relief of toothache, neu- ralgic pains. Keep it handy for quick first aid. unable to work, got $30 a month com- save disabled veterans, widows and or- At all druy counters. pensation. A widow got $25. If she had phans from immediate suffering. four children she got $50. But out of the Legion's 1920 conven- -ZIT Adult Strength The many bureaus, the red tape, the tion came proposals for more permanent Another fine Purepac product general mess, the necessarily complex solutions to the veterans affairs dilemma. laws had things so confused that neither "Put all the bureaus in one bureau," Congress, the President nor the agency said the Legion. It drew up a detailed MARTIN'S FLAGS heads knew quite what to do. Small won- plan for a single responsible government

. DISPLAYS FOR der then that the veterans and widows agency to manage veterans affairs and I ORGANIZATIONS- were completely batfled and shut off gave it to President-elect Warren G. TOWNSSCHOOLS-FAIRS Prompt shipment. Ask for our from their limited rights. Harding. Harding, no sooner in office, colorful WHOLESALE Catalog No. 59-A fu- R. G. Cholmely-Jones, head of the created a special commission under MARTINS FLAG CO., FORT DODGE, IOWA War Risk Bureau, knew he was failing ture Vice-President Charles G. Dawes. and urgently sought an answer to his The Dawes Commission studied the Le- enormous problem. Before 1919 was gion plan a few days and adopted it. RUPTURED SLAVERY over. The American Legion — which Harding recommended it to Congress, BE Ff?££ FROM TRUSS vou want to THROW AWAY veterans bene- established the Veter- Surclv hadn't intended to get into and the Congress TRUSSES FdRFA'ER, be rid of Rupture Wor- with wearing a griping, fits at all— knew more about the total ans Bureau, putting most veterans affairs ries. Then Why put up chafing and unsanitary truss. For there is now a problem than any other body of men. in it. new modern Non-Surgical treatment that js de- permanently correct rupture. These The veterans had come to their Legion Nine years later, President Herbert signed to Non-Surgical treatments are so certain, that a posts with their problems, and the Le- Hoover's administration added a few Lifetime Certificate of Assurance is given. Write today for our New FREE Book that gion alone had the full human story of that had been left out and renamed the gives facts that may save you painful, expensive again surgery. Tells how non-surgically you may the big mess as it touched veterans and Veterans Bureau to be The Veterans Ad- the man- work, live, plav, love and enjoy life in their families in most communities in the ministration. ner you desire. Write today—Dept. H-1105. Excelsior Medical Clinic, Excelsior Springs, Mo. United States. "Get busy and build decent veterans' In December, 1919, Cholmely-Jones hospitals," said the Legion. It publicized appealed to the Legion to come and ana- the shameful state of veterans' medical lyze his bureau, tell him what to do, and care, and made the public want some-

carry its word to the Congress. A Legion thing to be done by showing it why. On delegation accepted the offer, visited the March 4, 1921. President Wilson signed Bureau and then leaders of the Congress a new eighteen million dollar veterans ALIVE —who were as eager as Cholmely-Jones hospital bill, an hour before Harding for guidance from this new organization succeeded him. TODAY! that had learned so much so soon. "Consolidate the laws dealing with An immediate result was the passage veterans," said the Legion, "and make all before Christmas of a bill of Represen- the corrections that are needed at the tative Burton Sweet of Iowa. The Sweet same time." The Legion itself listed Bill more than doubled the compensa- needed changes in laws and regulations tion of the disabled. running into the hundreds of specific Cholmely-Jones himself collapsed un- items.

der the strain of his job, and soon died. The language of veterans affairs is so

In the next two years the Legion threw technical it's almost a foreign tongue,

its weight behind other emergency legis- understood only by specialists. This is lation which bettered things somewhat. unavoidable when you translate into

And it continued emergency actions of legal language the problems of millions its own. At the Cleveland National Con- of human beings. The early Legion had vention of 1920, state Legion organiza- learned to use that language, and when

tions brought in hundreds of resolutions it did, every paragraph represented one based on their experience. Their experi- or more human problems that the Le- ence by then was enormous. Thousands gion posts had met face to face in Amer- Arch Lightbody is one of 800,- of Legionnaires had given their time ican communities. It took a while to 000 Americans cured of can- without stint helping the disabled and consolidate the laws. But in 1924 Con- cer because they went to their Veterans their families in their communities. Posts gress passed the World War doctors in time. They learned individuals It had the form the Legion recom- and had given their money Act. that many cancers are curable to help. mended, included many features initi- if detected early and treated ated by the Congress itself, and roughly In many states, by unofficial action, promptly. That's why an the Legion had unofficial 75 percent of the Legion's hundreds of gotten some annual health checkup unity out of the different veterans agen- suggestions. is your best cancer cies. It invited Public Health Service, "Put veterans affairs in a single com- insurance. War Risk Bureau, and Vocational Board mittee in the House and Senate," said T® staff members to make traveling teams the Legion. The House did so promptly American Cancer Society

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • 4^ in 1924, giving the Congress for the first never existed before. In 1945 and later, course, said no, and the Congress agreed. time a body of its own which could spe- the foundation that the early Legion- They'd both been there before. cialize in the whole enormous problem. naires designed proved itself after a war Almost any year there come other

It is now 1959, and the Legion is still of even vaster proportions, with a Le- amateurs with charts and graphs and asking the Senate to form a veterans gion designed GI Bill thrown in on top selected statistics and projections and committee. of it. But that's another story. hypotheses for revamping the federal These were the major steps out of the In 1933. President F. D. Roosevelt veterans structure. wilderness which the Legion thought out. ripped the whole structure apart under Invariably, they tangle with the Le- From 1921 to 1924 the entire founda- the ill-famed Economy Act. Immediate- gion and get nowhere with the Congress, tion of the Veterans Administration and ly the conditions and suffering of 1919 and end up accusing the Legion of being most of its programs was laid down. The returned. The Legion fought back, and "a selfish pressure group." basic pattern was designed by the Legion within a year a sympathetic Congress re- Most such theorists have never done out of its concern for the human side of paired the wreckage. Roosevelt later ad- the humble work of trying to help veter- veterans affairs, and its intimate knowl- mitted his concept had been wrong. ans worthy of aid. Their zeal is usually edge of that all-important aspect. In recent years, many groups without in direct proportion to their ignorance The Legion used pressure to bring basic experience in veterans affairs have of the human side of veterans affairs.

about its ends, but it cannot be said that come forth with many seemingly "novel But the Legion's work begins and the Congress minded. The Legion's pres- ideas." The Hoover Commission of 1949 ends with the guys from the Argonne, sure was an intense public information proved to its satisfaction on paper that the boy by the coconut log, the soldiers campaign that prepared public support the Veterans Administration should be who still hurt and the survivors of the for sound proposals which the Congress broken up. A public health agency dead, the two million still disabled, the welcomed. should take the hospitals; a separate 387,000 widows and orphans, the 57,000

This, far too briefly, is the story of claims bureau should handle compensa- insane. After forty years, the Legion is

how The American Legion became a tion and pensions; a separate insurance still ready with all the pressure needed pressure group for veterans without hav- agency should take over GI insurance, to prevent them from being reduced to

ing meant to at first. The pattern of vet- and so on. Great public controversy the condition in which it first found them

erans affairs that is so familiar today had raged over the proposal. The Legion of in the summer of 1919. the end

