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EXERCYCLE CORPORATION 630 Third Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Please send me at once, without cost or oblis'ation, the FREE Health and Fitness Kit, with full details on the effort- less, automatic Exercycle way to keep healthy, alert and trim, including- pamphlets quoting doctors on relation of health to fitness. Mr. ) Mrs. } Miss (I'LEASE PRINT PI-AINLY) j Address City Zone. . . .State. With the BERGFORS ALL-BODY ACTION h, C, 7S St. Dri,!« SI.. ni>.„lr'„ ated. By comparison, 4 out of every 10 American prisoners died in cap- tivity, a prisoner mortality 50 percent greater tiian that at Andersonville. Ac- cording to .Maj. William E. Mayer, the Arm\- psjchiatrist mentioned in .Mr. Tinker's article, this 100 percent sur- vival of the Turks was due to the es- tablishment of leadership on the part of officers and XCO's, and the support of the leaders by the soldiers. Of course, the Chinese segregated the senior officer, but the next senior as- sumed command. They segregated him, too, but there was always an- other leader to take over. Finally the captors gave up on them, and the Turks nursed their sick, shared their food, and took care of each other— and they all lived. The American prisoners failed to support their leaders, made deals with the captors, and adopted an every-man-for-himself attitude — and 40 percent of them died. JUST A VACUUM Maj. R. M. Head, US.Mt Lima, Ohio Sir: Ole. 016! for your "God Help the Prisoner of War!" story in January. BOX OFFICE NOTE I have asked our troops past and pres- ent if they had had any instruction in Sir: I agree with Thomas A. Hartk\-, American histor>' and tradition given Jr., of New Orleans on the subject of rlicm by their officers and I was often movies. There is, however, a fact tliat told that the periods allotted to that must be pointed out. "Operation Petti- were usually used for something else coat" was a big success at the box of- because their officers didn't know- fices of tiieaters everywhere. As a enough American history to talk to theater manager, I played the picture them about it. I hav e maintained that and it was held for one of the longest Earn this high rate of dividend and no American soldier w as ever brain- runs in tiie history of the theater. On w ashed— all the commies had to do get one of these valuable free gifts the other hand, "The Gallant Hours" was run m and fill a vacutmi. w as not at all well-patronized, accord- . . . from this modern old 53 year Edward Longstrctli ing to my information. Movies of this Association. Save by Mail ... and Lii jolln, Ciiiif. type are an inspiration to our younger we will handle all details for you. generation but they must be seen in SUGGESTIONS order to be effective. Another exam- ple is "I Aim at the Stars," a fine in- PLUS GIFTS! Sir: .May I make these suggestions for spirational movie, the story of A\'ern- features \-our magazine? 1 ) for A her Von Braun and missile develop- comprehensive rev iew of all national ment. Practically nobody came to legislation— especially that which might see it. serve to subvert or limit our present Ellis Merkley freedoms; 2) An outline or form letter Saginaw, Mich. which we "un-erudite" people might follow to express our feelings— pro or .Mr. .Merkle\' s point is well-taken. If con— to our Senators and Representa- the |)ublic patronized wholesome pic- tives; i) A Legion-sponsored study tures as they should, more such pic- outline on communism and its goals; 4) tures would doubtless be made. Editors A Legion-sponsored fund for litera- The ture to combat the flood of communist literature being poured into South CON ROOSEVELT America, Asia anil Africa. Name Withheld Sir: In the past, many interesting argu- ments have been presented in your 5/. I'raiicisviUc, 111. "Washington Pro & Con." Fhe state- ments of James Roosevelt, in his attack TURKS VERSUS AMERICANS on the House Committee on L^n- .•\merican Activities in the January Sir: It was surprising to me tiiat an in- issue, are the most colossal collection teresting and important fact was not of lies, misinformation, and verbal tripe l)rought out in either Frank A. Tinker's that I liave ever seen. Needless to say, • "(jod Help the Prisoner of War!" or 1908-1961 and our friends and neigiibors are Sanford H. W inston's "The 1 urkish we more llian 50 w riting plenty of letters to Congress- Army Story" in the January issue, it off Service! men from our State, asking that the Years would have been germane to either or current attack again be defeated. both, for it demonstrates the effective- W. A. BhuuUll ness of the "muscle toughness" and CITY SAVINGS Sfjokanc, 1 1 'cTi7.i. "spirit toughness" of the Turkish sol- ASSOCIATION dier as a PO\V. I hcre were 229 Turk- Roosex elt's 1656 W. Chicago Avenue • Chicago, III. ish soliliers captured in Korea. Many Sir: Representatix e Jimm>- of them were sick or wounded when statement in the January issue is just ASSETS OVER $22,000,000.00 captured, but despite this the entire 229 anotlier example of a person in a high sur\ i\etl and were eventualh' repatri- (C.ontiiuiL-d on paiic 49) nil A,\H AN I liCilON MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 . 7th On U.S. Route 66 — Only 39 Miles from America's Fastest Growing City ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO . . An Acre of Your Own in THE VALLEY OF THE ESTANCIA RANCHETTES FULL ACRE DOWN FULL PRICE 5 395 MO A MONTH Suddenly - almost without warning - the land boom is on in New Mexico. All at These statistics are eye-openers, aren't they' Yet real estate men are sayinf that will Albuquerque once Americans have discovered the "Land of Enchantment". . . and homes and ranch- the prices you have just read soon apply to the reeion! ettes are springing up on lush verdant tracts which until now were enormous ranches. And as lovely and luxuriant an area as Albuquerque can boast is The Valley of the And especially is this true of the lovely valleys surrounding Albuquerque, the queen Estancia Ranchettes. Rimmed by mountains, lying flush alongside the most important of New Mexico. This exciting city is bursting at the seams and homes are spilling out highway in the West, Route 66. and only 39 miles from Albuquerque, The Valley of in all directions. Albuquerque has become America's 7th fastest growing city" - and the Estancia Ranchettes is the essence of the enchanting Southwest. Please read this is picking up speed at an astounding tempo. carefully' The Valley of the Estancia Ranchettes are not barren desert tracts They are Astounding? Please consider; In 1940 Albuquerque had less than 36,000 people lush and green! Water waits to be tapped. The soil is so fertile as to bear fruit trees By 1950 it had soared to 97,000. And in the last 10 years it has rocketed to more and truck gardens Our Route 66 neighbors frame the landscape with their low modern than 260,000! ranchettes, homes, motels Our next door neighbor is the famed $200,000 Longhorn is very lovely land There are so many reasons lor this fantastic rate of growth. Nowhere in America Museum of the Old West . Oh yes, this a is there land more beautiful than the rich valleys that rim Albuquerque. The climate As our headline says, an acre in our beautiful VALLEY OF THE ESTANCIA RANCH- IS possibly without equal m all of America - a summertime ol balmy sunny days' ETTES costs $395 complete! And the terms are $10 down and $10 a month per acre. and bracing nights - blanket-sleeping nIghts; and in the winter equally sunny days* - That's it - no extras, no hidden additional costs. You may reserve as many acres as shirt-sleeve weather. Health? This is a region whose mildness and purity of climate you wish. AND YOU TAKE NO RISK IN SENDING YOUR $10 TO RESERVE YOUR ONE ACRE have given new life to people from all parts of our land - where, in respiratory ail RANCHETTE SITE. Your $10 reserves an acre for you, but you have the unqualified right ments alone, thousands of cures have been miraculously achieved by the mild weather, to change your mind. As soon as we receive your reservation we will send you your the dry air, the abundant sunshine, the low humidity. In the words of the Encyclopedia Purchase Agreement and Property Owner s Kit. The package will show you exactly Brittanica the Albuquerque region is "» health resort"! And what about sportt, enter- where your property is and will include full maps, photographs and complete informa- tainment, activities, opportunity? In the lofty close-by mountains are fishing, swim tion about your property Other maps will show you nearby Arizona - even old Mexico ming, hunting. Skiers wear shorts. Golf is pjayed the year 'round. Albuquerque itself itself, 250 miles away. You may have a full 30 day period to go through this fascinating is crammed with magnificent shops, theatres, churches, schools - including the Uni- portfolio, check our references, talk it over with your family. If during that time you versity of New Mexico with 7000 enrolled students, bright new college buildings and should wish to change your mind (and you don't have to give a reason either) your modern football stadium. Albuquerque has the 5th busiest airport in the United States. reservation deposit will be instantly refunded. (ALBUQUERQUE bank REFERENCES). Its industry and employment potential are boundless. Its 3 television channels and 9 Experienced realtors think that the Albuquerque area presents the most exciting radio stations, its opportunties m land ownership, jobs, small business; its sunniness, acreage buy in America On the outskirts of the city, land is now going for $5000 to its freshness and sparkle - all of these mark the personality of a great city. $6000 an acre. One day soon the Valley of the Estancia Ranchettes could be a suburb The wonder is not that Albuquerque is growing so rapidly. The wonder is that one of Albuquerque. Act now. You'll be forever grateful that you did. can ttlll buy a lovely piece of land close to the city at so low a price as an acre' $395 I "I All you have to do is to take a look at the six cities which in all of America have grown VALLEY OF THE ESTANCIA RANCHETTES even faster than Albuquerque. What would you have to pay for an acre of comparable I , ' land only 39 miles from their shops and Uieaters? Dept. L-20 I Cost Per Acre of 2316 CENTRAL S.E., ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO • THESE FIGURES INCLUDE OUTSIDE CEr^TRAL CITYI Comparable Land Gentlemen I wish to reserve acres in the VALLEY OF THE Rate of Rise 39 Miles from ESTANCIA RANCHETTES I enclose a deposit of $_ (Please send Population 1950-1960 Downtown deposit of $10 tor each $395 acre you reserve.) Please rush complete details, including my Purchaser's Agreement, Property Owner's Kit. maps, photo- 1. San Jose, Calif. 639,615 120.1% $2,500 - $ 5,000 graphs, and all data It is strictly understood that I may change my mind 2. Phoenix, Arizona 652,032 96.5 J3,5O0 - $ 7,000 within 30 days for any reason and that my deposit will be fully and 3. Tucson, Arizona 262,139 85.6 $1,500- J 3,000 instantly refunded if I do 4. Miami, Florida 917,851 85.4 $5,000 - $10,000 5. Sacramento. Cal. 500.719 80.7 $2,000 6. San Diego, Cal. 1,003,522 80.2 $4,000 - $ 8,000 7. Albuquerquo, N. M. 260,318 78.7 S395 (Valley ol Address. The Estancia Ranchettes) City_ -Zone_ _State_ Last year for rxam />!<•, ihi rr lui rr only S Jays thai ivere not sunny. WHO is at work on a satellite system for global telephone and TV transmission? WHO provides the communications channels for America's missile defenses? WHO is girdling the globe with communications for America's first man into space? C O R I N E R AIR POWER LOT OF LEGIONNAIRES will liavc a WHO tapped the sun for electric power by inventing the Solar Battery? A chance to see the scene shown on this month's cover, the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, when they attend the National Convention in Sep- tember. The Convention will be held in WHO used the moon for two-way conversations across the country? Denver which is a mere 55 miles from Colorado Springs. I^egionnaires will be welcome at the Academy, whose striking buildings set in a scene of majestic gran- deur make it one of the nation's top tour- ist attractions. Legionnaires w ho have sons old enough for sei"vice are likely to be interested in another aspect of the Air Force. The air arm is now seeking people who can qualify for more than 200 iob specialties. Men with at least a high school diploma arc wanted for navigator training. Also needed are occupational therapists, law- yers, registered nurses, dietitians and physical therapists. You can learn all about these and other job opportunities from your local Air Force recruiter. WHO guided Tiros and Echo into accurate orbit? WATCH THAT LINE IN LHE MONTHS alicad you w ill find a lot of attention being given to the follow - China, WHO made your pocket radio possible by inventing the Transistor? ing subjects: disarmament. Red summit meetings, youth, and agencies in- vestigating communism. The reason is. tliese are top items on the communist agenda, and the Party line will be used to attain the following ob)ecti\es: WHO maintains the world's largest, finest industrial research facilities? 1) The United States must disarm, [lar- ticularly in the nuclear field. 2) China must be admitted to the United Nations. 3) Another summit meeting is impera- WHO supplies the most and the best telephone service in the world? ti\ e, w ifiiout dela\". 4) Altire youths, especialh' students, must participate in acti\ities considered essential b>- the Party. 5) Agencies wiiich work to expose tiie be discredited WHO has the UNIVERSAL communications organization? communist conspiracy must and destroyed. If you keep these communist aims in miiui you w ill understand better a lot of the stuff you w ill be reading, hearing and seeing. For you may be sure that we are THERE'S ONLY ONE ANSWER TO ALL TEN QUESTIONS going to be deluged with propaganda pushing these red objectives. Some of tliis propaganda w ill be blatant but most of it will be subtle. BELL iio SYSTEM the people w TELEPHONE c> e, too, on Keep an try to advance the Parry line. Some of Pioneering in outer space to improve communications on earth them, ) ()U w ill find, are the familiar hacks w ho iva\ e made careers out of backing communist causes. Many will be inno- cents, who are probably not even con- scious of the fact that they arc in effect • Till! AMI R K AN I liGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 acting as traitors to tlic United States. RENT A Hut don't just remain passive when tiicsc people push the Party hnc. \\'rite to them, their employers or their sponsors COUNTRY CLUB and let them know you don't like what they arc doing. However, don't call them communists. To repeat, most of them arc FAMILY VACATION HOME not commies at all, but addled and irre- sponsible peoi^lc who do not realize that \\ hat they are doing is aiding and abetting the most repressi\e and brutal tyranny IN FLORIDA... the w orld has ever known. AS VLADIMIR SEES US IN OUR DF.cEMnER issuc wc tried to give you an on-the-spot tlcscription of The American Legion's big parade at the Na- tional Convention, but presumably we were wrong. A National Convention parade is quite different. Here is how it is described by a member of a Russian "youth delegation," here on a "cultural exchange" hootenann>-. The "youth," 35- ycar-old Madimir Nikolacv, wrote as fol- lows in Molodaya Grardiyii: "The parade of the Legion, this demon- stration of the forces of American reac- tion, is a very curious spectacle reminis- ON A BEAUTIFUL GOLF COURSE FOR LESS cent mainly of the finale of some cheai) comic opera. State after state march along in columns. One of these is preceded by THAN THE COST OF A FIRST CLASS MOTEL a decorated i)latform with three semi- Vacation in The New Port St. Lucie Country nude beauties. They are followed by Club Area esijecially created for golfers (and armed and gouty old men, adorned witli decorations and in the military' unifonns their families). Golf on a beautiful 18 hole championship course swim in the pool, or of their forefathers. . . . Then come — maiileiis in the uniform of comic opera from the Club beach. Fish in the St. Lucie soldiers, tight riding breeches, golden hel- and Indian Rivers or the Atlantic Ocean — mets and, of course, with guns. . . . This entertain or be entertained in the luxury club- brought immediately to our mind the house (planned recreation for children). documentary films, obtained as trophies, which ." recorded fascist parades . . Live In Completely Furnished Home — Rent So, comes the revolution—no parades! your own brand new one, two, or three bedroom Or at least no \\ parades ith drum major- Florida home with every imaginable facility — ettes. Instead will be the iVlightj- Red air conditioning, heating, linen and tableware, Army, with peace-loving Ivans and broad- television and maid service. beamed Russian ladies who mix concrete and sweep streets according to Marx, On Florida's Fabulous East Coast — Port St. Lenin, Engcls and Khrushchev. Lucie, on U.S. 1, only 4 miles from Stuart, Sailfish Capital of the World, 45 miles from BRICKBATS FLY Palm Beach, only 106 from Miami. ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE many outfits that keep springing up to assist enemies For Less Than You'd Believe — Have all the of this country- was recently expo.sed comforts of a private home, plus the privi- when the so-called Fair Play for Cuba leges of an exclusive country club, for less Committee was shown to have been sub- than you'd probably pay in a good motel. sidized by Castro. Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut, who dcsen es thanks for his exposure of this bunch, was sub- jected to a lot of abuse in the course of his investigation, and he commented on this PROPERTY as follows: ANOTHER GENERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 'No one complains when Congressional committees investigate gangsters or hood- FREE-NO OBLIGATION-MAIL COUPON TODAY lums or the K.K.K. or racketeering in the trade union movement, or monopolistic 1 L. E. Ames, Club Secretary 1 \ iolations by big business. It is only when 1 Port St. Lucie Country Club Congressional committees undertake the | 1 P.O. Box 427 Yl-26 | investigation of Communist subversion 1 Ft. Pierce, Florida j that the brickbats start to fly, and that editorials begin to appear in respected Without obligation on my part, please send ! PORT .— 1 complete information and rental rates. ' national newspapers, questioning the pro- j ^ l^riety and constitutionality of the investi- ST. LUCIE^ 1 NAME 1 gation." • On Florida's STUART • You might keep this in mind the next ! ADDRESS PALM } time you read a certain type of editorial East Coast between EACH( MIAMI. 1 CITY ZONE 1 or article or hear some of our radio f)r YX Ft. Pierce and Stuart commentators soundinu otT. COUNTY STATE 1 } Information that can help you with everyday problems. Once more it's time to start figuring how you and Uncle Sam are squaring off on income taxes. On the whole, there are no major rule changes this year. But you will want to keep these points in mind: • This year your return is due April 17 — not April 15. You get two days' grace because the 15th falls on a Saturday. • If you have dependent parents aged 65 or over, you now can deduct all medical payments made in their behalf up to a ceiling that goes as high as $10,000. You no longer have to lump such outlays with your own (which are reduced by 3 percent of your adjusted gross income) . There's a special form — No. 2948 — to report these expenditures. America, a magnifi- It features The Song of • Note that the 3-percent rule also is fully waived for elderly husbands cent work 10 years in the making by Roy and wives filing a joint return — so long as one is 65 or over. Early Internal Ringwald. Here is a majestic song-narrative Revenue Service literature erroneously implied that if one of the members of our country's founding and growth, set- was under 65, his or her bills wouldn't be exempt. That's wrong: Both are — ting to music the eloquent words of men just so as like Emerson, Whitman and Holmes. long one of the partners has passed 65. This complete text, and words to other • You must file a return if you have a gross income of $600 or more (this thrilling music in the album (This is My applies to minors as well as adults). After 65, the figure is $1,200. Country, W here in the Jf orld, America the • • • is included Beautiful, God Bless America), Living costs on the whole look more stable than they have in a long time in a 16-page illustrated booklet. for the months just ahead. It is "An Album for Americans" (hat Farm produce is in ample supply; hard-goods prices have no pep. are even no patriotic family, gathering or group will declining in some categories; little movement is visible in soft goods. want to be without. upward On the other hand, the cosls of services — medical, educational, and rent — Stereo (SW'AO 1504) are continuing their relentless climb. 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Other products: Radios, Radio-Phoiiographs, Tape Recorders, Dictating Machines, Medical X-ray Equipment, Electronic Tubes and Devices. GO PRESENTING BOTH SIDES Of BIG ISSUES FACING THE NATION THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: Should Federal Controls Over Labor Unions Be Tightened? (PRO) The approach of government (CON) The Landrum-Griffin Act of to the difficult problems in the labor- 1959 imposed upon the labor move- management field should be essentially ment a set of regulations and a degree nonpartisan—nonpartisan in the sense of Federal supervision far more severe that neither labor nor management than are endured by any other seg- should receive favored treatment at ment of our society. the hands of government for the sake of political gain or selfish economic Because a handful of racketeers, advantage. crooks and chiselers wormed their way into a handful of trade unions, For a number of years, labor unions have enjoyed Congress has enmeshed the entire labor movement in special privileges and immunities under the law. While a tangle of red tape that burdens the day-to-day func- such favored treatment has served to speed the growth tions of every honest union officer in the country. of labor unions, it has also opened the door, in some instances, to corruption and abuse which inevitably I am not opposed to reasonable legislation to guard result from unbridled power. As a corrective step, against union crookedness. But the target of the the 86th Congress enacted a labor reform law (the Landrum-Griffin Act is not the crooks but the cause Landrum-Griffin Act) designed for the most part, to of unionism itself. guarantee democratic rights for rank and file union members as well as to make labor leaders legally ac- Yet the enemies of labor are not satisfied. They still countable for union funds. talk about "curbing labor's power," first, by bringing unions under the antitmst laws, and. secondly, by for- Although the 1959 Reform Act represents a big step bidding workers to raise voluntary political campaign in the right direction, there are still areas where funds through individual contributions. tighter controls are needed. For example: In the first instance, they talk about "labor monop- (1) There is nothing in the Federal law to require oly." That is a false concept. Even if every worker in a secret ballot to be taken before a strike is a given industry belonged to the same union, there called. Since strike action can have a lasting and would be no "monopoly" because these workers would serious impact upon union members, as well as decide the policies of the union as individuals in a the public and the particular employer involved, democratic way, through free discussion and free, it seems reasonable that union members should secret ballot elections. That's not monopoly; that's col- have a direct voice, by secret ballot, in the mak- lective action in the best American tradition. ing of so important a decision. The proposal to ban labor political funds is equally (2) While antitrust statutes have long applied to absurd. Workei s have as much right to contribute vol- business, the Federal laws do not directly con- untarily to political candidates as have business ex- trol the exercise of monopoly power by giant ecutives. national labor organizations. (3) A serious problem which requires further legis- This whole cry of "labor power" is a bugaboo, lative attention concerns the use of union dues designed to frighten an uninformed or misinformed for partisan political activities. The Corrupt public. The fact is that since the passage of the Taft- Hartley in 1947, no groups of workers can Practices Act should be amended for it has not Act new proved fully effective. Union dues should be organize a union without at least the tacit consent of used for union business—not for politics. the employer. For the most part, the labor movement has been, The power that needs curbing in this area is man- and must continue to be, a dynamic force for good in agement power. And what we need is not more strin- our economic system. Legislative controls should be gent laws against laboi-, but a law that restores the aimed, not at destroying or crippling unions, but rather right of still unorganized workers to form unions and at making them more responsible in their service to bargain collectively, a right granted by the Wagner the rank and file union members and to the public. Act which has been rendered all but inoperative. Robert P. Griffin (R) Cleveland M. Bailey (D) Member of Congress from Ihe 91h Dislricl of Michigan Member of Congress from Ihe 3d Dislricl of Wesl Virginia THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 • By GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT HE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT of American military power is the It Takes Power T way we Americans and other peo- ple—both our friends and our enemies- think about it. That we should have enough power of the right kinds is vital, but it is not enough. There must be an Just so long as we maintain our defenses — and no understanding and an appreciation of our power, both at home and abroad, if not, we cannot use it to full effect. indeed the decline in our prestige throughout the world is due, at bottom, longer — we will be safe from aggression by the Soviets. almost entirely to a growing belief that the balance of military power is shifting in favor of the Soviet Union. This belief the Kremlin works tirelessly to develop. Sputnik and lunik are the highlights of their campaign — there is hardly a savage in darkest Africa or a plantation worker in Indonesia but has heard of these Soviet accom- plishments and believes that they mark the ascendancy of Soviet military power over ours. The rocket threats which Nikita Khrushchev produces so regularly, the con- stant references to Soviet ability to launch missiles against any target in the world, the