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POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, lEGION Indianapolis 6, Ind. Magazine The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., by The American Legion. Copy- Contents April 1962 right 1962 by The American Le- for gion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- tion, $1.50. Nonmember sub- SEAHLE'S LOOK AT THE FUTURE 11 scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The "Century 21," a great new World's Fair, American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. previews the years ahead. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Circulation P. THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST PATROL. . . .12 Notify Dept., O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind., BY ALLAN W. ECKERT using Post Office Form 3578. At- lacli old address label and give Five planes disappeared without trace old and new addre.>.ses and cur- At least two if only to do membership card number. on a peacetime rent justice to the Rule of Pipe fiight. Also be sure (o notify your Post Adjutant. Rotation—that is, change pipes at intervals so that THE BIG ISSUE-PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS continuous smoking The American Legion doesn't scorch the bowl Executive and ON THE QUESTION: 14 Administrative Offices and shank. Indianapolis 6. Indiana Should the U.S. Lower Its Trade Barriers? Charles L. Bacon, National But let's it, face a half Commander, The American Le- dozen pipes is a better and gion, Indianapolis 6, Ind. more realistic number. (Of BIGOTRY ABROAD 16 course, the more the The American Legion Publica- merrier!) BY ROBERT RIENOW tions Commission: Intolerance is international in scope, Edward McSweeney, Armonk, How often should you switch pipes? N. Y. (Chairman): Dan W. Every 4-6 pipefuls, depending not just a Western jailing. Emmett, Palo Alto, Calif., Frank on the heat of the pipe and C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y., and Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss. the taste you're getting. HOLLYWOOD'S SHOOTING STAR 18 (Vice Chairmen); Lang Arm- strong, Spokane, Wash.; Charles cJ^(M, a,^MoC UH^, CL pifi^. BY BOB WILLETT E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.: John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; Redwing is a marksman who just can't miss. Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge, La.; E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, MELVILLE Fla.; Clovis Copcland, Little Rock, Ark.: Paul B. Dague, STUDYING COMMUNISM IN LOUISIANA SCHOOLS. 20 Downinglown, Pa.: Raymond BY SHELBY JACKSON Fields, Guyntoii, Okla.: Dave H. THE PIPE TOBACCO Fleischer. St. Louis, Mo.; Her- An adventure in public education. schiel L. Hunt, El Campo, Tex.; THAT STAYS LIT George D. Levy. Sumter, S. C: Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa: Lewis E. McCray. Tusca- Bond Street Pipe Tobacco SHOPPING FOR MONEY 22 loosa, Ala.: Earl L. Meyer, Al- keeps burning because of liance, Neb.: Robert Mitchler, BY MARK WEST Oswego, III.: Harold A. Shind- its old English cut—a com- ler, Lafayette. Ind.: William F. bination of flakes for even- How to get the best deal when you need credit. Taylor, Greensburg, Ky.: Benja- burning and cubes for min B. Tniskoski, Bristol, Conn. slower-burning. You'll like THEY DROVE ME OUT OF MY JOB 24 its aroma of fine imported The American Legion Magazine and domestic tobaccos, too. BY ROBERT SCOTT Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue Pity the poor professor of applied automobile driving. New York 19, New York Publisher, James F. O'Neil uAmMi^ gX) ufi in^ Auco^ NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 27 Editor Joseph C. Keeley Managing Editor Robert B. Pitkin Departments Art Editor Al Marshall EDITOR'S CORNER 4 Associate Editor John Andreola Editorial Assistant PERSONAL 6 Eli L. Kerins Circulation Manager B. YOU SAID IT! 8 Dean Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. Advertising Director ROD & GUN CLUB 26 Robert P. Redden Midwestern Adv. Mgr. NEWSLEHER 27 Norman C. Schoen Midwestern Advertising Sales Office BRIEFLY ABOUT BOOKS 41 35 East Wackcr Drive Chicago 1, Illinois LEGION SO West Coast Adv. Rep. SHOPPER Blanchard-Nichols Assoc. 633 S. Westmoreland Ave. Los Angeles 5, Calif, BOND STREET PARTING SHOTS 56 and 900 Third St. A product of Philip Morris Inc. San Francisco 7, Calif, Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons snbniitted for consideration will not and be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included, 2208 White-Henry-Stuart Bldg.» This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Seattle I, Washington

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CAMPING TRAILERS Upon my discharge I returned to Cuba can mean little change in policy. You arc and started a business which prospered governed more and more by people for Vesely Manufacturing Company fairly well. Since I was a veteran, I natu- whom you have never voted, for whom Box 151, Lopeer, Michigan Dept. Al-4 rally joined Havana Post #1 of The you never will vote, whom you ha\e SOME DEALER TERRITORIES AVAILABLE American Legion. This entitled me to re- never seen, and whom you cannot recall

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THE FIRST . . FOR TIME Castro, his brother Raul, and Guevara . most oppressive type of tyranny." Congressman James B. Utt (R. Calif.) I The article was "Trouble Ahead in Latin THE PUSH-BUTTON IS IN THE ROD- America," by Harold Lord \^arncy, and it appeared in the December 1958 issue.] A RED IS A RED . . . There \\'as no reason not to take this warning its LATE GERTRUDE STEIN is probably THE ALL-NEW in full meaning, since the facts DHE were clearly written and only those who best remembered for her phrase: "A rose is a rose is a rose," a literary bonbon ^^^^^^^^^ wanted to be ob)ecti\e passed it over ^M^^^mi lightly. Certainly if the \vriter all the that has intrigued people for years. v^K^ ... Is the most had advanced rod 'reel facts our State Department also should In the light of a recent coiiversation

. comljination, yet so un- varia- f have had them, but of course it is useless with an expert on communism, a ^ usually simple anyone can use to elaborate on that point." tion on Miss Stein's theme might well be It. Nothing like it anywhere. No line pinching or in order: communist is a communist twisting. Level wind. Unitized drag control. All Wc thank Mr. Wax for his letter, and "A metal, heavy duty precision gearing. Reel finished w c are gratified that we were instru- is a communist. " This sums up w hat the in rich brown anodized aluminum. Perfect-balance mental in helping him decide to get out expert said and it points up a simple fact 2-piece 6'/?' Tubular Glass Rod. Comes with 100 of hell. that has not been grasped even yet by yds, 10 lb test monofilament. Available in left or Castro's At the same time we can- right hand crank. Combination complete sold not help but wonder what happened to politicians and diplomats who are sup- $32.95 anywhere several other Americans in Cuba who posed to be fighting communism. Briefly BRONSON REEL COMPANY wrote to us at the time we published this it is this: ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN J??. BRONSON " is no such thing as an Albanian Division 01 Hifibie M.)nu(3cturing Co, article. They pooh-poohed it and said we There Send lor Fiee Full Color Btonson Fishing Handbook were all wrong about Fidel. We hope Communist, a Chinese Communist, a they too got away in time. Cuban Communist, an American Com- munist or any other special kind. Once a person accepts communism he has no WORDS TO REMEMBER |f<«<'"HIGHSCHOOLh!^»' al.'egiance to anything except communism EUT IN THESE TIMES, in facing these per se, and he is bound to do w hate\ cr Vocational or College Prep. issues which deeply touch the lives the leaders of the conspiracy call on him No classes to attend. Easy spare-time citizen, in to do. give billions to training at home covers big choice of sub- and fortunes of every making When we Yugo- jects. Many complete high school in two these hard decisions which require over- slavia, Poland and other communist coun- years. Friendly instructors; standard tries texts. Full credit for previous schooling. whelming support, we as a nation cannot we arc not helping the Yugoslavs Diploma awarded. If you have left school —we dare not—exclude the people or ig- or the Poles; we are helping to strengthen and are 17 or over, write for free catalog 1 nore their opinions, whether right or the communist regimes in those countries. Accredited Member, National Home Study Council wrong. Instead, in the words of Thomas When we support any leader who is par- Wayne School of LaSalle Extension University Jefferson: 'If we think them not enlight- tial to the Kremlin, we are assuredly A Correspondence Institution 419 So. Dearborn, Dept. 04-562 Chicago S, III. ened enough to exercise their control building up a potential enemy.

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If it's any consolation, you get an extra day this time to settle up your income taxes with Uncle Sam (April 16 instead of the 15th, which falls on Sunday). Aside from this minor change in timetable, remember that: • You have a choice of only two tax forms this year, as against the three last year (form 1040 W has been dropped) • The remaining pair consists of 1040 A (the small, machine-type card) and the 1040 "long form." • You may use 1040 A only if your income is less than $10,000 and ORAffx consists of wages subject to withholding and not more than $200 of income holds dentures fast. ..all day! from interest, dividends, etc. When you use this form, you get a flat deduction of 10%. • If your income is $10,000 and up — or if your allowable expenses

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CHARACTER COUNTS SAW THE LIGHT the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron I flew the airplane that towed the glider SIR: Until recently I thought that com- in which he rode and which Colonel munism was just another political .\lison piloted. John Alison is a dear party and I couldn't figure out why friend of mine and we are both in the our leaders and their leaders couldn't Air Force Reserve and both still on get together and come to a "live and flying status. Although he lives in let live'' understanding. But now w hen Hawthorne, Calif., I saw him a couple I know there are more than a billion of nights ago in AVashington. people marching around this earth Lewis C. Burwell, Jr. who think I am politically diseased and Pinehiirst, N.C. that it is humane to put me out of my misery, and who want to raise my four youngsters to become Godless, mind- MEMORIES less machines, well, need I say more? Donna Sinnett, SIR: James Warner Bellah deserves Macksville, Kaiis. commendation for the excellent description of a memorable event in his NEW STATUE story "Wingatc's Broadway Com- mandos" in the January, 1962 issue. sir: If ever a new Statue of Liberty is Reading this story vividly brings back designed it will be holding the bag in- the memories t)f this glider invasion stead of the torch. from "wheels up" to "flaps down." My

I \<:k AAV.iner only objection is that certain units Bronx, N.Y. were not recognized. For instance, the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron .stationed CO-OPERATION at Sylhet, India, supplied planes and Brazilian leftist bandits? SIR: '\^'ith reason, Khrushchev seemed over to the crews that flew in this mission. How- impressed with the feat of our astro- Patriotic Americans should inundate ever, during the war, publicity often Congressmen and Senators with their naut, Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., and singled out one outfit when several continuing has suggested that the U.S. and the opinions of our country's fought side by side. The real spine submission international banditry USSR should now "co-operate" in to tingling hazard was the air supply of space travel. Translated into realism, and blackmail. these troops by night as they traversed Ellis Bowen this means that the Soviets are anxious J. the jungle. Those \\ ho flew low in the to find out everything possible about M^est Neivton, Mass. Stygian darkness dropping supplies to our highly instrumented missiles and a lighted "'L" pattern have a nightmare our elaborate tracking systems. (Pre- NEW FORMAT memory. .May I also commend your sumably they haven't been able to editorial staff. Our magazine is one of sir: Thank you for a splendid January steal this information yet through my fa^•orites. As a boy I always en- issue. The cover was better than ever their usual channels.) If we oblige joyed reading Dad's copy. Now I am and the articles w ere up to date, cover- them with this they can of course do [iroud of my membership in The ing extremely important subjects. You a more effective job with those big .\incrican Legion. ha\"e new fire in your magazine. Keep Russian-type hogsheads they bounce Raymond D. Potier, it up. into space, and can bury us all the Monroe, La. B. C. G. Davis, sooner. If past experience is any cri- Houston, Tex. terion, and despite the fact that the Russians refuse to divulge anything INDIAN JOHN siK: Bouquets of roses to your wonder- about their missiles, we will no doubt sir: After reading the enclosed material ful staff for the top-notch articles in play patsy again and tell them every- I am sure that TI?e American Legion the January issue concerning the com- thing—all in the name of peaceful co- Magazine will want to rectify the munistic threat to America. Speaking existence and international under- error of publishing the letter from in behalf of the First Christian Church standing. Already Adlai Stevenson is "communist fighter'' N. T. John, of here, I can only sa>- that \ our courage making noises indicating his desire to Kerala, India. Those of your readers and foresight are mucii admired. God "co-operate," but of course that fig- who may be sending materials to iMr. bless )"ou and your loyal staff. ures. John, in the mistaken belief that they \'ernon C. Roix;ers, .Minister WiLI.I.'k.M ^'ocT, Ir. are iielping him to fight communism, First Christian Church Rye, N.Y. should be informed of the findings of Harper, Kcins. the State Department. BRAZILIAN BANDITRY Bill Lipham, SIR: I felt it necessary to write this Abilene, Tex. SIR: Three days ago U.P.I, reported letter regarding the January issue. The that "The leftist government of Rio front cover compelled me to check The United States Information Agency Grande do Sul state has seized the 8 further—the articles on communism reports that "a inmiber of enterprising million dollar International Telephone and Pro & Con were tremendous. I individuals in Kerala after soliciting Company Friday night, offering its don't know what happened but what- periodicals to liglit connnunisni," then American owners about 5400,000 in ever it was keep it going. This sounds became more ambitious in their beg- compensation." The company has ap- again like The American Legion of Mr. \vas named as one of pealed to the U.S. State Department \esteryear. ging. John the moocliers, and we regiet that his to press for reversal of the expropria- Carl J. I)i Rien/i, anti-communist litera- tion order. Two years ago an Ameri- North Cnnton, Ohio letter calling for was published. The Editors. can power company was seized. We want to thank the many readers ture .Meanwhile \\ e keep hearing about the wIjo commented on our new format. "Alliance for Progress"' deal under The Editors COLONIALISM which Brazil expects you and me to provide 738 million dollars in U.S. sir: What Furojiean state has the MOTIVATING FORCE aid. Are we again expected to sit back largest non-European colonial empire? and exude confidence, probably wit- SIR: It might interest James Warner Britain? France? Portugal? The Neth- nessing another Castro act, while Un- Bellah, who wrote "\\'ingate's Broad- erlands? Wrong. It's Soviet Russia. cle Sam demands 738 million dollars way Commandos" in your January She rules millions of Asiatic subjects from you and me in taxes, to hand issue, to know that as Commander of in Siberia and Turkestan. These peo-

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 pic, the iMongols, Turkmiiis, Vakutsks, Uzbeks, etc., Iia\e been subjected to intensive "Riissification" programs. B>' forcefull>' settling in their lands people from iier F.uropean satellites, So\ iet Russia has reduced these people to minorities in many places in their o\\ n liomelantis. I lie natural resources of these areas arc exploited b\' and sent to European Russia. The economies of tiiesc areas are tw isted to suit tlie demands of European Russia. The right of these people to self-determination has been consistently ignorctl by tiie comnumists and non-communists tlie world o\ er. This is European imperial- ism at its worst. Thomas H. Grof, Ncnmickct, Mass.

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SMi: Delighted to say I'have now heard from all three U.S. veterans for whom you published an inquiry and I thank you for your indispensable help. Wilfred Smith Preston, LnnCiishire England

A notice in our December issue sought to put Mr. Smith in touch ^vith three U.S. veterans taken prisoner in North Africa in 1943. The Editors

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 11 "It is 1625 hours," the pilot radioed, "we are not certain where we are .

By ALLAN W. ECKERT a few months at this time and patrol That is, until December 5, 1945. flights were still an integral part of our Shortly after dawn that Wednesday OON DECEMBER 5, 1946 a flight of Coastal Defense System. Few areas of morning a bank of clouds moved across five TBM Avenger propeller- the entire United States coast were not the peninsula from west to east. Coming driven torpedo bombers took off regularly patrolled by these CDS flights. in from the Gulf, they blanketed the area from the United States Naval Air Station At this time of the year the pilots fly- from Sarasota north to Tarpon Springs. at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For all intents ing CDS patrol out of Ft. Lauderdale Within three hours the leading edge of and purposes it was a routine patrol flight were generally considered luckier than the front was crossing over an area of the differing not in the least from dozens of most. Instead of snow-covered shorelines Atlantic Coast from Melbourne Beach other patrol flights having originated and bleak gray ocean stretching out be- north to Daytona Beach. By one o'clock there. This particular flight, however, neath bitterly cold cockpits, these pilots in the afternoon the last of this bank of was destined never to be forgotten be- flew regularly over the bright blue of the clouds broke up over the ocean east of cause it flew directly into one of the warm Gulf Stream and long sandy shore- Cape Canaveral. There were a few scat- greatest and most incredible mysteries in lines that quickly dissolved into lush tered clouds elsewhere but most of the history of manned flight. A mystery semitropical verdancy. All things con- Florida remained clear. no closer to being solved today than it sidered, CDS patrol from Ft. Lauderdale Careful pre-flight checks had been run was 16 years ago. was generally regarded as "gravy" duty. on the five Avengers and all were fueled World War II had been over for only ILLUSTRATED BY MAC CONNER to capacity. The flight leader's plane was

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 sight of one another, none with any idea in regard to their position and all with overtones of incredulity, fear and hys- teria growing in their conversation. With no prior warning or reason given for the action, the flight leader abruptly turned over the flight command to another of the planes. This in itself was most unusual and bespoke a desperately grave emergency. Two hours and seventeen minutes What happened to the six Navy planes that after take-off, the tower received its last

message from the flight: "It is 1625 hours ... we are not certain where we

are . . . must be about 225 miles north- " vanished without a trace on a routine mission? east of base . . . looks like we are The message broke off. Immediately a Martin flying boat with full rescue equipment and 13 crew members was dispatched toward that area. It to carry only two men, while the remained his reply. There was a long pause, gave several routine radio reports and

ing four carried three men each. All 14 then: "We cannot see land . . . repeat . . . then lapsed into silence. Attempts to men had flight and navigation experience we can see no sign of land." raise it on radio failed. ranging from as little as 13 months to "What is your position?" the tower By this time it was late dusk and all veteran experience of six years. They had radioed back instantly. through the long night the Coast Guard studied their flight plan well: the planes "We are not sure of our position . . . searched intensively. Their efforts were were to make a triangular patrol, flying we can't be sure where we are ... we fruitless. A call for help was issued to due east for 160 miles, then due north don't know." Naval Headquarters and by the time the for 40 miles, then back southwest direct- This was unthinkable. How could five warm light of first sun had crept above ly to Ft. Lauderdale again. A simple planes with experienced pilots and navi- the horizon, the aircraft earner Solomons gators become lost under such ideal fly- had moved into the area and swiftly dis- ing conditions?" patched her scores of aircraft to join in "Assume bearing due west," the tower the search. All that day the search con- ordered. The reply received was shock- tinued over an ever widening area. ing. By mid-afternoon 21 Navy and Coast

"We cannot be sure which way is Guard vessels had joined in the search. west," the flight leader answered. "We Above them, in prescribed grid search

cannot be sure of any direction . . . pattern, over 300 planes assisted. Twelve

everything is wrong . . . strange . . . the large land parties were organized and

ocean doesn't look as it should." performed a step-by-step search of over The sun was by this time nearing the 300 miles of shoreline — all the way from western horizon. It was positively ridic- St. Augustine in the north to Miami ulous to think that these five planes could Beach in the south. There was not a not find west, even had they been de- single item of wreckage debris from any pending only upon visual observation. of the six planes. During the next 40 minutes the Nor did any of the sea searchers dis- tower distinctly heard the planes talking cover a trace of the missing planes. to one another — all apparently within (Continued on page 39)

The men in the tower heard overtones of incredulity and fear in the voices.

patrol flight was indicated, nothing more. Under sparkling blue skies the first plane took off at precisely 1402 hours (2:02 p.m.) and by 1408 hours all five planes were in formation and buzzed out of sight over the ocean. Not until 1545 hours were they heard from. This was the expected time for the flight leader to call the tower for landing instructions. But the call received was not a routine one.