A NEW KIND OF WAR (Continued from page 17)

article appears in print it is quite likely currently unhappy about Soviet moves which wants its freedom, but all too of- that Berlin will again be the world's in the Middle East, and has made some ten the people of these new nations are greatest danger spot. Khrushchev has critical remarks indicating that the hon- not prepared for nationhood, democ- served notice on us that if we want ac- eymoon between the Soviet Union and racy, and law. That, however, does not

cess to Berlin, we must deal with his the United Arab Republic is definitely stop the hellbent rush for national free-

puppet East German regime; and he has over. It is to be hoped that our State De- dom, and in this rush they are being been told without equivocation that this partment can and will exploit this rift. prodded by outside agitators. Those fel- we will not do. The Russian action In the Far East the communists lost a lows are helping to develop a strong anti- means the breaking of another treaty, tremendous amount of face when Red white-man complex which can cause a but this is a matter of no consequence to China tried and failed in its attempt to great deal of trouble for us in the future. a people who are pathologically insistent seize the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Even the The same communist agitators cause us on signing treaties of no worth whatso- greatest efforts by Mao Tse-tung's armies trouble in another way. As the new na- ever. From our standpoint, to give up were unable to keep the spiritual leader tions emerge they invariably look to the Berlin would mean the end of the allied of the Tibetans from gaining sanctuary United States for help. If we do not come position not only in Berlin but through- in India, and the brutal action of the through with sufficient foreign aid, the out the world. It would dramatize a Red Chinese in seeking out the Dalai Russians move in with big promises and point that the reds constantly try to Lama's followers and in destroying their at least some token assistance, usually in prove to the rest of the world: that the ages-old lamaseries has made a pro- the form of loans to permit the purchase United States is weak, vacillating, and foundly unfavorable impression, notably of Russian goods. This in turn creates cannot be counted on. As a corollary, in the Orient. Even Nehru's limitless tol- more mischief because with the Russian the writing off of Berlin would mean the erance toward the reds has been put to goods come communist "technical ad- end of NATO. a strain, particularly since his own peo- visers" who specialize in subversion of While the Berlin crisis was diverting ple are in an uproar over the outrage. various kinds. the world, the communists pulled an- In Africa events are shaping up which In our own backyard, Latin America, other coup by seizing power in Iraq. This strongly indicate that we can expect we have plenty to worry about. In Vene-

highly strategic, oil-rich country is now much trouble there. The issue is pre- zuela we witnessed the humiliating spec- firmly in the hands of the reds, and you sented as a reaction from colonialism, tacle of a Vice President of the United may be sure they will exert leverage with new nations emerging. Ghana, for- States being stoned and spat upon by a from this position to bring other Middle merly the British Gold Coast, has be- howling mob which had been stirred up Eastern countries under their control. come independent, as has French Gui- by the reds. In Mexico an ambitious The results could be disastrous to the nea. Nigeria becomes an independent strike which was planned to cripple free world. Europe uses 137 million tons nation next year. The Belgian Congo, a the country was fomented by reds, and

of oil every year, and 85 percent of it major source of uranium, has exploded the Mexican Government courageously comes from the Near East. Any cut in into a civil war between whites and showed where the strike had originated the flow of oil from there would paralyze blacks. The Mau Mau seem to be back by kicking two Soviet diplomats out of European industry and cripple NATO. in the business of bloodletting in Kenya the country. In Cuba we find ourselves However, on the credit side there have and Tanganyika, and there are disturb- in a dilemma. Fidel Castro insists that been two happenings which should im- ing rumbles from the French Sudan. he is not a communist, but he is equally

pede the flow of the red tide. Nasser is We can sympathize with any nation insistent that he is going to be inde-

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 pendent of both the East and the West. an estimated 1.59 billion Chinese. Smoke for Relief Some of the people surrounding him, I don't have to emphasize the danger who seem to be preoccupied with export- that this population pressure represents ASTHMA- HA/FEVER ing revolutions, are certainly not reas- to us and to the world generally. There suring. Meanwhile, executions go on in are some wishful thinkers who say that try them FREE Cuba, popular elections are years off, the big danger is to Soviet Russia, but Sufferers from Asthma and the dis- and there are charges that the country I think diflerently. There is no sign of comforts of excessive secretions in the is being used as a base for operations friction between the two nations. Years nasol passages associated with Hay Fever hove, over against other Caribbean countries which for 60 years, found hence Russia and China may turn on quick, temporary relief by smoking PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleas- are anticommunist and on friendly terms each other, but that will come only if ant, inexpensive. with the United States. Elsewhere in they are able to vanquish the West. In For free somples, write Latin America there is political turmoil that case, like jackals, they could tackle Consolidated Chemical Co., as the communists busy themselves stir- each other over the spoils. 835A Cherry St., Grand Rapids 6,MIchigafr ring up hatred of the gringos when they Since the new kind of warfare does SEND FOR FREE SAMPLES are not in a position to manipulate the not necessarily mean marching armies or governments themselves. firing of guns, most American are not RUPTURED? There was a time when many people aware of the true situation. They may TEST THIS TRUSS FREE FOR 30 DAYS thought that the Russian people them- arouse themselves when a flight of MIG's Wear a Web— for comfortable with blasts selves could be counted on to side down an unarmed American trans- support. Rupture relief guaran- us in case of trouble with their rulers. port and murders American men, and teed. If not satisfied after trial, full purchase price refunded. Write No people was ever more harshly treated they may become indignant when the today for free book on rupture care. by the men in the Kremlin than the Rus- Soviets insult us when we inquire about WEB TRUSS Co. Dept. fiL-8 Hagerstown, IWd. sian people themselves. Millions had the bodies of the murdered airmen. But been purged and millions more had suf- we forget quickly and turn back to the A 1 CAN PUT YOU IN A POSTCARD fered in slave labor camps. It seemed sports pages and television screen. I I BUSINESS! logical that, given a chance, the Rus- While the communists use violence Rush Card TODAt for FREE OUTFIT Gut lnl

Khrushchev is not hated as his prede- moral. And it is high time that alhAmer- on Arthritis cessor was. Also, the Russians are beg.n- icans received some basic training in Free Book ning to get some of the consumer goods these things so that Ihey can understand And Rheumatism they had been promised for many years. exactly how the enemy employs them in HOW TO AVOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES Explains why diujis and inedicinos give only Icn- By American standards they are not get- this strange new warfare. poiaiy i-elief and fail to teniove the causes: tells all about a proven specialized non-stirgieal, non- ting much, but visitors to the Soviet Obviously the Soviet Union is not par- medical treatment which lias proven successful since nil!). Write for this 3«-paKe KUKE 1!(_)()K Union report that the people seem con- ing down its military might. There is no today. Ball Clinic. Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. tent. hint that the Red Army is being re- Probably most important, however, is duced in size. The Red Air Force, from the fact that the Russians are beginning all accounts, is being steadily augmented. to take pride in the communist regime. The Red Navy's far-ranging fleet of hun-

They see material evidence of Soviet dreds of modern submarines is being scientific progress in such things as their increased. And we know that the Rus- sputniks and Lunik, their massive arma- sians are far advanced in the nuclear ment, their nuclear bombs, and their ex- and missile fields. In short, the men in cellent planes. They no longer feel that the Kremlin many propagandize for they are looked upon as a backward peo- peace and peaceful coexistence, but they ple, and they are showing more enthusi- are ready to smash us militarily if they asm for the idea of catching up with and think it possible that they can do so with- overtaking the great United States of out our retaliatory power destroying America. They have a timetable for this. Russia. By 1965, they are told, their production We would be foolish indeed to give will be ahead of any European nation, them any reason to think they could do BELIEVE IN SIGNS? and by 1970 they will surpass the U.S.A. so. Therefore our only possible course sign con In this race with the United States they is to keep building a powerful and bal- Well here's one you are competing with Red China. The Chi- anced military force which can defend really count on. It's the official nese are in fact being driven far more this Nation and devastate the Soviet emblem of The American Legion homeland if Khrushchev should ever brutally than the Russians are today, and Magazine Retail Advisory Coun- they are being given an outlet for the dare to launch an attack against us or cil. You will spot it in thousands of resentment they must feel. The United the allies to whom we are committed. Legionnaire-owned stores in your States, they are told, is the enemy of the Military power costs money, a lot of Chinese people, and if they don't work money, and this means big budgets home towns all across America. hard and make their country strong, the which, in turn, mean high taxes. We The R. A. C. is designed to help American imperialists will invade their have to make sacrifices to maintain this Legionnaires everywhere. So band land and slaughter them with germ war- power, but the only alternative is the together now in this nation-wide fare and atomic bombs. So they are tak- sacrifice of our freedom. shopping service and shop the Le- ing what is called "the long leap for- Although military force is not being ward," and this exercise is keeping them employed at present against us, other gion way — every day. busy, literally, from sunup till far into pressures are being built up. One of the night, building an economy that by these is what Khrushchev had in mind THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the year 2000 will have to accommodate when he challenged us to a trade war. RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • allies that As I stated earlier, the people behind erence to the "decadent bourgeoisie," some Americans probably are the Iron and Bamboo Curtains are being and the communists look upon them with as decadent as the reds say we are. exhorted in every way to beat America contempt as weaklings who are no match Years ago Lenin made the cynical ob- in production. This is not just for na- for their so-called Soviet man. servation: "When we communists are tional pride nor to give the peoples of Unfortunately, cynical men such as ready to hang the capitalists, they'll try those countries more of the good things Khrushchev do not have to look far to to outbid each other for the sale of hemp of life. This production is wanted for a find evidence of this kind of weakness. to us." trade war. Khrushchev has challenged us They recognize as a sign of decadence, The truth of that saying was proved to this war and says that he will beat us or weakness, the way in which some by the way in which Anastas Mikoyan