calculated long-range missile tests in the Pacific Ocean, the boasts about the Soviet sub- marine tleet— all are part of this same propaganda pattern. The purpose is the building-up of a public image of in- vincible Soviet power. That it is a phony image matters little to Soviet purposes. No one knows better than the men in the Kremlin that power, until it is used, is pretty much what people think it is. The reality of Soviet power is considerably less, and the reality of our own considerably more, than most people think. It is of vital importance that we should maintain our power advantage and increase it. It is of hardly less importance that the true image of our reality of power Far-ranging B-52's of the Strategic Air Command provide in- //( reldlion lo tliat of the coDiiniinist stales should be proj- surance again.st any attacks contem]>lated by the Soviet Union. Officers Ship and Missile Control Center Quarters Engine Rooms Reactor Compartment Polaris Launching Tubes Cutaway of U.S.S. George Washington showing row of Polaris missiles aniidship. ected elYectively throughout the world. govern the Soviet Union are likewise The first requirement for a reality of thinking about a reality of power for the power in today's world is a secure home accomplishment of their purposes. They base. Specifically for us, this means se- too recognize that the first requirement curity against surprise attack with nucle- for a reality of power is a secure home ar weapons. There is only one source base. attack surprise nuclear attack against us f anatics who l)clic\e that the U.S. should disarm from which such an could be at- A in a hostile world made S))ectacles of themselves tempted: the Soviet Union. presents no advantages to the Soviet wluMi the Pohnis sub Ethan Allen was launched. But the coldly calculating men who leaders unless it can be so overwhelming 12 The number of Polaris submarines will increase to 21 (with 336 missiles) by 1963, and this total may be higher if the program is accelerated by the new Ad- War ministration as is now forecast. Thus the famous "missile gap" has begun to close almost before it really started to open. The remarkable achieve- as to wipe out, by complete surprise, our ment of Vice Adm. "Red" Raborn and capacity to retaliate in kind against the his Special Projects Office in pushing Soviets. Polaris from blueprint to operational re- Such an overwhelming attack capabil- ality in the very short span of four years ity is known as a "counter-force" capa- has put an end to whatever hope the So- bility. But the Soviets do not possess it. viet missilemen may have had of con- They do not have such a level of nuclear fronting the United States with irresisti- striking power today, and there is no ble missile power in 1961-62. The year present indication that they are trying 1961 may perhaps be tricky, with the to build up to this level in any hurry. number of completed Polaris submarines We are in the daik (onit-rning Soviet missile sites but know the location ol suth great industrial centers as Donbas Basin shown here. This may be because their missile arma- When Francis Powers ment is useful only for striking fixed tar- came down in Russia gets whose precise location is known in we lost our ability to find danger spots. advance and can be cranked into the missile's guidance system. The nuclear striking force of the United States today still rather small; yet includes a few fixed-base missiles, a very we can bridge that strong force of manned bombers (the gap by the expensive Strategic Air Command), and the Navy's but quite feasible de- floating bases — submarines armed with vice of maintaining a Polaris missiles and aircraft carriers proportion of the from which bomber planes can operate. Strategic Air Command's bomber planes It would make little sense for the So- on continuous airborne alert, so that they viets to rush to build up missile "counter- cannot be destroyed by surprise attack force" power at great effort and at the against their airfields. The 6th and 7th expense of other forms of armament, Fleets (in the Mediterranean and the Far when by the time they might be ready for East respectively) will operate three car- a surprise knockout of all our fi.xed bases, riers each instead of two during 1961, as there will be enough U.S. nuclear strik- additional temporary "missile-gap" in- ing power in moving bases— at sea and surance. invulnerable to missile attack— to devas- The iron hand of inevitable nuclear tate the Soviet Union anyway. During deterrence thus will continue to restrain 1961 we shall have at least five Polaris the Soviet leadership from launching a submarines operational, with 16 missiles nuclear assault against our home base. each, plus 16 attack aircraft carriers op- We will continue to possess a nuclear erating a total of several hundred planes striking force which they cannot hope to capable of delivering nuclear weapons. (Continued on pai^'e 44) We make no secret of our missile-launching bases, so they are vulnerable. 13 By ERWIN A. BAUER ,NE DAY LAST WINTER a Stranger walked into a tavern in Rice o Lake, Wis., where several world's record niuskies are mounted on the wall. The visitor stared at them in disbelief and then he turned to the bartender. "The man who caught those fish." he said, "is a liar!" Well, the man who caught them is Louis Spray, perhaps the best musky fisherman in the world. But far more sig- nificant is the fact that he caught all of The Fireholc in Yellowstone Park. Smoke is them in the same area, in the Hayward chain of lakes just to the north. It's no This jumbo catfish was caught coincidence that, year in and year out, by the author in the Pickwick Reservoir in Tennessee. 9, Catcliinji; fish in a laini piuul. 1 here are two million such |)oiuls across America. A roster of spots where the fishing is not merely good but superb. many of America's largest muskies are ble ways to do it. One of these is to take taken up to 1 5 pounds, bragging size any taken in this air-conditioned, evergreen a census of all bodies of water. By using place on earth. But biologists look for region of the Badger State. So the fisher- everything from poisons to tranquilizers even bigger fish this summer, which man with a trophy musky on his mind is to electric shockers, they can quickly surely rates the White River as one of the wise to follow Louis Spray's example by count the fish in any pond, weigh them, country's hotspots for 1961. fishing the Hayward lakes. measure them and from scale samples The truth is that trout fishermen can Like nuggets of gold, fish are where determine how rapidly they're growing. find plenty of action in widely scattered you find them, but of course some places Scientifically viewed, this information is areas. Eastern brook trout were abund- are better than others. For reasons still enough to reveal whether fishing will be ant in Maine when the first settlers waded unknown, some lakes and rivers across good or not so good in the future. Now onto that rocky shore and although the land produce bigger fish than others. let's see how this helps America's most they're more sophisticated now, they're Still other waters produce more fish than serious anglers, the trout fishermen. still abundant today. That vast area from similar waters elsewhere. And nowadays, Several years ago when giant Bull Moosehead Lake northward to the Que- for the first time in history, it's possible Shoals Dam was completed across the bec border is especially good. to predict accurately just where these White River in northern Arkansas, a Michigan is also a promised land for hotspots — these fertile fishing holes — pioneering biologist "planted" a few trout addicts who like to get out early in will be before the season begins. rainbow trout in the swift and cool tail- the springtime. The Pere Marquette has In every State capital today there is a race just below. Today few eyebrows are an annual run of big "coaster" trout team of aquatic biologists whose job is to raised when an angler catches a live- from Lake Michigan and the beautiful provide better sport for a growing num- pounder there. Even ten-pounders aren't Au Sable River below Grayling will pro- ber of anglers. They've devised incredi- too uncommon and rainbows have been duce many a big brown trout before the 14 and back again each year. By measuring the size of the run and the hatch of small fish, biologists can guess which rivers will be best in the future. In 1961 they figure that Oregon's Rogue (always good) and Umpqua, California's Russian, Wash- ington's Queets and Skagit Rivers will rate among the best. It's worth noting that fisher- men can also catch salmon around the mouths of these rivers, but the best salmon fishing of all is available in the Puget Sound area and in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Although heavily fished recently, the lakes of California's High Sierra are well worth visiting. of contain exquisite from hot springs where fish can be boiled. Many them rare and String of muskies from Ghost golden trout. For rainbows, the upper Lake, Wis., caught by Bob MOOSENUO UKE Kern and Owens Rivers are good. mm UKE Held, left. At the right is Irv No sportsmen in all the world are as Mlim Snell, guide. fortunate as bass fishermen in America. A wandering bass fan can stow his family and his tackle in his car or station wagon and find lively sport in any direc- tion he travels. He's near good bass fish- ing no matter where he lives. But again some bass fishing holes are much better than others. Here's a good rule of thumb to follow: For largemouth bass — and for the big- gest bass of all — stay below the Mason- Dixon line. For smallmouth bass, head OKEEGHOBEE norida standing. If you take to the trails and get summer is finished. In neighboring Wis- off the beaten track in Glacier or Yellow- consin, the Brule River is expected to be stone National Parks, you'll find premi- productive. um trouting in the hundreds of cold These rowboat fishermen haul a tarpon Lake trout were virtually eliminated lakes. in the latter park, the alpine And aboard with light tackle off Miami, Fla. from the Great Lakes basin during the Firehole River furnishes the best sport past decade by an invasion of lampreys of all late in the season. Here, believe it from the sea. But thanks to another or not, it's possible to catch a trout and straight for the Great Lakes drainage timely planting by alert biologists, an cook it in a boiling hot spring on the country. average sportsman will be able to catch bank without moving from one spot. Time was when water was scarce in big lakers in Green Lake, Wis., this year. Jackson Lake is a good bet in Wyo- Texas, Oklahoma and much of Arkansas, Western United States is full of hot- ming. So is the Wind River and the high but civilization and dam builders have spots for trout and a good many of these country lakes of the Jim Bridger Wilder- considerably altered the landscapes in all are concentrated in Montana. Some of ness. Some of these lakes are a little diffi- three States. Now there are big reservoirs the finest rivers include the Big Hole, cult to reach but the trout in them are galore and some of them have become Jefi'erson, Gallatin, Madison, Ruby and easy to catch. That's also true of the the nation's very best bass fishing holes. the Yellowstone. Georgetown Lake near more than 1,000 lakes in the Uinta Both Bull Shoals and Norfolk Lakes in Anaconda, Canyon Ferry Lake near Mountains of northeast Utah. Arkansas are reaching a peak, for abund- Townsend, and Cliff and Wade Lakes in Fine, fighting steelhead trout run from ance as well as for trophy fish. Tenkiller the southwest corner of the state are out- the ocean into many west coast rivers (Continued on page 40) 15 By WALLACE WILLIAMS, SR. ?th Division Citation for Ciallantry in Action. In ihc capuirc of the Bois tie Rappes, north of Verdun, Oct. 21, 1918, was in com- mand of Company C (15 MG Bn), which was to follow the assault wave. When the Infantry com- manders on his right and left had been killed or wounded, Lt. Williams took command, reorganized the Infantry under (.xceptionally heavy machinegun and shell fire ;iMd with great courage and bravery led the men forward, secured the right flank of the woods and organized the position. He then went back under heavy fire, guided his machincguns up into position and consolidated the new lines which he held until relief on the morning of Oct. 22, 1918. Throughout a very trying and critical time Lt. Williams showed utter disre- gard for his own personal danger and inspired great confidence in his men. ()N(i AGO SHAKFSPEARE WrOtC: "This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Cris- pian shall ne'er go by. From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it ." shall be reniembcred . . That's what he wrote about a battle loiight 600 years ago. While he wasn't there he could be right. And if he is right (that the men are not forgotten) then I'm sure it is largely because of his play. Just by coincidence there was a foot soldier in the play whose name was Williams, which happens to be my name too. This longbow man was typical of all the foot soldiers in all the wars we know anything about. However, remembered or not. he was there, close up. even if it took a Shakespeare to put the right words in his mouth and make his story come alive. This is what I'm trying to get around to: There are a lot of us still around who were Infantry back in World War I. but as far as I know nobody ever quite put into words how it was. Certainly not the way Ernie Pyle did for the dogfaces in was done after the artnlstice and long reached the Argonne. Clark had been World War II. A German wrote a book after what was left of my outfit had gone wounded and transferred and Sutherland called "All Quiet on the Western Front" up into Germany. This is a true story or also was gone. Mike had been shot in the but his man fought on the other side. He at least as true as I can tell it because face at .St. Mihiel and was in a base hos- ended his story in the Argonne which an individual soldier sees only a small pital. was a good place lor an ending. I know part of a great battle and even that seems The brigade had received replace- because 1 happened to have been there strangely distorted in the official reports. ments after St. Mihiel so that both regi- for .10 days, in what was called the front My regiment was the 11th U.S. In- ments, the 6th and 1 1th. were close to line, although no one ever really knew fantry which with the 6th Infantry full strength again. A new general named where the line was. The truth is that it formed the 10th Brigade of the 5th Di- M alone who had been colonel of the 23d almost always shifted before it got vision. When "Iron Mike" O'Daniel, of Infantry at Belleau Woods was in com- plotted on a map. Mostly it worked its World War II and Korean farne, and I mand. He was "all infantry" as will ap- way forward but not always. reported as newly commissioned second pear later. This is my personal story about what "louies" in August of '17, we were as- The Argonne battle was more than 2 I saw and experienced in the Argonne signed to the 3d Battalion, where two of weeks old when we went in on Oct. 14. battle, mainly in and around a little vil- the captains were Mark Clark and We had come from St. Mihiel to Verdun lage, or to be specific, a pile of rubble "Dick" Sutherland. The latter, you may in French trucks with Indo-Chinese driv- called CuncI, close by a long sloping hill. remember, was MacArthur's chief of ers but the last 30 miles were hiked in Forty thousand American soldiers were staff 25 years later; everybody knows 2 days, with the night horizon to the collected from various parts of the Ar- about Clark. However, by the time we north a bright orange glow and a con- gonne and reburied there. Of course this DRAWINGS BY CIL WALKER stant roar like freight trains in the dis- 16 One man's story of a battle that men will still be talking about hundreds of years from now. We hit the woods ahnost before a shot was fired. Then we started to yell. The thing worked. . . . to put it briefly, we did not make it. To start with, an hour before the jump-off and even before daylight, we caught a terrific shelling and lost a lot About midnight we were guided into of men. When we started across the field position for the jump-off" and given field the enemy machineguns opened, mostly maps showing the brigade objective and from a woods on our right flank that was the battalion sector. We were to start outside of our sector. This was the for- from a smashed-up woods, cross an open est above Cunel and it was in this woods, tancc. Wc had already seen enough to field and a bare hill, then capture the and on this day, that Sam Woodfill made know what we were headed tor. While town and vallev on the other side. Well. his fight that caused Pershing to name of eourse we joked a lot, nobody fooled him the No. 1 soldier in the war. Any- way, .Sam's outfit didn't take that his own stoniaeh. The lumps in it were woods, real and they hurt. the Bois de Rappes, but the German ma- I w as looking chineguns in it took us squarely in the I had the second platoon of the ma- U|> at (loiids. chinegun flank and we were lucky to get the hill company. The captain had I I)rea t hed is been killed in the Vosges 3 months back an d it hint. and to stay there. That hill exactly and the present commander was Lt. where the big cemetery is today. "Joe" Wilson, fresh out of West Point. We stayed on the hill 3 days and He was a tall freckled boy with a slow nights, hiding in shellholes by day and grin, and he was tops, but he got killed crawling out at dusk. Most of the time the day we jumped off—exposed himself it rained and the shellholes were half- too much trying to be cool and to steady full of water. We had helmets and rub- the men, under a hell of shell and ma- berized capes for protection from the chinegun fire. I got to him and turned rain, and while it was cold it didn't start him over. He tried to say something but to freeze until later. At night they sent didn't make it. I hadn't really hated any- up cans of coffee, cans of tomatoes, and body up to then; after that it was differ- round loaves of French army bread, plus ent. After that, too, I was made com- ammunition. pany commander. (Conlinitecl on page 42) 17 " I Got My Job Through J^^to fork Sime^s." How one man's opinion, disseminated through an influential newspaper, helped put Castro in power. By WM. F. BUCKLEY, JR. "TTt is very much as in the early editorial staff of The New York Times. H months of 1950 when, having He did more than any other single man chased the last remnants of the to bring Fidel Castro to power. It could This National Revieiv cartoon with opposition off the mainland, Mao Tse- be said — with a little license — that Mat- the caption that serves as the title tiing, wild with ideological lust, surveyed thews was to Castro what Owen Latti- of this article portrays Castro as his kingdom, and threw himself into the more was to Red China, and that The the beneficiary of Times promotion. job of communizing his people. He New York Times was Matthews' Insti- chopped off many more heads than tute of Pacific Relations: stressing this Fidel Castro has had so far to do in important difference, that no one has He became — always consistent with be- Cuba, and there are no doubt differences publicly developed against Matthews ing a writer for The New York Times, between Mao and Fidel, as there are anything like the evidence subsequently which imposes certain inhibitions — the between China and Cuba; but then as turned up against Lattimore tending to Number One unbearded enthusiast for now, as the public slowly awoke to the show, in the words of a Senate investigat- Fidel Castro. meaning of what had happened, the ing committee, that Lattimore was "a Castro, he told the world in a series apologists for the revolutionary forces conscious, articulate instrument of the of three articles that made journalistic began to retreat in increasing horror .Soviet conspiracy." and indeed international history, is a big, from their sometime enthusiasm. Those brave, strong, relentless, dedicated, tough who had told us again and again that Herbert Matthews met Castro in Feb- idealist. His unswerving aim is to bring the Red Chinese were primarily agrarian ruary of 1937. To make contact with to Cuba "liberty, democracy, and social reformers began to fade away, only to him — as he tells the story — he had to get justice." There is seething discontent reappear, many of them, before con- in touch with the Fidelista underground with Dictator Batista, corrupt and de- gressional committees, which asked them in Havana, drive 500 miles all one night generate, after virtually 25 years of ex- the same questions they are now begin- across the length of the island, using his ercising power: hated by most Cubans ning to ask the propagandists for Castro, wife as cover; and ride a jeep through for having installed himself as President questions to which we desperately need tortuous dirt-road detours to avoid the in March of 1952 by military coup; be- the answer, now as then: IVho betrayed patrols and roadblocks that an angry come, now, a terrorist and a torturer. China? Who betrayed Cuba? Who — in Fulgencio Batista had posted all about Fidel Castro is the "flaming symbol" of the process— betrayed the United States? the Sierra Maestra mountains in the east- resistance. The fires of social justice that There is no defensible defense any ern tip of the island, to try to break the drive Castro on, that cause him to bear more of the regime of Mao Tse-tung. back of the little resistance group that incredible hardships, playing impossible But here and there, where Cuba is con- two months earlier had landed, 82- odds, with the single end in mind of cerned, there are pockets of loyalty to strong, in Oriente Province in a diesel- bringing freedom to his people, these are Castro. There is a Fair Play for Cuba cutter from Mexico, pledged to "liber- fires that warm the hearthsides of free- Committee, which may or may not be ate" Cuba, or perish. dom and decency all over the land: and dominated by fellow travelers, but which Matthews climbed up muddy slopes, they will prevail. . . . certainly has among its supporters some swam across an icy river, ducked behind Is Castro's movement touched by men who are not fellow travelers, men trees, ate soda crackers, and slept on the communism? Matthews dismissed the whose faith in Castro is livelier, alas, ground: and then, in the early morning rhetorical question with scorn. Castro's than freedom is in Cuba. The leader of hours, Fidel Castro came. In whispers, movement "is democratic, therefore pro-Castro opinion in the United .States he talked for three hours about his plans anti-Communist." And, flatly, "There is is Herbert L. Matthews, a member of the for Cuba. no Communism to speak of in Fidel To put it mildly, Matthews was over- Castro's 26th of July Movement." Wm F. Buckley, Jr.. is the editor of National whelmed. From that moment on he ap- The impact of these articles all over Review, and the author of "Up From Liberal- ism" and "God and Man at Yale." pears to have lost all critical judgment. the world was subsequently recognized 18 NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, I960 Matthews Declares Reform ' In Cuba Hot Communism' us Misunderstandint Of Revolution Cited Herben Matthews, Latin affairs editor of the New York Times, told an overflow crowd at last night's Challenge lecture that the Cuban revolution and reform Is not com- munism per se although It has many communistic features. Mr. Matthews stated that "the Cubans are doing what the Commun- ists like to see and are tying them- selves to the Communist bloc" but that these things do not signify an acceptance of communism. Ho said that this misunderstanding o( the Cuban reform in the US was having serious consequences. A close acquaintance of Fidel Castro, Mr. Matthews also asserted that "Fidel Castro is not a com- munist. If anything, he is a Utopian socialist." He asked his audience to put themselves In the place of Castro and the revolutionaries. He HERBERT L. MATTHEWS, T,s,. "aid that Cuba had been completely othy Dwighf's first Chubb Fellow of »" and that after the yoor, discussed the Cubon quo., ff"*"' the slammed the door. Cuba tion with students in TD's common US room. (Photobyj.A.sabbatino) either had to surrender or seek Herbert L. Matthews, Latin American expert of the Times, met Castro By now most people are well aware that Castro is a ruthless in 1957. His enthusiasm for the bearded one and wliat he was doing dictator of a coiimiunist country. But Matthews still insists he was communicated to Times readers and to key people in Washington. is not. Recently at Yale he spent days selling this idea. even by The New York Times itself, word, attempt the impossible. It is bad normally bashful about celebrating pub- enough that Herbert Matthews was hyp- MATTHEWS, Htftxrt LlentI, newspaper eorr.; b. New Yort, N.Y., Jan. lu. 1900; a. Samuel and licly its achievements. When, almost two notized by Fidel Castro, but it was a France] (Lewis) M.; A.B., Columbia, 1922; m. Editb years later, Batista fell, the Times per- calamity that Matthews succeeded in Crosse, of Massingham. Ei)g., Feb. 21, 1931; children —Eric, Priscilla. With the N.Y. Times since July mitted itself to record jubilantly: "When hypnotizing so many other people, in 1922: succi'ssively reporter, foreign editor a/id war eorr.; corr. I'aris Bureau, 193I-34, Abyssinian War, a correspondent of The New York Times crucial positions of power, on the sub- 1935-36, Spanish Civil War. 1936-39, Home, 1939- returned from Senor Castro's hideout ject of Castro. "When I was Ambassador Uay 1942. India, Aug. 1942-July 1943, Italian cam- paign, 1943-45. Chief of tbe liODdon Bureau, New [from that point on, by the way, Senor to Cuba," Mr. Earl E. T. Smith com- York Times. 19i5-49. editorial staff. New York, since 1949. Past trustee Kadcliffe Coll. Served Tank Corps, Castro was elevated by the Times to 'Dr." plained to the .Senate Subcommittee on U.S. Army with A E.F., 191S. Decorated Italian War Castro] . . . the rebel leader attained a Internal Security last August, "I . . . Cross, Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy, Commen- datore Order of Merit (It.ily); Officer Order of new level of importance on the Cuban sometimes made the remark in my own Condor of Andes (Bolivia); also decorated ChcT- scene. was the embarrassed govern- Embassy that Mr. Matthews was more ilier of the Legion of Honor (France); Officer Nor Order of Soutliirn Cross (Brazil). Awarded Co- ment ever able to diminish Fidel Castro's familiar with State Department thinking lumbia U. Medal of Excellence; Maria Moors Cabot award, 1056; George Polk Memorial award, 1957; repute again." regarding Cuba than I was." Newspaper Guild of New York Page One award, 1957. As Ambassador assigned to Havana Member Phi Beta Kappa. Mom. Prcsbyn. Ch. Club: Overseas Press (v. p. 1952-53). Author: Eyewitness Id Foreign correspondents have been in August of 1957, Mr. Smith had been Abyssinia, 1937; Two Wars and More to Come, 1938; very mistaken before. Foreign cor- the representative of the The Fruits of Fascism. 