"Calling tower . . . this is an emergency, tower . . . this is an emergency!" A month or so after the collision, an old Even with radio distortion there was an canvas-and-wood plane was found in a barn. unnerving fear in the flight leader's voice. The tower gave him clearance and await-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 13 WASHINGTON PRO&CON

THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE: Should The United State

us to bargain with this prospering union. Our current Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act ex- PRO pires next June 30, and the Congress must take posi-

tive action before that date. I believe that failure to en- Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La.) act a meaningful trade program which gives our gov- Second District ernment flexibility in negotiating with the Common YES, I AM firmly convincecJ Market could be disastrous in the long run for Amer- that our country should be ican business and the American working man. able to negotiate reciprocal tar- Lower tariff barriers will help to increase our ex- iff reductions with the Euro- port markets; enhance the prosperity of our export pean Common Market and other nations to advance industries; boost our business and industry to revital- our economic growth and strengthen the West. ize their technological processes and modernize their Today the United States and the nations of free plants and equipment to meet the increased competi- Europe have the greatest opportunity since the end of tion from western Europe; improve our balance-of- World War II to halt the advance of international com- payments position through the increased margin of our munism. The opportunity of which I speak is the for- exports over imports; strengthen our industries so that mation of a closer economic union between our coun- they will be better able to meet the enlarged competi- try and the growing European Common Market. With tion from free Europe by producing in the United the fact that the United States and western Europe States instead of doing so by way of subsidiaries behind together have a trained population twice that of the the Common Market wall; build up the economies of USSR and an industrial production three times as the developing nations through granting them freer great, there is no doubt that some type of trade part- access to U.S. markets and those of the European com- nership between our country and the Common Market munity; advance the effectiveness of our foreign aid would confront the Soviets with an economic bulwark to these developing countries because of their own against their evil objectives. growing exports to more markets, and transfer some The first positive and practical step in this direction of the responsibility for foreign aid to the prospering is for the Congress to enact a new trade law which countries of the Common Market. would provide the President with broader authority Our responsibilities in the world today are such that to negotiate reciprocal tariff reductions on an across- we cannot withdraw behind high tariff walls. Not only the-board basis on whole groups of products, instead would such a course be injurious to our economic of his present limited authority to negotiate minimal growth, but also — and more importantly — it would tariff cuts item-by-item. The Common Market coun- weaken our position as the free world's leader. tries are now reducing their internal tariffs on groups of commodities, and this is the only practical way for

If you wish to let your Congressman or one of your Senators know how you feel on this

big issue, tear out the "ballot" on the facing page and mail it to him >

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 THE BIG ISSUES

Lower Its Trade Barriers F

We've talked prosperity, we've amended Social Security, we've increased interest rates — in fact we've CON done just about everything but adjust tariffs. I predict things will get much worse before they get Rep. John H. Dent (D-Pa.) better if we don't tackle the tariff problem. Twenty-First District This nation, because of its industries, freedom for its its institutions, was able to bail the world HAVE HEARD on the air and unions and I of Wars — three, if you count Korea. read in the press the state- out two World enterprise above all other considera- ments of importers' groups, for- We put American eign agents, lawyers, public tions. the political football of relations groups, overseas investors and others alleg- Now, the tariff has become the traders, importers, exporters, bankers, public rela- ing that we create 5,000,000 jobs by exporting $15,000,- tions firms, lobbyists, professors, politicians and labor 000,000 worth of cotton, coal, minerals, heavy duty leaders. It has become so hopelessly confused that some machinery, hides, logs, etc. These same people say we of ask but thing: that before going any further lose only 200,000 jobs by importing $15,000,000,000 us one with tariff cuts review our 27-year experience with worth of radios, shoes, shirts, sporting goods, tile, we the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. It takes but a watches and binoculars (about 70 percent of our im- position ports are manufactured goods.) glance to determine that our once paramount has been undermined and that we have become just If this is true, why don't we buy everything we need, one of the pack in a world-wide economic rat-race. sell everything we make and stay home on the back Everyone tells me I'm licked, but I'll keep fighting porch, drinking beer? You know, and I know, it is not industries true. for protection of our native because my friends are out of work and my people are being told When your neighbor is out of work, that's a reces- that they and their jobs are ex- sion; when you yourself are out of work, that's a de- by my Government pendable — that to protect American enterprises is pression. Like it or not, millions of our people are suf- wrong. I'm mad! And I'll be if I will go ahead fering a depression right now, despite all sorts of stop- gap remedies. We have re-enacted unemployment com- blindly on the recommendation of a group of men in pensation extension, increased public works spending and out of government who, in the main, have only a superficial knowledge of the conditions in our de- and public housing; we have passed aid to depressed pressed areas, our unemployed our millions areas. Every state in the Union has put on some kind and who have been disenfranchised by the production of low- of consumer tax to protect its industries against raids paid foreigners. from other states. (None seems to worry about raids from other countries.)

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/A/ OPmm THE U.S.

I have read in The American Legion Magazine for April SHOULD SHOULD NOT LOWER ITS TRADE | BARRIERS the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: "Should t SIGNED

the U.S. Lower Its Trade Barriers?" ) ADDRESS.

TOWN STATE

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 15 By ROBERT RIENOW

"^^PEAKING OF INTOLERANCE." bc- ^^^gan the American professor just back from Ceylon, "our house boy was a Tamil. Although he was really very smart, he was completely cowed, i'd like to have you learn to drive the car,' I said to him one day, "and get yourself a driver's license." We waited for him to continue, our interest aroused. "The boy was actually dismayed. 'Oh no,' he said. They (the ruling Sinhalese) would never give me a license!" He admitted later that it was his fear of the Sinhalese that kept him from registering to vote." "But why?" we asked. "Well, the Tamils look different, speak their own language, and come from the mainland of India. Looming behind this Tamil minority of perhaps a million in Ceylon, are the hordes of their Indian countrymen on the mainland. Fearing that if the Sinhalese lost their grip, these hordes might someday overrun the island, the rulers of Ceylon hold the Tamils to a strictly second-class citizenship."

"Intolerance is almost always an out- growth of fear," I said. "But when Buddhist priests run a- muck in a wave of hate, or blood flows in the streets of Colombo, no one pounds his shoe on the desks of the United Na- tions demanding an accounting. What I'm getting at is this, continued the professor: intolerance is no Western sin — it's worldwide. The very nations who cas- tigate the West for it in loudest tones are the ones who harbor the most vicious intolerance right in their own back- yards." BlQOtRY

"It's a strange thing, ' someone broke in with a laugh, "that it's the conscience of the West that has codified the rules by themselves more dams and steel mills. is caught up in a fierce intolerance of which to measure tolerance. If the West Rather, it is time they began to judge language. Leaders, such as Master Tara hadn't defined tolerance in political themselves by the same rules they apply Singh, strain the political bonds of the terms, there would be no measure by to us. Doing so, they might suffer new country with a dramatic fast to call at- which to judge it. Yet they take this anguish, possibly as great as the anguish tention to Sikh demands. Needing na- code and apply it against us but never they experience when we break the rules. tional unity desperately, India is torn think to apply it against themselves." Such a course would contribute more by dissension, ripped apart by cultural This conversation opened up a whole directly to the welfare of man and of differences and discrimination. We must new area of research for me. I thought their own peoples. be sympathetic toward a nation such as of our Little Rock and Chicago riots, Thus, India has assumed a lofty pose India that is struggling against suffocat- and of our open and avowed shame be- as the champion of minorities in other ing custom in its attempt to unbind the cause of I them. thought of England's countries. Yet India, above all, should untouchables and is nearly helpless in shocked disbelief as the mobs of Middles- tread in this area with humility. Con- lifting primitave tribal groups in its pop- brough broke into wild and ugly race sider the headlines: "Four killed, 75 hurt ulation. But India's troubles should be a violence. I thought, too, of the agony of in Calcutta in riot of 3,000 refugees strong reminder to both their leaders South Africa. We of the West had much from East Pakistan." "Seven killed near and ourselves that intolerance is a frailty to answer for. Hailakandi when police fire on crowd of people, all people — Oriental as well But what of these other nations who demonstrating for Punjab State — over as Occidental. constantly berate the West so bitterly? 100 hurt." "600 Moslem leaders con- Throughout South East Asia, a spill How clean are the stone-casters' hands? vene. New Delhi; warn against treating over of Chinese has plagued countries, It soon became obvious that the most Moslems as 2nd class citizens." many of them new, with a minority issue pressing need of the underdeveloped India, born in a religious blood bath, of appalling dimensions. There is Thai- peoples of the world is not to build ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY SCHAARE land for example. Of its 17 million peo-

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 Minority groups in Asia and Africa are often subjected to brutal treatment.

Many would have you believe that intolerance

is a Western sin, but those who complain

most about it are often the worst offenders. pie, almost three million are Chinese who persist in thinking of themselves as a separate community. Far from being downtrodden, the success of the Chinese in commerce, their domination of bus- While President Sukarno of Indonesia fanaticism and intolerance at work. In iness in Bangkok, the solid blocks of shames America for its lack of dedica- Jordan, the various sects fester in ri- prosperous Chinese shops and houses, tion to equality by reading to us the valry. Even in Israel, which we like to build hate and resentment. Th2 Thai admonitions of our forefathers, he, too, think a haven against persecution, the grumbling is bitter with intolerance as must contend with problems of sharp crowds mill around the Church of Christ they grouse about these sharp traders inequality. A recent study of an Indo- chanting deliriously: "Eichmann! Eich- of the Orient. nesian community by Dr. Donald E. mann!" seeking one unbroken window Again, fear, real or imagined, lies at Willmott of Cornell points up this same that they can use as a target for their the root of the prejudice. What thoughts problem of a Chinese minority scarcely stones. What possible connection there are going on behind those inscrutable integrated into the life of the area. The could be between Eichmann and a

Chinese eyes? What fiendish plots are Chinese here employ the Javanese as Christian church is not understandable; they hatching of collaboration with Red servants, and hate and envy seethe. "The but somebody or something had to be Chinese to overrun Thailand? "We are Chinese and Indonesians will never mix set up as a focus for the mob overstim- being milked by the Chinese merchants. together on a basis of genuine equality," ulated by an international trial in which

Then they send our riches to China," said one official, coldly. Here scorn is their real grievances and tragedies were mutter the Thai. Much of this is exagge- met with scorn, and prejudices multiply. so vividly dramatized and their wounds ration, imagination—or both. But the ha- Whether you refer to Jordan or to scraped so bear. tred of this rich minority is there, smol- Saudi Arabia or to any other part of the Certainly, too, the million Arab refu- dering and alive. Middle East, you will find the forces of (Contimied on page 48)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 17 By BOB WILLETT HOLLYWOOD'S THE WELL-KNOWN movie star stood at the bar, watching the bartender pour him a drink. About 10 yards away, Rodd Redwing raised his .22 rifle, ready to shoot the glass out of the player's hand when he put it to his lips. The Shooting star, who was making his first western, reached for the drink, then suddenly froze.

"I just can't pick it up," he protested, "i keep thinking about what niight happen. You'd better get a double." Staf

Rodd Redwing is often the man behind the

man behind the gun in movie and TV westerns.

"Why, Rodd's done this sort of thing dozens of times," the director pointed out. "You haven't a thing to worry about, and I can prove it." Outlining a much more difficult trick shot, he got the actor to agree to go through with the scene providing Redwing pulled off the other stunt. Rodd then stttck a match in a crack in the bar and stood a candy Ljfesaver

in front of it, the head of the match visible through the hole. Taking up a position at the other end of/he bar, he aimed carefully and pulled the trigger. Cast and crew applauded as the bullet passed through the^andy, without breaking it, and ignited the match. / Satisfied, the actor allowed the glass- in his hand to be blown to bits. After that, he joined the host of film heroes

Redwing, a full-blooded Chickasaw, is proud of his Indian heritage

Alan Ladd, left, shown with Van Heflin, is a Redwing and Glenn Ford compare gu Redwing protege, and a good man with a gun. notes. Ford is another gun exper

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 who sing the praises of a Chickasaw few years ago, he doubled for Gregory Redwing rehearsed Alan Ladd for Indian who is not only Hollywood's hot- Peck in some scenes for The Gunfif>hter, three weeks in preparation for his Shane test shot but also one of the most accom- only to have them end up on the cutting performance, which called for him to plished marksmen in the history of fire- room floor. They looked too good to be beat villain Jack Palance to the draw. arms. true.) Had the fight happened in real life, he

Shooting, doubling, instructing, and "Some of the stars who play western feels, it would have been easier for Alan giving technical assistance. Redwing has heroes couldn't beat a six-year-old to the than when the script was followed. Pal- greatly enhanced the reputations of most draw," the rapid-firing redskin remarks. ance had a habit of bending his knee as of the glorified gunmen, good and bad, "If they went up against one of the gun- he went for his gun, giving himself away of the screen and TV. As one producer slingers of the Old West, they'd last like a boxer telegraphing a punch. On

puts it, "Rodd Redwing not only shines about as long as a head of lettuce at a top of that, like so many other actors

up our shooting stars but, whenever it rabbit convention. doing killer characterizations, Palance put on a pair of gloves before each gun battle. "In the old days, unless the fingers had been cut out of them," Redwing reveals, "wearing gloves when going up against someone like Jesse James would have been like asking for a one-way ticket to the nearest cemetery." Having devoted 25 years to the study of gunmen famous in American history, Rodd scoffs at Hollywood's handling of them in period pictures. The records re- veal that real western badmen were dirty fighters. Billy the Kid, pulling a jail break, shot one deputy in the back and another, unarmed, in the face. Wild Bill Hickok once shot and killed a man while hiding behind a curtain. John Wesley Hardin, in Redwing's book the best of the badmen, was killed by John Selman. who shot him in the back. Hickok may be a two-gun hero on to- Redwing, using a mirror, demonstrates some trick shooting to Michael Pate. day's TV, but he was actually a killer who carried seven guns— a derringer in is necessary he is able to outshine them." "Still, there are several stars—Alan each coattail, a pair of Smith & Wesson Certainly, although several stars have Ladd and Bill Holden among them—who pistols in hip holsters, two Navy single- developed considerable six-gun skill are good at gunplay. They're good be- shot guns under his arms, and a sawed- under his guidance, none has come any- cause they're not afraid of guns, and like off double-barreled shotgun under his where near his record fast-draw. He can to shoot as a hobby. My toughest teach- coat. reach for his revolver, yank it from the ing assignments are the actors who've When Redwing reported these find-

holster, and fire it in two-tenths of a sec- never held a gun in their hands before ings, the information was labeled pub-

ond. He's demonstrated this on television and don't like the idea. In such cases, I licity for a Hickok picture, and a num- but has never drawn that fast for a always try to get them to let me do a lot ber of people wrote letters of protest. movie. If he did, there would be such a of doubling. It's better for all concerned Before replying to them, Rodd delved blur of action that audiences would re- if a guy who doesn't go for guns leaves deeper into history, then admitted he'd fuse to believe it was the real thing. (A them alone." made a mistake in listing Wild Bill's Several years ago, when director weapons. He'd forgotten the Bowie knife George Stevens went to work on his first the famous badman also carried. western film, he gave Redwing an oppor- "Movie and TV heroes walk down the tunity to do something about a silly situa- main street until the heavy materializes, tion that had persisted in motion pictures challenges them to draw, and then mow for 50 years. The result was the realistic, him down. Or. the marshal gets the drop highly successful Shane, in which a man on the killer, gets him to throw down one

hit with a .45 slug at a distance of 10 feet or two guns, and then acts as if he has reacted the right way for the first time in the situation under control. It never hap- Hollywood history. pened that way. If an outlaw dropped Rodd experimented with a dummy the only a couple of guns, and his captor same size and weight as the victim. He then relaxed, he'd pull another gun, and discovered that, instead of standing still the peace officer would be a dead pigeon.

as a bullet crashed into it. it was carried "Split seconds spelled the difference backward several feet by the force of the between life and death in gunplay, and slug. To achieve this effect in the film, no real gunman ever gave his rival any

the actor who was supposedly shot had a advantage if he could help it. Gun battles wire attached to his belt and was jerked were usually games of hide-and-seek. violently backward when his opponent Trickery was every bit as important as kedwing, featured as chief, is shown with John fired. The sequence brought even the skill." llodiak in a scene from "Conquest of Cochise." most jaded critics to the edge of their The shooting expert won't be sur- seats. (Contmued on page 47) THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE APRIL 1962 19 REVOLUTION STARTED in Louisi- A ana classrooms last year, moved from teenagers to their parents and now is spreading to whole communities. It is not, however, the kind of revolution which is favored by the communists as a step in their conquest of a free country. This amazing "chain reaction" from youngsters to parents to the rest of the public is the result of the very successful first year's operation of the Louisiana public school course in Americanism versus Communism. Although such communist doctrines as "dialectical materialism" and the "permanent revolution" are knowingly discussed, there are no converts to Marxism. So far, 30,000 high school students have taken the required six-week course and we have no way of estimating the additional thousands of parents and others who have been affected in ortt way or another by the school program. Frankly, I and others who are professional educators have been surprised at the immediate and far reaching success of the course. We worked under the

pressure of time and expected it would take at least one year's operation to solve the problems of such a new teaching as-

signment. The fact is that the students took to the course with enthusiasm and the teacher's problems were primarily those of finding the information and data to keep up with the students' questions and interest. The hope expressed by Allen W. Dul- les, former Director of the Central In- telligence Agency, that we have "more STUDYING COMMUNISM education on the whole history of the

communist movement" is being fulfilled in Louisiana. Our youngsters are learning about the communist blue-print for world conquest, and about the communists' Marx- By SHELBY M. JACKSON

ian dream of the future that includes all of us living under their domination. I LOUISIANA STATE SUPERINTENDENT know it will be difficult, if not impossible, OF PUBLIC EDUCATION to brainwash these young people. Such protection for our children has long been a personal desire of mine but the proposal of such a course ten years years of hard work by both The Ameri- ago would have brought down an ava- can Legion and the Louisiana Bar Asso- lanche of opposition from among the so- ciation. Shelby M. Jackson called "liberals" and "parlor pinks." But For example, Richard Cadwallader, in 1962 the course, Americanism versus Baton Rouge attorney and Chairman of Communism, has received praise the Americanism Committee of The throughout our state from people in American Legion, Nicholson Post #38, were also a little afraid of the subject, every walk of life. had worked for about five years trying to some had the notion the best way to cope Our biggest problem today is how to find a way to get across to his fellow citi- with the problem was to deny that it ex- improve the course on the basis of the zens a truly educated grasp of the dan- isted. When The American Legion first year's experience. gers of communism as well as the advan- backed the idea of teaching the facts The course on Americanism versus tages of the American way of life. about communism in public schools, Communism in the public schools re- In the mid-1950's he developed a Cadwaller made this his goal for Louisi- sulted from a joint resolution of both speaker's bureau on communism, but it ana. houses of the Louisiana Legislature in very difficult to get enough good speak- His personal interest in educating 1960. But behind this resolution were ers on the subject. People at that time Americans about the ways of commu-

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 and night to get the program underway. There was not the usual time available to work out a complete program for the Louisiana schools course in which each part could be carefully tested and tried before being put into general classroom use. A compre- hensive and detailed bulletin was developed for the use of teachers. It thorough- A First Year Report ly outlined the objectives of the six-week course and provided teachers with a great variety of ways they could go about accomplishing these goals. of an Adventure in Public Education Our bulletin clearly states the objective of the course and the philosophy be-

hind it: "The central purpose of this unit

on Americanism versus Communism is nism had come after the Korean War. ism versus Communism. Cadwallader to alert the high school youth of Louisi- when revelations of brainwashing by the found many who felt just as he did. After ana to the dangers of the communist con-

Chinese Communists showed how ill- this came several years of work contact- spiracy. If these dangers are identified prepared many Americans were when it ing individual legislators. and explained, it is believed that our came to understanding the enemy and One by one, support was lined up for youth will aggressively oppose all sub- the way he operates. In the intellectual legislative action which culminated in versive attempts to destroy American wonderland of Marxist "philosophy" the unanimously-approved concurrent democracy." most Americans were lost. And the sad- resolution in 1960. This resolution stated The rest was up to the teachers. It was dest part of all, Cadwallader thought, that the course was to "develop intelli- felt that the teachers could be given a was that too many were also lost when gent and aggressive opposition to com- large degree of freedom in handling the it came to what their own country stood munism and deep loyalty to our Ameri- course and then a later evaluation of for. can political and economic system." their efforts would provide a good basis When both the Louisiana Bar Associ- Now that we in the State Department for improvements. ation and The American Legion got be- of Education Iiad been given the green We hoped—and it proved to be true— hind the program of teaching American- light by the legislature, we worked day (Continued on page 45)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 21 By MARK WEST THIS IS THE SHORT, illuminating story of a family that found out how to shop for money. It can mean dollars in the pocket for almost any of us who follow their education. The William T. Taylors—Bill and Jean —regard themselves as pretty canny buy- ers. You couldn't sell Bill an inferior re- cap for his car. Jean would never come home with a basket of berries that contains mostly bad ones under the display layer on top. Yet the Taylors had been buying their

money without even knowing what it cost— until along came one of those pinches that beset most families from time to time. Nothing disastrous: simply a much-used automatic washer-dryer breaking down beyond the possibility of economical repair. With a new baby in the house, Jean did not regard this device as dispensable. Meanwhile costs incidental to the arrival of that same baby had left the family checking account tattered. The question, then, was how to pay for a new machine? "We need credit of some kind to the tune of about $400," was the way Bill

put it. "I say we shop around until we find out who offers it cheapest." Shopping By the following evening Bill had done some personal investigating and Jean had made several telephone calls. "The obvious thing to do." Jean told Bill then, "is to buy the machine on time for —and let the store supply the credit. We

can take two years to pay for it if we make regular payments. Of course we'll

have to pay a carrying charge, which is added to the price of the washer." "How much?" Bill asked suspiciously. "The girl in the credit department of our department store says they charge

1 '/2 percent per month on their regular extended payment plan." "Twelve times IV2 ... that comes to 18 percent interest," Bill calculated. Borrowed money can vary in price, and can add "But we can buy on a contract instead. The girl said that was the usual way with bigger things like this. Then they charge considerably to the cost of the things you buy. you 8 percent if it's for one year and 15 percent if you spread the payments over 24 months. That doesn't sound so bad, does it?"