at it. If he does, he will be well on the businessmen will do anything if they can was wined and dined by some of our so-called best way to defeating us. Molotov explains make a profit from it. In the late 1920's people. Here was a man why in a statement he made in 1946: and early 1930's, for example, the reds who had ruthlessly purged working peo- "We are not fighting America as yet," desperately wanted diplomatic recogni- ple, and he was being honored by some he said, "but once we have deprived her tion by the United States for their shaky of our best known labor leaders. Here of her markets, crises will follow and regime. A good case can be made for was a man who had boasted of robbing cause confusion. After we have taken the thesis that if we had withheld this banks, and he was being treated with def- her markets in Europe, expelled her from recognition we would not today be facing erence by officials of some of New York's Aiia and elsewhere, she will have no the red colossus that threatens to bury largest banking houses. Here was a man market where to dump her merchandise. us. One of the arguments advanced for dedicated to the overthrow of the free She will curtail her production, and there recognition was trade. The communists enterprise system, not to mention the will follow unemployment. Our oppor- and their apologists in this country in- U.S.A., and he was being given standing tunity to square accounts with America sisted that with recognition we could ovations by some of America's foremost will be at hand." expect a tremendous and highly profit- industrialists. What are we doing to meet this threat? able volume of business with the Soviet Here indeed were capitalists and oth- In the five years from 1950 to 1955 we Union. ers, competing to sell the rope that the had an unparalleled growth in this coun- The American Legion, I am proud to communists would need for their hang- try. Even so, we were beaten by many say, did its best to prevent the com- ing! countries. Germany led with an annual munists from achieving this great diplo- What was back of this shameful spec- growth of 10 percent. Japan was second matic triumph, but the pressures were tacle? Mikoyan was tempting these peo- with 8 percent, and the Soviet Union was too great. The papers were signed in ple with hints of trade. The U.S.S.R. third with 7 percent. Actually, the U.S.A. 1933, and the Soviet was thereby given needs many things, and would like to get

turned up in the bottom half with a rate another lease on life. And I might add them from the United States. Never of growth of only 4 percent. Ahead of that the promised trade with the reds mind if those things, such items as chem- us 'were Canada^ France, Netherlands, never materialized. ical plants, would eventually be used and Italy. But what has happened since Not long ago the red line was baited to destroy us! The important thing was then is even more shocking. The Soviet once again with promises of big business. that profits could be made out of this rate of growth has jumped to an esti- This was when Khrushchev sent the wily kind of coexistence. But Mikoyan sua-

mated 9 to 1 1 percent in the past two Anastas Mikoyan to this country to sequently let the cat out of the bag when years, and our own rate of growth has sound us out on a new deal, and while he told Under Secretary of State Doug-

stood still. Is it any wonder that Khrush- doing so to give the U. S. a sound drub- las Dillon that he wanted $300 million

chev boasts about licking us in a trade bing in the psychological war that is from the United States to make the pur- war? going on between this country and the chases he had discussed with the busi- In their calculations for this new kind U.S.S.R. The Americans who promoted nessmen who had done him such honor. of warfare, the canny communists count the trip may have had the naive idea that And when Mr. Dillon politely rejected

heavily on a weakness they attribute to it would show him our strength, but what the audacious deal, Mikoyan turned the

us which they call "decadence." In com- it really did was demonstrate to the sub- true face of communism toward him.

nvnist literature there is frequent ref- jugated peooles, the neutralists, and our According to the press, it was not a pleasant face.

But let it not be thought that only certain members of banking and busi- ness circles are afflicted with weaknesses that the reds can exploit. Because of sel- fish, unrealistic, and unsound thinking with regard to production, we are mak-

ing it increasingly easy for Khrushchev to make good his boast that he can beat us in a trade war. In this country we once went on the theory that the more that people pro- duced, the more money was available for wages, improvements, profits, and so forth. Henry Ford demonstrated this when he set up his assembly lines to make the Model T. By turning out a lot of cars, he was able to pay his workers an unheard-of salary of $5 and more a day. Our economy became geared to mass production, and the flood of goods that poured from our factories not only "You're right, dear. Anyone with ingenuity these days can earn a little extra money!" gave us a standard of living that was the THE AMt:RICAN LEGION MAGAZINE envy of the world but made it possible

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 for the Allies to win two World Wars. said about some of the men they cap- should be given the prestige and promi- But there has been a change in our tured and studied: nence that is often accorded them, and thinking. Now the policy of certain high- "The American soldier has weak loyal- their propaganda, by our press and our ly influential labor leaders is to insist on ties to his family, his community, his broadcasting systems. The best they producing the absolute minimum for the country, his religion and his fellow merit is a form of quarantine in which greatest possible wages, plus various and soldiers. His concepts of right and wrong the red virus they hope to spread can sundry "fringe benefits." This would be are hazy; opportunism is easy. He un- die out harmlessly without being dissem- bad enough in normal times, since it derestimates his own worth, his own inated to further infect and weaken v/ould mean high prices; but faced as we strength, and his ability to survive. He Americans. are with a trade war with friends and is largely ignorant of social values, social Recognizing that we are engaged in avowed enemies, this sort of boondog- tensions and conflicts. There is little war, one in which every conceivable gling can lead to national suicide. Unless knowledge or understanding, even weapon is being used or threatened there is a return to some basic funda- among United States graduates of Amer- against us, we must be prepared to make mentals of production and sound eco- ican political history and philosophy, of sacrifices. However, this time it is es- nomics, we are going to find our goods the federal, state and community organi- sential that the burdens be borne more priced out of markets around the world. zations; of states rights and civil rights; equitably than they have been in the This could bring on still another aspect of safeguards to freedom, and of how past. We cannot have people enduring of this new kind of warfare, one the reds these things supposedly operate within privations in order to create a specially have confidently predicted: a crippling his own system." privileged class such as the infamous depression that could turn our country This is a terrible indictment of the black-marketeers of World War IL Taxes sharply into orbit with the Soviet Union. men who succumbed to red brainwash- will have to be high, but let us make