1943; The Education of a much United States Correspondent, 1946; Assijnnient to Austerity (with respondents who work for The New Government in Cuba during the 18 cru- Edith Matthews), 1950; The Yoke and the Arrows. 1959. Address: The New York Times, N.Y.C. York Times are no exception, as anyone cial months that brought Castro to knows who will attempt to reconcile power, and'he used just that word: Mat- From '-Who's Who in America, 1960-1961" Re- Soviet history and accounts of same filed thews' articles on Castro, he told the printed courtesy Marquis — Who's Who, Inc. over the years by, e.g., Walter Duranty Senators, had literally "hypnotized" the and Harrison Salisbury; who will, in a (Continued on page 46) 19 By ED REES THE MORNING SUN bumcd through the gray haze that night had left, melted it, and revealed earth and sky to one another and glorified each with its polished light. The airplane on the ground glistened as it caught the rays and reflected them against a hangar door. The massive stage was now set for the epochal drama: the curtain had lifted, the spotlight was on, and the star was \ new breed of aircraft is the B-70. a manned ready. In a few moments this plane, the missile that cruises at 2,(I0(> miles an hour. supersonic B-7(). would get her first real taste of sky. Pilot on this critical full flight is a Alvin Wliire, project lest piloi lor the B-70. young, square-cut veteran of 5,500 fly- ing hours, some of them Mach Two hours in experimental jet fighters. Test rier which is the almost impenetrable pilot and aeronautical engineer Alvin curtain keeping man from the stars. White has lived with the B-70 develop- In the sensibly roomy flight deck into ment program for nearly eight years and which he enters. White settles easily in in that time he has watched her take ihe left-hand seat of the big bomber. He shape and life, growing from concept to puts on his plastic helmet with its built-in structure and from structure to a densely forehead microphone and soft wax ear- packed and immensely powered airplane. phones that mold themselves by his skin All the time he has been training himself heat to his ears. This is the only special up to her, preparing lor his own flight gear White will wear. The pressure suit perlormance. delta wing that fans out like a peacock s which feels like a tight-fitting mattress, White begins his visual pre-flight tail. And in this tail sit six GE J-93 en- the face-pinching oxygen mask, the para- check, which is more a pilot's way of ad- gines, the most powerful jets ever built. chute, and survival kit— all the parapher- miring his airplane than checking it. He As he hustles up the three-story ladder nalia that has been draped on pilots and stands beneath the finely tapered nose toward the cockpit hatch. White feels dangled from them for so long—now are that towers high above him—so high it that to the mechanics watching him from as obsolete as the propeller: the B-70 almost seems in flight against the bright below he appears in the image of a man has a " shirt-sleeve environment" even at back light of the morning sky. His eyes boartling a space ship. It is an image he 120. ()()() feet, the airplane's zoom-out bathe the airplane in near disbelief of its has of himself and he cannot dispel it as peak. size and in awe of its beauty. It stretches he dogs the titanium hatch. White is not quite ready to light his over an area half the size of a football This is more than merely a new air- engine fires. First there is the cockpit field and weighs half a million exquisite- plane that goes faster and flics higher check—the sweeping eye movements ly tooled, delicately balanced pounds. Its than other planes. It is a new aerody- across banks of instruments. .Satisfied long and clean fuselage, interrupted by a namic design concept, an advanced stra- that there arc no out-of-line readings, he stubby, duck-like, trimmable canard, tegic weapons system on which the begins his start-engine procedure. He tapers back gently and disappears into a United States will rest its hope of main- reaches to the overhead panel on his taining its margin of defense safety well right, flicks a spring-loaded toggle switch senior Ed Rees, military correspondent for into the next decade. It is also the air- and holds it in the depressed position for Time, is an Air Corps veteran. He won the plane that will bridge and occupy the a few seconds, feeding energy into the D.F.C. and five Air Medals, and is the author of "The Manned Missile," published by Duell, gap between manned bombers and space ignition system of the engines. Numbers Sloan & Pearcc, from which this article is taken. ships since it will live in the thermal bar- two and four kick in. There is a gentle 20 but distant purr heard in the cockpit. White now is flying only his cockpit, warfare officer— are alone at a frontier White starts four more engines and a not the massive plane behind him or the that can be found only fifteen miles from slight vibration stirs the plane and flut- billion-dollar program which is the big- supermarkets and hospitals, schools and ters against his helmet. The cockpit has gest ever in U. S. air technology and tht playgrounds. It is the nearest frontier to awakened: the slender fingers of instru- defense hope of the next decade. His his doorstep, and the last one man is ments begin to point to higher numbers world is reduced to the simplicity and challenging. —later these numbers will read so high the immediacy of one decision. One in- Zero Zero One sits high above the the fingers will seem to point at them strument tells him to go and six engines earth, its wings resting on 95 percent of proudly. Soon the cockpit is alive with with one-third the horsepower output of its atmosphere. The thin air is as smooth sound: radios are channelizing, gyros the Hoover Dam insist. as a poet's sea, and the mother-of-pearl spin and hum, and standby pumps whir. White does not want to leave the cloud wisps are motionless. The morn- The senses but not the muscles of the ground yet: he wants to build up over- ing sky above is weirdly dark, as wine- giant have awakened. speed in case he loses an engine. At 150 dark as the ocean of the ancients. And the patient stars shine. Looking out 350 miles to the hazy horizon. White can see Baja California and the Gulf of Cali- fornia to one side and Oakland Bay on other. The sinuous shore line of Cali- Conventional missiles have limitations. The B-70 the fornia joins the two. The cockpit is dark and the sun's light does not fall in rays. There are no sunbeams in dust-free space; where the light hits directly there overcomes them by using a fantastic device, Man, M-1. is brightness, but in the shadows there is darkness. It is so dark that the instru- ment panel must be lighted at all times. The cockpit is not quiet; there is a rum- ble from the ram effect of Mach Three flight. It is a rumble never heard by pilots before. The outside air is —70° F. but it is not fresh air. The content of toxic ozone ranges from 2 to 20 parts in a million parts of air— many times greater than the amount that produces Los Angeles' acid smog. The B-70 feels like any other large jet airplane, smells like all others with its sharp odor of metal and oil and elec- tricity. To Pilot White the plane handles like other high-performance aircraft: it is alert and sensitive and powerful— per- haps a little more than others. But this is a different airplane, different in every important way. First off, it is different in performance—not merely better but dif- The most remote parts of the high-flying aircraft. globe are brought close by this fast ferent. From this spot in the California skies White could fly to New York in an White now eases the throttles forward, knots he pulls back gently on his stick, hour and a half, to London in 2% hours, the engines respond quickly but quietly, increasing the wing's angle of attack tc to Karachi in 3V2 hours, to Moscow in cruise at Mach Three, and there is power for the ground roll. the air and giving it lift like a giant kite. 3 hours. He would altitudes He moves his stick back and feels for the White must move quickly. The plane is 2,000 m.p.h. all the way, and at reply of the elevens, and he looks back accelerating at a tremendous rate and between 80,000 and 100,000 feet. And than half toward the tail to see if they are in up he must get the slow-cycling gear up he would do so weighing more position. He runs his other controls before he exceeds the speed where the a million pounds at take-off. an improve- through and checks his ground clearance. air flow would rip it off. He is barely The B-70 is more than His copilot conducts the dialogue of the off the runway and already his air speed ment, a growth version, of such ad- endless checklist readofT and response is more than 250 knots. Now White vanced aircraft as the X-15, the B-52 and with him. Finally White calls the Los reaches for sky; he pulls his stick way the B-58; it is a prototype of a new breed Angeles Tower: "B-70, Zero Zero One, back to angle the plane on a sharp flight of aircraft, a quantum jump over any- is ready to taxi." The tower clears him trajectory. Five minutes from the time thing now flying. This airplane is impor- to Runway 22L. White releases his he released his brakes he is at 25,000 tant not merely for its functional value brakes. feet. Now he trims the plane for real as a weapons system but for its historic The giant bird lurches forward, slowly high-speed, high-altitude flight. Then promise: it is a technological platform at first but with the impression of great powering himself into a 25,000-feet-pcr- that will give the United States a greater speed. White watches his acceleration minute climb he is soon up to 80,000 reach into the realm of high flight and clock: in thirty seconds he must have a feet. He levels off in the strange, hostile, high-speed flight than anyone might have ground speed of 150 knots or his en- lifeless exosphere at the very threshold dreamed probable a few years ago. gines are not putting out full thrust of of space. A barrier—the heat barrier— as seem- 180,000 pounds. "Clock's okay," says White and his crewmen—copilot, of- ingly impenetrable as the one that faced his copilot. fensive warfare officer, and defensive (Continued on page 37) 21 W'lit ii inoic (lian 1.100 Brooklyn (hildren (anic lo its annual were regaled by downs and Sania and took home gifts. At C;liris(mas party, Floyd licnnctt Post Iiad to put limits on left, below, Child Welfare Connnillee ))laiis every detail it. ,Vbo\e is tliis year's feast for 125 underprivileged and of party two weeks in advance. At rigitt. do/ens turned out orphaned rliildren, who gobbled tmkcv. s;nv movies, in a blizzard a week later to ^\i.\\> hundreds of i)rcsents. 22 Is the Legion Just for Small Towns ? These Brooklyn Legionnaires laugh at the old saw that Posts can't do well in big cities. By ROBERT B. PITKIN There's an old wives' tale in The American Legion that the Legion "can't" be an important part of a big city. Ave. E. Sfitli St., Brooklyn. N. Y., community Legionnaires in big cities are so lost Floyd Bennett Post 1060 at N and center oi a populous area. Big city gives it lots to do and lots to do it with. in the crowd that they can't add up to much more than a hill of beans — so the less tale goes. But in small towns and cities and a good part of three in Connecticut. have less to work with and to work If tale is true, Bennett on, so don't tell it's 'easy' for them otT by themselves in rural areas it is the old Floyd me "easy" for the local Legion to be a com- Post can't amount to much. It's over- and 'hard' for us to build an important city, city, city. Yet. . . . Legion post. munity leader — it is said. whelmed by "Horsefeathers!" says Ray Sammon, Yet if you held a contest for the "Look at the biggest, strongest post in It's in Denver, right in WW2 Army vet of the Normandy in- World's Best American Legion Post, the world. Post 1, vasion and current Commander of Floyd Floyd Bennett would be in hot conten- the heart of a metropolitan area of half Bennett Post 1060, in the Flatlands sec- tion. And only a few blocks away from a million people." tion of Brooklyn, N. Y. "You can't be it is its friend, neighbor and community You can look at Denver's Post 1 at the in a bigger city than we're in." ally. Flatlands Post 391, whose story is National American Legion Convention That's for sure. If you're at Floyd not too different from the one we're in the Colorado capital next September, Bennett Post, but want to get off by your- telling here on Floyd Bennett. so right now let's look at Floyd Bennett Post 1060. self, you can't do it without passing five We asked Commander Sammon: Street, or six million people on the way, unless "How come you aren't submerged by the It's at Avenue N and E. 56th you go straight south into the Atlantic city?" in the Mill Basin section of southeastern Ocean a few blocks away. "Why, being in a big city is an advan- Brooklyn, New York. In any other direction you've got from tage," he said. "There's more to be done But the influence of Floyd Bennett 30 to 50 miles of city and solid siaburbia, and more to do it with in a place like Post overflows its own immediate neigh- broken only by occasional bays, rivers, Brooklyn. That old myth is an insult to borhood of Mill Basin and its bigger estuaries and swamps — through eight the Legionnaires in the smaller cities and Flatlands neighborhood — like the time counties in New York, five in New Jersey towns who are doing a fine job. They (Continued on page 34) Anti- Incinerator Rally Garbage, Rots. Dumps. Incinerators and Stench Will Be Discussed at the Monster Rally at Floyd Bennett Legion Post Avenue N and East 56th Street Tuesday, July 20 - 8:30 P.M. On TbiLridar. lulf 22nd. ihc Baud et tMlsati) fM -ui nvb^e. din ud fihk ii Protect Your Homes, Your Property, Your Children!! at\' Poti, Aimur N tnd Y*n 56 TTie following organizations will help and lead you in this Tight Mr Fomllr R C Owdi P. T. 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Shooting Program EVER TRY ANTELOPE baked in beer? tlcvclopcd by Crosman Arms Co., Inc., and Mrs. Ann Wyatt of 1220 Santa Paula Dr., the NRA is interesting to organizations or Boise, Idaho, sent this recipe in: groups who want to shoot but have hmited Marinate antelope steaks chops over- or IN OUR JANUARY ISSUE we ran a hint range facilities. night 1 1 in cup vinegar with large minced on trapping mink by James Collins of Box Even famiHes who have wanted the con- onion and several crushed bay leaves. Drain 122, Soldiers Home, Fort Dodge, Kans., venience of shooting at can take ad- home off marinade, dredge meat in flour, salt and but our drawing was somew hat misleading. vantage of a complete 25-ft. rifle and pistol pepper, and brown in shortening. Add one Jim meant to recommend digging a hole activity. can of beer, one chopped onion, cover and horizontally into the bank as the drawing The 25-Ft. Program is ideally 300° NRA bake in a oven for 2 hours. above shows. Hide the chain fastened to the suited to family shooting. be eligible To Ann likes to go on hunting and fishing trap in the water, covered with leaves. each member of the family can enroll in trips with the boys but also likes to hunt Then picket a small fish in the hole. As Jim the National Rifle Assn. according to the and fish herself, so she off^ers these ideas says, "The first mink that comes along will appropriate membership category. The to girls who, like herself, want to cut down grab at the fish and spring your trap." head of the family joins as an Annual on "camp keeper" time. She suggests: "Line Member for $5 per year dues and gets The all cooking pots and pans with aluminum Aiiierican Rifieiirav magazine. His wife foil. After cooking, just pull out the alumi- pays $2.50 per year dues as an Associate num liner and you have a clean utensil for Member, children under 18 years of age the next meal. Use paper hot cups inside can join at 50<(' per year. coff^ee mugs and beverage containers. Place Rifles and pistols, shooting pellets and paper plates on the tin camp plates. That BB's are available from Crosman Arms leaves only flat silver to clean and you can Co., Inc., Fairport, N.Y. For complete par- eliminate this if you use disposable plastic ticulars on the 25-Ft. Shooting Program utensils." TO MAKE A GOOD heater and cook- and illustrated literature, write to E. D. sto\e, James F. Kitchern. 55 Homer St.. Dcnniston at Crosman Arms. IT'S 'WAY PAST duck season, here's but Binghamton, N.Y., fills a 2-gal. metal pail one to remember from Stevan Pierce of with sand about three-fourths full. Then 3309 19th Ave., Sheffield, Ala. Stevan says: he pours a gallon of kerosene on the sand "Wait 'til you can distinguish a duck's col- and ignites it. W'hen the flames begin to ors before you shoot. That will probably be die down, Jim stirs the sand with a stick. at 40 yards and that's good killing distance." To use it as a cookstove he puts a piece of approaching tiiat have On big game you wire over the top of the pail. downed, he says, "Walk up carefully and if the animal's eyes are open and staring, HERE ARE TWO GOOD recipes from it's dead, but if its eyes are closed, look out THIS IS ANOTHER bait tip for you in Mrs. Bert Hawk of 13207 Illinois Rd., Fort — it is probably still alive." warm climes. Take a piece of cheesecloth Wayne, Ind. Fish steak in milk: 2 lb. fish .And Stevan finishes with, "Fish love about 6 ft. by 4 ft. Wrap each end around steak, 'm cup flour, 1 tsp. salt, !» tsp. pepper, shade. When you cast toward a rock or a stick and with a man at each end, move 1 small onion, 1 cups milk, 6 strips bacon. stump, shoot for the shady side first. E\ en through a field that has grasshoppers and Dredge the fish with the flour which has a tree shadow is liable to be more produc- crickets in it. The hoppers and crickets been mixed with the salt and pepper. Place ti\ c than sunlit water." will fall into the cheesecloth and you can in a baking dish, add the onion, chopped, fold over the cloth when you come to the anil pour the milk over. Bake in a moderate end of the field and pick the insects off at oven, covering with the bacon 15 minutes your leisure and put them in a jar. Just before the fish is done. Remove to a hot cover the top of the jar \\ ith a piece of the platter, sprinkle with chopped parsle>' and cloth and fasten it with rubber bands. This ser\ c with the liquid in the pan. is from Marshall I). Holmes of 6441 Bart- Rabbit stew: 1 rabbit, 6 tiny onions, 2 men St., St. Louis ?0, Mo. Marshall also has carrots, 1 small turnip, 1 tomato, 2 stalks an idea for his kind of doughballs. He uses celery, few sprigs parsley, 2 cloves, salt, canned cat food, cheese, flour and liquid pepper, flour, butter. Cut up the rabbit and of some kind to make a l)all which will stay FOR A CANOE model that can be Iirown it in a little fat. Also brown the on your iiook. He makes them about one propelled 1)\ paddle, oars or motor, the onions. Add other vegetables, diced, and inch in diameter. Square End Canoe, put out by Old Town seasonings. Cover with boiling water and (Janoe Co., is a beautiful package. It comes let simmer until the meat is tender. Thicken YOU CAN GET a 16-mni. full-color film cither 15 or 18 feet long with the width at slightly w ith flour blended with a little but- of tile 1W>() liuiiaiiapolis 5()()-niile race from the stern 29 or 30 inches. Motors of 2': ter and serve w ith dumplings. Serves 6. the Miller Brewing Co. Called "Run for the hp. to 7' . hp. give 6 to 16 miles per hour. 28 perlains Mone>'," it is '/i minutes long. It, as well The cost is $260 or $290. For extras see If yoii have a helpful idea that as more than 100 other films on basei)all, catalog. These people make canoes of all to liiinliiin or fisliina;, send it along. If we football, golf, skiing and broncobusring, can kinds, plus a fine line of lajistrake boats. can use it, we'll reward you with a check for $.5.00. Editor, Thr be borrowed free of charge for Post meet- A\ rife Dcane Gra\ , Old Town Canoe Co., Address: Outdoor ings. Write I'ilm Section, Miller Brewing at Old Town, Maine, for illustrated cata- Aiiieiiciiit Legion Magazine, "20 Tilili Co., 4000 West State St., Milwaukee, Wis. log, price list and complete information. Axinue, New \o\V. 10, New \ork. 24 • THE AMERICAN I EC. ION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 . MOST VETS AT CRITICAI. AGE the year can expect to get their dividends FOR DECISIONS ON THEIR VA INSURANCEt ahead of time .... The new VA head , Past Nat ' 1 No single affair of veterans (especially Legion Commander John S. Gleason, Jr., WW2 and Korea) is so ripe for thought and said all dividends should be paid by June, decision and information right now as is if not earlier. . . .A total of |258,400,000 the subject of vets insurance. . . .In our in dividends will go to about 4,800,000 next issue will appear a maj or article on WW2 vets and 260,000 WWl vets. the subject, to be followed in succeeding months with additional important informa- TOTALLY DISABLED VET IS NOT tion. . . .Even WW2 and Korea vets who are not "GAINFULLY EMPLOYED" WHEN insured should read and file this material GETTING SICK PAYt when it appears, as a law may pass reopening If a vet is disabled enough to get a VA their insurance. . . . One reason VA insurance pension, is he "gainfully employed" during is the best dollar buy any vet can get in life a period of time when he gets sick leave insurance is that his premiums don't sup- from his employer ?.. .And isn't it a tri- port a company apparatus, don't pay fling matter? commissions to insurance agents ... .The It can make a big difference, as it government runs the company, and there did in the case of a vet who worked at Barks- are no agents.... To you, this is a dollar dale AF Base, near Shreveport, La.... He advantage but a service disadvantage, as became seriously disabled and permanently the commercial insurance underwriters will unable to work, Dec. 6, 1959.... He drew tell you at the drop of a hat (they being sick-leave pay until July 31, I960.... The opposed to reopening the WW2 and Korea VA found him unemployable and qualified policies) ... .Your private agent can drop for a pension— but from the time his sick- into your home on your invitation and take leave pay stopped — on July 31.... It made you over the hurdles of insurance matters, a big difference, because before last July safeguard your interest by the right advice 1, a pension-eligible veteran could choose at the right time on what should be done which of two pension laws to come under.... with your policy .... You have no personal But if his VA pension eligibility started VA agent to counsel you, so you owe it to after that date he had to come under the yourself to do a little more homework on latest law—PL86-211 Harold Coburn, your VA insurance than on a policy on which Louisiana State Service Officer for Caddo a company representative can steer you... Parish, felt this veteran should have his As your service organization, we will start choice of the two laws on the grounds that publishing the information in April.... his "gainful employment" stopped Dec. 6, It will pay you to read it 1959, and he was actually eligible for pen- sion from March, 1960, when his pension MOVES VP PAYING application was filed. .. .Louisiana State or GI INSURANCE DIVIDENDS: Veterans Commission asked The American President Kennedy on Feb. 1 ordered the Legion in Washington to have VA Central Veterans Administration to pay 1961 GI Office review the case....VA did and re- insurance dividends as soon as possible . versed its lower decision. .. .Period of ...It was the President's view that this receiving sick-leave pay was not a period woud prime the financial pump in areas of of "gainful employment", VA agreed.... unemployment, and possibly be good for Vets eligibility was backdated to March, business generally .... Ordinarily , each 1960, which permitted him to choose the VA-insured vet with a policy whose number older (and for him better) law under which begins with K or V gets his dividend on the to get his pension. ... Service officers anniversary date of his policy. . . .Now vets knowing of similar cases might well ask for whose anniversary dates are not early in reconsideration, in light of this ruling. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARC H lyftl . . : . : s— . . . AGENCIES OUTSIDE CIVIL SERVICE tion be accelerated. .. .Res. 610: Waste be CAN'T EXCLUDE THEMSELVES FROM cut and stockpiling be controlled by Armed VETERANS PREFERENCE ACT - APPEALS COURT: Forces perfecting Single Supply Catalog The U. S. Court of Appeals (D.C.) in a System posthaste. recent decision, refused to permit an agency of government to ignore the Veterans RESCINDS RECALL OF Preference Act by claiming that it (the SERVICE FAMILIES: agency) was created by a special law out- On Feb. 2, President Kennedy cancelled side of the Civil Service Act.... Case was the order bringing servicemen's families that of Dr. Lester K. Born (a veteran) vs. home from overseas to save American gold. the Director of the U.S. Information Agency . . .This too , tallied with the Legion posi- ...Born was discharged from the Foreign tion taken by National Commander William R. Service Staff of the USIA in a manner con- Burke. . . .The outflow of gold must be con- trary to the Veterans Preference Act, a trolled. Burke had said, but servicemen's matter of fact not in contention. .. .USIA families shouldn't be asked to do all the claimed its Foreign Service Staff is not sacrificing. ... Cmdr Burke wired expres- only outside of Civil Service, but was sions of appreciation to the President for created by an act of Congress not intended his order. to be governed by Veterans Preference.... Born contended Veterans Preference is not limited to Civil Service, but covers all HOW CAM I GET THAT BOOK? jobs in the Federal government not specifi- IT ISN'T ALWAYS EASY: cally excluded from Veterans Preference When "Newsletter" enthusiastically of which there are some, but not USIA reviewed Quentin Reynolds' book "Known Foreign Service .... Civil Service Commis- But to God" in November, many Legion posts sion had agreed with Born and ordered USIA resolved to place copies in their public to reinstate him, which it refused to do.... and school libraries. . . . But some of Court of Appeals ordered USIA to heed Civil them had to write us to ask how to get Service Commission in decision 15450 of copies Nov. 28, 1960. Bookselling is a peculiar business. American Legion had^supported Born in ... No local bookstore can begin to stock amicus curiae brief filed in accordance all current titles. . . . What it has on with Nat'l Executive Committee Res. 29 of the shelves represents the store buyer's last October .... Samuel C. Borzilleri, a best hunch — nothing more. . . . Also, it Legion legal consultant, was Bern's at- takes a good-siaed town to support a well- torney .... Joseph G. Weeda, Dep't Cmdr of stocked bookstore, and millions of the District of Columbia American Legion, Americans live a long way from any such was also on the brief for Born. .. .Born' store case had been a sore point in the area of Anyway, here's how to buy a current veterans preference in government employ- book title. ... 