"Actually it's only a slight improve- The other is not. Anyway, that's what Jean produced a scrap of paper and ment. We'd be paying 8 or 15 percent of she said." consulted it. the whole amount, even though we "Well." Bill said, "what about buying "For instance, they make the same flat would be paying it back all along. So in from a mail-order house?" carrying charge for any amount from simple interest it is still about 15 percent. "Their charges are stated right in the $280.01 to $300. From $300.01 to $320 Well, 15 is better than 18." catalog," Jean said. "I figured out today they charge $3 more. Suppose we are "Yes, and the girl told me something what they amount to in simple interest. buying something that comes to $300.20 else. This is called interest and the IV2 They come to about 15 to 16 percent, de- after the normal down payment. We'll percent per month is called a service pending on whether the amount is at the be paying $3 for 1 9 cents of credit. See?" charge. As interest, the amount is de- top or bottom of a bracket." "Finally, yes," said Bill. "All we have ductible from income for tax purposes. "How's that?" to do to save three bucks is put up a

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 that "Just to our bank," Bill said. "And "You take it right. It seems a that was confusing enough for a while. dealer needs some good risks to balance ." his poorer ones. So the figure you get if As you shall sec. . . easily be 50 cents Now it was Bill's (urn to dig out a bit you don't dicker can more than you'd of paper and spread it before them. to a dollar a hundred "If we are buying from an appliance have to pay. I probably tossed away dealer that works through our bank, we 50 bucks right there. Mc. The smart guy can either finance the deal through him who shopped every car dealer in the or directly with the bank. Either way we county for the best price and the biggest pay according to his normal arrange- trade-in." ruefully. ment, which is a 10 percent one. And I Bill slapped his forehead mean 10 percent of the amount per year. "Furthermore, it's just our dumb good

According to a chart I looked up, this really amounts to 18 percent interest." "That's no great bargain," said Jean. "I said that, too. and even the bank

manager agreed. Then, when I pushed him a bit, he told me that they had other plans of the same kind at lower rates." "You mean that how much you pay depends on how hard you bargain?" Jean asked. "It's that way with money the

The Taylors found that the store offering credit had two interest rates.

couple of extra dimes when wc order."

"I think it's a cute way to drop the interest rate from 16 percent to 15," said Jean. "Now, what did you find out?" study of the mail-order catalog "I started at a small-loan company." A showed a variation in interest rates. said Bill. "Since I have a salary coming in, they'll gladly lend us the money. But they get 2 to IVz percent per month on luck that we bought our house when amounts this size. It doesn't take long to mortgage money was cheap. The man at see that this is 24 to 30 percent interest. the bank mentioned something about I don't think their loans arc intended lor that, too, in passing." purchases like this anyway." "You covered a lot of territory." "Where else did you go?" "Well, you now how it is. We got

it seems that right talking . . . Anyway, in this town today you can pay anywhere from less than 6 to more than 7 percent interest on the same mortgage, depending on where you get it and how sharp Bill started with a small-loan company, you are. Even on a medium-priced house which was glad to lend him money. like ours the difference is a fierce amount — two to three thousand dollars over the same as with other things?" life of the mortgage." prob- ".Seems to be. But you don't get the "Wow! Well, let's get back to the - washer-dryer. lower rate if you are buying from a lem at hand a mere dealer who handles his time payments What happens if we buy from a depart- through the bank. They don't want to ment store or a mail-order house and undercut their own big customers, it want to use the bank's money?" seems." "We could bargain for the better rate percent "That figures. Well, this is a side issue then," Bill said. "Either 7 or 8 - 13 14'/2 percent at the moment, but 1 can't help wonder- discounted about to ing how many times in the past we've real interest." paid too much credit." "Ummm," said Jean. "We're working "I'd rather not think about that," Bill our way down a little." something else. It said with a sigh. "But I know this much. "Yes, and here's If our car weren't almost paid for I'd do seems we can be regarded as established something right now about the interest citizens since we have a good record at rate on that." the bank and a substantial equity in our

"We've been paying too much. I take house." When pushed, the bank manager told (Continued on page 42) them of other plans at lower rates. it."

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 23

of Sam Snead plus the eye of a frontier squirrel hunter. She already knew the mechanics of driving but wanted Acme to give her some experience in heavy traffic. We skipped the first few lessons. They Drove Me (They go from one through eight, with the earlier lessons pitched at the same level as an Army orientation lecture for ". basic trainees: . . this is called the ignition, and this is the key. With the Out Job! thumb and index finger of the right hand ." My . . . of you place the key etc.) Mrs. Ruggles quickly adjusted to the city's heaviest traffic. By her third lesson she could have out-jockeyed the most nerveless New York cabbie in an obsta- race Fifth Avenue. It was a If you think you have it tough, consider cle down pleasure to see her thread her way through the center of town, and I re-

laxed with a cigarette. Then it happened. the lot of the man who teaches people to drive. At a raised safety island, dense with people waiting for a streetcar, Mrs. Rug- gles suddenly panicked. As she ran the wheels up on the safety island, the crowd By ROBERT SCOTT wife to drive and teaching someone else's leaped, as one man, onto the car tracks wife. In the first place, the latter is pay- to escape our sideswiping assault. I can't seized the wheel, IS IT LIKE to be a driving ing for her lessons, so you just use guided th car back on- WHAT intimate you would to the fairway, stopped, and began to instructor? Like going over the same language Niagara Falls in a big rubber employ with the Froii. Instead of scream- lecture my student. Then I felt a sudden ing brake, — damnit I sharp stab of pain in thigh. Looking ball, it's an experience you can never "brake, BRAKE my forget. said 'BRAKE' — are you deaf as well as down I saw that, in the heat of the at- tack, the live cigarette Long after I had been fired by Acme dumb?" you must have a more detached, end of my had — in lap, Driving School, I kept having this dream, impersonal approach. "Mrs. Fogel" dropped my burning a hole "will through night after night. I was an astronaut, (smile at her, modulate the voice)— my pants and into me. strapped inside a space capsule 500 miles you kindly apply the brake? We must That ended the lesson. Somewhat

. shaken, I up. In the capsule with me, this crazy stop when the light is red . . no, Mrs. asked Mrs. Ruggles to drive us chimpanzee was running around loose. Fogel"— (keep smiling, keep the tension back to the school. She did it — calmly, — confidently, Each time I tried to guide the capsule out of the voice) "not the gas, the with the coordination of gently down to earth, this chimp would brake, please." Sam Snead. leap all over the control panel, pressing In the second place, your wife is pre- Another unforgettable student was buttons and pulling levers, and the cap- dictable. Or, at least, she's predictably Walter, a blue-eyed, apple-cheeked lad sule would roar off into space once more, H/;predictable. With another man's wife of 16. Walter's mother took me aside end over end. you just can't feel secure. before his first lesson to warn me that I But the job seemed ordinary enough I learned this from one of my first stu- might have trouble. Walter was an over- that first day. In the hushed grandeur of dents, a Mrs. Ruggles. She was the calm, protected child, she said. He was sensi- Acme's front office sat the usual Young confident, athletic type. The coordination tive, poorly coordinated, and might Executive type, casual but serious, be- ILLUSTRATED BY TOM HENDERSON (Continued on page 44) hind a big walnut desk. "Mr. Scott," he said, "your test results show that you have the necessary physical and mental qualifications to be one of our driving instructors."

"My mother always said I had a lot of drive," I replied, laughing lightly. The Young Exec strained for a smile, but it didn't quite come off. Then he leaned toward me, his voice and ex- pression shifting into CONFIDENTIAL. "But Mr. Scott, are you temperamentally suited for the job? That is the vital question." "Sir," I declared, "I even taught my own wife to drive." This time he not only smiled, he laughed. Out loud. "We'll see, Mr. Scott, we'll see," he said. As I soon found out, there are certain subtle differences between teaching your I parked the car in a downtown lot and took a cab back to confer with the Young Exec.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 25 has such features as: a Monte Carlo comb and cheek piece; a full-cut checkered, specially designed pistol grip and a checkered

fore-end. It is available in .222 Remington, .222 Remington Magnum, .243 Win., .264 Win. Magnum, 7 mm. Remington Magnum, .270 Win., .280 Remington, .308 Win., .30-06.

TIPS FOR SQUIRREL HUNTERS are provided by two different readers. The first, by Mrs. Stella Felts, of Joelton, Tenn., calls for a hickory nut. You sit against a big tree and scratch on the hickory nut for a few minutes. Then you stop as if listening. NEW FISHERMEN arc given some sound A NEW ORGANIZATION "to foster in "Most of the time,'' says Airs. Felts, "this advice by Judd Kirknian, of Raytown, Mo., the American public a better understanding will bring a squirrel your way." The other who points out that all fresh A\atcr game and a more active appreciation of all shoot- suggestion, from Greg Dougherty, of De fish see very well indeed. The clearer the ing sports" was recently established at a Forest, \\'isc., calls for a balloon. When w ater the better they see and therefore the meeting in New York City after 18 months you find a likely spot you blow up the bal- longer and finer the leader should be. Also, of preliminary studies. Called the National loon, remain quiet for a few moments, then the less hardware (snaps, swivels, sinkers, Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., it is made run your hand roughly around the balloon. etc.) the better. Use the smallest hook y^ou up of "an\' and all companies, organizations, This, according to Greg, will produce a can get away with and keep the points associations or people interested in the sound that will be too much for the squir- sharp. Small sinkers and bobbers arc best shooting sports. Executive Director is A. rels' curiosity. Out they'll come. for wary fish. Fish (juietly and slowly; set Robert Alatt, and the Foundation's address the hook firmly but gently. is P.O. Box 355, Hartford, Conn. Further information concerning the NSSF may be THE PROBLEM of water-logged worms, obtained from Mr. Matt. which take on a limp, lifeless shape, is solved by Robert Ryall, of New Albany, Ind., by THE SHEEN tliat gut leaders acquire using rubbing alcohol. No, he does not after several soakings in the water can be massage the worms but merely gives them easily removed, saj s Wilfred E. Beaver, of a dab of the liquid. "A small dab," he says, Chicago, b>" allowing them to remain in a

"and the fishing w orm is w iggling left and weak solution of coffee overnight. The right like he owned half the world." W hile liquid should l)e quite cool before using Robert didn't say so, we assume that he and by morning the leaders w ill have ac- could get similar results by using bourbon, quired the matt finish that helps to keep scotch or rye. them invisible when in use. AT NIGHT, w hen you are returning from FIREARMS ENTHUSIASTS will find hunting or fishing, it is annoying to be de- Charles Edward Chapel's latest book "Guns layed by a strange, angry dog. You want of the Old West" fascinating reading. .Mr. to keep going and there is no desire to Chapel is one of the country's outstanding harm the barking canine. In this case, Ted experts on new and old firearms. His "The Stokes, of Astoria, Ore., suggests that you Complete Book of Gun Collecting," and wait until the animal gets close up, then aim "The Collector's of Gun Handbook Val- a flashlight suddenly in the eyes of the ues," have through gone numerous editions dog. The unexpected burst of light "stops since they first were published more than 'cm cold." You can continue on your jour- two decades ago. Mr. Chapel's book about ney, and the dog is temporarily blinded — the guns of the old west, published by but not injured! Coward-McCann, Inc., tells all about the firearms that opened the frontier and won REMINGTON ARMS CO. has announced IT'S A CINCH to get cockle burrs out of the west, shoulder weapons and handguns, four new rifles and we predict you'll be a dog's hair, says Ambrose Buell, of Havre, military and non-military. The handsomely hearing a great deal about them in the Alont., if you first wet the animal. After illustrated volume sells for $12.50. Inciden- months to come. There are three new nylon that, a common wide tooth comb will do tally, we expect to publish an article on models, a bolt action "Nylon 11," and the trick, and there's no yanking or pulling. gun collecting by Mr. Chapel in the near "Nylon 12" and a new chrome and black future. colored version of the popular "Nylon 66" LIGHTED FISHING LURES are illegal in introduced in 1959. The "Nylon 11" is a several States, we are reminded by L. E. completely newly designed bolt action .22 James, of Napa, Calif., wiio refers to an caliber rifle with box magazine, that will advertisement in this magazine featuring shoot short, long, and long rifle cartridges such lures. Quoting California fishing regu- interchangeably. Said to be extremely ac- lations he said: "Lights may be used when 12" curate it retails for 136.95. The "Nylon fishing at night when and where such fish-

is identical except that it has a tubular mag- ing is permitted. Lights may not be used on azine, and it sells for $39.95. The third Ny- or as part of any fishing tackle." As Mr. lon Model, the "Apache Black" is a special James points out, if you have any doubt on "new look" version of the semi-automatic this score, you had better check with your "66" with a black stock and chromium local game warden or at least read your plated barrel and receiver. This retails for State fishing regulations. $54.95.

A LUMP OF SUGAR tied to your fishing line In the center-fire field. Remington is If you have a helpful idea for this feature will permit >ou to cast a nightcrawler a offering a new Model 700 series replacing send it along. If we can use it we'll pay you $5.00. However, we are unable to acknowl- good distance, says George J. Bernas, of present Alodels 721, 722 and 725. Made with South Bend, Ind. The sugar dissolves soon many custom features, the new rifle is avail- edge contributions, return them or enter after it hits the water, the worm sinks to able in two grades, 700 ADL De Luxe and into correspondence concerning them. Ad- the bottom, and you then reel in as slowly 700 BDL Custom De Luxe. The ADL De dress Outdoor Editor, The American Legion as you can. Luxe Grade, with prices starting at $114.95, Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y.

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 , , .

VETERANS NEWSLETTER APRIL 1962

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

NO TAX ON PROCEEDS OF A. No lapel button was ever designed MATURED VA INSURANCE POLICIES: specifically for Korea vets... The symbol Q. Recently you said that we don't we have used temporarily for our younger have to report the proceeds of matured vets is — though inadequate for the pur- veterans insurance policies as taxable pose — the Army lapel button for Army income... My endowment policy matured and service since 1946... We will soon have an I was told I had to report as taxabl e income adequate engraving of one side of the the difference between what I paid in National Defense Medal ... Though no lapel and what I got out... Can you back up your button, it is the one device common to statement to the contrary? Korea vets of all services. A. If you are talking about a govern- m ent veterans policy administered by the N. Y. POLITICOS Veterans Administration, you do not have NIX KOREA BONUS: to report any part of the proceeds of the N. Y. Governor Nelson Rockefeller matured policy as taxable income. advised a state Legion function on Feb. 20 If it was an Internal Revenue man that he and a majority in the state Legis- who said you do, cite him Section 3101 of lature are against a proposed bill to Title 38, U.S. Code and also Internal provide a bonus for New York's Korea Revenue Service Accumulative Bulletin veterans, citing the cost... New York was 1939-2... If it was anybody else, tell one of the first states to pay a World War 2 him to go fly a kite .. .However , when we say bonus... Many states have paid no bonus to "veterans insurance" we mean government either WW2 or Korea vets, but New York insurance and not a policy with a commer- is one of a few that paid WW2 but not cial firm that happens to be held by a Korea vets. veteran... In such case the rule would be the same as for a non-veteran—and it's KOREA VETS WARNED OF outside our field of expertizing. GI EDUCATION TERMINAL DATES: Veterans Administration warns Korea VA HAS JOBS FOR vets who are getting GI training to RECREATION SPECIALISTS: double-check the terminal date for VA The VA seeks qualified hospital assistance .. .Many Korea vets are nearing recreation s pecialists to work in its the deadline for completing their work and hospitals in the U. S. and Puerto Rico... may need to take more courses to finish in Salaries range from $4,345 to $7,560... time... No Korea vet can get VA educational They will conduct recreation activities of aid later than eight years from the date proven value in the rehabilitatio n of of his separation from active duty, and hospitalized veterans .. .Details in Civil Jan. 31, 1965 is the latest that any can Service announcement 272-B available at continue training or courses under the Postoffices and VA of f ices .. .Applicants Korea GI Bill... A vet separated from the may qualify on basis of certified training military in 1955 has 1963 as his terminal without written exam . . .Higher salaries date (eight years), and can't stretch it are for those whose background includes to the 1965 final closeout. previous recreation work with the ill or handicapped. CONGRESSMEN DON'T NECESSARILY FAVOR BILLS THEY INTRODUCE: NO KOREA LAPEL BUTTON: Q. My Congressman introduced a bill Q. Two symbols on your Newsletter that I don't like and didn't think he would heading are the WWl and WW2 lapel buttons. . sponsor...! gave him hell and he said he Is the third (right hand) symbol a Korea was against the bill!... What can one lapel button? (Continued on page 30)

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VETERANS NEWSLETTER sized Post, but smaller than a Department. (Continued from page 27) ...Each Department creates (or doesn't believe these days? create) Districts, according to what makes A. If he introduced it "by request" it sense in its own territory. doesn't prove a thing... It's part of an Two Nebraska Districts are each com- established policy of courtesy for prised of but one huge Post (Lincoln and Congressmen to introduce bills by request Omaha Posts) ... Some Departments have both as a service to constituents or groups... County and District organizations, some The same Congressmen may be for, against have only Counties, some have only or i ndifferent to bills thus introduced. Districts .. Most Districts include several counties some Counties include several MORE VA INSURANCE Districts ... Some Departments have no TO BE HANDLED BY District or County Divisions because ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT: there's no need for them (such as D.C.)... The Veterans Administration plans to These divisions all make good sense locally convert its insurance activities in Denver and the "confusion" is largely academic. ...Better to have Nevada create what it and St . Paul to automatic data processing, and to establish a new data processing needs than to imitate the structure in cen ter in Philadelphia to handle vets' New York for the sake of a misfit standard- ization. . .When the word "District" is insurance transactions .. .VA does not believe these innovations will slow down used as a generalization by the national inexact term, service during the changeover, as its organization it is always an the level of organ- earlier switches to automatic data process- and usually means next Post... Thus ing did, because it will not throw "problem ization above the local a accounts" into the new electronic brain national award for a. District Commander hoppers until they are functioning would, in New Jersey, go to a County having no Districts. smoothly ... Target date for the Denver Commander—N. J. changeover is next Oct. 1 (to start) and INDIAN WAR VETS April 20, 1963 for completion. .. St . Paul THINNING: targets are Dec. 1, 1962 and June 30, 1963. RANKS ARE There were still 29 living veterans OBFUSCATING, SI, of the Indian Wars on the rolls of the GOBBLEDTGOOK, NO: Veterans Administration as of Washington's Q. As Departments of The American Legion Birthday, 1962, as well as 581 of their are simply state organizations, why wasn't widows... The officially recognized Indian this made more readily understandable in Wars began with the Pah-Ute Expedition the first place by simply calling them (California) in April 1860, and ended with "States" instead of "Departments"?... the Chippewa "Disturbances" at Leech Lake, Let's get rid of obfuscating gobbledygook. Minn., in Oct. 1898... The 29 survivors, A. They include all the state organiza- all in their 90's or over 100, include tions, but not "simply" the state organ- whites, Negroes and Indians who were among fought with the izations ... The word "state" would no t the original 106,000 who apply to the Departments of: U. S. Army in the numerous Indian Wars. Canada, District of Columbia, France, Italy, Mexico, Panama Canal Zone, Philip- WHAT ARE "NEED" AND ECONOMY?" pines, or Puerto Rico, nor —when the The VA recently abolished more than term "Department" was adopted — to Alaska 160 local "contact officers" whose job or Hawaii was to assist veterans with possible

Q. The Legion word "District" is more claims. . .Reasons given: "no need" and gobbledygook. . .Why not just call them "economy. ".. .VA then undid the economy by Counties so everyone gets it? creating more than 160 new j obs specifi- A. You should sign up for the next cally to remind vets seeking hospital class of the Legion Extension Institute, care of their possible ineligibility for a correspondence course on intramural it... A Congressional review of 19,000 VA Legionism. (Membership Division, Nat'l hospital admissions last fall suggested Hq. PO Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana) that 4 of the 19,000 might have been

It is rar e that a Legion District is ineligible. . .Service officers at the exactly a county... A District is a level Legion winter conference were hopping mad of organization bigger than the average- at these notions of "need" and "economy."