Certainly capital and labor are not the ing, but it is an even greater indictment certain that the money isn't wasted by only offenders. The actions of these two of those educators who offer students in- selfish politicians on extravagant Utopias groups have their counterparts through- tellectual shoddy instead of the truth. or in personal empire-building. out our entire economy as millions of In this new kind of war we can take We need the best we can get in the people strive to get something for noth- another lesson from the Founding Fa- way of armament, but we cannot afford ing. This may give these people a tem- thers, this time from Benjamin Franklin the waste, stupidity, or chicanery ex- porary advantage, but it is the com- who assured his fellows: "We must all emplified by vast stockpiles of equip- munist hierarchy which will gain the final hang together, or assuredly we shall all ment that is worthless for one reason or victory if we continue in this way. hang separately." Recognizing that we another. Production for defense is vital, Specifically, what can we do to fight are in a war. we should show the enemy but such production should not be used this new kind of war? We must first of a united front. I do not by any means as an excuse for management to make all put our faith in divine providence, counsel unthinking conformity, but we inordinate profits or for labor to demand just as our Founding Fathers did when must not allow ourselves to be split as- outrageously high wages. Where foreign they threw down the gauntlet to the sunder by false prophets who are trying aid is necessary, let us make sure that British in the Declaration of Independ- to divide us. the billions being spent will benefit our ence. It is no accident, to use a com- There are. unfortunately, many such country. We cannot afford at this time munist cliche, that the communists fight people among us. and their ringleaders the luxury of keeping an army of bu- religion. They recognize it as a mortal have recently been authorized to go their reaucrats abroad or of providing VL.st enemy which must be destroyed lest it way without much hindrance, war or no slush funds for foreign politicians who destroy them. Lenin laid down the dic- war. But let us recognize them for what may be of doubtful value to us in this tum: "We must combat religion — this they are — fools at best, or traitors at new kind of warfare. is the ABC of all materialism, and conse- worst. These are the people who suffer There are many more things which quently Marxism." Let us not throw from a strange myopia when the Soviet have to be done, and done properly, and away this weapon so greatly feared by Union is concerned, but who showed it is the responsibility of every American the anti-Christs of the Kremlin! amazing clarity of vision when other to take an active interest in what is And let us make greater use than we countries menaced world peace. They being done and how these things are have of patriotism. Americans have too had no illusions about Mussolini when being worked out. To repeat what I long been too sensitive to the sneers of his legions marched into Ethiopia. When said earlier, in a war like this we are all self-styled intellectuals who label love of the Japanese seized Manchuria, they active participants and we cannot dele- country as "'flag waving." Quite often were quick to recognize where that ag- gate to others the job of winning it. these people are actually scornful of the gression was likely to lead. When Hitler's What, specifically, can an individual do? flag itself, rather than what they choose troops started to overrun Europe, while Maybe a good way to answer this would to mock as "flag waving." And some of at home he conducted diabolical perse- be to try a routine that the communists them have given their loyalty, for what- cutions, they called for retribution — but use in a distorted manner—self-criticism. ever it is worth, to the blood-red banner only after the Hitler-Stalin Pact was Communists and prisoners of the reds of socialism. broken. But when the Soviet Union com- are required to engage in extensive soul The end result of our shamefaced at- mits the most unspeakable atrocities searching with the idea of learning their titude toward patriotism can be found against humanity, these people are either weaknesses and how they can overcome in a study of brainwashing made by silent or they raise their voices to excuse these weaknesses. Army Major William E. Mayer. He and condone the brutalities of the Krem- The basic idea has much to recom- studied the case histories of a thousand lin. Consistently, of course, such people mend it, and you might give it a try. of our soldiers who had been captured viciously attack any and all who oppose You may discover some weaknesses in Korea and found that many of them communism. I am proud that The Amer- within you of a type that the communists were so weak in their patriotism that they ican Legion rates high on their list. count on and hope to exploit. Discover- succumbed easily under pressure from Such people are entitled to their opin- ing them at this stage, you will have the their Chinese interrogators. ions, even when their expressions come opportunity to correct them without hav- A Chinese intelligence report found close to being treasonable in view of the ing an armed guard to assist in the in North Korea in 1951 gives further war in which we are engaged. But there process at some future time — in the

evidence of what is wrong in certain is no reason whatsoever why these pro- event we fail in this new kind of war. quarters. Here is what the Red Chinese communists and anti-anticommunists THE END THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • 45 A MAN'S PLACE IS IN THE KITCHEN (Continued from page 21) mixture occasionally. "No!" he said. and broths by blotting with an ordinary oil to prevent burning. He then puts in "Please. These baby pigeons are only paper towel. two garlic cloves (whole, with skin,

26 days old. They are soft and juicy and When boiling ham, if you put it into which he claims results in better flavor plump. Do not make them tough with boiling water rather than cold water, it and less odor) , covers the casserole, basting." will cook more quickly and will have cooks the birds until tender. Sometimes He rubbed them lightly with butter, fuller flavor. An easy way to prepare he pours a pony of brandy over them salted and peppered them and charcoal- mint sauce: Pick the leaves from a sprig just before serving. broiled them close to the heat first, seal- and add a few drops of vinegar; this adds Antoine Gilly is a member, or rather ing in the juices. Then he raised them flavor and makes the chopping easier. a coininandeitr, of the Coiifrerie des to the higher level until they were done. Those French fried potatoes that puff Chevaliers dii Tastevin. one of the When they were cooked, he placed them and seem such a mystery are not: Cut world's leading and most respected so- in a pan over the charcoal and let them the raw potato in thick slices, fry as cieties dedicated to the enjoyment of fine sit until the juices began to drip into usual in butter or bacon drippings. Place foods and wines. Consequently he is a the pan. He then stirred only a table- them on a plate in the refrigerator and great lover of fine Burgundy wine. His spoon of my wine into the natural juices, let them get cold. When they are thor- coq an vin, chicken in red wine, is a mixed this well, then spooned it over the oughly cold, put in a frying pan that has favorite at La Creniaillere a la Campag- squabs and served them immediately the grease popping hot. They will quick- iie. 1 wheedled the recipe from him one with rice and baby Belgian carrots. ly puff into airy balls. Brown and serve. afternoon while he was preparing it. Simple and elegant. To make tough meat tender, rub in Here's the way he gave it to me, in his "Basting birds or any meat with any- carbonate of soda the day before you own words: "Chicken of 3 pounds, cut thing other than olive oil or butter while intend cooking it, then wash off well be- into pieces, breast and legs. Salt and pep- cooking toughens the meat," he said. fore cooking. When cooking greens or per the chicken, roll in flour, brown in This will come as a surprise to many cauliflower, put a piece of stale bread saucepan with butter. Cover and let cook backyard chefs. But take it from us. crust into the pan. This will remove the slowly for 20 minutes. Add some mush- a dices of Monsieur Gilly knows what he is talking smell. A cracked egg can be boiled if rooms and small onions, few about. wrapped in a piece of greased paper. If salt pork. Let this cook together for 5

Here are a few more of M. Gilly's meat is rubbed with a little powdered minutes. Pour the grease off and add 1 then pour culinary tricks that will make you a bet- borax, it will keep sweet and fresh for clove of chopped garlic, and ter chef: When sauteing, he mixes a several days in the hottest or dampest over 3 cups of good red Burgundy wine, teaspoon of olive oil with butter; this weather. and 1 cup of brown gravy. Add a bou- keeps the butter from burning. He never M. Gilly uses wines in cooking and quet garni (2 sprigs parsley, small bay puts salt in the boiling water in which recommends them for white-meated leaf, pinch of thyme, stalk of celery, tie string) and he is going to poach eggs. The salt sep- birds that tend to be on the dry side. He together with white cotton arates the white from the yolk, making sautes quail in olive oil until they are cook for 15 minutes. Add correct sea- serve. If you it difficult to serve a whole perfect crisply browned, then pours in a full cup soning, salt or pepper, and be- poached egg. To make a classic omelet, of Chablis, covers the pan, and lets the like you may add a pony of brandy don't add salt to the whipped eggs, be- birds simmer over a slow fire until they fore serving." cause it breaks down the albumen. To are tender. Again — simple, elegant. I watched him as he cooked the get that symmetrically rolled omelet, roll He cooks dove or partridge in a cas- chicken. Again it was simple, quickly it while cooking — roll from the edges serole, browning them in butter "when done, and delicious. If you want to im- like a cigar, so that the outside becomes the butter starts to sing" until they are press guests with your artistry and skill, the inside. Chef Gilly gets fat ofi" soups golden — always with a touch of olive give them the chicken in red wine, or try the breast of guinea hen au sherry, the Gilly way. He browns 2 guinea hen breasts in butter, adds 4 sliced mush- rooms, covers the pan and cooks in a 400° oven for 10 minutes. He then re- moves the breasts and places them on a platter over a layer of cooked wild rice. Next he puts a jigger of dry sherry wine and a cup of heavy cream in the sauce- pan, cooks for just 2 minutes, then turns the fire off and adds the beaten yolk of a raw egg, stirring in slowly. He then pours the sauce over the guinea hen breasts on the rice and places the fire- proof platter under the broiler until the

sauce is brown. Another talented maitre de cuiller, and a man who dislikes all feminine gastronomic gobbledygook, is Major Gaston Lauryssen, president of the world-famed Carlton House in New York City and its superb Ritz-Carlton kitchens. Also a grated officier of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, he has been boss of some of the finest

hotels in America and is a martinet when

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 it comes to preparing and serving elegant flame off the steak. Your "walked" steak until the juices are nicely seared in. Two but simple foods. is still cooking exothermically however. cups of white wine (a Burgundy is sug-

One of his favorites, which he often After the walk around the grill, replace gested) are added, the pot is tightly prepares for guests at his home in New the steak for a few minutes; then take capped, and the shoulder is cooked very

Milford, Conn., is swordfish Mirabeau. it off and "walk" it again. My guarantee: slowly for 2 hours until tender.