1. Go to your bookstore ment since his discharge by USIA contrary and buy it if it is in stock. ... 2. If it to the Veterans Preference Act on Sept. 5, is not in stock, ask your bookstore to 1957. order the copies you want. ... 3. If you have no local bookstore, or if you have one PRESIDENT'S FIRST WEAPONS AND but it doesn't place orders for titles not SPACE STATEMENTS JIBE WITH LEGION: in stock, almost any current title can be In his first "State of the Union" mes- bought by mail direct from the publisher — sage. President John F. Kennedy's views on in which case you will have to pay packing specifics of national security and space and shipping costs too (usually from science tallied with 6 resolutions on them 140 to 200) . adopted at the last nat'l American Legion In the case of Reynolds' "Known But to convention. . . .They include Res. 284 U.S. God"^ which should be in all libraries, Airlift and Air Transport to be kept war- it can be ordered direct from the ready ... .Res_^ 594 Congress assure where- publishers, John Day, Inc ^ 210 Madison . withal to keep U.S. in vanguard of space Ave . , New York 16, N.Y^ . . . You pay the conquest. . . Res. 596 : U.S. push missile retail price ($3.95) plus 170 packing and program to develop mobile Minutemen ICBM's shipping, for each volume ordered. . . . in shortest possible time . . . Res . 600 ; You escape the 170 charge if your bookstore Nuclear-powered Polaris submarine produc- orders the books for you. • 2g THF. AM1:RK \N I F.CilON MAGAZINE • MARCH I96I NEWS ^^^^^mertcan Legion and Veterans' Affairs gressmen are c()wardly "poltroons" who Welcome Former Members Back jKiss any law that the American Legion asks. The philosophy of the "'profession- al veterans" (Legion?) which the cow- — On Legion's March Birthday ards in Washington obedientl}' buy said Mr. Starnes' brave prose — is that all veterans arc "entitled to all they can Le- Burke's idea to set a trap for former How to cL'k'biatc The Amciiean get," and, apparently, that includes be- in the week of members that starts like a free party and gion's 42iul birthdav. ing "supported for lile." 12-18? ends up as a dues-collection. March As you can imagine, after Jan. 27 to liold a family The idea is to tnily icch-oinc them No better way than some of our mail asked that Mr. Starnes Legion back and make them feel that they reunion, in which American be answered. back" parties for belong, as indeed they once did. You'd posts hold "welcome Well, his yarn has been ajjpearing for ha\e kt their be surprised how many of them still former members who decades in numerous magazines, news- lapse. think of themselves as Legionnaires, to Legion membership paper editorials ami svndieated columns. As the Legion's birthday is a special whom their lack of current membership We call it Writers' Formula X33. Now to both present and is only a tcchnicalit}'. event in common and then a self-appointed citizens com- former members. National C^ommander mittee will write it up and distribute it William R. Burke has designated "Wel- JOURNALISM: wholesale, and then it will bloom in come Back" as the official theme of this Syndicating Your SfiiiV innulreds of jmblieations overnight. year's birthday celebration. .M)-. llichard Starnes, of the Scripps- Tliis time, in answering it, let's first Officials of any post can work up the Howard newspapers, is the latest "ex- ask why it's .such a good stor}' for a fel- affair inidcr tlieir own details of such an pert" on veterans affairs to throw oiu' low like Starnes. Remember. Ernie Pv lc than steam, for nobody knows bi'lter readers into a dither. His column of Jan. was a Scripps-Howard colmnnist too. He can the} do how many former buddies 27 — entitled "Voracious Veterans" — got the Pulitzer Prize for loving the to a Le- be found around town to come was one of those old babies that's sure- fellows Starnes now makes a buck onl family reunion. gion fire copy for the crusading jomnalist. of by hating. Nevertheless, suggestions for Opera- With his lance at full tilt he charged Just 1k)vv do } ()u make a buck w illi a tion Welcome Back have also been pre- the Federal veterans' program, scream- svndieated column? What do tfoii read, pared and distributed to each state Le- ing at the dollar cost, alleging that Con- friend? Will von read 6,00()' triithbil. gion organization, under the direction of William A. Brennan,, Jr., (Indiana) nat'l cliiiin of the Membership and Post DISPI.AY ACCIDENIS Activities Committee. Post commanders GKIM HELPS CUT AUTO and adjutants should keep an eye open for receipt of the suggestions from their state hq. The\ have also been published in Ad\:ance, which every Post Commander gets. One suggestion is tliat members of record for^ 1958, 1959 and 1960 who aren't current should be invited en masse. Posts with good records of former members over the years could do better by going back as far as possible. It doesn't take much imagining to vis- ualize '"W'cleome Back" as a social affair more successful than many another idea a struggling Entertainment Chairman might cook up — especially if current members take it as their cue to let their guests tell how it used to be — this being their special night. If done right, this part}' could last longer than expected. No Legionnaire need be apologetic about a: hope that some of the "oldies" might re-enter the fold result as a of a WIII'^X MOTORISTS pass some of the road intersections on the outskirts of Atlanta, Welcome Back Party. The work of the C;a., on li()li THE AMERICAN LEGION MADAZINE • MARC H 19(.l • 27 . factual, technical words about veterans' lectively, the House Veterans Affairs that seems just plain greedy it has a way legislation? Indi\ idually, maybe some of Committee more specifically, and Rep. of going into a pigeonhole. The same you will, but en masse you will not. Olin E. Teague (Dem. Texas) most applies to bills that are wellmeaning, if Newspapers and magazines, and books particularly, because he is and for some they are also unwise in the opinion of too, make money b>' publishing what time has been the chairman of that com- the committee or its majority. These people will read. Q. Why all those sex mittee. facts would have wrecked Mr. Starnes' no\ els? A. You buy them. Nobody is more responsible for our column. If you are going to write For- I-'opular commentators earn their veterans program than Mr. Teague, by mula X33 you must be careful not to bread and butter not by writing bal- virtue of his position. If the Legion is find out what really goes on. anced truth that \'ou won't read, but by bullying anvbody it is bullying him. If Now on the Legion's side, the number setting up windmills to charge with the Federal veterans' program is the one bully and '"professional veteran" grand and sweeping words in a limited product of Congressional cowards, Mr. must be Mr. Robert M. McCurdy (Mr. space that excite you and move you to Teague is the chief coward or, in Mr. Starnes didn't name the people he in- emotion. It's a business. Starnes' phrase, the chief "poltroon." sulted). Mr. McCurdy just retired from What better subject for a dreary Janu- We've had our differences with Mr. long tenure as Assistant City Manager ary day than dusting off Formula X33, Teague at times, and now and then, in of Pasadena, California. He is the long- the old tried and true one about the time chairman of the Legion's National greedy \ cterans — Ernie Pyle's heroes Rehabilitation Commission ( 14 out of when the country was in danger but a the last 16 years), and as such is the burden to the taxpayers now. Oh, the chief leader of the American Legion in outrage of those swine robbing the tax- the field of veterans' benefit laws. payers by bullying the Congressmen! Mr. McCurdy fits the character of That is sure-fire copy all the way bully better than Mr. Teague does of around. The readers who don't know "coward" at first .superficial look. He too any better (where can they learn bet- was a combat infantry officer (in WWI) ter?) get all woiked up at the way the Before that he was a strapping, six-foot- voracious Legionnaires are said to be two semi-pro athlete — a basketball stealing them blind with their unscrupu- scholarship student at the Univ ersity of Tcai;iii' . . . toward.- MtCindy . . . bully? lous power and greed. Three chceis for Chicago pre-Hutchins — then a boxer at our hero, the bra\c columnist who ex- moments of temper, we have swapped the Illinois Athletic Club. l^oses the plot! harsh words. "'Coward " was never one If anybody is chasing broad-shoul- Then the poor souls who know the of them. If Mr. Teague is a coward, or if dered Mr. Teague around the ring with truth hy ha\ing devoted a year to the anyone on his committee is a coward, his tail between his legs, e.x-prize fighter subject of \eterans benefits for every and if the Legion or anyone else is bully- McCurdy is surely the "professional minute Mr. Starnes could spend on it ing the committee or its chairman, Mr. Legionnaire" with the bullwhip and (\ csterday he was an expert on some- Starnes is a three-headed octopus. Legion cap cocked at a janntv- angle thing else and tomorrow ditto) get all Mr. Starnes says his WW2 experience over his beetling brows, of Mr. Starnes' worked up over his ignorance. Damn w as mostly a "lark." In part he justified little drama. that columnist! his attack on the Federal program for all What makes Mr. McC a "professional So as a syndicated column. Formula qualified veterans on tfie basis of his veteran" is a cjuestion. For nearly 40 X3'3 is a whale of a success. Everyliody own admitted picnic. Mr. Teague's years he's been toiling for nothing, and gets worked up over it. Letters pour into WW2 experience was not quite a lark. at great personal cost to himself, at the the editors, for or against the column, As a grim, grav combat infantry officer Legion's business — most particularly in thus proving to every editor that this in WW2 he' left a foot in the ETO. He the area of helping veterans who need boy writes the kind of copy that moves flunked the cowards' course all tlie way help. For cash? For power? Well, for newspapers off the stands. around. On one occasion, as a junior what greedy purpose? Selling papers is the writer's business, officer, he challenged the orders of his Mr. McCurdy, as an infantry captain, and the business of the papers that use immediate general that would have sent led many fine men to their death in his copy. Don't think it doesn't pay. It his men into an untenable position, thor- WWI — and others to disability for life. was worry over his I960 income tax that oughly enfiladed by German fire. Mr. Then he spent 30 months in Army hos- prompted Mr. Starnes to lash out at the Teague got pretty stu])born about it — pital beds right along with the boys Federal veterans' progi am on Jan. 27, as for he was right. He risked a court- who'd been carted off the field of battle, he stated in his opening .sentence. martial for that. where he got to know even more about Yes, dear reader, in the state of the Rep. Teague has a passion for re- them and their problems. It moved him. jiopular i)ublishing business today, your vising and rewriting veterans legislation Mr. McCurdy, if he will pardon us, is reading taste and "reader reaction" is according to intense study of its intent, a reasonable imitation of a cripple. He is directly responsible for the way our its fmiction and its achievement of true not a cripple, becau.se he has alway s re- affairs are written and broadcast. You and justifiable purpose. He has a passion fused to be one, though for some four are fed what you will read or listen to — for research, and his top staff man is Mr. decades he has had to walk with his and icact to — v\hich is not necessarily Teague's old topkick in the ETO. alxnit spine parallel to the ground. Physically, dull truth. as much of a cow ard as Teddy Roosev elt he's about as badly off as anyone he has Now to answer Mr. Starnes" column, or Sgt. Alv in York. been helping all these years. By all other let's not delend the Legion, nor attempt Mr. Teague and his whole connnittee. tests, watch out for him if you have any- In tell again in lioiielcss (and nincnid- Republicans and Democrats, have a thing up your sleeve. al)l( length all tlie ) truths tiiat Formula further passion for thorough hearings on He started helping the poor wrecks .\3.'3 — must ignore or be undone by. all matters of imjiortance to the v cterans of vyar who came to his Pasadena Legion instead lets defend tho.se who were and the taxpavcrs. They will listen post for help back in 1920, and he's most ])ersonalIv and viciously insulted. cfiuallv to a Mr. Starnes or an American still at it. The Readers' /);gr,s/ could do Thai s net us, it's the Congress col- Legion. If a veterans' bill is i:)roposed worse than vv riti' up Mr. McC as a most • rni v\n i • 2}J RK AN i:(;i()n m vcazine march 1961 "Unforgettable Character. W ho Ix-tter? cause with his knowledge oi the subject ])i()blems our country is faced with, in- Now what Mr. Stariies doesn't know he couldn't dirty his soul so casually. cluding the following: is tliat when a pioposal eonies up for tlie Neither could Mr. Starnes. 1. We liave an excellent militaiy de- ;j;o\ernnient to "support all \eteraus for Now Mr. Starnes didn't go into any fensive system for the Western Hemis- lile," the first person you'll ha\ e to fight details of our \ eterans' program to prove phere, but what good will it he if the is Mr. McCurdy, because neither Mr. that it deserved his curses. By char- hemisphere is picked nil piecemeal a la McCurdy, nor the Legion nor Mr. acterizing the people involved (without Cuba? How are our hemispheric politi- Teague nor anyone we know in the naming them) in his own way, he left cal, economic and diplomatic defenses? Congress thinks that veterans are "en- the conclusion that as the whole "mess" 2. American youngsters now in col- titled to all tlu^v' can get." Out of the is created by bullies, cowards and pol- lege were infants in WW2, soon they great goodness of her heart, the late troons then the \ eterans' program must will be the adult workers and leaders. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu- be, //wo facto, a crime before hea\ en. Have they been given the sort of "train- •setts, had a philosojihy close to that, but We accept his method. We have in- she's the only one we'\e e\er known troduced the ke\- people (and named GETTING KEADY? w ho went that far. them) . We would like to see Mr. Starnes \Vhat Mr. McCurcK' and the Legion — and every other peddler of Formula are interested in are all the fellows and X33 — sit down for about two hours with girls who were done in by war or fate Mr. McCurdy and Mr. Teague. We'd in more ways than Mr. Starnes ever like to see him learn some of the things heard of. It is a fact that unless you work about the Federal veterans' program to help \eterans, you cannot c()ncei\e that they know inside out and Mr. how many different w a\ s they and theirs Starnes never heard of. We'd like to see wc>re done in. It passeth the powers him stack the li\ ing men up against his of imagining, and can only be learned cheap, published insults of them. b\- work in the vineyards where Mr. If Mr. S. is half the man in the flesh McCurdy, and ihoirsands of Legion that he is on the typewriter, we suspect service officers and others (including he'd back off, saluting both. That is both Congressmen) have been laboring for a the "cowardly poltroon of a Congress- generation. We know of no s\ndieated man" and the "voracious, professional columnist who has ever turned his hand \ eteran." to that work. If there is one. lie doesn't The defense rests. write as Mr. Starnes did on jan. 27. be- —R. H. PITKIM VETERANS AFFAIRS: Post 985 and was elected as the post's (ileasoii New V A Head first commander. The next year he was elected as Illinois' alternate member of NOW IS the time to plan >i)ur post's John S. Cleason, Jr., 45-year-old Chi- Junior Baseball ]iro.!iraiii for this suninicr. the Legion's Nat l Executive Committee. cago banking executive and a past Nat'I Prior to his election as Nat'I Cmdr, he ing and support" which makes it pos- Cmdr of The American Legion (1957- had served six years as vice chmn of the sible for them to undcrstaTid American 58), is the new Administrator of 'Veterans Legion's Nat l Rehabilitation Commis- life, and why its defense may call on Affairs in the Kennedy Administration. sion, as chmn of the Nat l Cmdr's Spe- them for sacrifices? C^an they equate the He succeeded Sumner G. \\'hittier of cial Rehabilitation Committee dealing American Revolution with today's revo- Massachusetts who resigned on Jan. 20. with the Hoover Commission Report, lutionaries? Have their teachers and Gleason, who headed the Veterans for and as a member of the Legion's Nat'I parents seen to it that they could? VETERANS ADMIMSTRATOR Legislative Commission. 3. A game is going on in the United Whittier, a member of Everett Nations to amass more votes for commu- (Mass.) American Legion Post 176, was nism than for freedom. Was this what the first WoiM War 2 \ eteran to head the UN was formed for, and what can the huge Veterans Administration. He we do about it? was named to the position by President 4. The outflow of American gold may Eisenhower in December 1957. He had seem academic to some people, but it formerly served as the Chief Insurance will be real to e\eryone where it hurts Director of the YA. most if it isn't controlled. COMMANDER'S HOMECOMING: 5. Pressures will continue to be placed on us to abandon free people for reasons Some Lj. S. A. Piohlems that ignore the prtciousness of heedom. ' WhittitT . . . resigned Gleason . . . named A fine homecoming was tendered Will we be staunch and fearless in hold- Kennedy Committee during the recent National Commander William R. Burke ing the cause of freedom higher than Presidential campaign, is a graduate of (Calif.) at a civic luncheon at the Bilt- any invented reasons for abandoning the University of Notre Dame. more Bowl in Los Angeles on Jan. 3. free people anywhere? He interaipted his banking career in The New Year civic luncheon is an 6. A people without faith and belief I94I to enlist in the U.S. Army as pri- annual Legion affair in Los Angeles, in principle easily disunite and crumble vate. After serving in the combat areas attended by many city notables, and before pressure. Is America's faith in in New Guinea, the Marshall Islands always honoring the National Com- God and itself and its principles doing and the Philippines, he ended up as a mander. At the first one, in 1952, Com- all right? lieutenant colonel. mander Burke, as one of the hard-work- 7. A non-military war is being waged Since World Wai- 2 he has been ac- ing Angeleno Legionnaires, had the on us every day. We've proved we can tive in the Illinois National Guard and honor and duty of running it. This year, make great sacrifices in a military war. the Army Reserve, in which he holds the as National Commander himself, lie re- Are we prepared to make sacrifices in a rank of major general. turned to the function as guest of honor. political, ideological, diplomatic and The new Admimstrator helped organ- In a major speech at the luncheon, economic war too? H not, what is oiu" ize the First National Bank of Chicago Commander Burke listed a number of future? THE AMERICAN I EG ION MAGAZINE • MARCH l'J6l • 29 POSTS IN ACTION BRIEFLY NOTED: erans Hospital, Tomah, Wise. Stocked Items from our 16,753 posts. Those of most by the State Conservation Department, • The American Legion's Mainidl general interest and widest i^eographieal spread for fishing is limited to patients only. (ire selected, tvitft apologies for the hundreds Post Service Officers has been re\ ised as of others that are so kindly reported to tlie of Jan. 1, 1961. Thoroughly updated, editors. • The Louisiana State Department of encompassing latest laws and regula- Education has instituted a compulsorx- tions, it also includes numerous improve- Protection — Custer, and comprehensix'c six-weeks unit of in- Plus Post 111, ments suggested by working service Mont. pi'o\iclcs the with struction on Americanism versus Com- community officers. Post service officers lacking the su]>er fire protection cleanliness. munism in every high school in the state and new manual should make query of their as part of the required comse in Amer- The post maintains the city clump and state Legion headquarters. every member of the local volunteer fire ican Histoiy in the lldi or 12th grades dejiartment ])eloni;s to the post. during the present school year. • The 1961 American Legion Post His- tory Contest is divided into two cate- Heroine—Post 300, lirockton. Mass., prc- THE CASE OF JOHN T. KERRIGAN: gories: Category I — for po.sts chartered .sented ]5-\ ear old babysitter. Miss Jean before 1944 and Category H — for posts You'll Be Sorreeeel M. Wallen, witli a recounition award establi.shed in 1944 or later. In each cat- Y'ou may be as shocked at what hap- for sa\inn tliree young children from a egory, the posts must have been in ex- pened to John T. Kerrigan, of Brooklyn, fi( r\' d(\it]i during a flash fire. istence for at least 5 years. Cash prizes N.Y., as he was. will be awarded to the three top posts Kerrigan couldn't wait to ser\e his First Class-Post 48, Stillwater, Minn., in each category. Entries must be sub- country in 1917. He volunteered when donated $1,000 to the town's new hos- mitted to Nat'l Hdqs, P.O. Box 1055, he was 16 years, 11 months old, gave his pital for furnishing a room. Indianapolis 6, Ind., not later than Sept. age as 18. 15, 1961. Marshal Petain himself awarded Ker- Young Clinic—Post 231, Huron \ alley, rigan the Croix De Guerre at Sedan, be- Mich., has conducted for the past four • The first permanent trophy for the fore he was 18. yt'ars a nominal cost baby clinic for national champion American Legion In May, 1919, when it was all over. children from ages 3 months to five chorus—sponsored by the American So- Col. WiW Bill Donovan sent Kerrigan a years. Over 1,000 babies have been ex- ciety of Composers, Authors and Pub- commendation "for \()ur exceptional!} amined during this time. They receive lishers (ASCAP)—has been presented to good work, Nom- coolness under fire and ." periodic checkups and pre-school exam- the Cudworth Male Chorus of Alonzo P. devotion to duty . . ination and shots prior to entering kin- Cudworth Post 23, Milwaukee, Wise. Came another war. In 1942, N.Y. dergarten. police sergeant Kerrigan put in for duty again. he gave his right age — 42. A • Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jer- Now little old this time, but just as anxious to Under Control — Post 104. Sargent. sey proclaimed Jan. 14-15, 1961 as Da> s little oung. NCbr.. turns its post home into a \outh of Prayer for the President at the re- sene as when he was a > er he'd center following each home football and quest of the New Jersey American Le- When the war was o\ served ba.sket ball game. With sponsors present gion. in Africa, Ital\-, France and German\ at all times, the junior and senior high with the 101st Military Go\ernment. school students The Army wanted some of the fellows are reqin'red to sign in • Before resigning as Secretary of the and out of the hall. to stay on when eveiyone else was count- Army, in January, Wilber M. Brucker, ing points, and Kerrigan did. He was praised The American Legion's stand in separated in June, 1947, after 11 months Little Fore!-Post 1206, New York Cil\', favor of the retention of compulsorx occupation dut\' in Korea. dedicated a new $5,200 miniature golf basic ROTC in the nation's colleges and Then the Army asked the old boys to course at the Montrose (N.Y. ) VA Hos- universities. keep read\", in the Beser\ es. We weren't pital. The construction funds were pro- \ided training anyone else, remember? by the post. • The American Legion Junior Base- With 20 > ears of combined active re- ball Program is jirominently featmed. sen e duty and active wartime duty, you Hero — Post 95, IX-levan, Wise, pre- i:)ictoriall\' ;ind editorially, in an artick' get retirement pay when you are eased .sented an American Legion heroism entitled "Youth Sports— Springbt)ard to out at age 60. Some of you ha\ e it almost medal to a local lad, Terry Wilson, 14, Stronger America" w hich appears in the made, with all that acti\e duty behind for saving the life of his 6->ear old Januarv 1961 issue of THE SPORTING you. Kerrigan counted the years, and brotlu'r who fell through thin ice last DEALER, the national maga- GOODS sine enough he'd ha\ e his 20 years at 60. No\ eml)er. zine of the sporting goods trade. So he stayed in the aeti\e reserves an- other 13 \ ears. Last JuK he was 60 and I'iciiics Again- Post 559, Annville, Pa., 9 136 holders ot (he (.'ongressional the\- put him out, with honor, and he presented a $1,200 cheek to the VA Medal of Honor, while attending thi' in- applied for his retirement pay. . . . But Hospital, Pa., Lebanon, which will be augural ceremonies of President John F. he didn't get it. used for the replacement of a picnic Kennedy, elected a new panel of officers By a nding of the Comptrolhn Gen- pavilion destroyed by a conflagration last in the auditorium of The American Le- eral of last Jmie 22, 30 days before Ker- summer. gion's Washington, D.C. ofliee building. rigan was retired, time spent in the Corporal Luther M. Skaggs, USMC o! Tuilitan- wluui >'ou are under age cannot Bedecked Street-Post 189, Watertowii, Washington, D.('. was named president. be counted toward retirement pa\\ The Wise, presented the city with 222 ruling was B- 142704. Kerrigan was American flags, with staffs and attach- • The 7th District of the Wi.seonsin turned down because he couldn't count ments for displa\ ing them on each of the American Legion comprising 51 posts the 13 months when he earned the Croix 1 f 1 light .standards (2 flags per .standard) built a one-acre fishing pond costing De Guene in W\\M — before he \\ as 18. of the main street's new lighting .system. some $5,000 on the grounds of the Vet- (('(yuliiitied on pafie 32) 30 • TriE AMERICAN I CGION MAGAZINF • NfARClI lOf.l Enjoy the diffejence./ You get that deep, cool kiss-of-the-hops flavor only in Schlitz. So make the move that makes the differ- ence. Pick up Schlitz today — in the bright new 6-Pak. . KERRIGAN RICHARD \ i.