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION lEW AND VETERANS" AFFAIRS APRIL 1962-

Highlights of Winter Meet

More than 1,000 Legionnaires met in Washington, D.C. Feb. 26-March 2, for the

2nd Annual Nat'l Commander's Conference and the 39th Rehabilitation Con-

ference. Many Legion groups developed policy and program studies, met with

their lawmakers, got the last word on their specialties from top experts in and

out of gov't. Here, and on the next page, are a few glimpses of the meetings.

Hearing room was packed as Nat'l Cmdr Bacon presented Legion's 1962 veterans' program to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.

President Kennedy pins on the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal, just received from Nat'l Cmdr. Chas. L. Bacon (cap). "Nobody has a better right to stand on this The Foreign Relations Commission was one ground," the President told 1,000 Legionnaires gathered on the White House lawn of 7 major Commissions and many special for the ceremony. At right, immediate Past Nat'l Cmdr William R. Burke (Calif.) Legion Committees meeting at the same time.

The Astronauts. America's three spacemen, fresh from Cmdr. Bacon. At left. Bacon presents earth orbiter Glenn to the Conference. At Washington parade for Lt. Col. John Glenn, attended the right. Col. Glenn reaches across spaceman Capt. Virgil Grissom and Commander opening Legion Conference, got Legion citations from Nat'l Alan Shepard, Jr. to shake hands with Mrs. Bacon.

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State Legion leaders entertained their Congressmen at separate functions (some sliown below), then Nat'l Cmdr Bacon held a reception for the whole Congress and Legion Conference that jammed the Statler's two biggest meeting halls. First meeting of Legion's new Committee on Problems of Aging

Veterans. L. to r. Chmn Jas. Doon (N.H.), J. Ross Foust (Pa.). Jos. Holzka (N.Y.), F. Clinton Knight (Va.), IVIilton Applebaum (III.)

Wisconsin. Dep't Cmdr Gil Stordock (left) and NECman Lloyd Florida. Dep't Cmdr Sam McCollum (left) and NECman E. Berken (right) with Wisconsin Representatives William Van Meade Wilson (right) with Florida Senator Spessard Holland Pelt and Vernon Thompson at a Wisconsin reception. and Representative Bob Sikes, at a Florida Legion function.

Georgia. Legionnaires W. E. Harrell, A. V. Akin, and Dep't Idaho. Legionnaires Douglas Kramer, Austin West and Cmdr Ben Chatfleld with Georgia Representative John L. Peter Wilson (from left) and Dudley Smith (right) with Pilcher and Senator Herman Talmadge (with plaques). Idaho Senators Henry Dworshak and Frank Church.

Minnesota. State Cmdr George Abalan (white cap) and New York. Legionnaires Maurice Stember, N.Y. Adjt. (left) NECman Dan Foley (bow tie) chat with Minnesota Rep- and C. Howard Larsen, former Nat'l Sgt at Arms (right), resentatives Joseph Karth (left) and Walter Judd (right). pause to pose with N.Y. Representative Otis E. Pike.

Congressional leaders, agency heads, military experts joined in Legion panels all week. Below are a few who swapped notes with a score of Legion policy and study groups whose findings will make up later reports.

Sen. Carlson Sen. Dodd Sen. Symington Gen. Darnell Comm. Macy VA's Gleason

Sen. Frank Carlson (Kans.) ; Sen. Thom- Nat'l Security Commission as part of a employment with the Legion's Economic as Dodd (Conn.) and Sen. Stuart Sym- panel on Military Manpower, headed by Commission. VA Administrator John S. ington (Mo.) all conferred with the Selective Service chief Gen. L. B. Gleason, Jr., led off a series of panels of

Legion Foreign Relations Commission Hershey. John W. Macy, Jr., Chairman VA officials who met with Legion service on hot spots in the world and over it. of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, officers all week, in the 39th Legion Re- Brig. Gen. Carl Darnell spoke to the was one of many who reviewed veterans' habilitation Conference.

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paying off the balance of the old hospital bill in installments. As for Andrew's future operations, the Gottesman's have found individuals and an organization who believe that "nobody is as tall as when he stoops to help a child." That has been a creed of The Ameri- can Legion not only for Case 19,000 but going all the way back before there was a Case 1.

The first case of direct aid on the National American Legion Child Wel- fare records was in 1925 — years after there had been local aid for children in dire need by Legion Posts. That first case began with a telegram in 1925 to Nat'l Hq from the Legion Adjutant of a western state SERVICE MAN WITH TWO CHIL- DREN MUST GO TO HOSPITAL. MOTHER DEAD. CHILDREN SHOULD GO UNCLE NEW YORK. NO (TRAVEL) FUNDS AVAILABLE HERE. CAN YOU HELP? The Legion provided the travel funds and, said the April 30, 1926, issue of ". this magazine: . .a Legionnaire who was traveling to Chicago took the children that far. A child welfare worker of the Legion took them on to New York City. And when, after a few months, the father was restored to health by his hospital care, he went to his children ." and reestablished the home . . 3-year-old Andrew Gottesman of mittee. Under the 1961 chairman of That was 19,000 cases ago. Brooklyn, N. Y. is — in a very special that committee, Ray Wellington — New It was somewhat later that April was sense—The American Legion's 19,000th York insurance man and member of set aside in the Legion as Child Welfare child. Kings Highway Post 1358 in Brooklyn— Month, but now this April 1962 is the Sentenced to a medical death a year the Brooklyn American Legion and 24th observance of Child Welfare ago because of rare internal defects American Legion Auxiliary investigated Month. It gives you and your Post mem- from birth, a new chance at life for the the case, and then raised $500 toward bers the opportunity to let your com- little boy loomed with news of a Chi- Andrew's operation. munity know not only your interest in cago surgeon who had developed a Learning of the straits of the boy's children, but the things that your Post technique for surgery on Andrew's com- family, the Chicago surgeon. Dr. Orvar has done in behalf of children. plex defect. Swenson, said he would do the surgery If an unfortunate incident occurs in But the multi- for nothing. But there loomed a hos- connection with your Post, you can bet thousand dollar pital bill of more than $1,400, far more it will make headlines, while the good cost of surgery for than the $500 raised by the Brooklyn that your Post has done for children — a Brooklyn boy in Legion. even as with the case of little Andrew Chicago's Chil- Wellington applied to the National Gottesman in Brooklyn — is apt to go dren's Memorial American Legion for an additional unsung. By vigorously observing April Hospital was out $500, the maximum direct aid that the as Child Welfare Month, your Post can of the question for Legion's national Child Welfare tem- help avoid the good being buried from Andrew's then-un- porary emergency fund may provide. sight. employed father, Wellington When a Nat'l Legion Child Welfare In many April Child Welfare Month Army Aii- Force check for $500 went to the Children's meetings throughout the nation you will vet Jack Gottesman (SM years duty in Memorial Hospital in Chicago, follow- hear the phrase "A Square Deal for WW2). ing a successful operation on Andrew, Every Child." It is a phrase, theme and The Gottesman's plight was pub- his case went into the permanent files goal all rolled into one. It's as old as lished in the New York Daily News. as the 19,000th national American Le- American Legion Child Welfare itself. Among those who read it was Mrs. Betty gion direct-aid Child Welfare case since Yet each year it may have a new mean- Murphy of Brooklyn who offered to, 1925, when the Legion national En- ing, and to different individuals it may and did, pay the cost of travel to Chi- dowment Fund was raised. have a different meaning. cago of Andrew and his mother, Betty There is still more to pay on Andrew's For example, Mrs. H., of Mississippi, Gottesman. first operation, and he will need more was left with two small children. She

Others who read it included the mem- surgery in Chicago. needed immediate help while she re- bers of the Kings County (Brooklyn) Little Andrew's father is working adjusted her life. A temporary nat'l Le- American Legion Child Welfare Com- now, and he and Andrew's mother are gion grant (of the same type as in Case

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19,000) was authorized for two months. Backed in general tlie New March of members, and seven more were over When the second check was mailed, Dimes in the American way. Thank you 3,000. the Mississippi Department Child Wel- and may God bless The American Le- Pennsylvania and Illinois each had " fare Chairman returned it, stating: gion five Posts over 2,000. Tennessee had

"Mrs. H. has found employment and From these illustrations, it is obvious four. will not need assistance at this time. She that a Square Deal for Every Child can The Departments of Mexico, Min- requested that I return the check so mean the work of one person, or of a nesota and Italy all finished 1961 with that you could use it for another family." federal agency — the work of a local more members than in any year since

No doubt Mrs. H. could have found Post or a national foundation — it can the Legion was founded in 1919. good use for the small check. But to her benefit a single child or many children When it comes to Sons of The Ameri- a Square Deal for Every Child meant — it can treat ills or prevent them — can Legion growth, Ohio walked oft returning the check so that others, less it can cost much or little. Giving a with the Arthur D. Houghton Trophy fortunate, could be helped too. Square Deal to Every Child is a goal for a gain of 156.04% in its SAL mem- Post 393, Edgar, Wisconsin, inter- guaranteed to keep the good your Post bership for 1961. prets a Square Deal for Every Child in does from being buried. The big boost in current Legion a different manner. This past year the membership is credited largely to the Legion Membership Post purchased $1,000 worth of play- fine work of District and County or- ground equipment for their local park, A Growing Boy ganizations, according to National and put up a shelter house at a cost of On February 1, The American Le- Commander Charles L. Bacon. Com- an additional $800. gion had 50,351 more members en- mander Bacon has issued special awards Post 104, \'allejo, California, has do- rolled for 1962 than for 1961 on Feb. 1, for District Commanders whose districts nated 65 pints of blood to keep four a year ago. led all others in their Departments in children alive who have a blood disease. A total of 40 of the 58 Departments 1962 membership on Dec. 31. One child is in constant need of blood. were ahead of the previous year's total It's a neat trick to have 100% of your It is hoped the other three may be of the same date. District's previous full-year membership cured. The Post has established relay The two-millionth membership re- enrolled by Jan. 1 of a new year, but teams to provide the blood continuously ported to National Hq came in 16 days four of the Districts honored by the — and help assure a Square Deal for earlier than last year. Mr. Two Million National Commander did just that, while eight over 90%. Every Child. happened to be Charles J. White, of more were Babies who are born with the me- Post 4, Wichita, Kansas. The 100% Districts were the 2nd Dis- tabolic defect called Phenylketonuria Final figures for 1961, as of the close trict of Louisiana (Richard Haydel, may become mentally retarded beyond of books on December 31, revealed that Commander), 100.89%; the 12th Dis- repair. In February, the U. S. Chil- 38 Posts of The American Legion had trict of North Carolina (John E. Bark- dren's Bureau announced a new test de- more than 2,000 members at year's end. ley, Commander), 112%; the 5th Dis- vised by Dr. Robert Guthrie, which re- Altogether, the 38 Posts had a total of trict of South Carolina (Marcus T. portedly detects Phenylketonuria in the 117,408 members. Biggest, once again, Smith, Commander), 106.3% and the

first few days of life. Once the fact is was Leyden-Chiles-Wickersham Post 1, 9th District of Utah (Jay Fitzgerald, established, special diets can be started in Denver, Colo., with 8,996 members Commander), 103.1%. that stymie the defect and the mental for 1961. Reminder retardation. Further development of Dr. Other Posts over 5,000 were Lincoln Just in case, may we remind you that Guthrie's work promises to strike an- Post 3, and Omaha Post 1, both in Ne- it isn't too soon to be whipping up Poppy other blow for a Square Deal for Everv braska (7,357 and 5,121 members re- plans and ditto for Memorial Day grave

Child. pectively ) decorations? May 30 gets closer each During March, at the Kent School of Three other Posts exceeded 4,000 dav. Social Work, University of Louisville, 30 of the nation's top experts in child welfare pooled their knowledge with HALF DOZEN LEGIONNAIRE BROTHERS the aim of finding new techniques in the care of young delinquents in supervised foster homes instead of overcrowded institutions. The workshop was carried on by a grant from the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation— in the hope that it too would contribute to the goal of a Square Deal for Every Child. Harold Gibson, Chapter Chairman of March of Dimes in Forsyth County, N. C. writes to the Legion Nat'l Hq to say: "... I would like to thank The American Legion and also the Clyde Boiling Post 55 in Winston-Salem, N.C., for the excellent cooperation received during the 1962 New March of Dimes campaign. "Our local Legion, Post 55, helped Six Aronen brothers line up to receive their 1962 American Legion membership cards in Post in three different ways: Used the (1) 239, Virginia, Minnesota, from Post Commander A. N. Wahlsten, left. The brothers are Bill. new dime boards for the Legion Post; Larry, John, Hugo, Robert and Walter. First three were in the Army In WW2, Hugo in the Navy. (2) Helped in special events, (3) Robert and Walter were with the Air Force during the Korean War.

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 iniiiiiiriiiiiriiiiMiMiiiiniiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiHtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiuiiiitiiiiiiMiinriiiiitnti Ohio Youth Missing "If Lincoln were alive today, he would BRIEFLY NOTED say the world can not endure permanent- Have You Seen Him? free," said Nat'l mriitiiiiiiMiiMiMiiliMiiniiiiMiiniiiriiiiiiiiiiniiiiniHiriiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiMiMiMiiliiMlliili ly half sla\e and half Charles L. Bacon in his Lincoln Avon Lake, Ohio, police are trying to Cmdr address at Abraham Lincoln's tomb help Legionnaire Robert Crawford to Dates for all of The American Legion Day as in Springfield, 111., on Feb. 12. locate his 15-year- Boys States for 1962 ha\e been set, old son, Bruce ha\'e all the sites except New Hamp- The 13th annual Armed Forces Day will Crawford, myster- shire's. First will be Panama's, April 13- observed the Military Services on iously missing 19, at Fort Kobee, Canal Zone. Louisi- be by will hold theirs in Saturday May 19. Military Posts at since last Septem- ana and Montana home and abroad will hold open house ber 23. His height August. All others will be in June. for the public, and as in the past, Ameri- 5'9"; hair brown, honored can Legion Posts will help coordinate eyes brown. He Rhode Island news media were I. Legion at an many community observances. Armed has a hairline scar —by the R. American dinner recently— for their Forces Day slogan continues to be over the bridge of appreciation coverage of Legion affairs. "Power for Peace." Legion Posts near his nose, and wore military installations would do well to braces on his low- annual spring meeting of contact commanding officers now to er teeth when he The the Ameri- can Legion National Executive offer their assistance in the observances. disappeared from his home. If you have Commit- tee has any information, ask your local police to been scheduled for May 2 and Indianapolis, Astronaut Clenn, and his notify Police Dep't, Avon Lake, Ohio. 3, at Ind., Nat'l Hq. John H. Jr., wife and his parents were sent congrat- Nat'l Cmdr Bacon has hailed the U. S. ulatory messages by Nat'l Commander PEOPLE IN THE NEWi trade embargo action against Cuba, and Bacon for The American Legion imme- recent OAS action against the Castro diately upon Lt. Col. Glenn's 3-()rbit Bernard A. Nolen, Jr., named an Assist- gov't. Both steps jibed with recommen- circuit of the globe on Feb. 20. ant Director of the Legion's Nat l Re- dations of the 1961 American Legion habilitation Commission in Washington. Nat'l Convention. Three retiring members of the VA insurance Di\ision have recei\ed Ameri- Percy A. Lemoine (La.) named to a April 25-May 9 is national Mental can Legion certificates of appreciation citizens Committee to plan celebration Health Week. (Continued on next page) of 50th anniversary of U. S. Children s Bureau. Lemoine is Chmn of the nat American Legion Child Welfare Com mission. DOING IT THE HARD WAY by borr ' * (GETTING RID OF DANDRUFF, THAT IS!) 14 George B. French (Connecticut) eki. M ted President of the American Legio Service Officers Association. Joseph Briones (Alaska) named Vice President.

Earl Sylvester, Department Commander of the Delaware American Legion in 1925-26.

Frank G. Ward, in Kansas City, Mo. He was a delegate to the Paris Caucus of The American Legion in 1919.

George Freedman, Maine's alternate on The American Legion National Execu- tive Committee.

Donald G. Nutter, Legionnaire Gover- nor of Montana, in an airplane crash.