This requires four 1 V4 -inch-thick sword- No steak will be overcooked. Another well-known chef, Louis fish steaks, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 On the steak subject, would a woman Smyrneos, from the Grecian Islands, tablespoon of anchovy paste, V2 cup of ever think of taking a 3-inch hip steak, chef at Joe Cox's shooting preserve in olive oil, 1 lemon, 4 anchovy fillets. The putting it in a pot of boiling, salted Pawling, N. Y., does pheasant or game steaks are rolled in olive oil and broiled water with a half-dozen small white birds in an interesting fashion. You can

7 minutes on each side. You must be onions and gently simmering until it is use chicken and it will taste almost as careful with fish; all fish cook quickly tender? It is then removed, placed on good. Louis calls the dish "Pheasant a la and are tough and dry if overcooked. the back of the stove where it will keep Greco." He puts the pieces of the cui-L.p Major Lauryssen seasons with salt and warm without cooking further. Six small, bird into a paper bag that contains 2 freshly ground black pepper while the peeled new potatoes are put in the hip cups of seasoned flour, salt, pepper, fish are cooking, then mixes soft butter steak broth and simmered. Serve the oregano. He shakes the pheasant well with the anchovy paste and spreads it boiled hip steak in generous slices with until the pieces are completely floured, on the fish steaks as they come from the the broth-boiled potatoes and horse- then fries them at high heat in olive oil broiler. This melts quickly, seeping into radish sauce. The ladies would probably until well browned. He puts the cooked the fish. They are then served with an dice the delicious hip steak and gum it bird into a casserole; cooks 2 whole anchovy fillet with an olive toothpicked up by cooking it with sweet pineapple Bermuda onions and 2 cloves of garlic to it. or some other such goo. A simple boil- (well diced) in the same pan in which Outdoor chefs might be interested in ing technique isn't good enough for the bird was fried, browning lightly; a technique I developed a few years ago, them. then mixes in a cup of white wine. He just after I had completed an article on Or consider ossi hiichi, a dish only a pours this mixture over the pieces of charcoal. I learned that the only good man would cook. This is the knuckle or fowl in the casserole, slices 5 large pitted fuel for outdoor cookery is hardwood, shank bone of veal with a good meaty green olives over them, replaces the top, especially hickory, charcoal. In my re- end. The shanks are rolled in flour and puts the casserole in the oven and cooks search I discovered that most of the browned in hot olive oil. A cup of water slowly for about an hour and a half, it's briquets that are on the market are and one of white wine are added, and the a lusty, superb, male-manufactured dish. formed into these neat shapes by the pan is covered tightly after this mixture Most of the accomplished male chefs addition of an industrial dust or residue. has been brought to a boil. It is then use wine in cooking, and they almost

This, of course, is not what you want slowly cooked for 25 minutes and a invariably serve wine with their meals. flaming up onto your sirloin steak. So chopped clove of garlic, 3 chopped Usually white with fish or white-meated to start with, I always use ordinary hard- onions, a small can of Italian-style to- food, red with red-meated. The white wood charcoal. matoes (canned with basil) are added. wine should come to the table crisply

I also learned that charcoal heat is so The shanks are then slowly cooked in cold; the red, at room temperature. intense that when it enters meat like a this mixture for about 2 hours until the American wines are excellent for cook- steak, even if you move the steak from meat is tender to the fork. The knuckle ing and for drinking; vineyards in New the fire, it continues cooking by exo- should be removed at this point, and the York State and California bottle wines thermic heat. This is the reason most tomato sauce cooked with the cover re- equally as good as those of France and amateur chefs overcook those precious moved so that it will thicken properly. Italy. steaks. This is usually served with saffron (yel- Women usually lean toward iced tea,

One way to avoid overcooking is to low) rice, and the veal knuckle comes coffee, and such insipid beverages with "walk the steak." This involves actually to the table with a liberal coating of the their meals, not realizing that good food taking it off the fire in its basket grill, thick sauce. and wine are historically wedded. But walking around for a couple of minutes, Another man's dish: veal shoulder, an the ladies wouldn't know about that. The letting the fire lose some of its intensity, inexpensive cut. The whole 6-pound history of food has always been the his- and taking its penetrating tongue of shoulder is quickly braised in olive oil tory of men. the end

ZACHERLEY - THE MONSTERS' BEST FRIEND (Coiithuu'd from l>age 15) a member of decayed royalty. Certainly guage of Transylvania. He teaches those lowbone National Park; Wolfbane Farm; her grunts and groans have an aristocra- simple but vital phrases that help tour- and Melton Downs, the world's largest tic, if fetid, ring. Isobel never makes an ists over the everyday rough spots — such limepit for bathing by both sexes simul- appearance on TV. There is, after all, a as: "The skull is in the garden of my taneously." Federal Communications Commission. aunt," and "Where are those whips I He has introduced new games, for Z's assistant, Gasport, never shows ordered yesterday?" "La plume de ma example, Pop The Werewolf and Mon- his face, either. Just hangs out in a sus- tante,"XhQ standard French phrase which stropoly. In the latter, a certain conven- pended potato sack. The show is well translates in English to, "My aunt's pen," tional game board is altered to include stocked with moans, groans, clanking would in Transylvanian refer to a differ- such new hazards as Hop Into The Vam- chains, and assorted bizarre sounds. ent sort of pen, one in which certain odd pire's Grave and Dance With The Near- There's a didactic strain in Zacherley culinary delights are kept alive until est Werewolf. Z stresses the educational that comes to the fore every so often, dinnertime, comprenez? With Z's lin- features of Monstropoly. even if his spouse and Gasport do not. guistic aids, of course, you can go any- In a previous Philadelphia incarnation He once gave a scholarly lesson on TV where in the home of the grave and the (in cofl'ee, Z prefers incarnation canned on the subject of mummy wrapping and land of the freak. milk from contented ghoats), Zacherley several interns from a nearby hospital Transylvania itself is described with was billed as Roland. Roland was quite phoned in to praise his expert job. nostalgic longings by Professor Z. "Its a TV spookmaster. He would dip his Zach also gives instruction in the lan- natural wonders," he says, "include Yel- hands in chocolate sirup (used to simu-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • late blood) and dissect beef kidneys finger for each year! Perhaps you didn't festive board, get up the Geritol Julep —

masquerading as human organs. He gin- know this, but the were-situation is made of selected tired blood — high hors gerly carried a bloodstained basket re- hardly confined to wolves, my goodness d'oeuvres, and a spot of jellied spider puted to hold a human head, but this no! There are grand old weretigers, were- zoup. May I freshen your drink? No? bothered even Roland. His boss took all lions, and weregiraffes. Another thing Oh yes, you might also get some sound-

he could of Roland's squeamishness, and the American public is misled about is effects records at the store — assorted exploded with: "Dammit! there's a head the painful change-over from man to shrieks and bloodcurdling yells. I recom-

in there and I want to see it!" Roland/ monster — it's not painful in the least! mend stereo for this — it's a must, and Zacherley was so revolted that he flagged You've seen Dr. Jekyll toss down a slug play "em loud! If you happen to reside the next coffin and left Philly forever. of sarsaparilla, then twitch, groan, shake, in a windmill, get in your ghoul friends He also left a large and vocal public be- and change into the charming Mr. Hyde, to help entertain." hind with those good old, bad-taste days. an old friend, incidentally. That, sir, is He has received letters signed "Anx-