\.NCouR, chmu of the Le- COMRADE gion's Nat'l Contest Supervisory Com- (Continued from page 30) mittee, directed the correlation, timing IN DISTRESS Instead of having 3 months more than and performance of the 86 musical units parade of President 20 years when he was compulsorily re- in the inaugural Readers who can help this comrade are tired, he ended up ten months short. John F. Kennedy. urged to do so. The American Legion is now seeking Notices are run at the recjuest of The a remedy for tlie trick fate phxyed on Died: American Legion Nat'l Rehal)ilitati()n Com- to play mission. They are not accepted Iroin other Kerrigan, and which it promises U.S. SENATOR E. KEITH THOMPSON of sources. on quite a few other fellows who over- Wyoming, member of the Legion's Nat'l Readers wanting Legion help with claims stated their ages in WWl and then Order Committee (1946-47) Law and should contact their local service oHicers. stayed in the reserves when asked to. and Nat'l Distinguished Guests Commit- Service officers unable to locate needed It's not the kind of thing you'd think tee (1955-58); on Dec. 9. witnesses for claims development should are confident that someone planned. We refer the matter to the Nat'l Rehabilitation if the Comptroller General or the De- Commission through normal channels, for HARRY ANDREW HART, past Dep't fense Department can't provide a further search before referral to this cohnnn. Cmdr of the North Dakota American remedy under present law. Congress will Legion (1929-30); recently. amend the law in some fair way. Army The question goes way beyond simple nth FA Training Re^, 56th Bn, Btry C-Russell Ogan. Person or persons who saw Mr. Ogan justice to Kerrigan. It strikes at the EDWARD T- CONNELLY of Wakefield, hemorrhage one evening while out on maneuvers morale of the Armed Forces and the in- Mass., an American Legion Founder at Camp Roberts, Calif., during the period of the latter part of October or first part of November who was in attendance at the Paris tegrity of the Resei-ves. RulingB-142704, 1942, or who remembers him in the hospital, please write to his home address: Route 2. Box however necessary it may be under exist- Caucus in 1919; on Dec. 28. He was a 406, Gaston. Ore. Claim pending. ing law, punishes with a heavy hand the veteran of the Spanish-American War, and 2. very men who were the first to serve, and WWl WW LIFE MEMBERSHIPS the last to be cynical when asked to. The citation of an individual Legion- Maybe Kerrigan can stand what was EDGAR E. WEDDING of Gulfport, MisS., naire to life membership in his Post is a done to him, but the United States can't. a committee member of the Nat'l Sons testimonial by those who know him best It makes prophets of all the guys who of The American Legion; in Dec. that he has served The American Legion said: "You'll be sorreeee ..." when well. America asked for volunteers. LOUIS o. LAPLANTE of Montreal, Que- Below are listed some of the previ- bec, former Dep't Adjt (1953-59) and ously unpublished life memberships that have been reported to the editors. They PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Dep't Cmdr (1946-47) of the Canada are arranged b>' States. w. c. DANIEL, past Nat l Cmdr of The American Legion; on Dec. 15. Ra.v L. Clapsaddle and F. Arnold Rowe (both American Legion (1956-57) and assist- 1959) , Post 387, Los Angeles. Calif. Charles R. Zug (1959). Post 790. West Covina. ant to the president of Dan River Mills, T. HERBERT WHITE of Rosliiidale, Calif. Danville, Va., appointed chmn of the Sam Sachs (1960). Post 11. Bridgeport. Conn. Mass., former Dep't Cmdr (1952-53) of Robert E. Lowi-e.v, Jr. (1960), Post 24. Bradcn- National Affairs Committee of the Amer- the Massachusetts American Legion and ton, Fla. ican Cotton Institute. Fred J. Nelseii (1957) and Harry C. Frieden vice chmn of the Legion Nat'l Merchant (1958) and William E. Thompson (1960). Post 246. Moline. 111. Marine Committee (1952-55); on Dec. Nels Eric Swaii.son (1958). Post 285. Galesburg. 29. 111. WILLIAM F. o'neill, Dep't Rehabilita- Henry Cramer and iVIartin Enger and Robert tion Director of the Indiana American Nielsen and Joseph Siegler (all 1960). Post 3i5. River Grove. 111. Legion for 8 years, appointed state serv- WALTER c. iNGALLS of Albany, N.Y., Lester A. Henrioullc (1957), Post 1016, Berkeley, 111. ice officer for the Veterans Service De- former member of the Legion's Nat'l Henry Grupe (1960), Post 1084. Roselle. 111. partment of Indiana bv Gov. Matthew Law and Order Committee (1945); on E. W. Beaty (1950), Post 76. French Lick. Ind. PanI S. Eberfs (1959), Post 198. Speedway City. Welsh. Dec. 30. Ind. John M. Narvid (1959), Post 428. Hammond, Ind. J. D. Pauls (1959), Post 55, Ogden. Iowa Henry Reinhardt 11960). Post 106. Elkadcr. Iowa HOBEHT M. MCCURDY, climn of The AlbcMl E. McCoi iiiick S. J. Gonsonlin (1960). Post 26, Jeanercttc. La. Frank O. Smith (1960). Post M\, Camden. Maine American Legion Nat'l Rehabilitation Albert E. McCormick, long one of Philip KurtA (1960). Post 128, Aberdeen. Md. Thomas W. Harris and Louis M XJroves and Commission since 1944, retired as Asst American Legion's financial The top ad- William H. Richardson (all 1961). Post 141. City Manager of Pasadena, Calif. visers, died suddenly of a heart attack in Annapolis. Md. George Gerbig (1961), Post 211, Funkslown, Md. Morristown, N. ]., William A. McGuiness (I960). Post 1.1, Worces- ter, Mass. Jan. 29. McCor- !McKen/ie (I960). Post 1.^0, Palmer, iXLVHTiN B. mc:kneally, immediate George W. mick, .Alternate Mass. past Nat'l Cmdr of The American Legion Wesley W. Munroe (1954) and Norma Carlton Nat'l E .\ e c u t i v e McKillop (1956) and John Patrick Dnggan (1959). appointed as counsel to the New York Post 131, Lvnfield, Mass. C o m m i 1 1 e e m a n Shel- State Commission on the World's Fair. Adolph 6. St. Jacques (I960), Post 135, from N.J., an execu- burne Falls, Mass. The Fair will he held in New York Joseph Giunti (1961)), Post 303, Swansea. Mass. tive of Revere Cop- John Harrington (1957) and John Holcroft Citv in 1964. (1959) , Post 331, Beverly, Mass. \wv and Brass Co., Sidney Stasvold (1958), Post 114, Fosston, Minn. was for many years George HeHernen (I960), Post 265. Duluth, Minn. SAM L. latimkh, past Nat'l Vice Cmdr until his death Edtvard Haggell and Wilfred E. Lanipron and Charles O. Peikcy .uul tjeorge Provencal (all 1960), of MtCoriiiick of the Le- The American Legion (1945-46) and chairman Post 48. Hudson. N.H. a present member of the Legion's Nat'l gion's National Investments Policy Com- Robert W. Frostick and Carroll Megill (both 1953). Post 178. Farmingdale, N J Pnl)lic Relations (commission retiied as mittee. He was a mainstay of The Jamc.N Costello, Jr. (1960), Post 199. Hawthorne. N.J. editor of the American Legion in Jersey, and an Columbia, S.C. newspaper, New William J. Troy and Timothy H. Wamback (both Ridge. N.J. THE STATE, where he has worked for influential figure in Boy Scout work in 1960) . Post 423. Oak Reid Webster (1960), Post 216, Margaretville, llie jiast 54 years, the last 19 as editor. his home state. N.V. 32 THE AMERICAN I EG ION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 Henry J. Hammer (1960). Posl 307. New York, 304th FS Bn (WWl)-(May) J. P. lyrtcll. 16 W. N.Y. Johnson St.. Philadelphia 44, Pa. Navy Casimer CulliKan and Arthur J. Kilbride (bolh 332nd Ambulance Co (WWl) - (June) Harry B. 91.st Seabees - (May) Oliver H. Johnson, 1409 1957) and Almon H. Barnes and Harr> P. Matluike Hrown, 16715 Kcnyon Rd., Shaker Heights 20, Washington Ave.. Racine. Wise. (both 195X]. Post 622. Willianisvillc. N.^ . Ohio. LSS California (BB44)-(June) Harold D. Bean, J. Donald Griffin and Arthur K. HenHinK and .360th Ensr Rent General Service— (June) Edward Box 5, Sorenlo. III. Louis E. Heppner and Donald W. Herrman (all Zials. Box 257. Marianna. Pa. LISS Chicaco (WWl)-(Apr.) J. B. Lancaster, 5051 ") 1959), Post 7()t(. BulTalo. N . 504th MP Bn (WW2)-(June) William M. Duncan- Oxford Ave.. Philadelphia 24, Pa. Yale CunimiUKS (1960). Post 9.16. Tiillv. N Y. son. 206 Greeley St.. Clinton. Mass. USS Lcviathan-(Apr.) R. 1.. Hcdlander, Box 22, John Williams (1952) and William Clare and 627th Tank Destroyer Bn— (May) John A. Egan. Greenwich. Conn. Llovd Tllley (both 1960). Post 1010. Bulfalo. N.Y. 121 Wright Ave.. Buffalo 15. N.Y. USS Macoffin (APA 199)-(June) Bud Novotny, A'nthonv Teresi (1960). Posl 1221. Brooklyn. N.Y. 817th Tank Destroyer Bn— (Junel Raymond Banks. 416 No. 1st.. Mt. Vernon, Wash. Clark W. Stryker (1960). Post 1.M5. Avoca, N.Y. 116 Laurel Ave.. Ben Avon. Pa. LISS Oklahoma - (May) Edward H. Lutz, 673 Thomas Ondracek and Henrv Opperud and Ed- 876th Airborne Kn^rs Avn Bn— (May) Edward J. Lindley Rd.. Glenside, Pa. win F. Schumacher (all 1960). Post 41. Grafton. Hirk. 218 S. Fifth St.. Jeannette, Pa. Maryland Naval Militia-( Apr.) B. W. Figgins. 227 N. Dak. 892nd Ord Hy Auto Maintenance Co — (June) Mallow Hill Rd.. Baltimore 29, Md. Steve Jahlonsky and Richard i>. IMuckle and Arnold W. Tremere, 905 S. Prairie Ave.. Sioux Purdue Llniversily, Electrical Last Co. 18-45 — Bert Zahn (all 1959) and Llewellyn Reese (1960). Falls. S. Dak. (May) Edward J. Peters, 415 So. Reed St., Jolict, Post Bedford. Ohio 899th Tank Destroyer Bn, Co B. - (July) James III. George O'Hea and Willis A. Phillips and Adam Dreussi. 5132 Lincoln St. E., East Canton. Ohio. J. Weher and George M. West (all 1959). Post 179, 1896th Encrs Avn Bn-(June) Lester A. Sealey. ^ eadon. Pa. 14 High St.. Natick, Mass. Ralph K. Shadle (1960). Post 404. Eli/abethville, 1913th Entjr Avn Bn. Co B - (June) Joseph B. Air Pa. Sherako, 212 Schuylkill Ave.. Shenandoah. Pa. nth Bombardment Gp (H) Pearl Harbor Attack- John L. Binkley (I960). Post 5.15, Oxford, Pa. Evacuation Hospital #6 (WWl)-(June) Russell I. (June) Robert E. May, 13000 Eckel Junction Rd., Joseph E. Sweeney (1960), Post 959. Philadel- Premiss, 90 Silk St., Brewer, Maine. Perrysburg, Ohio. phia. Pa. E. J. Brennan, Jr. and James C. Dozier and John T. Kennedy (all 195K) and S. L. Latimer, Jr. (1960). Post 6. Columbia. S C. E. E. Buffington and J. Lester Cogburn (both CAMPING 1959). Post \}}. Ridfje Spring, SC. William T. Schwabland (1956) and Hubert Mc- TRAILERS Lellan (1957) and Clay Nixon (195K). Post 1. Se- attle. Wash. Thomas W. Ildstad (1960). Post 23, Enumclaw, Wash. INTRODUCING THE GREAT NEW EAGLE J. J. WaLsh (1960). Post 292, Woodruff, Wis. From a low, compact aluminum tr.iiler, Post Commanders or Adjutants are the new Apache Eagle quickly sets up into asked to report life membership awards a spacious olT-the-ground living area with to "Life Memberships," The American over 4'6" width ot floor space plus two Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave., New ready-made double beds with polyfoam mattresses. Four covered compartments York 19, N.Y. Date of award is re- provide large storage capacity. A sturdy (juested in all cases. Receipt of names c.imper designed and built for years of fun ! cannot be acknowledged. Price: f o b. Lapeer $645.00 Life memberships in Maryland, Ohio Write Dept.AL-3for full color catalog. and West X'irginia are only accepted if received via the Department Adjutant, VESELY MANUFACTURING COMPANY in conformity with state Legion policy. Box 151, Lapeer, Mich. • Dealers Inquiries Invited OUTFIT REUNIONS Kciiiiioii will be held in month indicated. For particulars, write person whose address Notices accepted on official form only. For form send stamped, addressed return envelope to: O. R. Form, American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth .4ve., New York 19, N. Y. Notices should be receivetl at least four months before scheduled reunion, IT'S JUST ONE OF THE is given. FIVE FINE TOBACCOS Army IN REVELATION 5th Inf ReKt-(July) Robert T. Weston. P.O. Box 2161. South Portland. Me. Latakia adds a touc"h of exotic 7th , FA Observation Bn (WW2)-(Apr.) J. S. Peter- ! aroma. Just a touch. Each of son. 1.135 Peck Lane. Cheshire. Conn. oilier 10th Forestry Engrs (WWl)-(Mar.) James P. Mor- the four adds somethinK ton. P.O. Box 548, Placerville, Calif special, too. Brinf? thorn all 1 1th Engrs (WWl)-(May) Joseph V. Boyle, 326 ' York St.. Jersey City 2, N.J. together with the Revelation 13th Ry Engrs (A.E.F.)-( Apr.) Fred M. Durland, recipe and something rare 8441 - 54th St., Pinellas Park. Fla. 14th EnBrs-(May) Dave Brooks. 37 Park Ave., happens. Try it soon. No. Quincy 71. Mass. i 15th Base Post Office (WW2) Fort Shafter, T.H. - (June) Woodrow W. Mertz. 102 So. Whiteoak ! St.. Kut/town, Pa. 30th Inf Div-(July) Saul Solow. 42 Parkway Drive Kentucky Burley— dark flakes, slow burning Hitksville. N.Y. 42nd Div (Rainbow) - (July) George L. Irwin. Virginia Bright— bright leaves, even burning 13140 M-59. RFD 4. Milford. Mich. 45th Evac Hosp (WW2)-(June) Calvin Stan, 410 Old Belt Bright— slightly darker, good body North loth St., Fairview, N.J. Latakia— deeper brown, extra mild 82nd Airborne Div - (July) Carl L. Davis, 159 Gibson Ave.. Mansfield. Ohio. Perique— very dark, wonderful aroma 102nd AAA (AW) Bn-(Mav) Richard Ingalsbe, 4221 Roxbury Dr.. BuHalo 21, N.Y. 113th Cavalry (Redhorsers) - (Apr.) George A. 1 Reeve. 4701 KortT Rd.. S.E. Rt. #3, Cedar Rapids. Iowa. I63rd Inf, Co G (WW2)-(June) Hargis Westcrfield. REVELATIOM 6248 Sturdy Ave.. Cincinnati 30, Ohio. I64th Inf, Med Det-(June) Kd Mulligan. 1032 MILD SMOKING MIXTURE I « Rossman Ave., Detroit Lakes, Minn. 24«th CA ReBt-(Apr.) P. E. Bement. 8605 So. 42nd. Tacoma 66. Wash. 302nd Med Bn, 77th Div-(May) Glenn Marrero, 3430 Hudson Blvd.. Jersey City 7 N.J. 1 nil .\.MtRlCAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 • ) IS THE LEGION JUST FOR SMALL TOWNS? ( i oiilitmi tt jrtim fiau.) 21 when the President of the United States turned out to support them — and the On top of this use of the facilities for moved construction of an aircraft car- bazaar raised $10,000. the programs of other groups, no less rier out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and A second bazaar raised enough to dig than 2,500 people in the area make some Floyd Bennett Post became a civic rally- a hole for the first building on the lot. use of the post home in the course of any ing center for protest. The protest didn't Then the post went into debt for $25,000 year in activities sponsored by the post bring the carrier back, but it helped as- — of which $20,000 was a 1 0-year mort- itself. sure other shipbuilding for the Yard — gage—and put up that building. No bank A major event held once a year, is the without which there would be a job crisis would write the mortgage. But the late open house for as many of its non- in many a Brooklyn home. Antonio Governale, a businessman who Legion neighbors as the Fire Department Then there was the $9,0()(),()()() incin- shared the post's dream, did — and the will permit within the walls at one time. erator New York City was going to put post paid ofT his 10-year loan in two It starts with a mass swearing in of up on the residential Brooklyn water- years. new members. Then comes a streamlined front, bringing a parade of garbage open business meeting of the post, in trucks and an underground organization which all of its 27 active committees give of rats to Flatlands. their annual reports. Anyone who sup- Every block, church, club and neigh- ported Floyd Bennett Post in its many borhood association protested that the fund-raisings may know exactly what incinerator should go to an industrial was done with the proceeds, and nobody area and not stink up homes. Floyd Ben- may wonder darkly "what goes on in nett Post pulled them all together on July there." The open house then becomes a 20, 1954, to speak with one big voice. free social night for all the guests, with No incinerator was built there. dancing, refreshments and a general The city was going to build a new neighborly tete-a-tete. elevated railway in Flatlands ~ though For its own members, the post runs it had already torn others down because four big social affairs a year. Par for the they made dark slums of the streets be- course at any one of them is 300 to 400 low. Floyd Bennett Post was again a people — as good an index as any to how center through which many little neigh- happily planned they are. borhoods rallied to speak out as one. No The special committees of the post and "elevated" was built. its Auxiliary schedule neighborhood af- But southeastern Brooklyn did not al- fairs and rallies of their own. Biggest of ways have a Floyd Bennett Post of The these is the Child Welfare Committee's American Legion as a community sym- annual Christmas party for children. It's bol. Chartered in 1932, the post was long complete with Christmas dinner, enter- a Depression Baby struggling for mere tainment and presents for everyone. "The arrow did not go aroiiiul twice!" survival. It rented empty stores to meet Originally the party was for any children THK AMI':itirAN' LEGION MA^;A/,IN>; in and later bought an old one-family at all in the neighborhood, but that had dwelling for a permanent home. to stop. World War Two brought new mem- When the first building was dedicated "We created a monster," a chorus of bers, new strength, new vigor, and the late in 1948 the post charged $2.50 for post ofiicials admits. "When the Christ- ambition of youth to the ](K)-man post. a look inside. It had to turn people away mas party started drawing more than 400 The young veterans had been raised when more than 900 tried to get in. No- children we had to hold it in two sec- in Brooklyn, knew its people, its prob- body put up $2.50 out of curiosity. They tions. When that kept on growing until lems, its needs. When they recited the were investing again in the post's dream. we had 1,400, we had to limit it to un- Legion creed of service to "community, The building became so busy with its derprivileged and orphaned children." state and nation" it fired them with am- community functions that it was virtually Now the party is a manageable afiair of bition. Their big, sprawling community unavailable as a clubhouse for members. from 100 to 150 children who might was vastly inarticulate. It had many civic Ten years later, an annex was added with otherwise have no Christmas at all. centers — but they were nearly all parti- a modern lounge and entertainment Floyd Bennett Post has its own junior san, or sectarian, or specialized in some facilities for the growing membership. drum and bugle corps — the Golden other way — each group to its own. The Today, the home and its contents are Eagles — organized and financed (to the Legion gave the young veterans an image worth about $250,000, free and clear. tune of $5,500 a year) by the post — with of a true community center that they They are heavily used by other com- three paid instructors. sensed their neighborhood needed. munity groups — a partial list of which The 50 to 60 \oung musicians prac- The way to get it was for the whole would include: civic associations; labor tice fi>ur nights a week in the post home, post to work lor it, and to win broad unions: churches; synagogues (one syna- making sounds throughout the building support by telling their dream to their gogue used the post home for services which the members endure with deter- neighbors and being true to that dream. during a temporary building emergency mined smiles. -A host of smaller young- Somebody forgot to tell them that you of its own); the Police Athletic League sters add to the din as they learn their can't make a Legion post into an impor- (youngsters' sports program run by the instruments under post tutelage. They tant community leader in a big city - New York Police Dep't): Lions Clubs; are the "farm-system" or "feeder pro- and they haven't found it out yet. Boy Scouts; Boys Clubs; hospital gri>ups; gram" of little children who will gradu- in 1947, Floyd Bennett's Legionnaires both major political parties; numerous ate into the Golden Eagles tomorrow. set out to be a ct)mmunity asset on a big charitaiile organizations: military imits Now a new post program is a monthly scale. They held a ba/aar to raise money (the C hief Petty Ollicers of nearby Floyd teen-age dance for corps members and to buy a plot of land at Avenue N be- Bennett Field Naval Air Station hold their friends. tween E. 56th and E. 57th Streets. It social affairs there); and other American You can smell the sea at Floyd Ben- seemed that everybody and his brother Legion posts and Auxiliary units. nett Post, so naturally the post spon.sors 34 • THE AMHRICAN I EG ION MACiAZINE • MARC II lOhl a group of about 30 Sea Explorers (high It contributed to a do/en fund drives school age Boy Scouts specializing in of the Kings County (Brooklyn) Legion seamanship). The Sea Explorers recently tirganization for special charitable pur- performed a rescue in the Atlantic that poses. In one of them, it raised one-third MEN PAST40 earned them a Coast Guard citation. of the total obtained in all of Brooklyn. A lot of younger children in Brooklyn It collected 40 pints of blood for the Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, look with envy on the Sea Explorers. county Legion, on top of numerous Pains in liack, Hips, Legs, They pay no attention to the minimum blood contributions of its own. Nervousness, Tiredness. age for Explorers and pressure their It conducted the County Oratorical If you are a victim of the above symp- toms, the to parents to get them into the Explorers. Contest finals. trouble may be due Gland- ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- parents put pressure on Floyd Ben- It awarded 16 school medals. The ease for which it is futile for sufferers nett Post. It ran an essay contest in four schools. to try to treat themselves at home. "Think big! Do a job!" is the post It sent two boys to New York Boys' To men of middle age or past this type of inflammation occurs frequently. motto. So instead of explaining the State. It is accompanied by loss of physical parents' problem away. Floyd Bennett It called a rally of parents to provide vigor, graying of hair, forgetfulness and Post is now forming a group of very- better out-of-school activities for chil- often increase in weight. Neglect of such Inflammation causes to grow junior sailors of its own, to be a "feeder" dren. men old before their time—premature senil- for the Sea Explorers later. On top of its own Legion Junior Base- ity and possible incurable conditions. In 1956 this writer went into the wash- ball team it sponsored a 140-boy baseball Most men, if treatment is taken in room of a restaurant in Worthington, league for the Police Athletic Leauue time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- treated for Glandular Inflam- Minnesota. Pasted on a corner of the (P.A.L.) CALLY mation. If the condition is aggravated mirror was a colorful little sticker, show- It entered a team in a boys' track meet by lack of treatment, surgery may be ing the American flag and bearing the run by the P.A.L. and helped run the the only chance. printed message: 'For God and Country, meet. pray daily, attend church regularly, teach It ran a youth physical fitness pro- NON'SUMCAL THSAIMfm children religion." Also printed there was gram. The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat- the name of the sponsor of the sticker: It gave a Scout Troop its colors. ments used at the Excelsior Medical "Floyd Bennett Post 1060, American It ran a youngsters' Hallowe'en party. Clinic are the result of discoveries in recent years of new techniques and Legion, Brooklyn, New York." It ran a complete neighborhood youth drugs plus over 20 years research by It wasn't surprising to see the sticker organization of its own. scientific technologists and Doctors. 2,000 miles from its origin. The Ameri- It hosted a youth hobby show for the Men from all walks of life and from can Legion's messages don"t gather dust 63rd Precinct and provided trophies. over 1,000 communities have been suc- cessfully treated here at Excelsior at Floyd Bennett Post. Year after year It showed free neighborhood movies Springs. They found soothing and com- it distributes thousands on thousands of every week, including educational films forting relief and new health in life. such messages, and all its members con- not seen in theatres. RECTAL-COLON sider themselves 365-day-a-year sales- It hosted twice-a-month teenage EXAMINATION Are often associ- men for their God, their country, their dances for the P.A.L. ated with Glandu- AT LOW COST lar Inflammation. Legion, their post and Brooklyn. It lent its home for fund-raising dances When you arrive These disorders, we That year, the post distributed 5,000 for heart and cancer drives. can successfully here our Doctors who treat for you, at of those particular stickers; 5,000 match- It ran a weekly program of live opera are experienced spe- the same time we books with similar messages; 2,000 music for the neighborhood. cialists make a com- treat Glandular in- plete examination. flammation. 4-color postcards urging religious train- It gave $300 to the family of a leu- Your condition is ing for youth; 3.000 metal rulers with kemia victim. frankly explained REDUCIBLE patriotic and religious messages in It helped meet burial expenses of the and then you decide HERNIA if you will take the Is also amenable to 2-color; and thousands of protective child of a poor family. treatments needed. a painless Nan- Surgical treatment paper covers for schoolbooks. inscribed It gave clothes, food and toys to needy Treatments are so that we have de- with the Ten Commandments, a "God children at Christmas and Easter. mild hospitalization veloped. Full de- is not needed a con- tails of this treat- and Country'" message, and 10 rules for Its Christmas party for neighborhood — siderable saving in ment given In our safety. children reached 1.400 that year. expense. Free Boole. Last year the pace continued, with ad- It maintained a library on communist Write Today For Our % ditions. A 4-color stamp to paste on en- activities. The Excelsior Med- velopes went out by the thousands with It distributed 2,000 "I pledge to Vote" ical Clinic has pub- the message "Fight Communism." The lapel buttons. lished a New FREE Book that with post gave away wallet calendars for 1961 It bought 10,000 reprints of an Edilie deals diseases peculiar to with the Pledge Allegiance the of on the Cantor article on personal meaning men. It could prove reverse — 10,000 in all. including one to of religion, and gave them to local or- of utmost importance to your future life. each student in four schools (the same ganizations and chinches to distribute. Write today. No ob- schools received a 50-star U. S. flag for It represented its neighborhood before ligation. each classroom from Floyd Bennett the New York City Board of Estimate EXCELSIOR Post). Six thousand of the book the residents felt new school to testify why MEDICAL CLINIC covers were distributed last excessive. year. Post sewer assessments were i Depf.B 1151 members also went out with a sound It brought top bicycle racers to the Excelsior Springs, Mo. I ' truck and sold more than 1,200 50-star neighborhood to put on a show for chil- I Ccntlcmcn: Kindly send mc at once, your ' I New FREE Book. I am intcrcsfcd in full flags to homes and stores, at cost. dren. 1 information (Please Check Box i j Rectal-Colon Glandular When it comes to conducting patriotic It had 500 little tots as its guests at Hernia [; | Inflammation | and memorial observances, in one recent an amusement park. 2 I NAME. year the post ran 1 5 of its own, sent emis- It gave 250 copies of "Know Your I I saries and color guards to 13 others in America" to schools. ADDRESS- Brooklyn. It kept a sandlot baseball field open. TOWN about It youth boxing instruction. At the same time. Floyd Bennett sponsored STATE__ Post did a few other (hin^s. such as: Had enouuh? The list could uo on for THF. AMERICAN LEGION NfAC,.