William G. Murdock, at Milton, Pa. He was Commander of the Pennsylvania easier 3-minute way for men: FITCH American Legion in 1919. Men, get rid of embarrassing dandruff easy as 1-2-3 with FITCH ! In just 3 minutes (one rubbing, one lathering, one rinsing), every trace of

Harry Forrest, (K W. 1945-46 Commander _ ,® dandruff, grime, gummy old hair tonic goes of the Colorado American Legion, in down the drain! Your hair looks handsomer, Denver. FITCH healthier. Your scalp feels so refreshed. Use LEADING MAN'S FITCH Dandruff Remover SHAMPOO every Ben W. Weir, Dep't Cmdr of the Kan- week for positive dandruff control. Keep your sas American Legion (1943-44); on SHAMPOO hair and scalp really clean, dandruff-free! Dec. 28, 1961, in Grove, Okla.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 35 . NEWS

Briefly Noted your Post lacks such a committee, or its (Continued from previous page) records haven't been updated, it's a t POSTS IN ACTION t I project calling for new action. No local * * i from Nat'l Rehab Director John J. Cor- Chowder & Marching Society is apt to i Items from our nearly 17,000 posts. J | Interest >.oran. They are: George Milligan, (35 ^ Those of most general and ^ | do this job for you. are se- widest geographical spread ^ | years with the VA), George L. McGurn with apologies for the hun- it = iected, and Earl C. Petty (both over 40 years dreds of others so kindly reported | Spoof Dep't. A so-called basketball game to the editors from all sources. * with the VA ) J | was played in McCook City, Nebraska, X * 1 recently between The American Legion i The New Jersey American Legion held Sissies and the VFW Showoffs, with the Put It — You can't enjoy the bar its 18th annual breakfast for New Jersey in in Up | Sissies dresses and the Showoffs red members of Congress at the Congres- in Post 937, Smithton, 111., come | flannel underwear. What actually hap- stint for sional Hotel in Washington, Feb. 1. N. January, without doing a | J. pened defies description as 31 "players" too. are expec- Legion officials reviewed the problems humanity Customers | made like the 3-stooges. The Nebraska ted to pin $1 for the March of Dimes Legionnaire involved trying to | got so ex- on a "clothesline" hung behind the | plain what happened that it forgot to

bar. When January ended this year, | say why. We suppose it was to raise the 117 members and their guests i funds for some worthy cause, and we'll

had $142 hanging on the line. It's a | bet that it did.

good-humored annual affair, called |

putting "The Buck on the Line." | Draft registrants now have a new draft classification— Class 1-Y. It identifies Spelling It Out — Post 41, Phoenix, | registrants not qualified for present draft Ariz., put heat on its 1,000 members | calls but who would qualify for military to support a whopping fund-drive | serv ice in an emergency. and benefit dance to finance its Child | Welfare activities for the whole year. | 106 people turned out for a banquet in To justify the heat, the Post spelled | Gorham, Me., as Post 60 gave Legion out major local programs the $$$ | Heroism Medals to Philip Loura, 14, and would support. They included five | John True, Jr., 15, for rescuing two athletic teams; Boys State sponsor- | \oung girls who fell through ice while ship; donations to specific charities; | skating. food, clothing and medical aid to | needy children; anti-delinquency | Post 15, Wabash, Ind., gave the Legion — high work; and something new | A visit to Puerto Rico. Nat'l Commander and Heroism Medal to member Hugh Brin- school scholarships, to help prevent | Mrs. Charles L. Bacon being received at Ponce, son, WW2 vet. He went into a house so high-school drop-outs where family Rico during midwinter official visit to | Puerto a engulfed in flame that firemen believed American Legion Department of Puerto finances are a cause. | The it impossible to enter, and saved a three- Rico. At right, Juan H. Cintron, Commander yeai-old child. Long in Harness — Joesph D. Walsh, i of Post 56, Ponce, and a member of the Le- gion's national Foreign Relations Commission. on Feb. 15, completed his 40th | Best Cubs The N. Y. American Legion straight year as Adjutant of Post 3, | — Germantown, Pa. He took the job award for the best Legion-sponsored | of veterans with theii' legislators. "temporarily" on Feb. 15, 1922. i Cub Scout Pack in New York State has gone to Post 215, Pawling, N.Y. Its 81- Nat'l Commander Bacon scheduled an Legion Scubas — Six members of i boy, 9-Den Pack has 25 adult leaders. official visit to the Legion in Hawaii and the underwater skin-diving rescue | the Philippines, for March 25 to April 2. team of Post 1, Atlanta, Ga., recently | searched a full day in near-freezing, i LIFE MEMBERSHIPS joined 18 100-foot water for two missing fish- i The Indiana American Legion The citation of an individual Legion- ermen. other organizations in conducting a pub- naire to life membership in his Post | is a testimonial by those who know lic Cold War Strategy seminar in In- him best that he has served The Big Santa In its "Gifts for American Legion well. — annual | dianapolis Feb. 22. Leaders in edu- on Below are listed some of the pre- Yanks" program, Post 278, Warren, 1 cation, religion, business and the pro- viously unpublished life memberships that have been reported to the editors. Ohio delivered 2,364 gift packages 1 fessions led the seminar. They are arranged by States or Depts. to hospitalized veterans. 1 Leonard F. Dauwalter (1961), Post 15, Winslow, Wisconsin American has dis- Ariz. Wheels for Sport — Five special The Legion | Harry R. Loosley (1961), Post 39, Sebastopol. continued its Sales Division wheel-chairs, in which physically Emblem Calif. | Woo Quong Fook and Wisconsin Legionnaires will hence- (1961), Post 121, Watsonville handicapped students may play has- Calif. | Glenn De Poy ketball forth procure their Legion insignia from (1959) and W. F. Trapp (1960), have been given to Widney 1 Post 422. Rialto, Calif. the National Emblem Sales Division at Harry Wallace Stacey Hi School Valley Branch by Ann- 1 and Lulu Mae Stacev Indianapolis Nat'l Hq., except for insig- (both 1958), Post 469, Yucca Valley. Calif. heuser-Busch Post 843, Van Nuys, 1 Wilbur Erickson and Abner Farrow and S. A. Garnett and IVI. California. nia peculiar to Wisconsin. T. Hancock (all 1961), Post 53, | Monte Vista, Colo. Edward H. Lynch, Jr. (1961). Post 1. Waterbury. Conn. Let There Be Light —The small com- | One Legion program that is very much Fred J. C. Ensworth (1961), Post 6, New Britain. munity of Lawrenceville, W. Va., had | alive in some areas and in decay in Conn. Adolph Carlson and Nathan Grower and no street lights until recently, is when 1 others keeping of records of the lo- Stephen Hazelwood and Goren Johnson (all 1961), Post 105, Cromwell. Conn. Post 163, Chester, installed lights on 1 cation of all local veterans' graves, which Cyrus W. Palmore (1961), Post Munich. Ger- the four 8, principal streets at its ex- | is properly done by a Post Graves Regis- many. Theodore J. Herzog (I960), Post 47, Chicaao, 111. pense. | tration and If Memorial Committee. John Howe (1961), Post 277. Auburn, III.

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 NEWS Does your oMild know if Elmer Anderson and Ray Clary and Milton Dean (all 1961), Post 640, Liberty, 111. Legion Baseball Nate Feingold (1961), Post «27, Chicapo, III. dogs dream? (Do you?) Harry Husniann and Lester G. Rasmussen and Today — and Yesterday Harold i. Rvder (all 1961). Post 1079, Albany. III. John D. Fuller and Clinton Straus (both 1947) Early reports indicate that a record and Reed Beard (1961). Post 33, Bedford, Ind. Harold Brownell and Ralph Nash and Harold nuinber of American boy.s will play on Strickland (all 1961), Post 101, Lowell, Ind. American Legion Baseball teams spon- Harold E. Cadd, Sr. (1961), Post 11, Jefferson, Iowa. sored by local American Legion Posts John W. Downey and Murry Figg and Fred Holmes (all 1962). Post 27. Muscatine. Iowa. this summer. Mary J. Malloy (1961), Post 239, Gilmore City, Thousands of Legionnaires are well Iowa. Edward E. Powers (1961). Post 23, Leavenworth. along in their preliminary plans for the Kans. competition, which will Louis Balkan (1961), Post 57, Old Orchard 37th season of Beach. Maine. terminate in the annual Little World Henry Clevette and Alex J. Landry (both 1961). Post SO, Millinocket, Maine. Series at Bismarck, North Dakota, from Francis X. Falvey (1962), Post 168, Thurmont, Md. Aug. 28 to Sept. 3. Harvey Gortner (1962). Post 214. Grantsville, For example. Post 96, Lima, Ohio, Md. Carl L. Armentrout and Edwin T. Clarke and had a sports banquet in January, and Albert H. Lewis (all 1962), Post 261, White Oak, Md. a two-day baseball clinic in February, Peter R. Stephens (1961). Post 94, Boston. Mass. with big-leaguers on hand to teach, and George Perrault (1960) ;ind George Jeffers (19'.1). Post 266. Granby, Mass. youngsters from Little League as well John J. Fortsch (1962). Post 344. Hatfield. Mass. to John A. Delaney and Patsy DeMilia and Free- as American Legion Baseball teams man Lucas and James F. Lucas (all 1961), Post learn. 442, Cambridge. Mass. The Book of Knowledge Matthew K, Gurvine (1961), Post 318, Detroit, Se\ eral rule changes approved by the Mich. National Americanism Commission will Emmette Harrell (1961). Post 94, Troy. Mo. has the answer! Gilbert W. Ganssle (1961), Post 111, Custer, be incorporated in the 1962 regulations Mont. Thedore Pringos and Wilfred Rennert and John when the first games are scheduled this All the answer.s to a child's bur.sting Seely and Emmett Van Auken (all 1961), Post 86. clarifications of curiosity. Science, art, literature, his- Newton. N. J. summer. These, and Elmer Monk (1961). Post 31, Little Falls, N.Y. other rules, are included in the revised tory—and all of it written in a lively, Paul W. Dowdell (1961), Post 90, Mamaroneck, N.Y. American Legion Baseball Handbook, entertaining language to delight your Myron Caruso and Arthur Forster and Alfred in the of State and Post Le- child ... to keep him learning without W. Giebel and F. William Kemm, Jr. (all 1961), now hands Post 104, Glendale, N.Y. gion Baseball officials. even knowing he's doing it. How can Harry House and Frank Hughes (both 1961). Post 157, Brooklyn, N.Y. Boys born on or after Sept. 1, 1943 The Book of Knowledge do what no James Delfino and Richard C. Williams (both 1961, other set can? Simply: things that 1961), Post 1035, Watervliet, N.Y. will be permitted to play. During Chester Kenev and Karl Bartholomay (both some 18-yeai-old boys competed, but belong together are found together 1961), Post Henrietta, N.Y. 1151, in an easy logical James M. Alexander (1961), Post 1341, Sonyea, the addition of four more months eligi- arrangement. Other N.Y. this all boys will reference books are alphabetized and Marion Rich (1961), Post 1430, Marion, N.Y. bility year allows who Clarence W. Reaves (1961), Post 1700, West not be 19 until September to participate. systematized to a slide-rule's cold ex- Endicott, N.Y. actness. The Book of is Harry M. Hunke, Sr. (1961), Post 40, Mandan, Where teams are recruited from more Knowledge N. Dak. high school, the qualifying not. It makes the child want to read Willis W. Tennyson (1960) and Jack McTagiie than one and Johnnie L. Minzes (both 1961), Post 65. Ard- school-enrollment totals for each such more and more. more. Okla. Arthur R. Stewart (1962), Post 140, Greenville, school has been raised from 2,500 to Pa. SEE FOR YOURSELF. SEND FOR THE FREE Rudolph Alletag and LeRoy M. Knowles (both 3,000 students in co-ed institutions, and 1961). Post 241. Philadelphia. Pa. from 1,250 to 1,500 pupils in all-make "MINIATURE" BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE Homer J. Ross (1945) and Robert S. Orr and Wilbur E. Wilson (both 1954) and David E. Mc- schools. E.xpanded school enrollments This free 24 page full color booklet Junkin (1956), Post 295. Brownsville. Pa. the trend to consolidation of school William M. Fahnestock (1961). Post 340, Dun- and contains actual pages of science, his- cannon, Pa. districts were the factors that made this tory, art, stories, quizzes, things to Allen R. Fritz (1961), Post 378, Bangor, Pa. John C. Rees (1961), Post 404. Elizabethville. change advisable. make and do and other informative Pa. Departinent (state) will Albert Bangor and Joseph F. Morell (both 1961). champions and entertaining features taken di- Post 498, Rochester, Pa. play in eight regional tournaments, and rectly from The Book of Knowledge Thomas Muldowney and C. Eugene Murphy and Joseph Phillips and John Radzievich (all 1960), must be certified to Nat'l Hq. as Depart- itself. Give it to your child and see Post 544. Minersville. Pa. before midnight, Sun- eagerly it. H. Robert Guss (1961), Post 777. Crum Lynne, ment Champions how he reads Send for it Pa. day, August 12. today. It's free and it's wonderful! Harry Chapin and John Melvin (both 1961), Post 834. Fallsin'iton. Pa. Two teams ha\ e been placed in differ- Walter R. Turbeville (1961), Post Columbia, 86, ent regions from last year. Alaska's S. C. THE BOOK OF Clifford R. Paxton (1958) and G. N. Rodesney champion will play in Region 6, at Man- and J. W. Spangler (both 1961), Post 416, Hous- ton. Tex. dan, North Dakota. The Hawaiian Quinn Plowman (1961), Post 58, Smithfield, KNOWLEDGE champion will play in the Region 8 tour- Utah. opens the door to success Joseph Jelinski and John Shea, Sr. (both 1961), ney at Las Vegas, New Mexico. Last Post 58, Hurley, Wis. "1 Fred R. Schimmel (1959) and Oscar R. Kinkle year Alaska appeared at Bend, Oregon, ^FREE 24 PAGE FULL COLOR BOOKLET and Paul H. Vogeler (both 1961), Post 203, Mil- THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGES I waukee, Wis. in Region 8, and Hawaii played in Re- The Grolier Society Inc. | gion 7, at Sheridan, Wyoming. 575 Le.Nington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. Post Commanders or Adjutants are Regional Please send me the color booklet described above. I asked to report life membership Here are the sites of the awards to "Ljfe Memberships," The Tournaments for 1962 (dates will be an- American Legion Magazine. 720 5th There are children in my family, ages I Ave., New York 19, N.Y. Post number, nounced later). The winner of each to location and date of award is re- to finals at Bismarck, Dak. quested in all cases and current go the N. membership card number when pos- Region 1. Champs of Connecticut, sible. Receipt of names cannot be acknowledged. Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Life Memberships in Maryland, Ohio City- -Zone- will and West Virginia are only accepted if Rhode Island and Vermont play at received via the Department Adjutant, Keene, New Hampshire. County- in conformity with state Legion policy. Region 2. Champs of Delaware, D.C., A publication of Grolier Inc. c) 19i">2. Grolier Inc. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 37 Maryland, New Jersey, New York and cester, Mass., playing in Comiskey Park, leigh A. Burke, USN (Ret) has been West Virginia will play at College Park, Chicago. (Final was best-of-3-games named to develop April 19 bell-ringing Maryland then). as a national custom. The 4-minute toll- Region 3. Champs of Alabama, Flor- At their recent reunion the 1928 ing in every American community is syn- ida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Car- Champions resolved that they "wanted chronized this April 19 for 1 p.m. olina and Virginia will play at Colonial to thank The American Legion for cre- (EST), 12 noon (CST), 11 a.m. (MST) Heights, Virginia. ating the finest junior baseball program and 10 a.m. (PST). Region 4. Champs of Arkansas, Loui- in the world," according to a letter to the Perhaps your Post will invite your siana, Mississippi, Panama Canal Zone, American Legion Magazine from War- churches and schools to join in. Tennessee and Texas will play at Helena, ren Rouse. 'A'liiiiriiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiilllniriiiMniiiiiiirillliliiniiillliMiniiitinMiiiiilliriliiiiliini^ Arkansas. Rouse, who pitched for Oakland's Region 5. Champs of Illinois, Indiana, 1928 champs, served in a Tank Destroy- OUTFIT REUNIONS Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio er outfit in WW2 and is now a vice- '^iiiiiiinMiiMiiriiriiiiiiiMiiiiiiriiiiiiMiiniiMriiiriliiiiirliiiiiiiiiMiiMiriiiiiiriiiMiiii'A' will play at Miirpliijsboro, Illinois. president of Sayre and Toso, Inc., insur- Reunion will be held in month indicated. Region 6. Champs of Alaska, Iowa, ance underwriters. For particulars, write person whose address Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Only one of that team moved on to is given. Notices accepted on official form only. will play at South Dakota and Wisconsin big-time ball, left fielder Bud Hafey, For form send stamped, addressed return Mandan, North Dakota. who played on four major league teams. envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y. Region 7. Champs of Colorado, Idaho, But all of his teammates of 1928 are, Notices should be received at least four Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma and Wyo- today a "solid group of fine American months before scheduled reunion. submissions favored vol- ming will play at Altiis, Oklahoma. citizens," wrote Rouse. Earliest when ume of requests is too great to print all. Region 8. Champs of Arizona, Calif- Rouse said that "the success of the ornia, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, team, and the responsibility' for mold- ARMY 1st Trng. Bn Replacement Gp. Fort Oglethorpe, Oregon, Utah and Washington will pla> ing a gang of kids into fine American Ga. (WWI) - (Aug.) A. R. Winkers, 1046 S. Pine Knoll Dr., Macon, Ga. at Las Vegas, New Mexico. citizens" was "due primarih" to the - 2nd Field SIg. Bn, 1st Div (WWI i ( lune) - Jaci b The Sporting News will carr\' four Legion program and the leadership of Hoffman, 2517 - 3rd Ave., N. Great Falls. Mont. special editions throughout the summer Coach Sharp. 5th Field Sig; Bn, 3rd Div (WWI) - (Sept.) - Fred N. Curry, 34551 Ave. Yucalpa, Calif. high-lighting the doings of the Legion's B, 9th Inf Div - (July) Dan Quinn, 412 G.egory young baseballers. This is in keeping Ring Bells Patriots Day Ave.. Weehawken. N. J. 30th Inf Div (Old Hickory) - (July) Saul Solow, with the established policy of "baseball's 42 Parkway Dr., Syosset, N.Y. 77th Field - (July) Collins, bible", as Publisher G. Taylor Spink's Art., Bat. D Jim N. W. J. Apts 3A, Corsicana. Texas. contribution to the development of Ring Out... 79th Sig. Co., 79th Div. - (May) Louis R. Berke. Grant Town, W. Va. youth baseball. 94th Inf Div - (July) Roger H, Keith, 170 Hill- James Gruber, of Cincinnati, The berg Ave., Brockton 5, Mass. J. 102nd Inf Div - (July) Walter E. Brown, Jr., 857 American Legion Baseball Pla\ er of the Park Ave., Bound Brook, N. J. Ulth Inf (Midwest Area) (WW2) - (Apr.) Ray Year in 1961, will be honored at the Fossler, 710 John St., Belvidere, 111. 113fh Engrs Combat Bn, - (July) Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, Co B Robert Lunsford. 25 Woodlawn Ave., Asheville. N. C. N.Y. on July 23. Gruber's picture will 145th Field Art. Bn (WW2) - (Aug.) Fred L. Lenwell. 528 - 14th St., Santa Monica, Calif. also hang in the Hall of Fame through- 145th Inf. Reg't, 37th Div Co E - (July) Carl E. Koppler, 626 Claremont Ave., Ashland, Ohio out 1962. On Jul\- 23, he will participate 196th Gen Hosp, France (1944-45) - (Aug) in the ceremonies inducting Bob Feller Donald Maxwell, 6 North Michigan Ave., Chi- cago, 111. — among others — into the permanent 331st Inf Regt, 83rd Div, Co I - (June) Willard Cornelius, Box 45, Williamsburg, Ky. Baseball Hall of Fame. Feller is the first 406th AAA Gun Bn., 367 Combat Engrs - (Aug) graduate of American Legion Baseball Norman F. Hedglin, 128 E. Pine St., Dunmore 12. Pa. to be enshrined at Cooperstown. He SS7th AAA Auto. Wpns Bn - (May) Carl N. played his Legion ball in Iowa, before Roth. 541 Elm St.. Emmaus. Pa. 776th Tank Destroyer Bn — (July) Louis Pieper, becoming the greatest professional R.R. #1, Van Home, Iowa. Army Security Agency (Korea) — (July) J. Ronn pitcher of his da\'. De Laney, 11600 NE 6 Ave., Miami 38, Fla. For Liberty! The Real Test NAVY Although hundreds of products of 3rd Marine Div. — (July) Harry W. Edwards, Rt. 1, Box 151, Oakton, Va. American Legion Baseball grace the 7th Seabees - (July) David A. Rolla, R.D. #1, winter rosters of major league teams, the Abo\ e is The American Legion's pic- Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 16th Seabees — (Aug.) Arnold Siita, 1246 Addison Legion takes greater pride in the count- torial symbol that calls for the ringing St., Berkeley 2, Calif. 64th Seabees (WW2) - (Aug.) W. R. Brown. less thousands of its of church and school bells, chimes and present and former 1955 Wingfield Cir., Jackson 3, Miss. players who are making significant con- carillons all across the nation for four "F" Association, Navy Marine & Coast Guard Firefighters - (July) L. B. McGurk, 414 Wood- bibutions to the welfare and growth of minutes on April 19, to express what lawn Ave., Streator, 111, USS Chicago (WWI) — (April) J. B. Lancaster. their National L. communities, partly as a result of Commander Charles Bacon 5051 Oxford Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. training and discipline they enjo>'ed un- calls "... a dramatic nationwide demon- USS Elmore (APA 42) and USS Electra (AK 21) - (July) Hank Baldwin, 219 Burning Tree Rd., der adult leadership on American Le- stration of America's devotion to free- Timonium, Md. - L. gion diamonds. dom." USS Leviathan (WWI) (Apr.) R. Hedlander, Box 22, Greenwich, Conn. Recently, the 13 surviving members April 19 is the anniversary of Paul USS Niagara (WWI) - (Apr.) Joe Havender, Jr., 3686 Jerome Ave., New York 67, N.Y. of the 'T)oys" who won the national Le- Revere's ride, cued by the flashing of USS Pciffer (DE 588) - (July) Charles H. McFar- land, 1945 Westburn Rd., Cleveland 12, Ohio. gion title 34 years ago held a reunion in signal lights in the Old North Church in USS South Dakota (WWI) - (April) A. P. Powel- Oakland, California, with their old coach, Boston, which signalled the start of the son, 2022 N. Craig Ave., Altadena, Calif. USS Warren (APA 53) - (June) Allie Frank, PO colonies' Leroy B. Sharp. American long fight for free- Box 247, South Orange, N.J. A sensational boys' team from Oak- dom from British rule. AIR land in 1928, they swept the first two A national "Bells Across the Nation" lOth Trp. Carrier Sqdn, 60th Trp. Carrier Grp - (Aug) John Diamantakos, 2837 25th St. West, games of the final contest against Wor- committee, chairmanned by Adm. Ar- Birmingham, Ala.