Even so, Zach hasn't the decency to a base canard, and I can prove it. Here, ious Parents" that said the writers were be revolted at one of his own jokes, the drink this quickly!" 1 refused, haven't afraid, despite all they'd done and tried, one about the kid who asked: "What's touched a drop of sarsaparilla since. that their progeny were growing up to a werewolf, ma?" Only to be told: "Shut be normal people. Instead of having a up and comb your face!" SHOP BY MAIL sensible covering of hair on the face, the Professor Z is quite concerned about little so-and-so's were as smooth as bil- You can do your gift buying with- the fact that too many young men don't liard balls and not half as useful, despite out time-consuming trips to crowded know all they should about monsters, vitamins and hot blood baths. "I always stores if you use "The American in spite of the dogs they chase around tell them that the full moon is the true Legion Shopper." See page 52. with after work. And the people in the test," he said. "Sunlight is very bad; it'll suburbs, especially New York's West- melt the little goblins. If you're not sure, chester County — are they living the full "People are so kind to grand old and you put Junior out in the hot sun, werewolf life? Are they enjoying those Zacherley," he said, jumping up in his he'll melt if he's a tiny troll." A platoon fun games. Surgical Contest, and Ring enthusiasm and kicking Gasport's sack of hopeful parents, on reading this re- Around The Brains? Zach looked really house as hard as he could. Over the ply, rushed their children out in the sun

sad as he said: "I doubt if anyone, these wretch's howls, he continued: "I love and when they didn't melt away, wrote hectic days, plays the good old games every creature, even human people. Kind smash notes to our mausoleum refugee. such as Pin The Fang On The Vampire! souls send me exhibits, letters, old bones "I get scads of mail from lovesick

I admit that it's old-fashioned and on the and so on." In an interview for a na- swains dying to meet a comely vampire, conservative side, but there's a tradition tional news magazine, Z inadvertently be bitten legally by this lovebug, and and an air about Pin The Fang that's referred to some young bone senders as then share a cozy coffin," he said looking missing in today's hectic jiggery-pokery." sons of butchers, and he has been wor- like a decayed Dorothy Dix. "I tell 'em Every home should have a moat, Z rying about an adverse effect ever since you can't force it, you have to wait for argues. It happens that he dotes on — which is the way he's made. He hasn't, the right one to come into your life. moats; so he slyly evaded the subject of however, broken his bad habit of tossing Above all. I say, don't bite on the first a moat outside a city apartment or rail- those very bones at $30,000 TV cameras date, be patient. road flat with portcullis. "Cobwebs are if a pixyish mood even brushes him "Everyone knows about my rich, full-

a correct and pleasant part of the decor lightly. blooded life with Isobel, and it makes the of any well-ordered home," he insists, "Women keep their houses too clean." grand little lads envious, ha ha! They get "and I quote Emily Ghost's Weird Eti- he said, sniffing at a plate of twitchy the itch to hum the coffin song (Copy- quette Book For 1959. Mrs. Ghost says, nerves dissected from a cadaver bought right 1066 by Filmore Graves, Jr.) It with commendable fervor, that tradition from an undertaker specializing in TV Wasn't The Cough That Carried Her is in the corner of the cobweb in the actors. "Not enough cockroaches around Off, It Was The Coffin They Carried Her corner. And, she adds, should you hap- to make a house homey. And let a man Off In! Reminds me, I promised Isobel pen to have the energetic wife found discover a gorgeous sulphur pit on his a new coffin for her birthday." One thing once in a millenium, you can always hire property in Yonkers, and before you can must be kept firmly in mind, he insists,

a TV studio to spin webs of latex for say 'troll,' he has filled it in with dirt never, never give your vampire mate a you. If my wife Isobel (she belched in instead of people. No appreciation of stake for dinner! her box) is any criterion, ha ha! every nature's gifts! For all his trafficking with spooks, the home has plenty of cobwebs!" "Why, I've seen land so lousy in Tran- real-life John Zacherle is a young, good-

If a young man is to know all about sylvania," he went on, "that the peasants, looking fellow on the mild side. His

monsters, Z feels, he must first be well who'd just won it in a revolution, quickly strongest expression is "My goodness!"

informed about the full moon. Without gave it back, even offered the former He's a fast man with a scalpel and fake

a full moon, nothing much ghostly can landlords a bonus to take it. No one in (cauliflower) brain; but when I described ever happen — you might as well curl up my set there, of course, ever dies. They in detail an autopsy I sat in on, an with a copy of Little Women. "Were- go on and on, collecting old-age benefits! autopsy which included the sawing off wolves," said Zach, "know the value of Unfortunately, no one has any respect of the top of the corpse's skull to get at

the moon when it's full — really loaded. for old age. Imagine calling him Old a bullet lodged in the brain, Mr. Z paled As good parents, they dote on the sight Drac?" and quickly changed the subject. of their little werewolves and were- He was pensive for a moment, then He recently discovered that Boris wolvettes playing in the light of the allowed himself a chuckle as he heaved Karloff and he are customers at the same moon, scaring the hell out of the natives. a large bone — with deadly accuracy — branch bank. He is considering changing Ah, those hairy little tykes skating in the over his shoulder at a television camera banks, since he has made a career of frozen limepit in old Lunar's light!" which was sneaking up on him. The $500 joshing Mr. Karloff on TV — and one

He sang off-key snatches of By The lens tinkled pleasantly as it shattered. He never knows.

Light Of The Hair-er-ey Moon, and went continued: "People often ask me how Is it barely possible that tough old on: "There's something wonderful about to treat a monster. I give them the same Zach is really a softy au fond?

fanged youngsters dancing around a advice as I do for how to treat a re- Or, as we say outside Transylvania, at birthday bat pudding, with a lighted porter — treat 'em right! Spread the bottom? THE END

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 BATAAN DEATH MARCH

into the chambers as the bolts of their urging us to go faster. And we tried to go Fernando, the huge figure of a man in a .25-caliber rifles plunged home. The man faster. "Don't drop back, Tommy — do dark green uniform sauntered easily who was reassuring us was Major Tur- you want to be a bloody hulk kicked in down the center of the street. Flanked ner, formerly commanding officer of the ditch like those guys back there? on four sides by armed guards, he Battery C of the 515th. Here, grab my arm," we who were a glanced back and forth at the wretched After the fourth shell, however, no little stronger tried to coax those about prisoners. He wore no insignia and no heed was paid to his warning. Instead, to fall. "To hell with it," they would re- markings of rank. He weighed about 200 we ran toward the 105's and sought shel- ply; and the starving, thirsty, fever- pounds and he stood about 5 feet 10 ter under the crest of the knoll we had ridden men would lie down and we'd inches in height. On his bullet-shaped been occupying. The Japs didn't fire at never see them again — a scream or a head was a steel helmet of the Japanese us; they too were seeking shelter. In moan telling us their fate. infantry. The high black boots were ; ol- 20 minutes the firing ceased and we re- The civilian Filipinos, mostly women, ished to a mirror finish. "Who is that sumed our positions, staying in this area would toss us coconut candy, coconuts, guy?" "Boy, what a Jap!" We wondered until 8 o'clock at night. small bananas, and rice cakes over the who this man could be. One of the men Seven trucks pulled up then, and we fence after dark; but there were a hun- asked a guard who spoke a little English. were ordered to get aboard. They were dred outstretched hands for every mor- quickly loaded and left. The rest of us sel of food. were told by sign language to get started "Water — water — please give me LEGIONNAIRES down the road on foot. This was the start some water." the cracked voices could You'll find all sorts of bargains in oi ihe march that was to result in the be heard all along the line. And some of tools, games, home furnishings, toys, death of almost a third of our group. the men would slurp up the stagnant and miscellaneous gift items in the Oiher men had assembled here during water in the carabao wallows — and die pages of "The American Legion Shop- the day and roughly 400 started from two hours later. There would be a rush per" this month. See page 52. Cabcaben at about 8:30 p.m. Our can- to any polluted creek or pool we passed, teens were full, but we had only a few and the death toll would mount. Some cans of C rations. nights we would stop for a 10-minute Throwing out his chest, the soldier re- The first night wasn't too bad. We rest beside a sugarcane patch, and this plied, "General Homma, your con- made Balanga after daylight and were was a godsend. Cutting the stalks in queror," and we looked again at the herded into a fenced-off area. Our food lengths of a foot, we could chew and brute who we knew would someday and water were used up, and we begged suck the fiber, deriving a little sugar and die for ordering this march. the guards for more. "Mali" (wait) was moisture. We learned on our arrival at Camp always the answer. Two of them then But already the profiteers were at O'Donnell of the fate of our captain and decided to do a little personal plunder- work. Half a canteen of pure water went one man of our battery. During an in-