\ZINE • MARCH I%1 • 35 pages, as it does in the post's log. with an eye on the distant future when members is installed in the post home. Since WW2, Floyd Bennett Post has a new generation must take over. They call old members to request dues contributed to about an even 1,000 wel- Post leaders realize that the wives of payment and new prospects to discuss fare cases. One man, hospitalized for six new members may have doubts about applying for membership. When a phone years, received more than $ 1 ,000 of post papa going down to "that place" nights. contact is made, another member drives aid. In another case, members went door- Once a year a party is thrown for new to the address phoned and is on the scene to-door collecting for a family in des- members and their families. The wives in person to complete the business as the perate need after being burned out of its like it so much that Unit 1060 of The phone conversation ends. home. In another, on the recommenda- American Legion Auxiliary is the biggest Of course this would be resented as tion of one of the post's three volunteer in Brooklyn, and its Junior Auxiliary is "high pressure" tactics if it were not con- service officers, a doctor is giving three too. The wives find the post to be a good sidered an honor in Mill Basin to be free treatments a week to a family-head thing for themselves, and daughter too. asked to be a member. with a serious disease. The post has faith that what The But why shouldn't it be? In a city as Floyd Bennett Post has its own blood- American Legion stands for is attractive huge as New York, Floyd Bennett Post bank for participating members and their to most Americans who are worth their is an institution known far and wide as families. salt. It does not want any members who the symbol of its area. If you go through Post members gave 78 pints of blood the morgue of the big New York news- to a child leukemia victim, and opened papers, virtually every story for years their home as a site for further collection concerning major civic matters in south- from others. It hosted a low cost polio eastern Brooklyn identifies them with vaccination clinic, notified "patients" by Floyd Bennett Post. mail to get follow-up shots. When 250 Mill Basin residents de- The big city provides some unusual manded a traffic light at the dangerous opportunities for service. Believe it or Ralph Avenue and Avenue N inter- not, a friend of Floyd Bennett Post (it section, the New York World-Telegram has many friends) recently asked if it and Sun ended its sympathetic story of could dispose of the makings of 3 13,000 their demand with the assurance that cups of coffee! That was easy. The post they were "backed by Floyd Bennett gave the whole lot to the Salvation Army. American Legion Post." About 100 members turn out for any When Floyd Bennett Post and the regular business meeting of Floyd Ben- Flatbush Park Jewish Center joined nett Post. There are 27 working commit- hands to bring live opera to Mill Basin, tees, and one-man committees are virtu- the Brooklyn Eagle was so startled and ally taboo. About 135 members work on delighted that one of its pet columnists the 27 committees, and nobody is chair- reviewed the operas at the Legion post man of two different committees. Almost week after week for the benefit of all of any member may be tapped to do a job. Brooklyn's 3,000,000 citizens, and did it Not all. The oldest member is 93 and in Brooklynese. most work is saved for youngsters of 65 When Floyd Bennett Post launched a or 70 on down to the junior member— "Something's wrong. Just the door should campaign for free transfers between city- a 25-year-old Korea vet. go up." owned-buses and subways in Flatlands THE AMIOHUAN l,K Brooklyn). It is in second place now, with are not worth their salt. It wants to keep editorially, with all due credit to Floyd a little over 500 members. those who are, so it makes sure that they Bennett Post. But it will not accept bodies, York World-Telegram warm know what the Legion is and what it The New and nor raid the areas of Brooklyn's 115 stands for. The post is convinced that Sun and Floyd Bennett Post exchanged other Legion posts for members. the good men and women who quit the mutual bows as leaders of a swarm of Every membership applicant civic associations in a successful, long- must Legion never found out what it was all pass the muster of a Screening Commit- about. drawn-out rezoning drive to stop expan- tee. If the .Screening Committee doubts The officers read the literature that sion of auto-wrecking yards in residen- that the prospect measures up to the comes from the state and national tial Brooklyn. — standards of a working Legionnaire American Legion. If anything in th>.re Plainly the big city has not cowed this good-bye applicant. If it accepts him, might work well in Brooklyn, Floyd Ben- post into nothingness. he'll be invited to express an interest in nett Post tries it out for size. The post Peter Governale was the first WW2 the work of one of the post's committees. has snatched up and improved upon the Commander of Floyd Bennett Post. Not Applicants who don't live in Mill correspondence course in the work and a member would question that he was Basin must say in writing why they want programs of The American Legion that in the vanguard of those who built it to to join Floyd Bennett. Without good rea- is ottered by the national organization. its present stature. son, they're urged to join the Legion in Thirty-three members are currently Says Governale: "We wanted to make their areas. own studying The American Legion Exten- our post what it is because our neighbor- The accent is perpetually on youth at sion Institute course in a class at the post, hood needed it. Given that determina- Floyd Bennett Post. The original World run by the editor of the post's excellent tion, it had to be easier to succeed in a War Two members were encouraged by little newspaper. The Propeller. big city than in a smaller town. In a the older World War One members to The post membership committee years smaller town we might have run out of carry out their ambitions. Today, the ago read a suggestion in national litera- new talent and new resources and new "old" WW2 men arc pushing newer and ture for a quick annual membership programs long ago. But with 1 16 Ameri- younger members (who prove themselves drive with a "teleautothon" to cut out can Legion posts in Brooklyn, none of with work) into leadership. the enormous waste of time that a pro- us have done more than scratch the sur- Right now the post is reorganizing its tracted membership campaign imposes. face yet." Sons of The American Legion squadron. A "boiler room" of phones manned by THE END 3^ • THE AMERIC AN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARC H l')M THE MOST AMAZING PLANE IN THE WORLD ( oiithiiu)l jioiii 'I ( t>""' I aviation at the end of World War 11, American and Boeing) and the Air The scheme paid olf: the NACA paper when the propeller aircraft reached its Force suddenly realized it would not be on compression lilt was found and its speed and altitude ceilings at 500 m.p.h. much harder to design a long-range application to the supersonic bomber was and 35,000 teet — confronted and con- bomber that could fly its whole mission obvious. It said, in effect, that a conical founded engineers and military planners supersonic than to design one that would body has the ability to produce an in- in the midfifties. When they studied the fly subsonic all the way with only a small crease in pressure under a surface. Why nature of it, the cost and complexity as fraction of the flight supersonic. Not only not put a conical structure beneath the well as the technical doubt over how to that, but the top speed of the prospective wing and gain a lift bonus? Paper studies pass this barrier, many gave serious bomber was raised to Mach Three, about and wind-tunnel data showed spectacu- thought to abandoning the manned air- 2.000 miles per hour. lar possibilities if the air-intake section craft after the planes then under devel- The key piece of the puzzle involved were made conical and put beneath the opment were aged out of the skies. The a physics principle known as compres- wing. North American board chairman ballistic missiles were coming into their sion lift. Its aeronautical application was J. H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, one of avi- own at the time and some military think- postulated by two NACA engineers at ation's greatest pioneers, a former engi- ers believed these could replace the Langley Field in March 1956. The en- neer himself and generally regarded as manned bomber. Instead of going gineers, A. J. Eggers and C. A. Syvert- the industry's elder statesman, said flatly: through the heat barrier, the wise pro- son. wrote an esoteric scientific report "I've been in this business for more than cedure seemed to avoid it. titled "Aircraft Configurations Devel- 40 years, and I've never seen anything The B-70 was the breakthrough or. oping High Lift-Drag Ratios at High like the engineering solution lo this as Edward Teller prefers to call it, a Supersonic Speeds." It was stamped problem." pushthrough beyond this development "Secret" and sent to dozens of technical Compression lift is the use of the barrier. It is more than an airplane that libraries and research laboratories and shock wave created by the airplane itself will cruise four times faster and fly 100 was promptly forgotten if it was ever for added lift. Just how the B-70 uses percent higher than the B-52 and still noted at all. During a critical moment in this wave, and the details of the design go as far. It is a new design concept, the the development of the B-70, however, gimmicks that help it. are among the first of a new generation of supersonic this key report was discovered. most closely guarded secrets of the pro- aircraft, the device through which avia- In looking for a new design approach. gram. Engineers not directly connected tion progress, which nearly had been North American assigned an engineer to with the project have speculated on how ended, will be recycled. search the vast technical literature on this is done. Their explanation goes like From the B-70 will come supersonic high-speed flight on the unlikely possi- this: transports that will make today's jets bility of finding gold in the library dust. As the long gooseneck of the B-70 seem like gear-grinding trucks and to- morrow's airline schedules seem like printers' mistakes. The B-70 will fly at the threshold of space, and for this rea- son it can be utilized as a launching platform from which U. S. reconnais- sance and scientific satellites can he in- jected into orbit and from which Soviet space vehicles might be interdicted. Most important, and most immediate, the B-70 is a bomber of extraordinary per- formance. It is the furthest extension of U. S. military technology, a Mach Three weapons system that is in some ways and P. A. has the flavor more awesome than the missile and more potent than anything the Russians most favored in the U.S.A. are believed to have. One thing is known: The Soviets do not have a de- fense against it. What barrier did the B-70 crash through? What new design concepts and technology went into it? Why Mach Three? Some of the answers to these questions are wrapped in a heavy curtain JUSTIN TUBB OF of military security: some are hidden in GRAND OLE OPRY the hieroglyphics of engineering formu- lae. We do know that about a year ago a strange and wonderful thing happened. It was as if the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle • always tastes fresh n J. Re.vnolils Tobacco Co., began falling into place. Almost simul- • mild, mellow flavor Wliiston-Salem, taneously research programs that had N. C. • cool 'n' steady burning been under way at National .Ailvisory Committee on Aeronautics labs in Vir- ginia, California and Ohio began to pay oflf. The result—this is oversimplification, but it is not overstatement—was that the PRINCE ALBERT companies concerned (i.e., North America's Largest-Selling Smoking Tobaccol .\MER1CAN LEGION M.\UAZINE • .MARCH 1961 THE • 37 rams along at Mach Three, it clears a technology. The prize of great speed lay The B-58 Hustler was the first opera- pathway of air so the rest of the 170-ft. in the trap of the atmospheric oven, and tional airplane to be given aerodynamic fuselage may pass. The pushed-aside air to snatch it without burning up is a trick heat protection. This was done with is piled up in a V-shaped pattern similar no one knew in 1955. The men who honeycombed aluminum fabrication of a to the bow wave made by the prow of a made the B-70 had to learn it, and they few critical heat-prone parts. Although ship on a calm lake. In a way this wave did. the Hustler is in Mach Two heat for a might be visualized as the curbs of the Why Mach Three? Why not Mach relatively short time, the temperature pathway made by the B-70. These curbs Five or Mach Ten? The reason is aero- gets sufficiently high to break down the are, of course, compressed air, and they dynamic heating: Mach Two is the bare glue that binds the honeycomb assembly. are directed beneath the wings of the beginning of the high-heat problem, and Clearly, the Mach Three B-70 could not plane. Since this curb air is higher pres- Mach Three is really into it. And the use aluminum or any glue adhesive; its sure than the air above the wing, the temperature goes up from there as the skin had to be made of stainless steel plane sitting on this cushion gets added square of speed. At Mach Three the heat honeycomb with metal-to-metal binding. lift. The B-70 shock wave, created by is 550 degrees; at Mach Four it is 840. The honeycombed steel sandwich that the enormous mass and momentum of Mach Three is the beginning of a long was developed for the B-70 fulfilled all half a million pounds, is thus converted rising plateau of flight progress, and en- requirements. It consists of two face to lift energy. To milk it for full value. gineers feel certain that once they have plates between which honeycombed steel North American engineers also devised gained 2,000 m.p.h. they will be able to foil is placed. The brazing process proved a way to amplify it and keep it channeled push the B-70 configuration up to 4,000 simple: a thin sheet of silver brazing foil against the undersurfaces of the wing m.p.h. is put, like butter, against the face plates. for the longest possible time. Thus, in a Planes zooming to the threshhold of The honeycomb steel foil is then placed sense, the B-70 is something like an space have a high-speed departure prob- in the middle. The entire assembly is aerial catamaran—up on the step of its lem as satellites and missiles returning put into a brazing furnace and heated own shock wave and riding it for all it's to earth have their re-entry problem. until the silver foil melts and glues the worth, and it is worth 30 percent addi- Vehicles moving at Mach Two and honeycomb to the face plates. Then the tional lift. This is scot-free lift: not an higher through the atmosphere collide sandwich is cooled until the "glue" hard- extra pound of thrust or gallon of fuel mightily with air molecules. This friction ens into solid metal. The result is a piece is required to buy it. induces high skin heating. And this in- of steel that is not only strong and light- Speed, the speed of a bullet in flight- tense heat precludes the use of alumi- weight but also has marvelous insulating this is the B-70's proud theme. (Its num, the structural metal most widely properties. The air in the honeycomb cruising speed is 2,900 ft/sec; the muzzle used in subsonic and transonic aircraft. cells gives it this. velocity of a 30.06 bullet is 2,700 ft/sec.) Lightweight and strong, it can take struc- B-70 manufacturing tolerances are ex- For nearly a decade large aircraft have tural stress, but it cannot take heat: at ceedingly fine: a fingerprint on the metal been trapped in the aerodynamically un- 250 degrees, aluminum welds and loses will prevent proper brazing, so the prep- attractive speed zone between Mach .75 its strength. The ideal high-temperature aration must be done in temperature- and Mach 1.5. Here speed reaches the metals are stainless steel and titanium. controlled, dust-free rooms by handlers point of diminishing returns in terms of But these were regarded as too heavy for who wear white nylon (non-lint) gloves. range. Beyond Mach Two, according to use except on a few critical parts (in Weight in supersonic aircraft is critical, every slide rule, speed should buy more afterburners, for example) of high-speed so steel must be rolled as fine as possible range. An airplane traveling at Mach aircraft too heavy and too difficult to —down to .002 inch. One engineer laid Three would go half as far again as one fabricate. But this was just one heat down the most accurate and succinct re- traveling at Mach Two. problem. Another was how to keep the quirement for the Mach Three airplane: But to fly at Mach Three requires inside of the plane cool enough for crew "It must be built as strong as a bridge something more than an improvement in and equipment— a prime problem in an and as precise as a watch." This is the propulsion or a new airframe design: it airplane flying in the — 70°-cold of an technology that goes into the B-70—the requires a greatly enhanced aeronautical 80,0()0-ft. sky! technology that must go into space vehi- cles when they are built. Because Al White flies along at such great height and speed, he is detached from the earth in a way few airmen be- fore him have been. He cannot rely on ground stations for position reports and he has a problem receiving landing in- structions from airfields because he must begin his letdown 300 miles out and tower communications and tratllc-con- trol systems cannot handle this distance and speed. White must rely on the equip- ment in his ship. He navigates with a stellar-inertial guidance system, a multi-million-dollar device that incorporates a star-tracking unit, an inertial platform, radar, and digital computer. This is his bomb/nav system which will be programmed with complete data from take-off to target, can accept additional inputs from sen- sors to make en-route changes and cor- rections which no mere pilot or bom- "That's lough. Your guarantee just ran out." TIIK AMKItlCAN I.IXMON MAOA/.INK bardier or navigator could calculate at the B-70's 30-mile-a-minute speed. For 3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 " target sighting, the B-70 has search and a fourth kind: The only. It is the only doppler radars that are years ahead of new airplane under development and Shrinks Hemorrhoids anything now in use. Resolution of radar the only one designed to live in the mis- pictures presented on the navigator's sile age. Strategically, the B-70 has a New Way Without Surgery scope is as sharp as if they were taken mission that neither the missile nor the Stops Itch through high-powered telescopes. transonic bomber can fill. The B-70 is -Relieves Pain Fully matching the major subsystems important because it is the only vehicle Fdi- the first time science has found a new healinK sulistance with the astonishing and the airframe design itself in sophis- which carries the advantages of the ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve tication and performance is the propul- manned bomber into an era where it pain — without surgery. In case sion component. The GE J-93 turbojet will be needed. And these advantages, after case, while gently relieving pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. engine is the most advanced engine this and the need for them, are becoming Most amazing of all — results were so side of the Iron Curtain, and probably more and more apparent as the missile thorough that sufferers made astonishing statements like "Piles have ceased to be a the other side of it, too. Its Mach Three matures to the point where it is beginning pi oblem! thrust output is incredible: one engine to reveal its own limitations, notably The secret is a new healing substance ( Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of enough of a world-famous can generate the equivalent Man. M-1. research institute. energy to power 50 diescl locomotives or In the past decade the scientist and the This substance is now available in sup- pository or out t merit form under the name light a city of 60,000 people. Not as missile engineer have worked to make Preparation H®. Ask for it at all drug spectacular, but just as important in war- man technologically unemployed in fu- counters. time, is its easy field-handling and quick- ture combat vehicles. To them, man Make Rubber Stamps for BIG PAY change characteristics. To replace an en- seemed an abominably designed piece of gine in today's bomber requires more Need more money? Earn $30-$50 equipment: 1 80 pounds of frame to sup- a week , spare time, at home mak- 1 ng rubberstamps time than the probable duration of the port a 45-oz. payload— his brain—which for offices, fac- tories, individuals. Hundreds of uses. Hundreds of prospects— future all-out war itself: a factory-new was all they wanted to the ev- take along on erywhere. Right in your own eom- must be given a two-day buildup ilty. Turn out special stamps for engine ride anyway. Not only that, but he had es, addresses, notices, prices, etc , inutes with table-top during which the accessory equipment- to have hundreds of pounds of support machine. We - - iheverythini;and , hrl/)Jinanreuou Write for free facts. No salesman electrical and hydraulic— is hooked up. equipment to keep this frame cool and calls. Rubber Stamp Div.. 1512 Jarvis Ave., H-8-C Dept. , Chicago 26 The B-70 engine does not require a comfortable, safe and fail-safe. And all buildup: the accessories are bolted to the vehicles he traveled in had to be designed is RUPTURED airplane, are not in the engine. This for the round trip. It would be far bet- FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY the quick-change plug-in concept. The ter to build more efficient, less demand- BE Surely you want to THROW AWAY B-70 engine can be changed (the old ing black boxes to do man's job. But try- TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rupture Wor- ries. Then Why put up with wearing a griping, one removed and the new one put in) by duplicating ing to replace man, even chafing and unsanitary truss. For there is now a 4 men in 25 minutes! some of his functions, turned out to be new modern Non-Surgical treatment that is de- signed to permanently correct rupture. 