38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST PATROL (Continued from page 13)-

There was no oil slick, no wreckage, no checked weather forecasts indicated no clothing, no bodies, nothing. Six air- inclement weather in prospect. In fact, planes and 27 men had utterly vanished! the weather could scarcely have been The Avengers, of course, were apt to better for the flight. sink quickly if forced to ditch in the sea, At 8:25 a.m., Bermuda tower received

but it was highly unlikely that an escape its routine flight report from the airliner: could not have been enacted by at least "This is Captain McPhee aboard the some of the 14 men aboard, all of whom Ariel en route to Kingston, Jamaica, from were well versed in sea-escape pro- Bermuda. We have reached cruising alti- cedures. tude. Fair weather. Expected time of ar- The Martin aircraft was another mat- rival Kingston as scheduled." ter. There was no reason at all why, even The Ariel was neither heard from nor

had it used all its fuel in the search, it seen again. Once more the strange dis- could not have safely landed on the appearance had occurred with no vestige surface. An unusually mild sea was run- left of debris or bodies. ning all this time and there would have In the early 1950's, according to Gil- How to buy been no difficulty. Yet, the big plane with bert L. Carter, United States public rela- its 13 men, life rafts and other rescue tions manager of British Overseas Air- Florida Land equipment simply disappeared as did the ways Corporation (BOAC), the firm of Avengers. British South American Airways Com- An immediate investigation of the pany was absorbed by BOAC and all SITE UNSEEN strange occurrence was made by the records pertaining to the disappearances Navy. After exhaustive study of the en- of the Star Tiger and Ariel were turned 8 Rules to Keep Your Aviation tire incident, the Naval Board of Inquiry over to the British Ministry of Money Safe . . . and Your reported in detail all that had transpired in London. Investment Growing and then summed up with this succinct The Ministry of Aviation, of course, You can make a solid investment in Florida ph*ase : "We are not able to even make a investigated the disappearance of these real estate, site unseen, if you go about it good guess as to what happened." two planes quite as thoroughly as we had the right way. Before buying any Florida property, it should meet these eight impor- the disappearance of our six This was the beginning of the great investigated tant requirements: mystery, but by no means the end of it. military planes. The conclusions drawn 1. LOCATION— The community should be Just short of 26 months later — on Janu- by their Board of Inquiry were almost near a modern city of at least medium size. S. ary 29, 1948 — a similar incident oc- identical to those drawn by the U. 2. CLIMATE — Average year-round tempera- ture curred. This time it involved a com- Navy Board: that the planes had dis- should be in middle 70's; total annual rainfall between 40-60 inches; relative lost at sea, mercial aircraft. appeared and were presumed humidity about 75. A huge four-engined Star Tiger air- although no actual substantiation of this 3. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES - Land should be liner belonging to the British South was ever reported. high and dry, roads paved, residential streets curved. American Airways Company and carry- What is this strange phenomenon ing 34 passengers plus six crew members which occasionally envelops aircraft fly- 4. FACILITIES — Make sure stores, churches, recreational facilities are within the com- was in the same general area en route to ing in the semitropical area? At this time munity, and hospitals, libraries, theatres Kingston, Jamaica. At 10:30 p.m. it no one can do more than speculate and, are at least nearby. radioed the tower at Bermuda: as might be expected, speculation has run 5. FUTURE — Community should be vigorous, young, growing, and land values in the are course miles rampant. Most pilots are aware that "We on 400 from surrounding area should be increasing. Bermuda tower. The weather is excellent throughout the history of manned flight 6. PRICE AND COST OF LIVING—Look for a wide and the ship performing well. We should there have been cases when airplanes variety of homes in all price categories, arrive Jamaica on schedule." have vanished with no trace. Pilots dis- then select a site priced comfortably within your budget. Beware of hidden extras, and This was the last message ever re- like talking about these disappearances be sure the purchase price includes ceived from the plane. The Star Tiger with outsiders and only reluctantly dis- Warranty Deed and Title Insurance. was never seen again, nor was any trace cuss them among themselves. Crashes 7. DEVELOPERS-Check and double-check the people behind the community, with local ever found indicating a crash into the they can understand and though they are churches, banks and Better Business sea or elsewhere. No wreckage, no oil frightening enough in themselves, the Bureau. slick, no debris. The big plane and its 40 planes are still in evidence — or at least 8. WRITTEN GUARANTEE —You should have a occupants had vanished. pieces of them are — to indicate what written guarantee for refund of your money in case you are not completely satisfied Just 12 days short of one year later — happened. But there is an element of with your land when you see it. on January 17, 1949 - another BSAAC deep-rooted, almost superstitious fear For more details and facts about airliner became the eighth victim. This regarding the matter of airplanes simply a Florida property that more than fulfills the eight important was the Ariel, sister ship to the Star disappearing, particularly in those inci- requirements, send for the free booklet. Tiger, under the command of Captain dents where it is virtually inconceivable GULF AMERICAN LAND CORP., J. C. McPhee. It carried seven crew that the plane or planes could have 557 N. E. 81st St., Miami 38, Fla. members and 1 3 passengers. crashed without leaving behind some GULF AMERICAN LAND CORP. The Ariel was carefully checked and trace. Dept. S-SA-1 557 N. E. 81st Street fueled at Bermuda prior to its scheduled Commercial pilots unwilling to discuss Miami 38, Florida flight to Jamaica. As an added precau- the matter are even more unwilling to Send me, free, a copy of the 32-page, illus- tion, fuel for an extra ten hours of flight have their names connected with opin- trated Florida Book, containing vital facts I need to know before I buy Florida property. was put into the reserve tanks. ions regarding such disappearances. Yet, At 7:30 a.m. the passengers boarded most of them have very strong opinions Name I and 15 minutes later the plane lifted which are basically alike. In dozens of Address I | gracefully from the runway into a bril- coffeecup interviews, here's what a com- I City Zone State I liantly clear morning sky. Carefully posite pilot—let's call him Captain Jimmy |___ 58022_(Q-15)J THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 39 Drake — had to say on the subject: toy with occasionally. Captain Drake where it's been sitting for many years.

"There are a great many things about told me, is that of an unstable aberration Inside the pilot's pouch is a log book. In this old world we don't know yet. Some- in the atmosphere. one of the last entries the pilot tells of times when you're way up there alone "Hell," he snorted, "it's just about encountering a weird silver aeroplane you get to thinking about it and you al- worth your license to talk about some- with which he collided, but not hard most feel you don't have a right up there, thing like that. Aberration? What kind of enough to do any damage. Apparently it knowing as little as you do about things. an aberration? What is it, a hole in the scared hell out of him, though. A lot of pilots have seen a lot of strange sky that planes fly into and can't get out "Anyway, the old book is turned over things they can't explain. If they attempt of? Something that drops them into the to the CAB and they have the FBI or to talk about them or report them, it past or shoves them up into the future? somebody run tests on it and, sure damages their reputations. More than Maybe something that throws them into enough, the book's authentic and the en- one pilot has wished he'd kept quiet another dimension? Brother, you start try is over 40 years old. Then they check about what he saw." spouting stuff like that and you've had it! the plane itself and it has a long scrape He shook his head. "It's a sad state of But they can't stop your thinking and on one side where the pilot's entry says affairs when you have to pretend you've before long you find yourself trying to the other plane hit him. There are traces seen nothing unusual when you've analyze the whole thing coldly and with- of paint and aluminum and when they're actually seen things that've raised your out any bias and all of a sudden this analyzed, they find it matches perfectly hair. Like these planes just vanishing, for aberration idea comes back and some- with the modern plane. instance. We know it's happened. That's how it doesn't seem so weird after all." "Sure," he said, flicking his spoon something you can't ignore. Especially He fiddled with the cup of coffee in with a finger, "it sounds crazy and smells us. We also know it's altogether possible front of him, turned it completely like a hoax. But the pilot's a square guy lor planes to go down occasionally and around in one direction and then all the and even though CAB thinks it's a hoax, be lost without any trace. It's possible, way back. they can't find any way to explain it or but not very likely. There's almost always "Look," Captain Drake said, "just a negate the evidence. So what're you sup- some trace, some floating debris to show matter of months ago the Civil Aero- posed to think? Maybe this aberration it went down. nautics Board got hold of something no theory isn't as far out as a lot of people "Then you get into something like one can understand, even though there's would like to think." this business off the Florida Coast where a barrel of evidence to back it up. This guy, The Civil Aeronautics Board is still too damned many planes have disap- a private pilot in Ohio, was flying around attempting to unravel the mystery of this peared and left no trace at all and you through the clouds one day when all of a strange. collision. The investigation thus begin to wonder about it. The more you sudden he sees he's almost on top of far upholds the pilot's version. If it go over the details, the less possible it another plane. He banks hard but his wasn't a hoax, then just what happened? seems. I mean 'that they crashed. But wing-tip still butts the other plane. Now, Is this a part of the same mystery in- when anyone asks you're just supposed what is this plane? Well, it turns out to volving the Navy planes and the Star to shake your head sadly and say they be an old canvas-and-wood strut-job ob- Tiger and Ariel disappearances? were lost at sea." viously of pre-World War 1 vintage and Officially, the Navy feels there is not He looked up sharply. "Let me tell the pilot is wearing one of those old enough evidence to support any such un- you something. There are plenty who leather flying hats and goggles. Our pilot likely theory as an atmospheric aberra- don't believe it and who can't understand loses sight of it right away in the clouds, tion. why it's considered such a loss of face to so he heads for home and makes out a Last December, I received a letter admit something has happened that we report. But there's no record anywhere from the office of the Chief of Naval can't comprehend and have no control of a plane like this flying around or even Operations in Washington, D.C. As over. But, we just keep on flying and licensed and one certainly didn't crash. stated by Captain Ernest W. Humphrey, hope we won't be next for whatever it "Then, a month or so later, a plane coordinator of Aviation Safety, the is." just like the old one he described is un- Navy's position is made clear:

One of the theories many of the pilots covered in a barn under a stack of hay "It is not felt," Captain Humphrey said, "that an atmospheric aberration ex- ists in this area (off the Florida Coast) nor that one has existed in the past. Fleet aircraft carrier and patrol plane flight operations are conducted regularly in this same area without incident. "I would hesitate to surmise at this late date," he said, "as to the probable cause or causes of an accident about

which very little information is available. Strong westerly winds prevail in the wintertime over the Northern Hemi- sphere and the flight of aircraft may have proceeded further to sea than planned, having insufficient fuel to return. Radio communications equipment did not have the range of present day equipment and may have precluded communication of difficulties encount-

ered. All of the foregoing is conjecture, however, and has no basis in fact." Apparently at the time the Avengers and Martin flying boat were lost, scanty records were kept of the strange incident, despite the large-scale search instituted.

40 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 The record-keeping has improved with The fact remains that over a relatively the years. small area of the Atlantic Ocean near "Ail naval aircraft accidents are now Florida, a total of eight different aircraft thoroughly investigated," Captain Hum- disappeared without trace. All of these MEN PAST40 phrey said, "both from an aviation planes were piloted by expert airmen safety viewpoint and in all instances and had top-notch navigators. All had Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, wherein the death of naval personnel oc- radios and sea survival equipment. All Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, curred, from a legal aspect. This policy disappeared in perfectly clear weather, Nervousness, Tiredness. of intensive accident investigation first insofar as can be determined, and all but If you are a victim of the above symp- trouble be due to Gland- came into being in 1953 and coincided one disappeared in full daylight. What toms, the may ular Inflammation. 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SHOPPING FOR MONEY (Continued from page 23)

"That's nice to know ... I guess." just let them run on. And you know how "Where we can really save is by taking ." "As such we probably can get a per- we are. . . a personal loan for the amount. That sonal loan for enough to buy the washer. "I'm afraid you're right," Jean agreed. way we can make our good credit stand- The gimmick in this is that we'd have to "It's good to know we have this in re- ing pay off even though we don't have

pay it back by the end of six months serve. But I vote that we don't touch it any collateral to put up. We'll be paying instead of taking a year or so. But the unless we have a real emergency." only 7 percent simple interest instead of interest rate — a lovely 8 percent actual "Amen," said Bill. "Another thing the double that rate— as we would be with

interest! Perhaps as low as 6V2 or 7 if fellow told me is that we can put up the any other arrangement. And since the

I argue a bit." policy as security for a loan at the bank. period is six months instead oF 24, the

"Who'd ever think you could argue That's called hypothecating it. We could total cost to us will be only $7." with a bank and come out ahead? That cut the interest rate a bit by doing that. "Wow!" said Jean. "Seven dollars in-

must be rock bottom," remarked Jean. But since they've already offered us a stead of 60! That sounds so good that I

"It is, for us. If we could put up some loan and pretty reasonable interest with- wonder if there's a catch in it." collateral — good bonds or something out security, maybe we should keep this "One catch is that you have to know

like that — we could carve the rate down possibility in reserve too. It would be the about it and argue for the arrangement," even lower. Even 5 percent might be thing to do, though, if the bank weren't her husband said. "The man at the bank possible. But we don't have any stocks or prepared to treat us as a very good risk." admitted he'd rather sell the regular bonds to put up." While Bill made some quick calcula- equipment loan plan. That's the one the "Some people borrow on insurance tions on his piece of paper, Jean pon- bank makes real money on." policies. What about us? Could we do it?" dered the situation. "You can't blame them for pushing "The man at the bank mentioned that, "It will be a strain to pay for the their higher-priced merchandise," Jean too," Bill said. "I've been meaning to washer in six months," she said finally. said. "But there's no reason for us not to look at our policy and see where we "Will we save much if we do that?" insist on the economy model if that's stand." "Just a sec," said Bill. He scribbled a what we want— in credit as well as in the Jean rummaged through the contents bit more, then looked up. appliance itself." of the metal lockbox kept in one drawer "Figure the washer will cost around "Personal loans at our bank are also of their desk. She took out the policy on 400 bucks." he said. "That's after the subject to a $5 minimum charge," Bill

Bill's life and unfolded it. down payment, which the law says has added. "That doesn't make any differ- "Here it is," she said. "The cash value to be at least $10. ence to us, since we'll be paying $7 any- is nearly a thousand dollars, which is "Buying on a two-year basis the credit way. But if we wanted a smaller amount

how much it says we can borrow on it charge will be $64 from the mail-order of money or wanted it for just a couple

from the insurance company. The rate is house or $60 from the department store. of months, the minimum would have the

given at 4.8 percent. Now how about That's not much more than half what it effect of a higher interest rate."

that! And we don't have to pay it back at would cost to borrow the money from a "Six months is cutting it a little fine,"

any particular time. We just keep up the loan company — at least in this state. . . . Jean said once more. Then she added:

interest or let the company add it to the "If we finance it through the bank by "I've thought of a way to stretch the six

loan." their standard equipment loan plan it months to nearly eight, and it won't cost "They tell me that's the trouble with will come to $72. But we can get their us a cent more in interest."

insurance loans," Bill said. "Since they $7-per-$l00 rate, which would cut it to "Say on," Bill urged.

don't have to be paid off, most people $56. . . "Why don't we buy the machine on our regular charge account? The one where we pay up each month when the bill comes. If we make the purchase right after the billing date for our account we won't even get a bill for a month. And

then we'll still have a couple of weeks before we have to pay it." "That is an idea," said Bill. "To be

safe I'll arrange for the loan now, but we

won't actually take it till we have to pay for the washer." "If this were October or November we could stretch our payments even further at no cost," Jean said. "Many department stores and mail-order houses have special schemes to encourage very early Christmas shopping. We could buy in

October and not pay till January, or even February at some stores." "You're getting shrewder by the minute."

"We'll save a lot, won't we?" asked Jean. "Seven dollars spent for credit instead of $60 or more!—Why with the difference I could buy "Down, girl!" said Bill hastily. "We started this scheming to save money. Re- member?" THE END

42 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 .

but that the U.S.I. A. would consider censoring such a fine article. Namk Withheld Looking TOU Dover, AFB, Dela. WANTS ALL-AMERICAN FOOD for

SAID] sir: Why do TV commercials on food products have to feature foreign an /VITL names? They are German, French, Spanish, Italian, even Russian. You Island? would thinlv Americans could not

(C.oiiiiviied Irani jmgc 9) R. T. iMartin, Cuba, Mo. cause he was an extremist— for principle. The men who defended the Alamo WARNING a2 could have withdraw n or surrendered, SIR: There is underway at the present but they chose to stand and die. Their time a movement, pacifist inspired, * extremism lighted a torch which won that should engage the wary attention Discover the Southwest. Abraham Lincoln of all Legionnaires. It is called the could have compromised with the ^Vomens' Strike for Peace, and has the South. There were great pressures to backing of our old friends, the Wo- do exactly this. He refused, because mens' International League for Peace he too was an extremist, for principle. BAHAMA and Freedom and Philadelphia area And the men who painted mother Quakers. There appears to be an or- earth red with their blood at Chateau- ganized letter-writing campaign, di- Thierry, Iwo Jinia, and Normandy rected at our legislators, and there is were extremists. They had to be, to danger that they may convince some SOUND overcome the extremism of dedicated that the letter writers represent more In the Beautiful Bahama Islands and purposeful enemies. Take your than a tiny minority of our people. stand now—while you still ha\c a Underlying all their fine, idealistic ISLAND HOMESITES choice! words is one purpose—to persuade the KeNNFIII L. AlVERS, FULL $1 A DOWN Wichitn, Kans. United States to undertake unilateral SUQC disarmament and especially to forego Qil^ PRICE XII<^ONTH any further nuclear testing. Needless LITHUANIA'S PLIGHT NO INTEREST • NO TAXES to say, this is the sort of thing that will Now you can escape from crowded cities SIR: The December issue carried an have the enthusiastic backing of the , . , from the tensions of the times to article "Food Is a Weapon," and Lith- communists. The antidote is for us to your own island hideaway in Bahama uania was mentioned as one of the start letter-writing too, to our Sena- Sound on lovely Great Exuma. This gem- countries which had produced enough tors and to our Congressmen, to our like isle, set in a crystal blue-green sea, food for her people as well as enough newspapers, and to any other media of is just 135 miles southeast of Nassau. to export to other countries. Now public information to set the record Sparkling white beaches unspoiled by a single footprint and picturesque villages there is a terrific shortage of food straight. And the time to do this is offer you an island charm unlike anywhere there. I wish to thank you for the H. O. iMadara else on earth. mention of Lithuania in the article. Bahama Sound Homesites are large 60 by Dorothy Dutkus, Philadelphia, Pa. J 10 foot lots, guaranteed to be on a good Mayivood, N. J. ELLIS ISLAND FOR VETS island road, to be surveyed, and to have good title. Great Exuma Airstrip, just CONTRIBUTION SIR: I should like to alert the leader- west of Bahama Sound, is easily reached ship of our organization to the advan- via regularly scheduled flights from Nassau. road connects SIR: National Commander Bacon's fea- tages of procuring Ellis Island for our A paved Bahama Sound with the Airstrip. ture article "How to Build Tomor- veterans. Presently under considera- Whether you buy for vacation . . . Retire- row's America" in the February issue tion in Congress are bills which would ment or investment . . . you will enjoy the of The Aiiierican Legion Magazine is make impossible this great opportunity Bahamas' remarkable tax benefits ... no one of the finest portrayals of an or- to provide a rest home for the former Inheritance tax, no income tax, no land tax, ganization's youth programs that I soldiers of our past wars. It would plus many other unusual tax advantages. have seen. I hope that every Legion- seem necessary therefore to decide on Romantic, uncrowded spots such as Bahama naire will read it carefully. They can a plan whereby the Legion either sub- Sound, are fast disappearing. In just be justly proud of the great contribu- mits a bid to purchase this surplus 10 years Bahama tourism has increased 573.5%. prominent Americans have tion that The American Legion is property or approaches the V^eterans Many already built homes near Bahama Sound. making to America through its youth Administration and other agencies to This low price for good land is unchal- activity programs. Scouting is proud insure that such a purpose could not lenged in the Bahamas. We urge you to to be a part of it. be ruled out by any final disposal of get all the facts now. Send for our FREE C. M. Tribur, Director the Island. For years we have watched Illustrated, Color Brochure that describes Civic Relationships Service the homeless and hospitalized among Bahama Sound in fascinating detail! Boy Scouts of America us wasting away without quarters ap- MAIL COUPON TODAY! Neiv Bninswick, N.J. propriate to their sacrifices for the Member, Miami-Dode whole country. Can we not meet the Chamber of Commerce SAD AND TRUE requirements of the General Services BAHAMA SOUND Administration by demonstrating to BAHAMA ACRES LTD. SIR: salute A to John J. Karch on his the highest authorities how necessary Chamber of Commerce Building article the Soviet 141 N.E. 3rd Ave,. Dept. »iE-i. Miami, Fla. "How Union Ex- our cause is'^ , Please send me your Free Color Brochure ploits Sports," in the February issue. iMORRIS KlNKER explaining the wonderful vacation, retire- It is all too sad and true. In my travels New York, N.Y. ment and investment opportunities offered by Bahama Sound* with the military all over the world, I too often heard snide reference to Letters published in You Said It! do not necessuriLy represent liie policy oj The "soft" Americans. The galling thing Amertciin Legion. Name withheld ij re- short. is not the truth of the matter or the quested. Keep your letters Address: Sound Off. The American Legion Maga- CITY -STATE. lack of understanding of the matter, zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y