ing. I was relieved of my watch, ring, and for 30 pesos; a banana, for 5 pesos. At spection at Cabcaben, Jap guards had captain's 320 pesos I was saving to go on fur- the ratio of 2 to 1, a 3-ounce banana found a 50-sen Jap bill on the lough. Leering at my watch and ring, cost $2.50. Who cared? The money was person. Miller, an enlisted man from the stupid-looking gorilla would say just so much paper, and a little water our battery, had a Jap coin. Another a small Jap "OK?" Of course it was OK - he had and food might get you to Camp O'Don- officer. Captain Shutz. had the gun and the upper hand; so there nell, our first prison. fan. Two other officers and two enlisted went my dough, my 17-jewel Gruen, and An elderly lieutenant colonel was men had Jap pamphlets given them by at a treasured signet ring. When I told Japs shambling behind us, lagging more and friends who had picked them up the about this incident later in Japan, they more. We gave him another half-mile — front. Accused of robbing the dead, the invariably responded with: "No, no, not he couldn't make much more. His head seven were executed by firing squad im- true. Japanese soldier does not steal." was down and his feet dragged as he mediately upon arrival at O'Donnell. We They robbed all of us. walked. One of those victory-crazed, never learned where they were buried The trek of death continued through mad dogs noticed his gold-rimmed spec- and never heard of them again. and Orion, Pilar. Orani, San Fernando, with tacles. Knocking the older man down, Thousands of other American men dying of thirst, dying of hunger, he snatched the glasses from his head Filipino soldiers lost their lives here. The died dying of everything. You'd hear a man and stomped the lens out with his booted weaker ones made it into camp and say, ""So long fellas, I'm taking a rest," heel. Crumpling the frames, he jammed an hour later. Some lasted a day: some, ap- and he'd drop. The second you were off them into his pocket, and with a toothy a month. The Army estimates that your feet, you signed your death war- sneer kicked the colonel in the back and proximately 2,000 Americans and rant. Those vultures of guards kept their walked on. The old man staggered to his 27.000 Filipinos died while prisoners of piggish eyes on the lookout for any feet but was back on the ground before war at Camp O'Donnell. prisoner who couldn't stay on his feet, he had taken 30 paces. He groaned as the We buried them as many as 24 in and one of them would be on him like a butcher-knife-like blade sunk into his one stinking hole. 8 on the bottom. 8 in tiger on a lamb. chest. We turned our heads, making a the middle, and 8 on the top row. We'd It was easy to hear the grind of steel silent vow to get some of the inhuman grab the stifts by the wrists to put them through bones as they thrust their bayo- monsters for these atrocities. into their last resting place, and the skin nets, because sometimes these murders At San Fernando they fed us — one- would come off. letting them slip and took place only 5 feet away. They shot third cup of sticky, smelly rice, boiled splash into the muddy water. On one only a few. Why shoot a defenseless man but only half-cooked, with no salt. It detail we had placed 12 bodies in the way, some and have to clean the bore, when they was horrible, but we gulped it down as hole, some with the heads one could wipe the blood from the blade on a coyote does chicken. We kept our eyes another. The Nip corporal in charge the American's own uniform? Filipinos glued to the filthy iron pot containing decided all heads should be east, in the were left on the left side of the road, the rice, hoping for seconds; but some direction of the rising sun. Under threat Americans on the right. of the men didn't make firsts. of being beaten, we slid down into that "Speedo, speedo," the rats would yell, During the 10-minute stop in San nauseating mess and turned the bodies

THE AM ICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 • 49 around — all heads to the east. Our les- ofi'ense was punishable by death, but we would set our bowls of rice down and son was learned; thereafter, we splashed with the money derived from profiteer- pass the time by counting the stiffs. them in heads east. ing on the food you could buy quinine Dysentery mounted and was spread We dreaded the burial details, and and possibly cheat death — the slow by the huge green blowflies that were there was one every morning — the death! born in the human excrement in the largest in number of men used for any To get food from the outside, some of filthy latrines. They were everywhere. detail. The ration detail used 20 men, our boys went under the fence with On your food, in and out of your mouth, the grave-digging detail used 30 men, gunny sacks. To fill these sacks with and there was no lime or chlorine to and the cleanup detail 40 men. But when sardines, coconut candy, pork and beans, retard the multiplication. Hundreds of they sent over for men to bury our bud- corned beef, boiled eggs, chunks of men were afflicted with the deadly dis- dies of the day before, they called for brown sugar, cashew nuts, papayas, co- ease, and their stench was everywhere. 100, 120, even 150 men. We'd put the coa, etc., cost about 100 pesos. But if And there was no water for washing. corpses on old bamboo doors, on make- he succeeded in getting this merchan- Conditions became so bad in some of shift litters, and carry some in blankets. dise to camp, the owner could profit the buildings that we had to move out. Two men to a body. New men called for 400 pesos by selling to those inside. A Several of us moved up to a building the job would shy away from the dead 7-cent can of sardines went for 5 pesos; where mules had been quartered before who were lying in rows beside one of the a can of cocoa, for 18; a boiled egg, for the war by an old Filipino artillery unit. so-called hospital buildings. After you 2; a lump of sugar, for 2; pork and It had no sides, the roof was supported had experienced three or four burials, beans, 8. Thus a thieves' market was by 12-foot uprights, and the rain and you got wise and went straight ahead to born. wind blew through it constantly. But it the nearest small corpse. If you didn't, The Nip guards on duty on the ration smelled better. We slept side by side on you carried a heavy one, because the trucks soon saw their chance to cash in the ground with a few old straw sacks first men grabbed the light ones. In our on this business. These individuals would and shelter halves. Upon awaking in the condition, carrying a heavy body left us buy candy for 30 centavos (15or mortis already learned to recognize: a sickly, yellow rettes and sold them for 10 pesos. Still had set in. pallor. When it came over a man's face, we didn't give a damn; we needed sugar On June 1, 1942, orders came from he had 3 days to live. We never learned and we wanted a smoke. Nip headquarters that we were to move. exactly what this affliction was; but when A polluted creek a half-mile from It was literally impossible to clean up a man turned this ghastly color he might camp was our only source of water. We this place. The rainwater stood in pools, last one day. he might last two, but he Americans would lug 50-gallon oil it was always muddy, and there was no didn't see daylight the fourth morning. drums on poles to the creek bank and, room to expand to handle the new Ninety-five percent of us had malaria. filling them, would return to our area prisoners that kept arriving. Cabanatuan A little quinine began to filter in. The to boil the germ-infested liquid. Few of was the new place. It was about 100 doctors would give you 5, sometimes 10 us ever drank it before boiling, although miles north of Manila. grains daily. There was no more — unless we craved it as much as life. But the "Are you able to walk 8 kilometers?" you had money. Through dealing with Filipinos — like mad men — did not the officers in charge of the 100-men crooked medics and others who claimed heed the warning, and disease carried groups would ask. Those absolutely too to be medics, you could buy a 5-grain them ofT - from^SO to 280 daily. The weak to walk were hauled in trucks, ac- tablet for 1 peso. We would buy food Japs would invariably guide the Filipi- cording to the judgment of our hosts. outside the camp from Filipinos, some- nos carrying their dead past our three If they decided you could walk, you times while we were on detail but mostly mess kitchens. The smell was sickening; walked, sick or well. by going through the fence at night. This and when the funeral train started by, Eight kilometers to the railroad sta- tion, and we were herded into terrifically hot steel boxcars, half as large as our American boxcars. The heat was stifling when 100 men were jammed into them. You couldn't walk; you couldn't sit down. You just stood there with hot, sweating, stinking men pressing you on all sides. The rats of guards kept the doors closed and locked until we ham- mered on the sides and showed them four unconscious men, overcome by the heat. They then allowed one door

opened, but closed it whenever we ap- proached a town. The natives along the track threw some food through the door as we passed, but the men standing in that

area gobbled it up. At one stop the guards allowed us to get water but had to threaten us with rifles to jam us back into the stinking ovens. Two sickening hot days and two stinking nights later we pulled into the station at Cabanatuan. Some of the boxcars had one dead man; "Estimatiiig lias never been one of my stronj> points." some, four. It was like stepping into a cool paradise to get out in the fresh air. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE We were herded into a schoolyard near