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Perch strike 12 months a year, Now many fishermen are traveling to ern Oklahoma are only a httle behind even through the ice in winter, and it's Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the them. Lake Tcxoma on the Texas-Okla- seldom a difficult matter to catch a sack- Virgin Islands and it's no wonder. Alaska homa boundary north of Dallas is a bass ful of them. is simply an angler's paradise w ith many angler's dream come true. So is vast, Nearly all of northern Minnesota, bodies of water still to be explored. But murky Falcon Lake on the Mexican which contains almost as much water as possibly the best of all known fishing border below Laredo. land, is one fine fishing hole, but it's a holes is the system of cold lakes and wild The TVA lakes, often called the Great fact that some of the largest lakes offer rivers in Mt. Katmai National Monu- Lakes of the Southeast, have always been the premium fishing. Good examples are ment, sometimes called the Land of Ten good for walleyed pike and panfish as Leech, Winnibigoshish. Rainy and Kabe- Thousand Smokes. Here a sportsman can well as for bass. Most of these passed togama Lakes where the action is seldom catch trophy rainbow trout, Dolly Var- their "peaks" (biologists now know that slow. Lake of the Woods on the interna- den trout, rare Arctic grayling, salmon, fishing in large reservoirs rises and falls tional boundary is well-known for big lake trout and northern pike, all in a few on a curve after impoundment) some muskies, pike and bass. days' fishing. time ago, but now it's evident that a re- The Hayward Lakes region of Wis- Flying fishermen who venture as far covery is going on. This year should be a consin has already been mentioned for north as Kotzebue find a mystery species great one at Pickwick, Wheeler, Gunters its quality musky fishing and the waters known as inconnu or sheefish. It's a close ville. Watts Bar and Cherokee Lakes. around Tomahawk, Boulder Junction relative of the warm-water tarpon. Signs also point to plenty of bass at Cen- and Lac du Flambeau are equally good Hawaiian waters, particularly off the ter Hill in Tennessee, at Dale Hollow for this great game species. But an east- Kona coast, are very productive of count- and at winding, narrow Cumberland ern sportsman need travel no farther less salt-water fishes. The world's record Lake in Kentucky. Kentucky Lake, above than Chautauqua Lake, N.Y., the Nia- bonefish came from the Islands. Puerto Paducah, will have good bass tishing, gara River near Buffalo or the St. Law- Rico also boasts a salt-water record for with its excellent panhshing as more than rence River below the Thousand Islands blue marlin, but the fresh-water fishing an added attraction. to catch a musky. The last-named spot in several of the inland reservoirs is Even a novice bass fisherman should claims the current world's record, a 70- equally good and is sometimes sensa- have no trouble finding action at the pounder. tional. Both bass and panfish grow to Santee-Cooper Lakes in South Carolina But one word of advice to potential great size there. because these are most extraordinary musky fishermen: Muskies are not plenti- Except for an annual fishing license tishing holes. Resident biologist Bob ful anywhere. You have to work hard to which rarely costs a resident angler more Stevens has ample evidence that these catch them and in a season's time even than a couple of dollars, the biggest bar- produce the most tish of any fresh-water the most experienced outdoorsmen will gain in sporting goods is a rod, a reel and bodies in the country. Besides the large- catch relatively few of them. a small supply of lures. A single such mouth bass, they contain a sizable and While muskies are for experts, catfish outfit is good for many years of hard use prolific population of striped bass, plenty are for anyone with a minimum of tackle and the newest models are designed so of jumbo catfish and unlimited numbers and a little spare time to spend on the that anyone can use them. A typical of panlish which anyone can catch, par- water. More and more anglers even spe- 1961 casting reel is so well-designed that ticularly in springtime. It's worth noting cialize in catfish, traveling far and wide anyone can learn to cast well enough to that the stripers and catfish sometimes just to find the big ones. .Some of our catch fish with little more than an hour's exceed 30 pounds and that the world's country's best catfish holes this year practice. And just by spare-time practic- record crappie, a tasty panfish, was would have to include the tailrace of ing on lawn or backyard targets, a person landed here. Summed up, the Santee- Pickwick Dam, Tenn.; Cooper River, S. with average coordination can soon be- Cooper Lakes are made-to-order for C; Wills Creek and Clendenning Lake in come an expert caster at home. either family weekend or vacation fish- Ohio; Atchafalaya River, La.; Green But the new look in fishing tackle has ing. River, Utah; the lower portion of the done more than merely develop skilled Only a few of Florida's countless lakes White and Ouachita Rivers, Ark.; Yazoo casters; it has also opened brand new are not good bass waters, but strange and River, Miss.; the Rio Grande above La- frontiers in fishing. Nearly all of the in- shallow Okeechobee in the .South is the redo, Tex.; and virtually the entire shore coastal waters around the United prize package of them all. It's outstand- lengths of the Mississippi and Missouri States are full of fine game fishes just ing because inexperienced fishermen — Rivers. now being "discovered." Actually the any member of the family, in fact — can Nearly all American fishermen are new, light gear was made to order for catch bass and panfish there. At the same traveling more and more each summer. them and countless outdoor fans are time, an expert or a veteran angler always There are even two travel agencies which finding they can handle big salt-water has a chance to hook a record-book fish. cater especially to fishermen: Moxley- species on their fresh-water tackle. Both Okeechobee has had ups and downs, but Oney World Travel of Medina, Ohio, for wild and woolly sport and to fill the now scientific regulation of water levels and Outdoor Vacations of Columbia, home freezer with fresh fillets, there's is providing consistently good sport. Mo. Both can tell an angler where fish nothing quite st> exciting. Another noteworthy family fishing are currently striking best and then make Once, such fish as tarpon, snook, bar- area is in the North: The Bass Islands arrangements for him to go there. racuda, dolphin, groupers and even sail- archipelago in western Lake Frie. Often If, for instance, a fisherman wants to fish and marlin were taken only on these picturesque chunks of rock are catch the spring run of walleyes some- heavy, specialized, expensive equipment. called Ohio's Treasure Islands. Since where, thev'll suggest such hotspots as But that's all changed. Now, most of the now, via the turnpikes, they're within an the Cumberland River in Kentucky or entries and many of the prizes in the an- easy day's travel for half of America, the Bay de Noc near Escanaba, Mich. For nual Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tour- surrounding waters provide good fishing alligator gars they'd probably suggest the nament, largest fishing competition in year after year. The angling for small- White River in Arkansas and for land- the world, are made on light tackle. mouth bass, walleyes and catfish is great, locked salmon, .Sebago or Spednic Lakes The Key West region, always a splen- but it doesn't begin to match the perch in Maine. did fishing area, is wonderfully situated 40 • THE AMERICAN 1 ECilON MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 ! - for light-tackle lishoiiiicn llic \car apeake Hay lor striped bass. Long Island round. I ho warm waters thereahoiits Sound, especially the vicinity of Mon- Now! Life Insurance contain some 300 species, from tiny tauk, is good for striped bass and other moonfish and snappers to high-jumpiniz game fish. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 19hl 41 THIRTY DAYS IN THE ARGONNE ( CniiHtiiifil ftoni l>a^e 17) Twice a major from brigade came the 1 1th Infantry. You will attack in full far end of the woods. Beyond that was a along to size up the situation. His name regimental strength, three battalions big open field sloping to a valley with a was Waliver and years later as command- abreast, at 1 1 a.m. tomorrow while the stone quarry. As soon as we got squared ing general he got killed in a jeep acci- terrain is apt to be covered with mist and away 1 remembered our general. Nobody dent in Korea. after the enemy has relaxed his morning else did but no wonder, considering how Now this part is hearsay, but Capt. vigilance. You will attack without artil- exhausted we were. I scratched out a "Dyke" O'Neil on the staff told me what lery preparation in order to achieve max- message, sending a runner back with it: happened. When the major got back to imum surprise. The regiment will charge "To Gen. Malone— Holding north edge Gen. Malone's P.C., he reviewed the sit- the Bois de Rappes on the double with of woods—send ammunition— alert artil- uation with the general and then sug- fixed bayonets." (Remember I told you lery for counterattack—Williams." gested that the division be pulled back this general was "all infantry.") As it turned out this was a lucky mes- so that the 11th could take over in and He continued, "You will push the at- sage, for a little before sundown fresh around Cunel. The 6th could then ex- tack until the woods are yours. Thirty enemy troops began coming out of the tend to the right and cover the hill where minutes after the jump-off a rolling bar- quarry and forming for attack. 1 guess in the 1 1th was then. It was hoped that the rage will start in the center of the woods; a way this was the worst of all because 1 1th would take the woods and if it did by then you will have overrun their main we were exhausted and the ammunition it would be a great thing for the 5th Di- defenses and will push behind the bar- was low. vision. rage to the north edge of the woods, However, as soon as we saw what was Anyway, that night we got off the hill where you will dig in and hold. You will coming, I started a boy who could really and moved into and around Cunel, now return to your commands in order run, with message No. 2, and he made which had been a village of maybe 30 to make necessary preparations." The it. The artillery— lots of it— landed on tar- or 40 houses. Now there wasn't even a general was pretty damn smart; he get as if it had eyes. I've had a feeling for piece of a roof left and only a few walls didn't say another word. artillery ever since. as high as your head. We moved into this We stopped on the way back to Cunel Soon it was dark and we got our "am- rubble and into shellholes on either side to square the thing away among our- mo" and stretchermen to hunt for the of the town, with a front of about half a selves. Around 1500 or so, all the regi- wounded in spite of the fact the enemy mile. Half a mile was the width of this mental officers left for duty, or whatever was now shelling the woods. We never bad woods, the Bois de Rappes. An aw- you want to call it. saw our good runner again. He must ful lot of Americans had gone into that Then 1 put in an oar. "Look— the gen- have taken a direct hit on the way back. woods, a lot more than ever came out. eral got this thing out of his Civil War I can't remember his name and this both- Right around Cunel were hundreds of book. So when we try it his way, let's go ers me. 1 only know he was very young, dead soldiers; some were Germans but whole hog. When the rebels charged they had reddish hair and lived on a farm in most were Americans. Their shoulder used to yell to help in pushing the attack. Iowa. patches were from three divisions, the Those woods are pretty thick so yelling The next morning we were relieved by 3rd, the 80th and the 5th. Many had to right and left might keep us rolling." a regiment from the 90th Division, men been killed in the last few days and a lot John Harris, captain of "A" Company, mostly from Texas. A major named more as much as 2 weeks before. The jumped at the idea; in fact, everybody Terry Allen was in charge of their ad- place had been too hot for even shellhole agreed. (The regiment had two officers of vance party. I had met him on the Mexi- burials. All war is horrible, but even af- field rank, Muncaster and Birmingham, can border two years before. He was ter 40 years, when 1 think about Cunel, but both were pretty sick with dysentery. very complimentary about the 11th; also I find myself staring at the wall. Anyway, it didn't much matter; rank he inquired about an officer named Wil- The 11th attacked the woods behind wasn't going to mean a thing in this liams, who he said Gen. Malone told a rolling barrage. But the enemy had too show.) him could show him the terrain and the many machineguns, mortars and artil- Well, eleven a.m. arrived with a driz- situation. 1 guess my messages must have lery that had zeroed in, so the next day zling rain and plenty of fog — mighty pleased the general. the tactics were different: Diversionary lucky for us because we hit the woods About noon we got out and went into attacks masking infiltration in force almost before a shot was fired. Then we reserve positions. We even got cooked against both corners of the woods — but started to yell. The thing worked, food, underwear, and then replacements, still "no dice." That night we ended up bayonets and all. but don't ask me for because we now had a reputation, and down to around 50 percent. "The book" too many details. that meant there was lots more to come. says that a unit that has had 50 percent There is a verse, 1 think in the Bible, The day we took the woods was my 26th casualties has ceased to be effective and that describes battle as "confusion and birthday, but it didn't occur to me at the we were ready to agree with it. garments rolled in blood," and that's time. Then something happened that went about the way it was. We sent back a lot Four days later we relieved the 3d Di- contrary to the book. The company com- of prisoners, maybe as many as there vision and after that the brigade forced a manders, (and two turned out to be ser- were of us. This forest was thick, it had crossing of the Meuse River. This was geants) , were called back to brigade P.C. been heavily shelled many times and the primarily a 6th Infantry show and not to receive orders. Of course, we told fighting was face to face. too much a part of my personal story. ourselves, they would be orders for re- We killed many of the enemy but lost But once across and on a broad front, lief. But they were not. This is what the a lot ol good men doing it. There was no driving east instead of north, things got general read to us: "By direction of the count or report so 1 can't give you any pretty ugly. We were now many miles corps commander, the 10th Infantry numbers. But the War Department rec- behind the enemy's established line east Brigade will not be relieved until the ords read that the 11th Infantry, plus of the Meuse, and were advancing over woods called Bois de Rappes has been two attached machinegun companies, steep and heavily wooded hills that were taken and its defense consolidated." during the week of Oct. 14 to Oct. 21 defended by scattered units of machine- The general waited for this to sink in. lost, in killed and wounded, 58 officers gunners firing from well-concealed Then he said, "I have prepared a plan and 1,262 enlisted men. nests, mostly of single squads fighting to to accomplish the objective by action of We took about 3 hours to get to the the death. We circled these nests and 42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 closed by tree to tree rushes, wiping the other side of a little river called the WANTED, SENIOR CITIZENS them out with grenades. Other than the Loison, and we stayed put waiting for wounded there were no prisoners. The the units on both flanks to catch up. A $1000 life insurance policy can courage, tenacity, devotion, call it what However, by evening our colonel got be yours to help take care of final you will, of these German machinegun- what he wanted — permission to go — so expenses without burdening your ners beggars description. In 2 days we with a clear night and a full moon, we set family, if you are under 80. No advanced about 5 miles through these sail again. obligation. No One Will Call. For hills, mostly against units that were iden- There were three little towns on this FREE details write Crown Life, tified as Wurtemburg Mountains Ma- Loison. One, called Jametz, was outside 203 North Wabash Ave, Chicago 1, chinegun Battalions. of our sector. But this Col. Peck was a Illinois. Dept. 289 About dusk on Nov. 7 we reached the "fire-eater" and he spread his regmient: front edge of a big woods called the Bois Three battalions, three towns. My bat- ITCHING Torture Corrol and the next morning a new talion was assigned to hit Jametz on the colonel named Peck caught up with the far side of this so-called river. The river Like Magic battalion. He said that because of the was about 200 feet wide and around 4 Stopped Here's blessed relief from torture .anil misery of speed of the advance he doubted if the feet deep. The record books say we rectal itch, ch.ifing, rash and eczema with a new amazing scientific formula called LANACANE. This enemy was in the Bois Corrol, but he swam across but I didn't see anybody fast-acung, stainless medicated crcme kiljs harmful wanted an officer with a patrol to check swim in icy water 4 feet deep on a night bacteria germs while it soothes raw, irritated and inflamed skin tissue. Stops scratching and so speeds the woods. 1 volunteered. when the ground froze. healing. Don't suffer I Get LANACANE at druggists I I took a squad of eight men from "B" We went on through the town. The Company and separated it into three enemy had left only a few machineguns BE Hoo rnaxatm patrols widely spread to cover a fairly to check us and had pulled back his BORROW BY MAIL large area as well as to avoid being a forces to a big woods behind this town. ^g^l Here's extra cash! Buy what you want. Pay k $100 concentrated target. 1 took the center The French civilians in Jametz were off old bills. Get confidential Loan-by-Mail. ^ to $600. No co-signers. Take 24 months to repay. and dropped one of the two with men me overjoyed at our coming, since the town Loan Order Blank mailed FREE in plain envelope. back for a getaway messenger, which he had been occupied by the enemy for over State amount needed. No obligation. Write TOflAY. DlALFinanceCa.,410KilpatrickBldg.Dept.C-92,Otnaha2,Neb. turned out to be. When he reported back 4 years. it was to say that the patrol was wiped We pulled up along a road facing the Improved EZO Helps Relieve Pain out. The rifleman with me and I went big woods about 300 yards away. Just ahead faster than the flank patrols and after light the Germans began shelling of Pressure and Slipping of we passed through a gap in the enemy the road with howitzers. We could hear TEETH line, but both the other groups ran those shells on their way and then they FALSE Chew in comfort wifh NEW, SOFTER squarely into concealed nests. They were seemed to drop straight down. The road never heard from again for when the had a steep bank but it was no protection. EZO DENTAL CUSHIONS battalion advanced, it bypassed Bois In no time my company had 1 1 killed Corrol. and as many wounded. To stay there was Grips Dentures Firmer, Quicker! When firing broke out on the right impossible. 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Then I breathed Now you can more every hour you run this fascinatintf home busi- pretty far into the German rear where, and the pain in my chest brought back ness. Hundreds have found independence in sideline work. So Easy — so much Fun! "Eternalize" bahy hill, from a I could see a supply dump reality — not heavenly in the least. shoes, other keepsakes. BiK market everywhere. No to- Write for facts F'REE, plus fi- with enemy troops unloading from After the shelling stopped we eased face- face selhnfr. nancin)? plan. No obligation. No salesman will call. trucks. Then I started back toward our back to the road bank and in the dark- WARNER ELECTRIC, 1512 Jorvis, Dept. M-8-C, Chicago U, III. lines using cover all the way and just ness got our wounded out. The next Free Book on Arthritis before dark ran into a picket of the morning was Nov. 11, 1918. An order 128th Infantry far to the right of our transmitted from way up. Army or Corps And Rheumatism HOW TO AVOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES brigade sector. By morning I was back or some such place, came. It was a little Explains why drugs and medicines give only temporary with the battalion, much to the surprise stiff even for Col. Peck. It read, "There relief and fall to remove the causes; tells all about a specialized non-siirKlcal. non-medkal treatment which of all, including the new colonel. is the probability of an armistice at II has proven fiuccessful since 1919. Write for this 3G-i>age FRKK HOOK today. No .iKcnt will call. That night the Germans drew back to a.m. this date. However, until fully con- Ball Clinic, Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs, Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 • 43 a firmed, all units will press the attack." "exploratory patrol." However, when the Germans came out of the woods and There was something ominous about covering fire started on the woods a Ger- built fires and slapped each other on the the woods ahead. Bursts of machinegun man ran out waving a white rag on a back. There were lots more of them in fire came from every part of its entire pole. The firing stopped. He came march- that woods than there were of us. width, putting our colonel in a fix. An ing across the cabbage field and we went Then we too stood up straight, and order had to be obeyed, but on the whole to meet him. He spoke good English and walked around in broad daylight right he did quite well. He told us to advance good for us that he did: "Are you Amer- out in the open. It was a funny feeling, exploratory patrols and he would have icans a bunch of damn fools! There is an one you had to get used to. But for some covering fire directed against the woods. armistice at 1 1 o'clock. The war is over." reason we did not do any celebrating or When he left I had one more good idea: We took him to the colonel. He was a even say very much. Maybe there were I would take one man and crawl out captain who once lived in New York. just too few of us to do anything but take among the cabbages. This would be an When he went back to his lines all the it easy. the end IT TAKES POWER TO PREVENT WAR ( Contimieil from pti^e It) destroy by launching a surprise attack. keep their missile bases hidden. In our They believe time is on their side; they Let us, however, be sure that we un- free society, the location of any such can afford to wait, to avoid big risks. In derstand what we are talking about when massive installations cannot be a secret. their book, any other attitude is "danger- we use that word "deterrence." We are But we can deploy our missiles and air- ous adventurism." the more so, because not talking about knocking out the Sov- craft at sea on a large scale, and move serious injury in a nuclear war with the iet missile capability. We are talking them about on unpredictable courses United States would diminish the Soviet about the Soviet industrial build-up over a wide area, because of our un- power position within the communist or- which is the source of their national rivalled access to the oceans of the world, bit— i.e., in relation to Red China. strength, and which cannot be protected which geography denies the Soviets. As this condition becomes more wide- against destruction by our sea-based mis- There is a lesson in this situation ly understood—which it will as our sea- siles and only partially protected against which we should read and observe: it based striking power grows in force and attack by either sea-based or land-based does neither side much good to imitate is more and more widely discussed—the aircraft. This is the hostage which the the other side's weapons. Soviets will not be able to get much ad- Soviet Union has given to fortune in The Soviets built long-range ballistic vantage even from the threat of nuclear order to possess modern armament. The missiles because they had no other reli- attack against the West. Such threats will industrial progress of the postwar years able way of threatening us with nuclear lose credibility once it is generally real- gives Russia its sole claim to be a mod- attack at all. If they built missile-firing ized that execution of the threat would ern nation, its sole superiority in the com- submarines instead, on any extensive entail consequences which the Soviet munist world over the triply superior scale, they would simply be playing our leadership will not accept. manpower of Red China. game — they would be trying to operate But nuclear stability under these con- It is because of the vulnerability of sea-based weapons which would have to ditions is a two-way street. If the Soviets their industrial production to nuclear at- penetrate waters commanded by far su- are visibly deterred from surprise attack tack that the Kremlin today talks of perior sea and sea-air forces in order to against our home base by the certainty peaceful coexistence and shows anxiety reach any significant targets. of retaliation, we are likewise visibly de- over the tougher attitude of the Red Chi- We build sea-based striking power be- terred, for the same reason, from using nese, who have comparatively little in cause we can count on moving it where nuclear weapons against them in reply the way of massive industrial targets and we can use it, and because the enemy to iionniiclear aggression against our- can afford to sufter manpower losses on has no effective answer to it. If we go too selves or our allies. The threat of doing a far higher scale. far in building fixed-base missiles, which so— the concept of "massive retaliation at We must keep this in mind, because are vulnerable to Soviet missile attack, times and places of our own choosing"— we can no more hope to knock out the we are playing the Soviet game—we are therefore lacks credibility. This has in- actual striking power of the .Soviets than tying ourselves down to a hair-trigger deed been so in the past: even when we they can hope to knock out ours. If our confrontation on 1 5 minutes' warning had a luoiiopoly of nuclear weapons, that nuclear striking force is becoming rela- time. This is precisely designed for the fact did not restrain the communist as- tively invulnerable to sudden missile at- Soviet war of nerves and would limit our sault on Korea. Today, when we, like the tack by reason of its mobility (at sea or political and psychological freedom of Soviets, cannot escape retaliation in kind in the air), the Soviet nuclear striking action by the public's awareness that if a against our home territory if we initiate force is likewise invulnerable to sudden .Soviet surprise attack did come, it would nuclear war, no one is going to believe attack because in that closed, police-state be directed against targets planted in the that we will do so to reply to nonnuclear society the location of most of their mis- bosom of our homeland. communist ventures. The latter there- sile sites can be kept secret. The basis of A condition of nuclear stability, based fore entails— from the red viewpoint— invulnerability is actually the same in on the mutual possession of relatively in- wholly different order of risk. each case— the other side doesn't know vulnerable nuclear striking forces, seems Nuclear stability— the condition of where the targets are. to rule out the possibility of the Soviets affairs which seems likely to prevail for Thus we are moving toward a condi- launching a sudden nuclear attack on the next several years— makes nuclear tion of what may be called "nuclear sta- the United States. The primary military aggression by the Soviets far less likely, bility," or mutual deterrence, in which objective of the Soviet leadership is the indeed, almost unthinkable. But— unless neither side can rationally contemplate defense of the Soviet home base, and we arc to suppose that the steady un- a nuclear attack against the other be- their control of it. They are supremely swerving pressure toward communist cause of the certainty of retaliation in confident in the ultimate victory of com- world domination (under Soviet leader- kind by nuclear striking power which tnunism; they will not imperil that vic- ship) is to be abandoned, of which there cannot be knocked out. Each side has tory by risking the vast industrial com- is small prospect— nuclear stability makes this advantage of invulnerable striking plex which is the source of Soviet power. limited, nonnuclear communist aggres- power because it can do something the Everything we know about them, all our sions far more likely. other side cannot do. The Soviets can experience with them, confirms this view. Such aggression must for the next few 44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 years be deterred, or defeated il it oc- forces, ilicic is such ut Selling Your Invention." 