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Lovely acre sites in Central Florida hills, Walter some measure of self-confidence. floor pedals rather than the road ahead. lake, grove area $395, no money down, $10 a month c 5 miles from famous Rainbow I reassured her, and, as I drove Walter As a result, the Acme Trainer sometimes Springs • Roads, utilities • 22 miles to Gulf away from Acme, he turned and waved left the road altogether while Millie and Coast • Fish, hunt • Invest or retire. FREE color folder • Write Dept. 603-N wistfully to her. When we rounded the I blazed interesting new trails across the Rainbow Park, Box 521, OCALA, Fla. first corner, Walter turned his gentle, greensward of suburbia. With Millie at blue eyes on me and smiled sweetly. the wheel, I avoided heavy city traffic as ACCORDION "Let's move this drag out to the flat- monkeys avoid the launching pad at DISCOUNT CATALOG lands, Dad, and let it taste freedom, Cape Canaveral. Color of new 1962 Send for FREE CataloES like," he said. In the winter she drove me into lovely, model Italian accordions at IMPORTER-TO- Save up to S0% oflf re- YOU DISCOUNTS. For his mother's sake, Walter and I snow-covered fields. When early spring tail prices of comparable accordions. 5-Day Satisfaction assured OR Free Home Trial. kept up the little pretense about his in- arrived, we got stuck in the mud to- MONEY BACK. No Down Payment if you have old instrument to trade. Easy Terms. nocence, and, somehow, we lived through gether. One morning in June, as Millie Rush name to Accordion Corp. of America, A-42, Chicago 22 2003 Chicago Ave., Dept. the entire eight lessons. On graduation was buzzing us through a new, $40,000- day, Walter's mother thanked me with and-up suburb, she reverted to pedal- RUPTURED tears in her eyes. Her shy son had gained watching once again. The car quickly so much, she said. I was crying, too, with jumped the curb. We plowed a curving BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY the sheer joy of survival. day at the furrow across a velvety, new lawn, which, Surely you want to THROW AWAY A TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rupture Wor- garage put the Acme training car back regrettably, the proud owner was at that ries. Then Why put up with wearing a griping, chafing and unsanitary truss. For there is now a in shape again. Walter's racing starts had moment sprinkling with a hose. The car new modern Non-Surgical treatment that is de- worn the back tires down to the tread, came to rest in a soft section of newly signed to permanently correct rupture. These Non-Surgical treatments are so dependable, that and the dual-control brake pedal on my planted lawn next door. Assurance is given. a Lifetime Certificate of with the Write today for our New FREE BOOK that side was bent almost double from my The neighbor hose never gives facts that may save you painful, expensive heavy assists. Like, he seemed to have uttered one word of reproach during the surgery. Tells HOW and Explains WHY NON- SURGICAL Methods of Treating Rupture are trouble remembering to stop, like. 10 minutes it took me to free the back so successful today. Write today—Dept. H-1123 The school also attracted little old wheels. All he did was to keep the hose Excelsior Medical Clinic, Excelsior Springs, Mo. ladies. Most had traded their electrics trained on me the whole time. Little kids Your Own in a half century earlier and hadn't driv- gathered around, giggling in an embar- rassed way at what a FREE! Shoe Store en since. While knitting afghans and must have been feeding the parakeet, they would dream rather strange scene to passers-by. I EARN $10 to $30 per day in your own profitable cushion shoe business. Build valuable of adventure, and ultimately they'd get struggled silently at the wheels, and this in full or spare time. No ^repeat business up enough nerve — "gumption" most of irate homeowner calmly and methodical- ^money needed. 140 styles, sizes 2}^ to 22, ,AAA to EEEEE. Write for free sales kit. them called it — to do something about ly hosed me down as I worked. Dept. BRONSON SHOE, A-4 it. What closer source of excitement than It was shortly after this that my doc- 710 W. Lake, Minneapolis, Minn. the local driving school? tor referred me to an ulcer specialist— My favorite among the lavender and the only one in town with an analyst's '^EVERYTHING old fashioned set was Granny Keef — couch in his office. I lay on the couch for /he CAMPER! " a tiny, birdlike thing whose feet barely and slowly recounted my troubles, idly J ^"'"y COf^'O'table family camprng J' thousands of new ideas now ^''••' " shown in new. jumbo 1962 ru f CATA- reached the floor pedals. The third time chain-smoking a couple of packs of ciga- ' LOG American and French Tents. ' " .^'y'-^ Sleeping Bags, Camp Equipment, rettes. Outdoor Clothing, Government Sur- Granny failed Lesson One, I flouted The specialist took notes, pursed ^^^J^^^^^^^ Acme's prime commandment for instruc- his lips at intervals, frowned, and gave torgetf oniJ toweif price coffiping house in America/

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"Mrs. Keef," I said sadly, "let's face "Mr. Scott," he said, "it appears that FALSE TEETH BREAK? it. You'll just never complete the course." perhaps you're just not temperamentally Now repair them $198 She sighed and smiled a secret sort of suited to being a driving instructor." GOOD smile. His words, echoing those of the flan- NEWS f^ome in 8 min. ''I Amazing PLATE-WELDrepairs clearand "I appreciate your frankness, young nel-voiced Young Exec that first day at pmk plates and replaces teeth. flow Simply on — put man," she said, "but I have nothing else Acme, hit the ulcer like scalding water. together. Works every time — holds like new or money back. At DrxriStoresorsend^lM p!us22c handlingto to do, and I do enjoy getting behind the I sat up quickly, defiant and shouting. Home Dental Aids Co.. Box 1731 Dept. 15 ABakersfield, Calif. , wheel. It gives me a feeling of POWER "I am soo tooted for it — I mean, I for the first time in my life." am too suited for it," I screamed. "My MAKE V^^S^'' AN HOUR AT HOME Some 23 lessons later — we had to re- nerves are as tough as the next guy's. I Let Me Prove It To You FREE! peat the first one seven times for an all- like my job. It's a challenge, sort of." I'll show you how Plastic Sealing and Laminating at home, spare time, can time Acme record — Granny passed her "That's the old spirit," said the spe- give you as much as $5.00 each hour you operate. Table-top machine sets up anywhere. driving test. And a year after that I re- cialist, enthusiastically. "That will be 15 Easy. Fun. Noexperienceneeded. Wefurnish everything. We'll even help finance you. No ceived a postcard from her postmarked dollars, Mr. Scott." house-to-house selling. Orders come by mail. Write for facts FREE. No salesman will call. Fairbanks, Alaska — she had just driven Fighting mad, I leaped into the car, WARNER ELECTRIC, 1512 Jarvis, Dept. L-8-D, Chicago 26, III. the Alcan highway, solo. You just never determined to be the toughest, most know. nerveless instructor in Acme's history. The student who was with me the Then I made one of those little mistakes SPLIT SHUHER? longest, however, was not one of the that so often change the course of human fix it quick with little old ladies. Millie was twentyish, a destiny — in this case, my destiny. I made willowy, long-legged blonde. She had a U-turn in the main street of town, but

many aptitudes, but driving wasn't one I didn't quite complete it. The obstacle PLASTIC WOOD of them. In our 26 sessions together was a large policeman, who blocked like Handles putty-hardens like wood! Millie got me into much trouble — all of my way on the far side of the street.

44 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 "Didn't you see that sign up there, your instructor's permit back, please?" Life Insurance lad?" he asked. "With pleasure," I replied. Now! "What sign, officer, sir?" I took out my billfold with a flourish, Birth to Age 80 "That was the big-money question, plucked the instructor's permit from it, lad," he said, "and you missed it." and tore it into little bits. I poured the First Policemen are always making funny little pieces in a gentle blizzard over the 30 Days jokes like that. Then he flipped open Young Exec's head. Executing a brilliant ONLY 25< his ticket pad. Inside me something about-face, I stalked in proud disdain flipped, too. toward the door. But he wasn't through 1000 Per Policy I parked the car in a dowtown lot and with me just yet. CASH FOR YOUR FINAL EXPENSES. AVOID took a cab back to the school. I walked "Oh, Mr. Scott," he called softly, BEING A BURDEN TO YOUR FAMILY Introductory Offer. Answer these 9 into the Young Exec's office and handed "may I have your instructor's permit questions on a plain piece of paper and him my traffic ticket. He glanced at it in I now? believe that was your driver's mail with only 25c for 30 days' protec- disbelief, then looked me over in the license you just tore up." tion. Regular rate shown on policy. same cold way Mr. Tiffany regards a Of course, they were right all along. Amounts usually Issued without doctor exuniiniition. diamond full of flaws. He sighed, and I can see that now. I'm just not the stuff Ages Amount Ages Amount a brief look of pain crossed his bland of which driving instructors are made. 0 to 15 $1000 45 to 65 $1000 Brooks Brothers features. I have since found myself a quiet niche 15 to 45 2500 65 to 80 500 "Mr. Scott—" he began. in life, and the ulcer has heeled com- 1. Print full name and address. 2. Date of birth? "No, let ine say it," I interrupted. pletely. Look me up when the circus 3. Height? 3a. Weight? "I'm not tempermentally suited to be an comes to your town. I'm billed as the 4. Occupation, kind of work? 4a Name and address of employer? Acme instructor." Human Missile, and they shoot me out 5. Race? 6. Beneficiary and relationship "Precisely that, Mr. Scott. Most un- of a cannon twice daily, three times on to you? 7. To your knowledge have you had heart, fortunate. Before you leave, may I have Saturday. the end lung, diabetes, cancer, or chronic disease? Are you deformed, lost a hand, foot, eye, or ever rejected for insurance? 8. State condition of health. 9. Amount desired, and sign your name. NO AGENT WILL CALL STUDYING COMMUNISM IN LOUISIANA SCHOOLS Actual policy will be mailed you direct from Office. (Continued from page 21) Home You be the judge. Mall to: S. B. Hunt, President AMERICAN LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. that a great number of teachers would the U.S. Senate. All classes used film ma- 344 American Life BIdg., St. Louis 8, Mo. come up with some very ingenious meth- terial which included "Communism on ods of getting the material across to the the Map," a 35-mm filmstrip and tape re- students. cording on the history of communism, MARTIN'S FLAGS

Some of the teachers brought in out- obtained from the National Education I DISPLAYS FOR * ORGANIZATIONS- side speakers. One speaker was a stu- Program along with other material. toWns-schools-fairs dent's parent who was a refugee from Though much material to help in Prompt shipment. Ask for our n^v Castro's Cuba. He was able to give the teaching was available, the need for even colorful WHOLESALE Catalog No. 62-A MARTIN'S FLAG CO., FORT DODGE. students an on-the-spot, eyewitness ac- more was one of our biggest problems in IOWA count of the revolution and communist the course. One source of information DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; tactics in action. In another class, a stu- on communism we used extensively was IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS Pump has 1 ,001 uses. Stainless dent was himself a refugee from Cuba a series of speeches on the "Meaning of IVon't rust or clogi Use 1/6 HP lotor or larper. . . 3^ HP for up to 2.400 and was able to tell his classmates how Communism" prepared by the Commit- PH: 450 GPH 80' high; or 1,800 GPH «M^rrom 25' well. 1" inlet; ^A" outlet. ^S^Coupling included free $7.95 the revolution looked to a high school tee on American Citizenship of the >^ Heavy Duty Bali-Bearing Pump. Up to " 1 5.200 GPH: 1 1/4 Inlet; " outlet . $12.95 student. Florida Bar Association. text of Postpaid If cash with order. Money Back The Guarantee, Also other sizes, types. Essays, group resarch projects, de- these speeches got to the heart of the ^>LABAWCO PUMPS, Belle M56. N.I. ". bates, filmstrips, panel discussions, quiz program by asking the question, . .how programs, recordings of radio programs, are we going to defeat communism if we Free Book on Arthritis book reports and current events report- don't know what it is?" And Rheumatism ing were some of the various methods From whatever direction our teach- HOW TO AVOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES Explains why drugs and medicines give temporary used by teachers. ers approached the subject of commu- only relief and fail to remove the causes; tells all about a pro- I told the teachers that they must each nism during the six-week course, the re- ven non-surgical, non-medical treatment which has proven successful since ItllO. V^rit« for this 3C-page FHEE make a personal study of communism sult was a tremendous increase in the BOOK today. No agent will call. Ball and be prepared to answer students' students' knowledge. Although most en- Clinic, Dept. 560 A Excelsior Springs, Me. questions. For the instruction of teachers tered the course with little factual knowl- Step into a Big-Pay Job as in the history of communism and the edge, the subject matter was not watered workings of the communist party, we down. suggested "Communism" by Alfred G. Some of the subjects used as topics for ACCOUNTANT Meyer, "Masters of Deceit" by J. Edgar research papers by students were: How . . . AUDITOR . . . CONTROLLER . . . CPA Hoover and "A Primer on Communism" to Recognize a Communist, Propaganda by George Cronyn. Techniques, The Hungarian Revolution, La Salle trains you at home in spare time School librarians were given the job of Brainwashing of American Military The demand for trained Accountants far exceeds the supply. Salaries are at an all-time high. Accountancy- assembling as much material on commu- Prisoners in Red China, Communist trained men move up to big positions in business. LaSalle's distinguished faculty prepares you in your nism as possible. This included books, Front Organizations for Youth, Infiltra- spare time at home. You work with actual Accounting problems, acquire real experience. Thorough, practical, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, tion Techniques Used by Communists, enjoyable — and quick In results. Many students report up to 567o pay increases even before completing pictures, filmstrips, recordings and films. Soviet Education, The Effect of Russia's training. Mall coupon. 417 S. Dearborn, Chicago 5, 111.

The list of suggested materials for use "Five-Year Plans" on Individual Free- LA SAUE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 417 S. Dearborn Street A Correspondence Institution • Dept 04^034, Chicago 5,111. in the course included many government dom, etc. Please send free book "Opportunities m Accounting" and publications by the Committee on Un- One of the first hurdles for teachers interestlne sample lesson. American Activities of the House of was terminology. Words such as "de- Name...... Age Representatives, the Department of State mocracy" and "freedom" meant one Address. ^County Clty& and the Committee on the Judiciary of thing when used by the communists and Zone , state

THE AMERICAN .LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 45 meant something entirely different when Another teacher said they could have ciation's committee on the need for such used by non-communists. This was the used more material on what everyday an educational program said, "This com- small hole through which much brain- life in Russia is like. mittee is aware that this program will be washing was accomplished by the com- Even though the course eventually beset with man/ obstacles. There are

munists. The students learned the mean- covered a lot of complicated ideological even those who deem it treasonable to ing of such terms as dialectical and material, teachers found their students mention communism in the classroom." historical materialism, peaceful co-exist- woefully ignorant of communism when This same report warned of "pressures ence, cold war, Browderism, etc. They they started. "We started out our course and emotions" which will be brought to learned about such men as V. I. Molotov, by having each of the students write play in regard to textbooks and other Marshall Tito, Leon Trotsky. Friedrich down what he thought communism real- educational aids. The possibility that

Engels and Mao Tse-tung. ly meant and what it was like," said one such a program could itself be "infil- Anyone who thinks we did not get teacher. "It was really quite a shock, trated and perverted" was considered. down to the bedrock of communist doc- until I remembered that a few months We found that instead of opposition,

trine should ask himself if he knows the previously, I had known practically the course stimulated interest in learning difference between the Cominform and nothing myself." about communism throughout the state the Comintern, or can handle such We consider teachers' views of the re- and, either directly or indirectly, sparked terms as the dictatorship of the prole- action of students one of the most reli- community campaigns to provide par- tariat, utopianism, collectivism or united able indices of the course's effectiveness. ents with some of the same information

front. It wasn't long before we heard re- "When we were able to bring commu- their children were getting in school. ports of students surprising their parents nism down to earth and show it in opera- Backed by civic groups, students who with their knoweldge of the intricacies tion around the world through the day- were taking the course spoke publicly on and traps of communist dogma. to-day news reports, the interest of the communism and on the course and re-

The course is not all one-sided, how- students climbed fast," a teacher claimed. ceived favorable publicity in the state's ever. To gain an understanding of the "When we used some of Khrushchev's press. Discussion groups and panels on communistic conspiracy for world domi- statements from the front pages of the Americanism versus Communism were nation is only one of the three objectives daily paper as illustrations of points in started in various parts of the state. in the course. Another is to compare the course, we could be almost certain One parent of a high school youngster America's form of government and po- that classroom discussion would con- said that she had never thought about litical system with the communistic tinue automatically until the bell rang." communism much until their 16-year system. The third is to compare the free Another teacher commented that her old son told them what he had been capitalistic economy of America with students found it the "most interesting learning in the course. "My husband and

the collectivistic communist economy. part of the year's work." I thought we were fairly well educated, When democarcy and communism are A history teacher said that she had yet we found that we knew practically compared, the students learn that politi- been teaching a long time but she nothing about communism or the Com- cal democracy has duties and responsi- couldn't "recall students getting in such munist Party. Our son shamed us into bilities as well as rights and privileges. heated discussions over anything except taking some books out of the library and They learn that ignorance, selfishness sports. When students get excited, you making our own study of communism." and complacency are the "three most know you've done a good job." Some of the same materials used in the deadly enemies" of democracy. Some of the sources of information Am':ric;mism versus Communism course By contrasting the economic life of on communism that we checked when were used for adult courses sponsored by America and the communist countries preparing the course mentioned the pos- various civic and religious groups. students learn that the basic differences sibility of opposition to teaching about "These courses in our schools have of America's free capitalistic economy communism. The text of the Florida Bar resulted in more interest in Americanism can never be compromised with the con- Association speeches warned that the and Communism than this State has ever trolled collectivist economy of the com- subject was controversial and that "many seen before," commented a member of

munist countries. America's economy is people are afraid to talk about it pub- a religious group which sponsored a ser- characterized by personal liberty, private licly for fear that someone in the audi- ies of lectures on communism for adults. property and free enterprise. The com- ence will misunderstand what they say A supervisor on the staff of a parish

munist economy is under government and spread the word that they are com- (county) department of education said control and management, government munists, or at least fellow-travelers with that he had heard of no opposition to the ownership and government determina- the communists because they were ex- course. "The only complaints are from tion of all production. Our standard of plaining about communism." the teachers. They want more materials living, the highest in the world, is the We in the Department of Education to teach with and would like to have proof given for the obvious superiority have been aware that American commu- more time to learn about communism." of the economic aspects of the American nists might devise and disseminate plau- We have made a thorough study of way. sible-sounding objections to the course the course which shows that in spite of