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 the station and were fed a small portion the broad side of their sabers. They tied and tough reeds. We cultivated with of smelly rice. We remained there that them to the posts on the spot, and the picks and square spades. We harrowed day and the next night, and left at day- heart of the older man, the colonel, with broad rakes, steel and bamboo. We light the following morning for the 12- finished its work the next afternoon. The planted by hand, stuflSng the seeds and kilometer hike to the camp. lieutenant and the sergeant lasted 2 days. shoots into the ground with our fingers. Eventually we spotted our new home All this for our benefit, to cut down po- We irrigated with 5-gallon tins, carry- - weather-beaten tropical buildings with tential escapes. It hurt their pride and ing them three-quarters of a mile. Many no fides and three tiers of sleeping decks they lost face when a prisoner escaped. men were beaten for breaking a small built of split bamboo. One was just off Orders had previously been posted leaf while picking worms from tomato the ground, one was 5 feet high, and throughout the camp threatening death vines. one was 10 feet high. The area hadn't to those who attempted escape. In black The work became harder and the food been used for years, and brush and reeds type, they read: became less. The vegetables grew, and towered 4 to 6 feet high everywhere. TEN MEN WILL BE SHOT TO the Nips took the choice of the garden The sweltering, sweating group was DEATH FOR EVERY PRISONER for their galleys, leaving us the scraps. separated — Army here. Navy there, ATTEMPTING TO OR ESCAPING They would butcher carabaos and hogs Marines there. Seventy men to a build- FROM THIS CAMP. and throw the bones and guts over the ing that would house 50 comfortably. JAPANESE CAMP COMMANDER fence to us. Our mess officers even During the first 6 weeks the daily (SIGNED) begged for salt. death count mounted — 25, 36, 58. And These posters had been up only 10 Then one day the news flashed around we buried 68 one day ir July. Our doc- days when two boys on an irrigating de- camp of a 500-man detail leaving soon tors were trying and some of the medics tail decided to leave. They couldn't be for a boat ride. We begged any officer were trying (those who weren't robbing found the next day, and the Nips kept we knew to be put on it. "Please get me the corpses of their clothes, money, and their word. They chose 10 men at ran- on that detail, I don't give a damn where gold crowns) to retard this awful dying. dom from the building from which the it's going — get me out of this hell hole. The doctors hounded the Nips, and a two had escaped and promptly marched I can hardly lift a shovel, let alone use

little more medicine and equipment were them out to face the firing squad. This it all day." We begged and we hounded brought in. mass murder was repeated once more headquarters. The volunteers were called The wards on the hospital side were 3 weeks later, but orders evidently came up and two Nip doctors took tests for named for the diseases of their occu- in to cease this slaughter. Several men dysentery and malaria. Out of 1,000 pants. Dysentery, malaria, diphtheria, escaped later, but there were no more tested, 500 of the healthiest were chosen. yellow jaundice, beriberi, edema, pella- mass killings. However, escaping was We were issued five cookies and a ra- gra. Then there were fatality wards, still punishable by death for the guilty tion of rice, and on the morning of July

numbers 3, 2, 1, and 0. As you got party. Happily, they caught only a few. 23, 1943, were loaded into trucks, bound worse, you were transferred down the Killings and deaths slowed down, but for Manila. Some said we were going line. When you hit the zero ward, you as the months rolled by the beatings in- to Japan, some said Manchuria, and might last 3 more days. creased. For the slightest infraction of some said Formosa.

They let us visit the hospital area once rules you were slugged or whipped, We didn't know and didn't care, as a week. There were pitiful sights in the kicked or slapped. long as we were leaving that back- zero ward — humans lying in rows on Then we started to build the farm. A breaking, man-killing farm. Had we the floor. They didn't look human — not huge tract was marked off, and we were known we were headed for a coal mine these loose-skinned forms with bones told we must raise vegetables if we on Kyushu where the work turned out and eyes protruding. Some of them wanted to eat. All work was done by to be harder and longer with less food, weighed 40 pounds; some, 60. Six months hand. We used dull hoes and old Fili- we would have had a different thought. before, they had been healthy, fighting pino bolos to chop out the underbrush THE END American soldiers. What blankets they had were covered with filth, and lice and blowflies crawled in and out of their noses and mouths. They were too weak even to lift a spoonful of rice. The med- ics would carry out 15 or 20 of the poor devils every morning — stiff ones

— and fill the place again by noon.

In the seventh week the toll began to drop — 53, 41, 40, 32, 26. Then one day in September we had only one death. There was great rejoicing. ""One death?"' Hah! We've got old skull and crossbones licked," was the hopeful remark of sur- vivors.

Then came more deaths, this time by club. One night in October an Army colonel, a Navy lieutenant, and a Ma- rine sergeant decided to hit for the hills.

They were caught at 1 1 :30 that night - going under the east fence near the main road. The three Americans had two sacks of canned chow and 3.000 pesos. They could have lived for months up in the Zambales Range with that. The Nips beat them with their guns, with clubs. And the Jap oflicers batted them with

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Dog's Life Homeowners j/ay When roofs leak, Floors decay. Hinges scfuealt. Bricks fall. And chimneys smoke— Aren't ice all Hotise-broke! — Jane Merchant

Dusfy Answer

The greatest flaw in married life. The toughest problem that it hands me, Is thai, alas, I liave a wife Who inidcrstands me. — BicRtoN Braley

Liviiift If rp

The toivv character was celchra/ii/i:: his lOOtb birthday, and a crozvd had feathered for the occasion. "All we want to know is: What will the American i///av,ii/c," said one of the party to public really want next year—big or small cars?" "J7{st bis granddauiihter, "your ;j:ra//dl ather is 100 years old.' ''Aren't yon pro/id of l?iiny" \v — things go rong and "No," was her quick reply, "/.'c ain't Pedestrian Jake made liis last mistake The bride began tugging at tlic minister's never done anythinf^ but grow old, and coattail. "Rc\ crcnd," she gulped, "if you're III traffic's mad coufiisiou: look how long it took hint to do that!" talk He ii'ent ahead ii'lieii the light xt'as red. not careful, sou're going to him right — F. G. Kernan And jiimjied to his otvn conclusion. out of it."

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I've Had It

My monthly check is in my hand For such a fleeting visit.

The doctor's bill is a command; The grocer asks, "Where is it'f"

Electric service, gas and phone, And then the butcher's share. The dairy dares me to postpone My usual visit there.

Installment fellows block my way For debts on house and car; So why misname it "take-home" pay? It never gets that farl - A^'lI.I.IA.M W. Pratt

Bridal Adviee

Tlic minister w as reaching the climax of the marriage ritual. "Do you take this woman," he spoke up loudly and clearly, "for better or for worse, through sickness "They're evenly matched—Herbert has more power, and iiealth, in good times or bad, when but the mole's got an edge in maneuverability!"

55 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST 1959 Knojv the realjojr o£ffoodliving.

Life is what you make it. So too with beer. Fine ingredients are avail- able to every brewer, yet Schlitz stands out — refreshingly different! The secret's in knowing how. Taking extra care. More patience. More pride. Must be why people who really know beer choose Schlitz. THE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS

© 1959 Jos. Schhti Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Watch Ray Milland as "MARKHAM" on CBS-TV. .Sec local listings for lime and station.

Ivlove up to qvialitv. . .inoA^e \ip to 3olilitz ! If you're smoking more now but enjoying it less... CHANGE TO CAM ELS -A REAL CIGARETTE

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