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We can think of this more i Address. stability and mutual deterrence; Given readily if we are also laying future plans City the invulnerability of nuclear striking for keeping our invulnerable nuclear de- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 45 terrent at the required level—not only by situation on the continent of North power, or for the rapid movement to cri- producing more and longer-range Polaris America, fronting on the world's two tical points of nonnuclear forces, and missiles at sea, but by pushing on the major oceans, and with a farflung sys- that we can substantially deny a like development of a nuclear-powered air- tem of overseas allies and operating freedom of action to our land-bound op- craft that can stay indefinitely airborne, bases. We have very great technical ad- ponents, the real measure of our military and of the B-7() Mach-3 bomber plane vantages also, both in the development superiority appears limited only by our which may be the steppingstone to space of weapons for sea and long-range air willingness to develop these advantages flight and to a fast-reacting transport warfare and in experience in distant by producing the necessary ships, air- plane for ground troops as well. operations; the Russians have yet in their craft, weapons and trained manpower If we face these problems realistically, history to undertake a major overseas suitable for the purpose. there is no reason why we should not aim campaign. It is interesting indeed to this writer at doubling our capabilities for nonnu- They have no aircraft carriers, which to observe that of the 17 resolutions re- clear war, starting in 1962. Such a pro- are the basic weapons systems for sea lating directly to weapons and armament gram would call for marked increases in control and oceanic warfare. The only passed by the last National Convention the manpower strength and modernized existing Soviet counter to the expansion of The American Legion, 14 were con- armament of the Army and Marine of U.S. power on, under and over the cerned with the build-up of mobile sea Corps, and in naval and air forces (in- surface of the world's oceans is their and air forces or of ground forces cluding airlift and sealift) suitable for fleet of conventionally-powered subma- adapted to a strategy such as the one the direct support of nonnuclear over- rines, and in the face of our rising anti- described in this article, while only one seas operations. While we hardly need to submarine capability and our growing such resolution favored further devel- create ground and tactical air forces on fleet of nuclear-powered submarines opment of fixed-based missiles. This in the same scale as those of the communist (which include both Polaris carriers and itself suggests the enormous latent appeal powers, we can acquire a capability of submarine killers) the Soviet diesel- which a national strategy based on the swift and effective reaction within rea- electric submarine force is an asset of principle of worldwide freedom of action sonable time limits which can deny the diminishing value. They are working like has for the restless energy and activity so reds any prospect of successful aggres- beavers to develop nuclear-powered sub- deeply ingrained in the American na- sion at any given point on their peri- marines of their own. but we have a long tional character. It is in direct and pheries, and particularly any prospect of head start in this complicated business marked contrast to the policy of entomb- success in attempting to reach out to and their geographical disadvantage re- ing our freedom of action in concrete areas such as Africa or Latin America mains. mausoleums embedded in our homeland which are noncontiguous to the commu- The very fact that sea-based weapons soil. nist bloc and require the use of sea or are coming more and more to be our Such a policy, in its full flowering, will long-range air transport. main reliance for the deterrence of nu- present to the world both a visible reality Also, unlike nuclear aggression, there clear assault on our homeland requires of American power and a popular image is a favorable time factor in such opera- us to widen the dimensions of our of that reality which will engender con- tions which permits — if required — the oceanic activities. Tied closely to this is fidence among our friends abroad and mobilization and use of reserve and Na- the fact that the approaching condition our people at home, and which no tional Guard forces and of the produc- of nuclear stability will not deter the reds amount of hostile propaganda can dis- tion potential of American industry. from lesser aggressions, which we can tort. It will fulfill the wise military advice What all this comes to in the end is a only counter if we are free to move non- of our first President, George Washing- national military policy based on the nuclear forces rapidly and effectively on ton, when he urged that America be so principle of freedom of action, making and over the seas. When it is considered armed "as to appear truly respectable in maximum use of the wide open spaces that we can use the 70 percent of the the Eyes of our Friends and formidable of the sea and of overseas air routes. earth's surface which is covered by salt to those who might otherwise become our Here we possess already the enormous water as an operating and deployment enemies." advantage of a favorable geographical area for weapons systems of maximum THE END "1 GOT MY JOB THROUGH THE NEW YORK TIMES" (Contimieil from /«ig<' 19) State Department. Even as early as the thews. Matthews told Smith that Batista Abundant evidence was available that summer of 1951, when Smith took over was in all probability through. Castro, he had made "Marxist statements" in the ambassadorship from Arthur Gard- he said, was the man to back. Costa Rica, in Mexico, and in Bogota; ner, the influence of Matthews was Smith went to Havana determined to and that, dating back to his college days, established — only a few months after the do what he could, within the limits of he had been a revolutionist and a terror- Castro interview in his hideout. Am- propriety, to ease Batista out of the way. ist. Smith had even heard — and had bassador Gardner had met with stony Batista pledged to hold elections in No- passed the report along — that while in resistance every time he attempted to vember 1958 and turn the presidency Bogota, Castro had had a hand in the pass on to his superiors the information over to his successor in March 1959. assassination of two nuns and a priest. he had about the nature of the Castro The question in Smith's mind was But even if Castro wasn't then pro- movement, which he was convinced — whether he would last that long. Within communist. Smith said, his closest asso- correctly, it proved — was shot through two months after arriving in Cuba, Mr. ciates were, and this was positively docu- with Marxism. Gardner made himself Smith sincerely hoped he would: for he mented with respect to his brother Raiil such a nuisance that he was replaced: became convinced, he told the Senate (now head of Cuba's armed forces) and and his successor was instructed by Mr. committee, that the principal danger to Ernesto "Che" Guevara (boss of the William Wieland of the State Depart- the United States lay not in the survival Cuban economy). ment, in charge of the Caribbean desk, of Batista for a year or so. but in the But the Ambassador's warnings were to cap his month's briefing on the Cuba rise to power of Fidel Castro who was al- to no avail. During the succeeding 18 situation by consulting Herbert L. Mat- most certainly a revolutionary Marxist. months, Herbert Matthews continued to 4g • THF. AMI RICAN LEGION MAGAZINF. • MARCH 1961 — — write glowing accounls ol ilic Kobiii blackmail, the U.S. Government then re- NO MONEY DOWN! Hood oi" the Sierra Maestra, predicting fused to deliver the airplanes even after the downfall of Batista and the ascend- Castro had been prevailed on to turn the HOME. ancy of the 26th of July Movement. soldiers free. Batista's forces were be- SITES Others got into the act. The influential coming seriously demoralized by the $395 hills, Foreign Policy Association's Bulletin growing aloofness of the U.S. Govern- Lovely '/* acre sites in Central Florida lake, grove area $395, no money down, for Apr. 1, 1957, carried an article by ment, even while Castro was getting, the $10 a month • Suburb of Ocala, high and dry • Roads, utilities • 22 miles to Gulf Matthews on Cuba, followed by a list ex-Ambassador went on to say, illicitly Coast • Fish, hunt Invest or retire. of '"Reading Suggestions" prepared by exported shipments of arms "almost FREE color folder » Write Dept. (>03-l- ihe editors. Among them: "The best every night" from friends of Castro in Rainbow Park, Box 521, Ocala, Fla. source of contemporary inloiniation of the United States. By November it was a general nature is probably the files of clear that Batista's days were numbered. LOOK ilie New York 1 iiiies, which published On the 17th of December, Ambassador three uncensored articles on Cuba by Smith received orders from the State for Rupture Help Herbert Matthews i>n Feb. 24, 25, 26, Department to advise Batista that he Try a Brooka Patented Air 1957." The Stale Department went could no longer hold power, not even Cushion appliance. Ttiis mar- velous invention for mcst formg along. "Herbert is Matihews ... the pending the institution of the new Presi- of reducible rupture is GtJAIl- leading Latin American editorial writer dent a few months later — whom the ANTEED to bring YOU heav- enly comfort and security for The New York Times. Obviously." United Stales would not back in any day and night— at work and at play—or it costs you NOTH- said Ambassador Smith, "the State De- case, since he had been fraudulently ING! Thousands liappy. Light, partment would like to have the sup- elected, and didn't have the support of neat-fitting. No hard pada or springs. For men, women, and port of The New ) Ork Times." the Cuban people. Two weeks later, children. Durable, cheap. Sen! on Iriol to prove it. Not sold in stores. Beware of imitations. Write for Obviously indeed. Batista fL^d. Free Book on Kupture, no-risk trial order plan, and Proof of liesults. Keadv for you NOW! "Each month the siluaiioii ileierio- The next morning, on the first day of BROOKS APPLIANCE CO., 102-H State St., Marshall, Mich. rates." Matthews exulted on .lune 16, the New Year 1959, Mr. Roy Rubottom, 1957, a theme he in elaborated further Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; dispatches in the succeeding months. American AlYairs, announced that there IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS r i'uinp iKis I.OOI us«'s. Sliili Looking back at these reports one can was "no evidence" thai "Castro is un- Won't rust or cIok'I Use 1/" or or larcer. . . 3/i 111" for ud to 2 only say how right Mr. I: 150 GPH 80' hlKh; or l.«OU CI'll Matthews I was. der Communist influence." Clearly he i> 25' well. 1" Inlet; 34" oi It el. pUiu' Included free $ 7.95 Batista was losing, and Castro was gain- had paid no attention to his own Am- Duty Bali-Bearing Pump, ill'll: l'.," inlet: 1" outlet. tl Id If cash with order. Money ing. But Reporter Matthews neglected bassador to Cuba. As clearly, he read itee. Also other sizes, types. to give all the reasons why, just as he Tlie New York Times. ^^LABAWCO PUMPS, Belle Mead 56. N. consistently neglected to report on the r lurid background of Fidel Castro and During the campaign, both Mr. Ken- CANAh PUT YOU IN A some of his associates. The increasing nedy and Mr. Nixon expended a con- FINEFIN BUSINESS! . helplessness of Batista was the result siderable amount of rhetoric on the sub- Rush Card TODAY for FREE OUTFIT Get into hiiihly profitable. repuat-order ^ilm. 1, primarily of the crystallization of U.S. ject of Cuba. For they knew the birth, ness! Se!! new iineof Air-Cushion comfort tofriends, neighbors, folks at work! Over support for Castro. During those months right against the peninsula, dress, sport, work, safety shoe styles for^ up Florida men, women. Never sold by stores. Just 2 easy a orders a day— in spare time— bring you $217cxtra fascinating dialectic went on. iinrl Matthews of what is now officially classified by the income a month I NoinveKtment. Rush nam^- address TODAY for FREE SELLING OUTt-IT would write that American prestige was Government (under the terms of the MASON SHOE, Dept. G-472, Chippewa Falls, Wis, sinking in Cuba - on account of the aid Dirksen-Douglas Amendment to the the United States Government was giv- Mutual Security Act) as "Communist" OLD LEG TROUBLE ing to Applications Batista. Our Ambassador in territory, is a development that has deep- Easy to use Viscose may heal many old leg sores due Havana meanwhile complained and ly disturbed the American people. They to venous congestion of varicose complained to the State Department of want to know who, or what, was the veins, leg swelling or injuries. the demoralization of the Batista govern- Frankenstein who created the monster. Send today for a FREE BOOK and NO - COST - FOR - TRIAL - plan. ment—on account of our failure to pro- blasted Mr. Kennedy Mr. Nixon on L. E. VISCOSE COMPANY vide Batista with the aid to which, under the grounds that Castro and Castroism North De.Trborn Street. Chic.i;;o 2. Illinois the terms of a series of mutual aid agree- had come about as a reaction against TO ^S^"*" AN HOUR AT HOME ments, we were bound by law MAKEVr and prece- America's tolerance of rightwing dic- Let Me Prove It To You FREE! dent to give him so long as we continued tators — a familiar line, advanced by I'll show you how Plastic Sealim; and to recognize Laminating at home, .spare time, can his government. those who sincerely feel it is an Ameri- g'ive you as much as .$5.00 each hour you rs Matthews" operate. Table-top machine sets up any where. forces proved much strong- can obligation to purify Latin American Easy. Fun. Noexperiencenceded. Wefurnisli er than our Ambassador's. everythinjr. We' tl ei'en help Jinanre n ment, urging it or money to desert Batista. At first of Mr. Eisenhower, "one of these being ITCH back the Department stalled. When Castro Cuba." Very first use of soothing, cooling Hquid D.D.D. Prescription positively reheves raw red itch kidnapped 47 American servicemen in Mr. Nixon, on the other hand, pointed caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- Tune 1958, the Government eagerly proudly to the disappearance of a half ing— other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. 45^ trial bottle must satisfy or money back. seized on the opportunity to hold up the dozen military dictators during the Ask your druggist for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. shipment of 15 training planes that Ba- Eisenhower years. He seemed to be sug- tista was lawfully importing. "In accord- gesting that although the President con- ance with instructions from the Slate tinued olficiaily to beam at every leader Department," Smith — testified, "I in- of every nation we formally recognize YOU can turn your spare hours into sh ($25 to $100 a week)! Ask {or Free Subscription formed Batista that delivery would be as protocol dictated — actually, he sat on to Opportunity Magazine, nationwide ^ide to extra suspended, because we feared some a pair of great bellows, on which he cash for millions of men and women. Contains hints, plans, hundreds of offers. No matter what your aite. harm might come to the kidnapped bobbed up and down, when nobody was experience, or occupation— write TODAY for next 5 , issues FKKE. Send no money—just your name. Americans." Having in effect yielded to looking, thus toppling, one by one, Latin OPPORTUNITY, 850 K. Dearborn, Dept. 305 Chicago 10, IIU THE AAtERICAN LtGlON MAGA/.l.NIi • MARCH 1961 47 American badmen. Beyond that, Mr. ain slowly struggles toward economic last April, "I have never seen a big story Nixon did not go. He did not express a order, sanity and strength," he wrote in so misunderstood, so badly handled, and detailed curiosity about the loss of Cuba 1946, "the British experiment will be an so misrepresented as the Cuban Revolu- to Fidel Castro. Indeed, both candidates example [for the U.S.] to follow." tion." Those words are, as a matter of gave the impression that, like the State The payoff came when on July 15, fact, exactly true: and the fault was The Department, obviously they wanted to 1959, Herbert Matthews wrote a front- New York Times'. stay on the right side of The New York page dispatch from Havana insisting that The Senate subcommittee may want Times. But the candidates whetted the Castro was neither a communist, nor to know more about Matthews, and may public interest, and it is likely that the "under Communist influence," nor even want especially to know whether the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a dupe of communism. Moreover, he Senate is to expect to have the honor of will pursue its investigation into the added, there are "no Communists in po- ratifying his appointment as Consultant strange hold of Herbert Matthews, and sitions of control." Indeed, Castro con- Extraordinary to the State Department. the Matthews doctrine, on the men who tinues to be "decidedly anti-Communist." Certainly it will want to examine the make our foreign policy. That dispatch was so brazen a con- major premises of Matthews' position on tradiction of events that the Times re- Cuba. For it is a position that extends What will they learn about Mr. Mat- beyond the question of Castro, and one thews himself? That he is a scholarly, that is shared by many Americans, some subtle man who makes and continues to of whom are influential with the new make supercolossal mistakes in judg- President. That position holds, in effect, ment, but whose loyalty to his misjudg- that the United States should interfere, ments renders him a stubborn propa- adroitly to be sure, in the internal affairs for gandist . . . and an easy mark of nondemocratic Latin American na- ideologues on-the-make. So well-known tions. Matthews urged exactly that in the is he as doyen of Utopian activists that summer of 1958, by proposing that the when in June of 1959 a Nicaraguan rebel United States arbitrate the differences launched a revolt, he wired the news of between Batista and Castro. To have it direct to Herbert Matthews at The done such a thing would have been a New York Times— much as, a few years clear reversal of United States policy — ago, a debutante on-the-make might have though we might rather have done that wired news of her engagement to Walter than what we did, namely, pull the rug Winchell. out from under Batista, and turn the Matthews was once, to use his own entire country over to Castro. phrase, an "enthusiastic admirer of Fas- Another article in the Matthews po- cism." He turned away from fascism sition is that democracy and only democ- while in Spain covering the civil war, racy distinguishes the good society. where he took up the cause of the Pop- Granted, he is perfectly satisfied with ular Front with the same ferocious parti- the kind of "democracy" that is prac- sanship that earlier he had shown for tised in Mexico, where everyone votes, Mussolini's Italy, and later was to show and one party always wins; but it bears for Castro's Cuba. The Spanish passion discussion whether "democracy" is the is not yet expended. Mr. Matthews wrote foreign policy "My biggest trouble is—once I get to eating first objective of American a book in 1957, recommitting himself to them, I can't stop." in Latin America, or whether it is sub- THE AMERICAN LKGION MAGAZINIC the Good Guys-Bad Guys reading of a sidiary to other concerns, including our war fought by democrats and commu- own national interest, and, for the Latin nists against traditionalists and fascists. luctantly pulled him away from Cuba, Americans, internal stability, economic Always he writes with considerable as one might pull a man away from mari- viability and nonpolitical freedoms. sweep, and he likes to prophesy. His two juana. Since then, he has not had one (Probably the highest per capita inci- most striking predictions of 1944 are by-lined story on Cuba. dence of violent deaths in any country surely that the "Franco regime is totter- That is almost two years ago. During this side of the Soviet Union has been ing" and that the disbanding of Russia's that period he has continued to affirm in chaotic Colombia, a "democracy.") Comintern the year before was "the final his belief in the purity of the 26th of A third question is whether the United indication that the Russia of 1943 and July Movement: but mostly in the arcane States can continue, in all good con- 1944 does not care to support revolu- journals of the specialists (e.g., the His- science, to encourage Americans to in- tionary movements to bring about com- panic American Report), and in lectures vest in Latin America. Our investments munist states in other countries." before important audiences. The fault, are over $7 billion — making American Certainly he has not proved over the he says, is ours, for antagonizing Castro, capital the largest single job creator in years an astute judge of how to deal with and "forcing him" to take his present Latin America. But the Matthews posi- Russia: "All they [the Russians] want hard line. One might as well argue that tion on foreign investment consists, as is security," he wrote in Collier's in the Jews, by protesting the confiscation far as one can make out, in encouraging 1945. "By refusing to share the secret of their property and the insults heaped American investment in general, and of the atomic bomb we are fostering Rus- upon them, forced Hitler into genocide. those governments that will seize, na- sian suspicions. . . . One can understand And in any case, Mr. Matthews' analysis tionalize or tax to death that investment how they feel about our recognition of never accounts for the compulsiveness in particular. He has not, at least in any Franco, our seizure of Pacific bases, our with which Cuba turned to communism, of his conspicuous writings, deplored exclusive policy in Japan, our Red-bait- beginning almost immediately after Cas- Cuba's blithe confiscation of $800 mil- ing press and our America-firsters. We tro took power. lion of American property. Symbolically, have set up a vicious circle of mutual Now and then Mr. Matthews invites the new U.S. Administration must an- distrust and fear." And certainly he is attention to the fact that every one else, swer the question whether the more of- not an enthusiast for the free enterprise save himself, is out of step. "In my thirty fensive Fidel Castro is to this country, system, preferring the militant social- years on The New York Times," he told the madder we are going to get at Gen- ism of ". postwar Britain: . . while Brit- the American Society of Newspapermen eral Trujillo. THE END 4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1961 few adult privileges? In most states, the legal voting age is 21. If w e're the ones w ho have to go off to fight in MINIATURE "Sound w artime, why can't we at least vote for the President w ho will send us to war? You say we're not mature enough to vote? Then w e're not mature enougii off!" to fight either. Most U.S. teenagers are glad to serve their countr>'— but I think that the older citizens could have a (Cont'imied from Imfic 4) little more respect for our generation if they're going to depend on us to soft on commu- place gone coniplereh win wars for them w hile they sit at LEMON nism. This could he ;in inheritetl trait, home listening to tiie latest casualt>' iuilginy h\ events starting w ith FDR's reports! recognition of Red Russia, his actions Name Witlihcid at rdicran, the recent visit of the Red Ft. li'ayve, hid. Butcher .Mr. K. to Eleanor's H\-dc Park home and now Mr. Jimm\-'s recent ANTI-CAREER MEN declaration in favor of further w cak- uess toward commiuiism. l"or m\' part Sir: Latelv' there has been much projia- TREES! \()ur magazine ma\ well omit any ganda to the effect that instead of future statements h> Rep. James sending ambassadors from our business Roosex elt. w orld with money to afford personal D. 15. McNaiiiee expenses of entertainment, wc should Hifi'iiiis, Tex. choose "career" personnel and increase their expense allowance to entertain at Sir: I heartily agree with the views other "diplomats" and free loaders expressed hy Hon. Gordon S. Schercr, cocktail parties. The latter are sup- M.C., in respect to HUAC as set forth posed to be better fitted by training in your January issue. I am definitely and experience to represent us. I dis- of the opinion that the life of this in- agree with this idea. Our past experi- vestigative committee should be con- ence with sucii "career" diplomats as tinued indefinitely and much more Alger Hiss, Harry l^exter White, Joiin money should be appropriated so that Stewart Service, and dozens of other its activities may be enlarged. On the characters with State Department or other hand, 1 am diametricalh' opposed similar training does not recommend to Hon. James Roosevelt's theories. them to me. The State Department has left- The FBI is not above reproach, but been the training school of many this agency has its hands full and wing "liberals," crackpots, eggiieads, should have the cooperation of ev ery and screwballs; and this without doubt department and branch of the go\ ern- would be the source from which our nient as well as all true Americans. "career" tli|ilomars woidd be selected. C. S. Henerey J. E. Woods Bavibcrr^, S. C. Clcirkston, lt'iT,v/.i. Grow Full -Size Fruit NOTE TO ELDERS THE REAL WINNERS Indoors -In Your Home Sir; I am a teenager, \\ ithin a few vears 1 will most likely enlist in a That's right! After years of botanical re- branch of the Armed Forces. I con- search, true miniature citrus trees have sider mv'sclf a fairly decent teenager: been developed—ones that will actually I get average or above grades, I have grow full-size fruit right in your own an after-sciiool job, Fve never been in home. And these are true trees, not just trouble w ith the law, and Fve never cuttings, but miniature trees with their done anything that I feel was terribly own root structure. Take 5 minutes to is for about 98 w rong. This the truth Sir: In the December issue, under tile transplant the baby tree you'll receive, percent of all teenagers. American title "The Nation's Best," show ing win- then watch it grow. It's a thrill to see it Therefore, there are millions of other ners of the Legion's big national con- bud, and before you know it, you'll be share this boys my age who same prob- tests, your magazine printed a picture eating fresh fruit! Trees bear 5 to 7 lem: Just because I am a teenager, I of Miami's Alotorc>cle Drill Team. pieces of fruit at a time, often twice am automatically classed as an irre- Somebody goofed. This is a picture of Adults yearly. They live indefinitely, can be sponsible juvenile delinquent. the Dade Countv' Sheriff's Drill Team, transplanted indoors or out, and their seem to think that all of America's and not .Miami's Drill Team, which glossy green foliage is easily shaped. young people are good for nothing. the National Championship Hon- won lemon bearing Tiiey're always harping on our im- 3 varieties: orange and is a picture of the drill ors. Enclosed with "juvenile" "reck- full-size fruit, and an orange tree maturitv' and our or team presenting the tro|)hy to Asst. half-size fruit. Sent directly from Florida. less" actions. 1 don't think that this is Chief J. A. Youell. "We w ish to take fair. All through the teens we hear iiiiiiiiiwiii!iimiiiiiiiiirt::raiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim^ this opportunitv' to thank the Legion TROPICAL NURSERIES this. But, when a lad turns 18, it sud- m g for the beautiful trophy and we hope ^ National Sales Office ^ denly becomes his "patriotic duty" to Dept. AL-3, 122 East 42nd St., N. Y. 17 to see evervonc again next \ear at g g Enclosed is ctieck or M.O. for sign up for the draft or else enlist in Denver. g $ ^ the armed services. \\c arc compelled - lemon Tree @ $2.95 g .Sgt. .S. G. Wyatt Orange Tree (Regular Fruit) (S) $2.95 M to do this by law, and it is the only Miami Volicc Dept. I m Orange Tree (Small Fruit) @ $2.95 B right thing for a "mature'' youth to do. MiiTini, Fla. 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