But America's economic system is not in an attempt to inflame Louisiana citi- several areas where there can be im-

without its duties. Students learn that zens against it. That is one of the com- provement, the course has been a sur- they have the duties of citizenship to pay munist tactics that students learn about. prising success for something so new. taxes, support charitable institutions and An organized communist drive against Our future plans include trying to churches and also help the very needy. this kind of course may almost surely be provide teachers with more of the tools One teacher discovered a problem she expected to develop, but one has not they need to teach the course more effec- hadn't anticipated. Although the boys in developed yet. tively and doing some objective testing the class were interested and kept up with Instead, the course was so successfully to determine precisely what the average everything in the course, the girls were brought into the schools that it imme- student gets out of the course. bored. "They didn't care about theories diately found organized support in every But these are details. What counts is or revolutions," she said. This problem community. The various bar associa- that here in Louisiana we have success- was discovered early and solved quickly tions, veterans organization and other fully built a bulwark of 30,000 young and effectively by having the girls study civic groups such as the Chambers of people against the communist con- the Soviet marriage and divorce laws, liv- Commerce all backed the program. spiracy, who will not fall prey to the ing standards and even cooking. The report of the American Bar Asso- 'masters of deceit.' the end

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He got the idea almost 25 years do their own shooting, ^o, the Stem- "SPACE CAPITAL OF THE FREE WORLD' ago, when he ran across an original re- bridge people give them special arms ward poster, dated December 21, 1880, and ammunition, plus careful instruc- Florida has mushroomed to the in America. offering $5,000 for "Curly Bill" Graham, tions, to enable them to appear con- fastest growing State hove Florida property that "wanted for stage robberies and corset- vincingly good with a gun when they're We can be purchased on a budget stealing." in front of the cameras. plan as low as "Getting the story behind that poster," Glenn Ford, who's disdainful of he recalls, "I learned that gunmen of the doubles, regards his association with $10 PER MONTH last century used to raid clotheslines be- Redwing as one of the main reasons for hind dancehalls and boardinghouses, the success he has enjoyed in western stealing corsets to get tracks for their films. 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nowhere in the 13.95 WORLD i!>lfe.o..ti,ji...ii.. PPd. APPROVED Will You Find More BY EXPERTS "Out of This World" Attractions FIRST IN BOWLING For complete Vacation is the Bowl-Rite information MAIL COUPON TODAY OUTDOOR GAKDEN POOL-Beautify your only apparatus garden with this one-piece colored Polypro- available for home ROOM CONVENTION HAIL, polen sunken garden pool for live goldfish 'practice (no bowl- 35 ATLANTIC CITY, N.J, and exotic water lilies. Ideal garden size, ing ball needed) that leaches you to be a it's 3'5" x 2'3" X 8" deep at ground level. better bowler. Ideal for complete family use. — — Recessed water lil\- pot holds 1 to 3 bulbs. MOTHERS CHILDREN FATHERS — (all ages). It's simple, S3.98; 2. .S7.6.5. Water Lily Bulb free. (Add City- sturdy — sets up in a jiffy, collapsible, oOr Michigan Bulb, post.) Dept. BP, Grand easy to store. Nothing to assemble. Rapids 2. Mich. Complete with full instructions. Practice — boost that average! Florida residents plus sales tax. Send check or money order today to: ELECTRIC LIVE-ACTION BARTENDER BOWL-RITE, Dept. AL, P. O. Box 8637 LIVENS UP MBB^H Fort Lauderdale, Florida ^^hb ANY PARTY! Throw on switch, Regular Price of o Slide he reels from side Rule $4 ond Up to side, shakes chrome & plastic mixer, listens to crystal cubes click, fills glass, gulps it down. Then face turns red — smoke streams from ears! this coupon I d Dill C As natural color re- 9 L I i/ k 11 \J L> C Add 8c Postage 3-IN.l POCKET LIGHTER is also a computer turns, he starts If you ccin use a pencil you can use this Slide Rule I and a perpetual calendar. Handsome chrome- For students. accountants. mechanics. hobbyists, I again. Metal, ap- salesmen, everybody. Simplllies mathematics for I plated lighter computer on one side with prox. 1 ft. high, has everybody. Eas.v to calculate Instantly, accurately, I Multiplying, proportions, division, roots, velvet suit, vinyl 3 dials, measures ground speed, miles, gal- etc, "Hiph I Vision" Clear View Slide. Full 10" Rule, A. B, C, D. face, fuzzy white ' 1 lons, etc.; calendar (m other side covers 1950 and K Scales, Money back E^iarantee. j 28-page Instruction Book on how to get correct hair. Batt. not incl. to 1977. SI. 95 ppd. S. C. Jacksen Co., Dept. Pprr riiLL answers instantly without pencil or paper. I Each...$4.98 AL-4, 1140 Broadway, N.Y. pp^. SPECIAL! Plastic Face Rule with CarryinK Case, Has Send check or m.o. —Satisfaction Guaratiteed I S. L. and T Scales on reverse of slide, with hairline index on bacit for accurate readings in trlpronometr.v. I SPENCER GIFTS j. I Complete- - with Instruction- - Rook, only ^3 postpaid. ^i^J.^rrVK'S' . ^ . York 16 I LARCH 118 East 28, Dept. 98-G, New

Merchandise appearing in The American STOP STOOPIMq, Legion Shopper represents the newest and amazing:, • most unusual products available. They are with new believed to be good values and should Shoulder make worth while gifts for men and women. Brace

Corrects posture instantly, comfortably. Scientific design provides even dis-

From this . . . to this tributed support for sag- in 20 seconds NO MORE BURNT TOAST. Now toast 4 ging shoulders. Improves slices once, turn golden at watch the bread appearance, gives you a wonderful new feeling of confi- brown before your c\'es and you'll get the dence. Slips on in seconds. No fitting. Made of highest exact desired shade. It's used over gas stove quality ventilated-for-comfort 3-ply burner or fireplace, needs electricity. no cushioned material. Arm band.s softly SI. 98 ppd. Rembrandt Co., Dept. 285 9, padded for maximum comfort. Light- Market St., Newark, N.J. weight, cool, FOR MEN AND WOMEN. Can't be detected under light clothing. MORE BRILLIANT than DIAMONDS says Reader's Digest, Give mea.surement around chest. Only SalEvePust about this new, man-made jewel Titanial $4,95, Sent postpaid except cn CCD's. Money-back guar- For settings of your choice only S12 per carat; a 1-ct antee if returned jiostpaid in 30 days. niarrs box l\K ring is only S3.5 m'lady's 1-ct fislitail a . , „ ; • DEPT. AL-42H iiK-re S27. All prices plus 10% tax. Write for FREE PIPER BRACE COMPANY • CITY 5, MO. HA^DY RING SIZE CHART & 72 PAGE FULL COLOR SU WYANDOTTE KANSAS JEV^ELRY CATALOG. ^^3B3^n Lapidary Company Dept. AL-78 511 EAST 12 STREET • NEW YORK 9, N. Y.

Magnifiers^:3''

ORIGINAL I9I4 CIRCUS POSTERS por- Worn Like Regular Glasses tray the "remarkable" feats of that day col Foam-soft, which man\- of you probably remember. Big A Blessing for Folks Over 40 cushions will (some 3 ft. wide, others 3 ft. high), hand- v/hile Read newspapers, telephone book or Bible easy. Do fine, fancy STOP eyeglass slip and slide some posters were hand-printed in as many work, crocheting for hours without eye strain. Now. preci- they protect your skin against irrita- as 9 colors, are striking for den, office etc. sion bring out detail MAGNIFYING GLASSES (not RX) tion. CUSH-N-GRIPS adhere to glasses Only 200 found in an antique shop. S3.95 SHARP and CLEAR. Not for folks who have astigmatism in seconds, A necessity for sportsmen. ppd. each. Antique Americana, Dept. AR-4, or disea-'^es of the eye. A magnifying lens for each eye, set in stylish amber eyeglass frame. 10 Day Home Triah Send Supply of 12 nose cushions and 12 887 Second Ave., N. Y. 17. your name and address, sex and age. On arrival pay post- ear tabs in plastic case. man only $4, plus C. O. D. Satisfaction guaranteed. Or send $4 with your order, we'll ship prepaid. Order today from: WHIRLEE, INC., Dept. a 4 PRECISION OPTICAL CO., Dept 34-D, Rochelle, III. 31-01 Steinwoy St., Long Island City 3, N. Y.

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NO. K'3 TABLE FULL-FINtSHED MASONITE TOP, I STAIN-RESISTANT PRINTED NAME ft - 25< FOLDING X 500 ADDRESS LABELS L£gwn 500 gummed economy labels printed in black with CHAIRS PEDESTAL TABLES name and address, per set! In two-tone DIRECT FROM FACTORY SAVINGS ANY 25* plastic gift box, 35* per set. 5-day service. J to Churches. Schools. Clubs, etc. 1 FarTTOus MONROE folding banquet DE LUXE GOLD-STRIPE LABELS-500 FOR 50( \ tables. Automatic locking. Easily Superior quality paper with rich-looking gold trim, PARTITIONS seats 10 people. 94 models and printed with ANY name and address in black. Thought- sizes. FREE—NEW 1962 CATALOG. Color pictures fal, personal gift; perfect for your own use. Set of 500, on full line—folding tables, chairs, table and chair trucks, risers, portable partitions. Our 54lh year. 50

Aperfeet I shoefit I for EACH Jf foof!

At no extra cost, we fit EACH foot with your EYEGLASS NOSEPADS exact shoe size and width. If you're not enjoying New Cushion- Rest Nose Pads relict'e pressure spots, ease complete comfort, you may need two different weight of eyeglasses and hearina aid frames. Keep Glasses sized shoes. Learn about this exclusive PERFECT from constantly slipping down. AlUnew flesh*colored foam with adhesive backing. Stays put on all types of glasses FIT service sold by mail. For MEN only. Satisfac- yet peels off easily when desired. Easy to apply. Just peel off hacking and press in place. Calif, residents add tion guaranteed. Write for FREE information! 4« state tax. G pair $1 postpaid. 285 Moraine Street COLUMBIA CO., Dept. P-96, 404 Securify BIdg. SINGLE - SHOES Brockton 2 , Mass. 234 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, Calif. EVER TRY to buy one of these? Hard to find, and usually exxjensive, this U.S. Medical Corps stethoscope is brand new, ideal for LOOKING FOR A GIFT? doctors, enj;ineers and mechanics (check trouble spots in motors, etc.) educational The American Legion Shopper olfers a wide selection of for kids and adults, .$2.95 ppd. (half-price). Madison House, AC. 122 East 42nd, N.Y. 17. reasonably priced merchandise that make excellent birthday, anniversary and graduation gifts. If you're not happ) with it — just send it back for a refund. Everything here is sold on a money-back guarantee. LIVING

WOMEN ON U.S.A. STAMPS - Did you know that in the 113 years of U.S. Postal History, women have appeared on only about 50 of the 1200 different stamps issued in that period? Here's your chance to get 22 of these scarce stamps including Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, etc. for only 25('. (Catalog value— $1.50). Send 25(- in coin to Garcchm Stamp, Dept. ALU, Calais, Maine.

Fast-Growing pr Ever - Blooming Amazing RED ROSE HEDGE FOR AS LITTLE AS 12e A FOOT ^oH' San Bruno, Calif. See the sensational Red Robin Rose Hedge (Gloire Des , j.Tj'me wifhourco.r or"obligoii«n, nOSOmanesJ that's sweeping the country! Plant uses, prices, THIS j free full-color book, SPRING; have a vigorous LIVING FENCE bursting with ' references, bonus offers, etc, on " ^ ROBIN IIVING FENCE A HELP for troubled adolescent complexions fragrant RED ROSES this summer: Red Robin's lush I and to a good many others as well is this green foliage is covered with a riot of richly scented red I "*"' small device, designed to remove even the roses month after month. Not a sprawling Multiflora. | most persistent blackhead in just a few sec- Grows straight, upright to 6 feet, stays compact. So tough, j onds. Called Vacutex, it comes for $1.25 ppd. " thrives in even poor soils. Grows so dense Red Robin j Ballco Products, Dept. 177, 735 East State keeps children and pets in, animals and intruders out. St., Westport, Conn, | only Available from Ginden Nursery, San Bruno, Calif. i ^77^

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For rates, write American Legion Classified 122 E. 42nd St., N.Y. 17, N.Y.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES REAL ESTATE -CANADA INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS - Earn $750 to CANADIAN LANDS, seized and sold for taxes. $1,000 monthly. Men urgently needed. Car fur- Our 45th annual series of lists, just begun, de- nished. Business expenses paid. Pick own job scribe many choice properties, situated from location. Investigate full time. Or earn $6.44 coast to coast, acquired by us through Tax Sale. hour spare time. Write for Free Information. Priced as low as five dollars per acre, guaran- Universal, CA-4, 6801 Hlllcrest, Dallas 5. Texas. teed perfect title, small monthly payments, no MAKE $25-$50 WEEK, clipping newspaper items mortgage. Beautifully situated hunting and fish- for publishers. Some clippings worth $5.00 ing camps, where there is real sport; summer FOR SALE IN FLORIDA-'i acre home- each. Particulars free. National, 81-AL, Knicker- cottage sites, heavily wooded acreages. Now Is sites have private lake, free eountry club bocker Station, New York City. the time to invest in Canada's minerals, forests and farms. Write today for free privileges, white sandy beaches. Certified high HOME MAILORDER BUSINESS - Raising fish- twenty page booklet with full explanation. TAX SALE SERV- dry land only 2'/!; miles from Rainbow Lakes. worms and crickets. Free Literature. Carter ICE, Room 411-N, 1173 Bay St., Toronto 5, J^IO monthly. $795 complete. For free infor- Garden s, Plains, Georgia. Canada. mation write Rainbow Lakes Estates, Dejit. $50 WEEKLY POSSIBLE Clipping Newspapers. C-12, 817 Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, Fla. Publishers Pay $10 for some items. Crystaico MISCELLANEOUS 2 8-CAL4, Millburn, New Jersey. "HOMEBREWING! Beers, Wines". Instruction SALESMEN WANTED Manual $1 (guaranteed!). Crystal's 28 BAL3, INTRODUCE SENSATIONAL GUARANTEED Millburn, New Jersey. LONGER-LIFE Light Bulbs, Fluorescent Tubes to TnTERESTING WAR~DEC0RAT0R, British Plat stores, offices, factories, institutions. Make big Bazookas, Churchill's secret weapon, $9.95. money year 'round. Bulbs guaranteed 5,000 Century Arms, 54 Lake, St. Albans, Vermont. — hours, tubes up to 18,000 hours more than LOANS BY MAIL 7 times longer than ordinary lights. Show how astounding guarantee saves important money, BORROW $100 to $1,000 BY MAIL. Quick, Easy. cuts replacement costs. Automatic repeat or- Private. No Co-Signers. Repay in 24 small ders. FREE Money-Making Sales Manual. GRE- monthly payments. For the amount you want, NADA, 114 East 32nd, Dept. E-66S, New York 16. write today to DIAL Finance Co., 410 Kilpatrick BIdg., Dept. D-102, Omaha 2, Nebraska. SENSATIONAL NEW longer-burning Light Bulb. Amazing Free Replacement Guarantee — never GREATEST COLLECTION again buy light bulbs. No competition. Multi- GREATEST COLLECTION of Tricks, Jokes, Magic

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THIS new elastic truss expands and contracts with each body mo\cment. Droi^ped-front design keeps flat foam rubber pad in place. Ad- justable leg straps; washable. Balanced support for single or double hernia. For men, women; give hip measurement. $7.95 ppd. Kinlen, Dept. AL-42P, 809 Wyandotte, Kan- sas City 5, Mo.

BOAT WHISTLE-This sounds like a steam SLIP-ON MAGNIFIERS - Are you having job when you blow it. Has 3 jjipes and chain trouble seeing fine print, doing close detail lanyard with attachment on end to hook onto work? Just slii) these magnifiers on your any button. Heavy chrome plated. Ideal for prescription lenses and see the difference. small boats and power boat ov\ners. $2.95 Powerful 3.50 diopter lenses. Fits all glasses. FREE! ppd. Empire, Dept. AL, 140 Marbledale, .$2.98 ppd. Nel-King, Dept. AL-3, 811 VALUABLE Tuckahoe, N.Y. Wyandotte, Kansas City 5, Mo. HIGH-POTENCY 2S-Day Supply Worth $1.25

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 55 THE GOOD OLD DAYS An old-timer can remember when the only fallout worry had to do with a baby in a crib. David O. Flynn

IN OTHER WORDS He greets her as "Hag," "Broad," "Tomato" or "Bag" And other names slightly invidious; She answers with "Lug," "Stupid," "Dopey" or "Mug", And also as "Useless" or "Hideous." But don't be dismayed by the insults they trade Which are really just evidence of A teen-age collection of words of affection

—Believe it or not, they're in love! Berton Braley

PRECIOUS ITEM

The only time tiie average child is as

good as gold is on April 15. IvLRN BoYi' rr

CAR FINISH To put a finish on your car. Two ways I'll briefly cite: You can do it slo\vly with lacquer by day Or- quickly with licpior by night. S. Omar Barki k

COMMENTARY

Under the replica of Sputnik in a /Mos- cow museum an American tourist .scribbled: "Washington slipped here." Al Si'onc

APRIL FOOL "Carter, you remember Captain Reginald Von Duccan — the famous World War I flying ace." When income tax time is arriving. They levy a fine for reckless thriving. Nick Ko/.menilk THE INCOME TAX AS SMALL FRY SEE IT I'ollow iiig arc some view s of rlie income tax as set forth by school COUNT DOWN ciiildren: Income tax forms are so coiimpleacated that they are really not good Prizefight Referee: One who brings or- for any thing except income tax forms. der out of K.O.s. Incomes raxs ha\ e helped o\\ r cow ntr\' in time of war by getting people Bob Si annari) mad enow gh to fight.

April 15tli is tile day w e set aside to celebrate our incomes. Just because,

I guess. If you are unmarried and w ithout children or anytiiing, then the only

dependent you can claim is Uncle Sam. It sounds crazy, but it is so.

Income taxing is a w ay to help pre\ ent inflation by puting savings in taxes instead of money.

Figuring income taxes arc interesting if >()u happen to be interested in them.

In order to know how much tiie incoming tax is, I need only look at deductions, incomes and brackets. Somehow this tells me conclucsively. Harold Du.nn

EFFICIENCY

Thanks to modern city planning in laying out interchanges, freeways, and cloverleafs, the average American metropolis now enables traffic to be stalled four abreast. Don See

FAIRWAY FEVER

"I'm sick and tired of being left alone every weekend," grumbled the golf widow at breakfast one Saturday. "If you think you're going to play today " "Nonsense, darling," the husband replied, reaching for the toast. "Golf is the farthest thing from my inind. Now will you please pass the putter?" Frank Holland "Today is my day oif.'

56 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1962 Reward well-earned. Day's end. Peace. Quiet. And ^hn satisfying ciieer oi i Urow ii iiis the picture as only America's ^rcat\\1iiskey can.WTien the long day is done, say Seagram's and be Sure RANCH MANAGER. Peter Mead, general manager of a three-ranch spread in the heart of Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains, winters one of America's largest is Camel. herds of spirited horses. When it comes to smoking, his cigarette Pete says that for real satisfaction all the way, "Camels just can't be beat."

Smoking more now but enjoying it less? Change \

Have a real cigarette-CAfM E L